Un-be-leeeeevable!

When you think things can’t get any worse.  From our friends at Citizenlink.com:

Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates Cover Abortion

by Jennifer Mesko, editor

Life advocates say a better gift would be a donation to a pregnancy resource center.

For that person on your list who has everything, Planned Parenthood is offering — ahem — gift certificates.

For the first time, Planned Parenthood of Indiana is selling gift certificates, Indianapolis’ WISH-TV reported. The certificates come in $25 increments and can be used for birth control, breast exams — and abortions.

Curt Smith, president of the Indiana Family Institute, said he was appalled by the idea.

“If somebody wants to help a woman at a time of crisis, they can support the life centers throughout Indiana,” he told the TV station.

Sister Diane Carollo, director of the Office for Pro-Life Ministry for the Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis, called the gift certificates a “horrendous” idea.

“The fact that they would be offering gift certificates that could even pay for the destruction of innocent human life is blasphemous,” she told Family News in Focus.

Sister Carollo agreed with Smith that a better Christmas gift would be a donation to a pregnancy resource center.

“That’s the gift that keeps giving,” she said.

One of the first topics, I talked about on Race42012 related to the defeat of 3 pro-life ballot measures: A personhood amendment in Colorado, in South Dakota another measure failed that would ban abortion except in the cases of rape, incest, and to save the health or life of the mother, and another measure in California requring parental notification before abortion.

Jill Stanek pointed out something quite interesting in her WorldNetDaily column :

The defeat of abortion ballot measures across the country… may have been the result of divisions among anti-abortion groups. …Opposition to the measure in South Dakota came from the anti-abortion groups American Life League and South Dakota Right to Life. The groups did not support the measure because of its exceptions to the abortion ban – cases of rape or incest or in narrowly defined instances “to preserve the health or life of the woman.” …

Voters defeated South Dakota’s measure by 55 percent to 45 percent, but the state produced a win for Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, who opposes abortion rights. …

In Colorado, the failed Amendment 48 measure … found opposition from Americans United For Life and National Right to Life, which questioned the timing and the approach of the measure…

It’s very hard to get pro-life legislation passed when you have National Right to Life and other pro-life groups lobbying against it. At the same time, some people who were personally pro-life refused to support the California or South Dakota measures based on the fact that they still allowed abortions under some circumstances. Stanek has more anecdotal evidence of this (some e-mails sent to her) than a hardline specific organized group, but it’s still a factor.

Stanek breaks the problem down into two groups: Purist hardliners or Incrementalist hardliners. Any law that allows abortion under any circumstances is bad according to the purists and unacceptable as it doesn’t protect all unborn children.

The position of the Incremntalists position is somewhat more complex:

Incrementalist hardliners opposed the South Dakota measure because they feared it wouldn’t survive a Supreme Court challenge. They feared Obama would win and add to the number of pro-Roe justices, already in the majority. They opposed the Colorado personhood amendment for that reason and also because they feared a huge loss would look bad for our side. They supported the California parental notice proposition.

I’ll add that certain incrementalists lobbied the bishops in both Colorado and South Dakota to oppose the pro-life endeavors, causing their “ambivalence.”

My problem with incrementalist hardliners is they operate from a place of fear. Jesus said we’re to be shrewd as snakes, but when at a certain point we behave more like the 10 spies who scouted Canaan, I’m out. Isaiah 46:12-13: “Listen to me, you stubborn people who are so far from doing right. For I am ready to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now!” In other words, it is never wrong to do the right thing. This is not blind faith.

Stanek reports that South Dakota Right to Life actually sent out mailers opposing Measure 11 (that’s an odd way for a pro-life group to spend its donations). If there’s a takeaway lesson here, perhaps it may be that divisions within the pro-life movement may make passing pro-life ballot measures impossible and that voters who might vote for Pro-life candidates are going to have one reason or another to reject pro-life legislation at the polls. That’s why we have a republican system of government. We elect people and expect them to sort out the details.

Podcast Show Notes 

The Obama transition: The Fannie Mae connection.  

Obama’s new NSA advisor is a good one.

Tom Daschle: HHS Secretary and lobbyist.

Eric Holder: Behind the Mark Rich pardon and anti-gun. On the positive side: he has a mustache.

Progressives not happy at Obama’s appointments. (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling.)

