Back by popular demand…

Thank you to the many people who have requested that I return to blogging. I have been taking a very enjoyable hiatus since election day and will return on Inauguration Day… “Locked and loaded” and ready for anything an Obama presidency may bring. After all, someone has to keep a close eye on these back-slapping, braindead, ready-to-run-wild Washington wack-jobs who now think they can do what they want, when they want. We’re not about to roll over and play dead for four years. Forget playing nice… We’re going at ‘em hammer and tong. Buckle up boys, this country is worth fighting for. And we don’t mind throwing the first punch.

O…Wow… It really happened. Unknown and untested, Obama wins.

 

NO JKE! BARACK OBAMA ELECTED PRESIDENT. (REALLY…) GOD BLESS AMERICA. WE’RE GOING TO NEED IT!

The voters have spoken. History has been made. The most liberal and fourth most partisan Senator in the U.S. Senate–a man for which numerous questions remain about his associations, his true agenda, and his positions on many major issues–has been elected the 44th President of the United States of America. Barack Hussein Obama, an African-American, is now president-elect Obama. Let the cheering for many, and the nausea for almost as many others, begin.

The debate will continue for days and weeks and months as to why it happened. Suffice it to say younger voters played a significant role, as did African-American and Latino voters. And of course, the liberal mainstream media, for the most part, did absolutely everything within their power to sway public opinion, misguide, and malign. Tonight’s intoxicating victory celebrations and unbridled euphoria will soon fade. Reality will assuredly rear its ugly head early and often during Obama’s earliest days as this nation’s new president.

Promises will be broken, perceptions will become reality, and the media honeymoon will end sooner rather than later. Talk of hope and change will quickly fade as the monumental challenges of our times flood in. Flowery speeches and pandering will no longer pass for progress. Obama will be tested to the very core. How he will respond remains to be seen. One cannot even begin to predict how such an unknown candidate will react as president. The excitement that exists tonight in Grant Park in Chicago will rapidly dissipate as the demands of the most powerful office in the world soon begin to wash over Obama.

True change and an end to partisan politics are unlikely anytime soon. For every vote cast for Obama (or against President Bush), there was almost an equivalent vote cast against Barack Obama/for McCain. History will show that in the end, the economic/credit crisis, the unpopularity of the current president, and two long and protracted wars proved to be a political trifecta that Sen. McCain simply could not overcome. But Barack Obama is certainly not riding a landslide nor a mandate into office. For all intents and purposes, as demonstrated by the popular vote totals, we are still talking a general neighborhood of around 50/50… Clearly, our nation will remain greatly divided for the foreseeable future.

In the coming days the mainstream media will attempt to paint a picture of the Republican party fading out of view, a moment in time wherein the Democratic Partry controls our way of life, our wallets, and our collective wisdom–a vision of the end of the Reagan years, and a portrait of a new world where the government grows even larger, even more hands-on, and the smiling, happy people welcome it all with wide-eyed enthusiasm. Will the myopic mice indeed reach for the cathartic cheese? Only time will tell.

As of this moment, the 2008 race, the longest in history, has now ended. We must now clean up the confetti and prepare for what an Obama/Biden administration may bring to bear. One thing is certain, for a man who has talked a good game for months now, the game is now on. And the stakes have never been higher.

BolsonOn Endorses John McCain for President.

There has been only one real choice for president this election season: John McCain is, in reality, “the one.”

From the earliest days of this year’s presidential campaign, John McCain’s life and times have been an open book. For better or worse. It is what it is. Take it or leave it. That much we know. That much we have always known. And that is perhaps the most important consideration for deciding which candidate to vote for today.

His opponent, however, Barack Obama, is the quintessential question mark. Amazingly, at this final moment of the campaign, in a day of 24/7 news cycles and instantaneous communications, far too many questions remain unanswered–and the shameful mainstream media has successfully resisted vetting Obama at every turn. For that, history will no doubt judge them harshly. More important, a nation may suffer greatly due to their professional lapse of ethics.

Over the course of the past several months, at times, it has definitely gotten petty and borderline pathetic. I don’t care what Obama’s middle name is, but I do care about things like who would Obama name to the Supreme Court, who would Obama name to his cabinet, and who Obama named as his running mate–and equally important, who he associates with….William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, ACORN, etc. Accordingly, I am greatly concerned and increasingly disturbed with what’s truly in his heart and mind, and his past, rather than what’s printed on his driver’s license.

First he wasn’t in attendance and he didn’t know about Reverend Wright’s hate-filled sermons. Later, he was there for some of the sermons but not for the truly controversial sermons. Later still, he says that he was there and he did hear what Reverend Wright said and that he wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at that church if the Reverend Wright hadn’t retired.

The association with William Ayers is a flashing red light and Obama’s “explanation” is incomplete and alarming. Obama’s ties to ACORN have been more or less swept under the rug and ACORN’s impact on this election could be the tipping point, not to mention, criminal. Only time will tell.

Barack Obama makes John Kerry look like a man of firm conviction when it comes to presidential politics. You almost need a calculator to keep up with Obama’s flip-flops. One of the more revealing flip-flops was Obama’s about-face on accepting public financing. Not surprisingly, the milquetoast mainstream media gave him only minor rebuke for something they would have assuredly still be hounding McCain over had he done the same thing.

Some of the otherwise smartest Democrat voters that I know have sipped the Barack Obama Kool-Aid with a very large ladle along the way. And the taste is apparently delicious. They are drunk on Obama. But what happens after election day and everyone sobers up?

