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Ouch.

Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama who co-chaired President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, introduced the running mate of Obama’s Republican challenger in Virginia Friday.
“Are you ready to meet the next vice president of the United States?” Davis asked at a rally in Springfield, Virginia.

Special Operations OPSEC
Lots more from Richard Fernandez.
h/t Bob, Maz2

If yesterday’s excitement in Wisconsin is any example, then Paul Ryan was the right choice to energize the Republican base.
Thinking back to 2008, that’s pretty much the way things started out for Sarah Palin too. Make no mistake, Ryan & Palin are completely different politicians with few similarities, except one: The Left hates them. Correction: The Left needs to hate them.
One wonders if prior to October 1st, that someone who knows someone will have heard from someone that their second cousin saw Paul Ryan treat a female black cashier in a less than courteous manner. Misogynistic Racist!
In anticipation of what’s certain to happen now from the allies of Mr. Hope & Change, a website has been setup: DefendPaulRyan.com

“Romney’s Bridge To Conservatives”
A bold choice: “Ryan puts the national debt front and center in the election, on par with or maybe even ahead of jobs. This is a winner of an issue, it’s what motivated people in 2010, and it will cause huge turnout.”
Lots more here.
Heh.

Paul Ryan represent Obama’s most horrifying nightmare: math.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 11, 2012

“Joe Biden must be quaking…”

From: Marlon Marshall, BarackObama.com [mailto:info@barackobama.com]
Sent: August-07-12 9:24 AM
Subject: I can’t believe I’m typing this
I’m so jealous of you that I can barely write the rest of this email.
Imagine shooting hoops with Carmelo Anthony, Patrick Ewing, Sheryl Swoopes, Kyrie Irving, and Alonzo Mourning. Oh, and President Obama and Michael Jordan will be there, too.
Now stop dreaming and make it happen. You and a guest of your choice could join President Obama and some of the greatest basketball stars for a special night at the Obama Classic.
Pitch in $3, and you’ll be automatically entered for a chance to win.

This latest fundraising plea via Rob K., who adds “when is the hot tub party with Joe Biden and his teamster buddies coming up?”

Harry Reid’s Office Responds To Rumors That He’s A Pederast

“Obama now issuing instructional videos on how to send him money.”

AP:

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has signaled a preference in the U.S. presidential campaign by comparing Mitt Romney to his own challenger.
Chavez, who is up for re-election a month before U.S. President Barack Obama, has in recent weeks expressed a clear preference for the man currently in the White House.

Hit back, twice as hard.

John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He’s also the son of a Greek immigrant. After hearing Barack Obama’s attack against businesspeople the other day, he decided it was important to respond:

There was no federal bailout money for us. No Republican corporate welfare. No Democratic handouts. No bipartisan lobbyists working the angles. No Tony Rezkos. No offshore accounts. No Obama bucks.
Just two immigrant brothers and their families risking everything, balancing on the economic high wire, building a business in America. They sacrificed, paid their bills, counted pennies to pay rent and purchase health care and food and not much else. And for their troubles they were muscled by the politicos, by the city inspectors and the chiselers and the weasels, all those smiling extortionists who held the government hammer over all of our heads.

Will probably be how Obama shores up pensions by raiding Medicare.
Isn’t it interesting, though that Obama moved the red numbers from a plan to insure private pensions, in order to pay for private student debt.
H/T: Glenn

Updated with Premier Wall’s speech, below.
Brad Wall stands up for Canada.
Speech:

Press scrum afterwards:

Instalanch. Thanks Glenn.

That is what “Forward” really means. The “Forwardism” of that future which never seems to work, but is on the edge of working, with enough money, enough laws and enough marching orders, mankind will finally set foot into that mechanical state where leaders look upon us from their balloons and tell us how to live and how to die.

h/t Me No Dhimmi

Why would GM cut R & D, the source of its future growth, in order to show profits in the short run? Is something happening in, say, November, for which the 26%-government-owned entity might want its balance sheet to look artificially rosy?

Via

The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign.

Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book.
Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.
[…]
Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined.
Since then, Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, bringing his total to 124. Carter held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in 1984, Bush Snr 19 in 1992, Clinton 14 in 1996 and Bush Jnr 57 in 2004.

h/t Maz2

Preston Manning says enough is enough!
Related: Adler and Breakenridge chime in.

Barack Obama – now almost as popular as that cute doctor on the ER reruns.

One might have concluded that Alberta MLA Thomas Lukaszuk’s confrontation with an elderly, dying Edmonton homeowner was bad enough. But in an apparent effort to top his antics, Premier Alison Redford has been attacking former Premier Ralph Klein, who “is in a nursing home with a serious form of rapidly progressing frontal-lobe dementia. He’s quite ill and virtually incapable of forming words.”
Perhaps we’re too dumb to recognize a brilliant political strategy at work here. Maybe the secret to success of any election campaign is to appeal to that faction of the electorate that enjoys seeing seniors in ill-health getting picked on?!
h/t Syncrodox
Related: Monte Solberg isn’t so convinced that Redford & co. are the geniuses they claim they are.
Update: Jason Kenney chimes in.

SDA regular Gord Tulk has written a comprehensive piece about the 2012 Alberta election, including much insight about the Wildrose Party. It’s lengthy but well worth a read.