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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

Racial undertones?

CNN is trying to make the very blunt point that the HUGE protest yesterday and Joe Wilson’s outburst last week has racial undertones. Both of these doofuses make it “clear” that for “not everybody…some of them…but, a lot of them…” have racial undertones in their opposition to Obama. The CNN doofus even asks if we’re just ignorant (in nicer terms).

Apparently Wilson only lost control because President Obama is not a white man. But I wonder why Congress booed President Bush during his 2005 State of the Union Address.

I’m not sure I like being pigeon-holed.

Taken on a cue from DaleyGator and Gateway Pundit.

September 13, 2009
ACORN blames Republicans for their crimes

Yeah, you knew it was coming, didn’t you? ACORN released a statement today blaming Republicans for the Obama Administration blowing the whistle on their criminal activities. So what if they had to fire four employees who tried to help a supposed pimp and trafficker in the underage sex slave trade, it’s those damn Republicans (Washington Times link);

“It is no coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction,” Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s chief organizer, said in a press release Saturday. “It is clear they’ve had these tapes for months.”

Ms. Lewis said conservative forces were conspiring to make ACORN the “Willie Horton for 2009,”

Bertha Lewis doesn’t mind that her employees were involving her and the organization in a conspiracy to defraud the government, not to mention the forced degradation of minors. Nope – she’s worried about the political implications.

Not to worry – they may have lost the Commerce Department gig, but they’ve still got HUD money rolling into their coffers according to Fox News;

ACORN Housing Corporation received $1.6 million to provide housing services to low-income communities in this fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, according to USASpending.gov, a federal government Web site for tracking government grants.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Grants has given $8.2 million to ACORN in the years between 2003 and 2006, as well as $1.6million to ACORN affiliates.

So all of those enterprising pimps still have hope.

September 13, 2009
On the wrong side of history

The United States government has withdrawn the diplomatic visa of the de facto Honduran president, Roberto Micheletti, to force him to step down from his position and to force the return of ousted Manuel Zelaya to that position (Reuters link);

“We received letters from the U.S. Consulate in Honduras which say that because of the what happened on June 28, our visas have been suspended,” Micheletti said.

Micheletti has not visited the United States since the June 28 coup. A month after the coup, the U.S. State Department said it had revoked the diplomatic visas of four members of Honduras’ de facto government, but did not name them.

So in a few weeks, the Hondurans have their national elections and all of this will be history. Does anyone think the new Honduran government will just forgive and forget how the Obama Administration injected itself into the constitutional discussion on this Latin neighbor?

The BBC says that the Obama Administration has also halted aid to Honduras;

Last week, the US halted all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras – about $30m (£18.4m) – in the wake of the coup.

The State Department said the US needed to take strong action given the failure of the replacement regime to restore “democratic, constitutional rule”.

By whose standard? The Honduran Constitution demanded that the government imprison Zelaya for conspiring to alter the document. They let him off easy. Who is the US State Department to determine what is “constitutional rule” in Honduras? How do they know more about “constitutional rule” than the Honduran Supreme Court which ordered the Honduran Army to remove Zelaya?

September 13, 2009
The first stage is denial

I’m not claiming to know the actual number of people in the rally at the Capital today, but I know more than 70,000 people when I see them;

The DC Fire Department has issued an unofficial estimate of 60,000 to 70,000 people in attendance, which is smallish by big DC protest/event standards

Yeah, if you’re used to ANSWER’s inflated numbers. I’ve yet to see the Left reach 20,000 – a whole lot smaller crowd than the number of people I saw today. I’ve been doing these protests since 2000 and today’s crowd is largest I’ve seen. I didn’t go to this last Inauguration, so I can’t compare it to that – but I’ve hardly missed a protest since the World Bank protest in April of 2000.

Michelle Malkin has published a 2 million number, and I heard that number at the rally, but I’m not sure I want to commit to 2 million. Allah Pundit examines the figures at Hot Air.

Somehow, Think Progress thinks these pictures are important;

I saw very few birthers at the protest – everyone I saw was worried about their family incomes. To make this one tiny sign (added almost as an after thought) representative of the crowd is disingenuous.

And the second sign; I guess they’re saying that white people can’t be concerned about their own civil rights. That’s what The Washington Monthly is trying to say, apparently;

As for what the overwhelmingly-white crowd had to say, I still think these protests could benefit from some focus. We learned today that right-wing activists don’t like government spending (except when Bush and Republican lawmakers spent freely), don’t like the size of government (except when Bush and Republican lawmakers increased the size of government), don’t like deficits and debt (except when Bush and Republican lawmakers added trillions to the nation’s tab), and don’t like czars (except when Bush used dozens of them to implement his agenda).

