Nothing says giving like giving to yourself, getting a tax break for it and being able to tout your 'caring' in dollar amounts to amaze your friends, neighbors and voters.
Clintons Made $109 Million in Last 8 Years
During that time, the Clintons paid $33.8 million in federal taxes and claimed deductions for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. The contributions went to a family foundation run by the Clintons that has given away only about half of the money they put into it, and most of that was last year, after Mrs. Clinton declared her candidacy.
Might Bill and Hill be a tad narcissistic?
Speaking to a statewide convention of North Dakota Democrats in Grand Forks on Friday, Mrs. Clinton criticized the Bush administration’s tax cuts, which she said favored the rich, then referred to the tax data she and her husband released earlier in the day.
“Now don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against rich people,” she said. “As a matter of fact, my husband, much to my surprise and his, has made a lot of money since he left the White House, by doing what he loves doing most — talking to people. But we didn’t ask for George Bush’s tax cuts. We didn’t want them, and we didn’t need them.”
Maybe if you and little Billy gave your tax cut to a real charity or spent it on goods and services you'd be able to grasp the concept that maybe you don't need your tax cut, but there are a lot of small business and individuals that do and want you to get them, even against your will.
My, oh my, being a couple who much to their surprise have made a lot of money makes it so tiresome to deal with the little people and their wearisome demands. Jeeves, bring me an ashtray or a lamp, I feel the need to speak with William.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Friday, April 04, 2008
Boutique Gas In Iraq?
Our Empress, Nana Pelosi, has duly warned General Patraeus "not to put a shine" on the situation in Iraq and all of her children have duly noted that in their little red books. Now though comes the incredibly worrisome news that Iraqis may be paying less for the refined crude their houses are built on top of. The horrors!
Deeper in Nana's threat was this gem of green economic realism:
"The stretch and strain on our military is like never before," said Skelton. "I am terribly worried about this."
Underscoring the Democrats’ economic points, Pelosi asked why the U.S. military in Iraq and Americans back home are paying more for gasoline than the Iraqis are.
“Our troops in Iraq are paying about $3.25 a gallon for gas in Iraq, comparable to what we pay here, while the Iraqis are paying $1.36 a gallon,” Pelosi said. “This is a raw deal for the American taxpayer.”
While this fact is unacceptable there is a solution. Boutique fuels. I say most of Baghdad must have sweet smelling gas fumes that would never think of polluting a single terrorist while areas in which Sadr has his forces the gas fumes must pollute and smell like Sadr's left hand. It's kind of like the difference between Cleveland and Berkeley only smaller.
Other cities in Iraq can summon up their best smarm and demand sweeter fuel in different mixtures that will make their babies stronger (because it is really all about the children unless they become loggers in which case the Hell with them) and saving Mother Earth from capitalist running dog pig Republicans.
You go Nana. You're on this like white on rice.
Deeper in Nana's threat was this gem of green economic realism:
"The stretch and strain on our military is like never before," said Skelton. "I am terribly worried about this."
Underscoring the Democrats’ economic points, Pelosi asked why the U.S. military in Iraq and Americans back home are paying more for gasoline than the Iraqis are.
“Our troops in Iraq are paying about $3.25 a gallon for gas in Iraq, comparable to what we pay here, while the Iraqis are paying $1.36 a gallon,” Pelosi said. “This is a raw deal for the American taxpayer.”
While this fact is unacceptable there is a solution. Boutique fuels. I say most of Baghdad must have sweet smelling gas fumes that would never think of polluting a single terrorist while areas in which Sadr has his forces the gas fumes must pollute and smell like Sadr's left hand. It's kind of like the difference between Cleveland and Berkeley only smaller.
Other cities in Iraq can summon up their best smarm and demand sweeter fuel in different mixtures that will make their babies stronger (because it is really all about the children unless they become loggers in which case the Hell with them) and saving Mother Earth from capitalist running dog pig Republicans.
You go Nana. You're on this like white on rice.
Republicans Are Racists
This from John Legend, who is a great musician, but also a man who would probably be disgusted by stereotypes, like so many Democrats say themselves. Why do they constantly stereotype people and groups? Whites are racist, but blacks are not capable of being racist. Republicans are all rich except those without money, but they are dupes for the rich. Democrats are not dupes, but thoughtful individuals who just happen to have the same thoughts as their leaders even though some of them have never thought about what they are agreeing about.
