It’s Time to Re-name the “Fairness Doctrine”
By Dan | November 7, 2008
If you were going to censor your political enemies what would you call the policy? That’s right the “Fairness Doctrine.” Just like the employee free choice act is abut reducing employees ability to choose the fairness doctrine is about censorship. So we need to rename to accurately reflect its purpose.
Here are my thoughts:
The Censorship Doctrine
The Liberal Radio Host Employment Act
Radio Re-regulation Act
The Media Control Act
Feel free to add your own in the comments
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The “McCain Was the Republican Who Could Win” Myth
By Dan | November 5, 2008
In this election I gained a great deal of respect for Sen. John McCain. He is a true American hero and I believe that he would have been a better president than Barack Obama. However, I still think he was a flawed candidate and we could have done much better.
The Republican party once again nominate someone because it was their “turn.” Just like Dole in 1996. Instead we should have nominate someone who inspired us, who called us to stretch ourselves and reach for high ideals.
Can you imagine someone like Bobby Jindal running against Barack Obama? Someone who believes in American greatness. Who believes in the American people running against someone who thinks America is fundamentally flawed and believes in the government?
What we need to learn from Obama’s victory is that Americans still want to be inspired. They still want to dream of better days and hope for a better future. Conservatives more than anyone know how to make that happen. Look at our track record, conservatism works when it is tried. It fails when it is distorted by big government.
Instead of nominating a candidate that believes in defeating liberals we had one who likes to work with them. instead of a man who promised to lift us to new heights we had one who promised to play nice. We nominated a great man who served his country well. His failure is that he did not try to inspire greatness in others.
I do not know who will lead the conservative movement forward. Whoever it is needs remember that Americans want to be great. Americans want a leader not a compromiser in chief.
If the conservative movement in America were as dead as the media and the Democrats would have you believe, then why did Barack Obama have to promise a tax cut to get elected? Why did he have to hide his socialism and disassociate himself from his Marxist friends?
No, the Conservative movement is not dead but it is waiting for a leader.
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The Sun Also Rises
By Dan | November 5, 2008
Today we awake to the reality that a 47 year old man who has accomplished nothing will be our next President. My prayers are with him, that he will govern wisely. My fear is that he will fall back on his beliefs and destroy the American Economy. For as much hope as Barack Obama inspired he has the potential to cause much more pain.
What we will see in the next two years is a country Governed almost exclusively by Democrats. Their record as a party in power is vey poor, let us hope that the do not give us all that they promise.
On the other hand, now it is impossible for the left to blame a Republican for all that is wrong with America. If the economy goes into a deeper recession, and unless Obama gives up his foolish policies it will, there will be no one to blame but Democrats.
God forbid, should there be multiple terrorists attacks we may just see how good of a job President Bush has done over the last 8 years.
So yesterday America made a choice I profoundly disagree with but the sun still rose in the east today and it will do so tomorrow as well. Life goes on as does the battle of ideas.
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Can Obama Win Without PA?
By Dan | November 3, 2008
Interestingly enough Obama may have given this election away back in January when he attacked the coal industry. Combine that with his “bitter clingers” comment and you can see why the polls have him struggling in PA.
If Obama loses PA his path to the White House becomes very complicated. He would have to carry VA, a state that is quickly trending away from him and he would have to pick off NC a state that has always been a pipe dream.
Obama thought at this point that he would not be defending the Kerry state of PA and would have time to focus on OH and FL, two states that he desperately needs but that internal polling shows him losing badly.
I thin this election comes down to PA, if Obama carries it he wins the day. If Obama loses it, a much more likely scenario today than two weeks ago, McCain will take the White House and Olberman will jump out of the window over at MSNBC.
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Obama’s Greatest Fear; The American People
By Dan | November 1, 2008
Barack Obama and David Axelrod sure don’t act like people comfortably ahead in the polls. Last night Obama snapped at a reporter, Axelrod is accusing Republicans of “dirty tricks” over the fact that a UK paper found Obama’s Aunt who is in the country illegally. Maybe, just maybe they are afraid that all of their propaganda is about to backfire.
The Obama campaign has much to fear from the American people. That is why they have been waging campaign to suppress turnout in all 50 states. The entire Obama campaign has been designed to discourage voter turnout, first they called anyone voting against “The One” a racist, then they told us he had already won the election.
Somewhere along the way to the Messiah’s coronation Obama ran into a brick wall. It seems that no matter how biased Obama and his friends in the media make their polls they cannot keep him significantly above 50 percent.
In addition to their inability to put the election out of reach the Obama campaign made another huge mistake in the past few weeks. They got cocky and revealed too much. Obama’s inner Marxist came out. Obama managed to scare the American people with his spread the wealth comment.