To hear them speak and squeal about Obama is reminiscent of listening to a child talk about their favorite toy or pet. You can see the giddiness in their eyes. I would imagine that if they could actually hug Obama, they might do serious bodily harm to him in their zeal to show their unbridled affection.

Their love affair with the idea of Obama becoming president is deeper than that found in any love story that ever came out of Hollywood. And their overly enthusiastic and surprisingly saccharin support of Oprah’s favorite candidate is nearly palpable, and in my observation, reason for much pause. They are so attracted to Obama’s style, they have been completely and inexplicably willing to by-pass reviewing his substance.

I am still waiting on just one of them to present a solid reason as to why they support Obama without defaulting to reasons of none other than that they are against something else, mainly President Bush and all things Republican.

Racial considerations aside, why would someone be so inexplicably eager to see such a largely unknown and more importantly, untested man become president of the United States, knowing what is facing the next occupant of the Oval Office? This type of fawning and folderol is frightening and a political phenomenon that will certainly be studied and dissected for decades to come.

Obama has been clever and crafty to use clichéd throwaway lines in each and every speech he has delivered but what has he really delivered as a U.S. Senator? Not much. Not enough to be our next president.

The fact of the matter is, we don’t really want change. What most of us crave most is actually stability, a happy family and decent schools for our children, the capability of owning a home and paying the mortgage on time, a stable job, and a few dollars in our pocket from time to time to enjoy the rich tapestry of life that this great country offers.

So pardon me if I don’t drink the Obama Kool-Aid of change just yet. The incessant promise of change has already left a bad taste in my mouth.

When Obama repeatedly uses the word “change,” he is clearly simply pandering and completely disconnected from reality. He pays the expected lip service to the huddled masses at each campaign stop but also conveniently ignores facing the monumental problems that will shape our world in 2009 and beyond.

Here are just a few of the top issues facing the next president: Balancing the ballooning budget. Ending political partisanship and bringing about real bi-partisan cooperation. Bringing the economy out of the current or pending recession. Defeating terrorism and protecting our homeland. Saving the Social Security system. Making health care more affordable and obtainable for all Americans. Fighting global warming. Establishing peace in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. Illegal immigration. Bringing the troops home sooner rather than later without jeopardizing our accomplishments in Iraq.

Here is what we know about his “qualifications” to deal with the aforementioned problems:

Barack Obama’s milestones: Won Illinois Senate race in 1996. Lost race for U.S. Senate in 2000. Delivered keynote address at Democratic National Convention in 2004. Won race for U.S. Senate in 2004. Launches campaign for presidency in 2007. 

But in 2008, to question Obama’s qualifications is to run the risk of being labeled a racist. How can we hope to have a conversation on race and other important topics when every other word out of our mouths in reply is “racist!”? The reality of racism is far too hurtful and dangerous and destructive and devastating to dare dilute it by reducing any given disagreement of opinion to knee-jerk name-calling.

Racism is never as black and white of an issue as those who so easily label others as being racist would have you believe. But until we can stop over-using the word in an effort to justify hatred in our hearts and minds and instead begin to try and understand each other and reach a middle ground, the divide will continue to grow until one day all that will be left in an extremely hopeless abyss that sucks us all in to the point of no return.

Name-calling in presidential politics is certainly nothing new, but someone needs to remind Obama that this is America. A country where we do not vilify others for their lot in life. No matter how distasteful it is to those of us from Chicago who make millions annually, have a Harvard education, and then seek the power rush of becoming the most powerful person on the face of the earth.

I am referring of course to steel workers, coal miners, auto workers, gun owners, church-goers, small-town living (and loving) middle class blue collar Americans. Let us never forget Obama’s comment, “…then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

If you thought it was a miss-speak, a one-time thing, or a harmless out-of-context moment, you were wrong. Just ask “Joe the Plumber.” Joe has been attacked repeatedly by Obama’s legion of snarling supporters and malicious mainstream media. It is shameful, it is repugnant, it is further reason to send Obama and the Democratic Party a strong “no” vote today.

I am ready to vote for a black man for president–-but it is not Barack Obama. Call me crazy, but I am not going to blindly vote for anyone, just because of their sex, race, creed, or religion or hollow promises and heavy hype. The future of our country is far too important.

Which brings me to Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as his running-mate. A well-orchestrated smear campaign has been focused furiously on Gov. Sarah Palin for weeks now, while Biden has been given a political pass with the exception of a few reports on Biden’s numerous gaffes on the campaign trail. There has been no serious spotlight, no teams of investigators spreading out across Delaware, no breaking news reports about Biden’s past, family, friends, or political career.

Joe Biden, vehemently asserted that Obama was not qualified to be president during the Democratic candidate debates which took place over a year ago.Prior to that, Biden urged then presidential candidate John Kerry to select Republican Senator John McCain as a running mate in 2003. As a result, Biden has had absolutely zero credibility and believability when he has opened his mouth while on the campaign trail. Yet the media has let it all slide. The reason is clear–and repugnant.

65-year old Joe Biden has been working in Washington since Richard Nixon was in the White House and I cannot recall a single significant thing that Biden is noted for regarding foreign affairs and national security.

This is Obama’s vision of change? A career legislator and deeply-rooted Washington insider? So in his first major and most high-profile decision of the campaign, Obama’s experience, intellect, political acumen, and heart and soul told him that Joe Biden was the best of the best? In Obama’s eyes, Joe Biden should be one heart beat away from the presidency. This is the man Barack Obama chose over all others. But the focus has remained on Gov. Palin.

