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Poll Shows Obama’s Lead Narrowing in Swing States

by Brad Haynes

Quinnipiac University’s latest swing-state polling suggests that Barack Obama’s foreign tour didn’t help him at home.

Since the last Quinnipiac poll six weeks ago, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has pulled within the poll’s margin of error in Florida and Ohio and halved Democratic candidate Obama’s lead in Pennsylvania. In both Florida and Ohio, 46% of likely voters supported Obama compared with 44% for McCain, while Obama leads McCain 49% to 42% in Pennsylvania, down from a 12-point lead in June.

The polling was conducted during and after Obama’s trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, elsewhere in the Middle East and to Europe. The Quinnipiac pollsters suggested his narrowing lead may simply be a let-down after the boost he received after winning the Democratic primary battle, but they also pointed out that voters view the economy and energy, not Iraq, as the top issues.

It looks like the Obamafraud's audition for commander in chief was a miserable flop. Most people recognize a poser when they see one. The Obamafraud is a poser.

Duped?

"I was an early supporter of Al Franken. But I had no idea of the extent of the negative issues which are in Mr. Franken’s background. In some ways I feel duped. Many DFLers have told me they feel the same way."

-- Attorney Priscilla Lord Faris, who is mounting a credible primary challenge to Potty Mouth Franken's U.s. Sente campaign.

Hat tip to Über blogger Michael Brodkorb of Minnesota Democrats Exposed fame. Read Lord Farris whole press release here.



Porn-O-Rama Al's campaign is in big trouble. He is not only behind in most polls but also in trouble with Minnesota liberals who are bothered by his tax and workers' compensation shenanigans as well as his "juicy" porn. What were MN DFLers thinking when they nominated this guy?

Letterman's Top Ten Signs Obama is Overconfident

GOP's celeb-Obama message gains traction
Carrie Budoff Brown Thu Jul 31, 5:33 AM ET

Barack Obama’s critics laid down the foundations of the strategy months ago: The Republican National Committee started the “Audacity Watch” back in April, and Karl Rove later fueled the attack by describing the first-term Illinois senator as “coolly arrogant.”

It wasn’t until the last week, however, that the narrative of Obama as a president-in-waiting — and perhaps getting impatient in that waiting — began reverberating beyond the in boxes of Washington operatives and journalists.
Perhaps one of the clearest indications emerged Tuesday from the world of late-night comedy, when David Letterman offered his “Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident.” The examples included Obama proposing to change the name of Oklahoma to “Oklobama” and measuring his head for Mount Rushmore.

A Majority of Minnesotans Reject "Porn-O-Rama Al" Franken

Tax Fraud Al's negatives are embarrassing.

Why So Serious, Al?

Barack Obama's Jedi Mind Trick: It Can Have a Strong Influence on the Weak-Minded

I am Iron Man!

"I have a really interesting political point of view, and it's not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can't. I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since."

-- "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. in a recent NY Times profile.

Hat tip to Gabe at videogum.com

... And Proud of It

The Right-Winger's Oath

Arrogance and Delusion Pelosi Style

"I'm trying to save the planet, I'm trying to save the planet!"

-- Delusional Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's excuse for not allowing open debate and a vote on domestic oil drilling.

'Nuff said.

Weekly Ranting

The editorial writer of the Rochester Post-Bulletin produced yet another jewel of liberal irrationality this week. "Weekly briefing" reads more like a feverish rant than either analysis or reasoned opinion. Here are few nuggets followed by commentary.

With a projected budget deficit that could reach $8 million, Olmsted County commissioners don't have any "fat" left to trim. From this point on, the cuts they are forced to make are going to hurt.

The Many Rivers closure is a prime example. The treatment center helps take troubled teens off the paths to welfare, prison or suicide and provides a healthy does of hope for their future -- yet Many Rivers will close largely because it's not a state-mandated service, and because shuttering it will save the county $500,000 per year.

Paul Fleissner, who heads the county's Community Services Department, was visibly conflicted as he recommended the closure. "This is a sad day," he said. But he also added, "It seems like the only move."

We don't blame county officials for this decision, because they have few options. But those who say that "efficiency" and "accountability" are always viable alternatives to tax increases need to recognize that their line of thinking will produce a bumper crop of bitter fruit.

Liberals treat the end of a government program as a death in the family and go through all the stages of grief associated with it. It would seem that the P-B editorial board decided to park at “anger.” “Acceptance” is not in the cards.

