Jackson Browne defeats John McCain

Singer Jackson Browne has won his copyright battle against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), getting an apology and an undisclosed sum of money from the 2008 presidential nominee for a pro-McCain Web video that appropriated the artist's hit song "Running On Empty."

I am just wondering if Barack Obama had of used the song if he would have gotten sued over it. To my understanding, it was the RNC of Ohio that used the song, and John McCain didn't know anything about it. They should have gotten permission, though.
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Jackson Browne defeats John McCain

McCain Blisters Obama on Earmarks

"That's insulting to the American people," McCain said on the Senate floor today as he blistered Obama for agreeing to sign the bill once it gets through the Senate.

McCain pointed out that Obama promised during their campaign to get rid of earmark spending as part of changing the culture of Washington. "So much for the promise of change," McCain sniffed, according to the Associated Press.

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This spending is going way too far. Congress needs to get a grip on it. Thank you, Senator McCain for taking up for us. And why is it that the Democrats aren't saying anything about the spending?

McCain Blisters Obama on Earmarks

John McCain's Twitter updates Omnibus-more PORK? #TCOT

Tmr I am gonna tweet the TOP TEN PORKIEST PROJECTS in the Omnibus Spending bill the Congress is about to pass
12:08 PM Feb 26th from web

top 10 projects on the way
7:34 AM Feb 27th from web

#1. $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa
4:37 PM Feb 27th from web
and the #1 project is
4:26 PM Feb 27th from web
#2. $2 million “for the promotion of astronomy” in Hawaii - because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy
3:56 PM Feb 27th from web
#3. $332,000 for the design and construction of a school sidewalk in Franklin, Texas - not enough $ for schools in the stimulus?
2:19 PM Feb 27th from web
#4. $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York - quick peel me a grape.
12:55 PM Feb 27th from web
#5. $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi
12:52 PM Feb 27th from web
#6. $1 million for mormon cricket control in Utah - is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?
10:30 AM Feb 27th from web
#7. $300,000 for the Montana World Trade Center - enough said
10:21 AM Feb 27th from web
#8. $200,000 "tattoo removal violence outreach program to could help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past" REALLY?
9:50 AM Feb 27th from web
going to the floor
8:40 AM Feb 27th from web
#9. $475,000 to build a parking garage in Provo City, Utah
8:33 AM Feb 27th from web
#10. $1.7M "for a honey bee factory" in Weslaco, TX
8:06 AM Feb 27th from web

John McCain's Twitter updates Omnibus-more PORK? #TCOT

McCain challenges Obama on stimulus

Obama sends out an email to his supporters to back him up on the stimulus, and McCain sends out an email to his supporters to get it blocked. Click here.

I guess that someone needs to inform Obama that the honey moon is over. He also needs to quit letting Nancy Pelosi and friends try to run the country. Isn't that his job?

McCain challenges Obama on stimulus

Congress sued to remove Prez from White House

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A new lawsuit is challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, and this one targets Congress as a defendant for its "failure" to uphold the constitutional demand to make sure Obama qualified before approving the Electoral College vote that actually designated him as the occupant of the Oval Office.

Congress sued to remove Prez from White House

McCain speaks out against Lynn

“I am disappointed in President Obama’s decision to waive the “revolving door” provisions of the executive order for Mr. Bill Lynn, his nominee to serve as deputy secretary of defense,” McCain said. “While I applaud the president’s action to implement new, more stringent ethical rules, I had hoped he would not find it necessary to waive them so soon.”

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McCain speaks out against Lynn

GOP video they are running in Ill. and John McCain speaks out

John McCain spoke out against this video. I couldn't believe it when I heard it on Fox News. Now that I think of it, it is a classic John McCain. Like he said in his campaign speeches, that if he didn't win, then Obama would be his President. If you will think about it, he has never been one for Partisan politics. Party loyalty means nothing to him. His campaign slogan was "Country First".

PoliticoHere is an excerpt:

"He's had a statement every single day, saying that the Obama team should reveal all contacts they've had with Governor [Rod] Blagojevich. He says that Obama's promise of transparency to the American people is now being tested. Do you agree with that?”

