A few months back I wrote a blog post in which I gave several reasons why I would not support John McCain for president. I had and still have several issues with which I disagree with McCain.

However, since that posting, several factors have changed my stance. The biggest thing that has led me to re-evaluate my position is that fact that Barack Obama has emerged as the most dangerous candidate to ever run for the presidency. His political ideology is so far to the left as to be considered Marxist, and his ties to unsavory characters such as William Ayers can only lead one to conclude that he would forever change our country in such a way that the founding fathers would be turning over in their graves. And in an age in which we are fighting a global war on Islamic extremism, Obama's willingness to sit down with leaders of terrorist sponsoring nations absolutely sends shivers up my spine.

Recently, John McCain and Barack Obama sat down with Rick Warren for a civil forum at his Saddleback Church. Both were asked a series of questions which raised issues of concern to social and religious conservatives. Obama failed to make his case in such things as the rights of the unborn and how to deal with evil in the world. McCain, on the other hand acquitted himself well, leading most to conclude that he clearly won the night, and would most likely do well in the upcoming presidential debates.

Then, this past Friday, McCain made a stunning announcement. He had selected Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska to be his running mate.

Palin has an impressive resume which is pleasing to the palette of virtually all conservatives. She is pro life, pro gun, a mother of five whose oldest son is about to be deployed in Iraq. She took on her own party in Alaska and fought corruption. She is a fiscal conservative who has the credentials and the integrity needed to assume the highest office in the land. To those critics who will challenge her lack of gravitas, it can easily be argued that she has more executive experience under her belt than Barack Obama. As a governor, she has had to make more decisions than Obama has as a legislator. Also keep in mind that with the McCain campaign, Palin is at the bottom of the ticket. The one running for president has plenty of knowledge regarding foreign policy, and Palin will be a quick study. With the Obama campaign, the weakness is at the top of the ticket, relying on Joe Biden's acumen on foreign relations to carry the day.

Actually, the only thing Sarah Palin has to remember is that you don't sit around the campfire and roast marshmallows with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while discussing Iran's nuclear program. She will do just fine, thank you.

Biden is also a loose cannon, a plagiarist, bigot and a sexist. Any attempt in the upcoming vice presidential debates to take a shot at Palin will blow up in his face and make him look like a complete idiot.

In recent weeks, the McCain campaign has done everything right. They have offered olive branches to Obama, praising him on becoming the first African-American candidate to get this far in a presidential race, while going after the jugular on his celebrity status and lack of experience. They have presented their candidate as a maverick who is not a Bush clone, while remaining true to his conservative roots. And they have brought us a running mate who has energized the base, and made us believe once again.

We still have a long way to go and a tough fight ahead, but the eighth inning of this game, McCain has hit a home run.

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Barack Obama finally opened the heavens, and like a light shining down from above, let the world know his selection for a vice presidential running mate. And he did it via a text message in the middle of the night. Considering who he chose, I would have waited until everyone was asleep to announce it also.

Obama may not be prepared to answer the phone at 3 am, but apparently he expects his constituents to do so.

And what an interesting choice he made. Joe Biden.

The thinking is that Biden brings solid foreign policy experience to the ticket, making up for Obama's lack of gravitas on international matters.

But Biden is a loser who has failed as a presidential candidate before because like Obama himself, he hasn't got an original thought in his head. Remember the plagiarism scandal which forced him out of the race back in 1987? Biden was accused of stealing a speech from Neil Kinnock, head of the British Labour Party. He supposedly had credited Kinnock in other instances where he used his words, but at least one time Biden did not credit him, and he was caught on tape.

You say, let's give him a pass on that one. Okay.

Except that as a first year student at Syracuse Law School, he plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote.

Biden has repeatedly lied about his academic performance and records.

Let's also not forget that Biden has a tendency to run off at the mouth and that some of his comments are considered racist. Biden said of Obama, "I mean, you've got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

Biden also said "You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent."

Whoa.

