"Although the prospect of an Obama presidency, from a satirical perspective, represents a hopeful future of full employment, the editors of ScrappleFace cannot let their own needs stand in the way of the needs of the Senate, or indeed, of the people of the world."
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
10/18/2008 11:50 ||
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I am waiting for someone to endorse him solely because he is black. History, associations, promises, none of that matters, compared to the color of his skin. He may be as profoundly awful as Robert Mugabe or Idi Amin, but it doesn't matter, because he is a brother.
This endorsement shows political maturity, because it addresses the one element of his life that he cannot change. Everything else is up for grabs.
He may completely change his character, or evidence no character whatsoever. He might break promises, betray our national allies, embrace our national enemies, ruin our economy, enslave our people, and behave in an otherwise corrupt and abominable manner.
But he cannot change his skin color. So that is the dominant, single reason why he must be endorsed for President of the United States.
Apparently there is something about Sarah Palin that causes some people to think of her as either the best of candidates or the worst of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral hostility in the media.
The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact that she would be "a heartbeat away from the presidency" if Senator John McCain were elected. But Barack Obama has even less experience-- none in an executive capacity-- and his would itself be the heartbeat of the presidency if he were elected.
Sarah Palin's record is on the record, while whole years of Barack Obama's life are engulfed in fog, and he has had to explain away one after another of the astounding and vile people he has not merely "associated" with but has had political alliances with, and to whom he has directed the taxpayers' money and other money.
Sarah Palin has had executive experience-- and the White House is the executive branch of government. We don't have to judge her by her rhetoric because she has a record.
We don't know what Barack Obama will actually do because he has actually done very little for which he was personally accountable. Even as a state legislator, he voted "present" innumerable times instead of taking a stand one way or the other on tough issues.
"Clean up the mess in Washington"? He was part of the mess in Chicago and lined up with the Daley machine against reformers.
He is also part of the mess in Washington, not only with numerous earmarks, but also as the Senate's second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae, and someone whose campaign has this year sought the advice of disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, who was at the heart of the subprime crisis.
Why then the enthusiasm for Obama and the hostility to Sarah Palin in the media?
One reason of course is that Senator Obama is ideologically much closer to the views of the media than is Governor Palin. But there is more than that. There are other conservative politicians who do not evoke such anger, spite and hate.
Sarah Palin is the one real outsider among the four candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency on the Republican and Democratic tickets. Her whole career has been spent outside the Washington Beltway.
More than that, her whole life has been outside the realm familiar to the intelligentsia of the media. She didn't go to the big-name colleges and imbibe the heady atmosphere that leaves so many feeling that they are special folks. She doesn't talk the way they talk or think the way they think.
Worse yet, from the media's perspective, Sarah Palin does not seek their Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Much is made of Senator Joe Biden's "experience." But Frederick the Great said that experience matters only when valid conclusions are drawn from it.
Senator Biden's "experience" has been a long history of being on the wrong side of issue after issue in foreign policy. He was one of those Senators who voted to pull the plug on financial aid to South Vietnam, which was still defending itself from Communist invaders after the pullout of American troops.
Biden opposed Ronald Reagan's military buildup that helped win the Cold War. He opposed the surge in Iraq last year.
Sarah Palin will not be ready to become President of the United States on the first day that she and John McCain take office. Nobody is.
But being Vice President is a job that can allow a lot of time for studying, and everything about Governor Palin's career says that she is a bright gal with her head on straight. The country needs that far more than it needs people with glib answers to media "gotcha" questions.
Whatever the shortcomings of John McCain and Sarah Palin, they are people whose values are the values of this nation, whose loyalty and dedication to this country's fundamental institutions are beyond question because they have not spent decades working with people who hate America. Nor are they people whose judgments have been proved wrong consistently during decades of Beltway "experience."
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memo to Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, George Will, et al
read this and shut the fuck up
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/18/2008 12:44 Comments ||
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It will only make them try harder. They realize they are losing control of the Republican party and a new generation of leadership is emerging. A generation that doesn't think the way they do and won't follow exactly in their footsteps. You go, girl.
According to court records, creditors have secured at least two liens against [Joe the Plumber] Wurzelbacher, whose legal name is Samuel. Ohio has a $1,182 lien for owed taxes and St. Charles Mercy Hospital has filed a 2007 lien for $1,261.
