15 Days…

• Author: Ben Keeler
• Filed under: Presidential
• Date: Oct 20,2008

Just got back from a weekend trip. A lot of posts to get up, but here are some odds and ends on the presidential election that is a 100% certainty for Obama according to Nancy Pelosi. Though it will be tough to win going against voters like this, as the Dispatch tells us.

Just got word that Vets for Freedom is going to run a few hundred thousand dollars' worth of TV ads in Ohio starting tomorrow. VFF is going to make a concerted effort to put the "minor" issue of the wars we're fighting back on the table, and apparently they have decided that Ohio is one of the few places where advocating for that issue will do the most good.

Powell endorses Obama. I know Kyle hit on it earlier. Would it have been better to get Powell's endorsement than not? Sure. I am not sure it matters really. Not sure who sits around and says "oh wow Colin Powell endorses Obama so I am going to vote for him too." I see that the Beacon endorsed Obama, as did the Plain Dealer. Maybe I'll reconsider! But back to Powell, I thought liberals didn't like him anymore after he "lied" to the United Nations in the run-up to Iraq. Looks like he is okay again.

Obama raised $150 million in September. It is impressive. It would be a lie to try and argue otherwise. McCain has to go out and say Obama is trying to buy the election, which he is, without looking like a whiner. It is a tough line to walk.

McCain and Palin to Green High School on Wednesday.

Biden: “Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fund raisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” That makes me feel good, since Biden said Obama wasn't ready to be president.

ACORN doesn't treat their employees well. Maybe a community organizer should stick up for them?

I am rooting for the Phillies in the World Series. Most people root for one team or the other. Obama roots for both. John Kerry's teams both lost in the playoffs - Manny Ortiz will not be going to the World Series with either the Dodgers or Red Sox.

Spent the weekend in Atlanta. Every year I attend the Decatur Beer Festival. Decatur is one of the liberal areas of Georgia where you feel like your car will get bashed in if you have a McCain sticker. 20% of the people there were wearing an Obama sticker or a shirt with his picture. It was scary. It really is a cult. I wonder if they are also registered to vote in Ohio.

More in a little bit.