Nevertheless, the dog and pony show of Obama bin Biden has hit the road, already slamming John McCain as being out of touch with reality and a George Bush wannabe. Yet for a campaign that has as its message "change", Obama certainly went for a Washington insider who is part of the same old establishment.

McCain, for his part, issued a blistering new ad accusing Obama of passing over Hillary Clinton for the number two spot because she dared to point out his flaws during the primaries.

It's going to be interesting to see how Biden plays out at the convention this week, especially among Hillary supporters who now know that she was disrespected by not even being vetted.

Let the games begin.


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As we get closer to the Democrat and Republican conventions, the rhetoric regarding the John McCain and Barack Obama vice presidential picks looms large.

In recent days, there have been names mentioned that are patently absurd. On the McCain side, Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge have been tossed out there for public consumption. Lieberman, although strong on national defense and a supporter of the war, is very liberal on many domestic issues. And the bitter aftertaste left from the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act has most conservatives who pooh-pooh the global warming junk science appalled at the prospect of putting Lieberman on the ticket.

Conservative Republicans would be outraged at the prospect of a McCain-Lieberman ticket. The only way they might tolerate the idea is if Lieberman was part of a McCain pledge to serve only one term, so that there would not be a possibility that Lieberman would succeed McCain as president. And if Lieberman were to ascend to the presidency, he would have to promise to honor McCain's domestic priorities and appoint constitutional judges. This is highly unlikely.

There has been talk in the McCain circles that he intends to serve only one term, which is why Lieberman's name has been floated.

The other name that has been mentioned this past week is Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania Governor and Homeland Security Secretary. Again, he comes with baggage of his own. He is pro-choice, which would not sit well with most conservatives and the evangelicals whose vote McCain has been courting of late.

Selecting Lieberman or Ridge would indeed cement McCain's reputation as a maverick, but is that really the image that he wants to imprint on the minds of the conservative base at this most crucial time?

Even more of a shocker that emerged this past week was the possibility that Barack Obama would pick John Kerry as his running mate. Are you kidding me?

The idea here is that Kerry brings more name recognition to the ticket than any other name on the list so far. He apparently solves the problem of Obama's lack of foreign policy experience because he is a decorated veteran and a longtime member of the senate foreign relations committee. The thinking is also that America loves a comeback kid. Kerry ran a very sloppy campaign in 2004, and was soundly trounced. Apparently Obama must really believe he is the second coming of Christ because choosing Kerry as his running mate would be the equivalent of raising Lazarus from the dead.

We are getting down to the wire here. The conventions are almost upon us. And the vice presidential lists have turned into a circus which may amuse most Americans, but will not serve them well in making a voting choice come November.

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John McCain's latest campaign ads attacking Barack Obama on his celebrity status and his messianic persona are hitting their marks. Obama has helped to paint himself as the second coming of Jesus Christ...and now those chickens are coming home to roost.

His arrogant, elitist attitude has struck even some of his most ardent supporters as over-the-top. McCain, for his part, has up till now, refrained from going after Obama on his exaggerated sense of importance. Instead, he has preferred to paint Obama as just "not getting it" when it comes to such issues as the Iraq war, negotiations with Iran over their nuclear ambitions and the energy crisis. My sense is that McCain had hoped a series of town hall style debates would reveal the truth about Obama; that he is an empty suit being propped up by the likes of George Soros and the MoveOn.org crowd, who wish to see their agenda pushed forward through the coronation of a king rather than through a democratically held election based on issues and ideas.

Since it would appear, however, that Obama is backing away from the formidable challenge that McCain would present in an open forum style free-for-all, McCain has no choice but to go for the jugular.

 The more effective of the two ads is the one released this past Friday, presenting Obama as "The One". It nails Obama's comparison to the Lord God, even pulling an excerpt from a speech in which he says "a light will shine down from somewhere. It will light shine upon you. You will experience an epiphany and you will say to yourself 'I have to vote for Barack'.

Talk about blasphemy.

