William Russell Catching Up To John Murtha

FOXNews.com:

Rep. John Murtha, who recently called constituents in his western Pennsylvania town "racist" because Barack Obama may not win big there, is 4 points ahead of his Republican challenger, retired Army Lt. Col. William Russell, within the Susquehanna Poll's 4.9-point margin of error.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ordered the poll of 400 likely voters on Tuesday as discussion centered on Murtha's comments. The 18-term Democratic congressman apologized for his initial statement by saying he meant only that skin color will be a factor in the race between Obama and John McCain. Murtha later said many Western Pennsylvanians were "rednecks" until recent years.

Russell, who served in Iraq, is the first challenger to give Murtha a run for his money in years. His campaign told the newspaper it was buoyed by another statistic in the poll -- the 54 percent of voters who said it's time someone else represented them in Congress. Thirty-five percent say Murtha, a Vietnam veteran, should be re-elected.

The poll comes as internal polling leaked from the Obama camp showed the Democratic candidate only 2 points ahead of McCain in the Keystone State, suggesting the race is much closer than the Quinnipiac poll out Thursday that shows Obama with a 13-point lead in the state.

A future without John Murtha in Congress would be a better one for everyone.

Ashley Todd Is An Idiot

The dark side of some GOP supporters raises it ugly head again. Not that any of this should be pinned on John McCain, but Ashley Todd is a McCain volunteer, so we all know that Obama's press and all his many worshippers will run with this story and milk it for all it's worth. Just what John McCain doesn't need right now:

A Republican campaign worker who told police she was assaulted by a man angered by a John McCain sticker on her car admitted she made up the report, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, assistant police chief said Friday.

Ashley Todd, 20, of College Park, Texas, will be charged with filing a false police report, a misdemeanor, and may face more charges, said police spokeswoman Diane Richard at a news conference.

"This has wasted so much time. ... It's just a lot of wasted man hours," Assistant Police Chief Maurita Bryant said at the same briefing.

The woman told investigators a man approached her Wednesday night at an ATM in Pittsburgh's East End, put a blade to her neck and demanded money, Richard said.

Police said they found "several inconsistencies" in Todd's statement and she was not seen in surveillance videos taken at the ATM. She was asked to take a polygraph test Friday morning, Richard said. The results were not made public.

Later, Todd came to the police station to help work on a composite sketch of the alleged attacker. When she arrived, Todd "told them she just wanted to tell the truth" -- that she was not robbed, and there was no attacker, Bryant said.

Liberal Media's Sexism Against Sarah Palin Continues

If it were a man or a Democrat (say, er Hillary Clinton, but not John Edwards 'cause, well, yunno) would anyone care about a politician having a $150,000 wardrobe? Of course not:

CNN anchor Campbell Brown led her Election Center program on Wednesday with a critique of the “double standard” concerning the recent attention on the $150,000 that the Republican National Committee spent on vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin: “My issue: there is an incredible double standard here, and we're ignoring a very simple reality. Women are judged based on their appearance far, far more than men. This is a statement of fact. There has been plenty of talk and plenty written about Sarah Palin’s jackets, her hair, her looks....Compare that to the attention given to Barack Obama’s $1,500 suits or John McCain’s $520 Ferragamo shoes. There is no comparison.”

Brown spent more than 2 minutes on the matter, in which she related her own experience of how women “get scrutinized based on appearance” much more than men do: “...I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it, a lot of e-mail, seriously. When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job. If Wolf or Anderson shows up on the air without makeup, do you think you would even notice? I show up on the air without makeup, trust me, you’ll notice.” The CNN anchor then defended the RNC’s efforts to help Palin appear visually good: “All women in the public eye deal with this issue, and it’s for this reason that I think the RNC should help Palin pay for hair, clothes, and makeup. It is part of the job.” She concluded her commentary by labeling the attention on Palin’s clothing a “peripheral issue” in the presidential campaign.

Bill O'Reilly Takes On Leftist Trolls At "The View"

And puts that hypocritical, liberal troll Joy Behar in her place as well.

John McCain Is Closing The Gap!

Barack Obama can have the whole entire mass media in his back pocket and rich, elitist liberals can fund his campaign till kingdom come, but the idea of having an inexperienced (hey, I'm just quoting Joe Biden there), radically Left, socialist for a President seems to finally be wearing thin on most Americans:

While some polls have shown Barack Obama holding a double-digit lead over his presidential rival John McCain, a new survey by Investor’s Business Daily shows McCain gaining on Obama over the past several days.

Overall, McCain trails Obama by 3.7 percentage points — 45.7 percent to 42 percent, with 12.3 not sure — in the tracking poll released Wednesday by IBD and its polling partner, the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP).

But Republican McCain was behind Obama by twice that margin just four days earlier, when he trailed the Democrat 47.2 percent to 39.8 percent.

The newest poll shows McCain making gains in the West, up from 37 percent of respondents to 43 percent.

His support among suburban voters has also surged, ballooning from 45 percent on Oct. 18 to 53 percent in Wednesday’s survey, giving him a solid 20-point lead in that demographic.

The latest IBD/TIPP poll has McCain making substantial gains among voters ages 25 to 44, and 65 and over. And he actually has a 53 percent to 43 percent lead over Obama among voters ages 18 to 24.

McCain also has a lead over Obama among voters who earn at least $75,000 a year, and now holds a 48 percent to 40 percent edge among male voters, up from a 4-point lead four days ago.

