Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him.
What with the Bush legacy of reckless war and economic mismanagement, 2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?
If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.
Here are some real simple reasons:
America doesn't trust him
America is seeing him as an empty suit
America doesn't like what they hear
America thinks his choice of friends, advisors & mentors is risky
America is a positive nation while liberalism is a negative force
America understands that he and his supporters aren't telling the truth
Some simple truths about this article:
Bush is not reckless about Iraq, he has been right
Bush has not mismanaged the economy, Congress has
Obama does not have every natural and structural advantage, just a thin veneer of charisma
McCain is not a sub par nominee with a "list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue"
McCain does not lack clarity & discipline, Obama does
Weisberg is a moron for saying Obama "may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected"
Obama may lose because of older white voters, but the only reason he is the nominee is because of black voters and liberal guilt-ridden voters.
I am sick of race in this election because I hear about it every day from Obama, blacks and liberals bringing up Obama's skin color because they are terrified that Obama may lose. He will and with their help.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Obama Wins Delaware
and gets years and years of the foreign policy expertise of Neil Kinnock who didn't think Margaret Thatcher won the Falklands War in the proper manner! In the hope for change category, Biden brings 35 years of get-along politics in a pork laden sty of corruption and back slapping.
Biden also brings a style of stem-winding stump speeches that absolutely wow listeners into a complacent stupor of magnificent support.
Now, onto the other 56 states.
UPDATE: Even though they didn't get the e-mail announcing the second annointment, kos and kids think:
This has been the best veep rollout EVER.
Obama's finest operation yet!!! Gush, gush, GUSH!
Biden also brings a style of stem-winding stump speeches that absolutely wow listeners into a complacent stupor of magnificent support.
Now, onto the other 56 states.
UPDATE: Even though they didn't get the e-mail announcing the second annointment, kos and kids think:
This has been the best veep rollout EVER.
Obama's finest operation yet!!! Gush, gush, GUSH!
Friday, August 22, 2008
2007: 10.3 Million Gallons Of Booze Consumed In Ohio
Could it be citizens voting with their livers? You think?
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Dipping Into The Stink
I've enjoyed reading Progress Ohio. I haven't agreed with it, but it is usually interesting. Therefore it is sad to see that the minute Obama is being unmasked that PO has to get right down in the stink.
On the Blog Net Ohio roll PO has numerous stories about McCain's breakup with his first wife and marriage to Cindy highlighting it as an affair. He's probably never hear that Christians aren't sin free, just forgiven. Next he moves on to McCain's housing as that is the de jour liberal bitch, even Google earthing his properties.
Maybe PO might help us and Google earth BO's properties including the sweetheart patch in back for Michelle's veggie garden. While at it maybe he can mark on the map Ayer's bomb making facility, Farrakhan's secret armory (complete with steel bowties) and "Rev." Wright's AmeriKKKa. That about do it.
On the Blog Net Ohio roll PO has numerous stories about McCain's breakup with his first wife and marriage to Cindy highlighting it as an affair. He's probably never hear that Christians aren't sin free, just forgiven. Next he moves on to McCain's housing as that is the de jour liberal bitch, even Google earthing his properties.
Maybe PO might help us and Google earth BO's properties including the sweetheart patch in back for Michelle's veggie garden. While at it maybe he can mark on the map Ayer's bomb making facility, Farrakhan's secret armory (complete with steel bowties) and "Rev." Wright's AmeriKKKa. That about do it.
To Every Action Is A Reaction
RI bishop wants US to halt mass immigration raids
Congregation wants bishop to halt pontificating and start preaching.
Congregation wants bishop to halt pontificating and start preaching.
Woman Tells Russian General To Stuff It
A real woman, not some paper tiger spewing crap from their ivory tower, so let the left go nuts about how President Bush is saber rattling. He's not rattling sabers, Condi Rice is knocking heads.
"When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988," Rice said, according to The Associated Press. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around."
When and if Obama has something worth while to utter it is sure to be written by someone else. Maybe Chairman Short, aka Putin.
via Right Wing Champ
"When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988," Rice said, according to The Associated Press. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around."
When and if Obama has something worth while to utter it is sure to be written by someone else. Maybe Chairman Short, aka Putin.
via Right Wing Champ
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Docs: Phelps Selling Obesity
People: Docs Selling Crap
Since the medical and education professions have been able to make sexual identity, sexual equality and revisionist history more important than education and being a kid, they have moved on to switching back and forth between arguments that our nation's children don't have enough to eat, are eating too little, have too much to eat and are overeating. Kinda like the Chicken Littles arguing that the planet is too hot, too cold and never just right.
