Palin In Comparison

This is Sarah Palin


. . . America’s hottest governor and the Republican nominee for Vice President.


She is the governor of Alaska


. . . the northernmost of our fifty some odd states.


She has an approval rating over 80%. That is . . .


. . . almost better than God's.

She likes fishing . . .


. . . for salmon


She likes hunting . . .


. . . for moose.


And Mooseburgers . . .


. . . are whats for dinner at the Alaska Governor's mansion.


What she doesn't eat . . .


. . . makes for comfortable office decor.


She started out her adult life as a working woman, a hockey mom, . . .


. . . and a runner up for Miss Alaska.


Obama started out as . . .


. . . a follower of the Marxist organizer Saul Alinsky.


Palin won her first election for executive office to become . . .


. . . the Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska in 1996.


She did so by beating a three term incumbent . . .


. . . in a hotly contested election.


Obama won his first election to the Illinois State Senate . . .


. . . by having his competition, Alice Palmer, a civil rights icon, decertified from the ballot by his attorneys. Likewise, none of his subsequent elections to office were models of democracy.


Palin is famous for blowing the whistle on massive corruption


. . . at the very top of Alaska's Republican Party.


Obama is famous for meeting corrupt people . . .


. . . befriending them and doing business deals.


Palin has a twenty year old son . . .


. . . in the U.S. Army Infantry, a job that requires he put his life on the line in order to serve our country.


Obama attended Trinity United Church for 20 years . . .


. . . exposing his children to the deeply racist, seperatist and anti-American Black Liberation Theology and a preacher who damns America.


Palin has run businesses, including. . . .


. . . a commercial fishing business with her husband


That gives her more business experience than . . .


. . . these two combined.


Palin has been a mayor and is now a governor. That gives her more executive experience than . . .



. . . these two combined.


Palin went to Germany. She gave no speeches while there, but . . .


. . . she did visit wounded soldiers in Landstuhl


Obama went to Germany. He gave a speech to Germans . . .


. . . then exercised near Landstuhl


Palin has fought against . . .


. . . tax increases and earmarks


Obama has . . .


. . . sought millions in earmarks for special interests.


Obama voted against a bill that would have killed the funding for the most infamous pork project of the last decade, the $200+ million earmark for the Bridge to Nowhere . . .




When she became Governor of Alaska . . .


. . . Palin killed the Bridge to Nowhere project.


Palin is a huge proponent of . . .



. . . drilling in ANWR and off the coast to bring down gas prices.


Obama is a huge proponent of


. . . inflating your tires.


And Obama is fine with . . .


. . . $4 a gallon for gas


Palin is a lifetime member . . .



. . . of the NRA


Obama voted . . .


. . . against a bill to allow people threatened with domestic violence to carry a firearm for self protection and against a bill to protect a man from prosecution who had used a hand gun unlawful in Chicago to defend his family inside his own home.


The McCains adopted . . .


. . . an infant with heart ailments from an orphanage in Bangladesh and raised her to health and as one of their own children.


Obama adopted . . .


. . . the symbols of the presidency.


Palin is a working mom with five children . . .




Her fifth child was born four months ago. His name is Trig and they knew five months before he was born that he had Down's Syndrome . . .


They chose not to abort the child because she is pro-life.


That puts her at odds with Obama . . .


. . . who voted against an Illinois bill designed to stop infanticide of children born alive from botched abortions.


The Left says that Gov. Palin . . .


. . . is inexperienced and not ready to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency.


Who would have guessed . . .


. . . that lack of experience is now a disqualifier - for the position Vice President.

Indeed, putting aside foreign policy, Gov. Palin has more and varied experience than


. . . these two combined


Some on the left are questioning her intelligence and trying to label her the second coming of . . .

. . . Mr. "potato-e," former Vice President Dan Quayle.


The MSM of the day magnified Qualye's gaffes, while it seems that the MSM of today is ignoring . . .



. . . the serial gaffes of at least one of the candidates who makes Dan Quayle seem erudite by comparison.


McCain wants the Left and the MSM to speak up about this stuff so that he and . . .


. . . his new BFF's can hear also.

Of one thing there is no question. Of all the four candidates for President and Vice President from the two parties . . .


. . . Gov. Palin is the only one I would want to see both in the White House and on the cover of Vogue showing a bit of cleavage.
(Update 2: I included the above photo in the belief that it was the actual cover of the edition of Vogue for which Gov. Palin posed in February, 2008. Yes, she posed for Vogue, no, the above is not one of the photos. It is a photoshop. I thank one of the commentors, Mare, for pointing this out.)

(Update: Jim at Bright & Early has an additional comparison worth a view)

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Desperation & Backfire

Obama is getting hammered by McCain over his lack of substance and his lack of judgement. Obama has not been faring well in the public eye. The polls continue to drop. What to do?

The far left is clamoring for Obama to attack McCain. I have yet to find a single instance where actually listening to the far left seemed like a good idea. To the contrary, the stupidest thing that Obama and the left could do would be to attack McCain on anything other than policy differences. Obama is far too weak a candidate and McCain has far too much experience and far too much character for Obama and the left to start inviting comparisons.

