"Name Just One Legislative Accomplishment Of Barack" ....Besides His Lying To Get Into Office

Obama started off his whole career as a senator making one definitive statement to Americans and specifically Illinoisans before they (I say they but mean we Illinoisans, except I didn't and wouldn't vote for Obama if he paid off my mortgage because he's a lying bum and always has been) elected him, and that statement now turns out to be a BOLD FACED OBAMA DOOZY, him claiming he will not run for president if elected senator for Illinois, claiming he doesn't have the skills and experience necesssary for the job. Don;t believe my word, then believe this:

That LIE ALONE SHOULD KEEP OBAMA FROM GOING ANY FURTHER IN THIS RACE FOR PRESIDENT,

but he way the media is treating him they might as well install him in office today. A complete joke this Obama love fest is turning into, and I do hope at least more Illinosi bloggers can get the word out about what a bum this guy is beneath all the hype and foo foo.

Here's even Chris Matthews, yes, he of the tingling leg upon hearing Obama speak, was harping quite surprisingly on the "Obama Hope Train's" blind passengers about Obama's U.S. Senatorial accomplishments, and believe me it's pretty sad to watch this Congressman and Senator both hop skip and jump around the questioning like two fish flopping on the ground out of water:



And here's Sean Hannity asking a whole group of his supporters the same question at a Fox News polling session that they've been so dedicated to producing with Frank Luntz who kinda bothers me but so be it, not a hard question to answer so long as your candidate isn't Barack Hussein that is:

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Barack The Bamboozler

He's so good at speaking because he simply borrows all his speeches and rhetoric from the civil rights activists of the past mostly. Figuring, correctly I might add, that most of his white followers and constituents are simply too ignorant and lazy to have heard all this crap before as more educated and better read people have many times over.

Like this retreaded angry 1960's era Malcolm Madman X so called "hope-speak" he just cutesied up with his personal "I'm The Messiah" touch......

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Obama's Gay Buddy Larry Sinclair Hits the MSM...In Puerto Rico That Is..

This story went away without ever hitting the MSM waves, but has seemingly gotten new legs and has really become quite interesting as the recent murder of the Trinity Church's gay choir leader here in Chicago has also been nicely swept under the proverbial rug by the media in their drive to get Obama a seat in the White House at all costs.

The real interesting part of the choirboy story is that he also claimed to have had gay sex with Obama just as Sinclair has done but yet cannot get anyone to print his claims, until a judge ruled yesterday that his lawsuit against Obama can proceed. I wrote about it then both here and again here

We'll have to keep an eye on the birdie for this BrObama bombshell to really hit the fan as the suit progresses.

A blog I check once in a while that I've posted below has a great overview of the whole saga and puts it all together very nicely for those not familiar with the story as it has unearthed it's self like a slimy dirt and filth covered worm.

Obama’s Dubious Past Goes ‘Mainstream’

SAVAGE POLITICS » Blog Archive » : "Yesterday in Puerto Rico, a bombshell fell on Barack Obama’s hopes to at least win a small percentage of primary votes in said jurisdiction (he was only receiving 20% of support in the polls). This “bomb” goes by the name of Larry Sinclair and his allegations of homosexuality and cocaine use against Barack Hussein Obama, which happened to go ‘prime time’ yesterday throughout the Island.

For those of you who do not know the story, Larry Sinclair is a gay man who claims that ‘when Barack Obama was a member of the Illinois Senate he met twice with Larry Sinclair in November 1999 in Chicago, obtained cocaine for the both of them and consumed it (crack cocaine smoked through a glass pipe in the Senator’s case). On both occasions they also participated in consensual sexual acts with each other.’

After his allegations became known through his Youtube video (WATCH HERE), a website (WhiteHouse.com) offered Larry Sinclair money in exchange for his taking of a polygraph test on their site. On the site, they constantly assured the public that they were going to video-record the proceedings and post it on their website, all in hopes of giving full disclosure of the results. As many of you may remember, this supposed video was never posted/published (never has) and, running late on their own schedule, decided to ONLY post a brief description of the “analysis” of the results (supposedly provided by two independent researchers which claimed that he had failed it). continued

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Global Warming Just On Hold This Year?

