The media keep selling the same old story,  “this is going to be a close race”.  It is the same narrative they used, without success, in the Wisconsin Recall/Re-election race.  Pffffttt…

Someone needs to sell them golden shovels so they can keep digging their way to the land of perpetual irrelevance.   It won’t be close.   2012 will be a “blow-out”…. just like the 2010 “shellacking”

These pictures are from a Jacksonville, Florida campaign stop on Saturday.   The venue, The Landings Shopping Center,  is reported to be approximately 150 feet square.

9,700 people showed up. (more…)

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

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President Obama, and more aptly President Obama’s handlers, are formulating the campaign strategy; mixing it up a bit.

The attacks against Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are not gaining the traction they expected.  Conversely the critiques against President Obama are striking a central nerve with the electorate.   In essence Romney is winning public opinion and President Obama is losing.

So the Alexrod, Plouffe, Jarrett  ===> DNC operatives and spinmasters, Wasserman-Schultz, Stephanie Cutter  ===>  Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, strategy is to deflect back to the personable parent model.    President Obama “Daddy”, “Father”, “Husband”, etc.   AND the media is all too happy to sell the dopey wonderous Ward Cleaver imagery all over again. (more…)

Listen to how NBC’s Tom Brokaw frames the narrative.  Unreal.

Via Peoplescube.com
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TODAY

Note from the CTH: This post is independently authored by an anonymous guest of the Treehouse. This is part Three in a series of independently submitted guest posts. We are unable to determine or validate if the content discussed is indeed the substantive final content of an upcoming book, we are the conduit host and present for informational purposes of discussion:

George Zimmerman was not involved in the collaboration of this book and makes no guarantee of its accuracy or content. The comments added here to the known text of the Osterman book were not made by George Zimmerman, and should not be construed as the only comments that George Zimmerman may have regarding the publishing of this book.

As previously presented by the guest author: Upon initial review there appear to be numerous “mistakes” in [an upcoming] book, and even several specific items that we feel are outright fabrications. These aspects may be intended to help the book sell well, but they also present some serious factual concerns. (more…)

History never happens in a vacuum.   What we are going through right now is very much like the 1950’s….now that I  think of it.

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Strangers on our little red scoria roads in eastern Montana were met with the same suspicion as the unrecognized small plane flying north to south.  More on that in a moment.

If I were an artist, I could paint my mother’s back as she stood at the locked kitchen door talking to a salesman through the screen as he chooses his words carefully, hoping to gain entrance.

Standing behind her, I could see her left hand  pressing firmly down on the screen door hook and her right hand behind her back, holding the kitchen knife.  When Mom grabbed a butcher knife on her way to the door, we knew she was scared of something, although it was never talked about. If it happened that the lower back door to the house was not locked when a salesman arrived, we would scamper through the rooms on the back side of the house, scoot down the four steps to that door and hook the screen door there as well while she was talking through the screen door. (more…)

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