This Comes via CNN:
Exit Question: God’s Judgment on the Liberals or just a natural weather event?
Year: 2008
Democratic Party regains it’s mind, restores voting rights to Michigan
So much for the Democratic way of sticking to one’s principles.
Via The Detroit News:
The Democratic Party on Sunday ended — for now — the long fight over Michigan’s presidential primary, approving Barack Obama’s request to give Michigan and Florida full voting rights at the national convention that begins here today.
The move by the convention’s Credentials Committee officially reverses the party’s decision last year to punish the two renegade states for holding primaries before their assigned dates. In separate votes, and with the intention of unifying the party, the panel approved the full seating of Michigan and Florida with no debate or opposing votes.
“We succeeded in challenging the system,” said Michigan’s senior U.S. senator, Carl Levin, a longtime opponent of the early contests held in Iowa and especially New Hampshire.
“It wasn’t as smooth as we had hoped, but we succeeded in landing on our feet.”
I suppose the readers of this Blog, especially those who are Conservatives, think that now that the little voting right issue is resolved that Mr. Paleo Pat here will go hopping and skipping back to Democratic Party. Well, think again.
If you think for one solitary second that I would ever, ever! Go back to party that advocates the wholesale abortion of unborn Babies, a party that thrives on the practice of Identity Politics, a party that advocates and even promotes the homosexual lifestyle, a party that advocates that utter disrespect for our Nation’s military, the party that wants this Nation to adapt a strategy of, yes, I use the damn term, “Cut and Run” or as I like to call it. “We lost, Let’s quit”, in Iraq and Afghanistan. You are absolutely and abjectly out of your god-forsaken mind.
There’s no way I would ever, not in a million years, go back to that party. I’ve learned too much, I’ve Blogged too much about them, I know the lies, the deceptions that they heap upon the American people, who are, as Andrew P. Napolitano astutely put it, a nation of sheep.
I am a Independent, Libertarian Conservative, and so shall I remain until I take my last dying breath.
Technorati Tags: Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, Liberal, Liberals, Libertarian, Michigan, Opinion, Politics
Interesting News: Edwards campaign giving refunds, but not to small donors.
This is a very interesting news, which comes to us, by fellow Conservative Blogger LBG1 over at Death by 1000 Papercuts or DBKP for short.
It seems that John Edwards is giving much of his money back to the “Big Bundlers” some of whom are convicted felons. But according to DBKP, not much of it is going back to the Grassroots supporters.
LBG1 Writes:
We found it interesting, at a time when Warren Buffet on CNBC This Morning (courtesy Mickey Kaus at Slate) mused whether Edwards’ contributors should file a class-action suit to get their money back, there’s a whole other “class” of individuals who’ve received their refund. And what an interesting “class” we found:
Out of 667 “bundlers” or designated fundraisers, 276 or 40%, had received a refund of their individual contributions. Not only did the individual bundlers get their money back but in some cases so did their family members.
Other refundees included Fred Baron, Edwards’ former national finance campaign chairman in both the ‘04 and ‘08 elections. Baron recently admitted that he had been monetarily “helping” Edwards’ ex-mistress, Rielle Hunter. The list includes some of Edwards’ largest bundlers, Thomas Girardi, John O’Quinn, and William Lerash, as well as other “famous” refundees: Michael Eisner, Don Henley, Eric Montross, and Michigan Congressman (D) David Bonoir of Michigan.
We took a look at the Edwards campaign website to see if there was any info listed on how to get a refund and came up empty-handed.
We’ve included a list of Edward’s bundlers who have received a refund as well the “moneybags” behind Edwards who got their money back too:
According to Insider Exclusive, Thomas Girardi was named the “The Billion Dollar Gentleman” by the L.A. Daily Journal for $1 billion in verdicts and settlements over a two-year period.
According to Opensecrets.org, Girardi’s firm, Girardi and Keese donated $43,000 to Edwards’ campaign. Thomas Girardi, the founder of the firm, received his Edwards’ refund check as well as members of his family.
Interesting indeed, one has to wonder why the MSM has not covered this story? Could it be that they were possibly bought off by Edwards to prevent him for going though anymore embarrassment? I mean the Liberal media did seem to have a very cozy relationship with Edwards, when they were not ignoring him.
It just makes me wonder, if Edward’s donors, the one’s who gave of their time, money and resources will be wanting their money back. I will admit this, I kind of did like Edwards, his laid back southern manner appealed to the Southern man in me. Although, I did find his politics quite hypocritical, considering how he lived on a multi-million dollar ranch and all.
An exit question: Is Hillary refunding any of her donations?
