Good Coverage of the BO-JM Debate at Saddleback

Byron York on Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency on National Review Online

Why Isn't It "Farenheit 911ed"?

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So the MSM is worried about BO being "Swift Boated". Why were they not worried about Bush being "Farenheit 9-11ed" when Michael Moore put out his rumor and innuendo plus outright propaganda film in June of 2004?

So Was Kerry an Elitist?

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It is very interesting how the lefty brain thinks. I don't really mind EITHER Kerry or McCain being worth 100's of millions because they married rich ladies. I married over my head as well-I'd sure hate to have married the woman that I deserve!

I don't particularly like Kerry having 800 Million and then trying to make sure that I never get in the low single digit millions through taxes and anti-business policy, but my problem isn't that HE has the $800 million. That it just fine. Why is it OK for him to have it, but bad for me to have 1 or 2 million?

So do you suspect that this labor org thought that Kerry was "elitist"? Bush is worth a lot less than either Kerry or McCain ... I'm SURE that they must have strongly supported HIM, because I think it is pretty hard for anyone to call Bush "elitist"!!

My definition of elitist is about thought, not money. It is the contention by the MSM, hollywood, artists and many university professors that they have figured out the "truth" that is superior to what religion, history, religion or in many cases even science possesses. They are "in the know" on whatever the popular position of the day is, and to be on the other side of their vaunted views is to be part of the "unwashed masses" ... the kind of people that still "cling to religion and guns".

People with money are RARELY "elitist" ... although many leading Democrats are the exception to that rule.

Jaws Not Put off By BO?

David Kahane on Hillary Clinton on National Review Online

This one is really well done, good to see that NRO lives on with only the ghost of Buckley to help it.

Couple of teasers-but it all needs to be read to get full humor:

The trip all culminated, of course, in the great speech at the Siegessäule in Berlin (which poor New York Times columnist Bob Herbert mistook for both the Washington Monument and the Leaning Tower of Pisa), which sent 200,000 Germans into paroxysms of ecstasy not seen since Leni Riefenstahl was toting a camera. Nobody feels more like a citizen of the world than the Germans, especially when they’re hungry and don’t have time to phone ahead to Paris or Rome for
reservations.

So it was three cheers for BO Jr., and then it was off to Hawaii, where he could revisit the scenes of his youth as a poor half-black sharecropper, or a pampered half-white kid attending the tony Punahou School, or some combination of both, while a leggy Paris Hilton in a bikini was making goo-goo eyes at John McCain and proposing the most perfectly sensible energy policy anyone ever heard. Do both? Now that’s bipartisanship.

It is so sad that the "MSM humor squad" doesn't find BO and company funny. Yes, yes -- pain, pestilence, economic decline and death by terrorists will require a "sophisticated wit", but HEY, we aren't there yet! The likely future is all the more reason to enjoy the today we have to our very fullest!!

Is BO Just an MSM Wish?

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Breaking the Press

I'm not ready to buy this yet, but BO hasn't been trouncing McCain in the polls. People DO tend to actually operate by "narratives" rather than clouds of media "facts".

My problem is that I REALLY have "left fatigue". I understand it will still be YEARS before they take an responsibility for anything (and then only because eventually they realize they HAVE TO or their isn't much reason to have them in power), even though they have now owned both houses of congress for a full "active cyle" (1.5 years ... new congress focuses on "the people's business" for the year immediately after election and most of the spring cycle of election year-they are just trying to get re-elected now).

Given the Bush weakness, they have been in the drivers seat for two years and we are starting to see results already--higher fuel prices, slumping economy, bigger deficits. Since Bush is still in the WH, the MSM is perfectly willing to blame him for everything, and no doubt will do so for at least two more years.

One nice thing though is that even moderate good news will start to be reported as such and attributed to BO / Democrats the very day he takes office. It will be nice to hear about places that jobs are increasing, drops in fuel prices, new technologies that could be hopeful for the future, etc. For someone that cares about life more than politics, good news is GOOD ... no matter who is in the WH. That will be at least one immediate good thing of BO in the WH.

But if McCain should win, the negativity will certainly get completely out of hand as if it hasn't already!

