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One Week Posted November 3, 2008

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About 24 hours left in the campaign.  As the political "experts" say, anything can happen. 

Last Sunday Senator McCain was interviewed on NBC's Meet The Press.   The complacent arrogance and transparent protection of Barack Obama (their Messiah) was on full display by the liberal mainstream media represented by interviewer Tom Brokaw.  

A presumption of victory informed the interview.  The mainstream media does not consider it important to even seek an interview with Obama, and if they did, "The Messiah" would not have to deal with the aggressive format McCain was subjected to.

With the exception of the genuine tribute to the anniversary of McCain's incredible ordeal when captured by the enemy and subsequent years of torture during the Viet Nam war, the complete interview was a study in smug, condescension with a smile.

It is difficult to believe that independents and undecideds are going to be willing to vote for someone who they can only make a wild "guess" as to how he would really govern.  At this point, it is difficult to imagine Obama dealing with the same aggressive style of the hard hitting interview Senator McCain was subjected to last Sunday.

When a candidate is protected from even participating in serious discussions and questions about his associations and voting record, one is continually forced to keep asking what is really there to qualify this person beyond the ability to act presidential.

The personality cult that TV media has generated and nurtured since about the 60s in America has become in this election one of their primary credentials for obtaining the highest and most important office in the country, and arguably the world. 

This media validation has reached from the very bottom to the very top of our society.  As a sharp politician Obama has used this to his advantage.  This larger item is as troubling as the radical associations of the individual candidate.  

Therefore, that candidate must be protected from serious questions regarding things the majority of Americans would view as negatives.  As if the candidate, whose ideas mimic those of the mainstream media, once he decided to run for President, must be feverishly protected from questions about where the seeds of his "Socialistic" policy approaches came from. 

This can still be voted down, and we can win, but it will take determination to go out and vote.  

One political writer recently made an excellent point.  He noted that if Obama was applying for a job with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then, for example, his employers would most definitely be interested in his associations.  For starters, associations with William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. 

It is incredible.  There seems to be a virtual attitude that informs the mainstream media who control a great percentage of the information portals: "Hey, what's your problem, it's only the Presidency.  If he can act like a president then he must be able to be one, right?

As Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum, also pointed out: How many politicians, and specifically, how many of the other candidates, "have a single tie to such groups as CAIR or Nation of Islam, much less seven of them?"

No one has suggested that Obama's ties to these groups makes him a current "member" of the group, yet, as Pipes said: "...Obama's multiple links to anti-Americans and subversives mean he would fail the standard security clearance for federal employees."

In addition to the problem that radical liberalism appears to have informed so much of Obama's political thinking and his career, this campaign reminds one of looking into one of those giant office building lobby windows when the reflection of the lobby inside and the street outside creates a real-unreal landscape in the mind's eye.

Some of the creatures with the best navigation skills on earth, birds, are sometimes fooled by the same visual illusion. A bird will fly into a window, knocking itself unconscious. 

On several occasions I have picked up one of these birds in my hand. Awake yet dazed, stunned by the collision and unable to fly away. ( I was of course fascinated to be able to carefully hold, without resistance, a wild bird in my hand. ) After a few minutes the birds' equilibrium will return to the point of being able to hold onto a limb, where I would place it, and where the bird will stay perfectly still for about five minutes until it regains full consciousness, and then fly away.

The suggestion is that there are probably a lot of independents and undecided voters out there who are like those birds,  sort of stunned by the Obama phenomenon.  We hope they will regain consciousness during this final week of the campaign and regain their equilibrium and realize the tidal wave of "change" being promoted looks suspiciously a lot more like Socialism than Democracy.

Obama has been protected from the questioning of his extreme liberal associations by avoiding the issue while the liberal mainstream media simply stands by and watches, and when they do get involved, they recite what the Obama campaign says: that the opposition is going "racist" or "desperate" or "negative" and so on. 

As Monica Crowley pointed out when Senator Biden was asked a serious question pertaining to the meaning of his statement regarding how one of our enemies will "test" a new, inexperienced President very soon after taking office.  Biden replied: "I don't know who's writing your questions."

Crowley continues; "Biden was so rattled by her questions that the Obama campaign canceled a scheduled interview between the station and Biden's wife Jill."

Here is the Obama Campaign communication to the radio station in Orlando.  "This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely at best, for the duration of the remaining days until the election." 

This symbiotic relationship between the liberal media and liberal politicians has concerned conservatives for years, yet this year it has reached a level that should not only concern, but should alarm Independents and Undecideds.  

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Two Weeks  Posted October 20, 2008

Two weeks left in the campaign.  As the political "experts" say, anything can happen. 

Apparently the liberal mainstream media and various political pundits are trying their damnedest to communicate to voters that they should "presume" an Obama victory.

We hope that the Independents and Undecideds out there will continue to closely analyze the issues and positions, and come to the ultimate realization of how far left the country will go if Obama is elected with such a ruthlessly liberal majority in Congress.   
We have posted a variation of this point on the Florida page via several other issues.

In repositioning a number of his extreme left positions during the last time-frame of this campaign, Obama is trying to present someone who can be "pragmatic" as a requirement for leadership. 

While keeping in mind that his (minimal - next to nothing at best) repositioning should always be suspected of being a campaign tactic only, there are two serious questions for Independents and Undecideds. 

(1) How committed to these repositions is the candidate? (Rely on your intelligence, not the liberal mainstream media, to answer that for you.)

And (2) Even if you believe Obama is committed to those minimal shifts, has he ever displayed in practice the extremely difficult skills of controlling the extreme left wing (represented by Moveon.org, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) of his party as it would pertain to a policy? 

Our stand is: The answer to both those questions is NO.