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Representative Dan Boren D-OK

Oklahoma Democrat Congressman said today that he would NOT endorse Barack Obama for President.

Why?

Obama is TOO LIBERAL.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Boren said Tuesday he will not endorse Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for president, citing the liberal voting record of the party’s presumptive nominee and Boren’s desire to reflect his conservative eastern Oklahoma district.

Boren, seeking re-election to a third term this year, described himself as a “centrist” and said Obama has publicly talked about being bipartisan and working with Republicans in Congress to address the nation’s needs.

“Unfortunately, his record does not reflect working in a bipartisan fashion,” said Boren, who characterized Obama as “the most liberal senator in U.S. Senate.”

“We’re much more conservative,” Boren said of his 2nd Congressional District, a mostly rural district that stretches across eastern Oklahoma. “I’ve got to reflect my district. No one means more to me than the people who elected me. I have to listen them.”

Boren is the lone Democrat in Oklahoma’s congressional delegation.

It has been quite the day with Democrats jumping from the Obama ship. But, hey, Dan Boren wants to be re-elected and his district voted 66% for Hillary Clinton.

Democrat Ohio Governor Ted Strickland

Scratch Ohio Governor Ted Strickland as an Obama running mate. Strickland does NOT want the job.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D) was Shermanesque on Tuesday in saying that he would “absolutely not” be Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., running mate even if asked to join the Democratic ticket.

Asked on NPR’s “All Things Considered” if he is auditioning to be Obama’s running mate, Strickland said, “Absolutely not. If drafted I will not run, nominated I will not accept and if elected I will not serve.

So, I don’t know how more crystal clear I can be.”

Strickland was seen by some political handicappers as an attractive vice presidential pick for Obama because he is a popular chief executive and former House member who hails from Ohio, the state which decided the 2004 election.

Strickland was also a high-profile backer of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., which would have allowed Obama to present his selection as a play towards party unity.

Two down as Virginia Senator James Webb seemingly wrote himself out of contention.

Ted Strickland knows that Barack Obama may have a rough time in Ohio against John McCain and why endanger himself.

Besides Strickland is tight with Hillary. Why stand in her way?

Sen. James Webb, D-Va., left, stands with Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during a campaign event at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Va. Thursday, June 5, 2008

Scratch Senator James Webb as Barack Obama’s Vice President.

Why you ask?

Webb is a confederate REBEL at heart or so he writes.

Webb is no mere student of the Civil War era. He’s an author, too, and he’s left a trail of writings and statements about one of the rawest and most sensitive topics in American history.

He has suggested many times that while the Confederacy is a symbol to many of the racist legacy of slavery and segregation, for others it simply reflects Southern pride. In a June 1990 speech in front of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, posted on his personal website, he lauded the rebels’ “gallantry,” which he said “is still misunderstood by most Americans.”

Webb, a descendant of Confederate officers, also voiced sympathy for the notion of state sovereignty as it was understood in the early 1860s, and seemed to suggest that states were justified in trying to secede.

“Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery,” he said. “Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in the North before the war — just as overt patriotism is today — but it was tempered by a strong belief that state sovereignty existed prior to the Constitution and that it had never been surrendered.”

Webb expanded on his sentiments in his well-received 2004 book, “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America,” which portrays the Southern cause as at least understandable, if not wholly laudable.

“The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday’s America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today,” he wrote. “The greatest disservice on this count has been the attempt by these revisionist politicians and academics to defame the entire Confederate Army in a move that can only be termed the Nazification of the Confederacy.” As in the Confederate Memorial speech, Webb suggests in his book that relatively few Southerners were slaveholders and that the war was fought over state sovereignty, which in the eyes of many at the time included the right to secede from the national government.

“The states that had joined the Union after the Revolution considered themselves independent political entities, much like the countries of Europe do today,” Webb wrote. “The 10th Amendment to the Constitution reserved to the states all rights not specially granted to the federal government, and in their view the states had thus retained their right to dissolve the federal relationship.”

Don’t think the Black Congressional Caucus nor the Civil Rights coalition of the Democrat Party will give a positive vetting of Webb.

Another potential “moderate” Vice President candidate bites the dust.

Governor Sarah Palin, holding baby Trig Palin, signs SB 57 with (from left) Representative Andrea Doll and Senator Kim Elton at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau on June 4, 2008. The bill expands Channel Islands Marine Park.

Flap agrees with Allahpundit. Should Barack Obama pick Wes Clark or another retired military man as his Vice President then John McCain should choose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

A slam dunk choice.

Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, gestures while speaking outside of the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn., Friday, May 30, 2008, prior to the start of the State Republican Convention inside.

Ron Paul will NOT be invited to speak at the Republican National convention in St. Paul, Minnesota this September so he will pick up his marbles and move down to Minneapolis for his own “mini-convention.”

Maverick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has booked an arena in Minneapolis for a “mini-convention” that could steal some of John McCain’s thunder just days before he accepts the Republican nomination.

A Paul campaign aide said the Texas congressman hopes to pack about 11,000 supporters into the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2, which coincides with the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in neighboring St. Paul.

Paul, 72, will announce details for the rally Thursday at the start of the Texas Republican Convention in Houston.

The campaign hopes the daylong event will “send a message to the Republican Party,” Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton tells the Tribune-Review.

The ONLY message that ron Paul will send is that he is out of the mainstream of the Republican Party.

Paul’s impact on the GOP this fall = NONE.

But, he will make noise and get his television time in September.

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Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons and wife, Dawn, during happier times

Marc Ambinder raises the issue of the Nevada swing state divorce trouble for John McCain.

Flap knows how McCain can deal with political appearances with Governor Gibbons.

Send in Rudy Giuliani…… :O

Michael Ramirez on Congress and Oil

United States Senate Republicans today blocked an attempt by Senate Demcorats to impose a windfall profits tax on American oil companies.

But the Democrats had to try to overcome staunch Republican opposition to any new taxes on the oil industry. The five largest U.S. oil companies earned $36 billion during the first three months of the year.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., needed 60 votes Tuesday to proceed with the oil tax legislation in the face of a threatened GOP filibuster.

A Republican energy plan, rejected by the Senate last month, calls for opening a coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil development and to allow states to opt out of the national moratorium that has been in effect for a quarter century against oil and gas drilling in more than 80 percent of the country’s coastal waters.

The Democrats including Barack Obama who supports this taxation are a pathetic bunch. Why do they want to go back to Jimmy Carter days and tax big oil to increase supply and relieve gasoline prices?

Did not work then and will not work now.

Flap remembers the gas lines, the shortages and the rationing.

Earth to the Democrats: Drill for oil and build new refineries while pushing conservation and alternative energy sources.

If the Democrats had NOT blocked drilling in ANWR eight years ago when President Bush and the GOP proposed it, we wold be receiving oil today from the site.

But, the Democrats control Congress and what have they done about HIGH gasoline prices?

NOTHING but tax……..