Investor’s Business Daily had a great editorial:

“Should Congress Be ‘Perp-Walked’?”

They say,

“A federal grand jury in New York is probing the accounting shenanigans at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s about time, and we hope it doesn’t end there. Remember the early 2000s, when companies such as WorldCom, Enron, Tyco and Xerox suddenly and spectacularly were revealed to have been cooking their books? Remember the glee expressed by Washington politicians, especially Democrats, as they watched CEOs and their underlings get perp-walked out of their buildings and into federal custody? Enron became the poster child for corporate misdeeds. In the accounting crisis of 2002, CEO Ken Lay was one of the most loathed human beings on Earth. And no, that’s not an exaggeration.

“Here was California Attorney General William Lockyer, one of many Democrats on the national scene who gloated at the downfall of the Enron chief and others: ‘I would love to personally escort Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, ‘Hi, my name is Spike, honey.’ Lockyer wasn’t the only one swept up in a spiteful prosecutorial frenzy. Sure, some of the prosecutions were deserved. But some were excessive, part of a corporate witch hunt. As noted in a 2003 study by Kathleen Brickey, a Washington University law professor, the Justice Department brought 50 major fraud prosecutions from March 2002 to August 2003. An estimated 90 corporate officers were involved. That’s a lot of prosecutions. …

“Democrats wasted no time calling this a ‘GOP’ scandal, tarring any Republican official with charges of corruption for taking so much as a dollar from any of the companies. Never mind that Democrats were also prominent on the political gift lists. Fanning the fire were news media highlighting Republican ties to scandal-plagued firms while all but ignoring Democrat links. Here’s how James B. Lockhart III, head of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, described the two companies back in 2006, before the meltdown occurred…” Fannie and Freddie, “We mention all this because we now have an opportunity, thanks to the New York grand jury, to probe perhaps the greatest financial crime ever.”

Do you understand that Fannie and Freddie “dwarfs Enron,” and WorldCom, “in size and scope,” and that’s why we’re fit to be tied here!

The Democrats in Congress can happily frog march Ken Lay all the way to jail and everybody else that they wanted to tar and feather because they thought Lay was only contributing to Republicans. He contributed large amounts to Bill Clinton, too.

But when it comes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a government-sponsored enterprise, ladies and gentlemen, “Why, oh, no, no, no! We’re not going to investigate here. We’re not going to prosecute.”

The differences here are stark, and by treating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as victims, we are only going to perpetuate all of this, unless this is accountability. James Lockhart described the two companies — c before the meltdown occurred — this way:

“‘The result of (Fannie’s and Freddie’s) rapid growth unconstrained by market forces and a weak regulator was years of mismanagement, flagrant earnings manipulation, and systems-and-controls problems.

“Managements of both companies were forced out, earnings were misstated by an estimated $16 billion, fines exceeding one-half billion dollars were imposed, and remedial costs will exceed $2 billion.’ Yet Congress did nothing. Fannie and Freddie continued to enjoy a virtual monopoly of the housing finance market, holding nearly half the nation’s $12 trillion in mortgage assets in 2007.”

Fannie and Freddie are nothing more than Democrat Party piggy banks. They are nothing more than instruments and seeing to it that the Democrats can buy vote after vote after vote from people they can put into houses who cannot pay for them, who are then going to be protected and will be allowed to stay in these houses, what with this new bill — the bailout, the rescue, whatever you want to call it.

“And what happened to Fannie’s and Freddie’s top executives, almost all with deep ties to the Democratic Party? Did they get perp-walked to prison like WorldCom’s Bernie Ebbers, Tyco’s Dennis Koslowski, Adelphia’s John Rigas, ImClone’s Sam Waksal, or,” Ken Lay? Nope. As you know by now, “Jim Johnson, former Walter Mondale aide, became head of Barack Obama’s vice presidential search committee. Franklin Raines, who headed Fannie from 1998 to 2004, the years of its worst excesses, pocketed nearly $100 million in pay and bonuses from Fannie. He, too, became an adviser to Obama. Other Fannie-Freddie alumni did equally well. Rep. Rahm Emanuel has been front and center in crafting a new rescue bill.

“Ex-Clinton Justice official Jamie Gorelick…” her name is everywhere! I don’t care where you find a Democrat scandal and something that has blown up, be it intelligence prior to 9/11 or be it Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, Jamie Gorelick is everywhere! Who does she have pictures of with a goat? “…Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd repeatedly thwarted reforms. Yet today they stand front-and-center as Democrats try to ‘fix’ a problem they created.”

