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John Edwards Endorses Barack Obama

At a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday evening, John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama, who was on the stage with him, to be the Democratic nominee for president.

Sounding a theme of a nation divided into parts by walls, Mr. Edwards said, “The reason I am here tonight is that Democratic voters in America have made their choice and so have I.”

Mr. Edwards then went on to say, “There is one man who knows in his heart that it is time to tear down that wall and make one America, Barack Obama.”

Mr. Obama, who had introduced Mr. Edwards as “one of the great leaders we have in the Democratic Party, ” responded by saying he was grateful to him for coming to Michigan and giving his endorsement.

Mr. Obama also noted how Mr. Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, had emphasized health care as an issue that is of primary concern, then said it would be a major issue in his administration.

John McCain and the Global Warming Train

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If John McCain were truly a maverick, he would publicly break from the politically correct culture that demands obedience to its global warming narrative. But sadly, he continues to do the opposite.

Liberals have denominated McCain a maverick because he has taken so many positions contradictory to his party's platform and to the conservative ideology that undergirds it. Now that he is the putative Republican nominee, you don't hear much about his maverick nature, but it's certainly not because he's changed his ways in opposing his party.

Last week, he affirmed his commitment to comprehensive immigration reform, even though earlier he stepped back from it to curry favor with conservatives. One wonders what other shoes will inevitably drop should he win the presidency, especially because he has indicated he would most likely be a one-termer.

An Eye Opener

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New Jersey once led the nation, and most of the world, in economic development
and the promise of prosperity. Today, we find our state sliding into third world
status. If that sounds extreme, just look at our economic growth versus
countries like former Soviet Block nations Estonia and Slovakia, South America's
Chile, or the sizzling economy of Ireland. The graph below illustrates our
economic slow down and slide into second class status in the world competition
for prosperity.

New Jersey has not been victim of a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina or a
tsunami. We have not faced foreign aggression or internal strife. We have been
blessed to not have been plagued by drought, plague or famine. None of these
obstacles to economic development have hampered our progress. There is only one
cause for our declining strength - The State Government.

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Obama on Judges

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Protecting the Powerless?

Here is Senator Obama describing what he will look for in a judge if elected president:

[W]hat I do want is a judge who is sympathetic enough to those who are on the outside, those who are vulnerable, those who are powerless, those who can't have access to political power and as a consequence can't protect themselves from being being dealt with sometimes unfairly, that the courts become a refuge for justice. That's been its historic role. That was its role in Brown v Board of Education.

Except for unborn babies, of course.

Those, you can kill with impunity (even after they're born).

UPDATE (Dan McLaughlin): San Diego Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen made this same point with a cartoon worth a thousand words during the Alito hearings:

Hillary's Nuclear Option

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Most pundits are telling Senator Hillary Clinton that it's all over but the shouting. The math is against her. However, the math is also currently against Senator Obama -- neither candidate can earn the needed majority in the remaining primaries. The decision will be made by the Democrats' superdelegates, who are not obligated to decide whom they support until the convention. And they are empowered to change their allegiance at any time, based on their "read" of what's best for the party.

This means that until the first ballot in Denver in August, Hillary still has a chance.

Conventional wisdom among those who pretend to know why Senator Clinton is hanging in there say she's waiting -- and hoping for -- an Obama scandal that will make Reverend Wright look like a footnote.

Green: The New Color of Catastrophe

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Malaria deaths in Africa, wildfires in the West, and now food riots in Haiti all demonstrate that "going green" can have some very serious downsides.

Is there an advert on TV that doesn’t claim the product or company involved is “doing its best for the planet” or something like that? I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of green every time a program goes to a commercial break. Yet the recent stories of food riots all over the world and wildfires in California should remind us that there’s a downside to environmentalism — a pretty big downside. It’s a downside I explore in my new book, The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About — Because They Helped Cause Them.

The problem is the way liberal environmentalists work to achieve their policy aims. It’s based on a model that goes back to 1962, when Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring.

Ahmadinejad: Israel a 'stinking corpse'

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel is a "stinking corpse" that is destined to disappear, the French news agency AFP reported.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.

"Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."

Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel "has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese" - referring to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

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Iranian Nukes = The End of the World as We Know It

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If Iran is allowed to build a nuclear weapon, it will destroy the last vestiges of the nonproliferation framework and signal the collapse of an American-led global order.

May 7, 2008 - by Gordon G. Chang

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced at the end of last month that the United States was preparing for “potential military courses of action” against Iranian forces. “It would be a mistake,” he noted, “to think that we are out of combat capability.”

Many, however, would say the real mistake is to think the Bush administration is really contemplating military action. “It is time to admit the truth,” Charles Krauthammer recently wrote. “The Bush administration’s attempt to halt Iran’s nuclear program has failed.” Dubya still has more than eight months left in the White House, but most everyone is ready to close the book on the obviously exhausted president.

Obama's Boss Stomps on the Flag

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While Obama rightly claims to have been eight years old when William Ayers was planting bombs at the State Department and the U.S. Capitol, Obama was working for Ayers when this photo was made.

A poem By Barack

It looks like he has the nomination wrapped up .
So lets look a little deeper.
They say that poetry is a window to the soul,
So here is a poem written

by Barack Obama

In 1981, Barack Obama published two poems in the journal Feast…

Pop

Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken

In, sprinkled with ashes,

Pop switches channels, takes another

Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks

What to do with me, a green young man

Who fails to consider the

Flim and flam of the world, since

Things have been easy for me;

I stare hard at his face, a stare

That deflects off his brow;

I’m sure he’s unaware of his

Dark, watery eyes, that

Glance in different directions,

And his slow, unwelcome twitches,

Fail to pass.

I listen, nod,

Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,

Beige T-shirt, yelling,

Yelling in his ears, that hang

With heavy lobes, but he’s still telling

His joke, so I ask why

He’s so unhappy, to which he replies…

But I don’t care anymore, cause

He took too damn long, and from

Under my seat, I pull out the

Mirror I’ve been saving; I’m laughing,

Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face

To mine, as he grows small,

A spot in my brain, something

That may be squeezed out, like a

Watermelon seed between

Two fingers.

Pop takes another shot, neat,

Points out the same amber

Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and

Makes me smell his smell, coming

From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem

He wrote before his mother died,

Stands, shouts, and asks

For a hug, as I shink [sic], my

Arms barely reaching around

His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; ‘cause

I see my face, framed within

Pop’s black-framed glasses

And know he’s laughing too.

Hunger link

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America’s first mandatory policy to reduce global warming emissions is its biofuels mandate. … At the beginning of the decade, Al Gore said that “by tripling U.S. use of bioenergy and bioproducts by 2010, we can keep millions of tons of greenhouse gases out of the air….”
…
Thanks to the 2007 energy bill signed into law by President Bush last December, it is occurring even faster than Gore imagined. The U.S. is now required to mix 9 billion gallons of such fuels into the gasoline supply in 2008, up from less than 3 billion gallons in 2000.

Around the world people are starving due to higher food prices and Congress is just now beginning to realize the connection between their global warming policies and misery around the world. Heritage scholar Ben Lieberman explains the link:

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Three Presidential Candidates, Three Weird Approaches to Economic Policy

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I’m going to let you in on a secret you may not have heard yet: The price of gasoline has been rising.

And since it’s a Presidential election, this is populist gold. Each of the candidates has proposed something to do about it. Of course, the high price of fuel is a complex phenomenon with a lot of causes, very few of which are responsive to policy. So the candidates are stuck talking about the thing that government actually can affect: the level of Federal taxation.

Their responses are distinct, and illuminating.

Let’s start with Senator McCain, who kicked off the gas-tax derby a few weeks ago in Pittsburgh, with his proposal for a Federal gas-tax “holiday” over the summer months. Sounds great, feels good, doesn’t do a whole lot of anything permanent, and certainly does nothing to alter the underlying market dynamics.

More…

Out of touch

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Aren’t Fuel Prices High Enough!?!? Take Action now to put the brakes on higher energy taxes! How are we supposed to afford to take our kids to school and get to work when the liberals in Congress slap even more taxes on our fuel costs?

