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Conservative Blog Political Potpourri, 7/10/08
Jackson to Provide Castrations for Presidential Candidates
Jesse Jackson put his foot in it with what they call a “hot mic” situation where he claimed Barack Obama had been talking down to black church people, and that he wanted to cut his nuts off.
First off, a “hot mic” excuse is like saying “that was my private thought… the rest of the world is not privy to this…” Sorry Mr. Public Speaker. Truth is, YOU should be smart enough to know better. Everything people like you say has the potential for being scrutinized.
Secondly, I wasn’t aware Obama still HAD his nuts. I thought anyone who has as little experience as he does, and at the same time is flipping on so many issues could not possibly have nuts.
Since this happened on Fox, I wonder if it would have been leaked if it had been on CNN or MSNBC???
Iran Flexes Muscles
Recently, Iran tested 9 missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, 1250 miles away from Israel. This test is more of a developmental test, but it is also a form of saber rattling that Iran cannot really afford. This is just more of an assurance that a missile defense in Europe is necessary, and timely. Interestingly, such a test also gives us some information as to the technology and other statistical data the Iranians possess. Nothing happens in a vacuum. And, like North Korea, insiders state these idiots are more about saber rattling than actual ability.
This is yet another reason for the US to have a presence in Iraq for a loooooong time coming.
More Heat More Food
Want a cure for global hunger? How about accepting global warming?
Scientists at the German Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute have discovered that by spraying CO2 onto plants at levels that global warming fiends suspect will be prevailing by the year 2050 that the output for barley beats and wheat will be increased by 10%.
Additionally, the more CO2 that plants absorb, the more O2 that they put out. That last little tidbit of information is widely known by even the most basic of High School level scientists, but you never hear it in the news. Imagine if plants can absorb through growth the increased CO2 in the world, just by growing faster, and us planting more…
Imagine what that would do to the Global Warming crowd… finding out that Global Warming FEEDS people. I have to say I love irony.
While global warming is an alarming theory that requires serious consideration, I think that like any other geopolitical issue, it requires that the data be evenly assessed, and the players be incredibly open and non-partisan. Since we can’t expect that to happen anytime soon, and because Global Warming legislation and discussions will have HUGE effects on political discussions in the world, we have to take a “protect our interests” position on such a new and infant theory.
One thing is for sure. You won’t hear the left touting any of the “positives” of global warming anytime soon. Such partisan approaches cannot help the process.
Fillibuster Buster…
Barack Obama… moving again… changing his mind again… again… again…
On the vote on the FISA court legislation, Barack Obama is doing his damned best to be a centrist, by voting FOR a bill that he swore he would fillibuster. FISA and the consideration of such legislation which was passed runs central to the theme of US sovereign control over our rights to privacy vs. security, which is a leftist concern of huge import.
Obama has changed his mind on very many important topics thus far… and I think that the far left doesn’t much care. We cant expect clear judgmental thought on much from the far left.
No. This year is about winning. The hype of a black man helps. The fact he can be shot down over and over on the facts and topics means nothing to the left and many in the center.
God help us folks…
Get active… we can’t beat this fool by sitting on our asses.
Conservtive Blog KaPOW!!! 7/05/08
The Emperor and his Flip Flops
First term junior Senator Barack Obama seems to be fitting in quite nicely with the Washington crowd he so disdains, despite his claims to be different. Lapel flagpins, public financing, and now his stance on the Iraq War are all up susceptible to be “refined” as he sees fit, depending on what constituency hurdle he has either cleared, or needs to clear next.
In the last days, Obama went from proudly being the Senator who voted against the war and had promised to begin to end it starting his first day of office, to the Senator who said he would end it by 2009, to the Senator who then said within 16 months, to now… where he has firmly landed on the solid position of going to Iraq for the first time, and then, listening to the opinions of the commanders on the ground so we do not hastily leave a vacuum.
Mind you, he is STILL committed to “ending the war”. Last I checked, every candidate wants to end the war. The question always has been how, under what terms, and what risk to the future of this country and Iraq/the middle east.
So now Obama is going to go get edu-macated on the ground over there, and get some perspective that apparently seems to have been lacking when he harped to the left that he would just jump the hell out of Iraq right off when elected. The far left loved that, but now Obama knows he can’t win with either that stance, or simply the far left.
The recent successes in Iraq are the Achilles heel of such a far left stance.
I had thought all this time Obama was a man of principle, or at least played one on TV. Of course I jest, and have known better all along. But how the left can consider this man to be what he has claimd all along is beyond me, as he changes positions more than a baby in the womb.
The general election is a perfect machine for making immortal hype-based unproven inexperienced grassroots superheroes into mere mortal politicians grasping for ways to appeal to the necessary voters.
