Does anyone remember back in March of this year? Back when the story making the rounds of all the major media outlets, was the report that someone had illegally accessed the private passport records of candidate Barack Obama? Surely the records of Hillary Clinton and John McCain had supposedly been violated also, but the
q u e e r part of the story that caused it to go stale rather quickly? Was the fact that two of Barack Obama's supposed contractors were mysteriously dismissed before investigators could interview them concerning their involvement in the breach of privacy involving all the candidates passport records.

The media played the story of the violated privacy rights the obligatory 48 hour run, and they milked it for all the violations of supposed sensibilities that the liberal left could ring from it, before allowing it to go away to lie and die by itself with never any further inquiry into "who" had actually been involved in these criminal acts. Or more specifically? Who and why and for what purpose. And why once associations with the Obama campaign were revealed by investigators, all aspects of serious inquiry slid easily into yesterday's news and everyone moved on after that and the story simply died.

Now fast forward to the present. October 15th to be specific. Barack Obama is engaged in a walking tour of neighborhoods in Toledo Ohio when he encounters one Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. Who will here after and for ever more be known and remembered as "Joe the plumber." Seeing the hoopla that afternoon, Joe decided that he wanted to ask the would be president how his tax plan would affect someone like him (Joe) who was a plumber and who intended to hopefully buy his own (plumbing) business in the future. And the answer that Barack Obama gave, literally became the "shot heard round the world."

Attempting to be his affable self in front of the cameras that day, Obama had let slip the confident facade of ease of interaction with the people and he had attempted to honestly represent his reasoning to Joe. But the problem was that in doing so, Obama had revealed the real truth lingering behind the carefully crafted representations and the campaign rhetoric designed to disguise the reality. Obama as he himself explained it, has intents only of "spreading the wealth around." Nothing harmful about that right?

Well apparently nothing quite as harmful as reality is as potentially politically damaging as the cold hard truth when mixed with reality. Obama had slipped up and inadvertently spoken the truth to Joe. And the resonance of what was said and the intended reference of what that meant by Obama, quickly became two mutually exclusive realities in the political world of double speak and veiled representations.

And John McCain and others across the American political landscape immediately recognized what had been said and precisely what that statement represented in reality in the race for the presidency. Obama had revealed by his own words what his true intentions for leading this nation to the promised land in actuality were. And his path was as clear as it had been described by his opponent for months. Obama was/is a socialist. And he had just said so! He couldn't have done a better job of it if he had spoken word for word from Marx's manifesto!

And as some might rightly imagine, these revelations didn't set well with the mass and mainstream media of America or globally for that matter. Some commoner, some lowly little man from some obscure little place like Toledo Ohio? Had suddenly caused the carefully crafted political veil of the man who would be king to slip? And the unrepentant and un-nuanced and unvarnished truth and reality was allowed to shone through? Can't have that! I can hear it now, on the blackberries and the cell phone calls to the media their field agents and personalities and foot soldiers all along the unbiased and partisan ranks of American media. Kill him! Do away with this little man! Get rid of this upstart! Squash him into the ground and eradicate his memory from the collective thoughts of those that we seek to control! (But first discredit him).

And thus the onslaught of the American media machine began it's juggernaut launch into what it does best. Misinformation and character assassination. But wait.....? Can we accomplish the task without the requisite necessities of information? Tarry not squires! Seeketh out the informers and those in the seats of government power who have access and knowledge and the data bases. Agreeth with them to slake their thirst for future considerations, if only they will provide the requisite necessities now, of revealing the inner most secrets of one Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher and what the public records data bases will provide.

So there you have it ladies and gentlemen. As evidenced by reports this morning, the life and privacy of one Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher has been offered up and provided to the media for the taking. The story is really quite compelling. It can be reviewed HERE. Where the lurid tales are once again revealed, of how politics are really played by the big boys and how nothing is really private, as long as you have the money or the contacts in government.

Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.

It has not been determined who checked on Wurzelbacher, or why. Direct access to driver's license and vehicle registration information from BMV computers is restricted to legitimate law enforcement and government business.


And what will be done about these breeches of privacy and felonious violations of both state and federal law? I am betting that not a Damn thing will result from these actions being revealed and brought forth into the light. No one cares after all, unless of course it is their own obscure and insignificant life that is being spied upon by the powers that Be. And after all, this is just an election for the presidency of the United States. And this isn't Watergate. (or is it) Even if it does involve plumbers and violations of the law and a man and his operatives who will do anything including violation of the laws of the land to see him elected.

Post Script.

On a side note....when I first attempted to post my remarks this morning? I had the audacity to attempt to utilize the the word "q u e e r" to convey the "strange and bizarre manner in which certain aspects of the story concerning the passport investigation were handled. Only to be notified by the Townhall.com word filters? That "that" word is considered inappropriate language.

I have been watching the presidential campaign along with many in this country for the past six months and before. And the more that I have watched, the more that I have seen a palpable sense of arrogance on the part of the democrats in general an Barack Obama in particular. And the only part of that arrogance that has changed or differed during the course of my observations, has been the decided and determined crash of the Hillary Clinton campaign. This time a year ago, there was no doubt that come this November, Hillary would be the democratic candidate and would in all probability win this election with ease.

