Senator Clinton's and Governor Palin's appearance at an anti-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad protest was canceled. In a political squabble, the importance of spotlighting the evils of Ahmadinejad took a back seat to the pettiness of people who know not who the real enemy is.

The ultimate strategy to gain power. Create an economic mess by passing laws ostensibly to equalize social disparity. Count on human nature to not remember the details of what you did after a year or two and be able to connect the consequences to the cause. Foster the birth of the ills onto your enemy when they come to fuition, and then promise the harmed voters you can make the changes to correct them if they join you. Sway the non devoted with promises to buy their vote with lower taxes or more government handouts. Obtain the power.

The sub prime mortgage debacle started with Bill Clinton and his congress lowering the mortgage acceptance requirements of borrowers by passing changes to the Community Reinvestment Act in 1995 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act). This lowered the income and verifications needed for credit worthiness for mortgage loans by creating a new class of loans, sub prime mortgages. This law was passed to remove regulations because of a mortgage loan approval disparity between whites and minorities. Loan approval rates of 72% for minorities and 89% for whites was being called evidence of racial discrimination by lenders. A Democratic social engineering of business practices was needed right away!

Because the regulations allowed anyone of any race access to the lower standards, the ratio of white to minority of a loan acceptance did not change. As many poor whites where getting loans as poor minorities. To try to get the ratio to be even, more and more loans where given to people with fewer and fewer verification checks made on them. All in an attempt to try to meet the requirements by law to have as many loans accepted from minority borrowers as white borrowers. Eventually the minimum loan requirements became a signature with claims of income and no verification. Finally, loan acceptance equity, 100% for everyone.

So mortgages become easier to get. Unfortunately, no one preplanned for a large amount of new first time buyers. Demand for houses went up, but the amount of houses available had not been built up to accommodate this extra demand. The price of houses started to go up faster than normal as the laws of low supply and high demand took effect. As the price of houses went up quickly from year to year, builders tried to increase the supply to meet the demand. Mortgage originators accepted any and all loan applicants. Soon, the speculators noticed the quick rise in home prices, and began buying houses to sell a few months later for a profit. This added to the demand and the rise in home prices.

Everyone was happy. Builders sold houses as fast as they could build them. Mortgage bankers where loaning money as fast as they could get new money to loan. Poor people who couldn't have paid for a house before the prices went up could easily qualify for a house now.

In 2005, Senior Senator Joe Biden authors the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. Notice the misleading name Consumer Protection Act, I love how congress always names laws that will harm someone as a law that will protect them. This law prevents saving a primary house by renegotiating the mortgage loan when you file for bankruptcy if you own the house less than 730 days(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_and_Consumer_Protection_Act). Now people who bought houses they couldn't afford in the first place and now can't pay their bills, will lose their house and any money they put into it.

Suddenly everyone is not happy. Builders can't sell anything they are building. Mortgage bankers can't get anyone to pay the loans they have. Homeowners are Homeowners no more and have no credit to continue to be good consumers either.

The economy tanks. Construction companies lay off workers and stop buying material. Material suppliers go out of business. Mortgage bankers suffer huge losses. Bankers go out of business or get bailed out by the government if they have the lobby power. News of economic slowdown spreads and puts the fear of insecurity into the population. The slowdown is overexagerated by the Democrats and hyped as a recession so bad that they haven't seen things this bad since the Depression. It isn't, remember the 21% inflation and 11% unemployment President Jimmy Carter saddled America with? The Democrats fool the regular population into believing the they are the only ones who saw the problem coming and they could fix it if voted into office. Well, I suppose they did see it coming and know how to fix it, they created it.

Although one man did suspect a problem and tried to prevent it. In 2003, Senior Senator John McCain introduced a significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis from ten years before. He wanted to place two of the primary agents guaranteeing subprime loans, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the supervision of a new agency within the Department of the Treasury. Democrats prevented passing the changes, Representative Barney Frank(D-MA) said "These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis, the more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing." Representative Mel Watt(D-NC) added "I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing." The Democrats had prevented the plan from being unraveled.

