No prettying up Barack Obama’s gaffe

Let’s start with the obvious and inarguable: Of course Sen. Barack Obama’s comment about “lipstick on a pig” was a reference to Supergirl Sarah Palin.

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Can Obama count on a big turnout of youth voters?

This blogger answers that question with a NO and has a good explanation for that answer.

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Obama: McCain has not "talked about my Muslim faith."

"I mea- ih, uh, uh, eh, L-l-let's not play games. W-w-what I was suggesting, you are absolutely right that John McCain has not, uh, talked about my Muslim faith, and you're absolutely right that that has not come"

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Palin vs Obama on Earmarks

The Truth stands with Sarah Palin, hands down, no contest, bag Obama -- game over!

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Battle Hymn of The Republic

Get a load of these high school kids singing. At the conclusion listen to the high notes on the trumpet, played by a high school kid! One of the fathers recorded it, added some graphic enhancements to the recording, and posted it on the web. Some public schools are still patriotic.

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.Sound Familiar??

They made him a God in order to avoid him as a tyrant… To what degree does modern democracy use myth to avoid being ruled by the principles of the past?]

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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Sunday Funnies

“We’re doing jokes about people in his orbit, not really about him,” said Mike Sweeney, the head writer for O’Brien on “Late Night.” The jokes will come, representatives of all the late-night shows said, as soon as Obama does or says something that defines him - in comedy terms.

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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Sunday Funnies

“We’re doing jokes about people in his orbit, not really about him,” said Mike Sweeney, the head writer for O’Brien on “Late Night.” The jokes will come, representatives of all the late-night shows said, as soon as Obama does or says something that defines him - in comedy terms.

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Sarah Palin: Democrats Unprepared to Deal with Her

The "expert" Democratic strategists have been preparing for the last 100 years to attack big business, engage in class warfare and to be the champion of the "little guy." For example, they have attacked John McCain for having too many houses, for being part of the richest 1% of Americans, and for not knowing what everyone in America is experiencing

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Palin Smears Debunked

Apparently the media wants to get even for the Swift-Boaters successful torpedoing of John Kerry in 2004 because they are by the dozens every day promulgating lies about the career and life of Governor Sarah Palin. I recently posted a piece on the lies, exaggerations and misbegotten assumptions of a Baltimore Sun columnist and it got me to thinking...

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Obama: Palin's Radical Pastor Calls on God to Bless USA

It appears that Palin’s pastor at the Wassila Bible Church, which Sarah Palin often frequents, may have also gone on a tirade several weeks ago and has given the Obama camp an opportunity to stick it back in Gov. Palin’s eye.

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"Stupendous Fabrics:" Notes on Alexander Hamilton’s

If there is no security, you can forget about rights of any sort, and do notice that under “states rights” there’s always, no matter how peacefully the argument is put in tone, the threat of secession and insurrection, even now.

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The Living Medal of Honor Recipients

The Medal of Honor may well be our Nation's rarest "gem", and the men who wear it are certainly our most "endangered species". Even most military veterans have never actually SEEN a Medal of Honor, much less met one of the few men authorized to display it around his neck. Since it was established in 1862 at the beginning of the Civil War

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Gov. Sarah Palin Biography Video

Watch the video you didn't see on TV at the 2008 Republican National Convention!

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CRACK! Sara Palin's Grand Slam!

Sara Palin dealt a crippling blow to her opponents in her speech before the Republican National Convention. How can we tell a crippling blow was dealt? Just watch the wounded DNC machine go into overdrive with their rhetoric and politics of hate and destruction. A sure sign the Palin has put the big hurt on 'em.

Well Done Mrs. Palin!

Doug Ross @ Journal,Obama and Ayres

Unfortunately for Barack Obama, the just-released document entitled Chicago Annenberg Challenge: Assessment of the First Three Years provides the backdrop of a history in which Obama and Ayers are explicitly named as the leaders of a failed, ideologically-driven nine-figure giveaway.

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Oil Falls as Hurricane Gustav Weakens, Easing Damage Fears

Still, Gustav is two categories below the peak strength reached by Hurricane Katrina, which sent oil prices to records after wrecking refineries around New Orleans three years ago. Katrina's intensity was greatest over the gulf, where it damaged rigs, platforms and undersea oil and gas pipelines. It then weakened to a Category 3 hurricane before

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Last Female WWI Vet Dies at 109

n 1916, Winters met with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to persuade him to allow women in the service, said Kelly Auber, who grew up on South Mountain, where Winters and her husband, John Winters, settled.When the Navy opened support roles to women, Winters and her sister, Sophie, joined immediately in 1917, Auber said. By December 1918

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Ex-Ambassador to U.S.: Arabs in Galilee are secessionist thr

"If the government of Israel does not act to have a Jewish majority in the North, then the Arab majority in the Galilee will declare independence and [demand] international recognition on the basis of the precedents of Kosovo, Abkhazia and [South Ossetia].

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Obama letter interests McCain

The letter Barack Obama wrote to Beef Northwest regarding the company's employees joining United Farm Workers union has attracted the attention of the John McCain for President Committee."The McCain campaign has copies of the letter, and we have had conversations with them," said John Wilson, an owner of Beef Northwest, headquartered in North

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