Irish-Americans for McCain

John McCain's message to his supporters.

2008-11-10T12:34:00.000-05:00

11/07/2008:

Cindy and I would like to take a moment to thank you for your loyal and steadfast support during the course of this campaign. Governor Palin, her husband Todd, our families, friends and campaign staff extend our deep appreciation for your tireless dedication, support and friendship.

It is the end of a long journey and your support through the ups and downs has meant more to us than you may ever know.

Although we were disappointed with the results, we must move beyond this campaign and work together to get our country moving again.

It is our sincere hope that you will join us in putting our country first and continue to work to keep our nation safe, free and prosperous.

We urge you to join us in not just congratulating Senator Obama, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together as a nation. Whatever our differences may be, we are all fellow Americans.

We are truly blessed to live in this great country and call ourselves Americans, and we will forever be her loyal servants.

Today, let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.

With warm gratitude,

Cindy and John McCain

Senator John McCain's election night remarks.

2008-11-10T12:31:00.000-05:00

Always a class act, always a patriot:

Remarks from Senator John McCain
November 4, 2008

Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.

My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.

In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.

This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.

I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too. But we both recognize that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.

Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer in my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day, though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.

Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.

I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences, and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.

Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.

It is natural tonight to feel some disappointment, but tomorrow we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. We fought as hard as we could.

And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.

I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends. The road was a difficult one from the outset. But your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.

I am especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother and all my family and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign. I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me.

You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate's family than on the candidate, and that's been true in this campaign. All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude, and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.

I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I have ever seen and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength. Her husband Todd and their five beautiful children with their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.

To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly month after month in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times, thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.

I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.

This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life. And my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.

I would not be an American worthy of the name, should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone and I thank the people of Arizona for it.

Tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president.

And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.

Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history, we make history.

Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much.

http://www.johnmccain.com/splash110408.htm

Ohio Coal Association: Obama Ticket Not Supportive of Coal.

2008-11-03T13:37:00.000-05:00

Ohio Coal Association Says Obama Remarks Make It Clear: Obama Ticket Not Supportive of Coal:

Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association (OCA), today issued the following statement in response to just-released remarks from Senator Barack Obama about the nation's coal industry:

"Regardless of the timing or method of the release of these remarks, the message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America's coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it.

"These undisputed, audio-taped remarks, which include comments from Senator Obama like 'I haven't been some coal booster' and 'if they want to build [coal plants], they can, but it will bankrupt them' are extraordinarily misguided.

"It's evident that this campaign has been pandering in states like Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Pennsylvania to attempt to generate votes from coal supporters, while keeping his true agenda hidden from the state's voters."

Complete story here

Obama to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana: I promise to bankrupt your coal industry.

2008-11-03T13:23:00.000-05:00

An important update from our good friends at Faultline USA. Barack Obama is promising to bankrupt (his exact words) the US coal industry.

Barack Obama in a January 17, 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:

"Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. . .

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted. . ."

Complete story: http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/obamas-words-on-bankrupting-coal.html

Newt Gingrich on why John McCain is better for AMERICA.

2008-11-02T16:58:00.000-05:00

Newt Gingrich on McCain/Palin:

"THERE are profound reasons to believe the McCain-Palin ticket offers a better future for most Americans than the Obama-Biden ticket.

John McCain can be expected to appoint judges who respect the vital role that religion has historically played in American public life.

In a bad economy, McCain would focus on economic growth and job creation. Obama has promised to focus on "spreading your wealth."

Watching the ACORN organization come under investigation in more than a dozen states for voter fraud and illegality, it is sobering to imagine what Obama, a former ACORN trainer and community organizer, would do to give even more of our tax money to this hard-left, corrupt organization. It is also unlikely an Obama Justice Department would prosecute any of the donor-fraud and voter-fraud allegations that are rapidly building up.

The recent stories about Obama's friendship with apologists for terrorism are a reminder that we really do not know how radical an Obama administration would be. We do know he has promised to meet with every dictator and anti-American regime. McCain's record on these issues is far sounder.

