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From newsbusters (and being aired everywhere but on the Obama-media), there is the following:

WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West conducted a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden on Thursday...

West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment.

"Are you joking?" said Biden, who is Obama's running mate. "No," West said.

West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over.

"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden shot back.

Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife.

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

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."

Here's a link to the interview: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html.

So the Obama campaign has come out over-talking and otherwise ridiculing anyone asking about this latest thud from Biden. Burton's the worst possible "spokesperson" for any political campaign unless the campaign is working to secure a fascist in office (you be the judge in that regard -- my conclusion is made, however, Burton is a rude, crude, motor-mouthing, epitome of inconsideration, so, thus, I assume that's who he's speaking for [Obama], also).

And, I thought that remark by Biden ("who wrote your questions") was the essence of condescension, as also, had me wondering what the latest Biden-suspected-conspiracy-theory was was influencing his delusions on-air (and otherwise). Biden is not a well man.

If a candidate (and spokespeople and running mate) can't answer questions outside their protected, manipulated and "owned" media, it speaks very badly about who that candidate and their campaign is.

The woman with the questions, in this particular case --- Barbara West -- made an extremely well-modulated effort in approaching Biden. I refrain from describing this as "an interview" despite West's immensely fine composure and skill, not because of any deficit of or about her, but because of Biden's idiotic responses, and, the crass, rude and crude criticisms today from Bill Burton.

Colin Powell appeared this morning on MEET THE PRESS with Tom Brokaw and endorsed Barack Hussein Obama for the Presidency and made other problematic, and contradictory, statements.

Perhaps the U.S.A.'s War on Terror might have worked out considerably differently if Colin Powell had not gone before the U.S. Congress and sworn as to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, based upon intelligence he deemed reliable that he later recanted as unreliable. Or if Powell had not been Secretary of State, a point for history to determine if not currently being determined by history.

Powell this morning recanted something he calls "a Republican agenda" after he declared he hasn't heard what any agenda is from McCain, the Republican candidate for the Presidency. Upon such stated reasoning, Powell declared that he's endorsing Barack Obama for the Presidency.

There's a lot to be said (and which should be questioned) about a man whose job description is to protect and defend the lives of others who can and does change his mind and positions based upon interpretations of critical information, but, it does not render the responsibilities along the way as cavalier, not when world conditions affecting the safety of billions of human beings is daily at stake.

So Powell emerging this morning as a full-on changeling on issues of national security (deeming, outrageously, "Obama...a transformational figure" without regard for national security and terrorism as it is proven to be compromised in the history and person of Barack Obama -- as also his campaign underway), Powell emerging as apparently having surrendered his responsibilities in security and defense to something that appears to be emotionalism if not fantasy outright, is a big affront.

Moreover, among Powell's statements this morning, the one that causes me the most concern is this:

Brokaw asked Powell if he'd "be interested in serving in a position with an Obama White House, say, as Ambassador to Africa or something like that."

And Powell responded, that he'd "meet with any President (to discuss whatever) but that (he) (wasn't) interested in ruling again."

"...not interested in ruling again," he said.

I apparently missed the episode in history wherein Colin Powell was a ruler in the U.S. or anywhere else. But Powell is declining "to rule again" at any future time, as if he ever has "ruled."

I have always had my doubts about Colin Powell -- me, here, as a voter and citizen, never been confident in Powell, his intentions, his abilties, his positions, what he was (assumed to be) doing in our nation's service in areas of defense, but, him endorsing Barack Obama for the Presidency renders Powell somewhere around zero in my view as to any area of national security.

And it is about race, contrary to what Powell is foolishly trying to say today (he's declaring his endorsement is "not about race," yet, what IS it about, what with the full range of Powell's preposterous statemenets about Obama). And why even declare that his endorsement is "not about race," as in, who even raised that issue?

Those who have raised the issue of "racism" and attacked others by insinuating others "will": Obama (and campaign) and now Powell.

Powell is pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-affirmative action and pro-gay marriage, so he's voting for Obama (who is all of that, also, in degrees of "pro" so evasively anti-"intellectual" as espoused by Obama and now by Powell that it requires any listener to suspend a critical perception and just go with the "hopeness" of any specifics as to what lies beneath, if, that is, you're a follower).

