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I don't claim any special access to Barack Obama's campaign, but me being a former political operative for two Republican mayors in NYC, I've got politics coursing through my blood.  I do miss being in the thick of things, but I love being a Charlottean now.

Having followed both the Democrat and Republican primaries, here's my two-cents worth on who may and should be Obama's veep.

Obama gushes when the Kennedy's are around, and he's named Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg as one of three vetters.  It's an important position.  The party and it's sequacious disciples are waiting patiently as to who will come out of this process in much the same way Christians did during the Vatican Conclave after Pope John Paul's demise in 2005. 

When will the smoke rise out signaling the triumvirate's decision on the Final  3 or 5 or 10?

If anything, I say, the best choice for Obama is none other than the man who was pushed out of running for the late-Senator Moynihan's seat by the famous carpetbagger.  That man, who would have won Moynihan's seat or for that matter, his father's seat, a real New Yorker and staunch liberal, is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK, Jr. would be a natural for Obama, solidifying his liberal credentials even more, and possibly assuaging the feminist anger over his victory over Hillary Rodham.  In fact, it would throw mud right at Hillary's face for her idiotic comment a few weeks ago tying in the assassination of RFK to what could happen to Obama now until election day.  What better way to pay respect to RFK on his 40th anniversary of his demise by choosing his son for veep?

Such a ticket would definitely be a challenge for John McCain. 

With Ted Kennedy being ill, the only Kennedys left with a good reputation are both Caroline and Robert.  Even the feminists, given the Kennedy family's liberal proclivities, will have to take a back seat and swallow what happened to Hillary for the bigger picture of winning the White House.

Therefore, Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. is my pick vice president for Obama.  You heard it here first.

Can it get any worse for Hillary the Inevitable?  Seriously, what's happened to the Smartest Woman in the USA?  A year ago, even six months ago, she portrayed herself as The Democrat Nominee in waiting.  Who would have thought that another smooth-talking slickster, also from Illinois, would trump her queens cards with aces? 

This has been truly an amazing primary season for both parties.  Last summer, John McCain was dead last.  Hope for another shot at the presidency was a mere dream.  Now, he's the GOP nominee.  No one can truly understand and should not underestimate the American voters.  Results can be surprising.

Anyhow, let's get to the bottom line here.  Poor rich-dame Hillary has proven to the world how mentally unfit she has become.  Her obsession with winning the presidency at any cost has gone beyond just a simple opportunistic desire.  She's gone mad, and boy would I give a donation just to be in the war room seeing lamps, pens, and notebooks fly across the table. 

Why in the world would she invoke the assassination of RFK as the 40th anniversary of that murder approaches?  I mean, does she think Obama is going to get snuffed, and that she would come to the party's rescue? 

Let's say something dreaded does happen, then what?  Think the party will nominate her after all she has done and said?  I think the party elders would sit Al Gore and John Edwards down and say, Hey, here's the nomination and money, now go run.

Look, Democrat elders would love nothing more than to rid the Clintons from their party, and the Clintons would love nothing more than to control the party and its treasury.  Who'll win that battle?  I say the party simply because power is spread amongst the elders, and all have a say in how things are run.  Even the Kennedys know a thing or two about sharing power.  That's why they are an institution within the party.  They play by the rules.  The Clintons do not.  They make up their own rules and they break them whenever they see fit. 

Just look at how the Clintons are up in arms over whether to allow the Florida and Michigan delegations into the convention.  Both states did not play by the rule, and thus got whacked.  Now Hillary, knowing full well about the rules, seeks to circumvent the party's rules.  No, no, no.

No chance the party will support her in 2012.  Not after her fiasco and unhinged behavior.

According to several Jewish sources, President Bush's and Vice President Cheney's recent visit to the Middle East was to prepare the allies in the region for the upcoming air assault on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

President Bush's speech at the Israeli Knesset last week, in which he warned that those who seek to appease America's enemies are foolish, was the first political bullet fired across the Democrat battle line.

