Rush Limbaugh linked to an extremely important, and scary, video today. 

Do you see the animosity towards individuals who work hard and earn their money?  He’s confused that these people have the audacity to think they’re entitled to the money they’ve worked for. 

Twilight Zone indeed. 

Fox News just called Ohio for Obama, so it looks like it’s over.  At least it doesn’t look like Democrats will get to 60 in the Senate.

Say hello to the wilderness, and say hello the beginning of the rebuilding of Conservatism.

If you want to know more about the character of John McCain, I haven’t found anything better than this story, by Michael Lewis, in which he discusses McCain’s relationship with Morris Udall, the Arizona liberal congressman with whom McCain would become lifelong friends.  An excerpt:

By 7:30 we were on the road, and McCain was reminiscing about his early political career. When he was elected to the House in 1982, he said, he was “a freshman right-wing Nazi.” But his visceral hostility toward Democrats generally was quickly tempered by his tendency to see people as individuals and judge them that way. He was taken in hand by Morris Udall, the Arizona congressman who was the liberal conscience of the Congress and a leading voice for reform. ...

“Mo reached out to me in 50 different ways,” McCain recalled. “Right from the start, he’d say: ‘I’m going to hold a press conference out in Phoenix. Why don’t you join me?’ All these journalists would show up to hear what Mo had to say. In the middle of it all, Mo would point to me and say, ‘I’d like to hear John’s views.’ Well, hell, I didn’t have any views. But I got up and learned and was introduced to the state.” Four years later, when McCain ran for and won Barry Goldwater’s Senate seat, he said he felt his greatest debt of gratitude not to Goldwater--who had shunned him--but to Udall. ...

For the past few years, Udall has lain ill with Parkinson’s disease in a veterans hospital in Northeast Washington, which is where we were heading. Every few weeks, McCain drives over to pay his respects. These days the trip is a ceremony, like going to church, only less pleasant. Udall is seldom conscious, and even then he shows no sign of recognition. McCain brings with him a stack of newspaper clips on Udall’s favorite subjects....

Aside from a congressional seal glued to a door jamb, there was no indication what the man in the bed had done for his living. Beneath a torn gray blanket on a narrow hospital cot, Udall lay twisted and disfigured. No matter how many times McCain tapped him on the shoulder and called his name, his eyes remained shut.

A nurse entered and seemed surprised to find anyone there, and it wasn’t long before I found out why: Almost no one visits anymore. In his time, which was not very long ago, Mo Udall was one of the most-sought-after men in the Democratic Party. Yet as he dies in a veterans hospital a few miles from the Capitol, he is visited regularly only by a single old political friend, John McCain.

A big thanks to John Hinderaker of Powerline for pointing out this story and editing the excerpt beautifully.

This is just beautiful.  The candidate of Hope and Change is nothing more than your typical lying politician, saying whatever it takes to get himself elected.  If you did happen to vote for him today, you owe it to yourself to watch this, just so you know that your expectations of this man shouldn’t be too high.

“Change.” Please.

This is only one example, let’s hope it’s not too widespread:

My voting process was smooth and quick, any stories out there from the readers?

I just wanted to bring this piece by Powerline’s John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson to everyone’s attention.

A Closing Argument for John McCain

McCain, however, also harks back to JFK – the JFK who represented a generation “tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage – and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.”

Read the whole thing.

First up, John McCain opens up the show:

Next, McCain does The News:

And lastly, Ben Affleck destroys Olbermann:

Barack Obama is not your typical liberal, the guy is a radical:

Can we acknowledge for a minute that a full HALF of this country’s electricity comes from coal power?

I would love to see him lose Pennsylvania because of something like this, and only because it would be because his actual policies are finally being revealed.

Stanley Kurtz, who this year made a name for himself as one of the best investigative journalists left in the business, puts out a final piece on Barack Obama today:

Obama’s troubling associations are more than isolated friendships or instances of bad judgment. His ties to Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Michael Pfleger, James Meeks, ACORN, the New Party, and the Gamaliel Foundation all reflect Obama’s sympathy with radical-left ideas and causes — wealth redistribution prominent among them. At both the Woods Fund and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, for example, Obama and Ayers channeled money into ACORN’s coffers. ACORN, a militant group pursuing economic redistribution, succeeded in undermining credit standards throughout the banking system, thereby modeling the New Party’s plans to tame capitalism itself. So the association with Ayers is not an outlier issue, but part and parcel of a network of radical ties through which Obama’s supported “major redistributive change.” Via ACORN, that project has already nearly wrecked our economy. What will happen when it’s generalized?

Scary to think about, but important as tomorrow is Election Day.  There isn’t much time left, but here’s some ammo to convince your friends last minute that a vote for Barack Obama is a disaster in the making. 

