Week #1, Blog #3

At the late hour of 11:00pm on 9/7/08 Fox News is currently running a special on the life of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Greta Van Susteren is certainly making the case as to why Sarah Palin will make a wonderful Vice-President serving alongside John McCain. She is showcasing her life as a mother and how she came to grow up with the Alaskan values of integrity and hard work. While airing this they also showed Barack Obama blasting her for talking about federal earmarks and how she told the federal government "thanks but no thanks" for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere. Obama is trying to spin this that she has requested an enormous amount of outrageous earmarks while she has been a mayor and a Governor. I think that the record is clear that Congress does maintain the power of the pursue and they can appropriate money as they see fit in their home states and districts. These projects should be well deserved and in reality tenure in Congress is how these projects are often rewarded. Alaska currently has the most senior republican member of the United States Senate on its team and the 8th most senior member of the 435 member House of Representatives. That is pretty good. When you look at the earmarks that Palin has been directly involved in, the total is not many. Obama on the other hand has requested a total of almost a billion dollars worth in just three years. I think that most taxpayers would say that he needs to put his foot in his mouth and call it a day.

Another issue that is prominent in this evenings news is that a new Gallup poll shows John McCain is leading Barack Obama for the first time by a 3 point margin. This is the first time that McCain has hit a 48%-45% margin since May and the first time that he has garnered a 48% lead. I think that since the Republican National Convention just ended I am sure that he is taking some momentum from that but I hope that the American people are starting to see that Barack Obama really is not the "change" that America needs, he is just more hot air and wants to throw more money at the problem instead of reforming the system so that it works better in a global economy. I believe that a lot of this comes from the running mate that he has chosen and how well she has performed thus far. I don't think that he could have chosen a better Vice-Presidential nominee because he needed someone that could support his maverick, reform type style and change Washington instead of just joining the game with the typical Washington type establishment.

Less than two months to election day...