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Obama Opens Path To Own Believability

Sep 28, 2008 Political

During this election Barack Obama has been using guilt by association to paint John McCain as a third term of George Bush because McCain votes with his party 90% of the time. Barack Obama votes with his party 97% of the time and shock of all shocks, most politicians fit in that pattern. But Obama is willing to associate John McCain with George Bush because they are in the same party and have agreed on some issues. Since McCain has discussed things with the president and has agreed with him then McCain must be a third term of Bush, they are one in the same. Obama wants this to stick with the electorate and he shows McCain and Bush together in many of his ads.

A friend sent this in an email and it is right on target:

From the Debate:“So to stand here and after eight years and say that you’re going to lead on controlling spending and, you know, balancing our tax cuts so that they help middle class families when over the last eight years that hasn’t happened I think just is, you know, kind of hard to swallow.”

But BHO somehow missing the venomous ravings of his mentor/pastor for 20+ years, and the public pro-terror pronouncements of his political guru Ayers is supposed to be easy to swallow?

This is great. Obama wants voters to believe that since McCain was there during the eight years that Bush was and did not do anything to fix things, it is unbelievable but Obama wants us to further believe that when he spent 20 years at a radical church with a racist pastor and did not leave or change things, that is OK.

So, now that Obama has made it clear that the standard is if you were there you should have changed things, I want to know why Obama (the so called candidate of change) did not change things at that church or change his participation? I want to know why Obama did not change his associations with a known domestic terrorist. I want to know why he did not change his association with Rezko, who might now cooperate with prosecutors.

You see, Obama has set the standard with what is to be believed and what is not. Since he has spent years with shady people, racists, terrorists, and other corrupt politicians it is only fair to conclude that Obama knew about all these people, what they were doing and he stayed with them either because he agreed with them or they could help him politically, or both.

One thing is certain, Obama cannot claim that it is unfair to use guilt by association because he has set the standard.

It is also fair state to Obama:
“So to stand here and after twenty years say that you don’t hold the radical views of Pastor Wright and, you know, never heard him talk like we have seen on the videos and that is why you are now leaving the church when over the last twenty years that hasn’t happened I think just is, you know, kind of hard to swallow.”

Or as someone who recently wrote to me said:

Note the subtle message also: You, Senator McCain, have been president for eight years because you are George Bush so I am going to make you responsible for everything this administration has done. Since I, Senator Barrack Obama, have never done anything, I can be held responsible for nothing. Yes, Wright did stuff, Ayers did stuff, Rezko did stuff. But I have never passed a bill, proposed an idea that became a law, administered nothing. So since I never did anything and all these other people were doing stuff which I have no responsibility for, I am perfect. I am the anointed one.

Osama and Obama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon and speak about hatred for America and that, my friends, is the most unbelievable of all.

Big Dog Salute to Phil

Tags: association, belief, Obama, osama, pastor, radical wright, terrorist ayers

Obama Opposes First And Second Amendment

Sep 28, 2008 Political

Barack Hussein Obama is against the First and Second Amendments to the United States Constitution and he denying the use of one to silence information about the other. Barack Obama has held anti gun views throughout his political career. He favors bans on handgun sales, bans on most hunting ammunition and bans on many of the rifles and shotguns we use to participate in sport. Make no mistake about it, despite the nuances and lies of the campaign, Obama has a history of opposing gun ownership. His support of the Heller decision runs counter to his claims of supporting the DC gun ban. Obama will say anything now that he realizes that he needs the gun clingers to win this election.

So, in order to win Obama will trample on our rights. It has been previously reported that the Obama campaign has been working with law enforcement in Missouri in order to harass people who say things about Obama that are considered to be a lie. This is illegal and reflects the kind of tactics one would expect from a Communist leader, not someone who wants to be the leader of a FREE country. The Obama campaign is taking its suppression of rights two steps farther.

