Michelle Malkin has a scathing review of the way Joe Biden is demonizing the unfortunate other driver in the tragic accident that claimed the lives of Biden's first wife and daughter. The Plagiarist claims that the other man was drunk, when none of the contemperaneous information from the police who investigated the accident indicates that.
In Joe Biden's world, everybody is a victim, there always has to be a villian, and true accidents can never be just that.
Disgraceful.
ATTENTION:
Friday, September 05, 2008
Last night's videos
All of these are courtesy of the GOP Convention collection at YouTube:
If anybody has managed to forget why we are at war, please watch:
Future First Lady Cindy McCain addresses the convention. As of right now, they do not have the wonderful introductory video about Cindy's extensive and selfless humanitarian work for the world's children - when it is available, I'll put it here.
Introduction of Senator John S. McCain III:
Address of Senator John S. McCain III, American Hero and future 44th President of the United States:
I will fight with you John, and fight for your election. America needs you and Sarah. Our families need you both. Our children need you both.
God bless America, and "Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a Nation!"
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave, o'er the land of the Free and the home of the Brave!
If anybody has managed to forget why we are at war, please watch:
Future First Lady Cindy McCain addresses the convention. As of right now, they do not have the wonderful introductory video about Cindy's extensive and selfless humanitarian work for the world's children - when it is available, I'll put it here.
Introduction of Senator John S. McCain III:
Address of Senator John S. McCain III, American Hero and future 44th President of the United States:
I will fight with you John, and fight for your election. America needs you and Sarah. Our families need you both. Our children need you both.
God bless America, and "Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a Nation!"
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave, o'er the land of the Free and the home of the Brave!
Thursday, September 04, 2008
McCain's Speech - First Reaction
Overall, I liked it. John McCain is a great man, and a great American. I could have done with a little less of the "working together" motif, but I'm completely with him on the fact that the Republican Party has lost its principles and has been "Washingtonized".
He kept up the attack. I liked the "FIGHT" theme at the end. Loved the bits on energy policy and education. And BRAVO for thanking President Bush for his post-9/11 leadership and for keeping our nation safe since then. Seven years (minus one week) and no attacks.
Grade: A-
Here's to John and Sarah, the future 44th President and 47th Vice President of the United States!
He kept up the attack. I liked the "FIGHT" theme at the end. Loved the bits on energy policy and education. And BRAVO for thanking President Bush for his post-9/11 leadership and for keeping our nation safe since then. Seven years (minus one week) and no attacks.
Grade: A-
Here's to John and Sarah, the future 44th President and 47th Vice President of the United States!
What I want John McCain to say tonight
John McCain has some high heels, er, uhm, make that big shoes to fill after Sarah Palin's roof-raising, bring-down-the-house whammy of a speech last night. He can do it, and I have these ideas as to how:
1) He needs to shed his well-known reservation about talking about his POW experience. The American people need to be reminded - first hand - of the tyrrany we face in the world. His trials, torture, and suffering at the hands of the enemies of Liberty need to be tied to his unquenchable, indefatigable love of Nation and belief in the greatness of America and how those convictions allowed him to survive what was truly an unimaginable ordeal to any but those who lived it with him. We need to be reminded again - and again, and again, and again - that there is evil in this world that seeks to destroy us and we must defeat it.
I'm reminded now of some dialogue from an episode of TNT's The Closer. A CIA agent is reminiscing that 65 years ago, our enemies quoted from "Mein Kampf" as they marched their victims into gas chambers. During the Cold War, the Communists would quote Marx and Lenin as they shot people in the head. Today, the Koran is misused to justify violence. He concludes his train of thought with: "Same people, different books."
2) He must reject liberal premises on the issues. We will never solve anything by being "Democrat Light".
3) Policy Red Meat: continued and deeper tax cuts, energy independence (starting with "Drill baby, Drill!", and going through nuclear power, clean coal, build pipelines, build refineries, etc.), free market solutions for health care, actually, make that free market solutions for everything.
4) ATTACK. Attack, attack, attack! Do not hold your positions! Slam the New Soviet Man to the ground, and do not let him up. Expose the left for the un-American, capitalist-hating, abortion-loving, anti-family neo-Marxists they are.
5) Repeat (4) above with respect to the media. THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS, JOHN MCCAIN!