Finally, on the vice presidency, it is revealing that no national network TV interviewer asked Gov. Sarah Palin about her experiences as governor; her experience writing an $11 billion state budget; her experience leading the 29,000 employees of the Alaskan state government; her experience negotiating a big deal with ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and the rest of Big Oil; her success in giving the money from that negotiation to the people of Alaska as a $1,300 tax cut for every man, woman and child in the state; or her experience in negotiating a natural-gas pipeline that is the biggest civil-construction project in North America, and which three former governors failed to get done.

For these reasons and more, the McCain-Palin ticket would lead to a much better future for America than Obama-Biden."

Newt Gingrich, speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, is the author of "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less."

Please read the complete NY Post article here

The race gets even tighter in Michigan and across the USA!!!

2008-11-02T16:13:00.000-05:00

What's happening in Michigan is happening in your state too. The momentum is shifting our way across the country. Spread the word and keep the McCain/Palin faith!

"In Michigan, the latest Detroit News/EPIC-MRA poll shows Obama currently only has 50% of the vote, and if Undecideds break for McCain, Obama's lead would be only 2%. If Obama loses a point or two from his 50% standing he will likely lose this state and its 17 Electoral Votes!!

This poll was taken one-week ago, and our data indicates the race has gotten even closer. Rassmussen Reports also shows a tightening of the race. With the national Zogby 1-day tracking poll showing McCain pulling ahead of Obama on Friday, it is clear the momentum is with McCain/Palin.

We believe Michigan is very much in play. Polls likely over-sample Obama supporters and also probably include a few percentage points of artificial support from those voters intimidated to say they are voting for McCain given the media's campaign to portray McCain supporters as being "racist" or "intolerant." And there is no early voting in Michigan, so we can still catch Obama by Tuesday!

Since there is NO early voting in Michigan, we have the chance to impact this race over the next 3 days and gain the lead for McCain/Palin!"

Source: http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/

Still a CLOSE race!!

2008-10-27T19:42:00.000-04:00

Some very good news to report, friends! The poll that was most accurate in calling the 2004 presidential election, the IBD-TIPP poll, shows McCain has narrowed Obama's lead for the past 3 days and it's now down to just 2.8% with 8.8% of voters still undecided!

Friends -- we can make up 2.8% in the polls and win this race!

Link: http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/

Military Times poll: Troops backing McCain

2008-10-22T11:46:00.000-04:00

No surprise here. Fully 68% of those polled support John McCain. These are Americans who are fighting for us every day and they are overwhelmingly in the McCain camp. That says volumes about who John McCain is and what he means when he says "Country First". Our troops live "Country First" every day.

Military Times poll: Troops backing McCain:

"McCain, R-Ariz., handily defeated Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 68 percent to 23 percent in a voluntary survey of 4,293 active-duty, National Guard and reserve subscribers and former subscribers to Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times."

"John McCain went to war for this country, even though he had an admiral father who probably could have gotten him out of the service,” Army Sgt. 1st Class Derriel D. Collins said. “He stuck it out five years in a prisoner of war camp. If that ain’t fortitude, showing your willingness to go all the way, I don’t know what the credentials are."

Full story linked here.

This is going to be a CLOSE election.

2008-10-21T19:03:00.000-04:00

Do not buy into the Mainstream Media's sickeningly endless pro-Obama propaganda machine!

The Battleground Poll's latest results are as follows:

McCain 47% Obama 48% Undecided 6%

THIS RACE IS NOT OVER!

Poll results: http://www.tarrance.com/files/2-way-ballot-trender-10-20.pdf (pdf 208 kb)

Battleground Poll website: http://www.tarrance.com/bg.cfm

Click here for Rush Limbaugh on Battleground Poll

Fight ACORN, get this voter ID petition out NOW!!

2008-10-17T19:48:00.000-04:00

Once again, the democrats are trying to steal a presidential election. This time it's Obama's favorite radical group ACORN doing the dirty work.

