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		<title>What This Past Year Has Taught Us About Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, and John McCain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past year, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, and John McCain have, through their actions, demonstrated who they are, in contrast to what their campaigns and detractors said they were. The mysteries, conjectures, hypotheses, and suppositions have been manifested by the harshness of reality. The summations of reality: Barack Obama: During the presidential campaign, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This past year, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, and John McCain have, through their actions, demonstrated who they are, in contrast to what their campaigns and detractors said they were. The mysteries, conjectures, hypotheses, and suppositions have been manifested by the harshness of reality.</p>
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<p>The summations of reality:</p>
<p><strong>Barack Obama</strong>: During the presidential campaign, and immediately after winning the election, Barack Obama was declared <em>urbane</em>&#8230;<em> super cool</em>&#8230;<em> IQ off the charts</em>&#8230;<em> probably the smartest guy ever to become president</em>&#8230;<em> the cerebral president</em>&#8230;<em> too intelligent for the job</em>, and boundless tantamount protestations of the like.</p>
<p>One year later, the evidence and aftermath have painted a different picture of a man whose intelligence and general competence were prejudicially manufactured by the media and the demagogues of the Left. The only existing evidence supporting Obama&#8217;s formidable intelligence and heightened IQ were, and are still, sequestered from public perusal, as his actual accomplishments present a garden variety philistine intellect. His academic record, for all practical purposes, does not exist. Not one of the myopic windbags who championed his intelligence has ever been afforded the luxury of admiring his Punahou School records, his SAT scores, his Occidental College records, his Columbia College records, his Harvard College records, and his nonexistent Harvard Law Review articles as the editor.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s record of a man possessing such an impressive IQ and academic foundation seems to run counter to his manufactured super-human perspicacity. Obama has demonstrated this past year an astonishing ignorance of constitutional law, American history, world history, basic fundamental economics, and a primary school grasp of the structure of the federal government, including each branch&#8217;s role.</p>
<p>Obama’s brief tenure has been plagued by a battle between his alleged super-intelligence and his doubtless super-arrogance, with the latter generally prevailing at the end of each round.</p>
<p>This past year, we have learned that Obama&#8217;s penchant for lying is not wielded for political expediency, as are plenty of political prevarications, but rather appears founded in a pathological affliction. Only 65% of Americans did not believe the substance of Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address, which is low considering that almost the entirety of the speech, when weighed against substantiated facts, was one misrepresentation of the truth after another. Only 6% of Americans believe his $800 billion debacle of a stimulus package has created any jobs. To put this number in bleak perspective, 8% of Americans believe Elvis is still alive, and 83% believe Tupac Shakur is still alive.</p>
<p>Obama told a group of Republicans that he was not an ideologue. But this past year, the evidence has convicted Obama as the embodiment of Leftist ideology. A cursory perusal of his appointments and cabinet members’ pasts and recent affiliations with Leftist organizations, Communist organizations, and Fascist organizations, would substantiate his ideology beyond any reasonable doubt, regardless of his disputes.</p>
<p>Currently, only 22% of voters strongly approve of Barack Obama&#8217;s performance as president, while 41% strongly disapprove. This gives Obama a presidential approval index of -19.</p>
<p>So what have we learned this past year about Barack Obama? When Barack Obama ran for president, he possessed no leadership experience. When a man in his late 40&#8242;s is void of leadership roles, he is not a leader. A natural leader leads. Whatever the situation or circumstances, a leader always emerges as a leader. And to lead, you need followers, and Obama has divided this nation asunder. Continuing to divide and lead a minority of Left-Wing ideologues down a path of destruction does not a leader make. Obama was not qualified when he was a candidate, and has proven that he is not qualified one year later.</p>
<p>If Obama could be summarized in one act, it would be his speech earlier at the National Prayer Breakfast. He stood erect, jaw jutted out in arrogance, shrouded by teleprompters, reading words someone else wrote, and pronouncing the word “corpsman” by accentuating the &#8220;p.&#8221; This speech was embarrassing, pathetic, pregnant with fabrications, ignorant, and disrespectful, and summed up the first year of Barack Obama.</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Palin: </strong>I like Sarah Palin. She, out of Obama, McCain, and Biden, was the most qualified to be president. Yet, she is not qualified to be president at this juncture, and being a celebrity is not advancing her qualifications for the job, but it is advancing conservatism. Palin does possess one trait that eludes the other three, and this trait is essential as a leader: common sense. She has values, and those values resonate with the majority of Americans. She possesses and projects a morality that eludes the majority of politicians in this country, and frustrates the Left into spasms of exasperation. Palin seems to possess the fundamental knowledge of the principles upon which this country was founded, which would make her a far better leader than our current president. I believe Sarah Palin is a very smart woman, but when pressed for specifics about the Constitution, she uses talking points that rarely penetrate into a deeper understanding. Her lack of previous intellectual curiosity regarding U.S. history and the Constitution has cost her a foundational knowledge. That can be corrected. A reading of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, studying legitimate American history from 1766-1790, reading the Federalist Papers, and reading the debates and personal writings of the Founders regarding the Constitution, would give Sarah Palin a much better understanding of the Constitution than most Ivy League Constitution Law graduates. But, with that said, she still has a better understanding of the meaning and intentions of the Constitution in the aggregate than the majority of the congress, Barack Obama, and four unnamed Supreme Court Justices whose initials start with Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, John Paul Stevens, and Stephen Breyer.</p>
<p>What have we learned this year about Sarah Palin? Sarah Palin is currently in her most suitable and accommodating role to advance the values of true conservatism. She continues to cause the loathsome and reprehensible essence of contemporary liberals to expose itself through their reactions to her. As Palin has gained her footing on the national stage, increased her knowledge base of national issues, and mastered a compelling authority to communicate her message, with each incremental step she has advanced, the Left has incrementally increased their thrashing about in the throes of their confounded agony. It would be a great loss to the conservative movement if Palin were to run for office in the near future, and abandon the power she wields in her current endeavor. Sarah Palin has settled into a position of much greater power and influence than if she held public office. Sarah Palin is good for conservatives, and good for this country.</p>
<p><strong>Joe Biden: </strong>What can be said about Joe Biden one year later? Joe Biden possesses the same picayune spirit and values that were responsible for his getting caught plagiarizing a paper in law school, and graduating at the bottom of his class. His intellectual and moral evolution since becoming a senator and subsequently vice-president has been somewhat of a disappointment, as he is still the same little dimwit he was in law school.</p>
<p>What have we learned this year about Joe Biden? The same thing Joe has learned: nothing.</p>
<p><strong>John McCain: </strong>John McCain, politics aside, is a true American hero, a man who possesses a type of courage that only a handful of Americans can claim, and as much as a lifetime of politics will corrode and decay a person’s honor and integrity, McCain has been able to keep most of his intact. John McCain, on his best day, is a run of the mill progressive, which conflicts with some of his conservative values. Most of what ails this country today can be directly tied to policies that John McCain supports. McCain, throughout his political career, and especially in the past ten years or so, has been an erratically moving contradiction, which does not characterize a maverick as much as it characterizes an indefinable entity, and what this country does not need as president is an indefinable entity.</p>
<p>John McCain and Joe Biden do share one thing in common: they both were sponsors of bills that had portions ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, Biden&#8217;s Violence Against Women Act and McCain&#8217;s McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Act.</p>
<p>What have we learned this year about John McCain? Nothing. McCain is what he was ten years ago: an inconsistent and indefinable entity.</p>
<p>In conclusion, one year later, the only person of the four to advance to a level of genuine and functional relevance is Sarah Palin. McCain and Biden are still McCain and Biden. Barack Obama has proven that when a president is elected whose only demonstrable skill is reading from a teleprompter, then after one year, his only discernible skill is still only reading from a teleprompter.</p>
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		<title>A Vote for Obama is a Vote for&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casting a vote for Obama is not as simple as just voting him into office. You are voting into office all the radical, Un-American supporters behind him, with him, and around him, who only fifty years or so ago would be in prison for their actions. You are voting for a broken Democrat Congress. To [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">Casting a vote for Obama is not as simple as just voting him into office. You are voting into office all the radical, Un-American supporters behind him, with him, and around him, who only fifty years or so ago would be in prison for their actions. You are voting for a broken Democrat Congress. To vote for Obama simply because you don&#8217;t like McCain, is not a vote for one candidate or the other. A vote for Obama because the thought of Palin being a heartbeat away from the Presidency will only get you the ensuing list.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John McCain is not a traditional conservative, nor should he be taken seriously as one, he is what we, the conservative voters, were presented with. But he will be the only one of the two candidates that will preserve the principles this country was founded upon. Sadly, this is a vote for preservation rather than a vote for direction.