You know people have reached the terminal stages of liberalism when “efficiency” and “accountability” are printed as if they were cuss words.

Thanks largely to the efforts of Rep. Kim Norton, a DFLer from Rochester, Minnesota is about to join 46 other states that have adopted a Graduated Drivers License standard for new drivers. Norton authored the bill that worked its way through the Legislature in the spring, and while proposed changes in the state's seat-belt ordinance and child safety seat law fell by the wayside, the GDL proposal survived and was signed into law by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

The P-B’s in-kind contribution to Kim Norton’s campaign in the form of puff editorials need to be looked into. She copied legislation from other states, people. Besides, Nanny Norton doesn’t think you can make common sense decisions on your own.

Apologists for congressional candidate Brian Davis might claim that his failure to pay property taxes on time since 2003 is not that big of a deal. It was simply an oversight and anyway, everybody does it.

They couldn't be further from the truth. Most of us, whether out of fear of penalty or simply good citizenship, pay our taxes on time. We accept that duty, no matter how onerous, and meet the deadline.

Sure anybody can make a mistake. But failure to meet a tax deadline every year since 2003 is not only a mistake, it's a bad habit. It's the kind of habit that, while it does not by itself disqualify someone from holding public office, certainly calls into mind their judgment and reliability.

Davis isn't alone among candidates with tax troubles. Senate candidate Al Franken also has an untidy record when it comes to paying taxes.

You’d think that Brian Davis had decided to bury his family under a mountain of credit card debt in the tune of $75,000+ in order to run for Congress. Wait, that was Tim Walz.

If not paying taxes on time were a sin, liberals would be quick to exact punishment. Unless, of course, you were a liberal candidate for U.S. Senate who defrauded 17 states of their taxes and failed to pay workers’ compensation for your employees. Wait, that’s Al Franken. I’m sorry. “Untidy,” please!

Walz's sorry record of voting with Nancy Pelosi against the values and interests of the First District and his own fiscally irresponsible decision to bury his family under a mountain of credit card debt in order to run for office.

They are making it seem like you guys committed the unpardonable sin of not paying taxes when you have. With penalties. Consider the disproportionate attention they are giving to this non-issue as compared to what they are not saying about Franken's failure to pay taxes in 17 states and not carrying workers' compensation for his employers for three years.

It's all political bias. Brian's real problem, as far as First District liberals are concerned, is that Brian is a conservative Republican who is daring to run against their darling liberal Congressman Tim "I Vote With San Francisco Values Liberal Nancy Pelosi 96% of the Time" Walz. They've waited too long to have a liberal DFL Congressman to watch him be defeated.

There is no moral equivalence between Brian Davis' and Al Franken's taxes, regardless of the intellectually dishonest liberal analysis here and elsewhere.

The difference is simple: intentionality. Tax Fraud Franken and Tim “I’m in debt up to my eyeballs” Walz-Pelosi deliberately put themselves in their tax trouble and financial bind situations, respectively.

Porn-O-Rama Al and his inept (?) accountant decided that the "satirist" didn’t have to pay taxes in 17 states where he conducted his misogynistic and racist comedy trade.

Walz-Pelosi took a leave of absence from his job because he chose not to campaign part-time like so many candidates do, so he decided to "support" his family with credit card debt.

There are plenty of people running for office who campaign after work and on weekends. They choose not to jeopardize their families’ financial future in order to pursue their personal ambition like Walz did.

The lame criticism of Davis' oversight is a sorry attempt to take First Congressional District voters away from Tim Walz's fiscally irresponsible choices.

Davis: Walz fails to give Minnesota voters clear answers on his position regarding offshore drilling.

