Ain't that the truth...

The Problem is not conservatism, but conservatives who aren’t conservative:

"What mystifies is the paralysis of Republicans and their impotent protestations that “Bush did it”. The truth is that Congressional Republicans, responsible for turning principles into governance, deserve to lose—unless they craft clear positions that won’t be compromised and then offer them as alternative choices to the voters this fall. Here are some examples:"

Now he's a fool...

Obama will stop the mean corporations from stealing all our jobs:

"Gack. Now Obama is ranting about how he's going to make the corporations give us super fuel-efficient cars, find awesome new sources of oil, make renewable energy affordable, and invent a really delicious fat-free ice cream. However did we manage to get through the first 200 years without Barack Obama to beat some progress out of the corporations that have been holding us back?"

This is going to be fun...

Mark Steyn on Barack Obama

"Four score and seven years ago… No, wait, my mistake. Two score and seven or eight days ago, Barack Obama gave the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address, or FDR’s First Inaugural, or JFK’s religion speech, or (if like Garry Wills in The New York Review of Books, you find those comparisons drearily obvious) Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech of 1860. And, of course, the Senator’s speech does share one quality with Cooper Union, Gettysburg, the FDR Inaugural, Henry V at Agincourt, Socrates’s Apology, etc: It’s history. He said, apropos the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, that “I could no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother.” But last week he did disown him. So, great-speech-wise, it’s a bit like Churchill promising to fight them on the beaches and never surrender, and then surrendering a month and a half later, and on a beach he decided not to fight on.

Michelle Obama is a bizarre mix of condescension and grievance — like Teresa Heinz Kerry with a chip on her shoulder. But the common thread to her rhetoric is its antipathy to what she calls “corporate America.” Perhaps for his next Gettysburg Address the senator will be saying, “I could no more disown my wife than I could disown my own pastor. Oh, wait…

Whatever one thinks of Senators Clinton and McCain, they’re as familiar as any public figures can be. Obama, on the other hand, is running explicitly on a transcendent “magic.” It doesn’t help when the cute girl in spangled tights keeps whining about how awful everything is and the guy you sawed in half sticks himself together and starts rampaging around the stage. The magician has lost control of the show."

I find it worrisome that Herbert agrees with me...

The Pastor Casts a Shadow

"The Rev. Jeremiah Wright went to Washington on Monday not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him."

Read the whole thing, and then remember what I said last week about Wright being a classical terrorist.

A terrorist attack....

Wright offering fresh fodder to Obama critics

It's almost as if Wright is working for Hamas - he attacks and then draws enough fire so that he can claim that the white folk are racist and out to get him. If he really cared about his boy, he would shut the f--k up and let Obama's momentum take over.

But he is obviously more intent on rubbing salt into the wounds, and creating the self-fulfilling prophesy of black failure due to white racism. Then he can blame and preach some more..... Very Palestinian of him, don't you think?

There will be blood, I am sure

Obama's Media Army

"We are at the beginning of a contest likely to repeat itself through November: between that part of the press prepared to put hard questions equally, and all the rest, including those who'll mount the barricades when their candidate is threatened with discomfiture. Let the wars begin."

As I have said many times already, the left wing in this country feels that their self-appointed candidate should be in the White House right now - no election, no primaries, no questions asked. Just seeing how annoyed the Times is warms the cockles of my heart. Very monarchist, don't you think?

He doesn't like real guns anyways....

The Fake "Gun Rights Group" Supporting Obama

Uh oh - you mean those idiots vote?

Hot Air:

It looks like the voters of small-town Pennsylvania have reacted to Barack Obama’s remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser in a predictable manner. American Research Group had Obama rising to a tie against Hillary Clinton in the next primary after trailing by double digits for weeks preceding his ascent. Now he has dug himself an even deeper hole than the one he earlier escaped...

Well said...

Obama Wasn't Just Insulting Pennsylvannians:

"Obama doesn't understand a great deal of America. He has no experience with it other than as a politician looking for votes, and even that experience outside of Chicago has been accumulated only since he began his run for the U.S. Senate in 2003. His life has made him keenly aware of urban dysfunction and of African-American issues even as it has exposed him to the Third World in a way that very few American officials have been."

But who cares, as long as there is "change" (whatever that means).

Update (via Instapundit) :

THE MOTHER OF ALL GAFFES: "Barack Obama broke the first rule of Democratic presidential politics: never let on that you believe rural American voters are hicks straight out of Deliverance. . . . he could not have picked a worse time to reveal his contempt for average Americans."

Coming home to roost....

