Nebraska’s alleged Republican Senator, Chuck Hagel, came back home from his “Hey, Look at me! I’m Barack’s buddy!” tour in Iraq, and he had some advice for both presidential candidates. Senator Hagel — the “Wizard of Smart” — implored both McCain and Obama to “quit talking about, ‘Did the surge work or not work?’ or, ‘Did you vote for this or support this?'”

Now, it should be fairly obvious why Hagel wants the surge talk to stop. There’s a continual buzz in some quarters of the Media that the Messiah, Barack Obama, might actually look kindly upon Hagel and elevate him to the vice presidency.

So, every kiss that Hagel plants on Obama’s rear-end counts.

Beyond that, both Senator Hagel and Barack Obama voted against the troop surge.

Both of them took turns bashing President Bush, questioning his decision to send more troops; and both thought the military would fail to meet their objectives when the troop surge began —

— and they were both dead wrong.

The overwhelming success of the military, beating back the terrorists in Iraq, is a glaring example of an incredible lack of judgment from both Obama’s and Hagel — and highlights their arrogance. So any wonder why Hagel wants talk of the surge to disappear?

As for you, Senator McCain, here’s another one of your senate buddies — this one a fellow Vietnam vet — throwing you under the bus and running you over backward. Are you beginning to find out who your real friends are?

Can you say, “gas prices”?

In the 2004 election cycle, Ken Salazar ran as a new kind of Democrat: a guy not beholden to liberal ideology — a guy who would do what’s right for the country. And that rhetoric proved effective in Colorado; Salazar won his Senate seat.

This week, the interior department will unveil new regulations to allow the sale of oil shale leases on federal land. In the western states, those leases could eventually unlock up to 800 billion barrels of oil. Last month President Bush spelled out what that would mean for America, saying that “one major deposit in the Rocky Mountain West alone would equal current annual oil imports for more than 100 years.”

But guess who’s standing in the way?

Senator Ken Salazar, Democrat, Colorado. Last year he slipped language into a bill to bar the federal government from issuing final regulations for commercial oil-shale development.

Even with $4-a-gallon gasoline, Salazar and his fellow Democrats are still preventing America from using our own resources to lower gas prices and create new jobs. In fact, Democrats — having killed off any chance of a gas-tax holiday — reportedly now want to raise the federal tax that you pay on each gallon of gas by a dime!

The moral (in case you haven’t figured this out) is that “new Democrats” don’t exist — except when running for office. In office, they’re the same old liberals that they’ve always been, and they don’t give a rat’s rear end about you or what’s right for the country… it’s only about themselves.

Some of our friends up north are upset, ladies and gentlemen, that their image is taking a beating. The angst is over the case of a Canadian-born terrorist, Omar Khadr, who is being held at Guantanamo Bay.

Khadr is the son of an Al-Qaeda financier. He was raised in Afghanistan. At age 15 he was captured on the battlefield, charged with throwing a hand grenade that killed one American Special Forces soldier and blinded another. Khadr’s defense team recently released video excerpts of his interrogation by Canadian officials at Guantanamo Bay.

Now, in the video, this terrorist is seen whining for his mommy, and begging for Canada to come to his aid. He complains that he’s being tortured, and he begs for medical help for wounds that have not healed since his arrest.

He doesn’t bother to mention that he was near death when he was plucked off the battlefield, and that Americans saved his worthless little life.

Naturally, liberals in Canada’s Media and Parliament are up in arms. They’re blaming Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper for allowing the supposed “mistreatment” of the youthful terrorist to continue at at Guantanamo Bay. They are complaining that their national reputation as a kind and compassionate country is being ruined.

See — all it takes is one accusing terrorist to get a country full of liberals to roll over and get on board the compassion train.

But they have absolutely no compassion, or even a second thought, for those in the military who are killed by these terrorists while defending their freedom.

As more facts surface, there’s growing outrage over the killing of a 49-year-old San Francisco man and his two sons, ages 20 and 16, during a road-rage incident.

The accused killer, Edwin Ramos, allegedly sprayed their car with an AK-47infamous MS-13 gang from El Salvador. after he was blocked from making a turn. Now, Ramos, it has been learned, is an illegal immigrant who belongs to the

In addition, Ramos has committed at least two other felonies during his illegal stay in California. And even though he was facing deportation, he was released from police custody because San Francisco liberals have declared their town a safe haven for illegals — a “sanctuary city.“

Of course, the liberals on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors who enacted the laws preventing local law enforcement from turning over illegals to the feds should never be called to account for their complicity in these murders. Oh, no: Because, after all, only racists and xenophobes would dare suggest that immigration laws actually be taken seriously.

Everybody knows that.

It’s everybody’s best interest that the victims’ surviving family just bury their dead and shut up. They should stop their public demands for justice because, after all, there are larger issues to think about, my friends. We wouldn’t want to offend a large potential voting block, or make people feel unwelcome in our country, with all this undue attention on a few murders…

What would be the point of that?

What kind of people are we becoming?

Barack Hussein Obama attempted to refine his anti-war credentials.

He claimed the Iraq war has diminished “our security, our standing in the world, our military, our economy, and resources” that we need to meet the challenges of this centuary.

Now, my friends, it’s been almost seven years since 9/11. We have disrupted terror cells all over the world — and here. While operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are the most visible, our military has successfully prosecuted the war on terror worldwide.

Contrary to Obama’s claims, our military is not diminished. It remains the envy of the world, as does our economy. Only a fool would argue that America is less safe.

And there is a Party of Fools out there — the Democrats.

They have vehemently opposed American victory in the war on terror. They spent the last seven years undermining the troops, and attempting to deny them the resources that they need. And now the Democrats won’t even praise our success in Iraq. Before running for president, their leader, The Messiah Barack Obama, spent 143 whole days in the Senate. His sole contribution to the war effort is taking off his flag pin because, he said, a pin doesn’t constitute patriotism.

In this war, the only focus has been the Democrats’ focus on power — at the expense of American security.

My friends, in a sane political environment, this speech would have sealed Obama’s political fate. Then again, in a sane political environment, he wouldn’t even be a contender for president — nor would McCain, for that matter!