Saturday, September 06, 2008

In His Own Words

Stuff like this deserves more airplay so people can see how clueless Obama is. If he thinks other countries are going to disarm if we do, he is living in fantasy land. But somehow, I don’t think that’s the problem. He just wants to demilitarize us like Carter did.

UPDATE: Is Obama legally able to be president? Some lawyer is suing the DNC, claiming he isn’t.

Which is it, Obama?

Friday, September 05, 2008

22 Reasons Against Obama

This is a pretty devastating list of reasons. I’m sure the McPalin team will be harping on many of these in the next two months. Obama is vulnerable in more ways than people think.

He also can’t handle criticism. Today he said he won’t let the McPalin team “bully” him. Wooo. That sounds so 8th grade. What, he doesn’t like being picked on by a girl? Palin’s barbs were actually pretty mild. But that’s how think skinned Mr. O is.

Imagine of he had to deal with the world’s bad guys? It seems even little Kim Jong Il could beat his ass.

UPDATE: Another reason

Thursday, September 04, 2008

How Not to Win Friends and Influence People

One of the reasons the Democrats wull lose this year is because they have become the party of cranks and crazy people. They don’t believe in free speech or fairness as evidenced by the actions of the protesters who have tried to disrupt the Republican convention.

For example:

Including the Minneapolis protest, police have arrested 422 people since Saturday in pre-emptive raids and at protests in downtown St. Paul that were marred by violence. St. Paul was quieter on the convention’s third day, when four women from the peace group CodePink were arrested after crawling under a fence a couple blocks from the Xcel Center where the convention is being held. They were released.

CodePink also took credit for disrupting Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s speech on Wednesday night. The group said two of its members were given tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the party and Palin.

The CodePink members, Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, were escorted from the Xcel Center after yelling and displaying a banner. They said they were held until after her speech but not arrested.

That Marxist shouting down act is tired and abusive and a common thing on their side. Then there’s the idea of anti-war protest when the war is winding down and we’re already scheduled to withdraw. Americans don’t like to lose and we’ve pretty much won in Iraq. We’re handing over parts of the countr to the Iraqi control. And the American left wants us to surrender. This is Obama’s position, as well.

On top of that, they’re playing to the most extreme end of their party by calling for criminal prosecution of the Bush administration for war crimes, which Biden claims they will do i they get elected. .Once again, that’s disgraceful. Americans as a whole will not stand for a president going through that. Especially when, whether you agree or not with the administration’s actions, they were done in defense of the country. And the defense resulted in no terrorist acts since 9/11 on US soil.

Voters overwhelming rejected the last leftist presidential candidate when Nixon ran against George McGovern in 1972 Nixon beat him by 21 points and won every state except McGovern’s. And this was during the Vietnam was with the anti-war movement was at its zenith.

This is why, until now, Obama’s people have tried to sound more centrist. But if they keep revealing a leftist message to charge their base, they will join McGovern in humiliation history.

[Photo via Zombieblog]

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Outrage Dujour

I didn’t want to take sides in this election, but it’s almost impossible now. The Democrats have just done something beyond the pale, worse than what they’ve done over the weekend through their proxies.

The Politico has received an opposition research file from the Alaska Democrats. You can read it in PDF here.

In the file, the Democrats have released Sarah Palin’s social security number minus the last four digits. Also tied to the information are her various home addresses.

This goes way beyond the sick, nasty telling of vicious lies, which is par for the course in leftie land these days. No, this is a criminal invasion of privacy, from the very people who claim Republicans are the only snoops. (Let’s not forget Carnivore, the program which the Clinton administration authorized the FBI to read everyone’s email.) Of course, once again, it’s faceless proxies doing this, not the campaign. As far as we know.

Democrat “opposition research” operatives did this against Michael Steele, also.

This is worse than Watergate. Nixon bugged the office of some Democrats, he didn’t spread vicious lies about them and their kids, then release all their personal information for everyone to see.