Now they're attacking Tony the Tiger and Michael Phelps.
Breakfast of a champion? Frosted Flakes! Phelps signs with cereal
"I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian," said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
"I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios."
...
Still, in a country where childhood obesity is an alarming issue, Phelps' iconic image sharing space with Tony the Tiger sends the wrong message, experts say.
"For a guy like Michael Phelps who isn't worried about obesity because he's burning thousands of calories as an athlete...eating Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes every so often is not an issue," Solomon said.
Phelps is not doing the Olympian thing? Like they'd know what an Olympian could and should do.
Why not quit screwing with their make work formulas and tell the kids to get up, get out and play?
May I suggest tag and dodge ball?
Since the medical and education professions have been able to make sexual identity, sexual equality and revisionist history more important than education and being a kid, they have moved on to switching back and forth between arguments that our nation's children don't have enough to eat, are eating too little, have too much to eat and are overeating. Kinda like the Chicken Littles arguing that the planet is too hot, too cold and never just right.
Now they're attacking Tony the Tiger and Michael Phelps.
Breakfast of a champion? Frosted Flakes! Phelps signs with cereal
"I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian," said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
"I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios."
...
Still, in a country where childhood obesity is an alarming issue, Phelps' iconic image sharing space with Tony the Tiger sends the wrong message, experts say.
"For a guy like Michael Phelps who isn't worried about obesity because he's burning thousands of calories as an athlete...eating Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes every so often is not an issue," Solomon said.
Phelps is not doing the Olympian thing? Like they'd know what an Olympian could and should do.
Why not quit screwing with their make work formulas and tell the kids to get up, get out and play?
May I suggest tag and dodge ball?
August 20th Is here Again
Liberals, progressives and socialists are planning their Democratic convention. Russia has invaded another country to squash any hope of true democracy. Members of the convention, just as in Russia and with other communist sympathizers, are blaming America first and foremost for baiting the Russian bear.
Nixon or Bush? Czechoslovakia or Georgia? Both. 1968 is back, but this time the democrats have a planning commission called Recreate 68 and they are just as traitorous and stupid.
McCarthy and Humphrey were battling for the nomination by the Democratic party. One openly wanted to appease the Soviets while the other wanted to walk a thin line trying to unite the anti-freedom and traditional wings of the party by quietly hoping to eviscerate the American military and our country's hope of lessening war through the spread of freedom and prosperity. Obama and Clinton. ibid.
Open and quiet sympathizers of communism were not directly confronted by the media, but were celebrated as agents of change. ibid.
The Democrat Party held up Humphrey, McCarthy, Muskie, McGovern, Bond and Ted Kennedy as agents for that change. Obviously, little has changed in the Democrat Party.
Nixon or Bush? Czechoslovakia or Georgia? Both. 1968 is back, but this time the democrats have a planning commission called Recreate 68 and they are just as traitorous and stupid.
McCarthy and Humphrey were battling for the nomination by the Democratic party. One openly wanted to appease the Soviets while the other wanted to walk a thin line trying to unite the anti-freedom and traditional wings of the party by quietly hoping to eviscerate the American military and our country's hope of lessening war through the spread of freedom and prosperity. Obama and Clinton. ibid.
Open and quiet sympathizers of communism were not directly confronted by the media, but were celebrated as agents of change. ibid.
The Democrat Party held up Humphrey, McCarthy, Muskie, McGovern, Bond and Ted Kennedy as agents for that change. Obviously, little has changed in the Democrat Party.
New Life
After scads of emails, actually a few, concerning where I have been I decided to share about where I have been, being absent, from this blog. Unfortunately, it does not involve forgotten weekends across the border nor anything remotely about lotteries.
My family is a large one. With many sisters, many nieces and nephews and even more of their children, there are many lives of many differences. One of my sister's children has had a hard life of which we were kept in the dark until that life had affected her children. Badly.
As families do when they are real family, we discussed what to do, not how to tut-tut and reprimand, but to take action to assist. Our part in this drama involving the magnificence of life has been to welcome into our home a wonderful, but storm tossed 14 year old who has seen the wrong side of Yuma and life.