Minnesota Voters Want Solutions and Clear Answers to Our Energy Problems Not More Partisanship For Immediate Release July 24, 2008 Contact: Brad Biers 651.261.2182 (Rochester, MN) - Today, Brian Davis, the endorsed Republican candidate for the First District of Minnesota, has called upon Congressman Walz to clarify his stance regarding offshore drilling and development of shale oil. In a recent article in the Star Tribune, Congressman Walz was the only member of Minnesota's Congressional delegation who did not give a clear answer regarding his position on development of shale oil. In addition, he was also unclear regarding his position on offshore drilling. Dr. Davis stated, "While Minnesotans and the nation are feeling the economic consequences of high gas prices and a suffering economy, Congressman Walz is failing to let Minnesotans know where he stands. Like the majority of Americans, I strongly support offshore drilling and am very encouraged by yesterday's report from the U.S. Geological Survey that estimates there may be up to 90 billion barrels of oil in the arctic that are in unexplored areas, mostly offshore." Davis continued, "Congress should let the moratoria on offshore drilling expire on September 30 as scheduled and not renew it. We are the only major industrialized country in the world that has the majority of offshore areas off-limits to oil exploration. This is bad for our country and bad for the family budgets in Minnesota's First District." Brad Biers, the Davis campaign manager added, "Voters in the First District should ask for whom does Tim Walz work? The residents of southern Minnesota or Speaker Pelosi? Many families are struggling with their family budgets and have mounting credit card debt, including Congressman Walz with credit card debt in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand dollars. Congress isn't getting the job done and shouldn't go on its August 1 recess if it can't even vote on this issue of national importance. It's unfortunate, but not surprising, that Congress has the lowest approval rating in the history of polling." Brian Davis is a physician who treats cancer patients and resides in Rochester with his wife Lori and their four children. # # # You can support Brian Davis for Congress HERE !

Walz and Shale Oil: Appaling Ignorance

The Rochester Post-Bulletin online forums have been on fire this week. The P-B's Political Party blog is always a hot spot where the perpetually boring LD Nelson and the sycophantic "Ollie Ox" spend their days and nights defending the indefensible Tim Walz.

News stories always generate lively debates as well. Often, sparks fly. Occasionally, a more thoughtful comment elicits a thoughtful response. It was so yesterday when a story on online outreach to voters hit the virtual stands. Here's a post from a newcomer to the P-B forums who goes by Jane Walters.

"Walz employing activists from the Cities, to post in forums and in blogs pretending to be from the 1st district, displays a lack of respect for the truth and his constituents’ ability to make the right decision."

Jane must be talking about Sally Jo "Ollie Ox" Sorensen of Bluestem Prairie infamy. She lives in District 7 but spends her days and nights in online propaganda mode for the fiscally irresponsible and out-of-touch Tim Walz.

This week, real First District candidate Brian Davis had this to say about Walz's appaling lack of knowledge regarding one of the most important issues concerning America's energy independence.

"Congressman Walz was the only member of Minnesota's Congressional delegation who did not give a clear answer regarding his position on development of shale oil. In addition he was unclear regarding his position on offshore drilling."

Liberals in full desperation mode regarding domestic drilling and energy independence. They find themselves squarely on the wrong side of the domestic oil drilling issue. Polling data indicate a growing majority of Americans support domestic oil exploration.

Tim Walz is often wrong but this time he is also ignorant. How embarrassing to be the ONLY member of Minnesota's Congressional delegation to sound like Barack "Uh" Obama on development of shale oil.

Maybe it's not completely Tim Walz's fault. Nancy Pelosi must not have told him what to think about shale oil exploration yet.

I feel for Walz. He's got to be distracted. It must be difficult to keep his mind on the job with a $75,000 credit card debt hanging over his family. Or perhaps he realizes he is way out of his league here. I mean, he's got to be thinking "How can First District voters trust me with the fiscal direction of the country when I can't even manage my own finances responsibly?"

It's time for real Congressional leadership in the First District. It's time for Brian Davis.

Obama's "Audacity of Hopelessness"

McCain rejects 'audacity of hopelessness' for Iraq

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

DENVER - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated.

Speaking to an audience of Hispanic military veterans, McCain stepped up his criticism of Obama while the Illinois senator continued his headline-grabbing tour of the Middle East and Europe. The Arizona Republican contended that Obama's policies — he opposed sending more troops to Iraq in the "surge" that McCain supported — would have led to defeat there and in Afghanistan.

"We rejected the audacity of hopelessness, and we were right," McCain said, a play on the title of Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope."

McCain laid out a near-apocalyptic chain of events he said could have resulted had Obama managed to stop the troop buildup ordered by President Bush: U.S. forces retreating under fire, the Iraqi army collapsing, civilian casualties increasing dramatically, al-Qaida killing cooperative Sunni sheiks and finding safe havens to train fighters and launch attacks on Americans, and civil war, genocide and a wider conflict.

"Above all, America would have been humiliated and weakened," he said. "Terrorists would have seen our defeat as evidence America lacked the resolve to defeat them. As Iraq descended into chaos, other countries in the Middle East would have come to the aid of their favored factions, and the entire region might have erupted in war."

Noting that the buildup was unpopular with most Americans, McCain said: "Sen. Obama told the American people what he thought you wanted to hear. I told you the truth."

