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No Barack

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:01:59 PM
Bob Samuelson on the Media's Obama Delusion

"It's hard not to be dazzled by Barack Obama. At the 2004 Democratic convention, he visited with Newsweek reporters and editors, including me. I came away deeply impressed by his intelligence, his forceful language and his apparent willingness to take positions that seemed to rise above narrow partisanship. Obama has become the Democratic presidential front-runner precisely because countless millions haveformed a similar opinion. It is, I now think, mistaken." 
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Chris [Clinton Boy] Matthews

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:58:57 PM
After weeks of pressure from the Clinton campaign, Chris Matthews finally did her bidding by grilling an Obama supporter who couldn't name a single Obama accomplishment. Mrs. Clinton is now referencing this exchange in her stump speeches, which begs the question: What have you done, Mrs. Clinton? Her latest ad claims she used to work the "night shift."

Here is the transcript;  Got this on the Captain's Quarters blog [video there and a link below also].

This exchange will race through the conservative blogosphere, and probably on the pro-Hillary sites as well. Last night, Chris Matthews interviewed Texas state senator and Barack Obama supporter Kirk Watson as Obama sailed to a crushing victory in Wisconsin. Matthews asked Watson to name any significant legislative accomplishment by Obama, and the campaign surrogate got stumped . . .

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "You are a big Barack supporter, right, Senator?"

State Sen. Watson: "I am. Yes, I am."

Matthews: "Well, name some of his legislative accomplishments. No, Senator, I want you to name some of Barack Obama's legislative accomplishments tonight if you can."

State Sen. Watson: "Well, you know, what I will talk about is more about what he is offering the American people right now."

Matthews: "No. No. What has he accomplished, sir? You say you support him. Sir, you have to give me his accomplishments. You've supported him for president. You are on national television. Name his legislative accomplishments, Barack Obama, sir."

State Sen. Watson: "Well, I'm not going to be able to name you specific items of legislative accomplishments."

Matthews: "Can you name any? Can you name anything he's accomplished as a Congressman?"

State Sen. Watson: "No, I'm not going to be able to do that tonight."

Matthews: "Well, that is a problem isn't it?"

It will be in November. Hope and change sound great ... for a while. At some point, the spell breaks, and people wonder how all this hope and change will morph into actual policy, and whether the candidate can actually deliver it. That usually means looking at the record to see how the candidate did so in the past, when they had the opportunity to do so.

Obama simply doesn't have any record to show. He has been in the Senate a grand total of three years, one of which he's spent running for President. He has no record of even attempting to bring any of the themes on which he's running now to the Senate for consideration as actual legislative product. Why didn't he act when he had the chance?

That will be John McCain's argument. He has a long record of taking risks in the Senate and pushing bipartisan solutions to problems. He hasn't just sat around talking about change; he's actually accomplished it, sometimes in directions that angered Republicans then and now. McCain can cast himself as the real agent of change and bipartisanship, while Obama just poses as such for an election without once taking any real risks.

Plus, McCain would probably have smarter surrogates appearing on MS-NBC.

UPDATE: I added the video from the new Eyeblast site, which just got started. Check it out -- it looks like a great resource.

UPDATE II: Read the mea culpa from Kirk Watson. It's an excellent recognition that he blew it, and he tries his best to make amends to Barack Obama.

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Keep Your Eye On The Ball

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:56:02 PM
"Hillary and Obama represent the political enemy here, yet somehow talk radio hosts have become the enemy.  Attacking talk radio is not going to win anybody any votes."
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McCain Needs Them

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:52:49 PM
We want to win, and John McCain will have a difficult time drawing a contrast with Obama's radical liberalism because Obama will be able to point to numerous issues on which Senator McCain agrees with the left.

It's clear that Senator McCain has forsaken conservatives and will focus on luring Democrat moderates, who are turned off by the cult of Obama.

Froma Harrop: Obama Turns Off Many Centrists

"Despite the hard contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, party leaders keep telling Democratic-leaning voters that they have two good candidates. They are right, but one of them may well be a Republican."

"Far from the pumped-up Obama rallies, centrists who voted for John Kerry last time now say they are considering John McCain -- especially if the Democrat is the vaporous Obama. At least that's what many are telling me -- and I'm telling myself."


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What's Up Hillary?

