Showing posts with label 2008 Presidential Race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008 Presidential Race. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Can McCain win California?
Yes.
I've spent the last three weeks here in the Golden State, And From the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles I have seen potential for a 5+ point win.
And that was before I found out about the McCain Campaign opening up offices here.
The Demographics seemed tailor made for the Democrats, But then Obama won the Democratic nomination. Now it seems that McCain has a terrific shot at winning the same demographics that would have worked against him otherwise.
McCain didn't listen to the hatemongers when it came to immigration, He took a tough principled stand and that earned him support from the Hispanic voters of California.
On the other side.
Hispanic voters are wary Barack Hussein Obama
McCain has stood with Israel, Been a good friend to the Jewish Community and Is not running against Hillary. That coupled with Sen. Liebermans support will carry a large chunk of the Jewish vote.
On the other side.
Obama has a scary history and is probably a Muslim (Otherwise He wouldn't so be so defensive).
McCain has a terrific environmental record, That plays well with the hippies.
On the other side.
Obama has no credibility on energy independance.
At heart California is still the state of Reagan and Nixon, McCain fits that brand.
Mark my words, California will turn Red.
I've spent the last three weeks here in the Golden State, And From the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles I have seen potential for a 5+ point win.
And that was before I found out about the McCain Campaign opening up offices here.
The Demographics seemed tailor made for the Democrats, But then Obama won the Democratic nomination. Now it seems that McCain has a terrific shot at winning the same demographics that would have worked against him otherwise.
McCain didn't listen to the hatemongers when it came to immigration, He took a tough principled stand and that earned him support from the Hispanic voters of California.
On the other side.
Hispanic voters are wary Barack Hussein Obama
McCain has stood with Israel, Been a good friend to the Jewish Community and Is not running against Hillary. That coupled with Sen. Liebermans support will carry a large chunk of the Jewish vote.
On the other side.
Obama has a scary history and is probably a Muslim (Otherwise He wouldn't so be so defensive).
McCain has a terrific environmental record, That plays well with the hippies.
On the other side.
Obama has no credibility on energy independance.
At heart California is still the state of Reagan and Nixon, McCain fits that brand.
Mark my words, California will turn Red.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Huckabee tops McCains VP List.
Newsmax is reporting that Mike Huckabee is the top contender for the VP Slot, If the source is correct than we are in for a great election.
Lately Dems have been making inroads in the deep south, If Huckabee is on the ticket he will greatly benefit these congressional races and pull in a strong vote in his home state of Arkansas where the US Senate race is crucial to the GOP regaining control of the Senate.
Huckabee has broad appeal among the working class voters and will keep Ohio and Florida in the GOP Column and may lead to a pick-up in Michigan.
McCain-Huckabee 08, Has a nice ring to it huh?
UPDATE:
GOP loses house seat in Mississippi, A ticket with Huckabee will be crucial to avoiding a devastating loss of Congressional seats in the fall.
Lately Dems have been making inroads in the deep south, If Huckabee is on the ticket he will greatly benefit these congressional races and pull in a strong vote in his home state of Arkansas where the US Senate race is crucial to the GOP regaining control of the Senate.
Huckabee has broad appeal among the working class voters and will keep Ohio and Florida in the GOP Column and may lead to a pick-up in Michigan.
McCain-Huckabee 08, Has a nice ring to it huh?
UPDATE:
GOP loses house seat in Mississippi, A ticket with Huckabee will be crucial to avoiding a devastating loss of Congressional seats in the fall.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Quotes from the Obama autobiography, Dreams of my father
WARNING: These Quotes include Offensive Language and Racism.
"That’s just how white folks will do you. It wasn’t merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn’t know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserving of their scorn."
"In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school"
"I Studied the Koran"
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
" I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE"
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"
"Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
'It was obvious that certain whites could be exempted from the general category of our distrust: Ray was always telling me how cool my grandparents were. The term white was simply a shorthand for him, I decided, a tag for what my mother would call a bigot. And although I recognized the risks in his terminology-how easy it was to fall into the same sloppy thinking that my basketball coach had displayed (“There are white folks, and then there are ignorant motherfuckers like you,” I had finally told the coach before walking off the court that day)-Ray assured me that we would never talk about whites as whites in front of whites without knowing exactly what we were doing. Without knowing that there might be a price to pay."
"To avoid being mistaken for a [racial] sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy."
“Sister Regina,” Marcus said. “You know Barack, don’t you? I’m trying to tell Brother Barack here about this racist tract he’s reading.” He held up a copy of Heart of Darkness , evidence for the court. I reached over to snatch it out of his hands….
I tossed the book into my backpack. “Actually, he’s right,” I said. “It is a racist book. The way Conrad sees it, Africa’s the cesspool of the world, black folks are savages, and any contact with them breeds infection.”
