Hypocrite-In-Chief: Obama Blasts Medicare Cuts to Fund New Healthcare Program

You won't hear about this from the liberal media:

We generally try to reserve the "pure gold" label for truly irresistible instances of flagrant hypocrisy and irony.  To wit, our last usage came while flagging a clip of President Obama ripping into President Bush's "unpatriotic" accumulation of $4 Trillion in debt over eight years ... just after Obama eclipsed the $4 Trillion mark himself after just two-and-a-half years on the job.  That reminder seems especially relevant this week, since we now find ourselves on the precipice of blowing past the $16 trillion national debt mark.  It'll probably happen by week's end.  In any case, and without further ado, here's candidate Barack Obama in 2008 informing voters about John McCain's risky and dangerous Medicare-slashing vision for healthcare reform:

"It turns out that Senator McCain would pay for part of his plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare!  (Boos) $882 Billion worth. (Boos) $882 billion in Medicare cuts to pay for an ill-conceived, badly-thought-through healthcare plan...even though Medicare is already facing a looming shortfall...If you rely on Medicare, it would mean fewer places to get care, and less freedom to choose your own doctors."

It's uncanny, isn't it?  Four years hence, the Republican ticket has managed to swipe this potent attack from Obama's arsenal because the president's own plan is now doing precisely -- and I mean precisely -- what he warned about four years ago.   Allow me to update and paraphrase:

This president has paid for part of his plan by making drastic cuts to Medicare. $716 Billion worth.  $716 Billion in Medicare cuts to pay for an ill-conceived, badly-thought-through Obamacare plan.  If you rely on Medicare, it will mean fewer places to get care, and less freedom to choose your own doctors.

Lefty "fact-checkers" are tripping over one another to declare this Romney/Ryan criticism of The One a "myth" (in a stunningly deceitful piece) and "half true," but Obama cannot escape the empirical fact that he has, in fact, cut hundreds of billions from a program "already facing a looking shortfall" in order to fund his unpopular, unaffordable and destructive Obamacare power grab.  Team Obama can scream "lie!" until they're blue in the face.  That won't change the reality that President Obama has admitted to these Medicare cuts on national television, and that his Deputy Campaign manager touted the cuts as a presidential "achievement" as recently as last week.

RELATED: Paul Ryan’s Debut: What Went Right, What Went Wrong? (The Note)

Jeremiah Wright Claims Obama Campaign Bribed Him To Keep Quiet

The truth comes out....almost 4 years after "the 1st gay president" got elected:

News broke Monday of Reverend Jeremiah Wright claiming he was offered a $150,000 bribe by the Obama campaign in 2008 to keep quiet. 

Wright discussed the alleged bribe in an interview with Edward Klein, the author of an unauthorized biography on Barack Obama, "The Amateur."

Wright is widely known as the Obama's former pastor in Chicago who used foul language and cursed America during his Sunday sermons. Videos of the sermons surfaced during the Iowa primaries, almost costing Obama the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. 

One of Wright's most incriminating sermons to surface during the 2008 campaign was one in which Wright said the 9/11 attacks were "America's chickens coming home to roost."

Obama was forced to publicly renounce the sermons. However, Wright is saying there was more to the story. 

In an interview with Klein relayed by the New York Post, Wright said Obama arranged a meeting with him and said, "I really wish you wouldn't do any more public speaking until after the November election....I wish you wouldn't speak. It's gonna hurt the campaign if you do that."

Wright claimed one of the church members was instructed to give him an email from "one of Obama's closest friends" offering $150,000 in hush money.

Jeremiah Wright is the retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois. There has been no official response given by the Obama re-election campaign.

RELATED: Report: Obama friend who allegedly tried to bribe Rev. Wright is same crony who just got $5.9 million HHS contract

Barack Obama Misread His Mandate

Excellent piece by Jay Cost for Real Clear Politics:

After a rough week for health care reform, Democratic leaders appear to be pulling back on their demand for a public option. It remains to be seen whether liberal Democrats, especially in the House where they are more numerous, will go along with this. But this is still a step in the right direction to get something passed this year.