Not exactly, as we so called "deniers" have been saying all along what a scam the warming argument has been right from the start, just a way for Al Gore stay busy and get rich along the way acting like some weather Messiah sent down to save the planet after losing an election to the worst president ever as the left calls him.

So if that's true what does that make Al? A big two time loser.

So I guess Al and his crowds will have come up with some new BS weather pattern argument as to why the global temperatures have actually dropped over the past 8 years and now these same clowns are predicting a further drop of global temps this year.

After the winter we just experienced in Chicago, the worse one in about a decade, I think the global warming sycophants will be harder and harder to find, just as it is to locate anyone that will admit they voted for Bill Clinton after Monica, or soon those who will admit they were actually on the "Obama Change Train" later on in the year when he finally drops off the radar screen completely as America's loony lib suckers finally admit that their Manchurian candidate was actually just another Howard Dean rehash that went nowhere.

Climate experts predict temperature drop -

Telegraph: "Climate experts are forecasting a drop in global temperatures this year.

But the world is also facing more dramatic rain storm events such as the flooding which hit Britain last summer, scientists warn.

Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organisation, said temperatures in 2008 are likely to be cooler because of the effects of the La Nina in the central and eastern Pacific."

He said it was likely that the La Nina phenomenon would continue into the summer. If his forecast is right it would mean temperatures have not risen globally since 1998 when El Nino warmed the world.

La Nina (the little girl) and El Nino (the little boy) are two great natural Pacific currents whose effects can be felt worldwide.

Recently La Nina caused one of the coldest winters in memory in China, Canada and the Arctic and brought torrential rains to Australia. continued

I get it, global warming actually causes global cooling too when it feels like it? What a crock of crap, of El Nina baloney, as these weather people come up with something new every time their forecasts go awry and will do so 'til the end of time. Maybe one day they will figure out that Mother nature simply acts as she wishes on her schedule and always will, not ours.

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This Goes On Unchecked For How Long Until Someone Finally Notices?

It's hard to believe an Islamic school in a Minnesota suburb that flies no American flag in front of it's doors goes simply unnoticed until a newspaper and it's columnist finally has the nerve to print a story about the unlawful teaching of Islam on the publics dime without the local governments aqnd law enforcement even knowing about it?

A BIG WTF? goes out to this local government, as one can rest assured were this a school teaching or advocating Christianity in anytown USA it would've been shut down a long time ago with glee for blurring the lines between church and state, especially a Charter School of all things and you can bet the lefties and the ACLU would have been all over this like stink on a monkey.

But noooooooo, the Islamic Muslims are able to pull this off unchecked with no problem whatsoever in America's heartland even after 9-11, a heartland once proudly built on Christian principles and foundations now being destroyed from within while everyone stands around like these famous primates:

Metro charter school accused of teaching Islam

KSTP.com - : "A Star Tribune newspaper column has prompted a state investigation into a charter school. A substitute teacher said a school in Inver Grove Heights is blurring the line of separation of church and state.

Being a charter school Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, or TIZA, is supported by tax dollars. The teacher told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the presence of religion she observed at the school took her by surprise.

TIZA Executive Director Azad Zaman insisted the school follows with state and federal laws.

'TIZA does not endorse any religion,' he said.

However, TIZA Academy is sponsored by Islamic Relief USA, based in California." CONTINUED

I like that "However" added in there, I mean, it's just a coincidence we're supposed to believe that this school just happens to be funded partially by an Islamic organization that doesn't endorse any specific religion? Yeah right.. and if you believe that load I got two slightly damaged skyscrapers for sale in Lower Manhattan for a real bargain.

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Only an Idiot Would Rule Out Pre-Emptive War.....

meaning the liberal dolt that asked the question in the first place or the democratic presidential candidate of the two that says yes to that question. I guess that really is an oxymoron, the words idiot and democrat that is, or better yet in that case maybe I should just say moron period.

Either way, to expect an answer of no to that question is so ridiculous I can't even believe that it was even asked when we have a million radical Muslims running around the world swearing the destruction of America, Europe and anywhere else in the world not ensconced in sand minus the Southwest of the US which is filled with many radical illegals that wish for the same ending of America.