McCain replied: “I think that the Obama campaign should and will give all information necessary. You know, in all due respect to the Republican National Committee and anybody — right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together, not only on an issue such as this, but on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary. And so, I don't know all the details of the relationship between President-elect Obama's campaign or his people and the governor of Illinois, but I have some confidence that all the information will come out. It always does, it seems to me.”

GOP video they are running in Ill. and John McCain speaks out

Update on the Natural Born Citizen issue

[UPDATE]: 11:26 AM - Dec. 12 2008 : Rumors of a decision denying Cort’s application are unequivocally false. A SCOTUS Spokesperson just told Cort Wrotnowski there has been no decision. She indicated there will be no decision until Monday. The conference is sealed, no clerks are allowed in.]


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Update on the Natural Born Citizen issue

Why won’t Barack Obama end the controversy?

Why won’t Barack Obama end the controversy?
I was reading an article about the birth certificate issue, and it occurred to me that Barack Obama could end a lot of this controversy by coming clean with the American Public. Why won’t he hand over the long form of his birth certificate? By him not doing so, it makes the American Public, (his constituents) think that he is hiding something. It does nothing but build up the people to not trust him with the Presidency.

Yet, he will spend hundreds of dollars to pay an attorney to keep his birth certificate from being seen. He could solve other issues about his citizenship by handing over the documents that the 13 lawsuits are asking for. Instead, he chooses to let it go through the Supreme Court and take up the honorable justice’s time, and our taxpayer money to let all this “take its course.”

I am in no way defending him on this issue. But, if you will think back to the time before the election when Reverend Wright was spewing his hatred for all the country to see, he didn’t leave his church. Not until Reverend Wright came out against him.

What did Barack Obama do? He claimed he didn’t know what Reverend Wright had been saying, although he sat in a pew at his church for 20 years. The sermons were available right there in the church.

These are just a few examples of how Barack Obama handles situations. How many times did he just vote present in the Illinois legislature? Is it indecision, or does he love to have controversy?

Back during the campaign, when the financial crisis broke, Barack Obama voted present then. John McCain actually tried to do something, and got criticized for it, while Obama did nothing.

Then the MSM, paints Barack Obama’s failure to do anything as leadership ability. Not in my opinion. It is a blatant inability on Barack Obama’s part to make decisions. That is why it took him so long to come up with any plans to help in the financial crisis. This is how he operates.

Instead of looking at a problem straight on, and dealing with it, he ignores the problem, hoping that it will go away. He uses people to get his agenda, and then he throws them under the bus. There is quite a stack of people going under the bus, eventually it will become quite crowded under there.

I hate to think what will happen if he makes it to the Presidency and we have a terrorist attack or some other sort of emergency. He will ignore it until he has to make a decision. This is the way he handles problems. He brings a lot of his problems on himself. That is not leadership and management.

I am glad that Abraham Lincoln wasn’t like that. Three states had already succeeded from the Union when he took office. He handled the problems as quickly as he could. He didn’t sit in the indecision mode until he could do it no longer.

His son Willie died while he was in the White House, and three weeks later, Lincoln commanded his Union Armies himself because he wasn’t satisfied by how the war was going. Barack Obama would not do it, if he were in that situation.

It makes me sick how the MSM are trying to compare Barack Obama to President Lincoln. Just because he read a book on how Lincoln put rivals in the cabinet. Barack Obama, you are not Abraham Lincoln, and you will never be. You aren’t Franklin Roosevelt either. Both of these former presidents had the ability to make decisions, and you have trouble with it.

I just now heard that he has spoken out that the Governor of Illinois has to go. Why didn’t he say that yesterday? This case will be extremely interesting when all the details come out.

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Why won’t Barack Obama end the controversy?

Joe the Plumber says McCain appalled me

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Joe Wurzelbacher lashed out Tuesday at former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, the man who made Wurzelbacher famous as “Joe the Plumber.”

Wurzelbacher told conservative radio host Glenn Beck that he felt “dirty” after “being on the campaign trail and seeing some of the things that take place.”

Recalling a conversation he had with McCain about the $700 billion financial industry bailout in September, Wurzelbacher said: “When I was on the bus with him, I asked him a lot of questions about the bailout because most Americans did not want that to happen.”

“I asked him some pretty direct questions,” he continued. “Some of the answers you guys are gonna receive — they appalled me, absolutely. I was angry. In fact, I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.”

Asked why he didn’t leave McCain’s campaign if he was “appalled” by the candidate, Wurzelbacher said, “honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more.”

