Advance Copy Of Obama’s School Year Kick-Off Speech

(To be videotaped in Smug-O-Vision)

Hello.

I’m President Barack Obama and I’m very grateful for this opportunity to speak to the people I feel are most important to the future of America, and to you students too. Many thanks to the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers for letting me into your “homes” so I can talk to your children.

I remember being a young , confused school boy, wishing that President Nixon or President Ford would give me some guidance as to what I should think or do during the school year. But they never did. Why? The answer, as any good teacher will tell you, is simple.

Republicans hate children.

It’s true. When scientists at the UN aren’t busy coming to consensus about Global Cooling/Warming/Whatever-Works-This-Week they’ve proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that people who vote Republican just don’t like you.

As you embark on another year of learning I urge you all to focus on the important things, like whether or not mommy and daddy are driving hybrid vehicles. Or putting those squiggly little light bulbs in all the lamps in your house. People who don’t do these things hate Earth.

Just like the Republicans do.

Let me talk for a moment about personal responsibility. As president, I have to take responsibility for many of the tough choices I make, especially ones that are made because George W. Bush screwed everything up. You may face similar choices this year in school. I want you to take ownership of your decisions even if they’re made more difficult by the fact that President Bush hated education. We can’t keep blaming the past.

But we can persevere and keep trying to.

The first time you have a big test the next day I want you to imagine this:

“What if I got the H1N1 virus tonight and infected my whole class? And what if we all died because none of us had adequate health care? All of my work studying for this test would have been wasted!”

I don’t want to scare you but there are many things that could turn all your study time into a big waste because you didn’t notice the bus that was about to hit you while you were disoriented from having the flu and you couldn’t get treated because Republicans won’t let me pass health care reform.

As most of you know, Sen. Ted Kennedy recently passed away. And as you heard his grandson say in front of God and everyone, health care reform was the defining issue of his life. The Catholic Church wouldn’t have allowed him to say that during mass if it wasn’t so important. Sen. Kennedy had a fondness for younger people, too. Early in his career, he worked at bridging the gap between himself and young, female campaign staffers. Let’s not let his legacy drown in negativity.

My staff and I don’t want you to struggle with knowing what’s right like we had to as students. That’s why we have supplied some lesson plans to your teachers to help all of you. When was the last time a Republican cared that much about you?

One of the first questions in the lesson plan involves why it’s important to listen to your elected officials. I know that many of you still listen to your parents and that’s perfectly all right. But you need to realize something. Your parents are working very hard, many of them at two jobs so they can pay for the brutal choices I’m making now because George W. Bush just plain sucked. It is difficult for them to know a lot of stuff because they work so hard. Politicians don’t have to work as hard so we have more time to know stuff. It really is that simple.

So ask your parents questions that they can answer easily when they are exhausted. Things like, “Where’s the can opener?” or “Why did President Bush make things so hard for President Obama?”

For the tougher questions in life, ask your teachers and listen to your elected officials. Remember though, some elected officials can’t be trusted so you should always check with your teachers first about which ones can.

I want all of you to begin each school year believing that your education could make you President of the United States one day. Like school, it’s got it’s rough spots but has a lot of great things about it. Like being able to order a hamburger and fries any time of day or night. Or looking at Michelle bend over in the garden in her special “First Lady shorts”. Sorry, that’s probably just the scotch talking now. I shoot about a hundred of these videos a week for various “grassroots” organizations and it gets a little tedious.

One of the last things your teachers are going to ask you to think about is what you can do to help me, President Barack Obama.

We have covered the most important things already, so let’s recap them.

Listen to me.

If I am not available, listen to the elected officials your teachers tell you are cool.

Don’t bother your poor parents with questions about the important things in life. They’re very tired.

And remember the two most important words any American can say whenever faced with tough times and criticism:

“Bush’s fault!”

Good luck this year. I’ll see you all in December for my “What To Think On Your Non-Denominational Break When Your Parents Might Tell You Something” speech.

And thank you teachers for, well, you know.

Cross-posted from Stephen Kruiser

Specter’s Specter

(Cross posted from America Needs Me)

The Republican who never was cemented his position in the popular kids clique today.

The Arlen Specter/GOP relationship has been one-way from its inception: he takes cash when he needs to be reelected then votes with the Democrats when it is important. His exit doesn’t really do much other than enable the RNC to spend its money on someone who won’t crap all over the party. Whether it will actually do that remains to be seen. My faith in who the party supports financially is practically nonexistent.

