Join John McCain on a conference call this Saturday
Dear Supporter,
We're holding our final McCain Nation national event day this Saturday, October 25th. If you haven't signed up to host or attend an event on Saturday, please do so today at www.johnmccain.com/mccainnation.
You won't want to miss out on Saturday's event, because all McCain Nation event participants will be able to join John McCain on a conference call at 11am Eastern Time. Senator McCain will give an exclusive campaign update from the road and take caller questions.
Please sign up to host or attend a McCain Nation Super Saturday event at www.johnmccain.com/mccainnation.
McCain Nation's Super Saturday is a way for you to connect with fellow McCain-Palin supporters in your neighborhood or hometown. And this Saturday, we'll ask you to reach out to voters in battleground states on behalf of John McCain and Sarah Palin by making phone calls or going door-to-door.
With only two weeks to go until Election Day, a few hours of your time spent making phone calls or knocking on doors could make the difference in what will be an extremely close election. The conference call in the morning with John McCain will be a great kick-off to your event, so please get started today at www.johnmccain.com/mccainnation.
As a supporter, you are the most effective surrogate we have in the campaign and we need you to get involved and reach out to undecided voters for the McCain-Palin ticket.
As an event host, you will be given detailed call sheets or door-to-door instructions, so you can reach out to undecided voters near you. This is an important event and we need your participation to make it a success.
In addition to reaching out to undecided voters, we need your vote. If you've received your absentee ballot in the mail, remember to bring it to the event to cast your vote early for John McCain and Sarah Palin. If you haven't requested an absentee ballot or need to locate your early vote polling location, please do so on our website, www.johnmccain.com/ab.
Thanks for your support and good luck on Saturday!
Sincerely,
Christian Ferry
Deputy Campaign Manager
P.S. If you'd like to participate in an exclusive conference call with John McCain this Saturday morning at 11am Eastern, please sign up to host or attend a McCain Nation Super Saturday event. We're counting on you to help us continue closing the polling gap to win on November 4th.
The new American Royal Family
Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, left, her husband Todd and daughters, Piper, center, and Willow, right, pledge allegiance to the flag before a campaign rally at the Beaver Area High School in Beaver, Pa. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008.
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I am Joe...and why that matters
Team,
We're now 12 days out from Election Day and I wanted to give you an important campaign update.
An Associated Press headline said yesterday that this race is "All even in the homestretch." All indicators point to this race coming down to the wire, so it's extremely important to reach out to undecided voters - the key to winning this election. The election is in your hands and I'm asking you to make the case to undecided voters for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Here's what you should tell them... Joe's story is your story
Instead of spreading wealth around, John McCain and Sarah Palin will spread opportunity.
Recently in Ohio, Senator Obama finally broke down and famously told "Joe the Plumber" that his economic plan is to, "spread the wealth around." Joe is working hard to realize the American dream, as are millions of other people who work hard, pay taxes and dream of owning a small business one day. Barack Obama will raise taxes on hardworking Americans to give a government handout to the 40% of Americans who pay no income taxes.
Thanks to "Joe the Plumber," voters are starting to see the clear difference between John McCain and Barack Obama on taxes. Joe's story is your story ... the story of hard work and the American dream. "Joe the Plumber" isn't just one man in Ohio ... it's every person in America with hopes, dreams and the desire to work hard with the opportunity to succeed.
John McCain and Sarah Palin have an economic plan that celebrates the American dream of opportunity, not government giveaways. In this country, we believe in spreading opportunity, for those who need jobs and those who create them. That's why their economic plan - Jobs for America - is so important for the American people in this time of economic crisis.
While Barack Obama is ready to "spread the wealth around," John McCain has a plan to get our economy moving so everyone has access to good jobs, a quality education and the opportunity to succeed.
John McCain and Sarah Palin don't just talk about change ... they deliver.
This election is certainly about change - there's no doubt about it. But that's why we're talking to voters about the difference between lower taxes and the opportunity to work hard for the American dream ... or higher taxes and government giveaways with Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
You can trust John McCain and Sarah Palin because they are the real deal; reformers with a record who stand by their words and will always put their country first.
Time and time again this team of mavericks has stood up, taken on tough issues and delivered. They're the real deal. They have a clear record that can deliver results, not just rhetoric that delivers votes.
