Pat Buchanan has an interesting piece up at Human Events where he talks about how Bill and Hillary Clinton have been called racists by the very people who viewed him as the first “black president”. He discusses his view that Obama and his people have shouted racism at anything and everything and therefore have defined the parameters of what is allowed to be talked about. He notes that John Mccain has already said what is off the table for the general election and that by allowing the opponent to dictate the terms the results are usually defeat.
This is evident in Marietta Georgia where a pub owner is selling shirts with a picture of Curious George on them with the words Obama 08 underneath. This has certain groups of people up in arms decrying the racism involved in using a picture of a monkey to depict a black man. Protests are planned outside the establishment where groups opposed to the shirt will gather:
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Nation of Islam and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials were among the organizations expected at Tuesday’s rally.
“Mulligan’s is promoting and selling racially offensive T-shirts, and Marietta and Cobb County residents and taxpayers abhor and cannot condone, any longer, this type of divisive and incendiary behavior in our community,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of GALEO. AJC
The owner said that he is not racist and feels that Obama resembles Curious George. The groups are not buying it and they want to put an end to calling black people chimps. I want to know when it became bad to call a black guy a chimp but OK to call a white guy one. For the last seven plus years the left in this country has referred to George Bush as Chimpy, Chimpy McBush, and Chimpy Bush. His picture has been altered to make him look like a monkey and yet none of these people who protest today said a word. Bush’s face was placed on the body of a handicapped person in an ad for the Special Olympics, not a word.
First of all, I think the owner might be right. Obama does kind of look like Curious George. If he says he is not a racist and that this is the reason he picked the picture then I am OK with that. He should not let others decide the boundaries for him as the Obama backers will want to do. If these people cared about how people were treated they would have protested all the references to George Bush and a chimp. Here are a few, just for fun. Google Bush chimp and see what comes back.
From Hot Air, a short on Saturday Night Live Time Magazine search for chimp (it is in the comments)
And this site called The Smirking Chimp (look at the picture in the title)
There are 142,000 results in Google for the search phrase “chimpy bush” so it is safe to say that the phrase has been used quite a bit. Add the nice Hitler phrases to it and you have people equating our president with a maniacal killer who happens to be one of the most despised people of all time. And yet, people are upset about Obama being compared to a cartoon character (sounds like the Mohammad cartoon issue).
Like I stated, I take the guy at his word; however if it was meant to be offensive I don’t care. I don’t care about the protesters (which curiously includes the Nation of Islam, hmmmm) because they are not interested in fairness. They kept quiet while this was being done to Bush and now want to complain because it involves Obama. I would not be surprised if half of them referred to Bush as a chimp or as Hitler. They can all suck wind as far as I am concerned. The only thing I want to know now is how I can get one of those shirts.
The last item to offer is this: Maybe they are right to be upset that Curious George is being used to represent Obama. After all, Obama is not 100% black. He is half white. Perhaps it would have been OK if the picture was of a zebra or an Oreo cookie. I also don’t want to read about context and slavery and all the other crap that is used to justify behavior. If it is bad for one group it is bad for the other, period. Otherwise, what goes around, comes around.
Hats off to the owner, Mike Norman for exercising his right to free speech.
John McCain’s campaign is strongly considering presenting Barack Obama with a proposal for a completely new kind of presidential debates — a series of town hall meetings in which the two men would debate without a moderator.
“The town hall meeting is John’s best format,” writes Mark McKinnon, a former media strategist for President Bush who is now supporting the Arizona senator. “He’s a natural campaigner up close with the public. That would test Obama’s claims that he wants a clean fight on the issues.”
The idea for Lincoln-Douglas style debates isn’t new on the presidential level. The late Barry Goldwater once said that he and President John Kennedy discussed barnstorming across the country together and debating in joint appearances. But no candidate has ever taken the tremendous risks such a series of appearances would involve.
