There is no reason they should be able to waste valuable real estate here. Kick them out!

Tom Tancredo is absolutely right about this - not that it will do an good!

However, I'm going to link to your post from my blog and see if we can't shake up things on a rainy Friday!

I too an get behind that one. Go Tancredo.

...Yet nothing about whether the bailout is actually a good idea, including or excluding Dodd's ideas.

Excuse me for being a bit cynical, but over 85% of all 400-something congresspeople took campaign donations from Freddie/Fannie. McCain's top campaign manager was on the payroll for $15,000/month up until less than a month ago, for the service of allowing Freddie/Fannie access to McCain.

Ro - that last statement has been demonstrated to be absolutely FALSE and it was done well over a week ago. Yet here you are repeating a false statement. Does that bother you at all? Clearly you are both cynical and misinformed.

Barack Hussein Obama has the former heads of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ON HIS CAMPAIGN STAFF right now. And he's taking economic policy advice from people whose poor management ran these two quasi-governmental agencies into bankruptcy! And you think Obama is qualified to be anything other than the village idiot?

If you can give me a source on that (Sarah Palin pinky swearing it's not true doesn't count), I'll be very happy to take it back, Gayle.

Ok, so I'm checking up on real news sources, and, well, as of two days ago, they were all saying Davis was on the payroll for Fannie Mae for 5 years to the tune of $30k/month (sorry, I was underestimating Davis' take), up until just last month. And, in fact, that whole Obama-Raines thing is tenuous at best.

Here were a couple of sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/23/politics/p200345D86.DTL&hw=McCain+Davis+Fannie&sn=001&sc=1000

I also looked for sources that said that this wasn't, in fact, true. Pretty much the only sources were super right-wing opinion blogs and the McCain campaign, who said that Davis wasn't a lobbyist for Fannie, but cannot deny that he was on the payroll. I'm happy to recant when I'm wrong, but please don't call me out as some sort of liar when you have absolutely nothing to back up what you're saying.

It's a memorabilia item.. is it really this much of a bid deal for so many people to get up-in-arms about this?

I never saw folks complaining this much when the company, in April, from Las Vegas pressed a similair coin? But I guess because it is not an American company it makes it all the more of a vile and disgusting act?

Seriously... the DNC, as you clearly state, had nothing to do with the production of these coins.. but do you really think they should even comment on them? I mean, regardless of party, they are aiming on becoming the leader of the free world, yet they should comment on a coin being made by a private company, in another country?

I read through their website
http://www.obamagoldcoins.com - and all I can see is that it's an 'art' representation... which can say whatever they want to (I believe in American freedom of expression and/or free-speech is allowed)... what's the big deal?

Foreign nations have absolutely no business involving themselves in any way, shape or form in our elections, just as we should never interfere or involve ourselves in theirs. It's bad manners, bad international relations and bad policy.

As to the other, did Senator Obama approve this self-aggrandizing coin? If he did, he needs to be locked up in a quiet room, preferably rubber-lined, until his sanity returns!

I fell off the chair when I first read it at Hillbuzz, that quoted PUMA08, which in turn quoted the British press, and I still can’t fathom this.

So I checked out the original story, pending proof it was not a parody story.

Here is the original story in Birmingham Post

Obama is indeed having presidential coins minted:

I was disgusted by this. And saddened by the fact that the media probably won't even look into possible violations of federal election law.

Doesn't it make you wonder why liberals are so threatened by Sarah Palin that they resort to such blatantly dishonest attempts to discredit her?

Pam, thought you and your readers would get a good laugh at this:

http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr09-03-08.html

This guy does a great job of slinging the crap right back on Obama's scummy family history. And it's funny as hell...

Miss blogging about elections but McCain just doesn't inspire me to lift a finger for him. I do like Palin though. She's my kind of Republican!!!

Pam - I'm with you on this. The MSM should be making this a front page story. But the sad fact is that Obama asked for what they want - troop withdrawal in such a way that they can ALL take credit for it.

So while some may pay it lip service, it will never get the focus it should.

That said - I don't think the country is ready to have a presidential candidate indicted on charges related to The Logan Act. It would create such chaos and upheaval - much as I'd like to see it happen I don't believe it's the right thing for us, at least for now.

I would like to see it get more media coverage; but then I'd like to look like Heidi Klum.

What about getting indicted for embezzlement and bribery? How many illegal things do we have to overlook before the Democrats are arrested?

Barry, Kerry, and Dodd especially.

