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Drudge says the Zogby has McCain up by one in its latest poll (that will come out tomorrow). Its getting tight folks, and we need everyone to keep up the fight. Call your friends, talk to your neighbors, volunteer, blog, donate, write the editors of your paper… AND GET OUT TO VOTE. If you haven’t voted yet, make sure you vote. This is going to be a tight election. Don’t take anything for granted. Every vote counts.

The Obama campaign shut down a station in Florida for asking tough questions, they shut down a station in Philadelphia for the same thing.  They kicked three newspapers off the campaign plane whose editorial boards endorsed McCain.  They haven’t encouraged the LA Times to release the video of Obama at a dinner with Anti-Israel and former PLO supporter Rashid Khalidi.  They called taxes patriotic and just today said that people who don’t want to be part of a socialist tax system are “selfish”.  The truth about Barack Obama is finally coming out, and it isn’t pretty. 

We have a chance to save our nation this Tuesday.  We can not give up the fight.  Four years is a long time to regret your decision.  Get informed, get involved, and vote John McCain.

We can win this fight.

h/t: Instapundit

“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car.
I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage.”

Yeah, Obama’s going to take care of you, just like he has taken care of his own brother, aunt and uncle.  Oh wait…

I feel sorry for this lady.  I really do.  She has bought into the Obama Messiah religion because that is all the media and the campaign is telling her.  Vote for Obama and all your troubles will fade away. I wonder how she and her children will feel after three or four years when she is still worrying about putting gas in her car and paying her mortgage.  WE ALL HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PUTTING GAS IN OUR CARS AND PAYING OUR MORTGAGES.  It’s called success and progress and it comes with a price.  You have to work, continually, for the things that you want and need in life.  The American Dream is the unrestricted ability to earn it, not the guarantee to get it without sacrifice.

h/t: Glenn Beck

Team Sarah fights back after sexist Obama ad.
h/t: HotAir

The squashing of dissenting voices continues as the Obama campaign tells the NY Post, Washington Times, and Dallas Morning News to take a hike. They have been kicked off the campaign plane, reportedly so documentary workers and other Obama-friendly media can join “The One” on the last few days of the campaign.

Do you think it is a coincidence that all three publications who have had their credentials revoked had editorial boards endorse John McCain? I think not.

The pattern continues.  If this is how candidate Obama treats dissenting voices, imagine how dissenting voices will be treated when he has power.

In light of Barack Obama’s latest sexist attack, the McCain-Palin campaign issued the following press release from Women for McCain and former Hillary Clinton supporters.
h/t: Maritime Sentry

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ARLINGTON, VA — McCain-Palin 2008 today released the following statements from former Hillary Clinton supporters and Women for McCain leadership in reaction to Barack Obama’s sexist attack ad “His Choice”:

VIRGINIA

Judy Black, National Co-Chair, Women for McCain: “Enough is enough! Senator Obama has stooped to a new low in his constant attacks on Governor Palin with his new ad titled, ‘His Choice.’ Barack Obama’s choice has been to attack, demean and ridicule women, first Sen. Clinton and now Gov. Palin. American women do not need any more of Obama’s sexist choices or attacks. John McCain made the choice to put a strong leader with a proven record forward as his running mate. As a woman, I am outraged by the over-the-top treatment of Gov. Palin and I urge all women to reject the double standard put forward by a man who was just a state senator in Illinois three years ago by voting McCain-Palin this Tuesday.”

Patty Denton, Washington County Republican Chairwoman: “We, as a country, should be past the days in which women were treated as inferior. Women are the backbone of this country. It’s disappointing for Senator Obama, who has proclaimed change’ as his mantra, to disregard the monumental progress women have made in this country. Governor Palin is an exceptional leader and has fought on the side of all Americans, regardless of race or gender. These types of ads show that the Obama campaign is willing to do anything to score a few political cheap shots at the expense of women. On November 4th, women will go to the polls and demand respect for themselves and their daughters from the type of negative attacks perpetrated by Senator Obama.”

MISSOURI

Representative Jo Ann Emerson: “With more executive experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden combined, Governor Sarah Palin holds her own on the national scene and embodies the values that Americans want in those who will lead our country. This ad is just one more example of the constant attacks from the Obama-Biden campaign. With each attack, they attempt to dismiss the intelligent, qualified, and experienced woman who will soon become our next Vice-President of the United States.”

