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What do you expect from a career politician who could not write his own papers in law school or his own speeches when he first ran for President?

Here is the first interview with Orlando, Florida WFTV-Channel 9’s Barbara West. Flap will embed the video below but it may be taken down from You Tube so here is the direct link to the video on the station’s website:

After the above interview with Biden, the Obama campaign canceled an interview with Joe Biden’s wife, Jill.

Biden so disliked West’s line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate’s wife.

“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,” wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was “a result of her husband’s experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West.”

Now, Slow Joe Biden has had a run-in with another television station (this time in Philadelphia) who wouldn’t lob him softball questions for an interview. Here is the video.

Guess if you want to talk to “The One’s VP” it is best ot keep it on the down-lo. What is going to happen with these two, should they be elected and have to face the criticism of the national and international press?

Oh, yeah. A modification of the “Fairness Doctrine.” Outlaw criticism in the name of Obama fairness.

Less free speech, not more……

Adios, Senator Ted Stevens.

Democrat pick up of this normally safe GOP seat.

Why didn’t the GOP replace Stevens prior to the GOP primary election?

Flap gets campaign mail for the California Assembly race pitting incumbent GOP Assemblywoman Audra Strickland and Democrat challenger, high school teacher Ferial Masry.

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Flap will be voting for Audra Strickland on November 4 and urges his colleagues, readers and friends in the California 37th Assembly District to re-elect her.

As for Ferial Masry, she looks more like Taxin’ Jackson each day - a typical lockstep tax, spend and redistribute Democrat.

California Assemblywoman Audra Strickland and her husband Tony, the former Assemblyman and current California State Senate candidate, Camarillo, California September 2008, Photo by Flap

Pastor Rick Warren, the founder and senior Pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the New York Times bestselling “The Purpose Driven Life” has announced his support of Proposition 8, California’s Protect Marriage Act

Warren, founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, affirmed his support of the proposition, which would restore the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, in his News and Views email which is distributed to church members.

“For 5,000 years, every culture and every religion - not just Christianity - has defined marriage as a contract between men and women,” Warren wrote. “There is no reason to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2% of our population.”

“The courts threw out the will of the people,” Warren said in his online video, in reference to the State Supreme Court’s decision in May to overturn Proposition 22, approved by 61 percent of voters in 2000 to declare marriage between a man and a woman.  “I never support a candidate but on moral issues I come out very clear.”

Warren is considered one of the most respected and influential pastors in America and his support of Proposition 8 is unequivocal. He was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and 15 World Leaders Who Matter Most and was called one of America’s Top 25 Leaders by U.S. News and World Report. 

The California religious community has been nearly unanimous in their support for traditional marriage and are putting their money, and volunteers where their mouth is. They will turn out their folks to vote.

Stay tuned…..

DOCTOR John Crippen must have been seeing too many patients as of late and is cranky, tired or a little of both as he goes off and offends UK dentists and the profession of dentistry in his latest post: It’s Official: Dentists Are Not Doctors.

It was well over ten years since the General Dental Council decided to allow its members to use the title “doctor”. This followed a long campaign by “Dr” Douglas Pike, who drills teeth somewhere in Suffolk:

Dr Douglas Pike - the General Dental Council’s decision to permit use of the title is effective immediately - said that his sole aim was to bring Britain into “harmony” with the rest of the world. Dr Pike, who practises in Sudbury, Suffolk, said: “We are primary healthcare workers just like GPs. We prescribe drugs, take biopsies and X-rays, and our training is very similar.”
The Independent

Mr Pike was of course talking bollocks. Dentists are dentists. No more. No less. They are no more doctors than the chiropractors and other practitioners of mystic alternative arts that masquerade as medicine.

Flap remembers his first dental class at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry with Dr. Clifton O. Dummett, D.D.S. welcoming us to the profession of dentistry. “Welcome Doctors.” The good professor then went on to our inaugural lecture about some of the history of dentistry and why dentists are known as doctor.

For indeed, Flap’s degree earned after four years of post baccaleureate university work at the school of dentistry is a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree (DDS).

And, American dentistry has awarded such degrees since 1840.

1840—Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris establish the world’s first dental school, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and originate the Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree. (The school merges with the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in 1923).

Perhaps Dr. Crippen is reflecting on some old long held bias against the dental profession, UK dentistry is practiced barbarically or maybe he had a root canal treatment fail yesterday but with all of the major advances in dentistry from public health to implant surgery he is simply uninformed and wrong.

Actually, it is embarassing.

The tolerant Gay LEFT community on display in West Hollywood, California.

Sarah Palin is not considered to be a friend of the gay community, but the Republican vice presidential candidate seems to be looming over the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival.

First, a rumor got started that city officials were going to ban Sarah Palin drag queens at its upcoming costumed street party, which draws some 500,000 people annually.

The rumor turned out to be false, but tonight comes word that a mannequin has been outfitted to look like Palin — with glasses, a beehive wig and a red business suit — and is hanging from a noose outside a WeHo residence.

The display also depicts a devilish John McCain emerging from flames.

Real class……..

Update:

Can you imagine if they hanged Barack Obama in effigy?