UPDATE: And yet another blatant Obama lie — although this one may be because Obama, who claims an audience didn’t applaud, is so used to screaming and swooning that he’s incapable of even acknowledging polite applause. (H/t: Danny Lemieux.)
The hysterical response of Barack Obama and his always amusing band of slobbering media flacks over President Bush’s speech to the Knesset yesterday was not surprising. I’ll take that back. OF COURSE, they were apoplectic when the president spoke of “the false comfort of appeasement.” The blatant use of the “a” word to accurately characterize what they like to call “remaking America’s image in the world” sends them into orbit.
It is yet another example of the undeniable truth: if you want to enrage a liberal, don’t lie about them. They spend enough time lying about themselves for it to have any impact. No, if you want to enrage a liberal, tell the truth about them.
Predictable or not, I found it hilarious to watch democrat apparatchiks, along with the democrats who haven’t run for office (that would be Obama’s MSM cult) express their anger over the president’s “deeply offensive comparison” (Hillary), which was “outrageous,” “ridiculous” “bull***t and “malarkey” (Joe Biden) which was a “probable swipe at Barack Obama” (that news hag on MS-NBC whose dad was Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy guru, which should disqualify anyone in the family from being taken seriously about anything if you ask me).
The real side-splitting stuff came when a couple of these pinheads suggested that this statement by the president was a gift to the Obama campaign because it “elevated” him to the level of having a foreign policy debate with President Bush, which they characterized as roughly equivalent to being invited to challenge Michael Moore to a situp contest. Victory is assured. This “Bush the idiot stepped in it again!” was the most humorous part. That and listening to MS-NBC’s David Schuster pronounce Neville Chamberlain “ne-VILL’ Chamberlain.”
Mr. Not Ready for Prime Time himself expressed his sadness over the “false political attack” launched against him by the president. Don’t you love it when people try to cop that whole “I’m far too dignified and hyper-intelligent to ever allow a mentally-challenged ignoramus to upset me. I just feel sad and sorry for the poor chump” routine?
I watched the speech a few times, and maybe I missed something, but I didn’t hear the president mention Wonderboy. Of course, I can understand why he and anyone else might get that impression given that BHO has consistently expressed his desire to play patty-cake with every America-hating dictator he can find. Sen. Obama (D-Hamas) loves the image of the International Man of Peace, who will follow in the footsteps of his democrat predecessor, the King of the Useful Idiots, Jimmy Carter, figuratively and literally, if he becomes president, surrendering to our enemies in the hope that they will love us, going hat in hand to visit our enemies, who will no doubt struggle to stifle their laughter while listening to him try to reason with them. There is the possibility that the pompous gasbag could bore them to death, but I don’t think we should hold out hope for that.
The president’s statement was simply a mirror that forced the democrats to face the hideous reality that is their collective white-flag waving puss. I’m not surprised that they recognized themselves.
“Can I just eat my waffle?” - Barack Obama’s thought-provoking analysis of Jimmy “I Never Met An Enemy of the US I Didn’t Love” Carter’s meeting Hamas representatives.
Who is this clown (Obama to be specific) and where did he come from? For years we’ve had to endure the Left seizing on every misstatement made by President Bush as evidence of how stupid he is. At this rate, Obama should pass him up before the 2009 Inauguration.
One would think that after eight horrific years of dealing with a dumb, chimp-ish looking President who struggles to make sense, Hillary Clinton would be riding into the nomination. Let’s face it: the more Obama talks, the more puzzling he becomes.
The above quote is for real. It was Obama’s response to a reporter at a campaign event, a get-out-and-mingle-with-the-voters breakfast. The reporter asked Obama for his thoughts on Carter’s (latest) embarrassing display of auto-fellatio. It’s easy to understand why Obama didn’t want to touch the question but it’s rather amazing that even the Obama-fawning media passed up an opportunity to make this pathetic response a media sensation.
This breakfast was a stop on Obama’s whirlwind “57 state” campaign tour, a campaign that also exposed his belief in a statute of limitations on condemning an unrepentant terrorist from “40 years ago”, unimportant because Obama was only “eight” when William Ayers set off bombs in Washington DC. Put aside that Obama was 40 years old when Ayers said that the Weather Underground didn’t terrorize enough back when Obama was eight. Since Obama was only 33 when the Murrah building was bombed, perhaps that would qualify Terry Nichols as a campaign asset. Or perhaps it’s just failed terrorists who he is attracted to.
