Obama brings out his Hollywood buddies

An unprecedented number of Hollywood personalities and rock stars being lined to play a role in the Denver convention, where Mr Obama will formally receive the party's nomination at the end of the month.
The decision to let some of them take to the centre stage is a calculated gamble by Mr Obama to stick to his guns in courting the celebrity vote. It comes after his Republican rival John McCain landed a telling blow last week, mocking him as the "Paris Hilton" of the White House race in a so-called "attack ad".
Mr Obama's strategists have concluded that the publicity gains from rubbing shoulders with actors like George Clooney, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will outweigh the risks of appearing lightweight.
The list of those approved for credentials to attend the event includes the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who recently filmed a campaign advertisement for Mr Obama, who is expected to bring her friend Madonna.
Hollywood royalty, including Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Warren Beatty, Susan Sarandon, Forrest Whitaker and Scarlett Johansson, will also be in Denver, as well as singers Kanye West and Wyclef Jean. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones may also put in an appearance.
It is a high risk strategy in a country where Hollywood is associated with the liberal values despised by many in Middle America.
Anyone impressed yet?
Obama and Clooney have an newly formed friendship he wants to be Obama adviser.

Lets Accomodate the Muslims

Thanks to the Heads up from our fellow blogger DD2, I found this story.
A new contract approved by members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union at the Shelbyville, Tenn., plant last November includes the change to accommodate Muslim workers.
"The negotiating committee made the holiday a top priority in contract talks," the union's Alabama and Mid-South Council Representative Randy Hadley said in a statement issued in June. "And we were able to get management to commit to it."
The change, which does not affect the company's 118 other plants, exchanges Labor Day for the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. The new contract, negotiated last fall, also gives Muslim workers a prayer room.
"Eid al-Fitr is one of eight paid holidays for all team members covered by the contract, while Labor Day is not a paid holiday," Gary Mickelson, Tyson's media relations director, told the Shelbyville Times-Gazette.
But Tyson spokeswoman Libby Lawson told FOXNews.com that employees who are not a member of the union at that plant would still be eligible for Labor Day as a paid holiday.
The seven additional paid holidays are the employee's birthday, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, Mickelson said.
"Given the nature of our work, many, many, many times we have to work holidays anyway, and Labor Day is usually one of those holidays that our workers have to work," Lawson said. "And, of course, they are paid holiday pay when they have to work any holiday that is recognized at our facility."
Tyson officials said that approximately 250 of the plant's 1,200 employees are Somalis who entered the United States as political refugees. Most, if not all, are believed to be Muslim — among them, Abdillahi Jama.
"This new contract is good because it allows me to work on the second shift and still pray when I need to," Jama said in the union's press release. "It’s very important to us, and the Eid is one of our most sacred holidays. It shows how the union helps us."
Lawson said that the Shelbyville plant is one of a handful that have designated prayer areas that can be used by groups of all faiths.
News of the holiday change has prompted some anger on local Web message boards, with some writings urging readers to contact the AFL-CIO and boycott Tyson products.

Real MEN Will Vote For John McCain

Real Men Vote for McCain

Let us count the ways:

1. Barack Obama spent 20 years sitting in church while his preacher and others bad-mouthed the United States of America. Navy pilot John McCain spent five years being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton, and refused a chance to walk out ahead of fellow POWs with more seniority.

2. Obama wants to cut and run from Iraq regardless of conditions on the ground or future consequences. McCain took on the president and secretary of defense in demanding more troops for Iraq, a policy that is inarguably winning the war. He also has two sons who fought in Iraq.

3. McCain supports nuclear power. Obama backs wind energy.

4. Obama wants restrictive gun control because only economically depressed middle-Americans “cling to God and guns.” McCain unwaveringly supports the Second Amendment.

5. McCain has deviated from his party’s conservative base on several occasions (McCain-Feingold Bill, Gang of 14, McCain-Kennedy Bill, opposition to torture). Obama has voted the left-wing line every single time, and been designated the most liberal Senator in Congress.

6. Obama is willing to meet with hostile state leaders like Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez without preconditions. McCain will set conditions first, talk later .

7. Obama is married to a bitter, angry lawyer who became “proud” of her country for the first time this year. McCain’s wife is a beer heiress who founded an organization to provide MASH-style units to disaster-torn world regions. Did I mention that she’s a beer heiress?

