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2008 Elections: It's getting even more historic..

Posted by Thomas D Clarke on Friday, August 29, 2008 12:55:56 PM

The DNC finished their convention last night 60 miles north of my hometown in Denver. Obama took the nomination. Plagiarist Joe Biden is Obama's running mate. And hopefully, the Clintons will never again run for high office after being forced by the DNC to kiss Obama's and Biden's posteriors.

Next week, the GOP has its convention in St. Paul, MN. Not content to let Obama bounce up 6 points in the latest polls, McCain rolled out his running mate. It is Sarah Palin, the current governor of Alaska. This is a huge shock to those who were expecting either Mitt Romney or Tim Palenty to be McCain's running mate.

The election now holds a bunch of firsts: first Presidential candidate from Hawaii (Obama was born there); first Presidential candidate born in a US territory (the Panama Canal Zone was still part of the US when McCain was born there in 1936); first major party Presidential candidate of African descent (Obama); and now the first pro-life female vice presidential nominee and the first nominee of either party to be from Idaho and Alaska (Sarah Palin). And also, this is the first Presidential election in which both candidates are sitting Senators.
 
McCain is definitely going after the Hildabeest's disenchanted supporters with this pick. And Palin seems to have a lot of conservative maverick credentials, too.
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What the Hell was Obama thinking?

Posted by Thomas D Clarke on Sunday, August 24, 2008 12:00:00 PM
There is a rumored dread amongst some Democrats that their party always puts the most defeatable candidates up as their Presidential candidates. Of course for the last 2 elections, these Democrats failed to see that their candidate was wrong on the issues that mattered most to Americans.
 
And now their Golden Boy, Barack Obama, he of the 95% approval rating (in Europe) is falling behind McCain in the latest polls. And then Obama does something even stupider than declaring "I am a citizen of the World" in Berlin.. he nominates Joe Biden to be his Vice Presidential pick.
 
Now maybe those defeatist Democrats may be right here. Obama is a likeable guy who glosses over his positions that differ from the mainstream. But why would he nominate a guy whose best known qualities are not his foreign policy experiences as a Senator, but his blatant plagiarism of British Labour politician Neil Kinnock. It also doesn't help that the main blog here at Townhall is reporting that Biden has just as much military experience as Obama (none), marking the first time since 1932 that a major party ticket has no one with military experience. And this wouldn't be an issue if we weren't at war with Islamic terrorism and in a renewed Cold War with Russia.
 
If I were a Democrat , I wouldn't want a blatant liar on my ticket. But then their last successful Presidential candidate was the worst liar and cheat ever to stain (in more ways than one) the Oval Office- and his wife was a serious threat to Obama in the primaries earlier this year. But I haven't been a registered Democrat since 1992, and unlike those left wing elites, I know better.
 
 
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Update on this blogger

Posted by Thomas D Clarke on Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:00:00 PM
Due to immense life changes having to do with my move back to NYC, being without home internet access for the last 3 months, my housing crisis that wasn't resolved until last month, and my recent trip to Coney Island Hospital for a dangerous (but non-cancerous) skin condition, I haven't been able to update this blog in over 4 months. It might still be another month before I can get FiOS and not be at the mercy of internet cafes and the New York Public Library. But a few things have changed in New York since I moved back. We have a somewhate decent (by Democrat standards) governor who actually is trying to do something about the fiscal insanity and corruption in Albany. NYC has a great new dance station (Pulse 87) and a new talk station (970 the Apple) that means I can finally listen to Hewitt, Medved, and company without relying on a home internet connection.
 
And I have an interesting messenger job (which in NYC, is pretty much recession-proof). Ironically, I had this job while I was homeless, but that's fodder for another, more detailed blog... along with how the conditions at said shelters (120 E 32nd St and Wards Island) were in many ways worse than the conditions for hardened terrorists who aren't even US citizens that are presently being detained at Guantanamo Bay ("Club Gitmo") in Cuba. But thankfully I have been in my own place in New Brighton, Staten Island, for a month now- with cheaper rent than I was paying in the Springs.
 
I hope to comment on New York, Hiltongate, the media's sudden interest in last year's Troopergate Spitzer scandal, and other things by Labor Day.
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