If Obama wins this election, there is a turning point that I will highlight as being THE turning point in the race and that turning point came on September 15, 2008. This is the day that John McCain uttered the now infamous “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” line on the campaign trail while the campaign was collapsing around him. If Obama takes the oath of office, this is the turning point in my book.

McCain had smartly stole Obama’s thunder after Obama’s convention by choosing Sarah Palin as his VP and then having his Republican convention, thus deflating Barack Obama’s post-convention bounce and doubling his own post-convention bounce on the back of Palin’s nomination. It was an impressive political coup but the economy brought this to a screeching halt. Obama posted a 47.8% to 44.3% lead according to pollster.com, which is quite the switch considering Obama was running consistently behind McCain before this economic issue.

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~by Shawn Gordon

It’s been interesting to hear and read the Left talk about Palin. They’ve painted an inaccurate picture of her, and ironically used the same ‘dirty smear’ tactics that the Left often condemns the Right of allegedly using.

Let’s look at a few:

PALIN OPPOSES USE OF BIRTH CONTROL PILLS AND CONDOMS, EVEN AMONG MARRIED COUPLES & SARAH PALIN OPPOSES SEX EDUCATION, ONLY ENDORSES ABSTINENCE

FALSE ON BOTH COUNTS

I’ve not found a single piece of evidence to support the claims, but it does sound rather condemning. At no point has Palin voted to teach only Abstinence nor has she made remarks on record (or off that I can find) about how she opposes birth control..

According to TIME / CNN, Palin:

…is Christian and pro-life, but also a supporter of birth control: she’s a member of Feminists For Life (FFL), an anti-abortion, pro-contraception organization.

I will say that for such a big negative deal being made about how Palin had allegedly wanted to only teach kids to abstain from sex, Biden voted YES to put 75 MILLION dollars in just that!. That’s a lot of money in teaching abstinence where compared to Palin not voting to put ANY money into it as far as I can tell. This sort of turns the argument on its head.

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By Ryan P. Christiano

In an address before The House of Commons, on the 1^st of March 1848, Lord Palmerston declared: “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal, and those interests it is our duty to follow”. Which theory or theories of International Relations motivated the Iraq War, and more narrowly, inspired President Bush? The President’s State of The Union Address; four short months after the attacks of September 11^th, declared that a new ‘Axis of Evil’ exists in the world after 9/11. In the 2003 State of The Union Address, the President declared that America and her allies were the only things that stand between a world of peace, and a world of chaos and constant alarm; and that Iraq now threatened the world with chaos and constant alarm.

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The floodgates of the media and blogosphere are about to erupt with a torrent of articles examining exactly why Sen. Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic Party’s nomination to Sen. Barack Obama when a year ago her coronation appeared to be the more likely outcome. All sorts of angles will be covered and there can be little doubt that a variety of things contributed to her narrow defeat. (more…)