In the last 12 days of this campaign, we want voters to hear the story of "Joe the Plumber" to understand the important differences between John McCain and Barack Obama. Please take a minute today to watch videos submitted to our "I'm Joe the Plumber" video contest to see how people all across America recognize that they too are Joe the Plumber. Then forward this message to your friends with a personal message about why you're like Joe the Plumber and why you are supporting John McCain and Sarah Palin on Election Day.
Thanks,
Rick Davis
Campaign Manager, McCain-Palin 2008
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/files/Focusletter.pdf
Obama spells 'persecution,' warns Focus on the Family
Analysts see same-sex marriage, Fairness Doctrine on horizon
Posted: October 22, 2008
10:53 pm Eastern
By Art Moore
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
James Dobson
What would America look like after four years of a Barack Obama administration?
(GOD forbid an Obama win...NObama! NObama! NObama!)
"Hardship," "persecution" and "suffering" are among the prospects in a hypothetical letter from a "Christian from 2012" released today by evangelical leader James Dobson's political activist group Focus on the Family Action.
Titled "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," the piece clearly targets the many evangelical Christians seeking "change," particularly the young, who could tip the election in favor of the Illinois Democrat. At the end of the letter, the fictional Christian laments that these people "simply did not realize Obama's far-left agenda would take away many of our freedoms as a nation, perhaps permanently," pointing to a new, liberal-majority Supreme Court unlikely to change for 30 more years.
"I get tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat," says the fictional writer. "Now in October of 2012, after seeing what has happened in the last four years," America is no longer "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
"Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a majority of Democrats in both the House and the Senate, and hardly any brave citizen dares to resist the new government policies any more," the letter writer says.
Focus on the Family Action, established as a separate legal entity from Focus on the Family, has expanded abilities under the IRS code to lobby for political change.
Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of public policy for Focus on the Family Action, affirmed to WND the letter is designed to address a "concerted effort by Obama and Democrats to capture people of faith since 2004."
"Certainly, I think, younger evangelicals may be swayed by the rhetoric and charisma of Obama without really having the historical perspective of what allowing liberal Democrats to control government would do," she said.
"I think a lot of Americans are not connecting the dots, that this would be the first time since 1965 that liberals have dominated the White House, Congress and, potentially, the Supreme Court."
Earll affirmed that Dobson has not endorsed Republican nominee Sen. John McCain but plans to vote for him.
In a preface, Focus on the Family Action explains the letter is a "What if?" exercise, but insists "that does not make it empty speculation, because every future 'event' described here is based on established legal and political trends that can already be abundantly documented and that only need a 'tipping point' such as the election of Senator Obama and a Democratic House and Senate to begin to put them into place."
Focus adds that evangelicals on both sides of the election should "continue to respect and cherish each other's friendship as well as the freedom people have in the United States to differ on these issues and to freely speak our opinions about them to one another."
Nevertheless, the footnoted letter anticipates an America, under Obama, that realizes the worst fears of Dobson and his millions of supporters.
Among the possible developments by 2012:
* Six liberal justices sit on the Supreme Court after the immediate resignation of John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the later resignations of Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy.
* Homosexual marriage has been ruled a constitutional right that must be respected by all 50 states.
* The Boy Scouts have disbanded rather than obey a decision forcing them to allow homosexual scoutmasters. (The Scouts already had been kicked out of public facilities because of an expansion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to cover people who engage in homosexual behavior.)
* Elementary schools have compulsory training in varieties of gender identity. Courts rule parents cannot opt out their children, because the training is deemed essential to psychological health.
* Evangelical and Catholic adoption agencies cease to exist after the Supreme Court rules they must agree to place children with homosexuals or lose their licenses.
* Church buildings are now considered a "public accommodation" by the United States Supreme Court, and churches have no freedom to refuse to allow their buildings to be used for wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.
* High schools are no longer free to allow "see you at the pole" meetings where students pray together or any student Bible studies even before or after school.
* The Supreme Court barred public schools in all 50 states from allowing churches to rent their facilities, even on Sundays, when school was not in session.
* Obama signed the Freedom of Choice Act, as he promised the Planned Parenthood Action Fund last year, nullifying hundreds of state laws that had created even the slightest barrier to abortion.
