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From CBS News poll in 8/2007:

More than half of voters (51 percent) think Obama, a first-term U.S. senator from Illinois, does not have the right kind of experience to be a good president, compared with 29 percent who think he does.

h/t to getdrunkandvote4mccain.com

And to think that the first missive from Obama's campaign was to highlight her alleged inexperience.

When I read that McCain told the Congressional GOP that his VP pick would be "traditional", the conservative peanut gallery proceeded quickly to dismiss non-male WASP VP candidates.  Boy, I'll be happy as a clam if I am right thinking what I think the McCain camp meant by "traditional".  Sen. Snowe has been in Congress longer than John Mcain.  She has been in elected office since 1973 and has NEVER lost an election.   To an audience of congressional GOP, Snowe's long tenure makes her a traditional politician. 

Oh who am I kidding that the GOP will bring its A-game to this election.  The only hope I have is that McCain can surprise people and have spent the last year kow-towing to the base.  He must be tired of them at this point.  Mavericks don't turn because of principle, sometimes they do it because reasons as mundane as exhaustion and boredom are enough.  There's 8 hours left to make or break a dream.  I pray to God that McCain has it in him to make this a race. 

...and eat arugula because spinach prices are too high.

Proving that the dumbest people you've ever met holds a Harvard degree, Obama's latest flight of fancy to Elitistland came today from Missouri.

"Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much.""

I wish this site came with a Dumb Obama smiley.  He actually made the connection that just by inflating your tires, you won't need to drill.  Nevermind that he provides no data to back that up, but he belittled our energy problems.  McCain campaign, fire up the Youtube, you got another ad coming. 

Eight years under Bush, and the Britons stopped worrying and now love us again. 

www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/2454261/USA-is-holidaymakers%27-favourite-destination.html

"British and Irish holidaymakers have voted the United States their favourite [sic] destination.

Tourists from the UK have also said that America is the country they are most likely to visit in the future, as part of a survey by independent guide book publisher Lonely Planet."

As many Republican office bosses can probably attest, their underlings are spending too much time checking celebrity gossip websites, the most popular of which is Perezhilton.com.  Perez Hilton is the nom de célébrité pute of Cuban American Mario Lavandeira.  A visit to his site will make you start dropping modern feminist terms like 'misogynist' at levels once reserved only for Gloria Steinem.  His sexism is brazen as his targets are mostly women.  The words "bitches", "whores", and "skanks" are emblazoned over the pictures of female celebrities with abandon with no hint of irony.  Catherine Zeta-Jones got the "twat" treatment as recently as Wednesday:

The excessive sexism even has the feminist blog, jezebel.com, devote a regular feature documenting Mario's in-your-face woman-hating. 

Huffington Post has begun to recognize (and I do too) that Perezhilton.com may have some pull in our politics.  His wall-to-wall coverage of celebrity news (some of which he breaks) ranks up there with Drudgereport in providing for water-cooler conversations.  Day-by-day, Mario attacks McCain and other GOP politicians on gay issues (Mario's gay). 

However, as Huffpo's Kelli Goff pointed out, gay rights aren't even that popular on Perez Hilton's site as his latest attack on McCain generated 700 comments, and from the looks of it, a surprisingly large number were against the blogger. 

His website may be popular, but his pull with his audience is tenuous.  He supported the failing bid of Hillary Clinton and was there to fan the Rev. Wright flames to no affect on his readership.  Positive posts on Obama are always swamped with anti-Obama comments. 

One of his problems may be is that celebrity gossip is a downmarket, uh, market.  You know, red state kind of a thing.  Basically, Mario's choir is deaf to his existence as a purveyor of such gossip and because he is a gossip-monger, his more 'serious' opinions are sidelined. 

Ironman's post on suggested McCain campaign itinerary is on-point as usual, but I find it too limiting.  It plays too much into the Electoral College game where unless your state borders one of the Great Lakes, you can be relieved of even thinking that your vote matters in November.  Plus, as a Californian, I find all these depressed depressing Midwestern mistakes-by-the-lakes, well, depressing.  We're gonna have one of the most visually blighted campaigns come November as all the states that matter and have gorgeous scenery are going for one party or another hard.  I dread to see an exclusively 'Rust Belt' election.

Sounds snobby?  How do you like it if you live in the 45 states that aren't one of the creme-de-la-creme battleground states?  Well, the upshot is that your economy is probably doing well if you're outside Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.  However, as an American citizen, it is undemocratic that another election will be held when two-thirds of the country do not see one presidential campaign ad.  The Democrat's "50-state strategy" is not an antidote to this trend; it strengthens the concept that the country can't be thought of as one nation.  I thought the Civil War fixed that.

