Obama may, or may not, share the racist, anti-white, anti-Semite, anti-American views of his long time pastor and spiritual adviser, Jeremiah Wright. But here’s the kicker: Obama is an adult; he had the education and, even twenty years ago, the life experience to be able to filter out Wright’s trash talk.
Not so his [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Teach your children
Posted in Democrats, Obama on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Third-rate city, fourth-rate team
Posted in America, Sports on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I grew up going to baseball games at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. In the New York City of my boyhood, you were, depending on who your parents were and in which borough of the city you lived, a fan of one of the following: The New York Yankees, The New York [...]
“fear-mongering?”
Posted in Iraq, War and Peace on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The man who bears no small responsibility for handing Iran over to the mullahs now speaks, deus ex cathedra from the WaPo, about how we should end our Iraq misery.
The man with the very long and unpronounceable name, routinely referred to as “Z-Big” in the national security corridors, and not without some derision. He [...]
Just another lying politico
Posted in Obama on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via Hotline, the quote of the day:
“One thing I think people overstate is that he is my spiritual adviser.”– Barack Obama, on Jeremiah Wright, “The View,” ABC, 3/28.
Let’s see. Twenty years attending Wright’s church. Wright married him, and baptized his daughters. Obama gave tens of thousands to the church.
Now as far as we know, Obama [...]
Don’t worry about the Jews
Posted in Judaism on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much has been made, and will continue to be made about the fulminations of anti-Semites such as the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, his oh-so-great-friend and ObamaPastor Jeremiah Wright. Not to mention the tripe that passes for discourse in the Islamic Middle East (for examples, just visit MEMRI).
Anti-Semitism should be taken as the serious [...]
Don’t jump to conclusions
Posted in Democrats, Politics on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found that Hillary and Obama are tied in their to-the-death struggle. Ok, perhaps not to-the-death. But at least to the Denver convention, according to Hillary this a.m.
The poll’s conclusions? From the WSJ report on the poll:
The racially charged debate over Barack Obama’s relationship with [...]
God and Allah at Harvard
Posted in Islam, Liberty on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Holy hijab, batman! Militant Islam will always find enablers among fair-minded people. Fair-minded, if, perhaps, a little weak on their history. Ruth Marcus is one such, who writes an oh-so-reasonable column today which could be titled, “why can’t we all just get along?”
The immediate provocations may seem slight: Harvard University restricting [...]
Lying and whoring
Posted in Crime and Punishment, Democrats, Idiotarians on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sounds about right for a Detroit lowlife. We have today before us the sad, sad story of one Kwame Kilpatrick, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, now brought up on charges of committing eight felonies. Yes, of course, innocent until proven guilty.
But this man sure has a lot of explaining to do, to say the [...]
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s lifespan
Posted in America, Liberty on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The tenth commandment (found in Exodus 20:17 may be accurately summarized as an instruction not to covet anything of your neighbor’s. By logical extension, this would include his lifespan. We apparently all don’t agree with this.
In the Church of Perpetual Grievance, the latest revelation appears to be the rather unsurprising fact that folks [...]
Interesting datum
Posted in Democrats, Politics on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jim Geraghty on the “raw vote.” That is, the absolute totals of votes cast in the primaries and caucuses:
Most of the various versions of the raw vote counts have Obama up. And superdelegates are free to take that into account, or any other factor they deem relevant. But if Barack Obama carries 47.5 percent [...]
Nice try, Sen. Bayh
Posted in Democrats, Politics on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sounds reasonable, up to a point. From Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, this from a man who might be working at Sam’s Club if his last name were Smith:
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), who endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for president, “proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator [...]
In their own words
Posted in Obama on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for twenty years, in a sermon: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
Barack Obama on Wright: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”
Oh, yes. And this from the tone-deaf Obama: [...]
Count on it
Posted in Obama, Racism on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sure as God made little green apples, you will be seeing more of the Rev Wright this election season. A lot more. Obama’s crazy but beloved “uncle” is radioactive to any who value the truth, to any who value racial harmony as opposed to sowing racial hatred. Which is Wright’s stock [...]
Democracy in Inaction
Posted in Democrats, Idiotarians on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The do-over is over for Michigan and Florida. Dems just couldn’t get their act together. The WaPo story dryly notes that this is “a potentially serious blow to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the White House.”
You could say that. You could also say that she is now dead meat; her candidacy [...]
What the imams fear
Posted in Christianity, Islam on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A little David Pryce-Jones this Good Friday. His subject is the unsurprising fact that Islam can not coexist in peace with other faiths. He provides his insights in the context of a visit this week to Israel, to walk in the footsteps of Jesus on the Via Dolorosa.
That said, and he cites the [...]