While Wurzelbacher was critical of McCain during the interview, he had nothing but praise for his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “Sarah Palin is absolutely the real deal,” he said.

Joe the Plumber says McCain appalled me

They all know

They all know

Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve

This is all I could find on this story. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-birth-certificate1dec08,0,7258812.story

Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve
By Tim Jones | Tribune correspondent
9:16 AM CST, December 8, 2008
UPDATE: The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.

The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth -- his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject -- he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.

Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.

At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit.

Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve

Chester Author: an interesting read

This is very interesting information that Leo Donofrio discovered while doing research on former presidents.

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HISTORICAL BREAKTHROUGH - PROOF: CHESTER ARTHUR CONCEALED HE WAS A BRITISH SUBJECT AT BIRTH
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2008 by naturalborncitizen
December 6, 2008 6:36 PM

[I have collaborated on this with my sister and historian Greg Dehler, author of "Chester Allan Arthur", Published by Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2006 ISBN 1600210791, 9781600210792 192 pages. ]

I’ve been forwarded the actual naturalization record for William Arthur on microfiche, obtained from the Library of Congress. He was naturalized in New York State and became a United States citizen in August 1843.

Chester Arthur perpetrated a fraud as to his eligibility to be Vice President by spreading various lies about his parents’ heritage. President Arthur’s father, William Arthur, became a United States citizen in August 1843. But Chester Arthur was born in 1829. Therefore, he was a British Citizen by descent, and a dual citizen at birth, if not his whole life.

He wasn’t a “natural born citizen” and he knew it.

We’ve also uncovered many lies told by Chester Arthur to the press which kept this fact from public view when he ran for Vice President in 1880. Garfield won the election, became President in 1881, and was assassinated by a fanatical Chester Arthur supporter that same year.

How ironic that the allegations started by Arthur Hinman in his pamphlet entitled, “How A British Subject Became President”, have turned out to be true…but not for the reason Hinman suggested.

Hinman alleged that Arthur was born in Ireland or Canada as a British subject. It was bunk. It’s been definitively established that Chester Arthur was born in Vermont. But Hinman turns out to be correct anyway since Chester Arthur was a British citizen/subject by virtue of his father not having naturalized as a United States citizen until Chester Arthur was almost 14 years old.

That means Chester Arthur was a British subject at the time of his birth.

We’ve uncovered news clips exposing a thorough trail of lies, all of which served to obscure Chester Arthur’s true history of having been born as a British citizen.

Chester Arthur’s lies came during his Vice Presidential campaign in 1880. His fraudulent attempt to obfuscate family history provides context and evidence that in 1880 it was recognized that having been born as a British citizen would make one ineligible to be President or VP. His falsification of family history indicates he was aware of POTUS ineligibility.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Chester Arthur was in politics at the time of the 14th Amendment’s ratification. He was a lawyer and a politician while the 14th Amendment was being debated. It was ratified in 1867. In that same year Chester Arthur rose to become chairperson of the Executive Committee of the State Republican Committee. He would have been fully cognizant of the natural born citizen issue and that should he ever run for POTUS or VP, problems could arise.

He would have known that if anybody found out his father naturalized after he was born, he could never be President or Vice President.

CHESTER’S LIES

The definitive biography on Chester Arthur is “Gentleman Boss” by Thomas Reeves. It’s an exhaustive reference. Many of the blanks in Chester Arthur’s legend were filled in by this book which utilized interviews with family members and authentic documents like the Arthur family Bible. It was a necessary work since old Chester Arthur was a very wily protector of his strange history. He burned all of his papers. (See page 2365.)

“Gentleman Boss” establishes, on page 4, that Chester Arthur’s father William was born in Ireland, 1796, and emigrated to Canada in 1818 or 1819. His mother Malvina was born in Vermont and his parents eloped in Canada in 1821. They had their first child, Regina, in Dunham, Canada on March 8, 1822.

By no later than 1824, the Arthur family had moved to Burlington, Vermont. Their second child Jane was born there on March 14, 1824. Chester Arthur was their fifth child, and he was born on October 5, 1829. Reeves established these facts (and the correct date of Chester Arthur’s birth) from the Arthur family Bible.