John Legend: I think America is ready to elect Barack. It's not insert-any-black-man-here and they would vote for him, but Barack is a unique and special person. And so I don't really like the question of "is America ready for a black president?" because it's more about the specific individual. And the thing is, the people who wouldn't vote for a person because they're black wouldn't vote for a democrat anyway.
This proto-black thinking flies directly in the face of the diversity leftists and blacks tell us they desire. Republicans are not racist, but we are told whitey won't vote black. How long until this is stated in white face while doing a countryclub shuffle to country music?
John Legend: I think America is ready to elect Barack. It's not insert-any-black-man-here and they would vote for him, but Barack is a unique and special person. And so I don't really like the question of "is America ready for a black president?" because it's more about the specific individual. And the thing is, the people who wouldn't vote for a person because they're black wouldn't vote for a democrat anyway.
This proto-black thinking flies directly in the face of the diversity leftists and blacks tell us they desire. Republicans are not racist, but we are told whitey won't vote black. How long until this is stated in white face while doing a countryclub shuffle to country music?
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Randi Rhodes - Hillary & Geraldine Haven't Spent Time With Eliot 'Black Socks' Spitzer and Stabenow
Left Dining On Themselves
It 
appears that the lovely and vivacious Randi Rhodes of Air (Err) America mugged herself this time. It hasn't been enough for her to lie about being attacked, nor was it thrilling enough to ask that President Bush be shot, now she has attacked Former First Lady Hillary Clinton and former vice presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro because they aren't messiah enough for her nation.
appears that the lovely and vivacious Randi Rhodes of Air (Err) America mugged herself this time. It hasn't been enough for her to lie about being attacked, nor was it thrilling enough to ask that President Bush be shot, now she has attacked Former First Lady Hillary Clinton and former vice presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro because they aren't messiah enough for her nation.It's a hard task to make Hillary and Geraldine look lady-like, but Randi is just the right little girl to get that done. I love liberals and progressives eating their own. It smells like victory in November. I hope their buffet is 24/7/365.
Pelosi Proves She Is Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks - II
Pelosi warns Petraeus on Iraq testimony
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warned Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Thursday “not to put a shine on recent events” in Iraq when they testify before Congress next week.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warned Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Thursday “not to put a shine on recent events” in Iraq when they testify before Congress next week.
It seems Nana didn't learn the last time she tried to question Gen Patraeus' credibility and honesty. America believed him and showed nothing, but scorn for her. As it should be.
Conservatives Aren't Smart Enough To Bar Barr
Barr bid could hurt McCain
Republican campaign pros said a Barr bid could range from causing them some damage all the way to being the equivalent of Ross Perot's 1992 presidential bid, which many Republicans think split their party's voters, unseating then-President Bush and electing Democrat Bill Clinton.
I am so sick of arrogant conservatives acting like little Kennedys who think they're smarter than anyone else. The one man/one vote two party system has kept America strong, but these clowns want us to be an Italian Camelot with a party and platform for every naive person who is too lazy to work within the Republican Party to make changes. Maybe some of these people might remember a fellow named Ronald Reagan or another guy named Newt Gingrich. Jack Kemp might come to mind. Ever hear of Vin Weber?
Oh, that's right, it isn't about money. It's about political purity and the American way.
You people are setting up our failure by electing an Obama or a Hillary and don't give me the we win by losing. We win by winning and we lose by losing.
Electing Democrats is losing. Period.
Republican campaign pros said a Barr bid could range from causing them some damage all the way to being the equivalent of Ross Perot's 1992 presidential bid, which many Republicans think split their party's voters, unseating then-President Bush and electing Democrat Bill Clinton.
I am so sick of arrogant conservatives acting like little Kennedys who think they're smarter than anyone else. The one man/one vote two party system has kept America strong, but these clowns want us to be an Italian Camelot with a party and platform for every naive person who is too lazy to work within the Republican Party to make changes. Maybe some of these people might remember a fellow named Ronald Reagan or another guy named Newt Gingrich. Jack Kemp might come to mind. Ever hear of Vin Weber?
Oh, that's right, it isn't about money. It's about political purity and the American way.
You people are setting up our failure by electing an Obama or a Hillary and don't give me the we win by losing. We win by winning and we lose by losing.
Electing Democrats is losing. Period.
