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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 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…
Conservative Blog Political Potpourri, 4/10/08
Mexicans Invading Mexico
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is at it again, and we say “thank goodness for the last of the John Wayne’s”.
In Arizona, the crackdown is becoming real, and illegals (or, “undocumented workers”, as the law defying left would call them) are running like rabbits back into the desert and into neighboring areas. Watch out New Mexico, you just might become the NEW Mexico.
Arpaio and company are acting on the “broken window” philosophy, where law enforcement agents use every infraction as an excuse to impose the government’s authority into your business. It is called the broken window philosophy because the implication is that you will be investigated/arrested even for something as simple as breaking a window.
This low level infraction exposure of illegals is maddening the left… I wish them luck. Break the law, expose yourself to the law, all of the law. You can be pulled over for a broken tail light, and then busted for possession of cocaine. What the law is doing now is verifying citizenship at similar broken tail light offenses, as well as other low level infractions.
The REAL news here is, so many illegals are running back to Mexico all of the sudden that
Conservative Blog Political Potpourri, March 27th 2008
“Let’s Talk Issues… Except that one…”
Well, here it comes… the “Let’s talk issues” deflection.
With all of the heat that Clinton and Obama are taking for basically lying, the Dems on the left are beginning to chant the mantra “Why don’t we talk about issues? Let’s talk about healthcare, the war, the economy, blah blah blah…”
Newsflash for all of you liberals… to adults with morals and principles (i.e., conservatives, most moderates, and some democrats), character IS an issue- perhaps the most important one of all, as it is an indicator as to how you will lead, and what you are willing (or not willing) to do in the face of adversity.
So when we hear conservatives bring up over and over the most recent lies of
Conservative Blog Politcal Potpourri, March 19 2008
“Brown” is Down Due to Lack of a Frown
Surely that headline will get me labeled as a racist. Go figure.
Jeremiah Wright can suggest that whites don’t know crap and that we do our best to hold down blacks, but if I just suggest that the stock of black people who support Obama is down (”Brown is Down Due to Lack of a Frown”) due to his inability to make a strong argument against Wright’s statements, I will be perceived as racist.
Here is what it the title of this section of the article means, in case anyone wants to get pissy and call me a racist:
“Brown” = the political clout of Obama
“Down” = You figure it out
“Lack of a Frown” = NOT distancing self from Rev. Wright more emphatically and completely.
This Country is wrapped in a battle, one in which
Conservative Blog Political Potpourri for March 10 2008
Elliot Ness and Love Potion #9
(Editorial satire in italics)
Democrat Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer made his name by standing up for the little person. However, he is now in big trouble for probably laying with the wrong kind of little person, namely a 5′5″, 105 pound hooker.
We all knew it would be salacious when Spitzer started out with “”Today, I want to briefly address a private matter, which involves my privates, and my briefs.”
“Over the past nine years — eight years as attorney general and one as governor — I have tried to uphold a vision of progressive politics that would rebuild New York and create opportunity for all, including prostitutes.”
“We sought to bring real change to New York and that will continue, as evidenced by my attempts to put my spare change in the purses of whores and pimps.”
Spitzer was apparently “client 9″… “How could you blame me?” Spitzer asked. “She was
What’s more important? Troops, or plumbing?
I have been working lately on promoting this site. In the course of doing so, I have come across some people that made me remember something… and that is, “we always forget to remember.”
The people I am talking about are troops, and their wives, and husbands, and kids. Mothers, Fathers, Uncles, Aunts, and on down the line.
So much I want to say, and so little space to say it. But, I will try to do it justice.
Right now the silence is deafening. Iraq and the news about our troops seems to not even exist, compared to what it has been, over the last few years. And I don’t think that the reasons WHY it is quiet make me very happy.
It is quiet because we have no CRAP for the media to peddle.
We have no GITMO news. We have no Fallujah news. We have no Abu Ghraib. We have no more stories about rape or shooting innocent people.
So- I guess… we just don’t have news about Iraq. At least, it appears that way…
Let me jump around a bit, to make a point.
Preparing McCain for Obama
Were we to presume that John McCain and Barack Obama are going to go toe to toe in the General Election, I have said it on here before that all McCain has to do is keep punching and punching with the terror issue and Obama’s lack of experience, or proper foreign policy perspective. Barack has gone even farther in the last day to prove that he is naive, by stating that Al Qaeda in Iraq is a result of McCain and Bush’s policy gaffes, and somehow that makes any kind of difference as to what we have to accomplish there.
News for Obama: If you are going to argue about how the bus got into the ditch, as you put it, you are not focused on the issue of the bus being IN the ditch. At some point, the past is not as important as the need for clear and immediate direction into the future. I imagine Obama standing in the cockpit of a plane that is going to crash, saying something like “I TOLD you to check the fuel…”
Great. You may or may not be right, Barack. But that is not important now, is it?
And consequently, whether or not Al Qaeda in Iraq was IN Iraq before the war, is there not a ‘beauty’ to fighting the war there? Taking the battle to them? Dictating the terms of war to them, as opposed to them dictating the place and time to us?
All of this has caused me to create some statements that McCain can use in the case he and Obama wind up taking shots at each other… Some you have heard, some you may have not.
“I am not sure your pet program has any importance until we win the war on terror. Dead Christians cannot use (insert liberal program here).”
“Personally, I am not ashamed to wear the American Flag pin… and I think it is a mistake for any potential leader to insinuate that wearing one is phony or unimportant. Once you are elected, your own personal opinions sometimes have to take a back seat. Ideology during wartime should never undermine the ability of a leader to help America prosper and win based on unity and hope, even if the symbol is a simple flag pin. “
“I swore to protect this Country, as a young man, before you were born. I was a prisoner of war when you were 6 years old. I know of no defining experience in your life which would qualify you to represent a Country as great as ours during war.”
“My hand over my heart during the pledge of allegiance means I put my Country first, even when and if she is wrong, because I know without her, I am nothing.”
“A soldiers oath to protect this Country versus enemies, both foreign and domestic, does not include the right to evaluate the worth of the “mission”. I would die for my country, right or wrong, and that is what that oath means to those who make it. Why would anyone take that same oath to serve under someone who cannot wear a pin with pride, or put their hand over their heart during the pedge?”
“You have stated you reserve the right to go back into Iraq to eliminate Al Qaeda, should they build up after our departure militarily. Why would you give up ground that so many fought so hard for, and spilled blood for, only to have to go back in an take it again? Do you have any doubt Al Qaeda in Iraq would re-emerge and rebuild if we left?”
I have heard it said over and over that Hillary would have been easier to beat, please give us Hillary… But I have to say that once this General Election heats up, I think that if McCain keeps his head and is guided well, he and we will knock Obama on his anti-jingoistic ass.
I would love to hear what lines readers think McCain could use against Obama as well.
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.