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How Charlie Gibson Should Have Followed Up ...

Concerning Charlie Gibson's exchange with Barack Obama on his donations, as reported by Greg Pollowitz on NRO's The Corner, why didn't Charlie follow up, as he would have done with a Republican, with this:
 
"Senator Obama, you have ridiculed John McCain for not knowing how to use a computer.  Can you explain why you and your staff placed none of the standard security filters, used by all online payment systems, including those used by the GOP, on your donation website, allowing anonymous donations?  Obviously, having those filters would have allowed you to list those proud 3.1 million supporters.  That's what computers are for.  Equally obviously, not filtering donations opens to door to multiple donations from a single source, and even from foreign sources - in short, massive fraudulent and illegal donations.  Senator Obama, do you know how to use a computer, or perhaps you do, and this is just how you choose to use it?"
 
Why not ask?  Because they really are in the tank, even when they only feint to the right.
 
Paul Ashley
Wheaton, IL
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Obama in Crisis II: Melanie Phillips in Agreement


Echoing what I said in last week's Obama in Crisis: Weakness or Supportive?, Melanie Phillips spells out clearly Obama's support of our country's enemies, and his disdain for America:
 
 
The only thing she doesn't mention is that his support for and agreement with our enemies extends into the Western as well as the Eastern Hemisphere - meaning Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
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Real Heroes, Fake Heroes

Ironically, the courage and intestinal fortitude displayed by Spc Joseph Gibson as told in last Firday's "Profiles of Valor" section in the great Patriot Post, would be seen as savage behavior by many, and perhaps most, of the liberal persuasion.  Those same people revel each weeknight watching and cheering actors pretending to do violence to "bad guys" and sometimes, cynically, even to "good guys".

It is even more ironic (and moronic) that many of those actors look down on people like Spc Gibson as much or more than do their viewers.
 
 
"Profiles of valor: USA Spc Gibson

United States Army Specialist Joseph Gibson of the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, was on a mission to find and eliminate terrorists in Iraq in April 2008. Gibson and his fellow Rangers were being transported by helicopter. The chopper touched down at night and the soldiers disembarked, only to come under immediate enemy fire. One Ranger received a life-threatening wound in the firefight and Gibson helped navigate him over an uneven field filled with irrigation ditches to safety.

That’s when the fight got interesting. The Rangers continued with their mission, clearing a field with tall grass and canals near the helicopter’s landing zone. As Gibson walked through the field in the dark, he stepped on a terrorist hiding in a ditch. He took another step forward before turning to see what he had stepped on. The jihadi then moved to kill him and as many other Rangers as possible, but Gibson grabbed the terrorist’s rifle muzzle as he opened fire. Gibson wrestled him to the ground, stripping the enemy of his weapon, but the jihadi disarmed Gibson as well. Ferocious hand-to-hand combat ensued. The terrorist then reached for the detonator to his suicide vest and screamed “bomb!” in English. To put it simply, Gibson beat the jihadi unconscious. Then, “I got my weapon into his stomach and fired,” Gibson said. “He came back to consciousness after that, [but] I knew I got him. I stood up and neutralized him.” For his outstanding courage under fire and the daring rescue of his fellow Ranger, Spc Gibson was awarded the Silver Star. "

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Election Season "Hate Crimes"?

How long will it be until we find out which of these election season "rascist hate crimes" are, as is most common, actually hoaxes perpetrated by the supposed "victim"?
 
One such just happened near here recently when a Muslim college student claimed she was assaulted in a women's room by a man who implied he was doing it because of her faith.  Of course everyone was "outraged".  But now a peep was heard when it was quietly reported that the incident hadn't even happened.  I didn't believe it the first time I heeard the report.
 
My bet is that these election incidents, like the tale above, will never be followed up on.  But the initial charges will turn up again and again in the "new history" books and PBS "history" videos along with those about Bush's stealing of the 2002 election.
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Obama in Crisis: Weak or Supportive?

In his excellent NRO article "Right You Are, Joe", Pete Hegseth critiques Senator Biden's comments about an Obama administration's having to face an international crisis very early on.  I've read several articles discussing Biden's comments and all seem to focus on Barack's perceived weakness as encouraging our enemies to provocative action.  Indeed, Mr. Hegseth's article is subtitled "America's enemies will see Obama as weak".

