Then one day, I was approached by upper management and asked to pack up my life and move to a new town. Wow, all that I know and all that I will know is about to change… I agreed and moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue my career and do whatever I could to make it grow. It was really hard at first, though… All those friends I had were still my friends, but their lives sort of went on without me. The things that were happening “every night of the week” were still happening, but without me. A lot of my friends, I completely lost touch with and still haven’t had a chance to reconnect. My life was thrown through a loop and all that I had known turned into the loneliest hell I believe I had ever experienced.

On March 27, 2007 on a different blog, I wrote an article summing up my life and the course I was on at the time:

[...]I am a young person and I’m in a great position as far as my career goes. My life is one giant blank canvas, an empty page waiting to be written on, but what I’m painting and writing is in no way any type of legacy, at least not from a personal point of view. I don’t get to paint life with people, or write about personal experiences. I paint office spaces and write about living in hotels. When I’m old and look back on those paintings, I’m going to wonder why I didn’t paint people I know, or write about friends and family. What will I ask myself when I’m 80 years old, sitting in an old rocking chair on the porch of my house? Will I hate myself? Will I still be alone? Or will I have the love of my life (whomever she may be) bringing me a glass of lemonade as we sit on the porch together watching our grandchildren play in the yard?

All this just to say I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what I can do about it. I don’t know that I really want to do anything about it at this point, but I know there is a void in my life and it’s not being filled with the things God intended to be there. If I’m not careful, I will eventually fill that empty space with something that’s not supposed to be there. I believe that we have designated spaces in our hearts for different things, like music, love, family, friends, etc. We can fill those spaces with good and righteous things, or we can fill them with decay which will eventually bleed over and rot out other areas of our hearts.

I’m not seeking any advice, and I’m not bitching in any way about my life. This is just one of many observations I’ve made this year as my life has been quiet, but in an extremely chaotic way. I am carefully examining this life I live and trying to figure out if I want to stay on my present course, or if I need to hang a right on the upcoming fork in the road. Again, I’m in a great position as far as my career goes, but will I sacrifice everything for a job? For a cushy bank account? Will I continue to fill those voids in my heart with material things, or will I finally fill the voids with things that really matter? Can I accomplish that on this present course? That’s the million dollar question.[...]

Very shortly after writing that blog post, the most miraculous thing in my entire life happened. This friend of mine became something much more than a friend. In almost exactly 4 months from writing the above, I was in the most serious and substantial relationship of my life and it lead to me marrying the most beautiful and loving woman in the world. One year and four months ago, the person to whom I didn’t even imagine could fill the void in my life became my wife and I am forever thankful to God and to her for making me so happy. And what’s more, my wife and I are currently expecting the birth of our son, someone I have the privilege of raising and shaping into a man better than myself. Wow.

I know this is a disgusting puff piece about my life and half of you guys are surely vomiting in trash cans right now, but I write this post for one simple point: no matter what you’re going through in life, no matter how desolate you think you are, and even when you think that all hope is lost, you might just get the surprise of your life when you least expect it. Whether you have financial issues, relationship issues, friendship issues or work issues, you never know what is just around the corner, so don’t give up.

Too many people these days do just give up. They think all hope is gone, the decisions they made have irriversably changed their lives and there is no hope. There’s always hope when you can find the right place to intrust your hope. It’s not in people, it’s not in politicians or the government, it’s not in friends or family. It’s in you and it’s in God. Give thanks for the things you’ve been blessed with, like living in the greatest country in the history of the world, and just put hope and faith in the real things that tomorrow will be brighter than today.

A lot of polls by CNN, Gallup, etc, have very weird “weighing” measures when they calculate these polls. What that means is, they take the results that they’re given when they poll people, weigh them against past polls/elections and come up with a number. When you see a poll, it’s not 100% true that 51% of the people said they would vote for Obama, it means that they take their sampling and compare it to results in the past to getter a better idea as to what the national average might be.

