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Posted at 11:59pm on Jul. 4, 2008 McCains Real Problem

By rcov092

Crossposted at http://www.smear-the-fight.com

So I have confessed that John McCain was not my first or my second choice as Republican nominee for President. But as the parties nominee, I will vote for him. But at this moment, I am not feeling warm and fuzzy for his chances.

His campaign remains in disarray. This is nothing new. It is what put him in the position of being declared dead before the primary season began. It is to his credit that he arose from the ashes to reclaim the nomination. However, we stand at another crossroads. The Democratic nominee is set, he is a formidable fundraiser, an astute campaigner with a strong organization and a willingness to attack the jugular with surrogates while Senator McCain stands there wishing for a gentler, kinder type of campaign.

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Posted at 9:22pm on Jul. 4, 2008 We Need a Patton Today

By edgray4america

I was told as a child never to start anything you cannot finish .The Iraq War is now being fought on another Independence Day. Senator Obama will soon go to Iraq and determine how to prosecute the war. Senator McCain has decided how to fight the war,it is to win it. While politicians talk about the war over hot dogs this holiday, soldiers like my cousin are in the war zone trying to survive. No one likes war ,as the noted philospher Edwin Starr asked "War,what is it good for ? Absolutely nothing."

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Posted at 8:38pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Should the Fourth of July be replaced by "World Day"?

By FrankLucia

Should the Fourth of July be banned in America? It is worthy of debate as to whether our nation deserves to celebrate the Fourth of July. That, instead of stuffing our faces with hot dogs and wasting money which could otherwise go to social services on fireworks, we should be atoning for the many, many sins of our nation.

"World Day" could be a new day of atonement, to replace the Fourth of July. On this day we eat tofu (no meats), use no air conditioning, and not use our vehicles. Actually, I could foresee "World Month", in which Americans make formal, widely publicized apologies to the indigenous peoples of our continent, and to all those around the world for our transgressions.

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Posted at 8:16pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Liberal Blogger: "Awesome" That Jesse Helms is Dead; Hopes Limbaugh is Next

By Bill Dupray

Liberals love to think they have cornered the market on compassion. Their core belief is that if it were not for the mean and nasty conservatives, life would be full of love and lollipops doled out by the humane and civilized liberals. The fact is that liberals are stunningly intolerant people who seek to silence, not debate, their political opponents.

Case in point from this lovely and caring Democrat blogger at the Upside Down Again blog.

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Posted at 6:45pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Paul Krugman Gets It Wrong -- (Ok, I Realize This Is Not News)

By David Hinz

In an Op-Ed in today's New York Times entitled, Rove's Third Term, Paul Krugman does what he does best -- he completely gets it wrong on the issue of Gen Wesley Clark, Barack Obama and John McCain.

In true Klugman fashion he manages to see neither the forest, nor the trees, instead embarking on a fantasy cruise to Krugman Never-Never Land, where the Mainstream Media acts in coordination with Republican strategists to further the goals of the Right. If only Mr Krugman's Chimera bore some resemblance to fact.

Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service.

The American people did not, in fact, see these Democrat luminaries spout these words on their television sets. The American people, confronted with the evidence of their own eyes and ears, were merely duped by a Rovian conspiracy.

What's more, Mr Krugman, Sen Kerry never accused the US Military of committing war crime atrocities, Rep Murtha never accused the US Marines of cold blooded murder, and Barack Obama had no idea that his pastor of 20 years had ever uttered a single word in condemnation of the very nation he seeks to lead. And the American people did not see the evidence with their own eyes.

In your world of fantasy, it is Neo-Con idealogues like Karl Rove who lie and steal elections; the George Bush's of this world who deliberately lead this country into "illegal" wars of aggression in search of American Hegemony over the Middle East; and the Dick Cheney's of this world who diabolically pull the puppet strings behind the scenes. It is too bad that "Illuminati Bankers" can't find their way into your delusions, but that would be just too much self-loathing for even you.

In the world of Paul Krugman, as in much of the far lunatic left, their own candidates, and their out-of-touch-with-America ideas are simply misunderstood by the public; dishonestly portrayed by a press eager to mimic the Conservative message. Is it possible to be more wrong? I think not.

Come with me on a journey through Never-Never Krugman Land as I deconstruct Mr Krugman, paragraph by weakly constructed thought, turning his diatribe against Karl Rove and Sen John McCain back onto the left.

First posted at The Minority Report

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Posted at 3:33pm on Jul. 4, 2008 A Day For Traitors and Treasonists

By haystack

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Our founding Fathers, 56 of them God rest their souls, were traitors in their time and were considered by their fellow Englishmen back then to be the most evil amongst good men...but what was derived from their high crimes of treason stands before us today as the greatest nation in the history of mankind. This fact deserves nothing less than a hushed silence of reverence and respect; you crush a man under your heels long enough and he will rise up against you. After many years of having to suffer the tyranny of their government, on this day 232 years ago our forefathers flipped off a King, and set about bringing sanity to an insane world.

