Just Another Manic Monday

BIAS AT THE DISPATCH?

Some new polls came out today that are rather alarming if ya ask me. Both show the Democrats ahead in the two biggest races that Ohioans will vote for in November. According to the poll, which was conducted by the Columbus Dispatch, Ted Strickland has a 20 point lead over Ken Blackwell in the Governor's race, while Sherrod Brown is beating Mike DeWine by 7 points. For the record, neither Democrat is getting 50% of the vote, and both polls show about 1/4 of those asked are undecided. So what does this mean? Well its not good. I honestly do not think that either is entirely accurate, but regardless people are going to see these polls and use these polls to their advantage. I do believe that Blackwell has an uphill battle, but he should be able to gain alot of ground once the debates begin. About the Senate race, I simply cannot believe that DeWine would be losing this race. Sherrod Brown really has no name recognition in most of Ohio, and he is a far left-wing guy. DeWine should win it easily, so this particular poll doesnt make much sense. The bottom line is that I have a hard time believing that a state that has elected George W. Bush twice would be so willing to vote in such liberal people. That is why Im still confident about November.

As I wrote about yesterday, Condoleeza Rice is in the Middle East trying to work some diplomatic magic to calm down the situation over there. In a shrewd and brilliant move, she made a surprise visit to Beirut today to pledge millions of dollars in aide to that hurting country. She will now go on to Israel to talk with Prime Minister Olmert about their current situation. It seems to me that Condi is more worried about the humanitarian aspects of this conflict, rather that bringing it to an obrupt end. And that is just fine with me. Let them fight.

In today's worst person in the world segment, we honor jackass of the year Keith Olbermann. Olbermann whipped out a mask of Bill O'Reilly at some breakfast party on Saturday, then proceeded to raise his right arm into a Nazi salute. I fully understand why Keith would not like O'reilly, because The Factor's 4 a.m. show gets more viewers than The Countdown's 8 p.m. broadcast. But its not O'Reilly's fault that Keith's show is an unentertaining piece of liberal garbage, with all due respect of course. Nothing like blazing the Hitler salute while Israel is involved in a war to defend itself. Lets hear it for Keith Olbermann's judgement ladies and gentlemen. What a bafooooooooon.

And finally today, the violence in the Middle East continues, with no real end in sight. Israel continues to launch airstrikes and limited ground invasions against Hezbollah strongholds, while the terrorists continue to send missles into Israeli cities. I just wish Israel would land a huge punch to Hezbollah already, but it seems they want to keep going the route of surgical warfare. Well whatever, maybe they know something I dont. Imagine that. Alright Im out, but Ill be back if anything significant happens. Bye.

-Brad