Tag: Opinion

UPDATED: Memo to Fareed Zakaria: Overreact this you jackwad twit

Posted on4 Comments

Speaking of stupidity….

Via this Nimrod:

I do not minimize Al Qaeda’s intentions, which are barbaric. I question its capabilities. In every recent conflict, the United States has been right about the evil intentions of its adversaries but massively exaggerated their strength. In the 1980s, we thought the Soviet Union was expanding its power and influence when it was on the verge of economic and political bankruptcy. In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap…

Some 30,000 people are now employed exclusively to listen in on phone conversations and other communications in the United States. And yet no one in Army intelligence noticed that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had been making a series of strange threats at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he trained. The father of the Nigerian “Christmas bomber” reported his son’s radicalism to the U.S. Embassy. But that message never made its way to the right people in this vast security apparatus. The plot was foiled only by the bomber’s own incompetence and some alert passengers.

Such mistakes might be excusable. But the rise of this national-security state has entailed a vast expansion in the government’s powers that now touches every aspect of American life, even when seemingly unrelated to terrorism.

No, you nimrod, terrorist-supporting, idiot. We did not overreact. We had information that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We acted on it. Yes, the intelligence was bad. So what? It happens. The truth is, once we weeded out the jack-wads, who did not know shit from shinola about running a fucking war; (Hello Rummy!) we were able to stabilize that Country and put leadership in there, that did not terrorize it’s own people.

So, yes, Iraq WAS worth it; and no we did NOT overreact.

Further more, once we break the back of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, it too will be worth it as well! People will die; that is the price you pay, when you fight a god-damned war. But in the end, when Afghanistan is free and clear of Al-Qaeda and their radical Muslim idiotic nonsense, it will be worth it.

I apologize in advance for the harsh tone of this posting. But I am about god-damned tired of these terrorist-appeasing, asshole, liberal retards telling me, that going to war against terrorists is not worth the god-damned hassle. Anytime, that the United States of America goes on the defensive, and also on the offensive, in the name of liberty and freedom, it is ALWAYS worth it! It was worth it in Germany, It was worth it in Japan, It was worth it in Korea, it was worth it in Grenada AND it was worth it in Iraq too, both god-damned times — and once the job is done in Afghanistan, it will be worth it there too.

So, on the behalf of all the Soldiers —- American and Coalition; both who died and especially those who came back in one piece and even those who did not — to Mr. Fareed Zakaria I say:

SHUT THE HELL UP!

That is all…..

Update: I suppose that I should explain something here. The reason why this article provoked such a strong reaction out of me is this; I watched 9/11 unfold on TV. At the time I was a CNN watcher. All of it played out in front of me. I remember being paralyzed with fear, when the report came out, that there was a plane headed to the White House. Watching those buildings fall and seeing those images over and over and over; drove me into one of the worst depressions, that I have ever experienced. It, honestly, took me about 2 good years to get over that stuff. It took much prayer and some good old fashioned Bible reading to pull me out of that mess. Al-Qaeda caused that; and for that, I want them to pay, and pay dearly. Now you understand why it is, that I feel the way that I do.

Update #2: ….and of course, some terrorist supporting asshole links here; talking out his ass, as always. 🙄

UPDATED: Sorry, but this is just stupid

Posted on2 Comments

You know, I have agreed with this guy in the past. But this is just plain dumb.

Click here to read.

For the record, I’ve read those supposed Usenet postings too; and I saw nothing in them that was overly offensive.

I think someone just needs to grow up or give the heck out of blogging.

If I thought for one second, that this man was a racist/white nationalist/or whatever. I would never link to him. So, as I said; this is just plain stupid.

I mean, I am not a Palin fan, at all. But even I won’t stoop to that sort of stupidity.

Update: The Man, being Mr RSM, responds to this rather stupid attack; and does it rather well too.

Round Up at Memeornadum

Oops: President Obama gets it wrong on the carpet

Posted on6 Comments

Doggone. That man cannot do anything right, at all. WOW! 😯

Update: I do believe that the President is worthy of this:

and this:

Via the Washington Post: (…..of all people!!! 😯 )

A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige.

President Obama’s new presidential rug seemed beyond reproach, with quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. woven along its curved edge.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his wheat-colored carpet is from King.

Except it’s not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington.

For the record, Theodore Parker is your man, President Obama. Unless you’re fascinated by antebellum American reformers, you may not know of the lyrically gifted Parker, an abolitionist, Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist thinker who foresaw the end of slavery, though he did not live to see emancipation. He died at age 49 in 1860, on the eve of the Civil War.

A century later, during the civil rights movement, King, an admirer of Parker, quoted the Bostonian’s lofty prophecy during marches and speeches. Often he’d ask in a refrain, “How long? Not long.” He would finish in a flourish: “Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

[…]

Parker said in 1853: “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.”

The president is at minimum well-served by Parker’s presence in the room. Parker embodied the early 19th-century reformer’s passionate zeal for taking on several social causes at once. Many of these reformers were Unitarians or Quakers; some were

"D'oh!"

Transcendentalists. Most courageously, as early as the 1830s, they opposed the laws on slavery and eventually harbored fugitives in the Underground Railroad network of safe houses. Without 30 years of a movement agitating and petitioning for slave emancipation, Lincoln could not have ended slavery with the stroke of a pen in the midst of war. Parker was in the vanguard that laid the social and intellectual groundwork.

The familiar quote from Lincoln woven into Obama’s rug is “government of the people, by the people and for the people,” the well-known utterance from the close of his Gettysburg Address in 1863.

Funny that in 1850, Parker wrote, “A democracy — that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.”

Theodore Parker, Oval Office wordmeister for the ages.

I will not take the harsh slams that the other Bloggers on the right are doing. But, man, that is such a stupid screw up.

However, when you have amateur politicians in the White House; one can only expect so much. Just as well, Sarah Palin, being quite the amateur herself could have made the same mistake.

Others: : JustOneMinute, Gateway Pundit, Freedom’s Lighthouse, American Thinker and Outside the Beltway

Snort Worthy Story of the WEEK!: Jesse Jackson’s SUV Stolen in Detroit – Jackson in town promoting Green Jobs

Posted on

I were to file this one under anything. It would be under, “Blaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaw!”

The Video via WXYZ-TV in Detroit:

and the Story, Via the Michigan View at the Detroit News:

Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit.

Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs.

Read that again: Jackson’s Caddy SUV was stripped while he was in town promoting green jobs.

Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large.

“We need an economy that creates employment that can’t be shipped overseas,” the Green Rev wrote for CNN about the march. “Home-grown American labor will be installing windmills and solar panels. A green economy is not an abstract concept.”

Well, its certainly abstract to Jesse, but I digress.

Yeah, the labor would be; Jesse Jackson has not done a day of honest hard work in his entire life. Hell, I’ve worked harder than he will ever work. Oh, wait, Jesse Jackson has worked hard, yes, very hard. That is, if you consider running one’s mouth continually about how oppressed the black man is; and doing the continual race hustle that he is very much known for. Then, yes, he is a very, very hard working man.

Others giggling about this very funny story: AmSpecBlog, Red Dog Report and Weasel Zippers

Hey, Eugene Robinson, Kiss my A.D.H.D. ass!

