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Bring it on Obama, really he does not want to have that debate. Bush and McCain would eat the empty suit Barack Obama's lunch. How is he going to out smart McCain? McCain is a decorated military veterans and Barack is an empty suit that knows nothing about foreign policy and military tactics.

Seriously folks if political light weights like Obama want to get eat alive when they bite off more than they can chew the Republicans should get out of the way and let him have his Dukakis moment. Maybe Obama should stick to his Marxist views and ideas because when it comes to foreign policy and security he doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about.

Check out this opinion piece/article that I found in the Edmontonsun.com Remember Canada isn’t some bastion of right wing thought it is a socialist Utopia.

Barack Hussein Obama entered the marathon of presidential politics with the thinnest resume of any aspirant to the White House in modern times.

He gamely set forth to win his party’s nomination by parlaying weakness, the very lightness of his empty political suit—a first term senator with no legislative record of any merit—into strength as a post-racism candidate promising to unite a divided country.

The gamble almost worked—it might still with the Democrats—for Obama’s empty suit rode the jet stream of political discontent in a country at war. The jet stream raised him to popular heights his party rivals with longer resumes could only watch with disbelief.

Obama’s candidacy, like any gamble, was a risky venture. It was made more risky given the tightly guarded knowledge that revelations about Rev. Jeremiah Wright—Obama’s pastor of some 20 years—could well bring down the junior senator’s “audacity of hope” to be elected America’s first non-white president.

Seems as if the Reverend Wright thing isn't going to go away and is probably going to do more damage than good.

But Wright did more, as Bob Herbert of the New York Times wrote, by going to Washington “not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.”

The senator’s pastor derogatorily dismissed the promising post-racism candidate as a mere politician, meaning an individual who will say and do whatever is needed to get elected.

The question then is who has it right? Is it Wright who has known the aspiring politician for the past two decades, or is it Obama?

The candidate lately has been appalled that his pastor, preaching sermons laced with bigotry, is not the same person he knew and of whom he said some weeks ago in Philadelphia he “can no more disown than I can disown the black community.”

I am beginning to think that this is true. This isn't the first time that I have heard this. I think the Democrats have painted themselves into a hole and they are going to have to make some tough choices.

UNELECTABLE

In Steele’s view Obama is unelectable because he “has fellow-travelled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own mother, who was white.

Obama’s candidacy, to quote Steele again, has been “based more on manipulation of white guilt than on substance.”

The primary season has worked as it is meant to work, and for now it has brought down to earth a candidacy filled with hot air.

This woman is dumber than a box of rocks, I have said it before and I will say it again. Is this really the best leaders the democrats could choose to lead the house of representives? Harry Reid isn't much better. Seriously folks, Ttis moron; madam speaker Pelosi doesn’t even know what the price of gas is. Those beltway liberals are a piece of work aren't they?

Nancy said it was 2.56 a gallon and is triple what it was when Bush took office. So is that fuzzy math or is she really that far out of touch? The price of gas is 3.59 a gallon in Grand Forks, ND today. Great job by the democratic house and senate.

I have read on the Internet where the Hab’s fans were booing the American anthem before the games in Montreal between the Canadians and Flyers. I think this is a very classless act and makes me hate the Montreal Canadians even more, I despise that team and cheer against them when ever they play. The Boston Bruins fan’s had the correct response to the classless Hab’s fans that booed the American anthem in 2006. The Bruins fans did not stoop to the classless Hab’s fan level, instead they stood cheered through out the anthem.

Here is what Eklund the anonymous hockey blogger had to say abou the issue.

In game 1 in Montreal I didn’t really hear the booing of the American Anthem, but I did hear a lot of talking through it. In Game 2 I did...Both REALLY bothered me as an American, but even more so as a hockey fan.

I truly hope that there aren’t some idiots who take the eye for an eye mentality in Philly tonight.

But I fear there will be, so I implore those of you heading down...If you are near someone who begins to boo the anthem tonight: shut them up.
Hockey is NOT about politics. It is our escape from such things. There are real problems in this world of ours. Real issues that I have with both of our Governments. I am very active politically and express those views elsewhere. I encourage all to do the same. Make a difference with your government…

But NOT HERE.
This is just hockey. And as far as I’m concerned there are no borders in North America in Hockey. We are all Hockeyans. It is our religion and where you live, your status, or the colour of your skin has no bearing on it whatsoever. If you love hockey you are my brother or sister.

In America especially, since hockey has NEVER really been mainstream, we Hockeyans have been FORCED to stick together. We are connected by a bond stronger than politics and lobbyists. Hockey is the biggest cult sport in American history. And if you love it you are all in…

American Hockeyans take a deeper offense to the Anthem being boo’d because let’s face it..We grew up rooting for our players in Canada Cups wearing that big Maple Leaf...still my favorite jersey of all time. I sat and cheered for Bobby Clarke and other Flyers against the Russians time and time again. (read the whole blog here)

I like Eklund plea to the fans in Philly do not stoop to that level.

