Colin Powell: Sorry Hero, I’ll Take Zero

October 19, 2008 |   |  1 Comment  |  Presidential Election

Colin Powell, best remembered for pointing out to the UN exactly where Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were being housed, appeared on Meet the Press today to endorse Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Powell, who for many years was considered the most likely candidate to become the first African-American president, said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was not supporting Obama because of his race.

Of course not.  It’s Obama’s long history supporting the military and his expansive curriculum vitae.

In an interview Sunday on Fox News, McCain said he was not surprised by the announcement.

“I’ve always admired and respected General Powell,” said McCain, who cited the endorsements he had received from former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, James Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger. “We have a respectful disagreement.”

Smerconish Submits MSNBC Job Application, Calls It Obama Endorsement

October 18, 2008 |   |  7 Comments  |  Presidential Election

RINO Michael Smerconish really, really wanted that job at MSNBC.  He wanted that job so badly that he backed himself into a corner playing footsie with Barack Obama.

He dealt with the embarrassment that came when a sports / comedy broadcaster on a sort-of-but-not-really competing station did a more newsworthy interview with Obama than he did during the Pennsylvania primary. Angelo Cataldi at WIP got the “my grandmother is a typical white person” money quote.  Smerconish guided Obama through his stump speech.  It didn’t matter.  He had his eye on the prize: A cubicle with a view of Keith Olbermann.

What was a RINO to do when, after all his hard work at abandoning every principal he claimed to hold, the powers that be at MSNBC decided Rachel Maddow is more telegenic than him?  He can’t back down now.  He has to follow through.

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Obama Censorship Squad Hits Pittsburgh’s KDKA

October 18, 2008 |   |  3 Comments  |  Presidential Election

Kevin Miller, a conservative talk show host on Pittsburgh’s KDKA-AM, was given an on-air CBS corporate reprimand Wednesday, read by his executive producer and prompted by listener complaints after Miller dared to interview guests critical of Presidential candidate Barack Obama and express his own negative opinions about the candidate.

In a free-speech chilling move that has become common from the as-yet unelected Obama regime, the station was flooded with calls complaining about Miller’s “statements about Obama.”  The host has interviewed “The Obama Nation” author Jerome Corsi and John Murtagh, a bombing victim of Obama’s terrorist buddy Bill Ayers’ group Weather Underground.

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Senator Voinovich: Obama Is A Socialist

October 17, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

When asked by a reporter for his impressions about Democrat Presidential candidate Barack “Spread The Wealth Around” Obama, Ohio Senator George Voinovich answered in no uncertain terms.

“He is left of Teddy Kennedy. With all due respect, the man is a socialist.”

Not only did Voinovich have the nerve to accurately classify Obama’s policies, his spokesman Chris Paulitz had the stones to (gasp) cite the controversial United States Constitution and Bill of Rights as supporting evidence.

Spokesman Chris Paulitz said it was based on Voinovich’s strong belief in a limited role for the federal government. Paulitz cited the 10th Amendment, which says: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Said Paulitz: “Sen. Voinovich has been a mayor and a governor, and believes the 10th Amendment is sacred. And he does not believe that Sen. Obama has an understanding or respect of the 10th Amendment.”

Mayor? Governor? I scoff. Everyone knows the only qualification that gives you the right to have an opinion is former community organizer.

Contempt From Court: ACORN Fraud OK With Supremes

October 17, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

The full US Supreme Court has ruled against the Ohio Republican party, holding that they lack sufficient standing to sue Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner into enforcing a fair, free election.

As a result, officials from individual counties will have no mechanism to prevent dead people, children and cartoon characters registered to vote by election fraud group ACORN from voting in the November election.

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AP/Yahoo Needs To Poll 57% Democrats To Give Obama 2 Point Lead

October 17, 2008 |   |  Uncategorized

Americans are taking a long last look at Barack Obama before casting their ballots next month, and what they see is driving them to vote for John McCain in droves.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average sits at 64% of it’s 13,991 52-week high and the most unpopular President in modern times, a Republican, sits in the White House.  Still, AP/Yahoo (PDF Link) needs to poll 14% more Democrats than Republicans to give the Democrat candidate for President a 2 point within-the-margin-of-error lead.

IBD/TIPP’s poll, the most reliable predictor the 2004 election winner, puts Barack Obama’s lead at three points.

Gallup, using their time-tested traditional voter turn out model, shows Barack Obama leading by two points.

Rasmussen shows an Obama lead of 4.

To listen to the outdated legacy media is to believe that Barack Obama has this race sewn up.  They are wrong, and the trend is strongly in McCain’s favor at this moment with no debates left to change it.

A Third Of Votes Studied In One NM District Were Phony

October 17, 2008 |   |  1 Comment  |  Presidential Election

New Mexico Republicans have gone over the absentee ballots cast during the Democrat primary in one district and found that 28 of 92 votes examined were fraudulent.  One voter, for example, was identified by the name “Duran-Duran.”

As the scandal of rampant nationwide voter fraud being perpetrated by Obama’s ACORN has unfolded, the chief defense has been that fraudulent registrations don’t lead to fraudulent votes.  The secondary defense, of course, is that you’re racist for even asking.

But now we have evidence of fraudulent registrations being overlooked, leading to a significant percentage of the votes ultimately cast being phony.

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African Press Doubles Down On Michelle Obama Call Claim

October 16, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

I published a caveat-filled report yesterday on an alleged telephone call by Michelle Obama to news outlet African Press (API) during which API claims Obama made racially incendiary and divisive statements.  Since then, domestic news outlets have published denials by the Obama campaign that the phone call took place pretty much unquestioned.  But African Press International is not backing down from their story.  Instead, they say they have tapes and are consulting with their legal advisors on how to release them.

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Beck To Depart Headline News For FOX

October 16, 2008 |   |  2 Comments  |  Uncategorized

Conspiracy theorist and economic defeatist Glenn Beck will be leaving CNN’s Headline News for the FOX News Channel in the spring according to FOX (via Politico).

Fox News has announced that conservative radio and television host Glenn Beck is joining the network, leaving behind CNN’s Headline News. Beck will host a show at 5 p.m. on Fox beginning in the spring.

It hasn’t yet been determined when Beck’s last day will be, but I’ve heard from a network source that Headline News was already preparing to re-air “Lou Dobbs Tonight” at 9pm, instead of Beck’s show (which first airs at 7pm). When Beck leaves, Dobbs show will be in the 9pm slot, but no decision on 7pm.

“Glenn has been a terrific employee and colleague to many of us at CNN,” a network spokesperson said in a statement. “We wish him well.”