That’s why blame’s important, Obama. That’s why these things cannot be fixed without attaching blame! Of course you want to shove the blame down the road because you know once this gets “fixed,” quote, unquote, everybody will breathe a sigh of relief and forget about the blame.

We won’t.

“There’s lots of evidence that the [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] had become little more than taxpayer-guaranteed front companies for Democrats, who used them to reward supporters with cheap loans and to provide jobs for out-of-work politicians.”

The election’s over, Chuck Todd said so today on MSNBC. All the polling data, a tipping point’s been reached, folks, it’s all headed in the direction of Obama. The only good sign for McCain is that the debate is tonight with Palin, but Palin is so incompetent and unqualified, that’s a loser. Gwen Ifill is going to be totally fair, we got nothing to worry about here. It’s over.

That’s what they want you to believe. Don’t buy it. That brings me to the vice presidential debate tonight. You’re being told by the media propagandists that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice president. You’re being told she’s dumb. You’re being told she’s a religious extremist, that she’s dangerous.

These attacks on Governor Palin are attacks on you and attacks on me.

They are attacking every single person outside the Beltway, outside the New York-Washington axis, outside their social circle of elitist friends that represents what’s great about this country.

Sarah Palin is a real story of accomplishment. She is a real fresh face, a fresh voice in this election. She is genuinely American. Her story can be vouched for by hundreds.

Obama’s story must be hidden. Obama’s story must be rewritten. Obama has no one vouching for his story.

She, Sarah Palin, she is the real citizen activist. She got involved in government at the local level, first at a PTA, ’cause the school was screwing up; then the city council; then as mayor, and she did it all on her own. She took on several well-heeled and well-known politicians to win the Republican primary and then the general election to become governor. She took on corruption in her own party. She is not only as far from the Washington cesspool as anybody can get, but she doesn’t think like a Big-Government Washington politician. And this is what distinguishes her so profoundly from Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

She thinks like we do, you and I. She reacts like we do. She talks like we do. And by that I mean she brings a citizen’s perspective to issues. Not the perspective of people who have been in government their entire lives or who have been around those who advocate government control of private property all their lives.

This is precisely why Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, and most other anchors, so-called reporters, are repulsed by her. They are repulsed by her just as they are repulsed by you and your averageness.

I hear ‘em downplay her record as governor. Well, I understand she didn’t get some massive spending bill passed through Congress, which the Democrats love. I understand she didn’t promote the appointment of left-wing activist judges to the federal bench like Biden. I understand she wasn’t wrong on every major foreign policy issue as Biden has been. And I understand that Sarah Palin did not block drilling for more oil offshore or anywhere else. No wonder they hate her. She is a one-woman wrecking crew of their agenda.

I’ll say this, though, in her 20 months as governor, she negotiated a deal for a new pipeline in Alaska involving Canada and the oil companies that will do more to provide and increase supply of natural gas to the people of this country than anything Barack Obama or Joe Biden have ever done or will ever do.

In other words, in that one act alone she has done more than Obama or Biden have ever done for this country. So naturally it’s ignored and downplayed. These debates have become setups.

Just listen to how the media talk about them in the lead-up. The tie goes to Obama last week, and why is that? Well, because they say so?

I thought Obama was the chosen one based largely on his ability to have people eating out of his hand, his great persuasive skills, his great oratory skills; and yet, it’s a tie? It’s a tie and it goes to Obama? He was beaten soundly by that 72-year-old guy we were previously led to believe can’t hold his own against Obama. Now it’s the vice presidential debate.

Today on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos appeared with co-host Robin Roberts, who asked Stephanopoulos, “Let’s move ahead to tonight’s great debate. New poll numbers out there, George, what do they tell you?”

STEPHANOPOULOS:

That Sarah Palin is becoming more and more of a drag on Senator John McCain as she heads into this debate tonight. We asked voters, uh, “Do you think she has the experience it takes to serve as president?” and there’s been a big shift. Look back on September 7th, it was a close call: 47% said yes; 45% said no. Now today — on September 29th — 60% of voters say that she does not have the experience it takes to serve as president. That’s a big jump, and that is starting to hurt John McCain. A third of voters, just about a third of voters now also in our ABC News poll, say they are less likely to vote for McCain because of Sarah Palin.