Wahhabi Mecca Is A Bin Laden/Saudi Money Maker
I wrote a piece earlier about Disney does Mecca and now Gateway Pundit has more news about the why.
These projects not only allow the Saudis to profit more from the hajj, which religious Muslims are obliged to make at least once, but also have imposed a Wahabi straitjacket on the pilgrimage. Formerly, Shia and sufic pilgrims observed the hajj with all so
rts of individual rituals and visits to shrines and tombs they referred. Now, thanks to the Bin Ladens' demolition and construction projects only a Wahabi version of the pilgrimage is possible.
rts of individual rituals and visits to shrines and tombs they referred. Now, thanks to the Bin Ladens' demolition and construction projects only a Wahabi version of the pilgrimage is possible.Abraj al-Bait is just part of it, but a big part since it is essentially a Saudi abomination and a Saudi profit center to make huge profits of Islam and the pilgrams that revere Mecca as a holy site.
Wahabis destroying the past to ensure the future? Nah, that would just make them cheap little revisionists like the liberals and progressives here in the United States. Would they aim that low?
Arlen's Spector Of The Public's Basic Right Is Right
A great piece on Arlen Specter by Ben Keeler. The Democrat's press hacks at the NYT probably won't want to cover this.
Senate Shutdown?
The Democrats are banking on winning the White House and ramming through their liberal judges to advance their agenda which isn't popular enough to win at the ballot box.
This is a classic liberal tactic skulking the halls of congress dressed up as parliamentarianism. It's not. It's their standard arrogance polished up to appear merely as being a bully for the people.
Hey, Harry and Nana, acting like Teddy R won't ever make you Teddy R. You ain't got the big stick nor the ability to speak softly. It's beyond your range. Try bigger pearls on your pig, that might work better.
Senate Shutdown?
The Democrats are banking on winning the White House and ramming through their liberal judges to advance their agenda which isn't popular enough to win at the ballot box.
This is a classic liberal tactic skulking the halls of congress dressed up as parliamentarianism. It's not. It's their standard arrogance polished up to appear merely as being a bully for the people.
Hey, Harry and Nana, acting like Teddy R won't ever make you Teddy R. You ain't got the big stick nor the ability to speak softly. It's beyond your range. Try bigger pearls on your pig, that might work better.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
No Longer The Party Of 'Free' Love
Stabenow's husband caught in Troy prostitution sting, police report says
The co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive Democracy Radio and husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was caught in February by a Troy police sting aimed at catching prostitutes, according to a police report.
Thomas L. Athans was stopped Feb. 26 by undercover officers investigating a possible prostitution ring in a room at the Residence Inn near Big Beaver and Interstate 75. Athans paid a 20-year-old prostitute $150 for sex in a Troy hotel but was not arrested, according to police reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Detroit News. The police report said officers observed Athans enter a room under surveillance and leave 15 minutes later. Detectives followed and stopped Athans' silver 2002 Cadillac DeVille on Interstate 75 near Square Lake Road.
...
"(Detectives) stop people coming and going and interview them. If they have a cooperative witness, they will use that person to testify against the ring rather than arrest them. That's what happened in this case," Scherlinck said.
Questions:
Why would a nice young lady be with a "kiss and tell" type of guy?
Why is there such a difference in price between NYC/DC and Troy Michigan?
Why would a prostitute work a cheap motel near Big Beaver?
15 minutes???
Why is a power-to-the-people type guy driving a Cadillac DeVille?
The co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive Democracy Radio and husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was caught in February by a Troy police sting aimed at catching prostitutes, according to a police report.
Thomas L. Athans was stopped Feb. 26 by undercover officers investigating a possible prostitution ring in a room at the Residence Inn near Big Beaver and Interstate 75. Athans paid a 20-year-old prostitute $150 for sex in a Troy hotel but was not arrested, according to police reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Detroit News. The police report said officers observed Athans enter a room under surveillance and leave 15 minutes later. Detectives followed and stopped Athans' silver 2002 Cadillac DeVille on Interstate 75 near Square Lake Road.
...
"(Detectives) stop people coming and going and interview them. If they have a cooperative witness, they will use that person to testify against the ring rather than arrest them. That's what happened in this case," Scherlinck said.
Questions:
Why would a nice young lady be with a "kiss and tell" type of guy?
Why is there such a difference in price between NYC/DC and Troy Michigan?
Why would a prostitute work a cheap motel near Big Beaver?