Of course, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid went ballistic and excoriated Bush with nonsensical, typical, liberal drivel.

Rest assured that Bush and Company have been laying the ground work for finally attacking Iran after nearly 30 years of it's revolutionary existence.  Enough is enough.  The Mullahs have got to go.........to a fiery hell.

Here is my prediction for Operation Persian Freedom.  After both political conventions are over, and the parties have formalized the candidacies of the victors, President Bush will launch the greatest naval and air bombardment ever seen followed by ground stompers securing the borders inside Iran, killing anything that dares move towards them.

This will occur some time between October 1st and October 21st.  Call it President Bush's October Surprise, and it will have the net effect of reducing either Obama's or Hillary's presidential campaign to bits as they're race for the White House is about ending the war on Islamic Terrorism at whatever cost to America's honor.

This will leave Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in utter disarray as the Democrat party leaders will have to decide whether they will support Bush's third war in the region, or use the War Powers Act card which will blow up in their faces.

The attack on Iran's nuclear and political infrastructure will embolden the GOP, and may actually preserve its numbers and may very well add a few more seats in Congress.  Either case, this will be the saving grace for the GOP as Bush makes his exit.

McCain will be the victor in November, I'm certain of that, because Bush will make it happen to keep the country in GOP hands, and keep the war on terrorists happening.

If we are to win the war, we have to attack the nucleus of trouble.  Iran must go, and go in a fireball of red and yellow.

I voted this morning for Ron Paul, and it was a protest vote.  I'm not at all in line with Paul's foreign policy views, and his constant bemoaning of the US undoing of Iranian democracy way back in 1954 with the overthrow of Mossadegh, and supporting the Shah of Iran, is way off base. 

The realities of the Cold War are never taken into account by those who harp strong criticisms about American intervention and political overthrows.  We did what we did because it was in our (and the West's) national security and economic interests.

However, call it what you may about my prescious vote, a wasted vote or whatever, I don't care.  This is my vote and I'll do whatever I want with it.  I even thought of voting for Keyes, but heck, Paul gave it his all in the primary season, and so I went with him.

I fear a John McCain presidency in much the same way I fear a Hillary and Obama presidency.  Let's face it.  The 2008 election is one in which the vast majority of Americans are not happy with the contenders on either side. 

Where are the leaders in the Republican party?  What happened to Newt?  Why the lackluster crop of GOP candidates in 2008?  Was it really McCain's turn?  Kind of like the Dole Malaise Effect of 1996? 

C'mon Republican Party elites, how could you do this to us again?  All the more reason why I became amused at the NRCC chairman warning congressional republicans to be on their own since the party lacks funds.  Hell yeah! 

We conservatives are tire of being your pawns, and if you butt-holes don't wise up, create a platform for growth and individual responsibility, we are not going to help you.  When we say we want less spending, less taxes, drill for oil in our own backyard, no amnesty for illegal alien criminal invaders, and an end to the annual April 15 pilfering, we are not going to provide the cushion you seek.

So, I pray and hope that in 2012, the GOP will come together and start doing the people's work.  I very much doubt Juan will run again in 2012, and I certainly pray that Senator Jeff Sessions considers running for the presidency.  We need to regroup, and show our muscles as we did in 1994.  We can't let another 2008 occur in 2012.  God help us these next four years.  We need to secure our borders and tighten our immigration laws.  We need enforcement, and dammit, I'm going to fight John McCain if he dares imposes another fruitless amnesty on us.

I'm not a fan of Senator John McCain.  I think, for Republicans, he is a disaster in the making.  The man has a different perspective of what a Republican is supposed to be, namely, be a lightweight version of a Democrat that honors the opposition more so than his own party.

John McCain thinks conservatives will fall head over heels for him as they did President Reagan.  In fact, I'm sure he feels Reagan is old news, and he'll do whatever to bury his name for a newer set of party principles that calls for a cleaner political operation in this country.  Squeeky-Clean McCain says he wants to run a clean campaign, and he truly believes he can be elected that way because the American people want no part of mud politics.