All that changed with the risen salvation of the new socialist left in America. Hillary was no longer considered the preferred champion of the socialist cause. The new leader for that movement had been fired and tested in the crucible of Chicago politics and his mettle was proved immediately when he laid waste to and defeated the opponent who many had come to know as the Hilda beast.  Hillary was no beast in the face of an overwhelming movement to elect America's first black president. In fact?Hillary never even stood a chance.

But what keeps coming back to my thoughts is the overwhelming arrogance of this campaign. From the brash assertions that Obama would remain on the high ground and above the normal hissing and spitting of typical political campaigns, to the pledge that he would agree to utilize only public funds. To his world tour and rock style promotion in Europe. Each and every step of the way there has been the arrogance. Say one thing first, then change position and glare at the media for having taken notice. That has been one of his favored techniques of addressing his ever changing policy and position statements. Just like he did with Katie Couric when she tried to pin him down on his Iraq surge sentiments.

Then there have been the less than subtle efforts to carve out racial divides by the O man, while at the same time attempting to claim that it is in fact the opposition engaging in racial politics and the playing of race cards.  And now in the final days of this campaign, the parallels of arrogance are not only striking, but they are literally dripping with arrogance and sarcasm.

Looking back on the democratic convention seven weeks ago? Who would have thought that what was being demonstrated was in actuality the preparatory exercises of a coronation? But that is precisely what was evident to those who were observant of the Greco Roman theatric production. There are twelve days left in this race and for the past forty eight hours, the media has been replete with articles reporting on the celebrations being planned by the Obama campaign. In Hyde Park in Chicago? There are literally millions being spent by the city of Chicago in preparation for the coronation. And the Obama campaign has apparently already conveyed ease of mind to Chicago officials concerning the costs. The campaign is promising all of the costs will be covered. And why wouldn't they be, seeing as the Obama campaign is literally dripping with funding.

Then there is the issue of the other Chicago "O". The one known as Oprah. After noticeably dropping from the forefront of the O mans campaign several months ago, Oprah is now throwing the weight of her considerable production company (Harpo) behind making sure that the Obama coronation is a night to remember in Chicago and nationally.

And as an added incentive to insure that there are no last many jitters on the part of officials around the country, the waters have already been seeded with the probable and potential consequences and repercussions should by some bizarre stretch of the imagination, Obama actually lose this election. In other words, there will be hell to pay and rioting in the streets are anticipated all across America in the event of such an obvious tragedy.

Therefore, the question rightfully must be asked, "is it bragging if he can do it?" Is Obama bragging? Or is he simply telling the country rather openly of what is about to come to pass. As if the people of this country are only an after thought in the new political process. More spectator than participant? Or is the Obama campaign attempting the age old tactic and ploy of talking a good game, because they know that this thing is closer than they could either have wished or imagined or cared for. And they know that they have to pull out the stops on game changers now or else watch it all slip away. Even if that means spending a couple of hundred million dollars erecting the largest facade ever built before a presidential election, to insure that the emperor has the best new wardrobe for his coronation.

What will it take for the American people to get it? What will it take before they wake from their sel induced slumber and actually see the writing on the wall? We have two weeks left before this election. Exactly two weeks left before we choose the next president of this country. And for all intents and purposes? It looks like the majority of the country is content to just let an avowed socialist literally waltz into the office of the presidency of this country, while thumbing his nose at the majority of people of this country every inch of the way.

Two days ago Joe Biden, (the one who will fetch the slippers for The One once they are installed in the White House) was warning the country that bad things are looming on the horizon once Obama is elected. Kinda like the prewar pep and prep talk just to let us know, that the democrats realize all too well what is in store for this country once Barack Hussein Obama slides his shoes underneath the resolute desk. 

Biden wasn't even coy about his assessments. Openly stating that  there will be an attack against this country and for the intended purpose of testing the newly elected socialist appeaser. Just so they can see just what the response will be if any. Or could it be that this attack will not so much be a test, as much as it will be a verification of assessment and: therefore, the green light for the despots and fascists of the world to move with their other long planned but postponed worldly agendas.

Not the least of which will be the complete obliteration of Israel and the reclamation of Taiwan and a once and for all slap down for Tibet and India and anyone else who doesn't bow to the risen Islamic new age and the collusion of communism that is certain to be revealed globally in the very near future.

Even Madeline Albright commented on the veracity of Biden's comments and lends her opinion that these are things to be expected and consequences to be anticipated by an Obama presidency. No mention in the media so far of the possible alternative. No mention of the fact that this nation hasn't been victimized again since 9/11 or the fact that we wouldn't have been victimized in the first place, had Bill Clinton not been asleep at the switch with a cigar in one hand and an intern in the other. Or that with all of his short comings and the supposed rave reviews of Oliver Stone's "W"? That we as a nation might just by chance still exist as one nation under God, simply because we had George W Bush as our president for the last eight years.