Technorati Tags: Corruption, Democrat, Democrats, Edwards, Election ’08, Election 2008, Fundraising, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Liberal, Liberals, Media, Netroots, News, Opinion, Politics
From my inbox….Catharsis?
This arrived in my e-mail inbox this morning…. a rather humorous video.
Notice how they played it so straight? I mean, it is pretty darned good. Something tells me that if this was a real product, the PUMA’s would be buying this by the crate.
Exit question: If Catharsis for Hillary, then what for Bill?
Technorati Tags: Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, Funny, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Humor, Liberal, Liberals, Politics, Video, Youtube
Say What?!?!?! Liberals to edit Led Zeppelin?
(H/T to 123Beta)
Liberals want to edit Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta love”. What?!?!
Via UK Telegraph:
After choosing the song for the closing ceremony on Sunday they decided that some of the lyrics would have to be omitted or re-written amid concerns that they could cause offence.
The song was chosen as the centrepiece of an eight-minute £2.5million British segment at the event in Beijing at which the Olympic flag will be officially passed to the London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Organisers of the London 2012 Games commissioned the band’s guitarist Jimmy Page to record a new version of the song to be performed on top of a special red double-decker bus accompanied by Leona Lewis, winner of the ITV reality television show The X Factor, with David Beckham looking on.
But, according to London 2012 officials, Lewis – who grew up in east London close to the Olympic site – requested a change to the song’s second verse because she was worried they would not make sense for a female singer.
In the original, recorded in 1969, frontman Robert Plant sings, “I’m gonna give you every inch of my love”.
But in the version that will be sung tomorrow, however, Lewis changes the words to “every bit” of my love.
The band also agreed to a request from organisers to drop the third verse, which includes similar sexual innuendoes, to fit in to the eight-minute performance.
Oy! Talk about political correctness gone horribly wrong.
Poor Jimmy page man…
Cue the song!
Tampering with Zeppelin?!?!? It ought to be a crime!
Technorati Tags: Freedom of Speech, Liberal, Liberals, Music, Olympics, Opinion, Political Correctness, Politics, Stupidity, Youtube, Led Zeppelin
A Pity: Man with guns, tries to check into same hotel as Pelosi, Pelosi unhurt.
I am watching that Communist Liberal idiot Bitch on MSNBC’s Meet the Press. She’s trying, very poorly, to defend her position of being against offshore drilling. She’s a living, breathing example of why a woman, much less, a Liberal woman, has no place in politics. She needs to go home and bake cookies and leave the politics to the men folk.
The Story: Man arrested carrying weapons at Pelosi hotel (Via The Denver Post)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefly evacuated from her downtown Denver hotel on Saturday when a man carrying two hunting rifles and two pistols tried to check in to the hotel.
Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said 29-year-old Joseph Calanchini of Pinedale, Wyo., faces a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon after police officers at the Grand Hyatt hotel noticed him carrying a rifle-type case while checking in. Calanchini did not have a concealed weapons permit, said Lance Clem, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Safety.
Wiley said authorities were not releasing information about whether the weapons were loaded because the case remained under investigation. Wiley said the charge is the same whether the weapons were loaded or unloaded.
Pelosi and other guests briefly evacuated the hotel but were never in danger, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said.
Calanchini remained at Denver City Jail Sunday on $10,000 bond, said Denver Sheriff’s Deputy Danny Steckman.
Authorities were investigating a report that Calanchini was in town on business and had had the weapons worked upon, including mounting of site scopes, to prepare for an upcoming hunting trip.
“The speaker was never in any danger and she appreciates the quick and professional response of the police,” said Daly.
Arrested?? The guy deserves a damn medal. It’s just a damn pity that the guy was not there to put that miserable communist liberal bitch out of her own misery.
I’m Paleo Pat and I approve this message. 😛
Technorati Tags: Congress, Democrat, Democrats, Liberal, Liberals, MSNBC, NBC, News, Opinion, Politics
This could be a problem for Biden
Just when you think you know a guy…. Stuff like this comes out…
This via the Washington Post:
A son and a brother of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) are accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour, court records show.
