The American Spectator

Special Report

The Difference

By Jeffrey Lord on 9.2.08 @ 12:08AM

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Republicans: Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Mother of 5, including a Down syndrome baby. She is pro-life and a member of the National Rifle Association, a hunter with a lifetime of experience handling guns. As a high school student she was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She has also been a beauty pageant contestant, a basketball and hockey player, a television sports commentator and she loves to fish. Her husband is a commercial fisherman who has never served as Governor or Senator from Alaska. He has never been impeached as president of the United States.

Democrats: U.S. Senator from New York Hillary Clinton. Mother of one. She is pro-abortion and has no idea how to handle a gun beyond limiting the Constitutional right to own one. As a college student she became radicalized, becoming a follower of left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, about whom she wrote her senior thesis. She graduated from Yale Law School, where she had worked with legal services. A lifelong activist for liberal causes, she began her Washington career working on the impeachment of President Nixon. She married fellow law student Bill Clinton and won election to her Senate seat while still serving as the president's wife. She insisted the impeachment of her husband was as a result of a "vast right wing conspiracy."

* Houses:

The McCains: eight houses, several owned for investment purposes by Cindy McCain, her dependent children, and the trusts and companies they control. The original funds come from the earnings of her father Jim Hensley's beer distributorship.

The Obamas: one house and adjoining land in Chicago purchased with the assistance of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a convicted felon

* Job creation:

Mitt Romney: Served as co-founder of a Wall Street investment firm. Invested in a lone office supply store calling itself "Staples." Helped the store grow to almost 1,800 stores in the U.S. that provides 35,000 jobs, with more jobs in stores located in 21 countries.

Barack Obama: Turned down chances to work on Wall Street in favor of being a "community organizer" in Chicago. Spent his time teaching the unemployed to beg from large government bureaucracies, creating no jobs for anyone.

* Description of the Democrats and Republicans at their Conventions:

The Democrats, by Dana Milbank, reporter for the Washington Post.

"It was the start of a veritable carnival of new-age healing harmony..." Denver, writes Milbank, has become "a parade ground for the full panoply of liberal interest-group politics. Planned Parenthood hosted a dance party called 'Sex, Politics and Cocktails.' Code Pink put on a 'Make Out Not War' concert. Near the entrance to the convention grounds, representatives of Trojan condoms handed out samples and invited delegates to see how long it would take them to put a prophylactic on a banana."

Democrats turned their "convention into a display of politically correct exercises in planet saving," Milbank faithfully reports. "Democrats urged vendors to make sure 70 percent of the food served at convention events was organic or local and included 'at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white (Garnishes not included).'"

The Republicans, by: Scott Gillespie, reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

With the Democrats already cavorting in beautiful Denver, it's not too early to look ahead to the upcoming McCain Fest in Minnesota. Along with the serious business of nominating a presidential ticket, there'll be plenty of entertainment possibilities.

We just checked out the party and event list compiled by The Hill in Washington, D.C., and there are highlights galore. First up is "A Very Minnesota Celebration" beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Not sure what that means, but a 9 a.m. start time certainly sounds right for a very Minnesota party. If that's too much excitement, consider the "American Demographics'' forum at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Science Museum. Then there's the "Rebuilding New Orleans Brunch'' at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Hotel Minneapolis. (It's not clear if it's a kickoff event for the rebuilding effort.) And what convention would be complete without the Beach Boys? You can catch them at 7:30 p.m. Monday at International Market Square in Minneapolis.

SO LET'S SUM up, shall we?

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