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When Obama accepted the nomination, the American flags went in the trash. It’a a perfect metaphor: That’s precisely where the country will be going if he wins the election in November.

Such a stark contrast from the McCain-Palin campaign’s "Country First" attitude, huh?

 This is kind of a telling exchange:

COLMES: OK. The question that I — is being asked, I don’t think it’s so much about Sarah Palin. I think it’s about the vetting process that John McCain went to, that he apparently chose her at the last minute, didn’t have a team in Alaska, didn’t go to the FBI.

The FBI says they never vetted her even though it was claimed by the McCain team that they did. They never sent a team to Alaska until the day before. They never looked at the public — they never looked at the newspaper. Never talked to people.

GIULIANI: OK. Do you got a question there some place?

Basically, Colmes wanted to get his point across (not ask a question).

Transcript here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/giuliani_on_hannity_colmes_1.html

It is pretty funny, the more I think about it, that it is obvious that Obama initially thought that Palin was *just* a mayor (which is more executive experience than he has anyway) when she was selected by McCain.  I really don’t think he knew she was a Governor. 

 I know it’s not exactly taking the high road, but I think it makes a crucial point: Was Biden vetted?

The Chicago Tribune’s Dennis Byrne has a very simple, yet quite enlightening article about what is so troublesome about Obama’s abortion stance.  Not only is it an abortion stance, but a stance that unwanted born children should also fall under the "pro-choice" umbrella.

Jill Stanek, a former nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, described in 2001 during congressional testimony how it happens: In a "live-birth abortion," doctors "do not attempt to kill the baby in the uterus. The goal is simply to prematurely deliver a baby who dies during the birth process or soon afterward." Medication stimulates the cervix to open, allowing the baby to emerge, sometimes alive. "It is not uncommon for a live aborted baby to linger for an hour or two or even longer. At Christ Hospital, one . . . lived for almost an entire eight-hour shift." Some actually are born healthy because they are aborted to preserve the "health" of the mother, or because the pregnancy was due to rape or incest. At best, they are left in a "comfort room," complete with a camera (for pictures of the aborted baby) "baptismal supplies, gowns, and certificates, footprinting equipment and baby bracelets for mementos and a rocking chair," where they are rocked to death. "Before the comfort room was established," Stanek said, "babies were taken to the soiled utility room to die."

One can understand why Obama stated at the recent Saddleback appearance that determining when life begins is "above my paygrade."  Otherwise he would have to admit that he is a proud proponent of cold-blooded murder (which he is, but certainly doesn’t want to admit as much).  This is why he fought against legislation that would ban such a practice — he considered this a "threat" to the pro-choice contingent, an inroad (so to speak) for the pro-life movement.

Obama is a very scary proposition for this country.  We are moving into genocide territory with every step we take in his ideal direction.

(Photo above is our child at 20 weeks, due January 7, 2009.)

Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being “chooses” to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.

-Cardinal Egan of New York

Archbishop Chaput’s statement recognizes Pelosi as “a gifted public servant of strong convictions and many professional skills” but adds that “regrettably, knowledge of Catholic history and teaching does not seem to be one of them.”

Later, and more importantly:

“Abortion kills an unborn, developing human life.  It is always gravely evil, and so are the evasions employed to justify it.  Catholics who make excuses for it – whether they’re famous or not – fool only themselves and abuse the fidelity of those Catholics who do sincerely seek to follow the Gospel and live their Catholic faith,” the statement adds.

Kudos to the Archbishop!  We need more church authority to speak out against the invalid notion that Catholics (or any Christians for that matter, by pointing out words from a good Lutheran pastor) can be pro-choice alongside being in good standing with their respective Church.

Read the entire briefing.

God love him, but William Kristol is all over the map today.

The two leading G.O.P. prospects have been Tim Pawlenty, the Minnesota governor, and Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor. But with Biden’s foreign policy experience as a contrast, could McCain assure voters that the young Pawlenty is ready to take over, if need be, as commander in chief?

And then a couple paragraphs down…

If not Pawlenty or Romney, how about a woman, whose selection would presumably appeal to the aforementioned anguished Hillary supporters? It’s awfully tempting for the McCain camp to revisit the possibility of tapping Meg Whitman, the former eBay C.E.O., Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, or Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. But the first two have never run for office, and Palin has been governor for less than two years.

Okay, Rice is one thing, but I’m almost certain that Whitman and Palin have little to no foreign policy experience (which seems to eliminate Pawlenty in Kristol’s thinking).  I agree that Romney seems like the most prudent choice if McCain wants to win.  He will bring about the same problems Biden brings to Obama, though, and that is a pretty full and recent attack on his ticket-mate (as someone who was running against him for the nomination).

Scott Burnside was bored, didn’t have an article idea, and so he thought he’d invent something else that is Keenan’s fault.  Somehow, some way, the Luongo deal that brought a top 4 defenseman, a goalie who had similar numbers to Luongo, and big power-forward who unfortunately was injured, is the main reason why Bouwmeester doesn’t fit in with the Panthers.

This isn’t all GM Jacques Martin’s fault, although his inability to sell Bouwmeester on the future he is charting for the team suggests this team might have a plan (hey, let’s get in the playoffs for a change) but no real clue as to how to execute that plan.

Clearly the team’s plans moving forward have Bouwmeester as its centerpiece, yet the seeds for his discontent or at least his skepticism were sown years ago. How did that Roberto Luongo-Lukas Krajicek-for-Todd Bertuzzi-Alex Auld-and-Bryan Allen deal turn out, anyway?

Um, that’s so ridiculous, Scott.  That trade, whatever your foolish opinion is of it, had nothing to do with Bouwmeester wanting out and everything to do with Jacques Martin.  Consider that last year the Panthers had one of the most playoff-looking teams since their cup run (and still were a bottom-feeder), and how other guys including the Captain of the team wanted out.

Maybe it’s time you go back to the facts there, Scott.  You are in a fact-based business if you haven’t noticed.

Surely there are better uses for a second stimulus package than more road construction.