Joe Biden has spelled it out for us folks. No less than two weeks before the presidential election? And no one in the mainstream seems to be either paying attention or to care about anything, outside of the SNL ratings of having Sarah Palin as a guest has meant. Come November 4th the people of this country who consider their freedoms and way of life truly in jeopardy, had better show up at the polls and they had better be prepared to turn back this literal daylight robbery of the presidency of this country and by default our lives that the democrats are presently getting away with both stealing and destroying.

Once he is in office? It will be too late. And the consequences for this country are literally terrifying to even comprehend. But people better be getting prepared to live them.

An Examination of Obama’s Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches THE EVIDENCE IS HERE: This document contains over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama’s use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form of “hack” hypnosis on millions of unaware Americans, and reveals what only a few psychologists and hypnosis/NLP experts know. The entire paper is located here: http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama%27s_Us.....eeches.pdf I found this on another forum, contributed by one of the more certified liberal loons. On first blush my sentiments were "yeah right." But because it was Sunday morning and a slow news day, I decided to indulge my curiosity and my funny bone and have a look see into this assertion of mass hypnosis by one Barack Obama. Needless to say, what I found was not only intriguing, but captivating in both presentation and common sense reality. What this writer has to say and the way that he presents his argument, not only captivates the imagination? But also causes the reader to call forth the images of their own personal recollections, while the author utilizes his own observations and experience to make his points and his arguments for the assertions he is representing. While reading this paper and the explanations of hypnotic techniques being employed by Barack Obama? It crossed my mind and occurred to me to think and reflect upon precisely what it is that makes a charismatic speaker charismatic in the first place? What makes their speaking ability appear so gifted and what is it about their presentation that entrances and enthralls the listener to hang on their every word and to follow along like the mindless myrmidons and lemmings of our historical reference. And as I read th author's presentation the thought kept bouncing back at me that these are the very same techniques and principles (as being described) employed and deployed by all successful "preachers" and "charismatic speakers" historically. And that someone at some point had simply sat down and applied analytical thinking and deduction to the process of successfully leading people through manipulative speaking. And where better to learn these techniques for a young Barack Obama, than at the feet of the professed and by observing and emulating the performances of charismatic preachers and others in his own life. This is where Barack Obama had his "Eureka moment" in my estimation. This is where Barack Obama learned to practice what is literally and correctly being described in this paper as a hypnotic technique, designed for no other purpose than to cultivate deceit and and a political following by the practitioner. I challenge all who are interested in knowledge and the workings of their environment, especially as it concerns politics and mass media and the marketing of Obama's supposed change, to indulge yourself for about forty five minutes and read this man's observations of what he has seen clearly as the purposeful manipulation of the American psyche by Barack Obama and more importantly, by those in the background supporting him and steering him.. Then having chased down the real rabbit hole of what has been placed afoot and in play against all the citizens of this country as revealed by this author's paper? Please pass along your newly acquired knowledge and ensure that as many people as possible are exposed to it over the next two weeks. And in the interim, remember that Barack Obama has booked prime time air time on all major networks the week before the election. A thirty minute block of prime time TV on the 26th of October. (Costing hundreds of millions) Presumably for his seal the deal last pitch to the American voters. Absent the influences and distractions of either his opposition or the mainstream media at large, Obama intends to make his pitch to the people. In other words, Barack Obama intends to have a private "mono y mono" moment with as many Americans as he can snare into watching his last big performance before the election. I for one intend to be there. Somehow or another, I haven't been either mesmerized or hypnotized by his rhetoric and presentation techniques. not surprising really, as on the two occasions in my life when people have attempted to hypnotize me? It didn't work. Therefore, I fully intend to watch his program on the 26th, just to see what is represented and with my newly acquired understanding of just how the messiah is accomplishing his cult like following? I intend to pass the word with a redoubled effort before it is too late for this country.

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After making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, McCain learned 3 key facts -- Joe owes back taxes, isn't licensed and Obama's plan would cut Joe's taxes. Photo: AP

If there ever was a question of  the media creating the news then deciding which direction it would take? this has got to be the example. The "Joe The Plumber" story has now become the "Not So Average Joe" morph by the media.

The media created this guy. the media was responsible for thrusting this guy into the national spotlight, via their example and analogy of how this Joe six pack average Joe plumber type guy, would be one of the targets of Barack Obama's Tax and spend platform.

Therefore, was it predictable or unexpected? Was it some huge mystery that John McCain would recognize the potential value of highlighting the example provided to him by the media and the Obama campaign? I think not. But somehow the MS media now wants to portray the subsequent revelations that have come to light about Joe the plumber? As some misstep or gaff or failure to vet on the part of John McCain and his campaign.

What a load of horse hockey!

The media made Joe Plumber and now that their creation has been revealed to not be exactly what they had previously represented? Now that is somehow the failure and responsibility of John McCain and his campaign?

Laughable.


McCain discovers plumber no ordinary Joe

NEW YORK – John McCain hung his final presidential debate performance on an Ohio plumber who campaign aides never vetted.

