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This is an article by Dick Morris. I get these daily from www.dickmorris.com. I find most of them quite informative. This one I had to share.

A STAR IS BORN

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published in the The New York Post on September 4, 2008

PALIN: NEW KIND OF WOMAN POL

ST. PAUL

With sass and wit, sarcasm and sincerity, courage and strength, Sarah Palin last night showed us a new model of female politician.

Her family stories were genuine and real. Her commitment to special-needs children was moving. Her contempt for special interests was obvious.

And her putdowns of Barack Obama’s rhetoric and her praise of John McCain’s character and achievements were welcome and well delivered.

Many women look bad when they attack their opponents, too often seeming strident and shrill. But Palin was funny and irreverant, with a biting wit and a joy of combat that was exhilarating to watch.

Sometimes she reminded us of the hockey mom she is. Other times, she was an American Margaret Thatcher – mobilizing humor and biting satire to mock the opposition.

Where Hillary Clinton has but two speeds – full forward and stop – Palin displayed a range of rhetoric, emotion and language that sometimes evoked moving patriotism, at other times hilarious irony – and, frequently, a strong dose of common sense.

If her style in attacking and mocking her opponent was Thatcher-esque, her range of rhetorical style was Rooseveltian. She is, in fact, one of the best public speakers in our politics today.

Now the Democrats are stuck in a trap. They’ve demeaned, patronized and smeared a woman who’s well on her way to becoming very, very popular. Her speech will create legions of fans; the Democratic smears of the last few days will create, for Obama, legions of enemies.

This man who dedicated two years to stopping a woman from being president now has to answer for spending two months stopping one from becoming vice president – a task he hopes to accomplish using women’s votes.

Remember: The swing vote in this election are single moms. Just as the soccer moms dominated in 1996 and security moms in 2004, now unmarried women, mostly with children, will determine the outcome of the 2008 race. And they’re finding in Sarah Palin an advocate whose life isn’t far different from their own and whose priorities mirror theirs’.

As withering in her contempt for the country-club elites of the Republican establishment as for the pandering of the Democrats, Palin stands in stark contrast to the inherited elitism of the Bushes, the Romneys and the Kennedys. She’s a woman of the people.

Was this a Republican attacking big oil? Was it the nominee for vice president of a major party who laced into earmarks and lobbyists and PACs? Yes it was – and how refreshing!

In her sincere embrace of her family and her nonjudgmental introduction of her pregnant daughter, Palin won the hearts of many single moms. By evoking life in a modest, middle-class town, she established an empathy with voters akin to what Bill Clinton built when he ate at McDonalds’.

How are the Democrats to live down their assaults on Sarah? How not to seem the enemies of the very voters they have to get?

Strategically, Palin achieved the convention’s core goal – to show how McCain is not a clone of George Bush, but a man of the people eager for change and demanding of reforms.

Now the gap between Obama and McCain is not so wide. Now it is clear that they both stand for change.

So now the fear of a naive and untried Obama leading the nation through perilous times at home and abroad can work to drive voters over the narrower synapse and get them to vote for McCain.

Mission accomplished, Sarah.

Here’s a link to a good comparison between the 2 inexperienced candidates.

This works for me.

Sarah Palin – Governor of Alaska and VP choice for John McCain

This link connects to something even more amazing than the last one I posted. This one points to a story on Yahoo that says McCain is 5 points ahead in the polls. What makes this extremely amazing is the fact almost every Republican running for something is behind in the polls. They are behind because the country wants things to change from the way they have been for the last few years, or at least the last year.

What this really points to though is just how afraid of Obama people really are. Obama is a great speaker and he’s got tons of charisma but it seems people are still afraid of supporting him. I suspect there are a few reasons for this. They are Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, the speech in San Franciso, the speech in Germany, and the fact he really doesn’t have any experience plus a few others. I’m afraid of him because I think he would turn our economy into a shambles with raising taxes on everyone and he doesn’t want to do what needs to be done for the energy crisis.

At this point in time I would much rather have Hillary than Barak.

Seems McCain wasn’t the first to compare Obama to Paris.

This points us to someone else who did it.

A February 24, 2005, Washington Post article begins:

There’s nothing exotic or complicated about how phenoms are made in Washington, and, more to the point, how they are broken.

“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”

Leave it to Yahoo to take Edwards cheating on his wife and turning it into a Republican negative. They linked to this story on their main page today.

I don’t think the Edwards scandal should even be an issue for either candidate but Yahoo apparently does.

According to this Hillary may end up being the Democrat’s nominee.

Barack Obama is not legally a US natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth; a law that was in effect between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, when the law was changed.

… Senator Obama may very well be disqualified as the Democratic candidate in the upcoming Presidential campaign.

Presidential office requires the person elected to be a natural-born United States citizen if the child was not born to two US citizen parents.

US Law very clearly stipulates: “If only one parent was a US citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.”

Barack Obama’s father was not a US citizen, and Obama’s mother was only 18 when he was born, which means although she had been a US citizen for 10 years, his mother fails the test for being so for at least 5 years prior to Barack Obama’s birth.

In order for her child to have been a natural-born US citizen, his mother would have had to be 21 at the time of his birth.

In essence, Mrs. Obama was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic US citizenship.

His mother would have needed to have been 16+5 = 21 years old at the time of Barack Obama’s birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen.

Barack Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would still disqualify him from holding the office of President under current law.

At best, Barack Obama is only a naturalized US citizen.

This is an issue that must be clarified before the election.

Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President as is the case with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.