Larry King, John McCain, Rasheed Khalidi, and the Barack Obama Shamwow Infomercial

Somebody told me that a baseball game was played last night. I don’t care. Baseball is boring.

That concludes the sports report. Now on to politics.

Barack Obama ran a 30 minute infomercial last night. I would sooner watch a “Sham wow” commercial than one more clip of this nonsense.

This is not about conservatism vs liberalism. It is about substance vs style. I was expecting the equivalent of a fireside chat. Instead, it truly was just an elongated campaign commercial that was ultra light on specifics and ultra heavy on Obama’s love for himself. Our souls are broken, to quote his wife Michelle, and only he can fix them.

Obama can get away with this because he is rolling in money.

I want to make it clear that I have no objection to Obama raising tons of money. I think all politicians should have the opportunity to raise this money. The irony is that it will be John McCain and that horrible campaign finance reform law of McCain-Feingold that has McCain starving for cash at the 11th hour.

I am voting for John McCain, but he has only himself to blame for this. He agreed to spending limits if Obama would as well. Obama said he would. He lied. There is no other way of sugarcoating this.

More importantly, I am almost glad he lied. For one, it will prove that there are absolutely no consequences for being against campaign finance reform. It is inside baseball. The American people don’t care. The media love campaign finance reform because it gives them more power, heaven forbid anybody else have influence. Ordinary people are not bothered by Obama raising tons of cash. As a republican, I support his right to do so.

Another lesson is that republicans need to stop being so obsessed with rules. Liberals break rules, and get away with it. McCain should immediately begin raising money from everywhere. He can apologize after the election, and pay the fine. He decided to be a gentleman and fight with one hand tied behind his back. Obama, as a liberal, is not bound by any rules or ethics. Does anybody think Obama will lose sleep over this? So what if Bill Clinton was sleazy and Bob Dole was honorable? Clinton got to be President. McCain will be honorable and Obama will get to govern. Republicans must never unilaterally surrender any advantages unless they can force the left to obey the rules, or corner them when they break them.

Even Campbell Brown, who is not conservative about anything, is calling out Obama for lying. She should have done this months ago. It is a meaningless gesture to make CNN look fair.

CNN refused to run the infomercial, preferring to run their own Pro-Obama infomercial, or as they call it, campaign coverage.

Barack Obama is simply a phony, but people know this and do not care. He does not even know the difference between “The Jeffersons” and “Sanford and Son.” I do. I am officially revoking Obama’s race. He is no longer black. I am declaring him white, so that guilty white liberals will judge him by the lack of content in the lack of his character, not the color of his skin. Barack Obama is as sincere as John Kerry. He is an effete nose in the air snob.

From now on, Barack Obama is no longer black. Now we can judge him on his lack of accomplishments.

For those who want a black President at any and all costs, Michael Steele is available, and so is Dr. Thomas Sowell.

No, I do not care if Obama knows the difference between Fred Sanford’s wife Elizabeth and George Jefferson’s wife Weezie. What I do care about is the media obsessing over Sarah Palin’s clothing that is not even hers, while ignoring those who hang Sarah Palin dolls by a noose on their lawns. Ideological bigotry by the left must be covered, whether it be ACORN forcing banks to make loans to those that cannot pay them, or comparing John McCain to George Wallace and George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler.

(Full disclosure: Hitler tried to kill my dad. Dubya is a friend of Jews, and cut my taxes.)

Now as for Obama’s 30 minute replay of the Demagoguic Party Convention, below is some analysis.

He was chatting from a room similar to the Oval Office. Yes, he has already measured the drapes.

I truly thought this would be a substantive speech. I did not expect substance because it was Obama. Far from it, I think he lacks substance. I did expect him to offer substance one time just before the election.

I was genuinely stunned by the lack of value in this production. What truly made me shocked was that it was a replay of his platitudes.

“A rescue plan for the middle class.”

“Low cost loans for small businesses.”

“This does not grow Government. It grows the economy.”

He then mentioned fairness.

“Americans don’t expect Government to solve all their problems. They don’t want a handout.”

This was like 1992 all over again. Endless talk about how he will cut taxes, right before the middle class gets their taxes raised.