In any case, McCain can only hope that these ads resonate with conservatives, moderates, independents and undecideds. The far left have anointed Obama their Savior, and the far right consider Obama the most dangerous candidate to ever run for president. But because the conservatives don't feel McCain meets their criteria for the office, they might just sit out this election, or vote for a third party candidate in protest.

As some have stated, this election is not McCain versus Obama. It's Obama versus himself. And John McCain needs to point out the dangers of electing someone who fancies himself a god.

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John McCain is making it increasingly difficult for conservatives to support him. His lack of passion and enthusiasm for this race has left many dumbfounded. The mainstream media's love for Barack Obama has kept McCain out of the spotlight for the longest time, and this past week with Obama on his "magical mystery" tour, McCain was virtually nowhere to be seen.

One exception was when Obama was giving his "citizen of the world" speech in Germany. McCain made an appearance at a German restaurant...in Ohio. How lame is that?

On those notable occasions when he pops his head out of his hole like Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day, McCain says things that leave many scratching their heads, wondering if he really wants to win this election. Such was the case this past Friday when he said he thinks Barack Obama’s proposed timetable for withdrawal in Iraq is on the right track, even though he spent the last week hammering Obama for his military plans.

What is that?

Obama has been calling for a 16-month troop withdrawal timetable, a view he says has been reinforced by his trip to the middle east. McCain had been hammering away at this idea, calling Obama's plan politically expedient. Of course, the press was paying no attention to McCain until he gave an interview to CNN, in which he appeared to agree with Obama.

“I think it’s a pretty good timetable, as we should — or horizons for withdrawal,” he added, echoing a phrase President Bush used in recent days. “But they have to be based on conditions on the ground.”

Now McCain has maintained that conditions on the ground are a predicate for any reduction of troops. And he has said that Obama's withdrawal plan is based on an arbitrary timetable without regard to conditions in Iraq.

Why then he he suddenly sounding the praises of Obama's plan? Why is he even giving an iota of noteworthiness to an idea which could pose a serious threat to the stability of that region?

I can see the Obama campaign using McCain's words in a television spot. "Even Senator McCain agrees with Barack Obama's plan", the announcer would intone.

If John McCain doesn't want to fight for this election, if he doesn't want to go after Obama tooth and nail and get down and dirty (which is what it is going to take to prevent Obama from ascending to the presidency), then perhaps McCain should throw his hat into the ring for another position.

Obama's VP.

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We are in the eye of the hurricane; past the primaries and caucuses, not quite to the conventions, debates and the general election. This should be a time for both candidates to be pounding home their messages. Barack Obama is getting all the support he needs from the mainstream media. They love him, adore him, worship him. He is the second coming of Christ, or so it is believed.

But what of John McCain?

During the primary season, when McCain had already wrapped up the Republican nomination, and Clinton and Obama were duking it out, several pundits were saying John McCain had time to just sit back, formulate policy and strategy, and get his ideas out before the electorate. But that didn't happen. Everyone was enjoying watching Hillary and Barry fight to the last drop of blood for the hearts and minds(well, maybe not minds...after all, they're liberals) of the democrat base. MCain was virtually ignored, save for the occasional comment taken out of context such as the one about staying in Iraq for a hundred years.

Then, once Hillary fell on her sword so that Barack could carry the democrat torch like an Olympic runner all the way to Denver, the pundits again weighed in saying MCain no longer had the distraction of the bitter rivalry between those two to get in the way of his "straight talk". Still, nobody paid attention. All eyes were focused on the lord and savior Obama, as he traversed the countryside throwing water bottles to swooning multitudes of enthralled disciples.

In recent days, even more things have gone Obama's way. He is going on "The Barack Obama World Tour", travelling with an entourage of roadies which includes all of the major network TV news anchors. Probably vetting them out for a possible press secretary.

He has stated repeatedly that he wants to sit down with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, roast some marshmallows over the fire and discuss Iran' s plans to develop a nuclear weapons program. A couple of months back, in addressing the Israeli Parliament, President Bush took a shot across Obama's bow by referring to those who would consider negotiating with governments like the one in Iran "appeasers."

