LaHood Needs to Put a Sock in it!!!

by Janet Crain

"LaHood supports McCain", but he sure has a heck of a way of showing it!!! With friends like this, McCain sure doesn't need any enemies. What is wrong with these people? Do they just want to see their comments in print so bad they will say anything? Don't they know newspapers like the HuffPo will jump on their remarks like a hungry wolf on a dumb little rabbit? Do they realize they could wake up Nov. 5th and say to themselves; "Yes, brilliant self you were right......and gulp!!!......Obama is president!!!" Do they care? Did they ever? Were they simply Democrats in Republican clothing to help their elections in the past? I really intend to remember each and everyone of these loose lipped closet liberals.

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The Huffington Post October 10, 2008 11:57 AM

Veteran Republican Congressman Ray LaHood criticized his party's vice presidential nominee Friday, saying that Sarah Palin's vitriolic campaign rallies ""don't befit the office she's running for."

Rep. LaHood, who has represented Illinois' 18th district for seven terms and is retiring in January, told WBBM Radio that Palin should control the racially-charged heckling at her rallies:

"Look it. This doesn't befit the office that she's running for. And frankly, people don't like it."

Some of the names Obama is being called, which include "terrorist" and "traitor," "certainly don't reflect the nature of the man," LaHood said to WBBM.
LaHood supports John McCain's candidacy, but warned that the heckling could backfire on the Republican ticket.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/10/republican-congressman-cr_n_133623.html?page=6

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John Kerry, 2004 Presidential hopeful, now eyes Secretary of State, Cabinet Position



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With the economy on the brink of recession and the country in the midst of two foreign wars, Barack Obama is considering appointing a cabinet of stars to steer America through potentially its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s if he wins the presidency on November 4.

Obama has a well-regarded, close-knit team of domestic and foreign policy advisers who would follow him into the White House and key administration posts. But he is also being urged to make some high-profile appointments who would command the confidence of the country at such a troubled time.

“It’s important to send a signal,” an Obama adviser said. “With a comparatively new person in office and the awful mess we’re in, these appointments are going to resonate around the world.” Obama, 47, has been warning his supporters that the election is not over yet. “Don’t underestimate our ability to screw it up,” he said last week. But should Obama win, he will not be short of big names to choose for his administration.

A host of well-known figures, including some Republicans, have indicated they would be willing to serve in some capacity as Obama begins to acquire a winner’s glow. From Senator John Kerry, the 2004 presidential candidate with hopes of becoming secretary of state, to Larry Summers, a former US Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, and Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator who has been tipped as defence secretary, there are plenty who have signalled their availability.

Obama is thought likely to cherry-pick a few high-profile names, while rewarding the loyalty and discretion of advisers such as his foreign policy expert Susan Rice who have served him so well throughout the campaign.

“He has no patience whatsoever with prima donnas,” said one leading Democrat policy adviser. “He’s surrounded himself with people who are pretty smooth in dealing with each other.” All eyes were on Colin Powell, the former secretary of state under President George W Bush, to see if he would declare his support for Obama in an interview on Meet the Press, the flagship political television programme, today. Powell is unlikely to return to the cabinet after the mauling he received over the Iraq war, but could serve as a special envoy abroad. He is regularly consulted by Obama on foreign policy and military matters, and said last year: “I always keep my eyes open and my ears open to requests for service.”

In last week’s debate against John McCain, his Republican opponent, Obama indicated that he would adopt a bipartisan approach to government, citing the Republican senator Richard Lugar, who worked with him on a bill to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, and General Jim Jones, the former Nato commander, as figures he admired.

“Those are the people, Democrat and Republican, who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the White House,” Obama said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4968993.ece

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'Election is About Obama'

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'Election is about Obama'

By JOHN EBY / Niles Daily Star
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:15 AM EDT

BENTON HARBOR - The two-year, wide-open White House race with no incumbents for the first time since 1952 boils down to one factor, according to Karl Rove.

Rove, who masterminded President George W. Bush's successful White House bids in 2000 and 2004, told The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan Monday night at Lake Michigan College Mendel Center, "This election is about Obama."

Rove said the presidential election "would be over" had Obama selected Hillary Clinton for vice president instead of Joe Biden, robbing John McCain of an opening to energize his campaign by selecting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for vice president.

Rove pointed out there are "two populists running for president, outsiders arguing about who's responsible for this mess" heading into the first debate Friday in Oxford, Miss.

Vice presidential candidates square off in St. Louis Oct. 2, followed by presidential forums in Nashville, Tenn., and on Long Island, N.Y.

The winner of the first debate can expect a 4-percent poll jump, perhaps more with it centered on foreign policy, Rove said.

