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UPDATE: the launch yesterday had some problems, but everything is running smoothly now. so please check back if you tried to join and couldn’t. you’ll get in just fine now!

UPDATE: but here are the real numbers:

In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/— 3 points for both samples.

the “saraccuda bounce”. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAW!

“Fortune favours the bold.” -Virgil

it was just about 2 months ago that i said how much i like sarah palin. looks like johnny mac and i are on the same page, once again!

a brilliant choice on several levels, not the least of which is that SHE HAS MORE EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA! HA!

here’s mark steyn on palin:

First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, “all-American”, but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I’m not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin’ Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who’s done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of “community organizer” and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.

(pic and steyn link courtesy of the barnyard)

because i am too busy to write any decent posts lately!

Eventually, we will all hate Obama too

It amuses me that some of those who criticise the present US Administration for its Manichaeism – its division of the world into good and evil – themselves allocate all past badness to Bush and all prospective goodness to Obama. As the ever-improving myth has it, on the morning of September 12, 2001, George W. and America enjoyed the sympathy of the world. This comradeship was destroyed, in a uniquely cavalier (or should we say cowboyish) fashion, through the belligerence, the carelessness, the ideological fixity and the rapacity of that amorphous and useful category of American flawed thinker, the neoconservative. They just threw it away.

Confessions of an Anti-Iraq War Democrat: Memories of a Purple Finger

The surge did, in fact, lead to a reduction of violence, confirmed by media on the ground as well as our military leaders.

It did allow the Shi’ite government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the last several months to show leadership by joining, if not leading, the military effort to clean out of Basra the masked Mahdi Army controlled by the anti-U.S. Shiite extremist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and in the Sadr City section of Baghdad he claimed to control.

This willingness by the Shi’ite–dominated Maliki government to move against the Sadr Shi’ite extremists won crucial credibility for the government among many Sunni leaders and Sunnis on the streets, who joined together with Shi’ites to turn against the Al Qaeda in Iraq and other Taliban–like extremists.

These are facts, not arguments.

Why Obama will fail!

Obama is the second coming of Carter, there is no doubt about it. From the way he took over the party, to the election against an uncharismatic standard-bearer opponent in the elections, to his belief that America is bad, and it’s all America’s fault anyway, and that all that is necessary to make everything work is appeasement and humility, and oh, let’s try to fix are suffering economy by implementing socialist ideas. So yeah, if you are reading this and you remember those days, then please brace yourself, because it’s gonna suck again for the next four years.

VOIGHT: My concerns for America

The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.

What Has Obama Accomplished?

“Just tell me one thing Barack Obama has done that you admire,” I asked a prominent Democrat. He paused and then said that he admired Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention in 2004. I agreed. It was a hell of a speech, but it was just a speech.

On the other hand, I continued, I could cite four or five actions — not speeches — that John McCain has taken that elicit my admiration, even my awe. First, of course, is his decision as a Vietnam War POW to refuse freedom out of concern that he would be exploited for propaganda purposes. To paraphrase what Kipling said about Gunga Din, John McCain is a better man than most.

Obama ‘would drag US into depression’

Carly Fiorina, a key lieutenant to Senator McCain and former boss of computing giant Hewlett-Packard, said a recession triggered by the 1929 Wall Street crash became a depression through the imposition of higher taxes and trade barriers.

“The reality is when an economy is slowing, if you raise taxes and you curtail free trade through isolationist policies, bad economic times become worse,” she said.

“We know this from history… and that is precisely the proposal that Barack Obama is making,” Ms Fiorina said.

“And that is why I say as a businesswoman, I hope Barack Obama continues to consult with experts because I think his understanding of the economy leaves a great deal to be desired.”

(all emphasis mine)

read them all!

yeah baby!

This one should set the tongues wagging:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among “likely” voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama among that group in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. McCain still trails slightly among the broader universe of “registered” voters. By both measures, the race is tight. The Friday-Sunday poll, mostly conducted as Obama was returning from his much-publicized overseas trip and released just this hour, shows McCain now ahead 49%-45% among voters that Gallup believes are most likely to go to the polls in November. In late June, he was behind among likely voters, 50%-44%.

This is the first poll showing McCain with a lead over Obama since a May 1-3 Gallup/USA Today survey showed him with a slim 1 point lead. A Fox News poll at the end of April had McCain up 3.

A survey this week of 29 top economists by Reuters shows an overwhelming 21 of them believe a McCain presidency would be best for the markets.

McCain gets high marks for his pledge to lower corporate taxes and keep the President Bush tax cuts in place – that means no increase in the current 15 percent tax rate on capital gains. Obama proposes raising the rate to somewhere between 20 and 28 percent.

(emphasis mine)

DUH!

chris matthews’ fetish notwithstanding, it seems that some in the MSM are finally getting a clue and examining the messiah’s actual proposals, which, when weighed on the scales, are of course “found wanting”:

In a sign that the backlash against the media for its adoring coverage of Barak Obama may have begun, the Washington Post had an editorial today that ripped Barak Obama on his International Ego Trip.  The Post correctly points out that contrary to claims by most on the left, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki does not agree with Barak Obama’s plan for withdrawal of Amerian forces from his country.  In addition, the Post points out that General Petraeus does not agree with Obama either.

very, very wanting:

You know the bloom is off the rose when the New York Times says Obama’s health care plan ain’t gonna happen.

read it all…

… other than that he was awesome and i miss him: