Sarah Palin Asks The President – Why Help Lawyers And Not The Pateints?

Sarah Palin asks the question why Barack Obama is helping lawers but putting little emphasis on the patients.

Palin Email Intrusion Investigation Moves Forward

According to Fox News, warrants have been served in the Governor Palin / Yahoo! Email breakin. As I wrote previously, the person of interest is one David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Kernell is the son of Mike Kernell, a Democratic state representative in Tennessee. Per Fox News “A witness told the station they took photos inside Kernell’s apartment and that his three roommates were subpoenaed to testify this week in Chattanooga.”

Also of particular interest to me is that the perportrator used a service called CTunnel.com while committing this crime. For those who don’t know, such a service is a way of “hiding” where the network traffic is coming from, by proxying the connection. What I find interesting however is that I dont recall such a service actually aiding in the investigation of such a crime. The CTunnel.com owner Gabriel Ramuglia is cooperating with authorities, of his own volition it seems.

My point is that some people seem to think that if they just take a step or two to hide their electronic footprints, it’s not necesarily going to make them invisible. There is always a trail when it comes to the Internet. For better or worse, your actions online are tracked *somewhere*, even if you take steps to obfuscate your actions. CTunnel, for example, kept logs of the traffic it was proxying…and is now apparently handing them over to the Feds.

Also see: Michelle Malkin – On the Palin Hacker E-Mail Trail

Palin Email Intruder’s Father – Democratic Rep in Tennessee

According to an article at Wired.com –

“Threat Level was unable to reach the student by phone because his number is unlisted. A person who identified himself as the student’s father, when reached at home, said he could not talk about the matter and would have no comment. The father is a Democratic state representative in Tennessee. Threat Level is not identifying them by name because authorities have not identified any suspects in the case, and the link to the student so far is tenuous.”

This is unacceptable. I sincerely hope that the investigation of this issue is being handled seriously, and intensely. Out of all the people out there with the knowledge and skill (not that much needed, but still) to accomplish this breach, the person who does it just happens to be the child of a Democratic Party politician?

On another note, I sincerely urge all who read this blog to take seriously their online security. Yahoo mail has been demonstrated to be insecure, other online email services can be exploited as well. Regularly change your passwords. Regularly inspect your email for anything out of the ordinary.

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Also see:

• Password Security Tips
• BREAKING: Obama’s Email Hacked! UPDATED
• How Many Emails Accounts Do You Have?

The Wheels Continue to Come Off

The desperation on the left and in the Obama campaign grows more evident by the day. For two weeks Barack Obama’s campaign has been completely reactionary and it seems the problem grows worse by the day. The flap over Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment had the candidate address the issue this morning in a campaign speech when yesterday he had no intention of dealing with it.

No one can claim with credibility that Obama’s pig remark wasn’t ill advised. Whether it was an intentional attack on Sarah Palin is debatable but a strong candidate in control of the situation would have known better than to use the line in the first place. That Obama chose that particular line in light of Palin’s repeated use of the hockey mom and bulldog joke reveals his inability to correctly assess the situation in the present circumstances, which in my mind is a good indication as to how Obama might react in a genuine national emergency.

Prior to the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate, the Obama campaign was very disciplined. They tightly controlled what was said not only by the campaign but by campaign surigates. That is no longer the case. Since that announcement the Obama campaign has been unable to stay on message. They have no control over the situation so that are reactive.

Meanwhile democrat leaders continue to make outrageous remarks out of pure frustration. Just today, as reported by Politico.com, South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler said that Sarah Palin’s, “primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.” I mean really, that’s pretty desparate!

So Obama is today reduced to accusing the McCain campaign of stooping to swiftboat politics. Rather than deal with the reality that, at a minimum, his choice of words was poor, Obama attempts to turn it around a attack the McCain campaign. While I can understand the tendancy to want to take that approach, it is clearly a counter productive approach. Indeed, with every attack, the McCain/Palin brand rises further.

Watching the TV interviews with various Obama spokespeople and surigates has really been entertaining! This afternoon on FOX News, Shepard Smith was interviewing someone with the Obama campaign. Smith pointed out that things have not been going well for the Obama campaign for two weeks and he asked what their plan was to get back on message. The spokeswoman first refused to accept that there was even a problem. Smith, with almost open scorn, asked the question several times, even bringing in the latest polls showing the large swing in McCain’s direction and she claimed that the two campaigns were essentially where they were before the two conventions! She said that with a straight face?

So the Obama campaign and the left continue to spin at a rate that will surely send them running for the nearest trash can. Perhaps they are just toying with us. Perhaps they have a grand master plan that will be apparent to all over the next few weeks, that will make sense. More likely they are twisting like contortionist desperately searching for a plan, any plan, that might deliver them from the hell they’ve found themselves in.

UPDATE:

From an NRCC email this evening

Today, on the floor of the House of Representatives, liberal Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen (Memphis) equated Barack Obama to Jesus, thereby furthering liberals’ absurd belief that Obama is the Chosen One sent to save the world. Then Cohen outrageously compared Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate.

“If you want change, you want the Democratic Party,” said Cohen. “Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister just prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

Here’s video of the remarks.

It just gets better and better!

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Oh, nooooo, they never meant to liken Palin to a pig

Liberal Self Destruction

I can’t help but be amused at the liberal self destruction going on the last week. The liberal response to Sarah Palin for the last week has been one of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen.

I’m not a fan of MSNBC and rarely watch it. But for the last few days I’ve found myself switching over to see what new nonsense is spewing from the mouths of the talking heads there. It’s been great fun. Of course, the dishonesty there is nothing short of amazing. For at least the last two days both Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman have asked for information about who in the MSM has gone after Sarah Palin as a mother. Indeed, both have denied that it has happened. It is utterly beyond belief that neither is aware of Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn’s hit piece entitled Palin’s Pregnancy Problem or CNN’s Campbell Brown badgering a McCain spokesman on the subject of whether Palin could be a good mother and be Vice President. The latter caused the McCain campaign to, at least temporarily, cut CNN off from all interviews and McCain himself cancelled a scheduled appearance on Larry King Live. I’m sure Matthews and Olberman Read more

Media Misogyny

Nothing liberals do surprises me but they sometimes amaze me. The misogynistic way the media has treated Sarah Palin is the most recent example. In a post here on FHK a few days ago, Phyllis Chesler made the point that they did the same to Hillary Clinton, though not so overtly.

How else to explain the media frenzy to dig up any dirt, no matter how irrelevant, on Palin? The point has been made repeatedly that the MSM would never ask a male candidate whether his candidacy would be bad for his daughter. Yet that media feels completely justified in asking such questions of Sarah Palin.

That the MSM have a liberal bias is well established. Organizations like Times Watch give daily examples of the double standard when it comes treatment of Republicans vs. Democrats. But the ferocity with which the MSM has gone after Palin is unprecedented. The only thing comparable was the treatment of Clarence Thomas, another minority the MSM seemed to think should know his place. Read more

Palin’s First Appearance as McCain’s Running Mate

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