Sorry, but Americans love contact sports, and when it comes to politics, mud is the name of the game.  The only people who despise mudslinging are those who have to wipe their faces harder than the other. 

Thus, liberals love mud, but having been the recipient of loads of it from conservatives since the internet explosion of the mid-1990s which brought about a newer, more vibrant form of journalism, they have sought to persuade the American electorate that the nation is tired of name-callings, snickering and dirt.  They've failed.

Americans want to see fighters fight for the highest office in the land.  It's the only way we can ascertain whether someone has the mettle to hang in the White House for four years.

Frankly, I don't think that person is Senator McAmnesty.  But, there is one person who does have the cojones to run this nation, and deserves praise for sticking to her conservative principles.  She is, none other than, Linda Daves, Chair of the North Carolina Republican Party.  And, why not? 

After 16 years of watching the Clintons play with the minds of Americans, giving new meaning to the word "is", cigar-playing and closet dalliances, all the while protected by a sycophantic and deliberately biased in-your-face leftwing press, it's just fine and dandy watching both Hillary and the mainstream media implode thanks to the ambitious Hillary seeking the Oval Office.

Bill O'Reilly had Colonel David Hunt last night talk about Hillary's bombastic Bosnia fairy tale who said, basically, Hillary was a liar.  Absolutely no threat existed to her or the entourage since the entire area was heavily patrolled by Navy Seals snipers, other special forces types along with 4000 soldiers and the Air Force protecting the sky. 

The Colonel who piloted Hillary and her company to Bosnia, William Jones, also said there was no evasive maneuver to avoid being hit by enemy fire.

In an age of the internet and blog journalism striking hard are the regular journalists for not reporting the news, how can any politician screw up so badly, especially one's campaigning for the highest office in the land, the world, in fact?

Then there's the Obama-Wright controversy which has slowed Obama down.

It's funny to see Hillary turn the table from her mistake saying the people who come out to hear her just want to hear her plans for the nation and not her Bosnia flap.  Yet, she wants to continue on with the Obama flap.  What gives? 

This all goes to show that Hillary never planned wisely for her run for the presidency believing it was inevitable she'd be crowned the Democratic nominee.  She lives her life believing she is owed something without having to work for it.  It's pretty much the same way she ran for the NYS senate seat.  Democrats like Nita Lowey and Robert Kennedy, Jr., either of whom were considered to run for that seat, were told by party operatives that the seat belonged to Hillary.  None dared to challenge her.

Fortunately, many dared challenge her for the Democrat nomination, and here we are.  Who would have thought it would be Obama stealing Hillary's thunder and support?

Either one has the potential to destroy this nation, especially with a liberal Congress with a penchant for hyper-taxation and bureaucratic regulations.

I'm not an enthusiastic supporter of John McCain, but looks like he'll get my vote.  My hope is that he does not screw conservatives like myself.  Four years is a long time to wait for the next round of presidential politics.  My wish would be for Senator Jeff Sessions to run with Jim DeMint at his side.

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So, here's a quote from Obama from a recent interview on a Philadelphia radio station regarding his white grandmother:  "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity.  She doesn't.  But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society.  We have to break through it."

Now, the reaction of Obama's grandmama is certainly no different than that of any person of whatever racial background who walks a city street, especially at night time.  I do it all the time, and I'm not a racist.  It has nothing to do with being a typical white person, to use Obama's words.  Even Jesse Jackson was quoted several years ago as admitting that he sometimes feels threatened while walking the streets at night when he sees a group of black youths, and often would cross the street just to feel safer.  I surmise he is the typical black who understands the real and endemic problem of black-on-black violence, that he just does not want to take the chance of being mugged, or worse, killed.

As for Obama's recent speech in Philadelphia on the race issue in America.  Look, I am a believer that American has made great strides to rid itself of racism.  Whites have done their best to bridge the gap with blacks, Hispanics and Asians.  We don't have a racial problem like we did back in the 1920s or the 1820s.  We have moved far away from Jim Crow. 

