Posted by caleb on Oct 3, 2008 in
Presidential Election 2008 That’s the simple truth.
She pulled it off. She completely and totally wiped out Sen. Joe Biden. There was no contest. Gov. Palin was cheerful and smiled most of the night, all while remaining cool, calm, and sounding intelligent. She took many shots at the Senator from Delaware, and most of her arrows stuck. In other words, “The Smirk” came out a few too many times on that Nor’eastern face…
She answered the questions she wanted to answer and spoke clearly and directly to the American public, something I cannot say about Biden. At least once he completely lost me in a “blizzard of words” and many other times he spoke with factual fallacies and non-sequiturs, saying that the principles of the surge wouldn’t work in Afghanistan, while saying we should increase troop levels… The country WON’T survive an Obama-Biden administration… it just won’t work. Democracy demands truth.
Tonight was a great night for the McCain-Palin campaign and for America.
I hope you all are praying for a McCain-Palin victory- I truly believe it’s the only thing between us and losing the free and democratic life we know and love.
Who do you think won? Leave your responses in the comments section below. FoxNews.com and McCainBlogs.com also have great threads going.
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Posted by caleb on Oct 1, 2008 in
Uncategorized Yes, it’s been awhile, and I do apologize if it appears that I’ve been neglecting my blog. The truth is, I have, but I’ve got some good reasons for it. First, I’ve been disabled by a long-standing issue with my right hip. Something recently has made the problem flare up again, and I’ve basically lost my ability to walk without crutches. That burden, coupled with any medication they give me and my normal class workload, has caused me to push my blog onto the back burner.
Now, some have accused me of not writing because of my supposed “shame” about Gov. Palin’s recent performance. Let me tell you right now that I am not ashamed of Gov. Palin. In fact, I think she did a fairly good job in her first three national interviews, especially the one with Sean Hannity.
What I don’t appreciate, however is the way the McCain campaign is seemingly “manhandling” her. For goodness’ sake, let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin. I think she should say, “Yea, so those interviews weren’t as good as Barack Obama’s… so what? I told you I’m not a Washington insider. These things are brand new to me, but that’s okay, because I’m not going to Washington to have Washington change me. John McCain and I are going to Washington to reform Washington. We’re doing it for our country…” She desperately needs to say something of that sort, because I truly believe the American people love her for who she is. This political posturing that we’ve seen is nonsense.
As for the idea that John McCain has now slipped so far behind he’ll never win, I say “P’shaw.” Has everyone forgotten what’s coming up tomorrow night? Oh, that’s right, the Vice-Presidential Debates, where Gov. Palin will smash Sen. Biden. Has anyone seen her performances in any of Alaska’s gubernatorial debates? She was phenomenal! I think if she’ll just relax (or if they’d just let her relax) she’ll be great.
Some say she’s not qualified enough to be Vice-President, or a “heartbeat away from the Presidency,” but I disagree. The woman is highly intelligent and has been the chief executive of our most energy-rich state! Does no one realize how BIG Alaska really is? It’s basically the size of the Louisiana Purchase… that’s HUGE! As for the “heartbeat” comment: first of all, I think it’s low for the Dems to attack John McCain because of his age. He has shown time and again that while he’s no “spring chicken,” he can take Obama on and do his job very effectively. Joe Biden is whom I am worried about being a “heartbeat away.” The man is a disaster. Did you not see what he did at a rally in Missouri? He asked wheel-chair bound former State Senator Chuck Graham to “stand up” and then realized his mistake and made a fairly big deal about it. Folks, we cannot have this man “a heartbeat away from the Presidency.” It would be a disaster!
It’s important to note the different reasons why Sarah Palin and Joe Biden were brought on to their respective tickets. Joe Biden was tapped to give the Demo ticket any foreign experience credibility at all. Prior to Biden, Obama was sunk. Now with Biden, well, you don’t hear about him too much do you? Sarah, on the other hand, was asked to join the ticket for her conservative values and her extensive energy policy experience. John McCain didn’t need any foreign policy shoring-up; the man is a legend when it comes to foreign travel. In the first debate, he named places I’d never even heard of. That’s not to say that Sarah is clueless when it comes to foreign nations. Check out her words to Ahmadinejad in a statement last week when she was supposed to speak before a rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York sound fierce enough to me,
“Senator McCain has made a solemn commitment that I strongly endorse: Never again will we risk another Holocaust,” her speech says. “And this is not a wish, a request, or a plea to Israel’s enemies. This is a promise that the United States and Israel will honor, against any enemy who cares to test us.”
Sounds fierce enough to me.
As for the economic meltdown, while I don’t believe that either candidate has exactly the right idea, I definitely support Sen. McCain. Obama wants to tax us more in a time of great financial distress! How ridiculous! At least McCain is on the right track by demanding the cessation of most earmarks and the paring down of the federal budget.
I know our country is in a great financial crisis, but I still do not appreciate the idea of American taxpayers footing the bill for the stupid mistakes and hunches of some of America’s largest corporations. It doesn’t make sense, and it’s not something I believe the federal government should be this involved in.