Now, a U. S. decision to bend their policy and sit down with Iran, seems to have signaled that Obama's ideas are not completely without merit. To be fair, the talks appear to have fizzled, indicating that perhaps the Bush administration is trying to do some "appeasing" of his own; namely with those critics who fear the U.S. is getting ready to launch a military strike against Iranian nuclear targets, or at least support a possible decision by Israel to do so. It's a case of, "See? We tried to handle this diplomatically one more time, but they just wouldn't listen" before the bombing starts. It still, however, is something that, on the surface, helps Obama and hurts McCain.

Couple this with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki saying Obama's 16 month time frame for a withdrawal from Iraq is the right one, and you have a one-two punch which seems to leave John MCain unable to catch a break.

In any event, time is running out (and so is money) for McCain. He better find a way to get on message and soon if he hopes to make this a horse race. Because the way things are going now, MCain is looking more like "the forgotten man".

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The profession of journalism has lost another great. Tony Snow, the affable anchor of Fox News Sunday, host of his own radio talk show and Press Secretary under President Bush, lost his valiant battle with colon cancer on Saturday at the age of 53.

Snow left a legacy of true professionalism and fair play in a business that can often be brutal and harsh when covering the political landscape. To a person, he had the respect and admiration of those he encountered; from the high and powerful in Washington, to the press corps he had to deal with as the spokesperson for the leader of the free world.

Snow's colleagues considered him a dear friend who always had a kind word for everyone he came in contact with. He showed a genuine interest in the lives of people. He cared about them as human beings. When someone Snow knew had a personal crisis going on in their lives, he was there with a kind word and a warm embrace. Even while battling his own cancer, he had words of encouragement for those who may also be fighting the disease.

Tony Snow took on his cancer with a tremendous amount of courage and grace. His deep and abiding faith in God helped him to face his illness with a positive attitude and a spirit that lesser men could not muster.

Above and beyond all else, Tony Snow loved his family very much. Although he harbored no anger at having been dealt a bad hand, one which had taken the life of his mother when he was only 17, he regretted that he would not be there to watch his children grow into adulthood, and to help his wife raise them. Snow's wife and children were everything to him. Their solace is knowing he treasured them and every moment he spent with them.

In just the span of a few weeks, we have lost two of the greatest journalists the profession has ever known. Tim Russert, and now Tony Snow.

Both are irreplaceable. Both will be sorely missed.

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I have a ritual that I observe every 4th of July. It's a movie that I watch, one that brings out the patriotism in me and reminds me what this great nation of ours is all about. The movie is called 1776 and is based on the Broadway musical. It tells the story of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the great men who helped to found our country.

For most people, I daresay, the Independence Day holiday is nothing more than an opportunity to eat, drink and be merry. Hot dogs, beer and apple pie may be in abundance as America takes a break from its travails to relax and enjoy warm weather and sunshine. But what our forefathers did to make it possible for us to celebrate the freedoms we enjoy should never be forgotten.

We have an election coming up in a little less than four months. On what will probably be a cold, gray day in many parts of the country, will we think back to a July day some 232 years ago, when men of courage and valor dared to put at risk their very lives to form a new nation and break away from oppressive government? Or will we choose to elect a president that will return us to that same oppression?

Even though the 4th of July has come and gone, it is not too late to find a copy of 1776 and remind ourselves what the United States is all about. Especially before we make a decision which could forever change what this country stands for.

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Barack Obama is on fire. The presumptive democratic nominee for president has thoroughly defeated Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, the two of them have apparently kissed and made up, she's now on the campaign trail hawking his wares, and all is right with the world as far as the Democratic National Committee is concerned. All polls seem to indicate that Obama is beating his republican rival John McCain. McCain himself has indicated that he is the underdog in this race, and has a lot of work to do between now and November. Obama is the oncoming juggernaut that cannot be stopped.

Hold the phone.

Obama may not even be qualified to run for president. And I don't mean because of his lack of experience in any of the areas that the commander-in-chief and the leader of the free world has to deal with. No, I mean he may not meet constitutional requirements to run for the highest office in the land.

