Day: April 25, 2008

Hey John McCain, God Called. He Wants His Reputation Back

Trish

Looks like John McCain has only been born once. Rut-roh.

Bloomberg, via BeliefNet

John McCain’s pastor ends his sermons with an altar call, beckoning any stirred souls to the front of his 3,500-seat “worship center” to publicly dedicate their lives to Jesus Christ. In McCain’s 15 years of attending Dan Yeary’s North Phoenix Baptist Church, the pastor says, the Arizona senator has never made that walk.

“All I can tell you is that John and I have had some interesting conversations” about faith, said Yeary, a 69-year- old Texan. “And we’ll have more.”

Anti-American: Limbaugh Calls for Rioting at Democratic Convention

Jon Ponder

Has Rush Limbaugh had a drug relapse? That’s the only plausible explanation — other than blind contempt for the rule of law — for his call on Wednesday for rioting at the Democratic Convention in Denver this summer:
“Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats.”
— Rush Limbaugh

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments that appear to call for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility to make sure it happens.

“Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats,” Limbaugh said during Wednesday’s radio broadcast. He then went on to say that’s the best thing that could happen to the country…

Several callers called in to the radio show to denounce Limbaugh’s comments, when he later stated, “I am not inspiring or inciting riots, I am dreaming of riots in Denver.”

Limbaugh said with massive riots in Denver, which he called part of “Operation Chaos,” the people on the far left would look bad.

“There won’t be riots at our convention,” Limbaugh said of the Republican National Convention. “We don’t riot. We don’t burn our cars. We don’t burn down our houses. We don’t kill our children. We don’t do half the things the American left does.”

Rightwingers certainly rioted in Miami during the 2000 recount, of course. And if by “killing children” Limbaugh was referring to abortions, there is no doubt that Republican women have had abortions when they felt they needed them. And the idea that all arsonists who burn down their own homes are Democrats is clearly just the opoids talking.

Last Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared that “the left wing of the Democratic Party, frankly, kind of admires American terrorists.” He and Limbaugh ignore the fact that it is rightwing terrorists like American terrorists Timothy McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the Klu Klux Klan, abortion clinic bombers and the rest, who have wreaked the most havoc on the country.

Limbaugh’s comments are potentially dangerous because no one takes him — except for the very dimwitted “Dittoheads” who might well heed his call and show up in Denver at the end of August ready to cause violence.

Cheney to Headline McCain Fundraiser in Raleigh on Monday

Jon Ponder

It never ceases to amaze that John McCain has no worries about being sullied by association with the Bush-Cheney regime:

Dick Cheney will enter the heart of the 2008 fray Monday with a fundraiser for the joint McCain-RNC Victory fund, according to an aide to the vice president.

Cheney is set to headline a closed-press reception in a private home in Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday night.

The money will go to the North Carolina Victory fund, which is the voter contact account set up to help candidates from McCain on down the ticket.

Cheney’s flacks have made it clear that none of the money he raises will benefit the N.C. Republican Party, which is set to air Swiftboat-style ads linking Barack Obama and two Democratic candidates for governor, Bev Perdue and Richard Moore, to the controversial, out-of-context statements of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor.

Pennsylvania Didn’t Change Anything

Trish

Clinton’s 10-delegate net* wasn’t the only the underwhelming result of the Pennsylvania primary. One poll shows she’s not getting much of a boost in popularity either. Rasmussen Daily Tracking for today:

Rasmussen: “So far, there is absolutely no indication that Clinton’s victory in Pennsylvania has changed the overall dynamic of the race”

In the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, it’s Obama 49 percent, Clinton 42 percent. Those numbers are unchanged from the night before and, so far, there is absolutely no indication that Clinton’s victory in Pennsylvania has changed the overall dynamic of the race. These results are based upon a four-day rolling average and include two full nights of polling following the Pennsylvania Primary.

These results and other data suggest that there is no “momentum” in this Primary Season. Typically, momentum results as voters learn more about a candidate who is doing well. This cycle, Hillary Clinton began the campaign as one of the best known people in the world. Democrats uneasy with her quickly settled on Obama as the chief challenger who has now become the frontrunner.

As the candidates have become known, each has developed a solid core of supportive constituencies. For Obama, these included African-Americans, younger voters, more liberal Democrats, and upper-income voters. For Clinton, strength comes from White Women, older voters, more moderate Democrats, and lower-to-middle income workers.

Six weeks of campaigning in Pennsylvania, and still uncounted millions of dollars in campaign spending, was unable to significantly move any of the demographic support groups from one candidate to the other.

HRC’s unfavorables aren’t dropping either.

Among all voters nationwide, McCain is viewed favorably by 52 percent and unfavorably by 46 percent. Obama’s ratings are 50 percent favorable and 48 percent unfavorable. For Clinton, the reviews are 46 percent favorable, 53 percent unfavorable. Just 41 percent of Clinton supporters have a favorable opinion of Obama while 48 percent of Obama supporters have a favorable opinion of Clinton.


* Clinton won a total of 83 delegates from Pennsylvania while Obama won 73.

Poll: Americans Rate Dem Prez Campaign a Too

Buck Banks

thumb-down-icon.jpgAs in too long, too negative and too dull. That’s the finding of a new Pew Center poll that measured voters’ attitudes toward the presidential race compared with a survey Pew performed in February. Looks like the campaign is tanking fast:

Half of those surveyed say the campaign has become too negative, up from 28 percent who said so in mid-February. The increase has been especially rapid among Democrats — 50 percent say it’s too negative, while only 19 percent thought so in February.

The contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned especially heated in the weeks before Tuesday’s primary in Pennsylvania, which Clinton won. She criticized Obama for saying small-town residents who are bitter about their economic hardships cling to guns and religion, while Obama accused her of being too close to special interests.

Even so, Democrats have been turning out in record numbers to vote in the primaries.

Despite that, 65 percent said the campaign has gone on too long, up from 57 percent in February.

Thirty-five percent think it is too dull, compared to 25 percent two months ago. About four in 10 Republicans find the campaign boring, compared to a quarter of Democrats.