ACORN TO McCAIN – YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING

McCain has recently dissed Obama for ties to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – better known as ACORN – that infamous group that is now being scapegoated for all the ills in the United States. Mortgage failures? ACORN. Investment firm failures? ACORN. Voter registration fraud? ACORN? Global warming? ACORN. Collapsing bridges? ACORN. You get the idea.

But what a surprise to learn that McCain – the nut basher – just two years ago was the key-note speaker at an ACORN sponsored event. He stood in front of a crowd containing dozens of red-shirted ACORN members and told them, “What makes America special is what’s in this room tonight.”

Me thinks he must have changed his mind. The convenience of waving the fear flag of voter fraud and scapegoating ACORN proved too much. McCain has turned on ACORN because of simple political expediency. Where did that loving feeling go?

STUPID IS AS STUPID SAYS – BOB GRANT AND THE OBAMA FLAG

Well, now I have heard everything in the way of trying to trash Barack Obama. The following is a comment from a poster at Townhall.com, a right-wing blog.

Not to be outdone, the right-wing radio host, Bob Grant, was offended – and adamant – that Barack Obama was standing in front of a red, white, and blue flag with an “O” in the middle. Grant used his air time to spout the drivel that Obama had created his own flag.

Can these right-wingers get any crazier in their attempts at discrediting Obama? Obama was standing in front of the flag of the great state of Ohio – our sister state to the east. As Michelle Malkin, the conservative blogmistress, said, “Relax folks, That’s not an “Obama flag.” It’s the state flag of Ohio.”

Ouch – I bet that hurt. Malkin would have loved to have jumped on that bandwagon. Unfortunately, the bandwagon didn’t have any wheels.

Servicemen in Iraq with Obama Ohio flag

BELUGA WHALES SAVED FROM THE JAWS OF SARAH BARRACUDA

For the second time this year, the government – that awful Washington establishment – has smacked down Sarah Palin’s efforts to denigrate certain species by arguing that they are not endangered. The federal government has determined that the Beluga whale is endangered, dashing Palin’s hopes to keep the animal off the list. Perhaps Palin would like to get out her spears and hunt the whales right along with Alaska natives. That way she could add one more gory trophy to her moose heads.

Making oil projects her priority, Palin successfully lobbied for a six-month delay in a listing decision until a count of the whales this summer could be included in deliberations. That count showed no increase over 2007 numbers — 375 whales, compared with a high of 653 in 1995.

Despite this evidence and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration findings that a decade-long recovery program had failed to ensure the whales’ survival, Palin forged forward with her goal of preventing the listing of the whales.

The listing has the potential to affect major Alaska projects including an expansion of the Port of Anchorage, additional offshore oil and gas drilling, a proposed $600 million bridge connecting Anchorage to Palin’s hometown of Wasilla and a massive coal mine 45 miles south of Anchorage.

It is really too bad Palin has such a mean streak when it comes to living creatures that cannot protect themselves from the atrocious acts of human beings. I bet the whales, polar bears, wolves, and other threatened and edangered species are glad that someone is looking out for them and protecting them from the great Sarah “Barracuda.”

HISTORICAL CHICAGO TRIBUNE FIRST – OBAMA RECEIVES NOD OF ENDORSEMENT

For the first time in its long history, the Chicago Tribune has endorsed a Democrat, and that Democrat is Barack Obama. Under its past publishers, the Tribune has been a bastion of right-leaning views and generally favored Republicans.

While the Tribune said it “liked” John McCain, the endorsers also found him hard to figure on tax policy in light of the federal budget deficit and termed his proposal to buy up bad mortgages “misguided.” But the Tribune found that the worst decision McCain has made was to choose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, calling her unprepared to assume the presidency.

Apparently, the endorsers aren’t as enthralled by Palin’s winkin’ and blinkin’ as the right-wing Republicans who find her so charming.

The paper endorsed independent Horace Greeley in 1872, and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 — choices it said were driven by outrage at inept and corrupt business and political leaders. The Tribune says it sees parallels today in the Republican Party, noting that it believes that the party of limited government has lost its way.

A historical endorsement to usher in a historic presidency.