Bush Hosts Living Presidents and the PEOTUS at White House…

Obama’s victory definitely has historic ramifications. It is good to see a bi-racial man in the White House, maybe in the next 50 or so years, there’ll be a black wo(man) in there too…

Say It Ain’t So… Hillary Clinton in Pay for Play Scandal…

My loyalty lies with the Republic and not any particular individual, even if as much as it saddens me to say this, that individual is Hillary Clinton…

From the IHT

A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman’s mall project.

Hillary Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.

She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.

The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation.

Even though it can be argued to infinity that no “pay for play” was involved in this, to me, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s usually a duck…

I wonder if we’ll have another Bill Richardson moment… Hopefully the confirmation hearings she has to go through to become Secretary of State would actually ask questions about this whole imbroglio, or maybe the Dems would be too busy kissing Obama’s backside, and the GOP would be caught up in finding ways to sell free market principles even further up the river…

Oh, BTW, while we’re at it, how about Norman Hsu’s promise to implicate both Hill and Obama in his trial?

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Robert Gates to Stay On As Obama’s Secretary of Defense…

Upon hearing this news, I laughed real hard. I mean, one of Obama’s promises in his quest for the Presidency was to end the war in Iraq, more specifically to do away with the disastrous course set by George Bush.

Obama gets elected, and what does he do? Firstly, he surrounds himself with what is to all intents and purposes the entire Bill Clinton Kitchen Cabinet (Hillary Clinton included).

Oh, let’s not forget McCain confidant, Gen. James Jones ,  Obama’s National Security Adviser in waiting.

I didn’t vote for this guy, but I am pretty certain that those who did feel pretty hoodwinked and bamboozled right about now, especially considering that as icing on the cake, he intends to retain George Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.

Jake Trapper:

The former Eagle Scout is expected to be rolled out immediately after the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend as part of a larger national security team expected to include Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, as Secretary of State; Marine Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.) as National Security Adviser; Admiral Dennis Blair (Ret.) as Director of National Intelligence; and Dr. Susan Rice as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Gates was CIA Director for President George H.W. Bush in 1992, and gave the impression to some that he would stay on in that role if asked by incoming President Bill Clinton. Clinton did not keep him on, replacing him instead with Jim Woolsey.

Oh well, unfortunately, unlike ET, the Democratic Party would not be able to phone home to get rid of Obama. Obama is a man who aspires to be everything to everyone, and in the procces is bound to end up becoming nothing to himself…

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Barack and Michelle Obama… Hillary Who? Plus what if Hillary had taken on McCain?

Awesome payback! Hillary and Bill went all out for him, and what do they get? Let’s hear CBS tell it:

Personally, I believe the Clintons are letting themselves be taken to the cleaners: For them, it’s all give and no get. Politico.com goes on to report something I’ve blogged about several times: President-elect Obama still has not helped Senator Clinton retire any of her campaign debt–something which was widely reported last spring as part of his pledge to her if she would get out of the nomination race.

Then again, it’s a free country, and the Clintons can let themselves be used, abused, and bruised by their own party for as long as they want. Politico.com reports Senator Clinton has already written off her taxes the $13 million she loaned her own campaign during the primaries. Ouch! And the Clintons didn’t just support Obama; they hit the campaign trail with force and talked him up until Senator Clinton went hoarse. There’s still the business of $7.9 million she owes to vendors. Maybe he’ll come through and help her pay off that debt.

If President-elect Obama helps Senator Clinton, it will make him look not only Clinton-friendly, but more important woman-friendly. Woman-friendly is not his style, at least not so far. Remember he apologized to a reporter for calling her “sweetie” during the campaign? Now his wife’s role as first lady will be, in her own words, “mom in chief.” Take “Obama” out of the equation and this type of behavior seems positively retro. The trial balloon of ousted Harvard President Lawrence Summers as potential treasury secretary was yet another slap to Obama’s multitude of female supporters.

Meanwhile, exit polls show that if it had been a Hillary vs. McCain matchup, things would have turned out very differently… Here is what AP discovered:

What if it had been Hillary?

There’s no way to be sure, but she might have won by even more than Obama did.