6) Attack some more. There are so many options!
Finally John McCain, if he can, must show that he is what Barack Obama and Joe Biden have absolutely no capability to be: just like us. Why does Sarah Palin resonate with us? Because we look at her and our family and we do not see a politician; we see ourselves. Should I meet her in person, my attitude may be different, but right now I'm comfortable referring to her as "Sarah", "our Sarah", et al. for just that reason. She's one of us.
As I saw in one article on line today, she is "Sarah America".
John McCain, well right now he's "Mr." or "Senator" and he - in the eyes and hearts of America - needs to become "John".
I hope he does it.
1) He needs to shed his well-known reservation about talking about his POW experience. The American people need to be reminded - first hand - of the tyrrany we face in the world. His trials, torture, and suffering at the hands of the enemies of Liberty need to be tied to his unquenchable, indefatigable love of Nation and belief in the greatness of America and how those convictions allowed him to survive what was truly an unimaginable ordeal to any but those who lived it with him. We need to be reminded again - and again, and again, and again - that there is evil in this world that seeks to destroy us and we must defeat it.
I'm reminded now of some dialogue from an episode of TNT's The Closer. A CIA agent is reminiscing that 65 years ago, our enemies quoted from "Mein Kampf" as they marched their victims into gas chambers. During the Cold War, the Communists would quote Marx and Lenin as they shot people in the head. Today, the Koran is misused to justify violence. He concludes his train of thought with: "Same people, different books."
2) He must reject liberal premises on the issues. We will never solve anything by being "Democrat Light".
3) Policy Red Meat: continued and deeper tax cuts, energy independence (starting with "Drill baby, Drill!", and going through nuclear power, clean coal, build pipelines, build refineries, etc.), free market solutions for health care, actually, make that free market solutions for everything.
4) ATTACK. Attack, attack, attack! Do not hold your positions! Slam the New Soviet Man to the ground, and do not let him up. Expose the left for the un-American, capitalist-hating, abortion-loving, anti-family neo-Marxists they are.
5) Repeat (4) above with respect to the media. THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS, JOHN MCCAIN!
6) Attack some more. There are so many options!
Finally John McCain, if he can, must show that he is what Barack Obama and Joe Biden have absolutely no capability to be: just like us. Why does Sarah Palin resonate with us? Because we look at her and our family and we do not see a politician; we see ourselves. Should I meet her in person, my attitude may be different, but right now I'm comfortable referring to her as "Sarah", "our Sarah", et al. for just that reason. She's one of us.
As I saw in one article on line today, she is "Sarah America".
John McCain, well right now he's "Mr." or "Senator" and he - in the eyes and hearts of America - needs to become "John".
I hope he does it.
The Success of "Community Organizing"
According to cbs2chicago.com, there have been at least 123 homicides this summer in Chicago, IL - Barack Obama's home town - and only 65 fallen heroes in our Nation's service during the same period in Iraq.
Let's hope and pray that the New Soviet Man doesn't have the chance to "organize" our military like he's helped out his home town.
But hey: Communism has only killed 100 million people; let's give it another chance!
Hat tip: Drudge
Let's hope and pray that the New Soviet Man doesn't have the chance to "organize" our military like he's helped out his home town.
But hey: Communism has only killed 100 million people; let's give it another chance!
Hat tip: Drudge
One More for Sarah
This is the video that was cut last night due to time - the GOP's introduction of Sarah Palin:
Here she is...
They can't help but step in it...
A lot of bloviating on the Left is being based on this story about a speech Sarah Palin made to her former church in Alaska. She's quoted by the AP as saying that the Iraq war and building a pipeline are a "task that is from God" and "God's will" respectively
This is a prime example about how the Left fails to understand Christianity. Christians, myself included, pray daily "Thy will be done." We pray for God's grace to enter our lives, in every area, every day.
I pray daily for our leaders - and yes, for our enemies - that the love of Jesus Christ enter their hearts and transform their lives.
Before the Left gets even more unhinged over Sarah Palin's faith and her belief that God's hand is in all of our daily lives, perhaps they should refer back to the closing words of President John F. Kennedy's Inagural Address:
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
This is a prime example about how the Left fails to understand Christianity. Christians, myself included, pray daily "Thy will be done." We pray for God's grace to enter our lives, in every area, every day.