The public option was an overreach. The White House's erroneous belief that it could get it through the legislature - or at least that it could let four out of five congressional committees push it - was a misinterpretation of last year's election results. It has already made a similar mistake with cap-and-trade, backing a House bill that appears to have no chance of success in the Senate.

Bismarck once commented that politics is the art of the possible. So far, the White House has not exhibited a good understanding of exactly what is possible in this political climate. It has been acting as though the President's election was a major change in the ideological orientation of the country.

A lot of liberals certainly saw it as such. All the strained comparisons of Obama to Franklin Roosevelt were a tipoff that many were talking themselves into the idea that the 2008 election created an opportunity for a substantial, leftward shift in policy. Yet the election of 2008 was not like the 1932 contest. It wasn't like 1952, 1956, 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984, or even 1988, either. Obama's election was narrower than all of these. FDR won 42 of 48 states. Eisenhower won 39, then 41. Johnson won 44 of 50. Nixon won 49. Reagan won 44, then 49. George H.W. Bush won 40. Obama won 28, three fewer than George W. Bush in his narrow 2004 reelection.

This makes a crucial difference when it comes to implementing policy. Our system of government depends not only on how many votes you win, but how broadly distributed those votes are. This prevents one section or faction from railroading another. It is evident in the Electoral College and the House, but above all in the Senate, where 44 senators come from states that voted against Obama last year. That's a consequence of the fact that Obama's election - while historic in many respects, and the largest we have seen in 20 years - was still not as broad-based as many would like to believe. Bully for Obama and the Democrats that they have 60 Senators, but the fact remains that thirteen of them come from McCain states, indicating that the liberals don't get the full run of the show.

For whatever reason, the Obama administration has acted as if those hagiographical comparisons to FDR were apt. It let its liberal allies from the coasts drive the agenda and write the key bills, and it's played straw man semantic games to marginalize the opposition. For all the President's moaning in The Audacity of Hope about how the Bush administration was railroading the minority into accepting far right proposals - he was prepared to let his Northeastern and Pacific Western liberal allies do exactly the same thing: write bills that excite the left, infuriate the right, and scare the center; insist on speedy passage through the Congress; and use budget reconciliation to ram it through in case the expected super majority did not emerge.

This might have flown during FDR's 100 Days. But this is not 1933 and Barack Obama is no Franklin Roosevelt.

No matter what you think about John McCain, the fact that 59 million people voted for him last election shouldn't ever be taken for granted. And that's exactly what Obama and his stans on the Left are doing.

Ok Barack's The HNIC, Now What?

TheTZI.com:

WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday and promised to “begin again the work of remaking America” on a day of celebration that climaxed a once-inconceivable journey for the man and his country.

Mr. Obama, the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas, inherited a White House built partly by slaves and a nation in crisis at home and abroad. The moment captured the imagination of much of the world as more than a million flag-waving people bore witness while Mr. Obama recited the oath with his hand on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used at his inauguration 148 years ago.

Beyond the politics of the occasion, the sight of a black man climbing the highest peak electrified people across racial, generational and partisan lines. Mr. Obama largely left it to others to mark the history explicitly, making only passing reference to his own barrier-breaking role in his 18-minute Inaugural Address, noting how improbable it might seem that “a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.”

I watched some of the inauguration and oath today and while I didn't get a "tingle up my leg" like some people, I could respect the tremendous moment of a Black man taking the oath of President for the first time ever. Despite all the screw-ups it was still cool to watch. However, almost as significant was BO's speech....some might call it somber, but his tone seemed to be more upset than anything, taking some subliminal shots at President Bush and just coming off in general like his "shine" of being the first Black president got ruined by all the actual work he'll have to do as President (can't call in "absent" too often now, peeps will kinda notice).