From “Gentleman Boss”, page 202 and 203:

“…Hinman was hired, apparently by democrats, to explore rumors that Arthur had been born in a foreign country, was not a natural-born citizen of the United States, and was thus, by the Constitution, ineligible for the vice-presidency. By mid-August, Hinman was claiming that Arthur was born in Ireland and had been brought to the United States by his father when he was fourteen. Arthur denied the charge and said that his mother was a New Englander who had never left her native country — a statement every member of the Arthur family knew was untrue.”

Arthur’s mother had lived in Canada with her husband and even had her first child there.

In the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, an article interviewing Chester Arthur about Hinman’s accusations was published on August 13, 1880. In that article, Chester Arthur defended himself as follows:

“My father, the late Rev. William Arthur, D.D., was of Scotch blood, and was a native of the North of Ireland. He came to this country when he was eighteen years of age, and resided here several years before he was married.”

This was another blatant lie. His father emigrated from Ireland to Canada at the age of 22 or 23. William Arthur didn’t come to the United States until sometime between March 1822 - when his first child was born in Dunham, Canada - and March 1824 - when his second child was born in Burlington, Vermont. The youngest he could have been when he came to Vermont was 26.

On August 16, 1880 Chester Arthur told the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper that at the time of his birth, his father was forty years old. Another blatant lie. His father would have been only thirty-three years old when Chester was born.

In that same article he lied that his father settled in Vermont and reiterated the lie that William came here at the age of eighteen. This age discrepancy was exposed in the August 19, 1880 edition of the Brooklyn Eagle in an article written by Hinman .

It was very convenient for Arthur that Hinman kept the focus on the extraordinary and false claim - that Arthur was born abroad - while the more subtle and true eligibility issue stayed hidden in plain site.

FATEFUL FACTS

I contacted Greg Dehler a few days ago after finding a reference in his Chester Arthur biography which said William Arthur became a citizen in 1843. I wrote to Greg and asked him about the reference. As fate would have it, Mr. Dehler, after checking his notes, wrote back to me to say that he got it from Thomas Reeves’ book, “Gentleman Boss”.

I went to the library the next day and devoured the Reeves book. But the reference to William’s naturalization was not there. Greg also knew I was interested in the Hinman scandal and pointed me to the Brooklyn Eagle search engine from the Brooklyn public library.

I began poking around and discovered a few of the lies mentioned above.

Earlier today I was telling my sister that this matter of Chester Arthur having falsified his parents’ personal history might lead to a very important revision of history. I suggested we put together an outline of a book as we might be able to prove that Chester Arthur was a fraudulent President and that would be quite a story. My sister thought I was jumping the gun a bit in that we really needed to define when William Arthur was naturalized before we could get excited.

About an hour later I received an email from Greg Dehler. I’ll let you read it:

Leo,

Needless to say I was more than a little embarrassed that you could not locate the reference in Reeves. I thought that was odd because my note concerning William Arthur was with the Reeves notes. I conducted a more thorough search and found the source. It was in the Chester A. Arthur Papers (what is left of them at least) at the LOC. I own the microfilm reels and made a copy for you which is attached. The Washington County Clerk in NYS dates it August 31, 1843. How does this affect Chet?

Greg

I almost fell off my chair when I downloaded the William Arthur naturalization PDF and was staring at the shifting sands of history.

Chester Arthur had something to hide.

He had all of his papers burned which was very odd for a President.

Arthur lied about his mother’s time in Canada. He lied about his father’s time in Canada. He lied about his father’s age plus where and when he got off the boat from Ireland. By obscuring his parents’ personal history he curtailed the possibility that anybody might discover he was born many years before his father had naturalized.

When Chester runs for VP, Hinman comes along essentially demanding to see Chester’s birth certificate to prove he was born in the United States. This causes a minor scandal easily thwarted by Chester, because Chester was born in Vermont…but at the same time, the fake scandal provides cover for the real scandal.

Is this the twilight zone?

William Arthur was not a naturalized citizen at the time of Chester Arthur’s birth, and therefore Chester Arthur was a British subject at birth and not eligible to be Vice President or President.

Chester Arthur lied about his father’s emigration to Canada and the time his mother spent there married to William. Some sixty years later, Chester lied about all of this and kept his candidacy on track. Back then it would have been virtually impossible to see through this, especially since Arthur’s father had died in 1875 and had been a United States citizen for thirty-two years.