It is sad, but at the same time delightful to watch her realize that she doesn't have to fight for food. It is frustrating, but natural to stem the tide of attitude born of fear as she realizes her room is her room and will not be taken away nor will she "move" once again because mommy needs to find work. As it was with our now 24 and 26 year olds, it is the little things that are the signposts of moving forward, treading water or drowning. Our 24 year old son has been indispensable in being a listening post and her supporter, quietly encouraging her that this isn't a temporary station offering stability which will be snatched away at the first hint of discord.
It has been humorous to watch her interact with my wife's Italian family. Soon after arrival we were off to the beach for a week to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday with no number. In a quiet talk on the beach I found that this was her first vacation and that she felt guilty for it. She felt guilty for the piles of food, the laughter, the constant hugging and the fact that we had not just one, but two houses looking out over the Atlantic that were ours alone to enjoy.
The little things we take for granted softened that guilt as she silently watched the prayers before each meal, one fisherman son gently chiding the CEO son for being a cheapskate, a grandmother sharing her crossword puzzle with a grandchild snugly explaining the purpose and the meaning of words, the unending waves begging to be ridden and the whole cast directed by the ghost of a now gone 4' 10" giant of a woman who brought, shaped and ruled a family into being Americans. Thank God this ghost didn't have time to teach this new family member how to play cards because I have never even come close to beating one of them in any game domestic or foreign.
That's where we have been and am now. Thank God for it, but how do I explain that, yes, Ireland is over the horizon on the far side of the Atlantic? She thinks I am making that up.
My family is a large one. With many sisters, many nieces and nephews and even more of their children, there are many lives of many differences. One of my sister's children has had a hard life of which we were kept in the dark until that life had affected her children. Badly.
As families do when they are real family, we discussed what to do, not how to tut-tut and reprimand, but to take action to assist. Our part in this drama involving the magnificence of life has been to welcome into our home a wonderful, but storm tossed 14 year old who has seen the wrong side of Yuma and life.
It is sad, but at the same time delightful to watch her realize that she doesn't have to fight for food. It is frustrating, but natural to stem the tide of attitude born of fear as she realizes her room is her room and will not be taken away nor will she "move" once again because mommy needs to find work. As it was with our now 24 and 26 year olds, it is the little things that are the signposts of moving forward, treading water or drowning. Our 24 year old son has been indispensable in being a listening post and her supporter, quietly encouraging her that this isn't a temporary station offering stability which will be snatched away at the first hint of discord.
It has been humorous to watch her interact with my wife's Italian family. Soon after arrival we were off to the beach for a week to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday with no number. In a quiet talk on the beach I found that this was her first vacation and that she felt guilty for it. She felt guilty for the piles of food, the laughter, the constant hugging and the fact that we had not just one, but two houses looking out over the Atlantic that were ours alone to enjoy.
The little things we take for granted softened that guilt as she silently watched the prayers before each meal, one fisherman son gently chiding the CEO son for being a cheapskate, a grandmother sharing her crossword puzzle with a grandchild snugly explaining the purpose and the meaning of words, the unending waves begging to be ridden and the whole cast directed by the ghost of a now gone 4' 10" giant of a woman who brought, shaped and ruled a family into being Americans. Thank God this ghost didn't have time to teach this new family member how to play cards because I have never even come close to beating one of them in any game domestic or foreign.
That's where we have been and am now. Thank God for it, but how do I explain that, yes, Ireland is over the horizon on the far side of the Atlantic? She thinks I am making that up.
An American Rube In America
I love the comment below about John Edwards, his love child and the necessary avoidance, and later justification, of his personal life made public, ala Gary Hart, by John Edwards.
Here's how this seedy little Democrat soap opera is going to play out long term. It's going to be a remake of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor as performed by the Clampetts.
Bubblin' crude, black gold, milkin' dead children, ignoring live children. Makes no difference.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Dumber Than Not Drilling
A return to 55 mph?
As you zip down the highway at 70 mph, remember that your lead foot will cost you at the pump in these days of $4-a-gallon gas.
Some lawmakers in Congress have certainly considered the consequences of your driving habits. And they want you to slow down.
Record-high gas prices have triggered talk that it may be time to lower the speed limit on federal highways to 55 or 60 mph.
"I think that's a great way to save fuel," said U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, N.C. "I think it would be the right thing to do."
