THE Conservative Thread: Country First!

[mickeysgal]

Obama Slips and calls himself a MUSLIM!



http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

Unbelievable.

 

[DISUNC]

Please Cease & Desist posting unauthorized pics of me on the DIS!

 

[Magic Mom]

Obama Slips and calls himself a MUSLIM!



http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

I know he just misspoke, and considering the amount of speaking they are all doing, that's to be expected, but this one is too funny!

 

[amyhughes]

Obama Slips and calls himself a MUSLIM!



http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

 

[nannerbadnanner]

 

[winkers]

 

[Grog]

This is from By The Fault, run by a democratic blogger.

A Comment Worth Highlighting

Great piece! It just goes to show how hypocritical the left is. The primary thing wrong to most of them is that Palin has an "R" behind her name. If it were a "D" they would be holding her up as a shining example of democratic womanhood.

 

[nannerbadnanner]

It was a good day at church. Our guest speaker used Captain Jack Sparrow as a sermon point complete with picture!

 

[SwedishMeatball]

I know he just misspoke, and considering the amount of speaking they are all doing, that's to be expected, but this one is too funny!

Seriously.

 

[transparant]

Please Cease & Desist posting unauthorized pics of me on the DIS!

I always did like you.......

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Obama Slips and calls himself a MUSLIM!



http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

Gotta love that You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qotHTtr30I

Good thing George was there to correct him.

 

[TeresaNJ]

Here's more good news!

Bada Bing, Bada Bang, McCain Pulls Ahead in Gallup Poll
September 7th, 2008 10:37 am
The latest Gallup Poll shows McCain in the lead for the first time erasing an eight point deficit and turning it into a three point lead. That’s an eleven point turnaround and points to a Palin-induced bounce.

The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain moving ahead of Barack Obama, 48% to 45%, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.

McCain’s 48% share of the vote ties for his largest since Gallup tracking began in early March. He registered the same level of support in early May. This is also McCain’s largest advantage over Obama since early May, when he led by as much as six percentage points. Obama has led McCain for most of the campaign, and for nearly all of the time since clinching the Democratic nomination in early June.

This is obviously good news for the McCain campaign and I have to believe that movement in the race is amongst the blue collar demographic the so-called Reagan Democratics but really now Clinton Democrats.

Janet Smith, 41, a special education teacher from Flint Township is a registered Democrat who supported Mrs Clinton in the Democratic primary. But she said she was now backing Mr McCain: “I just don’t have a good gut feeling that Obama has what it takes to lead this country. I’m an American first before I’m a party member. McCain is an American first; he’s bringing back patriotism.”

Barbara Fee, 50, another Democrat for McCain who works for a car supplier, said: “I just don’t like Obama. Hope and change are just words. I believe his ideas are socialist. I love Sarah Palin. I like what she’s done and how she’s done it. She’s got spunk.”

It now remains to be seen how Obama answers back. I’ll note that in the Rasmussen Reports poll the race is tied at 45% among registered voters and with leaners included it’s 48% apiece. While I personally think that the race is effectively tied at this moment, the momentum is shifting in McCain’s favour and I largely believe that is due to the selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. The dynamics in the race have shifted and the Democrats have little to no idea how to respond.

Below the fold an article from the UK Telegraph on Palin’s appeal to blue collar Democrats.

The Republican presidential candidate signalled his intentions by using his first weekend of campaigning since his party’s convention to launch a political raid into the heart of Reagan-Democrat country, home of the fabled blue collar voters who Mr Reagan captured from the Democrats in the 1980s.

Mr McCain, and particularly Mrs Palin, met with a rapturous reception as they held a rally in Macomb County, Michigan, where pollsters first identified the breed of patriotic conservative, blue collar workers who the McCain camp now believes hold the key to victory in November.

On Friday night in Sterling Heights, Mr McCain’s selection of Mrs Palin appeared to have utterly transformed his campaign and made easier the task of converting Reagan Democrats to McCain Democrats.

