Pennsylvanians for McCain

John McCain's message to his supporters.

2008-11-10T12:34:00.000-05:00

11/07/2008:

Cindy and I would like to take a moment to thank you for your loyal and steadfast support during the course of this campaign. Governor Palin, her husband Todd, our families, friends and campaign staff extend our deep appreciation for your tireless dedication, support and friendship.

It is the end of a long journey and your support through the ups and downs has meant more to us than you may ever know.

Although we were disappointed with the results, we must move beyond this campaign and work together to get our country moving again.

It is our sincere hope that you will join us in putting our country first and continue to work to keep our nation safe, free and prosperous.

We urge you to join us in not just congratulating Senator Obama, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together as a nation. Whatever our differences may be, we are all fellow Americans.

We are truly blessed to live in this great country and call ourselves Americans, and we will forever be her loyal servants.

Today, let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.

With warm gratitude,

Cindy and John McCain

Senator John McCain's election night remarks.

2008-11-10T12:31:00.000-05:00

Always a class act, always a patriot:

Remarks from Senator John McCain
November 4, 2008

Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.

My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.

In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.

This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.

I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too. But we both recognize that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.

Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer in my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day, though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.

Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.

I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences, and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.

Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.

It is natural tonight to feel some disappointment, but tomorrow we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. We fought as hard as we could.

And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.

I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends. The road was a difficult one from the outset. But your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.

I am especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother and all my family and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign. I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me.

You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate's family than on the candidate, and that's been true in this campaign. All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude, and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.

I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I have ever seen and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength. Her husband Todd and their five beautiful children with their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.

To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly month after month in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times, thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.

I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.

This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life. And my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.

I would not be an American worthy of the name, should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone and I thank the people of Arizona for it.

Tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president.

And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.

Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history, we make history.

Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much.

http://www.johnmccain.com/splash110408.htm

Ohio Coal Association: Obama Ticket Not Supportive of Coal.

2008-11-03T13:37:00.000-05:00

Ohio Coal Association Says Obama Remarks Make It Clear: Obama Ticket Not Supportive of Coal:

Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association (OCA), today issued the following statement in response to just-released remarks from Senator Barack Obama about the nation's coal industry:

"Regardless of the timing or method of the release of these remarks, the message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America's coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it.

"These undisputed, audio-taped remarks, which include comments from Senator Obama like 'I haven't been some coal booster' and 'if they want to build [coal plants], they can, but it will bankrupt them' are extraordinarily misguided.

"It's evident that this campaign has been pandering in states like Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Pennsylvania to attempt to generate votes from coal supporters, while keeping his true agenda hidden from the state's voters."

Complete story here

Obama to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana: I promise to bankrupt your coal industry.

2008-11-03T13:23:00.000-05:00

An important update from our good friends at Faultline USA. Barack Obama is promising to bankrupt (his exact words) the US coal industry.

Barack Obama in a January 17, 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:

"Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. . .

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted. . ."

Complete story: http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/obamas-words-on-bankrupting-coal.html

Newt Gingrich on why John McCain is better for AMERICA.

2008-11-02T16:58:00.000-05:00

Newt Gingrich on McCain/Palin:

"THERE are profound reasons to believe the McCain-Palin ticket offers a better future for most Americans than the Obama-Biden ticket.

John McCain can be expected to appoint judges who respect the vital role that religion has historically played in American public life.

In a bad economy, McCain would focus on economic growth and job creation. Obama has promised to focus on "spreading your wealth."

Watching the ACORN organization come under investigation in more than a dozen states for voter fraud and illegality, it is sobering to imagine what Obama, a former ACORN trainer and community organizer, would do to give even more of our tax money to this hard-left, corrupt organization. It is also unlikely an Obama Justice Department would prosecute any of the donor-fraud and voter-fraud allegations that are rapidly building up.

The recent stories about Obama's friendship with apologists for terrorism are a reminder that we really do not know how radical an Obama administration would be. We do know he has promised to meet with every dictator and anti-American regime. McCain's record on these issues is far sounder.

Finally, on the vice presidency, it is revealing that no national network TV interviewer asked Gov. Sarah Palin about her experiences as governor; her experience writing an $11 billion state budget; her experience leading the 29,000 employees of the Alaskan state government; her experience negotiating a big deal with ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and the rest of Big Oil; her success in giving the money from that negotiation to the people of Alaska as a $1,300 tax cut for every man, woman and child in the state; or her experience in negotiating a natural-gas pipeline that is the biggest civil-construction project in North America, and which three former governors failed to get done.