Emergency Voter Identification petition. You can sign and they'll send an email to your congresspersons. It's important that you sign and let our congresspersons be flooded with email telling them we're fed up with people wanting to steal the election!

Click here to sign the petition and please forward this to as many people as possible!

Ain't it the truth!

2008-10-17T19:31:00.000-04:00

A Democratic operative pointed out that when Obama holds a rally 25,000 - 30,000 people show up, whereas when McCain holds one he only draws 10,000 - 15,000.

The Republican spokesman replied -

"That's because McCain's supporters are at work."

Urgent request from Catholics for McCain!

2008-10-10T15:47:00.000-04:00

John McCain and Sarah Palin urgently need your help to reach out to Catholic voters! There has never been a more important election or a more historic moment in our nation's history.

That is why the campaign is humbly asking you to please sign up today to participate in our innovative Catholic-to-Catholic Online phone bank program and make calls from the comfort of your home to fellow Catholics in key battleground states. We must have all hands on deck to make it a success and we are asking everyone to contribute a small amount of their time! Please consider making 50, 75, or 100 calls with this program over the next 3 days.

Here are the links you can use to sign-up and start calling Catholics today in Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Virginia.

Please also enjoy the quotes and stories below in regard to the Catholic vote. I hope that the courageous statements by several influential Catholic Bishops below will inspire you to continue fighting for our shared values. Thanks for all you have done so far to support Senator McCain and Governor Palin. I know they have been overwhelmed with support from Catholics across the country and they look forward to winning the Catholic vote on Tuesday, November 4th. Please forward this e-mail to your Catholic friends and ask them to sign-up with Catholics for McCain today!

Onward to Victory,

Josh Lynch
Director, Catholics for McCain

KEY QUOTES BY CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADERS

"You can ask economic questions, foreign policy questions, fiscal questions et cetera; [and these] will bubble to the surface because that's what the media are mainly paying attention to; but if you look underneath that, especially where a community looks at itself to be religiously serious - which is a majority of Americans - the thing that cuts most deeply is the culture of life questions."
-- Fr. Richard Neuhaus, editor-in-chief of First Things Magazine

"The conditions under which an individual may be able to vote for a pro-abortion candidate would apply only if all the candidates are equally pro-abortion... "When we have someone who has that stand on a disqualifying issue, then the other issues, in many ways, do not matter because they are already wrong on that absolutely fundamental issue... Abortion needs to be in our country a defining issue and we ought not be afraid to make it a defining issue because when we do that we will have an end of abortion in this country."
-- Bishop Robert Vasa of Oregon

"Could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there is a choice of another candidate who does not support abortion or any other intrinsically evil policy? Could a voter's preference for the candidate's positions on the pursuit of peace, economic policies benefiting the poor, support for universal health care, a more just immigration policy, etc. overcome a candidate's support for legalized abortion? In such a case, the Catholic voter must ask and answer the question: What could possibly be a proportionate reason for the more than 45 million children killed by abortion in the past 35 years? Personally, we cannot conceive of such a proportionate reason."
-- Joint Letter by Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City and Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph

FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT WATCH

"...there is one thing absolutely everyone should be able to agree on: We can't reduce abortions by promoting abortion. No one who sponsors or supports legislation like FOCA [Freedom of Choice Act] can credibly claim to be part of a good-faith discussion on how to reduce abortions."
-- Cardinal Justin Rigali in a letter to Congress concerning the Freedom of Choice Act, which Barack Obama told Planned Parenthood is the first thing he would sign into law if elected president.

"One component of the Obama abortion agenda, the so-called 'Freedom of Choice Act' (FOCA, S. 1173), is coming under increased scrutiny from many quarters. The FOCA is the most sweeping piece of pro-abortion legislation ever proposed in Congress. It is a bill that would establish a federal "abortion right" broader than Roe v. Wade and, in the words of the National Organization for Women, 'sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.'"
-- Douglas Johnson, "Unholy Messaging: Obama's faith-based try vs. his positions," National Review, 10/7/08

JOE BIDEN WATCH

Read: A PASTORAL LETTER FROM BISHOP MARTINO written by Joe Biden's bishop and read to every parish in the diocese.

