This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • I dispute this whole “historical” thing

    I have these thoughts zooming around in my head and find it hard to work without writing them down.

    I think it’s absolutely unAmerican to think of this as an historical moment in our nation’s long journey. It’s unConservative – and that’s been our whole problem with minorities, but it comes with the ideological territory.

    In our Declaration of Independence, it’s written that “…all Men are created equal….” It doesn’t make a racial distinction. Jumping ahead almost 183 years martin Luther King Junior said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ”

    Those two phrases taken together are incongruous to this assertion that Obama being elected is historical – and those are the two phrases that have governed my entire adult life and affected the way I treated people, even affected my choice of a wife and the subsequent children that resulted thereof.

    It would only seem to be significant to someone so shallow and steeped in their melanin level as to place some sort of significance on something so inconsequential.

    I’ve opposed Obama from the beginning, but not on any sort of racial level, because race is insignificant. I’ve opposed him on an ideological basis – and much more than “my club against his club” (the way Democrats seem to think of the R vs. D struggle).

    If we’re all supposed to be merely men and women, fashioned in the image of our Creator (whoever you think that is), I find it offensive for the media to keep pounding in my already-cluttered brain that this is somehow significant in our history.

    I’m sure some pointy-headed smart ass won’t hesitate to point out my failed reasoning by calling me a racist – or something equally vacuous.

  • The Blogosphere reacts

    I’m not bothering to read the news this morning. Somehow, I know what they’re all saying. So, instead I took a tour of the folks in my blogroll and since I have to go to work in a minute (across the dining room) I’ll make this brief.

    Michelle Malkin pretty much says what I did first thing this morning (emptying my head of those nightmares I had last night) – except she says it like my drill sergeant would have;

    There is no time to lick wounds, point fingers, and wallow in post-election mud.

    I’m getting a lot of moan-y, sad-face “What do we do now, Michelle?” e-mails.

    What do we do now? We do what we’ve always done.

    We stand up for our principles, as we always have — through Democrat administrations and Republican administrations, in bear markets or bull markets, in peacetime and wartime.

    We stay positive and focused.

    We keep the faith.

    We do not apologize for our beliefs.

    Chris at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy must’ve watched me struggle to lift my body from bed to bang on these keys this morning;

    It didn’t happen like we wanted but it happened. So what do we do now? There are a lot of people who will just want to stay in bed. Not me. There are a lot of people who will be depressed. Don’t. You have to believe in America. That’s not just a line. In my heart, I believe in America. I believe that America will overcome anything and prosper. We survived 4 years of Carter. We survived 8 years of Clinton. We survived 8 years of Bush. WE WILL SURVIVE THIS. Even if he bombs as president and is worse than Carter, we will survive it.

    Jennifer Ruben dissects the McCain campaign and counts his major mistakes;

    The results are in and the recriminations have begun. Sure, it might not have made any difference, but the number of sins of omission and commission by the McCain campaign is breathtaking. Let’s get a head start on the finger-pointing and give you the top thirty mistakes John McCain and his team made:

    Bryan Pick (my mole at VFF) at QandO gets introspective;

    I saw Obama’s supporters with tears in their eyes. I heard that some are actually dancing in the streets. I saw many of my friends and family jubilant about the outcome of the election, proud of and in love with their country. And what was my response?

    I asked everyone who’s celebrating tonight to record their hopeful expectations for an all-Democrat federal government, and later, to compare with the real-world consequences.

    Curt at Flopping Aces thinks Obama has already peaked;

    Congratulations to Barack Obama, our first pure socialist President.

    At least we at FA are going to have a TON to write about over the next four years.

    Bloodthirsty Liberal reports that change has already reached Israel;

    Well, more of the same, actually:

    More than 35 Qassam rockets and mortar shells were fired at the western Negev communities early Wednesday, following an Israel Defense Forces operation in the Gaza Strip aimed at thwarting a terror attack.

    JammieWearingFool writes that Tim Robbins was feeling another chill wind yesterday. VanHelsing at Moonbattery reports that MSNBC has finally come out of their Obama closet.

    Oh, and while I’m typing this, Fox calls Coleman the winner over that angry little shit Franken he was running against – by about 600 votes.

    And just to rub a little salt in our wounds, Kenya named November 4th a National Holiday in honor of Barack Hussein Obama (can we use his middle name yet, by the way).

  • I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

    Whew, rough night’s sleep, wasn’t it? Wondering what happened to our grand scheme to rig all of the voting machines and intimidate voters. Where were Diebold and Haliburton, for pete’s sake? They worked so well for us in the last two elections, did they forget to set their clocks back an hour Sunday?  knew that Daylight Savings Time was a Liberal trick.

