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2008-10-30T18:15:00.001-05:00

Proposition 8: The Inside Scoop!

2008-10-30T08:43:00.001-05:00

Frank Schubert has been involved in over 30 ballot initiatives in his lifetime but he’s never experienced anything like Proposition 8. Yesterday, I was asked to be part of a blogger conference call with Schubert who heads up the Yes on 8 movement.

Bottom line: This race is almost over. Tensions are high. Expectations are tempered but the general feeling is that Proposition 8 will prevail.

Read the whole thing here

Nice Ad

2008-10-29T23:44:00.001-05:00

The Infomercial Live Blog: Barack in Summary

2008-10-29T22:30:00.004-05:00

Ultimately, I think the commercial won't play as well as Barack might have liked. It sort of felt like I lived in Venezuela and the weekly Hugo Chavez TV show was on.

Barack Obama's propaganda piece gave a very limited and unconvincing narrative. It is striking how much is lacking there when it comes to talking about accomplishments. So he was a state senator, so he asked Condoleeza Rice pointed questions. Good for him. I can cross-examine the crud out of anyone but that doesn't make me Presidential material.

I wonder how comfortable the campaign is with the absolute elite position Barack holds. I have known my share of arrogant law review types and the idea of electing one as President is really scary. Not as troubling as the idea of electing a professor though. Having said that, those are real accomplishments. But the campaign wants Barack to be seen as average American. In this piece, they do that by featuring average American people.

But there is a disconnect there. In the end, we all hopefully know we are dealing with the most liberal member of the Senate and a guy who is no average American. He is a guy who is dubiously qualified to be President and has ideas about the economy and government that, rather than being tempered by perhaps business experience, have been radicalized by his education and associations.

The Infomercial: Division

2008-10-29T22:26:00.003-05:00

There will never be a more divise President than Barack Obama. Bill Richardson is wrong about bipartisanship. Most politicians moderate when they get in office, but there is a huge doubt about a leader with this much audacity keeping his aspirations in line.

Barack promises everything. Barack can't pay for anything though without hurting our economy further.

The Infomercial: National Security

2008-10-29T22:24:00.005-05:00

Rebuild Military while Joe Biden is saying military funding will need to be cut? Empty rhetoric. Tougher sanctions to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons? Iran knows that Obama is never going to do anything about it. There is no deterrence there. On a related note, Barack is on record saying he would never use nuclear weapons against Al Qaeda, so, he has already ruined any deterrent value we may have had there.

The Infomercial: Heathcare

2008-10-29T22:18:00.003-05:00

Why is Obama's healthcare plan going to ruin our economy and healthcare system? Because it will charge a fee to businesses who don't give health care. If the cost is low, businesses will dump employees into the government plan rather than pay for private healthcare for their employees. If the cost is too high, it will force employers to provide health insurance for employees whose work is not worth such expense. There is an incentive for businesses to employ as few people as possible to avoid the huge cost associated with each employee. This cost also gets immediately passed along to consumers.

It is a job killer.

The Infomercial: Education

2008-10-29T22:16:00.005-05:00

Bush has led us down the federal takeover of education track. Obama just wants to further it. Early childhood development, more teachers, better pay, etc. with supposed greater accountability. Make no mistake, there will not be greater accountability when the teacher's unions finally get their wish to gut the No Child Left Behind Act.

The Infomercial: The Reformer?

2008-10-29T22:11:00.004-05:00

Barack as government program reformer? Why would anyone think that Barack has any clue how to reign in goverenment spending? Does anyone really think that he will be able to go line by line and be able to succesfully streamline government? Like, the Democrats in Congress and he are going to bring efficiency to Washington. Laugh heartily now at the notion.

Barack as Iraq spending reformer? I have an ideological difference between Obama on Iraq when he attacks our spending there. I think we have a moral duty to try and help them because we trashed their country. Barack wants to ditch them to fight amongst themselves.

The Infomercial: Wal Mart

2008-10-29T22:09:00.004-05:00

A profile with a Wal Mart worker! I guess Democrats don't hate Wal Mart as much as I thought. Too bad Obama is about to start taxing your coorporate profits at a much higher rate.

There goes your job.

The Infomercial: Missing Democrats

2008-10-29T22:08:00.002-05:00

Hey, go figure, Democratic governors are ready to vouch for Obama. Where's Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi? I may be wrong, but I would bet money they don't show up in this propganda piece.

The Infomercial: Big Brother

2008-10-29T22:05:00.004-05:00

I get a weird feeling when my tv station is being taken over by a politician. I keep wondering if there is going to be a big red "V" at the end of this.

The economic plan: Hey Obama! If you are so convinced that you have the solution to the economic problems, why aren't you yelling that all the politicians need to get back to Washington and pass the bill you are going to sponsor! The fact is, you just expect things to get better when you are President and you don't really have solutions.

