Check in with Zo

H/T to IMAO once again. Here's the latest from Zo:

Penn and Teller take down of Obama

Obviously, a language warning here. It's Penn and Teller after all.

For Obama, anything to get elected

From Mohammed over at Iraq The Model we have Obama’s Meddling Undermines Future U.S.-Iraq Relationship regarding the status of forces agreement and attempts by Obama to undermine it for political gain.

• While Iraqi and American negotiators and decision makers are doing what they can to finalize the agreement and reach a compromise on disputed issues, we find that everyone outside the negotiations is trying to put the stick in the wheel. But those are mostly parties that don’t want any good for Iraq and consider America a malicious intruder at best and a blood enemy at worst. What I find surprising is that someone from America is trying to obstruct the treaty. Believe it or not, there’s actually a guy who has no executive authority whatsoever — except in opinion polls — who is trying to bypass the actual top diplomats of the United States and undermine their negotiation efforts with a friendly state, at a time of war.I was hoping that presidential candidates would not put their electoral objectives above those of their nation. Alas, blinding greed and selfishness seem to prevail sometimes.
  

How low will he go to get himself elected? As low as it takes, apparently.

Another one from Zo

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And, once again, he nails it.

H/T to IMAO, once again.

Check out Zo's website, too.

He wants to be President?

Would he even bother showing up for the job?

H/T to RedWing over at Redstate

Another worthwhile video

Hopefully, you have a spare 11 minutes. I don't normally like to post long videos, but this one is too good to pass up.

Interesting read about Media bias

From ABC news, no less. Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

• The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game -- with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates. The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.

H/T to JPH over at Redstate

What he said

H/T IMAO

Fred's message to voters

Joe the Plumber

So, how'd we get in this mess, anyway...

Michael Reagan on Sarah Palin

Personally, I don't think of Sarah Palin as the resurrection of anyone but rather the first Sarah Palin, but Michael Reagan sees it differently. He says Welcome Back, Dad

• I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.

  I was wrong!

Hat tip to Pat Dollard

So, how do we get more Governor Palins?

You might think that's just pure luck, but there's a way to get more of this. Fred Thompson has started a Political Action Committee to promote true conservatives like Governor Palin and to help get them elected to office wherever he may find them. I've signed on and I have a widget up on the top right of the page where you can go contribute. You can also go and sign up at FredPAC.com to do other valuable things to help. If you can only dig up $25 of so from time to time, just hit the widget and Fred and I thank you.

I think Colorado just went back red

It's hard to get a solid read on things viewing just my tiny little slice of Americana, but Governor Palin's speech last night looks to go down as truly historic. A lot of the fence sitters, be it Democrat, Independent, or Republican, became committed to Palin. We'll see next week when the poll watchers chime in, but my unscientific polls indicate a huge grab by the McCain/Palin ticket. I think they ended up being a lot like me and have decided to vote for Governor Palin and whoever that Yahoo is she's got running with her...

I also know why. It's purely on what she's done. She managed to work her way from being a member of the local PTA all the way up to candidate for Vice President of the United States of America. She either didn't encounter any glass ceilings (we Republicans are funny that way) or she just totally obliterated them. Either way though, it takes a strong personality and sharp mind to accomplish what she's accomplished. America sees something they like.

Now, just to put me on cloud nine, the Democrats are livid. Even better is, there's totally nothing they can do about it They can't undo her record.

That was their only shot, because option B for them is to convince everyone to un-like her...

Hey, someone buy Governor Palin a beer! It's on me!

Governor Palin. YOU DA MAN!

As you all know, Governor Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the RNC last night and man, did she nail it. Listening to the media review it and downplay it because it was written for her and all she had to do was read it (which just so happens to be what all the candidates do), then to find out this morning that her teleprompter broke partway through and she just winged it the rest of the way makes me understand just how impressive this woman really is.

The VP debate is going to be very interesting. Joe Biden, meet Sarah Barracuda...

Couple of other interesting thoughts on last night:

Our girls are so much better looking than the Democrat girls.

It was mentioned in one of the earlier speeches that Palin garnered more votes running for Mayor of that little town in Alaska than Biden got running for President.

I watched most of the events on CSPAN so I didn't have to put up with the media slant and got to hear Michael Steele's speech. It was another great speech that got the crowd worked up pretty good. You may have heard the catch phrase "drill baby drill" throughout the night and that was from his speech.