* The Supreme Court in 2011 nullified all Federal Communications Commission restrictions on obscene speech or visual content in radio and TV broadcasts, and television programs at all hours of the day now contain explicit portrayals of sexual acts.
* As a result of a reversal of its 5-4 decision in the D.C. gun-ownership case, it is now illegal for private citizens to own guns for self-defense in eight states, and the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships
* Parents' freedom to teach their children at home has been severely restricted nationwide after the Supreme Court followed the legal reasoning of a Feb. 28, 2008, ruling by the Second District Court of Appeal in California.
The letter also "recalls" a President Obama fulfilling his campaign promise to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, resulting in a flood of al-Qaida operatives from Syria and Iran pouring into Iraq and completely overwhelming Iraqi security forces.
"A Taliban-like oppression has now taken over in Iraq, and hundreds of thousands of 'American sympathizers' have been labeled as traitors, imprisoned, tortured, and killed," the letter says. "The number put to death may soon reach into the millions. Al-Qaida leaders have been emboldened by what they are calling this American 'defeat' and their ranks are swelling in dozens of countries."
The letter also looks back at an explosion of terrorist bombs in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds and spreading fear across the nation.
"President Obama in each case has vowed 'to pursue and arrest and prosecute those responsible,' but no arrests have yet been made," the letter says.
Obama 'tested'
The hypothetical letter plays on vice presidential candidate Joe Biden's warning to fundraisers last Sunday in Seattle that some hostile foreign country will test the inexperienced Obama in his first six months of office.
In early 2009, the letter says, Russia "followed the pattern they had begun in Georgia in 2008 and sent troops to occupy and re-take several Eastern European countries, starting with the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania."
But the Russians don't stop there, occupying over the next three years former satellite nations, including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, "with no military response from the U.S. or the U.N."
By 2012, health care has been nationalized with a single payer system patterned after the United Kingdom and Canada.
"The great benefit is that medical care is now free for everyone – if you can get it," the letter writer says. "Now that health care is free it seems that everybody wants more of it. The waiting list for prostate cancer surgery is 3 years. The waiting list for ovarian cancer is 2 years."
Care also has been limited for older Americans, the letter says.
"Because medical resources now must be rationed carefully by the government, people over 80 have essentially no access to hospitals or surgical procedures. Their 'duty' is increasingly thought to be to go home to die, so that they don't drain scarce resources from the medical system."
Devastated economy
The letter says many Christians voted for Obama because they thought his tax policies were more fair and his "middle class tax cuts" would bring the economy out of its 2008 crisis.
"But once he took office he followed the consistent pattern of the Democratic Party and the pattern of his own past record and asked Congress for a large tax increase," the letter says. "He explained that the deficit had grown so large under President Bush, and the needs of the nation were so great, that we simply couldn't afford to cut taxes at the present time."
Several of Obama's economic policies have hurt the poor most of all, says the letter, because they have decreased production, increased inflation and increased unemployment, leading to a prolonged recession.
"Tax rates have gone up on personal income, dividends, capital gains, corporations and inheritance transfers. The amount of income subject to Social Security tax has nearly doubled."
The effect on the economy has been devastating, says the letter.
"When critics objected that Obama's tax policies were leading to inflation and unemployment, he responded that our goal should not be merely to increase America's materialism and wealth and prosperity, but to obtain a more just distribution of wealth, even if it costs everybody a little to achieve that important goal," the letter says.
The Focus on the Family Action letter also sees gas at $7 a gallon, because Obama has refused to allow any additional drilling in the U.S. But many Democrats openly applaud the high prices since they reduce oil consumption and thus lower carbon dioxide output.
Goodbye to talk radio
Another development is restoration of the "Fairness Doctrine," which required that radio stations provide "equal time" for alternative views on political questions.
As a result, "nearly all conservative stations have now gone out of business or switched to alternative formats such as country or gospel or other music. Conservative talk radio, for all intents and purposes, was shut down by the end of 2010."
The fictional letter writer concludes that Christian share much of the blame, having chosen Obama because they believed he "sounded so thoughtful, so reasonable."
"And during the campaign, after he had won the Democratic nomination, he seemed to be moving to the center in his speeches, moving away from his earlier far-left record," the letter says. "No one thought he would enact such a far-left, extreme liberal agenda."
