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Category: Liberals suck

  • To Obama; taxes aren’t charity

    In this video (I picked up at Gateway Pundit) Barack Obama tries to minimize the damage the McCain campaign is doing to him by labeling him a socialist. He attempts to make fun of their alarmist name calling, but instead he reveals something more essential about his philosophy.

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  • Nursing Homes emptying out to vote in Ohio

    Boo_Radley, my old buddy in Ohio, sends along some local news;

    The family, which didn’t want to be identified, said their father has dementia and wouldn’t even know who the candidates are, let alone for whom to vote, reported NewsChannel5’s Alicia Scicolone.

    The father is living in the Good Samaritan nursing home, suffering from severe dementia. The family said they feel he was taken advantage of in the election process.

    The nursing home held early voting last week, and the family said they had no idea it was happening until they walked in and saw the sticker their father was wearing.

    Family members talked to a nurse about it.

    “I said, ‘Nursing home patients are allowed to vote?’ She said, ‘Yeah.’ I say, ‘My father in law was allowed to vote?’ She says, ‘I guess so,’” one family member said.

    The family said that’s when they got nervous. They said they asked their father who he voted for and he said he didn’t know.

    Sweet!
    Boo also sends this from a local radio station;

    A Shaker OH woman called WTAM to state that she had just taken her 18yo daughter to vote for the first time since she’ll be visiting a college next week and witnessed a busload of cognitively disabled assisted living residents come in to vote. The people who brought them filled out their forms, as they were not even able to do this themselves. This happened in downtown Cleveland and she called the Cuyahauga (sp) BOE.

    I guess the Obama crew couldn’t wait for them to die and resurrect their vote.

    Michelle Malkin has more instances from across the country.

  • McCain speechwriter defects, supports Obama

    That would be headline splashed across every newswire in the country except that it happened in the other direction. I picked this up from Newbusters‘ PJ Gladnick by way of Bits Blog;

    Wendy Button, who became disillusioned with The One and switched to supporting McCain. Here are the highlights of Wendy Button’s explanation of why she made the switch:

    Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional.”

    Young lady, only when the switch is made from Republican to Democrat will it be mentioned in the MSM.

    See any major US news outlets reporting it?

    Ya know, with the race tightening to within the margin of error and now this defection, you have to wonder what’s happening inside the Obama campaign. No Democrat would get a sudden attack of conscience less than a week from the victory the media has promised Obama unless there’s something up.

    Well, maybe the fact that this “spread the wealth around” yammering rings a little hollow when Obama fails to fund the school named for him in Kenya that he promised to support, his half brother lives in squalor in Kenya and now the Times Online finds an Obama aunt living in the slums in Boston.

    If I was big on that whole “social justice” thing, I’d start questioning Obama’s committment to the cause based on his hypocritical behavior that doesn’t seem to follow his talk.

  • Post’s self-enforced ignorance

    Back in early September, just after Sarah Palin was chosen as McCain’s running mate, I wrote about the Washington Post making a big deal over Palin’s charges to the State for per diem expenses. The front page headline appeared of the fold and insinuted that the Governor had done something but further down the page they admitted that she’d done nothing wrong or illegal, buried in the story. In fact, the story was a popcorn fart. Later that week, the Post’s ombudman, answering tons of complaints wrote that the Post had done nothing wrong. Big surprise.

    Well, in today’s Post, they have a story about something really nefarious, but since it’s about the Obama campaign, they put on page 2. The link on the front page is almost invisible. See if you can find some nefarious dealings in this screen shot;

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  • The battle over Murtha’s seat

    I mentioned earlier today that Uncle Jimbo is leading a contingent of Blackfivers and VFFers into Pennsylvania to knock on doors for William Russell in Murth’a District this weekend. Well the National Republican Committee is making an $84,000 ad buy in that district, too;

    The National Republican Congressional Committee will spend $84,000 on an ad that quotes Murtha’s recent remarks calling his district racist – as well as past statements about U.S. military personnel killing innocent civilians in Iraq – and ends with the word, “Enough.”

    The GOP spot, which is to begin airing later this week, is on behalf of Murtha’s Republican opponent William Russell, a retired Army lieutenant colonel.

    Here’s that video;

    Well, Jeff Emanuel writes this evening that my congressman Chris VanHollen’s DCCC is also making an $84,000 ad buy to save Murtha;

    The ad isn’t up on the DCCC’s YouTube channel yet, but here’s the text, courtesy of Roll Call:

    What do we really know about William Russell?

    William Russell supports George Bush’s failed economic policies. He supports George Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security, cutting guaranteed benefits. He supports raising the Social Security retirement age, too. And William Russell supports more tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas.

    Congressman Jack Murtha served his country in Vietnam, and now he’s fighting for our jobs.

    Nice try, Nancy, Chris, and Rahm. The trouble is, Col. Russell served his country even more recently — and he isn’t calling the people he wants to represent “racist” or “redneck.” I think he wins this exchange.

    And, oh, yeah, there are real veterans riding to the sound of the guns. I guess VanHollen and Pelosi couldn’t find any real veterans to knock on doors for Murtha. There’s something to be said about not burning one’s bridges.

    At least one PA newspaper is warning of Murtha’s upset, while others remind Pennsylvanians to not bite the hand that feeds them;

    Murtha’s comments about Western Pennsylvania being racist and redneck has not set well with a lot of people. However, others said the money he’s brought in to places like Johnstown can’t be ignored.

    Johnstown sees a lot of money from defense contracts and businesses coming to the area. Murtha is responsible for helping companies such as CTC, KDH, JWF and Kuchera Defense Systems.