A friend to Hamas
Posted in Democrats on March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Jeremiah Wright is the gift that keeps on giving. Barack Hussein Obama (this time his middle name will fit) has lain down with the white-hating, America-hating, Jew-hating angry black man. Lain down for twenty years; given tens of thousands of dollars to the man’s church; and, given the choice, repudiated not him but [...]
I’m ready; just not for this one
Posted in Politics, race on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John McWhorter wrote, “I, for one, am still ready for a black president. I wonder if the rest of America is.” I’d like to think we are. Just not this one. Here’s why:
Barack Obama, with his difficulties with Wright, and the as-yet to be fully developed Rezko connection, has shown that [...]
Join, or Die
Posted in America, Freedom on March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The original rattlesnake flag was a plea for unity during the French and Indian Wars. Ben Franklin adapted the image of a rattler severed into segments, each representing a colony or group of colonies — the head labeled “N.E.” for New England. Rightly so, as this is where the Sons of Liberty first [...]
Why that’s so crazy…
Posted in Politics on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…it just might help Republicans this November. Ruth Marcus in her column today has proposed a very interesting idea about holding a different kind of candidates debate:
My modest proposal is different: The Democratic candidates should debate John McCain. Think of it as Lincoln-Douglas-Douglas — especially fitting in a year that marks the 150th [...]
“occasionally fierce critic”
Posted in Democrats, Politics on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s Barack Obama, who has apparently gotten the Nixon thing of lying while appearing to be forthcoming down pat. Of the hatemonger Jeremiah Wright, Obama claims that he is “an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy.”
“Fierce critics” who tell absurdities, such as that the U.S. government foisted drugs and AIDs on [...]
Pretty words; ugly candidate
Posted in Politics on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Obama has now officially become a newer, younger, shinier version of Richard Nixon. How so? What crimes and misdemeanors has BO committed? None that I know of, so far. But what he has done is stretch the truth, smear it out, and basically make the Nixonian argument: everyone does [...]
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you…
Posted in Politics, race on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No, not Mrs. Robinson. Barack Obama, now in extreme damage control mode. Just ahead of Obama’s speechifying, here’s a tidbit from Shelby Steele about the greater problem of race and the “bargain” that some blacks have made:
How does one “transcend” race in this church? The fact is that Barack Obama has fellow-traveled with [...]
Obama’s prospects stone dead?
Posted in Politics on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
John Derbyshire writes thusly about the likely impact of Jeremiah Wright on Barack Obama’s campaign:
It has also, of course, been Barack Obama’s church for most of his adult life. That last clause is highly relevant. Obama was not born and raised in this church: He chose it prior to entering Harvard Law School in 1988. [...]
Why not freedom for Tibet?
Posted in Communism, Freedom on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
March 17 is St. Patrick’s day, and we Christians of Irish or other European ancestry owe this man for spreading the faith among the heathens. We pretend to be Irish for one day and cheapen the saint’s actual feats by drinking green beer and carousing. But it’s all in good fun, and, after centuries [...]
The Empire Strikes Back
Posted in Churches, Idiotarians on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In this case, it is the Empire of the Church of the Wholly Inappropriate Message. United Church of Christ, Hate Whitey, Hate America Division. Also known as Trinity UCC in Chicago; church of “reverend” Jeremiah Wright infamy. Or, in the parlance of us working class kids from the Bronx, “some guys just [...]
“promoting progressive values”
Posted in Christianity, Churches on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Church as politics. That is the sad fate of far too many churches. Case in point is the United Church of Christ, of which the most (in)famous example of late is the America-hating Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity UCC in Chicago. If I were a UCC booster, I think the last thing I’d [...]
“raving bigot”
Posted in Politics on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Krauthammer talks at least as well as most people write. Here’s his take during a panel discussion on Obama’s minister problem (from Fox News):
And now he [Obama] is in a panic. He is going to be on the three cable networks tonight.But this isn’t a problem, this is a scandal. This could be [...]
Personality cult
Posted in Politics on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Consider this Obama poster, produced by a supporter.
The poster is creepy. Totalitarian. Looks like the kind of thing you’d get from Oceania’s Minitrue.
What this poster conveys to me is: Vote for Obama or Die.
Tip o’ the fedora to Jim Geraghty’s Campaign Spot.
Quote of the day
Posted in Democrats, Politics on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Rich Lowry, over at the New York Post: Democrats are famous for forming circular firing squads.
This in the context of Ferraro-gate, who now has regained her 15 minutes of fame. She was likely right in her assessment; Obama wouldn’t be where he is were he not counted as black (hey, he’s [...]
Dogs and Fleas
Posted in Politics, Racism on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s not hard to find denunciations of Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, among conservatives. But now the mainstream media seems to have noticed that this pastor, just retired, isn’t just “controversial.” He’s a mean-spirited racist who hates America; apparently has for quite some time.
None of which would matter, except for some facts that [...]