This is not a playground for children, this is politics at the highest level and the presidency we’re talking about. And no place for the timid, the tense, the smooth talker peddling style over substance, the untested, and even more important, those unprepared to be president of the world’s greatest country in a time of its greatest challenges. We need a president who is prepared to lead not just prepared to read a teleprompter.

Not since the story of Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned during the great fire in AD 64 have we witnessed such a remarkable and repugnant laissez faire attitude as we did during the most critical days of the recent economic meltdown. In the middle of the largest American economic crisis in perhaps a century, Barack Obama defiantly demonstrated his complete lack of ability to lead and perpetuated his propensity to simply perorate and pontificate.

In a time of crisis, Obama chose to respond without action but rather with two simple words: Call me.

There is one simple question that seems to weigh very heavy on the minds of many Americans who will walk into their place of voting today to select the next president of the United States. But earlier in the campaign, it did not come from a well-seasoned member of the White House Press Corps, it did not come from a prepared panelist during a nationally televised political debate, nor did it come from his political rival. Instead the simple yet deceivingly dangerous question came from a curious 7-year-old child in attendance at a Barack Obama campaign stop in middle America.

The answer to the question however, was enough to make any child cry and any reasonable bystander shake his/her head in disgust and disbelief. As Obama appeared before a packed high school gym recently in Elkhart, Ind., a 7-year-old girl asked him why he is running for the White House.

The eyebrow-raising answer from Obama–-who struggled to form his words–-“America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”

Clearly in Obama’s mind, America’s best days are behind it. Not so long ago presidents and presidential wannabees, no matter how inexperienced and inane, did their best to inspire the citizens, especially the children. But not Obama. This is apparently his idea of change.

And Obama may be humming on his way to the White House, but his kin seem to be singing an anthem of shattered dreams. According to a shocking news report out just last week, Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Barack Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a rundown public housing apartment in South Boston–Just across town from where Obama made history as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

So much for “spreading the wealth.” Apparently Obama is only a Socialist when it comes to spreading other people’s money around–-not his own–-at least not to help his own family.

Incredibly, “Aunt Zeituni” recently made a $260 campaign contribution to her nephew’s presidential campaign. Did the Obama campaign keep it? What do you think? When you’re spending $1 million dollars per TV network to air your own informercial, you’ll take money from anyone–-no matter how much they had to sacrifice to send it to you.

Obama, a multi-millionaire who is known for wearing $1,500 designer suits, also has a half-brother who reportedly lives on less than $1 per month in Africa. Obama may be living the American Dream, but some of his closest blood relatives seem to be relegated to a life of harshness and living hand-to-mouth. The next time Obama rants about bringing “change,” someone should speak up and ask him why he doesn’t start with his own family.

For the voters who are concerned about Gov. Palin’s experience–experience which clearly trumps Obama’s—keep this in mind when you cast your vote today: On any given topic or concern, the president is always surrounded by experts who know infinitely more about the subject matter than the president does. Therefore, the president’s judgment and ability to weigh the quality of that advice, and then act on it in the proper fashion, is what really matters. Obama’s judgment is clearly questionable–while Gov. Palin’s most vicious (and ridiculous) attack has been the price of her apparel. Note to the media: Judge not, lest not you be judged.

Only a few short weeks ago, John McCain led in the polls. Then the ecomonic crisis struck. Obama has clearly benefited from being in the right place at the right time politically. But today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will pass in time. A frightening but fleeting moment in our history. But the barbarians will still be at our gates. Who better to be at the helm than John McCain? Certainly not Barack Obama.

Sen. McCain brings a lifetime of practical and unmatched experience, including his grueling and courageous captivity in Vietnam and his long and legitimate Senate service. McCain has been willing to cross party lines to work on tough problems. Not just talk about doing it.

McCain’s presence is “steady as she goes” and far less exciting and flashy than Obama’s spectacle and symbolism, but you know what you’re getting with McCain–and that it works. Now more than ever, we need a stable and sensible leader in these challenging and unpredictable times.

In better days, America could perhaps afford to consider entrusting our country, our future, and the White House to a smooth-talking newcomer like Obama and giving control of the presidency and Congress to the same party. But not here and now. The result could be disastrous and irreversible.

Obama talks about change, but only John McCain has actually has made change happen. In Washington, DC, that speaks volumes. Actions speak louder than words, unless of course it is being filtered and reported through the mainstream media. Nevertheless, only one candidate in this race has a real record of standing up to his own party, and working hand in hand with legislators from the opposing party to actually get things done. Record beats rhetoric any day–or at least it should.

Out of sheer and shameless political agenda and partisan politics, the mainstream media has sought to annoint Barack Obama as King. They have taken every opportunity to attack and trash the McCain/Palin ticket at every turn. The Chinese refer to it as “Lingchi,” death of/by a thousand cuts. That is apparently how The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, USA Today, and many other members of the mainstream media sought to ensure that Senator John McCain does not become the next president of the United States.

But today, voters must set aside the newspapers, turn off the TV, switch off the radio, turn off the computer, and must judge for themselves who is the most experienced, the most trustworthy, the most competent, and who has demonstrated the best judgment thus far. No rose-colored glasses, no blatantly-biased media reports, no hype, no teleprompters, no more typical political pandering. And absolutely no time for lightweights. This is gut-check time. And time to vote for the only real candidate in the race who is qualified to be the next president of the greatest country on the face of the earth.