It really shows the mental disconnect that many mostly liberal Americans have about the true threat that our country and the non Muslim world faces that this president and his administration has spent the past eight years protecting the country from after 9-11. It's no accident we've been quiet on the home front as the liberals believe it to be.

Should a Democrat be elected in November, September 11 just may have well happened in 1920 because that phrase and date and it's significance will be a long forgotten moment in our government and history, and will mean absolutely nothing to a Democratic administration and their patriot hating constituencies you can be sure, as they've been wanting to put 9-11 on the shelves since 9-12-2001.

That is until the very first and the second attacks on American soil following inauguration day that will surely occur as the sun rises in the east when Obama or Hillary move in the once again dem occupied Oral Office, and our borders, airports and ports period become safe again for terrorists and their likes when the dems abandon all security measures put in place by George Bush out of spite..

The radical Muslims are just sitting in their caves with their camels, goats and satellite phones patiently awaiting a Clinton or especially an Obama election to the office so they can all get back to work after 8 years of hiding and running from cave to cave and getting their asses kicked in Iraq. All thanks to George Bush and our Military over in Iraq and Afghanistan killing these animals like flies on their home field instead of New York City, Phoenix and everywhere in between ( I don't really count California anymore as part of the Union sad to say for the few conservatives still left in that god forsaken liberal state)

McCain Won't Rule Out Pre-Emptive War:

My Way News - "WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) - Republican Sen. John McCain refused Wednesday to rule out a pre-emptive war against another country, although he said one would be very unlikely.

The likely Republican presidential nominee was asked Wednesday at a town-hall style meeting if he would reject 'the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war,' a reference to Bush's decision to invade Iraq without it having attacked the United States.

'I don't think you could make a blanket statement about pre-emptive war, because obviously, it depends on the threat that the United States of America faces,' McCain told his audience at Bridgewater Associates Inc., a global investment firm."

"If someone is about to launch a weapon that would devastate America, or have the capability to do so, obviously, you would have to act immediately in defense of this nation's national security interests."

McCain said he would consult more closely and more carefully "not with every member of Congress, but certainly the leaders of Congress."

The Iraq war was in the spotlight this week as Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander there, gave Congress a status report on the war. McCain argues for keeping troops in Iraq to capitalize on security gains, despite a recent outbreak of violence. His Democratic rivals, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton argue for withdrawing troops.

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Wednesday Hero Blogburst

Welcome to this week's installment where all the member bloggers of "Wednesdays Hero", found in my sidebar and theirs collectively honor many of the real hero's found in this country who's names and bio's have been provided to us for these humble tributes by blogroll creators Indian Chris @ Right Wing and Right Minded along with HooahWife.

Many of our soldiers are those that have paid the ultimate price for this country, protecting it both at home and abroad from the many threats we face from our enemies wishing us and them harm, and some are not.

In either case they are the real American heroes of today and we now both salute and offer our prayers to both them and their loved ones. To join us if you wish to please start by reading the post below.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael T. Williams

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael T. Williams, a kennel master with Task Force Military Police, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines, and his dog "Kitt", search for ordnance and firearms during a route reconnaissance operation through the western Anbar province of Iraq April 1. The dog handlers conduct operations in support of 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion to bring peace and stability to Iraq and its people.

Here's a post from the US Marine Website and Blog about Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael T. Williams from April 2nd that has much more information than was provided this week in the supplied posts:

Working dogs help clear Anbar of danger
By Cpl. Ryan Tomlinson,Regimental Combat Team 5

Marine Corps Website 4/2/2008

KOREAN VILLAGE, Iraq —Operation Iraqi Freedom has made for a safer and more stable Iraq. That goal was reached with hard work from the service members as well as what a group of people call, “Man’s best friend.”

Military working dogs with Task Force Military Police, 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, have assisted Coalition forces throughout OIF to prevent insurgent activity by locating weapons caches and explosive materials.

“These dogs use a keen sense of smell,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael T. Williams, a kennel master with TFMP. “That sense (of smell) can locate weapons caches to prevent future attacks.”

The dog handlers with TFMP work in Camp Korean Village, Iraq, in support of 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5. The group is comprised of members of the U.S. Army, Marines and Navy, and is ready to assist at a moments notice.