For all that Mr. Obama says he wants a “New Politics,” don’t place large bets on him accepting a McCain offer on free-wheeling debates. Over the weekend, Mr. Obama told reporters he would be open to appearing in “town hall” style events, but indicated such appearances would have to be negotiated. His campaign adviser David Axelrod said only that any invitation from the McCain camp would be considered “very seriously.”
Most analysts don’t expect Mr. Obama to take the plunge. Mr. McCain is an uneven debater, but the memory of Mr. Obama’s last debate in mid-April on ABC is still fresh on the minds of his advisers. Mr. Obama was generally viewed as turning in a peevish and tentative performance and since then has avoided other invitations.
Mr. Obama might view more favorably the traditional tightly-controlled debates such as the ones normally hosted in the fall by PBS anchor Jim Lehrer, who would be unlikely to bring up any of the divisive character issues that Mr. Obama had to confront in the mid-April ABC debate.
Last week I was reading some of the news stories about Jenna Bush’s wedding and I was appalled by some of the comments written in the response sections. While some people were nice and wished the couple well, many could not resist the opportunity to bring politics into the mix and insult Jenna and her husband to be, Henry Hager. The comments fell right in line with those of people who wish that Dick Cheney would die every time he is taken to the hospital. I just wonder why it is that people are so vile they have to resort to this kind of behavior when the issue has nothing to do with politics.
The wedding took place on Saturday and this morning there is a hate filled piece over at the Huffington Post. The article was written by Chris Kelly and it is vile. He likens Henry to an accomplice date rapist and then insinuates that he would need to get some people to hold his new wife down while on their honeymoon. It is pure insanity and it is filled with a hatred that is unhealthy. His attacks on them are just wrong. However, the biggest concern that Kelly has is that Henry will be working for Constellation Energy.
Kelly goes on the talk about how the company is the 33rd worst polluter in the US and how it has applied to build a nuclear power plant at Calvert Cliffs, only 50 miles from DC. I don’t want to shatter his paranoia but there is already a nuclear power plant at Calvert Cliffs and it has been there for decades.
Kelly’s argument is that Hager is cashing in, you know, getting in on the action. God knows that the dirty Republicans are the polluters in the world, they and their accomplices in big business. Thank God we have the Democrats to run rough shod over the polluters or we would all be dying from the acid rain. Yeah, that Henry is cashing in by getting a job. I mean, he will have to work to earn a salary. He will have to produce something at Constellation in order to keep his job. He will make profits for the company so that it can feed big bucks to the Republicans who help them pollute.
The only real problem with all this is that while Chris Kelly was having an orgasm discussing the evils of Constellation Energy and Henry cashing in on his Republican connections, he forgot to look at who the “evil” polluters were giving their money to. Barack Obama received $19,350 from the company and Hillary Clinton received $23,450. John McCain received $500. This money came from the company’s executives.
The other problem that Kelly has is that Bechtel will build the nuclear power plant and their supposed ties to the bin Laden family as well as their past performance is a worry for him. For a group of people who tell us that we cannot stereotype and single out Muslims the libs sure do their best to single out Muslims when it suits their purpose. Regardless, if the Democrats are so worried about Bechtel why do they willingly accept money from the company that hired them? If Kelly wants to direct his anger appropriately then his finger should be pointing to the left.
I am sure that Chris Kelly felt a need to discuss this but I am sure he could have done it without attacking the character of Henry Hager and he certainly could have done it without likening him to a rapist.
Perhaps, in the interest of fair play, Kelly can write a piece about how Chelsea Clinton cashed in on her name and parent’s connections to land a lucrative job at a hedge fund. Perhaps he can investigate how she is part of an industry responsible for the problems we face in the credit and housing markets.
Bet that will never happen. Kelly is too busy pleasuring himself with sandpaper mittens and smearing young couples who have done nothing wrong.
Best of luck to Jenna and Henry. I wish them a long healthy marriage and much success.