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The way I read this is Obama is his best when he is giving speeches and having people fainting in the background. It has become apparent that Obama does not do well when he has to stand up to tough questions and scrutiny or think well on his feet.

Of course; maybe Obama already thinks he has the nomination wrapped up and doesn’t think he needs to attend anymore debates. Hillary is right IF he becomes president his free pass from the media will be taken away from him and he will have to answer tough questions.

By Karen Leigh and Catherine Dodge

April 26 (Bloomberg)—Hillary Clinton challenged Barack Obama to debate her before primaries in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6, an encounter her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination immediately declined to take up.

``I’m offering Senator Obama the chance to debate me one- on-one, no moderators,’’ Clinton said this afternoon at a rally at a baseball stadium in South Bend, Indiana. ``Just the two of us going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions. We’ll set whatever rules seem fair.’’

Obama campaign communications director Robert Gibbs replied by saying that the candidates have participated in 21 nationally televised debates, including four exclusively with Clinton.

``Over the next 10 days, we believe it’s important to talk directly to the voters of Indiana and North Carolina,’’ Gibbs said in a statement.

After the candidates’ last debate, held April 17 in Philadelphia, Obama hinted he might be finished debating Clinton, dismissing the forums as little more than a chance for her to ``twist the knife.’’ Clinton, who trails Obama in total delegates, won the Pennsylvania primary this week, giving her campaign much-needed momentum.

Referring to the April 17 debate in Philadelphia, Clinton said, ``Senator Obama’s supporters complained a little bit about the tough questions.’’

``The tough questions in a debate are nothing compared to the tough questions you get asked when you’re president,’’ New York Senator Clinton, 60, said.

Obama, 46, has said the Philadelphia debate ``set a new record’’ because ``it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people.’’
(Read the whole article right here)

I can’t remember who game me this picture but it is funny. Maybe this is why Bill stuck with her so long.

Ahhhh, good old Bill Moyer and he is playing right into this. Poor Reverend Wright he was just miss understood. The Left is in spin mode trying to make this look as if the comments were taken out of context and they aren't what they mean. I mean Seriously folks, what are we to make of comments like this? We are not stupid. You don't hear Hillary Clinton or John McCain making statements like this. It is what it is. This stuff isn't going to go away. There is hours and hours of this stuff out there...

Or Comments like this… Not god bless American but God Damn America. There is no excuse for this stuff and it has no place in a church.

Here is the latest anti Obama ad from the North Carolina Republican Party it opposes Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for Governor. According to Fox news John McCain asked that it be taken down because it is too harsh.

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Check out Rob’s letter to the editor in today’s Grand Forks Herald.

MINOT — I had to chuckle when I read former Democratic candidate (and former aide to Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.) Kristin Hedger’s column in favor of earmarks — aka government pork — in the Saturday Herald (“Congressional earmarks serve a vital national purpose,” Page A4).

I’m not surprised that Hedger loves government pork given that her family’s business, Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, got a big, juicy earmark courtesy of her old boss. To quote from an August press release from Dorgan’s office: “U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad … have secured more than $8 million to help KMM develop new technologies for the military.”

It’s easy to be in favor of pork spending when you’re more on the getting end than on the giving end. Chalk it up to the enticing allure of other people’s money.

On a serious note, however, I’d point out that Dorgan’s direction of public money to his political supporters is exactly the sort of political backscratching that gives earmark appropriations a bad name.

Rob Port

Port is the owner of Say Anything blog, http://www.sayanythingblog.com.

This is my liberal moron of the week. Nick Coleman is a fricken moron. This is what happens when you let liberals run unchecked, especially at a big city newspaper. The thing that really makes no sense to me is liberals fail to undertand that gun free zones are nothing more than a danger area. That is why these deranged idoits pray on areas like Virginia Tech (gun free zone) because they know there will be no one there with a conealed weapon.

The die-in (it was called a lie-in, actually) was organized by Protect Minnesota, an umbrella group representing five gun-control organizations pushing for tighter rules on sales and universal background checks on buyers. Thirty-two people wore black T-shirts that said, "Minnesotans Against Being Shot" as well as ribbons of maroon and orange (Virginia Tech's colors) made by families of the victims. One by one, to the solemn beat of a drum, they went down on the Capitol steps and remained motionless, as if asleep.

It was like the state Senate, but without the pompous speeches.

OK, it was one of those media events that is easy to mock and, indeed, it was mocked by a few underemployed members of the gun-rights lobby who couldn't resist the temptation to spoil a somber moment by holding up frat boy signs to the effect that a teacher or student packing heat could have stopped the carnage, which is the kind of thing I wonder about when a cop gets shot.

Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people. And sometimes people with guns kill other people with guns. It's as complicated as our feelings, and nobody's come up with a convincing response to slaughters such as Virginia Tech, especially proposals to let college kids carry guns on campus. Rep. Tony Cornish, a Republican from Good Thunder, introduced one such obscenely timed proposal Wednesday. Are you kidding, Cornish? Have you ever been to a kegger at Mankato or St. Cloud or the U of M and thought, "Cool! I hope these dudes have guns!"