For these reasons and more, the McCain-Palin ticket would lead to a much better future for America than Obama-Biden."

Newt Gingrich, speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, is the author of "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less."

Please read the complete NY Post article here

The race gets even tighter in Michigan and across the USA!!!

2008-11-02T16:13:00.000-05:00

What's happening in Michigan is happening in your state too. The momentum is shifting our way across the country. Spread the word and keep the McCain/Palin faith!

"In Michigan, the latest Detroit News/EPIC-MRA poll shows Obama currently only has 50% of the vote, and if Undecideds break for McCain, Obama's lead would be only 2%. If Obama loses a point or two from his 50% standing he will likely lose this state and its 17 Electoral Votes!!

This poll was taken one-week ago, and our data indicates the race has gotten even closer. Rassmussen Reports also shows a tightening of the race. With the national Zogby 1-day tracking poll showing McCain pulling ahead of Obama on Friday, it is clear the momentum is with McCain/Palin.

We believe Michigan is very much in play. Polls likely over-sample Obama supporters and also probably include a few percentage points of artificial support from those voters intimidated to say they are voting for McCain given the media's campaign to portray McCain supporters as being "racist" or "intolerant." And there is no early voting in Michigan, so we can still catch Obama by Tuesday!

Since there is NO early voting in Michigan, we have the chance to impact this race over the next 3 days and gain the lead for McCain/Palin!"

Source: http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/

Still a CLOSE race!!

2008-10-27T19:42:00.000-04:00

Some very good news to report, friends! The poll that was most accurate in calling the 2004 presidential election, the IBD-TIPP poll, shows McCain has narrowed Obama's lead for the past 3 days and it's now down to just 2.8% with 8.8% of voters still undecided!

Friends -- we can make up 2.8% in the polls and win this race!

Link: http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/

Military Times poll: Troops backing McCain

2008-10-22T11:46:00.000-04:00

No surprise here. Fully 68% of those polled support John McCain. These are Americans who are fighting for us every day and they are overwhelmingly in the McCain camp. That says volumes about who John McCain is and what he means when he says "Country First". Our troops live "Country First" every day.

Military Times poll: Troops backing McCain:

"McCain, R-Ariz., handily defeated Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 68 percent to 23 percent in a voluntary survey of 4,293 active-duty, National Guard and reserve subscribers and former subscribers to Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times."

"John McCain went to war for this country, even though he had an admiral father who probably could have gotten him out of the service,” Army Sgt. 1st Class Derriel D. Collins said. “He stuck it out five years in a prisoner of war camp. If that ain’t fortitude, showing your willingness to go all the way, I don’t know what the credentials are."

Full story linked here.

This is going to be a CLOSE election.

2008-10-21T19:03:00.000-04:00

Do not buy into the Mainstream Media's sickeningly endless pro-Obama propaganda machine!

The Battleground Poll's latest results are as follows:

McCain 47% Obama 48% Undecided 6%

THIS RACE IS NOT OVER!

Poll results: http://www.tarrance.com/files/2-way-ballot-trender-10-20.pdf (pdf 208 kb)

Battleground Poll website: http://www.tarrance.com/bg.cfm

Click here for Rush Limbaugh on Battleground Poll

Fight ACORN, get this voter ID petition out NOW!!

2008-10-17T19:48:00.000-04:00

Once again, the democrats are trying to steal a presidential election. This time it's Obama's favorite radical group ACORN doing the dirty work.

Emergency Voter Identification petition. You can sign and they'll send an email to your congresspersons. It's important that you sign and let our congresspersons be flooded with email telling them we're fed up with people wanting to steal the election!

Click here to sign the petition and please forward this to as many people as possible!

Ain't it the truth!

2008-10-17T19:31:00.000-04:00

A Democratic operative pointed out that when Obama holds a rally 25,000 - 30,000 people show up, whereas when McCain holds one he only draws 10,000 - 15,000.

The Republican spokesman replied -

"That's because McCain's supporters are at work."

Obama Flees Michigan: WE STRIKE NOW!

2008-10-17T19:15:00.000-04:00

ALERT - October 17, 2008

We're writing to you from our tour bus, having just finished our "Stop Obama Tour" rally in Henderson, Nevada. We have some very important news to alert you to.