The
Democratic vice presidential candidate’s son Hunter, 38, and brother
James, 59, assert instead that their former partner defrauded them by
misrepresenting his experience in the hedge fund industry and
recommending that they hire a lawyer with felony convictions.The
legal actions have been playing out in New York State Supreme Court
since 2007, and they focus on Hunter and James Biden’s involvement in
Paradigm Companies LLC, a hedge fund group. Hunter Biden, a Washington
lobbyist, briefly served as president of the firm.A lawsuit
filed by their former partner Anthony Lotito Jr. asserts in court
papers that the deal was crafted to get Hunter Biden out of lobbying
because his father was concerned about the impact it would have on his bid for the White House. Biden was running for the Democratic nomination at the time the suit was filed.Hunter Biden was made president with an annual salary of $1.2 million, despite his inexperience in the hedge fund industry,
the lawsuit said. Before that, he had been part of the Washington law
firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair, which earned $1.76 million in
lobbying revenue in the first half of 2006, according to Congressional
Quarterly’s CQ MoneyLine. One of its biggest clients is the National
Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys, a District-based
group representing law firms specializing in investment and corporate
law.Hunter Biden is one of many children and relatives of
prominent members of Congress who have made their careers as lobbyists.
He returned to lobbying after less than a year with Paradigm.Lotito’s
lawsuit alleges that James Biden called him in January 2006 to arrange
a job for Hunter Biden. It says James Biden told him that his brother
(Sen. Biden) “was concerned with the
impact that Hunter’s lobbying activities might have on his expected
campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination,” and,
“Biden told Lotito that, in light of these concerns, his brother had
asked him to seek Lotito’s assistance in finding employment for Hunter
in a non-lobbying capacity.”
However, what is not being quoted by most of the anti-obama Blogs is:
The campaign of Sens. Barack Obama and Biden declined to comment on the case, referring questions to Nicholas Gravante Jr., a lawyer representing Hunter and James Biden. Gravante said assertions that Joseph Biden told his brother he was concerned about his son’s lobbying are “absolutely false.”
“This lawsuit has nothing to do with Joe Biden, and there is absolutely no truth to those allegations,” Gravante said. “It is a business dispute between former partners. The suit is baseless.“
Brian C. Wille, an attorney for Lotito, said the lawsuit alleges no wrongdoing by Sen. Biden, only that his concerns set in motion the business deal.
“There was a concern that Hunter Biden’s role as a lobbyist would have an impact on the senator’s proposed presidential run,” Wille said. “That’s what James Biden told Mr. Lotito. . . . Was it true? Who knows? There is no allegation the senator was involved in any of these events.”
In an affidavit, Hunter Biden said his father had nothing to do with the deal and that it is Lotito who swindled the Bidens.
He said Lotito lied about being a “fully licensed and accredited securities professional” with hedge fund experience.
In addition, he said Lotito recommended a lawyer to vet the business deal who was under investigation and was ultimately convicted on several felony charges of conspiracy and wire and mail fraud in a scheme to steal millions from a computer company.
So, before anyone jumps to any conclusions. Be sure you read the entire story, before you pass judgment.
It is really sad that WaPo would even put out this story in an effort to derail Biden’s popularity or to bring doubt into the minds of those voting. It speaks to the sick and sad state of our Main Stream Media.
Others, including some of the idiots:
Boston Globe, Gateway Pundit and JammieWearingFool
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Biden, Conservative, Corruption, Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, Government, Joe Biden, Liberal, Liberals, Libertarian, Obama, Opinion, Politics, Washington Post
Sunday Round-up (Open TrackBack)
Here are the latest interesting posts are here for the people that do not read this Blog regularly….
- A Report from Government says that social security is just fine. But Republicans still cry FOUL!
- I offer some advice to the Hillary Clinton Supporters.
- As always Identity Politics rules amongst Barack Obama supporters, in other words, if you do not vote for Barack, you’re a racist! 🙄
- John McCain rolls out ads against Obama-Biden.
- Fox News disses Rudy’s Campaign manager. 😯
- I covered and blogged about, even getting up at 7:00 a.m. to cover the selection of Joe Biden. An interesting 24 hours to say the least!
- Lying Liberal prick Scott Thomas Beauchamp is back in the news. 😡
- Barry says no thanks to Hillary and her supporters are not amused.
- A independent group hits hard with a Anti-Obama ad. The Obama campaign says it’s illegal.
- ….and the Obama campaign released a couple ads of thier own…
- Hillary Clinton breaks out the whips…. and No, Bill isn’t involved.
Now for those trackbacks….:
Trackposted to Perri Nelson’s Website, Blog @ MoreWhat.com, A Blog For All, Shadowscope, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, The Amboy Times, Democrat=Socialist, Conservative Cat, Pet’s Garden Blog, Nuke’s, Allie is Wired, third world county, McCain Blogs, Woman Honor Thyself, The World According to Carl, Pirate’s Cove, , The Pink Flamingo, Dumb Ox Daily News, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
Technorati Tags: Open Thread, Open Trackback, Politics
Off to get some well needed sleep…
I might fall off of memeorandum. But I’m beat.