Also, polling samples as of late have been shown to not be very objective. I heard about one poll by a major polling firm sample some 600+ registered Democrats and only some 300+ registered Republicans. Obviously, you don’t get a fair and objective sampling with those types of numbers.

Polls are very convoluted, very skewed and not always accurate. Actually, in the past two Presidential elections, polling and exit-polling have been shown to be completely inaccurate. According to RealClearPolitics.com, Obama has a +7.6 Average lead over McCain. Taking away all the weighing and sampling errors (if you want to call it that), I think the race is a lot closer to the Battle Ground Poll I first mentioned. A little light at the end of the tunnel for you kids.

I still think you have a better chance at winning the lottery than McCain becoming president, but we’ll hope for change in the coming two weeks (like how I used Obama’s mantra’s against him?).

Update: Here’s an AP-GfK Poll which has Obama at 44% and McCain at 43%. That light is getting brighter!

Update 2: It’s also worth noting, this poll was conducted with not only land line telephone users, but also cell phone users. It’s the first poll that I know of to have that far of an outreach. The media constantly says that Democrats are underrepresented in polls because younger people who don’t have landlines aren’t represented. This poll shows the exact opposite is happening.

Could this poll also show that the Bradley Affect is also coming to fruition? Maybe not, but it certainly seems as if the tides, at least temporarily, are changing.

Nashville ranked 40th out of 50 large cities in its efforts to promote environmental sustainability, according to a survey released on Monday.

Sustainlane.com ranked the cities on air quality, street congestion, metro transit ridership and other factors.

Nashville ranked 47th in the commuting category, which looked at what portion of the population walked, biked, or used some other method other than a car to get to work.

The city ranked 46th for its “green economy”; 44th in transit ridership and 43rd in water quality.

The city’s top ranking of 3rd came in traffic congestion.

Screw the environment, I say.

The following is the transcript of a Glenn Beck interview with David Freddoso, the author of the book “The Case Against Barack Obama”. This interview centers around the stance that Senator Barack Obama, current Democratic Presidential Candidate, takes on Infanticide. It’s mindnumbing to say the least, that there are people in this world who have the extreme views that Barack Obama has. This man stands in front of large crowds with teleprompters and his snarky and condescending attitude every day, while he’s directly responsible for the death and torture of babies who were the victims of botched abortions.

To sum the transcript up before you read it, Barack Obama wants BABIES, who happen to survive a botched abortion, to be thrown into a utility closet to suffer and die instead of receiving medical attention and the chance to live. Born children, living and breathing souls. Left to die in a medical utility closet. Hearts pumping, but left to die, because of Barack Obama. Is this pretentious, smug-looking celebrity candidate the person you want leading our country? I pray not.

GLENN: We have David Freddoso on. He is the author of a book, The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate. He is a reporter for the National Review Online. WGN in Chicago getting heat for having him on. The Obama campaign does not want this man on. There’s another guest that they had on that they also went through the roof and just did everything they could to scare WGN into not having these guests on. Why? What is it that the Obama campaign doesn’t want? They say smears. David Freddoso is somebody that, believe me, I have had on my program and on my program, to get it on CNN, it better be right. If you’re a conservative, it better be right. David Freddoso is somebody that we have checked out ourself to make sure what he’s saying is right, and let’s go to the abortion thing. I played the ad. It’s a 527 now against Barack Obama that says please, Barack Obama, please don’t allow babies to die from botched abortions. That’s a pretty outrageous claim.

David, where does that claim come from? What is this story?