15 minutes???
Why is a power-to-the-people type guy driving a Cadillac DeVille?
Sarkozy Defies Pantywaist's Nyet
The French are scaring our francophiles.
via Vodka Pundit
France eyes bigger Afghan deployment
Francois Fillon, speaking at the National Assembly amid domestic opposition to a bigger French deployment, said NATO and its allies must stop Afghanistan from again becoming a hub of international terrorism.
Jacque Kerry, Sir Hillary Clinton and Baroque Obama are not going to be pleased with this. Their spokesperson said, "Nous sommes mouillage sur nos pantalons."
via Vodka Pundit
France eyes bigger Afghan deployment
Francois Fillon, speaking at the National Assembly amid domestic opposition to a bigger French deployment, said NATO and its allies must stop Afghanistan from again becoming a hub of international terrorism.
Jacque Kerry, Sir Hillary Clinton and Baroque Obama are not going to be pleased with this. Their spokesperson said, "Nous sommes mouillage sur nos pantalons."
Hillary's 34 Years Of Lying VS Obama's New Found Skills
via Gateway Pundit
It appears that Hillary has a long history of being a liar and a conniver to either get what she wants or is told to get by her betters. She went from a Goldwater Girl to a gold digger girl at the speed of ambition.
Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Common thieves
One of the most forceful criticisms of the Clintons was by President Carter’s former Chief of Staff, Hamilton Jordan. On February 21, 2001 Jordon published an article in the Wall Street Journal titled The First Grifters, stating that in describing the Clintons:
A word comes to mind: grifters -- a term used in the Great Depression to describe fast-talking con artists who roamed the countryside, profiting at the expense of the poor and the uneducated, always one step ahead of the law, moving on before they were held accountable for their schemes and half-truths.
Wow! What a choice we have for our country. Hillary who loves only herself or Obama who agreed to cut Wright loose if Wright's message of hate became known.
MATTHEWS: Yes, well, let me show you what the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the man we‘re looking at right now, Reverend, said to “The New York Times” last year. He, like, gave political advice to his friend, Barack Obama. Quote, “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said, yes, that might have to happen.”
So they apparently had a conversation, according to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, where they both agreed they had to separate ways, disconnect their connections. So they saw the political hazard ahead, and yet they did not make the move. In other words, Barack Obama was warned that the radical statements which he was warned about firsthand by the minister would cause him trouble politically, which they are doing this weekend right as we speak, and he failed to separate himself. What does that tell you about his political judgment?
Two despicable people vying to be the leader of a country that is good and strives to be better each day.
UPDATE: Hot Air is on this as well. Also;
Slublog
Blog-o-Fascists
Maggie's Farm
Maggie's Notebook
Classical Values
Wizbang
Powerline
Ace of Spades
Buzz Blog
Public Secrets: from the files of the Irishspy
Blue Crab Boulevard
Patterico
Accuracy in Media
Fausta
Campaign Standard
For more on Hillary, lying, and the meaning of the Tall Tale of Tuzla
It appears that Hillary has a long history of being a liar and a conniver to either get what she wants or is told to get by her betters. She went from a Goldwater Girl to a gold digger girl at the speed of ambition.
Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Common thieves
One of the most forceful criticisms of the Clintons was by President Carter’s former Chief of Staff, Hamilton Jordan. On February 21, 2001 Jordon published an article in the Wall Street Journal titled The First Grifters, stating that in describing the Clintons:
A word comes to mind: grifters -- a term used in the Great Depression to describe fast-talking con artists who roamed the countryside, profiting at the expense of the poor and the uneducated, always one step ahead of the law, moving on before they were held accountable for their schemes and half-truths.
Wow! What a choice we have for our country. Hillary who loves only herself or Obama who agreed to cut Wright loose if Wright's message of hate became known.
MATTHEWS: Yes, well, let me show you what the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the man we‘re looking at right now, Reverend, said to “The New York Times” last year. He, like, gave political advice to his friend, Barack Obama. Quote, “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said, yes, that might have to happen.”
So they apparently had a conversation, according to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, where they both agreed they had to separate ways, disconnect their connections. So they saw the political hazard ahead, and yet they did not make the move. In other words, Barack Obama was warned that the radical statements which he was warned about firsthand by the minister would cause him trouble politically, which they are doing this weekend right as we speak, and he failed to separate himself. What does that tell you about his political judgment?