Regina blew on her coffee. “So why are you reading it?”
because the book teaches me things,” I said. “About white people, I mean. See, the book’s not really about Africa. Or black people. It’s about the man who wrote it. The European. The American. A particular way of looking at the world. If you can keep your distance, it’s all there, in what’s said and what’s left unsaid. So I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.”
“And that’s important to you.”My life depends on it, I thought to myself. But I didn’t tell Regina that. I just smiled and said, “That’s the only way to cure an illness, right? Diagnose it.”
"When the weather was good, my roommate and I might sit out on the fire escape to smoke cigarettes and study the dusk washing blue over the city, or watch white people from the better neighborhoods nearby walk their dogs down our block to let the animals shit on our curbs-“Scoop the poop, you bastards!” my roommate would shout with impressive rage, and we’d laugh at the faces of both master and beast, grim and unapologetic as they hunkered down to do the deed.
I enjoyed such moments-but only in brief."
"As it was, I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds, understanding that each possessed its own language and customs and structures of meaning, convinced that with a bit of translation on my part the two worlds would eventually cohere. Still, the feeling that something wasn’t quite right stayed with me, a warning that sounded whenever a white girl mentioned in the middle of conversation how much she liked Stevie Wonder; or when a woman in the supermarket asked me if I played basketball; or when the school principal told me I was cool."
(Side Note, I'm White and get the Basketball question all the time, its the height, not the race, What a reactionary bozo.)
"That’s just how white folks will do you. It wasn’t merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn’t know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserving of their scorn."
"In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school"
"I Studied the Koran"
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
" I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE"
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"
"Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
'It was obvious that certain whites could be exempted from the general category of our distrust: Ray was always telling me how cool my grandparents were. The term white was simply a shorthand for him, I decided, a tag for what my mother would call a bigot. And although I recognized the risks in his terminology-how easy it was to fall into the same sloppy thinking that my basketball coach had displayed (“There are white folks, and then there are ignorant motherfuckers like you,” I had finally told the coach before walking off the court that day)-Ray assured me that we would never talk about whites as whites in front of whites without knowing exactly what we were doing. Without knowing that there might be a price to pay."
"To avoid being mistaken for a [racial] sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy."
“Sister Regina,” Marcus said. “You know Barack, don’t you? I’m trying to tell Brother Barack here about this racist tract he’s reading.” He held up a copy of Heart of Darkness , evidence for the court. I reached over to snatch it out of his hands….
I tossed the book into my backpack. “Actually, he’s right,” I said. “It is a racist book. The way Conrad sees it, Africa’s the cesspool of the world, black folks are savages, and any contact with them breeds infection.”
Regina blew on her coffee. “So why are you reading it?”
because the book teaches me things,” I said. “About white people, I mean. See, the book’s not really about Africa. Or black people. It’s about the man who wrote it. The European. The American. A particular way of looking at the world. If you can keep your distance, it’s all there, in what’s said and what’s left unsaid. So I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.”
“And that’s important to you.”My life depends on it, I thought to myself. But I didn’t tell Regina that. I just smiled and said, “That’s the only way to cure an illness, right? Diagnose it.”
"When the weather was good, my roommate and I might sit out on the fire escape to smoke cigarettes and study the dusk washing blue over the city, or watch white people from the better neighborhoods nearby walk their dogs down our block to let the animals shit on our curbs-“Scoop the poop, you bastards!” my roommate would shout with impressive rage, and we’d laugh at the faces of both master and beast, grim and unapologetic as they hunkered down to do the deed.
I enjoyed such moments-but only in brief."
"As it was, I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds, understanding that each possessed its own language and customs and structures of meaning, convinced that with a bit of translation on my part the two worlds would eventually cohere. Still, the feeling that something wasn’t quite right stayed with me, a warning that sounded whenever a white girl mentioned in the middle of conversation how much she liked Stevie Wonder; or when a woman in the supermarket asked me if I played basketball; or when the school principal told me I was cool."
(Side Note, I'm White and get the Basketball question all the time, its the height, not the race, What a reactionary bozo.)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Obama's spiritual mentor insults yet another ethnic group.
From an article written by "Rev." Jeremiah Wright in Trumpet Newsmagazine
"The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."
"From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style...
This Intolerance is absolutely disgusting, Jeremiah Wright has truly become the new David Duke.
If Obama is nominated, Plan on another 1984 Mondale fiasco for the Dems.
"The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."
"From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style...
This Intolerance is absolutely disgusting, Jeremiah Wright has truly become the new David Duke.
If Obama is nominated, Plan on another 1984 Mondale fiasco for the Dems.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Hypocrisy
Although it took years for Obama to condemn (if you call it that) Jeremiah Wrights racist comments, it only took a week to attack Don Imus.