I think it's more that, and worse.  I worry that Senator Obama actually agrees with the goals of some of those enemies.  After all, Hamas and Hugo Chavez aren't attracted to the idea of an Obama administration merely because he's weak.  It is quite possible that they believe Obama shares their ideals.  They may be incorrect in that belief, but Obama's ties to such people as Bill Ayres and Rashid Khalidi certainly make that belief plausible, to our enemies, and to informed Americans.

And when Senator Biden implies that we may not at first glance think Obama's responses to these crises are the correct ones, it suggests that, indeed, they won't be correct - that Obama will willingly accomodate aggressive actions.  By asking his audience to support Barack in his response, Biden seems to be saying that eventually we'll "come around" to Obama's way of thinking.
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Oh You Poor Dumb SOB.

If I wake up November 5th to an Obama presidency, to Colin Powell and all the Obamanics, I'll feel like uttering the great line from Three Days of the Condor:
 
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Obama Will Attract the Wolves

In light of Joe Biden's assertion Sunday that when Obama is elected the U.S. will within six months face serious international security challenges, Ralph Peters list of these challenges in the New York Post is truly frightening.
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Another "Useful Idiot" Drinks Obama's Cool-Aid

Providing still more evidence of his cluelessness, or downright disingenuousness, Colin Powell claims that McCain's choice of Sarah palin brings the candidate's judgment into question. 

But as for the elephant in the room, Obama's entire life of tight connections to Marxists and anti-American rascists - not a peep.
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Colin Powell: Deaf, Dumb & Blind

When the Founders, knowing they were risking their lives, fortunes and sacred honor, declared in the world-shaking Declaration of Independence, that all men had unalienable rights, among which were "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", were they including "among" these three the right to a congenial "Tone"?

And somehow I don't recall that the writers of our Constitution claimed that we, the people, wrote that great document "in Order to Form a more Pleasant Tone".

Nevertheless, as with many late-to-the-party, know-nothing, opportunistic, "undecideds", laboring under the weight of their self-importance, Colin Powell felt at this late stage that he just had to endorse Barack Obama and then chide the "Tone" of the McCain Campaign.

Never mind Obama's "tone" when speaking out against protecting born-alive infants.

Never mind Obama's "tone" when belittling rural Americans for "clinging to guns and religion" out of "frustration".

Or for telling Joe Plumber he wants to spread the plumber;'s wealth around.  Or Joe Biden's nasty rhetoric.  Or Jack Murtha's, calling Western Pennsylvania racist and our Marines (once directed by Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) murderers.

Never mind the tone of Obama's supporters threatening lawsuits against people who "tell lies" about Obama.  Never mind the continuing "tone" of BO's associates through all his years.

No, it's a fellow soldier's "tone" he doesn't like.  But it's a soldier who endured far more than Colin Powell ever did.  And who, unlike Powell in the Gulf War, wants America to win.

I always suspected of Powell that he had no center, or even historical knowledge, when it came to a philosophy of government.  Now I know it.

Another RINO.  Another phony.  Another beneficiary of racial preferences biting the hand that feeds him.

Tone deaf, dumb (unfortunately not in the meaning of speechless), and blind ... to the danger of what Obama and an unfettered Democrat Congress will be to the Constitution, our rights, and our freedoms.
 
Pathetic.
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Left and Right: Irreconcilable Differences

Glad to see someone just come out and say it, as Dennis Prager does here.
 
There will be no unity in America until either the left or the right wins.  The differences go deep, to the fundamentals of the nation's founding.
 
Enough of this wimpy talk about "my friends across the aisle".  Some of them might be friendly with you at lunch, but they are not the friends of America, who they will not have over for lunch but rather have for dinner.
 
And enough, Senator McCain, of this silly, or at best disingenuous talk of "I respect Barack Obama and his accomplishments".  Please tell us just what those accomplishments are that you "respect"? 

His steadfastness in supporting the killing of born-alive infants?  His channelling of millions to oufits like Acorn for a failed attempt to indoctrinate, er, improve the educaton of our children with anti-Amercan ideas? 