This will invariably be portrayed as one man simply sticking to his convictions when his party has abandoned him, an idea so loaded with manure it could fertilize farms in the western hemisphere for a decade. This is simply about Specter taking the path of least resistance in his waning years. He’d rather go out having his ass kissed than…what’s the word…oh yeah, working. Nicole Richie has body fat in greater abundance than Arlen Specter’s convictions.

There is now a lot of consternation about the Democrats having a filibuster-proof majority. That was going to happen anyway. In reality, it already had happened given the fact that Specter jumped ship during the first Hope and Changey vote he was presented with. It doesn’t matter whether there is an “R” or a “D” after a senator’s name. If the votes are there, then the votes are there. And they were, thanks to Specter.

In the end I can’t blame Specter for much. Republicans have, after all, been electing representatives who aren’t big on, well, representing us, for years. Just this morning, Scott Rasmussen explored the growing disconnect between the Beltway GOP and “the rest of us”.

The disconnect between D.C. Republicans and Republicans throughout the country has been growing for nearly 20 years, but it became more intense and noticeable during the waning years of the Bush administration.

This is what I’ve been trying to explain to my friends on the Left since the Tea Parties; we’ve been sick of this crap for a while now.

The elitist disconnect seems to be a prerequisite for functioning in the Senate, where it then becomes pathological. There isn’t a cushier gig in America than being a United States Senator. You don’t have to mess around with reelection very often. You get paid extremely well. It’s essentially a 19th Century House of Lords with American accents. That’s why people like Specter, Teddy Kennedy and Robert Byrd won’t just retire, already. Retirement would be hard compared to being a senator.

The only cure for this disconnect (whichever side it occurs on) is greater participation by those of us who feel we’re being disenfranchised. As always, the solution is in the Constitution. American citizens have extraordinary power, we simply choose not to use it most of the time. Apathy before an election and whining after are easy. Working a phone bank, signing up voters, canvassing door-to-door aren’t. It’s time to stop complaining about our ballot choices if we haven’t done anything to influence them.

This disconnect is perilously close to biting Americans of any political persuasion on the butt.

The gap between Beltway Republicans and the Republican base is part of a wider gap between the Mainstream and the Political Class. On many issues, the gap between Mainstream Americans and the Political Class is bigger than the gap between Mainstream Republicans and Mainstream Democrats.

The fact that this is a representative republic seems to be in need of constant repetition now. We are in control of who we elect to represent us. If we keep sending people to Washington who represent only themselves we aren’t participating in the process to the fullest. The point I kept making during the Tea Parties was that the mere physical presence of a representative doesn’t indicate that any actual representation is taking place.

American citizens in either party would do well to grasp this point. Congressional approval ratings have been low across the board so the disconnect can’t only be happening on the Right. If we keep allowing people like Arlen Specter to represent no one other than themselves we run the risk of the chasm between elected officials and those they are supposed to serve growing wider by the minute. Very soon the “Us” vs. “Them” discussion may not occur between Republicans and Democrats but between an overly powerful political class and an almost silent constituency.

In other words: all of us outside of Washington will be irrelevant.

Paul Krugman Is Obviously A Racist

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me)

Because that’s what anyone who criticizes President Obama is, right?

Krugman suffered from perhaps the second or third worst case of Bush Derangement Syndrome at the New York Times during the past eight years. That’s a very relative scale, however. The mildest case over there would have been enough to require hospitalization in the real world.

It is, of course, heresy to scrutinize Barack Obama in the Opinion section of the New York Times. Krugman must have some sort of immunity because he has a Nobel Prize and street cred as a full-blown left-of-Castro progressive. How long he’ll be allowed to question the purest-intentioned and smartest of all presidents in the history of politics EVER remains to be seen.

Right now he’s not playing nice at all.

It’s as if the president were determined to confirm the growing perception that he and his economic team are out of touch

This isn’t one of us bitter-clinger blogger crazies stating the obvious now, it’s one of the faithful. Still, the Thoughtful President responded with his now familiar “I know you are but what am I?” pout:

at a press conference, the president, with a slight note of irritation in his voice, invited Krugman (pronounced with an “oo,” not an “uh” sound) to offer a better plan for fixing the banking system.

Rather than thoughtfully explaining his ideas and proposals, Obama now regularly resorts to “You got any better ideas?” It is, to use an old political science label, completely chickens**t.

