Sarah Palin and her campaign in 57 of 58 states!

Earlier today on the Mark Davis show on WBAP, Mark mentioned a documentary being filmed by a reporter who had lost his job earlier this year when he tried to expose the Chosen One for what he was.

This is not newsworthy in as much as this has happened so many times already. What IS newsworthy is how what he has discovered in his filming.

After admitting to voting for Obama for President, this man asked the voters some very simple questions, and nearly everyone got it wrong. (Admittedly, there were perhaps a few people who got the answers right, but you will see the gist here).

When asked who controlled the Senate and the House, all respondents proclaimed "The Republicans", either directly, after hemming and hawing or after a downright embarrassed laugh to try to lighten the moment for them.

When asked which of the four candidates running had a pregnant teen-age daughter, they all nailed as Sarah Palin. Great job! You're 1 for 2!

When asked who received $150,000 in wardrobe attire, they nailed Sarah Palin.

When asked who stated they had visited 57 states and had one left to go, except Hawaii and Alaska, everyone nailed Sarah Palin again. (if you forgot who actually said this, follow this link: 57 states in the U.S.)

What would the media have said if President Bush had said that? There would have been talk of leaving Iraq since he doesn't even know how many states there are. And what about if Sarah had said that? All kinds of terrible statements of ignorance are being credit to her when she said nothing to deserve any of them!

Isn't that frightening? Is it any wonder we don't have some of America's best and brightest runnign for office? How can these people be allowed to vote? I understand if you are confused by some of the legaleze in some of the propositions, or even if you do not FULLY understand where a candidate stands on certain issues, (they do vacillate at times), but when you are so fundamentally ignorant about some basic information and its relevance to the election, I have to wonder how we can allow people to continue to vote.

One of the paradigms of freedom is people can choose to be as ignorant as they wish, or even as stupid as they wish, simply because they want to.

For example: While I would never do it, but would love to break the jaw of someone burning the U.S. flag, it is their freedom to practice this idiocy, and TRY to denigrate the flag. The flag is never denigrated in my mind, but the individual doing it certainly is diminished in my mind! It is their right, no matter how inflammatory it may be to you, to burn the flag.

But how can this be? How is it we are so out of touch with reality we actually think people not in power ARE in power? How is it we think someone made a gaff when it was actually OUR guy?

I think it is simply put as "Perception is Reality". This is a saying in sales which means basically if the customer sees no value in a product, it doesn't matter how great the presenation was, how much the product would actually answer their needs, or how affordable it is. They see no value, therefore, the product is worthless, or they can do without it.

The Republicans were victims of this notion on the part of the American voter- that and most voting for Obama were simply wanting a change.

Towards the end of the campaign, Senator McCain failed to point out the obvious (at least what is obvious to those of us with a clue) that with the House and Senate virtually in the control of the Democrats, a Democratic President could be a potential problem for our government because of the lack of checks and balances. We all know what happened when Carter was President- the Dems controlled all 3 arms of the Federal government, and our economy crashed in dramatic fashion.

Reagan came to office, reached agreements with Tip Oneill, and successfully led this country from the brink of depression into one of the most profitable periods of the American economy, which even outlasted President Bush #41, and his successor, President Clinton (though he did try hard to run it off the tracks by breaking up Microsoft and telling technologically driven companies their intellectual properties would be public domain rather than the people responsible for developing them).

I feel this perception was perpetuated by the media. Though Fox news ratings are on the rise and the former "Big 3" ratings are falling, I feel media bias finally won one for their guy. Recent studies showed negative campaign news coverage was as much as 3 times for McCain as for Obama. Even Chris Mathews was reported (and recorded) to have said it was his job to make the Presidency of Obama succeed. Youll notice he tries to hide under the auspice of being a journalist, and then says his JOB is to make the Presidency succeed.

Sorry Chris, you can't have it both ways, but as long as he works for the Never Been Conservative station, he will never be called to the carpet. Unfortunately, too many people will drink the Kool-Aid and be duped into another fiasco.

Whatever happens in the near future, one thing is for certain- the media will be slow to criticize their chosen one!

Congratulations America- You MADE History

Congratulations, America- you did it! You just elected the first Arabic President of the United States. I say you dod, because my family and I certainly did not! The most liberal Senator with no experience whatsoever from the great state of Illinois, will be our commander in chief in just under 3 months now. He has been influenced much of his adult life by the likes of William Ayers, a known and unrepentant domestic terrorist, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, an open anti Semite, anti-American hate monger, and many others brought out during his successful campaign. I have to hand it to him- he really did it!