The Galbraith Effect

RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Galbraith Effect?

Thomas Sowell is a very intelligent man that also happens to be black. He talks about John Kenneth Galbraith giving a blow-away superb lecture to open a semester, but then how he just kept giving that very same, very general lecture, and the students drifted away. Could that be the case for BO?

Essentially, all BO ever had was "one great speech". Hope-change-future-new-not Bush-end the war. Popular with a whole bunch of folks, especially on the left, but there never has been any "there there". Yes, "soaking the rich" sounds like fun to many, but it is "fun" like killing the golden goose is fun. It tends to be a very short lived variety of fun.

BO doesn't care about this unless it hurts his election chances, so he and the MSM will push like crazy to be sure that he gets elected. BUT, the polls don't seem to be following what the MSM would expect for the "perfect candidate with all the money".

Maybe voters don't actually like the prospect of a true empty suit in the White House when it is still a very dangerous world without any gaurentees of future economic or other success.

Democrats and Sex

Power Line: What goes around. . .

I suspect that very few liberals and Democrats actually have any fixed opinions on sexual morality. On one hand they want to go out of their way to criminalize at least heterosexual interactions in the work area, on the other hand, when one of their own (Clinton for example) is accused, they see that as "unimportant".

Here is my "guess" at what they may generally believe:

• Whatever a Democrat does sexually is just fine. If they "get caught", the media and other Democrats ought to ignore it as much as possible for as long as possible.
  
• Anything even related to sex for a Republican (as in Limbaugh/Viagra) ought to be "outed" in whatever form possible as early as possible with an indication of "hypocrisy". Since Republicans claim to have moral standards on issues like trust, truth, honesty, etc, ANY evidence that they are "less than perfect" is completely fair game. (BTW, they need not even be "elected" ... Bill Bennett was a juicy target on his gambling even though he was no longer holding any public office).
  
• Sexual harassment is a weapon to be used on Republicans (Clarence Thomas, Bob Packwood, etc), but "forgiven" in Democrats (Bill Clinton).
  
• Same sex activity is another anti-Republican weapon -- Foley / Craig lately, course it is fine for Democrats, Frank / Gary Studds. One of the KEYS to being a liberal is that INconsistency is a VIRTUE!

Iraq Budget Surplus?

Why do we have such a hard time hearing good news from Baghdad? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

I'm starting to think that Slate has folks that realize that even if one has a liberal bent, being reality based can be a good thing. The link to the NYT story is amazing, one would think that it was BAD news that Iraq has a budget surplus, they are selling oil, and their gravediggers are unemployed! Well, I suppose if less than a year ago you were reporting with confidence that the surge was a failure, Iraq was in civil war, and the situation was militarily hopeless, and it REALLY was more important for you to be "right" than for millions of people to be saved from murder and the US to be spared a terrorist base worse than Afghanistan ever was, then I guess it would be "bad news".

I especially liked this paragraph:

It is in no spirit of revenge that I remind you that, as little as a
year ago, the whole of smart liberal opinion believed that the
dissolution of Baathism and militarism had been a mistake, that Iraq
itself was a bottomless pit of wasted dollars and pointless casualties,
and that the only option was to withdraw as fast as possible and let
the inevitable civil war burn itself out. To the left of that liberal
consensus, people of the caliber and quality of Michael Moore were describing
the nihilist "insurgents" as the moral equivalent of the Minutemen, and
to the right of the same consensus, people like Pat Buchanan were
hinting that we had been cheated into the whole enterprise by a certain
minority whose collective name began with the letter J.

Don't expect most liberals to do any navel gazing about how they might have been wrong and what it might say about them to feel bad as lives are saved and US safety is obviously improved. There is NOTHING more important to a liberal than believing that they are intellectually superior, so it just isn't going to happen.

Last Word On Edwards

Power Line: My last word on the Edwards affair

I like the way the Power Line guys closed this one out, and I hope the rest of the conservative bloggers and media do the same. Edwards has come out and admitted his affair and admitted the damage that he did. He DID NOT break any laws, he has been brought low by human frailty, he admitted it, NOW it is time to move on.

