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Biden, Palin draw huge ratings in debate

I admit I was one that skipped the first debate, but watched this. I'm guessing that most thought like me: I've been watching and listening to McCain and Obama for what seems like eons. I was pretty sure they wouldn't say much new or surprising. The VP candidates, on the other hand, aren't nearly so well known.

On the whole, Biden won on technical debate merits, obviously. But it's not a debate tournament. On the whole, I think the McCain camp has to be pleased. Palin showed reasonable knowledge, good poise, and a connection with regular folks.

She was good, but maybe not good enough to help a slightly lagging campaign.

We want to know yet the why's and how's Biden. How Obama won his first election (to the Illinois State Senate) by having his lawyers knock all his opponents --including the black, female incumbent -- off the ballot on technicalities, so he could run unopposed How Obama voted to deny medical care to babies born alive after abortion -- a bill too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi (Freddoso has an exclusive interview with the nurse central to the case) A story Obama would like to stay buried in Chicago: How he used his clout as a U.S. Senator to save the corrupt Cook County Political Machine when reformers of both parties tried to challenge the entrenched political bosses How Obama's wife Michele's salary nearly tripled in 2005 -- the same year he was sworn in to the U.S. Senate and began earmarking funds for her employer How Obama's friendship with the hate-spewing Reverend Jeremiah Wright was no accident -- but a carefully thought out personal and political decision Why Obama thought his association with '60s-era terror-bomber Bill Ayers wouldn't matter -- an expos� of the insular radical chic of Chicago's Hyde Park politics

How state Senator Obama was paid more than $100,000 for legal work -- then helped his client's company get $320,000 in taxpayer grants How, at a time when he says he was short of work and short of cash, Obama obtained $112,000, plus campaign contributions, from someone he later made into a government grantee through his public office Inside Obama's 17-year relationship and irregular land deal with developer Tony Rezko, whose livelihood depended on sapping the taxpayer for subsidies "I've never done any favors for him," says Obama about Rezko. But he has -- lots of them, as Freddoso shows Why Rezko's conviction for corrupting public officials might become the Whitewater scandal of Obama's campaign How Obama speaks of the days when his family was making $240,000 per year as if he had been suffering poverty -- while, just last March, he voted to raise your taxes if you make over $32,500 per year The Chicago Machine politician who "made a U.S. senator" out of Obama by giving him plum committee assignments and high-profile legislation in its late stages (often removing the original sponsors), and helping him spread money around through earmarks and "targeted" grants

How Obama avoided taking unpopular stands in the state Senate by voting "present" about 130 times -- or simply by absenting himself from tough votes altogether Obama's little-known vow to Planned Parenthood in July 2007 -- and why it would mean the end of every state, federal, and local regulation of abortion, and the end of all restrictions on government abortion funding A "new politics"? How, in less than four years as a U.S. senator, Obama has voted for some of the worst special-interest legislation to move through the chamber How Obama opposes school choice through vouchers or tax credits -- while sending his own children to an elite private school How Obama wants -- and has voted -- to abolish secret-ballot elections in the workplace when employees determine whether to unionize, allowing unions to intimidate and harass workers who don't support them Why Obama's foreign policy would take its cues from Jimmy Carter's "Post-partisan"? Why the respected National Journal named Obama the most liberal member of the United States Senate in 2007 -- beating out Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton... and the previous title-holder John Kerry

No major candidate for President of the United States ever received less critical examination than Barack Obama. In The Case Against Barack Obama, David Freddoso convincingly demonstrates that despite the hype, Barack Obama doesn't represent "change" in American politics at all. In reality, he is a shameless product of Chicago's corrupt political Machine and a far-left liberal in the mold of Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Mike Dukakis, and Walter Mondale -- but with charm and political savvy that rival those of Bill Clinton. The "No, We Can't!" Obamacrats: "Yes, We Can!" may be Obama's campaign slogan, but defeatism is what he and his fellow Democrats are really about. Win the war in Iraq? No, we can't! Become energy-independent by drilling at home and harnessing nuclear power? No, we can't! And just to make sure we can't, they put every possible legislative obstacle in our way.

Sarah sez: In the weeks since I joined John McCain as his running mate, the Obama-Biden Democrats have used their allies in the liberal media to paint us negatively, all in an attempt to sway undecided voters. Tonight's debate gave me the opportunity to bypass the biased media filter and communicate our shared values of reform directly to the voters. I know millions were watching as I went toe-to-toe against Senator Biden to explain our plans. Reform Republicans will strengthen the economy, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and secure our nation from the threat of Islamic extremism. The Democratic Secretary of State in Ohio even tried to disqualify thousands of Republican absentee ballot applications. She enlisted the help of liberal partisan friends and special interest groups when we challenged this in court. Thankfully, we were successful in taking the case all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court and won the right to reinstate these absentee ballot applications. The Obama-Biden Democrats will likely try this shameful, partisan tactic in other targeted states. They'll do anything to win this election.