Doomed to repeat it: House GOP rejects earmark moratorium.  (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

McCotter’s double standard.

Is the UAW destroying jobs?

Joe the Plumber snooper reprimanded. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

Eharmony forced to provide homosexual matches. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

Trying to silence pro-life protestors in New York City.

The Catholic Churches’ line in the sand on FOCA.

Woman facing forced abortion relased from China.

A former Serbian abortionist fights for the pro-life cause.

Fasting and prayer for Christians in Iran.

McCotter urges action to protect Iraqi Christians.

Batman v. Batman.

German Homeschoolers take refuge in East Tennessee

Music by 3 in The Same via the Podsafe Music Network.

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I remmber a skit on the 1990s Cartoon Histeria that made fun of Middle Ages medicine. One character provided an answer of, “Apply leaches to cast the devil out.”

It seems to be the same thing with the media in the aftermath of an election. No matter what the actual issues of the campaign or what you can say about why the Republicans lost, the media asks the same question, “Is it time for the GOP to abandon the abortion issue? Consider:

Situation: You just nominated your most moderate Presidential Candidate since Gerald Ford, who favored Embryonic Stem Cell Research and opposed a Federal Marriage Amendment?

Solution: Eliminate the Social Issues from the GOP platform.

Situation: Democrats have gained dozens of seats across the nation by running candidates who are socially conservative or at least pretend to be.

Solution: Eliminate the Social Issues from the GOP platform.

Situation:Exit polls consistently show that those who actually vote on issues like abortion, cast votes for Pro-Life Republicans.

Solution: Apply leaches to cast the devils out—er, I mean Eliminate Social Issues from the GOP Platfrom.

That the question is being asked after an election that was so clearly decided on the economy shows an agenda that doesn’t bother with pesky things like what actually happened in the election. They already know the answer.

Putting McCain first

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report

The maverick martyr mouthed his own losing recriminations in 2000. Putting country first in 2008 requires anonymous men mangle a mother for a mute McCain.

Moderate republicans don’t win national elections. President Ford was never elected, there never was a President Dole, and there never will be a President McCain.

Republicans win when they run to the right. They began winning when Nixon discovered the Silent Majority and Reagan made the GOP the Party of Life. The winning coalition was solidified when President Reagan won the Cold War with peace through strength and when his Milton Friedman monetary policy and supply-side fiscal policies produced a recovery that lasted for 25 years.

Many of the same Washington voices on the right, albeit slightly on the right, that now attack the Governor of Alaska as a scape goat for republican defeat, also despised The Gipper. Then, as now, there are men without chests that whisper personal attacks.

Reagan was called an “amiable dunce” for calling evil by its name. A towel-clad Palin is said not to know the parties to NAFTA after negotiating a natural gas treaty with one of its signatories.

Some facts: The polls the cocktail party conservatives worship showed McCain behind most of the year. The only time he moved ahead was after he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. In fact, while the McCain-Palin ticket rose in the polls after the convention, it was only after the vicious media attacks, including those from the beltway conservative elites, when the republicans actually led. Then came McCain’s refusals to address Obama’s alliances with extremists and lack of bold leadership after the financial crisis.

But before those machinations we heard from David Brooks of the New York Times, a McCain backer since 2000, that Palin was a “fatal cancer” on the GOP and that Obama was the “mountain” of strength that is always there. Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan describes Palin as a “symptom and expression of a new vulgarism” in American politics. Former Bush 43 speech writer David Frum said that Palin’s appeal was to a “dwindling number of social conservative voters.”

Is Frum referring to the “dwindling numbers” in California, the most liberal state in the nation, that voter to ban gay marriage? Or Florida which also went for Obama but which also amended their Constitution to define marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman? Or the other 39 states that have done the same?

Brooks sees a mountain of vacuousness as Noonan hears vulgarity in g-dropping accents. Yet Brooks is blind to the tumors obscured by Mt. Barack and Noonan is deaf to the echos of The Gipper that conservatives hear oh so clearly from Sarah’s lips.

But when one adds pro-choicers Colin Powell and William Weld to the above, one begins to see what really animates the hate directed at the mother of five. One is reminded of the Rockefeller country clubbers that resented the need for those hick Evangelicals if they were to move past asking Speaker Tip O’Neil for washroom keys. The whispers from the husbands of those whose wives insist upon only pregnancies of convenience that produce flawless heirs.