And Obama is not only on his way, he has finally arrived…
Conservative Blog KaPOW!!! 6/26/08
Supreme Court Rules on 2nd Amendment
(You may now CLING without fear)
Todays MOMENTOUS ruling in the SCOTUS marks not only an unprecedented milestone in this Nation’s history regarding an individual’s right to bear arms, but also highlights in the strongest manner why the Presidency matters.
The slim 5-4 ruling (conservatives plus swing Justice Kennedy) showed the importance of SCOTUS nominations by the President. Without either Roberts or Alito, you could have seen today a first step down another Roe vs. Wade type of path. Instead, freedom loving flag waving American’s won.
In light of this ruling, the NRA is immediately considering filing numerous contests in many cities across the nation. San Francisco and Chicago will be first. Chicago. Obama’s homies.
It is also important to note that Obama’s name was ABSENT in a friend of the court’s brief (amicus) that was sent to the SCOTUS supporting the lower courts overturning of the 32 year old law (of the District of Columbia). On that amicus brief’s list of supporting Senator’s? Republican nominee Senator John McCain.
Said Obama after hearing of the ruling, “Damn! I woulda never thunk it possible that those rednecks wooda had da RIGHT ta CLING ta those firearms! Heck! Now I is gonna haf ta just focus on attacking their religion!”
He’s working on it, folks… more on that soon..
In the meantime, consider opening a handgun shop in San Fran or Chi-town.
I am off to hug my 9mm…
Our Own Village Idiot
Bob Barr Shows his Arrogance
Well, we may have just what we need to insure that Obama-lama-ding dong and wife get into office. Our own version of Ralph Nader, Bob Barr.
Most of us remember Barr for his intense attacks on Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky trial. While we might have enjoyed his watchdog approach on that class A-1 a-hole, I have to say that even then I had concerns that he was a little too “dogged” in his pursuit… just a liiiiiiiittle too overzealous.
Well, it turns out Barr has a lot in common with other village idiots that don’t understand that in a two party system, indy candidates KILL real candidates. Nader and Perot come to mind. At least Perot was a viable contender though. Nader and Barr are nothing more than nuisances that undermine the ability of a majority of a party to control the destiny of the party.
Said Barr on Geraldo- paraphrasing- “Nobody is talking about anything of substance, and that is what I intend to bring to the table.”
“Um- idiot? The time for you to try to sway people into believing that YOUR ideas of “substance” have any substance capable of sustaining a Presidential bid has already come and gone. We call it a “primary”, you arrogant ass.”
Perhaps Barr will find a sword to fall on… I predict that pressure from the party will send him packing. If it doesn’t, I will be happy to go buy him a sword. Maybe we can find a drunk bus driver or a poorly maintained plane to donate to his “campaign”.
Conserving Oneself to Death
Exporting American Security on Behalf of Nature
We have a problem in this country. And, like so many other things that we humans do, this problem is not going to get attention until it hurts us so bad that we take action way later than we should have.
Want a traffic light at a busy intersection where a lot of accidents happen because there is no traffic light? Well, believe it or not, at City Council meetings what you will hear them say that the light is slated to be installed in 2009, unless there is a rash increase of deaths at the intersection before then.
Like the rest of life, we plan our fixes in government and socially the same way a smoker quits… “Tomorrow” .
Our addiction to oil in this country is going to be the downfall of us. Our economy is in the hands of ragheaded sheiks with backwards ideals on the other side of the world. Our national security is tied to this same exact oil. We are like crack addicted freaks running to the dealer in the bad part of town, the Middle East.
Why do we do this? Why have we handicapped ourselves so?
One reason is Middle East oil was easier to get at than a lot of our oil, therefore cheaper. But the real reason is, we are hamstrung in this country by greenies who chain themselves to trees to save owls. The same militants who put their boats in between whales and whaling harpoons.
They call themselves activists, I call them militants. And they are as dangerous to the future of this country as the terrorists in the Middle East, because they undermine our ability to provide our own energy solutions because they think that saving some fish is more important than saving the free world. They claim some species is a treasured resource while ignoring the fact that freedom is more precious and important a commodity to peace and the well-being of this planet than a bird. They are more worried about an oil spill than they are about thousands of deaths of Americans, either from terror attacks or from direct conflict in our efforts to keep the Middle East in the “right” hands.
As I wrote in “That Blood on your hands is GREEN”, these conservation militants are partly responsible for the deaths of American soldiers in the future in ANY war that is partially or mostly motivated by oil concerns in the Middle East. Their incessant insistence that we put wildlife above national security is now coming back to haunt us.