Jeremiah Wright set Obama on a roller-coaster of stupidity. In a matter of about six weeks, Obama went from denying that Wright’s statements were necessarily controversial, to denying that he actually heard Wright express these views, to stating that he didn’t agree with them, to denouncing the statements but unable to turn his back on Wright to…turning his back on Wright, based on the conclusion, not that Wright hurt America or race relations or black Americans, but rather based on Wright hurting the Obama campaign.
Obama couldn’t reconcile his desire to double the capital gains tax with the practically admitted reality of what it will do to investment and revenues nor has he reconciled his agenda of leaving Iraq while considering an invasion of Pakistan in efforts to get Osama bin Laden.
Couple all of this with the incessant whining by Obama every time he is in a situation that he can’t slick his way out of, the old ‘why is everybody always picking on me?’ response. Just what we want in a president, especially a commander-in-chief at a time of war. Sorry Barry, condemning and denouncing William Ayers should amount to the easiest thing a presidential candidate might have to do. If we can’t even expect that out of him, what could we possibly expect from him when he is president?
This is supposed to be a new breed of politician? Maybe when we knew little about him. Looking at his judgment on these supposedly little things makes me wonder how his judgment will be better on the big things, when he has the power of the office to back him up. We had better hope when that troubling call comes in at 3:00 in the morning, President Obama hasn’t just been served up with a fresh plate of waffles.
* Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years.
* Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada.
* Unrepentant Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
* Reverend Jeremiah Wright. What more needs to be said?
* Anti-Israel foreign policy adviser Samantha Power — fired after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster.”
* Anti-Israel foreign policy adviser Robert Malley — fired when it was revealed he has been holding talks with Hamas.
* Hatem El-Hady, former official of the Hamas-linked charity Kindhearts, closed by the Justice Department. El-Hady’s web page suddenly vanished from the Obama campaign site with no explanation, after being exposed by LGF and others.
* Tony Rezko — a Chicago fixer currently in a whole lot of legal trouble.
He ends by saying: “There are more, I know; this is just off the top of my head.”
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to add to that list.
It is no surprise that I am a conservative saying this. It’s sad actually.
The first and primary reason that the Republican has lost my vote is because I am a conservative. John McCain is front and center on this assault against conservative values. Exhibit A is this week’s article in Newsweek with the headline McCain: The New ‘Captain Climate’?.
Liberals are salivating over McCain’s stance on global warming and with good reason.
John McCain’s global warming journey started back in 2000, when a strange apparition named “Captain Climate” began to turn up at Presidential campaign events. Captain Climate was Dartmouth grad Matthew Stembridge, who wore red tights over orange long johns, a red knit stocking cap, yellow-painted galoshes, and a red cape. “What’s your position on climate?” Stembridge would yell at event after event.
McCain was intrigued. The Arizona senator called up Captain Climate for a chat. After he lost his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination to George W. Bush, McCain probed further. He held hearings. He talked to scientists. And in a stark break with the Bush Administration, which quickly joined the ranks of climate-change deniers, McCain began to call for action. With his friend and fellow Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), he even drafted the pioneering McCain-Lieberman climate bill, which would have put caps on the emissions of global-warming-causing greenhouse gases in the U.S.
Now the likely Republican nominee for President, McCain is using his bona fide climate credentials to help set himself up as a viable choice for independents—and Republicans—who want a change from the Bush years. In a May 12 speech at a wind power plant in Portland, Ore., McCain called climate “surely the most serious of all…environmental dangers.… The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington.”
First of all, as a parent of school aged children I have to fight the substandard educators on this topic on a daily basis. The last thing I need is some vote pandering ass from the Republican party making this job worse.
John Carey, the the dumbshit Newsweek journalist that penned the Captain Climate article is a prime example of this sort of idiocy. Conservatives don’t deny climate change; they recognize that the climate changes on a daily basis. They also recognize that the industrialist history of man is very short in the grand scheme of things and that politically expedient propaganda does not correlate to good science. Anyone that has an IQ above 20 could recognize the fact that the facts don’t sustain the left’s theory. Scientists that once fretted over global warming are now back tracking on that stance due to new computer models that show quite the opposite.
Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a “lull” for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. - British Telegraph
But that is neither here nor there. John McCain is problem number 1. He expects me to vote for him with his Captain Climate credentials? I think not. I have a message for the next wannabe traitor in chief. Eat me; I’m sick of your crap.
Of course John McCain is only the cherry topping on the current Republican leadership. When it comes to inept these guys have the market cornered. Losing Hastert’s seat in Illinois was just a small indicator that trouble was still amiss after the piss poor performance in 2006. Hastert himself had brought much of the party’s fate down on his old Illinois seat. On key issues with earmarks and the Jefferson Davis search issue Hastert decided to act like a politician instead of an advocate for the people. He took the easy way out and resigned.
When it came time to fill the seat vacated by Hastert the morons in the Republican party put a many times over loser in the shoot with Jim Oberweis. They then underfunded the campaign and eventually got beat by an unheard of liberal who beat Oberweis on a mix of liberalism, anti-illegal immigration and anti-China sentiment. That’s right, you heard it here. The dirty little secret in the Oberweis debacle is that Bill Foster beat him with commercials that highlighted Oberweis’s foreign investment in China and the red herring issue of having been caught with illegal immigrants working for him on one if his farms. Yup, he ran as a liberal, used a mix of conservative issues against the Republican nominee and he doesn’t even have a record of accomplishment. But look at the stances he ran on.
For American families, the health care crisis is fundamentally an affordability crisis. If they are not covered by their employer or a government program, they face tremendous health insurance costs. If families are covered by their employers, they face ever-mounting co-payments and benefit reductions. And for American business, the cost or providing coverage to their employees is putting tremendous pressure on their ability to compete with foreign competitors. - Bill Foster on Health Care
Uncontrolled Immigration: Immigration was the fuel that built this nation, but we must remain a nation of laws. It is unfair to ask businesses that are playing by the rules to compete against companies that employ workers who are here illegally. Fence or no fence, immigrants will continue to flood our borders as long as there are jobs being illegally offered to them. - Bill Foster on Immigration
You hearing this? The left and their mainstream media cohorts have been quick to frame the Hastert loss quite differently than what it really is and the Republican party has been silent.
I’ll be damned if I am going to vote for a party that won’t fight for me. That is how disgustingly stupid and ineffective the Republican national party is. They don’t deserve my money, support or vote. (and I’m just getting started, check back soon for the rest)
If I had to pick one article to recommend for today’s reading, it would have to be Dennis Prager’s explanation about why voting Democrat would truly put the country on the wrong track. I would go slightly further and say that we have to guard against the same outcome — a Democratic victory — as a result of voting against McCain, whether by abstaining or casting a protest vote (for Barr, perhaps). McCain isn’t perfect by a long shot, but he is so much better than Obama that the two truly cannot be compared. And on the subject of “teaching people (including Presidential candidates) a lesson” I have a little story.
One of my father’s most Germanic traits was that he put people in their place. If a sales clerk offended his sense of how sales clerks were to operate, he’d give her a public and humiliating lecture telling her what he thought she ought to know. Same with teachers, and waiters, and anyone who deviated from his proper German standards about behavior.
Dad had the same attitude on the road. If someone’s driving offended him, my Dad would take steps to let that driver know. His favorite technique was one for dealing with tailgaters. If he realized that someone was on his tail, he’d slow down to “teach them a lesson,” despite my Mom’s increasingly panicked pleas that he just get out of the way of the crazy driver.
Of course the inevitable happened: My Dad, in the midst of “teaching that tailgater a lesson,” got rear-ended by said tailgater. The insurance company paid, so it wasn’t a total loss, but it was my Dad who had the whiplash and lost his beloved car. I learned then that my Dad’s “lesson” approach had no effect on the tailgaters who managed to get stuck behind him, but it certainly hit my Dad back — and hard.
This is not the time to “teach McCain or Republicans a lesson.” This is the time to quit moaning and groaning, to recognize that a democratically operated primary process yielded a candidate most agreeable to the broad spectrum of Republicans, and to make sure that Barack Obama does not take the White House.
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.
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!
