Richard Nixon was a shifty-eyed crook, Ronald Reagan was a doddering old fool, George HW Bush was a wimp, George W Bush is an idiot. And now John McCain is a cheater. Last night I first read on Ace of Spades that Andrea Mitchell-Greenspan was accusing John McCain of cheating in the Saddleback non-debate. From Michelle Malkin;
Category: Media
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Our political salvation
Washington Post’s “On Faith” discussion drifted off into the spiritual realm of politics today asking if either Obama or McCain were really “The One” we’re looking for. David Waters says this election is about finding our messiah;
In this presidential election, as in every presidential election, we’re all looking for The One who can lead us to the promised land, The One who can heal the economy, deliver us from demonic forces of evil, save us from the dreadful mistakes of The Previous One.
I thought it was pretty juvenile to think that any politician could lead us into the Promised Land. As you read through the piece, Waters admits it, too. But looking at the moon-eyed Obama supporters, a rational person would ask “what’s wrong with these people? ” The Ron Paul crowd is no different – they think their prophet isn’t really a crooked self-serving politician, even though all of the rest are crooked and self-serving.
Then I ran across this article on Breitbart and it all came home for me
Police said the 42-year-old man dialed 911 twice last week so he could have his sub [sandwich] made correctly. The second call was to complain that officers weren’t arriving fast enough.
Subway workers told police Peterson became belligerent and yelled when they were fixing his order. They locked him out of the store after he left to call police.
When officers arrived, they tried to calm Peterson and explain the proper use of 911. Those efforts failed, and he was arrested on a charge of making false 911 calls.
That’s an Obama supporter; government has all of the solutions to every petty problem that pops up in our lives. Can’t pay your mortgage because you don’t understand variable rate mortgages? Vote for someone who promises to bail you out. Can’t find a broker who gives you good investment advice? Vote for someone who wants to regulate the industry. Remember in the 1992 election some pinhead in Virginia asked Bill Clinton to be our national father?
We don’t need father-figures, we need someone who does what the Constitution says he should do; defend the Constitution from our enemies and preserve our rights. I already have a savior and I know how to fix my own sandwiches.
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“You’re not covering this are you?”
I missed this other night; the Democrats tried to shut down debate over the Republicans proposal to drill domestically by shutting off the lights in the chamber, shutting down C-SPAN and by shooing off reporters. Luckily, some reporters stuck around;
Only about a half-dozen Republicans were on the floor when this began, but the crowd has grown to about 20 now, according to Patrick O’Connor.
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Marion Barry, minor diety
(This Ain’t Hell file photo)
How do you write a story about Marion Barry, convicted whore monger, crack head and tax evader without mentioning his past? Ask Marc Fisher of the Washington Post.
Even now, in the waning years of the Barry era, the man who once dubbed himself The Situationist is playing his pragmatic brand of politics with consummate craft. The same politician who railed against the evils of gentrification when Williams was replacing old housing projects with hundreds of new homes embraces those developments as the heart of “the new Ward 8.”
Barry is an evangelist for a plan to transform national parkland at Poplar Point into a high-end retail and residential community, a project not unlike those he used to deride during the Williams years as the vanguard of a yuppie takeover of working-class black neighborhoods.
Yes, he’s a tireless champion of the ever-poor in the Ward 8 neighborhood he now represents on the City Council of Washington, DC, but he also embodies the corruption and empty promises that have kept the poor in that state for the last three decades. Hardly a year passes that we don’t read another article about his difficulties with obeying the law.
In 2002, before he began his poltical comeback, he was arrested in a Virginia national park with a powdery substance. A few years later the IRS had him in court for tax evasion (to my knowledge, he hasn’t paid a penny in federal taxes since 1999). When the IRS tried to toss him in jail when he failed to make any effort to repay the tens of thousands of dollars he owes, a judge blocked his imprisonment.
When he was robbed by several teens last year, the inventory of the property stolen included jewelry worth $14,000. And he still hasn’t bothered to repay the taxes he owes because there’s no punishment for his behavior.
But for the Marc Fishers and Washington Posts of the world, he’s a saint among men;
Still, the poverty in Ward 8 is palpable. We stop at a red light, and a 60-ish woman sidles up to Barry’s window. “It’s the mayor,” she says. “I need $4.”
“Y’all breaking me over here,” Barry grumbles, with a smile.
He reaches into his pocket and counts out four singles, hands them through the window. “These people wearing me out,” he says.
From the corner a few yards away, a middle-age man calls out, “What’s up, Barry? Got some for me?”
Marion, you’re wearing me out.
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Typical Conservatives?
The Washington Post has a discussion forum named On Faith where they allow the God-less to bash Christians with impunity. Today’s “discussion” topic in the forum “Under God; A daily look at the news and what we do in the name of God” is entitled Whole Lot of Ugly and written by David Waters recounts the story of Jim David Atkisson who took a shotgun to a congregation in Tennessee this weekend.
No Conservative I associate with could condone Atkisson or even excuse just a little what he did. But then, all of the Conservatives I know are real Conservatives who hold people responsible for their own actions. Atkisson was ill and was trying to commit “suicide by police” until he was thwarted by brave parishioners.
But see, in his dementia, he blamed “Liberals” for his condition (his wife left him, he lost his job and the “liberals” reduced his food stamps). Atkisson needed an excuse other than himself for his condition and he took it out on a liberal congregation. But, in order to inflame his readership, Waters included this in his reportage;
Adkisson, who had served in the military, said “that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement he would then target those that had voted them in office,” the search warrant states. Among the items seized from Adkisson’s house were three books: “The O’Reilly Factor,” by television commentator Bill O’Reilly; “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder,” by radio personality Michael Savage; and “Let Freedom Ring,” by political pundit Sean Hannity.