The point is, our nation is at a major crossroads. People say not to vote on party lines, but folks, there’s a reason we have parties, and you can’t just ignore the label. In November, you can either vote for the party of defeat and elect Obama-Biden to the White House and watch our nation lose its free market and capitalistic roots, turning to European-style big government and socialism, or you can elect the party and ticket of reform, hope, and limited government by sending McCain-Palin. The choice is obvious to me.
P.S. If you’re in the Four-State area, come check out the PSU Campus Republicans’ Debate-Watching parties. We’re hosting them in the basement of the PSU Overman Student Center at 302 E. Cleveland, Pittsburg, KS 66762 at 7:30 p.m. for every remaining debate.
Tags: biden, economy, mccain, obama, Palin, President, Vice President
Posted by caleb on Sep 5, 2008 in
Uncategorized Two nights ago was the national coming out party for Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin. The expectations were high; this upstart governor from Alaska had been a surprise choice by Senator John McCain just days before, and not many people knew much about her. That didn’t stop the attacks by the leftist-liberal media, though. They checked her out from top to bottom, as we expect and appreciate, but when they found nothing at all fishy with her record, they took their biased attacks personal.
First, they attacked her for being, what they called, a “bad mother” for choosing to have a life separate from her kids. They say she won’t have time to take care of them and be Vice President. I don’t know about you, but if I ever said that about any woman, I’d be crucified, right on the spot. Most women I know are just as capable as men, but there’s my point. We’ve got to stop looking at gender as the deciding factor on a person’s abilities. Individual women are better at certain things, just as individual men are better at certain things. We all have a specific niche that we fill, but not as a gender group; we fit because of who we are.
So in other words, bunk, bunk, bunk on Sarah Palin not being able to have a family and be second-in-command. Previous Vice Presidents have done it! Why should a woman be any different? It’s true men and women handle things differently, but unless I’ve just been living under a rock all of my life, fathers helped create their children, and they should have a major part in raising them.
With all of that (and more) coming at Gov. Palin before her national debut, one can imagine the stress she felt and the anticipation the rest of the world felt. Republicans and other conservatives waited with huge excitement and anxiousness that she would pull it off without a hitch. Left wingers watched and licked their chops, waiting to jump in a tear her to pieces should she even stutter. She didn’t, which is more than can be said for Senator Obama, who is tied to his teleprompter. From what I’ve heard, Gov. Palin’s teleprompter didn’t work right throughout the entire speech. She couldn’t read any of the first two lines on the screen, and so did most of it extemporaneously, or at least from memory. She did have a slightly-rumpled copy of it on the podium, but one didn’t see her use it that much. Oh, and the pitbull joke? It was probably the line that will be most remembered from the entire speech. That, my friends (to quote the next President of the USA, John McCain), was an ad lib!
So, Sarah Palin took the stage with all of that pressure upon her, and she shone beautifully. She was incredible and beyond impressive. She took to the stage with an aura of power and confidence surrounding her. As Brit Hume said, she is one of the few “who make it look easy.” And she did, without a doubt. She came, and she delivered the Republican Party to John McCain. Even on her premiere night, she took swings at Barry, saying, “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” The crowd leapt to its feet in support and applause.
Barack Obama responded the next day after leaving an interview with Bill O’Reilly, saying that organizing communities really is the same thing as being a mayor. In fact, he points out that his duties as a person “who brought people together” equaled those of Gov. Palin, who ran the city of Wasilla, AK and then, while he was a do-nothing Senator in a do-nothing Congress, became Governor of her entire state! Another bunk goes to Obama. He is truly feeling the burn. He even went as far to say (in the midst of incessant stuttering) that the GOP has no agenda but to attack him. What? That sounds a little self-centered and self-conscious to me. The GOP has a plenty big enough agenda, starting with an actual plan for energy independence, tax breaks, education, and true reform in Washington. In the meantime, calls from the leftist media for McCain to replace Palin were replaced with calls from the same leftist media for Obama to replace Biden! I agree with Rush Limbaugh what said last night on FNC. Just the fact that this media is even discussing this idea means the Obama camp is, too. And why not? Gov. Palin’s historic and magnificent speech garnered 37 million viewers, just a paltry 1 million less than Obama’s speech at the Invesco Center.
Palin, in her speech, unabashedly proclaimed her support for the Pro-Life movement and told parents of children with special needs, “You will have an an advocate in Washington.” Palin, 44, is the mother of Trig Palin, an infant she chose to carry full term and deliver earlier this year, even though he had been diagnosed with Down Syndrome in utero. She also pushed forward with the reform mantra, telling the media that it didn’t bother her that she wasn’t a member in good standing of the “Washington Elite.” Gov. Palin told the crowds she wasn’t going to Washington to be part of the in-crowd. She was going to help fix Washington; according to Palin, her boss is the American people.
With a clear voice and an unforgettable message, Palin did in one night what it has taken Barack Obama nineteen months: she won over the hearts of the American people. Yes, the Obama-Biden ticket is popular, and will be hard to defeat, but the truth is, they’re scared of the Barracuda. And let me tell you, they’ve got a reason to be.
McCain-Palin 08
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