The Wright mess, and it’s a right old mess, indeed, should disqualify Barack Obama for the presidency. Why? Pick which scenario makes Obama and his relationship with Wright and Wright’s church look better:
Door Number One: Obama truly does not agree with Wright’s spew. And, thus, Obama attended Trinity United Church of [...]
Archive for April, 2008
It’s the Wright thing to do
Posted in Obama on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gimme Sunshine
Posted in Democrats, Politics on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The presidency will not be won on the basis of how many blacks voted for Obama in Mississippi or South Carolina, or how many latte-sippin’ white liberals lacking day jobs hung about in caucuses in the liberal precincts of Iowa and Wisconsin.
Nope. The election will be decided in a few big states. States [...]
Ten dollars
Posted in Liberty on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here in Virginia, ten dollars is what you need to get a state-issued photo identification card. That’s assuming you don’t have a driver’s license, in which case you don’t need an i.d. card.
It’s a fair assumption that all states have i.d. cards available to those who don’t need driver’s licenses. Indiana, whose photo [...]
Self-hating black
Posted in Idiotarians, Racism on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dana Milbank, the normally liberal political columnist/observer for the WaPo, has a good summary of the Wright fireworks of the past two days.
It’s worth reading, just as a reminder of what a rabid dog Jeremiah Wright is. Here’s one particular line of the dear reverend’s tirade that struck me, about another rabid dog, one [...]
No brainiac, he
Posted in Idiotarians, Politics on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jeremiah Wright is on his Great Normalcy Tour of 2008. This is good for Hillary Clinton; even better for John McCain. Maybe not so much for Obama. In fact, I’d be inclined to believe that Obama more than kind of wishes that Jeremiah has simply shut up and gone off to live [...]
Quacks like one
Posted in Democrats, Obama, Politics on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck…well, you know. It’s a water fowl. Foulness
of a different kind is to be found in St. Barack of Obama, who is fearful of meeting Hillary again, mano-a-mano.
Hillary’s even proposed that they debate a cappela as it were, with none [...]
Sorry to spoil your fun
Posted in America, International, Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
J’aime Paris, mes amis. That said, now I can go about trashing a whiny American ex-pat who writes, in the WaPo, of her trials and tribulations living in Paris. It’s all about the Euro, of course. Now at about $1.60 per; about double of where it was when it was [...]
President’s pastor?
Posted in Obama on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via Jim Geraghty’s Campaign Spot, here’s the latest tidbit from the man who would be the president’s pastor. If the nation is blind enough to elect Barack Obama, that is:
“We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag, calling on the name a [...]
Taxing problem
Posted in Liberty on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As Obama apparently can’t comprehend, raising the capital gains tax reduces revenue. Lowering it has the reverse effect. It’s fairly simple in concept: taxation is a punishment for making money; punish less, more will be kept. As more money is kept, more can be sent back into the economy.
Taxation can be [...]
Not too good at math, either
Posted in Democrats, race on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a man who claims to be speaking for all blacks: Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC). As reported by the WaPo, he’s issued a threat: choose Obama, or blacks will stay home in November.
Now, he didn’t say precisely that. First, what he did say was “I’m speaking on behalf of African [...]
That dog won’t hunt
Posted in Obama, Politics on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the ad that McCain’s people apparently can’t suppress. Although why they should want to is beyond reason, unless they truly don’t want to have to face Hillary Clinton.
Yes, it’s a GOP ad, acusing Obama as being too extreme for North Carolina. And smearing the Dem candidates who might [...]
Tribes
Posted in Democrats, Politics on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s come down to race. Barack Obama, the black candidate, can no longer credibly claim to be the candidate of any except blacks and affluent whites. He doesn’t transcend race; he embodies it.
From Politico.com, just one example of what the post-Pennsylvania primary reality has become:
…when Obama finishes the primary season ahead in elected [...]
Slow-pitch softball
Posted in Racism on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, quite by mistake, I happened to watch a snippet of Bill Moyers licking the shoes (this is a family blog…) of J. Wright, St. Barack of Obama’s lovely pastor. Sorry, ex-pastor, the one described by Obama as some sort of slightly deranged old uncle, who a) doesn’t mean anything by what he [...]
Watching a trainwreck in slow motion
Posted in Democrats, Politics on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watching the Democratic primary season unfold is akin to watching two trains moving slowly, and blindly, towards each other on the same track. There’s a switch to a siding, but the switchman is asleep at the switch. And we keep watching, letting the laws of physics do as they will.
The switchman is actually [...]
Guts
Posted in Politics on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re a Hillary supporter, you may want to think about voting for the man who has the virtue of speaking the truth. No, that’s not Obama, who seems to have at least tasted the Democrat’s KoolAid brew of lying and pandering.
Case in point is the turnabout for Clinton on NAFTA. Bill Clinton [...]