According to IBD, its polling partner TIPP was the most accurate pollster during the 2004 election season.

In other words let them be cocky all they want, with less than two weeks left this thing is far from being over.

San Francisco To Consider Decriminalizing Prostitution

The more and more this city celebrates deviancy the more you wonder when they'll just get on with it and rename itself Sodom and Gommorah:

In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.

San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K — a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex.

The ballot question technically would not legalize prostitution since state law still prohibits it, but the measure would eliminate the power of local law enforcement officials to go after prostitutes.

Proponents say the measure will free up $11 million the police spend each year arresting prostitutes and allow them to form collectives.

"It will allow workers to organize for our rights and for our safety," said Patricia West, 22, who said she has been selling sex for about a year by placing ads on the Internet. She moved to San Francisco in May from Texas to work on Proposition K.

Even in tolerant San Francisco — where the sadomasochism fair draws thousands of tourists and a pornographic video company is housed in a former armory — the measure faces an uphill battle, with much of the political establishment opposing it.

No matter what idiot liberals say, prostitution is not a victimless crime. It exploits women by treating them as nothing but sexual objects. It caters to pimps who abuse women, drug abuse, kidnapping, human trafficking, low self-esteem, victims of sexual abuse, physical and mental coercion. It also breaks up marriages. The world's oldest profession is never going away, but that doesn't mean it should ever be condoned.

Crazy Liberals Try To Block Sarah Palin Motorade

Don't mess with 5-0.

Jon Stewart Has Palin Derangement Syndrome

It's no secret that the best thing ever produced by The Jon Stewart Show is Stephen Colbert, because Colbert is genuinely funny and does political satire in a way that makes you feel comfortable regardless of which side of the political aisle you're on. On the other hand Stewart is not only unfunny, but too often he just can't hide his smug, contempt for non-liberals while his show produces bitter, arrogant slapstick more than anything else, not satire. Any wonder the real Jon Stewart is such a prick:

Speaking to a college audience in Boston, Mass. Friday, "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart used his stand-up routine to respond to Sarah Palin's comments about "pro-America" parts of the country, shedding the profanity restrictions that govern his Comedy Central show.

"She said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: [expletive] you," Stewart said to raucous applause.

Palin addressed a North Carolina fund-raiser Thursday night saying, "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe...that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."

The comment was quickly picked up by media outlets and the Obama campaign, whose spokesman Bill Burton asked in an e-mail to reporters, "What part of the country isn’t pro-America?"

Stewart didn't let his own harsh language stop him from criticizing John McCain and Palin for divisiveness.

"I can't take it anymore...After eight years of this divisiveness, we're back to this idea that only small-town America is the real America," he said.

The Manhattan native accused the Republicans of "writing off whole swaths of the country," saying "cities are just a lot of towns piled on top of each other in one place. "

During the same routine, however, he seemed to write off Palin's rural swath of the country, referring to the governor's home not as Alaska, Wasilla, or Juneau, but as "the woods."

"McCain made an interesting vice presidential choice," he said. "I like the woods...I just don't know if I would pull my vice president out of the woods randomly."

Rush Limbaugh Quote of the Day!

"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race. OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with."

- Right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh defending comments he made on his show regarding Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama for President.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 10/20/08

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Joe The Plumber Slams Back At Media

Barack And William Ayers Shared Office For 3 Years

McCain Must State Obvious: Obama Is A Socialist

MTV Takes A Shot From The Public

Supreme Court Sides With Ohio Vote Cheaters

New Research Debunks Claim Christians Are "Homophobic"

Sarah Palin Is Not Hillary; She's Like Bill Clinton

Democrat Congressman/Adulterer Tim Mahoney May Not Seek Re-Election

Sarah Palin On SNL Last Night

Overall, Palin's much-hyped appearance on SNL yesterday was just OK, but this "Weekend Update" skit with Amy Poehler and Palin was hilarious. Funny too that having Palin on the show brought SNL its highest ratings in 14 years.

Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama

CNN.com:

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama, citing the Democrat's "ability to inspire" and the "inclusive nature of his campaign."

"I think he is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Sen. Barack Obama," Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Powell said he was concerned about what he characterized as a recent negative turn of Republican candidate Sen. John McCain's campaign, such as the campaign's attempts to tie Obama to former 1960s radical Bill Ayers.

Powell, a retired U.S. general and a Republican, was once seen as a possible presidential candidate himself.

Eh, I really don't see this as a big deal. For starters anyone whose been paying attention to Powell of late knows that he's been leaning Left for years now, esp. in his criticism regarding the handling of the Iraq war. In turn, perhaps he remains bitter about taking many of the hits from the press since it was he that was front and center on the Bush administration's reasons for us needing to go into Iraq. Secondly, as a prominent black man in the political world, with a black man running for president, Powell's in a no-win situation: feeling guilty if he doesn't endorse Barack while also being a labeled a "sellout" or "Uncle Tom" or any other smear liberals use towards Black people don't toe the line and vote Democratic. Lastly, Powell's had such a relatively low profile since he resigned as Secretary of State that his endorsement just doesn't strike me as being that significant, except to liberals of course.

Barack Obama and ACORN Go Hand-In-Hand

Again, don't believe what the liberal media tells you. After all, Americans have a right to know the truth about Barack Obama.