The Detroit News and other media outlets are reporting that Barack Obama's campaign is pulling staff and advertising from Michigan. They have created a huge opening for us to come in and take this state away from the Obama column and win the state's hugely important 17 electoral votes for the McCain/Palin ticket.

We are pleased to announce our first $100,000 purchase of TV ads has been placed in Michigan, with the ads beginning on Monday in 5 markets. And another $100,000 worth of ads will start on Tuesday, expanding into the rest of the state. And we have even more ads to come after that.

BARACK OBAMA'S COCKINESS WILL COST HIM THIS STATE: WE ARE GOING TO WIN MICHIGAN FOR THE McCAIN/PALIN CAMPAIGN!

These three ads below are the first three ads that will run in the state.

Here's the first ad everyone's talking about with reporting on the anti-Obama ad appearing on Fox News Channel, CNN, CBS News, Time Magazine's political report, "The Page", the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, National Journal, New York Newsday, and several other media outlets:

WATCH "OBAMA'S WRONG VALUES" - HERE

The next ad is being run specifically in Michigan - where the Obama campaign has now followed the McCain campaign in pulling resources out of the state. This means the state of Michigan is now "in play" -- if we can raise enough money, we can turn the tide and erase the lead Obama's campaign had built over the past 2 weeks. The ad features Obama's connections to such controversial and corrupt figures including domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, anti-American and racist pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the scandal-plagued former Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick:

WATCH AD ON OBAMA'S TIES TO AYERS, WRIGHT, KILPATRICK

And finally this ad below which has begun to run in key swing states and has been denounced by Obama supporters. The reason they are upset? It features Sen. Hillary Clinton ripping into Obama on a host of fronts, and could swing Independents and Democrats into the McCain camp in the final days before the election.

WATCH AD: HILLARY RIPS OBAMA - HERE

PLEASE - make a contribution to our ad campaign fund so we can expand this ad buy to other states beyond Nevada, Colorado and Michigan (the first 3 states we've bought time for the ad which represent 31 Electoral Votes).

P.S. We have officially launched our "Stop Obama Tour" across the nation. We need to get crowds out to these events, especially with the heightened media interest in our effort now building. Full tour details - HERE.

LINK: http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/

Obama mouthpiece Jack Murtha insults his own Pennsylvania constituents.

2008-10-15T17:25:00.000-04:00

You can't make this up. For who knows what reason Jack Murtha has chosen to parrot Obama's condescension towards Pennsylvanians. At least Murtha didn't say that Pennsylvanians were "bitter".

Murtha: Western Pa. 'racist'.

Rep. Jack Murtha, one of Nancy Pelosi's top lieutenants and an outspoken support of Hillary Clinton's during the Pennsylvania primary, is blunt. U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist.
The 17-term Democratic congressman tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site that, as he put it: "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area."

Murtha's opponent this year is Bill Russell. Lieutenant Colonel Russell (USAR ret.). Six tours of duty, including in Iraq.

AP story

TO ALL BLOGS

2008-10-06T19:38:00.000-04:00

Here is your chance to speak up for Sarah Palin! It takes 5 seconds!

Let's turn this around!!!

Friends,

PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP?
I logged on a few minutes ago and 49% percent had voted YES, 50% NO.

Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple. Forward this to your friends as well. This is a liberal netowrk with a liberal audience.
Let's surprise them!

Here 's the link to the poll: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

After you vote, please pass this message to others of like mind!

New York Post endorses McCain-Palin

2008-09-13T16:46:00.000-04:00

The New York Post has endorsed John McCain for President of the United States. Here are some important excerpts from their endorsement:

McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing the nation stand in dramatic contrast to the tissue-paper-thin résumé of his Democratic opponent, freshman Sen. Barack Obama.

National Security: The differences between McCain and Obama are especially stark.

McCain says 9/11 represented a two-decade "failure . . . to respond to . . . a [growing] global terror network." He understood that Iraq is a critical front in the war on terror - and he urged perseverance even in the dark days that preceded the success of "the surge."

Obama backed policies that would have abandoned Iraq to its fate, he bitterly opposed the surge, and once insisted that US forces invade Pakistan in search of Osama bin Laden - seemingly without regard for the potential consequences of attacking a nuclear-armed nation, ally or not.