That man is John McCain.

 

 

Inside the mind of an Obama voter…

Peggy Joseph, a Barack Obama supporter, thinks Barack Obama will pay for her gas and mortgage and she “won’t have to worry about anything” if he is elected.

Perhaps H.L. Mencken said it best, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

 

I guess they were right: Obama is not a Socialist. Just ask his poor Aunt.

Obama may be humming on his way to the White House, but his kin seem to be singing an anthem of shattered dreams.

According to a shocking news report, Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Barack Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a rundown public housing apartment in South Boston–Just across town from where Obama made history as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. So much for “spreading the wealth.” Apparently Obama is only a Socialist when it comes to spreading other people’s money around–not his own–at least not to help his own family.

Incredibly, “Aunt Zeituni” recently made a $260 campaign contribution to her nephew’s presidential campaign. Did the Obama campaign keep it? What do you think? When you’re spending $1 million dollars per TV network to air your own inane informercial, you’ll take money from anyone–no matter how much they had to sacrifice to send it to you.

Obama, a multi-millionaire who is known for wearing $1,500 designer suits, also has a half-brother who lives on less than $1 per month in Africa.

Obama may be living the American Dream, but some of his closest blood relatives seem to be relegated to a life of harshness and living hand-to-mouth. The next time Obama rants about bringing “change,” someone should speak up and ask him why he doesn’t start with his own family.

Obama’s Energy Plan: Guaranteed to make you laugh.

What will they think when you wear this one to the voting booth?

 

One of the funniest pieces of political memorabilia I have seen in quite some time. An actual working “Beanie Cap” embroidered with three simple yet simply on-target words: Obama’s Energy Plan.

Twirl the propeller and stroll into your voting booth and watch the reaction. Or just torture your liberal co-workers by wearing it to the office.  

As a collector of political memorabilia I now have one in my personal collection of presidential political items. Money well spent. And the same Web site where I found it also offers a very funny T-shirt you don’t want to miss.

 http://www.getyourobamahat.com/

Michelle Obama’s Easter outfit sticks out like Bill Ayers at a FOX News picnic.

Michelle Obama took time out from the campaign trail and from wearing designer fashions to trot out a J. Crew outfit in an obviously orchestrated effort to position her as simply one of the people, as she appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday.

“Actually, this is a J. Crew ensemble,” the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Leno on Monday night’s show. In a moment of remarkable fashion mismanagement, she wore an out-of-season yellow sweater, skirt and blouse ensemble. Hardly Fall Fashion at its finest–or what you would expect a presumptive First Lady to wear in late October.

“You can get some good stuff online,” she added. Obviously Easter clearance merchandise one would have to surmise from one glance at her choice of threads for the Tonight Show appearance.

Questioned by Leno, Obama declined to criticize GOP vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin over revelations the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 at stores like Neiman Marcus on clothes and accessories for Palin and her family.

For good reason. Michelle Obama is no stranger to expensive high-end fashion herself. But when you’re the wife of “the one” and a Harvard lawyer who the media loves, the slings and arrows never seem to come your way. Only praise and foolish fawning.

Upon closer examination, you will discover that Michelle Obama’s closet is apparently overflowing with expensive apparel designed by Chicago designer Maria Pinto. According to a report in the New York Times earlier this year, “Ms. Pinto, a designer known for luxuriant evening wear, is a favorite of Mrs. Obama, who wore buzzed-about Pinto creations when her husband announced his candidacy and on the night of the notorious fist-bump before his speech claiming the Democratic nomination, among other occasions.”

Pinto’s fashions are sold in department stores such as Barneys and Saks Fifth Avenue. The same stores where Gov. Palin’s fashions were reportedly purchased.

Obama also wore a raspberry and lavender print silk dress from the Thakoon Panichgul Resort 2009 collection as she embraced her husband on stage at the Democratic convention earlier this summer, when he officially accepted his Presidential nomination. Washington Post’s Robin Givan, in his September 7, 2008 article “First Ladies and the Fabric of the Nation,” estimated the price of Michelle’s Thakoon outfit to be around $1,500. Thakoon’s fashions are sold at Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, among other upscale retailers.

In addition, Michelle Obama’s personal hairstylist is French hairdresser and “celebrity stylist” Frédéric Fekkai. Fekkai is reportedly responsible for her “silky, perfect coif that women just can’t stop talking about.”

Let’s hope that Pinto, Thankoon, and Fekkai will forgive Mrs. Obama for wearing clothing in public from J. Crew–even if it was just for a brief appearance on national television…in the interest of convincing the public that despite her wealth, her Harvard education, and her frou-frou hair care, Mrs. Obama is just like “Helen the homemaker.” She can even shop online to prove it.

One has to wonder just how far that facade will fly in fly-over country.

Liberal New Mexico newspaper declares Obama the winner.

 

Dejá News?

According to CNNPolitics.com’s Political Ticker, The New Mexico Sun News has declared Barack Obama the winner of next Tuesday’s election–one week before the actual voting occurs.

According to CNN, “the Sun News is a bi-monthly newspaper and its Oct 26-Nov 8 issue had to hit the streets, and the newsstands, before the election. So the editors decided to make a leap of faith and declare Democrat Barack Obama the winner.”

The real change you can expect from a “President Obama.”

“An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”

Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.”

(But don’t expect a President Obama to place his hand over his heart during the singing of our National Anthem.)

