Joe "Baloney" Biden Eats at Katie's Restaurant

Joe Baloney wants to connect with Joe Six-Pack. The problem is that he's lying about his ostensible salt of the earth roots. He told voters to meet him at the local "Katie's Restaurant" in Delaware so that they could discuss matters of concern to 'average Americans." Getting down with Joe Baloney. His staff forgot to tell him that Katie's Restaurant, a place where the common people used to hang out, had closed in the 1980s. Harmless poltical b.s, it's true, but some of the mistakes that Biden makes are dangerous considering that Obamanites are touting Joe Baloney's experience.

Here's a list of Joe Baloney Biden's intentional misleading statements during the VP debate with Sarah Palin:

1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted "the exact same way" as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.

2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.

3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, "Drill we must." But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to "raping" the Outer Continental Shelf."

4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it's passage.

5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he's always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.

6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain's record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.

7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false

8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.

9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.

10.REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.

11.IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was "dead wrong on Iraq", because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.

12.TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn't see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.

13.BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn't meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of "part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20."

14.REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.

Bob Gibbs: Obama Campaign Advisor on Fox News

Obama wrote the forward for Bill Ayers' book yet Gibbs says that Obama didn't know Ayers. If ever there was a more brazen flunky and Obama apologist, it is Mr. Gibbs. Of course, Gibbs launched into a discussion of the fuzz on his navel rather than deal with the questions put to him. Gibbs would be understandably loathe to admit of Obama's left-wing imprimatur, reflected in his assocation with mad bomber and America hater William Ayers in several contexts. Obama was hired by Ayers as an attorney and director of an Annenberg Fund. It was in Ayers house that Obama kicked off his campaign for the state senate of Illinois. They fraternize within the same neighborhood. That's wonderful but why lie about it?

Obama's as left as America's leaders have ever gone. Yet, why would the campaign spend millions on advertising to convince voters that he's mainstream? All one has to do is peruse the Kos and other bulletin boards and the internet forums to see that Obama could admit of his socialist agenda, run on a Socialist ticket, and still get plenty of votes. Why the charade?

America Needs A Fanny Mae - Freddie Mac Congressional Investigation

Obama: President of World Internationale

Barack Obama is getting a lot of financial support from outside the country. The RNC is filing a complaint with the election commission to counteract the flood of money. Obama did return several thousand dollars to two Palestinian men raising money for Obama by selling Obama Tee Shirts in the West Bank. Discuss amongst yourselves…..


Of course, some of the people contributing to the Obama campaign from inside the country are kind of acting like they live outside the country. The “internationalist” philosophy of Obama, Ayers, Farrakhan, Wright and others who live in Obama’s neighborhood represents the interests of a narrow band of countries who see the creation of the state of Israel as the root of all the world’s problems. The other Great Enemy of “internationalism” is capitalism—for the other guy. All the aforementioned persons live well outside the means of most people in America and, like Obama, have compromised themselves (Rezko) to gain traction.

Just as the commissars of the old Soviet Union lived the high life while demagoguing the issues among the less fortunate, so do Obama and his radical socialist-left policies try to manipulate an electorate which suffers from a mainstream media propaganda drenching.

Madeleine Albright's Message from Starbucks

"There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women."

The message may have been Madeleine Albright's but it was conveyed by Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a rally. Where did she get the message? Well, she found it on her coffeecup. You know...one of those deals like reading the cereal box before your eyes have opened in the morning.

Madeleine Albright was Bill Clinton's Secretary of State and often remarked about the difficulties of being a woman on the American political scene. She was a champion of women's rights, calling attention to the oppression of women not only in America, but in other male-dominant countries.

Funny that you mentioned it, Sarah. Many Hillary supporters, both men and women, noticed the subtle anti-women signals sent by the Obama campaign. Those who weren't getting it couldn't fail to get it when Obama rejected Hillary with her very solid 18 million votes and victories in important swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Granted there were a few people who preferred Obama to Hillary for other reasons, but the choice of a 65 year old 30-year Beltway Boy was a bit grating--even more when you hear the rote verbiage coming out of Biden's mouth. Oh, and Biden was born in that "bitter" state which is "clinging to guns and religion.

Of course, there were four people in Chicago and three in San Francisco who just loved Biden's plan to break Iraq into three separate countries.

Palin says Obama friendly with terrorists | Reuters

WRAPUP 1-Palin says Obama friendly with terrorists | Reuters It's better that the mainstream media state secret about Obama's affection for the enemies of America gets out now rather than later. The Obama camp has run one of the dirtiest campaigns in modern history and now they're whining because Sarah Palin is too far away from the sophistry and politics of Washington that she would sugar-coat the truth.

A Reuters news service reports on Palin's mention of Obama's affiliations with the unrepentant America hater William Ayers, a member of the Chicago political mob which arranged Obama's rise in politics.

Leave it to Sarah.... and to Reuters...for reporting what the mainstream,slipshod media has tried to hide from voters.

Does Hillary Support Transfer to McCain-Palin?

A Previous Report by Laura Conway detailed the McCain – Palin message of a campaign rally in Lebanon, Ohio. Afterward, Laura interviewed some of her business associates and friends to see what they thought about McCain-Palin. Interestingly, one of Laura’s friends is a Democrat and a previous supporter of Hillary Clinton. As with many women in the business world, the “glass ceiling” message advanced by Hillary Clinton got through to her, but will it transfer now to Sarah Palin, now that this previously unknown dynamo may be fast-tracked to be America’s 1st woman president? Here’s what Laura found out:

After the throngs of people slowly filed out of the grand stand stage, I went into the “Golden Lame” restaurant to sit down for lunch and discuss with some of my Cincinnati friends what they thought about the rally. Here's an excerpted view of my Q and A with some McCain-Palin campaign event attendees:

First, I asked Carol Greene, a registered Democrat, why she decided to go to the McCain-Palin campaign event today.

“Because of the enthusiasm about the ticket and having never attended a live political rally before," said Carol.

I next asked Carol what she found most important in terms of the content of the McCain-Palin speeches.

“Palin's experience and her accomplishments with the oil industry. McCain’s smile and authenticity," Carol told me.

She felt that now she has seen a softer, personal side of the McCain persona. Carol implied she was won over somewhat by the McCain Palin reform message. She was disappointed, however, that neither McCain nor Palin had mentioned their policies toward Israel, an important issue to her.

“How do you think you are going to vote in November”? I asked Carol.

Carol told me she was still undecided but leaning strongly now towards McCain.

Next, I interviewed Karen Cheyne, a registered Republican, asking the same questions I'd put to Greenberg. Karen also said she was responding to the historical moment of the occasion.

"I wanted to see McCain and Palin together," said Karen.

For Karen, it was the first time she had attended a live political rally. She found it exciting and interesting, different from watching a campaign appearance as a television viewer.

I next asked Karen what she felt was most important in the content of the McCain and Palin talks with the audience. An astute political observer, Karen was quick with her answer:

“Pork barrel spending and ear marks were the most important hot buttons for me. I'm very much against the pork which is embedded in many bills."

Karen told me she was very disappointed to hear how many ear marks Barack Obama had signed off on.

"Obama signed off on over $900 million dollars in ear marks during his short tenure as Senator--almost $1 million dollars for every day he has been in office!“ Karen said with apparent disgust.

Karen was impressed with how both McCain and Palin came across in-person live, rather than on TV. They seemed to really compliment each other. She was impressed with Sarah’s husband, a manly figure who seemed at ease with the process and supportive of Governor Palin, a possible future vice-president of the United States.

“I was intent on voting for McCain already but the rally strongly reinforced my decision. I am really excited about my choice. McCain’s pick of Sarah and their dynamics added life to the ticket”.

