Pete

Perhaps he might have been had it not been for the Trojans’ dominating defense.

Sanchez passed for one touchdown and ran for another, and No. 8 USC overcame five turnovers and nine penalties to beat Arizona State 28-0 on Saturday for its ninth straight victory over the Sun Devils. The Trojans have won those nine games by an average of 20.1 points.

“It was a tough outing for me and the offense as a whole,” Sanchez said. “I think that we beat ourselves. We didn’t see anything that we weren’t prepared for. We just didn’t execute the way we would have liked.”

Joe McKnight ran for a career-high 143 yards on 11 carries and Kevin Thomas returned an interception 46 yards for a touchdown for the Trojans (4-1, 2-1 Pac-10), who are 74-9 since the beginning of the 2002 season and have won 41 of their last 42 home games.

Sanchez, whose status was in question for several days because of a bone bruise in his left knee, didn’t have one of his better days, completing 13 of 26 passes for 179 yards with three interceptions and a lost fumble – those turnovers coming on four consecutive possessions in the third quarter. He was relieved by Mitch Mustain with 6:27 to play.

“This game was absolutely about our defense,” USC coach Pete Carroll said. “Time and again as the offense made their mistakes, the defense wouldn’t have it. This defense is playing incredible minus the penalties. We could have easily been beaten today with some of those mistakes.

“Clearly, Mark was struggling today. He wasn’t at his best, but to tell you the truth, we were surprised he played. He continues being a hero out there the way he steps up.”

Sanchez looked just fine on USC’s first possession, passing for 61 yards before capping an eight-play, 72-yard drive with a 1-yard sneak to give the Trojans a 7-0 lead. He wasn’t very productive after that, but didn’t need to be. He said the three interceptions were the result of bad throws rather than poor decisions.

Arizona State (2-4, 1-2), meanwhile, has scored just 44 points in losing four straight for the first time since 2003. The Sun Devils gained only 229 yards and committed four turnovers while being shut out for the first time since Oct. 30, 2004, when they lost to California 27-0.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever been around an offensive performance like that in my career,” ASU coach Dennis Erickson said. “Give credit to USC. But whenever we get the football like we did in the third quarter as many times as we did, you’ve got to score points and we didn’t. I wish I knew why.

“I can’t say enough about our defense. They played well enough to win, but you’ve got to have all three phases of your game to win.”

ASU’s Rudy Carpenter, considered doubtful all week because of a sprained left ankle, completed 11-of-20 passes for 126 yards with one interception before limping off the field for good with 8:51 left in the third period.

“I was trying to put it out of my mind and stay positive all week,” Carpenter said. “Obviously I wanted to stay and play, but the coach felt it was the right thing to do.

“Defensively we did a good job, but we just couldn’t score. Nothing was working.”

Backup Danny Sullivan completed just 4-of-17 for 28 yards with two interceptions – the second by T.J. Bryant on the USC 2-yard line on the game’s final play.

Carpenter not only made the start to extend the second-longest active starting streak for a quarterback in the country to 37 games, he completed a 39-yard pass on ASU’s first scrimmage play. But the Sun Devils failed to get another first down before having to punt.

Purdue’s Curtis Painter made his 38th consecutive start against Ohio State on Saturday.

Neither team posed a serious threat after USC’s opening drive until a 38-yard punt return by Kyle Williams gave ASU the ball at midfield early in the second quarter. Helped by a facemask penalty against Clay Matthews, the Sun Devils moved to the 21-yard line before a sack by Thomas and an illegal motion penalty pushed them out of field goal range.

The Trojans responded by moving 80 yards on seven plays for a 14-0 lead. Sanchez threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Damian Williams after hitting Patrick Turner for 22 yards and Ronald Johnson for 29.

USC scored again just 1:19 later to make it 21-0 on the interception return by Thomas, who stepped in front of wide receiver Michael Jones before sprinting untouched into the end zone for his first career TD.

Stafon Johnson scored on a 2-yard run with 8:09 remaining to cap an eight-play, 92-yard drive and complete the scoring. McKnight had runs of 14, 33 and 20 yards.