Obama's None-Too-Bright Remarks

That's why people cling to guns and religion? As for anti-trade sentiment, perhaps Obama is talking about...people like himself, who have spent the last 3 months bashing free trade. Not only is this pretty darn condescending on its face, but the trade comment adds another whole layer of insult. He's almost admitting that he does not believe his previous trade talk!

The other problem is this: Obama was essentially claiming that the reason people are not voting for him is because they are bitter...

Looks to me as if the whole vacuity of "Vote for Change" is finally starting to cave on poor little Obama. When you finally get past the cliche' and have to explain to people in concrete terms what the fuck you really mean, you'd better be ready to pony-up with the goods. This is a deep, very empty chasm he is about to enter.... Could not be more timely for Mrs. Clinton or the American people in general. He's just another politician, folks, with a very good catch-phrase and the appropriate shade of beige. Wake up and remove the halo....

All you have to do is make them feel guilty

Sir Elton:

"I never cease to be amazed at the misogynist attitude of some of the people in this country. I say to hell with them."

Now we are getting to the crux of the matter: If you don't vote for Hillary, you are a misogynist; and if you don't vote for Obama, you are a racist. This guilt thing seems to have worked well with all of my liberal Jewish friends.... Well done, Dems.

Isn't that what this election is about?

Doesn't Anyone Have To Take Personal Responsibility Any More?

"I strongly disagree with what seems to be the growing opinion that borrowers, specifically those who got mortgages the past few years, had little or no responsibility to read and understand the documents they were signing and the loan they were getting. Even when the terms were explained to them, when they were told about possible interest rate adjustments, and when they could have/should have/were in a position to know, borrowers increasingly (and to my mind inappropriately) are being considered unwitting victims."

Funny how that works....

UNPRECEDENTED EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY -- Bad when it's used to fight terrorists, but good when it's used to fight "global warming!"

They think that we are fools...

Protein Wisdom

At the so-called Moderate Voice, Sean Mullen has an interesting concept of terrorism. Former Sen. Phil Gramm, now an adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign, is a “terrorist in pinstripes” for his sponsorship of the Financial Services Modernization Act. Mullen blames the law for the subprime mortgage meltdown… because Barack Obama says so. You really cannot get more moderate than that.

Okay, so maybe Mullen could get more moderate than that. For example, Mullen could have noted that the Financial Services Modernization Act was signed into law by then-Pres. Bill Clinton. Mullen could have noted that Obama, like Hillary Clinton, has taken plenty of campaign cash from the main players in the subprime-mortgage industry. Mullen also could have told his readers that Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee has defended the deregulation of mortgage lending on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Mullen might even have pointed readers to Gramm’s response to the charge.

Mullen chose not to do any of those things because the the tagline for “The Moderate Voice” really should be “Moderate, but reliably Lefty.” And once you have chosen to mislead people as to who you are, the rest follows naturally.

Calling Ellsworth Touhey...

In Massachusetts, Universal Coverage Strains Care

In pockets of the United States, rural and urban, a confluence of market and medical forces has been widening the gap between the supply of primary care physicians and the demand for their services. Modest pay, medical school debt, an aging population and the prevalence of chronic disease have each played a role.

Now in Massachusetts, in an unintended consequence of universal coverage, the imbalance is being exacerbated by the state’s new law requiring residents to have health insurance.

Certainly, even my deceased grandmother could have made this prediction. Political remedies for individual problems always have the same results; and now the geniuses in Massachusetts's legislature are going to "fix" the resulting problem with yet another attempt to make things right. Don't worry, though, the Presidential candidates have it all worked out....

Mickey Kaus wonders - and so should you

Clintons' Tax Returns: The press is focused on where all that money ($109 million) came from. Fair enough. But where did it all go? This seems like a genuine mystery. It's not as if the Clinton's live especially lavishly, or own huge estates. It's not like Bill has to pay for all his hotels and travel. The Clintons only gave about $44 million to the IRS and to charities (including their own). Where's the rest of it? If it's all invested, what is it invested in? Green companies pursuing sustainable growth and living wages? Or hedge funds seeking the highest returns? And assuming it's invested, what are they going to do with it later?...

You do need a sense of humor...

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Yup....they're all full of it.

Enjoy...

I had said at the very start of this mess 2 years ago that I really didn't know who I could vote for; but that I did know who I wouldn't vote for - the first one of them who I see with his/her arm around the pig Sharpton.

Case closed.....

Interesting theory....

The Democrats' 1968 Chicago convention marked the end of FDR-style liberalism...

Read it all....