Here is a poll that was conducted on the subject: Should guns be allowed on college campuses? (look at the results)

Yes 402 35.4 %
Only if the gun owner is well screened and highly trained 274 24.1 %
No 457 40.3 %
Total Votes 1133

It would appear that Obama thinks he has the nomination locked up already. Seriously, I really have enjoyed the petty knife fight between Obama and Hillary. It's getting to be pretty entertaining, but comeon Obama must know that you can't use a projectile weapon to hunt ducks, it is against the law. Any moron knows you hunt ducks with a shotgun. I would like to see the picture of Hillary in a duck blind.

I think I can see the strategy, just let Obama keep talking and he will step on it soon enough.

This is why some of the democrat big wigs want Hillary out of the primary. Seems that the democratic nominee Barack H. Obama has a problem with gaffs and slips. His latest is a dozy. Now we got people bringing 6 shooters to the duck bling. Anyone with half a brain knows that you don’t bring a six shooter to hunt ducks with. Out of touch.

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.

Today he launched into a tirade, scolding Hillary for questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.

Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:

“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment, she’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley! Hillary Clinton’s out there like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday, she’s packin’ a six shooter! C’mon! She knows better. That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton. I want to see that picture of her out there in the duck blinds.”

This shouldn’t even be an issue. The law needs to be inforced. This is the Liberal mindset, leave the poor little law breakers alone.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is asking federal officials to rethink their policy on workplace immigration crackdowns that involve established businesses and to focus on employers that mistreat workers instead.

The mayor said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that work-site raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement could have “severe and long-lasting effects” on the local economy, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

ICE made more than 4,900 work-site arrests nationwide in fiscal 2007, a 45-fold increase over the number in 2001, authorities said.

More than 130 undocumented workers were arrested at a San Fernando Valley manufacturing company in February and over 60 workers were arrested for immigration violations at South Bay-area warehouses last week.

Los Angeles companies such as clothing manufacturer American Apparel Inc. have reported being questioned by ICE officials about their hiring procedures.

Villaraigosa accused federal officials of targeting “established, responsible employers” in industries that rely on “workforces that include undocumented immigrants.”

“In these industries, including most areas of manufacturing, even the most scrupulous and responsible employers have no choice but to rely on workers whose documentation, while facially valid, may raise questions about their lawful presence,” he wrote in the March 27 letter.

He said ICE should spend its limited resources

Red the rest of the story here.

I am not a Hillary Clinton fan nor a democrat by any means but this is absolutely silly. The anti-nick name foes are always stirring something up and always seem to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Come on; honestly folks! Hillary Clinton is a liberal Democrat and I am sure she didn’t mean anything disrespectful by uttering the Fighting Sioux nick name at a rally for DEMOCRATS. Again I am not a fan of Hillary but some of the stuff she has had to face because the main stream media’s being in Barack Obama’s corner is down right ridiculous. It is surprising she isn’t down by 20 percentage points to McCain or Obama.

But Sele and the rest of the table said Clinton “stumbled” when she repeatedly used the full, and controversial, nickname of UND’s Fighting Sioux hockey team. Sele called herself a serious sports fan who’s not a nickname advocate, but not forcefully opposed to the nickname either.

By using the controversial nickname, Sele said, Clinton invited a divisive issue into the conversation that needn’t be there.

“I don’t think she recognized how contentious that is,” Sele said. “Unless you’re here, you can’t know that.”

A variety of UND student and faculty groups and many of the campuses’ American Indians have long opposed the school’s nickname. A legal settlement with the NCAA requires UND to retire the nickname within three years if it cannot win the endorsement of both the state’s Sioux tribes.

Clinton used the Fighting Sioux nickname at the opening of her speech after Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., presented her with a hockey stick signed by the entire UND men’s hockey team. She used the nickname again at the end of speech, comparing the determination that sent UND men’s hockey players to the upcoming Frozen Four competition in Denver with her own determination to stay in the presidential race.

Obama was also presented with an autographed hockey stick, but did not use the nickname while accepting it, joking instead that he’s a worse hockey player than he is a bowler.

Glassheim also called the Fighting Sioux statements an “error,” noting that Sen. Byron Dorgan called the team the “UND Sioux,” when presenting the hockey stick, considered by many to be a less offensive version of the name.

“I’m not violently anti-nickname, but it disturbed me a little,” Glassheim said.

Glassheim speculated Clinton was likely poorly prepared for the hockey stick acceptance, by staffers that aren’t sensitive to local issues.

However, he said, it’s just possible Clinton’s use of the nickname was a calculated appeal to her base. In primaries and caucuses nationwide Clinton’s supporters have tended to be more working class and socially conservative than Obama’s.

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Since the NC$$ has determined that the Frozen Four has to take a back seat to the pumpkin pushers and has a week off I was bored and checking out a few video from the season past on YouTube and this one from andreasue09 is pretty good and should be added to the video collection of any Sioux fan.

Not to be outdone the RedFrogND.

Post game interview on ESPNU.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux was nothing short of amazing and should get a SERIOUS look for the Hobey Baker.

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