See you all later today.
Report shows that Social Security is just fine.
I was looking at the upcoming stories this morning.
A liberal think tank organization released a news piece of the shape of social security and it’s status. Turns out it is just fine.
Well, right away, some on the right are crying “Foul“!
Because there was a gross distortion of the facts? Uhmm.. No, because they did not link the source article.
Well, here it is guys… The report in question, in PDF format.
From the Congressional Budget Office, Director’s Blog:
Today we released a paper on updated long-term projection for Social Security. (Our last long-term projection for social security was included in the December 2007 Long-Term Budget Outlook.) As CBO has highlighted in previous reports, the number of Social Security beneficiaries will grow considerably as the baby boomers become eligible for retirement benefits. Absent legislative changes, spending for the program will therefore climb substantially and exceed the program’s revenues. CBO projects that the 75-year actuarial imbalance in the program amounts to 0.38 percent of GDP, or 1.06 percent of taxable payroll.
The projections released today differ somewhat from earlier results because of newly available programmatic and economic data, updated assumptions about future demographic and economic trends, and improvements in CBO’s models. For example, these projections assume that future immigrants will be younger and more numerous than was assumed in 2007. (This change was included in the 2008 Social Security trustees’ report; CBO adopts the trustees’ aggregate demographic assumptions.) As a result of this and other changes, CBO projects somewhat smaller future deficits than we did in our 2007 projections.
CBO’s long-term Social Security projections have always shown both a point estimate and the range within which 80 percent of the possible values are likely to fall. In this update, however, CBO has expanded its uncertainty presentation. Many figures and tables still show the 10th and 90th percentiles of various measures, but new presentations show the probabilities of specific outcomes.
Here is an example of our new presentation. A table in today’s report shows the probability that Social Security outlays will exceed revenues by a specified percentage of GDP in a selected year. For example, the likelihood that outlays will exceed revenues in 2030 is about 97 percent, CBO projects, and there is almost a 50 percent chance that the gap will be larger than 1 percentage point of GDP; the chance of its being 2 percentage points (or more) of GDP is only 6 percent.
Another new table shows the probability, for different birth cohorts, that the Social Security trust funds will be sufficient to pay specified percentages of scheduled benefits. According to CBO’s projections, the 1940s cohort, for example, is virtually certain to receive all of its scheduled first-year benefit. The 1990s cohort has only a 32 percent chance of receiving all of its scheduled first-year benefit but an 84 percent chance of receiving at least 70 percent of that benefit.
Both the analyses that show 10th and 90th percentiles and the new presentations are based on the same underlying data, but we hope that the different perspectives will help to communicate uncertainty more fully to readers.
Gee guys, it’s called goggle. (and not THE Google, as called by Keith Olbermann, it is not a living thing!) it cannot be that hard to look up. 🙄
No wonder the majority of Americans believe that the Republican Party is filled with idiots. It might just be because it is! 😆
Technorati Tags: Conservative, Democrat, Democrats, Government, Humor, Liberal, Liberals, Libertarian, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Republicans, Social Security, Stupidity
Memo to the Clinton supporters: Will you just get the hell over it already?
Jesus H. freakin’ Christ, this election cycle, for a Blogger like me, is like leading a circular firing squad.
First off, we have Neo-Conservative idiot William Kristol wanting to see nothing short of a floor fight at the Democratic Convention. Oh, I am absolutely sure that Kristol and his gang of Neo-Conservative morons would love nothing more than to see a giant floor fight, complete with (dare I say it?) the assassination of Barack Obama and the chaotic collapse of the Democratic Party into a smoldering heap. This all would be so the Neo-Conservatives could get to John McCain and continue to control Washington D.C. for the next 4 years. Thereby truly continuing the Neo-Conservative agenda in this Country.
Two words Kristol: Keep Dreaming!
If that is not enough to make a man want to take up drinking stiff whiskey, you have former Hillary supporters who are outraged! Outraged, I say! About the fact that Hillary Clinton was not even offered the position of Vice President.
Remember what I said about that circular firing squad? Well, hold on, hope you don’t get dizzy easy.
Listen people, Hillary Clinton, by most accounts, did not even WANT the job of Barack Obama’s Vice President. If she even did, could you freakin’ imagine that vetting process? I mean, people, Bill Clinton took funding from suspected terrorists overseas to build that freakin’ library of his! Not mention the fact that Bill Clinton seriously screwed over a guy, by the name of Peter F. Paul, who was business partners with Stan Lee. Heck, Peter F. Paul has living breathing evidence that Hillary Herself committed a felony during her fundrasing during her senate election campaign.
