Obama may have outdone himself with his king-sized flip-flop on Iraq. Even the one of the libs at the New York Times is wondering what Obama is doing:
Only an idiot would think or hope that a politician going through the crucible of a presidential campaign could hold fast to every position, steer clear of the stumbling blocks of nuance and never make a mistake. But Barack Obama went out of his way to create the impression that he was a new kind of political leader — more honest, less cynical and less relentlessly calculating than most.
You would be able to listen to him without worrying about what the meaning of “is” is. Read the rest of this entry »
Give some credit to environmentalists: they don’t just tell us that we are killing the Earth they do frequently have “environmentally sound” boatloads of solutions which we can employ to “save the Earth”. Of course, many of those solutions come down to reversing the industrial revolution and all of us going back to living in caves, but they do have some other ideas, too. Take biofuels. Touted as being far more environmentally friendly than gasoline biofuels have been mandated to be incorporated into the fuel mix of many Western nations including those in the EU, Canada and US. But now comes this story from the EU and all of a sudden we have the makings of another enviro-boondoggle:
BRUSSELS:Signaling a major retrenchment, European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious target to raise Europe’s use of biofuels.
At the same time, a new report for the British government cast fresh doubt on using fuels from crops in the fight against climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a part of the definition of patriotism that Barack Obama seems to have forgotten in his speech the other day: Patriotism is celebrating the defeat of those who have killed and want to continue killing Americans and who want to destroy the American nation. But Barack shouldn’t really feel that bad; apparently most of the msm and the Democratic party as an entity have also forgotten.
Next Sunday’s New York Times Magazine has a cover story on the Big Man of radio, the Left’s bête noire and conservatism’s leading man, Rush Limbaugh. The piece is surprisingly even-handed, even nice and consists in large part of a long interview with Rush done in February of this year. The major piece of news to emerge from it is the revelation of Rush’s new contract that will keep him on the air until 2016 for an unprecedented and breathtaking amount that is estimated to be near $400 million dollars…not counting the 9 figure signing bonus. Figured annually it is an amount larger than the per annum pay of Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer combined.
The Left, never a group to disappoint is livid, rallying a kind hysteria usually reserved for GWB.
On the Huffington Post, “researcher”, showing the kind patriotism Barack Obama tells us the Left is all about says, Read the rest of this entry »
He’s tanned, rested and ready to be President and is too damn tough to sit around and be a target for the vicious and infamous Republican smear machine. Barack Obama is fighting back against the great Right-Wing Conspiracy. Because he’s at the cutting edge of, well everything, he already has a website up (called fighthesmears.com What did you think it would be called?) and is fightin’ back for Truth, Justice and the Leftist way!
Listen to Barack Obama lately and you might get the impression that the little scenario above bears some relation to reality, that the Republicans, as in every election are getting ready to dump truckloads of sludge over our shiny new hero. The only problem with this scenario is, in truth if Obama is looking to find a smear merchant his best bet would be to look in the mirror, rather than under his bed for Republicans bearing mud. Read the rest of this entry »
Got to hand it to him. It must have been tough to do. In a 29 minute speech on patriotism in which he invoked Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Adams, Truman, King, the Pledge of Allegiance, World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq, he does not mention America’s greatest attribute and the single-most powerful beacon to the world: American Freedom.
He reminds us that his patriotism has been called into question, but claims that such criticism is actually a badge of honor because some of America’s greatest heroes have had their patriotism challenged.
My concerns here aren’t simply personal, however. After all, throughout our history, men and women of far greater stature and significance than me have had their patriotism questioned in the midst of momentous debates. Thomas Jefferson was accused by the Federalists of selling out to the French. The anti-Federalists were just as convinced that John Adams was in cahoots with the British and intent on restoring monarchal rule.
Unlike one of those wretched Republicans (boo! hiss!) Barack Obama, fine liberal gentleman that he is, is of course unafraid of strong women, honors them and is outraged at any and all injustices against them. Except when he pays them less than men. Which he does. By a lot.Just last week, Obama took a whack at John McCain’s supposed lack of commitment to pay equity for women: Read the rest of this entry »
Following the Obama, Clinton unity party in Unity, New Hampshire the Democratic Party is still divided. Barack and Hillary said all the right things,
“We have stood toe to toe in the hard-fought primary,” Clinton said. Now, she told the crowd, they are “shoulder to shoulder” and “our paths have merged.”
When Clinton said, “I am proud that we had a spirited dialogue,” the crowd started to chuckle. She paused and added, for an even bigger laugh, “That was the nicest way I could think of phrasing it.”
It seems that Hillary’s hard-core supporters are not buying it. One day after the Obama and Clinton had their little unity party a group of pro-Hillary vandals tagged 60 vehicles in Orlando, Florida with anti-Obama and anti-McCain messages.
This is just more evidence that Obama is having a hard time winning over another key demographic that supported Hillary; criminals. Criminals have long been a key voting block for the Democratic Party, they have fought to restore voting rights to felons and objected in 2000 when Florida removed convicts from the voting rolls. Salon.com argued that Al Gore would be President today if these felons where allowed to vote.
The question we all need to ask is, can McCain appeal to the criminal vote that was once the exclusive domain of the Clintons? Or will they eventually grit their teeth and vote for Barack?