You see my friends, there is a little question of his citizenship. And Obama may be covering up the truth.

For several weeks now, the Internet has been abuzz with reports that Obama may not meet the citizenship requirements as laid out in the United States Constitution. Those requirements state that a candidate must be a natural born citizen. Obama's status has come into question. Supposedly, Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, after it became a state on August 21, 1959. Obama became a citizen at birth under first section of the 14th amendment.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside...."

Case closed. But wait.

Some questions have arisen about whether there is proof that Obama was really born in Hawaii in 1961, as well as the legal status of his mother at that time, and what is exactly on his original birth certificate...which by the way, may not even exist. When bloggers brought Obama's citizenship into question, the Daily Kos published what purported to be the original State of Hawaii birth certificate. The problem is...the document appears to be a fake, and a poorly executed one at that. Examination of this document indicates it has been modified with Photoshop or other image-editing software, rendering it a forgery.

This could prove very troubling for the Obama campaign for a number of different reasons. If a true certificate of live birth cannot be produced to prove that Obama is a natural born citizen rather than a naturalized citizen, one would have to question whether Obama is qualified under the constitution to run for president.

So why wouldn't the Obama campaign just lay all of this suspicion to rest by producing the real documentation rather than this cheap imitation which doesn't cut muster? Could it be that The father listed on the birth certificate is not Barack Hussein Obama? Or the father's race is listed as something other than African, perhaps Muslim or Arab? Or the mother was no longer at that time an American citizen? Or the child's name is not listed as Barack Hussein Obama II?

Jim Geraghty, reporting on the Campaign Spot blog of the National Review, cited the "rumor" that Obama was born not within the United States, but elsewhere, possibly Kenya.

Geraghty stated that "If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen -- because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for '10 years, at least [f]ive of which had to be after the age of 16.'"

He then points out that Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, was 18 when Obama was born "so she wouldn't have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16."

If the rumors that Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen are true, it would stop the campaign in its tracks. So far, no major news organization appears to be following this important story. The blogosphere appears to be the only quadrant of the journalistic universe that is attempting to bring this story to the forefront.

And this most recent development regarding the fake documentation published by the Daily Kos and touted by the Obama campaign as enough evidence to lay these "smear rumors" to rest only adds to the mystery.

Someone had better pick up the ball on this story and run with it.

If Obama is truly eligible under our constitution to run for president, then let's get the proof out there and move on to finding other ways to prevent Obama from being elected. But if this story has legs, let's expose it and stop Obama dead in his tracks.

Now.

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It was with great shock and sadness that we learned of the untimely passing of Tim Russert.

Here was the consummate journalist. Russert may have had leftist political leanings, but they were never evident on the air. Whether he was interrogating a liberal or a conservative, he was tough but fair. And I do not use the term interrogate lightly. All of his guests knew going in that they needed to do their homework before stepping into his arena.

Russert researched his subjects thoroughly. He would delve into statements they had made in the past, and took them to task on recent views which were in contrast to previous remarks. Many a time you could sense the discomfort from a guest being skewered with his own words up on the screen. But everyone from Howard Dean to Karl Rove walked away feeling they had been treated fairly. And as Rove put it this week, if after putting in two hours of preparation for a fifteen minute segment with Russert you walked away feeling you had gone toe to toe with him and come across well, that was quite an accomplishment.

Russert was also a loving husband, father and son. Russert's family meant the world to him. His best selling book about his father, Bid Russ and Me was quite a tribute, and it inspired a second book, Wisdom of Our Fathers, which was based on 60,000 letters he received from people for whom his relationship with his dad had struck a responsive chord.

A devout Catholic, it is said he attended mass almost every day. He lived his faith and his life to the fullest.

He will be sorely missed. And Sunday mornings will never be the same.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic bid for the White House on Saturday and enthusiastically endorsed Barack Obama.

Yeah, right.

