Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin played the flute for the talent portion of the Miss Alaska competition in 1984. See above video.

During the 1992 Presidential Campaign, Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, see video below, wearing dark sunglasses, he played "Heartbreak Hotel" on his saxophone. At the time, he was trailing in the polls, and some critics have suggested that this appearance captured the imagination of the American people, and turned the race around. In the end, Clinton carried 43 percent of the vote, easily defeating George Bush Senior and Ross Perot, and making him the forty second President of the United States of America.

Having musical talent helps win political campaigns.

Alabama congressman Artur Davis issued a statement yesterday to "Hannity & Colmes," in response to last night’s airing of clips from the 2004 Congressional oversight hearing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

“Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues, I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit that when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong. By the way, I wish my Republican colleagues would admit that they missed the early warning signs that Wall Street deregulation was overheating the securities market and promoting dangerously lax lending practices. When it comes to the debacle in our capital markets, there is much blame to go around for both sides.”

(WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW TO THE END. OUR COUNTRY DEPENDS ON YOUR VOTE IN NOVEMBER.)

The root cause of our financial market meltdown is the housing foreclosure crisis, caused by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac giving bad loans to people who couldn’t afford them. The crash is now called the Housing Bubble bursting. Remember when Bill Clinton was President he had what was called then the Dot Com, or Technology Bubble burst, and that caused our markets to crash as well. Every time the democrats gain control of our government they crash our financial markets. Not only did Bill Clinton, a democrat, cause the Dot Com Bubble to burst, and cause a stock market crash, we can thank Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and the democratic majority congress, for the Housing Bubble that caused our current stock market crash that is rippling into global markets.

The current market crash was set in motion when Jimmy Carter and the democratic majority Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act. The act actually gave INCENTIVES to low income borrowers to get home mortgages they couldn’t afford. In 1995 Bill Clinton revised the Community Reinvestment Act forcing banks to approve subprime mortgages even though it might result in defaulting on the loan, because borrowers couldn’t afford to keep up with the payments. The risk of defaulting on those loans was huge, but it was okay after Clinton’s revisions because he made it law that the government would back up the loans, like a co-signer. Banks then were FORCED to give out $1 Trillion in new SUBPRIME loans. Does that number sound familiar? It should. That is the exact amount being proposed to bailout the banks and financial markets today.

Artur Davis admits the democrats were at fault. The republicans, especially John McCain, warned in 2004 that tax payers would be stuck with the bill if something wasn’t done to correct the accounting fraud, and bad loans stemming from the Community Reinvestment Act. Republicans also warned in 2004 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were at the center of the problem, and both agaencies were owned by the Federal government, so they had the power to stop the train before it crashed the stock market today. Democrats got angry, as seen the video above, and said there was no problem, so they blocked any effort to reform the lending practices, and now we have the stock market, and mortgage market crash that could cause another 1929 depression. The bailout will cost tax payers more than $4,000 each. Thank you democrat party for creating the worst financial disaster in our country’s history. To make things worse, Barack Obama says he’ll raise taxes if he is elected.

Don’t forget, when those same low income home owners default on their home mortgage a second time, our democrat congress, will once again try to blame someone else, while again demanding the tax payers bailout the home mortgage market again.

Watch the video below and learn what you need to know to make an informed choice in the November election.

John McCain is seen in the picture above boarding the boat of Vatican con-man Raffaello Follieri on August 29, 2006 in Montenegro. Ahead of McCain is his co-campaign manager Rick Davis. On the left side of Follieri is Anne Hathaway. Although some would like this photo to somehow make McCain look bad, there’s no scandal here whatsoever. No one knew Follieri was a con-man until he was arrest in June 2008.

At the time he met McCain, Follieri was adept at collecting friends in powerful places and using those connections to attract investments in projects which later turned out to be bogus. His ties to Bill Clinton and his entourage have been well-documented; the charismatic Follieri, whom Vanity Fair has likened to an ambitious nineteenth-century protagonist from a Balzac novel, ingratiated himself to President Clinton and aides by posing as a mega-donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. He also formed an investment partnership with California business mogul and Clinton donor Ron Burkle to develop surplus real estate properties owned by the Catholic Church, which Follieri claimed to represent. Burkle later sued Follieri for $1.3 million in misappropriated funds.

Both Follieri and McCain have said their meeting in 2006 was "entirely social and nothing came of it." Clinton on the other hand was much more involved with Follieri.

No one knew Follieri was a con-man until he was busted, so there’s no juicy story, and no scandal.

Follieri, who posed as Vatican chief financial officer in order to win friends and investments, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Manhattan district court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, eight counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. As part of the plea, Follieri admitted to misappropriating at least $2.4 million of investor money and redirecting it to foreign personal bank accounts that were disguised as business accounts.

Thursday at a Women for Obama fundraiser in New York City, Barack Obama closed a fundraising deal with Hillary Clinton by kissing her … a$$. Who’s the boss of Obama now? Bill Clinton isn’t worried. He’s got plenty of things to keep him busy … like this girl.

While leaving a $200 - $500 a ticket speaking engagement in Canada on Friday, the Edmonton Sun caught Bill Clinton holding hands with an unidentified woman.