I pray daily for our leaders - and yes, for our enemies - that the love of Jesus Christ enter their hearts and transform their lives.
Before the Left gets even more unhinged over Sarah Palin's faith and her belief that God's hand is in all of our daily lives, perhaps they should refer back to the closing words of President John F. Kennedy's Inagural Address:
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
Rudy Rocked the House too!
Hope you didn't miss America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, absolutely skewer the Left and their false Messiah last night.
Read it all here...
Better yet, watch it (video from GOPConvention2008):
Rudy's entire address is awesome, but for me, the "money quote" is this:
One final point. And how -- how dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be vice president. How dare they do that.
When do they ever ask a man that question? When?
Amen, brother!
Read it all here...
Better yet, watch it (video from GOPConvention2008):
Rudy's entire address is awesome, but for me, the "money quote" is this:
One final point. And how -- how dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be vice president. How dare they do that.
When do they ever ask a man that question? When?
Amen, brother!
More Thoughts on Sarah
Sarah Palin could be the Margaret Thatcher of the early 21st Century. I'm never at a loss to get into a Churchillian mood, and based on the attempt of the Left and the MSM to eliminate her via character assassination, two WSC points come to mind:
She "will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken; some neck!"
"You do your worst, and we will do our best!"
She "will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken; some neck!"
"You do your worst, and we will do our best!"
MSM: Out of Touch
CNN just doesn't get it. We conservatives may not have always been John McCain's biggest cheering section, but we do know what our principles are. McCain and Sara Palin are delivering them.
We are not searching for an identity, because we are not ashamed of our identity like the Left is. The Left only succeeds when they hide who they really are. Conservatives only fail when we do not act on our principles.
More than anything, the Left fears conservatives who act on their principles. They know that their own ideology is bankrupt, and anathema to the American Spirit.
We are not searching for an identity, because we are not ashamed of our identity like the Left is. The Left only succeeds when they hide who they really are. Conservatives only fail when we do not act on our principles.
More than anything, the Left fears conservatives who act on their principles. They know that their own ideology is bankrupt, and anathema to the American Spirit.
We're winning
When the MSM starts criticising Sara Palin's hair style (which I absolutely LOVE by the way!), you know they're getting desperate...
(Hat tip: Drudge)
(Hat tip: Drudge)
Sarah Palin - Quick Thoughts
Well, I've slept on Sarah's great speech, and have these quick thoughts:
1) Attack! Keep on the offensive. Attack, attack, attack!!!!!!
2) The Palins are a beautiful American family. Sarah's best point here wasn't made explicitly; by naming her daughter Bristol, with the silent companionship of the father of her child by her side the implication was clear, and it was aimed direct at the Left and their willing media accomplices. "This is our family, and how DARE you attack them."
3) I can't WAIT until the VP debate. She is going to absolutely shred Biden. Why? Because he isn't one of us!
4) McCain now has a pretty high bar to clear speech-wise. Provided he can shed some of his humility regarding his wartime experiences, the potential is there for an address of epic proportions.
More later....
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
McCain-Palin 2008: ON TO VICTORY
Back when Senator John McCain locked up the Republican Presidential nomination, I was hardly excited, as this post of mine shows. I'd have preferred somebody much more conservative. I've been wondering when, if ever, I'd get excited about this election.
Senator McCain's selection of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska last Friday woke me up. Sarah Palin is everything that so-called "feminists" have said that women are supposed to become. The reason why she has attained that is because she is a conservative!
The next to the last piece of the puzzle came last night during the Republican National Convention. During my in-line web surfing while watching convention coverage, I read in full for the first time this accounting of the absolute horror John McCain endured as a prisoner of war. When Senator Fred Thompson recounted the story during his address, I was nearly moved to tears.
John S. McCain III is an American Hero. I disagree with many of his policy positions. I wish he was more of a straight-to-the-bone conservative. That aside, I do believe now that Senator McCain's time has come. He is a man who has given his life to the service of our Nation, not himself. He is a man who has fought, bled, and nearly died for the United States. He is a man who has already sent one of his sons off to war in defense of our Nation, and has another son who is also in uniform. He is a man of honesty and integrity. There is absolutely no comparison between his record and that of his opponent; this election should be a complete no-brainer.