Whenever a racial crime occurs, white-on-black, all American society rushes to condemn it.  But, when a racial crime, black-on-white, such as that of the Christian-Newsom of Tennessee, the media and liberals rush away from discussing such brutality because liberals are bred to believe that racism is an institution whereby whites are in control, and only whites can be racists.  That is such utter crap.

While America has moved away from its racist past, I see a festering racial problem constantly being stoked by blacks, and to be specific, leftwing blacks, who use the churches to spew their racist filth.  I hear it many times.  Reverend Wright is one of them.  Reverend Manning of Harlem is another.  Louis Farrakhan.  Al Sharpton.  Preaching hatred in the churches is not God's work. 

Why is this allowed to happen?  There is a deep-seated resentment in the black community, and it's due to the quality of leadership in the churches and in the political arena.  Blaming whitey, castigating America, and playing victim is the way of many in the community, unfortunately.  And, the media feeds off of this imbecilic behavior. 

I'm tired of hearing the media promote Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and other black ignorami whining about this nation's treatment of its black people.  I want to see more of Doctors Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Bill Cosby and Larry Elder placing the black of black backwardness on blacks themselves.

In a nation where recent newcomers like the Indians, Vietnamese, Chinese and Koreans, Dominicans, Colombians and Cubans can settle across the American plain and open businesses, enhance their communities, and build social ties with others, how is it that after over 350 years in this country, blacks continue to talk about racial inequality, lack of opportunities, and other mumbo-jumbo whines? 

The past is the past.  Nothing is owed to anyone, especially the descendents of African slaves.  And, therein lies the problem.  Recent immigrants believe in building for themselves.  Far too many in the black community are still waiting for what they believe is theirs, namely reparations. 

Here's my solution.  Read Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Bill Cosby and Larry Elder.  The are sagacious men of great learned thinking.  These men understand what American Hope and the American Dream are all about. 

The soon-to-be ex-governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, was the Democrat party's version of Republican Rudy Giuliani.  They are both New Yorkers and former prosecutors who made names for themselves targeting the upper echelons of Big Business and the illicit narcotic industry, and enjoying the lime light, glitter and fanfare of a media ever-searching for scoops and titillating stories of high-end corruption and blood gore.

Me being a born-and-bred New Yorker now living in the south, I know a good thing or two about Spitzer's reputation, having worked in the political orbit in New York City for almost nine years serving two mayors as a political aide.

Spitzer was perhaps the most formidable Democrat to have sprouted in a generation when he won the state AG in 1998 upon his second attempt.  He was a crusader for good over evil.  An Eliot Ness which the state Democrat party ate up.  Here was their Giuliani, and it was only a matter of time for Eliot to hone his political skills and seek higher office.  He won that higher office, the Governor's mansion in 2006 with a huge popular vote, because New Yorkers love tough executives.  New Yorkers are tired of the Albany corruption, and here was a guy who fought corruption despite the fact that he acted like a tyrant, and some of his tactics, lawsuits and criminal cases were highly questionable such as the case of AIG's Hank Greenburg, NYSE's former chairman Dick Grasso, or Wall Street investment chairman John Whitehead.

However, New Yorkers looked away as did the liberal-biased NY media.  Lo and behold, a few months into his term, he warned a GOP leader he was going to be a "f---ing steamroller".  He began fighting with the GOP majority leader, and used state police to spy on him, which has led to numerous investigations by the Albany DA, and embarassed the state Democrat party for being hypocritical.  After all it's the Democrat party that is always attacking the GOP for using "excessive" and "illegal" tactics against their political nemeses?  By the time the year 2007 ended, Spitzer's support level was lost by all New Yorkers including members of the state Democrat party.  Especially with his drive to provide driver's licenses to illegal aliens which hurt Hillary Clinton. in October.

