A fun game.

The best part? As long as you're one of Obama's friends, you can't lose.

Unrelated and Yet Directly Related: Director Blue could use some of these sort of cards for his game.

Not Related at All: Another embarrassing Palin gaffe.

Video! It's just the p-shops from Director Blue's site, but I think it works a little better as a video.

But I always think that. Reading is for fags.

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Ahmadinejad at the UN. Blamed the crisis on US bullying and wars, some "European friends," and of course a group of "Zionist murderers" who control the banking industry.

Reported on FoxNews.

I can give you the AP link, but AP strangely missed the part where Ahmadinejad blamed the Jews.

The AP. Helpfully editing Ahmadinejad's speeches to make them sound more reasonable to a liberal American audience. They kept the bit about Bush's wars causing the turmoil, but edited out the bit about "Zionist murderers."

I smell a Pulitzer for AP reporterette Edith M. Lederer.

The Associated Press

Ahmadinejad isn't offering us access the way Saddam Hussein coopted CNN.

We just like him.

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As Allah and other say, this is above my paygrade.

McCain's press conference called for, among other things, strong transparency, accountability, and oversight of the bailout, by a bipartisan board with real power; absolutely no larding the bill up with earmarks for "favored companies;" and a cap of $400,000 per year in salary for any company rescued by the bailout.

On that last point, he's right. Before you cry "socialism," bear in mind that the industry is essentially begging for a federal takeover. If they're going to be federalized, they're not private endeavors any longer, and McCain has a fair basis to insist that anyone working for such governmentalized agencies should not make more than the highest paid federal official (the President, as it turns out).

When/if the mess is fixed, they can go back to being wholly private corporations again. But it's a tad much for anyone to insist these companies get to act like private affairs when the taxpayers are being called upon to save them.

As a practical matter, it's a bit of symbolic populism. And if that's what's necessary to sell this to the public, well, that's not going to be the hill I'm personally dying on.

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Gallup: 47-44 Obama.

Rasmussen has tied at 48-48, with McCain inching up from 47%.

Obviously, these changes are statisitically insignificant. Although in Gallup's case, it represents a... um, still statistically insignificant two point increase for McCain over the past week.

More significant, sadly, is Gallup's finding that the Democrats have regained a double-digit lead in party affiliation-- 49% (?) to 39% (?).

Rasmussen finds a narrower gap as it re-sets its target weighting to 39.0 D/33.5 R. That represents a .3 % gain for Democrats and .1% loss for Republicans.

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Did I say "herself"? I meant "himself."

Joe Biden: We don't support clean coal. Barack Obama's stated position is that he (and therefore "we") does support clean coal.

Joe Biden: FDR appeared on the television to reassure the nation during the 1929 stock market crash. More at Instapundit, including a fun fact: Herbert Hoover was in fact the first public official to ever appear on a televised transmission.

Joe Biden repeats his Terror at Two Thousand Feet war story.

I've already dealt with that here. According to his own spokesman at the time, it wasn't even an "emergency landing." It was merely an "unscheduled landing," due to snow. There was no danger and no incident worth mentioning.

However, Biden continues saying,

“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”

The lie he's telling is that he knows where Al Qaeda is because Al Qaeda forced down his helicopter. That is the clear implication of the tale; that is the impression he means to leave crowds with.

Unless Al Qaeda now has a Weather Machine, it's a lie.

Joe Biden is a preening metrosexual sissy who hasn't experienced a dangerous moment in his life (except of course for the likely catastrophe every time he opens his lying, ignorant mouth). So he's pretending he had some sort of death-duel with Al Qaeda in Waziristan.

Pathetic. A man of his advanced age still telling absurd hero stories, easily disproven.

Perhaps Joe Biden needs to be hidden from the press.

Of course, the Obama campaign has already cleverly taken care of that, because no one gives any credence to anything that fumbles out of this buffoonish dolt's drooling idiotmouth.

FDR's Famously Televised Fireside Chats: Proof Biden was right!

So why isn't this getting more play? Because no one watched MSNBC in 1929, either.

Thanks to Natalie.

Biden vs. Obama on AIG Bailout: Give Slow Biden a break -- dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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I just came across this at The Corner. It's a letter written by a soldier to his home town newspaper about his service in Iraq and Afghanistan shortly before he was killed in an IED attack.

The bad days are when you put your buddy in a body bag and you don't even recognize him because his limbs are missing and there holes in him everywhere. The miracles are when his last words are, "tell my wife and kids I love them," before he dies in his best friend's arms after struggling for several agonizing minutes to get the words out because there is a fist-size hole in his head.

And last but not least, the best days are when an Afghan comes up to you thanking you for everything that you have done to help them and for making their (home) a better place now that the Taliban are gone.

If anything, this is probably the biggest reason why I proudly enjoy being over here. I can't explain it to anyone and there is no description of what it feels like, but it was the same feeling I got when I was in Iraq as well. And I am sure it's the same feeling that generations of American soldiers before me have gotten as they fought and sacrificed their lives for the freedoms that we enjoy today.

Perhaps the biggest thing that has made being over here much more bearable, is the amount of public support that we have received from people. Getting a care package or a letter of support when you are out in the middle of nowhere from a complete stranger, thanking you, does make the day seem a little better.

I would especially like to thank my Aunt Jan Martin, and The local Troop Support organization who have provided care packages to soldiers serving overseas and have volunteered endless hours of their time and energy making our lives easier. The British soldiers (who don't get anything) are extremely grateful as well.

You can read all of Capt. Bruno de Solenni's letter here.

With good news in Iraq, the campaign here at home and all the other news, it's easy to forget that we still have many brave men and women serving in very dangerous places, far far from home.

I hate to admit it but it's been awhile since I've done anything to "support the troops" (not that I ever did near enough to begin with). Thankfully a quick trip to Soldiers Angels was a good first step. Sure it was just a couple of bucks to help them with their good work but it was the least I could do.

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And he's got proof.

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If Congress and the President don't pass the CR, the government shuts down -- a particularly dangerous event with the financial sector already teetering on total systemic failure.

Why is Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants playing Russian roulette with the American economy?

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Thick as thieves:

n 1996, a group of investors penned Proposal E in Detroit which allowed for casinos. The investors hired the firm Winner/Wagner & Mandabach to study the chances of passing that proposal. As told in an article written by Laurence B. Deitch, an attorney for the proposal supporters, the Winner firm later led the media effort to help pass the measure. It brought in several outside media and communications groups.

A video from the Detroit Mayor's office produced by Mayor Archer's political consultant David Axelrod was noted as a key part of the Winner directed effort. This revelation places Axelrod in a direct working relationship with the Chuck Winner PR firm in a past campaign.

Axelrod is considered by many to be a master of planting campaign messages on the internet to look like they did not originate from an organized campaign, a practice know as “astroturfing” (because of the fake grass-roots nature of the message). The joint effort on the Prop E campaign is the first public indication of a direct tie between the Obama campaign team and the Winner PR firm.

Via Patterico.

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When Barack Obama had his magical mystery tour of Europe, he met with foreign leaders. Here's an interesting nugget about those meetings from the NYTimes:

On his second visit to Israel, he sought to reassure voters of his capacity to serve on the international stage. The audience for the trip, despite a private series of dawn-to-dusk meetings, clearly was the American electorate as much as the foreign leaders.

I must have missed the part where the media pouted and stamped their feet about being cut out of that meeting.

And he's the presidential candidate for the Democrats, so his meetings should be considered even more newsworthy to the press, right?

Newsbusters noticed the same trend.

Funny how their outrage seems to be so darned selective, isn't it?

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