Two despicable people vying to be the leader of a country that is good and strives to be better each day.
UPDATE: Hot Air is on this as well. Also;
Slublog
Blog-o-Fascists
Maggie's Farm
Maggie's Notebook
Classical Values
Wizbang
Powerline
Ace of Spades
Buzz Blog
Public Secrets: from the files of the Irishspy
Blue Crab Boulevard
Patterico
Accuracy in Media
Fausta
Campaign Standard
For more on Hillary, lying, and the meaning of the Tall Tale of Tuzla
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Saddam's 'useful idiot' Owes Boehner $1 Million
Boehner can collect $1 million in legal fees, judge says
A federal judge says House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, can collect more than $1 million in his lawsuit against Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington state.
The decision was issued in a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call. In the 1996 call, Republican leaders discussed an ethics case against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. A Florida couple recorded the cell phone call on a radio scanner and McDermott leaked the tape to two newspapers.
Boehner sued and a federal court found that McDermott had no right to release the calls. The Supreme Court decided in December not to revisit the case.
McDermott called the court fight with Boehner “a long and costly battle,” but said the million-dollar judgment was “a small price to pay in defense of so fundamental a principle, and freedom, as the First Amendment.”
Because of the protracted legal challenge, “the First Amendment is stronger today, and shielded by new case law that will buttress its capacity to protect the publication of truthful information on matters of public importance long into the future,” McDermott said in a statement Tuesday. “ Knowing this, I am proud of my role in defense of the First Amendment.”
Yes, McDermott must be proud in his role as defender of the First Amendment after he so rigorously defended his boss, Saddam's, right to say he was going to wage the Mother of All Battles against the evil United States of America. Or maybe he was just defending his right to speak as a useful idiot of Saddam.
“The President of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war.”
McDermott has done so much damage to this country it is hard to calculate. It is easy to calculate how much money McDermott will personally pay Congressman John Boehner because the Left's and McDermott's useful idiots will foot the bill.
A federal judge says House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, can collect more than $1 million in his lawsuit against Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington state.
The decision was issued in a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call. In the 1996 call, Republican leaders discussed an ethics case against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. A Florida couple recorded the cell phone call on a radio scanner and McDermott leaked the tape to two newspapers.
Boehner sued and a federal court found that McDermott had no right to release the calls. The Supreme Court decided in December not to revisit the case.
McDermott called the court fight with Boehner “a long and costly battle,” but said the million-dollar judgment was “a small price to pay in defense of so fundamental a principle, and freedom, as the First Amendment.”
Because of the protracted legal challenge, “the First Amendment is stronger today, and shielded by new case law that will buttress its capacity to protect the publication of truthful information on matters of public importance long into the future,” McDermott said in a statement Tuesday. “ Knowing this, I am proud of my role in defense of the First Amendment.”
Yes, McDermott must be proud in his role as defender of the First Amendment after he so rigorously defended his boss, Saddam's, right to say he was going to wage the Mother of All Battles against the evil United States of America. Or maybe he was just defending his right to speak as a useful idiot of Saddam.
“The President of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war.”
McDermott has done so much damage to this country it is hard to calculate. It is easy to calculate how much money McDermott will personally pay Congressman John Boehner because the Left's and McDermott's useful idiots will foot the bill.
John McCain For President
It isn't just stop Hillary or Obama anymore, but there is that.
From Instapundit.
THE IMPACT OF VIRAL MEDIA: An email from a former student of mine in the UK:
It has been a long time since I e-mailed you.Anyway, my wife and I have been living in the UK since early 2000 and have been experiencing the US political scene from a distance since then. I watched the anti-Obama videos you linked today with some interest. I have always been a conservative so I would not vote for the Democractic nominee in any event, but I haven't been an enthusiastic McCain guy. He seemed too much like Bob Dole the Sequel to me. He came to London and I could have met him, but I couldn't be bothered at the time even though I deeply respect the sacrifices he made during his captivity.
Now I have watched Obama's commercial to "slow down" the development of weapon's programmes and more importantly saw the "Man in the Arena" ad linked on YouTube. I have to say that now I am a convert. I am not like the fake Republicans that the NY Times seems to find that support whatever liberal agenda the Times is pushing at the moment. There is a lot I would not like about a McCain Presidency. On the other hand, I love my country and, notwithstanding what Mickey Kaus thinks about having a president with dark skin somehow deterring a potential terrorist, it does us no good if Obama throws away our real defences. I can never see Obama saying or even thinking that "Do not flinch. Stand Up. We're Americans and we will never surrender. They will." That is the most important issue for me. It must trump all others.