 

 

ABC News columnist “embarrassed,” “bewildered,” “appalled,” at media’s presidential bias.

Columnist Michael Malone Looks at Slanted Election Coverage and the Reasons Why

Several recent surveys have confirmed that the public recognizes the mainstream media’s blatant liberal bias this campaign season — while the media’s credibility has plummeted to new lows.

Michael S. Malone, whose articles and editorials have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Fortune, and The New York Times, has written a heart-felt opinion piece on ABCNews.com expressing his embarrassment at being a member of today’s mainstream media. 

Malone believes that the media has covered this presidential campaign with a bias that ultimately could lead to its downfall. For my money, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of banal and boorish self-absorbed garrulous gasbags–nor can it happen soon enough. Goodbye and good riddance.

Bravo to Mr. Malone for having the bravado to stand up and say what many Americans already knew but few were willing to say–especially those who make their living as a member of this myopic and ethically-empty band of partisan pinheads.

My favorite part of the article is actually the disclaimer which ABC News placed at the end of the opinion piece: “This is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.”

No, I’m guessing it doesn’t.

Additional reading:

• Sept. 2008: By 5-to-1 Public Thinks Most Journalists Trying to Elect Obama
• Rasmussen: By 10-to-1 Public Says Reporters ‘Trying to Hurt Palin’
• Pew Finds Media Credibility Plummets to All-Time Lows
• Rasmussen: ‘55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem than Campaign Cash’  
• Rasmussen: Three Times More See Pro-Obama Over Pro-McCain Bias
• Pew: Many Recognize Media’s Pro-Obama Bias, Democrats Prefer CNN

Editorial by pianist Huntley Brown explains why he won’t vote for Obama.

 

Why I Can’t Vote For Obama 

By Huntley Brown 

Dear Friends,

A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen  some of this before but it’s worth repeating… 

First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him. 

Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a  Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can’t dictate the terms. He does because He is the leader. 

I can’t vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that’s who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won’t be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior. 

In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter. 

We need to follow Martin Luther King’s words, don’t judge someone by the color of their skin  but by the content of their character. I don’t know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007. NATIONAL  JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008) 

To  beat Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what  would happen to America if he had four years to  work with. 

There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100% rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. There is a  reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are  conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue. 

Let’s take a look at  the practice he wanted to continue: 

The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures: 

A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby) 
B. The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal. 
C. The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head. 
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole. 
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed. 

God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law. 

Think about this: You can’t give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane. 

There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years. 

Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright’s sermons. I wonder why now? 

Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told  us in Matthew 28:19 – 20 “Go and make disciples of all nations.” This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him? 

Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a  …

1. Commitment to the White Community 
2. Commitment to  the White Family 
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic 
4.  Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community. 
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a  Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White  Institutions 
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who  espouse and embrace the White Value System 
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System. 

Would you support a President who went to a church like that? 

Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama’s former  church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside. 

This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can’t be about race.  Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world. 

A church can’t have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if it’s a white church or a black church it’s still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote. 

Obama’s former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.

Cone is the man Obama’s mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this? 

So what does all this mean for the nation? 

In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing -  judgment. 

Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 “Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.” 

Then God says 

1 Samuel 1:18 “  When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.” 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20  Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to  go out before us and fight our battles.”  21 When Samuel heard all  that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD  answered, “Listen to them and give them a king.” 

Here is what we know for sure. 

God is not schizophrenic 

He  would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God. 

Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it. 

For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure  he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. I know I can look the other way because of the economy. 

I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama’s positions. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends. 

Since we know someone’s value system has to be placed on the nation, 

1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation? 

2.  Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation? 

Blessings,

Huntley Brown
HuntleyBrown.com

Verified as true via Snopes.com.

Finally…one member of the media has the guts to ask hard questions! (And angers Joe Biden…)

It appeared that it would never happen. But with only twelve days left in the 2008 presidential campaign it finally did. For almost two years now, the left-wing mainstream media has pitched silly softball questions to Barack Obama and more recently, his running mate, Joe Biden. Like a boring backyard Badminton game at a family picnic. Call it a liberal love-fest of the most nauseating politically-partisan proportions.

But on Thursday, it finally happened–and let the record show when it finally happened, it wasn’t the blatantly-biased cowards at CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, or at the New York Times or USA Todaywho did it. It was an Orlando TV anchor-reporter who had just four minutes with Joe Biden via satellite and boy, oh, boy, did she get her money’s worth. And simultaneously angered Biden–and now of course many loony left bloggers–and soon, those same pathetically partisan pinheads at CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, and at the New York Times and USA Today.

They will now attack her like a jackal pouncing on a rotting carcass. She has angered them because they have now been exposed and embarrased by her because they wouldn’t do what she did. They might even call the dogs off “Joe the Plumber” long enough to tear into the poor, unsuspecting veteran Orlando TV anchor-reporter who was simply doing her job–the same job the national mainstream media should be doing but refuses to do so. They are already calling her “unprofessional,” “insensitive,” and “rude.”

WFTV-Channel 9’s Barbara West conducted the satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden. Let’s hope she doesn’t mind her personal life being discussed from coast-to-coast. You canbet the Obama “Opposition Research” teams, and of course, the mighty mainstream media are investigating every aspect of poor Ms. West, even as we speak–and will be only too happy to report every little embarrassing detail in their efforts to diminish Ms. West–and discourage any future rogue reporter from questioning a Democratic Party loved one.

