Archive for October, 2008
Senseless
October 28, 2008Obama Citizenship Issue… Spend the 10 Minutes to see just how bad this whole thing really is.
October 27, 2008Wow, worth the time to see this , pleae watch:
McCain for President – Charles Krauthammer
October 25, 2008McCain for President
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, October 24, 2008; A19Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain. I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.
I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe — neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) — yelling “Stop!” I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I’d rather lose an election than lose my bearings.
First, I’ll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The “erratic” temperament issue, for example. As if McCain’s risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.
McCain the “erratic” is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.
Nor will I countenance the “dirty campaign” pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed that McCain supports “cutting Social Security benefits in half.” And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.
McCain’s critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What’s astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.
Moreover, the most remarkable of all tactical choices of this election season is the attack that never was. Out of extreme (and unnecessary) conscientiousness, McCain refused to raise the legitimate issue of Obama’s most egregious association — with the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Dirty campaigning, indeed.
The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who’s been cramming on these issues for the past year, who’s never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of “a world that stands as one”), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as “the tragedy of 9/11,” a term more appropriate for a bus accident?
Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?
There’s just no comparison. Obama’s own running mate warned this week that Obama’s youth and inexperience will invite a crisis — indeed a crisis “generated” precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 to invite that test?
And how will he pass it? Well, how has he fared on the only two significant foreign policy tests he has faced since he’s been in the Senate? The first was the surge. Obama failed spectacularly. He not only opposed it. He tried to denigrate it, stop it and, finally, deny its success.
The second test was Georgia, to which Obama responded instinctively with evenhanded moral equivalence, urging restraint on both sides. McCain did not have to consult his advisers to instantly identify the aggressor.
Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I’m for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.
letters@charleskrauthammer.com
OHIO… Something does not compute!
October 25, 2008It’s nice to know that the good folks in the State of Ohio have access to serious computer power. They have the ability to look up detailed information on individuals in the state and get to the bottom of any questions that may impact the election of 2008. So using those computers to cross check information on the voters registered by those “independent, civic-minded and non-partisan groups” like ACORN would be a appropriate. BUT that’s not what was done. Instead of worrying about important issues like voter fraud, apparently the DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED offices of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers,
the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department used there computers to access information on a guy named Sam Wurzelbacher. Oh, you may know him by another name, “Joe the Plumber.” (Columbus Dispatch)
Nice job Ohio, you have a “211” in progress by a bunch on “Community Organizers” and you can’t be bothered to deal with that, but a guy who dares to ask a question that BHO answers shockingly honest and reveals his Share the Wealth Socialist agenda, MUST BE STOPPED. So the State’s computers were used to look up info on Joe, and the real crime occurring continues to drip, drip, drip right in front of you… I bet you were just trying to find a good plumber, that must be it.
BHO Feels A Mighty “Righteous Wind At Our Backs”
October 23, 2008BHO told the good folks of Virginia that he believes…
“If you’ll stand with me, then I know that we can win Virginia and we can win this election and we can finally bring the change we need to Washington,” Obama told the estimated crowd of 35,000. “I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.” (ABC Political Punch)
I’m reminded of a 2003 movie “A Mighty Wind.” where they try to re-create the past and celebrate the Good Old Days… Meet the new Cast of A Mighty Righteous Wind… Starting on the Left… “Joe the Senator”, BHO & Dingy Harry.
DNC Halloween 2008
October 23, 2008The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend? or The Friend of My Opponent is not “My Friend.”
October 23, 2008Well, another proud endorsement for BHO & Joe…
Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that Iran would prefer Democrat Barack Obama in the White House next year. (Link)
Maybe it’s Time To Get “Joe The Senator” a message minder
October 21, 2008If you were a fly on the wall of the BHO Campaign Headquarters you might hear something like this:
Biden is Killing us! Why can’t he keep the voices in his head, IN HIS HEAD! Hey, let’s try something, what if we get him one of those little recorders that you give seniors to remind them where they parked the car, what to get at the store, you know. We can have CNN or MSDNC record their news/our talking points, and he can play it over and over and maybe, just maybe, he will stay on message… Just don’t record that line from The Manchurian Candidate… “The woods are lovely – dark and deep, But I have promises to keep”, there’s no telling what he would do. He might do something stupid like tell people we are going to be attacked if Barack is elected… Oh, it’s too late, he’s already done that! You have to be Kidding me! Why didn’t we go with Hillary?