McCain Pump Fake, Dynamic Pick

McCain and his campaign have been pump faking everyone this week with media talking about Pawlenty or Romney, which either would have been considered a safe pick. In the end, McCain makes a smart bold move with Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska.

Democrats will be 2 weeks pouring through her bio looking for something on her. It is quite the contrast from the curmudgeon Biden. 

Here are two email reactions just received and both from females.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I told you he had to pick a woman to get Hillary supporters when Obama picked Biden. Real good chance he'll win now! Even though I liked Romney. 

And another!

Just heard the official word on the news. This will make for an interesting election season. Senior citizen and soccer mom, hmmm where if the apple pie?

DNC - Obama

It was a spectacular setting and it appeared to come off without a hitch, and of course Obama is a skilled orator so his delivery was excellent.

Experts say Obama had to deliver a state of the union style speech, but the speech was not state of the union material. He preaches of a new kind of politics while he is on the campaign trail, but the speech clashed with his definition of a new kind of politics. It was expected to have great details of his policies, but it was a laundry list hitting several "buzz word" topics.

Barack Obama, after paying brief respect to John McCain's service to our country, spend nearly a one third of the speech on an anti McCain message, not exactly his new kind of politics. He spent a great deal of time on anti George W. Bush, which is fine, but Bush is not the candidate, and McCain, contrary to the Democrats talking points, is not Bush. McCain is very much a different man with a different set of ideals and philosophy, such as government spending.

Barack Obama spend a great deal of time probably about one third of his speech with his standard soaring rhetoric with little substance.

Then the run on the issues; he touched them all during his change and promises portion of the speech. He mentioned: a change in the tax code to reward small business and workers, elimination of capital gains taxes for small business and high wage start ups, cuts taxes for 95% of working families, invest billions in renewable energy, education and recruit an "army" of new teachers and pay them high salaries, affordable, accessible health care, with his plan providing lower premiums,  paid sick days and family leave, changing bankruptcy laws to protect pensions and protecting Social Security and he touched upon equal pay for an equal day's work.

He spent several paragraphs of his speech on a gloss over of these issues, then he had one paragraph, a brief mention of paying for all these grand pandering ideas by "by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don’t help America grow," and eliminating programs in the federal budget or making them cost less. Obama has proposed a lot of spending for just the little means he proposes to pay for it.

One item conspicuously absent from Barack Obama's speech last night was the federal deficit, and how he plans to deal with it. It is going to be difficult to spend like he is proposing and eliminate our deficit.  

While Barack Obama was offering tough talk on being Commander in Chief, he made a very interesting comment.

For while Sen. McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract us from the real threats we face. When John McCain said we could just “muddle through” in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights.

Let the record be clear, he was not in the Senate to stand up. Actually in 2000 he lost a race for the House of Representatives, and was not elected to United States Senator until November 2004 and began serving in 2005.

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Do You Want The Sizzle Or The Steak?

Obama; only three years in the US Senate, most of which has been spend campaigning for President.

You May Recall - Senator Parker Still Has Not Learned

You may recall the time when Senator Wright vigorously defended his district against a downstate Democratic Senator whose diatribe proved his ignorance.

In case you missed it, here it is again. It is worth the watch.


Well, it is obvious Senator Parker is a slow learner, if he evens learns at all. Here is the arrogant *&^% again.

Here is a link (click here)of this guy telling a reporter how important he is, maybe in his own mind.

Remember, this guy is part of the Democratic leadership in the Senate, therefore, in the unfortunate event of a flip in control he will have impact on the North Country. God help us then, we will need it.

Video Metaphor of Obama vs. McCain

A great video metaphor of a Obama versus McCain match up. Obama is the guy with the dazzling moves, while McCain is a bit more focused.

DNC: 3 Nights and Finally

Bill Clinton finally delivered the speech! Clinton passed the torch without burning down the house on his way out.

Clinton backpedaled on all his remarks, such as the "a roll of the dice," comment made during the primary and he delivered an arousing speech for Barack Obama, a speech, that everyone previous to him has failed to deliver. It took the master of the Democratic party to remind everyone how it should be done, and he did not disappoint the crowd.

After a brief entry into his speech, he vaulted into Hillary, a moment that had to have everyone holding their breath that he would continue on a, why not Hillary campaign, but he regained his composure and quickly plowed into why Barack Obama and with plenty of repetitions.

The next breath holding moment came when Clinton referred to Joe Biden as the person of experience on the ticket, as he clearly left Obama outside of that attribute.

With Joe Biden’s experience and wisdom supporting Barack Obama’s proven understanding, instincts and insight, America will have the national security leadership we need.

Then as expected, he reverted back to his Presidency to offer a litany of issues in an attempt to compare and contrast with as he said where we are today. The list issues was some of basic reality, which can be debated, and some hyperbole.  

People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.

Comparing Barack to him, Clinton reminded people of what some said of him,

"I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander in chief.'

His final close out was with a play on Barack's theme, 

So if, like me, you believe America must always be a place called Hope.

Hope, Arkansas is the birth place of Clinton.

Clinton made the most comprehensive argument and the framework for Barack Obama.

Three days into a four day convention, is that too late?

Gallup: No Bounce

Gallup is saying it is official, no bounce from the Biden announcement.

48th and 118th Actions

From the 118th Assembly race.

The Cantwell campaign is having another news conference to talk about issues and there have been several reports of Bobby Cantwell going door to door, campaigning in the city of Watertown.

***MEDIA ADVISORY***

FOR

TOMORROW

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28^th, 2008

BOBBY CANTWELL TO ANNOUNCE NEW PLAN TO CREATE JOBS

118^th Assembly District candidate offers vision to boost North Country's economy

With Labor Day approaching, Bobby Cantwell, Clayton Town Councilman and 118^th Assembly District candidate (Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties), will announce his new plan to bring more local jobs to Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties. Cantwell's Jobs Plan consists of several initiatives including creating a fuel cooperative for farmers, capping property taxes, enhancing cross border partnerships with Canada, workforce retraining, and giving tax incentives to lure companies and manufacturers to establish headquarters in the North Country.

The press conference will be held tomorrow, Thursday, August 28^th at 10:30 a.m., at Timeless Frames, Inc., 22419 Fisher Road in Watertown.

From the 48th Senate race.

A new mailer from the Renzi campaign!

The Republican candidates appear to be working hard while there is little to no sign of Addie Jenne Russell or Darrel Aubertine on the campaign trail as of yet.

Mr. Celebrity (UPDATED)

Will Obama's speech and setting have more pomp than substance?

What will this do for his celebrity status?

UPDATE
Someone was able to get a picture of Obama rehearsing his speech.

DNC

The DNC took a sharp turn yesterday toward a little stronger message than the previous day. The night was highlighted by the prime time speech of Hillary Clinton, who entered the Pepsi Arena to a thunderous applause.

If you are a Democrat you certainly liked the codswallop that was erupting from the podium. It was every bit anti-McCain, as in "No way, No How, No McCain." Hillary emphasized McCain being just 4 more years of President Bush and spoke about the SCOTUS being in a right wind head lock.

Her message contain a heavy allotment of unity, saying she is a strong and proud supporter, referring to Barack Obama as her candidate, and time for the party to unite.

Conspicuously absent from the message though, during her more than 10 mentions of Obama, did she convey; what kind of a president she thought Barack Obama would be, how well prepared he is to be President, or provide any emphasis that he would be a great President. Her message on Barack Obama was very generic, lacking of personal praise and short on a character reference.  

It was a good speech by an energized Clinton but a bit of an encrypted message.

Read an analysis here.