His recent vindictiveness against not supportive reporters has also raised doubts about his ability to govern in a bi-partisan fashion.
It seems that Obama may have just done the opposite of what he was planning to do. His attempts to discourage conservative voters may have just scared them to the polls. We will see on Tuesday.
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Obama Campaign Thinks Spanish is National Language
By Dan | October 29, 2008
I live in Northern Virginia, often referred to as NOVA. I got my call from the Obama campaign last night, but I couldn’t understand more than one word, “Obama.” The caller rattled on in Spanish for two minutes all the while not listening to me tell her that I speak English. I wanted to hear what she had to say, but she didn’t give me a chance to let her know that I don’t speak Spanish.
I live in the most affluent area of the country. It is true that we have a large Hispanic population, but we are still predominantly Anglo. I don’t understand why the Obama campaign would call me from Arlington and not speak a word of English. Maybe they just don’t care how the predominantly English speaking population votes. Maybe they are just trying to turn out the Hispanics, but that seems foolish to me.
Of course I think stealing credit card numbers is foolish too, as is trying to commit massive voter fraud and repeately violating campign finance laws. So when you get right down to it I just don’t understand the Obama Campaign.
Topics: Crime, Election, Liberalism on the March, Politics | 1 Comment »
Obama’s Concrete Ceiling
By Dan | October 28, 2008
Hillary talked a lot about “breaking through the glass ceiling.” She almost did it too, but Obama stopped her. Unfortunately for him he seems to have a ceiling of his own, and this one is no so easy to break. Obama is stuck right at or below 50% in the polls.
It seems that the chosen candidate of the mainstream media is not able to break that magic threshold that would assure him victory. He could win with 50% but the fact that he cannot climb above that number indicates that he is not running away with this election like the media would have you believe.
The bad news for Obama is that Republicans tend to surge in the last two weeks of elections. Also, the real Obama, the Marxist has finally been revealed. Obama was stuck right around 50% before these new tapes surfaced, look for him to lose some ground before Tuesday.
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Isn’t 2 Years of Spreading the Wealth Enough?
By Dan | October 27, 2008
2 years ago Democrats seized control of congress on the back of Republican scandals. They took over a robust economy and in only two years they have lead us into an economic disaster. Under Democrat leadership we have suffered through crisis after crisis, haven’t you had enough?
When Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid gained power we were in the middle of 6 years of robust economic growth, two years later we are on the brink of another great depression. When Harry and Nancy took over Gasoline cost $2.08 a gallon. In less than two years they were able to more than double that. Sure it is coming down again, no thanks to Nancy and Harry.
In two years the most robust housing market in American history has turned into a housing crisis and a financial crisis. The government has seized control of Fannie and Freddie and many banks.
The question I have for you is very simple, are you better off now than you were two years ago? Why do you blame Bush? We did not have any of these crisis in his first six years.
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Obama Bouyed By The Crisis He is Causing
By Dan | October 24, 2008
It is ironic that Barack Obama is helped in the polls by the current economic climate. Investors fear his policies will destroy the economy so they are pulling their money out. The rapid decline of the market is big news that many voters see as Bush’s fault and thereby vote for the other party, in this case the very man the markets fear.
This fear is not unfunded, his tax and spend policies will drive business into the ground and slow our economy to a halt. The looming disaster that is Barack Obama should be the things of Halloween tales. Instead he is propped up by the liberal media that will not investigate or report on this economic horror.
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Why The Polls Tell Me Obama Will Lose
By Dan | October 23, 2008
Recent polls have been all over the place. Zogby is going one way, Rasmussen the other. The AP and Battle Ground polls show extreme tightening in the race. One thing is certain, the race is too close to call at the point and that is bad news for Obama.
Obama and his allies in the media were going for the “knock out” blow last week. They thought they had McCain on the ropes and they thought Obama was on the verge of busting this thing wide open with a 20 point lead. The stories were all written so they ran them anyway, about Obama’s transition team and his huge victory party.
Something happened they didn’t expect. Obama peaked. It seems that Obama has a hard ceiling of support that he cannot exceed and it is right about 48% in the polls. Asmuch money as his campaign has spent and as much fawning press as Obama has received he and his allies expected much more. Obama should be polling in the 60s at this point, but we all know that he isn’t.
The fact that Obama doesn’t even have a clear lead, let alone a commanding one is bad news for his campaign. It shows that the American people are not going to be bought in this election. It shows that Obama’s past is having an effect and it leaves this election in play.
Right about now the RNC, NRA and McCain campaign are starting to spend their money. Up to this point the public has been bombarded with all Obama all the time. Now they will get a more balanced view and learn about his record.
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