Where he once played to a few hundred people, he was greeted by an electrified crowd of 6,000 chanting “Sa-rah, Sa-rah!”, “John Mc-Cain, John Mc-Cain!” and “U-S-A!”

Mrs Palin immediately made explicit how the McCain campaign will take on Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the coming weeks. “We went right from the convention to small town USA,” she said. “It’s true that they grow good people, people who are working hard for America.

You love your country in good times and bad and you’re always proud to be Americans.”

The self-described “hockey mom” wooed her peers, holding up a Detroit Red Wings hockey shirt and describing how her son Track, now a soldier soon to deploy to Iraq, once played for a local high school team. “Michigan, you took care of my boy and now that boy is serving in the US Army and he’s going to take care of you.”

Casting the double act as political outsiders, Mr McCain urged voters to “send a team of Mavericks who aren’t afraid to go to Washington and break a little china”.

With the polls deadlocked after the most exciting convention season in three decades, both Republicans and Democrats are set to wage electoral war on the small town battlefields of middle America.

Stan Greenberg, the pollster who first coined the phrase Reagan-Democrat in 1985, published a new report in Macomb County two weeks ago, which found that Mr McCain has a seven point lead there because disaffected Democrats are uncomfortable with Barack Obama’s inexperience on national security issues and his economic policies. “The Reagan Democrats are back,” it concluded.

Mr Greenberg told The Sunday Telegraph: “These are people who have escaped the city to pursue their version of the American dream. Bill Clinton made it his mission to get them back and he partially succeeded. Reagan Democrats are a metaphor for the challenge Democrats are facing in this election.”

Mr Greenberg added: “Obama has to fight for the older blue collar Catholic voters. If Obama wins Macomb, he takes Michigan and the election.”

Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, said Sarah Palin is now the key to Mr McCain’s chances in Macomb County and the election as a whole. “Small town America has leaned Republican since 1980 but was pulled away to the Democrats by the Republican failures of the last few years. In the 2006 congressional elections small town America voted Democrat.

“In her speech at the convention Sarah Palin cut right to the core of who they are and what they believe: the people who work the hardest and fight our wars. The voters who live in small towns in Missouri and Michigan and Ohio will decide this election.”

Former White House official Jim Nuzzo, an early fan of Mrs Palin, agreed: “This is an absolutely classic class war fight. It’s the toffs in the Obama camp versus the working people. Sarah Palin is John McCain’s bridge to the working class.”

On Friday in Sterling Heights a poster proclaimed: “Sarah You are The One,” a sly dig at Mr Obama’s image. Another read “Real Women are Pro-Life”, a reference to Mrs Palin’s anti-abortion stance.

That point was reinforced by the presence in the crowd of a 40-strong group of nuns in white habits. Sister Thomas Augustin, 44, of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucarist, said: “I think she really speaks for women in a way that Hillary Clinton does not. She loves her husband and her children and I think that disaffected people who were on the fence are going to support her.”

It had been assumed by many commentators that Mrs Palin could not win over those supporters of Hillary Clinton with whom she differs on abortion. But women waving Democrats for McCain posters were highly visible.

Janet Smith, 41, a special education teacher from Flint Township is a registered Democrat who supported Mrs Clinton in the Democratic primary. But she said she was now backing Mr McCain: “I just don’t have a good gut feeling that Obama has what it takes to lead this country. I’m an American first before I’m a party member. McCain is an American first; he’s bringing back patriotism.”

Barbara Fee, 50, another Democrat for McCain who works for a car supplier, said: “I just don’t like Obama. Hope and change are just words. I believe his ideas are socialist. I love Sarah Palin. I like what she’s done and how she’s done it. She’s got spunk.”

Several voters said that Mrs Palin’s arrival on the ticket had made it more palatable to back Mr McCain. Jennifer Raybaud, a 42 year-old small business owner sporting a “Palin has them wailin’” sign, said: “I was going to vote Republican but I feel a whole lot better about it now. Sarah Palin is my age, she has kids. She seems like me.”