“We train the dogs constantly every week; if we aren’t on missions, we are training the dogs,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Eliot J. Tiashi, 25, a dog handler with TFMP from Daytona Beach, Fla. “By training them every day, (the dogs) maintain their efficiency.”

The dogs acquired their initial training in Lakeland Air Force Base, San Antonio. During the course, the K-9s are trained to locate various types of explosives and weapons. The training advances from lower levels to higher by placing the dog in different environments where they have to locate specific items.

Despite all of the training the K-9s endure, the handlers still care for them and play with them like family dogs.

“The relationship is like a father and a son,” said Williams, 27 from Culleoka, Tenn. while walking his German shepherd “Kitt.” “They make deployments go by easier, because no matter what, you still have your friend there with you.”

The dog handlers with TFMP have conducted operations since January and will be detaching to I Marine Expeditionary Force (FWD). Despite the change of command, the service members will conduct operations in support of 2nd LAR Bn. as well as any infantry or logistics battalion needing K-9 assistance until the day they return home.

“Every day the dogs are saving lives,” said Williams. “Whether it’s that day or in the future, it’s one less life taken.”

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

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Before The Internet No One Would Believe These Stories....

Now we see that indeed these things can happen and the National Enquirer isn't the only place were one reads these things like the strange occurrence in India posted below:

Baby With 2 Faces Born in North India:

My Way News - "SAINI SUNPURA, India (AP) - A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday.

The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali's facial features are duplicated - she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes.

'My daughter is fine - like any other child,' said Vinod Singh, 23, a poor farm worker.

Lali has caused a sensation in the dusty village of Saini Sunpura, 25 miles east of New Delhi. When she left the hospital, eight hours after a normal delivery on March 11, she was swarmed by villagers, said Sabir Ali, the director of Saifi Hospital." continued

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Blogs For Borders Video Blog Burst

In my right sidebar along with other blogrolls you will find one that links to Blogs for Borders. It's an effort created and put together by fellow Illinois bloggers Jake Jacobsen and MJ to hopefully bring any bit of additional attention we can to the out of control and mostly ignored illegal immigration situation.

As fruitless an effort as it may at times seem, doing absolutely nothing naturally produces exactly the same results, absolutely nothing. This is what the illegal alien loving Mexican lobby and our government are counting on, that most Americans will do nothing about this problem allowing it to grow to proportions that are irreversible, thus causing all to throw their hands up in disgust and give up the good fight.

So without further adieu, here's this weeks Blogs For Borders Blogburst:

Our weekly vlog podcast on illegal immigration and border security issues.

In this weeks edition:

• Importing Mexico? Where is the roughest neighborhood in Mexico? LA!
• Reconquista the musical! Mexican rapper demands amnesty makes threats!
• 100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?

Download for your ipod here.

You can watch the entire El Chivo 'Si Si Puede' video here.

If you operate a patriotic business, website, blog or are simply a generous individual with a patriotic bent who would like to see our borders secured and would like to sponsor a show you can contact us about that here.

This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here.

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Defeatist Dems Warming Up To Bash Military & Patreaus This Week

And in anticipation of their defeatist agenda being front and center in the upcoming congressional weasels smackdown of the US military and General Patreaus, the RNC released this little video reminder of the Hillary Obama viewpoint and stance on the Iraq issue:

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About Time Someone Officially Pinned The "Paparazzi" For The Diana Tragedy

After all they seem to be the ones that caused the entire event to transpire, events that cost her and her Muslim buddy Dodi Al Fayed to lose their lives that evening and no one else, not even the driver as were it not for their incessant hounding of her they never would have stepped into that mess in the first place that evening.

Not the government, not the slimy Prince "Dumbo Ears" Charles but the totally out of control, blood sucking photographers there who were all dead set on getting photos of the Princess and Fayed out on the town like the well known million dollar shot below, forcing them to get in a car with an idiot behind the wheel at the last spur of a moment, a known drunk who was drinking minutes before the acident who chose to speed through a notoriously dangerous tunnel to avoid their intrusions, case closed end of story.Now possibly someone like the crazed paranoid Muhammad Al Fayed can sue the photographers, thus putting them out of business and making this cottage industry of the paparazzi an outlawed occupation. A now accepted profession that puts so many innocent lives in jeopardy all around the world just to get a couple photographs of this person or that person that needs to be reigned in before others die from the same type of event repeating itself as it surely will.

