National Review has an awesome quote from one of Obama’s advisors on his unpreparedness: 

 In it, Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama, discusses the foreign policy credentials of both Democrats against the tableau of Mrs. Clinton’s 3 a.m. phone call advertisement about who would be best prepared for an international crisis. (While your children are safely asleep.)

“Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready,’’ Ms. Rice said. “They’re both not ready to have that 3 a.m. phone call.”

Check out the full article 

Well this whole superdelegate problem is taking an interesting turn.

Apparently, some Ohio superdelegates have banded together to force a plan of specifics from each Democrat to address local economic issues before they endorse either candidates….HAHAHA! I love it!

Yes, that’s right - official Democratic elites are now engaging in institutionalized pandering…something normally just left to each individual Democratic candidate to pursue.

Holding their presidential candidates for ransom is surely the way to bring a clean and quick end to their nomination process. I’m sure none of the other states (some with opposing economic needs from Ohio) will now start forming their own superdelegate militias. Good luck guys!

The AZ CR federation has endorsed their guy:

 March 4, 2008

For Immediate Release

AZ College Republicans congratulate Senator McCain on nomination

Phoenix, AZ – On March 4th, 2008 the Arizona Federation of College Republicans congratulated and offered their full support to Senator John McCain who officially clinched the Republican Party nomination for President.

“As an Arizonan I could not be more proud to offer my full support and that of the Arizona College Republicans to our Senator,” said TJ Shope, Chairman of the College Republicans. “We will dedicate all our energy to sending Senator McCain, who has served Arizona so well, to the White House.”

The Arizona Federation of College Republicans, with its 5,000+ members on six campuses across the state is the premier grassroots organization of Arizona, dedicated to promoting Republican principles and electing Republicans at every level of government.

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Congrats to Senator McCain! We look forward to your candidacy and your presidency.

And good luck to the Arizona CR’s this fall.

I don’t really have to say much, because the video from Canadian television says it pretty well, bu the gist of the news segment is that while Barack Obama is saying he will repeal NAFTA as president, his campaign has secret calls into the Canadian Ambassador telling him not to worry:

Well, another chapter is being written in the dramatic saga of the Barack Obama President Campaign.

It seems now, that despite the lofty rhetoric telling us otherwise, Barack Obama is just like the rest of them - Chicago politicians that is. We’re familiar with them all now, Mayor Daley being the king of the bunch. But Barack, it seems, is oh-so-ambitious and doesn’t want the Daleys to rule the roost forever.

Because of length, I won’t recount the whole story (which you MUST READ HERE!), but let this short summary suffice:

Barack Obama, champion of “new politics”, hope, integrity, puppies, and sunshine, seems to be in an ethical pickle. You see, he bought a home - a very, very nice home - on the same day, from the say seller, and right next door to one Mrs. Rezko. She happens to be the wife of a man on trial for corruption, Tony Rezko, who happens to be close (it appears too close) business associates with Mr. Nadhmi Auchi.

If you asked me, “Is this the same Nadhmi Auchi who is the 13th richest man in England and is known for his ability to buy British politicians?” I would respond, “Yes, and did you also know that he was charged in the 1950’s with being an accomplice of Saddam Hussein, accused of hiding money for Saddam and Colonel Gadaffi in the 1990’s, and in 2002 was found to be behind the largest swindle of the NHS ever?!”

Not only are the Rezko’s Barack Obama’s neighbor, and apparent business associates of Auchi, but it’s also coming to light that they took a few hundred-thousand dollars from Auchi to buy Barack’s mansion in Chicago.

Oops! The Pure One seems to be engaging in some slight-of-hand with some dirty members of Old Politics!

Please read the whole account HERE! from Redstate.com.

I think this SNL skit sums it up pretty well:

The O’Drama plot finally begins to thicken…

The left and the Democratic Party (but I repeat myself), have had this nasty habit of being very out-of-touch with the American mainstream. President Jimmy Carter won office by faking an average-guy persona, but ended up being a squishy liberal more concerned about international opinion than America’s interests. John Kerry fit the stereotype of Ivy League snob (no offense to our great Ivy League chapters who are full of great Republican who understand how our country works) and could never really connect with Americans working hard for a better life for their families.

Barack Obama, despite his change-oriented rhetoric attempting to convince people otherwise, is just as out of touch with Americans as these prior two leading Democrats - and I think people are starting to take notice.

Peggy Noonan poses some very interesting questions that she believes many voters are starting to or are about to ask:

Are the Obamas, at bottom, snobs? Do they understand America? Are they of it? Did anyone at their Ivy League universities school them in why one should love America? Do they confuse patriotism with nationalism, or nativism? Are they more inspired by abstractions like “international justice” than by old visions of America as the city on a hill, which is how John Winthrop saw it, and Ronald Reagan and JFK spoke of it?

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Why is all this actually not a distraction but a real issue? Because Americans have common sense and are bottom line. They think like this. If the president and his first lady are not loyal first to America and its interests, who will be? The president of France? But it’s his job to love France, and protect its interests. If America’s leaders don’t love America tenderly, who will?

Pretty valid questions considering where Barack Obama got his political beginnings.

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

In fact, Ayers and Dohrn are both known quite well for planting bombs in places like the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department, and for their leadership in the Weather Underground - one of the most radical domestic terror groups in American history.

The point here is that O’Drama is nothing new, nothing fresh, nothing revolutionary in American politics. While he espouses some vague sort of post-partisan change, he remains of the same far-left, radical political bloodline that has dominated Democratic politics for decades.

Barack Obama is out of touch with America, as America and Barack are about to find out.

Apparently his Texas surrogate had a tough time. When Chris Matthews starts giving a Dem a hard time, you know there’s a glaring problem with the candidate.

Campaign surrogate STUMPED on Obama’a legislative accomplishments

In his “victory” speech (I’m watching now), Barack just said something to the effect of, “I’m going to get rid of the tax cuts for the rich. The tax cuts they didn’t even ask for.”

Well Barack, consider this my application and official request for a tax cut (and I’m most certainly not rich). Here and now, as a member of whatever tax bracket I currently fall into, I ask you for my tax break. If it’s just that simple, can I ask for two?..

This is ridiculous. Of course the entire nation asked for tax relief - they elected and re-elected a president who promised to lower the tax burden!

As so often happens after I finish watching a Barack Obama speech, I am left asking myself, “What did he even mean?”

Hope is great - I hope Barack Obama adds a little substance to his candidacy…

I know I’ve posted about this a few times already (here, here, and here) but here’s another article (this one from RedState and in turn from the NYT) citing concerns about the Dems being able to pull together after this brutal primary.

An interesting fact noted in the article that I had not previously known (or thought about) is that GOP turnout was lower in the primaries of both Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. than in the contemporary Dem primaries, but we went on to win the White House both times. Constantly, I am asked if our party is “depressed” or “tired” and because of this lack of enthusiasm, if we are going to lose the WH. One of the many counters now is that your answer can be found in history…