She actually suspended her campaign, allowing her to hold on to her delegates and technically remain a candidate. She does so in the hope that something might happen which would change the minds of the superdelegates that have fallen over like dominoes for Obama.

And what, pray tell would make that happen? Another scandal, perhaps. One so devastating to the Obama camp that it would cripple his candidacy. There are rumors of a DVD which may soon surface, purportedly of Michelle Obama filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at the Sheraton Hotel, specifically the women's panel, in which she launched into a rant about the evils of America. She blamed Bill Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups.

Then, she went on a rant against "whitey", talking about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Apparently the enthusiastic crowd ate it all up. She became more passionate and enraged as she went on, completely losing it at one point, saying things that make the mouths drop of everyone who has seen it.

There is no evidence yet that this DVD is anything other than an urban legend. There are those who say the DVD is in the hands of the GOP, which is waiting to use it as an October surprise. Others say journalists, perhaps even one of the major news networks has it, and is keeping it under wraps.

How would anyone have obtained a copy of this DVD? According to those who say it exists, the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago sold this DVD on its website, and possibly offered it free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity's site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.

In any case, Hillary has suspended her campaign and will pretend to be behind Obama all the way, perhaps hoping that the secret meeting they held the night before her suspension will result in her being put on the ticket as his vice-presidential running mate. Doubtful but possible.

All the while she is doing this, she will be biding her time, hoping against all hope that this recorded rant by Michelle Obama or some other scandal will break that will nuke Barack and return the Clinton machine to its former position of prominence.

We know the Clintons and what they are capable of doing. Don't count her out just yet.

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The Teflon candidate, Barack Hussein Obama, has resigned from his church following the latest scandal involving another preacher delivering racially charged comments. In this case, it was a guest speaker, a Roman Catholic priest, no less. Controversies surrounding the church have created persistent distractions to his campaign, so say his staffers.

The problem is, this means nothing. It never has. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Reverend Otis Moss and now Rev. Michael Pfleger, whose videotaped guest sermon at the church Sunday showed him taunting Hillary Clinton and saying she felt “entitled” to the presidency because she’s white would have decimated the campaign of any white candidate had they uttered such inflammatory words.

But because Obama is who he is, and because his supporters are bound and determined to propel him into the White House at any expense, this latest issue involving his church will go nowhere.

Yes, he quit the church as a symbolic gesture to distance himself from this Black Liberation Theology. But if people don't understand by now that spending twenty-plus years in an environment of black racial hatred rubs off on an individual, that being married and having your children baptized there will affect the very nature of your being, then they never will. Nor do they care to understand it.

Guilt by association will not damage the Obama campaign, even though it should cripple it. Barring a scandal involving Obama himself or his wife, in which either of them are seen saying some of the things his preacher friends have been recorded saying, Obama will sail his way though this thing.

It is rumored that the GOP has such a recording of Michelle Obama railing against White America at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

Damn I hope it's true.

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The latest case of foot-in-mouth disease by Hillary Clinton may not be that at all. Her remarks to a South Dakota newspaper regarding why she has decided to remain in the presidential race despite incredible odds may have been a case of wishful thinking.

She cited the year of Robert Kennedy's assassination as an example of a long campaign season and why anything could possibly occur between now and the convention. She has since defended her comments in editorials in Sunday editions of the New York Daily News, saying they were taken out of context. She wrote: “I want to set the record straight: I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year’s primary contest is nothing unusual. Both the executive editor of the newspaper where I made the remarks, and Sen. Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy Jr., put out statements confirming that this was the clear meaning of my remarks."

In her Sunday editorial, Clinton continued, “I realize that any reference to that traumatic moment for our nation can be deeply painful - particularly for members of the Kennedy family, who have been in my heart and prayers over this past week. And I expressed regret right away for any pain I caused. But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election.”

Some political pundits on the Sunday morning talking head shows were outraged, while others were willing to give her a pass. Chris Wallace grilled Terry McAuliffe at length about Clinton's statements, pointing out that although she claimed to have Ted Kennedy's cancer diagnosis on her mind, she had made a similar reference to Bobby Kennedy's assassination in an interview for Time Magazine a few months earlier. McAuliffe could not weasel his way out of that one.

