Sunday, March 16, 2008

But don't question the San Francisco Chronicle's patriotism




Image: Alec Rawls.

Obama and MacGruber!

 
MacGruber!

Making life-saving inventions out of household materials...

MacGruber!

The guy's a friggin' genius...

MacGruber!

[Typewriter clacking] Obama Campaign Headquarters...

MacGruber, we almost have this campaign wrapped up!

We just have to wait out the next month or two, quietly, and we'll win the Democratic nomination!

Don't worry! I've got the perfect plan to save the campaign!

What the hell are you talking about, MacGruber? All we have to do is sit quietly for...

Shut up, Jesse! We've got no time to lose...

...I'm bringing Obama's pastor into the campaign! His inspirational sermons are bound to...

******KERBLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!******

MacGruber!


Also see: MacGruber, Episode #2

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Obama Lied. His campaign died.

 
Obama spent 20 years attending Wright's church, "prais[ing] Jesus every Sunday", listening to his sermons, and even even using one of his key phrases as the title of his book. He was married by the Pastor and had his children baptized by the man.

Barack Obama says that Reverend Wright's inflammatory, divisive and hateful sermons were not ones "he had heard himself personally in the pews."

Maybe he happened to be in the pooper every time Wright delivered one of his sermons.

Or perhaps he just flat out lied.

The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.

Unfortunately for Obama, Rich Lowry carefully exmained the Senator's first book. His "autobiography". And his quotes regarding Wright.

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere… that’s the world! On which hope sits!”

And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House...

On 9/16/01, a day on which you would assume Obama would be in church, Wright stated:

We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye... We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost!

Sounds familiar.

Not only did Obama lie about not hearing Wright's sermons, his presence in church for 20 years proves he agreed with their sentiments. No one would sit through 20 years of sermons he disagreed with. Unless he has a weak stomach and spent all of that time in the stalls.

The "thanks of a grateful nation go out to Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright."

Update: Gateway Pundit has the essential roundup.

Party like a blogger at Spring BlogFest East!

 
Fausta and Parkway Rest Stop are hosting Blogfest East 2008.


This isn't a picture from last year's Blogfest East, but you will have this much fun!

If you live anywhere within traveling distance of New Jersey, New York City or Pennsylvania, the party is too close to miss.

The party is Saturday April 5, 2008 (starting at 6pm and going to... whenever, loser) at Triumph Brewing Company in Princeton, NJ. Space in the Sky Suite is limited, so get to stepping!

That clears things up...

 
Barack Obama's "fact-check website":

Talk about opacity.

Quote o' the day

 
Ace:

"There are no direct operational links between Obama and Wright."

The Audacity of Opacity

 
America is still the No. 1 killer in the world...

When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign.

We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers... We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi...

Rev. Wright preached the gospel of Jesus, a gospel on which I base my life...

We put Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God...

And the sermons I heard him preach always related to our obligation to love God and one another, to work on behalf of the poor, and to seek justice at every turn...

We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic... We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means...

As I've told Reverend Wright, personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics.

We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means! ...And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS S**T!

I don't think of the pastor of my church in political terms.

We started the AIDS virus... We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty...

I first joined Trinity United Church of Christ nearly twenty years ago... [Wright's] congregation... does not merely preach social justice but acts it out each day, through ministries ranging from housing the homeless to reaching out to those with HIV/AIDS.

The Government lied about Pearl Harbor!

I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit.

The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment and purposely infected African-American men with syphillis!

[These statements don't] detract from my affection for Reverend Wright or appreciation for the good works he has done.

Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body...

Here is what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor. There are times when people say things that are just wrong. But I think it's important to judge me on what I've said in the past and what I believe.

We are doing the same thing that Al-Qaeda did with a different flag!

I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial.

Black men turning on black men... That is fighting the wrong enemy!

...because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.

The government lied about the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color!

I look forward to continuing a relationship with a church that has done so much good.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am proud of my country.

I believe that Americans will judge me not on the basis of what someone else said...

'...we're a divided country, we're a country that is "just downright mean," we are "guided by fear," we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents.'

...but on the basis of who I am and what I believe in...

We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day... Folks are just jammed up, and it's gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I'm young. Forty-four!

...on my values, judgment and experience to be President of the United States.

Barack Obama: "In a dangerous world, it’s judgment that matters."