Coroner rules Diana unlawfully killed

- Yahoo! News: "LONDON - A coroner's jury ruled Monday that Princess Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed through the reckless actions of their driver and the paparazzi in 1997.

The jury had been told that a verdict of unlawful killing would mean that they believed the reckless behavior of the driver and paparazzi amounted to manslaughter. It was the most serious verdict available to them.

The couple died in Paris when their speeding car slammed into a concrete pillar while it was being chased by photographers in cars and on motorbikes. The jury added that the fact that Diana and Dodi were not wearing seatbelts was a contributing factor.

The coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, had instructed the jury that there was no evidence to support claims by Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, that the couple were victims of a murder plot directed by Prince Philip and carried out by British secret agents. The jury was not at liberty to disagree.

The six women and five men on the jury began deliberating April 2 after hearing six months of testimony from more than 240 witnesses. They also went to Paris to see the scene of the Aug. 31, 1997 crash." continued

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Selfish Protesters Use Violence To Get Their Way

The protester species of human is certainly a special breed of their own. No matter what country they happen to come from, they are strikingly similar in that they all use violence to protest the endless myriad of things that they disagree with and anything goes as long as they feel it's germane to their needs and wants, regardless of the needs and wants of others.

First in London, now in Paris and soon to be elsewhere this phenomenon is displaying itself as the protesters have chosen to use the Olympics and their disruption to say to the world look at me look at me !!! Taking the Olympics and using violence to disrupt the torch relay as they have is nearly as low brow and despicable as the actual things that they are protesting, thus taking the focus off the subject of their ire and putting it on themselves as everyone looks and sees what a**holes these people are and can be.

So here they have robbed a generation of Parisians and others the magnificence of the torch relay and replaced it with pictures of themselves snuffing out the torch and committing violent acts upon the people chosen to run with the torch itself, a lifelong and definitely a once in lifetime dream for many who were chosen to do so.

While I am against the treatment of Tibetans and Chinese by their government as much as anyone there are better ways to get one's point across than the methods these selfish do gooders have once chosen to do so. These people now begin to become caricatures themselves and are starting to resemble the idiots portrayed in the once goofy but now quite prescient movie from a while back in '94 called PCU, and many of us non-protesters are simply sick of these people telling the world what's right and wrong while committing violence and whatever they can get away with in the name of free speech to get their often times whacked points across, sick of them.

Olympic Torch Extinguished Amid Pro-Tibet Protests In Paris

|Sky News|World News: "The Olympic torch relay in Paris has been cut short after chaotic protests by anti-China demonstrators.

The flame had already been extinguished four times by security forces after repeated clashes with pro-Tibet and human rights campaigners.

The city's mayor also cancelled a ceremony to mark the torch's passing as officials draped a Tibetan flag over the city hall's facade.

Mayor Bertrand Delanoe announced the cancellation after Green party members of the city council flew the flag.

Thousands of police sent on to the streets to protect the torch relay as it made its way around the city were unable to prevent demonstrators hijacking the event"

The torch had to be repeatedly extinguished amid safety fears caused by the demonstrations and several activists were arrested.

Two campaigners brandishing a Tibetan flag were arrested for trying to bar the torch's path.

And two members of media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) - which disrupted the lighting of the flame in Athens - were held for trying to vault over the security cordon protecting the torch.

A member of the French Greens party had earlier been restrained by police when trying to grab the torch from the first of 80 torch bearers, former world 400m hurdles champion Stephane Diagana.

Bus upon which torch had to be carried

Several hundred demonstrators waving banners gathered on the Trocadero esplanade, just the other side of the river Seine from the Eiffel Tower, where the relay started.

Three RSF members climbed up the steel tower and unfurled a 13ft flag showing the five Olympic rings turned into handcuffs.

They then handcuffed themselves to the structure more than 200ft in the air.

Sky News Europe correspondent Greg Milam said extinguishing the flame was significant because the torch was supposed to be kept alight on its journey around the world. more

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When Compared To The Alternatives, McCain Should Be a Shoe-In

Particularly when one looks at the dedication to the United States that 4 generations of McCains going back to the Revolutionary war have provided, to think that America might choose one of two compulsively lying resume padding ultra liberal American Democrats over this 3rd generation true American hero makes me sick to my stomach.