    But, the election is what it is. We’ll have to wait a couple more years to perfect our election-stealing techniques which obviously failed us this time. Me? I’m going to hold Barack Obama’s administration to their word. I did the same thing when Bill Clinton became president – I took him at his word until he broke his word. That “affirmative action” shit ended last night. The media threw up smoke screens for everything that would’ve brought down another candidate and we got the candidate they wanted.

    The republicans diddled around acting like Democrats in Congress and diddled around selecting a candidate that they thought the other side would vote for – again like Democrats – and we’ve reaped the fruits of their follies.

    Obama wants to be everyone’s President, well, I’m on board. until he makes the mistake of not wanting to be my President – I suspect I won’t have to wait long, but I’m giving him a chance. My only worry is that this may cost lives – the lives of our troops as well as the lives of some hapless civilians because of the message that the election of Obama sends our enemies. Enemies that won’t go away just because we elected Barack Obama, by the way.

    It’s going to be a constant battle over the next four years, two years minimum, against the Peace Movement, too. How do I know? Well, this email was waiting for me this morning from Code Pink;

    The Peace Movement thinks yesterday’s election was a mandate for peace. Those of us who’ve given a measure of devotion to this country know it’s not possible. With thugs like Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Il, al Qaeda in the world, there’s no way to withdraw inside our borders and cringe. Now that we’re past the empty, feel good rhetoric of campaigning, Obama and his cabinet will have to admit what the rest of us already know. The Global War Against Terror has been necessary and correctly executed, strategically speaking.

    There’s still a need for us to support our troops and and support thier mission – we can surrender our government, but we’re still committed to the future of this country. That’s been our message all along.

  • If you have any mercy in your heart, vote Republican (UPDATED)

    Yeah, I’m kind of worried that a full-blooded socialist will be our President, but I’m even more worried that Joe Biden will think that he’s one of the reasons Obama got there.

    Sean M. at doubleplusundead posted this video reminder last night;

    (more…)

  • Bankrupting the coal industry

    Last night I wrote about the Obama recording in which he threatened to bankrupt the coal industry. This morning the campaign says that the Republicans are lying…well, not that they lied about the actual statement, or any of Obama’s intentions…but they’re lying. CBS has the whole statement from the Obama campaign along with the entire transcript. After reading it, I still came away with the same conclusions – Obama wants to tax the coal industry to death.

    The response from the Obama campaign is what one might expect;

    (more…)

  • Bankrupt who?

    All around the blogs today, I’ve been reading about this interview that Obama gave the San Francisco Chronicle back in January in which he lays out his plan for bankrupting the coal-burning energy plants by taxing the shit out of them. Here’s the audio;

    Here’s the quote from Hot Air;

    So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

    Of course, we know business don’t go bankrupt all by themselves…they take a boatload of consumers with them. Tax a legitimate business and they pass the costs on to consumers. When coal-produced electricity goes up, the co-generated electricity prices go up, too. Since we know we can’t get a nuclear plant built with Democrats as gatekeepers, the consumers will bear the burden of this ill-conceived plan. All consumer goods costs will rise, the economy stalls like it never has stalled before. And it becomes a national security issue.

    Here are the top coal-producing States;

    Notice Pennsylvania and Virginia, two States that both Obama and McCain need to win. Another State they need, Ohio, isn’t far behind those on the list.

    Over at DPUD’s house, It’s Vintage Duh! says the Obama campaign is telling us we’re too stupid to hear what we heard;

    The Obama campaign says that Palin took Obama’s position out of context because in the interview Obama said that “this notion of no coal, I think is an illusion.” Obama and McCain have both pushed for technology to develop cleaner burning coal. “What we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon,” Obama told the Chronicle in the interview.

    But you see, I’ve heard all of this before. Back when I talked with some MoveOn types at a rally at the Capitol a few months back, they spouted the same crap in regards to gasoline prices. They want to price everything out of reach of the poorest consumers so that the economy crashes and they can present themselves as the solution – like they’ve successfully done in regards to oil price problems last Summer and the mortgage problems this Fall. Even though they were the cause of the problems in the first place, with their willing accomplices, the intellectual zombies in the media, they’ve convinced the countless millions that they’re the solution.

    Rupert Murdoch said today that China and India will reshape the world – is it any wonder when our leading candidate for the presidency is a Luddite? China and India have growing economies and they don’t act like their major employers and the folks that drive their economies are some kind of criminals.

  • Conyers demands investigation into “Auntie” leak

    So John Conyers took time off from his impeachment investigation into the President and Vice President to demand answers from the Homeland Security Department as to whether they had intentionally leaked information about Obama’s Boston auntie, according to CNN;

    Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan fired off a letter asking Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to investigate whether someone leaked the information to the media in an effort to damage Obama.