I think we can all agree that this is critical information.
Not because it says anything about Joe the Plumber, mind you. But it does serve a useful function: it warns any future citizen who might dare question Barack Obama that his life will be closely scrutinized for any irrelevant but embarrassing information.
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Joe probably didn't even know about them. I had one I wasn't told about until months after the fact. Turned out it was a misunderstanding and they reversed it.
And who (besides the left, of course) gives a $hit if Joe is a Nazi even? What matters is the content of the discussion based on a typical entrepreneurial citizen, not whether or not he is personally worthy of discussion.
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whose legal name is Samuel
His legal name is "Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher". But since the entire country is forbidden to mention Obama's middle name , "Hussein", then none of us are allowed to use our middle names either. As the LA times says "it ain't legal."
Funny, in all of this fuss little, or nothing, is being said of 0Bama's Marxist "redistribution of wealth" answer to Joe the Plumber.
We have learned something else: the first amendment applies only to the leftist media and not the ordinary citizen.
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Yes, GK, that's the meme 'One set of rules for me and another set of rules for thee.' Orwell defined it as being a member of the 'Inner Party' and all others the 'Outer Party'.
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Whatever the libtards made up about President Bush fascism is happening, right now, in real time and on TV. Dissenters and non-believers get attacked by the press and air dirty laundry (All they can come up with is a tax lien which, in my opinion, proves his point about getting to the point of overtaxed). Second, and more disturbing, is the voter fraud. People are getting caught red handed. Caught. Nothing is being done, in fact it is being given the wink. This is documented on TV suppression of dissidents and voter fraud. When asked, to his face, his take on ACORN senator government smile-smirked the very serious alligation off - if a detective came up to you and said you were a suspect in a murder case would you respond with, "I've also been accused of stealing hearts before and plead guilty." No, not an appropriate response anywhere except on Comedy Central (if anyone still watches re-runs of Futurama, not even the good ones at that).
obama instigated the conversation and rattled off his response and probably didn't even know he had pissed off so many people until he got back around his campaign people, "Barry, buddy, that may be what you want to do but don't say that out loud - remember your waffle eating deal, don't know how we got past that but by calling them rascists even though it was obvious they weren't laughing at you but how bad you bowl. And the 'sweetie' deal, hell just the other day I read about a teacher getting fired for allegedly being sexist and you were caught on tape nevermind how pissed you wife was. This, this, well its a pooch screw. Strike three barry - by the way that's a baseball term. Thought you would like to know because as it is people are going to have to wait to see the World Series because you want your informercial. All they gotta do is show your NAFTA fubar, that tape about removing the missile defense and dismantling the military, and this Joe Plumber deal...Christ, where's the scotch - and somebody call biden and tell him to stfu right now. No I don't know where he is or what his speaking topics are I just know who he is and he isn't going to say anything to help."
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Given how heavily blacks seem to be voting for Obama (not racially motivated, of course . . .), I would guess that blacks make up about 20% of the military, which is probably responsible for all the 25% or so Obama votes in the rest of the categories. I wonder how this will translate into the civilian population. I'm guessing Obama will not do as well as the MSM is trying to persuade everyone to believe.
As markets floundered amid the credit crunch, Iran's leadership celebrated the West's economic crisis. On Oct. 11, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared, "The claim that the free market manages all things is a huge lie and benefits only thieves and criminals." Two days later, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decreed that the West's financial crisis was a sign of "the ineffectiveness of liberal democracy-based policies."
The Iranian leadership may rue their words. Ahmadinejad has run Iran's economy into the ground. On Oct. 11, just a day after Ahmadinejad declared prices in decline, the Central Bank reported inflation above 30%. Such figures are still likely low. Both Shahab News and Aftab-e Yazd have noted the tendency of Iranian officials to pull numbers from thin air.
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Posted by: Steve White ||
10/18/2008 00:00 ||
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Condoleezza Rice offers a defiant Tehran financial incentives.
George's ability to select subordinates never ceases astonishing me.
And so should chavez, castro, putin, all the usual suspects, all those tinpot disctators, tribal thugs and the like, but none will, why should they? They don't have to play by the same rules the West does. If mugabe can lecture the West and get standing ovation from african leaders, if castro can be praised by peopel supposedly appaled by the USA's rampant authoritarian streak, then we're in Bizarro world, and Bizarro world rules apply.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