A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal story: He owes back taxes. He is not a licensed plumber. And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president.

McCain likes to say that he isn’t George W. Bush – and in this case of bungled public relations, it is clear he is not. The famously-disciplined Bush campaign operation would likely have found the perfect anonymous citizen to illustrate a policy proposal, rather than spontaneously wrap itself around an unknown entity with so many asterisks.

While the arc of Wurzelbacher’s breakneck trip through the news cycle – from private citizen to insta-celebrity to political target – offers a curious insight into the political media culture, it also appears to offer a glimpse into the McCain campaign’s on-the-fly decision making style.

I may be wrong and if I am? It won't be the first time or the last time. But I have to believe that tonight's debate between Barack Obama and John McCain will be a bang and a whimper. A bang for Obama and a whimper for McCain. John McCain began about two weeks ago attempting to exploit the disparate character issues of his opponent and his friendships and associations over the years and decades with questionable people. Which was a good maneuver had he begun it back in May. But to wait until the last month of the campaign? Makes it look more like an act of desperation than a winning tactic in the eyes of most Americans.

During the last debate, John McCain should have pressed his accusations against Obama, he didn't. He left the accusations laying like the 900 pound gorilla in the room and it was Barack Obama who addressed them to the people. It was Obama who said, 'why didn't he say these things to my face.' Look for more of that tonight. It will be Obama who puts the dog on the table and confronts John McCain about the accusations McCain has made against him. And in doing so? Obama wins once again. He addresses and deflects the attacks and moves on.

John McCain said over the weekend, that he intended to kick Obama's you know what in this debate. Don't look for it. Look rather for Obama to peel the McCain onion before the eyes of America and close the final chapter on the McCain campaign. After tonight? I believe that John McCain's presidency is for all intents and purposes over.

US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain in New

Based on yesterday's headlines? One would think that pigs are about to begin racking up frequent flyer miles. But somehow I don't think so. I can remember this time four years ago. Back when the media was hyping John Kerry and assuring the nation that a change was coming. The people said so, the polls said so and the media danced wildly and said it would be.  But it didn't happen in 2004.

Now comes the candidacy of John McCain. The beltway inside outer if you will. The maverick and the man who has spent a career being on the outside looking in. Someone more comfortable with the term RINO than any supposed republican should be. But this is his chance at the  brass ring. It was almost as if it had been written in some scribed foretelling of futures to come. John McCain would be standard bearer of the GOP for 2008. And so it has become.

And now having died and been resurrected no less than once in the past twenty months, John McCain believes that it is time to roll the stone away from the sepulcher once again and view the once again risen candidacy of the curmudgeon of politique 2008. I am sorry, but somehow I just don't get all the arm waving and the repetitive assertions of fight the fight. Somehow, I have to believe that the opportunities have been missed and that regardless of what John McCain might like or wish to be, we have now come too far down the course for him to somehow miraculously come from behind to grasp the golden chalice.

I'm sorry John, but I just don't see it.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin "abused her power"
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/10/panel-palin-abused-power-firing-commissioner/

The much ballyhooed and awaited Troopergate Report finally came out late yesterday. And what was learned or determined? Absolutely nothing aside from the fact that given enough time and interest by those in the media, that partisan slanted politics will produce the desired transparent result and dishonest result every time.

Nothing new and nothing criminal was determined by this sifting search for truth, aside the reality that Sarah Palin fired this turd Monegan, because he went around her via collusion with an opposing party  Alaskan state legislator and attempted to thwart a budgetary veto of Palin's office. And in doing so he , committed insubordination against the governor and her executive authority and was rightfully terminated.  But because the governor's husband supposedly hadn't been sufficiently reined in by the governor, and because those in her administration had been inquiring into why a dangerous and questionable trooper was allowed to remain on payroll, somehow the governor's ethics are in question and should be scorned by the righteous comparative ethics of those who oppose Sarah Palin for the vice presidency. sorry, but i don't think so.

I always love it when liberals and socialist democrats attempt to go after the ethics of others. It only makes their own horrible standards and associations that much more glaring by example. Sarah Palin acted in the best interest of the state of Alaska and her own administration by flushing this turd Monegan when she did, but somehow as always when there are liberal political considerations in the mix, her actions were somehow wrong. as they seemingly always are when it involves conservative office holders in this country.

I for one don't think so. I don't see anything wrong. And personally? I think we need more elected officials who will take their jobs seriously and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done and give up on this bogus and transparent BS of bipartisanship. I say Bravo Sarah! you go girl!

As we head into the last four weeks of this election it seems that the Obama Juggernaut is unstoppable. Barack Obama has turned a 6 point deficit in the polls into a 6 - 10 point lead in the polls and he has now gained significant ground in four key swing states. John McCain needs Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia if he has any hope to win this election, but right now he has lost ground and is losing ground in each of these states.

McCain's leads in these states has been erased and his trailing in these states become the new reality of this election over the course of the last three weeks. What has changed? The economy has changed. And John McCain has been on the wrong side of this issue for the past three weeks now. And regardless of the best advice of those both inside and outside of his party, John McCain refuses to attempt to take the lead on the economy and do what needs to be done to reposition himself in a role of leadership on the economy with the American people.