Voters in the Obama-McCain race said they would have preferred Hillary Rodham Clinton over McCain by 51 percent to 41 percent, a larger margin than Obama’s 53-46 win.

Among the differences: Women say they would have backed Clinton over McCain by 18 percentage points, bigger than Obama’s 12-point advantage with them. Whites favored McCain over Obama by 12 points but leaned toward the Republican by a narrower 5 points against Clinton. Eighty-six percent of blacks would have backed Clinton — solid, but shy of the 95 percent who supported Obama. Clinton almost matched the two-thirds of people under age 30 who voted for Obama, but nearly one in 10 of them said they wouldn’t have bothered voting at all.

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As promised, PUMAs delivered yesterday…

Some of you may be wondering what the heck I am writting about above, but truth is, as PUMAs we delivered. Let’s look at the numbers from a historic perspective, going back to 1992 when the Democrats regained the White House:

In 1992:

Bill Clinton: 44,909,806

George Bush 1: 39,104,500

In 1996:

Bill Clinton: 47,402,357 (an increase of 5.5% over 1992 for the Democrats)

Bob Dole: 39,198,755 (an increase of .24% over 1992 for the GOP)

In 2000:

Al Gore: 50,999,897 (an increase of 7.59% over 1996 for the Democrats)

George Bush: 50,456,002 (an increase of 28.72% for the GOP)

In 2004

George Bush: 62,040,610 (an increase of 22.96% fpr the GOP)

John Kerrey: 59,028,444 (an increas of 16.99% for the Democrats)

and then we finally come to the Presidential election of 2008

Barack Obama: 63,249,576 (an increase of 7.15% over 2004)

John McCain: 55,900,534 (a DECREASE of -9.90% over 2004)

So what can we learn from these numbers?

If PUMAs are conservatively numbered at 3.6 million, or 20% of Hillary’s 18million votes, their vote would have given Barack Obama an increase of 13.25% over 2004, if it is closer to 40%, which we believe it to be, those extra 7.2 million voters would have given Obama growth of 19.35% over 2004, and have put him in the range of 65 to 70 million votes.  7.15% growth and 63 million popular votes clearly shows that this did not happen.

On his part, if John McCain had simply maintained the same number of voters as Bush did in 2004, he would have ended up with 6,140,076 more votes than he did, and while he would still have lost the election, it would have been by a much narrower margin. This is without the PUMA factor.

However, if the same number of voters supported McCain in 2008 as did Bush in 2004, and McCain got 3.6 million PUMA votes added to his numbers, he would have won the White House by about 3 million votes. 

Ultimately, this election was lost by the GOP base, who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by simply rnot voting. Why they refused is beyond the scope of this posting, but fact remains that they didn’t, and now Obama is the President-Elect.

So PUMAs, congratulations, we can hold your heads up high. We did exactly what we promised to do. We might not have stopped Obama, but both Al Gore and John Kerry were able to attract a higher percentage of new voters in the last cycle than Obama did in this one because we denied him our votes.

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Postscript- As new numbers for the 2008 election emerge, this post shall be updated at least once daily. 

 

 

McCain Delivers at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner…. says Bill and Hillary Clinton are PUMAs…

Here’s John McCain at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in NYC…

and here’s part 2

For those who care to watch Candidate Comrade Obama, here’s a link to his speech…

I thought McCain was spot on, and Obama so so, but my younger brother disagrees… Incidentally, I am an undecided voter, and he, along with my parents supports Obama…

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Let’s Set The Record Straight On The Sarah Palin “Abuse of Power Reprimand”

It is amazing how the pro-Obama media has gone haywire in reporting the latest Troopergate findings coming from Alaska as some sort of indictment of Sarah Palin.

As has been made abundantly clear in this election, Obama and his cronies in the media keep on using a strategy of “shoot first, ask questions later”, they did it with Hillary, now they are doing it against Sarah.

If you are not going to understand anything else I write about this issue, please understand the next few paragraphs.

Democratic state senator and staunch Barack Obama supporter Hollis French of Alaska boasted in early September that he would provide an “October Surprise” which would upset the McCain-Palin campaign. Indeed, he originally planned to time it for October 31, four days before the election, for maximum impact, until other legislators forced him to abandon that particular strategy.