Obama’s lawyers have sent letters to broadcast stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania criticizing them for airing an NRA ad that they claim is full of lies (but is demonstrably full of true statements) and covertly threaten the broadcast license of the stations if they continue to air the ad. The Obama campaign is threatening the First Amendment right of the stations as well as the NRA (and therefore its members) in order to suppress Obama’s threat to the Second Amendment. The ad (embedded in this post and placed in my sidebar) demonstrates Obama’s threat to the Second Amendment and Obama does not want those who bitterly cling to their guns to see it. I encourage all bloggers who support the Second Amendment to put the video up on their blogs, Obama and his lawyers be damned.

Yes Barry, this is a reason not to vote for you. You found that out and are trying to use thuggery to suppress the people but it won’t work.

These thuggish acts are right out of the Chicago politics playbook and portray an ominous future in an Obama administration where people’s Second Amendment rights would be under attack as would those who dare to write or say anything about the “Dear Leader, Obama.” I doubt however, that the rogue leaders of the world would pay much attention to a letter from Obama’s lawyers expressing dissatisfaction over words used to describe the Dear Leader.

Barack Obama and his thugs are liars, they are miscreants who use strong armed tactics to run roughshod over people who disagree with them. Well screw them. We will not allow them to take away any of the rights enumerated in our Constitution. I took an oath to protect this country against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. Obama is a domestic enemy of our Constitution (who keeps company with domestic terrorists in this country) and we must stop him at all costs. The first method is by opposition to him and his lawyers and their demands, peacefully at first and then escalating to whatever level is necessary to stop the assault.

The second way is to ensure that this Communist is not elected to the presidency of this country. If that becomes a reality our rights will be under further assault.

And we will not allow that to happen no matter what we need to do to stop it.

For a guy who claims not to be a Muslim he sure acts like them when it comes to people saying or writing things he does not like.

Sic semper tyrannis

Others:
The Volokh Conspiracy (corrects Fact Check’s errors) | The Bitch Girls | Instapundit | Snowflakes in Hell

Tags: communism, first amendment, Obama, rights, Second Amendment, suppression of voters, thugs

Obama’s Me Too Moment Backfires

Sep 27, 2008 Political

…When he could not remember the soldier’s name on his bracelet.

I was convinced that there were no real gaffes in the debate last night. I knew that Obama had agreed with McCain a lot and that that would be in an ad just as I knew that McCain not mentioning the middle class (he mentioned no social classes) would be in an Obama ad.

It looks like there is a defining moment that I had not picked up. I was not watching the screen at the time so I did not see it but it is starting to get traction today. It is well known that John McCain wears the bracelet bearing the name of a soldier killed in Iraq and he tells the story about how it was given by the mother of the dead man and how she asked not to let her son die in vain by losing (The Obama Plan). Obama must have known McCain would say something, or at least his handlers prepared him for the possibility. After McCain told his story Barry said something like, me too, me too, I have a bracelet too and it has the name of uhh, uhh, uhh, it was given to me by the mother of (looks at bracelet to get name) Sgt. Ryan Jopek who said to me not to let other mothers go through this grief. Watch the video:

Obama could not remember the name of the soldier that is engraved on the bracelet he has. I am not saying his story is untrue or that he only wore the bracelet for the debate (though if anyone on the campaign trail could get a picture of him without it…). Before all the liberal twits get their panties in a wad, I don’t think wearing one is some requisite to be president. However, if you are going to wear one you need to wear it all the time and not for political gain and if you are going to reference it you need to know the name on it.

I think the McCain camp or one of the 527s could make a great ad out of this gaffe by Obama. This is worse than a sigh or looking at a watch. He was conveying to America that the mother of a soldier asked him to wear the bracelet with her son’s name and not to let this happen to another mother and that he was so moved by it he wears that bracelet. But he also conveyed that he was not moved enough to remember the guy’s name.

With regard to “me too”, The New Republic points out that Obama agreed with admitting Georgia and the Ukraine to NATO. This is the same position that Sarah Palin had when Charlie Gibson interviewed her and the answer that caused him to have seizures at the idea we might have to assist Georgia, were it in NATO, if the Russians attacked it. It is the position all the Palin bashers say was the wrong one but nary a word when Obambi said it.