Sharon Barnes, Missouri State Chair Women for McCain: “These attacks on Governor Sarah Palin show the desperation of the Democratic Party to try to stem the overwhelming support for the maverick Republican team of John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin - a team dedicated to bringing about the right kind of change for the people of this country. The voters of this great nation will not be fooled. Gov. Palin is a proven leader and serious reformer with experience in economics, defense and foreign policy that the Democratic candidate for president can only wish he had.”

CALIFORNIA

Shelly Mandell, President of Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women: “I am outraged by the new ad put out by Barack Obama. It is sexist and demeaning to women. These tactics started with Hillary Clinton and continue, growing even more disgusting with Gov. Palin. I was a Hillstar for Hillary and an avid supporter. Trashing two women clearly in a sexist manner in one election is an outrage and must be identified and stopped. There must be consequences. Let female Obama supporters take a good look at this and still believe their candidate supports women’s rights and women’s dignity.”

Prameela Bartholomeusz, DNC Platform Committee Member: “I am once again stunned at the personal and sexist attacks by the Obama campaign against Gov. Palin. This latest ad is sexist and offensive. The Gov. of Alaska has been managing and balancing a budget of $10 billion; I think she knows a bit about economics. Sen. Obama never spoke up against sexism during the primary season, and is not speaking out against misogyny during this phase of the election season — he is contributing to it. I have no confidence that Sen. Obama will fight for women’s issues if elected. This sets women back decades.”

PENNSYLVANIA

Christine J. Toretti, PA Women For McCain Co-Chair, PA National Committeewoman: “Vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, is an experienced public servant. As governor of Alaska and as mayor of Wasilla she proved to be an effective leader and businesswoman. Senator Obama’s baseless attack on Governor Palin is preposterous. God forbid a leader is not only competent, but beautiful and wears a skirt!”

Bernie Comfort, Pennsylvania Women for McCain State Chair: “Senator Obama’s ad simply mocks Governor Palin. The real truth is Gov. Palin has experience dealing with the economy as an executive running the state of Alaska and as a business owner. She is the experienced leader we need to lead this country with John McCain.”

Stephanie Bressler, Ph.D, Hillary Clinton supporter, University of Scranton women and politics professor: “It’s a sexist example of reducing a woman to an object - a wink - and denying her a voice. Her lips are actually moving, but she’s not allowed to be heard.”

OHIO

Barbara Rosier-Tryon, Member of the Warren Republican Women’s Club: “This is yet another sexist cheap shot on Gov. Palin’s image from the Obama-Biden campaign. Sarah Palin’s record of reform and experience as governor of Alaska and commander of the state’s National Guard is more distinguished than Barack Obama’s one and only term in the U.S. Senate.”

NORTH CAROLINA

Martha Jenkins, North Carolina Women for McCain State Chairman: “Barack Obama chose Joe Biden to make up for his own lack of foreign policy expertise. He has absolutely no reason to criticize McCain’s pick of Palin. Gov. Palin is infinitely more qualified than Barack Obama. In running this ad, Obama is acknowledging that Gov. Palin is an effective and a positive part of John McCain’s candidacy; otherwise, why focus on her at all? Barack Obama is using this ad to divert attention from the fact that the American public is realizing that Obama is just as radical as his associates, and that he lacks the experience and judgment to be President of the United States.”

FLORIDA

Albert Chang, Regional Director of Citizens for McCain, a group that includes Democrats and Independents: “We look forward to winning Tampa and the surrounding counties for McCain-Palin. This ad is a distracting personal attack on an experienced executive and the voters of Florida will see through it. This campaign will remain focused on issues impacting the everyday lives of Floridians and Americans.”

Mary Calderon, Tampa, former Senator Clinton supporter: “I’m disappointed that Senator Obama has resorted to personal attacks at this point in the campaign. Would any male candidate for vice president of the United States be afforded similar treatment by the Obama campaign? I would say not.”

INDIANA

Judy Singleton, Indiana Women for McCain Co-Chair: “Obama seems to have a problem with strong, smart women. Ask Hillary. Running an ad like this is an affront to talented women everywhere. To imply that Gov. Palin doesn’t understand economics because she’s pretty and winks is ridiculous. As a governor, she’s proved she understands the economy better than Barack Obama, who hasn’t completed his first term in the Senate, does. All one has to do is look at her record of leadership on economic development and then look at his.”