Yesterday French gave it his very best shot: The investigator he hired and directed, Steve Branchflower, has labored mightily and given birth to a bloated and redundant 263-page report which boils down Branchflower’s guess as to whether Gov. Palin has done anything improper.

Firstly, here is what his most important finding was:

I find that, although Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.

Secondly, Sarah or Todd Palin never asked anyone to fire Wooten, as admitted by Walt Monegan himself:

“For the record, no one ever said fire Wooten. Not the governor. Not Todd. Not any of the other staff,” Monegan said Friday from Portland. “What they said directly was more along the lines of ‘This isn’t a person that we would want to be representing our state troopers.’”

Thirdly, Monegan himself was never fired, he was reassigned to other government duties. Monegan chose to resign rather than work in a capacity he did not want to work in.

Ultimately, the Branchflower Report is nothing but a series of insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it has not been approved, adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature which is currently not in session, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body.

All that happened is the panel chaired by Hollis French received the report and voted to release it into the public domain as they were expected to do before the report was even written.

Incidentally, the report contains no new bombshells in terms of factual revelations. Just Steve Branchflower’s opinion that he thinks Gov. Palin had, at worst, mixed motives for an action that even Branchflower admits she unquestionably had both (a) the complete right to perform and (b) other very good reasons to perform.

So there you have it folks. Sarah Palin has not been found guilty of abusing power, has not been reprimanded for abusing power, has not been convicted, indicted or censured for abusing power. All that happened is an investigator hired by a partisan committee chair has reported his findings.

Democrats, and this applies to Democrats only. Most of us remember Ken Starr’s Whitewater Investigation against Bill and Hillary Clinton, most of us remember that it was nothing but a witchunt. Most of us spoke up against it then, and most of us should speak up against this now.

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P.U.M.A-In-Chief Bill Clinton- McCain is acting in good faith in pulling out of the debate…

When Bill Clinton comes out swinging, he doesn’t hold back.

“I presume he did that in good faith, since I know he wanted - I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country. And so, I don’t think we ought to overly parse that. Let’s deal with this issue.”

P.U.M.A-In-Chief Bill Clinton Says It’s Ok to vote for McCain/Palin…

Appearing on The View today, PUMA-in-Chief, Bill Clinton said “it’s ok” to vote for John McCain/Sarah Palin… He also talks about PUMA Lynette Long’s article on feminists voting McCain/Palin based on Principle over Policy. What Bill Clinton basically did in this interview was say it’s ok to vote McCain/Palin with a clear conscience. No one can hold it against you. Was I surprised? Hardly, he is the PUMA-in-Chief, afterall…

Here is the vid.

If anyone can post a transcript, that would be perfect…

P.U.M.A-in-Chief Bill Clinton Gives Props to McCain/Palin…

Yes, we are not ashamed to say it, though he can’t come out and say it publically, we know Bill Clinton is one of our very own. In fact, in these parts he is affectionately referrd to as the “P.U.M.A-in-Chief”…

In an interview with CNBC, speaking of Sarah Palin, Bill had the following words: “She’s an instinctively effective candidate and with a compelling story.” On McCain, Bill said he was a “Great Man”

Hotair has the transcript:

Mr Clinton, acclaimed even by his enemies as one of the most consummate American politicians in recent history, said he did not agree with Republican vice presidential pick Mrs Palin on politics, but warned fellow Democrats not to underestimate her.

“She’s an instinctively effective candidate and with a compelling story,” Mr Clinton said in an interview with CNBC.

“I think it was exciting to some that she was a woman,” said Mr Clinton.

“I think she, I get why she’s done so well. It’s a mistake to underestimate her. She’s got good intuitive skills. They’re significant.”

Mr Clinton said he thought Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a Vietnam war hero and veteran lawmaker, was a “great man” and that the election on November 4 would be close, but he predicted Democrat Barack Obama would emerge triumphant.

and here’s a link to the video.

Well, personally, I respect Bill way more than I do Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Reid and the other bozos who hijacked the election from Hillary, so if he says they are A-Ok, then they are A-Ok!

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