His "organizing" of "communities" to stage in-your-face protests to get themselves money, and get the organizer more personal power and advancement? 

His non-support for Israel?  His willingness to meet unconditionally with some of the world's worst tyrants? 

His writing two books about, well, himself and outlining his non-accomplishments?  

His throwing his grandmother and then his Pastpr/Mentor under the bus? 

His funding whith others money of the hoptal where his wife works that resulted in her getting a huge wage increase of a sort sedonom seen in the "caring industries". 

His not playing the race card by accusing you of playing the race card? 

His big accomplishment of sitting quietly in a pew for twenty years listening to Reverend Wright decry the hated American "white establishment"?  Maybe that would be an accomplishment if Barack had been chained and beaten while being forced to listed to Wright's bilge, as you were forced to do in the Hanoi Hilton.  But Barack volunteered for this "servce" and sood it lik a (new) man.
 
Ah well, maybe we're just to complacent with the good times we've had here in the U.S., largely due to those "permanent things" the left despises.  Maybe we're content that since we have fewer years to live than do our children, and we've worked hard, we can sit back and let the other fellsa  as play at being earnest for awhile. 

We've been spoiled by not having had the experience of those millions upon millions who lived (and more often died rutally) under leftist regimes in the 20th century.  And most of our children, miss-educated by the likes of Bill Ayres, aren't aware of, or don't believe any of it did or even could have happened.
 
As I recollect, probably imperfectly, from Whitaker Chambers' marvelous book Witness, the final battle between left and right will be fought by communists and the ex-communists (Chambers was one); between those who have released the dogs of tyranny and cried havoc, and those who have seen the loss of freedom, sheer terror, and dehumanization, at first hand.
 
Sadly, seeing might truly be our only way to believing.
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McCain: Don't Ask, DO Tell

This from the Columbus Dispatch (by way of NRO's Campaign Spot):
 
"Look, we don't care about an old, washed-up terrorist and his wife," McCain said. "We need to know the full extent of the relationship." Later, McCain told ABC News: "It's a factor about Sen. Obama's candor and truthfulness with the American people."
 
Why do McCain, and many pundits, insist on putting this to Obama as a question?  It's pointless to ask for information you already know, especially when requesting it from one utterly without "candor or truthfulness" - in short, a liar.
 
Would someone please tell Senator McCain that we already know what the relationship was - that we already know that Obama shares terrorist Ayers' radical philosophy? 

Don't ask him -  TELL HIM !
 
And TELL the American people!
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Obama's Secretary of "Education"?

Investors Business Daily addresses William Ayers' continued radicallism, especially regarding his focus on "education" (read "indoctrination").

One of the reasons I think Obama cannot "fully repudiate him" is that he quite likely has an agreement with Ayers, who after all held his coming-out party, promising him the position of Secretary of Education. 

Or maybe the head of Obama's "civilian national security force". 

Or both. 

Or maybe it's the same thing.
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A Government Tailor-made for Obama

What irony. 

With the announcement that the Federal Government might take control of certain U.S. banks to deal with the global credit crisis, the current administration is paving the road with gold for Barack Obama, making easier his goal of setting the country on the road to Socialism - on the road to serfdom.

And the right won't be able to say much of anything in dissent as the new administration will be able to blame them for what Obama and his newly appointed leftist friends will have gleefully inherited.
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McCain: Ignore the Stupid Questions

As Andy McCarthy says in NRO's "The Corner", McCain needs to speak not to the "townhall" audience, often filled with the likes of the pony-tailed kid looking for a government daddy in Clinton's townhall, but to all of America.
 
If the moderator chooses a, well, stupid question, politely, and quickly, bounce off it and get out your message, hitting Obama over and over again.
 
Some (liberals in the tank for OB) may hate you tonight (who cares, you're rich and a Senator) but more will respect you in the morning.
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But Don't Hold Your Breath

But, given McCain's tendency to show anger and outrage to friendly audiences only, and to suck up to his "friends" on the other side of the aisle lest they not like him (as if they do anyway), most likely we will hear Casper Milquetoast feeling our pain ala Bill Clinton, using the same sappy inflections used when, as the GOP's Presidential candidate, pleaded with the country to please, please wear sunscreen when outside.
 
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