This dovetails right along with Chuck Todd earlier today saying (summarized): “Hey, the race is over. We’ve reached the tipping point. This is it. The polls are all favoring Obama. Palin’s become a big drag. It’s over. It’s fini. There’s only one chance that McCain has, the debate tonight with Palin,” and, of course, Palin has become a “drag on the ticket,” so there’s no hope for the McCain campaign.

One thing the AP poll that’s similar to this one and nobody is talking about: only 56% think that the Democrat PRESIDENTIAL nominee is ready to be president. That’s bigger news than what people think of a vice presidential nominee, and that’s going to change after tonight anyway. But of course notice that nobody, nooooobody out there is talking about what Biden has to do tonight.

Nobody is talking about what expectations we have of Biden. Nobody is talking about what a drag on the ticket Biden might be. Biden’s big challenge tonight is, is to avoid being himself.

It’s much easier to be who you are than it is to fake it and try to not be who you are, and Biden’s got to do the latter. Biden has got to avoid being himself. We’ll see.

This woman is gutsy. She is courageous. She is fearless. She has been here before in debates. We’ll just see all of this Media conventional wisdom. We’re told that Governor Palin has an impossible hurdle to jump. She has to prove she’s ready to be vp. She has to prove she deserves to be on the same stage as the sage Joe Biden. Who decides all this for us? Well, Gwen Ifill, the partisan moderator! Charles Gibson, Katie Couric, the flunkies is the NBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post.

That is the same people that endorse Obama and Biden are telling us what she has to prove. If this debate is about who knows how to name all the federal agencies and legislation ever been proposed in the last 35 years, Biden wins the brass ring for that. If this debate is about who can name all the leaders of every fifth-rate power that means nothing to our future, I’m sure Biden can win the brass ring on that. If this becomes a Trivial Pursuit pop quiz, then it makes a mockery of this whole procedure and will establish what I maintain all along, which is these are just made-for-made-by-the-media events.

But if this debate allows the public to take the measure of the candidates, to see who will bring the best temperament, judgment, character to making decisions that no single person can know tonight will have to be made, then Palin will win the brass ring.

She is so superior to Joe Biden and Obama when it comes to common sense and representing the values and traditions of this nation and its people.

There is no contest between Sarah Palin and Obama and Biden in understanding us, and the traditions and the institutions that made this country great. She has lived them! Sarah Palin’s problem with the Media is that she did not become successful the right way. She’s gifted, highly accomplished, but she didn’t follow the path of those who have to struggle to become successful. See, she’s a natural. Governing is not rocket science. Americans knew that bright, grounded, decent people were needed in public office, and there weren’t any.

Sarah Palin did not follow the prescriptions necessary. She’s good at virtually everything she does: daughter, athlete, outdoors person, musician, wife, mother, businesswoman, mayor, governor. But she doesn’t approach those things the way others that sit in judgment might have.

According to a Media poll from AP and the GFK Group, a German marketing firm, eight in ten Americans are afraid the financial crisis will affect them. Right in time for the elections – why, what a surprise!

The majority of those surveyed blame banks for issuing risky mortgages and the federal government for not regulating enough. Some blame those who actually took mortgages that they couldn’t afford. The bad actors responsible for the policies that actually got us here, liberal Democrats?

Well, of course, they’re blameless!

But the fear is widespread. A third believe their jobs are at risk. Half believe they’ll have to work longer because their retirement plans have tanked. Eighty percent fear the increased federal debt from the bailout will burden their kids and grandkids — though they’re not worried enough, apparently, to demand the government stop spending so much.

But this is troubling news because, soon after the election, we’re going to be smack dab in the holiday season. Even before this so-called meltdown began, the media were running stories about the coming bad Christmas season. Can you imagine the forecast now? Total gloom, total doom — obliteration at Christmas time!

We can head this off; we have the formula now. This year, we need a $700 billion Christmas Bailout Plan targeted to America’s retailers. If you people won’t spend your money in stores, let the government spend it for you!

I mean, hey: if it’s good enough for Wall Street, it should be good enough for Main Street.

Right?

(Except Wal-Mart — let that fail. The libs would love that.)

My little man <2-1/2 yrs old>, has been sick for the last week. Tending to his needs, but little left to update blog.

With so much happening, im going thru POLITICAL withdraw…

Last week — just outside Baghdad, at a palace once occupied by Saddam Hussein — Defense Secretary Robert Gates presided over an understated ceremony attended by top Iraqi and American officials. There, General David Petraeus handed over the flag of his command, the Multi-National Force, and said his farewells.