Not to even mention that if Barry had said, “Okay, forget the vetting, you can be my V.P.” Could you imagine that absolute shit-storm that the far, far, right would have created had Hillary been accepted for the Vice President? You have to know that the far right would have been digging for every last piece of media footage from the Waco compound siege in Waco, Texas and using it for Ads against Obama. Not to mention, The Monica scandal, Travel Gate, White Water, Vince Foster, and the list goes on and on and on and on.
Barack Obama might be a far lefty Liberal, but people, he is no dummy. Yeah, Biden might have a little baggage from a 1988 President campaign when he copied a speech. But honestly, that is absolutely nothing like the baggage that Hillary Clinton comes with. I mean, the two just are not comparable.
To the hardened Hillary supporters, I simply say this. I do not like anymore than you that Hillary lost. I think what the Democrat Party did here in Michigan and in Florida was absolutely wrong. But, unless your Party does something to change the rules of selection for President of United States, there’s nothing that can be done about it. The states moved up their primaries, and the DNC decided to punish them for it. Unless there are rule changes, that is just the way it is. I mean, standing around sucking your thumb and stamping your feet is not going to change a thing. I mean, seriously, do you, as an American citizen want to see four more years of George W. Bush?!?!?! That would be absolutely insane. You all just need to get the hell over it, and hope the Hillary decides to run again in 2012 or 2016. By that time, if Barry is a lame duck by then, Hillary will have a clear shot at the White House. That is, if she has not stroked out or something.
Others on this:
Hot Air, NO QUARTER, NewsBusters.org, Patterico’s Pontifications, Happy Furry Puppy Story … and Balloon Juice and more via Memeorandum
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Biden, Bush, Cheney, Conservative, Democrat, Democrats, Editorial, Election ’08, Election 2008, Funny, Government, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Identity Politics, Joe Biden, John McCain, Liberal, Liberals, Libertarian, Neo-Conservatives, News, Obama, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Republicans, Stupidity, Washington DC, White House, Women, vote, voting
I hate to say this, But I KNEW this was coming……
Call me naive, call me stupid, call me, well, racist. But this article is nothing more than nuanced, glamorized bullshit.
Racism is the only reason Obama might lose. By Jacob Weisberg (Via Slate Magazine)
What with the Bush legacy of reckless war and economic mismanagement, 2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?
If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama’s missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let’s be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn’t ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.
What baloney!
The National Journal named Barack Obama as one the most liberal senators in Washington D.C.
Not to mention his wacky pastor, his associations with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. Not mention his disdain for those who actually believe in a God, think that it’s our constitutional right to own and carry a gun, and would like see illegal immigration stopped and our border secured.
No, it’s none of that, it’s because white people, like me, are racist. 🙄
Of course, if a white conservative, like myself, says that Barack Obama would not be where he is, if it were not for the color of his skin, we’re racists. If a white conservative, like me, says that B. Hussein Obama, ol’ Barry the Magic Negro, is nothing more than a product of a un-constitutional civil rights act, passed by a communist infiltrated, liberal congress in 1964, we’re racist.
If Barack Obama was a white man, he’d working in law office somewhere and wouldn’t be able to get a job as a shoeshine boy (or he’d he shining something! Larry Craig’s ummm.. car? ) in the capital building in Washington D.C.
But if people, like me, say that. We’re racists….
Identity Politics, you have to just love it.
Sometimes, I wish Biden HAD won the primary. Maybe we’d have a chance that this election would be fairly carried out, and without all the white guilt and race hustling and baiting.
You ask me, what do I have against a Democrat, much less a black Democrat getting into the White House? I give you the best, the most perfect example of why I feel it would be a total disaster for a corrupt black Democrat to be in the White House. I only ask that you look in my home town. Detroit, Michigan.
If that is not a good enough reason, I do not know what is.
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Biden, Communist, Conservative, Corruption, Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, Identity Politics, Joe Biden, Liberal, Liberals, Libertarian, Obama, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Republicans, Stupidity, White House, Whites, blacks, crime, illegal immigration, racism
As I expected…..
The McCain campaign is already rolling out ads against Biden.
This coming from an old fool, who cannot even tell people how many houses he owns.
Quote:
“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.“
If he doesn’t how many houses he owns, how can he possibly criticize anyone else?
….and don’t even get me started on McCain’s integrity. (can you say….Keating five?)