In a sense you got the feeling that Barack already knows that his honeymoon is just about over, all his talk of "hope" and "change" gets thrown out the window because now he has to actually "be" about it. Sure, his leftwing minions and the press will continue to "Blame Bush" for everything that's wrong with this planet, after all they have nothing else to fall back on. But the rest of us know full well that Bush has left the building now, Democrats control the House and Senate and a one-term Senator with little experience at anything is in charge--downright scary. Will all the yahoos who expected Obama to come in the White House and wave a magic wand to fix everything be patient enough to give him a chance? Or will the angry wolves turn on him the minute he fails (think Billary wouldn't run again in '12? you're kidding yourself)? Ok, so we finally have the first Black president. Now what?

Alan Keyes Files Suit Against Barack's Birth Location

The GOP is already pretty desperate so what the heck:

The California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California court petition filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others.

The legal action today is just the latest is a series of challenges, some of which have gone as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, over the issue of Obama's status as a "natural-born citizen," a requirement set by the U.S. Constitution.

WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi even traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.

The biggest question is why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists, simply hasn't ordered it made available to settle the rumors.

Barack Obama: "Change" We'd Better Get Used To

Damn, I wasn't expecting a landslide by any means. My younger sister, a rapid Obama supporter from day one, was shocked too at the margin of victory. Bill Kristol said on FOX that "Republicans are irrelevant now." Last time I checked Obama had 349 electoral votes and 52% of the popular vote. Wow.

Ideology wise Barack Obama being president, for at least 4 years, is going to be hard for me. But as a black man I can't ignore the significance of Obama being President-Elect....I never thought I'd see it, frankly didn't think it was possible. People in my neighborhood (I live in a predominantly black & Hispanic section of Brooklyn) literally came out of their cribs and cheered in the streets for like half an hour. If most of them didn't have to go to work in the morning they probably would've stayed out longer. No matter what side of the political fence you're on, you can't deny that it means something that young black kids can finally look up and see a Black man as leader of our country.

Besides praying, what do you do if you're a conservative? Hold on to hope that Barack gets sensible and leads from the center as much as possible, thank goodness that the Dems didn't gain enough votes for a filibuster-proof Senate and even recall the utter failure that was the administration of Jimmy Carter, the last Democratic president to hold a majority in the House and Senate when elected and what led to.

As for John McCain, no doubt he garners plenty of blame from the Far Right on this historic loss, but I don't see why. McCain did just about everything right in his campaign. There was no better choice for VP than Sarah Palin. He took Barack to task on his associates and lack of experience. A bad economy, a media in the tank for his opponent and his age certainly didn't help matters, but I don't see what McCain could've done differently that would've changed the final results. Barack's team showed their fortitude against a favored Hillary throughout the primaries, his team just ran a better campaign. Indeed, as much as Karl Rove is deservedly credited with getting President Bush two terms, David Axelrod deserves major props here.

The GOP now needs to take a serious look at what's going on in the country, strategize, come up with a plan for that works for 2010 and '12 and continue to fight for their cause....now's not the time for divisiveness or pointing fingers, get it together people. Conservative Democrats need to step up and not allow Nancy & Harry to corner Barack and hold him hostage to their extreme Left agenda. Just because Obama will be the next president doesn't mean that conservatives stop fighting for what we believe in. Joe Biden said that if Barack wins he'll be tested early on, we need to make sure we're a part of that battle because like it or not "change" is here.

McCain Or Obama: You Decide

Honestly, I've had enough of this presidential campaign. Granted it's been a rewarding combination of fun, constant intrigue and the truly bizarre (thanks Hillary, John-boy, the Huckster, et al) at times....easily the most exciting of my lifetime, but way too long nonetheless. Most libs I see are predicting Obama in a landslide today and their pals in the media are certainly doing a good job feeding the loons that BS. I say either way it'll be close, closer than a lot of people think, even the so-called "experts". Regardless, make sure you do your part, get in a booth and pull a lever for whichever guy/gal best suits your principles. When it comes down to it, it shouldn't be about anything else. Really.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 11/3/08

