Sunday, September 07, 2008

Democrats Are in Trouble

This according to Willie Brown, who should know. Don’t care for his politics, but he’s a master politician. Better than Bill Clinton.

The Democrats are in trouble. Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign.

Period.

Palin’s speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense. And we don’t do well on defense.

Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don’t want to be seen as defending the status quo.

From taxes to oil drilling, Democrats are now going to have to start explaining their positions.

If they have to start explaining their positions, they are really in trouble. Because a house built on sand has no foundations.

Just a week ago, the Real Clear Politics average of polls showed Obama winning by 8 points. Now he’s down to an eighth of a point. Gallup has McCain up by 3 points in their latest poll. Zogby has him up by 4.
Obama’s now going to have to show what he’s made of when the chips are down. That will be interesting, or not. 

Spore is Out

The game many people have been waiting four years for is finally available for download.

The game promises to let you create an intelligent alien species that can travel to the stars and visit other player’s species on their worlds. But first you have to evolve it from a micro-organism all the way to an advanced life form. The interface is very cool. I’ve played around with the creature creator which they released a few months ago.

It looks to be one of the coolest “god” games out there. 

Here’s some reviews. It’s out an overall 87 rating so far, but the creator of the game has a good explanation for that. 

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Old Men

Democrats often say that John McCain is too old at 72 to run for president, that he might die in office. But there was someone who ran for office older than McCain.

Bob Dole. He was 73 when he ran. The oldest candidate ever.

They thought he was too old, also. They said he might die in office.

Wrong.

Bob Dole is still alive. He lived through the last 4 years of Clinton. He’s lived through 8 years of Bush after that. Yes, he’s really old at 85, but still going.

McCain’s mom is still alive. She’s in her late 90s. I think there’s plenty of reasons to think McCain will live through a 4 year term. Even an 8 year term if he wants it and wins.

The Dems tactlessly like to bring up his bouts with skin cancer, but skin cancer is the easiest to beat if caught early, and it was in McCain’s case.

So Dems shouldn’t worry about McCain’s health. They should worry about coming off too silly with their PDS and Obama worship.

Sarah Palin Highlights

UPDATE: Sarah Palin facts. Debunking the endless amount of lies being told by Democrats about her.

In His Own Words

Stuff like this deserves more airplay so people can see how clueless Obama is. If he thinks other countries are going to disarm if we do, he is living in fantasy land. But somehow, I don’t think that’s the problem. He just wants to demilitarize us like Carter did.

UPDATE: Is Obama legally able to be president? Some lawyer is suing the DNC, claiming he isn’t.

Which is it, Obama?

Cleaning Up Iraq

The military strike teams, working with Iraqi citizens, are cleaning up the remnants of al Qaeda in Iraq. This has been going on quietly behind the scene for months now. As the war winds down.

Of course, the anti-war people want us to leave now. Before the job is done. Just like they did, successfully, during the Vietnam War after we had broke the back of the NVA in the Tet offensive and they were suing for peace. The anti war movement managed to trick the US population into thinking we were losing the war when we were in fact winning. The politicians got scared and the Dems cut off war funding. Nixon had no choice but to pull out before we finished. The aftermath of that war resulted in a huge humanitarian crisis and genocide like the killing fields of Cambodia

The anti-war movement, along with the Democrats, tried to pull the same trick again with Iraq, by claiming the war was lost. They wanted us to leave in defeat, because that would make it look like the Republicans are huge failures. A win would have the opposite effect, and they could not allow that. But we got the surge (which McCain championed) and everything changed for the better.  The Iraq war was probably mismanaged in the beginning. It probably could have ended a few years ago. But the problem with wars is, hindsight is 20/20. When you are in the middle of one there’s a lot of chaos to sort out. It’s hard to see clearly. Mistakes get made and mistakes in war are ugly things.

Mistakes got seized upon by the left and were used as “proof” the administration were incapable of winning. But the anti-war movement today is a pale shadow of its former self. People who lived through the ‘70s remember what happened, and the anti-war movement doesn’t have the respect it once had (which was not that much to begin with). They may be very effective with their internet campaigns and google bombing of propaganda, but the public isn’t buying it. That’s why the Dems have not been able to cut off war funding like they did with Vietnam,

We need to finish what we started so another disaster doesn’t strike in our wake. So far so good.

UPDATE: This video was made by a returning soldier and not an RNC paid for commercial. It relates to what I was saying above.

All But One

A great little comic from Eastern Europe (in English). Nevermind the age restriction, the story is for general audiences. 

Friday, September 05, 2008

22 Reasons Against Obama

This is a pretty devastating list of reasons. I’m sure the McPalin team will be harping on many of these in the next two months. Obama is vulnerable in more ways than people think.

He also can’t handle criticism. Today he said he won’t let the McPalin team “bully” him. Wooo. That sounds so 8th grade. What, he doesn’t like being picked on by a girl? Palin’s barbs were actually pretty mild. But that’s how think skinned Mr. O is.

Imagine of he had to deal with the world’s bad guys? It seems even little Kim Jong Il could beat his ass.

UPDATE: Another reason

Top 7 Lies, Myths and Mistruths about Sarah Palin

They could have gone for more, but this is a good place to start. The press repeats a lot of these lies. 

More Bad News for Obama

It seems more people are interested in what McCain had to say. Football, lead in aside.

Presidential candidate John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention drew more television viewers than his rival Barack Obama attracted at the Democratic party’s event last week, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.

Across all broadcast networks Thursday, Sen. McCain’s speech ended the night with a 4.8 rating/7 share, compared to Sen. Obama’s 4.3/7 average, according to overnight numbers from metered households in 55 U.S. markets measured by Nielsen. These ratings are preliminary, however, and are subject to change.

NBC’s coverage of Sen. McCain’s speech started directly at the tail end of the opening game of NFL season, with the speech pulling in a 6.3 rating/10 share, topping Sen. Obama’s speech last week by 26%. That lead-in may have boosted audiences who last night turned out in droves to watch Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin introduce herself to the country.

Meanwhle, Obama is riled up.

Obama’s hackles were clearly raised by Palin’s dismissal of his community organizing --a response to his earlier dismissal of her record as a small-town mayor. “Why would that kind of work be ridiculed?” Obama said. “Who are they fighting for?” The idea that community organizing is not relevant to the presidency, he said, just shows why Republicans “are out of touch and don’t get it.”

Define what a community organizer is, Obama. Here’s what he actually did.

Obama’s community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from the far-left ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The ACORN mob is infamous for its bully tactics (which they dub “direct actions"); Obama supporters have recounted his role in organizing an ambush on a government planning meeting about a landfill project opposed by Chicago’s minority lobbies.

With benefactors like Obama in office, ACORN has milked nearly four decades of government subsidies to prop up chapters that promote the welfare state and undermine the free market, as well as some that have been implicated in perpetuating illegal immigration and voter fraud. Since I last detailed ACORN’s illicit activities in this column in June (see “The ACORN Obama knows,” June 19, 2008), the group continues to garner scrutiny from law enforcement:

Last week, Milwaukee’s top election official announced plans to seek criminal investigations of 37 ACORN employees accused of offering gifts to sign up voters (including prepaid gas cards and restaurant cards) or falsifying driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on voter registration cards.

Out of touch or just disgusted? I vote for the later.

UPDATE: Obama was disillusioned with community organizing because he had no power to effect change. In other words, it had no responsibilities besides rabble rousing. And here Obama is now claiming Palin’s charge was unfair.