That Spitzer was caught bedding another woman who turns out was a prostitute was not surprising.  People began to hate him from the get go.  Even Rudy Giuliani did not receive the type of hatred Eliot had, and Rudy was tough as nails.  But he was no tyrannical figure as many Democrats have portrayed him to be.  Rudy stepped on the right toes but he got the job done right, and he had the backing of the GOP much like Bill Clinton had the backing of his party through the Monica saga.  Eliot lost the backing of his party and the people because he did not reach out and use the bully pulpit to explain his ideas.  He got too obsessed with political power he forgot who he really was--an elected governor.

It has begun.  Liberal reporters with an ax to grind are on the warpath now that McCain has become the Republican nominee, and they want his scalp along with lots of fresh red blood to satisfy their insatiable thirst to end the Republican reign in the White House. 

"Can I ask you why you're so angry?" asked Elizabeth Bumiller of the New York Times during a press briefing on a flight with Senator McCain which she sought answers to a private conversation McCain had with Senator John Kerry in 2004 over the possibility of the Arizona senator becoming Kerry's vice president.  Responded the senator, "What?"   To which she immediately said, "Never mind."

And, McCain thought the press loved him all these years just because he was maverick enough to shake the GOP foundation?  Let this be a lesson to him and all GOPers.  Never trust the liberal press.  Don't get in bed with them.  Don't let them lead you.  You lead them, and if they don't follow, too bad. 

Now that McCain has practically sewn up the nomination, expect many more stories about his inability to control his temper.  If he can't control his temper, they'll write, how can we trust him with the nuclear arsenals?  How can we trust him to make the right decisions as president?  Is McCain on prescription psychotropic drugs?  Should he be on such drugs?  Is his cancer on remission?  Has his cancer come back?  Can he lead the nation while battling cancer and terrorism?  Is McCain's vice presidential pick able to lead the nation if McCain cannot run the country?  Is McCain too old and cranky?  Will Cindy be in charge of the Oval Office?

This is going to be perhaps the best election to watch in ages seeing how the mainstream media will cover both parties. 

If McCain is angry, he has a right to be.  Liberal reporters always ask Republicans stupid questions.

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This morning, in a conference call with the press, which I heard on Keith Larson on 1110AM-WBT, Howard Wolfson, who is one of Hillary Clinton's attack hounds, referred to Barack Obama as a Ken Starr for the way he has pounced Hillary throughout the campaign. 

That was, in and of itself, a critical mistake on Wolfson's part.   And, for a guy who earns Big Bucks as a Democrat consultant serving distasteful cuisine to the opposition, he ought to know better than to bring back enemy figures of the Clinton years, because it reminds voters of the national distraction caused by Bill's lying to the American people about his fellacio relationship with Monica Lewinsky.  It further reminds voters of the infamous blue souvenir. 

No matter how much the Clinton machine has tried to sully Starr's name during his investigation and well after its closure, the former federal special prosecutor does not evoke the antipathy as the names of Bill and Hillary Clinton does.

These next seven weeks leading to the Pennsylvania Democrat primary on April 22nd will be the ugliest, most bloodiest, fiercest and divisive we've ever seen in years.  And we've got a dozen more primaries to be had before the Democrats finish off on June 7 in Puerto Rico, if it goes that long.  However, that's not even counting whether Florida and Michigan will be allowed to go at it again after Puerto Rico.

This should give comfort to Senator McCain to watch this bitter internecine battle-royale going on with the Democrats.  He should be able to make minced meat out of whomever comes out on top.  And, rest assured, whoever loses, there will be acrimony throughout the campaign.  Hell hath no fury like a black man or a woman scorned attempting to be the first president of his or her kind in American history.

If Obama loses the top prize, and is rebuffed by Hillary to be her Number Two, he can easily make it harder for Hillary to win.  His mind will be on running again in 2012 against President McCain.

Couldn't help to post this, but I just read an article in the the U.K.'s Telegraph about Friends of the Earth having a conniption fit over an American Airlines flight from Chicago to London in early February which carried five passengers. 