It wasn’t good enough that Palin, like Reagan, didn’t wear religion on her sleeve. They just decided to go after the cost of her sleeves and the whole dress.

Let’s do the math on why the GOP clingers to Roe v. Wade are bitter at the Mother of Trig. The fact is that for these liberals, a woman that would knowingly bring a Down Syndrome baby to term just doesn’t add up.

These architects of republican defeat can count votes, but one wonders if they just aren’t down with winning unless its with their math, which divides and loses.

The facts refute any claim that Palin or conservatives are responsible for McCain’s latest defeat and their vitriol belies their claim that it is social conservatives that are angry and divisive.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns.

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

Reagan was called an “amiable dunce” for calling evil by its name. A towel-clad Palin is said not to know the parties to NAFTA after negotiating a natural gas treaty with one of its signatories.

Some facts: The polls the cocktail party conservatives worship showed McCain behind most of the year. The only time he moved ahead was after he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. In fact, while the McCain-Palin ticket rose in the polls after the convention, it was only after the vicious media attacks, including those from the beltway conservative elites, when the republicans actually led. Then came McCain’s refusals to address Obama’s alliances with extremists and lack of bold leadership after the financial crisis.

But before those machinations we heard from David Brooks of the New York Times, a McCain backer since 2000, that Palin was a “fatal cancer” on the GOP and that Obama was the “mountain” of strength that is always there. Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan describes Palin as a “symptom and expression of a new vulgarism” in American politics. Former Bush 43 speech writer David Frum said that Palin’s appeal was to a “dwindling number of social conservative voters.”

Is Frum referring to the “dwindling numbers” in California, the most liberal state in the nation, that voter to ban gay marriage? Or Florida which also went for Obama but which also amended their Constitution to define marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman? Or the other 39 states that have done the same?

Brooks sees a mountain of vacuousness as Noonan hears vulgarity in g-dropping accents. Yet Brooks is blind to the tumors obscured by Mt. Barack and Noonan is deaf to the echos of The Gipper that conservatives hear oh so clearly from Sarah’s lips.

But when one adds pro-choicers Colin Powell and William Weld to the above, one begins to see what really animates the hate directed at the mother of five. One is reminded of the Rockefeller country clubbers that resented the need for those hick Evangelicals if they were to move past asking Speaker Tip O’Neil for washroom keys. The whispers from the husbands of those whose wives insist upon only pregnancies of convenience that produce flawless heirs.

It wasn’t good enough that Palin, like Reagan, didn’t wear religion on her sleeve. They just decided to go after the cost of her sleeves and the whole dress.

Let’s do the math on why the GOP clingers to Roe v. Wade are bitter at the Mother of Trig. The fact is that for these liberals, a woman that would knowingly bring a Down Syndrome baby to term just doesn’t add up.

These architects of republican defeat can count votes, but one wonders if they just aren’t down with winning unless its with their math, which divides and loses.

The facts refute any claim that Palin or conservatives are responsible for McCain’s latest defeat and their vitriol belies their claim that it is social conservatives that are angry and divisive.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

I support and have always supported passage of a constitutional amendment to protect the right to life. My convictions regarding the sanctity of life have always been clear and consistent, without equivocation or wavering. I believe that Roe v. Wade should be over-turned.

I know there are millions of Americans who believe as I do. All are concerned about the negative impact an Obama presidency and a Democrat controlled Congress will have on the Courts and the fight to overturn Roe v. Wade if they should win this Election Day.  We cannot let that happen.

If you are as concerned about this issue as I am, I urge you to sign our “I Support The Sanctity of Life” petition today. Our goal is to identify 100,000 pro-Life voters by Election Day and have them sign the petition.

I hope you will be one of the first to sign the petition and then forward it to friends and family. We will track our progress on the front page of our website.

With less than 20 days to go, time is of the essence so please contact your co-workers, friends at church, family and whoever else you can think of who is willing to sign this petition.

During the presidential campaign we relied on networks of friends to turn out the vote and distribute information. Our Bloggers, Meetups, Huck’s Army, Facebook and MySpace groups led the way online. We accomplished great things working together. Time after time, I have read the comments on our blog asking for the next assignment. This is it.