The final piece has been the absolutely disgusting behavior of the American media with regards to Governor Sarah Palin. We don't have a media; we have a left-wing, radical, liberal propoganda machine. There is no "news" reporting anymore, just liberal slant - and it must be defeated!
The United States is the greatest Nation ever. I wholeheartedly believe that were it not for the United States of America, there would be no Liberty in the world today. I believe that should we elect Barack Obama - in my opinion the embodiment of the New Soviet Man - the "new dark age" that Winston Churchill foresaw in 1940 will once again be on the horizon.
This time however, there is no new world to realize its might and come to the rescue of the old.
We must prevail.
Senator McCain's selection of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska last Friday woke me up. Sarah Palin is everything that so-called "feminists" have said that women are supposed to become. The reason why she has attained that is because she is a conservative!
The next to the last piece of the puzzle came last night during the Republican National Convention. During my in-line web surfing while watching convention coverage, I read in full for the first time this accounting of the absolute horror John McCain endured as a prisoner of war. When Senator Fred Thompson recounted the story during his address, I was nearly moved to tears.
John S. McCain III is an American Hero. I disagree with many of his policy positions. I wish he was more of a straight-to-the-bone conservative. That aside, I do believe now that Senator McCain's time has come. He is a man who has given his life to the service of our Nation, not himself. He is a man who has fought, bled, and nearly died for the United States. He is a man who has already sent one of his sons off to war in defense of our Nation, and has another son who is also in uniform. He is a man of honesty and integrity. There is absolutely no comparison between his record and that of his opponent; this election should be a complete no-brainer.
The final piece has been the absolutely disgusting behavior of the American media with regards to Governor Sarah Palin. We don't have a media; we have a left-wing, radical, liberal propoganda machine. There is no "news" reporting anymore, just liberal slant - and it must be defeated!
The United States is the greatest Nation ever. I wholeheartedly believe that were it not for the United States of America, there would be no Liberty in the world today. I believe that should we elect Barack Obama - in my opinion the embodiment of the New Soviet Man - the "new dark age" that Winston Churchill foresaw in 1940 will once again be on the horizon.
This time however, there is no new world to realize its might and come to the rescue of the old.
We must prevail.
The Media vs. America
No double standards at all, none to see in the MSM.
Texas Rainmaker
Michelle Malkin
Sister Toldjah
Power Line
Texas Rainmaker
Michelle Malkin
Sister Toldjah
Power Line
An Ex-Democrat for McCain/Palin
Read the whole thing.
Finally, I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I’ve left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.
Amen.
Hat tip: Jack Fowler via Michelle Malkin
Finally, I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I’ve left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.
Amen.
Hat tip: Jack Fowler via Michelle Malkin
Chris Muir: On Target
Chris Muir's Day By Day gets it right on. What passes for a news media in our Nation today is simply a disgrace.
Thank you, Joe!
(Image: Yahoo/AP)
Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut is one of the few Democrats I have any respect for. Since the dark day of 9/11, he has been resolute in our Nation's need to destroy our enemies. He gets it. He knows that without destroying tyrrany, there will be no "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Last night at the Republican National Convention, Senator Lieberman stood up for his colleague John McCain, and chose Nation over party. You can read his speech here, or watch it here. Do so if you haven't seen it.
I am glad we have men of principle and integrity like Joe Lieberman serving our country. It is a shame that of all the Democrats, Senator Lieberman is a lone wolf speaking out against the New Soviet Man in Barack Obama. Some excerpts:
Our Founding Fathers foresaw the danger of this kind of senseless partisanship. George Washington himself - in his farewell address to our country - warned that the "spirit of party" is "the worst eneemy" of our democracy and "enfeebles" our government's ability to do its job...
I'm here because John McCain's whole life testifies to a great truth: being a Democrat or a Republican is important.
But it is not more important than being an American...
...this is no ordinary election, because these are not ordinary times, and John McCain is no ordinary candidate. You may not agree with John McCain on every issue.
But you can always count on him to be straight with you about where he stands, and to stand for what he thinks is right regardless of politics.
Rock on Joe, ROCK ON!
I'm back
Got an email last night from an old co-worker who stumbled across "Their Finest Hour" - I really have got to get back into the swing of things here, and post regularly.
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