Fili Moala blocked field goal attempts of 29 and 48 yards by Thomas Weber following the first two USC turnovers in the third quarter, tying the NCAA record for field goals blocked in a period. Carpenter left shortly before the second blocked field goal – one play after being sacked for the third time.

ACORN seldom falls far from the tree

The most underreported story of this election season is the Association of Community Organizers For Reform Now, known by its acronym, ACORN.

ACORN grew out of what wins the prize hands-down for one of the silliest and most destructive advocacy groups America has ever known – the National Welfare Rights Organization.

Founded by George Wiley, the NWRO became an army of single minority mothers whom he sent out to disrupt welfare offices through sit-ins and demonstrations demanding an end to oppressive eligibility restrictions. His aim was to so flood welfare offices as to cause the system to burst, creating a crisis he hoped would correct America’s “unjust capitalist society.” From 1965 to 1974, the nation’s welfare rolls more than doubled to 10.3 million during generally good economic times. Clearly, it was a winning tactic.

One of ACORN’s later tactics was to flood banks and mortgage companies the same way, insisting that they do away with those pesky mortgage eligibility requirements to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit.

ACORN was among those most responsible for the failure of the mortgage market and, astonishingly, until some sharp-eyed lawmaker noticed and stripped them out, ACORN was among those named as bailout recipients.

ACORN is also under investigation by the feds for what may well be the most massive case of organized voter fraud in American history.
James Terry, chief public advocate for the Consumers Rights League, testified on Sept. 25 before a joint House Administration and House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on “Federal, State and Local Efforts to Prepare for the General 2008 Election,” where he highlighted “corruption at every level of ACORN including embezzlement, cover-ups, misuse of taxpayer funds and voter fraud.”

ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community organizing days. He was hired to train ACORN staffers in their shakedown tactics. Obama later funneled millions to ACORN through the Woods Fund, on whose board Obama sat, together with William Ayers, founder of the ‘60s domestic terror group the Weather Underground.
Obama represented ACORN as its legal counsel in a lawsuit aimed at pushing “motor voter” laws that make it easier for non-citizens to vote by presenting a driver’s license.

ACORN’s voter fraud tactics have been entirely to benefit their mentor and instructor, Sen. Barack Obama, who listed on his resumé for qualifications for president, “community organizer.”

Now follow along with me – I’ll type slowly so Obama supporters can follow along: The mortgage crisis has two primary causes.

The first was banking legislation overseen by Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd,

and the second “predatory” lending practices that were mandated by a Democratic Congress to help low-income families achieve the American dream of home ownership.

In this insane financial and political environment, it is worth remembering that the so-called *“Bush economy” worked just fine for six years, until the Democrats took both houses in 2006 – and that it is the Congress to which the Constitution entrusts the economy.

The Democrats opposed revamping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s policies, and Barack Obama has been entangled in the whole mess, one way or another, going all the way back to the mid 1990s.

One can draw a straight line from ACORN to domestic terror to radical anti-American leftism to the mortgage crisis to the economic meltdown to the most massive case of voter fraud ever investigated and finally, straight to Sen. Barack Obama. Without even trying. And nobody seems to care.

It takes one’s breath away.

Sean Hannity, of Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, is going to air a very important documentary about barack obama, Sunday night, 12 September 2008 at 9:00 PM ET.

He stated on the air this evening that no one in the news media was willing to do this. Hannity is going back to obama’s earlier days, showing even then his ties to radical professors, friends, spiritual advisers, etc., he stated this evening that he will show in detail his ties to rev. Wright for 20+ yrs (which we all know) how he was participating with this man, and not for

The reasons he states! He has uncovered more of obama’s radical leaders and we will see things that no one in the media is willing to put out there. This will be a night that you will know more about obama than ever before. Hannity is very passionate about this program and asked that everyone please, please watch Sunday night, 9 pm.

Hannity is determined this information be put out there because as American’s, we still do not know about obama!! Wake up America!! This is serious, every one. I know most of you watch FOX News, and you know whom you are voting for, but if you can, please pass this on to everyone you know. This is critical for our country. My prayer is that we, along with Sean Hannity, will reach someone/anyone before Nov. 4th.

We must not give up!!!!!!!!!