NEW YORK

Amy Siskind, Ambassador for Hillary: “When Senator Hillary Clinton was demeaned and degraded during the Presidential Primary, many of us of, myself included, vowed ‘never again’. The treatment of Governor Palin by both the main stream media, and now the Obama Campaign, shows that the misogyny fest is alive and well in our country. There has been a complete and utter smear job of our fellow citizen, Sarah Palin, who is only trying to serve her country.”

h/t: Maritime Sentry

It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family.

Those words were spoken by Barack Obama as he accepted the nomination for President from the Democratic National Convention.

He also said something similar at the Saddleback Forum in August.

I think America’s greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that we … still don’t abide by that … basic precept in Matthew that: ‘whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.’ And that notion of — that basic principle applies to poverty. It applies to racism and sexism. It applies to, you know, not … thinking about providing ladders of opportunity for people to get into the middle class.

I mean, there’s a pervasive sense, I think, that this country, as wealthy and powerful as we are, still don’t spend enough time thinking about the least of these.

His aunt, uncle and brother surely qualify under that premise as “the least of us” but what has Barack Obama done to help them?  Has he followed the “basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me,” or is it just talk?  Is he really his “brother’s keeper” or is he expecting to take the income earned by the hard work of the American taxpayer, and spread the wealth around?  If he is not willing to do it with his own money, why should he do it with ours?

Barack Obama last met his Kenyan half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, in 2006.  George Obama said, “It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.”  George lives “in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.”  George tells reporters of his difficult life in Kenya:

“Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you.

“I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists.”

If Obama is his “brother’s keeper,” what has he done to help his brother George?  The man lives in a tiny hut in a violent town on less than a dollar a month.  Instead of offering him a hand up as a multi-millionaire brother should do, Barack Obama only met with him for a few minutes and went on his way.  Barack Obama didn’t mind using his brother in his books to further his own wealth, but he doesn’t seem to care much about returning the favor or helping his brother out.

And George isn’t the only proof that Barack Obama has failed in his “fundamental belief” of being his brother’s keeper.  Barack Obama’s aunt and uncle have also recently been found, in the United States instead of Kenya, yet Obama clearly hasn’t bothered to help them either.  Obama talks about his aunt glowingly in his book, but is he really acting as if he believes he is his “brother’s keeper”?

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.

The US press has repeatedly rehearsed Mr Obama’s extraordinary odyssey, but the other side of the family’s American experience has only been revealed in parts. Just across town from where Mr Obama made history as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, some of his closest blood relatives have confronted the harshness of immigrant life in America.

His aunt and uncle are two other close relatives who Obama didn’t mind using to craft his book, but hasn’t bothered to care for them even as his own success mounts.  Is he really his brother’s keeper?  If so, maybe we should all worry about an Obama Presidency… with his tax policies and “economic justice” we will all end up just like his brother, aunt or uncle.

Once again a pattern of Barack Obama’s character is becoming readily apparent.  He has a pattern of associating with America-hating radicals (Ayers, Dohrn, Wright, Phleger, Khaldi), yet we are supposed to believe he doesn’t hold their views.  He has a pattern of voting to raise taxes on the middle class, yet we are supposed to believe he won’t.  He has a history of supporting and speaking about socialist ideas and praising Marxists and Communists, yet we are supposed to believe he is not a socialist.  He has a history of suppressing questioners and dissenting voices, yet we are supposed to believe he supports free speech.  He has a pattern of failing to answer questions and lying about his record, yet we are supposed to believe he will tell us the truth.  He has a pattern of supporting late term abortions and infanticide, yet we are supposed to believe he values life.  And he has a pattern of ignoring and neglecting his own family members in need, yet we are supposed to believe he is his “brother’s keeper” and will take care of the “American Family”.

If actions speak louder than words, Obama’s actions scream volumes.  This man is a hypocrite and a fraud, and should not be elected President.

If Obama’s treatment of his aunt, uncle and brother are any indication, we cannot afford for Obama to be our brother or keeper and we certainly cannot afford for Barack Obama to become our President.