I wasn't alone in interviewing the McCain Palin campaign attendees. The atmosphere inside the restaurant was humming with activity. Broadcast media and newspaper people were running around conducting interviews and feeding off the frenzy. I just sat back with a big smile on my face soaking up the whole experience and looking outside as the sun finally broke through the gray sky. What a fine day it had turned out to be! I felt lucky in being able to participate in such a historical moment and felt renewed confidence in America's future. Most importantly, I felt very proud to be an American!

McCain - Palin Looking Strong in Ohio

Since Day One of the 2008 Presidential Primary Campaign, all you heard in the tanked media was that McCain was going to lose. For a time, the conventional wisdom was that he had lost already. So much for the conventional wisdom.

McCain's still standing, and while he's behind in the polls, he's not so far behind that the Obamanites can breathe easy. First of all, the Obama camp knows they've got a slight lead based not so much on the strength of their candidate, but simply because of the economy and because the mainstream media is in the tank with Obama. The economy also is in the tank with Democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, irresponsible engineers of the Fanny Mae-Freddy Mac disaster. It's really a hoot to hear Democrats criticizing McCain on the economy. Obama advisors Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, and Franklin Raines walked away with millions of no-money-down-pay-what-if-and-when mortgage debt bonuses while they ran the GSEs into the ground.

Anyway, if there's ever been an election year when things may not be what they seem or are said to be, this is it. Don't trust the polls this year unless you understand you may be looking at the part of an iceberg which rises out of the ocean. John McCain is still there, still strong, and stronger yet with his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Consider the barrage of smears aimed at the Barracuda by the mainstream press before she rolled up on Biden in the VP debate and took a good slice out of his hide. But it's the same old story. Should the mainstream media find some good news about McCain-Palin, they ignore it and bury it.

But don't forget that there's more to the iceberg than the part sticking out of the sea. If you're tired of hearing it from me, you can read the report filed by crack reporter Laura Conway as she attended a McCain-Palin rally in Lebanon Ohio. This is not how CNN or MSNBC or the New York Times feels about the race--this story is about how real people see McCain-Palin.

Laura is not only a writer-reporter--she's also served in executive positions with some of America's leading corporations. This is Laura's account of the McCain-Palin rally in Lebanon, Ohio.... :


<Lebanon, Ohio, Tuesday, September 9th, 2008. It is an unseasonably cool, overcast, and humid day in Southwest Ohio but it does not matter, everyone is anticipating the opportunity to witness history. No matter what happens in the general election in November, I want to say that I was here and took part in the political process among average citizens.

My neighbor and I decided to make the drive from Cincinnati north to Lebanon, OH, historically a farm community and a Republican stronghold. Lebanon has developed and grown over the years but still represents small town Americana with history intertwined all around you. The “Golden Lame” restaurant has played an integral role in history with 12 Republican Presidents making an appearance at this very spot; the likes of Garfield, McKinley, Adams, Harding, Taft, Grant, and Reagan to new a few.

After finding a parking place, we walked what seemed like a mile to the end of the very long line which wound around the main town square. Everyone was ready to face the elements; equipped with rain gear, umbrellas, parkas, (you get the general idea). Citizens followed the rules, despite the crowds and elements, people quietly and systematically waited patiently and moved through the process. There was quiet conversation and occasional jokes shared by complete strangers.

Amidst the rain and wind, there were people selling tee shirts and campaign pins with slogans from “No Bama” to “Making History, McCain & Palin”, “Moms for Palin” and people were buying pins and shirts by the dozen. There were also some bright local business owners selling warm bread, cinnamon rolls, and hot coffee while intermittent rain fell hard at times splashing off thousands of umbrellas, trees, and rooftops.

Outside of the “Golden Lame” restaurant and hotel, the grand stand stage was set up. Looking across and down the wide main street, buildings had a small American flag sitting in each window sill with local townspeople looking out and watching the event unfold. The band is playing background music that flows through the streets of Lebanon and the rain periodically pelts down but it does not matter. Everyone is focused on the final goal; getting through security and into the main stage area to witness history, to be part of it. And before passing through security, everyone had to surrender their umbrellas. What happens if there is a downpour? Oh well, it was worth it to the crowd to get cold and soaking wet. It was all worth it. These same umbrellas would be stacked up on the side of the streets creating a “ sea of umbrellas” like I have never seen before.

Anticipation:
Downtown Lebanon was completely overtaken by the rally. All businesses and schools were closed for the day in anticipation of this historic event. Security was on high alert with sharp shooters on every rooftop, right in front of you. The keynote speakers were scheduled to start talking @ 10:00 AM, however, they were running late. The band played several Ohio state fight songs to keep the crowd going. Everyone really got into the music and was shooting, singing, and dancing in whatever space they could find to move. They were expecting 5,000 people and 10,000 showed up.

You could sense and feel the excitement in the air, it was flowing out of the music, movement, and psychic of the crowd. What really struck me about the people in attendance was the number of youth; there were so many young children, teens, 20’s, 30’s, etc. They were so excited to witness the same history. At different points, the crowd would just start chanting, “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah” and “USA, USA, USA”.
There were several guest speakers that did a very good job, however, when Sarah Palin and John McCain finally took the stage, the air was electrifying. In-person, Sarah is “lightening in a bottle”. She has something that is very rare with a politician, the ability to come across as “real and accessible”. Right away, you feel and sense that you know her, who she is, what she stands for, and people automatically are drawn to her because they can relate to her on some many different levels. I personally was pleased that she spent 5-7 minutes talking specifically about her record of executive experience in Alaska which built her credibility as a leader. She discussed that she “lowered property taxes, income taxes, and cut unnecessary expenses which resulted in budget surplus. She gave the excess money back to the good people of Alaska”. The crowd went crazy.

John McCain was right on stage with Palin the whole time she was speaking and the dynamics and synergy of them together really works well. McCain is comfortable with the star charisma of Palin but he holds himself as the strong Commander and Chief. The two mavericks set the audience on their feet. There is true excitement and energy behind this Republican ticket. They talked a lot about what they will do as change agents and fighting pork-barrel spending and not allowing ear marks was strongly communicated.

President Carter Chats Up Hamas

Jimmy Carter shares an world-view with with Barack Obama.

Wall Street Journal Photo Journal : Pictures of the Day

Photo Journal : Pictures of the DayCheck out the photo-journalistic tour. The old WSJ took some interesting photos--whaddaya think?

Barack Obama and the ACORN Connection

Another story hidden in the Obama Media Tank is the story of Obama’s connections with ACORN, a “community organization” convicted of voter fraud in 2006 currently being investigated for election fraud in six states.

ACORN endorses Obama and works primarily in the inner cities to line up Obama supporters/voters. The love affair between Obama and ACORN goes back a long way, even to the era when he joined with convicted bomber William Ayers to channel public money to the ACORN organization.

What role did Obama play for ACORN. Who knows the whole story since the media is so much in the tank for far-left Democrat Barack Obama? But Obama served in double roles for the ACORN organization:

• Obama was the lawyer representing ACORN’s political interest. (Political interests seem mainly to have been in registering non-existent or deceased voters to defraud the electoral system).

• Obama served as a trainer for ACORN, teaching its new members how to circumvent and deal with local governing bodies in obtaining money for the organization.

In just one example, ACORN registered 1800 new voters in Washington. When fraud investigators looked into the matter, they found that, of the 1800 newly register voters, only six were legitimate. There is much reason to worry about ACORN voter fraud in this coming election. ACORN is busy in Ohio and other states, trying to rack up easy votes in the big cities by registering the homeless and other unfortunates, oftentimes by paying them with money or small favors.

Even more cause for worry is that fact that Obama’s Democrats put a 20 billion “paycheck” for ACORN and similar far-left organizations into the House Bailout Plan. I don’t want to pay for that with my tax money and neither did 95 Democrats who didn’t want to be associated with it. Insofar as that goes, Republicans who were sympathetic to the need for a rescue plan were put in a very bad position by the addition of the ACORN bailout-handout and voted largely against it.

