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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Everything is officially racist

    Some Republican Southern governors are planning on not accepting stimulus bill money, remaining true to their conservative principles. They have said they’re worried about restrictions and “strings” the Federal government would impose are unacceptable to the sovereign States. (Washington Times)

    Republican governors Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas expressed reservations this week about accepting their states’ shares of the stimulus package because they are worried that the federal government will impose conditions on how it can be spent.

    As a self-styled staunch conservative, Mr. Sanford, the new head of the Republican Governors Association, aggressively opposed the stimulus plan. However, in a Thursday morning interview on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Mr. Sanford said his state would accept money from the stimulus bill. Opposing the plan “doesn’t preclude taking the money,” said Mr. Sanford.

    Well, like everything else in the past month, not excepting the money from the federal government would be considered racist and a “slap in the face” to Black America according to Jim Clynurn, congressman from South Carolina (Fox News);

    The highest-ranking black congressman says opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern governors is “a slap in the face of African-Americans.”

    Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina said Thursday he was insulted when the GOP governors of several states said they might not accept some of the money from the $787 billion stimulus package.

    How silly is that? And how racist is it to insinuate that these funds are targeted to help Black Americans? Are the only people who’ve lost their jobs and their homes Black? Is Obama just the President of Black America? Is all of his legislation just to benefit Blacks?

    Of course, if you google Clyburn, you’ll find everything that he says is somehow an indictment of someone being a racist somewhere. Just another race pimp.

    Thanks to Ray for the links.

  • This has been eating at me all day

    One of my workmates thought she really had something to cheese me off this morning when she waved this cartoon in front me (I hate days I work in the office);

    Of course, I’d already written about it, but you know how the Left needs graphics to have stuff explained to them. But anyway, she kept telling me how racist the cartoon is, and I kept telling her how it was racist of her to think the cartoon was about Obama. She told me that the target of the police should have been a pig – I told her that made no sense. Impasse. I didn’t have time to dredge up graphic representations of even more racist crap from the Left.

    Well, anyway, I read this article this evening;
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  • Now they’ve done it

    The Democrats went and pissed off Chuck Norris. He goes medieval on their collective ass at Human Events today;

    Former President G.W. Bush pushed the first trillion-dollar bailout upon America. Nothing happened. Obama now has pushed the second trillion-dollar bailout upon America. Why should we believe there won’t be a third, fourth, fifth or sixth so-called government stimulus? What other recourse do they have?

    We’re in the tank for trillions. And Congress’ only solution is to print more money and make more loans.

    Haven’t they seen the movies? Don’t they know about the ass-whoopin’ they’re about to receive? There’s only 535 Congressmen and Senators – Chuck usually kicks that much ass in the first five minutes of his movies.

  • Marcus missing the point completely

    Washington Post‘s Ruth Marcus tries to explain the near victory the Republican Party scored in the recent over the stimulus bill last week by chalking it up to “peer pressure”. To recap, the Republicans attracted six Democrats while losing only three Republicans to the Democrats;

    Still, the ability of House Republicans to maintain their united front — twice — came as an unpleasant shock to the White House. Even after the first rebuff, the administration anticipated 20 to 30 Republican defections.

    Instead, the vote demonstrated that everything you need to know about Congress you learned in middle school: Peer pressure works wonders.

    She misses the whole point completely – it wasn’t peer pressure at all. The whole point of contention is the definition of “compromise”. Neither the White House nor the Congressional Democrats attempted anything resembling compromise. Republicans didn’t bite. What divides Republicans and Democrats is IDEOLOGY not some stupid grade school game of gotcha. It’s not whose team you’re on, it’s what you believe. What kept Republicans together was their refusal to participate in Democrat patronage to unions and liberal strap hangers.

    It’s not your team versus my team, you silly clown of a woman. Marcus is the one playing at grade school antics.

    Regardless, I wrote this last night, so I screen shot the POS column she wrote in case she changes it by the time I post mine.

  • AG Holder: Nation of cowards

    Little Green Footballs and Gateway Pundit have an MSNBC article that reports that the United States Attorney General, Eric Holder says we’re a “nation of cowards” because we don’t talk about race.

    Holder said average Americans “simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

    Holder maintained that Justice Department employees have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding throughout the country.

    Funny, I thought the Justice Department was supposed to enforce our laws, not act as some sort of gypsy caravan of traveling minstrels crisscrossing the country singing the praises of various skin pigmentation.

    As far as being “cowards” for not talking about race with each other, maybe its because 1) some of us don’t think melanin levels in various people is important enough to talk about; 2) We’ve pretty much been forbidden to discuss race, unless we’re willing to sing the praises of darker people and criticize lighter people – so what’s the point?

    Maybe if some people talked less about it, realized that we’re all Americans with a common culture, a common heritage and common goals, instead of niggling over the tiny irrelevant details that don’t much matter to anyone except those who think that an accident of birth qualifies them for special consideration, we wouldn’t have the problems in which we’re mired today.

    Cowards hide behind those accidents of their birth instead of facing their problems. Yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, AG Holder.

  • Our newest patriot

    The Washington Times notices this morning that the president, who before his election wouldn’t wear a flag pin on his lapel, suddenly surrounds himself in American flags at every opportunity;

    Oh, say – can you see? Look. It’s President Obama, and he’s surrounded by American flags.