But don’t expect them to ask Obama or Biden the same questions anytime soon. After all, they are no John McCain nor Sarah Palin. What on earth was Ms. West thinking? And if Joe Biden can’t fend off a handful of pointed questions from the harmless Ms. West, why does he think he is qualified to be Vice President–or perhaps (gulp) president?

Bravo Ms. West, you’re a hero in my book. But as far as working on the national level is concerned, you just blew it. You did the unthinkable… You challenged the power hungry. You did your job. I wish there was a few more like you, but they all boarded the Obama/Biden bus sometime back.

 

Krauthammer makes a convincing, intelligent case for voting for McCain.

Krauthammer’s endorsement: “Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I’m for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.”

 

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and commentator whose weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets, has endorsed Sen. John McCain in a powerful and persuasive opinion piece on WashingtonPost.com.

He is also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. Unlike the ridiculous endorsement of Barack Obama on Friday by the New York Times, Krauthammer’s endorsement is intelligent and intellectually sound. It is no wonder S&P slashed the New York Times status to “junk” earlier this week. The same can be said of their pathetically-partisan news coverage.

With its earnings falling an incredible 51%, what more will it take for the kooky left-wingnuts at the Times to realize people have had enough of their putrid, blatantly-biased news reporting? But don’t expect the elitist air-heads to see the light anytime soon. When your head is filled with manufactured hatred, self-loathing, and anger towards authority and morality, it may take awhile for other thoughts to creep in.

Skip reading the crumbling dinosaur and Democratic Party press agency that is the New York Times. For my money, reading Krauthammer is far more sensible, stimulating, and far less likely to turn your brain cells to myopic mush.

Undecided? Here’s some food for thought from a Democrat senior citizen.

 

Perhaps you have already received the following e-mail which has been circulating the Web in recent weeks. It allegedly was written by a gentleman in his 80s–a supposed Democrat. There is little chance of determining who the authored it originally but the sentiment is “food for thought.”

If you are currently “Undecided” on who to vote for on November 4–and pardon me if I note that I can’t possibly imagine anyone could be at this late juncture of the campaign…but nevertheless….–perhaps this will be beneficial to you in making up your mind:
               
President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq. Bush’s mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father fought for in WWII.  It is not!

Back then they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression, but they still believed fervently in this country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the people’s duty to back those leaders. Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or not.  And war was just as distasteful…..and the anguish just as great then as it is today. Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President because it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their differences in WWII and worked together to win that war.

Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort. Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or condition trying their best to join the military.  Women doubled their work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline, to soap, to butter, was imposed, yet there was very little complaining.

You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile countries and complain to them about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops’ morale. And a bunch even enlisted.

And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off witha Pledge of Allegiance, and with prayers for our country and our troops! Back then, no newspaper would have dared to point out certain weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies.  A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being ‘tortured’ by being forced to wear women’s underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared by a dog.

There were a lot of things different back then. We were not subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of crack heads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets.Ir is not the same county. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorrah and the land of Oz.  We did unite for a short while after 9/11, but our attitude changed when we found out that defending our country would require some sacrifices.

No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve!

We are in great danger! The terrorists are fanatic Muslims. They believe that it is okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that about one-third, or over three-hundred million Muslims, are sympathetic to the terrorists’ cause … Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits.

So…we either win it – or lose it – and you ain’t gonna like losing!

–Author Unknown

For the record, Barack Obama proudly points out that he opposed the war, and more recently, the surge. With regards to the surge, he not only opposed it, he tried to denigrate it, stop it, and more disturbing, deny its success. What would the situation in Iraq be like today, had we followed Obama’s “worldly wisdom”? And more important, how many similar errors in judgment could he be counted on to make given the opportunity to be president for the next four years?

It doesn’t take an 80-year-old Democrat to figure that one out.

Fearing Felony Charges, Obama Staffers Get Cold Feet, Withdraw Fraudulent Ballots in Ohio.

 

According to a breaking news story by NYPOST.com, over a dozen Barack Obama campaign workers have yanked their voter registrations and ballots in the battleground state of Ohio fearing possible felony charges if they didn’t. Their sudden conscience-clearing act came after the Obama staffers were warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents cannot vote in the Buckeye state.

Twelve staffers – including Obama Ohio spokeswoman Olivia Alair and James Cadogan, who recently joined “Team Obama” – signed a form letter asking the Franklin County, Ohio elections board to pull their names from the rolls.

The letter came just one day after prosecutor Ron O’Brien publicly urged all out-of-state campaign workers to “examine your conscience” before the elections board begins opening absentee ballots which was to occur today.

Earlier in the week, O’Brien spoke with lawyers for both the Obama and McCain camps and urged them to make sure their staffs met permanent-residency rules, or face possible felony charges. Also pulling his ballot yesterday was Hofstra University grad Jake Smith, an Obama volunteer who had voted in Knox County, Ohio.

On Thursday, O’Brien cut a deal with the 13 out-of-state Obama staffers, including four from New York, who tossed out their already-cast ballots and admitted they didn’t meet residency requirements. According to the latest “Ohio Newspaper Poll” poll, Obama leads McCain by only 3 points in Ohio, which is within the polls margin of error.