Blog about it, post a message on twitter, post a message to your social networking profile or just pick up the phone and make some calls to friends and family. However you can spread the word and encourage voters to sign our petition.

To me, life doesn’t begin at conception and end at birth. Every child deserves a quality education, first-rate health care, decent housing in a safe neighborhood, and clean air and drinking water. Every child deserves the opportunity to discover and use his God-given gifts and talents.

I know you agree. Let’s remind the Barack Obama and the Democrats that the constituency of pro-life voters is alive and well.  Sign our petition today!

With deep gratitude,

Mike Huckabee

Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report

Following the 1994 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, network anchors explained the historic event as one of “angry white males” having a childish temper tantrum. This election season, an overtly in the tank for liberal Democrats media is raising the spectre of anger incitement pre-emptively to thwart a Gov. Sarah Palin(R-AK) and Joe the Plumber inspired Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) energized base that threatens to overwhelm another leftist Democrat presidential nominee at the ballot box, or inspire an assassination.

The occasions for the present incarnation of evil right wingers have been isolated shoutings of “terrorist”, “muslim” and/or “Arab” by hecklers at Palin rallies. (The Secret Service, after a review of campaign rallu audio tapes, debunked Obama’s debate lie that someone shouted “kill him”, which Palin heard but refused to denounce.) The media and Democrats have variously alleged that McCain campaign recitations of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) past alliances with Weather Underground Marxist terrorist William Ayers, Black Muslim Louis Farrakhan and Kenyan Arab Odinga cousin Marxists are incitements, but has chosen not to feature the vile hecklers of Palin wearing obscenity words on T-Shirts and shouts of “warmonger” at McCain to suggest their lives are in danger.

But lets consider the drive-by media’s “coverage” of angry words from angry white people directly associated with the Democratic Party leadership and the Obama campaign, shall we? (Obama and other authentically black definers frequently refer to the old Jim Crow “one drop rule” that classified any person as “Black” for legal purposes if they had at least 1/17th “negro blood” coursing through their veins. I apply that standard here for purposes of identifying angry whites.)

Consider how many of the following non-Secret Service refuted quotes could be considered incitements to violence; how many would not be known but for talk radio and the alternative media and how many have been credibly denounced, if denounced at all, by the Obama campaign:

1) Don’t get snippy - Albert Gore

2) Selected not elected - all Democrats but Sen. Joe Lieberman and former Sen. Zell Miller, 24/7 for seven years and counting

3) [On 911] America’s chickens coming home to roost - Rev. Jeremiah Wright

4) [On 911] I wish we (Weather Underground terrorist bombers) had done more - Ayers

5) Bushlied! (or cricket chirping silence) - all Democrats but Lieberman and Zell, 24/7 for five years and counting

6) He [President Bush] betrayed this country! He played on our fears! - Gore

7) Death of a President [movie depicting the assassination of President Bush]

America must stop air raiding villages and killing civilians in Afghanistan - Obama

9) Dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and never batted an eye - Wright

10) Compares American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot - Sen. Dick Durbin

11) Marines guilty of murder in Iraq - Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA)

12) American soldiers terrorize families in the dark of night - Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)

13) Abu Ghraib opened under new management - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)

14) Hitler was a great man. Jews have a gutter religion. Obama is The Messiah - Louis Farrakhan (honored by Obama’s church and always referred to with the honorific of “Minister” by Obama)

15) Israel will be wiped off the map - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

16) I would sit down with Ahmadinejad without preconditions - Obama

17) America is a down right mean country - Michelle Obama (may be an exception to the one drop rule, but we believe in affirmative action when identifying dangerous angry words that could incite violence)

18) Whites vote for Hillary in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia because they are bitter clingers to antipathy towards people that aren’t not like them - Obama

19) God damned America. America invented AIDS to kill blacks in a world ruled by greedy white people. - Wright (to standing ovations at Obama’s church)

20) Never been proud of America until 2008 - Michelle Obama

21) We need fundamental change in America. – Obama

Think any of the above could incite violence? The drive-bys aren’t interested.

Think Obama “clearly” doesn’t share the extremist views of his allies, as beltway conservative pundits George Will and Charles Krauthammer conclude? Clearly Obama does share the obvious conclusion of their anger, i.e. “fundamental change”, even if his rhetoric is delivered in a temperamentally calm manner.