Let’s face it, McCain giving a speech with a teleprompter is not a pretty site. It is hard to believe a guy that has been in politics this long hasn’t mastered it yet, but it is what it is. Obama, of course, is the master speechifier.
But McCain is the master at town hall events. He takes all questions, from anyone, and answers them all. Sometimes he fights and argues with the person, sometimes they agree, but that is his format.
Yesterday Republicans proposed the Gas Price Reduction Act, a comprehensive plan to increase oil supply and encourage the growth of alternative energy sources. This plan is a compromise because they did not push to drill in ANWR. It does include offshore drilling and oil shales.
This is the right approach, increase the supply of oil now while pursuing alternative forms of energy. Unfortunately Barack Obama and his friends on the left only want to punish oil companies. They say we must have alternative energy and that drilling for oil will not reduce the price of gas now. What they don’t tell you is that alternative energy is not going to reduce the price of gas for decades maybe longer.
Even some republicans are buying into the global warming hoax and suggesting that we need to stop using oil soon than is economically necessary. The Governator had this to say: Read the rest of this entry »
It isn’t exactly giving away a state secret to say that Keith Olbermann is a creepy, ambition-crazed, ego maniacal hypocrite whose shtick used to garner himself fame and fortune - assuming the role of a Moonbat Howard Beale - is as pathetic as the stories his ex-girlfriends tell about his amorous “abilities”. Rare is the conservative blog that at one time or another that doesn’t find itself drawn to some Olbermann outrage and then picking him apart, piece by gooey piece.
Despite some degree of apparent squeamishness about him, to the inhabitants of the political nether lands who inhabit such places as the Democratic Underground, the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post, of course he is the answer to Rush, O’Reilly, Hannity and Coulter all contained in one bug-eyed package. But it looks like Olbermann’s inability to stick to anything even remotely resembling a principle has finally run afoul of some on the Left. In a Salon column that ran yesterday, author, litagator and columnist Glenn Greenwald took on Olbermann from the Left and the end result wasn’t pretty.
What got Greenwald’s hackles up was Olbermann’s mendacity on the issue of Barack Obama’s position on the FISA and telcom amnesty bill. Greenwald pegs how Olbermann’s well cultivated outrage on FISA seems to be built on shifting sands when Obama essentially takes the same position on the issue that Bush does.
In a torrent of arrogance, Barack Obama simply cannot pimp out enough of our national symbols for his own self-aggrandizement. We already saw the cheeseball powder blue Great Seal, since shelved after being duly mocked, at least by those of us on the right.
Now we have Obama’s use of the Declaration of Independence to highlight his own hypocrisy on the issue of federal campaign funds. From his website earlier today (we figured we’d get the screenshot before it too goes down the memory-hole).
Yup, funding Barack Obama’s campaign by the 4th of July is clearly a signal event in American History.
Can’t wait for the fundraising photo of Abe Lincoln, sitting in his Memorial with an Obama t-shirt on saying “Emancipation for America - Vote Obama.”
Obama’s big argument against drilling is that it will take 10 years to see any oil. Go to about 1:40 and he flat out says it.
As if anything that would take that long is automatically out of the question, because . . . I guess, . . . we are too . . . impatient? By that rationale, nobody should bother to go to high school or college if you want a decent job. That’ll take at least 8 years and will cost a hell of a lot of money. Read the rest of this entry »
The U.N.’s chief nuclear watchdog, Mohamed El Baradei (not exactly a guy in the tank for Bush), in an interview with Al-Arabiya TV, said, quite explicitly, that Iran will be able to produce a nuclear weapon in six months to a year. Via lgf. Read the rest of this entry »
When the Democrats lose presidential elections they usually blame their candidate for not getting the message out. They also blame bovine voters too stupid to appreciate all that liberals have to offer. They certainly blame the eeevil Republican Machine for distorting the truth about Democrat policies. But they never admit they lost because their policies are too liberal.
Here is a sampling of the liberal post-mortem commentary after Kerry’s loss in 2004.
The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry. I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine. But 58 million have not.
rob What do you Patriotards think about your masters having duel Israeli/American citizenship? In my book, I call an American Citizen who pledges allegiance to a country other than...
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Craig Oh, boy! You should see this video: SHOULD SOME PEOPLE NOT VOTE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =hvl0lqhCVio
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Real American Patriot Scrapiron what administration was in charge for these failures you mention?? Oh right that would be BUSH… you have been Bushed.. hardly the democrats...
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charles If you really think the Obama or McCain health plan is real read this FackCheck on both the Obama AND McCain Health Plans! http://strategicthought-cha...
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Leah Isn’t it funny that most women who have abortions are overwhelmingly black? LOL! If I find the data for this, I’ll post it up as well…it was in a study I read a...
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luva the scissors it would be really great if more states jumped on the band wagon and did a class action type thing. we all know obama supported this and said don’t tell me...
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cbullitt This will make great debate fodder, if McCain isn’t McLame and actually uses it. What’s the over/under on “uhs,” “ems,” “ers”...
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Aye Chihuahua @Mike’s America: Speaking of Frank Marshall Davis.
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Gary G. Swenchonis To all who have wrote my family. Thank-you so much. And thanks to Flopping Aces for printing our letter. They are one of the few who will print it. I have been told...
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AdrianS The October Surprise—Suit To Remove Barack Obama From The Ballot. Barack Obama And The Democratic National Committee Are Committing Fraud On The American People...