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sarah Palin is an unknown. She is more conservative than John McCain, and seems, according to her record, less likely to stray from conservative principles than McCain. Of the four candidates on the ticket, she is the only one with a proven, albeit short,  track record of actually implementing change, rather than just using it as a political talking point. The voters who fear her ascending to the presidency cannot articulate one reasonable example of what she is capable of doing that would frighten them&#8211;unless the voter is on the left, and fears morality and principles in a Commander in Chief &#8211;then they should shake with fear.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As with Dickens&#8217; A Christmas Carol, below you will be presented with the Ghost of Obama Past, the Ghost of Obama Present, and the Ghost of Obama Yet to Come.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>ACORN</strong> and all the voter fraud and Mafioso tactics they have used to undermine our elections processes, and their part in the collapse of the financial markets.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong> William Ayers</strong> a domestic terrorist and Obama&#8217;s friend.<strong></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Timothy McVeigh </strong>a domestic terrorist with the only difference between him and Ayers being he was more successful at terrorism.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Jeremiah Wright</strong> the anti-American, hate mongering pastor who stated, among other things, &#8220;God Damn America&#8221;,  that is/was Obama and his wife&#8217;s pastor for 15 years.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Tony Rezko </strong>the recently convicted felon who used millions  of dollars of taxpayer&#8217;s money, given to him by Obama, to build sub-standard housing for the poor that had to be condemned after just a few years. And who also just so happened to be involved in finding Obama&#8217;s mansion at a very reduced price across the street from him,  and  helping Obama procure part of the lot next door that his wife just so happened to own.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Karl Marx</strong> author of the Communist Manifesto, and an like Obama was, against capitalism.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Michelle Obama</strong> and her heavily documented anti-American, not being proud of this country, deportment&#8211;and a separatist ideology in the stead of the droning mantra of &#8220;a uniter&#8221; by Obama.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Morality </strong>will be supplanted by immorality at the executive level, reinforced at the Congressional level, and quite possible a majority at the Supreme Court.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Honor</strong> will be replaced with dishonor.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Socialism</strong> and all the harm it can do to a capitalist society.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Defeatism </strong>would be the United States disposition in regard to foreign policy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Defenseless</strong> against a nuclear missile attack from foreign powers with Obama&#8217;s cutting off of funding and dismantling of the Missile Defense Shield.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Weak Military</strong> during an ever evolving nuclear world by cutting spending to the military.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Hate</strong> being the fuel of the left in their opposition to the other side.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Far Left Radicals</strong> of any group or organization.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Exodus of Businesses</strong> leaving  the U.S. due to an increasingly hostile environment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Wall Street Financial Crisis</strong> perpetuated by the very Democrats that caused it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Guaranteed Recession</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Louis Farrakhan</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Harry Reid</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Racism</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Infanticide</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Divisiveness</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Higher Taxes </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Higher unemployment</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Incessant Lying</strong> becoming the new dialog for America.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Constitution</strong> no longer relevant.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Bill of Rights</strong> no longer relevant.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Congress</strong> and its continued spiral  into the abyss if the Democrats maintain their majority coupled with an unmitigated Socialist in the White House.</p>