ARCHBISHOP: DEMOCRATS BECOMING "PARTY OF DEATH"

"At this point, the Democratic Party risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death' due to its choices on bioethical issues, as Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in his book 'The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life.' And I say this with a heavy heart, because we all know that the Democrats were the party that helped our Catholic immigrant parents and grandparents to better integrate into and prosper in American society. But it's not the same anymore. Nonetheless, there are among Democrats some pro-lifers, but they are, unfortunately, rare."
"Archbishop Burke Laments "Party of Death," ZENIT, 9/2/08

TO ALL BLOGS

2008-10-06T19:38:00.000-04:00

Here is your chance to speak up for Sarah Palin! It takes 5 seconds!

Let's turn this around!!!

Friends,

PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP?
I logged on a few minutes ago and 49% percent had voted YES, 50% NO.

Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple. Forward this to your friends as well. This is a liberal netowrk with a liberal audience.
Let's surprise them!

Here 's the link to the poll: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

After you vote, please pass this message to others of like mind!

New York Post endorses McCain-Palin

2008-09-13T16:46:00.000-04:00

The New York Post has endorsed John McCain for President of the United States. Here are some important excerpts from their endorsement:

McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing the nation stand in dramatic contrast to the tissue-paper-thin résumé of his Democratic opponent, freshman Sen. Barack Obama.

National Security: The differences between McCain and Obama are especially stark.

McCain says 9/11 represented a two-decade "failure . . . to respond to . . . a [growing] global terror network." He understood that Iraq is a critical front in the war on terror - and he urged perseverance even in the dark days that preceded the success of "the surge."

Obama backed policies that would have abandoned Iraq to its fate, he bitterly opposed the surge, and once insisted that US forces invade Pakistan in search of Osama bin Laden - seemingly without regard for the potential consequences of attacking a nuclear-armed nation, ally or not.

Regarding a nuclear Iran, McCain has pushed for the strongest possible international sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Obama opposes sanctions.

And, when Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia, threatening a return to the Cold War, McCain reacted with stern disapprobation: "We must remind Russia's leaders that the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world require their respect for the values, stability and peace of that world."

Obama called for UN action - unaware, apparently, that Russia's Security Council veto would have prevented any.

Energy Security: On the economic issue most vexing Americans today - energy prices - McCain is aggressive

He is a strong convert to offshore drilling: "We have trillions of dollars' worth of oil and gas reserves in the US at a time we are exporting hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas to buy energy."

He also strongly backs nuclear power - a carbon-free form of energy that America can produce relatively cheaply.

Obama, meanwhile, hews to the Democratic Party line on energy: no nukes, no drilling and no comprehension of the consequences of such policies.

None of this implies an iota of disrespect toward Obama. It took a formidable candidacy to defeat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. And the intelligence, the organizational skills and the ability to communicate that Obama demonstrated from the beginning dramatically underscore the history that is being made by the first African-American to head a major-party presidential ticket.

He should be around for a long time, and we hope that he is.

In the end, though, sound security, economic and energy policies - plus allegiance to principle - are critical to keeping America safe and strong.

Complete editorial linked here.

McCain in 5-point lead over Obama in Reuters/Zogby poll.

2008-08-20T13:48:00.000-04:00

Americans are starting to pay attention to this election. Note how John McCain is solidifying the support of his base while Obama's base is fracturing.

Some key points:

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

The poll was taken Thursday 8/14 through Saturday 8/16 as Obama wrapped up a weeklong vacation in Hawaii that ceded the political spotlight to McCain, who seized on Russia's invasion of Georgia to emphasize his foreign policy views.

McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy -- an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election. That margin reversed Obama's 4-point edge last month on the economy over McCain.

