Sarah Barracuda

[Shudder.]

I'm calling her "Peggy the Freeloader".

[h/t: Instapundit]

Check out this post by Bob Krumm discussing how Obama has more relatives living in poverty - but this time they're in America. His aunt is living in relative squalor in Boston. And while the campaign got to her and told her to be quiet until after the election, they didn't help her out.

I've never seen a presidential or vice-presidential candidate go after a media outlet like this. Palin's opened up a spigot of invective at the Los Angeles Times. It's amazingly honest and refreshing.

Why can she afford to do this? Because given the financial status of big papers, the Los Angeles Times may no longer exist in 2012.

There's the senior senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, piss drunk and singing the theme song for a Florida retirement community. Pretty hilarious. Somehow I doubt this will show up on Katie Couric's propagandacast.

As the Obama campaign begins to falter badly in battleground states, some long-term Obamatons are seriously losing it. Today in Galax, Virginia (NW of Winston-Salem, NC), two Obama campaign volunteers walked into the McCain office and sprayed mace at the people inside. They were angry and claimed some Obama-Biden signs were missing. And somehow they thought that justified assault.

Check out the full story at the local Galax paper's site.

By all means go check out HillBuzz which reports the following:

Tonight we spoke with a friend from Hillary Clinton’s campaign who is now working for McCain/Palin — and is specifically working with Democrats for McCain in Pennsylvania. We worked with her in Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania for Hillary and have spent many LONG hours with her in the trenches in all of those states. She’s smart, doesn’t BS, and never lies.

She says the same thing we do: John McCain will win Pennsylvania.

On November 4th, the news networks are going to be spinning and sputtering and playing catchup, but everything we see on the ground in PA is what we saw during the primaries: Obama has no shot of winning the Keystone State.

Pennsylvania voters don't like to admit supporting GOP to pollsters. Don't forget that in 2004, Kerry was reported to be taking PA by about seven points in the exit polls but wound up winning by only two. McCain-Palin will win Pennsylvania, and the election.

You must read this great essay by Elaine Lafferty:

Now by “smart,” I don't refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don't really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. [Sarah] Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I'd heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.

For all those old enough to remember Senator Sam Ervin, the brilliant strict constitutional constructionist and chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee whose patois included “I'm just a country lawyer”… Yup, Palin is that smart.

There's a terrific article in the Philadelphia Inquirer today about the hostile reception Sarah Palin has faced:

I cannot predict who will win the presidential campaign, but I already know who will lose big: all women.

I realized this when I saw a 20-something male student who attends a class in the community college where I teach, wearing a T-shirt that read, "Sarah Palin is a C-." He wore it in public, in broad daylight, and without shame or even consciousness of what he was doing.

McCaffrey doesn't mention it, but what's really taken me by surprise is that the people who seem to hate Palin the most are women. I've ended a 17-year friendship with a woman I went to college with over her frothing, boundless rage and disgusting remarks about Sarah Palin. Seeing all the hate come rushing out of her, I realized that I never really knew her at all.

[Palin deserves our respect - Philadelphia Inquirer]

Obamunism!

Ever since Senator Obama admitted to "Joe the Plumber" that he wanted to "spread the wealth around", a lot of people have been beating the socialism drum. And not without justification!

People who pay a lot of attention to political movements know that "progressive" is a codeword for "socialist" adopted by movement Marxists such as Bill Ayers. (Barack Obama fully admits to being a "progressive.") So it's fitting that people are altering the Obama logo to reflect his Marxist groundings, in this case with the hammer and sickle symbol of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), another political group inspired by Marx.

Anyway, there's a whole line of apparel emblazoned with this symbol at my store and at Obamunism.

This is hilarious and must-see. Hat-tip to Red State/