Regarding a nuclear Iran, McCain has pushed for the strongest possible international sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Obama opposes sanctions.

And, when Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia, threatening a return to the Cold War, McCain reacted with stern disapprobation: "We must remind Russia's leaders that the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world require their respect for the values, stability and peace of that world."

Obama called for UN action - unaware, apparently, that Russia's Security Council veto would have prevented any.

Energy Security: On the economic issue most vexing Americans today - energy prices - McCain is aggressive

He is a strong convert to offshore drilling: "We have trillions of dollars' worth of oil and gas reserves in the US at a time we are exporting hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas to buy energy."

He also strongly backs nuclear power - a carbon-free form of energy that America can produce relatively cheaply.

Obama, meanwhile, hews to the Democratic Party line on energy: no nukes, no drilling and no comprehension of the consequences of such policies.

None of this implies an iota of disrespect toward Obama. It took a formidable candidacy to defeat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. And the intelligence, the organizational skills and the ability to communicate that Obama demonstrated from the beginning dramatically underscore the history that is being made by the first African-American to head a major-party presidential ticket.

He should be around for a long time, and we hope that he is.

In the end, though, sound security, economic and energy policies - plus allegiance to principle - are critical to keeping America safe and strong.

Complete editorial linked here.

Another Obama mouthpiece (Jimmy Carter, who else) insults POWs.

2008-08-31T15:58:00.000-04:00

Just when you think it's safe to like Jimmy Carter, he opens his mouth. Now working as an Obama mouthpiece, he is continuing the military-bashing dirty work started by Tom Harkin and Wesley Clark. Carter's latest outburst was particularly obscene considering the damage he did to the US military during his one term in office. Carter said that Sen. McCain was "milking every possible drop of advantage" from his time served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Great work, Jimmy. Actually Jimmy, you and the other Obama henchmen Harkin and Clark are doing America a favor. You are reminding voters that John McCain was a Prisoner of War and that Barack Obama was a - community organizer (insert laughter here).

Carter is saying what Obama can't. Carter is Obama's compliant marionette, mouthing whatever words the boss puts in his mouth.

Story here

McCain in 5-point lead over Obama in Reuters/Zogby poll.

2008-08-20T13:48:00.000-04:00

Americans are starting to pay attention to this election. Note how John McCain is solidifying the support of his base while Obama's base is fracturing.

Some key points:

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

The poll was taken Thursday 8/14 through Saturday 8/16 as Obama wrapped up a weeklong vacation in Hawaii that ceded the political spotlight to McCain, who seized on Russia's invasion of Georgia to emphasize his foreign policy views.

McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy -- an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election. That margin reversed Obama's 4-point edge last month on the economy over McCain.

Obama's support among Democrats fell 9 percentage points this month to 74 percent, while McCain has the backing of 81 percent of Republicans. Support for Obama, an Illinois senator, fell 12 percentage points among liberals, with 10 percent of liberals still undecided compared to 9 percent of conservatives.

"Conservatives were supposed to be the bigger problem for McCain," Zogby said. "Obama still has work to do on his base. At this point McCain seems to be doing a better job with his base. "The dip in support for Obama cut across demographic and ideological lines. He slipped among Catholics, born-again Christians, women, independents and younger voters.

Obama's support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, which had been one of his strengths, slipped 12 percentage points to 52 percent. McCain was winning 40 percent of younger voters.

It made little difference when independent candidate Ralph Nader and Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr, who are both trying to add their names to state ballots. McCain still held a 5-point edge over Obama, 44 percent to 39 percent, when all four names were included. Barr earned 3 percent and Nader 2 percent.

Article linked here

No cameras, no reporters, no campaign hacks = No Obama troop visit.

2008-08-02T18:37:00.000-04:00

Statement on Barack Obama’s Canceled Troop Visits in Germany:

Today, Command Sergeant Major Craig Layton, USA (Ret.) -- who served as the Command Sergeant Major at Landstuhl -- issued the following statement on Barack Obama's canceled visit to Ramstein and Landstuhl:

"Having spent two years as the Command Sergeant Major at Landstuhl Hospital, I am always grateful for the attention that facility receives from Members of Congress. There is no more important work done by the United States Army than to care for those who have been wounded in the service our country. While Americans troops remain engaged in two hot wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a steady stream of casualties to the hospital, and a steady stream of visitors who wish to meet with those troops and thank them for their service.

