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McCain makes Michigan his first stop after nomination

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In a move that highlights the importance of the State of Michigan to the outcome of this year’s presidential election, Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin will make Metro Detroit one of their first stops after accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president.

McCain and Palin will be at the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre on Friday, September 5 at 5:00 pm. Tickets are free but you need to pick them up in advance at one of these locations:

Kent County Republican Committee/Victory Center
264 Leonard St. NW
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504
Phone: 616-459-0141
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 4 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Upton for Congress Campaign
1210 Milham Ave., Suite 100
Portage, MI 49024
Phone: 269-615-3727
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 6 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Michigan Republican Party
Secchia-Weiser Michigan
Republican Center
520 Seymour St.
Lansing, MI 48933
Phone: 517-487-5413
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 6 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

McCain Great Lakes Regional HQ
31440 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 100
Farmington Hills, MI 48344
Phone: 248-579-4578
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Sun: 12 p.m. — 4 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Grand Traverse Victory Center
121 Front St. Suite 100
Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone: 517-610-9877
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Livingston Victory Center
455 E. Grand River, Suite 101
Brighton, MI 48114
Phone: 517-610-1507
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Livonia Victory Center
34020 W. Seven Mile Rd.
Livonia, MI 48152
Phone: 517-610-1446
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Macomb Victory Center
34620 Utica Rd.
Fraser, MI 48026
Phone: 517-610-9046
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Walberg for Congress Campaign
317 West Washington
Jackson, MI 49201
Phone: 517-962-4913
Mon-Fri: 9 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 3 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

Beginning September 1st
Genesee Victory Center
12741 S. Saginaw St., Suite D2
Grand Blanc, MI
Phone: 517-610-1507
Mon-Fri, 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
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your ticket at this location

For more information about the rally and where to obtain tickets for the rally, please visit http://www.johnmccain.com/mi/

‘Hockey Mom" Palin is also ‘Army Mom’

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My friend and colleague Hugh Hewitt notes that Sarah Palin is the first mother of an American soldier to be nominated for the second highest office in the land. I would add “soon to be deployed” to the descriptive before “American soldier.”

Do you realize how far this will go to disabuse the country of the made-up liberal lie that Republicans long for war? Do you realize how many mothers with kids in Iraq and Afghanistan will trust McCain-Palin to lead the American military strategically and into war only when necessary, given the high personal stakes BOTH of them have in the outcome? McCain has two sons in the military, one of whom just returned from a tour in Iraq. The other is at the Naval Academy and may be deployed to Iraq by the end of the year.

For the record, Joe Biden’s son will be deployed to Iraq in October. Biden’s reaction? “I don’t want him going.”

Campaign 2008 and age bias

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Reading other blogs and watching the media coverage of this presidential campaign since Obama’s convention speech and McCain’s VP announcement, it seems that the American public desire an impossibility in their presidential candidates.

They want their president to be young AND experienced. The two cannot go together.

I am frankly amazed at the kind of age bias that is directed at John McCain. If the media were saying about Barack Obama’s race the kind of things they are saying about John McCain’s age, there would (hopefully) be an outcry from the American public. But it turns out you can make fun of old people and get away with it.

Barack Obama has answered the question of his youth and inexperience with Joe Biden, the same way JFK did with LBJ. John McCain has answered the question of his age and experience with Sarah Palin, the same way GHWB attempted to do with Dan Quayle. The difference between Obama’s decision and McCain’s decision is that Obama’s decision works against his own “change” message by putting two Washington establishment liberals at the top of the ticket while McCain’s decision actually works in favor of a new direction for Washington politics by bringing in a woman who has absolutely no connection to Washington. Even Dan Quayle was a Washington insider.

So your choice this time around really comes down to the youth and inexperience of Barack Obama balanced by the aged but experienced Joe Biden, a ticket made up of two men who are in lockstep ideologically, which if you evaluated it honestly is nothing more than the same liberal leadership Democrats have offerred since LBJ; or the age and experience of John McCain who has been daring enough to choose as his running mate a youthful woman with limited experience – none inside Washington – but who is ideologically opposite McCain on some economic (i.e. oil and drilling) and social issues (i.e.,civil unions and embryonic stem cell research).

Which ticket really represents “more of the same”?

Obama admits ‘hair trigger’ criticism of Palin announcement

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The first reaction from the Obama campaign to John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his VP was to diss small town America. His campaign put out a statement which said in part:

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

There is a pattern of elitism in the Obama campaign. Remember that this is the same Barack Obama who described working-class voters as Americans who “…get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Now Obama has distanced himself from his first harsh response to the Palin pick, blaming it on a ‘hair trigger’ reaction by his staff. Ben Smith at at Politico.com reports:

At a stop in Monaca, Pa., Barack Obama seemed to distance himself from his campaign’s first, harshly critical response to the Palin pick.

“I think that, uh, you know, campaigns start getting these, uh, hair triggers and, uh, the statement that Joe and I put out reflects our sentiments,” he said, according to the pool report, apparently criticizing his staff for going overboard, as he did occasionally in the primary.

He was referring to a more gracious statement of congratulations he issued later with Biden, which he then reiterated.

Let’s see: he tells Rick Warren tough questions are “above my grade grade,” and now he is allowing senior advisers to make ‘hair trigger’ statements. Does this sound like the kind of president we want with his finger on a nuclear trigger?

Veep choice has Dems scrambling

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Democrat Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is being quizzed by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC right now. She gives us some insight on how the Dems will handle McCain’s shocking choice. In a nutshell: Palin may be a woman but she is not a LIBERAL woman, therefore she is the WRONG woman. Unbelievable.

Now MSNBC is suggesting McCain’s choice alienates women because he passed over more experienced women in choosing Palin. Talk about grasping.