The farewell came almost a year to the date that a full-page ad, sponsored by MoveOn.org, ran in the New York Times insulting General Petraeus as “General Betray Us” and accusing him of “cooking the books for the White House.”

In a Senate hearing that week, Senator Hillary Clinton followed with her own insult, telling the general that his progress report on Iraq required “a willing suspension of disbelief”

– in essence, calling him a liar.

Despite these insults, General David Petraeus held firm in his confidence that the United Sates military could turn around conditions on the ground and win a war in which Democrats had already surrendered.

His faith — in his troops and his cause — never wavered. The surge worked. And a year later the victorious general is coming home.

Now, friends, there will be no ticker-tape parades down New York’s Canyon of Heroes for General David Petraeus when he returns to American soil – but there ought to be.

There will also be no apologies from those who disparaged this American giant; there won’t even be a simple “thank you.”

But history will mark his place…

and also mark the shameful place of those who really betrayed us.

Amir Taheri in the New York Post, a damning piece, but typical.

This tells us everything we want to know about Barack Obama.

“While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,’ Zebari said in an interview. Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops — and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its ’state of weakness and political confusion.’ … Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet. … According to Zebari, the envisaged time span is two or three years — departure in 2011 or 2012. That would let Iraq hold its next general election, the third since liberation, and resolve a number of domestic political issues. Even then, the dates mentioned are only ‘notional,’ making the timing and the cadence of withdrawal conditional on realities on the ground as appreciated by both sides.”

Now, you might be saying, “What’s the big deal about this?”

Well, two things. ..

Number one, Obama has been clamoring for these troops to get out of there now, now, now.

Obama was part of the cabal that wanted defeat of the US military this year. He wanted defeat of the US military this year. He wanted them out this year. He wanted to hang defeat around the neck of George W. Bush and run against that.

Now all of a sudden he wants a delay in the withdrawal of troops so that he can say he did it and fulfill a campaign pledge to the liberal fringe nuts.

What does this remind you of?

Here we have a genuine October Surprise story.

Remember when they falsely accused George Bush 41 of going over to Paris to make sure the Iranians kept the US hostages until after the November election 1980 so that Reagan would get the credit. There was never any basis for that story, just the seriousness of the charge, there was never any basis to the truth of that story and yet here’s Obama doing exactly what Democrats accused George Bush 41 of doing in 1980.

You people on the left, do you understand your guy wants troops in Iraq until at least 2012 now, if out then, so that he can be the guy in charge of saying “I got ‘em out.”

I guess now we know what Obama did one night in Baghdad…

We knew that Obama’s summer trip was bad, but we had no idea he was playing games with our troops for his benefit. So he goes to Berlin, he trashes the country, skipped a visit to wounded soldiers when he was in Berlin, let’s not forget this.

And now we found out he’s playing games with the lives of our troops, maybe even a Logan Act violation, going there and asking the Iraqi guy, as a mere senator, “Hey, can’t you delay your political action here?”

That trip overseas was a disaster.

This is not experience, this is not judgment, this is change, but it’s breaking a law and his faith with his followers and our troops. Barack Obama asking the Iraqi foreign minister to keep US troops longer than the commanders on the ground think they are needed.

Stop and think of that!

Obama was in Colorado. He’s following Palin around. McCain was in Jacksonville, and Obama, who was in Colorado, somewhere in the Denver area, and here’s Obama describing pain trickling up.

OBAMA: For eight years we’ve had policies that have shredded consumer protections and encouraged outsized bonuses to CEOs while ignoring middle class Americans. The result is the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. I certainly don’t fault Senator John McCain for these problems, but I do fault the economic philosophy he subscribes to, because it’s the same philosophy we’ve had for the last eight years.

And…

OBAMA: One that says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. It’s a philosophy that says even commonsense regulations are unnecessary, one that says we should just stick our heads in the sand and ignore economic problems until they spiral into crisis. The pain has trickled up.

Well, then you ought to be damn happy. If the pain’s trickled up, it means your voters are in pain all the time, now there’s pain at the top, it’s trickling up, you should be happy. You want people in pain up there.

Again I ask, does Obama sound presidential here? No, seriously. I ask this without bias.

I’m asking you to genuinely consider this, does he sound presidential there?

