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The latest Gallup poll has Obama/Biden up by 8%, 49-41. The poll was conducted Wednesday through Friday. This poll therefore represents Obama’s post-convention bump. However, the latest Zogby poll, conducted entirely after McCain’s announcement yesterday of Sarah Palin as his running mate, has McCain/Palin up by 2% at 47-45, meaning that Obama’s post-convention bump has been entirely neutralized by McCain’s perfectly-timed VP announcement.

Sometimes the Democrats amuse me, sometimes they annoy me, sometimes they disgust me. This is one of the latter. Redstate documents how a couple of Democrats are hoping Hurricane Gustav will slam into New Orleans at the start of the RNC convention, which illustrates that Democrats don’t care, and never cared, about the people of New Orleans — a city full of Democrats, no less. All they care about is politicizing natural disasters by blaming Republicans for the destruction. These people are pathetic.

It’s amazing how blatantly the mainstream press is campaigning for Barack Obama. Well, we have an AP writer comparing Sarah Palin’s relative lack of experience to Obama’s, meaning that the press is admitting that Obama has no experience. Governor Palin has two years of executive experience, which is two years more experience than Obama has. Even then, it’s not a fair comparison. You see, Obama is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for vice-president. A more applicable comparison would be Obama’s experience against John McCain’s experience. But then, there is no comparison. Even Governor Palin is more qualified for high office than the Obamessiah.

Analysis: Palin’s age, inexperience rival Obama’s – Yahoo! News.

“I want to watch this woman age in office.” — Rush Limbaugh, characterizing Sarah Palin as the new face of feminism.

And Michelle Malkin writes: “Yes, I’m impressed. Very impressed.”

I’ve spent the last couple of hours taking a crash course on Sarah Palin. I have concluded that John McCain could not have made a better choice. After years of shafting the conservative base of the GOP, he has chosen a solid pro-life conservative as a running mate. I listened to McCain’s introductory speech today in Dayton, followed by Governor Palin. I have a great deal of respect for this woman. She hunts, she fishes, she played basketball, and belongs to the NRA. She has five children, including one with Downs Syndrome. (You know it just frosts the left that she chose life.) She’s a Christian. And her husband works for BP. He’s an oil man. I love it!

Governor Palin, judging by her speech today, is a woman of substance and great moral character. She’s the perfect foil for the women the Democrats elevate to national prominence. Governor Palin actually comes across as feminine. She wore a skirt to the speech today, not the pant suits Democrat women usually wear. Governor Palin comes across as genuinely happy and confident, and she loves America. Contrast this with Michelle Obama, who is always angry and trashes her own country, or Hillary “Nurse Ratched” Clinton.

Oddly, it is Barack Obama who promises change, yet when it came to the most important decision of his candidacy, he chose an politically-entrenched liberal senator as his running mate. John McCain made an off-the-wall pick that has turned out to be the most brilliant move of his candidacy. For the first time, John McCain represents more than the anti-Obama. Before today, the only person who had convinced me to vote for John McCain was Barack Obama. Today, John McCain convinced me to vote for John McCain.

The mainstream press is not happy with Governor Palin, which further convinces me that John McCain made the right choice. The media and the Democrats are going to have a hard time picking this woman apart. She is likeable, and will help pull in the female vote. John McCain has really one-upped the Democrats here.

Finally, I can start singing the praises of the McCain campaign now that there is a real conservative on the ticket. I cannot wait to see Sarah Palin clean Joe Biden’s clock in the VP debate in a few weeks.

Bill Hobbs observes that it is hypocritical for the Democrats to attack Sarah Palin for her lack of experience. Perhaps so, but the Obamessiah has even less experience, which sort of takes the issue of experience off the table for the GOP. Besides, Palin is the VP nominee. The guy with the least amount of experience in all this, Obama, is actually running for the top job.

You have to laugh at the Obama campaign’s initial reaction to John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate – they attacked her for having zero foreign policy experience.

Obama has zero foreign policy experience. He also has zero executive experience – Palin has two successful years as governor of a state, including passing tough ethics reforms, and has a deep understanding of the extremely important energy issue.

The sum total of Obama’s achievements in public office amount to writing two best-selling books about himself, and running for the next job.

Palin is a game-changing pick. With Obama having no real achievements to back his empty rhetoric of hope and change, and his veep choice a Washington insider who helped build the status quo that has given Congress a 9 percent approval rating, the Republican ticket includes two people with real and impressive records of reform.

Plus, since any attack on Obama is going to be construed as racist, we can counter that any attack on Palin is sexist. That said, the mainstream press and Democrat Party, which is the party of the feminists, have made a lot of sexist remarks today.

John McCain’s choice for a running mate is Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Never heard of her. I’m going to have to chew on this one for a while.

McCain’s veep choice is historic and hardly known – Yahoo! News.