“There’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude,” Obama told ABC News in an April 11 interview demanding Imus' resignation.
Obama told ABC in the interview he would never appear again on Imus’ show after Imus set off a firestorm of outrage when he called members of the women’s basketball team at Rutgers University “nappy-headed hos” on his popular morning talk show.
“He didn’t just cross the line,” Obama raged then. “He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America.”
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Racism rears it's ugly head (Throw Granny Under the bus)
For Obama not to have been that influenced by Jeremiah Wright, He sure sounds like him
“But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.”
Wellll maybe she wouldn't be prejudiced if her black grandson wasn't a Cocaine Addict, If anything, Obama's behavior reinforced any negative stereotype she may have had.
The best quote comes from Ann Coulter
"He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist "old uncle," Rev. Wright.
First of all, Wright is not Obama's uncle. The only reason we indulge crazy uncles is that everyone understands that people don't choose their relatives the way they choose, for example, their pastors and mentors. No one quarrels with the idea that you can't be expected to publicly denounce your blood relatives.
But Wright is not a relative of Obama's at all. Yet Obama cravenly compared Wright's racist invective to his actual grandmother, who "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Rev. Wright accuses white people of inventing AIDS to kill black men, but Obama's grandmother -- who raised him, cooked his food, tucked him in at night, and paid for his clothes and books and private school -- has expressed the same feelings about passing black men on the street that Jesse Jackson has."
The Hard Truth is there are bad people in every race, and those people (Like Obama) have created racism through their own foolishness and as a result have caused irreparable harm to innocent people of every race.
“But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.”
Wellll maybe she wouldn't be prejudiced if her black grandson wasn't a Cocaine Addict, If anything, Obama's behavior reinforced any negative stereotype she may have had.
The best quote comes from Ann Coulter
"He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist "old uncle," Rev. Wright.
First of all, Wright is not Obama's uncle. The only reason we indulge crazy uncles is that everyone understands that people don't choose their relatives the way they choose, for example, their pastors and mentors. No one quarrels with the idea that you can't be expected to publicly denounce your blood relatives.
But Wright is not a relative of Obama's at all. Yet Obama cravenly compared Wright's racist invective to his actual grandmother, who "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Rev. Wright accuses white people of inventing AIDS to kill black men, but Obama's grandmother -- who raised him, cooked his food, tucked him in at night, and paid for his clothes and books and private school -- has expressed the same feelings about passing black men on the street that Jesse Jackson has."
The Hard Truth is there are bad people in every race, and those people (Like Obama) have created racism through their own foolishness and as a result have caused irreparable harm to innocent people of every race.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
A Universal Healthcare Compromise (and energy solution)
Both Democrats have came up with Socialistic "Universal healthcare" plans, But I have one that will fix both the Health Crises and The Energy Crises.
It is very simple. The Health Crises stems largely from obesity, The Energy Crises of course comes from dependence on foreign oil.
The Solution... Replace all gasoline cars with diesel and build liposuction clinics around the country, Require mandatory liposuction of all individuals with high bodyfat and use the extracted fat for Biodiesel fuel.
Sadly the plan above is actually better than that of Obama's or Hillary's healthcare plans. The Plans were respectively 15 (Obama) and (Clinton) 16 pages long, but yet neither explained how they would pay for it, How can we afford another bloated government program when foreign governments (Mainly China) own $2.2 Trillion or 44% percent, of the national debt?
Also a striking similarity is the constant use of the word "Affordable", Everytime the government comes up with a new program, It costs much more than what a private sector organization could create. It endangers our National Security and our National Sovereignty. How can China or any other country respect us when they own 44% of our government?
They also harp the "47 Million uninsured, 9 Million of them children" slogan like it's going out of style, I am 17 and don't have health insurance, So I guess I fit in both brackets.
Both plans also call for expansion of the S-CHIP program and Medicare-Aid, If their plans cover all Americans, than why do they need 3 more programs to cover all Americans?
The Worst thing about S-Chip though was the way they would pay for it...
A Tax on private health insurance!!!
What is wrong with these people? Are they fundamentally incapable of reasoning?
It is very simple. The Health Crises stems largely from obesity, The Energy Crises of course comes from dependence on foreign oil.
The Solution... Replace all gasoline cars with diesel and build liposuction clinics around the country, Require mandatory liposuction of all individuals with high bodyfat and use the extracted fat for Biodiesel fuel.
Sadly the plan above is actually better than that of Obama's or Hillary's healthcare plans. The Plans were respectively 15 (Obama) and (Clinton) 16 pages long, but yet neither explained how they would pay for it, How can we afford another bloated government program when foreign governments (Mainly China) own $2.2 Trillion or 44% percent, of the national debt?