The president and his people seem unwilling, or unable, to accept the fact that they are in charge now. Their policies are going to have to stand on their own merits all the while facing criticism. The fact that Obama had to face so little of it during the campaign is beginning to show. He is more likely to have a snit than actually explain himself.

The “I don’t have to explain my plans because you haven’t offered any alternate plans” charade he keeps engaging in is more reminiscent of a sleep-deprived fourth grader than brilliant, serious world leader.

Again, this can all be filed under “Not Ready For The Gig”. The fairytale, free pass campaign is over and the administration has to function on this planet now. All but the most hardcore Obamabots will eventually begin to notice if the president, his press secretary and others can only respond with snotty, childish remarks.

And they should be very worried that there’s already been a honeymoon wrecking defector at the New York Times.

Foaming At The Keyboard

Typing while rabid.

Susan Estrich is famous in political circles for running the only Democratic presidential campaign to lose to a moderate Republican in the post-Reagan era. Four years after her garden gnome Mikey Dukakis lost, that same moderate Republican was beaten by a governor from Arkansas who nobody knew.

While reading her piece this morning, a strong new wave of Clinton fatigue washed over me. I had kept it at bay despite the fact that Barack Obama has done everything but exhume Vince Foster to make this administration Clinton 3.0 but Estrich reminded me of the worst of it and the relapse is in full swing.

Estrich lives in a gray area that’s remarkable even for a Democratic apologist. She’s a staunch feminist who tirelessly defended the fact that Bill Clinton’s zipper didn’t seem to have a “Closed” option when most feminists preferred to simply hide while he chased everything but his wife.

Today, Ms. Estrich defends Rod Blagojevich in that “kinda/sorta” way that’s become her trademark. She says that Blago hasn’t earned her respect for sticking around so far then goes on to explain why he’s so cool for sticking around so far.

Let the grayness envelope you now.

She contends that Eliot Spitzer would still be around if he had merely stuck it out. Estrich then bizarrely wanders back to her old confounding defense of marital infidelity, which may actually have to be written into the Democratic platform at some time in the future.

But Spitzer’s activity was a betrayal of his wife, not his constituents.

Translation: Who cares about that bitch? We’re still good, right?

One thing Estrich never seems to factor into her defenses of various Democratic cretins is the undue humiliation and enduring anguish that public spectacles cause their families. As long as the constituents are happy, right Susie?

Most of the article fence-dances about the fact that what Blago is accused of is very bad but he’s probably not guilty of anything other than stupidity. You can’t imprison someone for stupidity alone (see: Nancy Pelosi) so Blago is probably going to beat this, posits Ms. Estrich.

She seems to delight in political figures who, by all accounts and appearances, are unsavory human beings but can work the system. Hmm, do I smell a lawyer in the house?

He knows that. That’s why he’s going nowhere. He also knows that if you just hang in there and make some smart moves, you can make other people almost as uncomfortable as you are about what you’ve done wrong.

That’s what he did this week by sending Roland Burris, a decent and honorable man who would have been the only African American in the Senate, to be turned away by the Secretary of the Senate. Lucky for the rest of us, Barack Obama is the president-elect, and so those who would turn Burris’ rejection into a racial affair are having a little more trouble than they otherwise would.

Estrich does her best Ann Sullivan and miracle works Blago from stupid to smart in just a few paragraphs. She plays the race card then says that Obama’s election means you can’t really play the race card. It’s classic Estrich, having her cake, eating it then telling you that eating cake is only bad for you if someone catches you doing it. She even gets so caught up with herself that she admits that Scooter Libby was set up.

The whole article seems to be Susan Estrich’s way of getting ready for another presidential term where she’ll be one of the more prominent ass-covering talking heads for the Democrats. With that many Clinton folk back in power in Washington, Obama might want to create an office of “You Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do” and put Estrich in charge.

Somebody is going to have to spray the place for Clintonites before this is all over.

Cross posted from America Needs Me

Paving The Way?

Is this column really about John Edwards or is Ms. Estrich rolling out the Sleaze Carpet for the return of Willie the Zipper to Washington?

The biggest derailment of the Hope & Change Express has been the fact that the government will soon be polluted with Clintonites again. While some of us have always known that you can’t get rid of Bill, Hill and the Flying Monkeys who serve as their minions, many on the Right were hoping that the Sleaze Circus had been relegated to the periphery of the Democratic party.

