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It’s looking more like a woman

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Here’s what I said on this blog on Tuesday:

What if John McCain really upset the apple cart, countered the falsely created perceptions of Democrats that Republicans hate women – especially successful women – and tapped not a politician, but a successful female business executive to be his running mate who could speak to America’s economic and energy crises?

Media reports confirm that Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney will NOT be the pick, and speculation has turned to Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska. I would have preferred McCain choose a non-politician, but he is making the right move if he chooses a woman.

Of course the media is already reporting that IF McCain chooses a woman, it isn’t because Republicans value women, but rather a crass attempt to appeal to the disillusioned Hillary voters. Republicans can’t ever get a break from the MSM.

8:55 am UPDATE: No official announcement from the McCain campaign yet, but just now on FOX News in responding to a question about how Sarah Palin would be received as a VP candidate, Karl Rove said, “We’ll have to see how she conducts herself over the next several weeks.” Looks like Rove believes she’s the pick.

McCain Surges

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John McCain has wiped out Barack Obama’s 7-point margin and has pulled ahead in the race for president by 5 points according to a new Zogby Poll. Of course McCain’s turn around is credited to his “attacks” on Obama, rather than on the real story. While Obama vacationed in sunny Hawaii, John McCain showed real leadership and a presidential response to the crisis in Georgia.

Also interesting to note is that McCain leads by 9-points on the question of which candidate can better manage the economy.

I noted in an earlier post that the Saddleback Civil Forum reset the clock on this campaign and it seems to be true.

This about sums it up…

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The best summary of the Saddleback Civil Forum comes from a comment left at Hugh Hewitt’s blog:

dantana writes: Saturday, August, 16, 2008 11:35 PM
McCain by a TKO
No surprise.

Obama is a post modern college prof who is the product of the antiseptic ivory tower.

McCain is a 70 year dude who has spent a lifetime getting his butt out of tough situations and grappling with reality.

No contest.

The presidential campaign begins today

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An exhausted American electorate has been tuning in and out of this presidential campaign for more than 18 months, a campaign which began way too soon. But tonight the clock has been reset, just in time for the respective party nominating conventions, the Veep selections, and the presidential debates.

Forget everything you thought you knew about the polticial fortunes of Barack Obama and John McCain. Tonight’s Civil Forum on the Presidency hosted by Rick Warren and Saddleback Church has changed the landscape dramatically, focusing like a laser on the stark differences between Barack Obama and John McCain, both politically, generationally, and philosophically.

Tonight is the night the American electorate had its first opportunity to size up the candidates without interjection from the main stream media. After tonight, 200,000 Europeans chanting “O-Bam-A,” solidifying Barack Obama as an international superstar, is a distant memory which will serve only to magnify Obama’s elitism. John McCain’s “cross in the sand” story does more to elevate him in the eyes of his countrymen than all of the photo-ops of Obama’s European Tour combined. John McCain’s direct and candid answers demonstrated real world experience compared with Obama’s obfuscation on nearly every question (his three wisest advisers are his wife, grandmother, and Sam Nunn? He’s kidding, right?) which demonstrated classroom hypothesis.

Keep in mind that McCain has been campaigning non-stop for the last several weeks while Obama just returned tonight from a weeks vacation in Hawaii. Obama should have been on his game and McCain should have been showing age fatigue. Obama wasn’t and McCain didn’t. One is a pretender. The other is the Real McCoy.

The campaign begins today with advantage: McCain.

Are these cartoons equally offensive?

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David Harsanyi over at the Denver Post points out the hypocrisy in the media uproar over the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim extremists in the Oval Office:

It’s too bad the indignation over the cartoon is not applied evenly. When Rolling Stone published a cartoon of John McCain in a Vietnam bamboo jail being tortured by other candidates a couple of months ago, no uproar could be heard. And though George Bush is portrayed as a mentally deficient simian (for the millionth unimaginative time), there is rarely talk of a pox of “tasteless” journalism.

It seems there is an organized effort among the influencers of the comedy class in American media to rule out of bounds any comedic portrayal of Barack Obama. See Bill Carter’s New York Time’s story: Want Obama in a punch line? First, find a joke.