Doesn't Hillary Really Favor McCain?

A tough governor, Alaska's Sarah Palin, with some equally tough soldiers from her state. Gov. Palin's 18-year-old son, Track, is in the U.S. Army infantry. He enlisted on September 11, 2007.

Is this the woman who will face off against Hillary Clinton for the presidency in 2012 or 2016? A growing number of observers believe that will the case. This weekend, I'll be writing about Sarah Palin on this site -- with a separate piece on my national blog. Please visit.

Tomorrow, Senator Clinton will endorse a man she despises: Barack Obama. Her heart definitely will not be in it.

Isn't this the man -- and old friend -- that Hillary Clinton believes has the character and experience to be a great President?

"What if he [John McCain] chooses a woman for V-P and Obama doesn't?" (Susan Page, USA TODAY, on CNN June 5)

Make no mistake: This is the original Hillary Supporters for McCain blog. The "other guy," highlighted this morning on CNN, is little more than an impostor. My own site has been up and running since late April. Yesterday, I got more "hits" in a day than I had in the previous week, and I hope to do better today.

If Hillary supporters end up voting for Obama, they truly will have to hold their noses -- with both hands. Frankly, the Obama Campaign has portrayed Mrs. Clinton as a liar, a warmonger (for voting for the original Iraq resolution), and a racist. It's a little hard to take those things back.

Thus, many supporters of Hillary Clinton will not vote for Barack Obama. They believe the Illinois Senator used race and gender in highly improper ways. Some of them believe Obama is not "a Black man." Why? Because he's the child of a white mother and a Black father who deserted the family early in Obama's life. Obama, like so many Americans is of "mixed race," a term he never uses.

Barack was brought up by a white mother (Anna Dunham) and white grandparents (the Dunhams). For obvious reasons, the candidate didn't emphasize those politically inconvenient truths.

In states (South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana) with large numbers of Blacks voting in the Democratic Primary, Obama emphasized his "Blackness." In states with mainy whites voting in the primaries, Obama talked about -- and ran commercials highlighting -- his white relatives.

Geraldine Ferraro, a good and decent person, said months ago that Obama was succeeding because he was a Black candidate (or at least, presented himself as such). For that, Ferraro was mercilessly smeared by the Obama campaign and the national media.

Remember Obama's "major speech" (in Philadelphia) on race? You may recall that he gave the speech, but I challenge to remember one sentence -- or even a phrase -- in that windy piece of oratory.

Bill Clinton has said that Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger served as "surrogates" for Obama. Their job, as the ex-President put it, was to "slime" Mrs. Clinton. After the damage was done, Obama mildly criticized Wright and Pfleger. In fact, Obama said the reason he (mildly) criticized Wright was that the Pastor had "disrespected" him!

Obama's relationship with Wright goes back 20 years. The same is true of his relationship with demagogic priest Pfleger. Are we to believe that Obama only discovered the men's views in the past few months? What has changed is that it's become impolitic for Obama to remain close to the two men. As Wright said, if Obama wins the White House, the Pastor expects to be welcomed with open arms to the White House.

So, why should Hillary Clinton supporters embrace the candidacy of John McCain? Frankly, the Hillary backers can answer that question for themselves. There's one candidate who has the qualifications and qualities to be a good President, and that person is NOT Barack Obama.

Tomorrow, Senator Clinton will "endorse" a person she despises: Barack Obama. Her heart will not be in it.

Obama: Not Really Presidential Material

Almost always the column here is "site-specific," but this time I'm reprinting a column from my national blog. Today on my Pennsylvania blog I talk about a critical issue you won't hear about from the national media: the need for Republican candidates for Congress to dovetail their campaigns with that of John McCain. As this week unfolds, I'll be talking about the question of why Senator Clinton stays in the race. One reason is that she's aware of the devastating shortcoming of Barack Obama, as illustrated by the piece below. Clinton may end up campaigning for Obama, but she will do it with her fingers crossed. She's now looking ahead to running against President McCain in 2012. Meanwhile, McCain is looking closely at Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate. Yes, we live in what the Chinese call "exciting times."

Obama speaking and curing Pastor's insomnia .

A political campaign "biography" emerges as pure fiction . . .

One of the best conservative columnists in the U.S. is Jack Kelly of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Jack's work appears every Sunday in the P-G and the Toledo Blade. His most recent column is "The Potato Test: Obama Generates Even More Gaffes Than Dan Quayle."

Kelly says, "In last week's column, I twitted Mr. Obama for saying he'd campaigned in 57 states, for not knowing that his home state of Illinois borders on Kentucky and for claiming the Cuban Missile Crisis (October, 1962) was defused by President Kennedy's summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev (June, 1981). Earlier, Mr. Obama said 10,000 people were killed when a tornado struck Greensburg, Kansas, last year (the death toll was 12), and assumed Afghans speak Arabic (they don't)."

In this week's column Kelly examines Obama's latest fabrication, where he said his "uncle" was one of the American soldiers who "liberated Auschwitz." In fact, as we've all been reminded, it was the Russian Red Army that liberated that particular death camp. Also, Obama didn't have an "uncle" in the U.S. military, because his mother (Anna Dunham) was an only child. (Any uncles on his father's side lived in Africa and were not in the American military.)

Responding to such observations, Obama's camp replied that the candidate had misspoken. He was really referring to his great uncle, Charlie Payne, who had been a member of the 89th Infantry that had liberated a slave labor camp associated with Buchenwald.

The national press basically left the issue there, but Jack Kelly doesn't.

Obama's great-uncle (still very much alive) apparently didn't serve in the Army. According to the Kansas Historical Association, Payne enlisted in the Navy on November 10, 1942. There's no evidence he was ever anywhere near Buchenwald.

On other occasions, Obama has invoked his maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, whom the Illinois Senator claims "signed up for the war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed." In fact, Mr. Dunham enlisted not on December 8, 1941, but rather on June 18, 1942.

Obama has said Grandpa Dunham "heard the stories of fellow troops who has entered Auschwitz and Treblinka." Unfortunately for Obama, Treblinka -- like Auschwitz -- was liberated by the Red Army, so it's unlikely his grandfather heard any stories about those particular death camps.

How long do we have to put up with Obama spinning fantasies about his life and the lives of family members? In his own life, Obama has NO real links to the military, so he invents them, somehow feeling his tall tales will help qualify him as a credible commander-in-chief.

Jack Kelly is doing the nation a service in pointing out the Senator's constant fabrications.
In many ways, the Illinois Senator remains the most mysterious of men. However, the more we do know, the more disturbing this strange individual becomes.