Yes, you’re wondering why I’m turning a column about John Edwards into a blog post about the Clintons. Simple, now that they are back in the thick of things, it’s always about the Clintons. Have you people not been paying attention?

The theme of Estrich’s argument for Edwards is what set the Clinton alarms (I have them installed all over my brain) off. She trots out the wearisome “Should what a man does in his personal life affect his professional life?” line of non-reasoning.

Must we preface the return of the Democrats to the White House with moral equivocation? Couldn’t we at least wait until breakfast time on January 21st (the first time Bill lets the zipper fly) to get this garbage rolling?

The gist of the argument for Edwards:

If he has something to add — and I think he does — should he be disqualified from doing so because he is a lying lout?

Then:

Washington is full of lying louts.

“Everybody’s doing it” is an excuse a high school boy uses to get his girlfriend drunk and horny, not one that bolsters the resumé of a prospective United States Attorney General.

Quick question: will any prominent voice in the Democratic party stand up and say that marital infidelity is wrong? It shouldn’t be that difficult.

Edwards managed to up the sleaze factor several notches by cheating on a wife who is battling cancer. He out-Clintoned Clinton!

Yes, I believe people should be given second chances. I don’t, however, believe that Edwards should be given the jobs that Estrich mentions. A man who comfortably and publicly lied shouldn’t be the head of the Dept. of Justice. Likewise, a man who publicly humiliated his family shouldn’t be in charge of Health and Human Services.

Estrich also gives a nod to the “only because he got caught” idiocy too.

Her passionate argument for dismissing egregious sleaze made a wave of Clinton fatigue wash over me. You could swap Bill Clinton’s name for John Edwards in any of her moral equivalency arguments and it would be 1998 all over again. If I had the time today I’d look to see if half this wasn’t taken from an old article of hers.

Edwards made his own bed. Then he invited a woman who wasn’t his wife to sleep in it. Now he’s not going to be a Cabinet member. He’s still filthy rich from his ambulance-chasing money and his wife is still married to him. It’s going to be difficult find many tears for him, Susan.

But Bill and Hillary are coming back to the Executive Branch. You might want to keep a few versions of this column ready for the future.

Cross-posted from America Needs Me

Steele-ing the RNC

Big fan of Michael Steele’s here. As soon as I found out he was seeking to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee I was on board. I think Steele articulates the conservative vision better than almost any prominent Republican and is exactly the kind of leader the RNC needs. The RNC, along with GOP congressional leadership, has been dropping the ball a lot the last few years and some big changes are warranted.

Steele hit several good points in a conference call this afternoon. The fact that he even held a conference call for bloggers is a sign that he’s ready to take the RNC communications strategy into this part of the 21st century. He described current strategy as (paraphrasing) “Waving the Red, White and Blue and saying send us a check!” My experience with RNC in a nutshell. All these years and they still haven’t figured out I’m not wealthy.

Some highlights:

Stop Whining: It’s time to “wipe that dour look off our faces” now that the election is over. I couldn’t agree more. The election wasn’t a lurch toward liberalism, it was about our failure to lead when given the chance. “Ours is a party whose glass is half full. We’ve spilled a little along the way,” but the outlook isn’t all gloom and doom.

Identity Politics: When asked if he’d be in a better place to critique Barack Obama because he’s an African-American, Steele said, “It’s because I’m an American that I can do that.” Bad policies don’t have color, according to Steele and should be attacked no matter the race or ethnicity of those making the policy. He feels that the party really mishandled this aspect during the campaign.

Democrat Lite: Steele said that if had wanted to be a member of the Democratic party he would have joined it. He’s apparently not interested in leading the party to a permanent seat on the fence.

Party Advocacy: RNC will advocate for GOP leadership as long as they are consistent with the conservative principles of the party.

Do we have a winner yet?

Spending: It’s imperative that legislators understand the money they are spending isn’t their own. Hated the bailout.

Communications Strategy: Steele said this is a “lock and load” moment for Republicans. He wants to build out a communications operation that encompasses every old and new means. He cited the Obama campaign’s brilliance in this area, which is hard to deny. Steele wants to use communication to help decentralize the RNC and make people feel more connected.

Steele also said we should “have some fun” with this. Agreed. New constituents aren’t attracted to the angry idiot in the scary house at the end of the block. We have to stop being the “Get off my lawn!” party.

