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Carter: McCain 'milking' POW time

Former president Jimmy Carter called Republican presidential candidate John McCain a "distinguished naval officer," but he said the Arizona senator has been "milking every possible drop of advantage" from his time served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

He said he was bewildered by McCain's performance at the Saddleback Presidential Forum hosted by pastor and author Rick Warren in Lake Forest, Calif., earlier this month.

"John McCain was able to weave in his experience in a Vietnam prison camp, no matter what the question was," Carter said. "It's much better than talking about how he's changed his total character between being a senator, a kind of a maverick … and his acquiescence in the last few months with every kind of lobbyist pressure that the right-wing Republicans have presented."

(Mr. Carter when you have spent time as a prisoner of war that will impact you. Either Mr. Carter or myself  know what that is like. I also saw McCain's performance at  Saddleback and he answered the questions straight up and didn't talk about his war  experience in how he answered all  the questions. However I say let Carter keep talking because the more he talks the more he will hurt the Democrats. Read more on this story here  or Watch  the full video.)

 
 
No Known Restrictions: President Jimmy Carter Announces Sanctions on Iran by Marion S. Trikosko, 1980 (LOC) by pingnews.com.
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Admiring China?

So Obama thinks we are behind China. He said so in a speech last week. Perhaps he should talk to some who were in China last week for the Olympics about the air they had to put up with or perhaps he needs to talk to people of faith  in China who are  punished for the crime of worshipping their God.
He might also play a Townhall commentary Admiring China.
 
 
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Dukakis questions McCain 's integrity

 Below is part of  a transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," Fox TV news from  August 27, 2008.


ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: We welcome Governor Michael Dukakis. Sir, thank you so much for being here.
When you sit here and see these speeches, when you were the nominee at one time, and you stood on that stage, what does that do for you? What does it do to you?

MICHAEL DUKAKIS, FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR: Well, I thought the Clinton speech was a great speech, and it was considerably better than the one he made when he nominated me in Atlanta. You know, when — when Bill Clinton announced for president in the fall of 1991, he went on Johnny Carson, and Carson said, "Why are you running for president?"

And he said, "Because I want to finish my speech for Dukakis."
HANNITY: Does John McCain have integrity?

DUKAKIS: Well, he had integrity.

HANNITY: He's lost integrity?

DUKAKIS: Unfortunately, he's lost his integrity, and it's one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

Here's a guy that was trashed by George Bush and that guy that you just had here in the year 2000. It was despicable,.

HANNITY: Let me ask you this question.

DUKAKIS: Let me finish.

HANNITY: Go ahead.

DUKAKIS: And now he's hired another Karl Rove acolyte to run his campaign. It's really sad to see a guy like McCain...

HANNITY: It's very interesting, because if that is your standard of integrity, if we look issue by issue, starting with Iraq: meeting with rogue dictators. Iran is now a grave threat. It was a tiny country, not a serious threat.

(So Dukakis questions  if John McCain  has  integrity but he thinks Clinton was great. Give me a break. Read the whole transcript  right here.)





Lawrence Summers, Michael Dukakis, George McGovern by MaynardClark.



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McCain VP Pick Is

 

The following is posted on the DRUDGE REPORT.

Senator John McCain has decided on his running mate, two Republican strategists in contact with McCain's campaign said Wednesday. He is expected to reveal his choice at a rally at a basketball arena in Dayton, Ohio, at 11 a.m. Friday.  (   McCain to announce running mate on Friday - International Herald Tribune  )

McCain's decision is known only to his small inner circle of advisers, no more than three or four people, who have refused all public discussion on the matter. Republicans close to the campaign said that the top contenders remained the same three men who have been the source of speculation for weeks: former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and, possibly, Senator Joseph Lieberman, independent of Connecticut.

(Lets all hope it is somebody from the right which will help Mr. McCain with us on the right. I would hate to see the gains McCain has made with voters be wasted,)

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Celebrities Backers for McCain

 
What do the following Celebrities have in common?
James Caan; Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond); Gerald McRaney (Simon & Simon, Major Dad); Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance); Robert Duvall (The Godfather and The Godfather II, Apocalypse Now); Pat Boone; Robert Davi (License to Kill); Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk); David Zucker ("the comedic genius behind Airplane! and The Naked Gun series"); George Newbern (Father of the Bride); Dean Cain (Superman); Angie Harmon (Law & Order); Kevin Sorbo (Hercules); Adam Carolla (The Man Show); Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live); Lorenzo Lamas (The Bold and the Beautiful, Renegade); Lacy Chabert (Party of Five); Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men); Lacy Chabert (Party of Five); actor Stephen Baldwin; and mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

They were all at a  McCain funraiser held  at  the Beverly Hilton.  Read more in  a piece written by Stephen F. Hayes right here .
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Catholic Church coming down Hard on Nancy Pelosi

 (The Catholic Church is coming down on Nancy Pelosi as it should.  Good job Cardinal Rigali and Bishop Lori who join Archbishop Chaput in setting an example for their fellow Church leaders.  So what has made these church leaders so upset with Pelosi. Read the story below.)
Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, have issued the following statement:

In the course of a “Meet the Press” interview on abortion and other public issues on August 24, 2008, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi misrepresented the history and nature of the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church against abortion.
The Church has always taught that human life deserves respect from its very beginning and that procured abortion is a grave moral evil. (Read more right here.)

