The Partisan Report

This never seemed to make the press as part of the coverage at the DNC. Of course, afterwards the airwaves were thoroughly occupied by Gov. Palin’s scandalous “babygate” situation.

At any rate, not sure at this point if the campaign will ever comment on this or not. The blogosphere moves a few weeks faster than the mainstream media and for good reason, I fully admit, but if this story is circulating as it is now then Obama and people in the media are aware too. Jerome Corsi, author of Obama Nation, made similar accusations, last month, on national TV, which got people interested about the secrecy of Obama’s past and his reluctance to offer up personal documents as McCain did. Now Berg has made good on is threat to serve Obama and legally challenge his right to be a candidate. It’s got to be a matter of time before a big investigative story breaks or Obama puts this to rest.

This may be laughable and not worth addressing, I don’t know. However, it seems to me with a lawsuit now filed and the stories circulating; why not put it to rest by releasing these personal documents?

For Immediate Release: - 09/04/08

SERVICE OF LAWSUIT CHALLENGING SENATOR OBAMA’S RIGHT TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT MEET THE QUALIFICATIONS HAS BEEN COMPLETED
( Lafayette Hill , Pennsylvania – 09/04/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States, has received confirmation from his Process Service Company that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Senator Barack Obama were served today, September 4, 2008, with the legal documents pertaining to Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083. The DNC was served at 12:00 p.m. and Senator Obama was served at 1:00 p.m. The U.S. Attorney’s Office accepted service on behalf of the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) on or about August 22, 2008.

(Source: Obama Crimes)

This thing isn’t going away folks and it just keeps getting deeper. A lawyer has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania challenging Sen. Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, and that Obama is ineligible to be president.

The AP caption reads: “This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy’s religion as Islam. (AP Photo/ Tatan Syuflana)” [NOTE: the AP did verify the photo]

Finding the Devil in the Details This article can serve to end all argument about where the candidates stand on tax policies and fiscal policy and how deficit spending seems to be inevitable regardless of either candidate. Interestingly pointed out was the dangers of Obama, if elected, would have over the economy if he is sitting over a majority congress. Historically speaking, spending goes up when the President is of the same party as the majority power and Obama will likely inflate the debt substantially. McCain on the other hand, would be facing a Democrat majority and would eventually have to compromise on a number of issues like Social Security and Medicare that would further increase the likelihood of higher taxes to keep pace of spending.

Also what may be interesting is that both administrations would fail to control deficit spending and both agendas would actually continue spending and increasing debt. It would be done in slightly different ways.

Janet Rothenberg Pack, a Wharton business and public policy professor, finds fault with both candidates’ proposals. “McCain’s saying he will not reverse the Bush tax cuts is a big mistake — this economy is in enough trouble, and the budget deficit is really out of control,” Pack says. “And the analysis of Obama’s tax proposals seems like more of a welfare program.”

According to Smetters, “Tax policy should ultimately be about collecting revenue in such a way so as to minimize its effect on economic growth. The tax code has gotten far away from this … and it’s clear that Senator Obama’s plans go even farther away from this, as it uses tax credits to encourage a myriad of activities.”

Here are some of the hard details.

The TPC broke down the candidates’ proposals and found that both plans would result in cuts for most American families. However, of those in the much-discussed “top tenth of 1%” (incomes of $2.87 million or more), the Center found a difference of almost 16 percentage points: McCain’s plan would decrease those top earners’ taxes by 4.4%, while Obama’s would increase them by 11.5%.

On the bottom of the scale, Obama’s tax decreases are larger than McCain’s, but for the middle ground of American families (three income categories that range from $66,000 to $227,000), the candidates’ proposed tax cuts are similar, ranging from 1.4% to 3%.

Those similarities for the middle to upper-middle class are not very surprising, says Ben Harris, a senior research associate at the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. “That group tends to have a fair amount of capital gains, which would be lower under McCain than Obama. Obama wants to tax capital gains and dividends at 20% while McCain wants to continue the 15% rate. But then Obama also has a lot of targeted tax provisions that tend to affect this group.”

