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Thursday, October 23
IBD: IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: Day Eleven
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 06:56 PM EDT
McCain has cut into Obama's lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday. The Republican is making headway with middle- and working- class voters, and has surged 10 points in two days among those earning between $30,000 and $75,000. He has also gone from an 11-point deficit to a 9-point lead among Catholics.
About IBD/TIPP: An analysis of Final Certified Results for the 2004 election showed IBD's polling partner, TIPP, was the most accurate pollster of the campaign season.
(H/T: Our man Steve)
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The Upside to a Down Market: Cheaper Oil
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 05:55 PM EDT
Obama: Most Secretive Democratic Presidential Candidate Ever
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 04:19 PM EDT
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign says his campaign will bring a new level of honesty and transparency to the White House. Obama proudly touts that he and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla, passed a law requiring more transparency via a public database of all federal spending.
But when it comes to offering the public documents about his own public and private activities, Obama's record for openness gets an "F" grade.
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Ad: Obama will give drivers licenses, Social Security benefits to illegals
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 01:26 PM EDT
They Really Are Deranged: Yes, Enough Is Enough
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 01:04 PM EDT
By 1980 at Occidental Obama ran partly with a circle of wealthy, drug using Pakistani friends. He traveled to Pakistan between Occidental and Columbia in 1981. That was during the Second Military Era (1977-1988) - Pakistan was under Sharia Law and not the most welcoming to foreign visitors, especially without some graft or connections.
Based upon documented accounts, Obama seems to have also traveled the country-side, not just in the cities. By 1981 Pakistan had become the world's number one supplier of Heroin. Upon his return Obama took up residence with one of the drug using Pakistanis in a run down, presumably drug infested part of NYC in an apartment they couldn't qualify for based on income.
For a college kid out of California via Hawaii who ends up in a NYC slum via Pakistan partying with admitted drug users - using well beyond what Obama has ever admitted to, especially given the particular era, that Pakistan voyage is one very curious trip no matter how you slice it. And I don't mean for any possible Muslim/terror related reasons.
For example, if they had to lie about income to get the apartment cited below - how is it they paid for it seems a fair question? Did he deal drugs at Columbia? He certainly seems to have had the location and friends for it and the Obama campaign has gone to great lengths to cover up that period of his life. Frankly, I want to know why and I think America deserves to know, as well.
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McCain lambastes Bush Years
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 12:03 PM EDT
Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of an administration whose unpopularity may be dragging the Republican Party to the brink of a massive electoral defeat.
(The contest between the liberal and the communist continues... -Roland)
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Creepier and Creepier
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 11:54 AM EDT
Down the street from my office a hip tavern-owner has hung three ginormous portraits of Barack Obama gazing watchfully down Kingshighway. The Warholesque likenesses are eerily reminiscent not so much of campaign billboards, but of the giant portraits of Mao and Stalin that were once fixtures in communist nations. If the Obama campaign reminds you too of a mass movement of true believers I suspect it is because the candidate himself has encouraged this perception
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Hatin' Palin
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 11:03 AM EDT
The abuse being heaped on Sarah Palin is such a cheap shot. The complaint against the Alaska governor, at its most basic, is that she doesn't qualify for admission to the national political fraternity. Boy, that's rich. Behold the shabby frat house that says it's above her pay grade. Congress has the lowest approval rating ever registered in the history of polling (12%!).they themselves could do a better job.
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CNN’s Drew Griffin Warps Quote From National Review in Palin Interview
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 10:38 AM EDT
During an interview with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s Situation Room, CNN’s Drew Griffin ripped a phrase out of a recent article by National Review’s Byron York which criticized the media’s coverage of Palin and characterized it as an attack on the Alaska governor. Griffin pointed out how "[t]he press has been pretty hard on you. The Democrats have been pretty hard on you, but also some conservatives have been pretty hard on you as well. The National Review had a story saying that, you know, ‘I can't tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, or all of the above.’" In the original article, which was originally only in the print version of National Review, York used the "incompetent" phrase to attack the media: "Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it's sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward or - well, all of the above."
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Fighting the Media as well as Obama
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 23 Oct 2008 10:25 AM EDT
It's hard enough when our Republican nominee, John McCain, has to run against a smooth talker who gets by with spouting off quips about "hope" and "change" and never has to get specific about his programs for the country. But, when that candidate, Barack Obama, is given a free pass by the media, it's as if McCain were running against two opponents at once.
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