Sheri Allard-Pruehs, 50, added: “I love Sarah Palin. If McCain in had picked Joe Lieberman as his running mate I probably wouldn’t have voted at all.”

If that enthusiasm is replicated around the country, Mr McCain could well be taking the oath of office on January 20th.

Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, the state that has picked the president in all but one election over the last 110 years, told The Sunday Telegraph that Mrs Palin’s appointment has energised voters in his state too: “I’m hearing reports of great enthusiasm from my staff all around Missouri. On Sunday I had three women who don’t usually discuss politics in church telling me that they are now very enthusiastic to vote for John McCain.”

Mr McCain, who trails in statewide Michigan polls, was keen to convert the enthusiasm into votes in Sterling Heights: “A little straight talk,” he said. “I need to win Michigan. There’s 60 days left. I need you to get out there and vote.” On Saturday, Mr McCain and Mrs Palin took their message to the swing states of Colorado and New Mexico. Mrs Palin will conduct her first solo campaign event on Monday in Pennsylvania, home state of her vice presidential rival Joe Biden.

http://www.bythefault.com/2008/09/07/bada-bing-bada-bang-mccain-pulls-ahead-in-gallup-poll/

 

[DISUNC]

I know he just misspoke, and considering the amount of speaking they are all doing, that's to be expected, but this one is too funny!

I just want point out that Stephanopolis got him lying again in the interview.
Just like he did in the last Debate with Hillary.

The exchange came after Mr. Obama said that Republicans are attempting to scare voters by suggesting he is not Christian, which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said was "cynical."

Asked about it on ABC, Mr. Obama said, "These guys love to throw a rock and hide their hand."

"The McCain campaign has never suggested you have Muslim connections," said Mr. Stephanopoulos, who repeatedly interrupted Mr. Obama during the interview.

"I don't think that when you look at what is being promulgated on Fox News, let's say, and Republican commentators who are closely allied to these folks," Mr Obama responded, and Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted: "But John McCain said that's wrong."

Mr. Obama noted that when Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin "was forced" to talk about her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, he issued a forceful statement to reporters that the line of inquiry was "off limits." But he said the McCain campaign tried to tie him to "liberal blogs that support Obama" and are "attacking Governor Palin."

"Let's not play games," he said. "What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."

 

[transparant]

Found this little interesting tidbit from another board:

I am sick of the McCain voted with Bush argument, so I compared Obama's with the do nothing Senate Leader 9% Harry Reid in 110th Congress.

Total Votes 635
Not Voting 289
Yea 214
Nay 132
Total Votes 346
With Reid 318
% with Reid 92%

Obama was "Not Voting" 55% of the time and when he voted it was with Reid 92% of the time. This needs to get repeated over and over and over.

 

[transparant]

Hey...there are tickets still available tomorrow for Bidens speech in Green Bay. Having a hard time giving them away? Maybe they could offer a concert afterwards? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[transparant]

Hhhmmmm.....Obama claims he was going to join military after high school? This is the first I'm hearing about this - any of you guys heard this one? And how come its not in either of his memoirs???? I trust this man about as far as I can throw him - and I can't throw for crap.

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

Today's thing that makes you go hmmmm......

Why is it that every liberal protest constist of a bongo, tamborine, and unbathed/unshaved people?

I never saw a liberal protest that DIDN'T have these 3 elements, (and I've seen a lot of protests).

I'm sure the tamborine is there somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFB7bGCAgc

 

[PlainJane]

Hhhmmmm.....Obama claims he was going to join military after high school? This is the first I'm hearing about this - any of you guys heard this one? And how come its not in either of his memoirs???? I trust this man about as far as I can throw him - and I can't throw for crap.

Where did you read that?

 

[DISUNC]

, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.

I Bolded the important part of this sentence, REGISTERED VOTERS! Not all polls ask 'Registered Voters".
Many polls are "Likely Voters". BIG DIFFERENCE!

 

[transparant]

NYT Prepares to front expose on Palin's baby....developing.

The above is on Drudge.

I am convinced that the liberal media are the spawn of satan.