Posted on

I’m sorry folks, but this bull crap of mocking people with A.D.H.D. and using them as some sort of reference point to describe people is just unacceptable!

Here’s the video, Watch as they careless use the “A.D.H.D. voter” phrase; like it’s nothing: (H/T HotAir)

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Yes, I have the disorder, Yes, I take medication for it. No, I am not off the medication; before anyone asks! ….and No, I do not have any health insurance and no, I am not eligible for SSI or any other sort of Government assistance, I checked.

I do not give a flying fark what the damn context was or is, or any of that! Here recently, I was attacked by some people for using the J-Word; well, you know? —- As someone who has suffered from A.D.H.D. my entire life and was diagnosed at age 5 with the disorder; I find this careless use of the phrase to be very highly offensive. No one, not one of you; can even remotely fathom what my personal hell has been like for the last god damned 38 years. My Math skills; horrible. Yes, because of that disorder. But yet, these asshole liberals can just toss that sort of a phrase around and nothing be said about it?!??! It’s god damned bull corn!

You would not mock someone with cancer, even today, using the term, “A Cancer on society”, is taboo.

You would not mock someone who has cerebral palsy.

You would not mock someone who has Parkinson’s. (Although it has happened and they caught hell for it too!)

So, why the hell mock MY disorder? 😡

Now, If I called Eugene Robinson by the N-Word; I would be attacked from all quarters of the Blogosphere! But, yet, he and his liberal friends can sit and mock someone with a learning disorder, like mine; and nothing is said. Strange how that works, isn’t it?

So, again, to Eugene Robinson:

KISS MY A.D.H.D. ASS! 😡

This is one of those times, when you could not pay me to work in the White House

Posted on

That’s right folks, the President and his Administration are in one hell of a huge bind. If they do not do something fast; they are going to be sunk come the midterms and possibly come 2012.

Here’s your video:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Now, for the Stories….

Via the New York Times:

American businesses added more jobs in the last three months than originally estimated, but the wheels of the economic recovery are still spinning in place.

The private sector added 67,000 jobs in August, according to the Department of Labor, higher than consensus forecasts, and the government upwardly revised its numbers for June and July, suggesting that job creation was slightly stronger over the summer than originally reported.

But the continuing wind-down of the 2010 Census, as well as state and local government layoffs, led to an overall loss of 54,000 jobs in August.

With businesses adding about half the number of positions needed simply to accommodate population growth — much less dent the ranks of the jobless — the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6 percent, from 9.5 percent.

“The overall picture is one where the labor market is still kind of treading water,” said Joshua Shapiro, chief United States economist at MFR Inc. “It’s better than sinking, but it’s certainly not surging ahead.”

Given the continuing addition of private jobs — albeit at a tepid pace — Friday’s monthly snapshot of the labor market seemed to calm fears of a double-dip recession. But the numbers are likely to do little to assuage political pressure on the Obama administration in the run-up to the midterm elections.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Friday morning, Mr. Obama called the latest job report “positive news,” but said he would be unveiling “a broader package of ideas next week,” to shore up the flagging economy, although he declined to give specifics. The president once again urged Congress to pass a stalled bill that would offer tax breaks to small businesses and create a $30 billion program to encourage community banks to lend.

“There’s no quick fix for this recession,” he said. “The hard truth is that it took years to create our current economic problems, and it will take more time than any of us would like to repair the damage.”

Responding to the higher-than-expected private sector numbers and revisions, investors pushed up the major stock gauges. By early afternoon, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was up 1 percent. Market reaction to the jobs data was tempered somewhat by a report that said growth in the services sector had slowed in August.

The Labor Department revised its private sector number for July, raising the number of jobs added to 107,000 from the 71,000 originally reported. And private sector hiring in June, originally reported at 83,000 and lowered to 31,000, was raised again to 61,000.

This is not making Democrats happy at all… Jack Tapper Reports:

Flanked by members of his economic team – including outgoing Council of Economic Advisers Dr. Christina Romer, whose replacement has yet to be named – President Obama chose to look at the silver lining in the economic clouds of today’s jobs report – not even mentioning that August saw a net job loss of 54,000 jobs.

“In the month I took office, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month,” the president said. “This morning, new figures show the economy produced 67,000 private sector jobs in August, the eighth consecutive month of private job growth. Additionally, the numbers for July were revised upward to 107,000. Now that’s positive news, and it reflects the steps we’ve already taken to break the back of this recession.”

The net job loss for August is largely because of the layoffs of 114,000 Census temporary workers.

….and from David Corn:

Democrats are spooked by recent polls and predictions indicating the GOP may slam the Dems so badly that the D’s lose the House and possibly the Senate. The Republicans need to gain 39 seats to seize the House, and it’s not difficult these days to find nonpartisan handicappers who predict the R’s could gain 40 to 50 seats. The conventional wisdom in D.C.: A tsunami is heading toward the Democrats. A Democratic strategist toiling on the party’s House efforts refers to working on the “Titanic” (though he claims there may be some hidden life rafts). “The president keeps saying it’s a tough environment,” says a Democratic House staffer. “We know that. We want to know what he’s going to do about it.”…

“He still wants to be seen as post-partisan and bipartisan,” says a House Democratic leadership aide. “But we’re in a fight here.” Democrats expect Obama to come out swinging nonstop — bashing the R’s repeatedly and proposing economic initiatives that actually register with voters. At the same time, members of the House Democratic leadership are worried that Obama will cave and yield to GOP demands that George W. Bush’s expiring tax cuts for the wealthy be extended. “If he doesn’t do something immediately, our members will be livid,” says a House Democratic aide. “And when there’s fear of a bloodbath, it’s never too early to start the blame game.”

I just blogged about how the Democrats can fix this mess. However, knowing them like they do; they would rather let the Nation suffer and blame the Republicans for the entire mess, while living large on the taxpayers dime —- than to actually do something to fix the problem. FDR did this, to a certain extent as have many other Democrat Party Presidents; I mean, it is not like Obama is going to be affected by any of this economic downturn.

One there is very certain, the tide is turning, Democrats had the chance to actually fix things and they have failed at it miserably. The Tea Party has now crystallized into a political force to be reckoned with — even among Republicans. RINO’s are being flushed out and true-blue Conservatives are being brought to the battle. It is so bad that the liberal media is gone to terrible spinning facts, an example:

It is possible that coming at the end of the summer an uptick in people looking for work is not as positive as it appears. This is the time of year, after two hot months, when recent graduates start to actually think about their future and send out resumes. And you can image many other out of work people deciding to take off looking for a job in the summer. In August, with the summer ending, some of those people started looking again in earnest. But you would expect the big uptick in post-summer people searching for work to come in September. So the fact that it is coming early is a good sign.