Slices
Posted in Democrats, Politics on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are many ways to slice the latest bit of the Democrats wandering in the wilderness of the Keystone State. First, consider this breakdown from the New York Times:
Democrats
Based on questionnaires filled out by voters across the state.
% of total
Clinton
Obama
23
High school graduate
64
36
25
Some college or associate degree
51
49
21
College graduate
46
53
26
Postgraduate study
48
52
55
The economy
56
44
28
The war in Iraq
44
56
14
Health care
54
46
Graphic: [...]
Man up, Scotland
Posted in Anglosphere, Liberty on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s come down to this: the Nancys in Brussels have ordered the Scots to pipe down. Bagpipes are just so darn noisy; it’s unhealthful to listen to them; more so to actually be a piper. From the Times (UK):
Their high-pitched skirl has put fear into the hearts of Scotland’s enemies and sent [...]
Earth Day, RIP
Posted in Idiotarians, environment on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earth Day has been declared officially dead. For those of us who haven’t been paying close attention, Earth Day is, apparently, the one day a year set aside to guilt us into doing something for the environment.
Unless you are a lemming, or a sheep, you tend to ignore noble causes that everyone seems to [...]
Bitter amateur
Posted in Obama, Politics on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
St. Barack the Whiner has shown his true face over the past month or so. Building on an earlier list, here’s what we’ve got in the man who is “the one we’ve been waiting for:”
He is inexperienced
He is well outside the political mainstream in what record he does have
He’s got questionable associations with a [...]
“we like Mr. Obama”
Posted in Politics on April 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here’s one endorsement Barack Obama probably wishes had not happened. It’s Jimmy Carter’s new best pals, Hamas. From Carl Cameron:
During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.
“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) [...]
Dogs; lie down with; fleas
Posted in Obama, Politics on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder about the people Barack Obama chooses to hang with. And why it is oh, so unfair, for anyone to actually ask about it. From Michael Barone:
Barack Obama seemed puzzled. Angrily puzzled. The apostle of hope seemed flummoxed by the audacity of the question. At the April 16 Philadelphia debate, George [...]
Vatican couture
Posted in Christianity on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pope Benedict XVI is in town. In Washington, D.C. and now New York. Tens of thousands of the faithful flock to get a glimpse of the popemobile, or, for those lucky enough to get tickets, attend a mass presided over by the Holy Father himself.
The Pope said all the right things about sexual [...]
“It is the moment of Obama”
Posted in Obama, Politics on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s official: the Democrats can just pack it up and go home, and start the left-wing attacks on John McCain. Obama has the nomination; Hillary can surrender. At least that is the opinion of the usually savvy Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal column. The essence:
…whatever happens in Pennsylvania, the [...]
Enough about me, let’s talk about me
Posted in Democrats, Politics on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Hussein Obama (hey, if it is “Hillary Rodham Clinton” then why do Obama supporters think it is unfair to use his middle name?) is now whining that we are “obsessed” with what he says on the stump.
From Politico, these words about how it is so very hard when what you say is taken to [...]
Confused, he is
Posted in Liberty, Politics on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s Obama last night on the Second Amendment:
“As a general principle, I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right…”
Actually, that’s exactly what that means. We live in [...]
Media matters
Posted in Media, Politics on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some liberals simply can’t take the heat. Here are two media reactions to last night’s debate. One seems written by a guy who is smitten with Obama, to the extent that he won’t acknowledge that his candidate could possibly do poorly.
That man in Tom Shales, longtime liberal (and, in fairness, excellent in his [...]
“a fool’s bargain”
Posted in Churches on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some words from Phil Lawler’s new book, The Faithful Departed (via Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Con):
The bishops made a fool’s bargain. They were prepared to sacrifice the essential elements of the Catholic faith: the moral teaching, the clerical discipline, even the loving care for the faithful. In return, they hoped to prop up the prestige of [...]
Eight days to go until we are free
Posted in Liberty on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the day the day you’ve got to get your money winging its way to the Internal Revenue “Service.” More accurately for most of us, the balance owed on top of what you had already paid during 2007. For those who have gotten refunds, congrats — you’ve [...]
On Elitism
Posted in America, Politics on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Democrats, when they condescend to Americans in places like Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Wilkinsburg (PA, The City of Churches, where I’ve lived), may be no more guilty of elitism than Republicans.
What they are guilty of is a big ol’ 55-gallon drum full of hypocrisy. The Democrats of today are the lineal descendants of Thomas [...]
“a grave and dangerous mistake”
Posted in Idiotarians, War and Peace on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The title pretty much sums up Jimmy Carter’s plans to meet with Hamas. It is part of this statement from John McCain (via NRO’s The Corner):
“It is a grave and dangerous mistake for an American leader to meet with a terrorist organization like Hamas. Engaged in a campaign that deliberately targets innocent Israeli civilians, [...]
