Archive for the ‘2008 Presidential Election’ Category

Mar 06

FOIA docs show Obama asked George Soros and wind energy lobbyists to hide European wind energy program failures

Posted at 9:15 pm in Barack Obama & Environmentalism

The Blog Prof links to Chris Horner’s article at Pajamas Media that details how Barack Obama, George Soros, and wind energy lobbyists colluded to hide the details of two economic studies that showed the wind energy programs in Spain and Denmark didn’t help the economy and create jobs as the president said they did. I’m [...]

Mar 05

Are Obama’s advisers set to reverse course on KSM civilian trial and recommend military tribunals instead?

Posted at 12:54 pm in Barack Obama & Military & National Security & Terrorism

If Obama accepts these recommendations, it would be a sign that he is capable of acknowledging when a policy is unpopular and reversing course on it. The Washington Post has the story:
President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a [...]

Mar 03

WSJ: Obama’s reconciliation move is an abuse of power

Posted at 1:13 pm in Barack Obama & Democrats & health care

With Barack Obama’s declaration, “Damn the American people! Full speed ahead!” the US Congress is perverting a parliamentary process that was designed only for budgetary issues that could reduce the deficit. Instead, he and Nancy Pelosi are using it to pass their massive new health care entitlement program because they can’t pass it any other [...]

Mar 03

Sarah Palin on the Tonight Show

Posted at 9:25 am in Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was on the Tonight Show last night and spent quite a bit of time on the couch talking with Jay Leno about everything from politics to the Olympics to her family. She even took a stab at stand up comedy. My favorite line of the night was her response to Jay asking if [...]

Feb 27

Michael Barone on why Americans are more independent than Europeans

Posted at 2:16 pm in Barack Obama & Democrats & Freedom & government

Michael Barone has a piece in which he offers one reason why most Americans today to reject a nanny-state and demand their independence while Europeans are accept that a nanny-state has significant control over many aspects of their lives:
Why do Americans reject such policies while Europeans seem content with them? One reason is history. Twentieth-century [...]

Feb 08

GOP responds to Obama’s request for summit on health care

Posted at 9:30 pm in Barack Obama & Republicans & health care

President Obama asked the Republicans to join him and Democrats for a bipartisan summit on health care. Naturally wary of Obama’s motives, the GOP responded to the request with a few questions. Here’s part of the letter’s text as it is published at The Corner:
We welcome President Obama’s announcement of forthcoming bipartisan health care talks. [...]

Feb 08

Obama gave the Colts the kiss of death: he predicted they would win

Posted at 9:17 am in Barack Obama & elections

So, now Obama is 0-4. First in Virginia, he endorsed and campaigned for Democrat Creigh Deeds for governor, who was destroyed by Republican Bob McDonnell. Next in New Jersey, he endorsed and campaigned for Democrat Jon Corzine for governor and he was defeated by Republican Chris Christie. Then in Massachusetts he endorsed and campaigned for [...]

Feb 06

Tonight Sarah Palin speaks

Posted at 8:50 pm in Conservatism & Media & Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin speaks at the Tea Party convention tonight at 9:00pm. All the cable networks as well as CSPAN will be broadcasting it. Unfortunately, I’ll have to watch it on CNN because our Canadian hotel does not have FNC. Boo! Anyway, even some Canadian newspapers have been covering the Tea Party convention. Even yesterday morning’s [...]

Feb 03

Zo and the Zolettes’ song for Obama: You talk too much

Posted at 6:00 pm in Barack Obama

This comes as a nice compliment to my post below. Here’s Zo and the Zolettes (with a surprise appearance by Pat Boone) singing their song dedicated to President Obama:

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Jan 24

Osama Bin Laden takes credit for Christmas Day Bombing

Posted at 9:44 pm in Barack Obama & National Security & Terrorism

This broke today on Fox News. A new audio tape was released in which Osama Bin Laden takes credit for the Christmas Day bombing. He also said that more terrorists are on their way because America will not be allowed to live in peace while those in Palestine are suffering.
A few things:
1. Didn’t [...]

 Page 1 of 15  1  2  3  4  5 » ...  Last »