Consider for a moment a husband and wife who have become bored with their nine-to-five jobs and decide to make a better life for them selves. They make a bold, high-risk decision to quit their jobs and become entrepreneurs in pursuit of independence and self-reliance. The couple puts every dime they have into building a small business under the excruciating stress of knowing failure could send them into personal financial ruin.

After years of sixteen-hour days, hocking their house to live in a cheap apartment, a steady diet of beans and rice, and unimaginable stress, their business becomes profitable. Through their blood, sweat, and toil – and with no help from government or anybody else – their business starts to grow and provides jobs for fifty employees.

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Let’s be honest here, John McCain did not have a good week.

The average American citizen doesn’t understand what happened this past week in the financial markets or on Wall Street. What they do hear, is people like Chris Matthews telling them their money may not be safe in financial institutions and that this current crisis resembles the Great Depression.

Americans are scared.

They don’t care about who is to blame or that Obama took money from Freddie and Fannie – they need to hear from our “leaders” that their money is safe and that we are not headed for a catastrophic depression. President Bush didn’t offer that calm, reassuring tone yesterday nor did Barack Obama.

Senator McCain had an opportunity to be that calming voice and to step out front and demonstrate the kind of strong, decisive leadership that truly great presidents are made of. Instead, he opted for playing the blame game that Americans are getting tired of.

Barring any new unforseen major event (terrorist hits, etc.) this issue will dominate the last 43 days of this election. The candidate that can best convince voters that they understand the problem and have real solutions for dealing with it will win the election. It’s that simple.

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John McCain was right to say “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.”

During times of turmoil and uncertainty, it is incumbent upon all leaders at the national level to be a calming, reassuring voice to the American public. Senator McCain was simply being a statesman putting the best interests of his country before his own self interests.

Obama and Biden, on the other hand, are trying to exploit McCain’s efforts to calm a frightened public by ridiculing his assertion and telling the American people how “bad” their lives are. In fact, that’s been a consistent message from the Left for years and has succeeded in scaring the hell out of Americans to the point of eroding confidence in their futures, causing them to tighten their purse strings, and manifesting the “doom & gloom” mentality into the classic self-fulfilling prophecy.

By laughing at McCain’s statement that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, the Democrats are effectively telling the American public that the underpinnings of this economy are on the brink of a total thermonuclear meltdown. How would most working Americans respond to that? Consumers are the engine that drives our economy. If they are convinced jobs are going to be eliminated by the millions or that they are in jeopardy of losing their home and life savings, then the first thing they will do is postpone buying a new car or a new refrigerator or any other purchase not an absolute necessity.

And that’s the beginning of the proverbial snowball that leads to an economic recession.

The Democrats, in their “stop at nothing” efforts to win votes, have set that snowball in motion and are pushing it down the hill by convincing Americans the end of the world is near.

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On style and delivery, I would give Hillary a 9.5 on the scale of 10.

Let’s face it, she had a “job” to do which was to throw her support behind Barack Obama. Moreover, she had to preserve and protect her own political future and could not be seen as a Democrat who helped her party lose this election.

But let’s look a bit deeper into Hillary’s rousing speech.

I didn’t hear her say why Barack Obama would be a good president – only why John McCain would be a “bad” one. I didn’t hear her speak to the personal character qualities of Obama – only to the importance of putting a Democrat in the White House.

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Barack Obama will defend the entitlement of foriegn terrorists to protection under the United States Constitution.

But not to living, breathing, American babies outside their mothers’ womb.

He will eagerly defend the proposition that illegal foriegn immingrants are entitled to protection under our Constitution including free medical treatment anytime they need it.

But he is opposed to giving any form of medical treatment to a newborn baby whose only “crime” is defying the doctor’s efforts to kill it, and for breathing American air against the wishes of its mother.

If deciding when a newborn infant is entitled to human rights and protection of the U.S. Constitution is “above his paygrade” of one seeking the highest office in our land and the most powerful in the world, then…..

…Obama needs to give serious consideration to a career change.

A Dutch physicist first experimented with the internal combustion engine in the 1600’s using gun powder as fuel. That same conceptual design powered the first “horseless carriage” in the 1800’s.

Since then, the world has gone through a spectacular, explosive advancement in technology from space travel to a real-life version of Captain Kirk’s tiny hand-held communicator to the desktop PC.

But our automobiles are being powered today by the same technology that Henry Ford put in the Model-T Ford over one hundred years ago.

In a very literal sense, our auto engine technology today is one step above the horse and buggy.

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“I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.”

John Edwards in 1999 on Bill Clinton

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Despite what Speaker Pelosi is telling us, the prices of oil and gas are set by the law of supply and demand – not by a handful of U.S. oil “speculators” who trade futures (not physical crude) of a world commodity trading on a world market.

We have been witness to that fundamental law as we watched crude prices soar under a rapidly-accelerating world demand that overwhelmed supplies. Now we are seeing demand coming down as the high prices force a change in consumption habits. The prices will ultimately level off at a point in which supply and demand are at equilibrium.

Declining oil/gas prices is the good news.

The bad news is that the lower prices will tend to instill a perception in the minds of consumers that the “crisis is over” and trigger a resumption of the old consumption habits that led us to four-dollar gas in the first place.

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I’m Barack Obama.

This election is not about you, the American people – it is about ME becoming the first black President in American history.

This is not about my inexperience, my funny name, or that I look different that other pictures on dollar bills – it’s ME defeating the powerful Clinton Machine on MY way to making history.

This is about ME getting my own picture on a three-dollar bill – by signing an Executive Order on day one of taking office.

This is not about YOUR problems – this is about MY brilliant oratory skills and MY remarkable inspirational speeches that makes you believe I really care about your problems.

