General Petraeus to Submit Iraq Pullout Plan
Even as Barack Obama and other Democrats continue to campaign on President Bush and John McCain’s willingness to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq endlessly, plans are underway to bring the troops home. This total lack of respect for the current state in Iraq, this ignoring of what is currently going on even as you say the opposite during campaign stops is astoundingly arrogant and irresponsible.
First the United States and Iraq agreed on a “time horizon” for withdrawal and now General David Petraeus is finalizing his proposal which should include withdrawing troops from Iraq.
Democrats continue to ignore the facts on the ground as they continue to tow the party line on an issue they believe they can win politically before the United States wins militarily.
But it isn’t surprising. Democrats have a long, long history of being on the wrong side of military conflicts and of ignoring the facts on the ground during wartime. The year was 1864 and the Republican president was up for re-election during a time of war. Two victories near the end of Summer by the North began a turning point in the war, the end looked to be in sight. The Republican party adopted President Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation and complete victory with no secession of the south as a plank in their party platform.
Democrats adopted a plank in the party platform that called for a “cessation of hostilities,” a surrender. They claimed the war was a failure. They ran as their candidate the first man who commanded the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan, (who opposed this plank). Lincoln won in a landslide. They ignored facts on the ground that showed victory could be imminent and in fact the Civil War was over a few months later.
I am not comparing the Iraq war to the Civil war, I am comparing the mindset of the Democrat party then and now. I am talking about the ignoring of the facts that are right in front of them, if only they wanted to see them. This ignoring of the facts can be dangerous, what would the implications have been in 1864 if the Democrats had their way?
Even as conditions on the ground in Iraq have improved to the point where withdrawal talks have been ongoing, the Democrat party remains blissfully silent. They continue to say that McCain and Bush want to carry on the war indefinitely even as plans are being made to slowly end the war. Democrats are holding onto this position to appease the far left in the party, facts be damned. The far left isn’t interested in facts.
This is just plain irresponsible.
Last week Jeanne Shaheen made what she is now calling a joke at a fund raising event:
We’re hoping for an indictment against Sununu, but it hasn’t happened yet
This has drawn the ire of state Republicans as there is no investigation into anything that Senator Sununu has done. She has insulted his integrity. If you want to debate the issues Mrs. Shaheen, than go right ahead. You have vastly different positions on many issues. But don’t insult the integrity of a man who doesn’t deserve it. Are you that desperate? It is you with that “joke” who has now shown a lack of integrity and a will to stop at nothing to win.
From the Sununu camp:
Jeanne Shaheen continues to exhibit a complete lack of integrity,” Collins said, “and unfortunately this is but another instance of Shaheen’s embarrassing New Hampshire with outrageous and disgraceful comments
And from the NHGOP:
State GOP Chairman Fergus Cullen said Shaheen is free to disagree with Sununu over policy, “but no one should doubt his personal integrity. For her to suggest he is corrupt is inexcusable.”
Once again this is typical from the left, if you disagree with them there is no room for debate. She is trying to criminalize a differing opinion. Instead of fighting for the issues that she believes in and showing us why she would make a better senator than Sununu she would rather disgrace the man.
It is this type of gutless and cowardly campaigning that New Hampshire doesn’t need. This however is the way the Shaheen’s campaign. It was last December that her husband had to step down as a co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for making a reference that maybe Barack Obama used to be a drug dealer.
If these two can’t debate the issues without the character assassinations that they are becoming famous for than perhaps politics isn’t the best line of work for them. Remember the line the Democrats used about the politics of personal destruction? Who’s using it now?
John McCain Chooses Sarah Palin as his Running Mate
Today John McCain chose first term governor of Alaska Sarah Palin as his running mate. Much like Barack Obama, John McCain had a glaring weakness that he needed to address, but unlike Obama I am not sure he did it. Barack Obama’s biggest weakness was his lack of experience and foreign policy. Joe Biden, although he comes with a mouth that may get him in trouble, addressed both of these weaknesses.
John McCain’s weakness, if weakness is even the right word, is that he has alienated conservatives over the last eight years and now he needs to win them back. Sarah Palin appears to have solid conservative credentials but she has also earned the “maverick” title by opposing fellow Republicans.
Politics isn’t just a game of competing interests and clashing parties,” added the Palin, 44, who has built her career in large measure by challenging fellow Republicans.
So she appears to be in the same mold as McCain, although I would say that she is probably much more conservative than McCain. During her speech she talked about how she has appointed Democrats and Independents to positions in her state government. I am not sure picking a little known conservative with a penchant for challenging other Republicans and acquiescing to Democrats will help McCain gain the confidence of the conservatives that he desperately needs, but overall reaction on talk radio is very positive.
It is obvious to me that this is an attempt by McCain at gaining the support of the Hillary Clinton supporters who are still bitter about Obama not choosing her as his running mate. But at what cost will it come? John McCain has been telling America that Barack Obama doesn’t have the experience to be president, and he is right. But how can he now use that against Barack Obama when his running mate is in the first term of her governorship? Perhaps he feels that Barack Obama can’t attack her lack of experience for fear that it could backfire on him with a counter attack on Obama’s lack of experience. It didn’t take long for the Obama campaign to fire back at Palin’s lack of experience, trying to neutralize that line of attack from McCain.
