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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Obama on O’Reilly

    I’m no O’Reilly fan, I haven’t watched the show since the 2000 election, but he did a great job last night, apparently. I picked up this video from Gatway Pundit;

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    Obama tries to defend his relationships with Wright, Daily Kos and Ayers but he turns it into a deflection of criticism instead of a defense. He tries to blame Fox News for rumors about him (but he can’t name one). He tries to tell O’Reilly that he has “friends on the far-right”, too (but he can’t name one).

    Gateway Pundit writes;

    Tonight was the beginning of the end.
    No, actually the Sarah Palin announcement was the beginning of the end for Obama.
    Tonight was just more proof.

    I agree.

  • The Palin investigation; stacking the deck

    Of course, the most viable charge against VP nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin seems to be what has been dubbed he “Troopergate”. Although Mata Harley at Flopping Aces has done a yeoman’s job of disputing the charges, the left is still clinging to the rumors like their last life raft. Mike’s America at Flopping Aces has also uncovered a photo of some of the so-called “investigators”;

    No bias there, huh? Read more at Flopping Aces.

    John Fund at the Wall Street Journal also reports that 30 Democrat operatives have been “airdropped” into Juneau and Wasilla to uncover other as-yet undiscovered scandals;

    It’s no surprise, then, that Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin’s hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29.

    The main area of interest to the Democratic SWAT team is Mrs. Palin’s dismissal in July of her public safety commissioner. Mrs. Palin says he was fired for cause. Her critics claim he was fired because he wouldn’t bend to pressure to get rid of a state trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a bitter divorce battle with Mrs. Palin’s sister.

    But this is change we’ve been hoping for, isn’t it? This isn’t politics as usual. No not much.

  • Biden tries his hand at miracles

    Found at The Weekly Standard Blog;

    “Stand up, Chuck” says Biden to the wheelchair bound Chuck Graham;

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    It just keeps getting better, doesn’t it? It’s a Dan Quayle moment, but who in the media will notice?

  • MTV Awards Obama commercial

    Yeah, I know, you probably didn’t know that the MTV Awards were last night either. But, boy we know it now. The first thing I saw about it was on Fox & Friends this morning where they showed a clip of Britney Spears’ stand ovation for being a coke-snorting skank and having makeup people who can cover it all up so well. So I was pretty sure that I didn’t miss much…just a bunch of self-important, dope-addled ne’er-do-wells patting each other on the back for taking instructions from other people well-enough to fool teenagers into buying whatever they are selling.

    Then, I dialed up Gateway Pundit;

    The British actor-comedian, Russell Brand, the host of the MTV Music Video Awards, started off the night calling those Americans racist who do not vote for Barack Obama. He followed that up by saying that President Bush was retarded.
    The MTV audience loved him.

    It didn’t bother them a bit that this foreigner just came to America to tell them how to vote and then called their current leader a retarded cowboy.

    Yeah, so I don’t who this cum bubble is so I checked on Wikipedia – an excellent source for useless crap. Of course Wikipedia verified what I already knew; the guy’s an unmitigated failure. Why else would he be hosting the MTV Awards? Apparently he’s famous for coming in third in a stand-up comic competition. Only in Europe.

    From Michelle Malkin a transcription of some of his comments;

    Now, as a representative of the global community and a visitor from abroad, I don’t want to come across a little bit biased, but could I please ask of you people of America, to PLEASE ELECT BARACK OBAMA. Please! On behalf of the world. (Camera pans to singers Chris Brown and Britney Spears applauding and cheering.) Some people, I think they’re called racists, say that America is not ready for a black president. But I know America to be a forward-thinking country, right. Because, otherwise, you know, would you have let that retarded cowboy fellow be president for eight years?

    We were very impressed. It was nice of you to let him have a go. Because in England, George Bush wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.

    Well, I think England is ready for a Pakistani King, see what you can do about speeding that along, Rus. After all, if you don’t have a Pakistani King, you’re all a bunch of racist, gap-toothed, drooling morons who have already banned scissors from its citizens to prevent another civil war. D’ya like that?

    Honestly, only those dope smoking cum bubbles at the MTV Awards could’ve tolerated another dope smoking cum bubble telling them how to vote “as a citizen of the world”. Dumbasses.

    Michelle Malkin also has some of the backlash from the MTV audience. You know you’ve screwed up when those fans of Pimp My Crib start complaining about the content of the programing. But this just furthers the theory that Obama is the American Idol candidate. Well, that and there’s an actual thread for discussing how much you love Obama at the American Idol forum.