Mrs. Irena Sendlerowa helped save the lives of 2,500 Children During WWII
Poland’s Upper House of Parliament passed a unanimous resolution to honor a WWII hero who helped save the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during the Nazi Holocaust. Her name is Irena Sendlerowa and she banded together with a group of social worker colleagues in 1940 to secretly rescue Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of her; today’s Western press seems loathe to cover inconvenient stories of heroes who risked life and limb to save the Jews from the murderous hands of the Nazis. Compound that with the fact that this is a story that involves Catholic charity and you have all the elements necessary to relegate her accomplishments to a passing reference somewhere in the back of a newspaper, never again to inconvenience the Holocaust deniers or those who prefer to remember the war through the prism of Hollywood’s warped lens.
Mrs. Irena Sendlerowa had been actively giving the Jews aid, food and shelter since the war came to her doorstep in 1939. By the time the war ended almost all of Poland’s 3.5 million Jews had been wiped out and Sendlerowa had been captured, imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to death for her actions.
To leave the story there however would be a gross disservice to her memory. Like so many others who lived and died as citizens of history’s greatest generation, Irena Sendlerowa does not consider herself a hero.
In conclusion let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly.
The opposite is true - I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little.
The truth of the matter however outweighs her humble grace. Irena Sendlerowa is a tremendous hero. The kind of person whose actions should be taught in schools and printed in papers. Her message is important.
The Nazis set up the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940 as a means to isolate the Jewish population. During this time a wave of muggings and increasingly violent attacks were launched on Jews by Polish gangs; many times in front of innocent bystanders who did nothing.
The Jews were rounded up and cordoned off in the ghetto where their food was inhumanely rationed along with medical aid and other basic human rights. The prisoners of the ghetto were not even allowed to school their children and many died as a result of starvation and disease. But the ghetto was just a layover for the Jews who survived its brutality; their ultimate destination would be the Nazi death camps.
Amidst all of that was a young 30 year old Irena Sendlerowa. Her Catholic upbringing had taught her to help people of all faiths and nationality. That kindness translated into a movement to rescue children using various schemes to secretly sneak the children out of the ghetto, provide false identification as gentile Poles and find places for them to live as orphans of the war. Many children who spoke only Yiddish had to be taught Polish to complete the ruse.
Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said.
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Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev said: “Irena Sendler’s courageous activities rescuing Jews during the Holocaust serve as a beacon of light to the world, inspiring hope and restoring faith in the innate goodness of mankind.”
Using her position as a social worker, Sendler regularly entered the ghetto, smuggling around 2,500 children out in boxes, suitcases or hidden in trolleys.
The children were then placed with Polish families outside the ghetto, created by Nazi Germany in 1940 for the city’s half a million strong Jewish population, and given new identities.
But in 1943 Sendler, who led the children’ section of the Zegota organization which helped Jews during the war, was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo.
She only escaped execution when Zegota managed to bribe some Nazi officials, who left her unconscious but alive with broken legs and arms in the woods.
One of Mr. Bookworm’s colleagues asked for my opinion of the “10 Things” list MoveOn.org did attacking John McCain. I fired off an email in response that is not polished (and is a little disorganized), but I think it hits the main points. What do you think?
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.
As for voting against MLK day, so what? Personal federal holidays had always been about Presidents. This vote involved jettisoning a 150 year tradition to accord a signal honor to someone who was not an elected leader. That MLK was a man greatly to be respected did not make him a President, and there was no good reason to turn precedent on its ears. I wouldn’t have voted for it either, not out of a lack of respect for MLK, but because it was stupid political posturing. That it’s now become a political hot potato is something entirely different.
As for the “key civil rights laws,” that’s a bit disingenuous to say the least. The first law referenced is one to make it easier for employees to sue their employers – it’s a plaintiff’s attorneys rights law. As for affirmative action, I am deeply opposed to affirmative action. I believe that (a) it is un-American to have preferences and racial quotas and that (b) it is harmful to minorities who either end up in institutions that destroy them because they are not prepared for the place or, if they are prepared, their qualities go unrecognized because people assume – and why shouldn’t they? – that they achieved their position only through affirmative action, not merit.
