MILITARY TIMES ELECTION POLL....GENERAL POWELL??? Was it RACE?

Here is the MILITARY TIMES poll of soldiers as categorized below:

If the Presidential election were held today, for whom would you vote?

McCain Obama
Overall 68 23
Army 68 23
Navy 69 24
Air Force 67 24
Marines 75 18
Retirees 72 20
White Non-Hispanic 76 17
Hispanic 63 27
Black/African-American 12 79
Enlisted 67 24
Officers 70 22

I think it says a lot about the Iraq War, too. These are people who might have to stay longer if McCain wins and this country doesn't turn tail and run..... These people are deeply involved, aren't they?

(PLEASE CHECK OUT RICH GALEN'S PIECE ON MEET THE PRESS AND COLIN POWELL BELOW.......VERY GOOD STUFF!)


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MULLINGS.COM Rich Galen nails it again.....

(UPDATE: HERE IS A BIG SURPRISE (not): Thanks, Always on Watch and Gayle..... Another BIG SURPRISE...Liberal talkshow host Ed Schultz is saying how "Reasoned and excellent Powell's reasons for supporting Obama are" !! )

Here's RICH GALEN'S excellent column: (my two cents are at the end, as usual!)

Yesterday, the National Broadcasting Company buried the memory of Tim Russert by turning Meet the Press into a campaign event for Barack Obama.

People connected with the Sunday talk shows - producers, bookers, hosts, etc. - understand that they get measured, not on whether they shed light on the shadows within the folds of complex issues, but whether they make news.

That is, does something said on Sunday show up on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post on Monday. To do that, the Sunday shows spend a great deal of time and effort getting the guest or guests most likely to make news. It even has a name: "The Get." As in, "Meet the Press" had The Get when they booked Colin Powell to be on yesterday's program.

As soon as word leaked out that Powell was going to be on "Meet" it was assumed that he would be endorsing Obama. Why else would he be on? To discuss bilateral relations between the U.S. and Chad?

(Dear Mr. Mullings:
Am I mistaken, or did Chris Wallace have John McCain as his guest on Fox News Sunday? Isn't that a campaign event on behalf of McCain by Fox?
There is a difference between having an actual candidate on to defend his or her record and positions and having Colin Powell spending the first half of the show endorsing Obama - without a countervailing supporter of John McCain on at the same time. I'm still not so sure. I am. If NBC wanted to demonstrate "fairness" (keep that word in mind as we head into the era of an all-Democrat Washington) they would have had Joe Lieberman on with Powell - a Democrat who is voting for McCain.)

Powell claimed that race had nothing to do with his announcement; saying if that were the basis of his decision to endorse Obama he could have done it months ago. He said he was disturbed by the continued Conservative bent of the Republican Party. Yeah, right. Do you think that NBC would have booked Warren Christopher to announce he was voting for McCain if Christopher thought the Democrats were veering too far to the left? (Z: Juan Williams, this morning, says "Rush is right....this endorsement is all about race")

If the Republican Party were lurching to the right, Mike Huckabee would be the nominee, not "centrist" John McCain.
And, by the way, when he was climbing his way up through the Washington, DC power vines:
Powell was appointed National Security Advisor by Ronald Reagan. Pretty conservative, by most accounts.
He was nominated to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by George H.W. Bush. Moderate, in most people's thinking.

He was nominated to be Secretary of State by President George W. Bush. Certainly to 41's right.
And how did the Democratic Party treat Colin Powell when, say, Bill Clinton was President? PBS quotes Dick Morris on the relationship between Clinton and Powell prior to the 1996 re-election campaign as follows:

"Clinton was apoplectic on the subject of Colin Powell, terrified of Colin Powell. For three months, all he could think about was Colin Powell. And he would talk about the press giving Powell a free ride, that the press is promoting Powell's candidacy."

Was the party ideology claim challenged by Tom Brokaw? No. Of course not, because NBC and a significant proportion of the main stream media believes it to be true.

NBC will "win" this week's Sunday Talk Show Sweepstakes. In fact on both ABC's "This Week" and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" George Stephanopoulos and Chris Wallace brought up Powell's endorsement on their shows. It will certainly be on the front page of the Times, the Post and every other newspaper this morning.

When Tim Russert hosted the show, he was tough on every guest - Republican or Democrat. The new "Meet the Press" is an FEC investigation waiting to happen. (Z: Tim Russert deserved better than this)

On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Links to "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and that Dick Morris quote. A Housing Crisis Mullfoto from New York City the other day and a Housing Crisis Catchy Caption of the Day.
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Z: Please check out Rich's column, Mullings.com...you get it delivered to your internet door Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You don't have to bend over to pick it up when you go out to walk your dog, and it's more honest than that thing you really ought to just kick out of your way instead of reading it. You've seen Rich interviewed on FOX, CNN, MSNBC and other stations.......you'll like getting his column. I promise. One of the things he's done in his career in Conservative politics was Press Secretary to Newt Gingrich. Rich is always fair.