"Senator Obama has explained his decision to cancel a scheduled visit there by blaming the military, which would not allow one of his political advisers to join him in a tour of the facility. Why Senator Obama felt he needed an adviser with him to visit U.S. troops is unclear, but if Senator Obama isn't comfortable meeting wounded American troops without his entourage, perhaps he does not have the experience necessary to serve as commander in chief."

Even the Obama worshipping NY Times sees through his story:

If the story behind the story of the canceled troop visit has run its course, one question remains: Why didn’t Mr. Obama leave his aides behind, even the retired general, and make the visit by himself?

Linked here

McCain poll numbers improve in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

2008-07-31T10:24:00.001-04:00

More interesting results from the latest Quinnipiac University Poll. The race is tightening in Sen. McCain's favor. It looks more and more like McCain's Iraq position and his pro-energy-exploration positions are resonating with the American voter.

Quinnipiac Poll:

"With likely voters concerned more about energy than the war in Iraq, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s recent tour apparently didn’t help, as Arizona Sen. John McCain gained on the Democratic front-runner in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to simultaneous Quinnipiac University Swing State polls released today.

While Obama was on tour, trying to show voters he could handle world affairs, voters were home trying to fill their gas tanks.

The same voters who give President George W. Bush job approval ratings that are more than 2 – 1 negative want Congress to go along with the President on offshore oil drilling. By margins of 27 to 30 percentage points, voters in each state say Congress should agree with President George W. Bush and allow offshore drilling for oil. Sen. McCain supports offshore drilling, while Sen. Obama opposes it.

By margins of 10 to 20 percentage points, voters in each state support McCain’s plan to keep U.S. troops in Iraq with no fixed date for full withdrawal, rather than Obama’s plan to set a fixed timetable for withdrawal.

Those who said Sen. McCain was throwing away Florida’s electoral votes by advocating more offshore drilling might want to think again. By a 60 – 33 percent margin Florida voters back President Bush’s call for more offshore drilling and want Congress to go along, as Sen. McCain has suggested.

Pennsylvania voters support 55 – 41 percent drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.

Ohio voters back 55 – 40 percent drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge."

Complete poll results here.

McCain ahead in USA Today poll of likely voters.

2008-07-30T08:54:00.000-04:00

Encouraging news. Interesting results considering how the Obama camp expected European adulation to translate into better poll numbers here in America, where by the way, the presidential election will be taking place.

"The Friday-Sunday poll, mostly conducted as Obama was returning from his much-publicized overseas trip and released just this hour, shows McCain now ahead 49%-45% among voters that Gallup believes are most likely to go to the polls in November. In late June, he was behind among likely voters, 50%-44%."

"Also, McCain's sharp words about Obama and the media last week may have energized his faithful."

Full story here

McCain up in 4 key states.

2008-07-25T16:41:00.000-04:00

Guess which presidential candidate got a bounce in the polls this week. John McCain! While self-proclaimed "citizen of the world" Barack Obama is on his international photo-op and publicity tour, John McCain is emphasizing the critical importance of domestic oil exploration to the American economy.

"In Colorado, McCain led 46 percent to 44 percent. Obama led in Michigan, 46 percent to 42 percent; by 46 percent to 44 percent in Minnesota and by 50 percent to 39 percent in Wisconsin, according to the polls posted on Quinnipiac University's Web site.

Voters in the four states back offshore drilling by margins of 22 to 31 percentage points. The polls also show voters in those states would support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by 7 to 12 percentage points.

The polling data come in a week in which Obama has received heavy news coverage with a trip through war zones, the Mideast and Europe."

Here are the new poll results:

Colorado (9 electoral votes): McCain up 2% to 46%, Obama down 5% to 44% (in June, Obama 49%, McCain 44%).

Michigan (17 electoral votes): Obama down 2% to 46%, McCain steady at 42% (in June, Obama 48%, McCain 42%).

Minnesota (10 electoral votes): Obama down 8% to 46%, McCain up 7% to 44% (in June, Obama 54%, McCain 37%).

Wisconsin (10 electoral votes): Obama down 2% to 50%, McCain steady at 39% (in June, Obama 52%, McCain 39%).

The Quinnipiac release on its poll notes that McCain "has picked up support in almost every group in every state, especially among independent voters and men voters."

Full story links:
Seattle Times
Washington Post
Free Republic

Obama's mouthpiece Clark denigrates McCain's POW experience.