FREDDOSO: Well, this is the story of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and it goes back to a hospital in the southwest suburbs of Chicago called Christ Hospital where they were performing on a regular basis induced labor abortions and these are late second, early third trimester abortions in which the drugs are given to the mother to induce violent labor and the baby is usually killed in the contractions and comes out. But about 15 to 20% of the time this produces a–a live baby is born, I should say. And sometimes the babies will live just for a few minutes, sometimes for several hours. But this hospital was not giving any thought to medical treatment for them when they survived and could have potentially lived on and saved in incubator under whatever sort of medical technology we have to keep premature babies alive. They were simply shelving them and

GLENN: Hang on just a second. I just, I don’t care how you feel about abortion. If you think abortion is a right, you know, a woman’s right to choose, et cetera, et cetera, fine. I disagree with you. We’re going now to a step of partial birth abortion. Now people are not for partial birth abortion. The vast majority of people. They are pro choice but they are saying you can’t take the baby and have them birthed all the way except for the head and then suck the brains out while the head is still in the mother. That is a that is a step way beyond. And Republicans and Democrats agree on that. This is something further than that. This is a baby that survives an abortion and is living outside of the mother, is now just neglected and dies from neglect. Right or wrong, David?

FREDDOSO: This is what yeah, that is exactly what was happening and, in fact, that fact isn’t even in dispute. What is in dispute is exactly what condition that they were being left to die in. According to the nurse, Jill Stanek whom I interviewed for the kids against Barack Obama, they were one of the places they would put these babies to die while they were struggling is the utility closet where medical waste goes. According to the hospital they were putting them into comfort rooms where they would just simply leave them to die with a blanket or something. So that was the practice. And the attorney general of Illinois told Jill Stanek, this nurse, that this was not violating the law, that they couldn’t do anything about it and, you know, all protestations to the contrary, there wasn’t any law protecting these babies because the attorney general of Illinois wasn’t you know, he absolutely said, you know, no, you would need a new law if you wanted to do this.

GLENN: David, why couldn’t you, why couldn’t the doctor just kill the baby once the baby was born?

FREDDOSO: Well, I mean, I would say that’s murder. I mean, I’m also pro life.

GLENN: Got it. No, I’m not talking about your opinion. I’m talking about the law. It would indeed be murder if they would have killed the baby once the baby was born.

FREDDOSO: Well, of course, and even this practice itself strikes me as murder because you don’t actually have to stab someone through the heart to commit murder.

GLENN: I understand that.

FREDDOSO: You can certainly leave them, there’s such a thing as negligent homicide as well. But in any case, there wasn’t a law protecting them and that was what they went to the Illinois legislature to do was to pass a law that would define anyone who is already born and alive as a person. And that would have made the laws of the State of Illinois apply to these premature babies.

GLENN: How did Barack Obama stop it?

FREDDOSO: Barack Obama was the only state senator to speak against this law and

GLENN: Sorry. Repeat that, please.

FREDDOSO: He was the only state senator to speak against this law on the floor of the Illinois Senate.

GLENN: Okay.

FREDDOSO: In all the times it came up, in fact, he was the only one to speak against it. And his speech that he gave is very interesting, and I’ve given it in full in Chapter 10 of The Case Against Barack Obama because the argument is basically this, that if we go and recognize premature babies born alive in what some people call a previable condition, although they were clearly living for a while, if we do this, then it might down the road affect the right to abortion. It might cause it might create some kind of

GLENN: Slippery slope that they always say doesn’t exist.

FREDDOSO: I’m sorry?

GLENN: A slippery slope that liberals always say doesn’t exist.

FREDDOSO: Exactly.

GLENN: He was using that argument.

FREDDOSO: And that was his argument was essentially a slippery slope argument. His argument on the floor, it had a few contradictions in it, didn’t quite make sense. I mean, he used the word “Fetus” to describe a premature baby for a moment and then corrected himself.

GLENN: All right.

FREDDOSO: But, you know, by his argument you could also say that a premature baby who wasn’t born in an abortion, who was just simply born premature. I have a friend who recently gave birth to a premature baby and by his argument you would have to question or deny their personhood as well, as though they are somehow less persons than babies carried nine months.

GLENN: So the first time did he sign the bill?

FREDDOSO: The first time he voted present on the bill, which is in the Illinois legislature is equivalent to no. And it was part of a strategy that he had devised with Planned Parenthood lobbyists.

GLENN: Stand by. Stand by. We’re going to come get the rest of the story in just a second.