Not that Senator John McCain was all that difficult to defeat- he wasn't. He has become a lot more docile and Senatorial than he was 6-7 years ago. What I saw from McCain during the Presidential campaign was a distinguisehed gentleman who was too accustomed to "reaching across the aisle" to the opposite party and denouncing the Republicans if he felt they were wrong.


Senator Obama put this deal to bed several months ago when he refuted the nay sayers and beat Hilary soundly for the Democratic nomination. So many experts said he couldn't do it, he didn't have enough experience, but with a little popular press for the anointed one (did I say a little?) he was able to circle his wagons and move on to the Presidential campaign. Perhaps his distinhuished friends and neighbors provided him with the necessary muscle to move him into position and Hilary out of position. We may never know.

Senator Obama's plane with the previous flag on the tail

Where McCain failed was not in picking Palin as his running mate, but in a couple of other areas:

1. He didn't let his pit bull off the leash until it was too late. People identified with Sarah and Todd, but they never got to know her very well as the McCain handlers kept her under wraps for weeks. McCain could have gone on trying to tell the Americans why Obama CAN NOT and SHOULD NOT be President, while Sarah could tell us why he was different from Bush. Even Charlie Gibson had to ask where the American Flag lapel pin was!

2. McCain was too senatorial in his handling of the debates and the other stump speeches. Trying to hammer home Obama is a lover of terrorists and bigots during the economic crisis he took time out from the campaign to help pass a bailout package tells me he may have missed the mark. That is hard to imagine for a man as successful and experienced as McCain is. Perhaps he was so incredulous the American people would even ENTERTAIN this person given his strong military background, was probably more than this terrific American could fathom.

3. Too often McCain was distracted by the media about non issues, and having to correct the record. To me, his plan was dead simple: Tax less, spend less, sanction the people responsible for the mortgage meltdown, and provide for our soldiers. Pretty simple.

4. Where was the media attention on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac fiasco? With so many liberal ties to these previously reliable and trustworthy entities, it was only a matter of time before a tragedy befell our investors and banks. One interview of a Congressional oversight member was lauding Fannie Mae's performance in getting people into homes far beyond their quota. QUOTA? This is not a sales position, this is a position of responsibility and caution. The distance between the American dream and a nightmare is a bureaucrat pushing for a home loan approval and squeezing someone into a home they could ill afford at half the mortgage amount. Yet Obama's buddy Daniel Mudd openly admits they should have said no more. Perhaps his compensation plan should not have been based on how many people who were APPROVED for a loan, but for how many QUALIFIED for a loan.

Had McCain succesfully tied this mill stone around the neck of Obama, this could well have been the difference. Had he called for an immediate investigation like the old fighter he used to be, he might have been able to pull this off. Had the rest of the Republican party banded together to echo this sentiment, he might have been able to pull this off.

5. The Gentlemen's agreement to cap the amount of public monies spent on campaigning. Previously, both men publicly stated they would abide by the McCain/Feingold limitations of publlic money for campaign purposes, but the wily Obama had no intention of honring that agreement. McCain steadfastly held to his word, and it cost him the election. That is like walking in front of a truck at the crosswalk because the walk sign is lit when the truck runs you over. You may have been right, but you are going to get run over nonetheless, just like the Maverick did.

The bottom line is a lot of learning must be done from this example: Democrats, no matter what, circle the wagons and present a united front making no apologies. Republicans- did you HEAR THAT? They make no apolgies, they band together on their talking points and support each other. I think Governors Huckabee and Romney did a pretty good job of that, but not everyone else did. Case in point: How did they let Nancy Pelosi dismiss the representatives for recess when we were facing a dramatic crisis with gas prices and the mortgage market imploding? How did we let the Senate and Congress with approval ratings lower than they have ever been in history, keep seats, gain seats, AND pick up a neophyte President? Why is it the liberals are able to attract so many people based on emotions and dreams, whent he Republicans for years have been the providers of dreams and opportunitites.

But now, the wonderful liberal Democrats are in charge of nearly everything- the Senate, the House and the White House. These are the same menal midgets who have lost over $18MM on Senate dining facility, and now they have the control of a REAL budget. Can you say "Oh my gosh"?

I do applaud Obama for a well-run campaign. On a personal note, I did feel a bit of a sting in the corners of my eyes when his grandmother, who was so influential in his upbringing, missed his victory speech by a few hours. I pray she is in heaven, looking down on this man now. I also pray God is watching over him as well.