And speaking of beltway conservatives:

22) Obama is a Mountain of strength that can’t be moved - Brooks

23) Palin is a cancer on the GOP – Brooks

24) Problem that Republicans will have is that they will have a very angry base in 2009 and 2010, which isn’t the best way to attract [moderates]. – DaveG at race42008.com

25) I still don’t know what [Palin] stands for. - Peggy Noonan

26) Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down [as Republican Vice-Presidential nominee]. - Kathleen Parker

And finally, this gem from Ross Douthat, who, along with Brooks, Kristol and other beltway conservatives, advocated a McCain nomination for eight years, yet now are a part of the defeatist chorus:

27) And if I were Hanson or Levin or Steyn I’d be devoting a little less time to ritual denunciations of heretics and RINOs, and at least a little more time to figuring out how to build the sort of ship that will make the rats of the DC/NY corridor want to scramble back on board, however much it makes you sick to have them back. Who knows? It might just be the sort of ship that swing-state voters will want to climb on board as well.

It seems that while the leftist whites plus Michelle are angry at all things American, conservative and Palin, many beltway moderate-conservative pundits see a Reaganite conservative Palin as cancerous, but not a “heretic”? Go figure.

Yet, they calmly insult the social conservatives and neo-cons with which Reagan, Newt and Dubya fashioned a winning three-legged stool, and so avoid the “angry” label?

Not here they don’t. They presume unto themselves immunity from being labeled divisive within their echo chamber and yell foul when anyone defends the cancer.

What do these admittedly diverse pundit critics have in common, Douthat asks elsewhere seeking to establish credibility in diverse numbers? All of the right leaning critics are harsh critics of at least one aspect of Reaganism, whether its Brooks’ social liberalism; Bruce Bartlett’s foreign policy “realism” or Douthat’s fiscal liberalism.

They find in Palin, Reagan re-born, and truth be known, the blue-blood country-clubber Rockefeller’s never liked Reagan, resented the infusion of the yahoo Christians, and were content as a minority eating scraps from former Speaker Tip O’Neil’s table.

So, we see double-barreled, unprompted, real anger by those on the right and the left that announce the Reagan Era over, against conservatives, and especially its most authentic vessel, the Governor of Alaska.

We see dour faces on the conservative beltway pundits except when they allow themselves to climb the Obama-Mountain and get carried away with the America needs fundamental change chanter/worshippers of Farrakhan’s Messiah.

What do we see in Palin, and increasingly in McCain?

Optimism and Joy at what America has been, is and can be. We see a love for a God blessed America that, when given the opportunity to elect an unabashed, unapologetic conservative, does so every time with conservative Democrat votes, to boot, producing large majorities as the lukewarm independent rats the beltway pundits want to capture remain wallowing in the spew from God’s and America’s mouth.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” - The Chief Justice

Race 4 2008

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

We have the answers (UPDATE - see link for more answers after this column)

Originally published By Mike DeVine, as Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports

“This new information about Barack Obama’s relationships with ACORN and William Ayers raises a lot of questions.” - (insert TV political talking head’s name here)

Wrong.

The information coming out now, during the “attentive voter season” before Election Day, answers all the questions voters have before they vote every four years.

Does this candidate share the Judeo-Christian values that have defined our Nation and have served us so well for so long? Does he have the character worthy of occupying the most powerful position on Earth? And would enemies of the United States fear that he would aggressively defend us?

To listen to TV talking heads, even those named Hannity and Gingrich, from whose Thursday night discussion I culled the above paraphrase, no questions are ever answered. Rather, what are, in deed, revelations, only reveal to a brain dead media another line of questioning that Obama could theoretically trump with some glib retort, on their television shows. For you see, if questions are ever definitively answered, there would no reason to tune in and listen to them any more!

Moreover, even our conservative pundits, like ourselves if we don’t be careful, can be just as guilty of elitist tunnel vision as liberals. Add to that, the all too common, “the world was just invented this election cycle”, of so many of the poll-obsessed yutes in the blogosphere, egged on by a media that sells the idea that past election losses by, leading in the polls until the end, Democrats were decided by debate moments or clever ads late in the campaign, and you witness the rampant defeatism of so many conservatives for whom McCain can never attack aggressively enough.

I heard all this from 1980-1988 and 2000-2008. Absent a known leftist and a Perot, we win.

