Voting is like Catholic Confession-Important thoughts about John McCain and Barack Obama election

(Picture from the AP)

Election day is rapidly approaching and the intensity of the campaigning will continue to escalate until every single vote is counted. The polls right now are generally more favorable to Obama, but besides the Bradley Effect, a more common sense factor will be in play that polls are not taking into account: I will dub it here, the Confession factor.

When you show up to the polling place, and get behind the curtain to cast your ballot, it's just you and your conscience. There is no more CNN or Fox News blaring in the background. You don't have friends at your side, opining incessantly. It's just your conscience and deadly silence.

At the end of the day, I can't help but think that people might change their mind at the last minute. They will think about the grave challenges that face our nation. And for the first time, they will think seriously about which candidate is truly more qualified. The contrast will be so stark that many Obama supporters might flip the switch for McCain. And when they leave the booth, still tell their friends that they voted for Obama.

On election night, they will sit up with their friends until the wee hours of the morning, cheering on Obama. And when McCain wins, they will outwardly show disappointment, but in their hearts, they will be content and their conscience will be at ease.

Obama's campaign copying Karl Rove's strategy

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5014706.ece

Joe Biden Can't Play Hardball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXcImQfubM

After facing some tough questions, Joe Biden proves he should stay with wiffleball. Channel 9's Barbara West refused to worship at the altar of Obama, and instead did her journalistic job of asking tough questions to all candidates. She threw some fast pitches to Biden.

After the interview, the Obama campaign cancelled Jill Biden's scheduled interview on the same station. Campaign spokeswoman Laura McGinnis did what any teenage reporter would do. Cancel and refuse to show up at any institution that still shows journalistic integrity.

"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,"

-- Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

Constitutional Crisis: Barack Not Born in America?

This, my friends, is the question of the hour and the mainstream media has refused to cover it. Thankfully Matt Drudge put the recent court ruling up on his website.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081025/D941NCJG0.html

Basically, there are serious questions about where Barack was born and Barack has refused to cooperate and furnish his birth records. If he wasn't hiding anything, one would assume he would furnish the records, prove attorney Phillip J. Berg wrong, and move on with the campaign. But instead, Barack is trying to obfuscate and stall.

If Barack is in fact, not a natural born citizen, the Constitution bars him from running for President. Hillary Clinton would have to step in as the Democratic nominee.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Barclay Surrick dismissed the suit brought by Berg, for lack of standing. In other words, it sounds like Judge Surrick doesn't want to irritate the next possible Commander in Chief. As a result, Americans are being failed.

We have the right to know if Barack is or is not a natural born citizen. And the burden of proof, isn't on Phillip J. Berg or anyone else, it's on Barack. Stop lying. Stop trying to hide things.

Here is the relevant Constitutional text. It's Article II.
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

Locksley Hall- Tennyson

A little culture to welcome us into the weekend...

"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;

Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder storm;

Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle flags were
furl'd
In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World.

There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in
awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law."

Colin Powell's Endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama

The media and liberals are praising Colin Powell for being "intellectually honest" and supporting Barack Obama. It's a sign of his impartiality and fierce anti-partisan independence, right?

What about Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary? He also has stated his support for Barack. It's odd that a onetime Bush loyalist is now supporting the Democratic Presidential nominee, especially one as unqualified as Barack.

Powell and McClellan both have something in common: They both left the Bush administration on less than friendly terms. Powell left after admitting that he was pressured into overstating the WMD case to the United Nations, in the leadup to the war in Iraq. Somehow a grown man like Powell couldn't stand up for himself. The media also forgets that it was Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage, that admittedly leaked Valerie Plame's identity to the Press. Powell did nothing to punish Armitage for this breach of security. And also said nothing when taxpayers were pursuing Scooter Libby for the same leak.

McClellan also claimed to have been pressured to say untrue things at the microphone. He admits to having been caught in the "permanent campaign culture" that has dominated politics for the last twenty years. The late Tony Snow replaced McClellan and did a hell of a better job as Press Secretary. Snow was more eloquent, better spoken, and got along better with the press. McClellan on the other hand, stuttered, stammered, and acted nervous.

It's no wonder that both of these individuals, Powell and McClellan, both support Barack Obama. They feel betrayed by the Republican Party. They blame The Republican Party for their own inadequacies and their own failures. Barack might be the one they have been waiting for, but this opportunism will not be forgotten when the Republicans take back the White House in 2012 with a Romney/Petraeus Presidential dream team ticket.