The Barack Obama campaign has also begun to attack her lack of foreign policy experience but I am not sure that angle would work because McCain didn’t need a running mate with that type of experience, he has it.
Just as Barack Obama had to choose a running mate with more experience and older than he, John McCain had to pick a running mate that might negate the “old man” image, he had to “get younger” and he definitely accomplished that.
I still don’t know enough about her to give an opinion on how good or bad this pick is, although I have to say that from what I have seen so far I like her. I don’t know if this choice will sway me to vote for McCain yet, and I wonder how many conservatives this pick will bring to McCain. He seems to have ridden a fine line with this pick, trying to pander to Hillary voters and conservatives at the same time. It may pay off for him.
The questions in my mind with this pick is, will her lack of experience negate her conservative credentials with the undecided voters? And, will the fact that she has opposed Republicans in the past hurt her with the voters?
I have had mixed feelings about this pick, as I wrote before, I don’t know enough about her yet, but I am sure we will get to know her in the next few months.
The Obama Campaign Attacks Conservative Talk Radio
In a preview of what is going to happen once Barack Obama wins the presidency and the Democrats get a veto proof majority in the house and senate, the Obama campaign is going after conservative talk radio.
Stanley Kurtz recently wrote an article about an organization that was founded by domestic terrorist and Barack Obama friend William Ayers (an organization that Barack Obama co-chaired) in which he tried to gain access to information that was supposed to be public. He was not allowed to gain access to these public records. Two weeks later the records were released, who knows what was either taken out or put in during that time.
Because Stanley Kurtz had the audacity (of hope) to write and talk about something that is critical of the chosen one he is now the victim of smears by the Barack Obama campaign. Here is part of an email sent out by the Obama campaign:
“WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears,” Obama’s campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters. “He’s currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers.”
The email goes on to say the following:
At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz’s lies
There is only one problem with that logic:
Christenson said the Obama campaign was asked to have someone appear on the show and declined the request.
What a bunch of frauds.
Obama has not yet won the presidency and already he is setting the table for the return of the fairness doctrine. It has already been stated by many prominent Democrats that the fairness doctrine needs to be re-implemented and the wheels are being set in motion.
There was a time when debate was considered healthy, but that time has passed. WIth the television and print media being dominated by liberals the attention has to be turned to the last bastion of conservative media, talk radio.
The smears of the Obama campaign are meant as a way to soften people up to the idea of giving up a little of their freedom of speech and the freedom of the press with the re-instituting of the fairness doctrine.
The attack has begun.
Republican Party Platform to Oppose Amensty for Illegals
Only if this were true, but we know that it isn’t. The official Republican party platform is going to include a plank that opposes granting illegal aliens amnesty. This has just turned into a semantics game.
The Republican party is officially going to oppose amnesty for illegals but John McCain supports a so-called pathway to citizenship. What’s the difference? There is none. Amnesty is amnesty by any other name. The Republicans are trying to save face on this issue, but the current president and the party’s nominee to be the next president, both agree with the idea of granting amnesty to illegals. However the party understands how unpopular this idea is to the American people, we showed them last year when this issue came up, and there has been a gradual change in the phraseology from amnesty to “a pathway to citizenship.” It’s the same thing. Who the hell cares what it is called, the end result will be the same.
Republicans have decided that their best chance to win is to move to the left and that was proven by the party’s nomination of a man who pissed on conservatives for the last eight years. They have decided to become more like Democrats, that is the only reason a man like John McCain could ever win the Republican nomination.
With last year’s outcry over the “immigration reform” bill, this should be an issue that Republicans could make gains on. But instead they have nominated the man who authored the doomed legislation. If only Republicans had learned from that debacle perhaps conservatives would not be in such an apathetic mood.
It might sound good, it might look good on paper, but it is only words. What good does it do for Republicans to state that they are officially opposed to amnesty for illegals when everyone knows that the party’s nominee is for granting amnesty to illegals? Everyone knows that John McCain authored this legislation with Ted Kennedy of all people.
Words are one thing, actions are another. We all know the old cliche that actions speak louder than words and we have all seen John McCain’s actions. He is for amnesty and it matter a god damned bit that the Republican party has officially decided to oppose it.
Video: Barack Obama’s Association With William Ayers
Joe Biden has Ties to Tony Rezko
Barack Obama received a sweetheart land deal from his one time major fundraiser 
and now convicted Tony Rezko, that is old news. But what is new news is the fact that Joe Biden has ties into this whole money laundering scheme. Joe Biden has been a friend of Joseph Cari, who just pleaded guilty to extortion, for thirty years.
Biden has described himself as a 30-year friend of a key figure in the Rezko trial who’s pleaded guilty to a federal extortion charge in Chicago and is awaiting sentencing.
So what was Cari’s crime?