At least he did not have to look at a bracelet to get the name of the country…

In a related story, a study shows liberals tend to be cowardly and conservatives do not. Might explain why there are so many conservatives in the military and why liberals refuse to confront our enemies.

Others:
Covertress | Jules Crittenden

UPDATE: NewsBusters reports that the family of SGT Jopek asked Obama not to wear his bracelet earlier in the year. Seems that mom gave it to him as a personal thing and she is upset Obama is using it for political stunts.

Tags: bracelet, fraud, Obama, phony, SGT Ryan Jopek

The Obama Nazis and Other Things

Sep 27, 2008 Political

FIRST DEBATE IN THE BOOKS, PRETTY MUCH A DRAW

Well, it looks like the first debate is out of the way. I think that it was a draw for the most part. McCain showed a great deal of life experience that Obama could only hope for and Obama showed why he was anxious to get the debate under way. He spent 3 days memorizing his lines and he wanted to be able to use them before he forgot them. He looked rehearsed and he looked like he was citing memorized items but he did a good job in delivering them and not making a serious mistake. McCain appeared to be speaking from experience rather than what was written for him in a book. I believe McCain showed he was a leader and Obama seemed to be exasperated at times. No shock, each camp says their guy won. I think it was pretty even. There are not gotchas from it and neither made a critical mistake. It was rather boring. Perhaps the major mistake, if you want to call it that, is Obama saying he agreed with McCain a number of times. Reporters there said it would end up in a commercial and it did, before the debate even ended.

Barack Obama is a liberal and he says he is interested in the rights of people. He is not interested in their right to keep their money and he will increase taxes on everyone. Make no mistake, he is making the same promises Clinton did and then went back on as soon as he was in office. Keep in mind the lower 40% of wage earners pay absolutely no taxes at all.

OBAMA NAZIS ON THE MOVE

Looks like Obama has his Nazis out in full patrol. There will be storm troopers in the guise of badged law enforcement officers and state’s attorneys looking for people who make untrue statements about Obama.

The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign. KMOV [video]

If law enforcement decides to target anyone who lies in politics then they should be able to clean up in DC. It is a target rich environment. How about Obama? He has told lies so if he passes through will he be targeted. This is the same tactic that Obama and his Nazis have been using all along. Flood radio stations to keep people who oppose the Messiah from speaking (marching orders that come DIRECTLY from the campaign), put out propaganda disguised as an anti smear website to clear up lies, enlist law enforcement to crack down on the right of the people to say what they want, when they want…

UPDATE: Governor Blunt responds to the Obama Nazis.

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ONE LESS VOTE FOR OBAMA

Actor Paul Newman died after a long battle with cancer. The liberal icon and salad dressing maker was 83. Breitbart

JACK MURTHA SUED BY MARINE

One of America’s finest has filed a lawsuit against one of America’s worst. Corrupt politician and unindicted ABSCAM co-conspirator Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania is being sued by one of the Marines he wrongly accused of crimes in Iraq. Justin Sharratt was acquitted of all charges and left the Marines with an Honorable Discharge but the attention over Murtha’s statements prejudiced his chances for fair legal proceedings and caused him irreparable harm. I hope he wins and bankrupts Murtha. Jack Murtha is up for reelection. Will you people in his district please vote to get rid of this slimy, corrupt, worm? Here is who should replace him; William Russell, a retired Army officer and Conservative Republican. Get rid of Murtha…

MORE GOVERNMENT SHORTSIGHTEDNESS

The government has not allowed any refineries to be built for decades. There are only 149 refineries in the US (and many are located in the Gulf coast region) and they work at full capacity just to keep up with current demand so every time there is a major storm in the Gulf that shuts down the refineries, gas prices go up, and we face shortages. This is the case with Hurricane Ike which swept through Texas. Refineries were affected and there are gas shortages all throughout the south. If we had more refineries dispersed throughout the nation we could ensure our flow of gas is uninterrupted. The environmentalists and the Liberals refuse to allow more refineries.