Following is a list of past ACORN voter activity across several states:


2005 - Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver, Colorado of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.

2005 - Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque, New Mexico ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”

2005 - the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."

2004 - An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times on Colorado.

2004 - A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.

2004 - In Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.

2004 - North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.

2004 - An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.

2004 - In Ohio, a grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.

2004 - In Minnesota, during a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.

2004 - In Pennsylvania, Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.

2004 - In Texas, ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.

2004 - In Wisconsin, the district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.

2003 - In Missouri, of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.

1998 - In Arkansas, a contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

Say It Ain't So, Joe: Palin Barracuda Slices Biden

What was funny about the VP debate was that Sarah Palin showed she was the equal (if not the better) of a 30 year Washington Senator. Biden demonstrated his usual excess of verbiage. Biden believes the number of words he uses is equal to the quality of what he says. What verbiage!

It was clever of Sarah Palin to point out Biden’s condemnation of Barack Obama’s foreign policy during the primary. That criticism is all too true. And what could be more idiotic than Biden’s plan to partition Iraq into three separate countries?

Biden fits well with Obama in that they are both political chameleons, changing sides to reflect the needs of professional pollsters. Sarah Palin was fresh, positive, and plain speaking. There is a great deal of difference between the plain-speaking wide sweeping opinions of Westerners like Sarah Palin and the narrow, pinched, lawyerly and often peripatetic rhetoric of the East Coast Washington-Boston-New York-Chicago Mob.

And Palin pointed out the obvious, too, when she told Biden Americans didn’t need Obama’s planned trillion dollar tax increase. There’s no amount of rhetoric or posturing which can hide that boondoggle from American voters.

Waiting for the Bailout--Why I'm voting Obama 2008

Oh, boy.... The Congress is working on bailing out the homeowner and I heard someone complaining about the plan. The guy said he didn't see the point of the government's buying out all those "defective mortgages." I had the same thought but then I thought about it a lot more deeply. I decided it made a lot of sense to get on board with my "defective" mortgage. I'm not behind in my payments, mind you, but we have struggled for many years to achieve the dream of home ownership. And now I find out we didn't have to struggle at all!

We haven't had any help until the Democrats came to the rescue with that Rescue Bill. I know the Democrats will keep trying to help me out though, and I'm sure they'll tack something onto it that will allow me to renege on my defective mortgage. Once the bill is passed, I'll stop paying. Then I'll go to the bank and tell them exactly how much I can afford to pay. Emboldened by the Chris Dodd/Barney Frank Bailout Bill, I might even tell the bank how much my house is really worth. I think that's called something like "mark-to-market." I'd like to "mark to market" by about 50 percent--I could afford that amount comfortably. Screw the bank, you know? What has the bank done for me lately?

Of course, I might then change my political party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. Who knows, perhaps I'll get some kind of political post, something like...say....Chairman of the Board at Fanny Mae. Don't laugh. Jamie Gorelick got the job without any experience in finance. And Obama advisor Frank Raines knew only enough about it to collect $200 million bucks from his adventure with the quasi-governmental private housing agency. What more is there to know? Ya' wanna' make the big bucks? Have an affordable mortgage? Vote Obama 2008.

Reverend Wright''s Message of Peace and Love

A Dangling Conversation On Early Voting in Ohio

Obama Rezko Television Corporation

Rezko saga hits big time in SNL debate :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Tony Rezko

Rezko saga hits big time in SNL debate :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Tony Rezko

Obama Profits from America's Economic Woes

It’s really a sorry thing that Barack Obama would get a knee-jerk lift from the economic bad news. Such a lift comes at the expense of the facts. Democrats have long pushed sub-prime mortgages on people who could not afford them. And people always blame the president for anything that occurs, not the dominant Democratic congress with its sub-prime approval rating. That is not surprising in a campaign which has much of the media obsessing on opposition to President Bush and Republicans in general. If the left-stream media had even a minute amount of imagination, they would be able to envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was still threatening his neighbors and terrorist Islamic militants were bombing subway trains while being served with subpoenas.

Of course, Obama is not too proud to benefit from America’s bad news. He goes around promoting this tide of hopeful optimism, a feeling that any change is positive and the self-delusion that change in itself will improve the economy and resolve all problems. There’s nothing more fatuous than that notion. Cuba got change with Castro. Russia got change with the Stalinists. America got change with the 9-11 attacks.

Even at this late date, the latte Arugulati have not required anything more of Obama than that he pose thoughtfully and recite a few slogans. Perhaps Democrats know that Obama is already figurehead, an empty suit who can be controlled by the usual party apparatchiks who will make up a shadow government.

For now, Obama’s polls are rising and America’s stock is falling. Should the slavish media continue along its path of trying to engineer a media coup d’etat, the country will suffer beyond its wildest dreams.

Obama Calls for Reform While Rezko Begins to Sing

Bad news for Barak Obama is that convicted pal Rezko has been seen making visits to the prosecutor's office from the Metropolitan Jail. This happens prior to sentencing on Rezko's conviction. The Feds acknowledge they have enough for further indictments, and Obama has to be nervous about the number of times his name has come up in connection with the prosecution. Don't worry, Barak--the liberal press is still hypnotized with your dipthongs and erudite diction, even if you are reading from prepared scripts. Your comments on the day of Rezko's guilty verdict are memorable if only for its vapidity:

I’m saddened by today’s verdict. This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform. I encourage the General Assembly to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent these kinds of abuses in the future.

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Gasparino Blasts Harry Reid on Economic Comments

I'll make this short. CNBC's Charlie Gasparino let Hrry Reid have it with both barrels for his highly political comments on the station which blamed John McCain for the economic trainwreck. Now that's a way to get Republicans on your side for passage of the Bailout Bill. Why don't they just pass it anyway? The Republicans hold only 200 seats and the issue would pass easily. Fact is, Congressional Democrats have no accountability and no courage of conviction. Dodd and Reid and Frank need to put up or shut up.

Gasparino is the kind of two-fisted journalist we need, and he didn't hesitate to mention Chris Dodd and Barney Franks as the "Fanny-Freddie-Mae enablers" that they are.

Of course, there are people who don't want to hear the plain facts. It's gotten so that the public expects and prefers euphemism. Not so with Charlie G as he hammered Chief Democratic bedwetter Harry Reid.

Honda Civic GX Runs on Natural Gas

But where do you fill it up?


Great ideas aren’t the ones most often chosen by consumers, especially when they come with a hefty price tag. The Honda Civic GX runs on natural gas but the trick is to find a gas station. You can either drive to one of the 1100 natural gas refueling stations in the U.S. or you can run out. A better option might be to install a refilling unit at your home at a cost of around $5,000 or so.

The Honda Civic GX looks like the gasoline powered Civic and some people don’t like that. Some people want the distinctive look of the Toyota Prius, a car that looks to me like a chopped off egg. I’d much prefer the lines of the classic Civic road runner, especially if you’re going to do without the full-throated muffler treatment. A regular Civic costs in the range of 17,000 dollars while the GX natural gas powered vehicle costs around 25,000.

It’s not likely that the U.S. will be building more natural gas stations since most American’s can’t afford to buy the car. The way things are going, most Americans won’t be able to afford a bicycle. This leaves the brilliant and much desired Honda Civic GX to be the car of Hollywood liberals and Northeastern Ivy League elites who will gladly trade in their Volvos. I would, too, but I can’t afford the obligatory Birkenstock sandals.

McCain or Obama: Who's Better at Multi-tasking?

These are A-4 Skyhawks, the kind of fighter-bomber John McCain flew in Vietnam. I"m sure a veteran multi-tasker like Obama could "multi-task" on the controls but I"m not so sure the plane would stay in the air.