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Biden, Conservative, Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, John McCain, Liberal, Liberals, Libertarian, McCain, Neo-Conservatives, News, Obama, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Republicans, Stupidity, Washington DC, White House, Whites
Ouch!
Via FOX Embeds:
After Joe Biden slammed Rudy Giuliani during a debate last year with his famous line that a sentence for the New York mayor consists only of
a noun, a verb and 9/11, Hizzoner’s camp returned fire with a comment that looks a little more amusing given the day’s news.Then-Giuliani Communications Director Katie Levinson shot back with this sharp retort:
“Senator Biden has never run anything but his mouth. Such a desperate attack from Senator Biden is to be expected considering I –
Katie Levinson – have a better chance of becoming President than he does,” the statement concluded.Not the first thing the Giuliani campaign miscalculated…
Ohhhhh Snap! That’s gonna leave a mark! and this is from Fox? 😯 😮 Wow!
The Video in Question:
I like the look on Hillary and Edward’s face…
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama ,Biden ,Democrat ,Democrats ,Election ’08 ,Election 2008 ,Joe Biden ,Liberal ,Liberals ,Opinion ,Politics.
It is official: Obama/Biden for 2008
You know it’s a big Political story when I bounce my fat butt out of bed at 7:00 in the morning! 😀 😉
I’m talking about the big, Big, BIG story…. That Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden for his running mate for President of the United States.
You have to know that John McCain’s campaign is in “Oh Crap!” and hunker down mode right about now. Because no matter who John McCain selects as his running mate, he is going to be a open target for Obama’s new attack dog.
I mean, at this point, no matter who McCain selects, McCain is going to have trouble. If McCain selects Joe Lieberman, McCain will be seen by the Republican and Conservative base as a traitor. If McCain selects Mitt Romney, he will be seen by the majority of America as a out of touch, rich elitist. Heck, even Tom Ridge is not ever well liked by the Republican base. So, unless McCain picks a second tier political person, McCain is going to be screwed.
I mean consider this statement by the campaign:
“There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama’s lack of experience than Joe Biden,” said McCain spokesman Ben Porritt. “Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be President.”
One Word: Lame. Seriously, is that the best damned line that the John McCain’s herd of paid lackeys could come up with? Bringing up something from the Primary?!?!?!
What does Biden brings to the table? Experience of all sorts, Foreign Policy, DC Beltway, and just a general sense of “I’ve been around for a while”. Not to mention, he makes one hell of a good attack dog. He is, in fact, a Kennedy type, except for that he’s not nearly as wealthy. So, he’s the real deal. Disclosure: I would have voted for Biden, had he made it to the Michigan Primary.
You know, I am well-known on this blog for my quite controversial statements. So, as a parting shot, let me hand this word of warning to the McCain campaign. John McCain had better hide his balls in Cindy’s purse, because if he doesn’t, Joe Biden will hand McCain’s balls to him on a plate and will make him eat them.
It is going to be one HELL of interesting election season.
More commentary, and I mean a whole damn truckload of it, at Memeorandum
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Breaking News!: U.S. Secret Service dispatched to Joe Biden’s House
(H/T to FYINEWS)
I’ve been monitoring Twitter… and believe we may have confirmation that the candidate is Biden.
The United States Secret Service has dispatched a protective detail to
assume the immediate protection of Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., a source
tells ABC News, indicating in all likelihood that Biden has been
officially notified that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, has selected
him to be his running mate.
Finally! It is official! Joe Biden IS, in fact, Obama’s running mate, finally!
This will a good thing for Obama. I do, however expect that the far right will attack Biden, using the usual tools.
Reason I know this, is because the secret service does NOT do head fakes!
Update: CNN Basically confirms.
Technorati Tags: Obama/Biden, Barack Obama, Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, Joe Biden, Liberal, Liberals, Opinion, Politics
Breaking News: Obama will deliver text tommorow before Springfield event
Marc Ambinder says via Twitter:
Source: text will be sent tomorrow am, a few hrs before Obama speaks in Springfield.
Great…. Means I’ll have to get up early. 🙄
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Democrat, Democrats, Election ’08, Election 2008, Liberal, Liberals, News, Obama, Opinion, Politics, Washington DC, twitter
Lying asshole “Shock Troops” Author back in the news
Unbelievable.
Via Pajamas Media:
Quote:
It seemed we’d heard the last of Scott Thomas Beauchamp and Elspeth Reeve in late January, after I posted copies of the sworn statements gathered during the “Shock Troops” investigation on Confederate Yankee. The documents included Beauchamp’s own sworn statements — his first, where he did not see any of the minor atrocities written about in “Shock Troops,” and a backdated one where he finally admits he was the author. The documents also included the sworn statements from 22 other soldiers saying that the minor atrocities written about in “Shock Troops” were events that they did not witness.
