Daily Archives: July 11th, 2008 «

 

Iraq commanders: Obama’s Iraq withdrawal plan problematic

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2008 at 7:47 pm » 2 Comments

Are you listening, Senator Barry? Related Reading: A must-read from Ed Morrissey on an Obama promise made and broken.  Money quote: For a man with such a thin track record, the number of failures is rather shocking — but that’s not the most significant part of this story.  It’s quite obvious that Obama has a pattern [...]

 

Barack Obama to sponsor a NASCAR car?

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2008 at 3:19 pm » 11 Comments

Please, please, please say it isn’t so.  It’s all part of his campaign to appeal for the working class white voters he lost in light of the Rev. Wright controversy. He said in a March interview with the Charlotte Observer - when asked who his favorite driver was – that he hadn’t been able to catch that many races [...]

 

Obama campaign having second thoughts about Brandenburg speech?

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2008 at 11:04 am » 5 Comments

Germany’s Spiegel Online reports on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s displeasure at the reports that Barack Obama is contemplating making a speech at Berlin’s famed Brandenburg gate as part of his upcoming European tour, but that some other German politicos are in favor of the idea: Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she finds Barack Obama’s plan to give [...]

 

NYT: We wish we could prove McCain is not a natural born citizen, so Obama can win automatically this fall

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2008 at 9:03 am » 11 Comments

They first eagerly floated the possibility back in February, and now they’re back at it again: In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact [...]

 

Stand-off in Prince William County, VA

Posted by: ST on July 11, 2008 at 8:32 am » 2 Comments

I saw this story on Fox and Friends.  Read about the reaction Prince William County in VA is getting to their crackdown on illegal immigrants: MANASSAS, Va. – In Manassas’s quaint, red-brick Old Town neighborhood, a giant billboard greets visiting tourists and commuters, but it was not put there by the city or Chamber of [...]