This country has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. The number I heard was somewhere in the neighborhood of 95 BILLION barrels in the form of crude and shale oil. The stark raving lunatics of the left chant “we won’t drill in the Grand Canyon or the Everglades” but what they don’t talk about is any rational approach to the mining and drilling of other areas in Colorado or on the gulf and Ocean coastal waters. Their ignorance of improvements in the safety of those technologies is driven mostly by lust for a policy of NOTHING as opposed to putting their Country first.
The holistic approach to the world these radicals espouse prevents any compartmentalized discussion about the finer details as to how to go about reaching all of our goals collectively and with compromise, instead of simply their all or nothing world of NOTHING.
Their rants of “we can’t drill out way out of this problem” and “were ANWR online right now the price of gas wouldn’t go down more than a few cents” is like a smoker not stopping smoking because the risk of cancer for him won’t go away the day after he quits. Moving ahead NOW with increased drilling, and the raising of the federal ban on offshore drilling, would be a part of a broad policy change in this country to get agressive in seeking solutions that can help us get off the Middle East tit that we seem to be content suckling until we die.
In the coming election, we should expect the two proposed leaders to go head to head on such issues. This country should be very ready to change course. I for one expect strong and agressive changes.
Thus far, I am not impressed with Obama’s approach, and only mildly more impressed with McCain’s.
Maybe our screaming will help them “get it”.
Conservative Blog Political Potpourri, 5/29/08
Obama’s Cries “Uncle”
Obama recently stated that his Uncle (or someraig. Uncle) liberated prisoners in Auschwitz, and then subsequently came home and sat in an attic for 6 months.
Apparently Obama’s Uncle was a Russian (sarcasm), as the US troops never even saw Auschwitz. (Auschwitz was liberated by the Russian Army.) And to add insult to injury to this audacious attempt to try to sound as though one has “gravitas” because one has relatives who “did something important “, this Harvard Grad-idiot would have you believe the following:
Conservative Blog Political Potpourri for 5/18/08
Obama Tries on His Presidential Clothing
It is amateur night in the Democrat Party. As I have pointed out already, many on the left think the battle between Obama and Clinton shows strength. The two of them are neck and neck because they are such solid candidates… or so the left would have you believe.
As I have stated before, an even and hotly contested race does not mean
Conservative Blog Political Potpourri, 5/8/08
She Needs a Fork! Or Does She?
I say Hillary is done. So do most others paying attention, at this point
Hillary failed to show strong enough in Indiana, and Obama cleaned her clock in North Carolina. This puts her campaign now officially into “sputtering but indignantly fighting to still seat Florida and Michigan” mode.
The DNC is left now with the task of cleaning up their pathetic mess created by Howard Dean concerning their fumbling attempt to punish those two States. Were it not for Dean and Florida/Michigan, I am not sure Obama would have survived to this point. More on that below, and how the scars from Wright would have made a difference earlier.
The aftermath will be interesting to watch, because they have to unite a party now. How do they create a situation where Hillary can get out honorably? Can the loser lose graciously at this point?
I think not, and- wait a minute…
Obama and Wright - Ba-Rock, and a Hard Place
This is truly one amazing political season.
Watching the Democrat Party, which prides itself in inclusion and ‘big tents’, we notice it is as divided as you can get. You have a woman whining about being a woman and getting hard questions or first questions, and you have blacks fighting with blacks about what being black means, and what blacks should think about America. You have Dems saying that Obama would not be where he was were he not black. And you have the party who considers themselves the party of voter inclusion excluding their own people in Michigan and Florida due to “party rules”.
I thought they were the party of “every vote should count”, and cries of “dis-enfranchisement” run rampant when they are losing elections- but not when they are trying to punish their own. The irony is, they are punishing themselves, mostly.
As I have said, why would we let them run the country if they can’t run their own party, which they control already?
Right now what we are watching is the destruction of a sure fire nomination of one black, by another black. This is amazing to me because race is supposed to be one of the perfected political commodities the left has. They understand… they include… they don’t attack race or gender, OR religion.
However, Wright is the biggest scar Obama has, and due to his complete “unknown quantity” rock star status, people are slowly over time paying more and more attention to the stupidity of his “friends”.
So here are some important thoughts to ponder:
- Wright says his comments were taken out of context. First off, not only is this excuse more used by black leaders than the word “axe” for “ask”, but it is also not supported by Obama’s response. Obama (recently, and finally) repudiated the COMMENTS of Wright, actually quite strongly. Why would Obama repudiate such comments if they were so abused and taken out of context by the media? See #2.
- Obama is accused by Wright of making his comments because that is what “politicians” do, and Wright does what he does because that is what “pastors” do. The only problem with this comment is, I think Wright is acting more like the politician here, and Obama is just trying to do damage control for an idiot “friend”, which is what a pastor might do.