The single most important issue of this election right now? It's the economy stupid! And anyone, but particularly anyone seeking the presidency of the United States who doesn't realize that, is doing nothing short of preparing themselves for a loss. The path to victory or defeat in this election has now been set in stone. The candidate who can win the trust and confidence of the most voters on the economy going into November 4th, will be the one who wins this election regardless of where their other policies and proposals may fall in the long term.

Americans traditionally have a political memory of that of a gold fish. And right now? About the only thing that will shake their unreasoned and unjustified confidence in Barack Obama brought on by a souring US economy, would be another terrorist attack on this country. And that in itself is a terrifying thought on all levels. But IMO, for Brack Obama to bomb in this election and lose right now? America would have to be bombed or attacked by terrorist once again.

Last night was the second of three presidential debates scheduled before the November 4th election.  If anyone were to ask me I would tell them to save the money and effort of holding the last one and just let this mule go to the barn on it's own. This election is over.

I sat along with oodles of millions of other Americans last night watching this contest of political weebles, not so much either waiting or hoping for the Ali / Frazier title fight, as much as hoping that there might be just one glimmer of that renowned temperament attributed to John McCain that we have all heard so much about. If there ever was a time for the flash of anger in the eyes and the move for the jugular? Last night was it IMO. And last night was for all intents and purposes, the last great opportunity for John McCain in this election to turn around an election that has slipped away from him faster than a ice cream cone melting on a hot day.

I believe that a lot of people including my own lowly self knew what John McCain had to accomplish last night. It wasn't so much a knockout blow as it was an reckoning of accountability for the present economic mess that we are all witnessing. Do that and you might get the knock out, don't do it and lose. But rather than go directly to those responsible for this economic fiasco, John McCain was content to stand there and allow Barack Obama to pin the tail on the donkey and assign blame to President Bush's supposed failed polices and then tie John McCain to those same represented failed polices.

To borrow a phrase? A blind man could have seen it.  And even the figurative blind to what has gone on in the economy now know, that it wasn't Bush's failed polices that have caused all this. It has been the democrats and their affirmative action approach to the national economy and home mortgages and speculative banking schemes. Or more specifically stated, the socialist agenda of wealth redistribution on the grandest of scales already implemented and presently failing right before our eyes compliments of the democrat party and two previous democrat presidents.

The democrats call these demonstrably failed programs of their own device affordable, the same way they would like Americans to believe that their health care proposals under a b\Barack Obama administrations are affordable. But these schemes aren't affordable when the working and middle classes of this nation have to carry on their backs, the lagging dregs of those who are simply waiting for the bus ride to the promised land compliments of their own elected robber barons the democrats.

John McCain should have gotten mad last night. He should have gotten at least as mad as a lot of people who were watching that prom dance they passed off as a presidential debate. But he didn't get mad and he certainly didn't go after Barack Obama on the important issues. Forget McCain's analogies of attempting to nail jello to a wall and get down to the business of shining a light into the darkness! Hold Barack Obama and his associates in congress and the senate up to scrutiny and the light of day! Make them own up to the responsibility that many people know to be the case, but do it so that these ill informed and easily distracted media driven independents can see it! Rub their noses in it John!  It's time for a bit of the naval principle of damn the torpedoes full speed ahead here sailor!

But alas, none of that was to be presented last night. All that was displayed was the second installment of the savvy young hustler and the older and failing warrior with a dog eared campaign play book that has never been mailable or reactionary to the demonstrations and feints of the enemy.

While watching the reviews this morning, I noted the observations of both Ann Coulter and Mike Huckabee when they were interviewed on the debate. Both interviews were telling insights into the republican faithful IMO and the reaction across the heartland in the party this morning. Ann Coulter was observably livid over what she had witnessed and what she hadn't witnessed during the debate last night. But the main theme that she felt was lacking during the debate on McCain's part, was the same as I and many millions of others had failed to observe in him while watching the debate. While John McCain was trying to tack jello to the wall on the lesser points of stump speech echos, he allowed Barack Obama to completely escape any responsibility for the present financial crisis. No blame, no culpability, no guilt by association....nothing. Ann pointed out that the democrats have used affirmative action to destroy the vitality of this country and it's competitive edge, it's schools and education, and even it's airport safety. and now they have been allowed to destroy the economy with the same tactics of racial guilt and affirmnative action socialism.

Mike Huckabee wasn't so dramatic but he was clearly voicing what many conservatives were thinking last night while watching the debate. No one really won and no one really lost in the big picture according to Mike. No knock out blows or examples of gotcha moments. And the Obama supporters obviously felt that their candidate had done well while the reverse was true of those who support McCain. But those 12-15 percent in the middle who will actually decide this election weren't swayed according to Mike.

