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Archive for October, 2008
Charles Krauthammer has reason number 2 for voting for McCain this election.
The national security choice in this election is no contest. The domestic policy choice is more equivocal because it is ideological. McCain is the quintessential center-right candidate. Yet the quintessential center-right country is poised to reject him. The hunger for anti-Republican catharsis and the blinding promise of Obamian hope are simply too strong. The reckoning comes in the morning.
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Obama – the guy who WILL talk with tyrants but WILL NOT speak with those who think the other guy is the better candidate.
(or will at least have them investigated!)
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EMERGENCY:!!! Obama who has now raised over 600 million dollars……..doesn’t have enough for his last 4 days!!!!!
How do I know? Because after earlier requests from the campaign on the 28th and 29th of October, today Michelle Obama wrote to me to request just 5 more dollars. That’s all he needs. Just 5.
Oh – yeah and be sure to comp him that day off of work he’s asking for too.
Terri —
Ask your boss. Ask your professor.
Take Election Day off and volunteer to make history.
No previous experience is required. Sign up now to take the day off and make history on November 4th:
http://my.barackobama.com/takethedayoffThanks,
Jon
Jon Carson
National Field Director
Obama for America
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And finally, I think Dr. Helen has lost it.
I’ve been thinking. If Obama is elected, maybe in lieu of a tip I should leave a note like the following:
something like, your tip has been spread.
How she’s equating wait staff to all of those who support Obama is beyond me. 50% of the people in this country are not outright Obamaites. Waitpeople often look forward to the day they own their own restaurant. Tipping is payment for service.
Instead of taking it out on the little guy, maybe your “going John Galt” on the world can be in the form of staying away from restaurants and spending more time figuring out ways to increase your off shore portfolio.
Bizarro.
UPDATE: Ooh – they’ve just requested another 5 dollars. This time direct from Obama.
Most of us have our “causes”. Our favorite charities that get the amount of money we want to give them during the year.
IF we want to give it to them.
We like to do this. It keeps us involved in our favorite things and helps us feel a part of whatever the cause is.
Soldiers Angels? Elephant Sanctuaries? http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/ Church? Amnesty International? ACLU? The Humane Society? Disaster Relief in the world? Spirit of America? Bears in Asia? Meals on Wheels?
The list is long and varied and even more local than above. Then add to the long, long list your children’s education? Grandma’s housekeeper? Mom’s Rent? Brother’s bail? etc etc.
So when raising taxes to “spread the wealth” is mentioned, we may be fine with the idea of “spreading the wealth” but we are not fine with “spreading the wealth” by government choice. Who on earth believes the government knows best? I don’t know anyone who would say that.
Yet somehow Barack Obama who wants to be President thinks that the government is in the best positions to “spread the wealth” around even though his very own choices as to where to “spread his wealth” are not what I would choose.
Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.
A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.
This is all ok. I don’t believe for a second that Obama “owes” these people anything. What I’m saying is that Obama has clearly chosen to put his wealth into paying off student loans and buying a big house next to Tony Rezko instead of throwing a little towards his loved ones (so said in his book) who are struggling. Instead he wants me to help them. (ok, maybe not me, I’ll be getting a tax “cut” so don’t bother searching my public records) I mean he wants ‘we the people’ to do the helping of his family.
I would rather help out the Therapeutic Riding Center here in town. Who (by the way) is having their annual fundraising drive now in case your math left you with a bit extra you’d like to throw their way!
See. No coercion. No spreading of the wealth through force. No me choosing for you. What country do we live in again?
I guess I’ve got it, because apparently the signs of having Obama Derangement Syndrome are thus:
-If you are actively working to make certain Obama doesn’t get elected
-because you think he might be wrong for this country
-or if you think (based on what he’s said) he has ‘good feelings’ about taxes and how they can make things fair and how that might lean socialistic in spite of the fact that yes we do have an income tax already
-or if you think that no matter what Reagan or Clinton did or didn’t do, you believe, based on evidence, that increasing or even the existence of the capital gains tax inhibits investments
-or if you think that Obama’s free wheeling online donations center is a bit shady
-or if you think that ACORN/MSM are working hard to get Obama elected
-or probably if you think Mr. McCain would be the better President.
Got it?
Funny – how all of this is called deranged, vs the derangement of the those with BDS.
-if you think W’s eye’s are beady and evil
-if you think he’s the dumbest guy in the world yet pulled off 911
-etc, etc.
Quite a difference in derangement if you ask me.
I listen to Hugh Hewitt pretty regularly and Mr. Barnett was often a guest host. It’s like losing someone you know even if you’ve never met them.
The Weekly Standard has a list of tributes by people who did know him.
His family and friends are in my thoughts/prayers.
Today in the Washington Post Anne Applebaum explains why she just can’t vote for McCain. She spends her column complementing him. Admiring him. Giving him credit for all he has done over the years.
But she can’t vote for him. Summation:
It’s his rapidly deteriorating, increasingly anti-intellectual, no longer even recognizably conservative Republican Party.
That’s right. Because McCain chose Palin who appeals to his vile base, he’s lost Applebaum who is an independent.
So she’ll be voting Obama. No word yet on how Obama appeals to his vile base that even Hollywood is recognizing. No word on the Palin hanging in effigy. Or the calls of “racist” from Obama’s supporters/troops/himself.
No, no. Instead she figures that even though McCain is an awesome figure,
Barack Obama is indeed the least experienced, least tested candidate in modern presidential history. But at least if he wins, I can be sure that the mobs who cry “terrorist” at the sound of Obama’s name will be kept far, far away from the White House.
That’s right Anne. Those crazy righties will be kept away. Instead, you’ll get to meet a whole new team. The crazy lefties. And frankly everyone who’s met them find them crazier than the other side of the spectrum.