  • Not playing the game

    In my usual pass through my blogroll, I ran across a couple of interesting posts from two of my favorite bloggers.

    D.C.Thornton found a video at Huffington Post that you should see. Apparently it wasn’t all a bunch of old white men at the Convention.

    Once More Into The Beach found this video while looking for something that Barack Obama accomplished as a community organizer in Chicago;

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    Imagine that…Obama spawned a Black Republican with all of his talk about Hope and Change. I’m sure these won’t be the last examples.

  • Code Pink on defense

    Apparently, Code Pink is suffering some popular backlash because of their antics recently. One of them wrote an especially loooonnnngggg post in their blog this morning (at 4:35 AM….jeez maybe their problem is a lack of beauty rest) entitled “To The Haters…” in which they disparage us for pointing out they’re ugly, shrieking harpies;

    You like to say that we’re “ugly” and we’re “scum.” You like to disparage our intelligence and patriotism. Sometimes you make threats: “If I see you agian I’ll stop you,” and “If I see you bitches I will do something horrible to you.” More than one of you suggested we should be “hanged.”

    Nice.

    (Just who are supposed to be the “ugly” ones here?)

    Take a good sober look over some of your recent posts… Most of them are about wounding, involving crude sexual references, misogyny, bigotry, and hate… there’s hardly an American sentiment in the bunch.

    Do you really want to sound like some hick counterpart to the Taliban, with your hatred of women, intolerance of views with which you disagree, and your threats of violence?

    Do ANY of you consider yourselves Christians, I wonder? How so… by what definition? (Ku Klux Kristians? That variety?)

    Sweet. Tell people to stop calling them names while calling their detractors names. Here’s a few reasons I call them ugly;
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    I have more pictures, but I think you get the idea. I call them ugly because…well…they’re ugly.

    They go on and explain why they’re “flamboyant”;

    Because we’re flamboyant and because we refuse to be silenced, we sometimes get results.

    And those results are? Fundraising? Inflated egos? The war is still going on…you’ve accomplished nothing except proven yourselves buffoons and tools of your communist masters.

    Oh, and their analysis of the “surge” shows how keenly they grasp the whole concept;

    You poor schmucks actually believe that the troop Surge is behind the drop in violence in 2008 Iraq!

    But here’s the straight dope, regarding the Surge: There’s no question that the ethno-sectarian cleansing and walling up of Baghdad helped somewhat (the very bloody first phase of the Surge), but the real key to the drop in violence, per most American military officers on the ground, was putting 100,000 members of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia (AQM) on the U.S. payroll — giving them each $300/month, arms, and U.S. training to chill out for a while…

    Notice she didn’t say that we pay the Iraqi Army or the Iraqi police, she says we pay the INSURGENTS, that we pay AL QAEDA. But they add the proviso;

    It’s no reflection on our brave troops, but rather a poor reflection on our dismal politicians….

    Yuh-huh. Those brave troops they refer to are the folks who are coming back and telling us how the surge has worked. Those brave troops are the folks who bear the brunt of your ill-reasoned criticism. I guess we should get some pleasure that they’ve admitted that there is indeed a drop in violence in Iraq…small pleasure.

    Well, if Code Pink is really nonpartisan, and they only want to stop the war with their “flamboyance” (a term I usually reserve for the gender-confused), why didn’t they interupt Barack Obama’s speech to the DNC? He’s admitted that he’ll continue the current administration’s policy in the war against terror. Why didn’t they interupt Joe Biden’s speech? He voted for the use of force in Iraq and had been advocating for dethroning Hussein for more than half-a-decade before the latest war in Iraq.

    Since we know that Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink. is a top bundler of contributions for Obama (on the same level as Hollywood moguls), we all know how non-partisan Code Pink really is, don’t we?

    The same goes for Code Pink’s beard, Adam Kokesh – our future Democrat Presidential candidate in the mold of John Kerry. I know the excuse of IVAW for not interrupting Obama’s speech will be that he accepted their list of demands…in reality, SOME GUY who said he was from the Obama campaign took thier letter, while no one in the McCain campaign was willing to pretend to take their list of demands. Yeah, big difference you wantwit dorks.

    Thanks for playing our game.

  • Obama on the economy

    The ranks of the unemployed swelled this last month according the Labor Department as reported by the Wall Street Journal;

    The session got off to a sour start following the Labor Department’s release of data showing that the unemployment rate soared 0.4 percentage point to 6.1% in August, the highest since September 2003. The unemployment rate was under 5% as recently as February.

