The incomparable Mark Steyn weighs in on the relative "experience" of Baby Barry vs Gov. Palin:
"Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain’t run nothin’ but his mouth. She’s done the stuff he’s merely a poseur about."
Read it and weep, Dems. Your historic moment done come and gone. Just like in ’04. Heh.
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Tagged B. Hussein Obama, Mark Steyn, Sarah Palin
One job she’ll have to give up when she’s vice president: commander of the Alaska National Guard. Which, with the permanently-active, round-the-clock 49th Missile Defense Battalion, is a heckuva lot more important than you might imagine–especially since Russian has resumed bomber patrols.
UPDATE: Good background here on pdf, on missile defense operations, thanks to BlackFive.
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The Hilarity Clintonistas are gobsmacked. They should be. So is Reagan’s old political director, Ed Rollins. He should be, too. Forget the nattering MSM. They get no votes and, increasingly, influence none.
Via Fresh Bilge.
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Tagged Clintonistas, Ed Rollins, Sarah Palin
Some old school conservatives worry she will take Mac down in flames like Ferraro was blamed for doing to Mondale years ago. But Mondale was running against the Reagan juggernaut, not the lightweight B. Hussein Obama. They also fear the MSM will ridicule her. But, hey, the MSM–whose poll results are lower than Congress and lawyers–has proved it’s already in the tank for Barry.
Sarah’s light years ahead of Dan Quayle, who didn’t stop Daddy Bush. Sarah will do us all proud, and not tell lies about being under sniper fire like Hilarity did. At the end of the day, however, Quayle proves that the veep pick is a concern for only about forty-eight to seventy-two hours. After that it’s back to comparing the nominees, not their veep choices.
MORE: In the meantime, however, ten good reasons why Sarah is a great choice.
My OCS class email group is largely silent this morning, despite an exhortatory email about the still altogether-mysterious B. Hussein Obama from our one participating African-American. Most of the class are Republicans, and would not be moved by such rhetoric in any case, but no doubt wish to be polite and not rain on our old friend’s understandably-enthusiastic parade. In the privacy of the voting booth, however, I have little doubt that most of us will, like the majority of the American voting population, vote against BHO. I only wonder how hard he will be crushed. Significantly, I think, which might be why Mac put out a one-time congratulatory tee-vee ad last night. Pretty classy of McCain, considering BHO has almost no class at all.
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It’s not what you think, what you’ve read or heard thus far from the MSM. Independent journalist ace Michael Totten calls it the truth. As with most truths, it’s long and complicated, but it’s worth the read and consideration. Truth or not, the Russians don’t seem to like it one bit, because Michael’s site seems to be under cyber-attack. I’m categorizing this under The War, as I have all my posts about the Russian invasion of Georgia, because Russia supports the Syrians and Iranians, two countries who support the terrorists we are fighting.
MORE: One Georgian woman’s tale, from BlackFive, which will update Michael’s link if it changes.
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Tagged Georgia, Michael Totten, Patrick Worms, Russia, Tbilisi, Thomas Goltz
Debka says so, but, well, that’s Debka, only marginally reliable. But the AP also is saying the U.S. Navy will take its next part of the humanitarian sealift into P’oti, where the Russians are entrenched and insisting they will search any arriving ship. Civil Georgia, however, says the Navy hasn’t decided whether to go there rather than to Batumi, where the USS McFaul delivered its aid. And Georgian Daily says the American embassy in Tbilisi, at any rate, is demurring. U.S. European Command has nothing on the subject.
UPDATE: Confrontation averted: The USCG cutter Dallas went to Batumi, instead, and the Mount Whitney will go there next. But that doesn’t stop The Guardian from phonying up a dispute.
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