Obama has always been wrong on Iraq as in everything else about which he either waxes eloquent given a script and a Teleprompter or through which he stutters like a fool.

The Obamessiah Cometh!

He Ventured Forth to Bring Light to the World
The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers
Gerard Baker
From The Times
July 25, 2008

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.

He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light

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And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered “Hosanna” and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.

In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for. And there were other wonderful signs.

In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.

Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.

But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him.

And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.

On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.”

Obamafraud and His Campaign Dis Wounded Soldiers

Obama scraps visit to wounded troops

Jul 24 04:09 PM US/Eastern

BERLIN (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.

The spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama made his decision out of respect for the servicemen and women, but Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign immediately criticized the move.

"Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military," said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender.

Obama's decision raised a number of questions because the visit, which had been scheduled for Friday, never appeared on the schedule of events distributed to reporters who are accompanying him on his travels.

Obamafraud and his campaign staff sure made it a priority to be seen at very public events orchestrated to make him look "presidential" the last few days. They don't believe there was anything inappropriate about visiting the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, with campaign signs or apologizing for America on foreign soil.

Apparently Obamafraud and his campaign believe there is nothing to be gained photo-opwise from meeting with wounded soldiers, however.

All Hail, Obamafraud, Self-proclaimed "King of the World!"

Here are a few excerpts of Obama's self-serving speech followed by comments from yours truly.

I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.

Given Obama's Saran wrap-thin resume, his grandfather looks overqualified. Obama spent 143 days in the U.S. Senate before deciding that he was ready to become leader of the Free World. Even Hillary, terminally megalomaniacal as she is, was never quite that bold. And that was before his stellar (by liberal standards) career as "community organizer" and state senator who voted "present" on controversial matters.

At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning - his dream - required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better.

"The West" never promised anyone freedom. America has. Why can't Obamafraud credit America as the bastion of freedom in the world? Perhaps he shares his wife's and former pastor's view of America as a "downright mean country."

Ours is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof.

There was never any "partnership" between America and Germany back then. We carried the lion share of the effort and expense needed to rebuild not only Germany but the whole of Europe.

In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster than our efforts to contain them. That is why we cannot afford to be divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats, or escape responsibility in meeting them.

Is this the same guy who once said Iran was not a threat because it is a "tiny country?" Granted, in true Obamafraud form, the next day Obamafraud was saying that Iran is "a grave threat." That's leadership. Obamafraud style, that is.

America has no better partner than Europe.

Depending on the audience, versions of this line will vary. Watch for

America has no better partner than Mexico.

America has no better partner than Canada.

America has no better partners than illegal immigrants.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I will kindly assume that when Obamafraud talks about "my country," he means the United States of America. If so, no Obamafraud speech on foreign soil is complete without a groveling apology for the whole country. Obama is sort of like a (half) Black Bill Clinton that way.

But I also know how much I love America.

Why don't you tell us, then? On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you love America? How about Michelle?

People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.

That's it. Obamafraud's megalomania has reached global proportions. Hillary only wanted to rule America, the Obamafraud wants to rule the world.

Davis: Walz fails to give Minnesota voters clear answers on his position regarding offshore drilling

Minnesota Voters Want Solutions and Clear Answers to Our Energy Problems Not More Partisanship

For Immediate Release
July 24, 2008
Contact: Brad Biers651.261.2182

(Rochester, MN) - Today, Brian Davis, the endorsed Republican candidate for the First District of Minnesota, has called upon Congressman Walz to clarify his stance regarding offshore drilling and development of shale oil.

In a recent article in the Star Tribune, Congressman Walz was the only member of Minnesota's Congressional delegation who did not give a clear answer regarding his position on development of shale oil.

In addition, he was also unclear regarding his position on offshore drilling.

Dr. Davis stated, "While Minnesotans and the nation are feeling the economic consequences of high gas prices and a suffering economy, Congressman Walz is failing to let Minnesotans know where he stands. Like the majority of Americans, I strongly support offshore drilling and am very encouraged by yesterday's report from the U.S. Geological Survey that estimates there may be up to 90 billion barrels of oil in the arctic that are in unexplored areas, mostly offshore."

Davis continued, "Congress should let the moratoria on offshore drilling expire on September 30 as scheduled and not renew it. We are the only major industrialized country in the world that has the majority of offshore areas off-limits to oil exploration. This is bad for our country and bad for the family budgets in Minnesota's First District."

