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Obama: Student Radical
Posted by: tipper || 07/06/2009 15:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Isn't it interesting that Bambi's Columbia paper bubbles up as he sits in Moscow? It's almost as if someone has awoken to the fact that he wants to negotiate a radical, unsustainable disarmament plan.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2009 15:29 Comments || Top||

#2  But then, there are some things we shouldn't have to live through in order to want to avoid the experience.

Little did Barry know that these sage words would oneday be self-applicable.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2009 15:43 Comments || Top||


Feminists and the mystery of Sarah Palin
A very long piece from "reclusive Feminist," a liberal who seems to see things very clearly.
...it has not escaped my attention that many of the things Palin is accused of, falsely, are actually true of Obama. This is a guy who, as a U.S. senator from Illinois, didn't even know which Senate committees he was on or which states bordered his own. (And don't even get me started on Joe "The Talking Donkey" Biden, who thinks FDR was president during the stock market crash and that people watched TV in those days.) I'm not saying Obama's a moron, but he's sure as hell no genius. People say Sarah Palin rambles; excuse me, but have you actually heard Obama speak extemporaneously? As for being a diva, surely we all remember the Possomus sign and the special embroidered pillow on the Obama campaign plane. The fact is, Obama is an intellectually mediocre narcissist with a thin resume who's lost without a teleprompter and whose entire campaign had all the substance and gravity of a Pepsi commercial. Yet people say Sarah Palin is a fluffy bunny diva.

So: are we back to Obama after all? Is this a transference thing? Are people subconsciously frustrated by the fact that Obama is an empty suit, and are they transferring that rage to Palin?
Go read it all; it's worth your time.
Posted by: Mike || 07/06/2009 07:58 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's one thing to get all this PDS--including knowing lies--from dems and libs. It's another, according to the reclusive feminist, to have them coming down drenched in boiling acid from feminists.
The post and the comments explore the possible reasons.
Can't say they're all right. The patriarchy is blamed without consideration for all the men who voted for and otherwise support Palin. But it's the bad menz who made the women so vicious. Figures.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/06/2009 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Very excellent post. I loved the term ..."Godbag."

“A godbag is a bag full of hate and self-loathing wearing stage makeup that makes it look like a televangelist.”
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2009 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe you spelled "menz" wrong if you are trying to explain women and vicious, Richard.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 07/06/2009 9:22 Comments || Top||

#4  red.
It's spelled exactly right, if you read any femblogs.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/06/2009 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Mense. Look it up. Don't make me explain.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 07/06/2009 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Yup. She's:

1. Not elite, and therefore unfit to lead anyone in a democracy.
2. Fertile, which threatens sterile feminists.
3. Has a handsome husband, which also threatens them.
4. It's all projection of unacceptable thoughts onto the "other".

A great piece, it's heartening to see liberals sit up and say, "hey, maybe it's not a good idea to call Palin a cunt." Only a few of them, but it's a start.
Posted by: gromky || 07/06/2009 10:32 Comments || Top||

#7  1. Not elite, and therefore unfit...

I have never been able to understand this "elite" business. Who appoints these elites? How do they get elite status?

Seems like they self-designate, and then all the other wanna-be elites stand around and say...yeah, right on. These people are mentally ill.
Posted by: Injun Grinesing9686 || 07/06/2009 11:05 Comments || Top||

#8  A. Born into noble family.
B. Admitted to elite school on basis of ability; expected to renounce humble past and become One Of Us.

If you're not an elite, then by what means do you claim the power to govern? You're no more than an ordinary citizen, a beast to be herded really. Moreover, it lessens the accomplishments of the elite, because if anyone can do it, then what was the point of learning the secret handshake?
Posted by: gromky || 07/06/2009 11:14 Comments || Top||

#9  What the feminists don't verbalize is that even they consider blacks to outrank them in the grievance list. No matter how bad women had it it was mostly a cake-walk compared to slavery. When it came up to a choice between a woman and a black man there was no comparison (ask Hillary).