The only slightly credible argument advanced by the defeatists is that Obama is not a “known” leftist. But even on this, a certain kind of elitism blinds the defeatist.

The defeatist knows Obama is a far left appeasing, Marxist that is unfit for the office of President of the United States. He sees it oh so clearly and, due to historical ignorance, allows his emotions to be manipulated by polls. Moreover, and more importantly, he thinks that the average, mostly inattentive for the past four years, mostly non-political potential voter, does not see Obama for what he is, and that he won’t see Obama for the extremist he is unless John McCain and Charlie Gibson say exactly what the defeatist thinks ought be said in just the way our defeatist hero wants.

I say, get over yourselves.

One mistake the defeatists make is that they watch the news in a different way than the average voter. We political junkies watch news reports about the Obama revelations to see how the media spins the revelations. The average voter, on the other hand, sees and hears the revelations. They are new to the average voter. And they are about the business, NOW, of getting attentive to make their choice on Election Day. They know that they get to vote on that day. They have lived through other election days and remember that they made the right choice then. They will this time.

The now attentive voters were already jolted into noticing Obama by the God-damned America sermons Obama sat thru for 20 years. Their common sense prevents any glib excuses to drown out the din of his pew-parked butt on that matter, nor on the fact of the new video of Farrakhan dubbing him the Messiah. They understand that it would not be appropriate for any candidate to hang with a less competent Timothy McVeigh that got off on a legal technicality and serve on boards to craft an “education reform” on radicalism short of bombing government buildings in Oklahoma, just because they were wetting diapers in the 90s. Same with Ayers.

The public sees and hears, just like us. Yes, we saw and heard months ago. It’s our life. These “swing” voters have real lives. They had real lives in the past as well, and looked up just in time to see what we knew and elect Reagan twice, Bush 41, and Bush 43 twice.

Why? Because they saw that Mondale would raise taxes; abandon the conservative economic policies that were working; and not be feared by the USSR. They saw that Dukakis would do the same and that he didn’t share our values with respect to crime, criminals and the appropriateness of the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance by school children. That Gore lacked character as revealed by his three characters and would abandon Bill Clinton’s Reaganite economic policies and that Kerry would turn over US sovereignty to Kofi Annan.

They saw the liberal and rejected the liberal, just in time.

This past week these people, wracked by economic crisis, saw a slick lawyer that claimed he never represented the far left ACORN vote fraud community organizers as a lawyer.

Gamecock asked the question months ago if it were too much to ask Obama to name one client and one member of a community he organized. We already knew that he tried to hide the hopelessly audacious racist pastor/mentor praying in a church basement as he announced his candidacy. We, and even the usually inattentive American, have seen the wife he can’t hide preach her un-proud of America cynicisms.

And this week we found out why Obama has never volunteered a satisfied client because his clients are vile. But more than that, this is not a case of a lawyer defending a criminal as part of his duty to the bar in our justice system. No. This is a case of his representation of his ideological brethren.

He was caught in a flat out lie could not possibly have been un-covered because of the “whole truth” compilations of appellate case reporting going back to US Reporter Volume One from 1790!

Obama is listed in federal reports as a lawyer for ACORN. For the non-legal, do you recall seeing those endless rows of identically bound thick volumes in courtrooms and law libraries? Those are books of ALL of the opinions of appellate cases in all courts of the United States and the states. They cannot be refuted.

Obama is caught in a brazen lie. And the beauty of it is that the lie ties him to not only ACORN, but also to Ayers “education” minutes on Annenberg, Obama’s book review of Ayers book, and all the lies about their supposedly neighbor waving a neighbor thru a stop sign in the morning relationship. An ad of Obama and the nervous crowd laughter when he said teaching sex ed in grammar school and kindergarten is “the right thing to do” is on the air.

Palin has been attacking Obama for all this and for what it says about Obama in explicit terms. McCain has ads up doing the same, one of which has Bill Clinton blaming the dems in congress for the Fannie Mae caused economic crisis. Palin is all over the Obama votes against saving babies that survive abortions.

And, for all you ostriches, Rush, Levin and others played numerous clips this week of McCain himself calling out dems by name, including Obama for the crisis.

In short, the questions are being answered before our eyes and yet so many politically correct TV talking heads continue with the refrain that Obama needs to answer questions. One wonders if these people asked that question after the confession in To Kill a Mockingbird as the credits rolled after The End!