Contrast that with Clinton, he LIED UNDER OATH in a sexual harrassment case!!! He NEVER admitted he lied under oath, because that was clearly perjury and one would assume that he would HAVE to be removed from office. The fact that he was not removed from office shows that the US is biased for the left and against the right ... or more precisely that the people on the right enforce their values even when the enforcement has to happen on one of their own, where the left does not.

Contrast that with Teddy Kennedy who has NEVER come clean on what really happened at Chappaquiddick. Again, the people of Massachusets have failed to remove a stain from the US Senate for reasons that are very hard to fathom and make one strongly question the ability of our system to operate with justice.

There is no need at all to behave like liberals and kick a man when he is down and I applaud Power Line!

Heil Obama?

Power Line: The Big O

Some of you still think that facism can't happen in the US??

More BO Street Cred

Power Line: Astounding Things, Indeed!

BO here declares how good a friend he is of the great Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. Good buddy Kwame is in jail today after violating his extremely generous bond restrictions and assaulting a sheriff's deputy. Naturally, the mayor of a major US city being in jail isn't getting a lot of coverage in the MSM - oh, not that one really needs to mention it, given his name and DETROIT, but he is a DEMOCRAT. I know the MSM isn't biased, so I'm certain that if a Republican mayor was in jail, they would treat it EXACTLY the same!

Uh Who Did He Theaten?

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So the reason that they arrested him is because he said ""if he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself." ... but wouldn't BO have to be elected first for that to be a real threat?

On the other hand:

A classmate said that, one day after class, she also heard Geisel say
"that he hated George W. Bush and that he wanted to put a bullet in the
president's head."

Now, I know the MSM hates Bush a lot and feels that BO is as good as elected, but why is it that the headline says "Obama assassination threat" when the guy directly threatened the current president? Is that what one would call "factual reporting"?

Video Messiah

Ann On John Edwards Media Disappearance

The MSM always is long on excuses for why they have to cover any little rumor or innuendo about a Republican, there usual claim is "hypocrisy". They are very right on that, many liberals never claimed to have any morals on anything, so no matter WHAT they do (except maybe pray or accidently tell the truth at times) you can't really say they are hypocrites!

BUT, it sure looks like Edwards went out on a limb on faithfulness to his wife here ... it seems that if it is "hypocrisy" that they REALLY have to cover, rather than just the actual "he had an R next to his name", they would HAVE to cover Edwards. This is John coming back to a question from Katie Couric on if voters ought to care if a presidential candidate is faithful to his spouse:

"Of course. I mean, for a lot of Americans -- including the family that I grew up with, I mean, it's fundamental to how you judge people and human character -- whether you keep your word, whether you keep what is your ultimate word, which is that you love your spouse, and you'll stay with them. ... I think the most important qualities in a president in today's world are trustworthiness -- sincerity, honesty, strength of leadership. And -- and certainly that goes to a part of that."

So there you have it. Since Edwards is a liberal, he subscribes to the "perfectibility of man", and there we see the flower of that philosophy. When man decides "what is moral", then each man is usurps the role of God and we have millions of little gods in a headlong rush to see who can be the 'biggest", while in truth, they are really fighting to dig to the deepest depths possible-they just don't realize it.

The Goracle Goes to Sea

Pajamas Media » Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat

If it was possible for leftys to be hypocrites, the Goracle would be hard to beat. We have covered his mammoth polluting home and his constant use of private jets, but isn't a 100' houseboat with a jet ski on the back just REALLY thumbing his nose at the complete rubes that believe his global warming bull?

Unless the guy is just plain stark raving howl at the moon looney, if he ACTUALLY beleived in all this planetary crisis crap, it seems IMPOSSIBLE that he would enjoy riding around is this monster!! I mean **I WOULD**, but I'm not writing books and making movies claiming that our planet is on it's last legs and we all ought to be living in the dark without heat or air conditioning (well, I guess just air ... it will be too hot to need heat if we believe Al)

Come on, isn't the jig up for this guy SOMETIME??? Isn't it obvious that he is just riding the "green gravy train" for all it is worth??? What is the difference between this and Tammy and Jim Baker of PTL fame rolling in the donations and then putting up the $10K dog house? Not a lot that I can see.