    Ya know what I think? I think Murtha is sweating bullets right about now. If he loses next week, he won’t have the anti-war crowd running a screen play for him anymore and there are some Federal prosecutors just itching to get him out from under that protection. It isn’t about politics any more it’s about saving his sweaty ass from a jail cell.
    Crossposted at Talon.

  • VFW’s odd scorecard

    First off; I’m a life member of the VFW and I have been since I retired, but this has me a bit confused.

    I’ve been asked a few times to write a bit about the VFW’s 2008 scorecard for voters interested in veterans’ issues. I’ve found it to be a bit odd. Of course, I’m not the only one. Pete Hegseth writes “Someone tell the VFW PAC what VFW stands for” when he discovers that the VFW PAC endorsed John Murtha, a phony veteran who supports only himself, his cronies and his family, over William Russell, a real veteran who supports veterans.

    Now, based on Murtha’s vote on the new GI Bill, that might provide cover for VFW PAC’s choice, since Russell couldn’t vote on that particular issue because he’s not in Congress. However, they support Kiernan Lalor, an Iraq veteran over incumbent John Hall in New York. Hall is a Democrat like Murtha and the chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee on disability assistance who voted like Murtha did on the GI Bill. It seems to be a similar race, with similar votes, but the VFW PAC made the opposite choice in that race – which is fine with me since Lalor is an actual veteran and a Republican, but it makes me wonder why the VFW PAC made either choice which seem to conflict.

    Our newest friend, Carole Shea-Porter from New Hampshire also got the VFW PAC’s endorsement over Jeb Bradley even though Shea-Porter, as Hegseth points out with Murtha, in direct violation of the VFW’s own Resolution 406, voted against funding the war in Iraq. Here’s the text of that VFW resolution;

    In April of this year, the Union Leader, Shea-Porter’s hometown newspaper, reported that Shea-Porter didn’t even wait for General Petraeus to finish his report before she was yapping about withdrawal from Iraq;

    Reps. Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter should have listened to Gen. David Petraeus when he testified before four congressional committees last week, including the House Armed Services Committee, on which Shea-Porter sits. Alas, they did not.

    […]

    Shea-Porter did not even bother issuing a press release. She did tell the Portsmouth Herald, “It sounded like the same tape running again. They try hard, but there’s nothing to report.”

    In light of the revelation that Shea-Porter refused to help a Gold Star mother who reached out to her, as we discovered this weekend, how can VFW PAC support her?

    I’ve got calls into the VFW PAC, but no answers yet. Apparently the scorecard only appears in the VFW Magazine (I can’t find my copy at the moment in my stack of stuff) but my mole in the VFF writes;

    Also, Vets for Freedom PAC is going to be mobilizing in Murtha’s PA-12 and Murphy’s PA-8 this coming weekend, even going door-to-door, to support Bill Russell and Tom Manion.  (And like I said, VFF PAC is already running radio ads for Manion.)

    Although it has nothing to do with VFW PAC’s quixotic decision, if you’ve got some time this weekend, go help the VFF out in Pennsylvania. I understand that Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive is leading a black-ops team into the heart of the Murtha insurgency. Apparently, as always with Jimbo, there will be alcohol involved afterwards.

    I’ll update this as I get more information.

  • So, where’s the outrage?

    How many years has it been that we’ve been hearing that George W Bush is personally listening to every phone call we make? The Left is worried that all of their stupid conversations are being taped and stored for Republicans’ listening pleasure. But then an actual real case of privacy violations occur, but because it’s Joe the Plumber, there’s a big yawn across Ohio. I picked this up at the Columbus Dispatch by way of Ace of Spades;

    Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK’d the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate.

    She said there were no political reasons for the check on the sudden presidential campaign fixture though the Support Enforcement Tracking System.

    […]

    “Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look” at them, Jones-Kelley said, citing a case where a lottery winner was found to owe past-due child support. “Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way.”

    […]

    Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland is satisfied that there are no political overtures to the check on Wurzelbacher, a spokesman said.

    “Based on what we know to this point, we don’t have any reason to believe the information was improperly accessed or disclosed by a state employee,” said Keith Dailey, Strickland’s press secretary.

    Yeah, the governor is satisfied. He’s satisfied that anyone else in Ohio seeking to ask questions of Barack Obama will think twice before popping their heads up in the state government’s crosshairs. Ace also confirms that Jones-Kelley just happens to be a donor of the maximum $2300 to the Obama campaign.

    I guess you folks in Ohio are feeling safer now that you know that the Ohio government is watching your neighbor so closely…oh, and you. I suspect those man-on-the-street interviews will drop off shortly.

  • Obama on Constitutionality of Redistribution of Wealth

    From Drudge; Obama says that we still suffer from the the Supreme Court’s inability to bring about redistributive change (at about 1:40).

    Michelle Malkin transcribes;

    A caller asks The One to explain how he would do “reparative economic work.” Obama gives the legislative route two thumbs up as his preferred method of “breaking free of the constraints” placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution and then burbles about cobbling together the “actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”

    Gateway Pundit writes;

    Hmm. It sounds like those meetings with Marxist Bill Ayers and those sermons by Black Liberation Theologian Jeremiah Wright rubbed off on The One.

    I guess he figures he can fix it. It’s never ceased to amaze me that the Left is enamored with the “idea” of the Constitution. They recognize that it’s the closest thing to perfection in the history of a flawed people, but their main goal has always been to change it and the way the way the Constitution gets in the way of their vote buying. The only thing the Constitution is good for is a skirt to hide behind while they plot their nefarious deeds to undo it.

    Do you still think he’s not a Socialist?

    h/t DefendUSA.