I must say that now I will have to donate to the McCain campaign. I was going to sit this election out (except for voting), but now I see I need to do everything I can to help. I am a father. How could I not do as much as I can to make the world safe for my little girl? Anything less is negligent.
That one commercial made me a reluctant convert to the McCain campaign.
McCain has to hope that this will happen a lot between now and November.
From Instapundit.
THE IMPACT OF VIRAL MEDIA: An email from a former student of mine in the UK:
It has been a long time since I e-mailed you.Anyway, my wife and I have been living in the UK since early 2000 and have been experiencing the US political scene from a distance since then. I watched the anti-Obama videos you linked today with some interest. I have always been a conservative so I would not vote for the Democractic nominee in any event, but I haven't been an enthusiastic McCain guy. He seemed too much like Bob Dole the Sequel to me. He came to London and I could have met him, but I couldn't be bothered at the time even though I deeply respect the sacrifices he made during his captivity.
Now I have watched Obama's commercial to "slow down" the development of weapon's programmes and more importantly saw the "Man in the Arena" ad linked on YouTube. I have to say that now I am a convert. I am not like the fake Republicans that the NY Times seems to find that support whatever liberal agenda the Times is pushing at the moment. There is a lot I would not like about a McCain Presidency. On the other hand, I love my country and, notwithstanding what Mickey Kaus thinks about having a president with dark skin somehow deterring a potential terrorist, it does us no good if Obama throws away our real defences. I can never see Obama saying or even thinking that "Do not flinch. Stand Up. We're Americans and we will never surrender. They will." That is the most important issue for me. It must trump all others.
I must say that now I will have to donate to the McCain campaign. I was going to sit this election out (except for voting), but now I see I need to do everything I can to help. I am a father. How could I not do as much as I can to make the world safe for my little girl? Anything less is negligent.
That one commercial made me a reluctant convert to the McCain campaign.
McCain has to hope that this will happen a lot between now and November.
Monday, March 31, 2008
The psychology of voting
via Tony Phyrillas
[He] received an e-mail from a New York University student who is conducting a research study on how people pick a president as part of his work toward a degree in psychology.
Matthew Schottland is conducting a Web survey as part of his study.Schottland assures [him] that the project is not to sell anything, make a profit, or promote any sort of political agenda
You can take the survey at:
http://www.psychsurveys.org/brietruesdell/2008primaries
[He] received an e-mail from a New York University student who is conducting a research study on how people pick a president as part of his work toward a degree in psychology.
Matthew Schottland is conducting a Web survey as part of his study.Schottland assures [him] that the project is not to sell anything, make a profit, or promote any sort of political agenda
You can take the survey at:
http://www.psychsurveys.org/brietruesdell/2008primaries
Health Nazis Ally With Communists To Ban Butts
Beijing to ban smoking ahead of Olympics: official media
In addition to cleansing the air China's new anti-flooding program will consist of female children with 2 or more vowels in their first name to use their fingers to plug holes in the country's dikes on alternate days during the rain season. Officials have already announced the complete success of both programs.
In addition to cleansing the air China's new anti-flooding program will consist of female children with 2 or more vowels in their first name to use their fingers to plug holes in the country's dikes on alternate days during the rain season. Officials have already announced the complete success of both programs.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
James Earl Carter Report To Your Gate For Immediate Departure
Mugabe apparently faces major defeat in Zimbabwe
How can Robert win without your ballot expertise Jimmah? Oh, and while you're there the roof and foundation of Democracy need repair. Maybe you can help habitat it after you make sure the election is fair and Mugabe wins. I mean, don't you and Andy Young want Mugabe's reign of terror to continue to further freedom and justice by murdering anybody that dares disagree with him? Get on board Jimmah, Bobby Mugabe needs you!
How can Robert win without your ballot expertise Jimmah? Oh, and while you're there the roof and foundation of Democracy need repair. Maybe you can help habitat it after you make sure the election is fair and Mugabe wins. I mean, don't you and Andy Young want Mugabe's reign of terror to continue to further freedom and justice by murdering anybody that dares disagree with him? Get on board Jimmah, Bobby Mugabe needs you!
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