Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) compares Obama to Jesus on the House floor
And it gets worse. Watch the video here.
Democrats and “wedge issues”
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 their power both in Congress and the WH.
Senator Jim DeMint on Gov. Palin’s Bridge to Nowhere record vs. Obama’s
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 was for it before it was popular to be against it. Not only is this a distortion of her position, but as McCain supporter and staunch conservative Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) writes in the WSJ today, this is a “bridge” that Obama and Biden really should know better than to try and cross:
File this under “You’ve GOT to be kidding me”
Is talking about someone’s stint as a community organizer really an attempt at veiled racism? NY Governor David Patterson thinks so:
McCain’s numbers jump in North Carolina
After months of me (and a lot of other NCers) doing a lot of nailbiting over polls showing Obama and McCain running within just a few points of each other in this long time red state – no doubt helped by Obama’s numerous visits here, we finally have a reason to be cautiously optimistic: