Some music was also added to the McCain ad about the media love affair with Barack Obama:
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
McCain Ad: "Country First" Part Two
Friday, July 25, 2008
McCain Continues To Slam Obama For Opposing The Surge Calling It The "Audacity Of Hopelessness"
Speaking to an audience of Hispanic military veterans, McCain continued to slam Obama for opposing sending more troops to Iraq in the "surge" that McCain supported and he claims 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." He said that had Obama gotten what he wanted and there had never been a surge then "America would have been humiliated and weakened. 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." McCain said: "Sen. Obama told the American people what he thought you wanted to hear. I told you the truth." Obama even joined only 13 other senators in voting against funding the troops after Bush had vetoed a previous bill making funding conditioned on withdrawal.
Also, while in Colorado, McCain had a 45-minute meeting with the Dalai Lama
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Analyzing Obama's Berlin Speech
Barack Obama is not a JFK or a Ronald Reagan, even if he seems to think he is. For one, even if you hated those presidents, you could not deny that they were the leaders of the free world. It takes an immense amount of arrogance for Obama to act like he is already president giving speeches to large German crowds in Berlin. This same type of arrogance was displayed when he created a version of the presidential seal for his campaign which was quickly abandoned after criticism. All Obama was doing was giving a campaign speech to Germans. It belittled the important "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" and "Tear Down That Wall" speeches given in the context of the struggle for civilization that was the Cold War. It trivialized the speeches given in the midst of the showdown between capitalist Democracy and Communist tyranny. Obama was giving a stump speech that he hoped would help him become president, and that's about it. Furthermore, not only does his speech demonstrate unhealthy amounts of narcissism, it was very short on actual substance. At this point that is expected. It comes as little surprise that his speech in Berlin has not helped him at all in the eyes of the American people. Gallup places Obama at %45 and McCain at %43 after this speech in front of hundreds of thousands of European sycophants.
I shall now analyze certain parts of what Obama actually said in Germany's capital. He starts out with a lie when says that "tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President." He is not fooling anyone because that is exactly what he was speaking to them as. Obama said he was speaking as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world," whatever a citizen of the world even is.
Obama goes on to discuss Harry Truman's famous Berlin airlift of food and supplies in response to Joseph Stalin's blockade of that city. Obama says that "retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe. Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin." Why is it that Barack Obama claims the Berlin airlift teaches us today to not retreat in the face of a dangerous evil, yet he has preached retreat from Iraq no matter the conditions on the ground since long before the surge successes. Would unconditional "retreat" from what Osama Bin Laden calls "the world’s millstone and pillar...the capital of the caliphate” not allow for Jihadist terrorism to march across Iraq? Had we followed Obama's advice and began withdrawal instead of a surge could we not have said that where the Iraq war would end another war could easily begin? How come Baghdad does not stand in the way of a victory of Jihadism today as Berlin could have stood as an ultimate victory for Communism in past years had we not stood our ground? Obama says the airlift to Berlin was "the largest and most unlikely rescue in history" that "brought food and hope to the people of this city." Yet he fails to explain why he does not believe that the United States should work toward hope for Iraqis? He says that "the odds were stacked against success" in Berlin yet he claimed the failed policies in Iraq warrant retreat.
He discusses some of the problems in today's world and how as members of a "global citizenship" we must stand together. He does bring up serious issues, though of course there is nothing in terms of actual substance as to how to confront these problems other than saying we should all be united. Being united behind no specific action is incredibly easy. Right after mentioning the September 11th attacks he says in the very next sentence that "cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya." I guess Obama is against anyone who owns a car in Boston. I guess Obama is not too worried about losing the Boston vote. I am glad to hear Bostoners are apparently as unfriendly to the environment as Beijing factory owners. I understand that environmentalist rhetoric plays well in that neck of the woods, but should he really lump in Boston drivers for the sake of some alliteration in a speech? I notice that Berlin is a city that starts with the letter "B" yet he did not say anything about cars in Berlin.
Barack Obama then went on to to make endless wall metaphors in reference to the fall of the Berlin wall. "That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down." Meaningless metaphors and cliches. Rational people are not erecting pointless walls. They oppose illegal immigration and Islamic fanaticism and I would hope this is not what Obama means by these vague wall metaphors. As a matter of fact, I can't give you all the meaningless cliches in this speech or I would bore you to death. Of course the Berlin wall was an actual wall dividing free West Berlin from Communist East Berlin, not some metaphorical cliche. When Reagan defiantly proclaimed that Gorbachev should tear down the wall he was declaring U.S. policy and showing strength in front of the Soviet Union. People even criticized him for it at the time, even though it is one of his very finest moments as President. He was not making fuzzy feel-good declarations that have no real meaning or impact.
