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Friday, October 31, 2008
The Zogby Shock
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 11:09 PM
Yes, it is a one day sample.

Yes it's Zogby.

But imagine what the number would be if the Los Angeles Times was a newspaper and not a press agent, if the MSM had spent as much time probing Senator Obama's tax plans as it had Joe the Plumber's tax liens, and if Obama hadn't broken his word about public financing.

When Obama declared last night that it was five days until he "fundamentally transformed" America, he let slip just as candid a moment as when he told Joe about his plans to "spread the wealth," and as when Joe Biden told us to "Mark my words." 

Never have so few phrases moved so many undecided voters. 

Will it be enough?  Pennsylvania?  Ohio? New Hampshire?  Every middle class voter who wants their money back and growth to return?

For some weekend reading,try my new Townhall.com column on what Ayers, Rezko, Phleger and Wright might be thinking these days.




Friday, October 31, 2008
"Alive and Screaming" by Jake Walden
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 7:25 PM
The song of the week at www.amaze.fm.




Friday, October 31, 2008
McCain TV
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 6:44 PM
This is pretty cool.  It is a live feed of McCain speeches when he is speaking and rotates through web videos when he is not.






Friday, October 31, 2008
Al Franken Jokes About Helping Al Qaeda Get To Bush
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 5:19 PM
I really don't know how anyone can vote for Franken given that this is just the latest of a long line of deeply embarassing epidsodes for Minnesota's most famous tax-evading failed talk show host::




Send Norm Coleman a last contribution as a rebuke to Franken's entire approach to politics and humor.

Kathryn Jean Lopez sums up the case against Franken.





Friday, October 31, 2008
RUSH: 'You can't keep a lie straight this is the problem. None of these numbers are right'
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 3:30 PM
RUSH LIMBAUGH:  “So, as President, [Obama] will cut taxes for every working family making less than 200, so we’ve gone from 120, to 250, to 200, to 150, now we’re back to 200… You can’t keep a lie straight this is the problem… None of these numbers are right.” (Rush Limbaugh Show, 10/31/08)





Friday, October 31, 2008
Friday Afternoon Moment of Zen
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 2:53 PM
(I've got a Halloween Head edition).

...
First, congrats to Townhall''s Lori Hanson, who won the Townhall Halloween costume contest today.  She was (and is) a rock star.  (Sadly, I have been barred from posting pictures of any of the costumes, but take my word for it that it was good).

... Two TV shows seem to have cornered the market on Halloween...



Each year the Simpsons do a "Tree House of Horror" show.  Frankly, it usually freaks me out a bit.



Roseanne always had a big Halloween special, too.  Not a big fan of that show, but at least they went out of their way to do a good Halloween show every year...

... So what's your favorite???






Friday, October 31, 2008
Who Does Number Two Work For?
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 1:35 PM
McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb is taking some heat for telling CNN's Rick Sanchez that "we both know who number two is" when asked to name an anti-Semite that Obama hangs around other than Kahlid Rashidi. Maybe Goldfarb could have been a little more straightforward, but Sanchez is definitely being willfully ignorant here, because we ALL KNOW WHO NUMBER TWO IS…



Update:  …of course, they could have been talking about Khalid al-Mansour, who helped Obama get into Harvard. (the anti-semitism is 1:08 into the video).



…or they could be talking about this guy, who thinks Obama is "the Messiah." (Adam Brickley tells me that he also "needs a crash course on Ashkenazic Jewish History")



So, we now have "Number Two", "Number Three", and "Number Four". How's that, Mr. Sanchez.




Friday, October 31, 2008
Bill Richardson Lowers Tax Ceiling to $120K!!!
Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 1:23 PM

RICHARDSON: What Obama wants to do is is he is basically looking at $120 thousand and under among those that are in the middle class and there is a tax cut for those.






Friday, October 31, 2008
Obama's Audacious Comments. Getting Nervous in IA?
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 1:20 PM


 "On the day of the Iowa Caucus, my faith in the American people was vindicated. And what you started here in Iowa has swept the nation. We're seeing the same turnout. We're seeing the same people going and getting in line – volunteers, people participating. A whole new way of doing democracy started right here in Iowa and it's all across the country now." (Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 10/31/08)

... This is kind of like Michelle’s comment about having pride in her country because people voted for Barack. It's kind of audacious. So let me get this straight: His faith was vindicated because people delivered him a caucus victory? What if he’d come second? ... Then he’d have had no faith in the American people?