I am by no means a McCain sycophant but one cannot deny his love and dedication to America and in my view after what he's given this country his entire life in this present situation the country now finds itself in with choices he should be a lock to win the presidency once more Americans that aren't already become familiar with his familial history, and come to their deluded senses about the real Obama or Hillary that he'll be up against.

The New York Times had a pretty decent story about McCain and his son who is presently serving our country in the Marine corps showing he has instilled those same patriotic feelings of service in his privileged sons who could have chosen anything but the military to be in but didn't.

One thing in the article that also says a lot about the New York Times is this sentence you'll find somewhat buried o the first page:

The McCain's declined to be interviewed for this article, which the campaign requested not be published.

And so their answer to that request was basically "screw you and yours John" and they go right ahead and publish it anyway, possibly placing his son in greater risk than he already is. What a bunch of loons the people in that paper are through and through.

Vocal on War, McCain Is Silent on Son’s Service -

New York Times: "One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers — soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.

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Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or a retinue. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan’s brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army first lieutenant killed by an ambush and roadside bomb."

No one mentioned the obvious: in just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. “I can’t imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that ...” Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. “We lost a dear one,” she finished.

Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father’s New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.

In his 71 years, Mr. McCain has confronted war as a pilot, a prisoner and a United States senator, but never before as a father. His son’s departure for Iraq brought him the same worry that every military parent feels, friends say, while the young marine’s experiences there have given him a sustained grunt’s-eye view of the action and private confirmation for his argument that United States strategy in Iraq is working.

While Jimmy McCain’s service is a story all his own — he enlisted at age 17 — it illuminates the beliefs about duty, honor and sacrifice with which family friends say he was raised. Military ideals have defined Mr. McCain as a person and a politician, and he is placing them at the core of his presidential candidacy. Last week, he campaigned at his former stations of duty, explaining how the lessons he learned there would guide his decisions as commander in chief.

“If I had ignored some of the less important conventions of the Academy,” as a demerit-prone midshipman, Mr. McCain said Wednesday at the United States Naval Academy, “I was careful not to defame its more compelling traditions: the veneration of courage and resilience; the honor code that simply assumed your fidelity to its principles; the homage paid to Americans who had sacrificed greatly for our countr

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One of The Last Truly Legendary Stars Leaves Us

With conservative icon Charlton Heston's sad passing this weekend, Hollywood continues taking on that image of a substance abusing fly by night liberal loon scrap heap of actors and actresses that couldn't hold Heston's jock strap for a split second.

A town that he and his mostly gone legendary contemporaries built like the rest of the country that has been thoroughly hijacked and turned into a liberal hell hole as far as I'm concerned, simply churning out nothing but sex and violence laden films with creativity that many 12 year olds could surpass if given the tools and dollars to achieve.

His lengthy collection of memorable performances in a treasure trove of epic films will never be matched again in this life on this planet, of that we can be sure.

And he will certainly be missed like almost none other, but will gratefully live on eternally via dozens and dozens of his great movies, particularly for me in his most crowning achievement was his moving portrayal of Moses in the Ten Commandments, the movie that I like most other Christians watch at the least every easter season and ironically just a few weeks ago.

Film Legend Charlton Heston Dead at 84:

"LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing 'Ben-Hur' and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.

The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said.

Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details.

'Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played,' Heston's family said in a statement. 'No one could ask for a fuller life than his. No man could have given more to his family, to his profession, and to his country.'"

Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease, saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure."

With his large, muscular build, well-boned face and sonorous voice, Heston proved the ideal star during the period when Hollywood was filling movie screens with panoramas depicting the religious and historical past. "I have a face that belongs in another century," he often remarked.

Publicist Michael Levine, who represented Heston for about 20 years, said the actor's passing represented the end of an iconic era for cinema.

"If Hollywood had a Mt. Rushmore, Heston's face would be on it," Levine said. "He was a heroic figure that I don't think exists to the same degree in Hollywood today."

The actor assumed the role of leader offscreen as well. He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild and chairman of the American Film Institute and marched in the civil rights movement of the 1950s. With age, he grew more conservative and campaigned for conservative candidates. continued

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