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Monday, November 4, 2008

Beware of the MSM predictions of it being a land slide!
• Frank Pastore (10/30/08) The Christian Case Against Barack Obama.
400-408(3:48) BO 9-1 Coal, Obama talks about coal.
(:11) BO 9-1a Coal, Obama talks about bankrupting the coal industry.
"If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted," Barack Obama said to the San Francisco Chronicle in January.
The campaign for Republican presidential candidate John McCain jumped on those comments today and is already sending out taped phone messages to voters in Ohio.
Campaigning in Marietta today, McCain's running mate Sarah Palin mentioned the Obama comments.
"He said that, sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry, and he's comfortable letting that happen. And you got to listen to the tape," Sarah Palin said.
413-423Ron Prentice, chairman of protectmarriage.com and the Yes on 8 campaign.
(:59) JB BO Gay Marriage Flip Flop Montage. Both Biden and Obama said they "believed marriage was between a man and a woman," Biden in his debate with Palin and Obama at Saddleback. Now, with an audience change, come their true colors, Biden says he and Obama would vote No on Prop. 8.
428-437 – • Frank Pastore (10/30/08) The Christian Case Against Barack Obama.
• Boston (10/30/08) As abortion foes grow more intense, a new view surfaces. From Tony Perkins,
Frustrated by their inability to attract pro-life voters to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign with their "new approach" to abortion, left-leaning "evangelicals" like Rich Cizik and Jim Wallis are trying to change the facts and rewrite history. In today's Boston Globe, the Sojourners president says, "The banning-abortion position... is not a realistic one in this country. It's never going to happen... Maybe abortion reduction could result in a more pro-life outcome than taking...symbolic stances that are never going to be achieved in the U.S." 

Sojourners and its allies held a conference call this afternoon where they said, "Too many elections have been decided on the issue of abortion while the abortion rate has remained largely unchanged." Instead, they're offering an "alternative pro-life platform with common ground solutions." However, statistics from Planned Parenthood's own research center, the Guttmacher Institute, show that abortion rates have dropped significantly. In 1981, the abortion rate was 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women. That rate dropped to 19.4 per 1,000 by 2005. How did this happen? First, through a holistic pro-life approach that calls for helping tens of thousands of women each year through pregnancy care centers and public policy that respects human life. 