Earlier in the letter, the fictional writer notes that after many Supreme Court decisions, particularly those that restricted free speech, Obama "publicly expressed strong personal disapproval of the decision and said that the Supreme Court had gone far beyond anything that he ever expected or thought that it would do."
"But he has also stated repeatedly that he had sworn to 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,' and, now that the Supreme Court had ruled, he had no choice but to uphold the law, for these decisions were now the law of the land."
Americans should have known what they were getting into by choosing Obama, the letter says, his record "was all there for anyone to see."
"The agenda of the ACLU, the agenda of liberal activist judges in their dissenting opinions, the agenda of the homosexual activists, the agenda of the environmental activists, the agenda of the National Education Association, the agenda of the global warming activists, the agenda of the abortion rights activists, the agenda of the gun control activists, the agenda of the euthanasia supporters, the agenda of the one-world government pacifists, the agenda of far-left groups in Canada and Europe – all of these agendas were there in plain sight, and all of these groups provided huge support for Senator Obama. The liberal agenda was all there. But too many people just didn't want to see it. Christians didn't take time to find out who Barack Obama was when they voted for him. Why did they risk our nation's future on him? It was a mistake that changed the course of history."
Click here to read the complete letter. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/files/Focusletter.pdf
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Palin guarantees win at western Pennsylvania rally
BEAVER, Pa. – Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin set aside Joe the Plumber for Joe the Quarterback — as in Joe Namath — and told supporters at a rally near where Namath grew up that she and John McCain are still in the game and they're going to win.
"In the biggest game of his life, all the experts had Joe Namath and the Jets written off to defeat. They were up against the elite team that had all the money and they were held in awe by the media.
"And Broadway Joe replied, 'We're going to win the game, I guarantee it.' And they won," she said of Namath's guarantee before New York defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
"Pennsylvania, with your help, we're going to win this state, I guarantee," Palin told more than 1,000 supporters who packed a chilly Beaver Area High School football stadium, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, on Thursday night.
Palin stuck to the campaign speech she gave earlier in the day in Ohio, where she criticized Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's interpretation of running mate Joe Biden's remark that the new president would be tested by an international crisis early in his presidency.
She said McCain has the experience to confront such a crisis "or better yet, avoid it."
Palin also criticized Obama's tax plan, saying "now is not the time to experiment with socialism."
Palin is scheduled to appear at an event near Pittsburgh on Friday morning.
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Schwarzenegger's full view on Palin's readiness
watch video (related news warning: contain MSM-lies)
(CNN) -- Wednesday, I sat down with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for a lengthy interview mostly about the presidential campaign.
One exchange in particular has been getting a lot of attention. It was when I asked the governor if he thought Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was qualified to be president.
Now, a quick nod to transparency here. When we do interviews like this, due to the time constraints of television, we often edit down a portion of the interviewee's remarks.
But we try to make sure we maintain the full context of what was said, so that there is nothing misleading about a given sound bite.
There is a shortened portion of the governor's remarks about Sarah Palin circulating on the Internet and other TV outlets that leaves the impression he does not think she is qualified for the job.
Right now, I just want to show you the governor's full answer, so you can decide for yourself exactly what he meant.
Brown: Do you think she is qualified to be vice president?
Schwarzenegger: I think that she will to be qualified get there.
Brown: She will get there? What do you mean? She's not ready yet?
Schwarzenegger: She will be ready by the time she is sworn in. I think she will be ready. You get up to speed.
I know when I became governor there were a lot of things I did not know but it is not about what you know.
Because Sacramento, for instance, in 2003 had all the knowledge and has all the experience, warehouse full of experience, but there was not the will for both of the parties to work together and solve the problems.
So that's not the only answer, the experience. The answer is, do you have the will? Do you have the will to educate yourself? Do you have the will to get up to speed? Do you have the will? Are you a sponge that absorbs information very quickly? And I have read some of her stuff and she said, 'When I became governor, you know, I didn't know a lot of things but I absorbed information quickly and they could run with the state.' And that's the kind of person that she is. That is what I think she would also do if she becomes vice president.
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IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: Day Eleven
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008
McCain has cut into Obama's lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday. The Republican is making headway with middle- and working- class voters, and has surged 10 points in two days among those earning between $30,000 and $75,000. He has also gone from an 11-point deļ¬cit to a 9-point lead among Catholics.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=309635713550536
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