Huckabee saw it and knew that what John McCain needed to do last night he failed to do. And to add insult to injury, John McCain threw a 300 billion dollar mortgage rescue bill on the table in the middle of the debate! Mike Hackabee looked like he had been shot when recalling that moment this morning. As did myself and many others who were equally stunned last night when we heard this scheme coming from the lips of McCain during the debate. I immediately sensed it as a weak minded ploy to pander to the segment of the Obama supporters, who had gotten us into this mess in the first place. And not the type of carrot and stick that would budge them away from supporting the messiah. But certainly something that made millions of conservatives cringe at the thought.

No, John McCain didn't openly lose the debate last night, he simply lost the election by letting his last best opportunity to turn this election around slip away. And by not demonstrating that elusive quality that Mike huckabee mentioned this morning and many of us have been longing for. Command presence and demonstrated leadership ability. John McCain was a trained naval officer and a veteran of six years as a prisoner of war. You would think that he has the quality. We have been told that he has the quality. He commanded one of the largest naval squadrons in the Navy when he returned home. Yet the qualities that carried him through the worst moments of his life, have nver materialized during this campaign IMO. When Americans needed decisive and demonstrated leadership in these two debates, John simply didn't deliver. And his failure to do so will cost him this election.

The buzz in the media this weekend, seems to be that the GOP and the McCain campaign have decided to take the gloves off and come out swinging. A nice tactic I suppose if it had been employed weeks if not months ago.

Having Sarah Palin coming out attacking Obama for his associations with William Ayers, should have been a part of her staple stump speeches weeks ago. Therefore, one has to ask themselves what has changed now? IMO, what has changed, is that the reality has finally arrived on John McCain's radar, that his little comet is rapidly losing altitude and his numbers are falling faster than the stock market of the past two weeks.

No great mystery IMO. It was all too predictable. Both the fall of the American economy and the failing of the McCain campaign for the presidency. Even the ill informed twits who have gone looking for answers on the economy of late, have had to have stumbled across the reality that it was liberal democrats that caused all this. From Carter's community reinvestment cat of 1978 to Clinton's expansion of it in 1995, any idiot could have seen the end game and the end result of what would come to pass once all common sense in lending was eliminated.

The same way as any fool should have seen two weeks ago in the McCain campaign, that the candidate himself doesn't  have a clue about how to win this election. And worse than that? He didn't have the ability to look around and see the overwhelming advice that was staring him in the face and literally screaming at him what to do to win this thing.

Go after Obama on the economy (two weeks ago). Go after the democrats and go after their scheme of affirmative action financing of the American dream at the expense and collapse of the entire damn economic system.  But no, just as long as we have "affordable housing," that was all that really mattered wasn't it.

Give me a break. John McCain is just like all the other WASP politicians in this country. He has been so cowed and whipped into race sensitivity and egalitarian compliance and trained to recognize that no matter who many indicators point to the truth? Never and I do mean "NEVER" assign blame to the unwarranted and unjustified propping up of minorities in this country. For to do so immediately makes you a racist. And Americans would rather their mother be branded a street walker and hailed as worst piece of filth on the planet, than have anyone hang the "racist" tag around their necks or een to insinuate that they might have had a racist thought.

John McCain lost this election ten days ago. Back when he suspended his campaign for absolutely  and accomplished nothing by it. And on top of that, he produced absolutely nothing in the form of either leadership or viable plan or alternatives to the American people. So trotting out governor Palin to do what should have been done weeks ago? Is a bit too late John. It makes you look like well......like you are desperate. and that is probably because you are. Most losers are desperate people.

Last night was the much anticipated debate of this election. All eyes were on St. Louis last night, as Joe Biden and Sarah Palin squared off, in the most anticipated vice presidential debate in the last thirty years if not ever.

How'd they do? I suppose as always that depends on who your horse is in this race. Joe Biden was expectedly Joe Biden IMO. No surprises and no major gaffs, aside from his patented political craft of re-manufacturing reality and history to represent something entirely other than the truth.  Sarah Palin? Well IMO, Sarah Palin wasn't there to debate Joe Biden, as much as she was there to debate herself. Maybe not so much directly, as much as the perceived image that has been being constructed by the media for the last two weeks in particular.

This debate wasn't a debate for either candidate to win IMO, as much as it was a debate for Sarah Palin to lose. And the news this morning across the board in MSM, is that she didn't lose it. She never stumbled and she never stammered, she just stood toe to toe and delivered the representation of a folksy down to earth woman come to the people to defend her guy and her party and her position. And she demonstrated to both Joe Biden and America, that she wasn't about to be cowed or pigeon holed by either the intended perceptions of the media or the political constructs of the democratic party and their champion of the night Joe Biden.

I was quite proud of her performance, having spent most of the last week literally shuddering over the thoughts of what a failure by Sarah Palin would be and represent in this election. I was particularly satisfied last night to see Sarah Palin look right at Joe Biden and tell him, that she wasn't there to give him or the moderator the answers that "they" wanted to hear or that they assumed that she should be giving to the questions. She let it be known rather quickly, that she would be answering the questions as she felt capable and comfortable answering them and that she wasn't concerned with how they felt about that. That is a paraphrase, but that was the message that I came away with after hearing her make her initial case.