Barak Obama made another political gaffe when he used cyber terminology to chide John McCain for saying the debate in Washington by the Joint Economic Committee was more important than the Debate Theatre scheduled for national television. The term he used was “multi-tasking.” Ooooh! That causes my heart to skip a beat.

Obama said a president should be able to “multi-task.” Does flying an A-4 Skyhawk qualify? Does saying one thing in Pennsylvania and another in San Francisco involve “multi-tasking.” Gee whiz…. No doubt Obama’s buzzed because he crammed so hard for the exam and now worries about being unable to deliver the lecture. Such is the Obama rhetoric: multi-tasking.

I wonder if Warren Buffett was multi-tasking when he referred to the financial crisis as an “economic Pearl Harbor.” That should give Obama a clue, but the man doesn’t respond to clues. I would add my own analogy if Congress fails to act quickly; I would call it a Congressional Bubonic Plague.

Now Obama is waiting for others to pass the JEC plan and then he will follow suit and pretend that he was for it all the time. Multi-tasking again.

JohnMcCain.com - McCain-Palin 2008

JohnMcCain.com - McCain-Palin 2008

Kanjorski Announces Joint Economy Committee Success

Rep Paul Kanjorski appeared this a.m. on CNBC's Sqawk Show with Joe Kernan, Becky Quick, and Carlos Quintanilla to announce that Democrats and Republicans had a "done deal" in Washington. This is not yet the "offical news" but Kanjorski was smiling broadly and appeared relieved. While our local Pennsylvania newspapers made much of Kanjorski's "skepticism" about a deal, the congressmenperson (sic) appeared to be in a waiting line for an ascension to heaven.

Joint Economic Committee: Action Now, Pandering Later!

"You don't have to be a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows," said Bob Dylan.




Good for John McCain. He cancelled the Debate Theatre (my God, the sky will fall!) Who needs to hear some staged political crap from people who want to get elected while Rome burns? Obama’s whining as usual because he’s spent so much time cramming for the exam. But Obama was offered to have all the debating he wanted in a town hall atmosphere that couldn’t be scripted or staged and he consistently refused. John McCain wanted Town Hall style one-on-one with Obama since the beginning but Obama doesn’t like that kind of format. Who can blame Obama for that? He’s a loser on substance.

Okay, let’s tell the truth. Much of the American public doesn’t understand the particulars of the financial crisis. Congressmenpersons (sic) are facing elections themselves and are more concerned with looking good than fixing the economy. Congress really doesn’t know how to fix the economy, but they have bonafide geniuses in Paulsen and Bernanke. Of course, they’re Wall Street Demons, not to be trusted! Instead, let’s trust Schumer who wants to partition the economy remedies proposed by parceling it out penny at a time. Or let’s trust Dodd or Barney Franks who got us into this mess by consorting with their investment banker pals in the sub-prime mortgage giveaway.

Now, drastic steps are needed. I don’t like it. You don’t like it. But this needs to be done! Action now, pandering later!

Obama Spanks Biden

 

They're chummy in this picture, even as rumors continue to swirl that Biden will resign from the campaign. But Biden has become the predictable liability with his recognition that Hillary was the better VP choice, and that Obama runs dirty campaign ads, and engages in counterproductive cheerleading episodes as when he exhorted a wheelchair bound support to "Stand up, Chuck....Stand up!"

Obama had to step in to give the aging white guy a political "wedgie", telling him essentially to get a grip. I'm sure Obama's kicking his own butt at not choosing Hillary as running mate.

McCain Tells Obama to Cancel the Campaign BS

John McCain gets it that America faces a real crisis, the like of which has been rarely seen. He called Obama's people and told them he's flying back to Washington to keep abreast of what's going on with the Joint Economic Committee.

Obama was taken by surprise, and now Obama and his memorized script for the "debate" hangs in limbo. He agreed, though. How could he do anything else?

Chris Dodd and Senator Shelby

 

There were some high moments and low moments at the Joint Economic Committee hearings. One of the low moments was provided by Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, posing with studiously "knitted brow" even while he took lower than market rate interest loans from pal and Countrywide Bank CEO Angelo Mozilo. Countrywide Bank was a chief subprime lender until it went bankrupt in the current credit fraud crisis. Mozilo was a big Democratic party contributor who made millions from pushing loans to people who couldn't afford to pay them back. It pays to have Congressional connections though. When Countrywide found out it had all that dead money and soured loans sitting on its balance sheet, who did it go to? Democrats like Jim Johnson, Frank Raines, and Jame Gorelick, all of whom were grateful to take the bad paper and repackage it into "attractive" commercialized debt obligations or "CDOs".

That's Alabama's Senator Shelby on the right. He asked some serious questions, without prancing around. Congress should drill down into the facts but the Chairmanperson (:)) should tell some of those people prating about all and sundry and politics as usual to just shut up.

Tzipi Livni Israel's New Prime Minister

 

She's kind of hot, and if she's successful, will become Israel's next Prime Minister. Congratulations and Godspeed, or whatever that interjection is.

Bernanke and Paulsen Suffer Fools Gladly

The Joint Economic Committee hearings have provided some redundant revelations. There’s politics going on down there in Congress. The idea I’m trying to convey is best represented by the well-known Senator Charles Schumer of New York. With the economic markets frozen solid, and the cameras trained upon him, Schumer always has time to play “Champion of the People.” He does this most often at the expense of the “people,” as he did today when he questioned the 700 billion dollar “bailout” program.

Yeah, I know! It’s the job of congress to protect the people’s money. It’s a little too late for that. Congress has been protecting “the little people” even while the wheels have come off the wagon and the horses have jumped off a cliff. Don’t the members of Congress have television sets at home? Or newspapers? It’s not as if any of this is hot news. The “stimulus package” couldn’t wake them up, either. Fact is, the Congress is just so much dead wood, except that you can burn dead wood, giving it some usefulness. Yet Congress just turns around and burns us, giving us incomprehensible babbling, part bromide and part bumper sticker. Did Schumer or any of his even less-informed brother asses ever hear of derivatives, credit-default swaps, hedge funds?

So now the members of Congress must grill Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson as if, yes, they really are in control of the government’s pursestrings. All I heard from Schumer was stupidity. Schumer had this idea of portioning the 700 bn asked for in “tranches.” His use of the term was malappropriate although he was trying to impress. “Tranche” is French, meaning “slice,” and is an specific investment activity with little connection to the dead-stop debt economy.

Believe me, the “little people” have nothing to gain by having Congress watching over their money, unless they want their finances monitored by proven idiots. Such were the questions posed to Paulsen and Bernanke that only that conclusion could be drawn. The best part of the proceedings was watching Bernanke and Paulsen controlling their faces while they listened to such uninformed idiocy. Paulsen appeared earnest. Bernanke appeared bemused. But both were clearly contemptuous, wondering perhaps how such mediocre intellects could have risen to such positions of power.

These Joint Economic Committee hearings are now spinning out of control, with many congress members pretending to ask sharp questions about things they don’t know to begin with. The best among the questioners at least admit that they don’t know. Others, like Schumer, regard the hearings as a political opportunity to score election points. Several members were permitted to expound at length on “the Bush administration policy.” Now that shows brilliance, doesn’t it? Gee, I thought Congress wrote the laws. And I thought Congress could have conducted hearings BEFORE the crisis unfolded. And I thought Congress could have initiated and led the activity. But not if its comprised of a bunch of economic dolts!

Washington Post Composes Paen to Obama's Anti-Gun Stance

The Washington Post continues serving as Barack Obama's jock strap caddy in trying to ameliorate Obama's anti-gun image with the public. Obama's anti-gun image happens to be a very accurate one but leave it to the Washington Post to find a hair out of place so that they can pontificate about evils of the NRA. The anti-gun people are mostly frightened of themselves, supposing they would go mad at the smell of gunpowder and start firing indiscriminately into crowds (probably at Republicans).