He spoke about staying true to the issues but reworking the way we say things, which I think has been a need for a long time now. It’s the reason I first noticed Steele. Politics is marketing and our marketing department has been horrible for years.

Time for a new department head. The RNC doesn’t need to promote from within the ranks.

It needs new ranks.

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me)

Freebie Jeebies

President-elect “Here’s Your Pony” and the open checkbook nightmares controlling Capitol Hill can’t wait to find new sinkholes to throw your money down. The Botox Hag and her pal Harry want to make an end-run around common sense and try to salvage an auto industry that for decades has had no interest in salvaging itself. The good news is that they might not have time to do it before The One ascends to his throne.

It seems that Republicans in the Senate are finding some of the guts in defeat that they couldn’t back in September, when they were working on building a “Super Minority” presence in Washington. The Democrats don’t quite have the majority needed to shove anything they want anywhere they want…yet.

The auto industry’s problems go way beyond the current financial crisis. Plagued by greedy, strong-arm unions and greedy, weak willed execs who are so shortsighted they can’t see beyond lunch, it’s been snowballing towards oblivion for some time. The snowball just happens to be hitting peak speed right now. If it finds a way to hold off until January it will receive Federal Failure Reward package, courtesy of Chris Dodd (D-The Titanic) and the new president.

Continuing a theme of mine…these price tags keep going up. The automakers were already guaranteed $25 billion in low interest loans. Billions? That’s so two months ago. Round One is a feint to get the taxpayers to bite on a number. Once they’ve numbed us with an amount that already seems ridiculous they come in with Round Two, which is a variation on the “What’s a little more?” theme.

You will constantly be reminded that you’re too stupid to understand this complex economic stuff. Here’s all we need to know:

1)Again, the price tag will continue to go up.

2)The Secretary of the Treasury is making the rules up as he goes along.

3)If a small business ran itself the way these large industries do, it would be allowed to fail without anyone in Washington blinking an eye.

When Barack Obama gets into office, let him know loud and clear,

No, se puede.

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me)

Palin’s 1st Knife In The Back

Ace says the inevitable “It’s her fault!” b.s. has begun.

Fox New was quoting some anonymous McCain campaign aides who were more than willing to blame their gutless performance on Gov. Palin. Would these aides have been high enough up to be responsible for one of the worst campaigns in modern memory? Palin was the only reason any of us woke up with even a bit of hope yesterday. Had she not shown up, Obama’s furniture would be parked in a truck outside the White House already, hoping for an early move-in.

And she was all McCain’s idea. Figure it out. He didn’t listen to them so they’ve been running around with their egos all full of boo-boos and now it’s time to act out. Ace mentions something that I’ve also seen on Twitter and in a couple other blogs today: none of these idiots should be allowed to work on a campaign again. Based on their performance in this one they’d have a hard time getting entry-level work at McDonald’s.

Ace also links to a video at Hot Air. They smell the disgruntled dung all over this as well.

One thing’s for sure, the Palin bashing won’t be over for a while. They know she’s tough enough to take it and won’t retaliate in public.

But I hope she’s keeping a private file.

UPDATE:

These smear pigs are about to run into a buzz saw.

Michelle Malkin unloads on them in her inimitable way.

Shame on the smearers who don’t have the balls to show their faces.

Hot Air has some more video and explores the Romney link mentioned in the comments to this post.

RedState makes it clear that the idiots are about to have their ass-covering backfire in a most explosive way.

We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

Still think the base looked at Sarah Palin as a drag on the ticket?

Don’t believe the hype.

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me

Obama Gets The Coal Shoulder

It should be apparent to everyone by now why the MSM never asked Barack Obama any real questions during the campaign. Whenever Obama speaks freely, he comes up with gems like “spread the wealth” and offers forth plans to bankrupt an industry. Face it, the guy is an absolute train wreck unless there is a speech writer’s hand up his ass controlling the puppet show.

The newspaper industry has been sheltering Obama more than any other branch of the MSM because it desperately needs him to win and financially rape the taxpayer for a bailout of their own. The San Francisco Chronicle says today that the transcript of the interview with the Benevolent Leader has been in the public domain all this time, which is true. What the paper doesn’t mention is why the interview didn’t receive the kind of fanfare that every other breath from Sarah Palin gets. Here we have a candidate for president talking about his plans to fundamentally alter an industry and affect the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Americans and it gets swept under the carpet so the paper could get to the serious journalism about Gov. Palin’s wardrobe or chronic whining about her availability to the press. (Quick aside: I searched the site for a similar ongoing series of articles about why that barking moron Joe Biden has been kept in a kennel recently but found none.) Obviously, the socialist shakedown of an entire industry pales in comparison to the price of Sarah Palin’s pumps or the nefarious reasons behind why she wouldn’t want to speak to a group of drooling cretins who lie about her with every word they write.