You may have heard a bit about Barack Obama’s connection with radical palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi.  The latest pushback from the Obama campaign and his fellow travelers in the media is that Khalidi is merely a college professor that Obama worked with at the University of Chicago and Obama’s association with him only shows that Obama is open minded and willing to listen to views on Israel in order to “challenge” his thinking.  That isn’t just wrong, it’s misleading and it’s dangerous.

In today’s Washington Post, the editors bring us this on Khalidi:

For the record, Mr. Khalidi is an American born in New York who graduated from Yale a couple of years after George W. Bush. For much of his long academic career, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he and his wife became friends with Barack and Michelle Obama. In the early 1990s, he worked as an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at peace talks in Madrid and Washington sponsored by the first Bush administration. We don’t agree with a lot of what Mr. Khalidi has had to say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the years, and Mr. Obama has made clear that he doesn’t, either. But to compare the professor to neo-Nazis—or even to Mr. Ayers—is a vile smear.

Perhaps unsurprising for a member of academia, Mr. Khalidi holds complex views. In an article published this year in the Nation magazine, he scathingly denounced Israeli practices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and U.S. Middle East policy but also condemned Palestinians for failing to embrace a nonviolent strategy. He said that the two-state solution favored by the Bush administration (and Mr. Obama) was “deeply flawed” but conceded there were also “flaws in the alternatives.” Listening to Mr. Khalidi can be challenging—as Mr. Obama put it in the dinner toast recorded on the 2003 tape and reported by the Times in a detailed account of the event last April, he “offers constant reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases.”

From reading the editorial you’d think that we were the idiots for criticizing Obama’s relationship with Khalidi.  In fact, the Post titled their editorial, “An Idiot Wind,” leaving no doubt what they think of those that criticize this relationship.

Unsurprisingly, the Post leaves out quite a bit of detail about Khalidi’s activities and it is important that the record show just how radical and evil this man truly is.  Thanks go to Rachel Neuwirth at Campus Watch for writing on this topic today:

Rashid Khalidi was the director of the PLO’s press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982, at a time when the PLO was conducting a massacre of 37 Israeli civilians in a bus on Israel’s coastal road, the brutal murder of a four-year-old Israeli girl in Nahariya, and numerous other terrorist killings of Israeli civilians. The PLO was also waging a brutal war against the Lebanese Christian community during this period, and carried out numerous massacres of Lebanese Christians; the worst of these was the killing of about 500 people in the village of Damour. During this same period, Rashid’s wife Mona Khalidi was an English translator for WAFA. Rashid Khalidi is now an advocate of a “one state solution” for all of “Palestine” - meaning the destruction of Israel and its replacement by an Arab state. Asaf Romirowsky and Jonathan Calt Harris, in an article in the Washington Times on July 9, 2004, summarized Rashid Khalidi’s views about Israel this way: “[His] extremism comes out when he calls Israel an ‘apartheid system in creation’ and a ‘racist state’ that ‘brainwashed’ Americans do not understand. Jerusalem, with its Jewish majority since the 1880s, he deems ‘an Arab city’ whose control by Israeli ‘foreigners’ is ‘unacceptable.’ And so on.” Khalidi also accuses Israel of “ethnic cleansing.”

In 1995 Rashid and Mona Khalidi co-founded the The Arab-American Action Network, a virulently anti-Israel organization that strongly supports the Palestinian Arab terrorist movement. It regards the creation of the state of Israel as a “naqba” ("catastrophe" in Arabic). Mona Khalidi served as the group’s President from its inception until some time this year, although she is now listed only as a member of its board of directors.

Rashid and Mona Khalidi became close friends of Barack and Michelle Obama during the time when both Barack and Rashid taught at the University of Chicago (1992-2003). At a lavish farewell party for Khalidi in Chicago in 2003, when Khalidi left his prestigious position at the University of Chicago for an even more prestigious one at Columbia University in New York, Obama gave Khalidi a glowing eulogy. He said that he and his wife Michelle had been frequent dinner guests of the Khalidis, and that the Khalidis had frequently babysat for the Obama children. According to a Los Angeles Times account based on a video of Obama’s speech, he added that “his many talks with the Khalidis, . . .had been ‘consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation-a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,’ but around ‘this entire world.’”

Obama’s assistance to the Khalidis, however, went beyond mere kind words at a farewell party. In 2001 and again in 2002, Obama, in his capacity as a member of the board of directors of the Leftist non-profit organization the Woods Fund, voted to give the Arab-American Action Network co-founded by Rashid and Mona, and directed by Mona Khalidi, $75,000 in grants.

Her whole piece is a must read for every Jew and supporter of Israel.  Barack Obama’s relationships with anti-semites and enemies of the State of Israel is not trivial and there is absolutely no reason to believe that his views differ much from those of his “former” allies.  And lets remember, these weren’t casual relationships, the Obama’s were frequent dinner guests of the Khalidis and the Khalidi’s babysat for the Obama’s kids.