My friends, nothing can be put past the Clintons when it comes to a desired prize they are attempting to win. By planting the seed that Barack Obama's life may be in grave danger, Hillary accomplishes two things. She sends shivers up the spines of some Obama supporters who worry that their beloved messiah may somehow be a target, and it also gives crackpots and racists ideas.

Between the two scenarios, Hillary hopes that Obama's followers and superdelegates will do some re-thinking. In the meantime, if she can get Florida and Michigan delegates seated, she may just be able to pull off an upset. If not, she could still vie for the number two spot.

The problem is...Hillary is now damaged goods to the point where backroom attempts by her husband to get her on the ticket as Obama's running mate should she fail to secure the nomination may have been quashed. And her career as a senator may also be in jeopardy.

What Clinton said in her interview speaks to the very heart and soul of what she and her husband are: devious and outright evil.

Michael Goodwin, in an op ed piece in the New York Daily News hit the nail on the head when he wrote "We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?"

Exactly.

All of the charges of racism leveled in this campaign pale in comparison to what Hillary's statements prove the Clintons really are.

Opportunists.

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When President Bush addressed the Israeli Knesset last week, he hit the nail directly on the head with his remarks about some who would seek to appease terrorists. Bush said: "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

"We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is _ the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

The Democrats went ballistic, accusing Bush of impugning Obama, who called Bush's remarks a false political attack. Everyone from Nancy Pelosi to John Kerry jumped all over the president, saying this kind of talk was beneath the dignity of the Commander-in-Chief, and decrying Bush's own foreign policy.

The Oval Office went on the defensive, claiming that Bush's comments were directed at Jimmy Carter, not Barack Obama. The fact of the matter is that Bush's statements were dead on, and they were directed not only at Obama, but to Democrats like Pelosi, Kerry and others who would attempt to honor our enemies around the world; those that would threaten to destroy us.

What Bush should have said in response to the Democrats' attacks is "If the shoe fits, wear it!"

Let's face it. What does he have to lose? He's in the final stretch of a lame duck presidency, and every word he uttered was the truth. And I would take it one step further. Obama is not attempting to appease the terrorists. Obama, by willing to unconditionally sit down with leaders such as Ahmadinejad, prove that Obama himself is the biggest terrorist threat right now to the safety and security of our nation.

A vote for Obama this November, will be a vote for Sharia law.

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If I had any doubts about whether to vote for John McCain in this year's presidential election, those doubts were laid to rest this past week when McCain sat down for an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. McCain solidified for me the fact that he is not a true conservative and not worthy of my support.

McCain proved that on some of the most crucial issues, he will let down a base of constituents that are looking for answers.

O'Reilly addressed the question of rising gasoline prices. Anyone with a brain in their head knows that only two things will help this nation break free of its dependence on foreign oil; drilling domestically while developing alternative fuel sources. But McCain is an environmentalist wacko who is opposed to tapping the supply of oil in this country because he wants to keep the land pristine. Utter nonsense.

On the use of waterboarding suspected terrorists for the purpose of gaining vital knowledge which would help prevent an attack on our soil, McCain is also opposed. Waterboarding has been successful in the past. It should not be discarded as a valuable tool in the war on radical Islam. As a matter of fact, other forms of torture should also be used. After all, these maggots are not part of an army. They are enemy combatants and are not covered by the Geneva convention.

The issue of illegal immigration was also covered in the interview, and once again McCain proved he's a one-worlder like George W. Bush who feels we should give amnesty to those who have broken the law to get into this country.

These things I just cannot abide.

We need a president who will work to round up the approximately 30 million illegals living here and ship their asses out. We need a president who will use whatever methods it takes to protect this nation from another terrorist attack, and we need a president who will break us free from the stronghold of OPEC by drilling in ANWR, North Dakota, and wherever else there is oil domestically.

John McCain is not that candidate, and I will not vote for him in November.

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