Obama also offered a bunch of sob stories. I want to make it clear. I have genuine empathy for people that are struggling. However, empathy is not a plan. A platitude is not a program. Nobody wants to see human suffering. However, Obama’s plans make matters worse.

He showed a tale of an elderly couple worried about health care, and then followed it up by talking about energy independence. It made no sense.

“I will create 5 million new green jobs. Jobs that will never be sent overseas.”

He then lied outright by saying he would allow for clean coal technology and domestic oil production. No he will not.

“Usher in a new era of responsibility.”

This says nothing.

“I will go through the Federal Government line by line and eliminate programs that don’t work.”

This is nothing.

He does not have any “new” ideas. He has tired old ideas that have failed since the 1960s.

Who the heck is the CEO of Google to say that the oil companies are bad? The CEO of Google uses thuggish tactics to make sure that left wing sites get better search results. Remember, Al Gore is one of the bigwigs at Google.

Again,, we can show thousands of videos of ordinary people who have concerns. So what? Many McCain supporters have concerns? We all have worries. To imply in any way that because Barack Obama can smile at people, that he can actually fix problems is ludicrous.

This video was meant to make him come across as a moderate. He kept speaking about personal responsibility.

“Nothing can replace parents who help children with their homework.”

He says things that are impossible to disagree with. Yes, parents should help their children with regards to homework. So what? How is Obama going to help? Is he going to babysit the kids? Perhaps that is what is meant by the Nanny State. The fact is that he will take is marching orders from the NEA. The students will get shortchanged.

“I will ask for higher standards and more accountability.”

He can ask all he wants. The NEA will not allow it.

He is the man without the plan.

His health plan improves technology and lowers costs. He does not say how. We just have to take it on blind faith.

“Life sure is short and you had better seize the moment.”

He uses his mother’s untimely death to justify his running for President. He is running for the same reason the other pols run…ambition.

He reads Harry Potter books to his children and calls them every night. Great, he is a good father. Again, this is meaningless pablum.

The man is a walking platitude.

Joe Biden is from Scranton, Pennsylvania. We get it.

Nobody wants to lose their job. I certainly don’t. Yet to show a few heart wrenching tales and then imply that anything Obama says or does will fix the problems is dishonest.

If I hear “tough diplomacy” one more time, I will be ill. He will use this diplomacy to handle Iran and Russia. They are cracking up with laughter over this. Russia has a veto on the U.N. Security Council.

Obama found one military general who is voting for him. 75% of the military will vote for John McCain.

He “understands the world because of his background.” His background?

“I will listen to you when we disagree.”

Tell that to those pushing the Fairness Doctrine, or those stifling debate with anybody that criticizes him. Oh wait, it is him doing that.

“Unity over division…”

He does not mean it. His entire career has been divisive.

Yes, this guy is a rock star. He is a fabulous politician. Yet that is all he is. He is a celebrity. He is Barack Hannah Montana Obama. He is the American Idol, nothing more, nothing less.

Again, I honestly expected him to offer something tangible.

There is no there there.

I then tuned in to see John McCain on Larry King. I was expecting zero substance whatsoever. Larry King has never asked a tough question in his life. He warmly shook the hand of terrorist Armageddonijad of Iran, and asked him about his family.

If Larry asked McCain tough questions, then we would finally have the best evidence of media bias in existence. If the interview was a softball interview, it would be about time that McCain received such treatment. Ellen Degeneres asked Obama to dance, and the imbeciles at “The View” fawned over Obama and lacerated McCain. So either way McCain going on Larry King was a win.

This was a substantive discussion. Not because of Larry King mind you, but because of John McCain.

He understands that the way to reduce the deficit is with growth. Growing the economy is the key. Anybody who took Economics 101 understands this. That exempts Obama. Taxing businesses until they leave is not the answer.

When Larry brought up Obama’s “steady hand of leadership,” McCain stated he “never saw him display it.”

McCain was self effacing about a debate he fared poorly in that took place in South Carolina in 2000. He has a self deprecating nature that Obama does not possess.

Larry King discussed actual policy with McCain. Obama will not do this because he does not like answering questions.

After the McCain interview, a panel of “experts” was asked to comment on Obama’s infomercial. Gunga Dan Rather, a disgraced former partisan hack masquerading as a journalist, was on the panel. Naturally, he found the infomercial magnificent. The Los Angeles Times could not be reached for a comment because they were busy suppressing evidence in the Rasheed Khalidi matter.

