3AM? Are you kidding me?

Could they blow the hype any worse? I don't support Barak and I did not sign up for this gimmick (cuz I think these people will get spammed by Barak until election day), but I concede that it might have been cool to be at a bar at about 6PM after work and hear one-in-five cell phone go off, up comes a mummer and then maybe a little cheer. But no. Just an annoying wake at 3AM to tell people what they already knew if they were up late the night before. Here are some great reactions to this latest rookie mistake.

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Cajun Boy in the City - Very Funny. And from the comments:

"It's like Obama just drunk texted you because you're special and he was up late and just got back from the traveling, and he's got to head to Springfield tomorrow, but if you're awake maybe he could just come over, and maybe bring his friend Joe, you up for that?"

Brandon Loy - It's 3:00 AM, and your children are safe and asleep...
...but there's a cell phone in the other room, and it's ringing. Must be one of your a**hole friends drunk-dialing you

Where's your sense of humor?

HA:

A study coming out today shows that the major late-night shows make a habit of skewering John McCain but give a pass to Barack Obama. Obama only got ridiculed 169 times by the broadcast network shows, while McCain was the butt of the joke almost twice as often — 328 times.

Pakistani's Civil War

The new, liberal Pakistani government has got the Taliban right where they want them... (LWJ)

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The Taliban's suicide campaign against the Pakistani government is in full swing. The latest suicide bombings occurred outside a weapons factory just west of the capital of Islamabad in Punjab province.

The Kamra Air Weapon Complex ... is believed to be connected with Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.

The Pakistani government and the military have issued multiple statements assuring the Pakistani people and the west that the country's nuclear weapons are safeguarded and incapable of falling into the hands of terrorists.

Today's suicide bombing is the fourth mass-casualty strike by the Taliban since August 12.

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On a brighter note, we're still taking shots at Al Qaeda inside Pakistan. (LWJ)

Turning the enemy into a a strategy

You have to respect the McCain camp's strategy of manipulating the "get-it-first" media on the VP selection. They're "leaking" info keeps it front and center of the news. Non of these are real leaks. They're all misdirection as a strategy to stay on the front page. And the hapless media is powerless to stop themselves from blabbing every "source" they hear from. Turning the enemy into a a strategy. It's Ridge! It's Romney! Lieberman's out! Pawlenty short list! Lieberman in!

Hot Air

Your Media

They know better what you need to know. (via. Instapundit)

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The scandal over former Sen. John Edwards' alleged fathering of a love child is rapidly being surpassed by a greater travesty -- not one single major media organization in the U.S is covering the story.

Edwards, who's sought the presidency twice,... is manifestly newsworthy and clearly a public figure.

Heck, he's almost a celebrity.

Yet no major network or national daily paper is doing anything with the story.

Save the Planet?

"Save the planet." Are you serious? Is that your constitutional role are a member of the US House of Representatives? Besides, as Charles Krauthammer puts it...


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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. ... as she explained to Politico: "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet."

A lovely sentiment. But has Pelosi actually thought through the moratorium's effects on the planet?

Consider: 25 years ago, nearly 60 percent of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it's 25 percent. ... We need the stuff to run our cars and planes and economy. Where does it come from?
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Places such as Nigeria, where chronic corruption, environmental neglect and the resulting unrest and instability lead to pipeline explosions, oil spills and illegal siphoning by the poverty-stricken population -- which leads to more spills and explosions.