Do you know where I'm going with this?  McCain's campaign needs to visualize a country not of 50 states.  His campaign needs to erase these essentially arbitrary lines on the map.  That's the way to break through that box which confines national debates to the issues of the some our worst performing states.  Replaying the 2000 and 2004 election for example of victories is like getting blood from a stone, a stone which has been reduced to a grain of sand.  McCain needs only to stump in Illinois to show how the corrupt Chicago machine and the Obama's brand of left-wing programs has left the state with some of the worst governments in North America.  McCain needs only to show up in Arizona to praise the tough policies against illegal immigrants and that he means serious business in securing our borders first.  McCain should show up in Colorado and rail against the California hippies that have ruined the state.  In Wall Street, he can pretty much draw a bold distinction between Wall-Street-whore Obama and bolster his maverick credential by inartfully saying "F@ck Wall Street."

"But there's no money to run a national campaign".  People from Idaho are not going to give McCain money if he doesn't show interest that their vote will matter.  The 5-states only tactic will only engage those who are in those states and the last time I look, these places are not exactly getting richer.  There are no big companies that got bigger by staying regional.  As the McDonald's model show, you only get more efficient as you get bigger (I need a better example yes, but you get the idea).  The more people you hit up for money, the more money you are going to get.  Every bum knows this.

McCain should run a genuine national campaign now.  All state and local parties should be gearing up for one singular cause--the election of McCain as president.  For as we know, no Republican party ogranization is even remotely socially acceptable as McCain is.  He is a bow-tie to a piece of turd. 

Obama's betrayal of his words to the American people rejecting public financing must rank up there with Bill Clinton's "I did not have sex with that woman" press conference as one of the more shameful moments in national politics.  Obama signed a pledge to accept public financing when Hillary was kicking his ass in the pre-primaries.  But as the two Muslim girls found out and the entire black congregation of Trinity Church can attest, you're only good to the Messiah if you are good to his political ambitions.  That's why I titled my post "No One Left to Lie To", an incredible screed by lefty/super-atheist Christopher Hitchens which details the loooooong line of people that the Clintons have betrayed in their climb to power. 

Obama just helped an aspiring author to write the first chapter of "Obama:  You Can Never Run Out of People to Lie To."  By November, there should be enough material to complete the first book of the trilogy.  You don't believe me that it's going to be that thick?  Just today, Obama backtracks from his speech in March when he threatened to unilaterally renegotiate NAFTA to the shock of Canadians.

1.)  It doesn't feel like Web 2.0.  My user homepage is an interface scanned from a piece of napkin.  I'm far from being a web designer, but sites like Flickr and Protopage seem to be great examples of 2.0 interface. 

2.)  Talk is cheap!  I wanna see candidates and issues pushed beyond the national level.  The homepage should be the first stop in promoting conservative candidates and issues.  I am tiiiirrred of punditry because all it does it highlight the infenitismal difference between Republicans when we really need to stop Left at every level. 

3.)  The color of conservatism IS NOT RED!!!  Libtwats stole our blue!!!  Don't let them steal our Tory Blueeeeee!!!!

4.)  Where can people send money?  Everytime you get Republicans together in any venue, you should bring two things:  a Ronald Reagan anecdote and a collection plate. 

I am indifferent to the little things that separate Republicans, all I know is that I want Democrats dead.  I want them gone.  Not in 2010, but now.  Is a Republican candidate a Ron Paul-Republican or a McCainiac?  I don't give a flying f*ck, just as long as they will beat a Democrat. 

 One of the wonders of being a voter in California is that you have so many opportunities to vote, and yet so little of it matters according to the courts.  California voters made it clear in 2000 that marriage is going to be between a man and a woman.  You know the rest.  

Starting June 16, thousands of homosexuals will marry.  

In November we have another opportunity to ban gay marriage again.  However, I am skeptical that the same campaign of values can be run again in California and expect that to be sufficient. The pro-tradition supporters need to update their talking points to be more inclusive.  

I think the campaign needs to send out a contemporary message that recognizes that the state has changed, and that gays need their relationships affirmed.  California is one of the few states that all but grants marriage rights to gays in the guise of the 'civil unions'.  If there are any drawbacks to gay marriages compared to gay partnerships (gay divorce for one), that should be part of the campaign.  Anyone else has ideas how gay marriages will be inferior to gay partnerships?

Come July 11, another one of the Steve Jobs' overpriced gadget will come out.  Purchasing any Apple product seem to rank up there with SUVS as symbols of the go-go 2000s when Americans spent too much for something that they could get cheaper and better somewhere else.  Stop by at your local Apple store to gauge the consumer confidence of Americans with money.  If the lines matches the hype, it's a sign that the bottom of the economy has been reached.  

Introducing the savior of the American economy  the Apple IPhone 3G.  

www.apple.com/iphone