I will not spend much time on this story because Obama will simply lie, and the people who support him will believe him or not care. In short, Rasheed Khalidi is an anti-Semite with terrorist ties. He is a Professor at Columbia, which in itself should be evidence enough. Then again, for those who do not believe Columbia is a campus of hatred, the key issue is that the LA Times has a videotape of Obama and Khalidi socializing together. Bill Ayers may be on the tape as well. It is from 2003. The LA Times claims it cannot release the tape due to journalistic ethics, as if that has existed at that paper this century.

If the tape exonerated Obama, it would be all over the internet. John McCain and Sarah Palin need to turn up the heat. We cannot have a repeat of the Clinton years where lies go unchallenged. Barack Obama is not an anti-Semite, but he sure hangs around with too many people who are. His judgment and character are reflective of a man with no experience on anything that matters.

Obama also wants to declare his possible election as a national holiday. The Constitution already gives Americans 2 hours off of work to vote. Apparently Obama voters are slow, and need more time. Obama wants them to take the entire day off to vote for him. Not since the 400,000 Man March (million for those that exaggerate support) when men were told to take the day off and leave their families at home to attend a rally about personal responsibility have I been so inspired. Not since Spike Lee wanted Americans to get better educated by skipping school and attending one of his movies have I felt something was so meaningful.

Forget being productive and contributing to the economy. By voting for Obama, everything will magically be ok, except for the 90% of us that are hurt by his policies when the rich pass the pain onto us.

We get the leader we deserve, and I will respect the will of the voters. I still maintain that we cannot let the children run the house. We need adults in charge, and John McCain is an adult.

We are in a war of civilization vs barbarism. John McCain is a warrior.

Most importantly, John McCain can be trusted. He does not shove people under the bus when they become liabilities. He stays with them in foxholes and refuses to come home without his fellow men and his honor intact.

Honor…integrity…trust…I support John McCain.

eric

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Obama Glow Fading?

www.nikitas3.com

In late June, Newsweek magazine announced poll results that showed Barack Obama with a 51-36 lead over John McCain. At the time, Nikitas3.com editorialized:
 
Meanwhile, a new Newsweek poll shows Obama with a 51-36 lead over McCain. While this is intended to stimulate the chattering classes and frighten conservatives, we can take comfort in the fact that Newsweek has morphed into a far-left publication that can and will conveniently skew the polls any way it wants.

For instance pollsters know that phone surveys conducted at certain times of the day or week will produce results biased one way or another. Or people in certain demographic zones will tilt one way or the other. And that the polls can be rigged by the questions asked, or even by their sequence. Read more

Untouchable Obama

www.nikitas3.com

“But I will tell you: The hottest ring in hell is reserved for those in politics who attack their opponents’ families,” said Democrat US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois about public criticisms of Barack Obama’s wife Michelle.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said that questions about Mrs. Obama are the latest edition of the political game “kill the witch”.

Never mind decades of ferocious and scurrilous media attacks on anyone with ‘Republican’ after their name like Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, George Bush, Trent Lott, Bob Packwood, Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert, Katherine Harris…

And welcome to campaign 2008, in which one camp – Obama and his supporters — have decided that their candidate is beyond not only question and reproach, but even mere inquiry. Obama cannot be criticized and his wife cannot be scrutinized even for her negative comments about America. Thus the vicious media treatment dished out to President Bush since before he even had entered the 2000 presidential race (remember the book about his alleged cocaine use published when he still was Texas governor?) not only will not be tolerated for Obama, but even Obama’s actual quotes and associations are being buried by the press and subliminally marked as off limits. How convenient.

Pastor Wright? Forget it. Obama has quit the church.

Wright’s mentorship of Obama? Naaah, they were just friends. Forget that the Audacity of Hope title came from Wright.

Tony Rezko? That was just some guy whom Obama did a little real estate deal with. No problem. He’s going to jail. So what.

Jim Johnson, the former head of Fannie Mae who also headed up Obama’s VP search team, who got questionable loans from Countrywide, the dark prince of subprime lending? Hey, you can’t know everything! Johnson is fired!

Obama’s subtle jabs at Hillary’s feminism? What jabs? Read more

Does McCain Want to Win?