Consider these words in contrast with the lessons of history our current Congress (and the cavalier nature of their impositions on our lives) either never learned or have clearly forgotten:

[A]ll experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

This Independence day I am especially reminded of these words as I look around at the collective state of our Republic.

More below the fold...

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Posted at 2:13pm on Jul. 4, 2008 For Those Who Defended Huckabee as a Fiscal Conservative

By Vegas Rick

My appologies if this was already posted. I looked, but found no other reference.

Mike Huckabee's political action committee, Huck Pac, has endorsed Don (Bridge to no where) Young.

http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/4008d8c4-ad89-4044-babc-32e1df976eab

I remember back in the fall and winter, all of the Huckabots where denouncing attacks on Huckabee's fiscal and economic record as unfair and unfounded.

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Posted at 2:09pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Four Fourth fronts' HinzSight letters

By gamecock

By David Hinz
Originally published as Letters Home From The Front -- July 4, 1777 -- July 4, 2008 at The Minority and HinzSight Reports

First of all, lest anyone call into question the honesty of these accounts, the historical references are real, while the actual letters are fiction. I hope, with these letters to capture, in part, the thoughts and feelings of the time in history.

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Posted at 1:35pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Jesse Helms: The Death Of A Patriot

By ICRJCalvin

Shortly after Jesse Helms was elected as a US Senator from North Carolina in 1972, a group of about 200 Republican and Democratic supporters were invited to have dinner with him in Raleigh. Upon his being introduced to speak, we gave Senator Helms a thunderous standing ovation. He responded in typical Jesse “manner” by saying, “There are only two reasons an audience gives a speaker a standing ovation at the beginning of his speech: One; they want to show appreciation to the speaker now because they don’t know if they will feel like it by the end of the speech. Two; they want to take an opportunity to stand and straighten their underwear. I noticed several people doing the latter.”

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Posted at 12:54pm on Jul. 4, 2008 The Pursuit of Happiness; Our Most Important Right

By Blue Collar Muse

Near the beginning of The Declaration of Independence, these words appear.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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Posted at 12:37pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Will Obama win a war in order to win an election?

By Soren Dayton

John McCain has famously said that he would rather lose an election than lose a war. He seemingly sacrificed his Presidential ambitions in favor of our national interest.

In Barack Obama, it seems that we have the converse. He had declared the war lost and withdrawal an imperative when it was politically expedient. Now it seems that the reality on the ground (both polling in the US and the security in Iraq, in that order) has shifted, and Barack Obama is about to change his position.

Where John McCain put the war above his election, Barack Obama puts the election above the war, and everything else.

The lesson here is that Barack Obama is willing to sacrifice anything and everything for his political ambitions. No friend is too close, no promise so (seemingly) heartfelt, no principle so great will get in the way of his election.

Now there is a contrast with John McCain.

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Posted at 12:31pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Patriotism

By tjasko

And now, a special message for this Independence Day:

(Bonus image below the cut)

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Posted at 12:06pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Will God continue to bless America?

By Sandra Lea Wise

I heard the following sermon in Church last Sunday in light of the birthday of our Independence today.

Why has God blessed America?

1) Our Nation was founded on the freedom to express the Christian faith. The Mayflower Compact was the first document written. The common purpose of the document was “the advancement of the Christian faith” and God is mentioned four times.

2) Our founding fathers acknowledged God’s authority over us. The Declaration of Independence says our rights come from God. Washington added “so help me God” to the oath of office.

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Posted at 11:55am on Jul. 4, 2008 Happy 4th Obama Supporters

By ilitigant

As Think Progress is astounded that "In a recent American Spectator article, former Reagan White House political director and QubeTV founder Jeffery Lord gives his vision of what 'America would look like in an age of Obama.' According to Lord, 'The word is fascism':" we need only remind them that their blind support of a hollow candidate can only mean the following:

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Posted at 11:28am on Jul. 4, 2008 Religious Affairs Adviser Says, "Deport Jesus!"

By gclaghorn

Apparently appealing to the large mass of his supporters that
are “Jesus Freaks”, Obama has hired a religion and politics teacher
from Wesley Theological Seminary to be his new Senior Adviser of
Religious Affairs. His plan would have gone off without a hitch —
if he hadn’t hired a man who holds himself to atheist ideals.

I would like to note that, by my definition, an atheist is
someone who casts God aside as a myth, sometimes calling religion a
carefully devised ruse designed by ancient governments, but calls
anyone who presents scientific evidence against global warming a
conspiracy theorist. Now would be an appropriate place for the
quintessential “pot and kettle” idiom, but the presence of the word
“black” in that saying could make my use of it a hate crime.
Whereas, when Alan Colmes uses that idiom, he is labeled as a
patriot — yes, I mean the Alan Colmes who regrets that the Star
Spangled Banner is our national anthem. His biggest problem with
the song is that pesky little line which describes America as “the
land of the free and the home of the brave”.

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