Honestly, these people are so awful at what they do I don’t think even the Obamafuhrer is going to be able to prop them up. If elected, he won’t need them any more. He’s already got a well-oiled left wing blogosphere and hoards of glassy-eyed young people to walk the street and chant for him. He’ll use the government money for better things, like paying for UN shopping sprees. The print press will be sniffing around in the alley, begging for scraps of attention from His Benevolence.

Enough about them.

This is the other reason the press had to keep Obama’s more revealing quotes in the “public domain” closet, available only to those who looked real hard.

You can’t tell the bitter clingers that you despise them and want to put them out of work without some kind of backlash.

It’s evident that this campaign has been pandering in states like Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Pennsylvania to attempt to generate votes from coal supporters, while keeping his true agenda hidden from the state’s voters.

It tends to open eyes.

Senator Obama has revealed himself to be nothing more than a short- sighted, inexperienced politician willing to say anything to get a vote. But today, the nation’s coal industry and those who support it have a better understanding of his true mission, to ‘bankrupt’ our industry, put tens of thousands out of work and cause unprecedented increases in electricity prices.

I don’t know how many votes this will sway in some crucial parts of the country but it definitely will have an effect.

We’ll all probably be too busy reading about the hidden implications of the color of Sarah Palin’s blazer at her final campaign appearance to find out anything else.

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me)

Don’t Believe The Hype

If you are a McCain-Palin supporter these days any exposure to the media can be disheartening. Guess what kids? It’s only going to get worse.

You are going to be under a barrage of negative news telling you that your candidate is doomed and your life sucks because you didn’t fall under the Obama spell. “Hey, don’t even get out of bed loser.”

I think we have established by now that the MSM is not just in the tank for Beloved Leader Obama, they’re naked and spooning with him at this point. They want you to be discouraged and stay home. So when you turn on the TV you’ll hear all about The One’s coronation plans. When you log into your Yahoo! mail you’ll see poll numbers that will make you want to head to Mexico for some cheap Zoloft. The number one show in America this week will be “Barack Obama and the Mantle of Inevitability”.

Just remember this, when I went to lunch on the West coast on Election Day 2004 all the exit polls were telling me that John Kerry was going to be the next POTUS.

This is hardly the time to go underground and hope we don’t all get assigned to ACORN sponsored reeducation camps.

Rasmussen shows Pennsylvania tightening and Ace of Spades HQ has some ideas for working in the home stretch.

The angry, well-organized and deadly serious PUMAS offer some even more encouraging news.

Tonight we spoke with a friend from Hillary Clinton’s campaign who is now working for McCain/Palin — and is specifically working with Democrats for McCain in Pennsylvania. We worked with her in Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania for Hillary and have spent many LONG hours with her in the trenches in all of those states. She’s smart, doesn’t BS, and never lies.

She says the same thing we do: John McCain will win Pennsylvania.

Nothing anywhere or at any time is a given, of course. But that includes an Obama victory. If you’re a sports nut then remember how many experts picked the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. The game still has to be played.

If you can’t get to a swing state and knock on doors, you can make phone calls to the state of your choice all you want between now and then.

Yes, it would be better if McCain was up in the polls right now but he’s not. But we don’t need to hang our heads, cry and get marched right over because we listened to the very MSM that we’re always saying is biased.

One last note:

Extra beer might help.

Cross-posted from America Needs Me

MSM Keeps Its Lips On The Prize

Honestly, how Barack Obama manages to walk with every member of the MSM kissing his butt at once amazes me.

In a rational world, Barack Obama’s “Look at me, I’m a socialist!” interview would be the story of the day. All the right-wing blogs are talking about it, my inbox has been flooded with emails about it all day. When I saw that Drudge had a big headline about it I decided to see if maybe, just maybe, the story was working its way into the MSM.

I really should begin drug testing myself after such thoughts. My first two stops told me everything I needed to know. I hit the CNN site and the New York Times site. Both are still two of the biggest names in MSM Bizarro World so I always check them first to see what’s on the minds of those who prefer not to use their minds.