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An Early Halloween observation.........

A thought for the day:

"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors."

Here's a cartoon that came to my mind when a friend sent me the thought above.......seems to me it would take a Halloween costume to identify all of Obama's CREEPY 'sponsors'?

And, do you think ANY of his horrid choices and associates will EVER stick to him enough that Americans WAKE UP before election day? It's almost SPOOOOOKY!

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Colin Powell

The Joe the Plumber Antidote.


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In Honor of Sarah Palin's favorite Psalm 27

"Teach me your way, O Lord; lead me in a straight path..."

May God lead her and all of us in a straight path..... Listen especially closely this Sunday.

And have a really wonderful, restful day!

z

Go, Joe!!!

Who needs a bumper sticker? This about says it! (From Lucianne.com)

LARRY KING.......so much power, so little integrity

ANY BLOGGER KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YAHOO IMAGES? I LOST THE FANTASTIC "OBAMARXISM" IMAGE HERE ... VERY RARE..WHAT'S UP? THEY ALSO YANKED MY OBAMA/MCCAIN WHISPERED CONVERSATION PHOTO WAY BELOW..WEIRD. TWO IN ONE DAY. HASN'T HAPPENED TO ME BUT ONCE SINCE MY BLOG OPENED IN LATE JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. MAYBE THEY DON'T LIKE MY ANTI-OBAMA ARTICLE THAT WENT WITH THE PICTURE OR THE MARXISM IMPLICATION HERE ON THIS ONE? WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF AMERICA.

Last night, Larry King had 3 Conservatives on, among many other political pundits. One of the Conservatives finally had the guts to tell the truth and said the M word in regard to Obama. "But, Obama and his followers are Marxists, Larry!"

Larry: "Wait a minute..wait a minute.." deep intake of air..."...You're calling the Left Marxist...does that mean the Right is FASCIST?" GLARE into CAMERA...oh, the glare, the disgust on Larry's face.

So, the Left can't follow Marxism unless the Right is following FASCISM? Does that make sense to YOU?



An interesting sidenote is this line from the Wikipedia definition of Fascism....."In contemporary political discourse, adherents of some political ideologies tend to associate fascism with their enemies." I guess it's not too hard to see why Larry'd have 'gone there', huh?


Then, while we're at it here, let's throw in the COMMUNIST ENDORSEMENT OF OBAMA, okay? "The struggle to defeat the ultra-right and turn our country on a positive path will not end with Obama’s election. But that step will shift the ground for successful struggles going forward," ...from the linked article/letter of endorsement.



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Ladies and Gentlemen, say goodbye to Mr. LEVI STUBBS

I am sorry to say that YouTube removed the VIDEO I had up here for the last few hours. It was Levi Stubbs as lead singer for THE FOUR TOPS and the tune was "Baby, I Need Your Lovin'" Who knows what the removal's about. I can't find other Four Tops videos right now.....sorry! I tried. But, I will not remove the post...

I'll just reiterate my sentiment of what a HUGE, ENORMOUS fan of The Four Tops I was, still am, and how sad I am to hear he passed at only 72 years old.

Thanks for MANY, MANY great hours of fantastic music, Mr. Stubbs...part of the soundtrack of most of our lives. We owe you a lot. Rest in peace.

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Money's running out............better run for it!

Isn't it reassuring to know that America may have to pull out of a war because we can't afford it anymore?

I'll bet Al Qaeda's thrilled about that because they're not worried about their finances.

z

"Ya say ya want a revolution........."

Supreme Court sides with Ohio elections chief, against state GOP in voter registration suit
Associated Press
Last update: October 17, 2008 - 11:04 AM

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations****
The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms don't match records in other government databases.
Ohio Republicans contended the information for counties would help prevent fraud. Brunner said the GOP is trying to disenfranchise voters.
In a brief unsigned opinion, the justices said they were not commenting on whether Ohio is complying with a provision of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 that lays out requirements for verifying voter eligibility.
Instead, they said they were granting Brunner's request because it appears that the law does not allow private entities, like the Ohio GOP, to file suit to enforce the provision of the law at issue.
About 200,000 of 666,000 voters who have registered in Ohio since Jan. 1 have records that don't match. Brunner has said the discrepancies most likely stem from innocent clerical errors rather than fraud but has set up a verification plan.

z:*** Anybody else wondering if the excellent ACORN lawyers knew about this before this all started? You bet.

z (I was going to put the title in BLUE, a little nod to Americana....but am starting to feel that's a little silly these days.......what happened to the Red, White and Blue? This story is stunning....what do you think?)

MR. Z WONDERS WHY THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T LOOKING INTO THIS.... HE'S RIGHT.