And toward the end of the debate last night, I felt that she really hit her stride and stood toe to toe with Joe Biden on every point. Especially when she went after him on his intentional misrepresentations of McCain's record on votes for the troops and the support of the war in Iraq.  What else could be ask for in a debate like this. This was a title fight no doubt and both contenders were formidable and demonstrably not prone to fall on their own swords. This debate wasn't Godzilla versus Rodan, nor was it really a David versus Goliath contest of either wills or platforms or clashing styles of representation. It was more of Elly Mae meets Mr. Drysdale to me and in the aftermath of the confrontation Mr. Drysdale once again walked away knowing that he had not been successful in trying to win out against simple down to earth principles.

So we move on from the here and now and wait and see how this great contest plays out over the next week or so and how it plays out in the polls. IMO, this debate will slide into the shadows of our discussions by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. Twenty four hours is about the lifespan of the battle of the vice presidential titans, seeing as no one was carried from the field and no one held up the head of their defeated foe. And besides, Americans are more consumed right now with the outcome of the economy and the passage or defeat of the "Rescue of Wall Street' bill than anything else.

This debate will be revisited by scholars and historians in the months and years to come. Particularly as it is perceived to have either benefited or impacted either or both candidates for the presidency. But how ever this debate plays out historically, right now in the moment of after glow and digestion of what was played out before our eyes last night. The consensus has to be that the gal from Wasilla came to the title fight and held her own and gave as good as she got against the best that the grizzled veteran Joe Biden could muster. And that has to count for a lot IMO.

The US Senate passed the Wall Street Bail out bill last night. Even though it has now become the Wall Street rescue bill. That's the way they do things in modern Washington politics. They take the obvious and wrap it in an entirely different term and it suddenly becomes something else. Something akin to makeup or a make over, but I'll get back to that later.

The bill that began life in the US treasury as written by Secretary Paulson last week, as a draft of three pages? Has now become over 400 pages of additions by the professional politicians in Washington that we have elected as congressmen and senators. And in a time when most Americans are becoming increasingly more angry by the day over pork barrel spending and waste in Washington? The house and senate still don't seem to get it. Either that or they simply don't care.

This bill was soundly defeated in the house on Tuesday. And regardless of what speaker Nancy Pelosi and others would like Americans to believe, the reason it was defeated in because millions of Americans let their representatives know, that they didn't like it and they didn't want it. And many of these representatives are up for reelection.  So the US Senate decided after the house failure to pass it, that they would take a crack at it. And after the stock market plummeted precariously on the news of the house failure Monday, there was new fear and anxiety being pumped into the emotional reality of America to fuel a second look by the senate.

so yesterday, after a day of wrangling and wrestling to produce a bill that supposedly everyone could live with? The bill that the senate finally produced and passed last night, was over 100 billion dollars larger than what had been initially called for by either the treasury or the president or the house. And now the bill includes things that literally border on the bizarre. Millions of NASCAR and million for the wool industry, money for the production of safer "toy arrows" for bow and arrow sets. Provisions for federal money to be spent on artificial sweeteners and provisions to "require insurance companies to provide mental health care to all." All total? Over 100 billion dollars in additions. All so we can supposedly rescue Wall Street.

Here we go again folks. What part of no and it's the pork stupid! do these people not understand? It was supposedly "affordable housing for all" that got us where we are with the housing and subprime mortgage collapse that has brought about this crisis in the first place. And Americans are now told? That the only way to solve and rescue America from the proven idiocy of our elected officials and financial institutions, is by giving them more of the people's money to rescue them and allow them to lend out more money. And while we are at it? Why not thrown in another 100 billion dollars of money we don;t have, for things that we don;t need and that they weren't able to get tucked into the other bills so far this session.

Meanwhile our two presidential candidates yesterday told us what? Barack Obama said that this was a bill that had to be passed to avoid a catastrophe. While John McCain added that he thought it was a better bill than what the house had defeated on Monday. At least Obama made an appearance on the floor of the senate to make his rhetorical presentation for the cameras. McCain was apparently too occupied with his own decision making yesterday to actually make a decision on his own concerning his previous political rhetoric about making pork barrel hacks in Washington famous. However, he did finally make it to the senate last night to cast a vote, even if the only person he succeeded in making famous over this latest barrel of pork is himself.

Talk about lipstick on a pig? Isn't this bill a doozy. And now the bill will be passed off like the proverbial pig skin that it is and the house will once again be forced to take up something that they really would rather see go away. And the band plays on and the flames of Washington politics and deceit lick higher along the walls of the facade that have been represented to Americans as their government.

Sound familiar? That axiom of leadership has been around for ages that I know of. It is a principle that was or should have been learned by everyone with a military background IMO. Especially those who have risen to the level of a commander, or one's vying for the job of commander in chief.

But alas, as much as I would like to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, I and many others are getting a bit bone weary of watching John McCain shoot himself in the foot and then quickly topple to the ground once again. The economy of the past two weeks, has presented the golden opportunity for John McCain to step out and step up front as the problem solver and leader that he has desired himself to be portrayed as. But at every turn and at every opportunity, John McCain has shirked both the responsibility and the opportunity to become the leader that this country is looking for.

