ON THE FENCE….LOOKING FOR SOME BACKGROUND….

Check out the Sentry… why…..they went with McCain…

http://flsentry.com/

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TELL ME WHAT YOU REALLY THINK…in 2001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

ARE PEOPLE LYING? in 2008….

I watch the television…read the papers and hear the pundits…say…it’s a landslide…but in day to day…conversations…it’s not a done deal….so say the little people…

Seems there’s a lot of lying going on…to those same PC spreaders of the “Plan” that it is time for a “change”…

These are the same people on the local level….who are up in arms about a possible 1% tourist tax…who will step to the podium next month to express outrage over Waste Management and the “hit” they take as a small business….

The same group disgusted when the new majority came to the LBTS dais in February…and “awarded” they say incredulously… themselves with insurance…cell phones and talk of raises in the future…

In talking to store owners who came here from countries who already have lived through the Obama “system” of fairness in place ….and exult the countless reasons how that was why they fled to come here…

Children…adult children of parents who lost everything in Cuba…and Iraq……observing a sadness….a fear they have not seen in their folk’s present life…only in the past when they reflected on what came to be when their homelands faced their “change”…their “fairness”…

Jewish acquaintances who feel as Democrats…they need to “play” a familiar…uncomfortable …game of saying they are going for him…but nod in agreement…that behind the curtain…they just cannot…be a Democrat this time…

Why the uncertainty on an individual level….in this writer’s opinion…Obama is a chameleon….he takes on whatever will “work” publicly…… takes it as his own….for a while…

Looking back at his “journey”… who was influential…along the way…what he would do do succeed…as a Chicago politician…. what he has been given a pass on….educational background writings…and what he allowed those beside him to do…to impose silence….on the questioners…with legal threats…subtle and not so subtle…startling…

The true politicos…say…that in a major election…both candidates move from their own ideology to accommodate the backers…and pull in the masses…to get the votes…only to return to their platform….once the race is over….so where will they return to….left or right…or center?…

In this vein…….Obama will move left…far left…and McCain will come back to the middle…the bi-partisan middle…both with a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress…

McCain…is no Bush…and Bush could have helped him tremendously by saying what a thorn in his side he has been over 2 terms……cutting him loose……a missed opportunity early on….

Candidate McCain missed another big opportunity to say no to the bail out…as most wanted someone… to buck the system on this one…which is his usual style…to be the maverick…. saying not so fast….

At least he owned up to his decision….he said this time ….he had to do what was needed…and this was required for this crisis ….a crisis McCain tried to avert a few years back…to no avail courtesy of the Obama backers…the Obama advisers…. feigning ignorance of their involvement….

Of note…all the mortgage buying talk by McCain has been another independent move…an un-Republican offer…but after listening to a news report last night that the first part of the bail- out may never even be seen by those looking for credit…with the institutions seeing no credit “worthy” applicants….thus…saving their own necks first…thus …making McCain’s insistence it go to homeowners…maybe he knew what we did not…. weeks ago….

When venturing out into the political campaign world on the local level last year…here in LBTS…I saw first hand …”How the sausage was made”…and who comes up with what strategy behind the scenes…the maneuvering that goes on to get the votes…no matter how obscene or ridiculous…the badgering of the candidates themselves…to succeed …it ain’t pretty…so on a national level…YIKES!…

The concern…over this election is real….the results will be messy….the lawyers will be en mass….the divide will widen….and the utter disbelief will be ugly after the fall-out of whomever wins…

If it is Obama… it be the fall-out of the Dems “stealing” the election…with Acorn…questionable below the radar internet contributions… In place as we speak…. lawyers…. a multitude of lawyers….this time not walking away…until every vote is looked at….If the pundits have called it right…and it is a big win….the Democrats will take this as a mandate from the people…to over- haul the system …in ways we have never seen before…with those who oppose these changes figuring out how to deal with the new imposed regulations…to save what is theirs…through their own hard work…

A McCain…win…will bring outrage……the loudest shouts of all…acknowledging a 3-fer …Gore…Kerry…and now an Obama….loss…..only to find….the responders…the citizens…who answered the polls were lying once again…leaving many pollster and pundits…heading for the unemployment lines…themselves…

That’s the problem with chameleons…..whether politician or voter….it’s always hard to see….

more to come….

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THE MAN ON THE STREET….

So it’s the policies of Obama …that is why these voters are voting for him….because McCain…”he just doesn’t get it” and the “man” on the street is fully supportive of Obama …his plans…his running mate…and his beliefs…HMMM….