Even the editor of the New Republic, Franklin Foer, announced a month previously in December that he could not stand behind Beauchamp’s stories. But just when we though it was all behind us, Beauchamp is back, (with his former fact checker wife still supporting him), courtesy of Spencer Ackerman in Radar magazine.
In “Notes on a Scandal,” Ackerman interviews Scott Beauchamp and Elspeth Reeve — and no one else — and shockingly comes to the conclusion that the magazine that fired Ackerman for his anti-war views was wrong to pull its support for a series of articles (”Shock Troops” was just one of three Beauchamp stories) that reinforced those views.
How did Ackerman conduct this investigation? He hung out with Beauchamp and Reeve at a bar and later communicated with them via email. What he did not do is present any evidence to support the contention that Beauchamp’s claims are true, or that Franklin Foer was wrong to pull support for stories that still lack on-the-record evidence of any kind.
I have to admit it, he does have balls. But he is a damn liar. He’s now trying to cash in on the fame. Lying ass liberal prick.
I remember when this story come out and then it came out that it was all lies. That was one the moments when I really began to rethink my political position. I mean, if liberals are willing outright lie to make a political point, something is just wrong. Which is why I consider myself now a Moderate Conservative, not a “Republican”, not by a long shot. But I’ll be damned if I’ll ever vote Democrat again.
Others:
BLACKFIVE and AMERICAN DIGEST
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Barry Says, “Hillary? I think not!”
I kind of already figured this, but still the same, it is going to be seen as a massive slight to the Hillary crowd.
Via Politico.com
Quote:
There’s one Democrat who would seem to have little or no chance of being picked by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to be his running mate – his former opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
But it’s not for the reason you think.
Obama has often said, most recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on July 27, that Clinton “would be on anybody’s short list.”
But apparently not his.
“She was never vetted,” a Democratic official reported. “She was not asked for a single piece of paper. She and Senator Obama have never had a single conversation about it. How would he know if she’d take it?”
The official also said Clinton never met with Obama’s vetting team of Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy.
And the official said she was never asked for medical records or for any financial 2008 information about her or former President Bill Clinton. The last information the couple has disclosed about taxes and financial holdings was for 2007.
I would be willing to bet money, that there will be a massive floor fight at the convention. I’m sorry, but you cannot suppress that many people. I look for the Hillary supporters to stonewall or stage a massive walkout or something.
Either way, it is going to be seen as a slight to Hillary’s supporters. Obama will have to overcome that. Which if he picks Biden, he will be able to. Because Biden is a fighter and will not balk at telling someone to get bent. Also, he would make a good attack dog for people like John McCain.
I just hope sometime today, that Obama picks the running mate and gets it over with.
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The Late Night Music Express with…….Dio
This song was from right smack dab in the middle of the 1980’s.
Dio, who had just left Black Sabbath, released this song.
The visual imagery is typical of that time period. Where in the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s it was nuanced, in the 1980’s it was outright, it was very Church-like and borderline occult-like. Which drove the Fundamentalist Christians crazy, they perceived as a attack of the mean ol’ devil. In all reality it was simply a marketing tool or a fad. The point is that it worked, and sold records.
I could tell you some very humorous stories about being in Church and hearing the wild tales about backward masking, Satanism. I laugh about it now, but back in the day, it was serious stuff.
This is “Holy Diver”:
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The Right hits back, HARD!
I guess this whole idea of a new kind of Politics and not fighting a nasty campaign just went out the window…
Here’s a new video made by The American Issues Project: (H/T The Politico)
Ben Smith Writes:
A new conservative group has produced a television ad attacking Barack Obama for his relationship with former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers.
“How much do your really know about Barack Obama? What does he really believe?” asks the ad, which then cites the failed attack on the Capitol on 9/11, and links it to the Weather Underground attack on the Capitol decades earlier.
The group says it will spend $2.8 million airing the ad in Ohio and Michigan — which would be the largest single third-party expenditure this cycle.
“Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it?” asks the narrator. “Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?”
The group, the American Issues Project, is a 501(c)4 — which means it isn’t required to disclose its donors. According to a press release set to go out shortly, it’s the product of a coalition of conservative groups (Failor said his Iowans for Tax Relief is not among them). Its president is Ed Martin, a Missouri conservative. Another official, Ed Failor Jr., is a former McCain aide in Iowa who left after the campaign’s shakeup last summer.