The disproportionate number of minority children in prison might be better addressed, as Bill Cosby and even Barack Obama concede, by examining much of minority culture, which honors thugs, dishonors education, and sees it as selling out to try to achieve through the system.The government can only do so much, and it’s worth noting that, up until Johnson’s Great Society legislation, black crime rates were dropping and black incomes going up. (Keep in mind that this is separate from the horrors of Jim Crow. This is simply examining statistics about blacks. See John McWhorter’s Losing the Race : Self-Sabotage in Black America which, I believe, discusses these statistics.) [More...]
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Every time I get a small glimmer of hope that John McCain will grow a set I find that he defers to some inner sense that inexplicably turns the knife in the back of the Republican Party base. You know the group, the one that will stay home if McCain continues his ill advised tour of bone headed concessions to court a leftist constituency that will no doubt vote for the Dems come November.
Countless times we think of a John McCain presidency and we are reminded that despite the left’s warnings that he is Bush the 3rd, Republicans think of him quite differently, as liberal light; the maverick Republican the left loves to quote when he turns bad on the right.
So when it was announced that John McCain is slated to meet with pro-illegal immigrant apologists La Raza on July 14th, Republicans once again are reminded that John McCain is no better that the rest of the Republican “moderates” that sold out the party base in 2006 if not much earlier. In fact John McCain is part of that group that led to sweeping Republican defeats in 2006. I blame him just as much as I blame others who lost their way.
The good or bad of it however is that I am not alone. John McCain doesn’t have to worry about me. He has to worry about people like me. The people that won’t be sitting at the water cooler countering the enthralled giggles of messianic Barack Obama supporters. He has to worry about the people that won’t be contributing money to his underfunded campaign. And sadly, the people that won’t be getting behind him to help drive any fleeting momentum into something bigger.
I personally think this campaign is John McCain’s to lose and that is exactly what he is setting out to do. God help us. If that is the reality in 2008 he need only look in the mirror one last time. He can think to himself, “well you tried my friend, but not hard enough. At least you were a maverick one last time”
B. Hussein Obama did something that no one else has ever done. He has visited an impressive 57 states! He is the only person in the world who has ever visited 57 of the United States and considering the fact that there are only 50 of them, that is quite a feat.
I am sure that he meant to say 47 states and it sure appears that way given the context. However, he said it and it is out there for everyone to see. If John McCain had made an error like this the nutroots would be talking about how senile he is and that he is too dangerous to have near the nuclear buttons.
The Kos kids would be hammering him as a demented old fool and say that this shows he is too old to be president.
So can we ask if Obama’s mind is gone, if his brain function is not good, if he is mentally sound enough to be president?
Ever wonder why the newspaper you pick up is so devoid of substance when it comes to Barack Obama? Do you often find your self scratching your head in wonderment when the talking heads on MSNBC or CNN do one puff piece after another on the Junior Senator from Illinois; rarely explaining anything relevant about the substance behind the empty promises?
Now we know why. Catch this video of the juvenile girls in the press corp salivating over getting a clear view to Obama’s crotch to take a picture. (h/t Michelle Malkin, Hot Air).
Yeah, this group of “professional journalists” is going to tell me who I should vote for. Not!
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Last week I was reading some of the news stories about Jenna Bush’s wedding and I was appalled by some of the comments written in the response sections. While some people were nice and wished the couple well, many could not resist the opportunity to bring politics into the mix and insult Jenna and her husband to be, Henry Hager. The comments fell right in line with those of people who wish that Dick Cheney would die every time he is taken to the hospital. I just wonder why it is that people are so vile they have to resort to this kind of behavior when the issue has nothing to do with politics.
Poland’s Upper House of Parliament 
From today’s news
Every time I get a small glimmer of hope that John McCain will grow a set I find that he defers to some inner sense that inexplicably turns the knife in the back of the Republican Party base. You know the group, the one that will stay home if McCain continues his ill advised tour of bone headed concessions to court a leftist constituency that will no doubt vote for the Dems come November.