2008-07-10T17:56:00.000-04:00

Wesley Clark is just one more pathetic person doing Obama's dirty work by denigrating John McCain's 5 years as a POW of the communist North Vietnamese. That in itself is not too amazing because Clark has spent his entire post-military career shilling for various anti-military democrats like Bill Clinton, John Kerry and now of course Barack Obama. Make no mistake about it, Clark is more than happy to be Obama's saluting little surrogate. Clark is now Obama's messenger boy, happily spewing forth Obama's words like a marionette.

Previously, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) had the honor of being Obama's anti-military mouthpiece but now Clark has been promoted to that exalted position, at least for now.

The interesting thing here is that this whole episode is part of the Obama strategy to dismiss John McCain's military career as irrelevant to the Presidency. Obama has to do that to make up for own thin resume when it comes to military and national security issues. He is also using this episode to draw attention away from his lifetime of associations with radicals and radical causes.

The bigger picture is that Obama views the military with contempt. He views your service to America with contempt. The real message he is sending out is that he doesn't value anyone's military service past or present, including those serving right now in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Who's afraid of John McCain??

2008-06-22T13:13:00.000-04:00

Barack Obama has two lists, the first list contains people he can't wait to talk to:

1) Iran's lunatic islamo-fascist dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His qualifications include lying to the world about his "peaceful" nuclear energy program, frequently threatening US ally Israel with extinction, acquiring medium range missiles to threaten Europe with extinction, supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons to kill Americans. But besides all that he's an all-around nice guy.

2) North Korea's lunatic communist dictator, Kim Jong Il. His qualifications include threatening US ally South Korea with extinction, lying to the world about his nuclear weapons program, developing medium and long range missiles to threaten the US and Japan with, and supplying dictator #1 with missiles.

The second list contains people he's afraid to talk to or debate in a town hall format or any other format where he's forced to give real unscripted answers to serious questions. This is list is so special it contains just one name in the whole wide world!:

1) John McCain. Republican Senator from Arizona. His disqualifications (in Obama's mind) include supporting our fight in Iraq, supporting our military during his entire career, understanding the deadly nature of threat from Iran and North Korea, realizing that Americans have the right to acquire our own domestic energy sources, and being proud of the United States of America. Besides all that John McCain has ruined many a day for Obama by actually criticizing him, something Obama is very very sensitive about.

Obama's radical roots.

2008-06-07T16:06:00.000-04:00

One of the few verifiable things about Obama's past is that he was a so-called "community organizer" in Illinois. That has such a nice happy ring to it, "community organizer". It brings forth images of a kindly smiling Barack helping out senior citizens and playing basketball with kids in some local school yard. But when we look a little close we see that Obama was deeply involved with one of the most left-wing groups in America - Acorn.

Stanley Kurtz:
What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.
Obama’s ties to Acorn — arguably the most politically radical large-scale activist group in the country — are wide, deep, and longstanding. If Acorn is adept at creating a non-partisan, inside-game veneer for what is in fact an intensely radical, leftist, and politically partisan reality, so is Obama himself. This is hardly a coincidence: Obama helped train Acorn’s leaders in how to play this game. For the most part, Obama seems to have favored the political-insider strategy, yet it’s clear that he knew how to play the in-your-face “direct action” game as well. And surely during his many years of close association with Acorn, Obama had to know what the group was all about.

Acorn is a well-organized group of belligerent urban radicals with a solid anti-business, anti-growth agenda. Their tactics frequently include the intimidation of elected officials and police.

Stanley Kurtz:
200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session.

We are starting to see what Obama's has always been about. His endless use of the word "change" is a smokescreen for his radical and destructive agenda for the USA. An agenda hiding behind that smile.

Stanley Kurtz column

Steve Malanga column

Sen. Joe Lieberman starting "Citizens for McCain."

2008-06-06T19:14:00.000-04:00

To: Fellow McCain Supporters

From: Senator Joe Lieberman

Date: June 5th, 2008

Today, I asked Senator McCain if I could create and chair a new grassroots organization, "Citizens for McCain."

Citizens for McCain is an organization within the McCain campaign for people who put country before political party and support the candidate for President who has a proven record of bipartisanship.