Before the Bush tax cuts, dividends were taxed at the ordinary income tax (for the top bracket) of 39.6%. Capital gains taxes were lowered from 28% to 20% by President Clinton. “Bush then lowered both tax rates to 15% for the top bracket,” Marston notes. “The Obama campaign has been a little vague about how much it will raise these two taxes. But they talk of rates between 20% and 28%.”

Just another day in the hood. Straight thuggin. This might have saved the Democratic Governor from intervening and bringing criticism to her office. This guy was joke and this should have happened 9-months ago.

DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months.

The 38-year-old “Hip-Hop Mayor” who brought energy and excitement to City Hall when he took office in 2002 pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and will get four months behind bars.

The Democrat also will pay the city $1 million in restitution, lose his license to practice law, and cannot run for any elected office for five years. His resignation will take effect in two weeks.

Kilpatrick was charged earlier this year with perjury and other offenses for denying he and his chief of staff had an affair. The scandal broke wide open in January with the release of a trove of lusty text messages between the two of them that appeared to contradict the mayor.

“I lied under oath,” the beefy former college lineman said in court Thursday. His wife, Carlita, watched from the second row, occasionally closing her eyes.
Later Thursday, he said public servants should be held accountable to the people they serve.

“I take full responsibility for my own actions and for the poor judgment that they reflected,” he said on live television. “I wish with all my heart that we could turn back the hands of time and tell that young man to make better choices, but I can’t.”

But Kilpatrick left the door open to a return to public life.

“I want to tell you, Detroit, that you have set me up for a comeback,” he said. “I truly know who I am. I truly know where I come from. In Detroit I know who I am. And I know because of that, there’s another day for me.”

By Matt Towery
Southern Political Report

September 4, 2008 — Those who say there’s no media bias aren’t saying anything right now. They’re laying low.

First, my own minor mea culpa: A week ago, I wrote that Barack Obama had enjoyed little or no bump in the polls from the first nights of the Democratic National Convention. Then came a bump after all, thanks mainly to his high-flying acceptance speech and ringing endorsements from Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Now on to the latest epidemic of media bias.

Obama and David Axelrod, his chief strategist, together have probably triple the combined brain density of both their activist supporters and many among the pundit class. Know that Obama and Axelrod are privately furious over the endless attacks, snide comments and second-guessing about John McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate, and now about her unwed daughter’s pregnancy.

Obama’s team is smart enough to know this open faucet flow of condemnation and vitriol has sprouted sympathy — and additional name ID — for Palin among a significant bloc of undecided voters. The furor also has whacked the sleeping hornet’s nest know as the Republican Party voting base, which until now had been moodily snoozing inside the hive.

Many of them recall Dan Quayle, who was mercilessly and unfairly pilloried by the same kind of media barkers when he was George H.W. Bush’s running mate in 1988. Quayle was verbally drawn and quartered over a “controversy” about his onetime National Guard service during the Vietnam War. And Quayle leveraged off an episode of the TV sitcom hit “Murphy Brown” to make a point about the ease with which American culture accepts single motherhood. (How ironic is that now?) He was condemned for having insulted such families. (Bush and Quayle won anyway.)

But there’s a difference in Qualye’s and Palin’s situations, and it’s a big one: Bush’s handlers took the baton of condescension from media and Democrats and used it to effectively spank their own VP candidate as if he were a naughty kid. But McCain has circled the GOP wagon that holds the women and children, aka Palin and her daughter. He refuses to put her on a leash, as Bush did Quayle when things hit the fan.

Ironically, Dan Quayle was the opposite of the man he was portrayed to be during Bush 41’s term. He was — and is — bright, articulate, funny and totally at ease with just about anybody who thrusts out a hand at him for the shaking.

But as soon as Quayle got stereotyped as a handsome bungler, Bush controlled his No. 2 as if he were the organ grinder and Quayle his monkey. Quayle progressively sank to the level of these low expectations after that.

Is Sarah Palin the latest reincarnation of sliced bread? Let’s reserve judgment. At minimum, she’s spruced up the nights of the living dead known as the 2008 GOP convention. And yet a feeling hangs in the air that a second shoe may be about to stomp on Palin and McCain. Maybe she wasn’t sufficiently “vetted” after all.

