More Americans would cast ballots for Republican Sarah Palin than for Democrat Joe Biden.

CNN/Opinion Research Corporation pollof 1,022 adults taken September 5-7 for vice president: Alaska Governor Palin beat Senator Biden, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, by 53 percent to 44 percent, the survey showed.

OBiden is in trouble, on the defensive.

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Deerfield Beach, Florida: Joe Biden was asked whether he would “pursue the violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration”, the Senator from Delaware affirmed they would.

“We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offense that’s occurred,” he continued, going on to praise congressional committees for the deliberate pace of their inquiries into alleged Bush administration misdeeds.

Members of Congress are “doing the right thing, they’re not making false accusations about anything … they’re collecting data, subpoenaing records, they’re building a file.”
“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued – not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.”

Biden was on Fox News Channel this morning on Fox and Friends and denied he said that.

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Why do Muslims want to assure the voting public that Barack Hussein Obama isn’t a Muslim?  A Christian supported by Allah’s legions?   This doesn’t pass the smell test.

Strange but true:

Faced with White House hopefuls they fear are not entirely sympathetic to their issues, American Muslims are stepping up their activism to unprecedented levels, hoping to influence the new administration in its infancy.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on U.S. landmarks that killed about 3,000 people, many of Muslim or Arab origin have struggled to convince at times skeptical fellow citizens that they can be Muslim and loyal to the United States.

“The number of people who have become more active and visible on the national political front has increased dramatically because people have suddenly sensed that they have to … defend themselves as Americans, defend themselves as Arabs and Muslims,” said Shibley Telhami, a Mideast scholar.

Not all Arabs are Muslim nor vice versa, but they face similar problems and share many concerns.

Tarek El-Messidi, 27, of Cincinnati, went door-to-door in South Carolina for Democratic candidate Barack Obama on an unusual mission. The Muslim volunteer had to assure voters Obama isn’t Muslim.

El-Messidi said younger Muslims lean more toward Obama than Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican choice.

“In talking to Muslims, they’re really struggling between two things: They don’t know whether to view Barack Obama as a lesser of two evils or a really good candidate that they are excited about … there’s no doubt they view him as a better candidate than McCain.”

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Barack Hussein Obama, the Democrat Party Candidate. The party of Pelosi, Reid, Durbin and Schumer… enough said.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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Delaware Senator Joe Biden

Barack Obama picks Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate. Biden only 6 hears younger than John McCain was announced early Saturday morning.

Obama’s text message went out shortly after news leaked that Biden was picked. The Message:  “Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee.”

From Breitbart:

Across more than 30 years in the Senate, he has served at various times not only as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee but also as head of the Judiciary Committee, with its jurisdiction over anti-crime legislation, Supreme Court nominees and Constitutional issues.

In selecting Biden, Obama passed over several other potential running mates, none more prominent than former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, his tenacious rival in dozens of primaries and caucuses.

Obama’s campaign arranged a debut for the newly minted ticket on Saturday outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.

Obama’s decision leaked to the media several hours before his aides planned to send a text message announcing the running mate, negating a promise that people who turned over their phone numbers would be the first to know who Obama had chosen. The campaign scrambled to send the text message after the leak, sending phones buzzing at the inconvenient time of just after 3 a.m. on the East coast.

Hundreds of miles to the west, carpenters, electricians, sound stage gurus and others transformed the Pepsi Center in Denver into a made-for-television convention venue.

Tucked away in one corner were thousands of lightweight rolled cardboard tubes, ready-made handles for signs bearing the names of the Democratic ticket—once the identity of Obama’s running mate was known.

While Obama decided against adding Clinton to his ticket, he has gone to great lengths to gain the confidence of her primary voters, agreeing to allow her name to be placed in nomination at the convention and permitting a roll call vote that threatens to expose lingering divisions within the party.

There will be a treasure trove of gaffes made by Biden for the McCain Campaign to use for future commercials.

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t/b: Hot Air,  Michelle Malkin

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