Category: 2008 Election

The AFL-CIO is taking NRA to task for trying to divide good working coal miners from Barack Obama.  One wonders what AFL-CIO’s position is on Joe Biden talking out of both sides of his mouth about clean coal.  When the chips are down, do the United Mine Workers really believe Obama will stand with them over the environmental lobby?  If they do, I have a bank in New York to sell them.

On the way in from work, spotting on people’s lawns in the Fort Washington/Blue Bell area of Montgomery County, PA:

• 1 Obama Sign
• 5 McCain Signs
• 1 Allyson Schwartz Sign (Democrat Incumbent Congresscritter)
• 3 Kate Harper signs (Repub. State Rep)

Based on signage, things are looking good for McCain at least in some parts of the Philadelphia suburbs.  Based on signage in general, I think McCain has the edge, and that’s a good sign of where the passion is, even if it’s not scientific.

From Protein Wisdom:

I’ve noted before that we are now fighting an all out ideological war for the survival of the democratic republic. In fact, I’ve been making this same argument for years now: when the press, under the cover of “objectivity,” is allowed to function as an advocacy arm for a particular ideology and its titular representatives, what follows is a necessary skewing of facts — and a carefully constructed attempt to frame “stories” with “lessons” that the public will interpret “correctly” (according to those attempting to teach the lessons from the perspective of their own personal advocacy).

Media advocacy for Obama is higher than any candidate in recent memory.  It’s becoming worse than mere bias, and crossing into the realm of the media actively campaigning for The Lightworker’s ascension.

McCain is apparently taking time off the campaign trail to focus on the financial crisis:

We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved.I am directing my campaign to work with the Obama campaign and the commission on presidential debates to delay Friday night’s debate until we have taken action to address this crisis.

It’s actually a pretty bold manuver.  If Obama stays in the field, he looks like someone who is unserious and more concerned about winning his election than he is about doing his job as a Senator in a major economic crisis.  If he goes back to Washington with McCain, he has to take time off fundraising.  McCain’s campaign is on welfare for politicians public financing right now, so he’s not able to legally raise funds currently.  If Obama comes in from the field it hurts his campaign financially.  Either way, Obama comes out the loser on this.

Apparently the Obama campaign aren’t too keen on paying their restaurant tab.

The Jawa Report has an excellent bit of Amature Journalism that outlines how the Obama campaign is likely behind an astroturf campaign to promote sleazy and blatantly false claims about Sarah Palin.

Looks like Chicago politics to me.  Why would we want to elect a president from there again?

Looks like some ward leaders in Northeast Philly aren’t sold on Obama yet.  Philly has to be pretty solid to carry the state.  This is a good sign for McCain.

Here’s a great quote from Biden:

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, “look, here’s what happened.”

Well, except for the fact that FDR wasn’t president when the stock market crashed in 1929.  Herbert Hoover was president.  The first president to appear on Television was actually Franklin Roosevelt, but that was at the 1939 World Fair.

The other funny thing is, I doubt Joe Biden could even explain what happened.  I’ve been reading for days on this crisis, and I can’t exactly say I understand completely how all these financial instruments that are in play here all interact with each other.