Obama’s actions of the past 20 years are the answers, not any non sequiturs he might belch out during a “debate.’

No amount of psychoanalysis will change what he DID. No words from his mouth will make it all ok for him to hold the nukes for four seconds, much less four years.

Defeatist poll obsessors, lend me your ears!

The American people can connect the dots, and are, in fact doing so now. They can see through the voice-overs by a liberal in the tank media they viscerally distrust.

There is nothing new under the sun. The conversations on conservative websites I frequent are the same as I had with nervous nellies in quadrennial Leap Year Octobers past while a Republican, and the flip-side of too confident libs when I was democrat and knew that the gray-haired old lady in the second row of the Baptist choir was a better predictor of the aftermath of Election Day than the latest hurling from Gallup.

And hey, Newt and Hannity, don’t let answers to questions pass you by. And hey, fellow members of the conservative chattering class: Lower your snobbish noses a bit and you will see the knowing looks in the eyes of the non-chatterers, as Obama’s 20-year mask is removed just in time for Halloween.

[Update - Links with answers to questions about what Obama is and is not:

Go here and scroll to bottom of companion article at my personal website (This source will be periodically updated until Election Day)]

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

Race 4 2008

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

My brilliant conservative, non-columnist friend in the banking industry desires, and rightfully so, that Obama and the Democrats be hit again and again – at least by McCain and his ads! – on a number of issues. My most recent economics column introduced Boata’s desire that liberals be defeated by references to facts and refuted by logic to the point they are shut up or relegated to filibustering incoherently (which they are very good at). This is an event gamecock has often achieved under the nomenclature of placing liberals in the corner in the fetal position, and so don’t we all wish they would stay in that position!

They don’t, but Rush sees great benefits in having a few libs around spouting liberal drivel so we are reminded of the decrepitude of their ideas and proven failed policy proposals. What we must do is defeat them at the polls.

Boata’s debut at Redstate dealt with the economy.

Now GC is directed to deal with the following, which I will deal with in the context of “innocent life vs. evil”:

(1) The detonation of a nuclear device (most probably multiple devices) in the next administration. Most likely will be delivered via shipping to the US and set off in harbors likely in conjunction with at least one trucked to Israel. No one will talk about this - not PC and heads in the sand - but it is going to happen. I know the differences in Obama and McCain’s handling of crisis situations has been mentioned, but this backdrop is stark and sobering – if anyone will take it seriously.and

(2) Obama’s view on abortion. This is a topic most are afraid to approach, but it is a topic that has seen a turnaround in views the last couple of decades. No longer is pro-choice in the majority. Obama’s ‘pay grade’ needs to be hammered home, and the fact that when life begins really has only 5 possibilities 1) At birth 2) At viability (which shrinks practically every year) 3) At start of brain activity 4) At start of heartbeat 5) At conception. If Obama does not know when life begins, then the logical and moral stance is to play it safe.

At the Saddleback Church debate, Pastor Risk Warren asked Obama and McCain about what we should do about evil in the world and at what point a baby gets human rights.

Facts:

Obama responded by calling on America to confront evil in Darfur and on our streets. Obama identified no time before birth that a baby gets human rights. Rather, he changed the question to when life begins and also refused to answer his own question.

Looking at Obama’s record and statements pre-Saddleback, one can’t determine when a born alive infant human baby gets human rights either given that he was instrumental in preventing the enactment of a bill, while serving in the Illinois legislature requiring that physicians give life-saving medical care to babies they fail to kill via abortion.

Obama claimed that the bill would jeopardize abortion rights granted by the US Supreme Court and that babies were already protected by current state law.

He lied.

Witnesses from Illinois abortion clinics and hospitals have confirmed on live television/radio and in print media that babies born alive after botched abortions are left to die on the abortionist table or out of sight in soiled utility rooms. We searched in vain for any prosecutions of “doctors” allowed these out of the womb deaths, some of which suffering lasted for hours.

Moreover, Obama claimed that he would have voted for the bill had it contained the same supposed “Roe v. Wade abortion right preserving language” of a federal law that passed before his recent election to same by an overwhelming majority with the backing of many abortion rights groups and even California’s junior Senator Barbara Boxer, often referred to as the Senator from planned parenthood given her (and most democrats in Congress for that matter) support for partial birth abortion (baby is partially delivered with its feet outside the womb reaching to touch Earth while an abortionist rams its womb encased skull with scissors and then sucks its brains out so one can’t call it murder under state law) and opposition to a federal law outlawing same.

