Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The towering intellect that is Nancy Pelosi


Excerpt of Tom Brokaw’s interview with Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on "Meet the Press":

REP. PELOSI: You can have a transition with natural gas. That, that is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels. So, so there is a way to transition this instead of doing more of the same.

...REP. PELOSI: I'm, I'm, I'm investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

From Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary:


Main Entry: fossil fuel

: a fuel (as coal, oil, or natural gas) formed in the earth from plant or animal remains

How is natural gas an alternative to fossil fuels when it is a fossil fuel?

When you're Nancy Pelosi, by gum!

It's comforting to think that this mental midget stands second in line to the presidency, isn't it?

Hat tip: Jerry

Once again discrimination rears it's ugly head...


Will it never end?


Sent in by: Papa B

Jack Torry's bogus analysis: the MSM covers for Obama


Jack Torry of the Columbus-Dispatch has done his level best to obfuscate Obama's connection to William Ayers. In an analysis of the "Know enough?" 527 ad regarding the Obama-Ayers connection, Torry deliberately misleads readers.

Obama's association with Ayers was raised by ABC's George Stephanopoulos in April at the Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia. During that debate, Democrat Hillary Clinton criticized Ayers' comments and said he would be "an issue that people will be asking about."


But during that debate, Obama criticized "this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is . . . somehow their ideas could be attributed to me..."

Torry rates the ad a 1 out of 10 for accuracy.

Unbelievably, Torry omits any reference to the boards upon which Ayers and Obama served together.


On the board of Woods fund, for instance, they funded the group ACORN, infamous for its vote fraud crimes, and the Arab-American Action Network, founded by a PLO member named Rashid Khalidi.

Furthermore, Dan Riehl reports that the newly released Annenberg Challenge records will prove highly problematic for Obama and apologists like Jack Torry.

Continuing to follow up on what can be learned of Barack Obama's tenure as the Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), evaluations of the program during his tenure available on line demonstrate that in his only real executive test, Barack Obama was a dismal failure squandering millions of dollars on education programs which had basically no real effect. They also strongly suggest Obama's claim that un-repentant terrorist Bill Ayers is just a teacher who lived down the block is an outright lie. The structure and tone of the CAC, addressed in the documents, leave a strong impression the two men had to work together closely over a number of years...

Torry's article is pathetic; it is symptomatic of a mainstream media that has gone off the deep end.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

MorOn.org is offering Free Obama bin Biden stickers!



Update: Charlie Wilson's gaffe.

What Michelle Obama didn't say: "my country"


Jerry noticed an interesting pattern: in her rehearsed speeches, Ms. Obama never, ever says "my country."

For example, in her speech last night, Michelle Obama told fellow Democrats 'why I love this country':

"The same conviction that drives the men and women I've met all across this country."
"The servicemen and -women who love this country so much, they leave those they love most to defend it..."
"And you see, that is why I love this country."
"I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much."
"...fighting to ensure the men and women who serve this country are welcomed home..."
"...how this time, in this great country..."

Consider these excerpts of Michelle Obama's speech at a Women for Obama Luncheon in 2007:

"...I’ve had an opportunity to take a few trips around the country..."
"...He sees it in the eyes of women he meets throughout the country..."
"...We can be a part of changing the way women are viewed in this country..."
"...I want that for your daughters. I want that for this country..."
"...I need you to get people to write... checks... to build a movement that is going to change this country..."

Or these lines from a depressing stump speech in My 2008:

...and had contacts throughout the country.
...the sad irony is that that’s exactly what’s happening to most Americans in this country.
...And like every single child in this room, in this country...
...in 2008, with all the struggle that we’ve had, in this country...
...See, and the beauty of this country is that most Americans are like my father...
...There are millions of them all over this country...
...No Child Left Behind is not doing what it needs to do for children in this country.
They exist all over this country.
...the only person in this race who I believe has a chance of uniting this country...
...for all these kids around the country...

To be fair, I did find one instance where Ms. Obama called the U.S. "my country":

"People in this country are ready for change and hungry for a different kind of politics, and ... for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."

It's depressing, that. It truly is.

Pure Economics


A president's pension currently is $191,300 per year, until he is 80 years old.

Assuming the next president lives to age 80. Sen. McCain would receive ZERO pension as he would reach 80 at the end of two terms as president.

