The most recent Gallup tracking has Obama up by 9 points over McCain (49% to 40%).
Tell that to “President” Kerry

JayHaw Phrenzie on July 27, 2008 at 7:13 PM

Yep

Poll samples are usually a thousand or less. The sample selection is easily skewed to fit the need

The Euro trip was placed in the dead heart of summer when Americans are least likely to pay attention to the nightly news. It cost a lot of money so that was not a mistake.

I am supposing the handlers did not want a lot of Americans to watch the performance or hear any criticisms of the performance. Later on, crowd photos and a couple sound bites will be rolled out as if America was riding the same wave

He had to spit it out before the convention to film the cheering crowd for the convention backdrops

Meanwhile it was a lead balloon around my neighborhood. Unspoken but obvious in these parts is the resistance to vote for a black radical cagey about his muslim past.

The hard core Democratic Club types have no problem swallowing that image, but it goes down like a dose of Epsom salts with so many who know one thing for sure:

You will be slapped down if you admit publically you do not want to embrace a black radical activists with obscure muslim origins so you save up the resentment for the polling booth

O the sweet sounds of summer

What should really creep people out about this election is how many members (look at the percentages) of the news media are in the tank for and say they will vote for Obama. The news media, well in the tank for this guy, will crash and burn if Obama doesn’t win…Travis1

It DOES “creep (me) out,” no doubt about it: exceptionally creepy. It’s like the media has finally admitted they’re all on one big tanker together, not like the Love Boat, more like the Stinker Boat.

The guy can’t visit U.S. military in the hospital overseas yet he can get into a hospital lickitysplit back in the U.S.A. for “small xrays” (whattheheck).

Really, really either stupid or just plain old callous. Probably both.

Save the Belugas! Don’t vote for Obama!

Obama’s body is so frail that his hip is requiring an orthopedic surgeon’s attention since returning home with jet lag. Der Spiegel got it wrong claiming Obama’s youthful basketball player’s brisk walk up to the speech podium proved his good health compared to his opponent’s. So much for chain smoking and all that stroking from the MSM; Obama has a weak constitution. He’s just a jaundiced weenie of a bean pole with a pea brain, weak hips and rotten lungs.

I heard over the radio that he had hurt his hip while playing basketball while in Europe. No time to visit those wounded for our country in Landstuhl, but he wounds himself practicing for that on-camera jumpshot broadcast around the world!

Let him limp a little–maybe he’ll feel just a little of what the wounded soldiers feel…

So is Aleph for real, or just another ploy of the ruse for sympathy?

MS-NBC promises to let us know how the corn on the cob ate for lunch progresses through Obama’s digestive system.

Live, from Obama’s ass, it’s MS-NBC.

Skeptical of the spectacle
I channel surf awhile
And there on every evening news
A medicated smile

The herd has heard the master’s call
And in a chorus grand
Proclaims the messianic birth
Across the barren land

And when his full ascendancy
Has taken ev’ry niche
His new gestapo fills the door
And freedoms for the rich

Then we will have full circle come
Yet I with mounful dread
Fear the knock upon my door
Where freedom’s fallen dead

Beto Ochoa on July 27, 2008 at 3:15 PM

Excellent! And a little scary too.

Obama’s big economic summit is scary.

No doubt.

But Bush’s bail-out is feeding the housing gobblers and won’t be any working American’s piece of cake or apple pie, either.

Progressives suck.

You can tell he’s swell…he’s Marx Mattel. Pull string and hear prefab message: “With 20/20 hindsight, I wouldn’t change a thing”.

Message to the media: Next time, don’t make it so obvious.

Seriously! Get a room for cryin out loud!!!

KW64 on July 27, 2008 at 10:06 PM

The Fairness Doctrine, if revived, would only apply to broadcast airwaves, which the FCC holds in the public trust. Except for AM talk radio, the liberal media control most of the broadcast air. Fox News is a cable station.

The media aren’t backing Obama so they can get a fairness doctrine to shut out Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. They are backing him because they want a socialist president.

I saw something on a business site yesterday that said that Obama was having some big do-dah meeting this week on the economy (It may even be for Monday) with, among others Volker and Buffet.

MB4 on July 27, 2008 at 6:33 PM

Obama’s big economic summit is scary. He’s going to propose raising taxes, imposing “windfall” taxes on oil companies, and rolling back free trade in order to “boost” the economy. His economic advisers are kind of eh, in my opinion. (That said, Warren Buffett is credible, although he, like Bill Gates, fall into that category of people who have amassed so much wealth they literally can’t spend it all, and who take the position that “it’s ok to raise taxes on the rich because ah hell, we have enough money as it is.” While that’s true for guys like Buffett and Gates, it’s not so for smaller businesses and the growth economy. It’s also probably not true for their respective companies.)

In other news, since I thought that I had effectively killed this thread by having a conversation with me, myself, and I… oh, well…

The incomparable VDH nails the hypcorisy of the Obama Berlin speech. It is a beautiful thing to read a keen mind eviscerate the shallowness of a Rock Star.

I heard that Homeland Security had made E-Verify mandatory. I wonder how they can just blow it off?