Raising taxes on domestic energy production hits Americans as energy consumers, but liberals in Congress are also going to raid your 401(k) and pension funds, which are heavily invested in energy companies. There's no right time for new taxes. But now is especially a bad time with the economy running on fumes under the heat of the mortgage meltdown.

The bad news doesn't stop there. The new energy taxes would even further reduce our nation's energy security and tilt the competitive playing field for global energy resources against the United States and toward our foreign competitors. New energy taxes? No thanks.

Tell your Senator and Representative to fight the liberal energy tax-hike agenda in Congress!

Hillary Vs O'Rielly

When asked if she was a socialist she said "Was Teddy Roosevelt?"
"No, He was a great American."

Well, Yes! He was a Socialist/Fascist!

The Guru behind Roosevelt's New Nationalism was Herbert Croly the founder of the New republic.

In his book "The promise of American Life." he made these fascist points.

* The need to mobilize society like an army
* Call for a 'spiritual' rebirth
* the need for great revolutionary leaders
* reliance on manufactured, unifying, national myths
* a contempt for parliamentary democracy
* Non-Marxist socialism
* Nationalism
* The need to make politics into a religion
* Hostility to individualism

This was Teddy and is what Hillary believes.
So the answer is yes! Hillary is a socialist/ fascist.

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Chaos over Paul cuts short gathering

After a super-majority of Ron Paul supporters captured control of the Republican state convention Saturday, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention.

Early in the day, state delegates supporting Paul's continued pursuit of the Republican nomination voted through a rules change that forced the state party to abandon its preset ballot of potential national convention delegates and open up the race to the rest of the state delegates.

The vote followed a rousing speech by Paul of Texas, who said his presidential campaign will continue as long as he has support.

But as the convention continued into the evening, chairman Bob Beers said the party's contract for the hall at the Peppermill Resort Casino had expired and the event would be rescheduled.

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Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project her husband approved

INDIANAPOLIS — It's a story Hillary Clinton loves to tell, about how the Chinese government bought a good American company in Indiana, laid off all its workers and moved its critical defense technology work to China.

What Clinton never tells in the oft-repeated tale is the role prominent Democrats played in selling the company and its technology to the Chinese. She never mentions that big-time Democratic contributor George Soros helped put together the deal to sell the company, or that the sale was approved by the administration of her husband.
"Hillary Clinton must have been hoping we Hoosiers have short memories," Ed Dixon of Valparaiso said in a letter to a local newspaper after a recent Clinton visit. "Her husband was president at the time and allowed this to happen."

And it's a story with a dramatic, political ending. Republican President George W. Bush could have stopped it, but didn't.

Its hard to grasp the hate.

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He's back! Who cares?!

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Dukakis: It's Probably Obama in '08, But the Campaign Needs to Improve

The Massachusetts Democratic primary, along with nearly two dozen other primaries and caucuses, was held on Feb. 5. Hillary Clinton won it by 15 points, one of her best showings anywhere this year, and Michael Dukakis voted in it—but he won’t say for whom.

“If Obama wins both of those states on the sixth of May, I don’t see how as a practical matter he doesn’t have it,” Mr. Dukakis, who officially clinched the Democratic nomination in June 1988, said in an interview this week.

The most influential US political pundits: 50-41 - Telegraph

The most influential US political pundits: 50-41 - Telegraph

The Top 10 Political Pundits In The USA are:
1- Rush Limbaugh
2- Michael Savage
3- Sean Hanitty
4- Ann Coulter
5- Laura Ingraham
6- Larry Elders
7- Tammy Bruce
8- Bill Kristol
9- Bob Grant
10 Charles Krauthammer

"[J]ust when we were close to a national news media
providing a general consensus on what the truth is, along comes the Internets
[sic] that allows its users a choice on the kind of news it watches and the
YouTube. My God, we've got to stop them."

---actor/Fascist Tim Robbins



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Operation Chaos works like a charm

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia: "Clinton Outduels Obama in Primary
With Clear Victory, She Has Rationale to Fight On
By PATRICK HEALY 12:38 AM ET

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s win over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary gives her a boost as she struggles to raise money for the next set of contests."



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The hot air tour

Going to Washington to fight the Global warming hoax
Here is my blog for the event.

Classic!

Think about this for awhile.

'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.' -- Barack Obama