After McCain won enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination, the general wisdom was that he would have to work hard to bring the conservative core of the Republican Party over to his side. For a while it appeared that he was actually trying to do that. But the honeymoon is over.

Today is Cinco de Mayo and McCain chose this date to unveil his Spanish languish web site. I have my reservations about a Spanish languish site considering American citizens, the only one’s who can vote, should be able to read an English language site. But the site itself isn’t the big problem. What is a problem is McCain’s return to language reminiscent of the McCain-Kennedy debate.

McCain is now saying that Republicans have hurt themselves by opposing McCain-Kennedy and he wants to turn that around. He’ll do so basically by implementing McCain-Kennedy once elected! It makes one wonder how sincere McCain was when he said he was a conservative and wanted to work with conservatives. Clearly he doesn’t think he needs to worry about us too much now. Read more

Did John McCain Violate Campaign Finance Reform Laws?

CNN reports on bloggers like DailyKOS filing complaint with the FEC over John McCain’s campaign finance irregularities. John McCain was the author of finance campaign reform laws.

(Also see the FHK McCain-Feingold archive here.)

Irony: McCain Accused of Violating McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Laws

The Democrats have called for a special investigation into the campaign finances of Senator John McCain. The dispute is over whether McCain’s non-receipt of public funds for his campaign allows him to continue spending money on his campaign for the remainder of the primary election season. The New York Sun is reporting:

Mr. McCain, the likely Republican nominee, has tried to withdraw from the public financing system, but the FEC chairman has initially refused to grant his request. Read more

George Soros Masterminded McCain-Feingold?

WorldNetDaily recently broke the story that George Soros is funding both sides of the 2008 presidential election. It’s not a surprise that he’s supporting Hillary and Obama, but many are surprised to learn that he’s also funding Republican John McCain’s campaign via the Reform Institute. Read more

Did McCain-Feingold Pave the Way for McCain to be the Republican Nominee?

Ann Coulter’s column this week gives some very interesting perspective on the recent tragedy loosely-termed Republican Primaries. The entire article is here…following is an excerpt:

Inasmuch as the current presidential election has come down to a choice among hemlock, self-immolation or the traditional gun in the mouth, now is the time for patriotic Americans to review what went wrong and to start planning for 2012.

How did we end up with the mainstream media picking the Republican candidate for president?

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George Soros is Funding both Sides of the 2008 Election

Ft. Hard Knox authors have written extensively about George Soros’ control of the Democrat Party, the liberal media, the Democrat-controlled Congress…he’s so evil, that Tex even managed to draw a comparison between Soros and the Antichrist, and 1389 published a “how-to” guide on how to fight him.

What could be scarier than this man controlling our liberal elite? How about Soros funding both sides of the 2008 Elections! Read more

Conservatives Lost In The Wilderness

With the advent of Juan McAmnesty looming it is becoming increasingly certain that the conservative branch of the Republican Party is being taken for granted.

The message given by McCain at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which quickly was supported by the GOP establishment, was for conservatives to calm down and get back in line. You won’t find the DNC ever sending such a message to the blacks, Gay Rights groups, or women in their party.

Ann Coulter reminds us in her February 6 article of who this man that we are being told to support really is. . .

“McCain is a liberal.

– He excoriated Samuel Alito as too “conservative.”
– He promoted amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants.
– He abridged citizens’ free speech (in favor of the media) with McCain-Feingold. — He hysterically opposes waterboarding terrorists and wants to shut down Guantanamo.
– He denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
– He opposes ANWR and supports the global warming cult, even posturing with fellow mountebank Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of solar panels.

The only site that would have been more appropriate for Schwarzenegger in endorsing McCain would have been in front of an abortion clinic.

Although McCain has the minimum pro-life record demanded by the voters of Arizona, in 2006, McCain voted in favor of using taxpayer funds to harvest stem cells from human embryos. He opposes a constitutional amendment to protect human life. And he frets that if Roe v. Wade were overruled, women’s lives would be “endangered.” This is the same John McCain who chides Mitt Romney today for “flip-flopping” on abortion. At least Romney flips and stays there. ”

While so-called conservative pundits agonize on a new course of action as pro-John pundits are feverishly ignoring the fact that John McCain has been funded by George Soros since 2001, there is one that very few consider. Currently there is a push on to scare republicans into voting for republicans. The idea is to make us believe that Hillary Clinton is a worse choice than Juan, and more liberal than our country can stand, but the truth is that the Clinton’s have a history of meeting people who support them more than half way.