Oh Yes, it is that bad on that that side of the political aisle. When you start reading that sort of idiotic spin in a liberal publication, you know that things are horrifically bad right now for the Democrats. This midterm election and possibly in the general election; will most likely go down as the worst ever failure of the Democrat Party ever. The Democratic Party roared into power in 2006 to take the keys away from the Bush Administration, then they won the General election in 2008. They then got the entire key chain of the Country —- and proceeded to drive the Country as a whole over a cliff!  Because of that and because of this economic that we are in, which was, in fact, created by the Carter and Clinton Administrations; whom were, Democratic Party Administrations — we are about to see a major collapse of a party’s authority in the political realm. I have written here, time and time again; that the Democratic Party has horribly overreached…..again. This happens just about every time the Democrats get into power. To be fair and as non-partisan as I can be; Republicans have done it too — Nixon did it, Bush did it and some others. However, this administration took it to another more frightening level.  Because of this; they are about to do what many call, “Paying the Piper.”

The ship is sinking and the rats are jumping. It should be very interesting to watch. 2010 looms and they have no answers.

Welcome to the meltdown. Get popcorn. Hold on tight and enjoy the show.

(H/T to HotAir on the story leads for this posting. Good show AP! 😀 )

It is amazing what terrible economy will do to a Democrat President

Posted on1 Comment

If there is any truth to this; it can turn the most rabid Democrat into a Republican, real quick:

Administration officials have struggled to develop new economic policies and an effective message to blunt expected Republican gains in Congress and defuse complaints from Democrats that President Obama is fumbling the issue most important to voters. Following Obama’s vacation and focus on foreign policy in recent weeks, White House advisers have arranged a series of economic events for the president next week, including two trips to swing states and a news conference.

“We’ll continue to do everything we can, understanding that recovery will require persistent effort. There are no silver bullets,” senior Obama adviser David Axelrod said in an interview Thursday. “At the same time, we have to make clear our ideas and theirs, and the fact that the Washington Republicans, having helped create this recession, have attempted to block our every effort to deal with it.”

But with the unemployment rate expected to rise again in jobs numbers due out Friday, panic is setting in among many Democratic candidates who fear it is too late for Obama to convince voters that he understands the depth of the nation’s economic woes and can fix them.

[….]

Last November, Obama announced that he would turn his attention to unemployment, calling it “one of the great challenges that remains in our economy.” He declared the same intent two months later, telling House Democrats he would focus relentlessly on job creation “over the next several months.” Senior aides went on television pledging that the mantra would become “jobs, jobs, jobs.”

But other matters – health care, the BP oil spill – continually stole the limelight, creating the impression, some Democrats complain, that the president was barely focused on the economy at all.

His advisers described his attentiveness – noting, for example, that he discussed the economy with New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) for 15 minutes before golfing – but got little traction.

“Obviously it’s going to be hard to get anything done before the election, but it’s really important for him to try, and to make the case to the American people that he’s trying to do something and the Republicans aren’t letting him,” said Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic strategist. “We are at the final moments here.”

Obama has another incentive to act: Tax cuts enacted during the George W. Bush administration are scheduled to expire in January, and Democrats – accused by Republicans of plotting to let them vanish – feel compelled to do something before the midterms.

Obama campaigned on a pledge to let cuts expire for the richest 2 percent of households, but some Democrats say the economy is too weak to raise anyone’s taxes right now. And they fear a backlash from small-business owners who could be hit with higher taxes.

Pairing targeted business tax breaks with an extension of middle-class tax cuts could help alleviate those problems.

This article alone, ought to be a lesson for any Democrat thinking about running for office. That raising Taxes in a recession, just does not work. Only tax breaks for the wealthy and making the business climate more healthy will help. Also cutting spending is another way to bring down inflation. This article alone, should be a text book example of why Keynesian Economics does not work in a recession, at all. If you tax businesses to death, you spur growth, if you spur growth, jobs disappear — it is a vicious cycle. Democrats have been making these same stupid mistakes for years.

Which is why we need to vote them out, come November of 2010. Especially here in Michigan, where job growth is desperately needed.

Robert Stacy McCain meets Todd Palin

Posted on

Say what you want about Robert Stacy McCain, but when the man scores a exclusive, he scores an exclusive…..:

Todd Palin and Son Trigg

Half an hour later, I drive down an unpaved road past a large Miller-for-Senate campaign sign and turn into a driveway marked with multiple “No Trespassing” signs, past which no wise person would go uninvited. Here, nestled among birch trees on the shore of scenic Lake Lucille, is the home of the woman whom liberals love most to hate — and Todd, the man who got the nickname “First Dude” during his wife’s term as Alaska’s governor.

Todd opens the front door and his youngest son, two-year-old Trig, scampers across the living room to greet the guest with a “high five.” Rambunctiously energetic, Trig is the focus of his father’s attention — Todd bounces the toddler on his knee, reads him a book, and fixes him a bottle — for the next several minutes until 16-year-old Willow comes downstairs, scoops him up and carries him upstairs for sisterly babysitting.

Getting an interview with Sarah Palin is difficult. Getting an interview with Todd is next to impossible, and I would never have gotten this far if mutual friends — including Anchorage conservative talk-radio legend Eddie Burke — hadn’t vouched for my bona fides. So most of the conversation over the next two hours is off-the-record, or at least on background. To breach that agreement would be to put myself into that category of reporters whom Sarah Palin recently described to Sean Hannity as “impotent, limp and gutless.”

As of about right now, Mr. McCain is “The Man” of the Conservative Blogosphere. What an awesome thing to wake up to. 😀

Still, I am not much a of a Palin fan. But this is quite the awesome get, journalistically speaking.

Although, right now, I would venture to guess that there is a certain pony-tailed man in California who’s feeling about small at the moment.

Salon Publishes some irrefutable truths about the Republican Party’s Past

Posted on2 Comments

I hate to say it, for once, Salon.com, got it right:

For a century after the Civil War, the South was deeply and overwhelmingly Democratic, a consequence of the “humiliation” visited upon white Southerners by the Republican-initiated Reconstruction that followed the Civil War. The level of support enjoyed by Democratic candidates in the region is almost too astronomical to fathom now. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson took 42 percent of the vote nationally in a four-way presidential contest. But in South Carolina, he snared 95 percent. In Mississippi, 88 percent. While he was grabbing 60 percent nationally in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt scored 97 percent in Mississippi and nearly 99 percent in South Carolina. The region’s congressional delegation was uniformly Democratic — and, thanks to the South’s one-party status, disproportionately influential, with lifelong incumbents taking advantage of the congressional seniority system to secure the most powerful committee gavels.

For decades, they comfortably coexisted in the national Democratic Party’s other major source of support, the machine-folk of the urban North. But as civil rights became a national issue — and as the Great Migration of Southern blacks to the cities of the North and West turned civil rights into a priority for Democrats outside the South — the coalition began to splinter. When the party ratified a civil rights plank at its 1948 convention, Southern Democrats staged a walkout and lined up behind Strom Thurmond, South Carolina’s governor and (like all Southern Democrats of the time) an arch-segregationist. Running under the Dixiecrat banner, Thurmond won four Deep South states that fall.

Throughout the ’50s and early ’60s, Southern Democrats sat in political limbo. Their national brethren were inching their way toward a full-on embrace of civil rights, but the GOP wasn’t much of an alternative, not with Dwight Eisenhower endorsing integration and not with the party’s Northern-dominated congressional ranks strongly backing civil rights legislation.

