Archive for October, 2008

McCain Catching Up?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I keep hearing how this presidential race is tightening up. I watched Fox News tonight and you would think that things were almost neck in neck. The reality is that Obama is still ahead in every national poll.
McCain needs a miracle to win this election.
It is ironic that the big money in this [...]

Poll of Right-Wing Bloggers

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I participated in a right-of-center blogger poll put on by John Hawkins at RightWingNews. I am a non-liberal, and I sometimes classify myself as a libertarian-conservative. Based on the summarized answers to the poll questions, I can see that many of my responses differed sharply from some of the right-wing folks that took the poll. [...]

How Liberal Will President Obama Really Be?

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

In case you have any doubt that Obama is going to win this election, look at this summary of eleven national polls. It is going to be a landslide for Obama.
Once Obama wins, he will take his landslide to mean that he has a big mandate to do the things he wants to do. But [...]

Obama Ad

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

I am not an Obama supporter, but I thought this ad was funny.

A Scary Phrase

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Yes, as I said in my last post, I will give Obama a chance as president.
But here is a scary phrase to contemplate: Obama-Pelosi-Reid. Yikes.
In fact, Obama may be the least scary one in that bunch.

Giving Obama a Chance

Friday, October 24th, 2008

If a Republican candidate was as much to the right-of-center as Obama is left-of-center, you could bet that the media would be constantly documenting and reminding readers and viewers that this Republican is extremely conservative. But with Obama, they just don’t do this about his leftism. We are about to elect the most liberal president [...]

The Problem with Sarah Palin

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Peggy Noonan writes (via Half Sigma):
But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office. She is a person of great ambition, [...]

Iran Trains People to Kill Americans

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Disgusting:
WASHINGTON — They wake before dawn, with time to exercise, eat and pray before the day’s first class in firing Kalashnikov rifles.
Over the next eight hours, they practice using bazookas or laying roadside bombs, with a break for lunch and mandatory religious instruction.
There is free time in the evening to watch television or play [...]

Abolish the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law

Friday, October 17th, 2008

John Stossel on 20/20 tonight did his politically incorrect angle of looking at politics. He had the whole hour to report from his point of view, and it was great. I am glad (and surprised) that ABC gives Stossel a voice. You hear him do his segments and you think: I never hear these points [...]

Obama May Fast Track the Card Check Disaster

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

One of the scariest and little discussed things that Obama is up to is that he supports “card check” unionism. This means that workers must publically show on a card whether they want a union at their place of employment. Union bosses and organizers then can lean on workers to get them to agree to [...]

What Will Obama Do as President? Who Knows, but it Will Likely Get Scary.

Monday, October 13th, 2008

The left in Europe and Canada have been moving to restrict free speech. This is now on the horizon in the US also. Stephen Green at VodkaPundit writes:
If (when?) Obama is elected, by my estimation there’s an at least even chance that the newly-reconstructed FCC will reverse course and attempt to apply the New Fairness [...]