The person that was destined to reap the rewards and be able to win the White House, Hillary Clinton, was usurped in her run by a newcomer. Although a bitter battle was fought by her to be able to claim the bounty of the plan, it was not to be. Junior Senator Barack Obama soon became the new anointed one to lead the party because of his superior speaking charisma. He was presented to the populace with as much ceremony and aplomb as possible on August 28, 2008 so that no one would doubt he is 'the one'. Senior Senator Joe Biden is given to him as Vice President. This is Joe Biden's reward for helping make some of the bankruptcy reform laws that would enable the Democrats to claim a poor economy.

A nice strategy. Pass laws to make the economy drop through the floor. Blame your enemy for all the ills you concoted behind the scenes, laws that normal people, especialy the young, will not have knowledge of or remember. Offer up promises of change and hope because you are the one they have been waiting for to fix the problems. Promise more money for the voters on the fence by lowering taxes to buy their vote. Ask for more governmental control and power to regulate so this mess doesn't occur again. They should make a movie with a plot similar to this, it would be great.

May the Force be with you, John McCain.

Since the day Senior Senator John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential pick, Junior Senator Barack Obama and his hand picked team have been been flummoxed.

He has been sidetracked into attacking Sarah Palin by master strategist John McCain. Falling into the trap with both feet in mouth. The choice of Vice President is the first telling judgement decision a Presidential nominee makes. Barack Obama chose Joe Biden, John McCain chose sarah Palin. Once again John McCain's judgement genius shines brightly.

Barack Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton said of the choice "Today, John McCainput the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,". This only served to highlight Obama's lack of experience and completely neglected to consider the fact she is a Governor of a State. Perhaps Barack Obama doesn't consider Alaska one of the 57 states in the U.S.A.

Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan in referring to Sarah Palin in an introduction speech used the jab. “There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick,”. Later that day, Barack Obama used a lipstick jab which may have been planned, or may have been a spur of the moment thought "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said. "It's still a pig.". Considering the other campaign members use of the lipstick reference and the reaction of his audience, it's hard to believe his denial that he wasn't purposefully making a snide remark about Sarah Palin. Either way, it was a bad judgement call to use it.

Obama has continued to attack Sarah Palin on non issues, drawing laughs at a campaign stop by calling her a “moose shooter.” Again he fails to react to his real oponent, John McCain. Instead he is distracted and off target. He fails to realize his true target, or to formulize an adequate strategy of attack or defense. Instead he is resorting to school yard retort's of name calling.

If he is paralyzed and confused by what he considers a country bumpkinsh religious zealot from the sticks for upwards of two weeks, what will he do when faced with crisis generated by the likes of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimar Putin, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or China's President Hu Jintao.

Recently in Azizabad, Afghanistan, claims of 90 civilian dead, among them 60 children and 15 women, from a predawn raid on August 22nd by Coalition Forces have emerged. The Coalition Forces reported about 35 terrorist deaths and 5-7 civilians. This has caused a political uproar over tactics in the war on terror.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is being brought to a tenuous political position, where cooperation with anti terrorist operations will become political suicide. Investigations by the U.N. and an Afghan government commission back up the death toll of 90 civilians. Given the huge difference in the reports by the military involved and the government commissions, you would think someone is lying. But if both sides are reporting what they think is the truth, a disturbing possibility rears it's ugly head.

No one will argue that terrorist's have no desire to avoid innocent casualties. For them, the more innocent deaths, the better. Terror is, after all, their goal. But the death of innocent people by terrorism has lost it's shock value. It no longer buys the terrorists any capitol to further their twisted ideaology.

Descrediting the military forces aligned against them with stories of atrocities does however earn them capitol. It would not be beyond the realm of possibility that after a military strike on militants in a village and after the military withdraws, that the terrorists remaining hidden close by move into the village and slaughter civilians.

The civilians may still be in hiding, hearing gunfire, and not realize the Coalition Forces have withdrawn. From this they would assume once they emerged from safety, that all the dead where from the Coalition Forces.