1964, though, is what changed everything. In signing the Civil Rights Act, LBJ cemented the Democrats as a civil rights party. And in nominating anti-civil rights Barry Goldwater for president (instead of pro-civil rights Nelson Rockefeller) the GOP cast its future fortunes with the white electorate of the South. LBJ trounced Goldwater nationally that fall, winning more than 60 percent of the popular vote. But in the South, voters flocked to the Republican nominee, with Goldwater carrying five states in the region. Mississippi, the same state that had given FDR 97 percent of its votes 28 years earlier, now gave Goldwater 87 percent. That fall, Thurmond, now a senator, renounced his Democratic affiliation once and for all and signed up for Goldwater’s GOP. The realignment was well underway, and it had everything to do with race.

First of all, let me say this; yes, this article is true. As is the premise of the article as well. Now, seeing what I am being accused of, I will let forth another revelation. Do I think that this a good thing? No, I do not. Here is why; just like in the Democratic Party, where they have played upon the fears among the black community, that the Tea Party are bunch of “White Racist Bigots”, like they were called by some liberal idiot actress — the Republicans played that same game back in the 1950 and to a bigger extent in the 1960’s. This was the second time, that they played that idiotic game. The first time, was back in the 1930’s after the stock market crash. This mainly happened after FDR went into office and the Republicans lost a good deal of seats in the House and Senate. These people became known as the “Old Right,” or the Taft Republicans. Named for the Senator, Robert Taft.  They were and are still commonly referred to as the “Taft Wing” of the Republican Party; anti-new deal, Anti-FDR, Isolationists —- all that. Yes, they are still around; some familiar names — Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and many more.

I said all that to say this; as I have written before on this blog any times, politics is a sewer. There are people, in both of these parties, that would sell out a political or ideological stance; or even capitalize on a public fear, just so they can get elected. This has been happening since the founding of America and since the time that political parties were started. The Democrats did it in the past, and the Republicans have done it too. The problem is now, that the GOP wants to rewrite their own damned history, just for the purpose of political expediency. They believe that now that Obama is not doing very well in the polls and the midterms are coming; that they will be able to clear the Bush hurdle and possible take the midterms. Something that they could do very well, if they would be a bit more honest and up front about their past. Sorry folks, there is nothing wrong with a political party saying, “Hey, you know, we were wrong about all that a long time ago.”

To clearly understand all of the above; one must take the camera lens and pull back about 10 good feet and look at that only thing in it’s historical context. You have remember, that there a good number of scared white people in the south. The Klan backed segregation movement had been defeated. The Federal Government had ordered integration in the south. There were white people in Alabama, Georgia and many other states in the south, that were deathly afraid that the black populace was going to rise up and drag the white folk out of their houses, kill them, and take their possessions. Did the Republican Party capitalize on those fears. You bet they did! Did it ever happen? No. But it did get many of a Republicans voted for in the south.

Not much of it has changed; back then, they had booklets like “Red Channels.” Nowadays, we have a thing called the Blogosphere! Same game, same fears, same two parties. Just the surroundings have changed a bit. We have laptops and desktops; instead of typewriters. We have RSS feeds, instead of newspapers. We have Bill O’Reilly, Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Ed Schultz; back then there was just Ed Murrow and McCarthy. They are still yelling at one another and getting ratings. Not much as changed at all. One side is fighting for supposed “Equality”, the other is on some sort of Messianic mission to save the world from Communism. None of it has ever changed; just the methods have changed a bit. But it is that struggle, I believe, that makes America the great nation that it is. That is the debate that sets us apart from other Countries —- Federalism vs Anti-Federalism. Conservative vs Liberal.  The very right to be able to debate is unique one to this Nation.

Admittedly, in the last two years; things got a bit one sided in Government. One party was driven to the wilderness for a bit. However, in 2010, this is about to fix itself. That is the wonderful thing about America; our political balance always rights itself.

…..and we are a greater Nation for it.

Video: “God’s Tea Party”

Posted on

Transcript here

Quote of the Day

Posted on

Of course, much as I admired her and refreshing as I found her, Dr. Laura wasn’t perfect. A good listener and a shrewd thinker most of the time, she could get hung up on tangential matters that would sometimes get in the way of the true meat of the caller’s issue. (It sounds as though the notorious call that triggered her resignation eariler this month might have been one instance of this unfortunate tendency.) And the more she grew to embrace her Jewish identity, culminating in a conversion to Orthodoxy, the more Dr. Laura seemed to get drawn into politics, mixing in commentary regarding Israel and the so-called War on Terror, all of which tended to undermine her cred as a nonpartisan, apolitical dispenser of relationship and family advice.

But if Dr. Laura had flaws, she never in any way resembled the caricature constructed of her by her enemies: that of a mean, hateful, rapaciously-judgmental dragon lady. Much as she frequently unloaded on her callers and spoke her mind, Schlessinger as often as not sent them off with a tender word; moreover, she was a true emotional sap, often driven to tears on the air. I vividly remember one call from a young mother with an infant child who shared her tragic story of being stricken by terminal cancer; when she mourned, “I’m not going to get to see my baby walk,” Dr. Laura was so choked up she couldn’t speak, and had to go to a break.

The Obligatory Hillary Clinton 2012 video posting

Posted on

For what it is worth; Hillary Clinton is not behind the video. Just some fan boy, with money to burn. As I have written on this blog time and time again; the Clinton dynasty is over people. Obama handed foggy bottom’s, um, bottom to her in the 2008 primary and there is just no way in hell she is ever going to do that again, ever.

Quite honestly, I just do not see how Clinton being President would be any better. Besides, some of us have not forgotten about Waco. That is why I never, ever, want to see another damned Clinton in the White House, ever. 😡 To be clear, David Koresh was wrong, crazy, and a few other choice words. However, Clinton could have ordered restraint, and he did not. For this, the lives of 74 or so people, were wasted — for this I can never, ever forgive him.

Liberals to Black Conservatives at Beck Rally: Christianity is a white man religion

Posted on

This one comes via Eyeblast.tv:

Quote:

At Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ rally this past Saturday in Washington, D.C, a group of black Conservatives were approached by liberals who think they know best what African Americans should do and think.

One says “What happened to your African religion? You’re supposed to be Muslim.” Then, one of the tolerant liberals drops a word-bomb with a splash of racism, “Christianity is a white man’s religion.”

Leave it to the sheeple debating these guys who believe everything they are told as the absolute truth. For buying into political correctness in history, they sure don’t hold PC highly while claiming that Christianity is a white mans religion. Double standard much?

By the way, where was the racism from the ‘crazy right-wing fringe extremists that don’t represent a majority of America” crowd at Beck’s rally?

That’s right. There wasn’t any.

The real funny part is, if you notice in the video, the guy saying that idiotic stuff —- is white. 😯

I have to hand it to those liberals, they do have gonads. I would never, ever, in a million years; walk up to a black man, especially one that I did not know, and say something like that. That is a good way to get your ass beat. Because essentially what those white guys did; was call those black men, “House Negros.”  Not a smart thing to do to someone you really do not know.  I mean, it is one thing to talk smack behind a keyboard; but face to face like that, is just plain crazy. I can assure you, had that been in Detroit somewhere, those little whitey liberals, would have been in a body bag for talking that kind of smack, to some black man’s face.