Barack Obama can’t bother to show up to the Senate or hold any sub-committee hearings.  And when he went to other people’s hearings he was almost invariably late.

Shouldn’t your representative or President have enough respect for their work on behalf of the American people to show up on time?  There’s a pattern here.

h/t: Michelle Malkin

I mentioned this video about a month and a half ago.  In light of this BBC New article about the video, and the election coming to a close, I thought I’d embed it again.  Made by a veteran of the war who has something to say about Barack Obama’s comments and the sacrifices of our soldiers.  Watch the video, then vote McCain.

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I wrote earlier about the long wait to see Sarah this past Sunday.  There were crazy protesters, zombies, and supporters that lined at least three blocks of downtown Asheville.  It was difficult to get in and delayed by at least an hour.  And it was worth every minute.

Gretchen Wilson played three songs, the final one being “Barracuda”.  Then the lights dropped, the spotlights scanned the crowd, and to the “We will Rock You” part of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” Sarah Palin walked on stage.  The crowd was ecstatic.  Many of them had waited since noon to see Sarah.  Eight hours later when she walked on stage they were still full of energy and excitement.

Palin said everyone had waited too long in line for just a political speech, so she asked Gretchen Wilson to play one more song.  To the roar of the crowd, Governor Palin sang along as Gretchen Wilson sang “Redneck Woman.”

After that song, Sarah continued her speech.  The attacks about Ayers were gone, but the attacks on Barack Obama’s socialist ideas of “spreading the wealth” were ratcheted up.  Governor Palin talked about the middle class, about creating jobs and encouraging growth.  She talked about energy independence and the need for an “all of the above” approach which included drilling here and now.  She talked about the benefits of John McCain’s health care plan as opposed to Obama’s government focused system, and the idea that raising taxes on anyone at this crucial time would be devastating to all Americans.

Another issue Governor Palin discussed in length was her desire to help families with children who have special needs.  We noticed one couple with two children, both in wheelchairs, who waited hours in line with everyone else to see Sarah.  After her speech, Sara apparently spoke with both of them.  I’ve never seen someone so touched or excited after meeting a politician.  But it made sense.  Someone who understood their challenges was finally talking about their needs and giving them a voice on the national stage.

And that is the epitome of Sarah Palin and what she means to the McCain/Palin campaign.  From Joe the Plumber to Small Business Owners and the children with special needs… Sarah Palin understands the needs of real Americans and the real struggles that face our country.  From losing health care, to juggling two incomes while raising a family, Sarah Palin has lived the lives that real Americans live, and gone on to fight for us.  She has run a business, worked on the PTA, brought real reform to a corrupt government and fought the big oil companies.  She understands the sacrifices of our military and the need for energy independence.  She exemplifies the idea of a citizen servant who is not so removed from real life that she can’t properly represent real Americans.  Sarah Palin is one of us who is capable and experienced enough to change Washington without being corrupted by it.

I was honored to hear her spe

Contrary to made up stories by the liberal left, no one yelled anything hateful about Barack Obama that we could hear.  The only nastiness came from the protestors outside or the the few lemmings inside who tried to interrupt Governor Palin’s speech.  The rest of us were their in support and were invigorated by her words.

Governor Palin is a rock star, and unlike Obama she is more than just words.  If she is the future of our party, then we still have hope.  Intelligence, Charisma and Conservativism.  We’ve needed that for a long time.

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Don’t let the press fool you.  If the excitement at the rally or the thousands that were turned away is any indication… Sarah Barracuda might very well be our next Vice President.  “The One” is not the only one who draws crowds or offers hope… and unlike “The One” Sarah Palin can actually back it up.

Yet another reason to re-elect Elizabeth Dole.

Glenn Beck interviewed John McCain this afternoon on the radio.  It was a great exchange.  Socialism, The Fairness Doctrine, Judicial appointments and more.  Read the full transcript here.

Barack Obama has a history of supporting socialist policies.  From discussing the “redistribution of wealth” and so-called “economic justice” to telling Joe the Plumber he wants to “spread the wealth around” it is clear Obama is a socialist.  John McCain is now rightfully saying Obama wants to be the “Redistributor in Chief”.

Stop Obama.  Vote John McCain and get your Redistributor in Chief T-shirt.