In 2005, Cari admitted to taking part in an $850,000 kickback scheme that prosecutors say was part of a larger political fund-raising operation for Gov. Blagojevich overseen by Rezko, who was convicted in June of wide-ranging corruption involving state deals
Surely Joe Biden would condemn this criminal, wouldn’t he? Here is what Biden said about his longtime pal, Joe Cari:
“All I know is Joe Cari is a friend, and he’s an honorable guy, but I don’t know anything beyond that.”
He is an honorable guy? Joe Biden comes to this man’s defence and offers himself as a defacto character witness. They say that you can judge a man’s character by the company that you keep, and there is allot of truth to that. Judging by the company that Joe Biden has kept for thirty years I would say that his integrity has been soiled. We are to believe that Cari laundered and extorted all of this money and none of it ever went to Joe Biden? We are to believe that Joe Biden either had no knowledge of Cari’s dealings or did and didn’t care. Either way this indictment of Cari is an indictment on Joe Biden and his integrity, judgement, and questionable associations.
Have you ever heard of guilt by association? Joe Biden is guilty.
Republican Platform to Include Global Warming Plank
RINO
John McCain has a problem. His problem is with conservatives, they don’t like him. He is too interested in winning the votes of moderates and pissed off Hillary Clinton voters and not interested in shoring up the conservative Republican base. He is continuing to give us the proverbial middle finger. But now it seems as if the problem that conservatives have with McCain night go deeper than just McCain himself.
The whole party is shifting to the left, becoming more like the Democrats. There is no greater 
example of this than the fact that Republicans are going to add a global warming plank to their national platform.
The Republican platform may include a first-ever plank on global warming, an examination of a draft document indicated.
“Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the Earth,” The Hill reported the draft document as saying. “While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today.”
The old saying goes, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, well I would rather lose clinging to my beliefs than win by compromising them. That is what is wrong with the Republican party of today. They are so blinded by the need to try to hold on to what remaining power they have that they are abandoning their beliefs. If you are so willing to abandon your beliefs than you have none.
So while Republicans move to the left in an attempt to gain moderate voters, they are abandoning those of us who have for so long defended them. The conservative voters will not forget this. Conservatives are already cold to the idea of John McCain as the pary’s nominee, and when they see that the Republicans have adopted another of the Democrat’s national party planks it will infuriate them even more.
This liberal infestation in the Republican party must stop, perhaps losing big in November is what the Republicans need in order to knock some sense into them. Maybe then they will re-evaluate themselves and realized that they have abandoned the conservative values that got them elected in the first place.
The key to Republicans winning is to differentiate themselves from Democrats, not become more like them. This new global warming plank is just further proof that John McCain, and Republicans in general, have lost their way.
No Charges in Barack Obama Assassination Plot
The suspects in the Barack Obama assassination ploy will face no charges on the assassination plot. It seems there is not enough evidence against them to bring charges.
US Attorney Troy Eid said: “There is insufficient evidence that there was any kind of a plot or a threat but we’ll keep an open mind as we look.
I guess the fact that one of the men admitted that he was going to kill Obama isn’t enough to hold the men on suspicion of plotting an assassination; here is what one man said when questioned:
one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.”
Law enforcement sources told Maass that one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative.”
That is not enough to hold these men for charges of an assassination plot? The men are still being held on weapons charges. Think about this for a minute, a man admits he wants to shoot Obama and the police don’t think that there is enough to hold him.
This is typical soft on crime liberal mind-think at it’s finest. The “excuse” for these men is that they are drug addicts. They can’t help themselves, they are victims. Therefor they can’t be held accountable for their actions. How ironic is it that the “nobody is to blame for their actions” has no led to a man who is a card carrying liberal being the target of these “victims.”
It doesn’t even matter how capable these men were of actually carrying out this ploy, the fact is that the thought was there as was the intention, but because they are drug addicts and have an excuse to deflect the blame from themselves no charges will be brought against them.
Perhaps now that the most prominent liberal was to be the target of this crime it will persuade Democrats to rethink their soft on crime stance. I doubt it, according to them we just need to try to understand what would drive someone to this level of desperation. We can’t punish them we need to understand them
Assassination Attempt on Barack Obama Foiled
Note: this post is from a previous plot that was thwarted during the summer. To read my post on this latest plot, see this.
I guess in my naivety I thought America was passed this type of bigotry. It seems as though a possible assassination attempt on Barack Obama’s life may have been thwarted.
CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass reported one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.”
Law enforcement sources tell Maass that one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative.”
At this point we really don’t know how serious this threat was, or how competent these people were. I would say that they really couldn’t be all that competent. Again, that may just be my naivety. These people seem to have belonged to a white supremacist group.
Sources say he was wearing a ring with a swastika, and is thought to have ties to white supremacist organizations.
While I have written many times about the “de-evolution” of society and the loosening of the moral codes that have held us together as a society, I never believed that we could sink this low. I have defended American society against what I though were ludicrous statements about a possible Barack Obama assassination attempt and now I realize that I have given the American people too much credit.
UPDATE: It appears as if this was not a serious threat.