And without knowledge of his father’s time in Canada, or the proper timeline of events, potential researchers in 1880 would have been hard pressed to even know where to start.

Reeves proved that Arthur changed his birth year from 1829 to 1830. I don’t know if that would have protected recorded information. It’s another lie. I just don’t know what it means.

Because Chester Arthur covered up his British citizenship, any precedent he might have set that the country has had a President born of an alien father is nullified completely as Chester Arthur was a usurper to the Presidency. He wouldn’t have been on the ticket if it was public knowledge. Nobody knew Arthur was a British subject because nobody looked in the right place for the truth.

And it’s no precedent to follow.

Leo C. Donofrio COPYRIGHT 2008

Chester Author: an interesting read

McCain Couldn't Compete With Obama's Money

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Karl Rove had a very interesting article about campaign funds during the election.

Both men and the national parties will report to the Federal Election Commission today how much money they raised in October and November. And what the numbers will probably show is that Mr. Obama outspent Mr. McCain by the biggest margin in history, perhaps a quarter of a billion dollars.

McCain Couldn't Compete With Obama's Money

McCain Owes Sarah Some Straight Talk - Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Opinion Journal


Where's John McCain's honor when we need it?
We'll find out tonight, when the Arizona Republican appears on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. In the week since the election, Mr. McCain's campaign team has leaked some nasty stuff about Sarah Palin. These leaks are personal, and they speak more to the character of Mr. McCain and the leakers than they do to Mrs. Palin. So it will be telling if Mr. McCain stands up for his partner and says how offended he has been by what some of his staffers have done to her.
Two weeks or so before the campaign was over, the first round of McCain campaign rumors alleged that Mrs. Palin was a "whack job," and characterized her clothes-shopping as "hillbillies looting Neiman-Marcus from coast to coast." More recently, she has been alleged to know as little about geography as Barack Obama knows about the number of states in the union (at one point, he put it at 57).
The unmistakable message here has nothing to do with Africa, the North American Free Trade Agreement or bathrobes. It is the campaign team's cry, "It's not our fault. How could we ever win with this woman on the ticket?"
The first point to make here is the most obvious: This is the language of losers.


Associated PressThis whole display calls to mind those embarrassing codas to each episode of "The Apprentice," when the losing team would sit before Donald Trump in the boardroom and then start blaming everyone but themselves for their failures. The apparent eagerness of Team McCain to indulge in this kind of fingerpointing is similarly unprofessional, and it raises an interesting question.
We are asked to believe that Mrs. Palin was not ready for a national campaign. On what evidence from any part of this election are we to conclude that anyone on the McCain campaign team was ready for a national campaign?
Let's stipulate that Mrs. Palin was not perfect. Regardless whose idea the Katie Couric interview was, it went badly and left some damage. The phone call she took from a comedian pretending to be French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy didn't help. Neither did her assignment as campaign attack dog, the traditional role for any vice presidential candidate.
Yet there are other, more salient points. In the treatment of Mrs. Palin by some of the McCain staff, there is the clear whiff of condescension. That's something a sitting American governor might understandably find hard to stomach coming from a bunch of young professional Republicans who have never themselves run for office.
Ultimately, of course, this will all pass. And if Mrs. Palin goes back and continues to do a good job as governor of Alaska, these attacks will likely only reinforce her outside-the-Beltway credentials to rank-and-file Republicans.
Let's remember too that the only time Mr. McCain surged ahead -- in the polls, in the volunteers, in the mojo -- was when he picked Mrs. Palin. Before that he and his staff had been flying solo, and they were losing. When the contest returned to the top of the ticket, as presidential campaigns inevitably do, Mr. McCain and his team drove their lead into the ground.
It wasn't Mrs. Palin who dramatically flew to Washington promising a legislative answer to the most important economic issue of our day -- and then, in the words of a New York Times campaign profile, "came off more like a stymied bystander than a leader who could make a difference."
What Does the GOP Do Next?
Danny Vargas: Diversity is DestinyPaul Ryan: Take Some Political RisksHenry Olsen: What Would Reagan Do?Peter Robinson: Put California in PlayRichard Land: Stay Faithful to Core ValuesMichael Steele: Listen. Adapt. Be Positive.And what does it say when the campaign team of a man who has spent decades in the U.S. Senate cannot agree on (much less present) a coherent answer to why he should be elected president of the United States -- except that he's not Barack Obama?
In Mr. McCain's moving concession speech, he wished "godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president." He asked his fellow Americans to join him in helping President-elect Obama bridge our differences and build a better, more hopeful nation.
It will be instructive to see whether Mr. McCain will now extend the same level of graciousness to Mrs. Palin that he has to Mr. Obama, by giving a public slapdown to the very public smears emanating from his own campaign team. We have no idea what Mr. McCain will do when he sits down with Mr. Leno tonight.
But there's no doubt what a man of honor would do.
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Hank Williams, Jr. new video!!!!!!