This is the moment. This is the moment. This is the moment for Barack Obama to get off the stage and go campaign in the country where the election will actually be held. Obama went on with a string of "this is the moment" statements. Many of his "this is the moment" statements express sentiments that no sensible American would argue with, though you never know with some Europeans. Though I can't even figure out what the moment of building on "the wealth that open markets have created" and sharing "its benefits more equitably" because "we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many" even means? It is such nonsensical socialist sounding vaguery that you cannot tell what at all the man is specifically talking about. He also says that "this is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East. My country must stand with yours and with Europe in sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear ambitions." Has Bush not been sending that message to Iran with the Europeans for some time now and the Iranians have repeatedly rejected it? What if Iran continues to say no to American and European messages? Will that be the moment that President Obama takes out Iran's nuclear facilities? Obama states that "despite past differences, this is the moment when the world should support the millions of Iraqis who seek to rebuild their lives, even as we pass responsibility to the Iraqi government and finally bring this war to a close." How are you supporting the Iraqis if you are bringing the war to a close? What do you think the troops are there for? They are there to "support the millions of Iraqis" with a strong enough Iraqi army and secure enough Iraq so that the Iraqi government can take responsibility for their own future. How does "bringing this war to a close" no matter what the situation was or will be on the ground have anything to do with those objectives? Of course Obama says it is the moment for America to "reduce the carbon we send into our atmospheres," though I doubt he will demand that nations like China or India self-impose any restrictions on productivity. It is fairly simple for this to be "the moment to stand as one" if standing as one requires no concrete action from Europe itself. He then goes on to say that "sixty years ago, the planes that flew over Berlin did not drop bombs; instead they delivered food, and coal, and candy to grateful children. And in that show of solidarity, those pilots won more than a military victory. They won hearts and minds; love and loyalty and trust -- not just from the people in this city, but from all those who heard the story of what they did here." If I remember my history, were there not quite a few bombs falling on Berlin just a few short years earlier? If my memory suits me, I even recall a couple of planes sending a very powerful "direct message" to Japan. It is unfortunate that the pilots that dropped bombs on Nazi Germany were winning only a "military victory" instead of "hearts and minds; love and loyalty and trust."
There was also a few paragraphs toward the end where Obama for some reason felt he had to preempt a little praise for American ideals with America bashing. "Will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law? Will we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don't look like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people? People of Berlin -- people of the world -- this is our moment. This is our time. 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." So America is a band of lawless bigoted xenophobic torturers now? Why does he feel the need to bash America in front of a foreign audience?
Unlike Kennedy or Reagan this speech will not go down in history. It will be a footnote about a campaign stump speech made by a guy who was not even President but acted like he was. It had no memorable lines unless you consider "this is the moment" memorable. (The video below demonstrates that "this is the moment" is not even unique to his speech in Berlin but a verbatim repeat of his stump speeches in America). It will be forgotten. America was not impressed by Obama's world tour as the polls show no increase in popularity. Some people, especially those in the media, are far too easily impressed by Barack's stump speeches. His oratory in prepared speeches before adulating fans cannot hide that he says so little of substance.
Perhaps this is the moment. The moment for America to send the Democratic party and the rest of the world be they freinds or enemies a message by electing John McCain as the next president.
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Obama Cancels Visiting U.S. Troops In Germany But Has No Problem Spending Time Giving Speeches To Germans
SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that "Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. 'Barack Obama will not be coming to us,' a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. 'I don’t know why.' Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama." Obama obviously believes Germans take precedence over American soldiers. Not only did he skip visiting American soldiers but he skipped visiting wounded American soldiers. The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) is an overseas military hospital operated by the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense. LRMC is the largest military hospital outside of the continental United States. It is located near Landstuhl, Germany, and serves as the nearest treatment center for wounded soldiers coming from Iraq and Afghanistan. For a presidential candidate Barack Obama's priorities are very aschew. It is more than outrageous that Obama felt giving a speech to some of his German fans was more important than the American soldier.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Obama Flips On Meeting With Leaders Of Terrorist States "Without Preconditions" In First Year
Obama was specifically asked in a primary debate whether he would meet with the leaders of Iran and other rogue terrorist states in his first year in office without preconditions and his answer was that he would. Now he has fliped and changed that to "at my time and choosing" and conveniently claimed that "without preconditions" does not mean "without preperations."
