Does America really want a change?

**dananderson32** · 08-29-2008, 10:56 PM

Originally posted by homedawg

is that germany Obama is in, oh yeah johnny mac knows who the president of that country is let him tell you

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**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 11:34 AM

ICYMI: "A Reform Ticket"

"For starters, we'd say Governor Palin's credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama's." -- The Wall Street Journal

"A Reform Ticket"
Editorial
The Wall Street Journal
August 30, 2008

If any doubt remained that former fighter pilot John McCain loves to take unconventional risks, he put them to bed Friday by picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Introduced in Dayton by Mr. McCain, Governor Palin swung the bat pretty well. We'll now see if she can hit curve balls.

It's a daring pick because Mrs. Palin has never faced national scrutiny and hasn't had to deal with foreign policy. Most VP choices are designed to do no harm, and we tend to agree with the maxim. Democrats are already saying they can't wait for Mrs. Palin's debate against "statesman" Joe Biden. On the other hand, the record shows that Sarah Palin's political career is a case study in taking on the big boys. We suspect her record of fighting the status quo was uppermost in John McCain's decision.

Barack Obama aside, Senator McCain's biggest problem is a Republican brand that has suffered -- both among independents and the GOP base -- from the party's business-as-usual mentality in Washington. The public wants change. This pick could prove Mr. McCain is serious about changing his party.

Sarah Palin's reform resume would be remarkable in any political career. She entered politics at 28, winning a seat on the Wasilla city council as an opponent of tax increases. After she defeated Wasilla's three-term incumbent mayor four years later, she swept the mayor's cronies out of the bureaucracy.

In 2003, Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski appointed her to the state's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Bear in mind that Mr. Murkowski had already served as junior U.S. Senator from Alaska for 22 years. Mr. Murkowski was junior senator for so long because Senator Ted Stevens (who was recently indicted for corruption) had lifetime tenure in the senior post.

Shortly after joining the oil and gas commission, Mrs. Palin commenced an ethics probe of the state's Republican party chairman, Randy Ruedrich, involving conflicts of interest with oil companies. The probe resulted in a $12,000 fine for the party chair.

She crossed party lines in 2004 to join a Democratic representative's ethics complaint over an international trade deal against the Republican Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who had ties to the Murkowski machine. Mr. Renkes resigned.

In late 2005, Mrs. Palin announced her run for Governor before then-Governor Murkowski had announced his intention to stand for re-election. In a three-way primary, Mrs. Palin got 51% to Mr. Murkowski's 19%. At the center of this campaign was a debate over competing proposals to build a natural gas pipeline across Alaska.

These columns wrote about Gov. Murkowski's smashing defeat by Mrs. Palin, noting that his pipeline proposal had been tainted by reports of sweetheart deals with energy companies. The editorial ended: "If Republicans are run out of Congress in November, one big reason will be that, like Mr. Murkowski, they have become far more comfortable running the government than reforming it." That is what happened, as disgusted GOP voters turned away from their own party and ceded control of Congress to the Democrats.

Against the odds, Mrs. Palin won that 2006 election against the state's former Democratic governor Tony Knowles. Most recently, she promoted the effort of her GOP lieutenant governor to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young, who with Senator Stevens created the earmark that sank the GOP, the notorious "bridge to nowhere."

Experience?

For starters, we'd say Governor Palin's credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama's. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska's politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on. This is one reason her selection -- despite its campaign risks -- seems to have been so well received by Republicans yesterday. They are looking for a new generation of leaders.

Don't expect this remarkable personal Palin narrative to get an Obama-like break from the national media. Their main focus will be her lack of experience, claiming it undercuts Mr. McCain's criticism of Barack Obama. One mispronounced foreign leader's name, and she's going to be hammered.

If she can survive this gantlet, Governor Palin could help Mr. McCain with some liabilities of his own. The alternative would have been a ticket of two familiar GOP names in a political cycle where the Democrats have seemed to be the party of energy and freshness. A self-described "hockey mom" with a commercial-fisherman husband, Governor Palin will have more credibility with families than a Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee. With energy supplies and prices one of the top issues, Alaska's Governor also should bring some first-hand realism to the debate over drilling and the environment.

* * *

Senator Obama's acceptance speech made it clear that his campaign strategy is pegged to linking Mr. McCain to the Beltway Republicans and the struggling economy. It's a powerful argument, and John McCain needs an answer to Mr. Obama's list of Democratic bromides. The vulnerability in the Obama plan is there's little in it that is new. He'd mostly replace one status quo with an earlier status quo of government spending schemes. Joe Biden is no help on that.

Mr. McCain's instinct clearly is to offer himself to voters as a reformer. With Sarah Palin, a genuine reformer, Mr. McCain may have found the right idea and the right person to make his run.

**dananderson32** · 08-30-2008, 11:59 AM

shes governed a state for 18 months that has the population 1/6 of the city of chicago and has no federal experience but she could possibly be a heart attack away by johnny mac to being the person with her finger on the button no thanks ill pass :bang: :bang:

**BoKnows** · 08-30-2008, 12:07 PM

Originally posted by dananderson32

shes governed a state for 18 months that has the population 1/6 of the city of chicago and has no federal experience but she could possibly be a heart attack away by johnny mac to being the person with her finger on the button no thanks ill pass :bang: :bang:

Compared to Say B.O's 180 days in Congress... and we dont need anyone to die so he can get his finger on the button he just needs to get elected.