In short: They be dummies. Liberal Dummies, but still dummies. 😀 (Pardon my ghetto’sh talk…)

Salon.com says, Glenn Beck is really, really scary

Posted on

Now this is too good:

Salon.com:

It’s been obvious for quite some time that Glenn Beck is not your typical conservative pundit. In the early days of Beckmania, style distinguished him from his Fox News colleagues more than content. He disseminated the same talking points as Hannity, O’Reilly and Cavuto, but he did it in the appealingly histrionic style of a true paranoiac. It was somewhat like listening to Alex Jones, talk radio’s greatest conspiracy monger, if someone convinced Jones to vote Republican, gave him a radio show, and then got him very drunk.

That was then.

But Beck has put a lot of work into expanding his brand since then, to the point that it’s no longer sufficient to describe him as a mere right-wing pundit. Nor is he, as Reihan Salam suggests, some kind of pasty conservative Malcolm X. There is no analogy that can explain the totality of the Beck phenomenon, but there are dozens that can capture a single facet: a dash of Father Coughlin, a smidgen of Oprah, and even a little L. Ron Hubbard sprinkled on top.

Go read the rest of that; it is worth the read, just to see how scared of Glenn Beck that the liberals truly are. Let’s see now, Liberals attacking Glenn Beck and making him out to be someone he is not. Now, where have I heard that one before?

Nuremberg Defense

Posted on4 Comments

I do not know quite where to start.  One minute, I am somewhat respected blogger.  The next, I am writing my defense paper.  I somewhat now know how Glenn Back feels.  One difference, Glenn Beck has a great deal more money than I do.  It appears that my stick poking at some women has caused a bit of a negative reaction; and they have really done their homework.  Hell, they did everything but post my damned social security number!  They would have done that, if they knew they would not have gotten into legal trouble for it.

What am I referring?  It appears that the two lovely women that I took a rather broad handed swipe at did not like it one bit.  In fact, bluntly, I do believe I may have pissed those old bitties off!  You can go read the laundry list of accusations against me; it is such a depressing read really.  You would think that I was some sort of Neo-Nazi or at least a Klan supporter.

Now what I did I do, to deserve such scrutiny by the Semite-Baiting crowd?

I said the J-Word!

Horrors!  Off with my head!  Shoot him at sunrise!  Hang him at dawn!  How dare this fiend dare to challenge the Neo-Conservative Ring-Wing establishment!

I may as well have yelled “Whore!” at a feminist rally.

Therefore, yes, they are after me and after me good. A price must be paid I suppose, for being a smart-mouthed, opinionated, person such as me.

Now, what is my defense?  Not much really, they have their facts somewhat correct.  I will explain some of the stuff and even try to salvage what sort of credibility I might have left.  Not that it will really make any difference to these Semite-Baiters, they have their mission and nothing I will say or even do will make any difference to them at all.

  1. The Stormfront Account:  Yes, I do have one.  I have owned it for a long time.  Something happened in the media one time, involved this forum.  Therefore, I wanted to snoop around the site and I created the account.  Now, does this mean that I agree one iota with those simpletons about race — specifically Jews and Blacks?  No, it does not.  As for what I may have written there — it is called engaging one’s self in conversation with them, as to figure out how they think and to borrow a phrase, what makes them tick.  I am, without apology, a morbidly curious person.  I am also a writer.  One has to know one’s subject well, if one is going to write with authority about a subject.
  2. Michelle Malkin:  This was one of things, which I did, that I am not proud of — I can really only tell you the truth about it.  Before I do, please, bear in mind that before I was a smart mouthed Conservative writer, that I was a left-leaning smart mouthed writer.  Having said that, here is the damned truth about that idiotic stunt that I pulled that happened over three or more years ago.  Michelle Malkin wrote something that just flat out pissed me off.  It has been so damned long ago; that I have totally forgotten what it was, I know that it involved kids, and her giving out personal information about the parents of those kids.  So, I thought, “huh, if she can give out personal information about people, why cannot I give HER personal information out?” and I so, I did a google search for “Michelle Malkin Address” and a website came up, which had her address, telephone numbers and cell phone numbers.  I let out an evil laugh and fired off a blog posting with her information, and aerial shot of her house!  That will fix her red wagon!  The posting was up for all of, um, maybe an hour?  A message popped into my inbox — from a good friend of hers, she had not lived in that house for 3 years!  D’oh! I pulled that posting and prayed to God in Heaven that no one went to that house.  Now, did I feel a bit silly?  You Betcha!  Do I hate Michelle Malkin?  No.  Her style of “Slash and Burn” Political writing is not my style.  However, I would very remiss, if I did not mention that she sticks up for our Military.  In fact, it was one of her stories on her blog, that about sent me into a monkey shit fit of biblical proportions.  It was when some idiot anti-war sleaze ball decided that it would be cool to pour cutting oil on the Vietnam War memorial in D.C.  It was the reading of that story, and a series of other events; that caused me to say, “You know, the Democrats are just not my party anymore.”  I will say one thing — I was told by some friends of mine, that the reason why Michelle Malkin moved to Colorado was that someone decided to post her address on a liberal forum, I heard it was Democratic Underground.  Anyhow, I had zero to do with that incident and I would like to find out whom it was that did that crap.  Now, what I was told might be untrue.  However, I want her and her friends to know, that I regret now doing that idiotic nonsense.  At the time, I knew nothing about her or how many children she had or anything of that sort.  Had I known that, I would never, ever pulled a stunt like that.  I would have just ignored it and moved on.
  3. The Michael Hendrix Incident: Once again, I made rather stupid mistake.  When in the heat of the battle, you say and do things, which later you think to yourself, “What the hell did I do that for?”  What happened was, I got a slight tap on the ass for some co-blogger at cold fury for saying that I happened t respect the John Birch Society.  The dude called me stupid.  I being the dude that was raised in the ghetto, I let the shit fly.  I went for the juggler vein.  In the process of that little sword fight, I ended up insulting Mike’s dead wife!  First, off, at the time, I did not know what Mike’s last name even was; much less whom the person was, that was listed on the blog as being deceased.  Put bluntly, I fucked up. When I did find out who she was, I did pray that God would turn the earth back about six good revolutions and let time go backward.  So, that someone could scream in my ear, “THAT’S HIS FUCKING DECEASED WIFE YOU IDIOT!”  —- No such luck on that one, time is still dragging on and I still feel like a damned chump about that.
  4. My supposed Hatred of Jews, Blacks, and other Minorities: Let me answer this one like this.  I am doing rather well for someone whose cousin was brutally murdered by two black Detroit police officers and a Mexican Police Officer back in the 1990’s.  I make no bones about it; I hate identity Politics of ALL stripes — Including the special treatment of ANY race.  If that makes me an Anti-Semite, that so be it.

Therefore, there you have it — My Nuremberg Defense.  I believe that I have answered the charges leveled at me, by a group of people whose mission in life is to ruin anyone who dares challenge the Neo-Conservative right.  I make no apologies for my wit, sarcasm, and ability to make heads explode, on the left or right.  It is what I do. Buckley did it, Taki Theodoracopulos does it very well, Richard Spencer does it well, and I will continue to do it here.  If you read this and feel that need to complain to ad companies, which exist on this blog, therefore to hang me for my so-called crimes, and disrupt my ability to buy my medicine, do please feel free.  However, please, do not call yourself a Conservative — Because that, which you are doing to me, is not even remotely Conservative.  What you doing, is in line with the Uber-Liberal Left, they are the intolerant ones, and they are the ones who have attacked me for daring to challenge the President in the past.  You should at least be honest and align yourselves with them.