Any mention that the guy who may very well be the next POTUS offered proof in his own words that he’s a raging socialist? Nah, that would be too, you know, responsible.

Instead, both sites featured stories bitching about Sarah Palin.

Focused little lefty advocates, aren’t they?

Obama waxes on an on about redistribution and it may as well have happened on the far side of the distant planet Moonbat Prime.

“Sarah Palin went off script? WHAT?!?!? The American people need to know this-make it the feature story now!”

These morons are protected by the very First Amendment that their irresponsibility is helping to destroy.

I’m running out of expletives to scream at the computer these days, I might have to start making some new ones up. We’ll all probably have to speak in code soon anyway.

Cross posted from America Needs Me

The New York Times Drops Into The Toilet

And finds an endorsement for Barack Obama.

A day after watching its stock tank and reporting third quarter losses that would embarrass the Detroit Lions, the New York Times went ahead and formalized its Obamafication.

The endorsement is so full of pandering lefty hyperbole that one wonders if they aren’t in secret negotiations to have Hugo Chavez nationalize the paper.

Look at some of the garbage from Pravda on the Hudson contained in this article.

Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.

What challenges has this guy faced? That one reporter who wouldn’t lie for him? Those twelve times he actually had to show up in the Senate and vote on something? Obama has led the most charmed political life in history. He continually makes bad decisions and forms alliances with people who would be an embarrassment to most back alley crack dealers. When any of these decisions or alliances come to light, under the bus they go. The MSM doesn’t ever ask questions about the ever growing population under the bus. They all just stand around saying, “What bus?”

Regarding McCain:

In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.

Sure, John McCain is on the fringe of politics. In Cuba. In North Korea. In Venezuela. And thanks for that Race Card. Hadn’t seen one dealt in almost four minutes. At what point do unsubstantiated charges of racism become libelous?

Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.

It’s easy to see from the way it’s all been prefaced that the facts will get a fair looking at, right?

I won’t even quote any more here. If you’ve heard a Barack Obama talking points list, you already know everything that’s in the rest of the endorsement.

That the Times is endorsing Obama isn’t surprising. What is astonishing is how unhinged the endorsement is. That it comes on the heels of the piss-poor earnings announcement is the real story of this rag.

There is a simple reason that the New York Times is still considered “the newspaper of record” but can’t earn as much money as a part time employee at Hot Dog On A Stick: everyone who works there is out of his or her freakin’ mind.

It’s a newspaper with a national reach but an influence that’s largely confined to a small area of Manhattan. The entire company is being eaten alive by a hubris fueled ignorance that makes its editors almost completely unaware of what actually goes on in America.

They’re so stupid that no one there will ever understand the connection between the in-the-sewer profits and the latter-day hippie commentary in the Obama endorsement. It’s the short bus of newspaper editorial boards.

My guess is that the real reason its editors have affixed their lips to Obama’s ass is that they are all hoping for a government bailout once that last dollar is spent on Chai tea and retouching Maureen Dowd’s headshots to make her look like she’s from this century.

The Times can have Obama. If he wins, it will be a race to see which one of them implodes first.

Cross-posted from America Needs Me

Why I’m Voting For Obama

From America Needs Me

(Note: America Needs Me would like to welcome its first guest contributor ever. Buffi lives in West Hollywood and works in the entertainment industry. She’s asked to keep her personal information to a minimum here because, “You Republicans have, like, guns and stuff.”)

Why I’m Voting For Obama

Well, let’s just start by saying that I’ve never really been a political sort of person before because I thought my vote didn’t matter. But then that guy from the Black Eyed Peas told me it would. You know, the one who isn’t Fergie. And is a guy. Anyway. He told me it did count but only if I voted for Bar…I can’t say His name just yet, I’ll get too emotional.

I’m young but I know that He appeals to all ages because that old lady from the 80’s loves him too. I think her name is Magina. She’s divorcing some British guy and she bought an African school and took a kid from it once. I heard she was really hot when Reagan was president and people my age gave a crap about MTV. But she loves…Him.

I have to say His name or everything inside of me might explode.

Obama.

OMG, I did it! Just like His website, I will only refer to him by his last name.

Obama.

Just like all those chanting Germans said it. There isn’t anything that thousands of chanting Germans could be wrong about, is there? Europeans are SO da bomb!