The Infomercial: Taking Over

2008-10-29T22:03:00.002-05:00

First profile. How can I pay for bills? Maybe you should give up on the football equipment. Sorry, my kids play soccer.

The Infomercial: Live Blog

2008-10-29T22:01:00.002-05:00

Yeah, I am going to live blog about the ridiculous infomercial. What is with the silly pseudo oval office/slash log cabin room.

Flipping bail-out

2008-10-29T15:02:00.002-05:00

Those that are not Californians may not have heard about this story (video included). California cities want to buy up foreclosed homes and flip them. The story, out of Sacramento, says:

Now the federal government is stepping in and sending cash to the hardest hit areas. The Sacramento region is getting one of the biggest bailouts, and receiving $32 million dollars.

"To purchase foreclosed homes in troubled neighborhoods and flip those homes," says a city representative. Mayor Fargo says the homes will be fixed up and then sold or rented out.

Now I'm no genius (which maybe means that I'm qualified to work for the government), but this seems like a terrible idea. I was against the bailout before I heard this. This kind of foolery just solidifies the inevitable conclusion that the bailout was a historically bad idea.

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Support Race42012

2008-10-29T10:16:00.002-05:00

A lot of you know I blog at www.race42008.com. Now that the race for 2008 is coming to end, the site is beginning to remake itself for 2012.

Race42008 was a great place for Romney. You see at Race42008, all the candidates were represented through front page posters, and Mitt had 5. No other website really gave Mitt that kind of fairness and coverage. With Redstate becoming "Sarah-state" coupled with some of the other negativity on sites like Human Events and what will surely begin on The Next Right, it s important that we provide a fair balanced look at Mitt should McCain loose and Romney decide to run in 2012 (which I think Mitt will).

During the primaries Race42008 was bringing in an average of 10-20,000 unique hits a day, which was well above sites like The Next Right, Ankle Biting Pundits and even MyManMitt. Race42008 was read by top editors at National Review, Real Clear Politics, Fox News, etc. In other words Race42008 gave a chance for a balanced view of Romney to be heard by the movers and shakers.

So if you can only give $5 that is great but please give something, so Race42012 can enjoy the redesign and continue to provide the content that will be essential to Romney's online success.

National Security

2008-10-28T15:05:00.003-05:00

Does anyone else think that Obama wouldn't be able to pass a background investigation for a sensitive U.S. Government position? Between the dope use and the friends he keeps, I wouldn't give him national security clearance.

When A Soldier Comes Home

2008-10-25T11:32:00.001-05:00

WHEN A SOLDIER COMES HOME ...
This email is being circulated around-the-world – please keep it going

(Please pass this one along, it's worth your time.

When a soldier comes home, he finds it hard....

...to listen to his son whine about being bored.

....to keep a straight face when people complain about potholes.

to be tolerant of people who complain about the hassle of getting ready for work.

...to be understanding when a co-worker complains about a bad night's sleep.

..to be silent when people pray to God for a new car.

...to control his panic when his wife tells him he needs to drive slower.

..to be compassionate when a businessman expresses a fear of flying.

...to keep from laughing when anxious parents say they're afraid to send their kids off to summer camp.

...to keep from ridiculing someone who complains about hot weather.

...to control his frustration when a colleague gripes about his coffee being cold.

...to remain calm when his daughter complains about having to walk the dog.

...to be civil to people who complain about their jobs.

...to just walk away when someone says they only get two weeks of vacation a year.

...to be forgiving when someone says how hard it is to have a new baby in the house.

The only thing harder than being a Soldier.

Is loving one.

McCain for President

2008-10-24T20:04:00.001-05:00

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, October 24, 2008; A19

Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings.

First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The "erratic" temperament issue, for example. As if McCain's risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.

McCain the "erratic" is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.

Nor will I countenance the "dirty campaign" pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed that McCain supports "cutting Social Security benefits in half." And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.

McCain's critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What's astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.

Moreover, the most remarkable of all tactical choices of this election season is the attack that never was. Out of extreme (and unnecessary) conscientiousness, McCain refused to raise the legitimate issue of Obama's most egregious association -- with the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Dirty campaigning, indeed.

The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?

There's just no comparison. Obama's own running mate warned this week that Obama's youth and inexperience will invite a crisis -- indeed a crisis "generated" precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 to invite that test?

And how will he pass it? Well, how has he fared on the only two significant foreign policy tests he has faced since he's been in the Senate? The first was the surge. Obama failed spectacularly. He not only opposed it. He tried to denigrate it, stop it and, finally, deny its success.