- Wright spent much of his time in the latest media abominations talking about how he accepts the differences of others, all the while mocking people who have been pointing out his unacceptable comments. These attacks and mocking statements came complete with head rolls and eye rolls that you would expect from a teenage, not a fully grown American Pastor. This is truly and example of the “child in the adult body” I talk about when I talk about liberals.
- Obama, while trying to distance himself from Wright’s comments by stating he found them terrible, did NOT counter those points by stating what he though the TRUTH was. For example, the comparison by Wright that the US military efforts are terroristic or similar to terrorist acts could be repudiated AND countered by Obama by him stating what he thinks the US military did WELL in the past, and how America has set standards that NO other Country can rise to. Obama has NEVER given a speech on what he thinks America has done great. Think about it.
- On the far left, and in Black America, nothing much Wright did will change a lot of votes. Some, yes, but not enough to matter. If you are one of those lefties or blacks, sorry. Welcome to the real world, where in some cases, none of us matter. To those on the left who love Obama, he could be exposed with strong evidence to be a pedophile heroin user, and they would think it a conspiracy and not change their minds. And when 90+% of a race votes for a candidate of the same race, one has to wonder why so few talk about “reverse” racism.
- Wright says this is not about him, but about the Black church. This was an attempt to make this racial, BY a racist. This is also why Obama can’t leave his church- he is in a box and has to protect his church now. And, to be honest, another reason he can’t leave his church is because he would lose up to 20% or more of the black vote nationwide, which he cannot afford. But Wright wanted this to be an attack on the “Black Church”, whatever that is. No, no sir. This was about YOU and YOUR comments, and in the process, the crazy nature of your church also became interesting and a little disturbing to many, many Americans.
- Many pundits and lefty talking point idiots are stating that Obama is being “consistent” because he has denounced Wright. This is far from true. Obama first stood by the man for 20 years; then he uninvited him from speaking at his Election launch; then after his comments became more of a nuisance, he gave a tepid denunciation in the press and a fairly weak speech. Now, that the damaged ship is taking on more water, Obama has decided to bail harder and with a bigger bucket, by giving an even stronger denunciation. This is NOT consistency. This is, as Wright said, Obama doing what “politicians” do… saying what “politicians” say.
If Wright keeps opening his mouth, he could lose this for Obama, unless Obama denounces him completely, and not just what he said. Leaving the Church would help his image too, but it would kill him in the black community/constituency. What he gained in credibility he would more than lose in black votes.
Ba-Rock, and hard place.
Conservative Blog Political Potpourri, 4/24/08
Obama’s Achilles Heel Speaks Again
Let’s just be clear.
Every time Jeremiah Wright speaks, Obama loses something. Pundits right now will try to claim left and right that Obama has lost nothing due to Wright, but I will suggest, once again, that the “loss” of undecided voters NEVER shows up in polls accurately.
When you think to yourself that maybe, just maybe, this radical ‘religious guide’ of Obama’s has gotten the point that he needs to ‘go away’ in order for Obama to recover, Wright surfaces yet again.
His latest “surfacing” will be
The utterly BRILLIANT left wing ideologue scientist, Nobel winner, internet creator, and "Champion of the chad recount", Al Gore has once again wowed us with some more amazing feats of observation.
Gore says the most recent Myanmar tragedy, Cyclone Nargis, which claimed 200,000 lives, was the result of Global Warming.
Nice job, Nostradamus.
This has brought on a chorus of rejection from scientists worldwide that claim that NO storm could be directly attributed to either the global warming phenom OR the science... neither of which could support Gore's claims.
And this is supposed to be one of the left's "best". God help us. He could have been PRESIDENT.
The passing of Tim Russert brings to mind, for me, the importance of excellent journalism. Russert was one of the finest. While loving life, he would still grill your butt on anything that was the buzz... no free passes, and he understood that journalism was the 4th branch of the US democratic process.
Our US political process and the field of Journalism will sorely miss Tim Russert.
Paul Begala, bomb throwing liberal pundit and talk show man, recently made clear what the left truly thinks. And remember, the "left" is supposed to be the party that blacks should love and vote for.
Said Begala "We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans. OK, that is the Dukakis Coalition, which carried ten states and gave us four years of the first George Bush."
I totally agree by the way. You cannot win with only black Americans. You CAN win with only eggheads, though...
This insinuation that African American support of Obama is the reason for Obama having ANY chance is correct. I think what Begala is saying is the same thing Clinton is saying, in a more veiled way.
And I think what Begala is trying to say is "Obama is propped up by an African American vote- and that is IT. He cannot win without it."
I agree... but I think it is a stupid to take that approach, or point out such a point of view, especially if you are a person from the party that claims (falsely) to represent the black community BEST.