The fact is that the second version of the Illinois law that Obama opposed was fashioned after and contained the EXACT same language as the federal law.

Obama never mentioned the evil of the perpetrators of 911 at Saddleback. He has mentioned that he would sit down without pre-conditions with Iran’s genocide against Israel seeking President and has often spoken of America’s military actions against Islamist terrorists as morally equivalent to the acts of the terrorists themselves.

Lastly, with respect to the democrat, we got a glimpse of Obama’s view on the worth or “intrinsic value” of human life, when, speaking in favor of grammar school sex education; contraception distribution at schools and abortion rights when he expressed his wish that neither of his daughters not be “punished” with an unwanted pregnancy.

John McCain, on the other hand, stated to pastor Warren that life begins at conception and that we must defeat evil, and especially the innocent life threatening Islamist terrorists that perpetrated 911 and who are trying to defeat the desires of freedom loving people in Iraq and around the world.

With respect to homeland security, McCain has supported, and Obama has opposed, most all efforts to strengthen the hand of the executive branch under the Commander in Chief to identify foreign and domestic threats, whether it be with respect to surveillance of telephone calls by and to suspected terrorists and immunity for telecom companies for post-911 assistance.

Could the choice be more stark?

I think not.

[On a side note with respect to prospect of a WMD attack by terrorists inside the United States, I think we owe President Bush and the GOP a great debt of gratitude for keeping us safe since 911.

The combination of the roundup of 900+ muslin nation visa overstays immediately after 911; breakup of numerous terror cells thanks to aggressive interrogation of captured terrorists and CIA and FBI changed missions and tactics; the killing of tens of thousands of terrorists diverted from the Lower 48 to prevent a free Iraq; and aggressive domestic surveillance has kept us safe.

But, I think it is inevitable that we will suffer WMD losses on our soil and that the real choice is how often we will suffer. The choice is best encapsulated that we fight them over there so that we don't have to fight them AS MUCH over here.]

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

Podcast Show Notes

A $700 billion bail out for the troubled financial industry, but will it work?

Mitch McConnell is naive if he thinks the bill won’t be loaded down with pet projects.

Plus Obama’s misleading response to an Independent group’s abortion ad and their response to him.

Did Obama turn down a plush wall-street opportunity? His former colleagues tell all. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

Plus, Obama’s defense of horse and buggy industries?

And isn’t Universal Voluntary National Service an oxymoron? (Hat Tip: Obama Watch.)

Plus, hope in Barack Obama’s gun-free Chicago: Kids’ greatest fear: being shot. (Hat Tip: Idaho Values Alliance.)

Why is the media only concerned with the privacy of terrorists whileblaming the victim in the case of Sarah Palin’s e-mail being hacked.  (Hat Tip: Instapundit and Wizbang)

Unhinged liberals get angry because a TV reporter looks like Sarah Palin.

A college investigates a professor who handed out an anti-Palin assignment. (Hat Tip: Right Wing News.)

Democrats threaten the tax exempt status of an Iranian organization in order to get them to disinvite Palin. (Hat Tip: Wizbang.)

Suspected voter fraud by ACORN in North Carolina.  (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

ACORN goes to school. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards show up in New Mexico’s largest county.  (Hat Tip: Malkin.)

A Vermont Attorney General’s Platform: Prosecute President Bush for murder! (Hat Tip: Jules Crittenden.)

While our Congress is in fiscal crisis, Harry Reid works to preserve earmarks. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Why the House energy bill won’t work according to one member of Congress.

Our second Amendment update: Americans using the right to keep and bear arms to defend their property and their lives.

A Florida Democratic Congressman’s son charged with human trafficking.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s superb leadership through hurricane seasons. (Hat Tip: The Corner.)

While consecreting homosexual bishops the U.S. Episcopal Church defrocks a traditionalist.

Southern Baptist provided vital relief work including half a million meals per day in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.

Plus, think secularism will make us more rational? Non-Religious folks are more superstitious than Christians according to a new study. (Hat Tip: The Corner.)

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