You never hear the liberal elite talk about taking guns out of the hands of the gangsters. Two cops were killed in Philadelphia today. Were they killed by NRA members? The violence happened in Kensington, a North Philadelphia neighborhood I've visited a few times to attend boxing matches. It's rough up there. The gangster boys have the latest weapons. Does Barak Obama go up there with his Secret Service detail and talk to them about giving up on violence and guns? I suppose that's beyond his pay grade as a "community organizer." Anti-gun legislators like Obama are only interested in the vote; they could care less that the gangstas in neighborhoods like North Philly roll with Mac 10s, Glock 19s, AKs, and AR-15s. Do gun control up there, Obama! Responsible gun owners arent' interested in doing anything with their guns except hunting, sporting, and protecting themselves. Police powers are very limited in protecting you from those who would do you harm. The police can't do anything for you until your door has been kicked down and some thug is standing on your chest holding cold steel to your head.

So the Washington Post criticizes an NRA ad that contains some old news about Obama. That's just another discussion of the number of angels which would fit on the end of a pin. Obama's anti-gun position is a long-standing one. He may adjust his language, as he does with most things, but he needs the support of the liberal elite. Being anti-gun pays big vote dividends among liberal elitists. The pathetic tragedy of it all is that the average fellow or woman cannot defend themselves against what one rapper calls "the Glocks in the Co-Ops". Obama and the Washington Post should expend their efforts in getting fully automatic pistols and rifles from the gangsters who freely roam South Side Chicago "strapped". Obama's anti-gun platform is pablum for the effete, most of whom live in gated communities.

Obama needs to stop playing everybody and get real.

Washington Post Reporters Sucks Up to Biden (again)

The latest idiocy in the Washington Post is when a reporter named Glen Kessler asked Joe Biden's office for a list of world leaders Biden has met so that he could compare that with Sarah Palin. The Washington Post actually used ink and trees for such a useless endeavor.

Now what would induce a "news reporter" to ask for a list of the number of world leaders Biden has met with? And then to compare with Palin--absurd! Left to Biden, Saddam Hussein would still be in Kuwait since he voted against the 1st Gulf War. His dumb-assed idea of partitioning Iraq could only lead to a doubly complicated Israeli-Arab style conflict. No matter how many people he's sucked up to, the guy's still an idiot.

What will the Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler do next? Count how many world leaders the washroom attendant has met under intimate circumstances and then compare that list with Sarah Palin.

Off your knees, Kessler....the Messiah is disgusted with you.

No-Money-Down Democrats Critique Wall Street Bailout

Meanwhile, the Obama Channel (MSNBC) continues to bore with Mika Brezinski biting at Joe Scarborough every chance she gets. Brezinski’s a woman with almost nothing to say—she’s like a comic foil to chief Scarborough. The Obama channel wants to have an absurd conversation about “deregulation” apropos of the regulation-deregulation issue, but the fact is that there are mountains of regulation of the financial markets and Democrats on the Banking and Housing Committees (Chris Dodd – D) never raised a protest until they could make political hay of it. Dodd got cheap and easy loans from bankrupt Countrywide Bank and his pal Angelo Mozilo who walked off with millions before Countrywide’s subprime loan program collapsed. It was congressional Democrats like Barney Frank who decided that everyone should own a home whether they could afford one or not. Just bring a body to the closing, no money needed, and no money down. Call them the “No-Money-Down Democrats.”

Biden Critcizes Obama Campaign Ad

Obama had a lot to say about McCain's disinclination to use a computer but nothing to say when the Russians invaded Georgia. I do think Obama would be better qualified if the presidency were merely a data entry position....

Meanwhile....

An embarrassed Joe Biden thinks the Obama campaign ad criticizing John McCain is "terrible" and something he wouldn't have made. You know the one--the one where some Diggtards make fun of John McCain being unable to use computers. Biden says he never would have done such a scurrilous ad, though he appeared in the ad. He was responding to a question by Katie Currick when he made the remarks.

The reason John McCain does not travel with a slick laptop in an attaché case (as Obama ostentatiously does) is because he has scant use of his left arm, a souvenir of his North Vietnamese captors. I would add that a fighter jet is much like a computer though a bit more complicated. McCain can fly one of those, no one disputes, while Obama can boast that he once “signed up for Selective Service” with a great deal of trepidation.

McCain's a Hero in Scranton, Obama's Not

John McCain’s visit to Scranton PA yesterday had Obama supporters scrambling. People began lining up to see Senator McCain as early as 4:00 a.m. for a 9:30 a.m. appearance, according to WBRE, a local news station. McCain’s popularity in Pennsylvania is simple to explain. In spite of his humility, Senator McCain is a “great man” and Obama is not.

The credibility factor plays heavily into McCain’s support, especially in a state where so many young Pennsylvanians exhibit pride and love of country through military service. Pennsylvania voters are a perspicacious lot, tending to disavow what they perceive as the “phony” representations of Barak Obama.

It doesn’t help that Obama recently attended a swank fund-raising gathering in Nancy Pelosi’s home town of San Francisco and described Pennsylvania voters “bitter and clinging to guns and religion.”

People connected with McCain’s message of reform, and his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. The outdoor and fighter jet fuel credentials appeal to the state’s voters more than the Arugula and upscale food markets favored by Obama supporters.

Democrat Bob Casey appeared with a reluctant Governor Rendell, a Hillary supporter, to counteract McCain’s popularity. While Bob Casey has attached his political star to the Obama campaign, Rendell merely does his “duty” as a Democrat in accompanying the egregious and public relations minded Casey.

Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism - WSJ.com

Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism - WSJ.comIs Barack Obama continuing to play the race-baiting game he says he didn't learn from Reverend Jeremiah Wright? Here's what Rush Limbaugh has to say about it.

Biden's War Cry: Be Patriotic, Pay More Taxes

Leave it to Joe Biden. “Paying taxes is patriotic,” he tells ABC News talking head Kate Snow on “Good Morning, America.” Now the liberal media is in a full-fledged snit clarifying, refining, redefining, confining, underlining what Biden said because Biden needs a lot of such re-defining. It amazes me that there is such sensitivity about the Biden philosophy expressed on the news show. I mean, why bother? The apologists should stick with the line—paying income taxes is patriotic. It’s not likely that libs will be patriotic in the usual ways people have of showing it. Better stick with the Biden battle cry: the more income tax you pay, the more patriotic you are. Liberal sycophants like to point out that Biden was referring to people who made over a certain amount of money per annum, but why deprive the poor and middle class of their patriotism? If paying taxes is indeed patriotism, as Biden says, then everyone should have some of it. If the poor and the lower middle classes didn’t have a generous dose of taxpaying patriotism, then what are we to say about them? That they are not patriotic? We can’t have that, and Obama-Biden won’t.

Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin - WSJ.com

Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin - WSJ.com A steady stream of left-wing vitriol will hurt the Obama campaign. You need to read this article.

Obama: ROTC Belongs at Columbia University

One of the positives that came out of the presidential forum held at Columbia University (with Judy Woodruff and Richard Stengel) was that Barack Obama agreed with John McCain that military ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) belongs on the New York City campus of Columbia University.

I don’t know who was in the audience but both candidates got broad cheers when they criticized Columbia for banishing the program from campus. The military officers training program is an honorable calling and it has repeatedly turned out great leaders, some of whom return to civilian life with a better understanding of what it takes to lead.

What was Columbia U. thinking when it banned the ROTC recruitment from campus? That students needed to be sheltered from ideas which did not conform with those of liberal-left professors? If ideas are regarded as viral infections by a major academic institution like Columbia, then the much vaunted “freedom of thought” is a joke.