Just ask Sarah Palin and her family. Or Joe the Plumber. Or any of the rest of us called racist by the candidate. Your column had potential until you pulled the last bit out of your ass.
A couple of weeks ago, I pondered this country in a small fit of OMG What’s Happening here!!!
Today I have to do it again. But first, a big YAY for Mr. Matt Drudge and the person who put this video up on youtube.
And here is a very nice vetting of Obama’s talk entitled “Shame, Cubed”.
Amen!!!
I actually know someone who voted for (yes dude, the problem with early voting is that things happen in the last few weeks!!) Obama because he’s a Constitutional Scholar and wouldn’t that be a good thing to finally have in the White House?
Sure unless as a Constitutional Scholar you mean someone who knows enough about the constitution that they want to completely upend it!!! Jeff Goldstein puts it well.
In Obama’s America, we’ll finally be able to break free of the “constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” — and in so doing, achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change.”
Well, then. Fine .
But this is not the America I knew…
Be absolutely sure to listen to this whole tape today.
And the thing is. Jeff is right. “Well, then. Fine.”
If that’s what we want. Is that seriously what we want????!!! I didn’t know anyone who wanted that up until a discussion I had last night with someone who works two jobs and has dreams of owning lots or properties and doing some flipping as the timing is right while remodeling these places in his spare time.
The guy works hard!! Somehow we got talking about health insurance/care.
This person (who’s fine with the redistribution because in the end we all pay anyway) wants the government to start dictating how people (particularly children) live. Obesity? Illegal. Bad food? Illegal. Why? Because people don’t know any better, so someone has to care for them.
(Sadly – I was so frightened at my first thought of the “government running everything!!!” that I never did get to the nitty gritties. If parents let children become obese because they are ignorant and need training, then why make it illegal? After all, weren’t they just raised the same way? Who do you arrest/fine? The parents? The grandparents? Or maybe the government who subsidizes agriculture (re corn) to the extent that high fructose whatever is put into everything!)
The government!!! Yes, he wants the government to run everything. And he suggested that I “just want to let people die?” (was it a bad form to me to say “sure”) Sadly, I let the team down by being caught so unawares that folks like him exist.
And then I heard the tape today.
People like my friend exist and are running to be the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Well then. It’s NOT fine!
UPDATE: Don’t miss what has happened in Hawaii in regards to “free health care”.
When an old unrepentant cop hating terrorist calls the cops to escort him to his car because he’s afraid of a wittle bitty reporter asking him questions.
UPDATE: Or as noted in The Volokh Conspiracy a communist tells the reporter to get off of his property. His private property.
Today we see the last (I hope) explanation of what exactly it means to be a feminist. Brought to you by “official” feminists, not just generic women.
Feminists are not just women who believe in equal opportunity along with generally similar pay for the same job. No, no, no. You’ve got it all wrong.
Feminists believe in abortion. They believe in government programs designed to finance women’s issues [whatever they are]. They believe in sex outside of marriage. They believe the George W. Bush years were a disaster. Oh – and they believe that looking beautiful [in the conventional way] is not a feminist idea. And adjusting your own body with surgery to suit you? Nyet. (though I suspect a sex change operation would be allowed in the following author’s world)
How do I know? Because Katha Pollitt says so.
Regarding what some are trying to make the “new feminism” where women can be who they are:
For them feminism is women having the freedom to make choices. That is not an easy fit because someone like Sarah Palin will come along who is making a bunch of choices that to a feminist [I assume "real" feminist] are really terrible. How do you deal with that?
Good Lord. The last time women were stuck into the whole of other people’s definitions there was a revolution. Maybe it’s time once again. I swear I even am thinking of voting for the “personhood” of an embryo here in Colorado just to stick it these women.
Let’s move on to another problem here. Particularly for women like me who are drop dead gorgeous. (play along)
Apparently we can NEVER be taken seriously because some dude wants to “do” us. Which means conversely that because some dude wants to have sex with you he CANNOT be taken seriously!!!
That leaves the world to the unattractive women by default. But since they have so little in common with me I can’t imagine they’ll govern my way.
After noting how McCain clearly picked Palin because he was a bit “smitten” with the idea of a beautiful woman talking him up and NOT because of her great political skills and aptitude with people, Kathleen Parker notes this:
If McCain, rightful heir to the presidency, loses to Obama, history undoubtedly will note that he was defeated at least in part by his own besotted impulse to discount the future. If he wins, he must be credited with having correctly calculated nature’s power to befuddle.
Let’s vet this ending.
-”rightful heir to the presidency”, based on what? GOP poll numbers? Bush’s favorability ratings? How well McCain did in 2000?
-”history undoubtedly”……I suspect history won’t even mention McCain if Obama wins. It’ll be all Obama all the time.
-”discount the future”…..yeah, just wait until 2012 and see where you are Ms Parker and see where Palin is.
-”nature’s power to befuddle” by using a beautiful woman.
See what I mean? A beautiful woman can never get ahead with people claiming it’s only because she’s beautiful. Ms Parker even notes the science of it, so you can be sure!
Today Charles Krauthammer endorses McCain. With good arguments against the counter.
McCain the “erratic” is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.
Nor will I countenance the “dirty campaign” pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed that McCain supports “cutting Social Security benefits in half.” And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.
Today the NYTimes endorses Obama (of which I’ve only read one page so far) with this idiotic reason:
As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.
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Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.
Read that again because I know you skipped it. Yes, they are endorsing him BECAUSE HE MET THE CHALLENGES OF A 2 YEAR CAMPAIGN.
Yep. I’ll read the details later, but seriously that is their summation.
