Daily Archives: September 10th, 2008 «

 

FYI (OPEN THREAD)

Posted by: ST on September 10, 2008 at 10:03 pm » 11 Comments

In the next couple of hours, my site designer is going to be upgrading me to Word Press version 2.6.2 … so if you experience any technical glitches or slow load times, you know why. Catch ya’ll tomorrow.

 

More on the “lipstick on a pig” controversy

Posted by: ST on September 10, 2008 at 8:09 pm » 13 Comments

As The Usual Suspects continue to weigh in with their screams of outrage, a more serious discussions on Obama’s remarks have been going on at places like NRO’s Corner, where several of the writers there are urging the McCain campaign to move on from this controversy and stop routinely treating Gov. Palin like she’s a [...]

 

Citizens Against Government Waste: McCain is a “hero” to taxpayers

Posted by: ST on September 10, 2008 at 7:06 pm » 1 Comment

Barack Obama likes to talk a good talk on earmarks and pork spending, but his opponent for president has actually walked the walk, according to CAGW: John McCain is a “hero” to U.S. taxpayers for his lifetime record of resisting earmarks, while Barack Obama and Joe Biden are “hostile” and “unfriendly” a government spending watchdog [...]

 

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) compares Obama to Jesus on the House floor

Posted by: ST on September 10, 2008 at 1:13 pm » 11 Comments

And it gets worse. Watch the video here. Here’s the transcript: “Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus…Pontias Pilate was a governor.” Cohen, who is Jewish, should know better than to make such an off the wall comparison. And no, I won’t even get into the debate on Pontius Pilate, but Cohen knows what [...]

 

Democrats and “wedge issues”

Posted by: ST on September 10, 2008 at 10:49 am » 7 Comments

For months back during the 2004 campaign, we heard from media elites about how “BushCo” were using so-called “wedge issues” like gay marriage and illegal immigration in an effort to deliberately divide the American electorate for purposes of winning the election in the fall. The ‘slimy’ GOP would stop at nothing, they insinuated, to keep [...]

 

Senator Jim DeMint on Gov. Palin’s Bridge to Nowhere record vs. Obama’s

Posted by: ST on September 10, 2008 at 8:50 am » 1 Comment

Senator Obama and his campaign’s spokesman and many surrogates have continued to make misleading – and in some cases fabricated – claims about Gov. Sarah Palin’s record on the Bridge to Nowhere. Using the “for it before she was against it” theme that ended up hurting Sen. Kerry in the 2004 elections, they say she [...]