Pennsylvania GOP Highlights Obama's Association w/ Anti-American Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Primary Exit Polls Overestimated Obama In 18 Of 20 States

Obama's Vision Is Far From That Of Founding Fathers

Doonesbury Comic Strip Calls It For Obama

Courts Rule In Favor Of Prayer Requests

Pulizter-Winning Author Who Wanted Bush 'Shot' Spews More Hate On HuffPo

Planned Parenthood Nurse Admits Infanticide: "It Does Happen"

About 27 Million Absentee And Early Votes Cast So Far

Al Franken Calls Reagan Administration 'Racist' And 'Sexist'

Poll: Obama Fails To Gain Amongst Churchgoers

Liberal Radio Host, Karel, Calls For Joe The Plumber's Death

Obama: Energy Prices Will Skyrocket Under My Cap & Trade Plan

Fred Thompson On Why You Need To Vote For John McCain

John McCain Is Closing The Gap!

Barack Obama can have the whole entire mass media in his back pocket and rich, elitist liberals can fund his campaign till kingdom come, but the idea of having an inexperienced (hey, I'm just quoting Joe Biden there), radically Left, socialist for a President seems to finally be wearing thin on most Americans:

While some polls have shown Barack Obama holding a double-digit lead over his presidential rival John McCain, a new survey by Investor’s Business Daily shows McCain gaining on Obama over the past several days.

Overall, McCain trails Obama by 3.7 percentage points — 45.7 percent to 42 percent, with 12.3 not sure — in the tracking poll released Wednesday by IBD and its polling partner, the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP).

But Republican McCain was behind Obama by twice that margin just four days earlier, when he trailed the Democrat 47.2 percent to 39.8 percent.

The newest poll shows McCain making gains in the West, up from 37 percent of respondents to 43 percent.

His support among suburban voters has also surged, ballooning from 45 percent on Oct. 18 to 53 percent in Wednesday’s survey, giving him a solid 20-point lead in that demographic.

The latest IBD/TIPP poll has McCain making substantial gains among voters ages 25 to 44, and 65 and over. And he actually has a 53 percent to 43 percent lead over Obama among voters ages 18 to 24.

McCain also has a lead over Obama among voters who earn at least $75,000 a year, and now holds a 48 percent to 40 percent edge among male voters, up from a 4-point lead four days ago.

According to IBD, its polling partner TIPP was the most accurate pollster during the 2004 election season.

In other words let them be cocky all they want, with less than two weeks left this thing is far from being over.

Reaction To Sarah Palin's VP Debate Victory Over Joe Biden

MSNBC.com:

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden’s task was to attack. Sarah Palin’s was to attack, connect and stick to her folksy script.

While both vice presidential candidates succeeded in their only debate of the campaign Thursday night, the stakes were much higher and the bar was much lower for Palin. So, in the contest of low expectations, Palin won.

If nothing else, the first-term Alaska governor got past the raft of nonsensical and meandering answers in evening news interviews with Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, the spoofs by Saturday Night Live and the mockery of late-night comics.

From her first words, a confident Palin sought to connect with voters whose confidence in her qualifications has waned. She sprinkled down-home phrases throughout her answers — “bless their hearts” and “darn right.” Americans weren’t just people they were “Joe Six-Pack” and “Hockey Moms.” And who needs polls, she suggested, when there are youth soccer games with parents on the sidelines.

“I’ll betcha you’re going to hear some fear in that parent’s voice,” Palin said.

She defended Republican presidential nominee John McCain from Biden’s litany of criticisms, and took Biden to task over both his record and that of Democratic nominee Barack Obama

Wow! When even MSNBC begrudgingly gives it to Palin, you know it's the real thing. I only caught the highlights, but judging from the views around the blogosphere it's pretty clear that most peeps thought Palin won, while Joe Biden just did not impress anybody:

Daily Kos - "Sarah Palin won!"

Joe Biden's 14 Lies

NYTimes - "The Palin Rebound"

Ann Althouse - "So Palin has survived... more than survived. She won..."