Well, this sent the Obama campaign into a tizzy because this is a violation of law.

This borders on treason. He’s a presidential candidate. He cannot go over and negotiate for the United States on matters like this. Aside from the hypocrisy that was Obama promising everybody to get these troops out of there immediately when he was elected, this would push pack the withdrawal easily to 2011 or 2012.

He’s just a hypocrite on this. He wanted Bush to withdraw the troops so that Bush would lose the war, the Democrats would say Bush lost the war, but now that the prospect of winning the war could redound to Obama, he wants the troops there. He wants to be the one to declare victory, he wants to be the one to bring the troops out on his terms, and he asked the Iraqis to hold them. So his campaign sends out this denial.

The campaign went nuts suggesting that this did not happen, and in the process of denying it, they confirmed it.

“Obama’s national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Taheri’s article bore ‘as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial.’” And then she said this in the statement, “In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a ‘Strategic Framework Agreement’ governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office.”

Well, that’s exactly what the Iraqi guy said! So they send out this press release denying it, saying Amir Taheri, he’s a conservative Iranian, he’s lying about this, and in their denial they confirm it. They confirm exactly what Amir Taheri said, that Obama told the Iraqis they should not rush through a strategic framework agreement governing the future of US forces until after Bush leaves office, which is exactly what Amir Taheri said.

Obama went to Iraq and interfered with US diplomacy and is now denying it.

Shocking… mmm, guess not.

Reports after the Charlie Gibson interviews and the ABC interviews concluded that Sarah Palin is simply unqualified, she’s too ignorant, she is too ill-equipped in foreign policy to be vice president.

Thursday night on ABC’s Nightline, Charlie Gibson is interviewing her, and she says this about terrorists who want to hurt or kill Americans.

PALIN: In order to stop Islamic extremists, those terrorists who would seek to destroy America and our allies, we must do whatever it takes, and we must not blink.

February 26th, Cincinnati, Ohio, MSNBC, Democrat debate, Tim Russert to Obama. “Is your contention America would be taking a chance on Senator Obama as commander-in-chief?”

OBAMA: If we have actual intelligence against Bin Laden or other key Al-Qaeda officials, and we — and Pakistan is unwilling or unable to strike against them, we should.

So she’s unqualified, she’s insane, she’s lunatic, she’s unprepared, she’s ill-equipped. And Obama is qualified to be president. He says, “If Pakistan’s unwilling, we’ll go in anyway.”

Obama and Palin on Iran nukes.

This is July 23rd, this year, in Israel, the ill-fated world intern trip for Obama. He said this about a nuclear Iran.

OBAMA: A nuclear Iran would pose a great threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Charlie Gibson talking to Sarah Palin on the same subject.

PALIN: I believe that under the leadership of Ahmadinejad, nuclear weapons in the hands of his government are extremely dangerous to everyone on this globe, yes. We cannot just concede that, oh, gee, maybe they’re going to have nuclear weapons.

You know, she’s unqualified, she’s the hair trigger risk, she’s ill-equipped. Obama’s a genius. They’re basically saying the same things here.

This is Israel, this is June 4th, 2008, Senator Obama at an AIPAC convention.

OBAMA: I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel.

By the way, after that, when his Hamas buddies got upset, he kinda pulled back from that. But here he’s just said, June 4th this year, sure, keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel.

Here’s Gibson with Palin. “What if Israel decides it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?”

PALIN: I don’t think that we should second-guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security.

GIBSON: So if we wouldn’t second-guess it and they decided they needed to do it because Iran was an existential threat, we would be cooperative or agree with that?

PALIN: I don’t think we can second-guess what Israel has to do to secure its nation.

GIBSON: So if it felt necessary, if it felt the need to defend itself by taking out Iranian nuclear facilities, that would be all right?

PALIN: We cannot second-guess the steps that Israel has to take to defend itself.

I love that answer. He tried to get her tripped up in every which way. She refused to budge.

Obama: I’ll always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel.

She’s ill-equipped, she’s unprepared, she’s too risky, she’s too dangerous, but Obama is brilliant, he’s ready to lead.

Obama in Hawaii while on vacation talking about Georgia and NATO.

OBAMA: I consistently called for deepening relations between Georgia and transatlantic institutions, including a Membership Action Plan for NATO, and we must continue to press for that deeper relationship.

Now don’t forget, this is after he had a statement making a moral equivalence between Russia and Georgia, they’re both responsible for Russia’s invasion.