<p>This is the package you are voting for when you vote for Obama.  You can&#8217;t vote for him for one reason and not vote for the entire list.  You would be choosing to support it all, and possibly other unnamed aberrations that come as the Obama package<strong>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Famous Quotes by Joe Biden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is one of the more cerebral members of the Senate, yet one of the most unjustly maligned members. His honor and intelligence have been degraded, with prejudice. Joe has amassed a library of personal quotes and speeches during his tenure as a U.S. Senator. He has been the unsullied victim of vituperation dating [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joe Biden is one of the more cerebral members of the Senate, yet one of the most unjustly maligned members. His honor and intelligence have been degraded, with prejudice.  Joe has amassed a library of personal quotes and speeches during his tenure as a U.S. Senator. He has been the unsullied victim of vituperation dating back to his days at university.</p>
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<p>Before listing some of his more memorable quotes, let&#8217;s delve closers into the man, and the tribulations that have formed his unique character.</p>
<p>It started while he was chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee in the Senate in 1987. Biden was simultaneously running for the office of President, and heading up the Judiciary Committee during the Robert Bork confirmation hearings. It is legendary that he single handedly preserved the honor of the Supreme Court by preventing the likes of Robert Bork from contaminating the court with his radical ideology. Bork humiliated himself by stating that, as a justice on the Supreme Court, he would rule in accordance with the original intent of the Constitution. To further bolster his lack of credentials, he confessed, under oath at the hearings, that he was a law professor at Yale. Joe Biden, smelling blood, went in for the kill and astutely stated, &#8220;We have enough professors on the bench. I want someone who ran for dog catcher.&#8221;  In addition to keeping radicals such as Bork off the court, he brought consistency and balance to the Judiciary Committee by deriding Bork&#8217;s and Thomas&#8217; relations with morals and the law. Biden stated that Bork was a dangerous extremist because he denied that moral principles could override written law. To keep it balanced, Biden said that Thomas was a dangerous extremist because he affirmed that principles could override the written law.</p>
<p>While Joe was perniciously eradicating what character Bork had left, and trying to balance that with running for the presidency, he was forced to withdraw from the presidential race. His crime? Some silly misunderstanding over a plagiarized stump speech. So Joe had plagiarized a speech by Neil  Kinnock, the leader of the British Labour Party.  I personally believe this was unfair to Joe. Keeping people like Bork off  the bench, and trying to run a presidential campaign is more than any mortal can handle. I thought it was ingenious of Biden to borrow a speech here and there. There just weren&#8217;t enough hours in the day to do it all, then sit down and try and write a speech. There are plenty of speeches floating around out there not being used. Joe did this Kinnock fellow a favor.</p>
<p>At the same time, it was revealed that Joe had plagiarized a law review article he wrote while at Syracuse Law School. He received an F in the class, but was allowed to take it over. Once again, where can a mortal get the time to do all things.? As Joe stated in his defense in front of the review board at Syracuse, &#8220;Is not imitation the best form of flattery.&#8221; That Joe, what a character.</p>
<p>To add insult to injury, it was also revealed, that as an undergraduate, his grades consisted of C&#8217;s and D&#8217;s. But no one wants to give Joe credit for the two A&#8217;s he received in Physical Education. They only wanted to focus on the negative. Joe also had a lifelong dream of heading the Arms Services Committee in the Senate, but the three F&#8217;s he received in ROTC were a bit of a distraction when he put in his application. According to Joe, he received three undergraduate degrees, then went on to graduate in the top half of his class in law school with a full academic scholarship. Never mind that according to Syracuse&#8217;s records he graduated 76th out of 85, and there certainly must have been a clerical error in the university only showing Joe with one degree rather than three. So what if the records of his scholarship only showed a partial scholarship for financial hardship rather than academics, Joe is a fighter and a positive thinker, and it is this type of splitting of hairs that is ripping this country apart.</p>
<p>Now to some of Joe&#8217;s more famous quotes. You may have heard many of these before, but did not know whom to attribute them,  or were unaware that Joe produced them from the depths of his intellect.</p>
<ul>
<li>Give me liberty or give me death.</li>
<li>I have a dream.</li>
<li>Facts are stubborn things.</li>
<li>The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.</li>
<li>And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.</li>
<li>Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.</li>
<li>A penny saved is twopence clear.</li>
<li>Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.</li>
<li>Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.</li>
<li>I graduated in the top half of my class.</li>
<li>I have a higher IQ than you.</li>
<li>I am a miner&#8217;s son.</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t have an open mind.</li>
<li>Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.</li>
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<p>As you can see, Joe is one smart fellow. Right after being announced by Barack Obama as the next President of these 57 United States, Joe Biden took the podium for his acceptance speech and started off like good ol&#8217; typical Joe: &#8220;Fore score and seven years ago&#8230;..</p>
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