Posted in May 14th, 2008
The Mountain State proved insurmountable to Barack Obama, who conceded the contest to Hillary Clinton before the first vote was even cast. Unlike last week’s nail-biter in IN, within a nanosecond of polls closing at 7:30 p.m. ET, the networks put the check mark next to Hillary’s name (65 percent to Obama’s 28 percent).
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Posted in May 12th, 2008
For the 16 years they have been married, Michelle Obama has been Barack Obama’s closest advisor, second only to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Should Obama be elected, his presidency promises to be another two-fer. In case you have any doubts, columnist Robert Novak reports that Hillary Clinton will not be offered the vice presidency, because Michelle Obama has […]
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Posted in May 7th, 2008
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Barack Obama (D-IL) had said that IN would be the tie-breaker, after Hillary Clinton (D-NY) won PA and he won NC as he was expecting to. And so the tie was broken – but just barely. Hillary won IN 51 percent to 49 percent, and lost NC by 41 percent to 56 percent.
Hillary’s disappointing […]
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Posted in May 6th, 2008
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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]
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Posted in April 30th, 2008
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It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw.
Obama was moved to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters in MA and […]
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Posted in April 29th, 2008
After the fiasco two weeks ago, when the Illinois Senate buried Rep. Franks’ recall amendment (HJCRA28), Senator Hendon introduced his own recall amendment in the Senate. This version (SJCRA70) is substantially similar to Rep. Franks’ recall but has a few changes: the ability to recall judges, the Governor and Lt. Governor have to be […]
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Posted in April 28th, 2008
Does Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have a point that Barack Obama (D-IL) is the weaker candidate against John McCain (R-AZ) because of his inexperience and inability to attract white, blue collar support? Is Obama justified in his claims that Clinton is the weaker candidate in the general election because she is too polarizing and Americans are […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
The last time Dems were considering which presidential hopeful should be the party’s standard-bearer, Howard Dean screamed (video link) and a frightened rank-and-file hurriedly anointed John Kerry the frontrunner - deeming him the most “electable” in the field – and then had the rest of the campaign to repent at leisure as Kerry became embroiled […]
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Posted in April 23rd, 2008
Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) won the Dem primary in PA – an important swing state - with a respectable 10-point margin (55 percent to 45 percent) over her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama (IL).
Both Hilary and Obama held onto their core supporters, and neither made inroads into the other’s base. Women, senior citizens and less […]
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Posted in April 22nd, 2008
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April 22 is here–Earth Day, and Scorched Earth Day in Pennsylvania. Only fools predict political outcomes this year. I qualify. So here’s what’s going to happen.
Hillary will probably win the primary. If she wins by any more than two percent, she will trumpet her triumph as a come-from-behind victory, even though she started with a 20 […]
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Posted in April 18th, 2008
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During the Dem debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the MSM – represented the other night by ABC News’ Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos – finally began vetting Barack Obama (IL), asking questions that made the candidate squirm and his supporters scream. For her part, Hillary Clinton (NY) took the opportunity to vulch. […]
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Posted in April 16th, 2008
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It’s true! Would hysterical conservatives lie to you about a Godless Muslim Koran-fondling wild man like Scary Barry? A man who doesn’t always wear a flag pin on his lapel? That was mighty careless of him. You’d think the Anti-Christ would be a little more devious than that. Since Christ was clearly a white American, […]
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Posted in April 14th, 2008
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In their stump speeches Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have done their best to create what Washington Post columnist George Will calls “economic hypochondria,” and their surrogates in the MSM are laboring mightily to find everyday folks who can put a face to the suffering the candidates claim is caused by the “housing […]
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Posted in April 9th, 2008
Hillary Clinton is running as Leonard Zelig – her proximity to the Commander-in-Chief, to military escorts and to world leaders and diplomats during her years as First Lady transforming her into an experienced leader that is Ready on Day One. Alas, the facts don’t not bear this out. As The Guardian of London recently noted: […]
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Posted in April 4th, 2008
Hill and Bill turn out the lights in their separate bedrooms, and the phone rings at 3 a.m. – again. This time the crisis is economic, home foreclosures mounting markets teetering. And even though the banks are closed and the NYSE won’t open for another 6½ hours, Hillary answers the phone. But wait – it’s […]
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Posted in April 3rd, 2008
Hillary Clinton is playing her PA roots to the hilt – reminding voters in the NE part of the state that, “my father was from Scranton.” And speaking before the AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia Tuesday, she couldn’t resist comparing herself to Rocky Balboa, the archetypical underdog who has the drive and the heart to go […]
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Posted in April 1st, 2008
Illinois voters will be presented with an historical opportunity to fix the structural problems that plague Illinois government and fix deficiencies and loopholes in our current constitution. There are problems that can only be fixed in a constitution but the entrenched interests have come out saying a convention is unnecessary. Here is why they […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2008
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When Hillary lies, does she know she is lying? Is she a reflexive liar, a compulsive liar, or a pathological liar? Does the staggering number of lies she has told during this campaign make her morally unfit for the office she seeks? Do the things about which she lied make her psychologically unfit?