Obama's support among Democrats fell 9 percentage points this month to 74 percent, while McCain has the backing of 81 percent of Republicans. Support for Obama, an Illinois senator, fell 12 percentage points among liberals, with 10 percent of liberals still undecided compared to 9 percent of conservatives.

"Conservatives were supposed to be the bigger problem for McCain," Zogby said. "Obama still has work to do on his base. At this point McCain seems to be doing a better job with his base. "The dip in support for Obama cut across demographic and ideological lines. He slipped among Catholics, born-again Christians, women, independents and younger voters.

Obama's support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, which had been one of his strengths, slipped 12 percentage points to 52 percent. McCain was winning 40 percent of younger voters.

It made little difference when independent candidate Ralph Nader and Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr, who are both trying to add their names to state ballots. McCain still held a 5-point edge over Obama, 44 percent to 39 percent, when all four names were included. Barr earned 3 percent and Nader 2 percent.

Article linked here

New Jersey Irish Americans for McCain

2008-08-16T18:11:00.002-04:00

Got this email today and would like to pass it along to McCain supporters in New Jersey:

Quick introduction if you dont mind. I am a county coordinator for the McCain campaign here in Somerset, NJ. My parents are from Longford and Mayo.

We are putting together a 1/2 way to St. Patrick's Day fundraiser here in NJ. I am working with the Bergen County County Coordinator.

Very truly yours,

Thomas Roughneen, Esq. - troughneen@yahoo.com

McCain poll numbers improve in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

2008-07-31T10:24:00.001-04:00

More interesting results from the latest Quinnipiac University Poll. The race is tightening in Sen. McCain's favor. It looks more and more like McCain's Iraq position and his pro-energy-exploration positions are resonating with the American voter.

Quinnipiac Poll:

"With likely voters concerned more about energy than the war in Iraq, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s recent tour apparently didn’t help, as Arizona Sen. John McCain gained on the Democratic front-runner in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to simultaneous Quinnipiac University Swing State polls released today.

While Obama was on tour, trying to show voters he could handle world affairs, voters were home trying to fill their gas tanks.

The same voters who give President George W. Bush job approval ratings that are more than 2 – 1 negative want Congress to go along with the President on offshore oil drilling. By margins of 27 to 30 percentage points, voters in each state say Congress should agree with President George W. Bush and allow offshore drilling for oil. Sen. McCain supports offshore drilling, while Sen. Obama opposes it.

By margins of 10 to 20 percentage points, voters in each state support McCain’s plan to keep U.S. troops in Iraq with no fixed date for full withdrawal, rather than Obama’s plan to set a fixed timetable for withdrawal.

Those who said Sen. McCain was throwing away Florida’s electoral votes by advocating more offshore drilling might want to think again. By a 60 – 33 percent margin Florida voters back President Bush’s call for more offshore drilling and want Congress to go along, as Sen. McCain has suggested.

Pennsylvania voters support 55 – 41 percent drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.

Ohio voters back 55 – 40 percent drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge."

Complete poll results here.

McCain ahead in USA Today poll of likely voters.

2008-07-30T08:54:00.000-04:00

Encouraging news. Interesting results considering how the Obama camp expected European adulation to translate into better poll numbers here in America, where by the way, the presidential election will be taking place.

"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%."

"Also, McCain's sharp words about Obama and the media last week may have energized his faithful."

Full story here

Iran's best friend, continued...

2008-05-21T15:50:00.000-04:00

Iran isn't going to go away as a national security issue in the 2008 election. John McCain continues to lead on this issue because he understands what is at stake here. An Iran with nukes would be a threat to the mideast region, Europe, and eventually the United States.

Obama's willingness to talk to the Iranians without pre-conditions is getting results. The result being that the Iranians have figured out that if he's elected they'll be able to sucker one more head of state into believing the "peaceful" intentions of their nuclear program. Why the Iranians are so peaceful that we shouldn't worry a bit that every aspect of their bogus "nuclear power" program is really a nuclear weapons program in a thinly-veiled disguise. Iran is enriching uranium and building heavy water plants, huge projects that have nothing to with generating electric power and everything to do with making atomic bombs.