Frank Luntz Focus Group (independents who favored John Kerry in '04) - "Palin won"

Curt at Flopping Aces has much more blogger reaction

Debate Video:

Lucille The Waitress Says Sarah Palin Is A Racist

John McCain is running for President against Barack Obama, but from all the fear mongering from the loony wing on her, you'd think it was Sarah Palin. Why, oh why, does the Left fear her so much? i mean take a look at the latest Palin smear:

A progressive blogger is proclaiming, on the authority of his source, “Lucille the Waitress,” that Sarah Palin must simply be racist, sexist, vindictive and well, downright mean.

Here’s what supposedly happened according to “Lucille”…

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is supposedly how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination. The Governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, allegedly uttered the slur and then laughed loudly with the others at the table joining in, according to Lucille, the intrepit waitress.

Dubious and desperate to destroy.

Not only desperate but also strategic in the hope that a racist smear job against Palin will build up anger in liberal blacks so they can join their white, elitist masters on the Left in destroying Palin's name and reputation. For liberal blacks, who rarely think for themselves, this will be an easy one, regardless of the obvious dubiety of the source.

Again, they'll say or do anything to win, but if Palin's so inept, corrupt and now racist, why don't they just trust the American voter to be smart enough to say so come November?

Sarah Palin's Historic Speech At The RNC

Sarah Palin more than nailed it last night, sticking it to The Messiah and the fear mongerers on the Left while confidently and eloquently vouching on why she's more than qualified to be Vice-President of the United States. My personal favorite part of the speech was when she slapped down Harry Reid and his "do-nothing Senate". Most of her tremendous speech is below, feel free to share your thoughts:



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Newt Gingrich Takes Down MSNBC And Their Liberal Bias

Damn and I don't even like Newt, but is there anything better than "I don't know of a single thing Obama's done except talk and write"?:





These are the kind of on-point rebuttals the conservative leadership needs in responding to the Sarah Palin fearmongering by the Left. Indeed, by going after Sarah Plain's children, the lunatic wing has shown once again that it has no shame. But we don't need to go there. We don't need to be like them because we aren't them. Instead, we need to focus on Obama's startling lack of experience, the fact that he will raise taxes, that Obama has no experience on foreign policy, that he will elect liberal judges to prominent positions on the courts, the liberals love for big government and their extreme distaste for Christianity and family values. That's why I thought Fred Thompson gave a great speech tonight, while Joe Lieberman and the president were only so-so. Perhaps too, after seeing him giving MSNBC an ass-whupping, maybe we need more of Newt Gingrich.

Why Are Liberals In Fear Of Sarah Palin?

Really, if Sarah Palin was such a bad pick for VP, if she's so inept, inexperienced and unvetted, than why aren't liberals elated at their prospects of Barack Obama winning the presidency now? Maybe it's because they're really kind of scared:

Democrats will launch one patronizing strike after another on Sarah Palin in the coming weeks, but make no mistake: Liberals are—and should be—terrified of the GOP veep pick, William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Palin is “a compelling and mold-breaking example for lots of Americans,” with hard-core conservative values and a gripping story that could win the election for John McCain—if his campaign lets her be herself.

“McCain's choice of Palin was McCain being McCain,” Kristol writes. “Now his campaign will have to let Palin be Palin.” Sure, old gaffes will be unearthed, and some Democrats are already predicting a bloodbath at the debate with Joe Biden, but “Sarah Barracuda” can handle it. “The left senses this,” writes Kristol, “which is why they want to discredit her quickly.”

Never have I seen or heard such a collectively ignorant and repugnant show towards a Vice-President pick. Indeed, the scum in the leftwing blogosphere are even going after 17yo Bristol Palin, after they spread rumors that Sarah Palin's 5th child was actually borne by her daughter. The smearing of Palin's daughter continues despite Barack Obama himself releasing a statement that politician's family members are "off limits" regarding political debate. But they don't care what BO says, it's all about preserving their immoral agenda at any costs. After all, they weren't prepared at all for Sarah Palin, a better (i.e. "safer", "easier to pick on", "clearer paper trail") choice in their view would've been Mitt Romney or Joe Lieberman as a staunch conservative like Palin represents everything they are against. Any wonder why the idea that one day she could be a "heartbeat" away from the presidency has the lunatic wing literally shaking in their boots?