    They’re on the dais in star-spangled glory. They’re at the town-hall meeting and the news conference, in bold folds of red, white and blue. The White House has rediscovered – or possibly reinvented – the patriotic cachet of Old Glory as a perfect frame for the new president.

    That’s the same president who once would not wear an American flag pin. Things have changed.

    “The biggest factor is that Barack Obama is now the president,” said Jack Glaser, a social psychologist with the University of California at Berkeley.

    “He’s around more flags now. They’re behind him or on the podium. That’s the reality. He’s not running around on the campaign trail.

    “Now that he’s president, Mr. Obama most likely knows he’s an American symbol. So he wears an American flag pin. He appears before American flags. That’s part of the job.”

    Actually, it was part of his job before he was elected to the Presidency, seein’s how he was a United States Senator, not to mention that he was a US citizen – the rest of us don’t need to be president to start acting like we’re proud of being Americans. It was just a year ago this week that Michelle Obama made the comment that she’s finally proud of this country.

    I guess what we can take away from all of this new-found sense of pride in this country by the Obamas is that as long as we keep doing things for them, they have no problem with us.

  • Where’s the stimulating part of the stimulus?

    As the president signed his stimulus bill yesterday, the stock market tumbled to new lows;

    CNN marveled at the fall, claiming that the shrinking value in the market was “despite” the stimulus bill – I guess it didn’t occur to them that the tumble was BECAUSE of the stimulus bill;

    CNN wonders if maybe the contraction wasn’t because the President didn’t spend enough money.

    The Washington Post takes the same tack;

    The truth is this: The markets’ biggest decline came STARTING on the day Obama was elected because investors (that’s you and I, by the way) have no confidence that Democrats are committed to helping the economy. Their “stimulus” is is actually just buying patronage and votes. They’re doing absolutely nothing for the economy and the country realizes it – no matter how much camouflage the media throws up for him.

    The Obama administration has launched Recovery.Gov where we’re supposed to be able to track our money as it spins down the drain. I’m still trying to figure out what “Protecting the Vulnerable” means and why it’ll cost $81 billion. It sounds to me like it’s to protect vulnerable congressional seats.

  • Lifting of ban on media gawking considered

    This is one thing I’ve never been able to figure out – the media, since the Persian Gulf War, has wanted to film coffins containing the remains of our military returning to the US at Dover AFB. The ever-vigilant Washington Post ruminates over the issue today;

    President Obama said last week that he is considering lifting the ban on photographs and videos at Dover, in place since the Persian Gulf War in 1991, raising fundamental questions about the impact of such images on the public morale in wartime.

    For Obama, changing the policy would carry some political risk as he ramps up the war effort in Afghanistan with tens of thousands of fresh troops, increasing the likelihood of combat deaths that could produce photographs of numerous coffins arriving at one time at Dover, the sole U.S. port of entry for the remains. At the same time, Obama has advocated transparency in government, and continuing to hide the Dover ritual from public view conflicts with that principle as well as with public opinion on the issue, polls indicate.

    Yeah, well, there is no political risk for Obama – as we’ve seen with every other issue Obama faces, he’s quick to blame the previous administration for forcing him to make unpopular choices, depending on the crowd. Whatever he decides, the media will gaily celebrate his wisdom.

    It’s the media’s apparent obsession with it that bothers me;

    Ralph Begleiter, a former CNN correspondent and WTOP radio reporter who teaches journalism and politics at the University of Delaware, has sued the government to obtain the release of some military photographs of honor ceremonies at Dover under the Freedom of Information Act.

    “Dover is the only place in the country where the entire nation can observe the return of these casualties,” Begleiter said. “The most important and dramatic . . . cost of war is the casualties, the troops who make the ultimate sacrifice and come back to their country in a casket draped with an American flag, and to leave that image unobserved seems to be disingenuous.”

    No, what’s disingenuous here is the false impression that there are scads of people who would care about the war if only the media were allowed to take pictures of coffins on an airstrip in Delaware. Like so much other hyperbole we get from the drama queen press, this is just ignorant rantings of self-important idiots.

    There are funerals across the country everyday that we never read about in the media, not because they’re banned from reporting, but because they don’t think it’s news. The only reason the media thinks this particular issue is news is because it’s something they’re not allowed to do.

    Much like the gays-in-the-military issue – there are not millions of gays waiting for the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to be lifted for them to join the military, neither are there millions of news readers waiting for the ban at Dover AFB to be lifted before they pick up a newspaper.

    Every year, there’s an hours-long ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day. The media is there for hours through the whole thing, yet the only thing that makes the evening news is 5 seconds of the President placing the wreath at the Tomb. Every Friday night, wounded soldiers roll up to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from the war – no reporters are ever there to record it.

    If the ban is eventually lifted, there may be a story about the first time the media is allowed to record the event, they’ll make a big deal out of it and thrust their puny fists in the air in victory, one picture might appear in your newspaper, five seconds of video might make a continuous loop every thirty minutes on CNN for a day – and then it will be over.

    In exchange, the solemn event will have lost it’s last shred of dignity so some greasy, vacuous borderline paparazzi photographers can gawk at the flag-draped remains of better people than they’ll ever be.

    ADDED: I guess the American Legion agree with me.