All Americans aren't stupid and many Americans recognize a real leader when they see one, regardless of the portrayal of media, or the color commentaries of the media in their attempt to sell us  their guy. But McCain just doesn't seem to get it. He isn't leading. He had that opportunity last week when he supposedly canceled his campaign to return to Washington to forge a solution to the banking crisis. But what did he do? Or more importantly, what did he accomplish? Nada, zip, zilch nothing. Nothing other than a few photo snaps of him sitting at the far end of the table with the president with that patented smirk on his face, while absolutely nothing was accomplished.

Aside from that smile, nothing was accomplished that I could see. No leadership and not even any following of the leads of other lesser players by McCain or anyone else. Just a pointless side trip prior to the debate that accomplished nothing, short of making John McCain look stupid. Barack Obama was there too, but he was invited by the president.

Then last Friday at the first presidential debate, once again John McCain had the opportunity handed to him to be a leader and th=o set the standard. Everyone saw the opportunity and knew that he could step forward and hammer Obama on his tax an spend platform. There is absolutely no defense for Obama or the democrats on that platform of tax and spend now. Everyone but john McCain saw the opportunity and many spoke of it before the debates. But John McCain just stood there and let the "coup degra" moment of this campaign just float right on by him. Meanwhile, America was treated once again to the dog eared cliche that "I didn't win Miss Congeniality" in the senate again last year. Ha Ha Ha! LOL!!!! Excuse me while I spit coffee all over myself and wet my pants from the stupendous and captivating humor of a man who is failing faster than a spent Roman candle and obviously doesn't have the sense enough to know it.

What part of this don't you get John? The part about lead? The part about follow? Or the part about get the hell out of the way for someone who can? You are demonstrating absolutely nothing in the form of leadership to the American people and your dog eared references to having always been a maverick are meaningless in the absence of meaningful action (now!). Especially any identifiable action in the face of the present financial crisis that is gripping this country and everyone including you seems to be hypnotized by.

John? You are reminding me of that old mule cart on the bridge blocking the advance of the entire 3rd Army during WWII scene in the movie Patton. When George Patton recognizes the problem? That his entire army was stalled and exposed on the roadway to enemy fire? He immediately drives to the front of the column, surveys the problem, promptly pulls his pistol from his belt and shoots both mules in the head. Then orders their carcasses thrown over the side of the bridge while the column proceeds.

That is what is called "action" John. Right, wrong or indifferent, the people will follow a leader. Even one who is brash and from time to time insults their sensibilities with raw actions. Just as long as they are assured that his heart is in the right place and they know that he would rather speed happily on the highway to hell, having made the wrong turn at the fork in the road, than sit idly by and wait for fate to catch up to him. At least he found himself hell bent on the path that he chose and the decision made John and that is a start. Albeit wrong, but at least a start  At least you can tell where the leader's head and his heart are at in moments like that. And that they aren't up his back side or being parsed and played against perceptions in the media by campaign staff that would rather lose a campaign than make a decision.

So take it easy John. Someone will take care of all this for you in a little while and don't worry. It won't be your opponent. He is busy doing what he does best right now. He is sizing up the factors at play and consulting with his handlers and and planning his move of being present while being absent, while making you look like a damn fool in the process. While the media makes him look good doing nothing which is what they seem to do best of late.

So relax John and enjoy the traffic jam of crisis politics and principled dilemma. Maybe if you are lucky? Someone will be along in a while to pull their pistol on this FUBAR, shoot it in the head and throw it over the bridge. So that the rest of us can proceed on to either glorious victory or hell in a hand basket which ever it may become. But somehow? I don't see that person leading that parade will be you John. And I'd rather like to think of my self as being led on the merry way to hell in a hand basket, than simply sitting idly by and waiting for someone to put that bullet to my head.

Yes, there are obviously politics afoot at youtube. As has already been demonstrated at other stops along the internet highway like Google and Snopes, their fingerprints are easily identifiable.
 
Yesterday, I posted two youtube clips concerning yesterday's bailout failure. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi's speech to congress yesterday before the vote and a video cataloging the evidence supporting the fact that democrats have blocked every attempt to regulate Fannie Mae of the last eith years. As a matter of fact? I posted the Pelosi link twice here yesterday. As having posted and linked it the first time, I discovered within an hour that the video had been taken down. So I found another one of the same speech and linked and posted it. Only to return this morning to find that it too is "no longer available."

Yet you can go to youtube and easily locate videos posted to their site that are pro democrat, pro Obama and anti John McCain. Videos that have been up and running for weeks and months at youtube. Surprisingly? Those videos never seem to go down or get removed at youtube. The problem is as I see it, these people running these supposed services and sites, must think that only the blinded myrmidons and the intellectually dulled are reviewing their sites and therefore, not seeing their obvious politically motivated manipulations.

I am not one of them. and I intend to let people know precisely what is going on with youtube and other sites attempting to force their political perspectives on the rest of us.