Brad Biers, the Davis campaign manager added, "Voters in the First District should ask for whom does Tim Walz work? The residents of southern Minnesota or Speaker Pelosi? Many families are struggling with their family budgets and have mounting credit card debt, including Congressman Walz with credit card debt in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand dollars. Congress isn't getting the job done and shouldn't go on its August 1 recess if it can't even vote on this issue of national importance. It's unfortunate, but not surprising, that Congress has the lowest approval rating in the history of polling."

Brian Davis is a physician who treats cancer patients and resides in Rochester with his wife Lori and their four children.

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You can support Brian Davis for Congress HERE !

"Obama, Jerusalem is our land! Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!"

"Obama, Jerusalem is our land!

Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!"

"Obama, Jerusalem is our land!

Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!"

"Obama, Jerusalem is our land!

Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!"

"Obama, Jerusalem is our land!

Obama, Jerusalem is NOT FOR SALE!"

-- An outraged Jewish worshipper's response to Obamafraud after seeing campaign signs at the Western Wall.

Obama camp plasters posters at Western Wall Advertises Democrat candidate's website, official slogan at Judaism's holiest site

Posted: July 24, 20081:44 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama's campaign plastered the entrance to the Western Wall – the holiest site in Judaism – with official campaign posters, WND has learned.

Jerusalem Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld confirmed to WND posters that adorned police barricades erected at the Western Wall plaza for Obama's visit were distributed by the presidential candidate's campaign.

"These posters were his campaign and not the doing of the police," said Rosenfeld, who's police department coordinated security and provided protection for Obama's visit today to the holy site.

Asked if it was traditional practice for politicians visiting the Western Wall to bring along posters or campaign materials, Rosenfeld replied, "No."

This shameful stunt was billed as a private early morning visit to the holiest of Jewish sites. The Obamafraud was not to let the opportunity to campaing pass him by, however.

Just when you thought Obamafraud and his campaign couldn't stoop any lower, there they go again.

The 'Fraud In Israel

“It is very alarming for me the way Senator Obama voted, the way he spoke about his desire to negotiate with Ahmadinejad, and the way some of his advisers think. I was at AIPAC. He made a very strong speech, speaking about a Jewish state, defensible borders, a united Jerusalem, then the next day he started correcting himself.”

-- Nathan Sharansky, former Soviet dissident and Knesset member, expressing his concerns for the welfare of Israel as it relates to Obamafraud, the Two-faced One.

The Obamafraud does not understand the complexities of the Middle East. He is there for photo-ops. His goal is to deceive people into thinking he can be "presidential," whatever the hell that means to liberals.

Whatever it means, it is soft, squishy, feels good and allows you to deceive yourself into thinking that all will be well in the world if only the Obamafraud is elected President of the United States of America. The truth is that an Obama presidency would embolden the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

When America's enemies witness the Obamafraud's daily flip-flops, equivocations and "refining" positions, they realize that even if Jesse Jackson were to emasculate the Obamessiah, it would have no discernible effect.

Michelle: Children's Lives Will Be "Devastated" Unless Obama Becomes President

"I wish we had time to be divided. I wish we had time to be upset. To be angry. To be disappointed. I wish we did. Because if we had time for that, then things wouldn't be so bad right now. Instead, we're in a place where another four or eight years of the world as it is will devastate the life of some child."

-- Michelle "America is a Downright Mean Country" Obama during a campaign stop for her husband in Denver last Wednesday.


If Barack Obama really wants the GOP to lay off his wife, he'd better start vetting her public statements. He should expect a vigorous response when his wife tells audiences that she had never been really proud of America until her husband started running for President, when she says that America is "just downright mean" and when she affirms that children's lives around the world will be devastated unless her messiah complex husband is elected President of the United States of America.

Allow me to direct the Obamafraud and his mindless acolytes to an eye-opening May 2008 op-ed by Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby titled "Michele Obama is fair game." In it, Mr. Jacoby says:

But unless Obama is prepared to emulate [Andrew] Jackson - Old Hickory defended his wife's honor by fighting duels, in one of which he killed a man - he stands no chance of putting his wife's remarks off-limits to criticism. As long as he keeps sending her around the country to campaign on his behalf, everything she says is - and should be - fair game.

And unfortunately for Obama and his allegedly sunny politics of hope, what Mrs. Obama seems to say with grim regularity is that America is a scary, bleak, and hopeless place.

Mr. Jacoby then proceeds to illustrate his point with several quotes from Michelle Obama's speeches during the primary campaign season. Here are a couple of nuggets:

"Life for regular folks has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn't gotten much better."