So… there, the truth, my defense, as God as my witness — I will accept whatever becomes of this nonsense and act accordingly.

REALITY REPORT #59 – DOJ Defines Constitutionalists as Terrorists

Posted on

The Reality Report
Restore the Republic

George Washington could not tell a lie, but Glenn Beck did

Posted on

Now why does this not surprise me one bit?

During his much-ballyhooed “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday, Glenn Beck told a whopper involving the founding father who was supposedly unable to tell a lie: George Washington.

Speechifying at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, the controversial Fox News host highlighted the legacy of the nation’s first president to drive home his claim that encouraging honesty and integrity was a main aim of the event. Beck even told attendees that “the next George Washington” was “in this crowd. He may be 8 years old, but this is the moment. This is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him. And 25 years from now, he will come not to this stair, but to those stairs. And he can proclaim, ‘I have a new dream.'”

Beck also invoked Washington while describing the inspiring experience of visiting famous tourist destinations around the nation’s capital. “I have been going to Mt. Vernon,” he explained. Holding out his hands for emphasis, he declared with emotion, “I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington.”

It was an eyebrow-raising revelation and certainly an original image: Beck cradling the actual words of the first president. But would the persnickety gatekeepers of the nation’s historical legacy at the National Archives allow some talk show bombthrower to put his mitts on a rare (and fragile) artifact? The answer, it turns out, is no way. Beck was not telling the truth.

Beck did receive a special VIP tour of the archives, arranged by an as-yet unidentified member of Congress. During that tour, he did get a peek inside the “legislative vault,” which isn’t open to ordinary visitors. But Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper insists that Beck didn’t lay a finger on any precious documents, much less George Washington’s inaugural address. That would be a major violation of policy. “Those kinds of treasures are only handled by specially trained archival staff,” she explains. Cooper acknowledges that someone at the archives did show the document to Beck, but that was the extent of it. Regarding Beck’s claim that he held the document, Cooper says that seeing such documents for the first time can be a very emotional experience. “I’m certain it was a figure of speech,” she says.

via Glenn Beck’s George Washington Whopper | Mother Jones.

Before anyone says it; yes, I know that this is a liberal source. It goes on to really give Glenn Beck a good fisking. I also realize that Glenn Beck is a showman, more than anyone else. I also realize that Glenn Beck is all about creating hype and also a great deal of money.

However, it is worth mention and pointing out, that Glenn Beck should have known that if he told this sort of “whopper” as it is called in this piece; that someone somewhere would point out that he was stretching the truth a bit. You would think that someone like Glenn Beck, with all that staff and advisers; would have been smart than to allow him to let loose such little thing like that.

Before anyone tries to say it; I do like Glenn Beck. I do not watch his show every day, mainly because he does tend to repeat himself…. a whole bunch. However, I do know he does mean well and I do like what it is what he is trying to in educating those in the history of the progressive and communist movements and how they affect America.

UPDATED:BREAKING NEWS: ECO-TERRORIST HAS STORMED THE DISCOVER CHANNEL HEADQUARTERS IN MARYLAND, SHOTS FIRED, HOSTAGES TAKEN Suspect is DEAD!

Posted on1 Comment

CNN, TBD.com, Fox News,  and Mediaite are all reporting that a deranged leftist EcoTerrorist has stormed the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland.

Video, via Fox News:

Read More …

Hey, that speech was not so bad says William Kristol?!?!

Posted on

Calling all cars, Calling all cars, be on the lookout for a Neo-Conservative William Kristol; he has wandered off of the reservation again:

President Obama opposed the war in Iraq. He still thinks it was a mistake. It’s therefore unrealistic for supporters of the war to expect the president to give the speech John McCain would have given, or to expect President Obama to put the war in the context we would put it in. He simply doesn’t believe the war in Iraq was a necessary part of a broader effort to fight terror, to change the Middle East, etc. Given that (erroneous) view of his, I thought his speech was on the whole commendable, and even at times impressive.

[…..]

The close, was, I thought, well done. The president located those who fought in Iraq in the unbroken line of those who, from Lexington to Kandahar, “gave their lives for the values that have lived in the hearts of our people for over two centuries” and who “have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own.” There was a welcome implicit repudiation of Neville Chamberlain and appeasement, as President Obama praised our troops for having “fought in a faraway place for people they never knew.”

And at the end: “Our troops are the steel in our ship of state. And though our nation may be traveling through rough waters, they give us confidence that our course is true, and that beyond the pre-dawn darkness, better days lie ahead.” Not a bad tribute to the troops, and not a bad statement of the importance and indispensability of hard power.

And, on the whole, not a bad speech by the president.

First of all, I highly recommend that you go read the rest of that entry.  It is a very fairly well written piece by someone of whom, I disagree with highly on foreign policy. The reason why I say this is because, quite frankly, last night, I watched Fox News channel, I listened to Steven Hayes and Monica Crowley tear President Obama’s speech to pieces. Plus, I sat and read the far-right wing blogs; and I actually sat and wondered, “Do these people actually get an order from somewhere to criticize everything that President Obama says and does?” Frankly, I find that to be absolutely ridiculous. But, I guess that is partisan politics anymore; criticize your opponent no matter what he does. That is why I am a bit different than the rest of these Bloggers who identify with the right. I only criticize Obama when he actually does something that I feel is wrong.  Not because he is a Democrat and I am not and not because it happens to be the sporting thing to do among Bloggers and pundits on the right.

In closing: Kudos to Kristol for at least giving the President a little credit and not going along with the swine pack and doing what comes naturally to Conservatives of his stripe.

PalinBot stupidity from the moderation que

Posted on

My, my…. I guess my advice to the Conservative movement’s newest shrieking harpy must have hit a nerve with some of her robot followers:

Author : Smooth Jazz (IP: 24.103.214.170 , rrcs-24-103-214-170.nys.biz.rr.com)
E-mail : briangsmooth@msn.com
URL    :
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=24.103.214.170
Comment:
Memo to Political Byline: Are you guys a bunch of lunatic, mysynogist Palin Haters who are running neck and neck with KOS and Democratic Underground for the PDS Derangement Syndrome award of 2010, or do you people considering yourselves a serious polictical site.

I have no issues with you disagreeing or not liking Gov Palin; She knows she is not liked by everyone like any visible politician. But your childish, churlish shouts for her Shut UP (as if she doesn’t have a right to an opinion) is an indication that your enmity towards her borders on delusional and pathological – Almost as if you have a problem with a woman politician.

Good luck getting visitors to your site. Responsible conservatives will consider you a Andrew Sullivan clone, while Libs who hate Palin anyway will like go to Huff Post, et al for their Palin hating fix.

Wow……….. Just wow………….

This is the Republican Party of 2010 and 2012 people; please, keep this in mind when voting, there are other choices; you know like Libertarian? Unbelievable.

Now where is my dog photo????

Ah, here it is!