With Hillary having problems with securing her party’s nomination now would be the time for conservatives to rally behind her. By doing this it would keep conservatives relevant to the political process, buy us some badly needed gravitas, and get us a chance of being able to influence future policy decisions in Washington. All McCain offers us conservatives are his demands, his lies and a curse.

I will not vote for Juan McShamnesty, but I will support any action that flushes John. I do so in the hopes of making the Republican Party strong and proud again. I invite you to join me in giving Hillary, or any candidate not Juan your support.

Be a real Mavrick.

Not Everyone at CPAC is Buying McCain (Ann Coulter Weighs In)

Well, unless something very unexpected happens very soon, John McCain will be the Republican candidate for President of the United States in November.

But not everyone at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. is on board. These demonstrators, for example, were in the lobby of the Omni Shoreham Hotel during the McCain speech on Thursday.

And we learned last week that Ann Coulter would rather vote for Hillary than McCain. Read more

Soros Channeling Big Money to Clinton and Obama

Accuracy in Media is reporting that George Soros is pouring millions into the Democratic party through hedge funds that channel it to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

It is apparent that both of these candidates are "corporate Democrats" with substantial ties to the business community. But haven’t we been told by the media that the Republicans are the party of Big Business?

In fact, a review of the public record for the 2008 election cycle shows that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in the top five of all politicians, on the presidential and congressional levels, in receiving financial contributions from the controversial, mysterious and secretive hedge fund industry. Overall, data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that hedge funds prefer Democrats over Republicans by a margin of 79-21 percent. Democrats have received $4.2 million and Republicans $1.1 million from hedge funds. What the hedge fund operators want from the politicians is what all of us desire-less taxation, regulation and oversight. But they have the money to get their way, even though they can hold the fate of entire nations and their economies in their hands.

It is significant that one of the richest men in the world, billionaire George Soros, is a hedge fund operator and convicted inside trader who pours millions of dollars into the Democratic Party, its front groups and candidates. He has put money into the coffers of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He will be able to pull the strings if either is elected president.

Also see:

• FHK – George Soros Masterminded McCain Feingold?
• George Soros is funding both sides of the 2008 Election

Why Do Conservatives Hate McCain?

John McCain, despite spouting his conservative credentials, is not well liked or respected among many conservatives. McCain has been a pain in the side of conservatives on key legislation, often siding with the likes of Ted Kennedy and other liberal Democrats. Basically, he slapped the conservative face over and over again. Here are six issues we still have not forgotten.

1. McCain-Feingold campaign reform. That “reform” was a joke. It was intended to stop the flow of money into political campaigns but it never stopped it. It also hurt Republican fund raising and free speech more then it did Democrats.
2. The Gang of Fourteen. During that time, he stopped the nuclear option of Republicans trying to end the repeated filibusters of conservative judges by Democrats. He stood with moderate Republicans and Democrats and took control of the senate. As a result, Democrats can still filibuster conservative judges.
3. McCain’s environmental tree hugging. He admitted that we needed to seriously address the environmental issue siding with the most liberal of Democrats. This put a stop to drilling in Anwar and, therefore, made us dependent on foreign oil and higher gas prices.
4. The McCain-Kennedy bill on comprehensive immigration reform. It is bad enough he sided with Kennedy but it is worse that he promoted this Amnesty bill. It was another in-your-face middle finger to conservatives.
5. He voted against the Bush tax-cut bill. Enough said! He again sided with the liberals in wanting to keep our money with the government instead of giving it back to us.
6. He sided with terrorists over security. In denouncing waterboarding and Abu Ghraib as torture, he showed more respect for terrorists then the security of his own fellow countrymen.

Yes, many of us conservatives can’t stand John McCain. He still has not reached out to us except for the usual lip service. However, actions speak louder then words. This conservative, for one, can not stand John McCain.

UPDATE, also see:

• Crooked Timber: Prediction Markets in Republican Spin
• National Review Online: It’s All Over
• Michelle Malkin: John McCain vs. the Right – No Easy Peace
• FHK: The NYT Endorses McCain…

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