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John McCain and Tina Fey on SNL

John McCain and Tina Fey on SNL

Schwarzenegger Pumps Up McCain Rally in Ohio

Schwarzenegger Pumps Up McCain Rally in Ohio
The 'Governator' poked fun at Obama while praising McCain at campaign stop

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Friday, 2008-31-305


Arnold Schwarzenegger had the crowd in the palm of his hand Friday at a John McCain rally in Columbus, Ohio, with a speech that mixed a healthy helping of jokes with praise for the Republican presidential candidate.

"You look all pumped up. You look ready to elect John McCain president of the United States," Schwarzenegger said, before moving on to a story about Halloween back in California.

He said he had just called his wife, Maria Shriver -- a member of the Kennedy family -- and had asked her what she had given to trick-or-treaters. Candy, cookie, M&Ms and an apple, she had told him.

"Typical liberal giveaway," Schwarzenegger said.

The "Governator," a former bodybuilder, also had some fun at the expense of McCain's rival, Barack Obama, and Obama's slight frame.

"He needs to do something about those skinny legs, make him do some squats and some bicep curls to build up those scrawny little arms. If only we could do something about putting some meat on his ideas," he said, adding that McCain was "built like a rock."

Schwarzenegger, known for dipping into his Hollywood past to fill his speeches with movie catchphrases, said voters "don't have to wonder, is (McCain) ready to be president?"

"John McCain served longer in a POW camp than his opponent has in the United States Senate," he said. "Ladies and gentlemen, I only play an action hero in my movies, but John McCain is a real action hero."

McCain has been hitting Ohio hard this week in an effort to trim Obama's lead in this key battleground state before Tuesday's election. The Republican's campaign has scheduled more stops in the Buckeye state for Saturday, and it has put an emphasis on Pennsylvania as well.

"Our position in these states is strong and undecided voters continue to have a very favorable impression of our candidate," campaign manager Rich Davis said Friday evening in a "Final Push" memo.

Schwarzenegger Pumps Up McCain Rally in Ohio

McCain in Virginia

October 31, 2008

ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today will deliver the following remarks as prepared for delivery at the McCain-Palin 2008 rally in Columbus, OH, at 5:45 p.m. ET:

Thank you Arnold! Thank you Ohio! We need to win Ohio on November 4th, and with your help — we’re going to win here, and bring real change to Washington. We need a new direction, and we have to fight for it.

I’ve been fighting for this country since I was seventeen years old, and I have the scars to prove it. My country has never had to prove anything to me. I have always had faith in it. If I’m elected President, I will fight to shake up Washington and take America in a new direction from my first day in office until my last. I’m not afraid of the fight, I’m ready for it.

I have a plan to hold the line on taxes and cut them to make America more competitive and create jobs here at home. We’re going to double the child deduction for working families. We will cut the capital gains tax. And we will cut business taxes to help create jobs, and keep American businesses in America. Raising taxes makes a bad economy much worse. Keeping taxes low creates jobs, keeps money in your hands and strengthens our economy.

If I’m elected President, I won’t spend nearly a trillion dollars more of your money. Senator Obama will. And he can’t do that without raising your taxes or digging us further into debt. I’m going to make government live on a budget just like you do.

I will freeze government spending on all but the most important programs like defense, veterans care, Social Security and health care until we scrub every single government program and get rid of the ones that aren’t working for the American people. And I will veto every single pork barrel bill Congresses passes.

I’m not going to spend 750 billion dollars of your money just bailing out the Wall Street bankers and brokers who got us into this mess. Senator Obama will. I’m going to make sure we take care of the working people who were devastated by the excesses of Wall Street and Washington.