Sarah Palin proved beyond a shadow of a doubt she is ready to be "a heatbeat away from the Presidency".

Can we start the Palin/Jindal 2012 campaign yet?

What a rockin' VP pick!

I certainly didn't get my presidential pick, but at least my top VP pick is made. Now, I can actually support McCain. Palin's likeabilty factor is off the charts.

The real story about that Georgia/Russia war

It's apparently pretty much just the opposite of what you've been told by the media. Michael J. Totten investigated and verified The Truth About Russia in Georgia. You'll be amazed how badly wrong the reports on the whole deal actually are.

• TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.

  Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war.

And, for more on this also see Redstate's BatMasterson and his Russian Journalist Oleg Panfilov "Putin is solely responsible. Saakashvili had no choice" : Kremlin Stooge Kokoity Started War

So, are you still a racist?

If you aren't going to vote for Obama, you'll need to be prepared for that question. I've said all along that many people are going to vote for Obama merely under the false assumption that it will end racism. They will be dead wrong. The Democrats will never allow racism to end. My view is an over simplistic version of what the actual deal is though.

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News covers it much better as he explains The Faustian Bargain At The Heart Of Obama's Campaign

• People who are honest will admit that race is a double edged sword for Barack Obama. Yes, there are certainly racist Democrats and independents out there who will not vote for Barack Obama because he's black. On the other hand, if Barack Obama weren't black, he could have never gotten this far. A white man with his experience and abilities wouldn't have even been considered qualified to run for the presidency, much less actually become the party's nominee.

TheSophist over at Redstate explains that the Democrats are already laying the groundwork with his Dems Already Making Preemptive Excuses

• Tell me if you've had this happen to you recently. You're conversing/debating with a known leftist friend or colleague, and the topic of Obama comes up. They spend several hours praising The One, how he's so brilliant, so articulate, so charming, so... everything this country needs.

  Then they say, "But I don't think he's going to be elected" with despair in their voice.

  Naturally, you ask, "Why would you say that?"

  The answer: Because the country is too racist to vote a black man for President.

Read both and you will clearly see that this is a question you will be presented with. In certain instances, they may even throw in the "are you still beating your wife?" one too.

Me? I'm not voting for Obama for many reasons and none have to do with race. If we would have followed his lead in January 2007 we would have had all our troops out of Iraq by March 2008. That was what he said we had to do. That would have left Iraq to Al Qaeda.

Yeah, but he has Joe Biden on the ticket now, so he has foreign policy expertise, you say? Right, Joe Biden's answer at the same time was not any better. He wanted to split Iraq into 3 pieces, pin a sheriffs badge on someone, then high tail it out of there. That leaves Iraq to Al Qaeda too, although they may have just settled for a third of Iraq. Not much of an improvement.

There are more, like the fact that Obama thinks $4.00 a gallon gas is a good thing, but it just went there too fast, and his wanting a bigger chunk out of any capital gains I might get.

I'll still be called racist though, you know...

What will Obama's economic plan do for the U.S.?

From Right Wing News it's broken down pretty well in Entitlements or Strength?

• The WSJ connects the dots between Obamenomics and military weakness:

  Given the hearty support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama received in Europe last month, he must have noticed the surprise and skepticism among some Germans when he asked that Europeans contribute more for defense. Many Europeans argue they cannot afford such an additional expenditure.

  Better even to be as dependent on the endlessly demonized USA as a baby bird on its mother than to try to pay for military strength they cannot afford, having squandered their wealth on entitlement programs that politically are easy to grant but almost impossible to repeal.

  Obama would put us in the same boat, except that America will have no protector to turn to:

Let me introduce you to "The One"

It ain't Barak Obama.

It's an eight year old guitar phenom named Tallan Latz. When he was four, he saw a Joe Satriani video and told his parents that's what he wanted to do. His parents gave him an acoustic guitar and then, for his fifth birthday, one of the birthday present options was an electric guitar. He passed on the remote controlled boat and went electric. He's been playing in two bands in the bars in Wisconsin, but has been recently kicked out because of his age. Now, he can only play in fairs and festivals.

Well, and youtube...

Allow me introduce you to T-Man. Here he is playing Hendrick's "Red House". Trust me, it'll be seven minutes of your life you won't regret.

Ya gotta love the shades...