ANOTHER STANDOFF WITH RUSSIAN PROXIES?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was to meet Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Friday after Russia risked Washington’s wrath by offering the fierce US foe help developing nuclear energy.

Just what we need, the Russians helping a maniac develop nuclear energy. We do not want the Russians sneaking stuff into Venezuela because there is no doubt that they will be bringing in a lot more than building materials. If we are not careful we will wake up one day and Chavez will be pointing missiles in our direction. If we are not very careful those missiles will have nuclear warheads on them. Chavez is playing a dangerous game. He has plenty of oil so he does not need nuclear power and this is nothing more than the Russians trying to get in our grill. Maybe we should send a hit squad down to take care of this jackass.

Tags: lies, nazis, nuclear, Obama, radical wright, russia, stormtroopers, venezuela

To DC or Not To DC, That Is The Question

Sep 26, 2008 Political

John McCain suspended his campaign activities in order to return to DC and do the job we are paying him to do. The nation faces a financial crisis right now and the politicians are having trouble coming up with a plan to stop the bleeding in our economy and financial markets. Harry Reid specifically requested that McCain come back to Washington though he changed his mind when he found out Barack Obama was not happy about it. There was no doubt McCain would return because he puts the country first. The question was, would Obama return.

Barack Obama answered that when he said that he had a cell phone and if he was needed they could call. I guess since votes of “present” don’t count, he was not needed. This situation calls for leadership and this is why Harry Reid called for McCain:

“We need, now, the Republicans to start producing some votes for us. We need the Republican nominee for president to let us know where he stands and what we should do.”

Harry Reid is the Leader of the Senate but he said that he needed McCain to tell them “what we should do.” As Ed Morrissey pointed out, Reid did not say that he needed Obama to tell them what they should do. When Harry Reid needed a leader he bypassed Obama and called for McCain.

The Obama campaign and its surrogates are saying that this is a political stunt by McCain. Reid called for him and he responded but after he did Reid changed his mind so the question is, who is playing politics?

I heard Obamabots throughout the day saying that a deal was nearly reached before McCain got there and then McCain messed it up. The reality is, both chambers had not agreed on a bill. The Senate had a plan but the House had not agreed to it. They were not close to a deal because there are many points of contention with the bill. One in particular is this:

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

It appears to me as if the Democrats, the majority party, don’t want to make decisions because they are potentially political disasters that could come back to haunt them in the election. They are trying to pin this on Republicans by making them take the decisions and support the bill. Republicans are refusing to give in on a bad bill.

Obama said that a president should be able to multi-task so there is no need to go to DC when they can be involved by phone. Maybe if Senator Obama spent more time doing his job he would know that a Senator has to be physically present to vote (otherwise he could not vote present). Besides, if Obama wants us to believe he can fix the economy, what better way to show us?

Obama is more interested in debating than working on a crisis in this country. I wonder if 9/11 had happened during a campaign like this, would Obama’s actions be the same as they are now? I would say that they would. Hours after McCain announced his return to DC, Obama’s campaign sent out an email that said the American people only have 40 days left to decide so it is important for the debate to go off as planned. It closes with this:

“This is an important time, and we have to keep this campaign focused on the crucial issues.”

What is a more important issue, addressing the financial problem or debating? Why must the debate go off as planned when Obama refused 10 other debates? Why is it more important to keep the campaign focused on critical issues rather than keeping the Senator focused on the critical issues like say, a financial meltdown? By making this statement Obama has shown that his campaign comes first and the country second. Maybe we would not question his commitment or patriotism if his actions were more like a committed patriot and less egocentric.

Barack Obama only cares about winning. He has spent half of his political life campaigning for another office. This is particularly true with regard to this campaign since he has spent more time on the road pandering for votes than he has working in the Senate (143 days on the job).

Is it too much to ask that he take time away from the campaign trail to do the job that we are paying him to do?

No worries Barry. The Senate leader knows who to call for real leadership and America now knows who puts the country first.

Tags: country, debate, duty, financial crisis, honor, McCain, Obama