Politicians

It’s been accurately said that Obama is much like a puffer fish. He inflated himself up with resume fabrications and imagined experiences to claim the experience and skills that are needed as POTUS, but his house of cards is coming down like the banks on Wall Street as I type.

From the many co-workers who claim clear memory that his professional career recollections were anywhere from embellished to flat out lies ( READ THEM HERE ), to the simple fact that he’s got no one of any reputation to corroborate his story. An excellent piece by Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post makes the point of the absence of trusted colleagues and friends. That’s got to tell you something…

When John Kerry was introduced at his convention four years ago, an honor guard of a dozen mates from his Vietnam days surrounded him on the podium attesting to his character and readiness to lead. Such personal testimonials are the norm. The roster of fellow soldiers or fellow senators who could from personal experience vouch for John McCain is rather long [including VP Candidate Joe Biden mind you]. At a less partisan date in the calendar, that roster might even include Democrats Russ Feingold and Edward Kennedy, with whom John McCain has worked to fashion important legislation.

Eerily missing at the Democratic convention this year were people of stature who were seriously involved at some point in Obama’s life standing up to say: I know Barack Obama. I’ve been with Barack Obama. We’ve toiled/endured together. You can trust him. I do.

Hillary Clinton could have said something like that. She and Obama had, after all, engaged in a historic, utterly compelling contest for the nomination. During her convention speech, you kept waiting for her to offer just one line of testimony: I have come to know this man, to admire this man, to see his character, his courage, his wisdom, his judgment. Whatever. Anything…Instead, nothing….

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So where are the colleagues? The buddies? The political or spiritual soul mates? His most important spiritual adviser and mentor was Jeremiah Wright. But he’s out. Then there’s William Ayers, with whom he served on a board. He’s out. Where are the others?

The oddity of this convention is that its central figure is the ultimate self-made man, a dazzling mysterious Gatsby. The palpable apprehension is that the anointed is a stranger — a deeply engaging, elegant, brilliant stranger with whom the Democrats had a torrid affair. Having slowly woken up, they see the ring and wonder who exactly they married last night.

(READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE)

Real Clear Politics has an article itemizing Palin’s position on several points…

Then there is a question of authenticity. And it matters. Those who will do anything for power, will say anything and support any position that is convenient. From John McCain to Joe Biden to Obama, one gets the sense that political office is their life’s work. All of them have made attempts to create the perception that, hey, they’re ordinary Americans just like you. Palin won’t have to work at genuineness. With Palin, you get the impression she can take politics or leave it. Her life certainly hasn’t been saturated with policy, favor trading and back scratching.

READ IT HERE

Sarah Palin managed to convince me last night with her amazing speech and biting commentary about the state of the country and the Obama/Biden ticket. She made such a huge impression on me that I changed my mind about her. I was pretty irritated that McCain didn’t pick Romney for his VP, as I believe there’s no better person for the job than Romney, all controversies and issues aside. I immediately saw the Palin pick as shrewd and potentially election winning gimmick, but I was less than impressed with her accomplishments. She’s clearly nothing compared to Romney, but she’s far more experienced than the top seat of the opposing ticket, Messiah Obama.

The highlights…

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.

I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.

We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

As for my running mate, you can be certain that wherever he goes, and whoever is listening, John McCain is the same man.

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I’ve noticed a pattern with our opponent.

Maybe you have, too.

We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers.

And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.

But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.

This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it.

Victory in Iraq is finally in sight … he wants to forfeit.

Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay … he wants to meet them without preconditions. Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America … he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights? Government is too big … he wants to grow it.

Congress spends too much … he promises more.

Taxes are too high … he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.

The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes … raise payroll taxes … raise investment income taxes … raise the death tax … raise business taxes … and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.

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In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.

And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.

They’re the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.

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Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.

He said, quote, “I can’t stand John McCain.” Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we’ve chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can’t stand up to John McCain. That is only one more reason to take the maverick of the Senate and put him in the White House. My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of “personal discovery.” This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer.

Interesting how easy it is to get viewers and adoration by just being young and new. No wonder Obama gets so much traction. Now the GOP has one.

After the spanking Obama received at Saddleback, the tide seems to be turning. The silly liberals, previously blinded by the piercing glory of the Change Savior, now see in him what the rest of us have seen all along: not much.

Read this article in the Mercury News, good assessment of the DNC’s poor problem-solving skills

And here, even the DNC PR firm, MSNBC, is forced to acknowledge the issue by poll numbers

In addition to Obama falling on his face without his teleprompter net, another piece of the puzzle, the success of the surge in Iraq, has to have many of the fence-sitting Americans reconsidering the completely unified tuck-tail retreat position the liberals have held. Oh, held until recently when notice the surge working and regrouped to claim some kind of credit or at least prognostication. Just silly. If only we didn’t have it in writing, audio, and video.