    Of course the Obama campaign seized the moment as a fund raising opportunity and sent me this email;

    We learned just this morning that unemployment jumped to its highest rate in five years, and our economy lost 605,000 jobs this year alone — at a time when John McCain believes that the fundamentals of our economy are “strong.”

    The fundamentals are indeed strong. I didn’t get an email from the Obama campaign when it was announced earlier in the week that durable good orders went up last month – surprising economists. But unemployment is a problem. I’d like the Obama campaign to tell us where the Bush Administration or John McCain have made bad decisions in regards to the economy instead of just blaming them for some nebulous policy that drove us into this.

    Anyone remember Republicans mentioning that a minimum wage increase would cause unemployment last year? The only thing the Democrat-controlled Congress passed in their two-year session was a tax on employers. The minimum wage increase triggered many increases in union wages pegged to the minimum wage and that impacted more than a wage increase on unskilled workers.

    Congress also refuses to budge on accessing our natural resources like oil…the increase in oil prices impacts businesses (the people who hire other people). They have to pay the higher prices because they need the fuel to operate or the goods that the fuel brings them, so the only place they can save money is to cut labor costs.

    So why isn’t the Obama campaign at least giving us a break on domestic oil to improve the unemployment situation? Is this the kind of change we’re in for in an Obama Administration? Is there really no hope? That same email Obama sent me said;

    John McCain and the Republicans had all week to make their case — and they didn’t do it.

    The whole Republican convention went by without offering a single idea about how to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.

    What concrete policy does Obama have to correct unemployment – beyond taxing those of us who haven’t lost our jobs?

  • Send in the girls

    Apparently, until last Friday, Obama hadn’t worried much about the female vote. He figured that forcing Clinton to make her “Unity” speech would be enough to earn him the loyalty of women voters. Well, then John McCain named Sarah Palin as his running mate, and now the Obama campaign isn’t so sure about their position among women. Time to send out the women to defend him (Washington Times/AP link);

    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius all were scheduled to campaign for Obama in the coming weeks. Republicans say they hope Palin, who made her national debut with a feisty speech on Wednesday, could put some female voters in play.

    “We respect her. She’s a skilled politician, as she proved last night,” Obama strategist David Axelrod told reporters aboard the campaign plane Thursday. “She’s deft at going on the attack.”

    But it’s not clear exactly how Obama and his running mate Joe Biden should respond. They keenly remember how women rallied around one-time Democratic front runner Clinton when they perceived she was a victim of sexism. They don’t want to appear with a weak response, either, and certainly they also don’t want to send independent women flocking to the GOP.

    The solution, at least in the short term, will be have top-tier female supporters vouch for Obama to largely female audiences and keep the candidate himself away.

    Sebelius started on Thursday, linking Palin to the unpopular President Bush.

    Of course she did…the Democrats are more comfortable running against President Bush than they are running against someone actually being elected. After all, they’ve run against Bush in the last 4 elections…and they were successful only in the most recent. That strategy can’t backfire, can it?

    The Washington Post says that it may take more than a few battleaxes from the Democrats to bring Palin down;

    Palin’s turbulent introduction and a speech that electrified convention delegates on Wednesday produced an unexpected surge of energy and unity within the Republicans’ conservative base. If that holds up, it could narrow a sizable enthusiasm gap between the parties that has been seen as one of the Democrats’ most important advantages in the general election.

    One of my workmates, knowing my stance on politics, approached me yesterday morning and announced how energized he was after watching Ms. Palin Wednesday night. Another workmate, knowing my stance on politics announced he extreme dissatisfaction with the Palin choice and immediately began demeaning her as a woman in relation to her family. Now the first person was a borderline Republican who had moved to the DC area from Pittsburgh, the second was a lifetime resident of DC, a white elitist Liberal.

    This certainly isn’t a scientific poll, and I don’t mean to present it as such, but it illustrates what has  happened in this country since Friday, last. Republicans and Conservatives are coming back tot the party, and Liberals are mad about it…and for the first time they’re worried about Governor Palin’s effect on the race. They think that they deserve the reins of government after eight years and all of us bitter, God-clingers had better give it to them.

    So they send out the women that they should have named as VP picks to do their dirty work. Too little, too late. The Anchoress says Obama is “hiding” behind the women. John Hawkins at Right Wing News explains “Why Liberals Hate and Fear Successful Conservative Women“