Memo to Sarah Palin: Those who live in glass houses, should not throw stones

Posted on1 Comment

Someone needs to tell this idiotic woman to please, shut up.

Later today, President Obama will speak to the American people about Iraq. No doubt he will laud the “end of major combat operations” by the date he randomly selected some 18 months ago. His press secretary Robert Gibbs also gave us a glimpse of what else he might say, telling the Today Show this morning that ”What is certainly not up for question is that President Obama, then-candidate Obama, said that adding those 20,000 troops into Iraq would, indeed, improve the security situation, and it did.”

Iraq in 2010 is indeed a very long way from Iraq in 2006, when violence and sectarian conflict threatened complete chaos. But then-candidate Obama did not support the course that brought us here as his press secretary now claims. On January 10, 2007, when President Bush announced the surge, Senator Obama insisted that the surge would actually increase sectarian violence: “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.” Barack Obama was clearly in opposition to the surge strategy.

via Facebook | Humility and Honesty About Iraq Can Inspire Trust.

In 2008, Sarah Palin rode into the G.O.P. convention on the white horse of social conservatism. All the while, knowing, that her eldest daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. This is something, that the McCain campaign, in concert with Sarah Palin; sought to keep hidden. Humility? Humility?!??! Seriously? This comes from a woman, who demands everything, but a gold plated toliet; when she appears somewhere. Let’s look at the facts here, shall we?

Mrs Palin’s public speaking requirements, reminiscent of those drawn up by rock star managers on behalf of their more demanding protégés, were included on the pages of a five-page contract allegedly found by Californian students in a bin.

Mrs Palin has also signed a multiyear contract with Fox News and a second book deal with HarperCollins.

These include two bottles of still water, unopened by a wooden lectern and accompanied by a “bendable” straw, three deluxe hotel rooms; and a first class flight or private aircraft that “MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger.”

Mrs Palin, 46, whose standing as John McCain’s vice-presidential candidate in 2008 was badly damaged when she stumbled over simple questions put to her by news anchor Katie Couric, also stipulates that all audience questions must be vetted.

“For Q&A, the questions are to be collected from the audience in advance, pre-screened, and a designated representative … shall ask questions directly of the Speaker to avoid delay time with a roving microphone in the audience,” the contract states in a clause highly unusual for a politician.

The contract, drawn up by the Washington Speakers Bureau and refers to a female speaker who will be aboard flights originating in Anchorage, Alaska, also provides sketches of how people should approach if they are to be photographed with her and how long the picture sessions should last.

The document, dated March 16, was discovered by students at California State University in a bin when they went searching for material relating to Mrs Palin’s speech in June to the university’s Stanislaus Foundation at a gala 50th anniversary event after they heard that university authorities were shredding documents.

The decision to invite Mrs Palin, the former governor of Alaska and potential 2012 presidential candidate, to speak at the event sparked controversy because of the cost at a time if budget crisis.

While the contract does not include the payment details for Mrs Palin, she regularly commands speaking fees of $100,000 (£65,000) per appearance. Her appearance at the gala is expected to draw a large crowd, with tickets selling for $500 (£324) each.

Mrs Palin resigned from her $125,000 (£81,000) a year post as Alaska governor last July stating she wanted to “fight for all our children’s future from outside the governor’s office”. Since then, she has earned an estimated $12 million in 10 months from television and speaking appearances and book deals.

Since then, she is estimated to have earned at least $12 million (£7.75m). Mrs Palin does not disclose her earnings but she reputedly landed a $7 million (£4.5m) deal for her first book Going Rogue.

She is understood to be receiving $250,000 (£160,000) per episode for each of eight episodes of a reality show about Alaska for The Learning Channel.

I think Megan McCain was right, she is a diva.

I think Sarah Palin needs to heed her own advice; and also I think she need to exercise a little control or a least pay attention to her own family. Bristol Palin is a perfect example of this. Hence my advice that, people like her; rich elitist snobs, ought to clean up the garbage in her own back yard. Before she starts trying to tell other how to do their jobs. Because quite frankly, she has failed at hers, as a Mother to her children. Because if she does this, her family and her children; Piper especially — will benefit from this.

The problem with Palin is, she is too busy telling other people what to do, and all the time is ignoring the horrible image in her own mirror.

Simply put, the woman is ate up with this entire foolish idea that she is entitled to be the President of the United States of America —- because she is woman. That is gender entitlement and I simply believe that she is absolutely wrong about it. Just like I did, when Hillary ran on that idiotic platform. The truth is, this woman is only entitled to be a wife to her husband and Mother to her children. The rest, she has to earn; and I’ve yet to see what she has actually done to earn anything of any standing within the Republican Party. Other than pimp herself out to Fox News and milk the “Oppressed White Soccer Mom” Tour for all it is worth.

Megan McCain on Palin: Drama! Stress! Panic!

Posted on1 Comment

Sounds like a normal day of running this blog! 😉

Anyhow, Ugh, I defend the lady when these two meatballs attack her and what does she do? This:

Video:

Via ABC NEWS:

For the first time since the end of her father’s 2008 presidential bid, Meghan McCain, Sen. John McCain’s daughter, spoke out about Sarah Palin, writing in a new book that Palin brought “drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty” to the losing campaign.

Although McCain wrote that during the campaign she wondered whether the loss “was Sarah Palin’s fault,” McCain told “Good Morning America” in an exclusive interview today that Palin was not the reason the campaign failed.

“I do clearly state at the end that we did not lose because of her, and I’m speaking out now because I do have conflicting feelings about her,” McCain told “GMA’s” George Stephanopoulos. “She brought so much momentum and enthusiasm to the campaign.”

Before Palin came onboard, McCain said she knew drama was brewing.

“I had learned a few things on the campaign already, and knew that change always brought complications and chaos and sometimes a little entertainment. Drama was inevitable on a campaign and created almost out of thin air. Tempers were always flying, and feelings were always being hurt. There was no question that a running mate would add to the confusion and upset. There would be less time for fun,” she writes. “But I couldn’t have predicted just how serious it was going to get.”

I hate to have to be the one to break it to Megan, but the McCain campaign did not lose the election because of Palin. Although, I believe that she had some to do with it. The overall cause is because John McCain is just a lousy Conservative. It’s one thing to be a moderate; but it is another entirely to be a Progressive Conservative or Liberal Conservative. It also another thing to be a foil for the Democrats. It is what John McCain did, during the election. That is why John McCain lost.

I respect John McCain for one thing only. His Military Service. Everything else, is up for debate. As for Megan; I just want to put my rather large, um, *ahem*, Johnson between her breasts, just once…. 😀 Which about what she is good for anyhow. 😯 😮  Oh! I don’t know what I meant by that! 😯 I must now go say 500 hail Mary’s. 😀 😉 😛 😆

Oh and…. Conservative Feminist? No such thing. Feminism is a Progressive idea. Just ask Phyllis Schlafly.

Judging Iraq, in the rearview mirror

Posted on

I am not much one for armchair quarter backing. However, I am speaking the non-partisan truth about a subject.

This one happens to be one, that was central to my foray in to the world of blogging.

The Iraq War.

