85 Days
Until Election Day
August 11, 2008
MORNING
UPDATE:
RUSSIA SLAUGHTER GEORGIANS…in an unprecedented show of aggression, Russian troops are indiscriminately bombing and killing thousands of civilians in it’s attempt to wipe out U.S. ally Georgia. The world in shock and can only stand by and watch, as the old Russian bear emerges, with KGB Colonel Putin in charge. So much for change.
to earn your votes while Obama vacations in Hawaii. Michigan
is a battleground state and the commitment from both campaigns of
staff and resources here, as well as the polling that shows the
race in Michigan a virtual dead heat, makes your efforts so much
more important!
movement in Congress. Here is a great website to follow how
Americans are reacting to the House Democrats refusal to call
Congress back from their paid vacation. Check it out…follow
it.
asking Speaker Pelosi to call back the Democrat controlled Congress
and vote on and energy package that would include domestic
drilling…rather than take a 5 week PAID
vacation.
http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/08/before-the-rall.html
http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/08/after-the-rally.html
boys off at a national Boy Scout Jamboree outside of Akron Ohio
this weekend. Over 450 kids gathered to enjoy scouting and
friendship, something I have done every year since I’ve been
5 years old with my dad.
INFO…here
is the information on our upcoming State Convention to take place
Saturday, August 23rd.
http://www.migop.org/inner.asp?z=108
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RUSSIA
continued its airstrikes on battered Georgia
By JAMES CLENCH in
London
and NEIL SYSON in Tbilisi
Georgia called for a
ceasefire as its blitzed armies fell into retreat — and said
it was ready for urgent talks on a “termination of
hostilities”.
But as Georgian
president Mikheil Saakashvili waited for a reply, Russian forces
continued to bombard the area — before taking command of it
completely.
Georgia said 6,000
Russian troops had rolled in from the neighbouring Russian province
of North Ossetia.
South Ossetia capital
Tskhinvali was said to be razed to the ground. And in a dramatic
escalation, a Russian naval squadron SANK a Georgian missile boat
in the Black Sea while its warplanes BOMBED the oil port of Poti
and TARGETED Georgia’s international airport in capital
Tbilisi.
We helped in Iraq
- now help us, beg Georgians
Tony
Halpin
As a Russian jet
bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer,
asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they
won’t help us now, why did we help them in
Iraq?”
A similar sense of
betrayal coursed through the conversations of many Georgians here
yesterday as their troops retreated under shellfire and the Russian
Army pressed forward to take full control of South
Ossetia.
Smoke rose as
Russian artillery fire exploded less than half a mile from the
bridge marking South Ossetia’s border with Georgia. A group
of Georgian soldiers hastily abandoned their lorry after its wheels
were shot out and ran across the border.
Bush
says violence in Georgia is unacceptable
By BEN
FELLER
Associated Press Write
BEIJING (AP) -
President Bush on Monday sharply criticized Moscow’s harsh military
crackdown in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, saying the
violence is unacceptable and Russia’s response is
disproportionate.
The United
States is waging an all-out campaign to get Russia to halt its
retaliation against Georgia for trying to take control of the
breakaway province of South Ossetia.
Bush, in an interview with
NBC Sports, said, "I’ve expressed my grave concern about the
disproportionate response of Russia and that we strongly condemn
the bombing outside of South Ossetia." He said he did so directly
to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who’s here for the Olympics, and
by phone to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.
McCain plans 3 Metro
fundraisers; actor stumps for Obama
Gordon Trowbridge /
Detroit News Washington Bureau
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will hold three
campaign fundraisers in Metro Detroit during a Wednesday visit, his
campaign said Sunday.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama got some help in Michigan on Sunday
from actor Kal Penn, who campaigned in Metro Detroit for the
Democratic candidate. Penn starred in the two "Harold and Kumar"
films and TV’s "House."
Spokesman Leah Yoon said McCain, accompanied by Sen. Joe
Lieberman, will also hold a nonfinance related campaign stop.
Lieberman will hold a Wednesday evening campaign event at the
Holocaust Memorial Center in Bloomfield Hills; McCain will not
attend.
The doubts
starting to rein back
Obama
Andrew Sullivan
Why
is it so close? That’s been the chatter after these past two
weeks in the three-month run of the Obama-McCain smackdown. The
Obamaphiles are nervous that their man has stalled in the polls
after what, objectively, was a successful trip overseas. The
McCainites, terrified of a Democratic wave, are taking solace in
the failure of Barack Obama to break away. The straggling
Clintonites are busy preparing their
told-you-sos.
There
are any number of theories offered for the tightness. One is that
Obama is too temperamentally aloof for most Americans. According to
the columnist Maureen Dowd, he is the Mr Darcy of American
politics, too proud, while Americans are still a little too
prejudiced. Or maybe Obama is too popular with Germans for his own
domestic good (he’s lucky he didn’t hold a rally on the
Champs Elysées). Or is his orthodox liberalism in many areas
seeping through, while America remains a centre-right country?
Others posit that the only halfway normal Americans who focus on
the campaign in early August are the elderly, and they are
demographically more in tune with John McCain.
Who
knows for sure? My view is that McCain was always the most
appealing Republican in the current atmosphere and Obama is, for
many people, a less well-known and riskier bet. But two factors are
undervalued. The first is Iraq. It’s easily forgotten but
Obama’s candidacy would never have gained the slightest
traction were it not for his opposition to the war from the start.
It’s what distinguished him from Hillary Clinton and, in the
midst of apparent chaos and drift in Mesopotamia, his campaign gave
voice to those who simply wanted to cut American losses and move
on.
EST
A few weeks back, Time
magazine was musing that John McCain was in danger of sliding from
“a long shot” to a “no-shot.” Around the
same time, a hard-nosed former Hillary Clinton insider declared the
race “effectively over” thanks to the McCain
campaign’s ineptitude, the tanking U.S. economy and
Obama’s advantages in cash, charisma and hope. And Obama, up
by three to six points nationally, was about to leverage a
much-anticipated trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Europe into a
pre-convention poll surge.
Instead, his supporters are now suffering a pre-Denver panic
attack, watching as John McCain draws incrementally closer in state
and national polls – with Rasmussen’s most recent daily
national tracker showing a statistical dead heat.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has been privately enumerating her
doubts about Obama to supporters, according to people who have
spoken with her. Clinton’s pollster Mark Penn recently
unveiled a PowerPoint presentation red-flagging Obama’s
lukewarm leads among white female voters and Hispanics –
while predicting a five-point swing could turn a presumed Obama win
into a McCain landslide.
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