The Iranians follow our election campaign, and they know they will have a friend in Obama-

"Obama's words on "preconditions" have helped ease domestic pressure on Ahmadinejad to comply with the United Nations and the IAEA. The Iranian president is telling his domestic critics to shut up until after the US election. Why, after all, should he make concessions that a putative President Obama has already dismissed as unnecessary?"

Amir Tehiri column here

Iran's best friend in America.

2008-05-18T15:32:00.000-04:00

Whether he knows it or not Barack Obama is Iran's best friend in America. I'm sure right now the mullahs are tuned into CNN with glee as Obama endlessly repeats his willingness to unconditionally have talks with their lovely dictator, the peace-loving Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Obama is willing to run to Tehran but he can't take a little criticism at home. He is unable to defend his position so he makes it all about him. The implication being that he is above criticism.

Even his fellow liberal Michael Goodwin sees through this pathetic charade-

"Bush's attack found the holes in Obama's national security credentials, which escaped scrutiny during his battle with Sen. Hillary Clinton. Beyond plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, neither Obama nor Clinton has articulated a serious plan for protecting America in a dangerous world.

Most revealing, Obama pledged to meet, without preconditions, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea."

Even more telling is this-

"While it's clear Iran is behind much of the mayhem in Iraq, including the killing of American soldiers, Obama has said he wants to see the evidence compiled by the American military for those charges. Does he not believe the charges? Why not?

But instead of contacting the Pentagon for a briefing, he acts as though America is the problem and Iran deserves sympathy. Which was exactly Bush's point when he mocked the notion that talking to Hitler would have stopped World War II."

This is incredible but not surprising. Obama is telling us that he is more than willing willing to talk to the Iranian dictator but not our own military leaders. Obama is revealing his deep contempt for the American military by his actions. This is not the way a potential Commander In Chief behaves in front of the world, and in front of our enemies!

Michael Goodwin column linked here

Obama's Rules of disengagement.

2008-05-16T14:56:00.000-04:00

Elite Obama can't take the heat it seems. He has decreed from on high that certain topics are off-limits because in his mind they "distract" us from the real issues. Let me translate. Obama doesn't want to be questioned about anything that he can't answer without a carefully written script in front of him.

Obama's Official List of Forbidden Topics that Distract Us from The Real Issues:

1 - Calling Obama a "liberal".
2 - Questioning his commitment to the War on Terror.
3 - His extremely liberal (breaking rule #1 already) social views.
4 - His interesting background in Chicago politics.
5 - His peculiar aversion to wearing an American flag pin. (BTW, he wants to be President of America.)
6 - He especially doesn't want to be questioned about his many unusual friends and associates, like William Ayres.
7 - Anything to do with the differing accounts of his upbringing.

Full Article Here

McCain understands the growing threat from Iran.

2008-05-12T14:32:00.000-04:00

As evidenced by Hezbollah's Iranian-directed attacks in Lebanon, the Iranian problem is not just going to go away if we would only talk nice to them. John McCain is the only candidate who fully understands the seriousness of this threat and how critically important it is to the world that Iran never acquire nuclear weapons-

“Senator Obama wants to sit down with an Iranian leader who is dedicated to wiping Israel off the map — his words,” McCain told reporters on his campaign bus. “I don’t think we should give him that kind of prestige. “Senator Obama has obviously has no national security experience, and therefore that’s reflected in his judgment on a number of those issues.” McCain was referring to Obama’s comments that he would be willing to meet with leaders of rogue nations, such as Iran, North Korea and Cuba without conditions, an idea labeled naive and irresponsible by McCain.

Iran's worst-kept-secret of a nuclear weapons program shows that Iran understands that Europe's culture of endless negotiations is is buying the time for them to develop the ultimate weapon. Iran openly threatens Israel today. One day, probably sooner than we realize, Iranian nuclear-tipped missiles will be able to reach parts of Europe. Iranian long-range missiles will be capable of reaching the USA. Everyone in the world knows what Iran is really up to, except Barack Obama who can't wait to shake Ahmejinedad's hand.

