Monday, August 13, 2007

Long Time No See: The Truth - By Ali A. Akbar



It’s been a little while, however I’m still hanging on. I better say something about Iowa before I write any further: Romney spent the most, Iowans love spending, Iowans love their influence. You can draw the links. I suppose I’ll never be able to run for office now. Ha!




I’ve been talking to McCain’s camp. They are some wonderful people. Sometimes I hit the blogosphere to clear up rumors. I’ve been strongly disappointed with the RightRoots lately. One of the guys I look up to greatly, Patrick Ruffini, pointed out that the McCain camp was going through staff readjustments to reallocate needed resources.




What Patrick missed is that Ferry, McCain’s site visionary, came back! Most staffers have signed on as volunteers. Isn’t this actually a good thing? These people believe in this man. Are the RightRoots so out-of-touch with the McCain camp that they fail to realize the huge staff successes that have been made? I think not. I believe it is a chosen effort to keep the most prepared candidate out.

Another prominent RightRoots site went after McCain, PeachPundit (a contributor, it wasn’t Erick, however we all know what he thinks of Senate Republicans). They claimed McCain was polling at 1%. What poll are they citing? Not a Georgian poll (in which is the site’s target audience). Not a National poll. A poll from the University of Iowa. They kind of failed to mention that context in their post.

It’s time. Here’s a call to action for the truth. Forget if you enjoy McCain’s solid spending record, his lifetime of service to this great country, or his high approval rating with the people of which he represents - let’s campaign for the truth!

McCain was slaughtered by the media for a shake up. Let’s see: I think ol’ Fred just went through one and it’s even rumored that Hillary had to change up some structure too. Did the media go to the butcher shop for three weeks? Is transparency so bad? Is the man who is seeking to reduce the Federal Government employment by the most significant amount suggested than any other candidate so bad?

You can buy Iowa, but you cannot buy the truth!


My fear is that McCain’s latest border security bill will be shot down because of the RightRoots bounty on his head. It’s sad when we pander to fear and misleading statements above the truth and record.

McCain will limit government, respect civil liberties, create arguably the best Defense team in History, and do it all with knowing the inter-workings of Congress.
While it’s been a “long time no see” for Ali - it’s been even longer for the Truth.
Ali A. Akbar is a Blogger for "Blogs 4 McCain"

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