The first Gallup Poll after Labor Day has been reliable in forecasting the winner of the popular vote in seven of the past eight elections except 1980. It showed McCain by 4 percent. "The problem is, this is also the first Labor Day poll right after the Republican convention," he said.

"Blue-collar households are somewhat suspicious of this guy. They see him as an elitist. Particularly in blue-collar households in the Midwest and the industrial mid-Atlantic, they remember (Barack Obama's) comment about people clinging to their guns, their faith and their xenophobia. What was he thinking? He has advantages he can't take advantage of because of deep, persistent doubts about his fitness for office. Two weeks ago, 48 percent said he was not qualified. This is the second-highest negative answer to that question that I can find in modern polling. The only presidential candidate who had a worse number was Michael Dukakis in 1988, who had 56 percent of the people in October who said he was not qualified. It really matters who the president is. Big changes are dictated by the outcome. We invest a lot of ourselves in the election. It's really important, and that's the way it should be."

Rove said there will be four battles waged simultaneously, with each candidate talking about the same issues in different ways.

"McCain wants to talk about the war on terror, energy, taxes and spending, which for him are about jobs and the economy," Rove said. "On the other hand, Obama doesn't want to talk about the war on terror at all. He negotiated to have the first debate Friday devoted to foreign affairs so the last debate would be devoted entirely to domestic affairs. And we've seen how events can intrude into a campaign in a very powerful way in the last few days" with the mortgage meltdown and $700 billion bailout for Wall Street.

"The economy has come to the fore. It's a natural advantage for Obama because he wants to talk about it and McCain doesn't," Rove said.

"McCain's going to say he's the experienced reformer. Obama's going to say he's the guy who's going to fight for change and cares about people like you. Each of them wants you to comfortably see them in the Oval Office ... for the first time since spring, McCain is seen as more honest and trustworthy than Obama. In the Fox poll, they asked, 'If you had the most important decision of your own life, who would you turn to for guidance, McCain or Obama?' The answer was 50-36, McCain."

Adding to Rove's interest is that neither Obama or McCain was expected to prevail in his party's primaries. The campaign has gone on so long that the chief issue has shifted from the war in Iraq to the economy.

Their solutions would be very different, Rove stated. Obama favors more regulation and higher taxes for wealthy Americans, while McCain supports less regulation and a limit on the percentage any citizen should be taxed on their income.

They'll be fighting over issues such as taxes, with each arguing for "fairness. Obama says it's fair to take money from the people at the top 5 percent to issue a tax cut for the 95 percent below that. A couple of things are hidden in there. One is that two out of every three in the top five percent is small business, which creates three out of every four new jobs. He's also not saying when he says 'tax cut' he wants to give everyone in the lower 95 percent a $500-a-year tax credit or, if you're married, $1,000. Forty-eight percent of Americans who file income taxes have no liability, so they'll be getting checks. It's not a cut because they don't owe any tax. This is a transfer."

McCain's take on fairness is questioning whether the government should not be limited in how much it "can take out of anyone's wallet, and 35 percent is more than enough," Rove said to applause.

http://www.nilesstar.com/articles/2008/09/23/news/ndnews3.txt

The Icarus Syndrome

September 12, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama’s Descent to Earth
It’s hard to maintain a celestial conceit for four years — even if you believe it yourself.

By Charles Krauthammer

The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman tells him to “start slamming down some phones.” Camille Paglia suggests, “be boring!” Meanwhile, a posse of Democratic lawyers, mainstream reporters, lefty bloggers, and various other Obamaphiles are scouring the vast tundra of Alaska for something, anything, to bring down Sarah Palin: her daughter’s pregnancy, her ex-brother-in-law problem, her $60 per diem, and now her religion. (CNN reports — news flash! — that she apparently has never spoken in tongues.) Not since Henry II asked if no one would rid him of his turbulent priest, have so many so urgently volunteered for duty.

But Palin is not just a problem for Obama. She is also a symptom of what ails him. Before Palin, Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great. Which is why McCain’s Paris Hilton ads struck such a nerve. Obama’s meteoric rise was based not on issues — there was not a dime’s worth of difference between him and Hillary on issues — but on narrative, on eloquence, on charisma.

The unease at the Denver convention, the feeling of buyer’s remorse, was the Democrats’ realization that the arc of Obama’s celebrity had peaked — and had now entered a period of its steepest decline. That Palin could so instantly steal the celebrity spotlight is a reflection of that decline.

It was inevitable. Obama had managed to stay aloft for four full years. But no one can levitate forever.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2JiYTc5OWEyYmRlZjY0ZTI1NjQ5OTU4ODgzMmM2YmE=