Vote 4 McCain and Sarah

For REAL change in Washington

The problem is that raising taxes never brings prosperity and there is a very simple reason why. When government takes money out of the private sector they, in essence, take it out of everyone's pockets except the people who are on government entitlements. Raising taxes will never create or even promote good financial times. Every dollar government takes out of the private sector has somewhere around 28 to 30 cents drained off by the bureaucracy, then count on the greed of the House and Senate to allocate several more cents for their earmarks and pet pork projects, and by the time the poor dollar emerges to actually do any good it looks like a skeleton. A dollar is a dollar in the real world, people make it, people spend it and it is released into society in full strength to make the economy grow and prosper. Barack Obama and Joe Biden also want to raise corporate tax rates, which is completely asinine. When you raise corporate taxes, all you do is hurt the consumer, because corporations will just raise their prices to adjust for the tax hike.

The problems America is facing now have nothing to do with tax cuts for the rich or corporations. It has to do with a bloated government which is completely out of control and not taking care of the business of the nation they're supposed to be looking out for. We should all know that the current financial crisis hasn't been caused because taxes are too low, but rather because careless, power hungry politicians tried to buy votes by forcing banks to make loans they had no chance of recovering. Let me ask you a question, do you trust the politicians in Washington? Can you believe anything they tell you? Do you think they hide provisions in the bills they pass, provisions that don't benefit you and your family? Well, let me tell you this. They're lying to you when they tell you that tax increases on anybody are going to improve the economy. How do I know that? Through personal experience. Every extra dollar I have to pay in taxes is a dollar I can't pass on to my employees for them to spend in the open market buying cars and milk and clothes.

And by the way, my people make the payments on their houses. They are not part of this current housing problem. That's called personal responsibility, something that is in short supply in America. No matter who wins the election, America cannot go on like this with a bunch of Washington prima donnas spending like a gaggle of drunk party animals, lying to the people and hiding their dirty little billion dollar earmarks in the voluminous stacks of paper they call bills. It's fitting that they're called bills, because bills have to be paid, which is exactly what the taxpayer does, and the bills just keep piling up. They're dirty, they're liars, they're irresponsible, they're untrustworthy, they're power hungry, they're greedy, they're vindictive, and they're willing to destroy good and innocent people just to achieve their selfish goals. When they take their oaths they should not promise to represent the people who sent them there, but pledge allegiance to their own greedy interests and the good of their party. They'd be telling the truth at least one time.


Vote 4 Sarah and McCain

Joe Biden's never been in a Home Depot unless he went in there to see if he could get a repair kit for his cuff links. Sarah Palin came off as more experienced, qualified, and personable and able to connect than Obama does. She was knockout gorgeous, charming, pleasant, likable, witty, and she was on point last night. Has Joe Biden done something to his eyebrows? I thought I was looking at a Klingon last night! I hate to make these kinds of observations, but I can't help it. You know, if Sarah Palin weren't shackled to McCain and didn't have to mirror his talking points, do you realize how great this woman could have been? How great she can be when she's turned loose to be herself? I'm optimistic about that. My friend said to me, 'The thing is if McCain wins, at least we won't be surprised we're getting screwed. Better to get screwed knowing you're going to get screwed than to be surprised when you're getting screwed.

Yes folks, the rating's were high because of Sarah only, and, Joe Biden doesn't know the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah; he doesn't know where Gaza is. They talk about Sarah Palin not having her bona fides here on foreign policy! Sarah Palin came off as more experienced and qualified, personable and able to connect with people than Obama does, and that's where she shined last night. She was knockout gorgeous. She looked good last night, charming, pleasant, likable, witty. She was on point. She did not appear contrived. Chris Matthews said she looked like somebody in a spelling bee. You know how they're given the word they have to spell, and then repeat the word, and then spell it. He insults her by saying that he thought he was watching a spelling bee. Biden was not likable last night. He wasn't witty, even when on point. Of course, he's not charming. Biden done something to his eyebrows? I thought I was looking at a Klingon. I hate to make these kinds of observations, but I couldn't help it. There's something different. It's either that or his makeup artist was a ChiCom.

McCain N Sarah 2008

Biden was judging her with the wrong measuring stick. They simply can't grasp the fact that here's someone who is truly by the people, of the people and for the people.

at the end of the day...while being totally blinded by partisanship...would you vote for Palin to be president of the USA... right now..just as she is?

seriously...if you answer yes to that, maybe you should be hired to run a big bank