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Katie Couric Interviews Both Obama And McCain On The Surge
Obama is obviously uncomftorable admitting that the surge has been very succesful because he was against it. McCain nails him on it.
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Al-Jazeera Celebrates Samir Kuntar's Birthday And Kuntar Vows To Kill More Israelis
Samir Kuntar is one of the terrorist child killers Israel released last week in exchange for dead bodies. This scum celebrates his freedom and continously vows to destroy Israel and kill more Israelis. Any sane person watching these videos must be sick of the demented Israeli leaders that would give this depraved Islamoterrorist freedom. Here is the link: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1819.htm
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Pro-Islam Ads in Subway Being Placed By Muslim Leader Linked To 1993 NYC Bomb Plot
Is New York City out of its mind?!
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Another Bulldozer Attack In Jerusalem, 16 Wounded
The Jerusalem Post reports that "sixteen people were wounded as a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital earlier this month. ...The perpetrator of the attack, Ghassan Abu Tir, was a relative of Muhammad Abu Tir, a Hamas parliamentarian jailed in Israel."
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Oil Tycoon T. Boone Pickens Testifies To Congress On Addiction To Foreign Oil And Predicts Worrisome Future
Billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens told Senators Tuesday that prices will hit $300 a barrel in 10 years if the United States does not take action to reduce dependence of foreign oil. The United States imports nearly 70 percent of its oil. Pickens pointed out some shocking and little known statistics in an ad he put out earlier this month. In 1970, the United States imported 24 percent of its oil. In 1990, that had grown to 42 percent. It is now 70 percent, and Pickens states that costs America $700 billion a year. Pickens predicted in his Senate testimony that America would import 80 percent in a decade if it failed to tap into its own natural gas and renewable resources. "If we continue to drift, oil will hit $300 a barrel in 10 years," Pickens testified at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The Democrats in Congress are adamantly against expanding drilling either offshore or in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as called for by President Bush.
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Media Crush On Obama: McCain Ad, Jon Stewart, And Chris Matthews
This is a great ad that proves the media bias, or as Tucker Carlson put it high school type "crush" on Barack Obama. This is hilarious, but actually quite tragic because it is true. Take a look at the "Do You Feel That Thrill Running Up Your Leg?" ad:
Now watch a comedy show being funny, unlike the McCain ad that is serious, about the very same issue. Jon Stewart completely skewers the media for their bias in having a circus follow Barack Obama around the world which includes the top new anchors. Meanwhile McCain's trips abroad never have gotten anything close to this level of attention. Watch Stewart's reporters discuss their "Barack-O-Boners":
Now let's move on to MSNBC's Chris Matthews on the Tonight Show discussing the thrill that Barack Obama sent up his leg. His adoration of Obama is on full display. Apparently Barack Obama sending thrills up Matthews's leg can be summed up with the words, "I take a side: us." Go figure.
To give you a sense of just how wildly biased and ridiculous this whole thing is the New Hampshire Union Leader reports that "in Manchester last night, there was just one reporter and one photographer waiting for McCain as his plane -- a white, blue and gold Boeing 737-400 emblazoned with his campaign slogan, 'Reform, Prosperity, Peace' -- touched down on the Wiggins Airways tarmac."
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Obama, Isn't Your Pakistan Policy No Different Than Bush's?
Obama has criticized Bush for Pakistan policy but he admits in this recent interview that what he has proposed is no different than current policy: Link: sevenload.com
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Known Illegal Alien Felon Not Deported Is Now Indicted For Triple Murder
The following is an interview with the woman whose husband and two sons were murdered by an illegal alien with a history of violent crimes that was never reported to the federal government because San Francisco is a sanctuary city. The woman sobs on camera over her loss, and the price of the sanctuary city policy is tragic for all to see.
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What Obama Said Only Days After 9-11
Sen. Barack Obama said certain things only eight days after 9-11 that have gone unreported and which I believe needs to be shared with the general public: "We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity or suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, it may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair. We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle-Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe – children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and within our own shores."