"America is "just downright mean" and "guided by fear . . . We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day."

Jacoby concludes,

Michelle Obama is undeniably smart, driven, outspoken, and charismatic. She is also relentlessly negative about life in these United States. True, she is not the one running for president. But she is Barack Obama's closest confidante and adviser; if he is elected, her influence will be considerable. That is why her words matter. And why, whether her husband likes it or not, Michelle Obama is a legitimate issue in this campaign.

The Obamessiah really expects that people listen to the anti-American drivel of his bitter half (hat tip to Michelle Malkin) in silence. Fat chance.

McCain Backs Timeline to Get Obama Out of Iraq

by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace

(2008-07-20) — Republican presidential nominee John McCain today for the first time said he can now support a timeline to reduce the American presence in Iraq, specifically advocating the withdrawal from Iraq of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, and several battalions of U.S. news anchors and reporters.

“It’s time to bring them home,” said Sen. McCain at a news conference attended by an journalism intern from the Des Moines Register. “The surge has worked, and it’s time to redeploy.”

Sen. McCain said bringing Sen. Obama home would help to ensure that “people in the U.S., who desperately need media attention, will get the help they deserve.” “Our mainstream media forces are stretched too thin,” he said. “If news should break here in the homeland, who’s going to cover it? We’re vulnerable.”

LOL!

Reagan responds to Obama and his supporters

Isn't it great to hear a real President speak? Somehow I don't think there have been a lot of conversations about the greatness of America around the Obama dinner table.

Barack Obama "Uh" Count

What is it that Joe Biden said about Obamafraud being "articulate?" Without a script or Teleprompter in front of him, Obamafraud is even less articulate than President George W. Bush. That's saying a lot. In spite of Obama's inarticulate utterances, his grasshopping, Kool-aid drinking acolytes cannot help but prostrate themselves before the Obamessiah.

The Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama

What a precious moment. At this point in the primary campaign, the Obamafraud had visited 57 states and had one more to go. Obamafraud also expects to deal with world leaders for the next eight to ten years.

Had John McCain committed such gaffes, the media and Obamazombies would be saying he is senile. When Obamafraud says or does something stupid, the only way you hear about it is in the alternative media. Obama is not ready for prime time. Maybe he can go back to Chicago and take back his "community organizer" job.

The Obamafraud Dog and Pony Show

The Obamafraud Dog and Pony Show is in full swing in Europe and the Middle East. Security should not be a concern. People who would do us or our soldiers harm appear sympathetic, if not downright supportive, of Obamafraud's presidential bid. Not unlike the slavish mainstream media types that joined Obamafraud's entourage.

Obamafraud's overseas trip is meant to raise his street cred as commander in chief. In reality, all it's doing is showing that Obamafraud is a poser: he poses with soldiers and he poses with leaders in the region. It's all smoke and photo ops.

Obamafraud is no more competent to lead America today than he was in his "community organizer" days.

Must-see Movie of the Summer

I saw The Dark Night with a buddy last night and was blown away. The plot is captivating, the action scenes are breath-taking and Heath Ledger's performance is mesmerizing.

The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand

Hat tip to Michael Brodkorb over at Minnesota Democrats Exposed. Obama is a shameless opportunist. The Iraq conflict and the global war on terrorism are nothing but stepping stones on his way to the liberal Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Shame on him and his enablers.

Brian Davis on La Crosse Radio WIZM AM 1410

Oops! he Did It Again: Jesse jackson Uses "the N-Word"

ADVISORY: From this point on, you will read "the N-word" actually spelled out. I chose to do so for effect. I believe that calling it "the N-word" has taken away from its full impact. That's free speech and I choose to exercise it. If the word offends you, please skip this post.

"We will challenge and urge all artists and comics to stop using this word. What other group is subjected to such a degrading terminology?"

"I am against the use of the N-word by anyone and I think we must be consistent," he told The Associated Press. "We must not use the word."

-- Jesse Jackson, back in 2006, urging entertainers to ban the word "nigger."

Jackson reportedly also used n-word in off-air gaffe

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized to Sen. Obama's campaign last week over "hurtful" remarks.

The longtime civil rights leader already came under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a "Fox & Friends" news show.

In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, Jackson is reported to have said Obama was "talking down to black people," and referred to blacks with the N-word when he said Obama was telling them "how to behave."

Though a Fox spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press that Jackson used the slur, the network declined to release the full transcript of the July 6 show and did not air the comments.

