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Here’s how Sarah Palin is described by Fox (read the whole story at link)…

Sarah Palin, the first female governor of Alaska and a potential vice presidential pick for John McCain, is seen as a rising star within the Republican Party.

She became the youngest person to assume the top office of the 49th State in 2006. Her anti-abortion stance is certain to appeal to evangelicals, while her views on the threats of climate change mirror those of Senator McCain.

“Palin is becoming a star in the conservative movement, a fiscal conservative in a state that is looking like a boondoggle for pork barrel spending,” Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway has said. “She’s young, vibrant, fresh and now, and a new mother of five. She should be in the top tier. If the Republican Party wants to wrestle itself free from the perception that it is royalist and not open to putting new talent on the bench, this would be the real opportunity.”

We haven’t read her bio yet (Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment Upside Down by Kaylene Johnson) but we did find a good review at Beldar Blog. Check it out!

Congrats to Sarah on having been selected and to John McCain for making a great outside-the-box decision!

Click the pic to read reviews on Amazon…

And what an incredible speech it was!

When we find a good embed, we will put it here. In the meantime, click here for video at Breitbart

If Obama had a powerful record of achievement, one would consider his overweening demeanor to have possibly been earned. But Obama’s confidence exists without visible means of support. He simply is…confident, that is.

His pronouncement to the question “do you ever have doubts” (about foreign policy in this case) was a resounding “never”!

Never?!?

This brings to mind something C.S. Lewis about another supremely confident person. Obama is either a liar, a lunatic…or what?

Carrie Budoff Brown traces this theme of boundless confidence back to his childhood in today’s Politico. There are more than a few somewhat scary nuggets in her piece. Read it all at the link, but here’s a snippet…

For now, though, hours away from Obama’s acceptance speech before an expected 80,000 people at Invesco Field, his story is a remarkable testament to the power of self-confidence.

These days, of course, his self-confidence is bolstered by many validators.

At a San Francisco fundraiser earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Obama “a leader that God has blesses us with at this time.”

This is a theme echoed by supporters from the outset, despite Obama saying on the trail that the campaign isn’t about him. Michelle Obama leads the way. The word she invokes in speeches about her husband is “special,” as in last summer in Iowa, when she rhapsodized that there was “something very special about this man.”

He understood earlier than most Democrats that the Iraq war was a mistake, she said, “because he’s special.”

By the way, when Iraq was invaded back in 2003, Obama was an Illinois State Senator with no access to national intelligence assessments. He knew it was a mistake because “he’s special”?

“Special” indeed!

Come on Barry…what gives? If you can’t give your own brother a little help, how are you going to save the world?!?

Nancy Pfotenhauer from the McCain Campaign does an incredible job of letting the air out of the Obama/Biden balloon in an interview with Wolf Blitzer at CNN. I tried to embed the video, but failed…so, unfortunately, you’ll have to check it out at blogsforjohnmccain.com

“Words” may matter to Obama because he’s a Harvard-trained lawyer who can use them to find a “nuanced” way out of sticky situations, but Putin has demonstrated powerfully by his rape of Georgia that “words” only matter where there is rule of law.

Obama will go to Putin’s knife fight armed with a book of poetry. If he becomes our champion, we deserve what we get.

Ralph Peters covers this matter nicely in THE PEACE-AT-ANY-PRICE PERIL (NYPost).

There was a time when the MSM made sure that Obama avoided any unpleasant glare due to the facts. But that was then…and this is now.

Apparently, the MSM is smarting for their non-coverage of the now famously guilty John Edwards and mistress–and have now decided to actually shed some light on Obama.

The NY Times does just that in their article, Obama’s 2003 Stand on Abortion Draws New Criticism in 2008. Here’s a brief excerpt…

Mr. Obama’s critics to accuse him of playing fast and loose with the truth when he says he “would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported” if it had been offered at the state level.

“I don’t know whether he is lying or whether he forgot, but with his words, he is condemning himself, “ said Jill Stanek, a nurse in the Chicago area who was a main proponent of the federal measure and writes an anti-abortion blog. “He voted one way and then covered it up, and he has to explain that, not just to me, but to the American people.”

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We had a post last week, Obama–Abortion Radical?, that presented a video embed and some powerful information from Jill Stanek’s website that clarifies this entire issue beyond that point from which Obama’s obfuscation and nuance can rescue him.

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Available here also (in case embed becomes disabled)…

http://sportvideo.zideo.nl/

HT to Boss