Since taking office President Obama pushed through a $787 billion stimulus, a $33 billion expansion of the child health program known as S-chip, a $410 billion omnibus appropriations spending bill, and an $80 billion car company bailout. He also pushed a $821 billion cap-and-trade bill through the House and is now urging Congress to pass a nearly $1 trillion health-care bill. When President Obama was sworn into office the federal deficit for this year stood at $422 billion and at the end of October, it stood at $1.42 trillion. The President would best be served by governing from the political center. However, with all the radicals now present in his administration & in leadership rolls in congress, I do not think he will do so. It may take a cataclysmic event, such as the Democrats loosing control of congress, for that to happen. If he does not move more to the political center, I'm afraid that we will see another failed presidency, just like we saw thirty years ago under President Carter.

Obama won a majority of the black vote in every primary state he ran in; ranging from 63 percent in NY to 89 percent in Illinois. Obama won the majority of the white vote in eight states, ranging from 53 percent in Virginia to 61 percent in Vermont. Clinton Won the white vote in 28 states ranging from 50 percent in Connecticut to 82 percent in Arkansas.  Bill Ayers article is intellectually dishonest. Obama's appeal to "black identity" was much stronger than Clinton's appeal to "white identity". The attached link will provide more detail.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/us/politics/04margins_graphic.html?_r=1
Interactive Graphic - How Different Groups Voted in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries - Politics - NYTimes.com

Obama, Reid and Pelosi misread the 2008 election and misread this election at their peril. The emperor's glow is not transferable . What the MSM has not discussed are the many local elections for town and county offices that took place on Tuesday. Many democratic incumbents have been turned out of office. The Democratic Weschester county executive was defeated by a large margin. The Nassau county legislature went Republican after eight years of Democratic majority. A Popular Nassau county executive is in a virtual tie for reelection necessitating the impounding of the voting machines and a recount. These local election results were repeated in statewide and local races in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. If you were an incumbent Democrat this year, your reelection was much more difficult. The electorate is frustrated and angry; they are tired of being lied to and lied about. Ignore the electorate at your peril. They will have the last word in 2010.

When you combine a Wall Street, Goldman Sachs CEO & a politician you get Corzine... dangerous on the air, dangerous on the road, dangerous in Trenton.

SAINTHOOD BESTOWED ON OBAMA AFTER WALKING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TO RECEIVE HIS NOBEL PRIZE.

Barney Frank must think the American people are stupid. He is the main culprit in the sub prime mortgage crises. Frank, The Congressional Chairman of the Financial Service Committee,  and the democratic party pushed for the easing of mortgage lending so many more people could qualify for home ownership. Well, that happened and now many of those people are defaulting on their loans. Now he and his democratic colleagues, who control congress and have the votes to pass this 700 billion dollar bailout, are blamimg the republicans for not supporting a bill that was put together by President Bush, Sen. Reid & Speaker Pelosi. If Bush, Reid and Pelosi think this is in the interest of the American people, than pass this bill and send it to the president for signing. Since Pelosi became speaker and Frank became chairman, she has shut out the republican minority in the house. Why are they squealing now?

In June 1967, Forrestal departed Norfolk for duty in waters off Vietnam. In the Gulf of Tonkin on 29 July, Forrestal had been launching aircraft from her flight deck. For four days, the planes of Attack Carrier Air Wing 17 flew about 150 missions against targets in North Vietnam from the ship.
    Rupertus (DD-851) maneuvers to within 20 feet of Forrestal so fire hoses could be effectively used on the worst fire aboard a U.S. carrier.
    Due to a shortage of thousand-pound bombs, old Composition B bombs had been loaded from the ammunition ship USS Diamond Head, instead of safer H6, capable of withstanding high heat or exploding with low order. About 10:50 (local time), a Zuni rocket fired from an F-4 Phantom II by an electrical power surge hit an A-4 Skyhawk getting ready to launch, piloted by Lt. Cmdr. John McCain. The missile struck and knocked off the aircraft's fuel tank and started a fire. With his aircraft surrounded by flames, John McCain escaped from his jet by climbing out of the cockpit, walking down the nose, and jumping off the refueling probe. Video tape shot aboard the Forrestal shows McCain narrowly escaping the explosion[1].
    One minute and thirty-four seconds after the impact, the "Comp. B" bomb exploded underneath McCain's plane, starting a major fire which threatened to destroy the ship. The two A-4s ahead of McCain's plane were engulfed in the flaming JP-5 jet fuel spewing from them. A bomb dropped to the deck, rolled about 6 feet (2 m) and came to rest in a pool of burning fuel. Nine major explosions on the flight deck occurred; eight of those were caused by the "Comp. B" bombs and the other occurred between an old and a new bomb. The explosions left large holes in the flight deck, causing the jet fuel to drain into the interior of the ship, causing massive fires in the stern (rear) section. The fire left 132 Forrestal crewmen dead, 62 more injured, and two missing and presumed dead. The ship returned to Norfolk for extensive repairs. During the post-fire refit, the ship's 5" guns were removed.