Friday, October 31, 2008
McCain on Palin's Future
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 1:17 PM
"... she's, in many ways, an inspirational figure."






Friday, October 31, 2008
Dennis Prager on "Change"
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 12:56 PM
This is a very good lecture from the Townhall Talkers Tour.  This was from the MN stop ...



H/t: Ed Morrissey




Friday, October 31, 2008
Bumped: 'Who is Barack Obama Winking At?'
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 11:31 AM
(YouTube clip is back up)

Team Sarah has launched a new TV ad about Barack Obama.  Check it out...



Here's the press release:

Team Sarah
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

New Team Sarah Ad Highlights Obama’s Associations with Ayers, Khalidi, Wright:

Response to Barack Obama’s Demeaning “Wink” Ad

Washington – Today, Team Sarah, a grassroots coalition of diverse women dedicated to advancing Governor Sarah Palin's Vice Presidential candidacy announced the release of a new web ad in response to Barack Obama’s recent “Wink” ad that attack’s Governor Sarah Palin. 

"This week Barack Obama unleashed a blatantly sexist attack on Sarah Palin in a TV commercial informally known as the ‘wink’ ad,” said Jane Abraham, Team Sarah Co-Founder .  “Obama’s ad is demeaning to women.  It is also hypocritical.  Indeed it is Senator Obama who has brushed aside with a dismissive wink his close connections to violent radical Bill Ayers, terrorist sympathizer Rashid Khalidi and Reverend Jeremiah Wright.  We are releasing this ad to remind voters about these relationships, and what they say about Mr. Obama and his agenda." 

The Team Sarah web ad can be viewed on www.teamsarah.org.  The script of the add follows:

“Wow.  The man Joe Biden said was so articulate and clean ends his campaign with a dirty shot at Sarah Palin’s wink. 

But who has Barack Obama winked at?

 Reverend Wright and his hurtful outbursts.

 Unrepentant Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers.

 His friend Rashid Khalidi and his attacks on Israel.

 But you can trust Barack Obama    - - wink, wink - - know what I mean?”

 Team Sarah is a grassroots coalition of diverse women dedicated to advancing Governor Sarah Palin's Vice Presidential candidacy.

###







Friday, October 31, 2008
New McCain Ad: 'Cuts'
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 11:21 AM


Script For "Cuts" (Radio :60)

SENATOR JOHN WARNER: Hello, this is Senator John Warner.

Hampton Roads is home to the world's largest military facilities.

Barack Obama's liberal colleagues in Congress announced they will cut defense spending by 25%.

Fellow Virginians: cuts in the defense budget will weaken Virginia's economy and weaken national defense.

John McCain is a true fighter. He'll champion Tidewater's leading role in our nation's defense.

ANNCR: Newspapers document Congressional liberals have announced a plan to cut defense spending by 25% after the election.

It would mean huge job losses right here in Tidewater.

Independent studies prove it will mean fewer jobs. Fewer benefits for more communities in the middle of a recession.

That's the Congressional liberals' plan if you give them your vote.

Paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee.

JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.






Friday, October 31, 2008
McCain Surging...
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 11:09 AM
On the McCain conference call....

... McCain Political Director Mike DuHaime reports that the McCain campaign is blowing away the Bush/Cheney '04 grassroots efforts.  According to DuHaime, McCain volunteers have made 24 million targeted contacts.  He predicts they will make another 17 million contacts (phones and door-to-door) between now and Election Day...

UpdateRick Davis notes that the half-hour Obama ad was, "mostly watched by Obama supporters."  He referred to it as an interesting use of 5 million, and noted that Obama could have run a week's worth of 30 second ads in almost all the targeted states, for the same amount.  "We don't see any evidence that was a game-changer or did anything other than communicate with their base," Davis added.  In short, Davis seems to believe that Obama has wasted some of his overwhelming resources.

Update:  Rick Davis just noted that McCain would spend today with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Ohio.  On Sunday, he will do what they are calling a "nostalgia tour" of New Hampshire.  On Monday, Davis reports, McCain will hit seven cities in seven states.  And then on Tuesday, McCain will be in Phoenix. 

Rather than defending Red States, it seems McCain is now on the offensive, fighting for states like NH, IA (Bush won it, but it was written-off as an Obama state), and PA....

*** Davis also predicted McCain will out-spend Obama in this last week on TV!



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