The substance of the ad matches a recent upswing in the McCain campaign’s references to Ayers. The use of 9/11 imagery links Ayers, and Obama, to the American conflict Islamic terror, which is the subject of many viral e-mails attacking Obama.
The group’s spokesman, Christian Pinkston, called the suggestion that the group is making any link with Islam “unfair.”
“The idea here was to talk about the fact that his friends hate America, and that’s who he’s aligning himself with,” he said.
It’s spokesman, Christian Pinkston, is a former aide to presidential candidate Jack Kemp and went on to run the conservative group Empower America.
Pinkston says the ad will launch later this afternoon.
Of course the Obama Campaign is not taking this laying down at all, they issued a statement on the ad saying:
The fact that John McCain dispatched his paid consultant to launch
this despicable ad from a so-called ‘independent’ committee shows how
desperate he is to change the subject from his shocking disconnect with
the economic struggles of the American people. He knows that Barack
Obama has denounced the detestable crimes that Bill Ayers committed 40
years ago.Instead of invoking Paris, Britney and obscure ’60s radicals, Sen.
McCain should take the day off at one of his seven homes to consider
whether his support for outsourcing, tax breaks for companies who ship
jobs overseas and continued spending of $10 billion a month in Iraq is
really putting “country first.” To us, it sounds like just more of the
same. – Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor
How weak! I would have quickly produced a video that linked McCain to lobbyists and mentioned the supposed, never proven, so-called, affair that he had with a lobbyist. That would have shut them up, right away. But instead, they put out a weakly worded statement like that. Score one for McCain, I say. Plus, there’s no proof that McCain was linked to this group at all. So, again, the response was quite weak.
Look, If Obama is going to win this horse race, he had better learn to fight like pit bill and not a poodle. Because if he doesn’t Bulldog McCain is going to eat him alive.
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You Host’s Body clock has slipped a spring….
Oh Yeah, I’m all messed up, trying to get myself on a normal schedule.
Anyhow, major postings to come. Lots of stuff to Blog out. Just gotta get awake and get to it.
Stay Tuned.
The Gloves come off!
Obama Released this Ad:
and in Response McCain’s Campaign said the following:
Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail.
However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years, Mr. Ayers has stated, ‘I don’t regret setting bombs … I feel we didn’t do enough.’
The question now is, will Barack Obama immediately call on the University of Illinois to release all of the records they are currently withholding to shed further light on Senator Obama’s relationship with this unrepentant terrorist?” —McCain spokesman Brian Rogers
Oooooh…. SNAP!
Something tells me this is going to be a VERY interesting election year.
(H/T Memeorandum)
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The Funniest Blog posting title…EVER!
“Veep-Veep, Veep-Veep, His Horn Went Veep-Veep-Veep“
An interesting Blog posting indeed.
Hillary Clinton Breaks out the whips!
….and no Bill is not involved…. This time anyhow…
Clinton creates ‘whip team’ to quell anti-Obama protests ( Via Politico.com)
In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton’s staff is creating a 40-member “whip team” at the Denver Democratic convention to ensure that her supporters don’t engage in embarrassing anti-Obama demonstrations during the floor vote on her nomination, according to people familiar with the planning.
The team, which is being organized by longtime Clinton staffer Craig Smith, is working in conjunction with Obama’s floor organizers to help foster the image of a unified front during a roll-call process Clinton herself has described as an emotional “catharsis” for her disappointed supporters.
“If people get down there on the floor and want to start blowing kazoos and making a scene we want to make sure we’ve got people who stand in front of them with Obama signs,” said a person involved in the planning.
“Is it typical for a losing candidate to have their own whip team? No. But it’s also not usual for a losing candidate to get 18 million votes either,” said the person.
Clinton spokesperson Kathleen Strand emphasized the team would not seek to convince delegates to vote for the former first lady, but would hand out Clinton signs to supporters who requested them.
“We have been and are working closely with the Obama campaign to make sure we have an exciting and unified convention,” Strand said. “Our delegate whips, along with the Obama delegate whips, are a part of a team that will be on the floor of the convention to make sure delegates have everything they need, whether that’s answering questions or passing out signs during Hillary’s speech. The whips are a traditional part of every convention’s floor operations.”
Plans for the squad were finalized last weekend. Although some former Clinton staffers balked at policing their own supporters, its ranks were filled by people itching for a floor pass — not an easy get for Clinton’s troops at the Obama-run convention.
Typical Liberal fascism, quell all dissent. She must have taken her lessons from the Bush Administration. (What? I don’t have a script!)
The Puma’s are not going to be happy about this one.
(H/T Memeornadum)
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