When ARE the chickens coming home to roost? John Kerry meeting with the North Vietnamese in Paris when he was still a serving Naval officer? Nancy Pelosi's excellent adventure in Syria? Now this. They keep doing it because they keep on getting away with it!

They need to have their leashes snapped on and shortened to legal levels!

The double standard is disturbing enough, but when one looks at the magnitude of the corruption (and sometimes, actual treason and sedition) among Democrat leaders, it's staggering that so many Americans willingly turn a blind eye in the interest of partisan politics.

John did very well. He wasn't brilliant and he didn't cause a tingle down my leg but then at my age, nothing does! I think with all the terrors facing our nation, he is by far the better choice of the two principle candidates and given the choice between the appalling Rosary Joe Biden and the incandescent Gov. Sarah Palin, it is not contest. She's the real deal; he's merely counterfeit from base metal!

Pam -- I come here to try to get a new perspective on things. I really do. And I actually agree with much in your article. What I don't understand is how and why you throw around the word "feminism", and then quote someone who is not a feminist, then declare feminism dead. Sally Quinn? Not a feminist; she doesn't identify as one, and those who do don't consider her one. (This isn't the first time you've done this either!) In fact, on the feminist blogs that actually identify as feminist, what you see are a lot of people decrying Palin's anti-choice/ab-only sex ed/no birth control/Christianist policies, while at the same time pointing out how crappy and sexist it is that the MSM is questioning her ability to be VP because of her family choices.

Not to mention, of course, that PALIN CONSIDERS HERSELF A FEMINIST!

Just for the record, Palin has supported mandatory contraception education for teens.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080902/pl_politico/13084

And she's on record as being PRO-contraception in 2006.
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/governor06/story/8049298p-7942233c.html

But I've also read where she opposed "explicit" sex-ed programs for kids. I haven't yet read more detail on what constitutes explicit or the material that was taught in Alaska schools.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3WjzqGbx19JH30v5PVk54XnOttw

Sorry, I know this doesn't address the feminist thing, but I'm tired of the meme already being passed around that Palin is against birth control education.

As Rush and a caller this morning stated, there are two kinds of feminists. The extreme left women libs that think they are the same as men and should act like men and then there is the woman that knows she is a woman and should act like a woman. Sarah Palin is the latter. You Go Sarah! Working Middle Class Mom's of Disabled Children for Sarah Palin.

RV -- I have to apologize for the "no birth control" statement. A little more research showed that there are conflicting reports on her views on this. Time says she's a member of FFL and that they have a pro-contraception stance, so she must too, but FFL doesn't actually have a position on it. So I don't know. It would be nice if she would talk with the press and answer these questions, but it doesn't look like the McCain campaign is letting her anywhere near the press at this point.

MMM-- so feminism is dead except for when a famous-for-blatant-sexism radio host approves of the particular feminist? And what do you mean when you say "...should act like a woman"? All snark aside, I would be curious to know what she's done in Alaska for disabled children and their families. Any links you could provide?

Good point. I was thinking about this today and continue to be stunned by the convenient hypocrisy on the left. Not only are they willing to forgo the "it's just about sex" when it involves a Republican, they're willing to go after a teenage family member as well.

Now it's getting worse because Democrat operatives have sunk to leaking Sarah Palin's Social Security Number and address. SSNs are not a matter of public record, and in fact, leaking this information is against Alaska law. So if the folks involved are Alaska Democrats, somebody should be going to jail for violation of identity theft law.

Until Clinton was dragged through the mud, I think in modern politics it wasn't anybody's business who did what where.

After that, liberals feel like what's good for the goose is good for the right foot.

Though I should point out that Obama has clearly stated family is off limits.

And during the founder's time, NOTHING was off limits.

Pam -- I come here to try to get a new perspective on things. I really do. And I actually agree with much in your article. What I don't understand is how and why you throw around the word "feminism", and then quote someone who is not a feminist, then declare feminism dead. Sally Quinn? Not a feminist; she doesn't identify as one, and those who do don't consider her one. (This isn't the first time you've done this either!) In fact, on the feminist blogs that actually identify as feminist, what you see are a lot of people decrying Palin's anti-choice/ab-only sex ed/no birth control/Christianist policies, while at the same time pointing out how crappy and sexist it is that the MSM is questioning her ability to be VP because of her family choices.

Not to mention, of course, that PALIN CONSIDERS HERSELF A FEMINIST!

Dang it, all that effort, and I commented on the wrong thread. Sorry.