I doubt it, but I do expect this to be raised by many in the coming months:

McCain’s birthplace prompts queries about whether that rules him out

The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming.

McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.

Almost since those words were written in 1787 with scant explanation, their precise meaning has been the stuff of confusion, law school review articles, whisper campaigns and civics class debates over whether only those delivered on American soil can be truly natural born. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states.

I saw this referenced at Hot Air:

Muslim Survey “Challenges” West

A new Gallup poll is being touted as a “challenge” to  western misperceptions of Islam. The survey was done on three continents and took six years to complete, and as the French news agency AFP reports, we’ve all been a little alarmist over here:

“About  93 percent of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are moderates and only seven percent are politically radical, according to the poll, based on more than 50,000 interviews.”

The punchline (emphasis mine):

Seven percent of 1.3 billion leaves us with . . . 91 million radical Islamists. And to think we were concerned!

Nuff Said.

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Obama seems to be the candidate of choice on the left, so examining his values and such seems to be justified.

Yesterday I noted a video that surfaced recently of him detailing some of his thoughts of the military.  Frankly they concern me.  But it doesn’t stop there.

I read this quick bit tonight and frankly I don’t understand why he made this point, other than the desire to be considered the outsider in Washington.  He seems to determined to force people to accept his representation that he is the salmon swimming against the current in DC.

So, asked last night to name a regret, of all the voted he has been a part of, he comes up with this:

Obama regrets intervening to save Terri Schiavo

Asked in last night’s debate to name a regret, Sen. Barack Obama said he would like to take back his vote authorizing Congress to intervene to save the life of the brain-injured Florida woman Terri Schiavo.

He has had what, 3 years of policy votes to draw from, and this is his first inclination?

I don’t know where this came from (I got it from Andrews Dad), but is is worrisome.  While controlling spending is certainly advisable, and butting waste is essential, this contains far too many sweeping generalizations.  It seems to me that he really doesn’t grasp some military concepts.

Scared yet?

More on this tonight.

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I’m worn out form a long work issue, so no profound pontifications tonight, just some light humour.

No intentional theme, just whatever struck my fancy tonight.

This reminds me of work:

This one I like because watching the Democrat nomination process has been illuminating.

Nufff Said.

And what about those media priorities… 

See ya tomorrow!

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Hillary’s campaign has finally admitted by deeds that is recognizes it is losing.  Her campaign is slowly getting dirtier and dirtier, and her tactics nastier.

Clinton Campaign Starts 5-Point Attack on Obama

After struggling for months to dent Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy, the campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now unleashing what one Clinton aide called a “kitchen sink” fusillade against Mr. Obama, pursuing five lines of attack since Saturday in hopes of stopping his political momentum.

The effort underscores not only Mrs. Clinton’s recognition that the next round of primaries — in Ohio and Texas on March 4 — are must-win contests for her. It also reflects her advisers’ belief that they can persuade many undecided voters to embrace her at the last minute by finally drawing sharply worded, attention-grabbing contrasts with Mr. Obama.

After denouncing Mr. Obama over the weekend for an anti-Clinton flier about the Nafta trade treaty, and then sarcastically portraying his message of hope Sunday as naïve, Mrs. Clinton delivered a blistering speech on Monday that compared Mr. Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience to that of the candidate George W. Bush.

Roseanne Barr Has a blog on Huffington that was startling in its simplicity as it showcases Obama’s greatest weakness:  Experience.

Experience vs. Inspiration

When I fly in an airplane I want the pilot with the most experience, not the one who can inspire hope in me that I get to where I am going. When I pay my taxes, I want the person filing them to be experienced, not the new person who inspires hope in me that he can do the job. When I hire someone to fix my washing machine, I want the tried and true experienced person, not the one who inspires me to hope that he can fix it. When I go to the doctor I do not want to get the one who inspires hope in me that s/he can cure what’s wrong, but the one who knows what the hell to do the minute I call. It’s not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired things will get better, but they actually won’t. When Oprah makes her employees sign her fifty page non-disclosure statement, she doesn’t “hope” they can’t break it, she pays teams of experienced lawyers to MAKE SURE they can’t break it, or be sued in an experienced court by an experienced judge.

This is a tribute to someone you may not have ever heard of but he had a much greater influence on music then you may know.

Back in the 60’s and 70’s there was a revolution in music that many people may have seen but they may not have understood it.  Religion found its way into modern music and the Christian rock genre was born. 

If you recall the 70’s group People, and their top 20 hit “I love you”, you knew this man.

If you have heard Amy Grant, Collective Soul or Jars of Clay, or the more recent offerings by Flyleaf and Fireflight you have heard music born of that era.

And the person who is generally considered the father of that era was Larry Norman.

Larry took the raw energy of Rock and Roll and fused it with the power of the Christian Gospel, and thus was a new kind of music born.

His work was not born quietly, he faced opposition in the Church by people who saw his music as ungodly and sinful.  His strongest critics often enough were the people in his camp as it were.

I am taking a slightly different approach to the Obama weapons story.

If you didn’t know, this was a product of the debate the other night, where Obama said:

You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq.

And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough Humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.

Now, that’s a consequence of bad judgment. And you know, the question is, on the critical issues that we face right now, who’s going to show the judgment to lead? And I think that on every critical issue that we’ve seen in foreign policy over the last several years — going into Iraq originally, I didn’t just oppose it for the sake of opposing it.

With more allegations of cheating coming to light, it does make you wonder.

I personally have no opinion, but I can see why the questions and the taint will linger:

New Claim of Taping Emerges Against Patriots

The Patriots’ pattern of illicitly videotaping the signals of opposing N.F.L. coaches began in Coach Bill Belichick’s first preseason with the team in 2000, a former Patriots player said. The information was put to use in that year’s regular-season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Belichick’s debut as New England’s coach.

The secret taping of signals, which is against league rules, continued at least through three championship seasons to the 2007 season opener against the Jets, when the Patriots were caught and subsequently sanctioned by the league.

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According to several executives in the league, the season opener against the Jets was not the first time the Patriots had been spotted taping another team’s defensive coaches at Giants Stadium. In the final preseason game of 2006, the Patriots were caught taping a Giants defensive assistant giving signals, the executives said.