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GLENN: I can tell you why Barack Obama did not want David Freddoso on WGN, because these are the most powerful arguments I have ever heard against Barack Obama. Well stated, well documented and so unbelievably damning. David, we are quickly running out of time. May I invite you for another hour tomorrow?

FREDDOSO: I would love to do it again tomorrow, absolutely.

GLENN: Okay. So let’s finish the abortion story, please.

FREDDOSO: Yes. Senator Obama voted he voted present on that bill. It was part of a strategy that he devised, that he and some Planned Parenthood lobbyists had devised that basically everyone would vote present instead of voting no. And just to you know, it came up the following year; he did it again. The bill, by the way, it passed the state senate and died in the state house committee. In 2003, though, Democrats had taken over the state senate and Obama was now the chairman of the Senate health committee. And as chairman he presided as they made the reason that Obama has ever since said he voted against this bill in committee is that it didn’t contain the same language that the federal board of live infants protection act contained. Sort of redundant protection against this law ever effecting the right to abortion. What he didn’t realize, didn’t or was misleading people about is that, in fact, in 2003 the bill that he voted against in his committee did contain that language, was exactly the same as the bill that had gone to the U.S. Senate floor, that Barbara Boxer had stood up and said, “I support this bill, everyone should vote for this bill.” Obama voted against it and that puts him on the very fringes when it comes to issues of human life at its very beginning.

GLENN: So wait a minute. He is Barbara Boxer was on the other side of this issue?

FREDDOSO: Yes, that’s right. Hillary Clinton was also on the other side. The vote was 98 0 and the two guys who weren’t there to vote were pro life Republicans. So basically every abortion proponent in the United States Senate is more protective of human life in its early stages than Senator Obama.

GLENN: Say that again, please.

FREDDOSO: Every single abortion proponent in the United States Senate at the time they voted on this the roll call vote was in 2001 every single one is more protective of human life in its early stages and more respectful of human life in its early stages than is Senator Obama based on his voting record.

GLENN: Now, Barack Obama will say, no, that’s not true, I wasn’t I was of course for this. He seems to have an ever evolving but he does believe in evolution an ever evolving story on this.

FREDDOSO: Yes. Because at first his story for the next three years or actually four years was that it didn’t contain the language if it had just contained the federal bill language, then he would have voted for it. In fact, it did contain that language and he voted against it. This year when National Right to Life found the records this is just a few weeks ago, found the records of the committee hearing and they found the bill was exactly the same and Obama voted against it in a party line vote in his committee, changed his explanation to say now the thing was there was already a law protecting these babies. And there is an old abortion statute on the books in Illinois and it’s a bill that Obama has repeatedly argued that every element of it is unconstitutional. It was enjoined from in most of its aspects it was enjoined from enforcement precisely because of the Roe versus Wade decision. And the decision they clinged it to last as each part of it is being knocked down is a provision that would require a second doctor to be present when such an abortion is performed in order to save the baby that the first doctor is trying to kill. And that’s something Obama has specifically argued is unconstitutional because it creates an undue burden on the woman and so that is basically, Senator Obama is grasping at straws when it comes to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. He’s making arguments now that don’t make sense and arguments, by the way, that he was never making at the time when he voted against it.

GLENN: I would just like to point out to anybody who doesn’t understand the rhetoric of politicians, I’m a recovering alcoholic. So I speak bullcrap for most of my life. So I speak it fluently. I can translate political speak into English. When anybody says that they are worried about that they want the condition of the mother’s health, let’s make sure that we have an exception for the mother’s health, there has never once been a case where a doctor says, in the case of let’s say partial birth abortion or where they are performing the abortion late term and they would birth the child, that it is better for the mother if they kill the baby. What they’re talking about, there have been cases on mental health, yet her mental health matters if she has the baby, but they deny any kind of mental health stress if she has had the abortion. It doesn’t make any sense. It is a game that they play. You cannot tell me that mainstream America you know, I’m not even going to say that. You cannot tell me that 98% of America, pro choice, pro life believe that we should leave a baby to die through neglect. There is no way to make the mental hurdles in your own head to say that this child should die from neglect, this fetus should die from neglect. There is no person within the sound of my voice of 98% of the population of this country that thinks that that is reasonable. This is the kind of guy that you have to understand you’re dealing with. He’s not somebody who’s kind of on the left. He’s not somebody who’s kind of out of pace with the mainstream. This guy is as far left as you can get and this is just one example.