No one refutes these absurd claims by the "life is not the issue" crowd better than Dr. Michael New. His latest paper, "Pro-Life Politicians Have Made a Difference, Pro-Life Laws Work," does an excellent job of deconstructing Wallis's argument that the pro-life movement has been ineffective. In the past 35 years, Dr. New demonstrates that we have made significant progress. Buying into this "alternative pro-life platform" will lead to subsidizing abortion, which Obama vows to do with your taxpayer dollars. There is no way that can possibly reduce the abortion rate. Instead, Americans will get what they pay for-and that is the death of even more innocent, unborn children.
443-452The latest battleground poll from Fox News is out Monday afternoon for the key battleground states and it shows McCain is leading in Florida and North Carolina, tied in Ohio and Missouri and behind just a little in Colorado and Virginia. This is so close — McCain can win!
• Ken Blackwell (11/3/08) Obamanomics.
458-508Ken Timmerman, (kentimmerman.com), contributing editor at Newsmax.com and author of Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender.
• Kenneth R. Timmerman (11/1/08) Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says.
512-523Ken Timmerman
• Rowan Scarborough (10/30/08) FCC Probe Signals Democratic Attack Machine.
"We are seeing the dawn of a new era of the current Democratic leadership trying to muzzle free speech and the First Amendment," retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, a Fox News analyst, told HUMAN EVENTS. "It may be the most invasive intrusion that we have seen in our history. There will be more of these tactics to follow."
Said retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, one of Fox's first defense analysts, "It's an affront to freedom of speech. As retired officers, we're private citizens and can say anything we want under the First Amendment. The whole thing was to explain to the American people what was going on in war and analyzing it."
Democrats have more in store to try to muzzle conservatives. They talk of reactivating the so-called Fairness Doctrine in which federal government bureaucrats monitor radio and TV programs and rule on their fairness. Conservatives say the real goal is to kill right-leaning talk radio.
528-538(1:19) JM8-1 SNL 11/1, McCain joins Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on QVC.
(2:00) JM9-2 SNL 11/2, Palin (as Fey) goes "rogue" and tries to sell "Palin 2012" tee-shirts to the QVC.
(1:07) Ben Shapiro, "Hey Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?"
544-554(3:20) MH Dreyfus (11/1/08), Huckabee talks with Richard Dreyfus about citizenship (video).
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(2:30) MH Maher 1: Huckabee hosts Bill Maher who says religion is a "neurological disorder" (video).
(2:55) MH Maher 2: Huckabee tells Maher doubt is actually welcomed by people with real faith.
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• Conrad Black (11/1/08) Ignorance and upheaval: Shocked by an ill-understood financial crisis, panicky American voters are poised to elect a staunch leftist on Tuesday to serve as their 44th president.
Kurtz concludes, "Obama is clever and pragmatic, it's true. But his pragmatism is deployed on behalf of radical goals. Obama's heart is, and will remain, with the Far Left. Yet he will surely be cautious about grasping for more, at any given moment, than the political traffic will bear. That should not be mistaken for genuine moderation. It will merely be the beginning stages of a habitually incremental radicalism. In his heart and soul, Barack Obama was and remains a radical-stealthy, organizationally sophisticated, and — when necessary — tactically ruthless. The real Obama — the man beyond the feel-good symbol — is no mystery. He's there for anyone willing to look. Sad to say, few are."
There is for instance, in the words of Minnesota's Gov. Tim Pawlenty, "the runaway train." The size and dimension of the likely Democratic victory seem clear. A Democratic House with a bigger, more fervent Democratic majority; a Democratic Senate with the same, and possibly with a filibuster-breaking 60 seats; a new and popular Democratic president, elected by a few points or more; a Democratic base whose anger and hunger have built for eight years; Democratic activists and operatives hungry for business and action. What will this mix produce? A runaway train with no one to put on the brakes, to claim a mandate for slowing, no one to cry "Crossing ahead"? Democrats in Congress will move for innovation when much of the country hopes only for stability. Who will tell Congress of that rest of the nation? Mr. Obama will be overwhelmed trying to placate the innovators.
America enjoyed divided government most successfully recently from 1994 to 2000, with Bill Clinton in the White House and Newt Gingrich in effect running Congress. It wasn't so bad. In fact, it yielded a great deal, including sweeping reform of the welfare system, and balanced budgets.
Whoever is elected Tuesday, his freedom in office will be limited. Mr. Obama is out of money and Mr. McCain is out of army, so what might be assumed to be the worst impulses of each -- big spender, big scrapper -- will be circumscribed by reality. In Mr. Obama's case, energy will likely be diverted to other issues. He will raise taxes, of course, but he may also feel forced to bow to a clamorous base with the nonspending items they favor: the rewriting of union law to force greater unionization of smaller shops, for instance, and a return to a "fairness doctrine" that would limit free speech on the air.
And there is this. The past few months as the campaign unfolded, I listened for Mr. Obama to speak thoughtfully about the life issues, including abortion. Our last Democratic president knew what that issue was, and knew by nature how to speak of it. Bill Clinton famously said, over and over, that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare." The "rare" mattered. It set a tone, as presidents do, and made an important concession: You only want a medical practice to be rare when it isn't good. For Mr. Obama, whose mind tends, as intellectuals' minds do, toward the abstract, it all seems so . . . abstract. And cold. And rather suggestive of radical departures. "That's above my pay grade." Friend, that is your pay grade, that's where the presidency lives, in issues like that.
But let's be frank. Something new is happening in America. It is the imminent arrival of a new liberal moment. History happens, it makes its turns, you hold on for dear life. Life moves.
A fitting end for a harem-scarem, rock-'em-sock-'em shakeup of a year -- one of tumbling inevitabilities, torn coalitions, striking new personalities.
Eras end, and begin. "God is in charge of history." And so my beautiful election ends.


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