Ben Smith of Politico objected to Red State’s characterization of it coming from Democrats, but please, This is something that deserves a criminal investigation. And Dems were outraged over the Plame business.

When I said they were scared of her, I was making an understatement, They are clearly trying to destroy her. And people only do that kind of thing when they are terrified.

[via Red State]

Weak Defense of the Day

Obama is reeling, it seems. When asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper how his experience stacks up to Sarah Palin’s executive experience, here’s his reply.

In an interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,” Obama responded.

Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska which has 25,000 employees, and a $9 billion budget. Her experience is vastly more relevant. Especially since a campaign is run by a “campaign manager”, not the candidate. The candidate just sets general policy, unless he’s run by his handlers. Everything we’ve seen from Obama suggests he likes to sit back and not get too involved in things.

What’s hilarious is Obama seems to be defending himself against Palin in interviews this week. And from what I have seen, not too convincingly. 

Monday, September 01, 2008

Obama’s Sincereity?

This sounds awfully noble of him to make the following statement.

“I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits,” Obama said. “And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.”

Sounds good. But there’s no getting around that he has been part of the Chicago political machine which plays dirty, vicious politics. And Obama sat by when Hillary was viciously attacked during the primaries, until enough damage was done. Then he stepped in with similar grand statements. Some people (like me) wondered if part of his campaign wasn’t involved in the attacks on Palin’s family, in some fashion. Obama also had a response to that assertion.

“I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us,” he said. “Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired.”

OK, fine. But again, he waited a couple of days to react. Long enough for it to gather a lot of steam on the internet. And let’s not forget something, the Daily Kos and other radical sites had representatives in force at the DNC Convention where they had meetings with the campaign to plot strategy. They are not just sitting idly on the sidelines.

Of course, there is no “proof” of a connection. It’s an old political game to get proxies to do the dirty work for you so you can deny it later.

But this is one of the lowest attack in recent memory. It shouldn’t be forgotten. And they are still at it if you read the comments in that Politico article. Watch how that call Republicans hypocrites and haters while spewing bile for 40 yards. Some of these people are trying to out do Linda Blair.

UPDATE: Busted! Red State has been able to come to the same conclusion, but they have plenty of evidence it was Obama using Kos as proxies. 

Obama’s Draft

Buried in Obama’s speeches and on his website are plans to create a wide range of new organizations, some of which will draft people, still in school, to work for these groups, whether they like it or not. The other agencies, some of which are “green” programs, will be sit up for the rest of us to “volunteer” to work for. The Volokh Conspiracy covers it all here. I read about these months ago when I was reading each candidates campaign platform. They sounded very vague, but I seriously doubt the youth of America will love Obama if he forces them to work for government agencies picking up trash and doing other monkey work.

On his website it all sounds rather harmless, and maybe it is. But in his speech the other night it made it sound as if he plans to expand the government more than any President in history. And that’s simply not going to be “good for the economy”, considering that FDR’s expansions of the government are credited with lengthening the Depression by 7 years.

Speaking of Obama, if you go to his website’s store, they still don’t have Biden’s name on any of the signs, bumper stickers and other gear. What an egotist. McCain had Palin’s name on some of the gear the day after she was announced.

UPDATE: I wonder if this is what Obama sees for his new “green volunteer” army.

Councils are recruiting ‘citizen snoopers’ to report litter louts, dog foulers and even people who fail to sort out their rubbish properly. The ‘environment volunteers’ will also be responsible for encouraging neighbours to cut down on waste. The move comes as local authorities dish out £100 fines to householders who leave out too much rubbish or fail to follow recycling rules.

It will fuel fears that Britain is lurching towards a Big Brother society, following the revelation this week that the Home Office is extending some police powers to council staff and private security guards. Critics said the latest scheme could easily be abused and encourage a culture of bin spies and curtain twitchers.

Matthew Elliott, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Snooping on your neighbours to report recycling infringements sounds like something straight out of the East German Stasi’s copybook.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Bob Hope Saw The Future

[ht: Macker’s World.]