Jackson's "gaffe," as CNN puts it so innocently, is anything but. The "Reverend" reportedly said that he is upset because Obama "is telling niggers how to behave." I don't know about you, but I am done with Jackson. So should the Black community.

Culture of Corruption?

“I didn’t see anything unfair about it.”

-- Congressman Charlie B. Rangel (D-NY) on the four rent-stabilized (read "below market values") apartments he rents from the Olnick Organization, a "Big Real State" outfit.

Rangel's Neighbors See a Rent Double Standard

By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI

At Lenox Terrace, the luxury development in Harlem, management uses two sets of standards when it comes to rent-stabilized tenants, many residents say.

For the select group of prominent or politically connected apartment dwellers like Representative Charles B. Rangel, Lenox Terrace provides below-market accommodations and does little to scrutinize whether the arrangements comply with rent-stabilization laws.

For other residents, however, the owner has a different posture: aggressively enforcing even arcane provisions of the regulations, threatening costly court battles to drive tenants from their rent-stabilized homes, and using other tactics that some housing advocates describe as harassment.

Although landlord-tenant battles, especially in rent-stabilized buildings, are a staple of New York life, residents and housing advocates say that after the Harlem real estate market began to soar around 2000, the situation at Lenox Terrace grew intense. The Olnick Organization, the owner of the development, brought in a new manager at that time and began aggressively seeking to evict tenants from rent-stabilized units.

While some of those evicted were clearly in violation of rent laws, tenants say the company went beyond those cases, pressuring legitimate residents to give up their homes.

Gov. David A. Paterson, who maintains a rent-stabilized apartment at Lenox Terrace, says he was “alarmed” by the evictions when he was asked to mediate between tenants and the management company in 2004. A state senator at the time, Mr. Paterson suspected that the company was going beyond the letter of the law, he said this week in an interview.

Court documents and company correspondence since 2006 underscore the company’s aggressiveness. One man, who was going blind and could no longer write his monthly rent check, was threatened with eviction for having a relative pay the rent from a joint account. Another tenant faced eviction proceedings because he objected when Lenox Terrace demanded that he sign separate leases for his apartment and for his parking space. A husband whose illness forced him to move from the apartment is fighting to prevent his wife and child from being evicted.

Mr. Rangel said last week that he never considered that he was getting a special deal from the Olnick Organization, even as he acknowledged that he had for years been allowed to lease four rent-stabilized units at Lenox Terrace at about half the market rate.

That kind of generosity from Olnick, however, is unheard of for those lacking political power, other tenants say.

While Rangel paid $3,894 a month for the four units he rents in the Lenox Complex in 2007, the Olnick Organization rents similar apartments for $7,465 - $8,125 a month. Each.

Rangel's hypocrisy is in full bloom here. While he enjoys "rent-stabilized" living, his fellow tenants and constituents are being heartlessly evicted so their apartments can be rented at market values. I wonder when Rangel is going to start blaming President Bush.

The New Yorker Magazine Cover Controversy: Kernel of Truth or Freudian Slip? You Decide

The hypersensitive Obama and his campaign pounced on the most recent cover of the New Yorker magazine - conveniently ignoring the fact that the story inside is nothing more than a love piece - by calling it "tasteless and offensive." The indefatigable Michelle Malkin rightly advised Obama to " grow a pair."

Obama may need the extra set if Jesse Jackson has his way.

EvilBobby on the Cult of Personality in Politics

Blogmeister Dave Roberts over at EvilBobby has written a masterful piece on the dangers of the cult of personality in politics, particularly in democracies. You owe yourself to read "Personality Cults, Big and Small Undermine Democracy," agree or disagree.

Dave's musings are especially relevant given the mindless Obama worship among media liberals (the Associated Press has been notably, and shamelessly, deferential to the presumptive Democrat nominee) and garden variety non-thinking Obamafans.

Davis Beats Walz in Net Fundraising in the 2nd Quarter in Minnesota's CD1 Race

For immediate release
July 16, 2008
Contact: Brad Biers
651.261.2182

(Rochester, MN) - Today, the Brian Davis for Congress campaign announces that their second quarter net fundraising was the strongest of all candidates seeking election to Minnesota's First District in 2008.