Keeping with the Democrat Party’s theme that all evil and misfortune in the world is the fault of George W. Bush, the Russian president is blaming his own country’s invasion of Georgia on the cowboy from Texas. This reads like something straight out of a kook liberal blog. It makes you wonder if the Democrats have echoed Putin, or if Putin has echoed the Democrats. But I guess liberal minds think alike, even when they don’t speak the same language. Remember, Putin is a former communist and KGB official. Once a commie, always a commie.

As Russia struggled to rally international support for its military action in Georgia, Vladimir Putin, the country’s paramount leader, lashed out at the United States on Thursday, contending that the White House may have orchestrated the conflict to benefit one of the candidates in the American presidential election.

Putin’s comments in a television interview, his most extensive to date on Russia’s decision to send troops into Georgia earlier this month, sought to present the military operation as a response to brazen, cold war-style provocations by the United States. In tones that seemed alternately angry and mischievous, he suggested that the Bush administration may have tried to create a crisis that would influence American voters in the choice of a successor to President George W. Bush.

“The suspicion would arise that someone in the United States created this conflict on purpose to stir up the situation and to create an advantage for one of the candidates in the competitive race for the presidency in the United States,” Putin said in an interview with CNN.

He added, “They needed a small victorious war.”

Putin suggests U.S. role in Georgia clash – International Herald Tribune.

The Obama campaign is getting rather testy with a Chicago radio station for one of its talk radio personalities who is airing Obama’s ties with American left-wing terrorist Bill Ayers. Is the Obamessiah really that thin-skinned? Apparently so.

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign organized its supporters Wednesday night to confront Tribune-owned WGN-AM in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air. (Listen to the interview.)

“WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears,” Obama’s campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters. “He’s currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers.”

Kurtz, a conservative writer, recently wrote an article for the National Review that looked at Obama’s ties to Ayers, a former 1960s radical who later emerged as a school reform advocate in Chicago.

Obama campaign confronts WGN radio: The Swamp.

There’s more bad news for the Democrats today. The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 3.3% annual rate during the second quarter of 2008. Yes, despite high gasoline prices, a slumping housing market, and the economic jitters the press tries so hard to create, the U.S. economy continues to grow. It looks like the Democrats aren’t going to get that recession they had so hoped for during George W. Bush’s watch.

Spring’s economic rebound unlikely to last: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance.

Here’s the trailer to the upcoming film An American Carol in which a fictitious Michael Moore gets slapped about a bit from a few American heroes. This is just plain funny.

The Wilson County Commission is currently debating how much it is going to raise property taxes in order to cover a “shortfall” in the schools budget, and advocates are trotting out the familiar “We’re going to have to cut (fill in your favorite high-profile education item)” if they aren’t successful in fleecing the taxpayers for more money. It’s always the high-profile items that are threatened, such as school nurses, textbooks, bus routes, etc. It’s never the invisible administrative or bureaucratic wing that gets the cuts, it the things that are most visible to the public. At any rate, there are a couple of recent online stories in the Lebanon Democrat that cover the proposed tax increase.

Crowd fills commission meeting to support schools’ budget
BOE struggles to find ways to cut from schools’ budget

The Americans are preparing to turn the Anbar province over to the Iraqis. This refutes everything the Democrat Party has claimed and hoped for.

Conditions in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where a brutal insurgency once ruled, have improved so dramatically that the United States is handing over responsibility for security in the Sunni stronghold to Iraq within days. Troops freed up in Iraq could shift to Afghanistan.

“There aren’t a whole heck of a lot of bad guys there left to fight,” Gen. James T. Conway, the top Marine Corps general, said Wednesday.

A ceremony marking the Anbar turnover is expected to be held Monday, several U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Each spoke on condition of anonymity because the Iraqi government has not yet announced it. Anbar would be the 10th of Iraq’s 18 provinces to be returned to Iraqi government control, a step toward phasing out the American combat role as Iraqi security forces grow more competent.

Fewer Marines needed in Iraq’s western province – Yahoo! News.

U.S. Catholic bishops have set the record straight on the church’s position on abortion, pointing out that Speaker of State Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in America, was woefully in error when she claimed the Catholic Church didn’t know when life begins.

Pelosi was asked on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday to comment on when life begins. She responded saying that as a Catholic, she had studied the issue for “a long time” and that “the doctors of the Church have not been able to make that definition.”

Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U. Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William Lori, chairman of the Committee on Doctrine, said her answer “misrepresented the history and nature of the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church against abortion.”

They noted that the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.”

ZENIT – US Bishops: Pelosi Got Church Teaching Wrong.

The American Issues Project has put together a great political commercial describing the ties between Barack Obama and American terrorist Bill Ayers. This is the sort of thing the RNC should be doing.

UPDATE: Bill Hobbs points out that the Obama campaign is trying to prevent this advertisement from being seen. That’s because the Obama campaign knows it’s true.