Also a striking similarity is the constant use of the word "Affordable", Everytime the government comes up with a new program, It costs much more than what a private sector organization could create. It endangers our National Security and our National Sovereignty. How can China or any other country respect us when they own 44% of our government?
They also harp the "47 Million uninsured, 9 Million of them children" slogan like it's going out of style, I am 17 and don't have health insurance, So I guess I fit in both brackets.
Both plans also call for expansion of the S-CHIP program and Medicare-Aid, If their plans cover all Americans, than why do they need 3 more programs to cover all Americans?
The Worst thing about S-Chip though was the way they would pay for it...
A Tax on private health insurance!!!
What is wrong with these people? Are they fundamentally incapable of reasoning?
Friday, March 14, 2008
Wilder “If you think 1968 was bad, you watch: In 2008, it will be worse.”
Doug Wilder, seemed to predict the future last month with his statement "If you think 1968 was bad, you watch: In 2008, it will be worse.”
My prediction is that if the Democratic nomination goes to convention, The Democrats final nominee will have 60%-80% party support with the remainder going to Sen. McCain.
With the GOP Voting 85%-95% either FOR McCain or AGAINST th Democratic Nominee, McCain will also pick up Indies, Hispanics, and African Americans in the Case of Hillary and Moderates, Hispanics, and Asians in the case of Obama.
I Expect Obama's support among African-Americans to be 90-10, Which is average in a Presidential Race (I Have no idea why)
In almost any case, With the Democratic "Dream Ticket" Out of the picture, John McCain will be our next President.
The RNC has already outraised the DNC 2-1.
The Democrats however have a shot at redemption, Throw Obama-Hillary out the window and nominate Fmr. GA Governor. Zell Miller. I Guarantee it would be a landslide victory for him, Bringing in at least Two-Thirds of the Republican vote, for the Dem Nominee.
BUT, The DNC is to stupid to do such, and so say hello to Republicans controlling the entire Federal Government.
My prediction is that if the Democratic nomination goes to convention, The Democrats final nominee will have 60%-80% party support with the remainder going to Sen. McCain.
With the GOP Voting 85%-95% either FOR McCain or AGAINST th Democratic Nominee, McCain will also pick up Indies, Hispanics, and African Americans in the Case of Hillary and Moderates, Hispanics, and Asians in the case of Obama.
I Expect Obama's support among African-Americans to be 90-10, Which is average in a Presidential Race (I Have no idea why)
In almost any case, With the Democratic "Dream Ticket" Out of the picture, John McCain will be our next President.
The RNC has already outraised the DNC 2-1.
The Democrats however have a shot at redemption, Throw Obama-Hillary out the window and nominate Fmr. GA Governor. Zell Miller. I Guarantee it would be a landslide victory for him, Bringing in at least Two-Thirds of the Republican vote, for the Dem Nominee.
BUT, The DNC is to stupid to do such, and so say hello to Republicans controlling the entire Federal Government.
Obama Earmarks Scandal
Barack Obama recently released a list of $740 million in earmark requests he made in the past three years, and it includes $1 million for the hospital where his wife Michelle is a vice president.
The request for $1 million for the University of Chicago Medical Center was to help pay for construction of a new pavilion.
Nevertheless the request was voted down by the Senate in 2006.
BUT, Obama did manage to secure an earmark for $1.3 million for a high-explosive technology program for the Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The program was overseen by General Dynamics, and one of Obama’s top supporters, James Crown — a member of Obama’s national finance committee who serves on the board of General Dynamics.
Obama also secured for Mr Crown a $750,000 earmark for renovation of a space center named for Crown’s grandfather, Henry Crown, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
The request for $1 million for the University of Chicago Medical Center was to help pay for construction of a new pavilion.
Nevertheless the request was voted down by the Senate in 2006.
BUT, Obama did manage to secure an earmark for $1.3 million for a high-explosive technology program for the Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The program was overseen by General Dynamics, and one of Obama’s top supporters, James Crown — a member of Obama’s national finance committee who serves on the board of General Dynamics.
Obama also secured for Mr Crown a $750,000 earmark for renovation of a space center named for Crown’s grandfather, Henry Crown, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
Michelle Obama is on leave from her job while her husband campaigns for president, but after Barack was elected to congress, she received a big raise.
USA Today reports that officials at the University of Chicago Hospitals told the Chicago Tribune that Michelle is "worth her weight in gold."
"She's terrific," added Michael Riordan, who was president of the hospital in March 2005, when Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs and had her annual salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962.
My big question is... If Barack Obama is so opposed to earmarks like he claims, Why did he request $740 Million worth of them?Thursday, March 13, 2008
Some Gop Ingenuity
Republican's all over are getting creative (Including Me). The First two are from Dan Barker, the third is my creation
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