Also read this excellent column on Iran’s Shifting Strategy.

Barack's Favorite radical.

2008-05-09T14:13:00.000-04:00

Radical William Ayres is a problem for Obama whether he knows it or not. It may play well in the elite circles that the Obamas frequent but the rest of us don't see it that way

Here Obama "explains" his relationship with Ayres:

Obama replied that Ayers "is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense...."

In other words because Obama was 8 years old when Ayres was blowing up buildings, that makes it just fine today. Oh but he's just a guy from Obama's neighborhood. Who else is Obama friends with?

Article here

Interview with Ayres here

McCains Navy Records Detail Commendations

2008-05-08T10:55:00.000-04:00

WASHINGTON — From his five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp to his tenure as the Navy’s liaison to the Senate, John McCain’s Navy record boils down to a series of unadorned paragraphs that bestow upon him some of the nation’s top military honors.

The Navy recently released McCain’s military record — most of it citations for medals during his Navy career — after a Freedom of Information Act request by The Associated Press.

McCain attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1954 to 1958, and was commissioned as an ensign in June of that year. He retired in April 1981 with the rank of captain. In that time he received 17 awards and decorations. Besides the Silver Star Medal, McCain also received the Legion of Merit with a combat “V” and one gold star, a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Art Medal with a combat “V” and two gold stars.

Full Story Here

Barack insults Pennsylvanians

2008-04-13T11:10:00.000-04:00

Barack Obama insults Pennsylvanians--

"And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," he said.

So now religion is a problem? For a guy who supposedly preaches compassion and tolerance this statement is very revealing about what he really thinks of the average Pennsylvanian, or the average American for that matter.

Story link here

Al Sharpton is supporting Obama, but no one's supposed to know about it.

2008-03-19T12:15:00.000-04:00

During rally, Al Sharpton says he's keeping support for Obama quiet

By ADAM SERWER and MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

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Wednesday, March 19th 2008

The Rev. Al Sharpton is backing Barack Obama, but he's made the strategic decision to keep his support quiet.

That's the message Sharpton delivered to his flock last Saturday as he boasted of talking to Obama "two or three times a week" - and insisted the Democratic front-runner knows the rev is in his camp.

"I said, 'I'm gonna do whatever I gotta do to help you. Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us,'" said Sharpton, recounting a conversation with Obama for his followers at his group's weekly rally.

"'I won't either endorse you or not endorse you,'" Sharpton said he told the Illinois senator as the two made their way to a Nov. 29 dinner at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem. "'But I will tell you I can be freer not endorsing you to help you and everybody else.'"

According to Sharpton, Obama protested and asked for his public support. "'No, no, no. I want you to endorse,'" Sharpton recalled Obama saying.

Sharpton told Obama that it would be better strategically for him to remain publicly neutral.

"If I endorse you, and they jump on somebody in Jena, you're going to want me not to go because the press is going to ask you what about your supporter," Sharpton said.

"Negroes just [ask], 'What, what's Sharpton gonna do,'" he explained. "If you understand strategy, you get somewhere."

An endorsement from the controversial Sharpton is a double-edged sword, impressing some voters and driving others away.

Sharpton told the Daily News yesterday he has no plans to officially endorse Obama, but admitted he's "absolutely supportive" of his White House bid.

"If people got that impression on Saturday, that is the right impression," he crowed.

Sharpton said one of the reasons he has "started discussing my private feelings is because of the disappointment I've had in the public conduct of the Clinton campaign."

He specifically cited racially tinged statements from former President Bill Clinton, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro as troubling.

Asked to explain his comment that Clinton had "done nothing for us," Sharpton said he was referring to his organization, the National Action Network, not the black community.

A spokesman for Clinton declined to comment, while an Obama spokesman refused to comment on private conversations with Sharpton.

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Irish-Americans for McCain

2008-03-17T14:37:00.000-04:00

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