The actions of the Obama loyalists further cast a dark shadow over the Obama campaign which has been linked to the controversial group ACORN in recent weeks, whose members are under current FBI investigation in twelve battleground states for similar voter registration-related irregularities. The Obama campaign has attempted to distance Barack Obama and his campaign for president from the ACORN organization and simultaneously downplay the significance of the situation. Not unexpectedly, the liberal left-wing mainstream media, blatantanly biased and hell-bent on helping Obama get elected, has chimed in in concert to also waterdown their news reports of ACORN, its relationship with Obama, and just how wide-spread the problem now is. The media’s reports infer that the potential impact of rampant voter registration and voter fraud in this year’s election is insignificant.

No doubt Obama-loyal CNN, NBC, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and others will also not find the ballots withdrawn in Ohio by Obama staffers to be troubling. They are all too concerned with Gov. Palin’s wardrobe and its price tag, any other story that paints Sen. McCain or Gov. Palin in a bad light, and with telephone calls made by Sen. McCain’s brother. You know, serious, hard-hitting news stories.

In the bigger picture, that is really what’s troubling. The watchers can no longer be trusted to watch and fairly report without bias. Instead, in 2008, they have clearly chosen to wade right into the middle of the situation, and try to sway public opinion whenever possible–to further their own personal and political agenda.

What would Edward R. Murrow—a man noted for honesty and integrity in delivering the news—think of today’s “journalism”? Probably not much.

 

Has Obama peaked? Most accurate pollster in 2004 election shows: Obama 44.8%, McCain 43.7%.

And then it was one…point. IBD/TIPP Poll shows McCain making a move.

According to Investor’s Business Daily, the most recent IBD/TIPP Poll shows that John McCain has cut into Obama’s lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind, 44.8%-43.7% with 11.6% undecided. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday. McCain is making headway with middle- and working- class voters, and has surged an amazing 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.

In 2004, TIPP, a Division of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, came within 3/10 of 1% point of President Bush’s actual margin of victory, thus winning the title of “Nation’s Most Accurate Pollster.”

Other national polls also show the race tightening with only 12 days to go until election day. The latest CNN/Opinion Research survey shows an Obama lead of now just 5 points. The George Washington University Battleground Poll has Obama clinging to a 4 point lead and an Associated Press-GfK poll has Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent – in effect, a tie.

As reports continue to surface that the Obama cabal continues to plan victory parties and prepare for their move into the White House, someone may want to caution the overconfident Obama camp from mailing in Barack Obama’s change of address form just yet. That change may not come after all.

Luxuriant clothing, French hairstylists, $1,500 outfits… It’s an outrage! (Unless of course it’s Michelle Obama.)

In the latest efforts to smear and diminish Gov. Sarah Palin, the Associated Press and the laughably liberal and Barack Obama-loving mainstream media kicked their repugnant reporting into high gear in the past 24 hours with a story that the RNC has reportedly spent $150,000 to outfit Gov. Palin on the campaign trail.

What did these intellectually-empty and ethically-bankrupt braindead buffoons expect Gov. Palin to wear, a turtleneck from Target? They were delirious when Barack Obama wore a $1,500 designer hand-tailored suit earlier this year. But as Gov. Palin is the only one of the four candidates who is not a millionaire, apparently it is unacceptable to the arrogant MSM that Gov. Palin “dress for success.”

Can you imagine how loudly they would howl if Gov. Palin strode onto the public stage dressed by L.L. Bean or J.C. Penney?

And don’t wait for them to mount an attack on Michelle Obama anytime soon. Instead they prefer to compare her style to Jackie-O. Oh, you must be kidding me…?

Michelle Obama is no stranger to high-end fashion. But when you’re the wife of “the one” and a Harvard lawyer who the media adores, the slings and arrows never come. Only praise and foolish fawning.

Michelle Obama’s closet is apparently overflowing with expensive apparel designed by Chicago designer Maria Pinto. According to a report in the New York Times, “Ms. Pinto, a designer known for luxuriant evening wear, is a favorite of Mrs. Obama, who wore buzzed-about Pinto creations when her husband announced his candidacy and on the night of the notorious fist-bump before his speech claiming the Democratic nomination, among other occasions.” Pinto’s fashions are sold in department stores like Barneys and Saks Fifth Avenue. The same stores where Gov. Palin’s fashions were reportedly purchased.

She also wore a rasberry and lavender print silk dress from the Thakoon Panichgul Resort 2009 collection, as she embraced her husband on stage at the Democratic convention, when he officially accepted his Presidential nomination. Washington Post’s Robin Givan, in his September 7, 2008 article “First Ladies and the Fabric of the Nation,” estimated the price of Michelle’s Thakoon outfit to be around $1,500. Thakoon’s fashions are sold at Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, among other upscale retailers.

In addition, Michelle Obama’s personal hairstylist is French hairdresser and “celebrity stylist” Frédéric Fekkai. Fekkai is reportedly responsible for her “silky, perfect coif that women just can’t stop talking about.”

But none of that matters to the mainstream media. It only matters that Gov. Sarah Palin’s campaign fashions are reported—in a manner that is clearly meant to further paint Palin in a negative light and thus help sway public opinon in their thinly-veiled attempts to get Barack Obama elected president. 

That is the real outrage… and ever-lasting shame that rests squarely on the empty heads and slim shoulders of the sickening ”fourth estate” that somehow still passes as “journalists” in today’s professionally corrupt culture.

With 12 days left until the election, one has to wonder just how low the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party/Barack Obama campaign, otherwise known as the mainstream media, will stoop to trash Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin on their march to taking back the White House via the Obama/Biden ticket. I shudder to think just how low that could be.

 

Obama’s thin skin: Blames FOX News for his position in the polls.

Just in time for Halloween: Barack Obama is scared of the vast right-wing conspiracy, otherwise known as FOX News.

In the current issue of the New York Times Magazine, Barack Obama clings to his crying towel as he blames the FOX News Network for his current position in the national polls:

“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama states. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?

“I guess the point I’m making,” Obama continued, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful.”

So let me get this straight, in Barack Obama’s mind, there is a big ol’ conspiracy going on to keep him from being elected president? Sounds like Obama is taking a page out of Hillary Clinton’s playbook and resurrecting her “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” assertions from 1998.

In accepting Obama’s cockamamie conspiracy theory, one must also then ask, where would John McCain be in the polls without the blatantly biased campaign coverage that’s been ladled out by the bucketful by the laughably liberal mainstream media including the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, NBC, and of course, CNN? McCain might be 10-12 points ahead, or more. McCain is continually portrayed as a doddering old man who is out of touch and nowhere near as cool as the slick-talking Obama, and a man who will do bad things to the poor and the needy. (Painting Republicans as hell-bent on destroying social security and medicare is page one of the Democratic Party playbook and has been for years.) And let’s not even get started on the asinine attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin.

In Latin, Obama’s obvious strategy is known as Divide et impera.Divide and conquer. His thinly-veiled (and tiresome) technique is to create and encourage division. Or at the very least to foster further attacks on FOX News and thus, hopefully, neutralize any and all future anti-Obama news reports that FOX may report.

The fact that Obama is concerned with FOX News’ coverage of the campaign at all, with only 18 days left to go in the campaign, brings to memory another latin phrase: parva leves capiunt animas. Small things occupy small minds.

And this is a man who believes he is genuinely qualified to occupy the White House and going to unite America? At least he is attacking FOX News now and not Joe the Plumber, a man who innocently asked a question of Obama and has since seen what happens when anyone, even an unsuspecting US voter, dares challenge “the one,” “the messiah,” the man who is going to save the world. Unless, of course, mean ol’ FOX News single-handedly prevents Obama’s ascent to the throne.

Obama vs. McCain: Rainbows versus Reality.

Rainbows versus Reality: “Obama’s vision of hope shines like a rainbow, appealing but just out of reach.”

From the Associated Press:

The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune endorsed McCain on Oct. 17:

Hard economic times, a disappointing Republican administration and the seductive promises of a master orator are pushing America toward a European-style social democracy. If you don’t want that to happen, vote for Republican Sen. John McCain. …

McCain brings a lifetime of useful experience, including his grueling captivity in Vietnam and long Senate service. He believes in federalism, a strong defense and disciplined self-interest.

McCain has been willing to cross party lines to work on tough problems. He co-authored a campaign finance law that failed to fulfill its objective, but he did muster the bipartisan support needed to try to control the buying and selling of public office. …

(Barack) Obama’s vision of hope shines like a rainbow, appealing but just out of reach. McCain’s call to freedom and responsibility is less exciting, but you know it works. The Tribune encourages voters to vote what they believe, not what they wish were true. The nation needs a stable leader in these unpredictable times.

—————————-

The Dallas Morning News endorsed McCain on Oct. 18:

In better times, America could afford to consider entrusting the White House to an appealing newcomer like Mr. Obama and giving control of the presidency and Congress to the same party.

But in this time of great anxiety, the American people need a leader of experience guiding the ship of state. Mr. McCain offers the continuity, stability and sense of authority people want, as well as a decisive break from the Bush years.

The Democrat talks about change, but only the Republican has made change happen. Only one candidate has a solid record of standing up to his own party on principle and working hand in hand with legislators from the opposing party to get things done.

That candidate is John McCain, a progressive conservative we recommend.

Which candidate gives it up more? You might be surprised.

 

According to a New York Times report in March, the Obamas gave $240,000 to charity in 2007. This compares with charitable donations as low as $1,050 just a few years ago. The Obama’s charitable contributions rose dramatically after Obama began his run for president. In the past two years, Senator and Mrs. McCain have contributed $340,323 to charitable causes.

Senator McCain also donates his royalties from his books to various charitable organizations. This sum has totaled over $1,800,000 since 1998 when he signed his first book deal. Senator McCain’s book income of $256,898 for 2006 and 2007 is comprised of earnings for Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Character is Destiny, and Hard Call.

According to the McCain campaign, beginning in 1991, Senator McCain has also donated the increase in his Senate salary for that year and each subsequent year to charity because he opposed the Congressional pay increase at that time and pledged not to accept the pay raises. The cumulative total of these donations is over $450,000.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain’s running mate, and her husband Todd reported meager earnings from 2006 and 2007, at least by presidential-politics standards, but the Palin family gave more to charity in the last two years than her counterpart Sen. Joe Biden has in the last eight combined.

In 2006, the Palins paid $11,944 in taxes on $127,869 in income. In 2007, they paid $24,738 on $166,080. But in 2006, they donated $4,880 to charity, and in 2007, they donated $3,325. By contrast, Biden, Barack Obama’s running mate, has donated a scant $3,690 since 1998 despite his higher Senate salary, according to an analysis posted by National Review. I guess all of those hair plugs and Botox injections are expensive.

So when the Obama/Biden duo profess to be looking out for those less fortunate, we can assume that does not necessarily mean they are looking in their own wallets first. But it appears they have no problem looking into taxpayers’ wallets as they embark on their alarming crusade to redistribute the wealth in America.