I support Obama because only He will bring change. This election is all about change. We need change in Washington. I don’t want George Bush to win again. If Obama doesn’t win, it will be four more years of George Bush. I said this to someone who brought up something about “term limits”. I just stuck my hand in his face and said, “That’s old politics! I’m for change and a new way.” Yeah, I went there.

I support Obama because I can call Sarah Palin a c**t and hate her dumb Alaska way of having kids and a job but still tell people I’m a feminist. Besides, the New York Times said she probably killed Abraham Lincoln, so, I mean, you know, that’s bad.

I support Obama because He is going to take money from other people and give it to me. I think that’s called racism. I’m not sure. Something is called racism, because they say it a lot.

I support Obama because He picked that guy from the wax museum with fake hair to be His running mate. It’s important to have people from olden times around to explain things like the Beatles and hockey to the president. Wax Museum Guy even saw President Roosevelt on TV so he must be really smart about things I can’t understand.

I support Obama because he smiles a lot and, well, it’s good to smile. Especially if our enemies are talking to us. We should always smile then. And listen. A hug would be nice. Whoa, here comes an enemy and he has a really, really, thick vest on. He might be hard to hug.

I support Obama because I can get free health care during an abortion, a sinus infection or a herpes flare-up. If any other man offered me that I would marry him. But I wouldn’t tell him about the herpes. Or the abortion. I just want free stuff, actually.

I support Obama because He supports alternative fuels. That means growing so much corn to make ethanol that poor people starve to death and no one needs to drive or fly to see them. That saves gas. Seriously, how obvious is that, people? Get with the program! Oh, windmills are important too.

I support Obama because He and that blond guy on MSNBC have such a beautiful love affair. America is totally ready for an openly gay president.

Mostly, I support Obama because He’s, well, gosh, just look at Him. And listen to Him. He keeps saying all those words. Then He turns them into sentences with all kinds of punctuation and stuff. Like the one time He said…um, something I don’t remember right now but He said it in such an awesome way that my friends and I are still talking about the total awesomeness of it.

Obama makes me feel happy inside. Like McDonald’s fries. But when He is president He will make sure I get those fries for free.

That’s why I support Obama.

Debate Prep

Our buddy Zo is back with another video to get you in the mood for the debate. Still no indication that McCain-Palin has hired this guy. Enjoy, share and exchange ideas while you still have the freedom to do so.

Nobama.

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Is Bill Clinton working for McCain/Palin?

Bizarro World welcomes you…

So I found myself watching more video of Bill Clinton tonight. On The View, no less. No, I’m not drunk.

After being less than effusive in his support of Barack Obama in an interview last week I thought he might step it up a little, especially given his surroundings. Well, Joy, Whoopi and Babs must be hitting the Xanax pretty hard tonight. Clinton had another “I like John McCain” moment on a show where you’re supposed to spit on Republicans, call Elizabeth stupid for being one then leave. That’s standard green room prep for the show.

Pay attention as it is once again all about the subtext with what he’s saying. When asked if he thinks some of his wife’s supporters are shifting to McCain/Palin because there is a woman on the ticket, Clinton says yes. He then goes into a very detailed and smooth defense of why that might be. While never saying, “You go, girls!” he doesn’t once say “You shouldn’t do that.” He pays lip service to what might be the “best interest” of the voters because Joy feeds him a line but that’s as negative as he gets. His detailed defense of these voters seems almost like a blessing. He sure as hell never asks them to stay.

When Clinton moves on to the subject of Barack Obama and John McCain, it gets more interesting. He plays the part of a dutiful, if not passionate foot soldier but nothing more. He says he’s voting for Barack Obama “Because I’m a loyal Democrat.” That’s it. Real f-ing Hallmark moment there, huh?

He then points out something that John McCain actually did to help him normalize relations with Vietnam. TO be fair, there’s not a lot of “actual” stuff to talk about with Barack Obama’s record. Nothing that you should bring up in front of the children, anyway. Clinton then tells a story about mentioning to Barbara Walters last year that McCain was the only Republican who could win.

I didn’t watch the whole show, obviously, just this clip. I’m sure he says something nice about Barack Obama somewhere else. But the fact that each time he has a chance to speak about Obama he goes out of his way to praise McCain is what’s interesting. It’s got that whole “I don’t wanna date, I just like you as a friend,” vibe to it. Obama’s standing there at the end of the date wanting so much more and getting, “You’re all right, but that John McCain, he’s somethin’ else!”

Kind of brings back memories of 2000 and all that enthusiastic support he had for Earth Day Al. Good times.