NOTE: Howard Stern…no profanity ….not to worry…but guaranteed to leave readers shaking their heads…no matter who you support…

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/10/13/howard-stern-exposes-

why-so-many-people-support-obama

If I find something similar…with McCain…supporters…it will be posted…

until then…take 2 aspirin and call me on Nov. 5th!…

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AHHH…MEDIA ‘SAUSAGE”….from CBS no less…

Behind the scenes can always open the eyes of those still able to and willing to question…personalities and substance…

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/07/politics/fromtheroad/entry4507703.shtml

note to those who prefer no national politics….skip this post…

more to come…

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IT’S A GENERATIONAL THING

After watching 72 year old John McCain yesterday…it really came down to a generational thing…

A “guy”…….. who when you meet him in the hall and say “how are you” still says “Fine ” and moves on headed down that hall to take care of business..rather than give you the new GQ “metro-man” details…

A “guy” ………who when asked about his cheating days….measures his words…but conveys that it was wrong in his demeanor…rather than give you the “Oprah couch” segment…

A “guy” …….who admits he struggled …learned lessons…reached out…but stays stoic …..in this public setting…rather than stretching out on the proverbial therapist’s couch…

So ……..he reads the teleprompter side to side with uncomfortable effort…. he is unable to raise his arms to wave with grace and ease… but the message…. his message……delivered a little stiff…like his movements…. is real….. the points he wants to convey are made with conviction….they are steady …they are stable….and they are smooth….because they are true….

When he jokes …with a little twinkle in his eye…..after being so rudely disrupted by the far left Democratic operatives… “Code Pink” Obama campaign “bundlers”……..it is like watching Spencer Tracy in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner…commanding a low-key…. respectful response……..effectively swatting aside any real impact….they tried to attain….

Style….what is style….to him it means black or brown socks…with whatever shoes are worn that day….

Substance that’s where it’s at for him…friendships…who’s alongside him….and who is willing to do the right thing….politics be damned….take a look at who is beside him…on both sides of the political aisle….who stands behind him…how far back in time those friendships stretch…no apologies for his associations ..no distance required…no need to walk away …..

No 72 year old guy can measure up on the 60 inch LCD HD TVs ……the way a charismatic 47 year old can….ala Nixon VS Kennedy…..when those who watched it on TV said Kennedy won the debate …while the radio audience insisted it was Nixon….

He said what he meant…he meant what he said….he has the record…he has the experience….he has done it before….like others before him….from his generation…he states his case…..and leaves it at that…which truly is a …generational thing…that should continue….for every generation to come……

The Speech

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/conventions/videos/20080904_MCCAIN_SPEECH.html?th&emc

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CHANGE COMES FROM ACTUALLY MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN…..

Change comes from making changes…being a part of that change….not just talking about the change to come….sometime….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/

AR2008090403057.html?hpid=topnews

IT’S HIS “COMMUNITY” ORGANIZING….EFFORT

All the angst and calls for his story to be put away once more….only heighten what a building block it was…a thumbs up…a wink…a tap on the wall…a dopey grin after torture…now that was a “Community Organizer”….

http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/mccains-heroism-could-save-undeserving-g-o-p

YES IT HAPPENED…

We have been told to remember the Holocaust ….to prevent it from happening again….Terrorist acts in this country….should be remembered…for the same purpose…..without shouts of “fear mongering”….it is the “hidden secret” for why we have economic problems….the “hidden secret” for why we need experience….

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/09/05/cnn-s-blitzer-

9-11-video-gop-provocative-brown-asks-about-fear

TAKING A GAMBLE……

I like Charles Krauthammer …in the same way I like John McCain….he is soft spoken…overcomes personal disabilities daily…….and is forceful in his thoughts and in his words….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402845.html

BETTER TO BE “COUNTED OUT” THAN “A DONE DEAL”…..

Everyone roots for the underdog….much more compelling than a cat that has nine lives…..

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_586619.html

More to come………

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Like a tennis match…

done through the technology of the web-cam…

voters will be spinning their heads back and forth…

whiplash will occur…

as soon as McCain finished his speech… on the economy this morning…aired on cable news…….

a response ….by Obama….up front and personal…

election time…volleying…

McCain…better have those youngins… the super “Geeks” on board to respond to the response….

or be prepared for a powerful lob….

game over….

It’s definitely going to be a fast and furious 6 months….

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