I am the ONE. I deserve this victory.

You, as American voters, OWE ME the Presidency to compensate ME for the despicable treatment of my ancestors and for the hundreds of millions of dollars I’ve spent fighting for what was MINE to begin with.

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Just when we thought Hillary had finally come to grips with her devastating loss to Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries, this video of Hillary spiked the curiosity meter and suggested that she may not yet willing to raise the white flag.

(I would post only the video images if I knew how)

Perhaps “conincidently” (and perhaps not), Bill Clinton’s recent comments in an interview (see video) with ABC’s Kate Snow portrayed a bitter, angry man who would rather cut off both arms than endorse the victor who spoiled his wife’s (and his) entitled coronation.

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If you give food to a starving stray dog – then he’ll keep coming back for more and you’ll never get rid of it.

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A recent poll suggests the American people are getting pretty tired of hearing so much about Barack Obama.

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It is essential for a presidential candidate to manage and control anger in the heat of an intense and often-bitter political campaign. But for the Messiah and his disciples, it is not Obama’s anger they are managing and controlling, but rather the anger of voters.

Americans are becoming increasingly mad as hell every time they fill up their gas tanks. I’m mad too. We all are. Obama and his Liberal followers are trying to exploit that anger by misdirecting it away from their own failures and inactions.

Their first attempt was to launch the “blame it on the speculators” campaign to stir up the ire of ticked off voters. That one never got traction and appears to be fizzling. So their current strategy is to inflame the passions of anger among voters into an emotionally-supercharged lynch mob by painting the oil companies as “evil scum of the earth” who are “gouging” Americans into bankruptcy. Moreover, he is putting up a “we buy votes for $1,000” sign by promising voters he will force oil companies to send every American family a “dividend check” for one grand out of their “obscene” profits.

Yeah, that’ll show the dirty SOBs for screwing us!

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Obama just unveiled his comprehensive energy plan – version 47.

His plan is bold, sweeping, innovative, cutting-edge, and poses a serious threat to McCain’s plan of simply reducing our dependence on foriegn oil.

Here’s the link

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Monday (Good Morning America): “Senator Obama, your health care plan will cost well into the hundreds of billions, some estimates even over a trillion. How will you find the funding to pay for this ambitious plan?”

Obama: “That’s simple. I can pay for it by rolling back Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy.”

Tuesday (CNN): “Senator Obama, your energy plan calls for substantial ‘investment’ in new energy sources that could run into the hundred billions of dollars. How will you pay for it?”

Obama: “By taking back George Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy.”

Wednesday (Town Hall Question): “Senator, how are you proposing to pay for the tax rebates, tax credits, and all the other givebacks you are proposing”

Obama: “I promise to take back Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy.”

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President Bush’s popularity in the minds of the American people ranks right up there with a root canal. Because of that, John McCain has been labeled “Bush’s third term” by those who have successfully painted Bush as “the worst president ever.”

Both of those are bum raps.

President Bush’s problem is not that he has been the “bad president” the Liberal media and Democrats have made him out to be – his problem is that his not-so-good oratory skills combined with his unwillingness to stand up and defend his policies have allowed his critics to make their charges stick. George Bush’s policies haven’t been near as bad as the Liberals have claimed. George Bush simply hasn’t been able to sell those policies to the American people.

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This morning, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Obama held a press conference and took questions from the press. Without his scrip and teleprompter, it wasn’t pretty as the Illinois Senator stuttered and stammered his way through softball questions that my six-year-old grandaughter would have been able to answer.

In three different speeches Thursday in my home state of Missouri, Obama said “they” ( a clear reference to McCain’s campaign) are making Americans “scared” of one who “looks different that other presidents on dollar bills”, who “has a funny name”, and “did I mention he is black?”

When asked by the press to explain those comments, Obama danced around it with the eloquence and grace of a three-legged bull elephant doing the cha-cha.

What was NOT asked, is if Obama made those statement because he felt McCain was using race and ethnicity in pointing out he is a “risky” candidate. If so, then WHY so? And if not, they why would YOU (Senator Obama) make those statements?

In a follow-up question, Obama made this (direct quote) statment: “Let me be clear, in no way do I think John McCain’s campaign was being racist.”

So I repeat my question: Why did Obama make those comments accusing McCain’s camp of using “scare” tactics by pointing out he is black?

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I’ve only had two pots of coffee this morning, so I’m feelin’ a little ornery and maybe even a bit silly. But what the hell, I heard Chris Matthews say this is “silly season” so I’ll get in the spirit.

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Let’s try my first link

Here’s a test of “B-Quote”

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.)

General George Patton

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Number List

1. Roses are red

2. violets are blue

3. I hate the Yankees

4. 1. how about you

Bullet list

• Roses are red
• violets are blue
• I like McCain
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• and you’d better too

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• He voted AGAINST funding for our troops to provide them with ammunition, body armor, food, and other essential supplies to keep them alive and defeat their enemy.
• He has NEVER used the words “victory” or “honor” in laying out his plans for Iraq.

• He is effectively telling our courageous fighting warriors in Iraq that they aren’t good enough to defeat the enemy.
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• He voted AGAINST a Senate resolution condemning the despicable ad by MoveOn calling a highly-decorated, patriotic, American 4-star General “General Betrayus.”

• He snubbed wounded troops in Germany after learning the press and cameras were prohibited.
• He has consistently pushed for an action that is the most devastating form of DISHONOR for any American military soldier: RETREAT from the battlefield under fire.
• He has steadfastly REFUSED to acknowledge the huge success of the “surge” and has given more credit to tribal factions in Iraq than he has given to those fought and died to make it a success.
• He has exploited the tragic deaths of our fallen heroes to gain political power and to win an election.

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