David, on tomorrow’s program can you give us more examples of how incredibly out of step with the mainstream he is?

FREDDOSO: Oh, absolutely. Just about every issue you can find Obama taking stands during his career that are, you know, whether it’s guns, babies, taxes and national security as well, stances that members of his own party think are completely wrong. He is the most liberal senator in the United States Senate for a reason, and I’m not the one saying it. That’s National Journal, which is a highly respected $2,000 a year publication here in Washington.

GLENN: Tomorrow, tomorrow I would like to go a little bit into and I don’t even know if you did this, David, but his mom, he always is saying “My mom from Kansas, my mom from Kansas, my mom.” It’s like I see Auntie Em every time he says “My mom from Kansas.” His mom from Kansas was leftist as well. He’s not coming from a background of people that are Auntie Em and, oh, quick, get into the root cellar. There is the roots of Barack Obama are from the left. Tomorrow can you go into a little bit of “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future” and just give me the absolutely best well documented cases that this guy’s judgment on friends, if you take him at his word that, “Well, these guys aren’t the people we know; well, I can’t really answer for my friends or my family or whatever,” that his judgment is off.

FREDDOSO: Oh, absolutely.

GLENN: And I don’t believe it’s his judgment. I believe he is choosing to surround himself with these people.

FREDDOSO: Well, right. And that’s just the thing. You know, I have spoken with many people about this question of guilt by association. This isn’t about guilt by association. This is about looking at the actual choices that Barack Obama has made in his life. And that’s the best sort of gauge we can have. And if you give it the most charitable interpretation and we look at some of these relationships and that’s the only conclusion you can come to is that his judgment in picking friends is rather suspect.

GLENN: Name of the book is The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate . The author is David Freddoso. He will join us again tomorrow and all of this will be available online at GlennBeck.com soon.

Is this the kind of Hope and Change you were thinking about voting for?

I truly feel that Palin and the likes of Bobby Jindal are the up-and-comers for the conservative people in this country and it is so refreshing that the Maverick in McCain chose someone with such intellectual honesty and such strong core values. It’s incredibly difficult to find something negative to say about Palin, so as you all know, her family is being attacked. And not just being attacked, but a shit storm has surrounded this family unlike anything that has ever been in modern day politics. And it’s quite disheartening that Barack Obama can admit to snorting cocaine when he was younger and the media ignores that. But when Palin’s teenage daughter gets knocked up, every news publication around defames this small town family.

If you watched the speech last night, you certainly saw that this storm hasn’t affected Sarah Palin, and in fact, you saw the Eye of Hurricane Sarah swoop over the Obama/Biden campaign. Everything Palin said, all her slams, and all of her humor was dead on accurate. Irrefutable. Genius. Articulate. Masterful. It was, in my opinion, one of the best speeches I have ever seen given by anyone.

I cannot wait to vote in November for Sarah Palin, in the hopes that my part will eventually lead to her rise to become the next President of our great land. If you didn’t see the speech last night, go find it on YouTube or something. I’m sure the RNC has it posted up somewhere too.

More: If there’s any truth to this, we certainly have our next President:

BREAKING: Sarah Palin “Winged” Her Speech Because of “Broken” Teleprompter

Halfway through Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani’s speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.

Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.

Sarah Palin. Winner.

Even More: My favorite quote from her speech:

“This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word ‘victory’ except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed…when the roar of the crowd fades away…when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent’s plan?”

I have to give The Hat Tip Of The Year Award to Robb for the best bumper sticker on the books:

More: Here’s Glenn Beck talking about the birth of Gov. Palin’s most recent child, Trig. If you’re the type, it might just bring a tear to your eye.