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:47:53 PM
After Wisconsin, it's not looking good for the Clintons. Obama beat her with every group of voters. He even won among her base supporters: dumb Democrats. Faced with the end of their lifelong ambition, the question is, what will the Clintons do to stop the prison break of Democrats fleeing their rule? It doesn't look good for them, but it's not over yet.
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Says Nothing

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:45:58 PM
"If you listen to an Obama speech -- if you actually take the time to really listen to it -- it's possible your IQ will shrink by the time the speech is over."
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He Is Worse Than Hillary

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:39:07 PM
The Barack Obama phenomenon is not a political movement, it is a cult. His followers don't care what he says or that he's to the left of George McGovern. They are desperate people, placing their faith in Obama to solve their problems instead of looking at themselves. Is his empty rhetoric and demagoguery enough to make the greatest nation on earth succumb to socialism?
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What Might Happen

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:39:58 AM


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Investigating Kyoto Political Advocacy

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:23:37 AM
They could be busy… - … investigating Kyoto political advocacy. Presumably sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander too, so one also assumes the plethora of groups advocating pro-Kyoto positions and attempting to sway election results with media campaigns will also be investigated regarding funding sources and streams.
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DVD Review No Apocalypse

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:20:57 AM
Review of the DVD Apocalypse? No! The Scientific Reasons Why 'Global Warming' is NOT a Global Crisis - Christopher Monckton’s 2007 presentation to the Cambridge (University) Union

 Monckton begins by saying that he is going to present a perspective on climate change science that the audience will have not seen in the media, from politicians or in reports on the science. Like Al Gore, Monckton is not a scientist and he has as much right as Al Gore to talk about climate change. His scientific approach is one of enquiry rather than advocacy. He talks about correct scientific method and quotes T. H. Huxley on scepticism being the improver of knowledge:

“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”

He then explains that the debate is not about whether we can freely pollute the planet without care for our fellow creatures, or their or our future, or whether we are adding greenhouse gases to atmosphere, because we are, or that adding greenhouse gases doesn’t enhance temperature – because it does.

Monckton turns his attention to climate alarmism about what might happen if the planet becomes a little warmer, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports.
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Diet Soda No Good

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:15:35 AM

Diet soda makes you fat — or should you smell a rat? - Media stories like this one about diet soda causing weight gain made the rounds last week.

Who wouldn’t believe a study in which experiments involved as few a six rats in the treated group and eight in the control group? And anyway, are rats really little people? 

The only artificial sweetener tested on the rats was sacchrin — not the low- or no-calorie sweeteners used in today’s foods like aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame K.

Also the control group was fed glucose, not the most common sweeteners like table sugar (sucrose) and high fructose corn syrup.

So the food police don’t like regular soda/soft drinks or diet soda — and bottled water contributes to global warming.

What are we supposed to drink when we can’t take the kitchen sink with us? Even then you need to be careful according to the alarmists since polycarbonate sports bottles leach alleged endocrine disrupters (like Bisphenol A).

Got a surplus Army canteen?
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Are They Serious?

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:59:31 PM
A Small Victory over Sharia  Even CAIR switched sides (for the time being).
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Keep Them Out [Legals Only]

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:54:54 PM
(US) National Security at the Border  Terror watch lists are making it harder for Jihadis to enter the US legally, but (as Robert Spencer notes) there's always another way.
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Readin', Writin' And Warmin'

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:21:28 PM
A lawmaker from the Silicon Valley wants to require "climate change" to be taught as "science" in all California public schools. Warmers can't convince the adults, but they can brainwash the children.

We don't know who'll write the climate change curriculum, but we'd guess it wouldn't be Dr. William Gray, professor emeritus of the atmospheric department at Colorado State University, who has become known as America's most reliable hurricane forecaster.

"We're brainwashing our children," Gray told 300 meteorology students at the University of North Carolina last year. "They're going to the Gore movie and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."

This scientist and student of global warming said, "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major impact on global temperatures."

"I find it disturbing," says Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, "that this mandate to teach this theory is not accompanied by a requirement that this discussion be science-based and include a critical analysis of all sides of the subject."

So do we, but McClintock forgets that, according to Gore, the debate is over.

Schoolchildren, however, do not read British High Court decisions. Nor do they read the articles and opinions of award-winning skeptics. But they will listen to their teacher when she says the polar bears are drowning and their schools and homes will one day be under 20 feet of water.

Turning our public schools into Gore re-education camps and sending children to bed thinking we're all going to die is child abuse.



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First African President

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:11:17 PM
George W. Bush has been singled out as the American president who has done the most for Africa. So where's the recognition, both in the media and the black community, of this worthy achievement?

. . . Bob Geldof, Irish rocker and Africa activist, says the Texas oilman, who is wrapping up his second trip to the continent, "has done more than any other president so far."

Geldof rightly chastises the American media for ignoring Bush's contributions to Africa.

But it would be unrealistic to have expected otherwise. This is a national press corps that seems to notice homelessness and poverty only when a Republican is in the White House, and which itself votes heavily Democratic.

Yet under Bush, the U.S. has boosted development and humanitarian aid to Africa from $1.4 billion in his first year in office to $4 billion a year today. He's also sought $30 billion to fight AIDS.


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