(It  is time political leaders be challenged when the say things which aren't correct. This also should show us how radical some on the left are.)
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Democrats are in Denver

The Democrats are in Denver this week. I will be shocked if we hear anything different than politics from the left including the radical left. We will hear how bad the other party is and how they only care about rich white people.
I will post more as things unfold. Keep checking this blog for more on what is happening in Denver.
obama postcard by Mr. Wright.
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Joe Gibbs Admits His Team Cheated

Earlier this year NASCAR ordered one team to reduce the horsepower generated by its engines in an attempt to make races more competitive. That team had won more than half of the races this season.
In the competitive world of auto racing, where money, prestige, and pride are always on the line, such an order does not go down very well. Mechanics and technicians who have spent countless hours perfecting their cars might resent this attempt to level the playing field. They might even put a kind of moral spin on the issue: It is "unfair," maybe even "un-American," to "punish" excellence in this way.
So it comes as no surprise that someone might try to disobey the order while appearing to be in compliance by fooling the dynamometer. And that is exactly what happened: During "chassis dyno" tests after a recent race in Michigan, NASCAR inspectors found that the team's mechanics had rigged the cars to appear as if they were in compliance when they were not. In other words, they cheated.

While the cheating is not surprising, the name of the team is: Joe Gibbs Racing. It is surprising because Gibbs is an outspoken Christian who has gone into prisons with me. I know Joe well and respect his character and integrity—they are unimpeachable.

That is why I was not surprised  at what followed: While neither Joe nor his son J. D. had any clue as to what their employees were doing, they took "full responsibility" for their employees' actions.

Joe said that the incident "goes against everything we stand for as an organization." He added that "we will take full responsibility and accept any penalties NASCAR levies against us."

(The above is part of a column written by Chuck Colson. Colson goes on to write that it was nice to see somebody not make any no excuses, or put spin on sin and their  wrong. God Bless Joe Gibbs. Do read the whole column  Real-Life Responsibility .)
Joe Gibbs Racing Shop by md11forever.
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Showdown at Saddleback

WILLIAM KRISTOL had a great column on what took place last Saturday night at  Saddleback Church. Some of the highlights are below.

While normal people were out having fun Saturday night, I was home in front of the TV. But I wasn’t enjoying the Olympics. Your diligent columnist was dutifully watching Barack Obama and John McCain answer the Rev. Rick Warren’s questions at Saddleback Church. Virtue is sometimes rewarded. The event was worth watching — and for me yielded three conclusions.

(Amen. Unlike other preachers who have only been friends with those from the GOP Rev. Warren is different. He is friends with both men running for President.)

Second, it was McCain’s night.

Obama made no big mistakes. But his tendency to somewhat windy generalities meant he wasn’t particularly compelling. McCain, who went second, was crisp by contrast, and his anecdotes colorful.

Obama made no big mistakes. But his tendency to somewhat windy generalities meant he wasn’t particularly compelling. McCain, who went second, was crisp by contrast, and his anecdotes colorful.

Third, Obama and McCain really do have different “worldviews,” to use Rick Warren’s term.

Perhaps the most revealing moment was the two candidates’ response to a question about evil. Yes, evil — that negation of the good that, Friedrich Nietzsche to the contrary notwithstanding, we seem not to have moved beyond.

Warren asked whether evil exists and if it does, “do we ignore it? Do we negotiate with it? Do we contain it? Do we defeat it?”

Obama and McCain agreed evil exists and couldn’t be ignored. But then their answers diverged.

Obama said that “we see evil all the time” — in Darfur, on the streets of our cities, in child abusers. Such evils, he continued, need to be “confronted squarely.” And while we can’t “erase evil from the world,” we can be “soldiers” in the task of confronting it when we see it.

But, Obama added, “Now, the one thing that I think is very important is for us to have some humility” as we confront evil. Why? Because “a lot of evil has been perpetrated based on the claim that we were trying to confront evil.” After all, “just because we think our intentions are good doesn’t always mean that we’re going to be doing good.”

John McCain appears to think so. Unlike Obama, he took the question about evil to be in the first instance about 9/11. McCain asserted that “of course evil must be defeated,” and he put “radical Islamic extremism,” Al Qaeda in particular, at the top of his to-defeat list. In this context, McCain discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and concluded by mentioning “the young men and women who are serving this nation in uniform.”

(McCain is right we must do our best to defeat evil. Do read the whole column by WILLIAM KRISTOL right here.)


 
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China Police detain more foreign activists in Beijing...

Swarms of plainclothes police took away four foreign activists who tried to unfurl a Tibetan flag outside the main Olympics venue on Thursday, squelching the latest attempt to demonstrate during the Beijing Games.  ( Police detain more foreign activists in Beijing )
Police seized the activists protesting Chinese rule in Tibet as they unfurled the flag and shouted "Free Tibet" south of the National Stadium, the New York-based Students for a Free Tibet said.
(This once again proves what kind of leaders are running China. If  they had nothing to fear they wouldn't mind those who oppose them demonstrating.)
 
China Police in ChengDu by zhangxiaoxiao.
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Drinking age gets ivory tower scrutiny

Jered Matzke, a 21-year-old geography major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, supports lowering the drinking age, perhaps to 18.

In other countries, particularly France, college students have grown up "having a glass of wine with dinner and it being nothing," he said.

So maybe Congress should revisit the issue of lowering the drinking age, Matzke said.

Matzke's position is in line with about 100 college presidents, some from America's most widely known universities including Duke and Ohio State, who have signed the Amethyst Initiative. It seeks to start a national debate on whether to lower the drinking age from 21.

"This is a law that is routinely evaded," said John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, who started the organization. "It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust and unfair and discriminatory."

No Nebraska schools have signed the statement so far, although McCardell said his group is only in the middle of gathering support.

(This would be a bad lesson to teach young people. If you  can't obey a law change it. One of the top killers college age young people is drinking and driving. Read more of the above story Drinking age gets ivory tower scrutiny.)

Drinks | Publicidade by Alexandre Chang.



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