Desperate Liberals Diss Sarah Palin By Defending Wife Beater Michael Wooten

Sarah Palin is now officially the presumptive Republican candidate for Vice President, so like night follows day, the rabid attacks by the Left to try and smear her have already begun: she has no experience (yeah, we all know governors of states don't do squat but sit in their offices making paper planes all day, just ask Eliot Spitzer), Palin hates women because she's pro-life (I'm not even trying to touch the sheer insanity behind that one), before today John McCain only met her once (ok, I'll give the libs that one as it doesn't look too good and it certainly gives way to charges of tokenism by the Left) and finally the retread kicker: Palin isn't as squeaky clean as the GOP stumps her because under investigation by the Attorney General's office:

The July firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan by Gov. Sarah Palin, who was announced as John McCain's running mate on Friday, has unearthed a stream of soap-opera-like details about Palin, her husband, her family and top state appointees. The controversy has also cut against Palin's reputation for holding an ethical line and standing up to colleagues in the Republican Party over matters of principle.

Monegan, 57, a respected former chief of the Anchorage Police Department, said in an interview with The Washington Post's James V. Grimaldi on Friday that the governor repeatedly brought up the topic of her ex-brother-in-law, Michael Wooten, after Monegan became the state's commissioner of public safety in December 2006. Palin's husband, Todd, met with Monegan and presented a dossier of information about Wooten, who was going through a bitter custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly. Monegan also said Sarah Palin sent him e-mails on the subject, but Monegan declined to disclose them, saying he planned to give them to a legislative investigator looking into the matter.

Palin initially denied that she or anyone in her administration had ever pressured Monegan to fire the trooper, but this summer acknowledged more than a half a dozen contacts over the matter, including one phone call from a Palin administration official to a state police lieutenant.

Yeah, the police were probably being contacted because Palin's ex-brother-in-law, Michael Wooten, was beating her sister, literally tasering her nephew and threatening to kill the governor's father. Indeed, divorce documents can testify to the fact that Wooten, admitted to shooting his own stepson with a stun gun. Wooten, whose also been known to drive around drunk while on duty and kill moose's without a permit, was repeatedly reported to the cops for his misdeeds, but there was no proper response by authorities until Alaskan troopers investigated and gave Wooten a 5-day suspension. Yeah, Michael Wooten: child abuser, wife beater and now a hero to the lunatic Left.

My Guess Is John McCain Will Pick Tim Pawlenty For VP

Supposedly, John McCain has settled on his pick for Vice-President:

Sen. John McCain has decided on his running mate and will inform the person Thursday night, sources close to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said. A Republican source said the matter was settled at a meeting of McCain's advisers Wednesday.

Plans are in place for the senator from Arizona to reveal his pick for the GOP vice presidential nominee at an Ohio rally Friday, the day after Sen. Barack Obama formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination.

The McCain campaign is hoping to have 15,000 people at the Ohio event, roughly five times the size of his largest crowd to date.

Personally, I feel that John McCain will win the presidency come November no matter who he selects as his VP. I don't think that most voters, esp. moderates and independents, would ever feel at ease with the idea of leaving our country in the hands of a one-term senator with a highly liberal bent. But McCain and his handlers are still concerned by their relationship with the Rush Limbaugh-right, even if they shouldn't be. So my guess is that McCain will turn his back on the wishy-washy Mitt Romney as well as the relatively unknown Sarah Palin (tho she's still my favorite) and even his pal Joe Lieberman, and go with the decidedly conservative Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who represents a fresh, young face, like McCain he wants to fight climate change and Pawlenty is from a state McCain needs to win come November. Granted, Pawlenty is also relatively unknown outside Minnesota, but if he's picked he'd certainly appease the far-Right.