I have a plan to fix our housing market, so that your home value doesn’t go down when your neighbor defaults, and so that people in danger of defaulting have a way to stay in their home. That’s the American dream and I’m going to protect it.

If I’m elected President, we’re going to stop spending 700 billion dollars to buy oil from countries that don’t like us very much. Senator Obama is eloquent, but listen carefully to his words: he says he will consider drilling offshore. When I am president, we will drill offshore, and we will drill now. We will invest in all energy alternatives — wind, solar, tide and safe nuclear power. We will encourage the manufacture of hybrid, flex fuel and electric automobiles. We will invest in clean coal technology. We will lower the cost of energy within months, and we will create millions of new jobs.

We’ve learned more about Senator Obama’s real goals for our country over the last two weeks than we learned over the past two years, and that is only because Joe the plumber asked him a question right here in Ohio. That’s when Senator Obama revealed he wants to quote “spread the wealth around.”

Now, Joe didn’t ask for Senator Obama to come to his house, and he didn’t ask to be famous. He certainly didn’t ask for the political attacks on him from the Obama campaign. Joe’s dream is to own a small business that will create jobs, and the attacks on him are an attack on small businesses all over the country. Small businesses employ 84 percent of Americans, and we need to support these small businesses. Taxing small businesses will kill jobs. We can’t let that happen.

Senator Obama is running to be Redistributionist in Chief. I’m running to be Commander in Chief. Senator Obama is running to spread the wealth. I’m running to create more wealth. Senator Obama is running to punish the successful. I’m running to make everyone successful.

Senator Obama has made a lot of promises. First he said people making less than 250,000 dollars would benefit from his plan, then this weekend he announced in an ad that if you’re a family making less than 200,000 dollars you’ll benefit — but this week, Senator Biden said tax relief should only go to “middle class people — people making under 150,000 dollars a year.” Just today, Bill Richardson said it applied to families making 120,000 dollars a year. It’s interesting how their definition of rich has a way of creeping down. Senator Obama voted 94 times for tax increases or against tax cuts. At this rate, it won’t be long before Senator Obama is right back to his vote that Americans making just 42,000 dollars a year should get a tax increase. I’m not going to let that happen.

Now he’s saying that if you don’t want to pay higher taxes you’re quote “selfish.” You see, he views higher taxes not in economic terms, but in moral terms. It doesn’t matter to him that higher taxes will hurt our economy and kill jobs; he believes the government has a moral claim on your hard earned dollars. I’m not going to let him kill jobs and send our economy into a tailspin with higher taxes. I’m going to cut taxes and create jobs.

Thanks to Speaker Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Frank we know this Democratic Congress is planning all sorts of new taxes. This week, we are hearing they want to tax your 401k contributions. This is a time when we need to encourage more investing, not tax it. We need to protect people’s retirement, not endanger it. Every four years, the Democrats try to scare seniors over Social Security and Medicare. I’m going to protect Social Security. I’m going to protect Medicare. I’m not going to let this Congress tax away your retirement savings.

My opponent’s massive new tax increase is exactly the wrong approach in an economic slowdown. The answer to a slowing economy is not higher taxes, but that is exactly what is going to happen when the Democrats have total control of Washington. We can’t let that happen. We need pro-growth and pro-jobs economic policies, not pro-government spending programs paid for with higher taxes.

This is the fundamental difference between Senator Obama and me. We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is that he thinks taxes have been too low, and I think that spending has been too high.

If we are going to change Washington, we need a President who has actually fought for change and made it happen. The next President won’t have time to get used to the office. We face many challenges here at home, and many enemies abroad in this dangerous world.

Senator Biden warned that Senator Obama would be tested with an international crisis. I have been tested. Senator Obama hasn’t. Senator Biden referred to how Jack Kennedy was tested in the Cuban Missile Crisis and I have a little personal experience in that. I was on board the U.S.S. Enterprise, and I sat in a cockpit on the flight deck waiting to take off. We had a target. I know how close we came to a nuclear war and I will not be a president who needs to be tested.

We know Senator Obama won’t have the right response to that test, because we’ve seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign. He opposed the surge strategy that is bringing us victory in Iraq and will bring us victory in Afghanistan. He said he would sit down unconditionally with the world’s worst dictators. When Russia invaded Georgia, Sen. Obama said the invaded country should show restraint. He’s been wrong on all of these. When I am president, we are going to win in Iraq and win in Afghanistan, and our troops will come home with honor. Our troops are succeeding, and when I am President, they will come home in victory, not in defeat.