Or the militants could return when they know it is safe for them to do so and slaughter civilians. Then threaten the civilians left alive to force them to claim the dead are from the Coalition Forces, or face a return of the terrorists who would kill everyone left.

In this circumstance, the civilians would get $2,000 per dead and keep themselves alive. The militants would have terrorized the civilians and won political capitol against the Coalition Forces and the Democratic Government of Afghanistan.

This election, our choices are Obama change, or McCain change. Junior Senator Barack Obama extols change with the hyperbole of Robin Hood high tax economics, big government socialist program fireworks, and the charisma to melt eyelashes of smitten admirers. Senior Senator John McCain works towards change with bi-partisan written law, partnerships with people of any party who will roll up their sleeves to put America first, and the character of a person who can and has fought evil and survived.

The smoke screen tax break for 95% of Americans is misleading tax the rich and give to the poor proposal. After the 5% who have their taxes raised are forced to cut back on their employee payroll or close up their business all together, the newly unemployed can be grateful to Barack Obama that they can get a few hundred dollars a month for food stamps.

The money left over from the 'tax the rich' (i.e. smal busuness owners and farmers) after food stamps are doled out, will be used to make bigger more inefficient prone socialist bureaucracies to design other ways to make Americans subservient to the government instead of the government subservient to Americans.

Senator Obama's charisma has helped him develop a devoted following. His tele-promptor speeches are mesmerizing. His performance when faced with questions he has no advanced speech for leave something to desire. His dismal performance in the Saddleback forum may point to his cowardly decision not to face John McCain in a town hall style debate where unknown questions may be presented.

John McCain has concrete work on ethic's reform in the congress, winning the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government award. He has fought steadfastly, and often alone, against pork-barrel projects. In 2002 he succeeded with campaign finance reform.

With some of his democratic and independant collegues, he has proposed and backed laws for a strong national defense and foreign policy. In 2005, he formed and lead 'The Gang of 14', a bipartisan group (seven democrats and seven republicans) of Senators in the 109th Congress that successfully negotiated a compromise to avoid the deployment of an organized use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats.

On October 26, 1967 he was captured by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war. After 5 and a half years of torture, he was released March 14, 1973. Despite this treatment, he was instrumental in 1995 with the U.S. normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

Junior Senator Barack Obama once quipped while in Philadelphia, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,”.  A philosophy the corrupt Chicago political machine that mentors him adopted from the early Chicago Mobsters.

In his Vice Presidential nomination announcement, Senator McCain presented Governor Sarah Palin to America.

A woman who was the team captain of her championship high school basketball team, attended college on a runner up beauty contest prize. Returned to her home town after college to marry her high school boyfriend. Became a mother who played hockey mom and joined the PTA. Was elected Mayor of her home town where she cut property taxes by 40% and reduced the salary of the Mayor (her salary). Chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission where she confronted the corruption of her own party leadership, resigning in disgust over ethics violations. She filed formal complaints against the state Republican Party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, both of whom resigned. Now the current Governor of Alaska, where she created a new sub-cabinet group of advisers to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.

A life long member of the National Rifle Association. She hunts and fishes. A Union member (not be be confused with a Union Leader), she and her husband, an oil-field production operator, also own a commercial fishing business. They are raising five children together.

Senior Senator John McCain brought an American mom to the fight. What you got that can beat that Barack?

Judgement is what we can expect from Junior Senator Barack Obama. He has little experience, but his judgement more than makes up for it. Senator John McCain on the other hand, as claimed by the Democratic party members, has poor judgement despite his many years of experience.

On August 8 2008, Russia invaded Georgia on the pretense they where protecting Russian citizens. Junior Senator Obama huddled with his advisers for hours and then proclaimed that both sides should talk and form a cease fire. Later he suggested that the U.N. Security Council should solve the issue, forgetting that Russia has a veto in the Security Council. Finally, three days after the invasion, he makes a statement harshly criticizing Russia. A statement virtually identical to Senator McCain's given immediately after the invasion.