The second test was Georgia, to which Obama responded instinctively with evenhanded moral equivalence, urging restraint on both sides. McCain did not have to consult his advisers to instantly identify the aggressor.

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.

Implications of Same Sex Marriage

2008-10-24T19:19:00.001-05:00

MyClob is Wrong

2008-10-24T08:15:00.003-05:00

MyClob, who has done a great job detailing every minutia of Mitt Romney's primary run, is flat dead wrong on this one. His usual approach to bringing an unbiased articulation to his wiki-like entries has failed him this time.

Mike - if you're gonna lambaste Palin for something at least have the decency to quote her directly. No one knows what you're referring to?

I'll have more later but right now I've gotta slap up MyClob a bit. :)

Is the election here yet?

Sarah Palin is wrong to pit one part of the country against the other.

2008-10-23T22:25:00.001-05:00

Reasons to agree

We don't choose where we are born, so it is kind of silly to be proud of it.
People aren't all that different, in different states.

Their are liberals in Alaska, and conservatives in New York.
Sarah Palin accuses those who live in New York of being "elite", and then when asked what she means by "elite" she says people who think they are better than others. Sarah Palin seems to think she is better than New Yorkers because she is from Alaska.

Mob Disrupts Attendees at Oakland LDS Temple

2008-10-22T10:18:00.002-05:00

Here is the text of a forwarded email that was sent to me. I have crosschecked the names CCed in the email and can verify that indeed the people included are legitimate, so it is not a hoax as far as I have been able to determine. Links to additional eyewitness accounts are below. Besides, you just can't make this nuttery up.

Dear family and friends,

I had a very disturbing experience yesterday that I would like to share with those of you that live outside of California (or outside of the San Francisco Bay Area). This weekend we have stake conference. Our stake conference always begins with a stake temple session on Friday or Thursday night. Early Friday morning I received a call from the second counselor in our bishopric to let me know that there would be numerous protesters outside the temple, and to remind everyone to stay calm and to drive carefully.

The beautiful Oakland Temple is located right across the bay from San Francisco, very close to the city of Berkeley. Apparently the opposition to proposition 8, the amendment that seeks to make marriage in CA between a man and a woman again, has realized the deep involvement of the church and begun to protest right outside of the temple and harass temple patrons. The fastest way to get to the temple from our house is to take the 680 freeway, but the exit is a bit tricky. The off ramp is extremely short and straight uphill. You then make an almost blind left turn, an immediate right and another left into the parking lot. As we approached the off ramp, I realized there would be trouble.

There was a backup onto the freeway from cars stalled on the off ramp. As we moved forward inches at a time, we realized this was due to a large group of loud protesters who were standing on both sides of the street, yelling, screaming and waving signs. When we got to the top of the offramp, ready to make our turn, one protester jumped out right in front of our car. It took my husband all his self control to carefully maneuver around him to the left and proceed to the temple. I tried not to listen to all they were shouting at us, but I was shaking as I got to the temple front door. Several of the sisters, especially the ones driving on their own, were crying (which made me snap out of it and go into RS President mode to comfort them).

Later, as I was sitting in the perfect quiet of the chapel, I couldn't help but think of Lehi's dream, and the people who mocked the Saints from the big spacious building but 'we heeded them not.' It was a truly surreal experience, I'd never thought that I would have to go through an angry crowd to get to the temple. As we left late at night, the protesters had dispersed, temple security (who all looked very large and Tongan) stood by the gates. I never saw a single police man.

Please pray for those of us in California fighting for prop 8--it's getting kind of scary out here!

More eyewitness accounts.

Additional protests are planned

Some atheists who've objected to the strong stance of Mormons and other religious groups in favor of the measure intend to protest in front of the Mormon temple in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday.

Follow and post additional accounts on Twitter by tracking and posting to the hashtag #hateon8

Leftwing website targets Mormons on Prop 8?!

2008-10-21T16:08:00.003-05:00

DailyKos is determined to make the debate around Proposition 8 a personal fight. They have mustered their forces to dig up dirt on people (and particularly Mormons) who have contributed to Protect Marriage. More details here.

Click below to sign my petition:

Death Threats Issued to Proposition 8 Supporters in California

2008-10-21T09:36:00.003-05:00

It's getting ugly in California over Proposition 8.

Here is a death threat letter (NSFW), issued on October 20th, 2008, to two of ten households in a California neighborhood where "Vote Yes on Prop 8" signs were being displayed. Their signs had been stolen by the time they found the letter.

The person who provided me a copy of this letter, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time for obvious reasons, is a head of one of two households to have received identically worded death threats, laced with profanity and insults. The recipient stated that, due to certain phrases and words used in the letter, the writer of the threat likely knows something about the religious background of the two households.

This is the second time that this family has had their signs stolen in only a few days. A police investigation is underway.