    “The AP reports that it ‘could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved,’ a very disturbing (suggestion) indeed,” read the letter from Conyers, who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

    “This leak is deplorable and I urge you to take immediate action to investigate and discipline those responsible.”

    Here’s the screen shot in case it gets disappeared later (a habit I have acquired lately with the Obama crew);

    Of course Conyers could get just as outraged that a US Senator running for the Presidency had an illegal alien aunt living on the public dole. Or he could get outraged that this information hadn’t come out sooner by Obama’s own admission rather than reporters digging around in the final days of the campaign.

    Conyers could get outraged about the rectal exam that Joe the Plumber endured, or the New York Times reporter stalking the McCain children on line, but no, he gets exercised about the media uncovering an actual criminal breaking an actual law.

    Michelle Malkin reports that the McCain camp has been forbidden to discuss the issue

    Another predictable prediction: McCain will issue an edict forbidding staff from talking about this the same way the staffers are forbidden from mentioning Jeremiah Wright — with disastrous results.

    No problem, even the Washington Post will comply with that edict. This morning’s front page is void of the discussionof the subject;

    The way the media soaked up the story that McCain isn’t an American citizen, can you imagine what they would running in a loop if McCain had an illegal immigrant relative living on welfare? I trolled Democratic Underground for about an hour last night and there was not one word over there about it.

    But this morning, I find them exercised over the “privacy issues” as soon as the Washington Post gives the signal that they can discuss it in that context – on page 7. So the DU clowns give Obama a free pass;

    democrank
    2. We should keep the pressure on.
    Someone needs to answer for this violation of privacy.

    RBInMaine  Sun Nov-02-08 07:02 AM
    Response to Original message
    5. SCUMBAG RIGHT WING A-HOLES REACHING FOR AN OCTOBER SURPRISE. Well guess what,
    #1 it isn’t flying.

    #2 What the SCUMBAGS did was ILLEGAL and they should be PROSECUTED to the full extent of the law.

    #3 It isn’t flying anywhere because Barack Obama can not and does not have ANYTHING to do with the immigration status or personal actions of a 56 year old HALF-aunt who lives in Boston and whom he hasn’t seen in two years. THIS IS NOTHING AT ALL BUT A VERY SAD AND LAME ATTEMPT TO GENERATE A SCANDAL TO HURT OBAMA AT THE END OF AN ELECTION. IT ONLY SPEAKS TO HOW SAD, PATHETIC, AND DESPERATE THE RIGHT WING IN THIS COUNTRY IS. THESE SCROATBAGS ARE SCARED SHITLESS, AND THEY SHOULD BE BECAUSE THEY ARE ABOUT TO BE DROWNED IN A DEMOCRATIC TSUNAMI !!!

    I guess that we should just overlook the fact that Obama has seen his aunt at least once since she was ordered to leave the country and spoken on the phone with her at least once. You mean to tell me you don’t think she once mentioned her dilemma and asked for assistance from her US Senator nephew? I gotta call Koolaid blindness on this one.

  • “Obama take care of my family.”

    Remember in the 1992 campaign some dimwitted, pony-tailed goofball, in a “town hall” setting asked Governor Bill Clinton to be the country’s father…to thunderous applause. We thought that was pretty damn silly back then. From e-Claire, I picked up this story from the El Paso Times;

    A man who jumped 60 feet to his death from the Spaghetti Bowl on Thursday left a note with a message for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

    […]

    Police confirmed that the man left behind a note that read, “Obama take care of my family.”

    I don’t WTF often, but WTF? That dim-witted bimbo a few posts down thinks Obama is going to pay her mortgage and gas bills and this airhead thinks Obama is a insurance policy for bridge jumpers.

    The guy was a year younger than I am, and I know damn well that the government gives my survivor a one-time fat check for $268 to cover burial expenses (if your final wish was to be incinerated in your BBQ grill and the ashes stuffed in an empty milk carton)  Then the widow gets a couple of hundred bucks for each kid until they turn 18 – then it ends. What did he expect? What do any of these morons expect?

    Do they realize that money Obama promises them is coming from the sweat of other Americans’ collective brow? I read a survey one time a decade or so ago to which 30% of respondents said the government has it’s own money supply aside from tax revenues. It must be that immovable 30% that vote straight Democrat in every election.

    No amount of election rhetoric will change these cumbubbles who think they’re entitled to the wealth of this nation without applying themselves to any endeavor that brings us that wealth. This has to be changed at it’s core – the entire culture needs to be changed from the ground up.