Yet panic and desperation have set in. Obama and the left are now throwing the kitchen sink at McCain, highlighting some of McCain's greatest strengths and putting character and associations directly at issue. Big, big, huge, gigantic, enormous mistake.

Trying to paint McCain as dishonest on incredibly small matters wholly ancillary to McCain strengths is just insane. Yet that is precisely what Obama supporters are trying to do.

McCain spent six years getting tortured in a POW camp. There is nothing whatsoever that Obama or the left can do to spin the substance of what happened to him as a negative. Yet we have a series of folks on the left focusing attention on one incredibly small anecdote from McCain's time in the Hanoi Hilton to suggest that McCain was untruthful - i.e., the cross in the dirt story that some on the left claimed came from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelego, written in 1973.

McCain did not lift it from Solzhenitsyn's writings since it never appears therein, and McCain's story is verified by other POW's, but that does not matter. If you are on the left, the last thing you want the public dwelling upon is the incredible price McCain paid in the service of our country to score what would be, at most, an incredibly small point.

Then on to another unassailable McCain strength. McCain and his wife adopted a child with birth defects from an orphanage in Bangladesh run by Mother Theresa seventeen years ago. They have raised that little girl to adulthood and nursed her to health. This shows charachter, compassion and a willingness to give and to sacrifice on a level beyond most of us. My God, if you are on the left, why would you want to highlight anything at all about this?

Yet we have Andy Sullivan and others calling attention to this matter, claiming that McCain embellished the story of their adoption of this child by falsely claiming that Cindy McCain actually met with Mother Theresa when she was in Bangladesh. McCain never has, though his wife may have given that impression during one of several interviews during which she was asked about the adoption. But wow, to say that Sullivan and his brethern, in an effort to attack McCain, are missing the forest through the trees on this is an understatement of titanic proportions.

The last thing that Obama himself should do is to start making attacks on McCain's character or associations in any possible form. McCain is not perfect, but he has been thoroughly tested and come out of it on the very positive end of the scale. Obama on the other hand has a history of associations so thoroughly suspect and his own character so untested that inviting comparisons would be insane. Moreover, because there is more than a whiff of corruption, sleaze and quid pro quo to a plethora of major events surrounding Obama's rise in politics, it just raises the downsides for Obama on the character issue exponentially.

Obama's two saving graces on the character issue have been McCain, who has himself largely silenced the right, and the MSM who have played deaf and dumb. Let's face facts. In any other election involving any candidate but Obama, a person with his history of associations would not stand a chance of being elected dog catcher in any locality outside of Berkley. So between the MSM and McCain, Obama has gotten the absolute minimum exposure he could possibly hope for on all of this. These are not just sleeping dogs Obama should let lie, they are viscious sleeping pit bulls with an advanced case of rabies.

Yet the Obama campaign unveiled an ad in Georgia that I blogged about yesterday in which Obama slimes McCain for his association to Robert Reid. The McCain campaign fired a back with a shot across the bow, warning Obama that he did not want to make character an issue, and mentioning Bill Ayers. Obviously the Obama camp did not get the message.

Not only is Obama continuing with the ad, but now they are seeking to paint McCain as an elitist out of touch with the "bitter folk" because he is rich and, in answer to an interview question about the number of houses he owns, McCain answered that he did not know, but his wife Cindy would. It turns out he owns none, Cindy owns seven. Regardless, here is the ad



This is a mistake of just huge proportion. In response, the McCain camp announced today that the "gloves are off." Here is the responsive ad from the McCain camp, highlighting Obama's own very questionable housing problem.



That is just a small taste of what lies behind the floodgates for Obama.

And with the gloves off, there is this from the Atlantic:

A group called the American Issues Project said it launched a 2.8 million television ad buy highlighting Obama's ties to Ayres. The group calls itself "an organization representing a coalition of activists committed to raising conservative issues both during and after the election." It includes longtime Republican activists like Ed Failor, Jr. of Iowa. Failor was a McCain adviser in the state. The ad will air in Ohio and Michigan. Here's the script:

Narrator:

"Beyond the speeches, how much do you know about Barack Obama?
What does he really believe?

Consider this:
United 93 never hit the Capitol on 9/11.
But the Capitol was bombed thirty years before -


By an American terrorist group called Weather Underground that declared 'war' on the U.S. -

Targeting the Capitol, the Pentagon, police stations and more.

One of the group's leaders, William Ayers, admits to the bombings, proudly saying later:

'We didn't do enough.'
Some members of the group Ayers founded even went on to kill police.

But Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as, quote,
'Respectable' and 'Mainstream.'
Obama's political career was launched in Ayers' home.
And the two served together on a left-wing board.

Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol...and is proud of it?

Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?

American Issues Project is responsible for the content of this ad."

Obama stands a real chance of winning this election if he concentrates solely on shoring up his weaknesses and engaging McCain on policy. But that isin't going to happen. Its panic time for the One. And the advice he is taking is clearly not of divine inspiration.

Update: The Battle of Elitisma. This is hilarious.

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