When the woman was of a different political affiliation they assaulted her for forcing them to confront there own emotions on the issue.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/06/2009 13:39 Comments || Top||

#10  red. Don't even try to explain. "mense" is periodic, ahem.
The reference to the bad menz is permanent. The bad menz are responsible for all bad things, including making the strong, independent, deep-thinking feminists savage Palin with misogynist slanders because said strong, independent deep-thinking feminists are brainwashed by the Patriarchy, which is made up of bad menz.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/06/2009 14:15 Comments || Top||

#11  "The bad menz are responsible for all bad things, including making the strong, independent, deep-thinking feminists savage Palin with misogynist slanders because said strong, independent deep-thinking feminists are brainwashed by the Patriarchy, which is made up of bad menz..." I used to think rather a lot of John McCain - but after how he and his staff hung her out to dry, I'm afraid I think considerably less of him.

About the most sensible deconstruction I've seen yet...
Seriously, the attacks on SP from the old-line feminists were just absolutely insane ... and yest, there is a great deal of transference about it. All the most awful things of which she was accused, over and over and over, and yet one more time again ... they were all debunked, over and over and over, and yet they still kept coming up, more persistent than Freddy Kruger.
Here in the heart of flyover America, I didn't talk to a woman after she was picked for VP who didn't think she was a great pick, and an amazing and inspiring person. At a Tea Party planning meeting, when we had a a visit from a guy whose claim to fame was that he had written about Joe the Plumber, the instant he said that he had traveled with the McCain campaign, the first words out of the mouths of the other three women on the committee was "Did you meet Sarah Palin?!"
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 07/06/2009 20:12 Comments || Top||


Limbaugh: Beltway bunch wrong about Palin


h/t Radio Equalizer for getting this interview form a vacationing Rush Limbaugh.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/06/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Friday announcements are supposed to pass by the press, evading close scrutiny. Not this one! She beat Michael Jackson's ongoing death extravaganza and even some of the Fourth of July events. What a woman! And she managed to catch everyone by surprise. Not many can accomplish that these days.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 07/06/2009 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  She's out there donks, and she's coming after YOU! All of YOU!
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2009 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Leave it to Rush to state the obvious part that everyone else either missed or willfully ignored: we don't know why she did it.

She hasn't told us. She knows why and she'll explain it in time.

But today it's all speculation on our part.

Instapundit has suggested that it's part of a move to grab hold of the Tea Party. Maybe, but third parties typically don't do well. Others have suggested that she'll work to change the Pubs from within just as Reagan did in the 1970s. Still others say that she's going to go the talk show route.

We don't know. But she's going to show us. And it's going to be interesting.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2009 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  It may be too little, too late. Obamageddon is upon us.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2009 9:25 Comments || Top||

#5  She's out there donks, and she's coming after YOU! All of YOU!

Let's hope she collects the heads of more than a few of the RINO's as well. The GOP needs a serious house cleaning. The tent is too big.
Posted by: Injun Grinesing9686 || 07/06/2009 10:57 Comments || Top||

#6  The tent is plenty big - the problem is the GOP establishment has let in so many jackals and weasels that they've taken over.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/06/2009 11:08 Comments || Top||

#7  The only crazier decision I can think of than Palin resigning is Lee dividing his army at Chancellorsville.
Posted by: Matt || 07/06/2009 13:08 Comments || Top||

#8  All the pundits are calling it a "strategy". I think it's about a mom trying to protect her family.
Posted by: DMFD || 07/06/2009 19:45 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Neda Soltani, symbol of the Iranian protests, was a Christian
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/06/2009 16:56 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wondered about that cross she was wearing...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/06/2009 17:44 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2009-07-06
  China: At Least 140 Killed in Uighur Riots
Sun 2009-07-05
  British Forces Join Afghan Operation
Sat 2009-07-04
  US forces repel Taliban suicide assault, kill 22 Taliban fighters
Fri 2009-07-03
  15 dead in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan
Thu 2009-07-02
  Mousavi, Karroubi call Short Round govt ''illegitimate''
Wed 2009-07-01
  11 cross-dressing Haqqani turbans arrested in Khost
Tue 2009-06-30
  Iran confirms Ahmadinejad's victory
Mon 2009-06-29
  Mousavi's website shut down
Sun 2009-06-28
  Saad al-Hariri Leb's new premier
Sat 2009-06-27
  Council appoints commission to probe election
Fri 2009-06-26
  Mousavi warns of more protests
Thu 2009-06-25
  Somali legislators flee abroad, Parliament paralysed
Wed 2009-06-24
  Khamenei agrees to extend vote probe
Tue 2009-06-23
  Revolutionary Guards Say They'll Crush Protests
Mon 2009-06-22
  Guardian Council: Over 100% voted in 50 cities


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