The Opinionator

Sarah Palin Really Was Pregnant

Asshats like Andrew Sullivan has been pushing a nasty rumor that Sarah Palin did not given birth to her son Trig and that is was actually her daughter who gave birth. Perhaps this picture will help him with his disbelief. And if not.....too damn bad.

Don Surber: Obama's 10 Dumbest Mistakes

Don Surber lists Obama's 10 biggest mistakes at his blog. You should go read them yourself but here is my favorite,

Attacking Republican Gov. Sarah Palin for being inexperienced. While she’ll be a heartbeat away from being president …Excuse me, Obama will be that heartbeat. If she’s too inexperienced to be veep, he’s too inexperienced to be president.

Steyn's Six Reasons To Like Sarah Palin

Transplanted Canadian and columnist Mark Steyn give us six reasons to like Sarah Palin. All of which are served up with sagacity and humor. I will give you number one and you can go here for the rest.

"First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy."

Sarah Palin Video

Gotta love a woman that can rock and roll on an M-4 Carbine.

(Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)

Sarah Palin For Vice President

By now most of the civilized world knows that John McCain has selected Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska to be his Vice Presidential nominee. Already, Obama supporters have attacked her as inexperienced. This is truly ironic given that Obama is a first term Senator while Palin is a first term Governor. With a straight face his campaign is suggesting that Governor Palin is not experienced enough to be Vice President where she MIGHT have to become President but Obama is experienced enough to actually BE President. Victor Davis Hansen says it quite well,

"We are supposed to believe that a first- term Alaskan governor is less    qualified for the second spot than a first-term Illinois Senator is for the Presidency—who once again just announced to the nation that he is ready to invade nuclear Islamic Pakistan to get bin Laden, who wanted all troops out of Iraq by March 2008, and who once dismissed Iran as a small threat. Next in their wisdom they will go after Gov. Palin's husband—and therein re-invite comparison with Michelle's wise declarations."

Democrat, and Alaska native, Kirsten Powers says,

The more Democrats complain about this, the more Republicans can turn it on them and say, "If you are so concerned about the amount of experience of the vice president, what about the top of your ticket?" (Bonus: Take a look at comments on Powers' article. It is already filled with nasty comments about the appropriateness of Palin's attire in photographs. The Obama types learned nothing from their treatment of Hillary Clinton)

As Senator, you are in charge of....your office and budget. You are one of 100. Your job is to represent your constituents. However, an executive position it is not. And Senator is a position that leaves plenty of time to run for President. Which is what Obama has been doing since he had a mere 140 days in office.

As Governor, you are in that position 24/7. Governor Palin is the Commander in Chief of the Alaska Air and Army National Guard and all the agencies report up to her. Whether it is public safety (state police), Fisheries, energy or any other major agency, eventually it all stops on the Governor's, and yes, the Mayor's desk.

To put it bluntly, I prefer my foreign policy experience at the TOP of the ticket, not the BOTTOM.

The Russians Are Not Our Friends

This picture captures the brutality of the Russian attacks into Georgia. The power of this shot clearly tells the story. That is no movie scene or staged Palestinian photo op, this is real. The Russians are attacking civilians in hopes of terrorizing the Georgians into backing down. Because of Iraq, some on the Left would compare us with the Russians. That is the worst kind of moral relativism. The Russians do not try to use smart weapons to avoid civilian casualties. They also do not set out to reduce collateral damage. If you think that we are no better than them you are an idiot. If you think Putin and Russia are our friends, you are an even bigger idiot!

More at Hot Air where they ask the obvious questions, such as where is the international outcry? And where is the Obamessiah? He once said our military was, “air raiding villages and killing civilians”. Where is he now? Note to Obama, this is what that tactic looks like asshole! And it is not our military doing it. If you want to be the Commander in Chief, you should be able to figure out that we are the good guys. And if you do not agree with that reality, then you are unfit for the job.