**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 02:53 PM

BREAKING NEWS:
David Axelrod Talking Regularly with Bill Ayers?
Larry Johnson
August 29, 2008

I now have two sources confirming that Barack Obama’s Communications Director, David Axelrod has been communicating regularly with unrepentant terrorist and former member of the Weathermen, Bill Ayers, about how to respond to stories trying to report on Obama’s longstanding relationship with Ayers. One of my sources tells me that one person, a TV pundit who wishes to not be named, is talking about this without mentioning Axelrod. This person told my friend:

I predict that the howling and whining we hear from the Obama campaign about Billy Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who bombed the US. Capitol and has been linked to candidate Obama at least for the last dozen years, will get louder, and more hysterical and more damaging because we will find that not only did Billy Ayers work closely with Barack Obama to fund left wing school schemes in the hands of Maoists (Mike Klonsky) and Neo-Stalinists (Bill Ayers) but also Billy Ayers himself, now, regularly, is talking part in strategy sessions with major Obama advisers as to how to bury the truth about the terrorist and the candidate.”

Another source with direct access to the Obama campaign reports that it is David Axelrod who is fielding these calls. It is astonishing that the Obama team thought they could contain this information. But they will fail. Their fear about Ayers has little to do with his past as a bomber of U.S. Government facilities and more to do with the mismanagement of more than 100 million dollars that was spent by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).

Steve Diamond has been a pioneer in helping uncover Barack’s tawdry association with this group:

The CAC was established in 1995 as a result of a $49.2 million grant from Walter Annenberg to support education reform in Chicago. Bill Ayers and Anne C. Hallett co-signed a letter submitting the grant proposal to Brown University President Vartan Gregorian on November 8, 1994 where the national Challenge office would be headquartered.

The letter was on the letterhead of the University of Illinois at Chicago (“UIC”). Ayers identified himself as representing the UIC and the “Chicago Forum for School Change.” Ms. Hallett is identified as the Executive Director of the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform. At the bottom of the letter, a parenthetical states: “On behalf of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative.”

Ayers plays a critical role in setting it up and in selecting Barack Obama to take over as the Chairman of the Board of the CAC:

Obama took over the reins of the Board in early 1995 and stepped down from the chairmanship in late 1999, though he remained on the Board until the CAC phased itself out of existence and handed off its remaining assets to a permanent new institution, the Chicago Public Education Fund, in 2001. The Board began to meet in March of 1995 and formally incorporated the CAC as a non-profit entity in April 1995.

Do you ever ask yourself why Barack has not touted his “EXPERIENCE” as the Chairman of the Board of the CAC? You would think that a man who headed a $100 million plus foundation would put that at the top of his resume if he is running for President. Well, he doesn’t why? It appears that his ties to Ayers and how the funds were actually spent are facts the Obama campaign wants to keep buried. But the shovels are out and the facts will emerge. I guess the next question for Barack will be if he thinks it is okay for his Communication’s Director to talk regularly with an unrepentant terrorist? I bet most Americans would say no.

This photo of William Ayers was taken in 2001.
When it comes to America, is there any question
where this friend of Senator Barack Obama stands?

**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 03:11 PM

**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 03:50 PM

First Phase of Ad Campaign Wraps Up
Friday, 29 August 2008

After running 7,307 times in 14 markets, the American Issues Project today wraps up its first phase of a television advertising issue campaign, which called into question the longstanding relationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant 1960�s domestic terrorist, William Ayers. �American Issues Project clearly has struck a nerve inside theObama campaign, but even more important is the reaction of the American people,who are starting to question why Sen. Obama would have such a closerelationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist,� said Ed Martin, American Issues Project president.

The heavy-handed response of the Obama campaign definitely misfired. The more the Obama campaign has tried to bully the ad off the air with its spurious legal threats and intimidation, the more voters have wondered what he has to hide.

The ad examines the connection between Sen. Obama and domestic terrorist William Ayers, co-founder of the violent, radical Weather Underground movement that �declared war on America� and successfully bombed the U.S. Capitol, Pentagon, police stations and other targets across the nation. Ayers has not only trumpeted his role in the bombings, he is unrepentant. On September 11th, 2001, the New York Times reported him saying, �I don't regret setting bombs I feel we didn�t do enough.

The ad drew a massive and disproportionate response from the Obama campaign, which demanded the Department of Justice prosecute the organization and its donors, threatened stations running the ad in an attempt to compel them to pull the spot and other efforts to �kill the messenger.� Notably, the effort was unsuccessful in getting a single station to pull the ad. The Obama campaign sponsored its own paid ad in response, which fails to dispute a single fact the American Issues Project has put forth.

Sen. Obama defends his friend Ayers as �respectable� and �mainstream.� The two worked closely together on several boards including for an organization that Ayers founded and Obama chaired. Sen. Obama�s political career was even launched at an event hosted by Ayers in his own home.

American Issues Project has as one of its primary purposes protecting America�s role in the world and assuring a strong national defense. The Ayers-Obama connection raises an important issue that is directly related to AIP�s purposes and which AIP will continue in coming months, and years, to promote.

:beer2:

**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 07:18 PM

**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 08:51 PM

**Skinsfan** · 08-30-2008, 09:08 PM

**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 09:21 PM

Keep'em comin' Skins :beerbang:

**homedawg** · 08-30-2008, 11:20 PM

LET'S ALL EXPLORE THE WORLD, OUTSIDE THE COMFORT OF THE U.S. of A.,
AND LOOK INTO REALITY:

DEATH TO AMERICA!

Originally posted by Skinsfan

**homedawg** · 08-31-2008, 12:17 AM

**dananderson32** · 08-31-2008, 12:25 AM

Originally posted by homedawg

he looks super enthused to have her as his running mate its just oozing out his pours

**homedawg** · 08-31-2008, 12:26 AM

Originally posted by dananderson32

he looks super enthused to have her as his running mate its just oozing out his pours

Dan, you still fightin' that battle?

The **** is about to hit the fan!

Does America really want a change?

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