Let me give you some straight talk about the state of the race today. There’s just 4 days left. The pundits have written us off, just like they’ve done before. My opponent is working out the details with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid of their plans to raise your taxes, increase spending, and concede defeat in Iraq. He’s measuring the drapes, and he gave his first address to the nation before the election, and this week he’s settled on a chief of staff. We’ve been a few points down, but we’re coming back!

The other night, Senator Obama said that if he lost, he would return to the Senate and try again in four years with a second act. That sounds like a great idea to me. Let’s help him make that happen.

I know you’re worried. America is a great country, but we are at a moment of national crisis that will determine our future.

Will we continue to lead the world’s economies or will we be overtaken? Will the world become safer or more dangerous? Will our military remain the strongest in the world? Will our children and grandchildren’s future be brighter than ours?

My answer to you is yes. Yes, we will lead. Yes, we will prosper. Yes, we will be safer. Yes, we will pass on to our children a stronger, better country. But we must be prepared to act swiftly, boldly, with courage and wisdom.

I’m an American. And I choose to fight. Don’t give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight. Fight for a new direction for our country. Fight for what’s right for America.

Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting and selfishness in Washington.

Fight to get our economy out of the ditch and back in the lead.

Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.

Fight for our children’s future.

Fight for justice and opportunity for all.

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.

Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. Nothing is inevitable here. We never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history. Now, let’s go win this election and get this country moving again.

What an awesome speech. It is amazing McCain has the energy to make such an impassioned speech! Go for it John McCain! You have my vote.

McCain in Virginia

Marty Seifert: The times call for John McCain

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Marty Seifert: The times call for John McCain
By Rep. Marty Seifert

Last update: October 31, 2008 - 10:50 PM

America is at a moment of national crisis that will determine its future. Will it continue to lead the world’s economies or will it be overtaken? Will the world become safer or more dangerous? Will our military remain the strongest in the world? Will our children and grandchildren’s future be brighter than ours?

I believe our answer is a resounding “Yes!” But we must elect a president who is prepared to do more than just offer eloquent words. At a time of economic crisis and international conflict, America can’t afford to take a gamble on what the Star Tribune describes as a “flawed” candidate who would ideally “have more experience” (Editorial, Oct. 26).

That is why I strongly urge you to vote for the candidate who has fought for his country and its citizens since age 17 by continually putting his country first: John McCain.

Clearly both candidates for president possess noble intentions for this country. While we can all acknowledge Sen. Barack Obama’s ability to wax poetic on the stump and speak in undefined terms about “hope and change,” America requires more substance from one who would stand to lead her during this perilous time. As Americans, we have an obvious choice as to who will be the true agent of change in this election, and it is not the junior senator from Illinois.

At this moment in our history, it is imperative we choose someone who can lead in a bipartisan manner, not just talk about it. John McCain’s career in the Senate is a testament to this type of leadership. There are numerous examples of Sen. McCain taking on his own party and working with different members of the Senate who are Democrats.

We’ve heard Sen. Obama promise he’s only going to go after “the rich.” However, it will be a large portion of the middle class who will bear the brunt. To pay for nearly a trillion dollars in new government spending, his tax increases would impact 50 percent of small-business income and the jobs of 16 million middle-class Americans who work for those small businesses. You cannot say you are going to create more jobs, then tax job providers.

In tough economic times, higher taxes are the last thing we need. Sen. McCain believes in policies that grow the economy and create jobs. He knows the true engine of our economic recovery is our middle class, including small-business owners and the workers they employ, and that tax increases which penalize success in the name of spreading the wealth will mean layoffs and a deeper recession.

One candidate wants to spread wealth, while the other wants to spread opportunity. One will punish the successful, while the other wants to make everyone successful. One wants my vote with promises of “hope and change,” while the other has earned my vote through a career of service putting country first.

John McCain has said he will stand and fight for us. I ask that you join me and stand for him to be our next president.

Rep. Marty Seifert is the minority leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and a member of the McCain-Palin 2008 Minnesota Steering Committee.

Marty Seifert: The times call for John McCain