Consider these questions […]
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Posted in March 28th, 2008
Many pundits have commented on how presidential aspirant Barack Obama (D-IL) treated his grandmother - the white one who raised him after his black father abandoned her daughter and their young son, and who was repaid by getting called out as a racist before a national TV audience and again in an interview with Angelo […]
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Posted in March 26th, 2008
In his speech last week Barack Obama declared, “race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” In response, the Los Angeles Times asks: “How do we start a national dialogue on race?” New York Times columnist Bill Kristol advises, “[l]et’s not, and say we did,” because “[t]he last […]
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Posted in March 19th, 2008
The City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County Indiana are experiencing what is called a “100 year rain.” As of 10 a.m, Evansville Regional Airport had received a record-breaking 6.52 inches of rain. The single greatest rainfall on record for Evansville was 6.5 inches, set on Oct. 6, 1910. The Ohio River is at 37 feet […]
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Posted in March 19th, 2008
In Philadelphia yesterday Barack Obama (D-IL) gave the speech about his core religious beliefs that presidential aspirant Mitt Romney (R-MA) should have given back in December. He unequivocally acknowledged that his some of his “former pastor’s” (more on that later) comments were racially divisive and hurtful, and do not represent his feelings about the only […]
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Posted in March 18th, 2008
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Consider this abbreviated list of unseemly associations, and decide if you would vote for this person. The stories are all true, and they have been verified. For now, we will call the person “Candidate X.” But further in this article the person will be exposed, by name.
One long term friend of Candidate X was sent […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
“and along came a spider and sat down beside her…”
Like the spider who uses the wind to carry its first first thread, Obama accuser Larry Sinclair uses the cyberspace to weave his web of sordid accusations against Senator Obama while panhandling for “donations” in his quest to reveal “the truth.” Now we […]
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Posted in March 7th, 2008
Those skits on “Saturday Night Live” depicting debate moderators swooning over Barack Obama and snarling at Hillary Clinton finally shamed the MSM into taking a harder line at the putative Dem frontrunner.
In an article carrying the snarkilicious headline “Ask Tough Questions? Yes, They Can!,” Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank describes a press conference Obama held […]
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Posted in March 5th, 2008
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John McCain (R-AZ) swept OH, RI, TX and VT by huge margins to secure his party’s nomination for the presidency, while Hillary Clinton (D-NY) staved Barack Obama (D-IL) off with double-digit margins in OH and VT and a narrow win in the TX primary (as of this writing, the TX caucuses have not been called, […]
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Posted in March 4th, 2008
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Senator Clinton was civil until she started losing. Obama is answering her, charge by charge. This is not going to be enough. The Clintons have a veritable Kitchen Sink Factory to create weapons to hurl at their opponents. But Hillary’s own tub is full of dirty bathwater. Maybe it’s time for Obama to throw the […]
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Posted in March 3rd, 2008
Maureen Dowd starts her New York Times column on Sunday, “Channeling her inner Cheney, Hillary Clinton dropped a fear bomb, as Michelle Obama might call it, implying in a new ad that if her opponent is elected, your angelic, innocent, sleeping children could die in a terrorist attack” – a reference to her latest campaign […]
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
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Earlier this month, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan told The New York Times that the choice that Jewish voters had in the Dem primary was “almost an embarrassment of riches” and that they felt “a certain amount of distress that they have to choose […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Earlier this month The Washington Post published an op-ed by “lifelong Republican” Susan Eisenhower explaining why she supports Barack Obama (“We have been living in a zero-sum political environment where all heads have been lowered to avert being lopped off by angry, noisy extremists … he is a man who can salve our national wounds […]
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