They don’t like health-care reform, though it’s not clear why. They don’t like gun control, though it’s not clear why they think anyone’s coming for their firearms. They also don’t like taxes, immigration, abortion, Muslims, the U.N., and the idea of “socialism,” though their understanding of the word is tenuous at best.

The Washington Post isn’t far off TWM’s mark, either;

The crowd — loud, rambunctious and sprawling — gathered at the foot of the Capitol after a march along Pennsyvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza. Invocations of God and former President Reagan by an array of speakers drew loud cheers, echoing across the Mall. On a windy, overcast afternoon, hundreds of yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flags flapped in the breeze, mingled with U.S. and Texas state flags.

I saw a lot more minority people there than you might imagine – don’t believe me? Checkout some of the photos El Marko took today. I even saw a black family who had temporarily adopted a white disabled veteran and pushed him through the throngs in his wheelchair the length of Pennsylvania Avenue.

The New York Times describes the crowd like this;

But as they sang verse after verse of patriotic hymns like “God Bless America,” sharp words of profane and political criticism were aimed at Mr. Obama and Congress.

Profane? You’d think they’d offer an example of what they mean – but they don’t. Just the standard Nazi charges;

The atmosphere was rowdy at times, with signs and images casting Mr. Obama in a demeaning light. One sign called him the “parasite in chief.” Others likened him to Hitler.

No mention of LaRouche?

So the Left can try to deny what happened today and besmirch the participants, but that doesn’t change the facts. Welcome to 2009.

September 12, 2009
Post predicts nutballs at today’s rally

Yeah, the Washington Post finally noticed the thousands of folks decending on Washington today.

So I suppose the Post will be searching for the one swastika sign that slips through. The emailed instructions I got told me not to bring any Nazi imagery. That’ll probably break the Post’s tiny, shrivelled heart.

From what I’ve seen so far, these folks all had their inspiration from the Gathering of Eagles rally which came to town in 2007 to protect the Vietnam Wall from vandalism.

Well, I’m headed out for the rally – if you’re there, you’ll see me tooling around on my bicycle so I can be every where at once. I’ll also have my laptop with me, so stay tuned for video and pictures straight from the rally. See ya there!

September 12, 2009
Barbecue and Patriotism at Walter Reed

Just got back from a day at Walter Reed and thought I’d share some of it with you.

First, we ate courtesy of the organizational skills of Concretebob and his crew;

Then it was off to the front gate where the action was, courtesy of the DC Chapter of Free Republic who has standing at Walter Reed to welcome the wounded soldiers home for 230 consecutive weekends, rain, shine, heat and cold. They were gratified with the huge turn out tonight;

Of course the other side was there, too, in pitiful numbers;

There were a pair of matching trucks with a huge sign in the bed that we all signed;

Did I mention that at This Ain’t Hell we love dogs?

If the turn out tonight is any indication of what tomorrow is going to be like, the news media is going to be real sorry that they didn’t cover it. This was the largest crowd I’ve ever seen at Walter Reed on Friday night – and I left when I was losing light and folks were still arriving.

Video Added;

There are more pictures, as always, at my Flickr Photostream.

1stCavRVN11B sends a link to the live streaming photos from Walter Reed.

September 11, 2009
Interview with SC’s Joe Wilson

John Hawkins of Right Wing News did an interview last night with Republican Congressman Joe Wilson who told President Obama “You lie” at the President’s address to Congress Wednesday night. Here are some highlights;

“Person after person came up and they were very encouraging. So many of them, not all, but so many of them said that what I said is what they were thinking. “

“We’ve received several thousand donations. Of course, we’ve also got a circumstance where my opponent with the benefit of MoveOn — they can raise much more money.”

“I was looking at all of the amendments and I knew that the Democrats had defeated the enforcement amendments about illegal aliens and these would be the amendments that would provide for verification of citizenship. That’s the wording and I’ve actually read the 1,000 page bill. The references to the illegal aliens in the bill didn’t have any enforcement. It was simply fluff. “

Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades reminds us that Democrats booed President Bush at his 2005 State of the Union Address. Does that make Wilson right? Nope, but all of this false outrage is a little too dramatic – especially after the last eight years.

I listened to a black “journalist” on the local news last night ask the audience rhetorically whether Wilson’s outburst might be racism. Sometimes political opposition is just political opposition.

September 11, 2009
DU; some early morning moonbattery

Well, Democratic Underground has apparently discovered that those two ACORN tax advisers to pimps and sex slavers are innocent. Why? Well because the fake prostitute is a pastor’s daughter;

So the problem is not that (at least) two ACORN representatives were corrupt and giving illegal advice. The folks that busted them went to church – yeah, that’s the ticket.

While we’re at DU, let’s take a look at the assassination plot against Obama, too;

Criticism of Obama is domestic terrorism. Just thought y’all should know before you join us in the streets tomorrow.

September 11, 2009