As you know, I caucus with the Democrats as a United States Senator and was the Democrat Party's nominee for Vice-President of the United States against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

But first and foremost, I am an American. I have an obligation to do what I think is best for our nation regardless of political party. My love for this country and strong belief in John McCain's character, judgment, and willingness to work with leaders of both parties has convinced me to support him for President.

I have worked with John McCain for many years in the U.S. Senate and know from experience that he can unite Democrats, Republicans and Independents like no one else in this country. He did it in the United States Senate and he can do it as President of the United States.

But we need help from McCain supporters such as you to reach out to Americans who are not currently involved in the campaign. Will you help us by recruiting your friends, family, and co-workers who may not consider themselves members of the Republican Party and ask them to join the Citizens for McCain organization?

I am confident we will find many Democrats and Independents who, like John McCain and me, put country before political party and will support a leader with a real record of bipartisanship.

Time and time again John McCain has put his country first. He refused early release when he was held captive in Vietnam. He continued to put his country first as a national leader in the U.S. Senate. He put country before party when he fought to pass campaign finance reform, sought a bi-partisan solution to the immigration problem, and consistently supported pro-environment policies. His courage to stand up to the failed Iraq war plan of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and lead the fight for a new strategy in Iraq will go down in history, and it saved American lives. These were not always the easy things to do. In fact, they were usually very difficult, and often threatened his political career. But John McCain did what was right.

He said it best in his speech in New Orleans on Tuesday night:

"(The American people) know I have a long record of bipartisan problem solving. They've seen me put our country before any President -- before any party -- before any special interest -- before my own interest. They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am. But I am her servant first, last and always."

The phones at the campaign headquarters have been ringing with disaffected Democrats calling to say they believe Senator McCain has the experience, judgment, and bipartisanship necessary to lead our country in these difficult times. Many of these supporters are former supporters of Senator Clinton.

Senator McCain has had a very good working relationship with Senator Clinton and will continue to do so in the future. In the same New Orleans speech he said:

"Senator Clinton has earned great respect for her tenacity and courage. The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions of Americans, and she deserves a lot more appreciation than she sometimes received. As the father of three daughters, I owe her a debt for inspiring millions of women to believe there is no opportunity in this great country beyond their reach. I am proud to call her my friend."

I am proud to call John McCain my friend and ask you to help our friend become the next President of the United States.

Please forward this email to your lists today and ask your friends, family, and coworkers who do not consider themselves Republicans to join me in filling out the Citizens for McCain form today.

Thank you for your willingness to help me expand this new organization. Together, we will make history.

Iran's best friend, continued...

2008-05-21T15:50:00.000-04:00

Iran isn't going to go away as a national security issue in the 2008 election. John McCain continues to lead on this issue because he understands what is at stake here. An Iran with nukes would be a threat to the mideast region, Europe, and eventually the United States.

Obama's willingness to talk to the Iranians without pre-conditions is getting results. The result being that the Iranians have figured out that if he's elected they'll be able to sucker one more head of state into believing the "peaceful" intentions of their nuclear program. Why the Iranians are so peaceful that we shouldn't worry a bit that every aspect of their bogus "nuclear power" program is really a nuclear weapons program in a thinly-veiled disguise. Iran is enriching uranium and building heavy water plants, huge projects that have nothing to with generating electric power and everything to do with making atomic bombs.

The Iranians follow our election campaign, and they know they will have a friend in Obama-

"Obama's words on "preconditions" have helped ease domestic pressure on Ahmadinejad to comply with the United Nations and the IAEA. The Iranian president is telling his domestic critics to shut up until after the US election. Why, after all, should he make concessions that a putative President Obama has already dismissed as unnecessary?"

Amir Tehiri column here

Iran's best friend in America.

2008-05-18T15:32:00.000-04:00

Whether he knows it or not Barack Obama is Iran's best friend in America. I'm sure right now the mullahs are tuned into CNN with glee as Obama endlessly repeats his willingness to unconditionally have talks with their lovely dictator, the peace-loving Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Obama is willing to run to Tehran but he can't take a little criticism at home. He is unable to defend his position so he makes it all about him. The implication being that he is above criticism.

Even his fellow liberal Michael Goodwin sees through this pathetic charade-

"Bush's attack found the holes in Obama's national security credentials, which escaped scrutiny during his battle with Sen. Hillary Clinton. Beyond plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, neither Obama nor Clinton has articulated a serious plan for protecting America in a dangerous world.

Most revealing, Obama pledged to meet, without preconditions, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea."