More on John McCain-The USS Forrestall Fire
Submitted by blaze2453 on Thu, 2008-07-03 19:32.
One day in the Gulf of Tonkin, about 10:50 (local time) on the 29th of July 1967, an F-4 Phantom located on the starboard side of the stern of the USS Forrestal, was being loaded with two Zuni rocket pods each with 4x4 inch diameter rockets designed for air to ground ops. On the left side of the ship on the angle deck was an A-4 Skyhawk, manned by John McCain. Static electricity in the pod loaded aboard the F-4 caused one rocket to go off and strike both McCain's A-4 and Lt White's aircraft next to McCain's. This scene has been shown to millions of sailors since 1967. It is a training film of an actual accident that took the lives of over a hundred men. On the plat recorder, a film recorder that records everything on the flight deck 24 hours a day, it showed the rocket hitting McCain's A-4, dropping his 1000 pound bomb on the flight deck below his aircraft, and catching his two 2000 pound drop tanks on fire. McCain is seen climbing over the nose of the A-4 some 12 feet off the deck and crawling over the nose to the fuel probe and jumping amidst the fire to the deck below to escape. He was assisted away from the fire by flight deck personnel. The ensuing fire and other spilled fuel fed the flames. Some pilots ran through the flames to escape. Others ejected and were picked up by escorting ships. Lt White escaped his aircraft, but the 1000 pound bomb heated over and exploded killing many flight deck personnel, pilots and crewmembers. The USS Forrestall was in trouble. It took the efforts of thousands to overcome this disaster.
McCain was injured badly and returned to duty 6 weeks later with another A-4 Squadron. In his first week, he was shot down over North Vietnam.
For those of you who think Obama is more qualified than McCain, think again. McCain is the gutsiest man I have ever seen.
John MCcain's political opponents are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuiyXQKw3I
YouTube - USS Forrestal Mishap July 29, 1967


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6l1rwQJjYg
YouTube - Forrestal Disaster (Aircraft Carrier Explosion) - 1/5

THE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS CYNICAL ATTEMPTS TO USE THE TROOPS AND VETERANS TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS IS BOTH DISGUSTING AND NOT SURPRISING.

NO BILL IN WASHINGTON CAN SUCCEED UNLESS IT HAS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. THE PETER KING / JOHN KERRY PROPOSAL HAS A CHANCE TO BE SUCCESSFUL THIS YEAR DUE TO THE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AS WELL AS BILL O'REILLY COMMITTMENT TO HIGHLIGHT THOSE OPPOSE TO THE BILL. THIS, IN TRUTH, IS A BIPARTISAN EFFORT AND THE WINNERS WILL BE OUR SERVICE MEMBERS.

Representative Peter King (R) NY and Senator John Kerry (D) MA in conjunction with Fox News Commentator Bill O'reilly are introducing a new GI bill for the 21st century. This legislation will provide much needed additional support for America’s newest war heroes. All American’s should support our troops by supporting this piece of legislation.


FOXNews.com - Push for New GI Bill - Bill O’Reilly | The O’Reilly Factor

Bush derangement syndrome infects the Town of Brattleboro Vt. The people of Vermont would be far better off if they passed Jenna's law and kept sex offenders off the street than show their intolerances of political diversity.



Town of Brattleboro, VT -- Where It Can ALL Happen!





The Associated Press: Vermont Anti-Bush Petition Lambasted

Representative Peter King (R) NY and Senator John Kerry (D) MA in conjunction with Fox News Commentator Bill O'reilly are introducing a new GI bill for the 21st century. This legislation will provide much needed additional support for America’s newest war heroes. All American’s should support our troops by supporting this piece of legislation.

It's ironic to see the Clinton's getting a dose of there own medicine. They have been playing the politics of personal destruction for many years and it's now bitting them in the butt.


The Wages of Sensitivity - Yahoo! News

...with the 2/5/08 Super Tuesday primary results in, it looks like Senator John McCain is on his way to the Republican Presidential nomination. Apparently Governor Mitt Romney thinks so and has suspended his presidential campaign. Their are two candidates left, Governor Mike Huckabee and Congressman Ron Paul. It is unlikely that either Governor Huckabee or Congressman Paul has the breath of support to win the nomination. They certainly do not have anywhere near the delegates to win the nomination. The polls show that  Senator John McCain has the best chance to defeat either Clinton or Obama. John McCain has a remarkable personal storey and has been a Republican with a Conservative record throughout his political career. Although I do not agree with him on all issues, I do agree with him on most issues. I certainly believe that his Judicial appointments will be conservative in the mold of John Roberts and Samual Alito. We know the type of judges Clinton and Obama will appoint. It's now time for all Conservatives, Republicans and Moderates to join together and support John McCain as our 44th President of the United States

Last Marine in First Iwo Jima Photo Dies
AP Posted: 2008-02-04 19:51:13 Filed Under: Nation News REDDING, California (Feb. 4)
   Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82. The man believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II died at 82. Raymond Jacobs' daughter said her father died of natural causes at a Redding, Calif., hospital on Jan. 29. Jacobs died Jan. 29 of natural causes at a Redding hospital, his daughter, Nancy Jacobs, told The Associated Press. Jacobs had spent his later years working to prove that he was the radio operator photographed looking up at an American flag as it was being raised by other Marines on Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945, on the island about 745 miles south of Tokyo. Newspaper accounts from the time show he was on the mountain during the initial raising of a smaller American flag, though he had returned to his unit by the time the more famous AP photograph was taken of a second flag-raising later the same day. The radioman's face isn't fully visible in the first photograph taken of the first flag-raising by Lou Lowery, a photographer for Leatherneck magazine, leading some veterans to question Jacobs' claim. However, other negatives from the same roll of film show the radioman is Jacobs, said retired Col. Walt Ford, editor of Leatherneck. "It's clearly a front-on face shot of Ray Jacobs," Ford said. Annette Amerman, a historian with the Marine Corps History Division, said in an e-mailed statement "there are many that believe" Jacobs was the radioman. "However, there are no official records produced at the time that can prove or refute Mr. Jacobs' location." Jacobs was honorably discharged in 1946. He was called up during the Korean conflict in 1951 before retiring as a sergeant, his daughter said. Jacobs retired in 1992 from KTVU-TV station in Oakland, where he worked 34 years as a reporter, anchor and news director.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.