The White, Liberal Elite Nominates Barack Obama For President

In case you hadn't heard, the Democrat party nominated a half-black man for president tonight:

On a historic night for America, Barack Obama secured the Democratic Party's nomination for president and emerged for the first time on stage in Denver with running mate Sen. Joe Biden.

Obama on Wednesday officially became the first African American to lead a major party ticket.

Delegates cried and cheered as former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton motioned to cut the roll call vote short, saying "Let's declare together with one voice right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president."

The dramatic move was carefully choreographed to put down any fears of a divided party following the protracted primary battle.

Barack Obama is nothing but a tool, the final manuever for the white, liberal elites who control the Democrat party to get over their decades-long guilt complex concerning racism-- by nominating a half-white man with no chance of winning, for president. Indeed, it's proving to be the greatest feel-good moment for blacks in this country in quite awhile. But in the grand scheme of things tonight's nomination represents nothing but a step backwards for Black America because Barack Obama does not stand for the wants and needs of Blacks, he reps for white liberals and his record more than proves it.

On his way to winning the Democrat nomination Barack Obama rarely spoke about crime, broken homes, poverty, drugs or other issues that have long been plaguing the Black community as a whole. Besides that Blacks are by nature conservative, most do not support abortion or gay marriage--the two issues the white, liberal elite have pushed to the forefront of the Democratic party's agenda. So by pushing a half-white man, a first-term senator nonetheless with little political experience to run for President, white liberals, who've done nothing for blacks but exploit their vote by visiting their churches come election time while making grandiose promises and tossing them band-aid social programs whenever they threw fits, can pat themselves on the back again and lift the racial monkey off their backs for good. In other words, they've nominated a half-black man for President, who cares if he's a tool, he's still black, right? Now STFU.

Des Moines Register Has Barack & Huckabee Winning Iowa

The Iowa state paper predicts good news for Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee:

Obama, Huckabee Up In DMR Poll The final Des Moines Register poll before tomorrow's caucuses shows Barack Obama leading with 32%, followed by Hillary Clinton with 25% and John Edwards with 24%. The previous iteration of the poll showed Obama leading Clinton 28%-25%. The poll surveyed 800 likely Democratic caucus-goers from Dec. 27-30. On the GOP side, the poll of 800 likely GOP caucus-goers shows Mike Huckabee leading Mitt Romney 32%-26% in Iowa, followed by John McCain with 13%, with Ron Paul and Fred Thompson at 9% apiece. This survey received extensive press coverage, including mention on several nightly news broadcasts last night and on many cable shows.

If Fred Thompson doesn't get even 10% of the vote than either he drastically changes strategy or just drops out.

Rudy Giuliani's Losing Campaign

Stick a fork in him:

With fewer than 20 days until the Iowa caucuses, three men in the Republican Party stand to get their tickets punched out of the Hawkeye State.

While everything is still in flux, those likely winners will be Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.

Notably missing out on Iowa’s political rocket fuel is national frontrunner Rudy Giuliani.

While most political insiders and pundits have known for months that Giuliani had no plans to compete in Iowa, the general American electorate probably does not. Known to not pay attention to the early political pontificating, the average voter may wonder where the former New York mayor is when the big news the next day is not about him.

Giuliani went into the campaign season with an unconventional strategy that quickly became all the buzz: Skip Iowa, be respectable in New Hampshire, then head to delegate-rich Florida. The strategy for his campaign was never about momentum; it was always about maximizing his delegate count.

An unconventional Republican primary candidate, Giuliani knew he would be shunned by the ultraconservative activists in early states. His personal Iowa is Super-Duper Tuesday, Feb. 5, which has the motherlode of delegates, who happen to be moderate Republicans. Sounds perfect, right?

Maybe. If he can hold on. But right now, the Giuliani story is that his gamble is quietly becoming the incredible shrinking campaign.

“From a historical perspective,” says Matt Lebo, a political science professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook, “his strategy is clearly a losing strategy.”