Here is Palin answering the question, “Do you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine into NATO?”

PALIN: Ukraine, definitely, yes, yes, and Georgia. Putin thinks otherwise, obviously he thinks otherwise.

GIBSON: And then under the NATO treaty, would we then have to go to war if Russia invaded Georgia?

PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.

Now, I think she sounds far more prepared, knowledgeable and informed than Obama does on all of these questions, but especially this one: “I consistently called for deepening relations between Georgia and transatlantic institutions, including a Membership Action Plan for NATO, and we must continue to press for that deeper relationship.”

I don’t even think he understands how NATO works. NATO is north Atlantic. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, transatlantic relationships.

So, side-by-side comparisons because she’s unqualified, ill-equipped, unprepared, too risky.

Obama’s a genius, Obama’s ready to lead, Obama’s qualified…
– she sounds far more substantive and has far more depth on all these questions than he does.

Just simple observation.

Here is Sarah Palin and the future of American politics…PALIN:

We were so blessed in April, Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. You know, from the inside, no family ever seems typical, and that’s how it is with us. Our family has the same ups and downs as any other, the same challenges, and the same joys. Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge. And children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. To the families of special needs — (applause) to the families of special needs children all across this country, I have a message for you: For years you’ve sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. And I pledge to you that if we’re elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House.

That’s a home run, folks. That’s a missile seeking dead aim in the hearts of every American family, and it hit the target.

I’m sitting here laughing, you know, Wednesday the Obama campaign said, (paraphrasing)

“We’re not going to attack Sarah Palin personally, but we’re going to let the blogs and the media do that.”

So Palin speaks, here comes Obama’s campaign firing right back because they got nailed.

It was really hard pulling bites for this today ’cause the post her whole speech. I mean, what do you leave out of this? My favorite lines, I don’t remember it exactly, but she dug Michelle Obama. She was talking about her town, her little town and so forth, and other places like her little town all across America, where regardless the circumstances, the people who live there love and are proud of their country every day. (LOL) Zing.

And then, as it was pointed out to me, the military veteran from Lancaster, Ohio, to whom she blew a kiss, totally natural. This woman can be soft, cuddly, and then before you know it you have a fist buried in your gut. Mrs. Clinton I don’t think could pull that off.

PALIN:

I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. (boos) But here’s a little news flash for those reporters and commentators. I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion; I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this great country! (wild applause and cheering)

You don’t know what music to the ears of Republican voters that is! Yes, you do, because you are Republican.

That is the sweetest music: I’m not going there to be liked; I’m not going there to be approved by these people. I’m going there to do what I said I was going to do during the campaign.

There was one point during the speech when she ripped the media, and the audience started shouting, “NBC, NBC.”

PALIN:

Our opponents say again and again that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems — as if we didn’t know that already. (audience laughter) But the fact that drilling, though, won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. (cheering) Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration we’re going to lay more pipelines and build more nuclear plants and create jobs with clean coal and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. (cheering) We need American sources of resources. We need American energy brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers. (cheering and applause)

All right, all right, all right. Now, remember that part of the speech. The Obama campaign, put out this panic fundraising e-mail saying that we didn’t get one word from Sarah Palin on the energy problem in America today.

Blatantly mischaracterizing, lying about her.

Why do we all love Sarah Palin? ‘Cause we all know her. These kinds of women are all over our neighborhoods.

Sarah Palin, not only does she have more experience, she’s a better speaker than Obama.

PALIN:

I’ve noticed a pattern with our opponent, and maybe you have, too. We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers, and there is much to like and admire about our opponent, but listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state Senate. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot, when that happens, what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet?

And then she turned in the knife.

PALIN:

My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery. This world of threats and dangers, it’s not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer. And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, fighting for you, let us face the matter squarely. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you in places where winning means survival and defeat means death. And that man is John McCain.

It’s impossible to pick out the best parts of the speech. I didn’t want it to end. That’s the best description I can give you.

I did not want the speech to end.

I did not want the night to end.

My friends, Iran’s twitchy little thug president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has weighed in, once again, on our upcoming elections.

He claims that it really “doesn’t matter” whether McCain or Barack Hussan Obama, wins. Mahmoud says America needs “change.” The next president needs to focus more on domestic problems and stop intervening in affairs in his neck of the world. If the new guy changes current policy, then Tehran would welcome “dialogue” with us.