Obama’s Change: What Is It?

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Sep 132008
 


We hear Barack Obama talk about “Change” with vague references of bringing people together, but there’s no substance to back up the talk. So can anyone tell me, specifically, just what the H-E-double hockey sticks he means by “Change”?

Does his change mean that he will turn America into a Socialist State with income redistribution? Will he take my paycheck and give it to someone that he classifies as worse off than me because, as he puts it, “That is neighborliness”?

When it comes to Healthcare; he says that he will nationalize it. That’s just “Hillary Care”, so where is the “Change”?

Joe Biden, his choice for Vice President offers no sign of “Change”. Biden is a text book example of a partisan Politician and what is wrong with Washington.

Does his change mean that he will he will make America loved by Hollywood and all Nations that hate and despise us now? I don’t think that will happen. We were still known as “The Great Satan” even during the Carter and Clinton administrations.

Can someone please tell me what Obama means by “Change”? His followers can’t!

Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?

New Video Shows John McCain Being Handed Over to the U.S. Military in Hanoi

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Sep 112008
 


A Swedish broadcaster released a video showing the release of John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973.

This is pretty powerful stuff. Obama isn’t fit to lick McCain’s boots.

Film shows McCain’s release from Vietnamese prison

Swedish broadcaster SVT on Thursday released a previously unseen film clip purportedly showing the release of presidential candidate John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973.

A former SVT reporter, Erik Eriksson, said he found the video in the network’s archives when he was looking for footage for a book he was writing about his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam.

SVT posted the edited 39-second clip on its Web site on Thursday. It shows McCain stepping off a bus with other prisoners. He has a pronounced limp but is not using crutches.

It then shows McCain standing in a lineup when his name is called. He walks up to salute and shake hands with U.S. military officers. The last part of the clip shows a U.S. Air Force jet taxiing on a runway.

Eriksson said the footage was filmed in Hanoi on March 14, 1973, by a Vietnamese photographer whom he had contracted to film the release of U.S. prisoners.

“I don’t know if there is another film from his release. I haven’t seen all the films in the world, but as far as I know there are no others,” Eriksson told The Associated Press.

Eriksson said the clip was included on a DVD that he released with his book.

“This summer when I was preparing the release of my book we were putting together a DVD with some of my reports from Vietnam and then I thought, ‘I wonder if we have McCain here?'” Eriksson said.

Per Yng, head of SVT’s national news, confirmed that Eriksson found the film in the network’s archives.

“It’s our material. So we can confirm its authenticity,” Yng said. He could not confirm the date and location of the film, but he said he had no reason to doubt Eriksson’s information.

Eriksson said he was covering the Vietnam war for SVT as well as U.S. networks CBS and NBC.

Eriksson could not recall the name of the Vietnamese cameraman and said he had not been in contact with him after finding the clip.

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Obama Losing Support Among White Women Voters

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Sep 112008
 

Barack Obama in a desperate attempt to win back women voters.

After the lipstick on a pig comment, it’s going to get larger.

Poll shows big shift to McCain among white women

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday brushed aside a survey that showed him losing support among white women voters to John McCain since the Republican standard-bearer named Sarah Palin as his running mate.

A Washington Post/ABC News survey published on Tuesday found most of McCain’s surge in the polls since the Republican National Convention was due to a big shift in support among white women voters.

“The notion that people are swinging back and forth in the span of a few weeks or a few days this wildly generally isn’t borne out,” Obama told reporters during a campaign stop in Riverside, Ohio.

His campaign manager, David Plouffe, was more pointed when asked about the findings at a briefing on Monday, telling a Washington Post reporter, “Your poll is wrong.”

“I don’t think you’ll find many others that back up a 20-point reversal,” Plouffe said. “We certainly are not seeing any movement like that.”

The poll found that the race for the White House is a virtual tie since the parties’ nominating conventions, with Obama, an Illinois senator, at 47 percent support of registered voters and McCain, an Arizona senator, at 46 percent.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday also showed Obama leading McCain by 47 percent to 46 percent, a statistical dead heat. Obama’s lead in that survey was down from 3-point advantage in August and a 6-point edge in July, NBC said.

Before the Democratic National Convention in late August, Obama held an 8-point lead among white women voters, 50 percent to 42 percent, according to the Washington Post/ABC News poll. After the Republican convention in early September, McCain was ahead by 12 points among white women, 53 percent to 41 percent, that survey found.

“There is no doubt that Governor Palin attracted a lot of attention this week,” Obama told the news conference. “It has brought excitement to the Republican Party.”

“What we’re going to have to do is to see how things settle out over the next few weeks when people start examining who’s actually going to deliver on the issues that people care about: Who’s got an education policy to improve the prospects for our children? Who’s got a health-care plan that’s going to help a whole bunch of women out there?” he said.

McCain surprised the electorate ahead of the Republican convention by naming the little-known Alaska governor as his vice presidential running mate. Palin received high marks among supporters for her convention address, which included a scathing attack ridiculing Obama’s experience and record.

Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, defeated Hillary Clinton in the battle for the Democratic nomination, a long and bitter struggle that left many of the former first lady’s supporters disaffected and angry.

Many of her backers were further angered when Obama ignored her in picking a vice presidential running mate, choosing instead longtime Delaware Sen. Joe Biden. A key question for the Obama campaign has been whether he would be able to maintain the support of Clinton’s supporters.

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