Both candidates are to be applauded for calling for the return of ROTC to the Columbia campus. Obama’s position on that score should be heeded, and he should repeat his call on other campuses which have followed Columbia’s narrow-minded and onanistic approach. McCain’s daughter graduated from Columbia U., an indication that this is a good time to make things right with the honorable profession of military service.

Obama's Latest Ad Won't Fly

B.O’s latest campaign ad is hilarious—the one where he impugns John McCain’s abilities because he doesn’t email and doesn’t walk around with a computer strapped to his shoulder and Birkenstocks on his feet. Does anyone over there at the Obama campaign have a clue? The message they’re trying to get out is that McCain is old, out of touch, and not computer literate. Not being able to use your left side because his captors busted up his shoulders is not exactly the same thing as being “computer illiterate.” I’m sure McCain knows what a computer is and what a computer does. What’s McCain supposed to do? He’s running for president, not for a data entry position.

I would suggest that the McCain ad campaign respond to this with a photo of McCAin flying an A-4 Skyhawk. What the hell is a fighter-bomber but a sort of computer managed by a vulnerable little human in the cockpit who must multi-task it through a variety of maneuvers which risk one’s life? Landing a 650 mph fighting machine on an aircraft carrier sounds like a lot of deathly fun, too. Aircraft carriers are big when you’re walking on the deck but they have an unfortunate habit of shrinking down to postage-stamp size when you’re desperate to find it in the vast expanse of sea. Can Obama do any of that? Or would he be more comfortable in a data-entry position where he could “text” his executive orders to fellow internet café cabinet members?

Somebody ought to clue in the Obama campaign not to take cheap shots which target McCain’s age or physical damage. There are laws against both, though McCain surely won’t sue. He’s not a lawyer, and neither is running mate, Sarah Palin. I’m sure he’s amused by Axelrod’s naivete, but Obama must be less so.

Writer Christine Bude Weighs in on Obama's "Lipstick" remarks..

Obama Offends with Lipstick on a Pig Remark - Associated Content Christine writes for a variety of online and offline publications. Just click on the link and it'll take you there.

Jennifer Claims American Women Voting for a Vagina

Someone named Jennifer just posted a remark on my blog which I will quote verbatim:

"The only women who voted for Clinton who would not vote for Obama did not vote for Clinton because of her policies or stances, they did it because she had a vagina."

It was an arresting thought and it got me thinking. Where does such a view come from? A man posing as "Jennifer" and who is an Obama supporter? An Obama supporting woman who sincerely believes that? This view does not come from "conservatives." And then it was inevitable that I'd ruminate on the opposite: For over two hundred years in American, men have been voting for a dick in the White House.

You can read the "Jennifer" post below but that person was talking about the vote for Hillary Clinton. She said that Hillary had no policies, not really, and you know the rest. But the message was clear: "Dont' vote for Sarah Palin" because she has a vagina. Vote for a dick!" It's hilarious, stupid, and also retrograde.


Personally, I find it hard to resist a candidate who lives so far away from Washington or Cook County Chicago politics, can gut a moose or fish and has been buying clothing for her kids in a second-hand clothing store for many years. I expect she won't be hunting any more and the Secret Service guys won't want to set up a security perimeter at the Alaska version of the Good Will store but for a while she was real and real stays with you. I don't agree with 100 percent of anyone, so it would be the same for her.

I expect that John McCAin will be president for the next years, and if not, Sarah Palin will be on the fast-track to the presidency. We like to model after other countries which have had people like Thatcher (grocer's daughter) and Merkel and Tipi Livzi and Golda Meir. I think it's about time the women of America had a chance. 88 years is time enough and I think both Sarah and Hilllary are definitely capable and tough enough, as Clint Eastwood said in one of his films.

GOP Worries in Common with Sirius Left

A black guy called into Lynn Samuels’ show on Sirius Left radio and said that Obama’s choice of VP was the “dumbest ###%@@@#$% damn thing Obama ever did.” He said the choice of Biden just about insured that “nothing would be done” and that the rejection of Hillary just about guaranteed he’d lose the election. Even Joe Biden agrees that Hillary would be a better VP choice than he was. So I guess there is a unifying thread between the two major parties. Maybe it's true as the rumor has it that Biden's going to take a dive.


Another African-American women called in to talk about her tee-shirt making friend. The woman said she’d been ostracized, excoriated, and scorned for her Hillary support. She described herself as one of “three black people” in her neighborhood who were for Hillary Clinton. Not true, protested Samuels. Lots of women were for Hillary but the Obama people were covering it up, says Samuels.

One of the most courageous African-American women to support Hillary even while Hillary’s former supporters scrammed and crawled over to the Obama camp was Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio. Tubbs-Jones was a straight up woman and a Democrat with backbone. While the reasons for her death were given as a stroke, and I don’t doubt that, I wonder how much the angry, vindictive, passive-aggressive haranguing Obama supporters had to do with her death.

So Lynn Samuels is my favorite leftist. We have some of the same worries. She asked one caller recently what would happen if a catastrophe hit the White House and Obama and Biden were killed. What?
“That would leave Nancy Pelosi as the president! A nightmare! Nobody in the world would be more horrible than Pelosi!”

Joe Biden: Put up or Shut Up

Love you, mean it... Would the photo op be more of an opportunity with Hillary in the picture?






You’ve got to bust a gut on hearing Joe Biden talking up Hillary Clinton’s qualifications to be vice-president of the U.S. Instead of talking with the press in the hope of applying salve to the female vote, Biden should have been telling Barack Obama to replace him on the ticket. This notion is creating quite an uproar, but not nearly as much as we should see if the replacement were actually to occur.

There are plenty of rumors circulating that Biden will be replaced by Hillary Clinton but such a replacement would have to be accompanied by quite a bit of fakery. Should Obama merely jettison Biden and replace him with Hillary Clinton by announcing he needs the 18 million votes she got, it would be a disaster. The Obama campaign has shown itself to have some expertise in fakery so a Biden replacement is not out of the question. The aging Biden could come up with some sort of health reason for quitting the race, or perhaps some unavoidable domestic duty which requires Biden’s attention.

Most likely, Obama will stay with the garrulous Biden, but he should himself just acknowledge the mistake of not hiring Hillary Clinton rather than put Biden out there to schmooze the women. Women are very perceptive, and ever on the alert for false signals and indications. The only women who would be fooled by Obama-Biden chicanery are the ones who choose to be.

Obama: Now he calls you a phony. And more Pig Methaphors

I’ve never thought Obama was so much a great Orator as he is a good Reader. But I did expect that he would at least try to conduct himself appropriately and distance himself from the low politics of internecine Chicago-style political war. Especially since Obama has no experience of any other kind of war. To be fair, though, Obama tells the story in his biography how he bravely stepped up to register for Selective Service when he came of age. Certainly, heroism of that magnitude demands respect.

But the “lipstick on a pig” comments are unforgivable. Obama was speaking in what feminists call “male code” when he used the metaphor in adjacent context with Sarah Palin’s political activity. Unless Obama’s been living on another planet (and one could make a good case for that), he must be aware of impact of his dumb-assed post-adolescent anti-female semaphore which he now compounds with further insults.

“Enough of that phony stuff,” he says to those who would recognize the cheap smears for what they are.

Well, Obama wants to argue that the pig analogy was appropriate to Great Oratory so I guess he won’t mind people looking at him and thinking “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” And I guess he wouldn’t mind if I remind voters that Obama is a “pig in a poke,” a person who has tightly controlled the information he so much needs to hide from the public.

Orator Obama Talks Pig Dirt

Geez, I’m worried about Barack Obama being able to take care of those two children while he goes around the country campaigning. Two of them, just count them! It’s a good thing they’ve planned their family so as not to have so many mouths to feed. Mom Michelle must be away at the hospital doing important work in administration. That means the children will be left alone emotionally especially when important presidential duties call. I suppose he could leave most of the important work regarding the children to his wife—that’s how things are traditionally done, and this is especially true in African-American families where the fathers are often absent.