It seems that there are some, that are really trying to put a “Tire Shine” on the Iraq War. In that process, they are basically trying to rewrite facts and basically distort realities. Which is quite common for the Neo-Right. They have been doing that since Buckley arrived on the scene many years ago.

Here is David Brooks basically either trying to recover any Conservative credentials that he might actually still have, either that or trying to suck up to President Obama….. again:

The U.S. venture into Iraq was a war, but it was also a nation-building exercise. America has spent $53 billion trying to reconstruct Iraq, the largest development effort since the Marshall Plan.

So how’s it working out?

On the economic front, there are signs of progress. It’s hard to know what role the scattershot American development projects have played, but this year Iraq will have the 12th-fastest-growing economy in the world, and it is expected to grow at a 7 percent annual clip for the next several years.

“Iraq has made substantial progress since 2003,” the International Monetary Fund reports. Inflation is reasonably stable. A budget surplus is expected by 2012. Unemployment, though still 15 percent, is down from stratospheric levels.

Oil production is back around prewar levels, and there are some who say Iraq may be able to rival Saudi production. That’s probably unrealistic, but Iraq will have a healthy oil economy, for better and for worse.

Living standards are also improving. According to the Brookings Institution’s Iraq Index, the authoritative compendium of data on this subject, 833,000 Iraqis had phones before the invasion. Now more than 1.3 million have landlines and some 20 million have cellphones. Before the invasion, 4,500 Iraqis had Internet service. Now, more than 1.7 million do.

In the most recent Gallup poll, 69 percent of Iraqis rated their personal finances positively, up from 36 percent in March 2007. Baghdad residents say the markets are vibrant again, with new electronics, clothing and even liquor stores.

[…..]

Of course, to be honest, he’ll also have to say how fragile and incomplete this success is. Iraqi material conditions are better, but the Iraqi mind has not caught up with the Iraqi opportunity.

There is still very little social trust. Iraq is the fourth-most-corrupt nation on earth, according to Transparency International’s rating system. The role of women remains surprisingly circumscribed. Iraqi politicians clearly find it very hard to compromise (though they may be no worse than American politicians in this regard).

Human capital is lagging. Most doctors left Iraq after the invasion, and it is hard to staff health clinics. The engineers left too, so American-built plants lie dormant because there is no one with the skills to run them. Schools are suffering because of a lack of teachers.

Ryan Crocker, the former ambassador, recently wrote an article in The National Interest noting that fear still pervades Iraq. Ethnic animosities are in abeyance, but they are not gone. Guns have been put in closets, but not destroyed.

If he is honest, Obama will have to balance pride with caution. He’ll have to acknowledge that the gains the U.S. is enabling may vanish if the U.S. military withdraws entirely next year. He’ll have to acknowledge that bottom-up social change requires time and patience. He’ll have to heed the advice of serious Iraq hands like Crocker, Michael O’Hanlon of Brookings and Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations, and shelve plans to withdraw completely.

Such a move may rob him of a campaign talking point. But it will safeguard an American accomplishment that has been too hard won.

Okay, that is fine. But what about the Billions of dollars that were lost in Iraq, that cannot be accounted for? Plus, since when is nation building something that is a cool thing to do? I know, as a Tax Payer, that I am not too happy about my tax dollars going to build a Country that will most likely turn against us again in the future. What brooks also fails to mention is the person that was responsible for the entire Iraq debacle, and that is President Bush.

On the subject of Nation building; Some are trying to make the comparison to to Japan and Germany. That is ludicrous on its very face.  The difference is, that the war on Japan and Germany were constitutionally declared wars, after the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. On the other hand, Iraq never attacked us directly, and there was not a constitutionally declared war on Iraq. Just a decision by congress to authorize Bush to use Military action on Iraq, based upon a few pieces of what is now known as faulty information.  Oh, the Neo-Right will trot out some letter written to the second in command of Al-Qaeda about wanting to move against Kuwait. But there is no proof that Al-Qaeda even received the letter. Further more, Osama Bin Laden could not stand Saddam. Besides, that letter was written back in the 1990’s, after the first gulf war. So, that so-called evidence linking Saddam to 9/11 is weak, very weak.

Ed Morrissey also flirts with the subject as well, and also gets it wrong:

When the story of this war gets written, most will lay the responsibility on the President who fought it the longest, George W. Bush, and we will see a slew of analysis over the next week that insist he paid too high a price for his neoconservative adventure.  However, perhaps later, cooler minds will prevail and put this in proper perspective.  We had two choices in 2003: either remove Saddam Hussein or abandon Iraq to him.  The coalition that imposed military limits on Saddam was falling away, and the sanctions regime had become so corrupt that it made Saddam a multibillionaire in his personal fortunes.  His sons were poised to succeed him in this reign of terror.  Our twelve-year truce had been repeatedly violated by Saddam, who also attempted to assassinate a former President, and we had done nothing to  address any of it.

The follow-up nation building in which we engaged can also be debated, but again, we had little choice in the matter.  We either needed to stay in Iraq to raise up a new government and army, or watch as Iran seized control through the Mahdi Army or Iraq became a Somalia in Southwest Asia.  Either of those outcomes would have been orders of magnitude worse than our occupation over the last several years.  The management of the occupation was certainly debatable, but once we invaded, we had no other choice but to see it all the way through.

In fact, the die was cast in this case twenty years ago when the George H. W. Bush administration stood up to Saddam Hussein and demanded his withdrawal from Kuwait.  The decision to leave Saddam in place created the twelve-year Phoney War that followed, and left the choice of either surrender or victory to one of Bush’s eventual successors.  In the end, the war removed a brutal dictator who was murdering his own people at a far faster rate than the war did and over a much longer period of time and who, left to his own devices, would have beaten the Iranians to a nuclear weapon with equally disastrous implications.  The freely-elected but still dysfunctional government in Baghdad is at least a bright spot of hope in a dismal region, if we can remain committed enough to nurture it through friendship.  That is what our men and women fought and bled to create, and it’s to their honor that it exists today.

Where he gets it wrong is here:

The coalition that imposed military limits on Saddam was falling away, and the sanctions regime had become so corrupt that it made Saddam a multibillionaire in his personal fortunes.  His sons were poised to succeed him in this reign of terror.

…..

We either needed to stay in Iraq to raise up a new government and army, or watch as Iran seized control through the Mahdi Army or Iraq became a Somalia in Southwest Asia.

See the problem with all that is this here. We overthrew a dictator, and broke up that Ba’ath Party leadership. However, we created a quasi-unity Government over there, which is very fragile. We also installed, or as the Neo-Right likes to call it; voted in, another basic dictator, who is friendly to the United States. The Iraqi Government, I personally predict, will collapse once all of the American military units, of all sorts, are out of Iraq come 2011. What will happen then, is this, there will be an all out civil war in that Country. The faction there that is loyal to Iran will win, and Iraq will align itself with Iran and will then begin the process to harboring terrorists to mount attacks on Israel and ultimately the United States.

So, in closing, we did not stop Iran from invading Iraq and creating havoc in the region. We just made it a little more difficult to carry out. But know this, it will happen and someday, someone is going to say, “Why didn’t we just leave that Country alone?” and when the next huge terrorist attack happens here in America, and we discover that the terrorists trained in Iraq. We will have no one to blame — but ourselves.