When Russia invaded Georgia, there was no huddle with foreign relations advisers for hours for John McCain. McCain immediately knew Russia was the aggressor and condemned them. A position Junior Senator Obama finally achieved after 3 days of advisor consulting.

In the Saddleback Forum Junior Senator Barack Obama constantly intellectualized his decisions to seem to be from both sides. When asked about when he thought life begins, unable to straddle, Junior Senator Obama declared that when life begins is above his pay grade.

During the Saddleback Forum, when Senator McCain was asked when life begins, the answer was instant and unequivocal. At conception was his judgement.

When Junior Senator Obama was in the senate for the few days he actually worked before taking off to become the rock star Democratic American Idol star, I mean Democratic Presidential nominee, he declared the Iraq war lost and demanded all of our troops be withdrawn immediately. In his considered opinion, experience and wisdom, there was no strategy or tactic the Coalition Forces could use that would ever bring peace to Iraq.

Back in 2003, Senator McCain warned we needed to provide our troops with enough manpower and resources to win the war. When things where going badly, he pushed for a surge in troops and clashed with his own party leaders to make them see the wisdom of his judgement. Now we are well on the way to a peaceful Iraq.

During Junior Senator Obama's time in the Illinois state senate, he voted over 130 times 'present'. Not able to judge whether to vote yes or no for legislature which he had ample time to study, a job he was being paid to do.

During Senator McCain's long time in the U.S. Senate, he formed alliances with Democrats and Independents to author legislation on ethics. Not content to just vote for whatever was proposed, he originated and made judgement's about legislature with fellow senators of all ilk he judged to be helpful.

For a Vice Presidential nominee, Junior Senator Barack Obama picked Senior Senator Joe Biden. Someone he could count on for his many years of foreign relations experience. After all, he conjectured, someone in the office should have a clue if they where elected.

Senator McCain made a short phone call to a little known Governor of Alaska and was able to assess her character. He picked Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee. When people heard this, they where shocked at how fast he could just flippantly pick his VP. Now they are amazed at how perfect his pick is.

Obama refined his position on Iraq. He refined his position on late term abortion. He refined his position on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He refined his position on off shore oil drilling. His judgement is slow, taking days, weeks, months to gestate.

McCain judges correctly with less then a moments thought, his experience and wisdom have made good judgement for him an instinct.

When we live in a world where America can end as we know it within an hour of the push of a button, we need a person with experience, wisdom, and good judgement to lead the Free World.

Liberal feminists are aghast. A staunchly conservative lady is nominated for vice president of the 'gasp' Republican party. This is unfair. Only a liberal feminist woman on the democratic party should be allowed to be in the highest office of the land. Liberals have panicked and are attacking Sarah Palin with unfounded rumours, innuendo, and lies.

First was the rumour was spread that her son Trig was not hers, but her daughters. Photos of her daughter where doctored to show a 'baby bump'. Witnesses to the birth where 'found' that claim Sarah Palin was never pregnant. All of this a lie. The daughter could not be Trig's mother, she is expecting her own bundle of joy and responsibility.

Attacks on her as a poor mother are rampant. She has a family, how could she be vice president and have a family. Well, pretty much the same way Barack Obama has a family and would be President. Obama is a poor father, he will not have time to spend quality time with his daughters and be President. Bad daddy. Whoops, I mean, Palin won't have time to spend time with her family and be Vice President. Bad mommy.

Now they are releasing her social security number on the web so people will try to ruin her life. They have expressly said they want to make her unviable as a candidate and force John McCain to remove her from the Presidential ticket by the end of the week. Never gonna happen. John McCain didn't bow to the leftists when he was a P.O.W., he sure will not bow to them now.

Nor will any of the rest of the conservatives. Everything the McCain Palin ticket stands for is at the heart of the Republican party. No amount of torture by the left will change that. A woman will be elected to the highest office in the land, and it will be done despite the feminists and leftists.