In a nutshell, FOTE believes American should have used common sense by canceling the flight and booking the passengers on another.  American says the trip had to be made regardless because fare-paying passengers in London were due back in the US.  What's a company to do in these circumstances?  Leave the passengers stranded?  Frankly, American Airlines did the right thing. 

Now, these know-nothing environmentalist are using this episode as a rallying cry to force nations to draft and sign an international agreement to stem carbon footprints by, guess what, taxing fuel and emissions.

If governments do not see this for what it is, an attempt to halt economic progress by punishing legitimate business and consumers, then I don't know what else we can do to convince leaders that listening to these folks will just hurt a nation and its people.  Perhaps throwing them out would be the best thing coming to them.

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The media is going ga-ga over the so-called revival of Hillary's presidential campaign, calling her The Comeback Kid II with her three wins in Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas.  A win may be a win, but what counts in politics is "By how much?"  Hillary's "big win" are not that impressive, and here's why.

Rhode Island provided as good a cushion as she could get with 58% to 40% for Obama, but the Ocean State is small and it's part of the northeast corridor which has been favorable to her with the exception of Maine and Vermont.  Ohio provided a bit of relief with 54% for her and 44% for Barry, or by 227,500 votes, which is a good number to have on your side.  But Texas provided a deeper problem for Hillary.  She won Texas with 51% to 48%, or by a margin of 98200 votes.  That's not impressive given what other past Democrat presidential candidates did like Kerry in 2004 and Gore in 2000.

In Texas, John Kerry beat John Edwards with 67% to 14% in 2004, and Al Gore beat Bill Bradley 80% to 16%.  These are very impressive numbers for top-notch candidates in their party.  Hillary did slightly better in Ohio than Kerry's 52%, but Gore won the state single-handedly with 74%.  In Rhode Island, Kerry won with 72% while Gore won the state with just 57%. 

Also to note is whether Rush Limbaugh's clarion call to Texas GOPers to vote for Hillary played a part in he minor victory there.

Politics is a numbers game, and Hillary just can't break out of her funk.  She still trails Barack Obama in the delegates count by about 100.  Super-Delegates are watching the numbers turnout closely, and don't see much comfort in Hillary given the popularity of Barack Obama.  That is why she hinted this morning at the possibility of a "Dream Ticket."  That would be good for Hillary if she were on top, but bad for Barry if he were on top.  The Clintons are not folks content with supporting roles.  Either they're on top or nothing come hell or high water.  They have a scorched earth policy, and we all know it.

Not sure if you readers have seen this video of Obama telling us what he'd do to our nuclear arsenal and our military budget, but what he says is truly frightening.  Whenever liberals talk about a new program they'd like to implement like universal health care, guess where they'll get the money from besides raising taxes?  You guessed it, defense. 

Obama may be a book smart person, but he has no idea how the way of the world works.  Liberals think they can reason with our enemies. It doesn't take a genius to see that countries like North Korea play by a different set of rules, and thus, they are untrustworthy.  Much like the Russians, the Chinese, Iran, Syria and Cuba.  There is something to the Reagan signature phrases "Trust, but Verify" and "Peace through Strength".  Yet, these phrases mean absolutely nothing to liberals.  They much maligned Reagan as they did Nancy's "Just say No" anti-drug campaign.

What does this say about liberals?  They just never learn from conservatives, and they never will.  That is why conservatives must never attempt to play ball with liberals.  Liberals will screw conservatives every time.  They too are untrustworthy.

So, please watch this video of Obama wanting to disarm the most powerful nation on earth for his lofty goal of Peace through Extreme Weakness.

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Quoted in the New York Observer, Gloria Steinem, an over-rated has-been who has done more to hurt women's causes, says John McCain's POW record is over-rated. 

WOW!  This begs the question: Does Gloria Steinem think the work of our armed forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and throughout the world is over-rated? 

Is America over-rated?  Is America's successes in the past 230 years over-rated?

Frankly, my dear, looks like the only over-rated thing here is Steinem, herself.  Who the hell actually believes her leftwing tripe, anyway?