During the second quarter - April 1 to June 30 - Brian Davis for Congress had $391,601 in total receipts and a net gain in cash-on-hand of $326,273, compared to $186,584 for Congressman Walz. Total contributions from individuals to the Davis campaign were over $268,000 with a net of $376,718 cash-on-hand. This difference in net fundraising is due to campaign expenses with the Davis campaign reporting $65,330 in disbursements compared to $251,502 for the Walz campaign.

Stated Davis, "We're receiving strong grass roots support from Minnesotans, both financially and by volunteer efforts. Residents of the First District are concerned about their financial future and the future health of our nation. Like me, most voters are deeply troubled that Congress cannot remove barriers to oil and gas development in our country so that gas prices will improve."

Brad Biers, the Davis campaign manager commented, "Congressman Walz ran the most expensive Congressional campaign this past quarter in the state by spending over a quarter of a million dollars. His voting record on spending, which is among the worst in Congress, appears to mirror his campaign finances. His report also shows that his campaign continues to be funded by special interest PAC's from outside the state of Minnesota."

Brian Davis is the endorsed Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota's First Congressional District. He and his wife, Lori, live in Rochester with their four children.

"Freep of the Week"

Free Republic, arguably one of the premier online conservative sites, picked up on my Olmsted County Republican Party counter protest post from last Wednesday. See "Rochester MN MoveOn.org & Democrat media event punked by GOP activists!"


Paleocon Strikes was cited and properly credited. My active meter went through the roof over the weekend: over 600 hits and counting.

Certifiable: Climate Change Delusion

"If we do not begin reducing the nation's levels of carbon pollution, Australia's economy will face more frequent and severe droughts, less water, reduced food production and devastation of areas such as the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu wetlands."

-- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change
Andrew Bolt
July 09, 2008 12:00am

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" - and they haven't even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.

Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon".

"A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."(So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.)

"The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies."

But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What's scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this "climate change delusion", too.

Here is Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday, with his own apocalyptic vision: "If we do not begin reducing the nation's levels of carbon pollution, Australia's economy will face more frequent and severe droughts, less water, reduced food production and devastation of areas such as the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu wetlands."

And here is a senior Sydney Morning Herald journalist aghast at the horrors described in the report on global warming released on Friday by Rudd's guru, Professor Ross Garnaut: "Australians must pay more for petrol, food and energy or ultimately face a rising death toll . . ."

Wow. Pay more for food or die. Is that Rudd's next campaign slogan?
Of course, we can laugh at this -- and must -- but the price for such folly may soon be your job, or at least your cash.

Rudd and Garnaut want to scare you into backing their plan to force people who produce everything from petrol to coal-fired electricity, from steel to soft drinks, to pay for licences to emit carbon dioxide -- the gas they think is heating the world to hell.

Tony Snow: 1955-2008

Obamacons: Cutting Off Their Noses to Spite Their Faces

"When he leaves the room, everybody thinks he just agreed with them. We don't know if you're really buying a pig in a poke here. It could be the second coming of the Clinton administration. If people have any confidence in that, I think a whole lot of conservatives would votefor him."

-- Michael Greve, director of the Federalism Project at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

Why some conservatives are backing Obama
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Monday, July 7, 2008

(07-07) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons.

These are conservatives who have publicly endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, dissidents from the brain trust of think tanks, ex-officials and policy magazines that have fueled the Republican Party since the 1960s. Scratch the surface of this elite, and one finds a profound dismay that is far more damaging to the GOP than the usual 10 percent of registered Republicans expected to switch sides during a presidential election.

"The untold story of the Bush administration is the deliberate annihilation of the Reaganite, small-government wing of the Republican Party," said Michael Greve, director of the Federalism Project at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "A lot of people are very bitter about it."

I can understand the frustration over real or perceived capitulation of conservative principles, but voting for Obama is the wrong response. Obama has now resorted to lying to everyone he meets on the campaign trail. If elected, he will betray conservatives who voted for him much like he has been betraying liberals who are on the verge of nominating him.



Conservatives who may be tempted to vote for Obama would do well to remember the tale of the scorpion.

A scorpion was walking along the bank of a river, wondering how to get to the other side.

Suddenly, he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him on his back across the river.

The fox said, "No. If I do that, you'll sting me, and I'll drown."

The scorpion assured him, "If I do that, we'll both drown."

The fox thought about it and finally agreed. So the scorpion climbed
up on his back, and the fox began to swim.

But halfway across the river, the scorpion stung him. As poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, "Why did you do that? Now you'll drown, too."

"I couldn't help it," said the scorpion. "It's my nature."

Obama is a scorpion. He can't help it. It's his poisonous liberal nature.