But hold on. Did Barack Obama’s team properly vet Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden? It seems that as soon as the Obama campaign strummed on their harp of righteousness a tune about McCain being tainted by association with lobbyists, they soon themselves became vulnerable to a similar charge. But the media has given bare lip service to the cozy relationship between Sen. Biden and his son’s governmental affairs firm.

The firm has as one of its name partners a William Oldaker. He served as general counsel for Ted Kennedy’s 1980 presidential bid. Oldaker reportedly received funds from Biden for services, even as Oldaker was lobbying Congress on behalf of other clients.

But hey, these are just sophisticated people, right? No need to investigate. Instead, many — not all — in the media are hellbent on beating the living daylights out of Sarah Palin for her every transgression, no matter how small, instead of giving credit to a woman who scrapped her way to the top of a state practically overrun with the same “lunch pail” demographic that media lights claim to respect so much.

Do I think Sarah Palin was a great choice? I have no idea. I don’t know enough about her yet. Who can tell if she will give McCain an edge?

But this much I know: Barack Obama and his team are a heap smarter than the half-wits spending their time trying to dig up dirt on a woman who hunts moose and raises kids who misstep on the way to adulthood. Obama knows that this is just asking for trouble for the Democrats with an American public that is just “unsophisticated” enough not to be gulled by the sophisticates.

Throw in that McCain is standing by his woman, and what you have is anything but Dan Quayle, Part Two.

I hoped for it. I wanted it. I was nervous about it. But then it happened. John McCain delivered a very effective speech and I believe inspired millions of Americans with his story and life’s history in the process. What we saw was a leader showcasing his talent, vision and beliefs with a lifetime record to give it substance and make it believable and inspirational. It wasn’t an audition. Nor was it a case for splendid curiosity. What we got was a promise from a faithful servant and an American icon.

He evoked a comforting message that told us struggles are eternal and challenges arise daily. It’s only how we choose to meet them that decides the day. And that hope isn’t a solution. Just like change isn’t a destination (If I may borrow Rudy’s line) and leadership isn’t a position. But it has always been a trait of character. Tonight, John McCain proved to America he has both.

McCain admitted, “they broke me.” Well, that may be true Senator, but tonight you made us. I’m convinced fully that John McCain is the right man for our times.

Johnny Mac ain’t no hack — Stephen Kruiser

Contrasting the two Thursday speeches: One man looked like he was auditioning to be President of the United States, one looked like he was auditioning for a Rob Reiner movie.
We went from the “My Big Fat Greek Nomination” speech of Barack Obama to John McCain explaining why, in these still dangerous times, the adults should perhaps be in charge.

The McCain Change — WSJ

By historic standards, he should be a sure loser. Yet Mr. McCain remains a formidable contender — in part because of his opponent’s weaknesses, but also because he can credibly claim to be a reformer who often fought his party’s worst instincts, notably on spending and immigration. His chances of winning now hang on whether he can make the case to voters seeking change that a President McCain can shake up government while a President Obama would merely expand it.

McCain shows he will be formidable

A few thoughts as John McCain takes his bows: one cannot leave that speech without having enormous respect for him as a war hero and patriot. His retelling of his story tonight was extremely moving. I have long been a fan of John McCain the human being and I came away even more impressed tonight. It is worth remembering that a McCain has fought in every American war since 1776.

Yep, here we go again. I wonder if the NYT, CNN, WP, MSNBC, will make room for this story. I know, I know, it doesn’t quite compare to a girl getting pregnant but surely they may make mention of it in some way?

“I am not surprised to learn about this,” said Niger Innis, spokesman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). “It is clear that Barack Obama’s ties to the left are familial, generational, and have lasted for several years.”

Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of Israel.

A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University of California, al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards, including the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray, which was formed to do business in Africa, counts former Nigerian President General Abdusalam Abubakar on its advisory board.

He also sits on the board of the non-profit African Leadership Academy, along with top McCain for President adviser Carly Fiorina, and organized a tribute to the President of Ghana at the Clinton White House in 1995, along with pop star Michael Jackson.

But his writings and books are packed with anti-American rhetoric reminiscent of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s disgraced former pastor.

In a 1995 book, “The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered,” he alleged that the United States was plotting genocide against black Americans.