8. Obama supports higher taxes for a government-run nanny state that will coddle all Americans like babies. McCain trusts people to spend their less-taxed money however they wish.

9. The name John McCain sounds like “John McClain,” the action hero played by Bruce Willis in the manly Die Hard series. “Barack Obama” sounds like the kind of elitist villain John McClain has to outwit and defeat.

10. McCain is endorsed by Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Obama gets support from Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and every weenie in Hollywood. Plus, Susan Sarandon has vowed to leave the country if McCain gets elected.

Case closed.

Hey David Lettermen, put this on your "Top 10 list"!

Hat Tip to crusader-rabbit

We're still in denial about the threat from radical Islam

Yes, the threat of radical Islam is very serious. Heaven forbid, there is a dirty bomb detonated in New Yor, or Washington or in London or another big city, then both sides of the political chasm that has opened up with George Bush and the war, will feel vindicated.
The Right will say, look we've been warning you for years and you've been in denial and accusing us of hysteria. Now you see there is a real threat and our police and intelligence agencies were not up to the mark.
The Left, on the other hand, will continue to claim that the Right caused this bombing with their war on terror and their unjust fear of Musulims and that the bombing however terrible will be justified.
The threat to the USA from radical Islam is very serious.

It’s All Over, The Liberals Officially Have Taken Over Hollywood and Television

It is over. Conservatives will no longer have even a single show on network television anymore.
Not. Even. One. And the same goes for Hollywood. It really is a shame.
Have you noticed that Liberals make and promote and distribute films about assassinating Ptesident Bush sex with animals, and sympathizing with child molesters and they call that "art".
A conservative is marked a racist for even thinking of the idea of making a picture about race..
When a show is about a black person, there is always diversity of skin color and nationality and sex espoused by the left, but never diversity of thought and ideology.
I used to love to watch the TV show “24″, but I began to lose interest over the course of last season as the show grew more liberal over the course of the season, when the storylines just got more and more annoying. The President’s sister’s ranting was grating on my nerves so much that I wanted Jack to put a bag over her head to shut her up as he did with his brother who was helping the terrorists.
What has happened in Hollywood? Can a industry really survive telling its customers they are stupid if they agree with the president of the United States?
This is another reason why I never watch any Award Shows any longer and why their ratings drop every year. Ratings dropped by a third compared to last year’s. And they continue to drop year after year.
I have to tell you that I was really happy when the writers were out on strike. I was able to watch some of my good old favorite old movies.

I Will Vote For John McCain. If You Don't Want To, Then So Be it

Some diehard conservatives like Sean Hannity, Rush, Coulter etc probably will not endorse John McCain. I say, too bad!

I have no problems with John McCain and even if I did, I'll be damned if I would EVER vote for Hillary Clinton OR barack Obama.

McCain has made a few blunders, but he also has been saying some of the right things.

McCain is pro life, pro military, pro America, strong on the Second Amendment ,strong on the WOT, supports lower taxes and vows to appoint justices to the USSC who will follow the Constitution. And still that's not good enough. The so called base still needs to be soothed and comforted like the tantrum throwing babies they have come to be. But, they'll never be satisfied no matter what McCain does. Now, they're whining because he's trying to take the "High Road" . Give me a break. Go vote for whoever you want to, but don't come back whining when Obama the Commie is elected because you wanted to "sit it out" like a cry baby just because the man you wanred did not get the nomination.

I will vote for John McCain, Melanoma and all.

Wright Is Wrong

Wright is wrong. He is racist and uses his religion as an attack on all whites as if we can be lumped together. Obama's continued support of this weirdo leaves me to question Obama's integrity. I listened to Wright at a recent event and his words are destructive. He is angry and wants to blame the white person for all of the woes for those blacks who need a scapegoat. Say what you will, I know where Hillary stands when it comes to racism. She knows there is no place for it under any disguise. Obama is a chicken and continues to show his inexperience and arrogance by his statements. People still nedd to hear him and Clinton debate. I heard this weekend many people discuss the need for more information on just who is Obama. All he seems to declare is change. The only change we need is to have Hillary as President to get our country and our dignity back. Obama is so clueless as to how to attain this and his speeches prove this. He is nothing but empty promises and rhetoric.