Even more telling is this-

"While it's clear Iran is behind much of the mayhem in Iraq, including the killing of American soldiers, Obama has said he wants to see the evidence compiled by the American military for those charges. Does he not believe the charges? Why not?

But instead of contacting the Pentagon for a briefing, he acts as though America is the problem and Iran deserves sympathy. Which was exactly Bush's point when he mocked the notion that talking to Hitler would have stopped World War II."

This is incredible but not surprising. Obama is telling us that he is more than willing willing to talk to the Iranian dictator but not our own military leaders. Obama is revealing his deep contempt for the American military by his actions. This is not the way a potential Commander In Chief behaves in front of the world, and in front of our enemies!

Michael Goodwin column linked here

Obama's Rules of disengagement.

2008-05-16T14:56:00.000-04:00

Elite Obama can't take the heat it seems. He has decreed from on high that certain topics are off-limits because in his mind they "distract" us from the real issues. Let me translate. Obama doesn't want to be questioned about anything that he can't answer without a carefully written script in front of him.

Obama's Official List of Forbidden Topics that Distract Us from The Real Issues:

1 - Calling Obama a "liberal".
2 - Questioning his commitment to the War on Terror.
3 - His extremely liberal (breaking rule #1 already) social views.
4 - His interesting background in Chicago politics.
5 - His peculiar aversion to wearing an American flag pin. (BTW, he wants to be President of America.)
6 - He especially doesn't want to be questioned about his many unusual friends and associates, like William Ayres.
7 - Anything to do with the differing accounts of his upbringing.

Full Article Here

Obama's New America - all 57 or 58 States of it.

2008-05-13T12:44:00.000-04:00

Poor tired Obama. The campaign against Hillary is wearing him out. How many electoral votes are in those extra 7 states no one ever told me about it? If you read his statement closely he thinks there are 58 states because he said he's visited 57 states with one left to visit.

"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

Apparently Obama plans to annex 7 new states. So this is the change he's been talking about. There is even a new flag pin out with the new states on it, maybe Obama will wear that one.

Story here

McCain understands the growing threat from Iran.

2008-05-12T14:32:00.000-04:00

As evidenced by Hezbollah's Iranian-directed attacks in Lebanon, the Iranian problem is not just going to go away if we would only talk nice to them. John McCain is the only candidate who fully understands the seriousness of this threat and how critically important it is to the world that Iran never acquire nuclear weapons-

“Senator Obama wants to sit down with an Iranian leader who is dedicated to wiping Israel off the map — his words,” McCain told reporters on his campaign bus. “I don’t think we should give him that kind of prestige. “Senator Obama has obviously has no national security experience, and therefore that’s reflected in his judgment on a number of those issues.” McCain was referring to Obama’s comments that he would be willing to meet with leaders of rogue nations, such as Iran, North Korea and Cuba without conditions, an idea labeled naive and irresponsible by McCain.

Iran's worst-kept-secret of a nuclear weapons program shows that Iran understands that Europe's culture of endless negotiations is is buying the time for them to develop the ultimate weapon. Iran openly threatens Israel today. One day, probably sooner than we realize, Iranian nuclear-tipped missiles will be able to reach parts of Europe. Iranian long-range missiles will be capable of reaching the USA. Everyone in the world knows what Iran is really up to, except Barack Obama who can't wait to shake Ahmejinedad's hand.

Also read this excellent column on Iran’s Shifting Strategy.

Barack's Favorite radical.

2008-05-09T14:13:00.000-04:00

Radical William Ayres is a problem for Obama whether he knows it or not. It may play well in the elite circles that the Obamas frequent but the rest of us don't see it that way

Here Obama "explains" his relationship with Ayres:

Obama replied that Ayers "is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense...."

In other words because Obama was 8 years old when Ayres was blowing up buildings, that makes it just fine today. Oh but he's just a guy from Obama's neighborhood. Who else is Obama friends with?

Article here

Interview with Ayres here

Obama insults Pennsylvanians

2008-04-19T16:12:00.000-04:00

Obama's view of Pennsylvanians--

"And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," he said.

So now religion is a problem for Obama? For a guy who supposedly preaches compassion and tolerance this statement is very revealing about what he really thinks of the average Pennsylvanian, or the average American for that matter.

Story link here

Welcome to Pennsylvanians for McCain!

2008-04-19T15:30:00.000-04:00

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