Powell hasn't met with Sarah Palin but he deems her not experienced enough to serve as President, should she as a V.P. need to assume that office; so Powell is voting for a man, Barack Obama, who has less experience than Sarah Palin. Palin, by the way, has executive experience while Obama has little to no experience in general other than running for the U.S. Presidency.

Oh, Obama also wrote a review of Bill Ayers' book, way back in 1997, even though as recently as a few months ago, Obama maintained he didn't know Ayers, maybe he knew Ayers but only as a guy in the neighborhood, maybe he knew the guy but not about the guy's background, or...

Now we know that Obama not only knew Ayers, he reviewed a book by Ayers in 1997 (zombietime.com writes about this, complete with documentation), he still knows Bill Ayers and Ayers' terrorist wife, Obama shared an office with Ayers years ago but not so long ago to be part of any Obama-blackout mental problems from Obama's drug years in Hawaii and New York...it becomes difficult to remain tolerant to any degree of reservation about Barack Obama's many lies, "distortions" and falsehoods because they continue to be discovered.

But Powell endorses him, just days after Fidel Castro endorsed Obama, again. A curious meeting of peers.

And, Obama has now purged all references of Obama's opposition to The Surge from his deceitful website, making it less embarrassing for Colin Powell to now be endorsing Obama, if not less compromising as to who Powell is now revealed to be: intellectually not credible.

Michelle Malkin has a great column about some of this.

Obama now tours with "his" teleprompter. Is there a "blankie" nearby?

Obama glorifies doom and gloom: if the U.S. economy is floundering ("in ruins...devastated"), then Obama justifies his intents and goals ("take money from the evull and undeserving rich and give it to the not evulll 'poor and oppressed minorities'" -- as long as they vote for Obama).

These comments say it best:

"The dems can only get elected by promising free money"
September 16, 2008 - 11:35 ET by c5then

"They promise to take the money from the evil and undeserving rich and give it to the poor and oppressed minorities. That's their entire strategy in a nutshell. So of course, it helps to have an economic downturn or a nice juicy banking crisis to help sell this message. The MSM has been trying to talk down the economy for 5 years now. Well, it looks like some of the wall street gang have listened.

"IMO any financial company that can't withstand 10% of it's balance sheet becoming worthless without declaring bankruptcy shouldn't be around anyway. They took a gamble on buying and selling mortgage backed securities and derivatives and so should pay the price.

"Obama yesterday actually equated what was happening with the Great Depression of the 1930's. That is beyond lunacy, it's actually very irresponsible and an obvious ploy to get people scared. The man proves over and over again that he has no morals."

This is pathetic! Man's an incompetent boob!

From HOTAIR, this report:

Anderson Cooper asked Barack Obama last night to answer the claim that Sarah Palin has more applicable experience than he does. In response, he completely ignores Palin's status as governor, and then makes the claim that a campaign counts as executive experience:

AC: Some Republican critics say, you don't have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They've in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What's your response?

BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin's town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we've got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I've passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.

McCain's response, via his campaign, is, first off, far more intelligent by comparison (and otherwise), as it is also far more "word efficient" and succinct. Gets the job done, issue addressed, question answered.

Update: The McCain campaign has responded to Mark Halperin at Time:

"For Barack Obama to argue that he's experienced enough to be president because he's running for president is desperate circular logic and it's laughable. It is a testament to Barack Obama's inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin's executive experience managing a budget of over 10 billion dollar dollars, and more than 24,000 employees." -- Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008

I can see it now, the huge and wasteful governmental-mess that Obama would create if he could: filled with waste, elaborations, circular avoidances of any conclusion, generalities enough to annoy even the most patient person, expenses to "pay for" all of that including an eventual, belabored conclusion that is dumbfoundingly foolish, such as Obama's conclusion, that he's experienced to be President "because (he's) running for President."

What a doofus!

Go McCain/Palin '08!
Sarah Palin's executive experience trumps Barack Obama's.

"DNC Chair Howard Dean Calls GOP the 'White' Party"

And speaking of "isms," isn't that a high dose of "sexism" and "mysoginism" in Dean's remarks, too? Yeeearrrggghhh. I wonder if Dr. Dean's written prescription orders are as "misspoken" as are his ongoing speaches.

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