Hopefully, President Obama can restore America’s image in the world and bring some intellect into the White House.

Send the clueless goose to Alaska and make her stay there!
Hate, power hunger, greed and cluelessness is a dangerous combination!

After the election, Palin and her adoring supporters should form their OWN party.

This is your chance!!

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s positions on Iran, according to reports that have reached Israel’s government.

Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France. But according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate’s stance on Iran as “utterly immature” and comprised of “formulations empty of all content.”

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031943.html

2008. The year The One (Barack Obama) … Lost.

Obamalies or Lies Obama Tells
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=73

Cynthia – Palins is 44, not 47. Born in ’64. I was born in ’61, but still put myself into that narrow group of post-boomers and GenXers. We are all in our 40′s, and are, as far as I can see, the main drivers of the economy now. My younger brother, 43, makes the point that we have more impact, because we have more dollars per capita. We’re generally highly-educated and highly-motivated… and we don’t answer polls. We came of age during the Reagan Revolution, graduating college in great numbers in the 80′s. Very money- and success-oriented. Fiscal conservatives.

It is interesting to note that the people being considered most by McCain were Palin and Pawlenty. Jindal was suggested by many. Of those trying to get the bailout right, the most significant was Eric Kantor. The good ideas came from him. Ages of these individuals? mid-40′s. Obama, too. I think I’m seeing a real trend for the future. This group of 40-somethings will ALL turn out to vote. I don’t know a one who won’t. This election may be a passing of the torch that will last for the next 20 years.

I really like Palin and hope to be seeing her become the first woman President. Yet, I can’t remember the last time I was in church, and the church that would be doesn’t much resemble the moniker “Fundamentalist”. I really couldn’t care less whether Roe v Wade gets overturned tomorrow or stands forever like Marbury v. Madison. If they had had a referendum on abortion, I likely wouldn’t show up to vote if that was the only thing on the ballot. All the rest of the “life” issues are similarly snoozers with me, except that I reserve the right to punch my own ticket in the hypothetical situation where it seems the lesser of the evils. As to the gay marriage thing, I’m mildly against it but can think of dozens of things more important. I’ll gladly trade you that one to keep my guns and money. Yet, I like Palin. Why? Because Palin isn’t really about all that “Fundy” stuff. She never ran on it, and never prioritized it. What she is about is Jacksonianism, as defined by Walter Russell Meade (there may be other, not necessarily related, definitions floating around out there by I mean it in his sense).

That leads into the classism point. The elites have always looked down on the Jacksonian common man. If you read up on it (Jim Webb’s book on the Scotts Irish is a short & readible treatment, David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed” a more scholarly one), you’ll see they were pretty much despised on arrival in the mid-19th Century. Yet, they have been the backbone of our military and, as Meade points out, the other foriegn policy schools cannot succeed at their policies with them on board. Palin definately carries the signs of the tribe. As a Jacksonian myself, in foriegn policy know I can trust her not to sell out US soveriegty to “international organizations”, not to weaken our military, and not to cut & run from any wars (a Jacksonian trait being that once you’re in a war, winning is not optional). On the domestic front, I can trust her not to raise my taxes, redistribute my wealth to the non-working, infringe on my RKBA, give amnesty to illegals, deliberately raise the cost of energy in the name of avoiding environmental bogymen, or appoint judges who will “interpret” away the 2nd or apply foriegn law to the interpretation of our constitution.

If she gets all that right, I don’t much care what she thinks about abortion, Terri Schiavo, Dr Kevorkian, prayer in school, Judge Moore’s 10 commandment monument, gay marriage or anything else on the Fundy issue list. Nor am I upset if she can’t out-wonk a bunch of Ivy Leagers that I demonstratably can’t trust on the things that matter. I really can’t wrap my mind around this “I was gonna vote for McCain but Palin turned me off” routine. Hypothetically, I suppose they might scrounge up a Jacksonian someplace who gets all the important stuff right AND energizes the base like Palin BUT is religiously indifferent and exudes foriegn policy expertise like an Ivy League educated career diplomat and economic expertise like a he/she is channeling Milton Friedman and says it all with the silver tongue of a former presidential speachwriter turned professional columnist. When you find that dream candidate, let me know. Until then, Palin will suit me fine.

I’m a boomer. I was born in 1956, a year most people don’t realize was the peak year – after that it slowed down some. Most agree the boom officially ended in 1961 or 1964, depending on the source of information. At age 47 Sarah Palin falls into this late boomer group, as do I. I have to tell you – there is a BIG difference between those born before 1956 and those of us born that year and afterwards. We were the ones who watched our older brothers and sisters waste our parents money protesting the war instead of going to class. By the time we got to college the war was virtually over and we used college to get a real education in the classroom. I think those of us in late boomer period are embarrassed by the older group, and in some perverse way we’re both proud to be a boomer while hating being tossed into the same group.

I’d say the hope for our party is the late boomers and the next generation that followed (whatever it is they are called – Gen X?) so please don’t throw out the boomers out of hand. The labels are meaningless anyway. No matter your age if you are conservative you should be joining with other conservatives for the fight of our lives. First of all, we are as smart and as well-educated as any liberal or moderate. I have three advanced degrees and no one has ever accused me of being a liberal and I resent people who presume I’m an ignorant redneck just because I hold conservative views and values. We have to show what we are – the best and brightest our country has and the ones most capable of solving our country’s problems and getting us back on the right track (no pun intended).

Republicans who have turned their back on conservatives and Sarah Palin in particular are not Republicans in my view. And we true Republicans, who value small government, fiscal conservatism and the right and ability to determine our own futures, without the government intervening – we true Republicans will remember who has done and said what over the past 8 years and we will overcome you and your RINO ways.

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