U.S. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., raised the possibility of reducing the speed limit to 55 or 60 mph early last month. He asked Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman to study whether a lower speed limit would reduce gas prices at the pump and report back on how much fuel it would save.
In the House, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has filed legislation that would impose a national speed limit of 60 mph on highways in urban centers and 65 mph in less populated areas. A hearing on the bill hasn't yet been set.
The push for a lower speed limit harkens back to 1974, when the country was facing another energy crisis and Congress and President Richard Nixon reduced the limit to 55 mph in response to the Arab oil embargo.
Wear your own damned sweaterCarter Shuler. Quit being a nanny and let us drive without you, Warner and any other government overseer sitting in the backseat driver's seat.
As you zip down the highway at 70 mph, remember that your lead foot will cost you at the pump in these days of $4-a-gallon gas.
Some lawmakers in Congress have certainly considered the consequences of your driving habits. And they want you to slow down.
Record-high gas prices have triggered talk that it may be time to lower the speed limit on federal highways to 55 or 60 mph.
"I think that's a great way to save fuel," said U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, N.C. "I think it would be the right thing to do."
U.S. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., raised the possibility of reducing the speed limit to 55 or 60 mph early last month. He asked Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman to study whether a lower speed limit would reduce gas prices at the pump and report back on how much fuel it would save.
In the House, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has filed legislation that would impose a national speed limit of 60 mph on highways in urban centers and 65 mph in less populated areas. A hearing on the bill hasn't yet been set.
The push for a lower speed limit harkens back to 1974, when the country was facing another energy crisis and Congress and President Richard Nixon reduced the limit to 55 mph in response to the Arab oil embargo.
Wear your own damned sweater
Pelosi: Bitter, Bible-Thumping & Looking For Her Gun?
Pelosi Praise: Obama is a 'leader that God has blessed us with at this time'...
Ah, now we find that Nana is a closet GodBot in a town full of Godless empty closets. If only the good sisters of Institute of Notre Dame had not spared the rod.
Another graduate of the "Institute" is the estimable Barbara Milkulski, class of 1954.
Question: Which god is Nana referring to?
Ah, now we find that Nana is a closet GodBot in a town full of Godless empty closets. If only the good sisters of Institute of Notre Dame had not spared the rod.
Another graduate of the "Institute" is the estimable Barbara Milkulski, class of 1954.
Question: Which god is Nana referring to?
Outstanding!
Uncovering Montpelier's Hidden PastAfter five years, and a restoration costing millions of dollars, James Madison’s Virginia home stands revealed once again
The landscape alone is breathtaking. Imagine clearing the land, fighting off interlopers and forging a new life in a new land thousands of miles from home.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Obama & His Political Salute To Desclos
One Nation, Under a New Obama SaluteI'm thinking they haven't really thought this through.
A hole. A hole into which Obama will lead us?
A zero? The grand sum of Obama's plan?
O? The "Story of O"? An erotic story of dominance and submission? Politically it may work as a fascist suggestion in a reality based community, but who is "O" and who is Obama?
There are other implications that I leave to your imagination. None of them good, but all are unfortunately accurately descriptive.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Too Much Bush Causes Fat In America
Clinton: Economy Prompts Unhealthy Eating...
And guess what, only the government can fix this. Actually, only Hillary can save America and its children, because, after all, it's all for the children.
Question, when Bill was fat, whose fault was it then, the Republican Congress?
And guess what, only the government can fix this. Actually, only Hillary can save America and its children, because, after all, it's all for the children.
Question, when Bill was fat, whose fault was it then, the Republican Congress?
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Stupid Study: Everyone Fat, But Me
SHOCK STUDY: ALL U.S. ADULTS COULD BE OVERWEIGHT IN 40 YEARS
Maybe it's a good thing I've cut down to 2-3 Snickers a day. Can't be too careful.
UPDATE: Real cause has been found! Snickers don't make you fat, guns do. jennifer Homepage
Maybe it's a good thing I've cut down to 2-3 Snickers a day. Can't be too careful.
UPDATE: Real cause has been found! Snickers don't make you fat, guns do. jennifer Homepage
Fat Albert Buys A Boat To Fit His Ego & Greed
BS One is aptly named for his largess of the carbon profit scam. Maybe we'll' soon see "Fat Albert's Tacos & Gas" stations and marinas all across the south. You know, for the good of Mother Earth.
UPDATE: I was informed that I forgot to mention MoonPies which have their own catagory for carbon fatprints..
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