To think that the Islamoterrorists merely suffered from an "absence of empathy" and the "inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity or suffering" of others is naive. The terrorists are able to imagine human suffering very well, just watch any beheading video if you need proof of their imaginative abilities. It was not a lack of empathy but a religously motivated declaration of war on America. When Obama said that it is not "unique to a particular culture, religion or ethnicity" he ignores the history of Jihad in Islamic culture. This is not to say that Islam is the world's only religion with a violent past, that would be utter nonsense. But it is to say that because these specific attackers are motivated by a specific religion that the reality is that the violence and terrorism of today's world is specific to a particular religion. When Obama said that the terrorism "grows out a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair" it almost sounds like we should feel sympathy for the terrorists. It almost sounds like an excuse for the depraved inhuman acts of barbarism. "Raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe" has nothing to do with the reality that many children are being raised by parents who believe in an unhealthy dose of Islamic radicalism and support of jihad terrorism. Furthermore, if it is was purely poverty that was the cause of the terrorist acts against America one must wonder why the extremists in the world do not seem to be tied by a common income level but rather by a common religion? In fact, the 9-11 hijackers were not motivated by poverty or lack of education because men like Mohammed Attah had neither a lack of money or education. In Britain the world saw doctors attempt to committ acts of terrorism at a Scottish airport. Were these men, living in the West and working as doctors, motivated by poverty? Were they helpless? Obviously not. One has to realize that what motivates these people to act the way they do is an expansionist religous ideology and an intense hatred of the United States and her allies, especially Israel. Ideology is a powerful tool when in the hands of madmen bent on using it to kill innocent people. Yet just as the war on terror was beginning Barack was already talking about taking "into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad" as if America had some urge to kill innocents anyway. These comments have been unreported because they show a lack of understanding of the nature of the threat America has confronted since 9-11.
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Al Gore: "I Don't Claim To Be Perfect"
Tom Brokaw asks Al Gore why he needs such a enormous house that sucks up energy while he is constantly preaching that everyone else needs to conserve. Amazingly Al Gore admits that he is not perfect. Shocking!
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MSNBC Reports On Nuclear Power As One Way To Get Off Foreign Oil
The only point that is idiotic in this overall decent MSNBC report is that it characterizes Obama as "more cautious" when it comes to nuclear power while McCain supports building 45 new nuclear plants. The fact is that Obama is not more "cautious" but is flat-out opposed to new nuclear power plants, to new drilling, to just about any practical solutions to the problem of high energy costs and addiction to foreign oil:
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Media Bias: New York Times Refuses To Publish McCain Op-Ed After Publishing Obama Op-Ed, And Media Circus Follows Obama Around The World
Media bias is on full display at the New York Times. Suffice it to say that John McCain is no longer the media darling maverick he used to be, not once he became the Republican nominee. This only strengthens McCain's conservative bona fides in front of normal Americans who take rejection from the New York Times to be a badge of honor. The Drudge Report learned that not even a week after publishing an Obama Op-Ed on Iraq the New York Times rejected one from McCain because they felt it did not "mirror" the Obama article. NYT Editorial Chief (and former Clinton aide) David Shipley said that "It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq." Of course there were no such demands for specifics when it came to the generalities in Obama's piece.
Here is a link to Obama's Op-Ed from last week, entitled "My Plan In Iraq": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/opinion/14obama.html?ex=1373774400&en=6e3c74f501639e3d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Another example of media bias is the attention Barack's trip overseas, including at long last Iraq. CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC's Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC's Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday. McCain on his trips abroad or to Iraq has never been accorded this level of media attention. The AP reports on research conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that the news media have devoted significantly more attention to the Barack Obama. The article states that "for each of the weeks between June 9 and July 13, Obama had a much more significant media presence. The Project for Excellence in Journalism evaluates more than 300 political stories each week in newspapers, magazines and television to measure whether each candidate is talked about in more than 25 percent of the stories. Every week, Obama played an important role in more than two-thirds of the stories. For July 7-13, for example, Obama was a significant presence in 77 percent of the stories, while McCain was in 48 percent, the PEJ said... Newsweek has done six covers with Obama over the past year, two with McCain. A Rolling Stone cover with Obama stopped just short of adding a halo."
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen On Iraq Withdrawal Timetable
Admiral Mullen also says that the successes we see now are due to the surge and could not have been achieved had we began withdrawal instead, as Obama had supported. Take a look:
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