I don’t know if it’s correct to say that Obama’s half of the family is African-American because his mother was a Caucasion, not pure white, but a Caucasian. I don’t know why I’m telling you that—nobody’s 100 percent of anything but it’s possible, I suppose, to claim that you are 92% African-American if 92% of “folks” claiming they are “black” will be voting for you. Personally, I think that’s very weird. But maybe I’m the one who’s weird. I have Lynn Swann, Sarah Palin, John McCain political bumper stickers on my pickup truck.

But Obama wears the pants in that household. Michelle takes care of the kids and has been sending them to private schools while Barack Obama gets support from the public school teacher’s union. Ha—he sure has them fooled. Or everybody else. Actually, Obama doesn’t take any crap from women at all. We all saw how well he handled Hillary Clinton, and now we’re seeing how he’s giving Sarah Palin a beat-down. Ha,ha,ha…. That remark he made about Sarah Palin was really funny and guaranteed to force women to hate themselves and their sex and to see the inferiority in being female. Some “folks” said it was really mean but that’s just Barack when he’s in a kidding mood. He said “You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig.” Ha,ha,ha…. Women wear lipstick…. Sarah Palin…get it? He was trying to put her back in the mud where he believes all women come from, soiling the clean male Muslim way. Pigs and Muslims don't mix, you know. I think Obama was trying to communicate something secretly with that remark.

But the main thing I’m concerned with is that Barack ought to stay home to take care of the children. He reminds me of my friend Pimp Daddy, always rolling around the city in an Escalade. Smooth criminal is Pimp Daddy. Pimp Daddy has a momma who works and he gives his kids the keys to the house and lots of money so they don’t bother him. Pimp Daddy’s important, too; he’s been a community organizer for even longer than Barack, since the 70s in fact. Well, really Obama wasn’t a community organizer for very long, about 3 years he says, because the people he tried to help just wanted to move away from the mean streets where Obama wanted to help them live. So he went to law school and who took care of the children?

Anyway, lipstick on a pig is what passes for a clever figure of speech for a low-flying clown like Obama. When you’re dealing with Obama, you have to realize you can’t make a” silk purse out of a sow’s ear”. Ha,ha. That’s a good one. Or a president out of a sack of talking pig dirt who knows how to handle women like Alice Palmer in Chicago, or Hillary Clinton, or Sarah Palin from Alaska.

Charles Rangel's Ways and Means Resemble Obama's Ways and Means

Charlie Rangel is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee. Likeable and smart, Rangel is head of the Ways and Means Committee and should understand that he shouldn’t have been the landlord of several rent-controlled New York City apartments. Rent control apartments were meant to help those who could not afford a roof over their head, but the program has been often abused, as many “social service” urban programs are.

Lately, it’s found out that Rangel has a home in the Dominican Republic which produces income which he has failed to report. With an Ethics Committee investigation going on, the “Honorable” Rep. Rangel should resign from the chairmanship of the committee as that business comes under a taint of corruption.

It’s the same lack of judgment showed by Senator Barack Obama in his joint arrangement with a convicted felon’s wife to purchase a fancy mansion in Chicago. Reform is coming and it seems there's a lot of it needed on both sides but particularly in the urban jungles where corruption can most readily hide.

Then there's corruption-light considering that Barney Frank, Chairman of the Banking Committee has been handing out money like a drunken sailor. First of all, it was Barney's boys who pushed houses and money on people who couldn't afford them. Now Barney wants to bail out everyone except those who refused to take the cheap, free, and easy money. Democratic Barneys in Washingnton are ignoring their responsibilities in bailing everyone out. What's worse, Barney Franks got really angry when Neil Cavuto asked him how many more bailouts were on the way. That's the kind of response one gets also from Chris Dodd who got cheap loans via the backdoor of bankrupt Countrywide Bank and from pal and Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo.

McCain and Palin need to take a flamethrower to Washington--otherwise it'll only be the taxpayers who get burned. There are way too many people who see government service as a way to make money and set up real estate deals.

Best of the Web Today - WSJ.com

Best of the Web Today - WSJ.comBarack Obama told his fellow community organizers the following:

Take this job and shove it! I'm off to the Ivy League!

Obama Admits to Being "Community Organizer"

Obama decided that being a "community organizer" in Chicago was a dead end job. He soon inflated his tires and went to Harvard Law School.


Wonder of wonders—a New York City newspaper endorsed Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that there is more to New York city than Greenwich Village, the Upper East and West Sides, and the trendy salons of Fifth Avenue. There are real people living in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Some of them may even have dirty hands from blue-collar jobs; others may have the odor of fisheries clinging to their workboots as they come back from their jobs. Of course, there is good reason for financial men and women to support the Republican ticket, as they fear Barack Obama’s planned tax increases will be the cement boots of a struggling economy.

The New York Post, of course, is the paper that endorsed McCain-Palin and that was played up in some quarters and downplayed in others. The New York Post also had an article which interested me a great deal. When you hear Barry Obama boasting of his work as a “community organizer,” one can think of all manner of things. The New York Post writer, Steven Malanga, titled his piece “Organizer in Chief.” The “community organizer” term is so vague and all-encompassing that one doesn’t know if it’s good or bad. What is clearly bad about it is that so many “street organizations” are corrupt and self-serving. Pouring money into them is even worse that pouring it down a hole because of the uses to which it is sometimes put. And those many “community organizations” which require “community organizers” often pay themselves huge salaries of taxpayer money with no positive impact whatsoever on the communities they self-serve. In so doing, these organizations besmirch the ones which are truly sincere and selfless in their desire to help those in need. Malanga uses Buffalo New York as an example, a city which is “worse off today than it was 40 years ago” and which has gotten the most “Community Development Block Grant” money of any city in the U.S. The writer-reporter Malanga also reminds Post readers that the “Buffalo News several years ago found that much of the money had been wasted in grants to organization run by politically connected activists.” And voila! There you have Barack Obama and his failed three years as a “ community organizer.” Instead of trailing Sarah Palin around in hopes of tripping her up, the soft propaganda media might want to provide us with more information about what exactly Obama did to help the Chicago South Side community during his three years as a “community organizer” before he jumped ship and headed for the safer environs of law school. I guess that would be when he figured out the “community organizer” gig was a bust instead of a buffer for his resume.

McCain - Palin: Independent Agents of Change

Thought you might be interested in comparing the "change of fools" to real change.

Obama Forgets McCain: Runs Against Palin

Senator Obama seems to be making a career of running against female candidates. For the fifth time in five days, Obama or his spokespersons have attacked Sarah Palin with many of the same barbs he aimed at Hillary Clinton during the primaries.

Perhaps, the Rock Star of Berlin is a little lonely, speaking to only 800 people at the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds in Terre Haute, Ind. Someone should tell Obama that he’s running against John McCain and not the Alaskan governor. It’s kind of funny, really. You wave a woman at Obama and he charges. Well, sort of…. Sometimes he just sort of flutters along on wind power and flapping gums….

In fact, Obama’s attacks on Alaska show how just how far removed he is from rural America and how much his scant experience of government is drawn from Chicago’s inner circle. In attacking Palin, the Chicago one-term senator complained about federal monies going to Alaskan fisheries. Does the senator realize that fisheries are an important part of Alaska’s economy? Most likely, he thinks Salmon is mined somewhere in Pennsylvania by “bitter people clinging to guns and religion.”

Obama also complained about upgrades of Alaska’s numerous rural airports, necessary to reach the remote regions of America’s largest state. That’s understandable, considering that Obama’s idea of an airport is O’Hare and the longest wilderness hike he’d ever take is on the people mover going from terminal A to terminal B.

