Headline in the LATimes today:
Pastors plan to defy IRS ban on political speech
The IRS can’t actually ban speech, they can only take away your ‘you don’t need to pay taxes’ status.
Archive for September, 2008
Is it wrong that President Clinton is starting to make me admire him?
Who the hell knows what his secret plan is, but his straight up plan is admirable. Giving credit where credit is due and not thinking the worst of people.
Sure – he’s shilling for an Obama loss, but still, he’s doing it in a fair way.
Concerning McCain’s request for the delay in the debates and his suspension of his campaign:
“We know he didn’t do it because he’s afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates,” Clinton said adding that he was “encouraged” by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.
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“I presume that he did it in good faith since I know he wanted–I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don’t think we ought to overly parse that.”
Just when you think he’s a goner or an old guy with no new ideas, he pulls one out of his a**. And a bipartison thing too.
McCain calls for a delay of the debates and some “bipartison leadership” on the economy.
Change. Isn’t that what we all want?
UPDATE: Something like this during this time of the election cycle your mind immediately goes to politics. Was it astute? Now what ’should’ McCain do now that Obama has said no to the delay? etc, etc.
Think it through another way. I like to think that there are people in Washington DC who are public servants. They choose to do things like write policies, study other policies, debate differing ideas and try to come out on the side of what’s best for the American people.
Sure there are things like ambitions and money involved, but seriously – would you want to be a politician? Like police officers there are those who get into it for power/control but at the same time there are many who get into it because they want to work “for the people”.
So back to where I got off track. I like to think there are people in DC working out our problems so I don’t have to.
McCain just said to me - middle American voting woman – “This is big. The debate can wait until next week. Right now we have to get a solution together tha we can all live with”
Obama just said to me - middle American voting woman – “No way, no way is that guy going to postpone my big debate. I’ve been preparing. And no way am I backing down on this campaign. I’m winning!! If all those other D’s need me to vote on whatever side they come down on, I’ll be there, but otherwise I’ll stick with campaigning.”
Concerning Obama’s statement here:
“I believe that we should continue to have the debate,” Obama said. “It’s my belief that this is exact time when the American people need to hear form the person who in approximately 40 days will be responsibly for dealing with this mess and I think that it is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”
Mick says:
I’ll just point out to this moron that the one thing is my damned future, and the other thing is personal journey of discovery. I’d like this asshole to set aside his personal interest and ACT LIKE A DAMNED PUBLIC SERVANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to reach through the screen and strangle the man. He is so out of touch that he’s literally on another planet. He’s the Democrat’s presidential candidate–his opinion carries weight. He should get his ass to Washington and save the country if he can fit it into his schedule.
Transitioning to Iraqi control was a logical option for the long run. But it did little to solve the problem of the insurgency, which was generating sectarian violence. Based on the belief by many senior commanders, especially Gen. Abizaid, that U.S. troops were an “antibody” to Iraqi culture, the Americans consolidated their forces on large “forward operating bases,” maintaining a presence only by means of motorized patrols that were particularly vulnerable to attacks by improvised explosive devices. They also conceded large swaths of territory and population alike to the insurgents. Violence spiked.
In late 2006, President Bush, like President Lincoln in 1862, adopted a new approach to the war. He replaced the uniformed and civilian leaders who were adherents of the failed operational approach with others who shared his commitment to victory rather than “playing for a tie.” In Gen. David Petraeus, Mr. Bush found his Ulysses Grant, to execute an operational approach based on sound counterinsurgency doctrine. This new approach has brought the U.S. to the brink of victory.
How do I know that hell has frozen over?
Because an actual journalist has investigated the Obama/Ayers connection. Actually, to be honest, since it’s Stanley Kurtz of the WSJ, I should just say that hell dropped 10 degrees. When the NYTimes follows up the deep freeze will have hit.
The story is a must read.
Mr. Ayers is the founder of the “small schools” movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to “confront issues of inequity, war, and violence.” He believes teacher education programs should serve as “sites of resistance” to an oppressive system. (His teacher-training programs were also CAC funded.) The point, says Mr. Ayers in his “Teaching Toward Freedom,” is to “teach against oppression,” against America’s history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation.
The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming “guilt by association.” Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago.
Tell me that idea of schools doesn’t sound madrassaist?
I’m doing my part. Spending money. Increasing the value of my home. Keeping other people working. Et tu?
I can’t wait for the debates so there will be some policy things to discuss here because I am tired of having to keep reporting on the ickiness of Obama’s campaign. And frankly I’m not even sharing all of it.
Today however, The Jawa Report needs to be shared. It’s a long one that will probably be updated throughout the day. Bottom line: The original smears of Palin look to have been created on Youtube by a professional ad team and cleverly spread through the internet making it appear to be random, amateur, no big deal. The team itself has ties to David Axelrod.
Since Rusty posted:
UPDATE: Within an hour of this post going up, YouTube videos implicating Ethan Winner were yanked, sockpuppet accounts deleted, and more importantly, the Wikipedia entry on David Axelrod began to edit out mentions of his well know astroturfing campaigns. Hmmm, it sounds to me like we’re on to something.
In the meantime lies continue to circulate as news stories. Why on earth is that??
From a Breitbart story out of Drudge noting a British Government Official who doesn’t like Palin, first they note the quote from the official, then they give a bit of ‘background’ on Mrs. Palin:
She has previously remarked that US soldiers in Iraq were being sent on a task from God.
The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus is now seeing the lies of the Obama camp.
You know things are going ok in Iraq when you can book a trip there through a tour agency in Europe.
(ht Amir Taheri)
Thought you all might enjoy this story from my local paper.
U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Martin Patterson was here and spoke to Longmont High School students. He’s a Medal of Honor winner who apparently got into tons of trouble through his younger years.
In Vietnam, Patterson was under the command of Col. Julius Becton, who went on to become the Army’s first black three-star general. Patterson again misbehaved — he wouldn’t specify how for the newspaper — and Becton had to serve Patterson with yet another Article 15.
But Becton was laughing as he did so, Patterson said. Patterson didn’t know why.
Years later, the two were in a parade together, and Patterson finally got to ask Becton why he thought it was funny to give him an Article 15.
According to Patterson, Becton replied, “I am the only person in the Army who can say I recommended a soldier for the Medal of Honor in the morning and gave him an Article 15 in the afternoon.”
We had an appreciation day for George W. Bush back in June.
With Charles Krauthammer’s help let’s do it again!
So unpopular that Truman left office disparaged and highly out of favor. History has revised that verdict. I have little doubt that Bush will be the subject of a similar reconsideration.
