Barack tries to appeal to Christians with Joshua

Barack Obama's New Christian Group Takes the Name of a Conservative Group
from Redstate - Conservative News and Community
"Barack Obama's outreach to young evangelicals and Catholics is getting off on the wrong foot. Since his staff pays so much attention to the evangelicals he claims to care about, he's taken a name that's already held by a fairly active conservative group ..."

You can read the whole article, which is well thought out. But my thought is that Obama is surely gong to sound foolish now trying to reach out to evangelicals ... especially in light of his church experience.

McCain Strategy Briefing Video

H/T to Hoosier Access for the link

Jesse Jackson, Ross Perot and Barack Obama

What are the similarities between these three grass roots politicians who have run for President?

In the first two cases, they lost, and squandered their organizations by heavy handed top down control on organizations that wanted to be grass roots.

Obama's Organization, and the Future of American Politics

Micah Sifry discusses Jesse Jackson, Ross Perot and Howard Dean. All three very similar bottom up grass roots movements that ended up losing ... but are there lesson to be learned for this year and the Obama phenomenon?

I for one think that John McCain will narrowly beat Barack in November, and then the follow up question will be one of "will Barack mess up and lose all this momentum like his predecessors?" Will some Barack supporters end up voting for Mccain when they freely research his actual positions and end up being non-supporters ... but active at that?

Over at Effect of Ron Paul supporters in GOP we also discussed lately the Ron Paul effect, and whether this too mirrors these same movements. What becomes of the Ron Paul movement now? Will Republicans reach out and move these grass roots groups inside ... will they be afraid of their independence and make things worse by name calling and push them away?

Romney on dictators

"Diplomatic channels are always open between nations of the world. But the President doesn't grace the world's worst tyrants with a propaganda bonanza." -- Governor Romney

Mitt Romney speaking to CNN this morning.

RNC ad - Obama and the Illinois Democrats

Keep that Faith Free Artwork for Conservatives

H/T to Chris Faulkner at GOP GRUNT for the heads up on Keep that Faith, a site for free artwork for conservative bloggers to use.

They have a facebook page too

Illinois would be taxed heavy under Obama

Almost half a million Illinoisans to pay more if Obama plan succeeds
from illinoisreview by IR Editor
Not that it would affect the outcome of the presidential election, but of the 6,995,750 workers in Illinois, 490,789 of them would have to pay more into Social Security if Democratic nominee Barack Obama's proposed solution goes into effect, the Tax Foundation reported last week.