Of course, those women sure do know how to spend the money, don’t they? Always asking for a man’s damn hard-earned money! He’d nix federal grants to combat drug trafficking in Alaska, too, since it couldn’t be possible there would be any serious drug-dealing in the boondocks and harbors of Alaska. Nope, he’d rather pour money down a hole in Detroit where the guy he described as “the best Mayor Detroit ever had” pleaded guilty to felony charges in covering up his firing of police officers investigating him.

Sarah Palin and John McCain: The Other Team Takes the Field

Said Steve Schmidt, a senior advisor to the McCain campaign, in an email to reporters:
"This vetting controversy is a faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee for vice president of the United States. This nonsense is over."

David Axelrod and Barack Obama must have been poring over the Chicago Dirty Politics Playbook when they tried to sink Sarah Palin before she could set out to sea. Rumor is that they were harkening back to the Dan Quayle torpedoing which happened some years ago. But they had no such luck with the Barracuda, who slipped quietly into the national waters and left with her mouth full of Obama Party flesh.

Obama’s handlers could only appeal to their Democrat friends in the media to raise issues of a “vetting controversy.” That’s hilarious coming from a party which hasn’t “vetted” its long-time presidential nominee yet. The liberal press has shown itself to be a reliable ally of the Obamanites, and can be expected to piously avert its eyes to whatever unpleasant sights remain behind in Obama’s rise in Chicago.

There is a bit of tarnish which clings to Obama’s campaign and it will be hard to shake. This is the first time that Obama has actually faced an opponent. His early success in Illinois state depended upon a litigious procedural challenge against the party incumbent. Obama challenged the signature process of his opponent and got “her” off the ballot. In the Congress of the United States, Obama ran against a forfeit as the Republican went down into flames of scandal. Essentially, Obama is a first timer with no executive experience. He can run the football upfield to the end zone but only when the other team hasn’t yet taken the field.

Would a President Obama Measure Up to a Vice President Palin?

MSNBC, widely known as the “Obama Channel” often shoots itself in the foot by learning too far in the direction of their favorite guy. So it was this morning when, channel flipping, I watched a clip of Barack Obama responding to a reporter’s question. Typical reaction shot, the reporter had asked about Obama’s reaction to Sarah Palin’s sudden popularity.

“Keep in mind,” said Obama, “that she’s (can’t bring himself to say her name) been involved in this for four days. I’ve been doing this for 19 months.”

Incredible comparison, but aren’t you supposed to compare yourself to the presidential opponent, and not to John McCain’s vice-presidential pick. Or maybe Obama is already conceding that Joe Biden will be the real president, and that Obama’s only inspiration is to outdo Sarah Palin on the campaign trail? It would seem so, based on these comments.

Okay, I know Obama’s really running for the presidential position, and that Biden’s his second place guy. I just marvel at another example of poor judgment and lack of perception. It’s unlikely that the Obama Channel reporter was trying to “trap” Obama—he was giving him a prepared setup question, the type candidates love to answer. But for Obama to perceive such a threat from Palin that he would flaunt the number of campaign months he spent in self-promotion as a positive accomplishment is a huge mistake. Wasn't Obama supposed to be doing things for his country instead during those long months?

Drill, Baby, Drill!

Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Steele Gives GOP Delegates New Cheer: 'Drill, Baby, Drill!'

Rudolph Giuliani at the GOP Convention: Change is not a destination; Hope is not a strategy....

“Barack Obama has never led anything. “Nothing. Nada. So, our opponents want to reframe the debate. They would have you believe that this election is about ‘change versus more of the same.’ But that’s really a false choice. Because ‘change’ is not a destination ... just as ‘hope’ is not a strategy.”

Sarah Palin's News Flash to the Obama Campaign

“Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”

Is Sexist Agenda Hurting Obama Democrats?

“Get thee to a nunnery,” says the character in one of Shakespeare’s plays to the female lead character. The playwright then goes on to describe the litany of female wiles and sensual craft which might foil, soil, and befuddle the pure, noble, and unsullied male. The thing about Shakespeare, though, was that he was too sophisticated and too intelligent to believe what his characters were saying; he merely depicted them, warts and all. That is a great deal better than the Obama supporters and campaigners who believe every vague word of what their candidate is saying, and who supply context for every mistake, and who rejected one of the best female candidates for president that the Democrats are likely to have.

For sure now, they must tear down Sarah Palin with any combination of irrationality and fear-mongering. How can Democrats supporting Obama and their media sycophants be so concerned now with “experience?” The number one man has none; they must have noticed that. A second point is that McCain has all experience in the world, and every kind of experience that a man could have, and he’s the choice of Republican primary voters. There can be nothing behind this pro-Obama press crucifixion of Sarah Palin except a barely disguised anti-woman sexism. The same sexism that banished Hillary from the VP stakes. The sexism that marginalized Hillary in ways too subtle for many people to comprehend.

I would submit that McCain is far more durable than Obama. This premature discussion of McCain mortality is ridiculous in our age, where young people die as often and sooner than the seniors of a certain age. God forbid, but who knows what aneurism or biological mutation lurks in the younger man? Those who suggest that McCain will die or become seriously ill in his first term of office should purchase high premium insurance policies on McCain’s life, life insurance which would become valid only if McCain should expire in the first term of office. I’m sure McCain would be glad to help them purchase such policies. McCain would smile wryly and tell you to put up or shut up. A bolder, more courageous man has rarely existed in American politics.

McCain VP Choice Sarah Palin's Experience Exceeds Obama's

I don’t really understand how the wing-nuts are coming out against Sarah Palin on the basis of experience. She managed a state budget of $11 bn dollars with 29,000 employees, to mention just one thing. On the other side you have a presidential candidate with zero executive experience and profound questions regarding political and personal identification. So insecure were the Obama campaign people about their guy’s lack of experience that they jettisoned a sure-fire woman winner like Hillary Clinton in favor of a 30 year long-time Washington politician, Joe Biden.

The media, of course, has been sheltering Obama since the beginning of his campaign. Publications such as the New York Times obviously feel that Obama needs sheltering; he has become something of a media celebre, a darling of Europe who is destined for the White “Hutte”, in spite of Rezko, in spite of Wright, in spite of Ayers, in spite of Larry Sinclair. Certainly not all the things one hears of Obama can be true, but the fact is that much of the media asks seeks no answers about Obama’s experience, his paper trail in state government, his support of anti-gun legislation, his housing settlement papers, and his activities as a “community organizer.”

Obama’s certainly not a “gangsta” type—he’s much too elite for that. But a “community organizer” can mean anything. I’m a “community organizer” in that I coach boxing for a largely ethnic youth population. I don’t aggrandize myself by calling myself a community organizer. Little is known about Obama’s “community organizing” and no questions are asked. I don’t think there was anything especially nefarious about Obama’s work for Acorn, for Rezko, for the housing authority? However, I would like to know exactly how noble it all was or was not.

Memo to MSNBC: Bristol Palin is not News

I’ve been perusing the headlines and spinning the channels today to find some news but all I could find was the blather about Sarah Palin’s daughter being pregnant. I do think it is news that McCain picked Palin, because the choice he made was bold and caught everyone off guard. But the children of VP candidates are not news, and neither is a 22 year old DUI by Sarah Palin's husband. I’d expected him to pick Romney, a guy with known fighting skills. With the media leaning over backwards to shelter Obama, and going out of its way to find some way to impugn McCain’s choice, he’s going to need a fighter. My guess is that he’s found one, but meanwhile we’ll have to wait until the tide rolls in and then wait for it to roll out again. I’ll bet that, ultimately, it’s the Obama camp that’s going to get wet, and they’ll have only the media to blame. The issue couldn’t have been more dead and deadly if Tim Russert were the one reporting it.