Thursday, August 28, 2008

All You Zombies: The Obama Speech

Well, the big day has come and gone. Obama has spoken and lo, there were many a glazed, teary eye in the stadium looking worshipful. And behold, there were many a celebrity clutching a HOPE sign. And yet, there were the occasional bored faces. Mine was among them, even though I sat before a TV as I watched this spectacle.

My impression of the Obama speech is that, while parts of it were well done, it was your basic Democrat boilerplate: Republicans are evil, Democrats are saints. We can do it better given the chance. You have no hope without us. Only more government and laws will save you. Only more taxes on the rich and the corporations will pay for the largess we offer. Oh yeah, and there will be more jobs even though we will be taxing your employers more and regulating them heavily. Oh, and we’ll save the planet, kill all the terrorists and end wars for all time. Because we’re the good guys! Look at all the celebrities who believe in us! That must mean something, right?

Even though they had the majority in Congress for the last 4 years and Congress has the lowest approval rating in history, theyc an do it better. Yeah.

The people in the audience mostly ate it up. But as Obama walked down from the stage there was this weird kind of anger in his eyes, which showed up at times in his speech. Maybe he hated all those American flags waving in his face.

The most absurd parts of the speech had to do with why we don’t need 4 more years of Bush. Uh, Bush isn’t running. Oh, yeah---they are trying to make McCain into Bush. Except McCain is way more like a Democrat than Bush (who is kind of like a 70s Democrat, actually).

Obama kept talking about how long McCain has been in the Senate. Except, Joe Biden has been in there a lot longer. What’s his excuse? And Obama has been in the Senate during the time where it’s had the worst unfavorable ratings in history. What’s Obama’s excuse?

Don Surber parses some of the other lies in the speech. I’m sure others will be on it too.

Let me just say, I actually liked Obama in the beginning when I didn’t know that much about him. I rooted for him to beat Hillary. Check the blog archives if you don’t believe me. And I still like him a lot more than Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry. I do think he has some good ideas, like removing capital gains on small businesses and so on.  Except he wants to raise taxes, a lot, on the “rich” who already pay the majority of tax in this country. Who provide all the jobs he claims he’s going to magically increase. He should change his middle name to Gandalf.

Obama also had nothing but bad and untrue things to say about America and its financial condition. The economy is rebounding a little. Unemployment is still low. But Dems keep saying this is the great depression. That’s how out of touch they are. They act like they’re in the depths of depression themselves. But, I guess that’s understandable give the choices of leadership they have. Nancy Pelosi?  Harry Reid? Yikes.

One of the more obnoxious and patronizing things Obama said tonight is that Republicans tell us we’re “on our own”. Well, those of us who work for a living and believe we should be independent and not dependent on the state. That’s not something to be shamed of. The government doesn’t exist to be our parents or our nanny. But that’s how the Dems want it to be in our minds. They want us to be reliant on them. And that’s kind of like a pusher offering free heroin to the kiddies. No wonder so many celebrities are Democrats. They know who their connections are.

Obama’s speech was classic the state will save all and this will be a worker’s paradise. Cue socialist music. Oh, wait---the music they played at the end was more like Star Wars. Well, George Lucas was there. No wonder the show sucked.

UPDATE: Obama is a fraud if he is a leftist pretending to be a centrist. 

Quote of the Day

“Obama was 11 years old when I went to the Senate, so if he gets out of line I’ll smack some sense into him.” (Misquoted by reporter)

Joe Biden, sounding like a plantation boss. I guess the O is a child to him. 

I knew Biden would let fly some stupid remarks at some point, but before Obama even speaks at the convention? Daaaamn,

[ht: Instapundit]

UPDATE: OK, how about this one from Jimmah Carter today:

And I think it already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world, just knowing that this black boy who grew up with just a loving mother and grandparents—and that was about all he had to start with—does now have a chance to become the nominee of the Democratic Party for president.

Ok, where’s the outrage, Dems? Why isn’t Jimmah being pilloried right now?