Sen. Obama would be retired for 26 years after two terms and would receive $4,973,800 in pension.

Therefore it would certainly make economic sense to elect McCain in November.

How's that for non-partisan thinking?

Sent by: Jerry. Thanks!

Update: Snopes calls bull on this piece, so I'm going to have to throw Jerry under the bus!

Did you hear that thump?

Obama responds to McCain's Ayers ad, features his friend the terrorist


Oh, goodie, Obama's handlers have decided to continue the publicity around his relationship with unrepentant terrorist and communist Bill Ayers.

The gist of Obama's message:

He once denounced Ayers, whose crimes were committed when Obama was only eight.


Fact: Ayers was a well-known communist crackpot whose views were widely known. On September 11, 2001, Ayers stated that he was proud of bombing the Pentagon, saying "We didn't do enough."


Fact: Obama had no problem serving with Ayers on the boards of both the Annenberg Challenge and The Woods Fund.

Fact: These boards dispensed funds to groups like ACORN, a group with a sordid record of vote fraud including paying for votes with crack cocaine.


And the Arab American Action Network, founded by Rashid Khalidi, a member of the terrorist group PLO.

By all means. Senator Obama, let's explore the troubling relationship between you and Bill Ayers. After all, it's about judgment, isn't it?

Welcome to Denver!


Gateway Pundit reports that the National Black Republican Association orchestrated quite a greeting for Barack Obama in Denver:

Fifty billboards scattered throughout the city along with a red carpet.

Forty-five years ago, on August 28, 1963, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican and embraced the traditional values that made this country great delivered his inspirational civil rights "I Have a Dream" speech.

Today, Senator Barack Obama, with the most liberal voting record in the US Senate, is delivering his political acceptance speech, in an apparent attempt to assume for himself the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Dr. King did not embrace the type of secularist agenda promoted by Obama and the Democratic Party of today, which includes fostering dependency on welfare that breaks up families, supporting same-sex marriage and partial-birth abortion, and banning God from the public square.

Obama is no MLK!

I guess they didn't get the memo.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Dick Morris: Biden a mistake; ticket needs a woman


Morris forgets that Joe Biden is a political chameleon.

Joe Biden can help.

Photo of a very young Michael Phelps


Sean sends along this exclusive pic.

Barack Obama's half-brother lives on $1/mo. in a Kenyan slum


You want class warfare? You want mansions? How about a cardboard box in a shanty-town on the outskirts of Nairobi? Andrew Breitbart (via Charles Johnson) has a crushing summary of a story I mentioned last Thursday -- "An Inconvenient Obama":

Sen. Barack Obama has a problem. And it lives in a hut.

His name is George Hussein Onyango Obama, and he is the 26-year-old half brother of Mr. Obama, the multimillionaire autobiographer who neglected to write that his paternal sibling lives on less than a dollar a month in the outer slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

They have met twice.

Unearthed by Italian Vanity Fair and virtually ignored by the American press, the inconvenient George Obama could emerge as a compelling character in the freshman senator's carefully edited road-to-the-White-House narrative - especially now that his campaign has unleashed a personal attack on Sen. John McCain's station in life...

...[Speaking of class warfare,] Michelle Obama is on leave from her $317,000-a-year job at the University of Chicago Medical Center, which is now under scrutiny - along with Obama campaign chief David Axelrod and two other staffers - for a scheme that, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, "steers patients who don't have private insurance - primarily poor, black people - to other health care facilities."

"The medical professionals who have come to me are accusing the university of dumping patients on its neighboring institutions," Toni Preckwinkle, alderman for the 4th Ward, told the paper.

...Does anyone think if Mr. McCain had a sibling living in a trailer park making minimum wage (892 times more than Mr. Obama's half brother's yearly income) that the mainstream media and the Obama campaign wouldn't notice?

Yup. Read the whole thing. And all that jazz.

Photos: Telegraph and NPR.

Obama's 10 Point Plan to 'Update' The Second Amendment


What does the campaign of Barack Obama mean for the Constitution's Second Amendment?

One thing is sure: the ultra-liberal senator will be no friend of gun owners and strict Constitutionalists.

NRA-ILA has the must-read story of the day.

Spotted at the DNC: Black September Fashion Statement


Daylife's caption:

Alyssa Zeller of Brookyln, N.Y., holds an Obama action figure doll in Denver, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. The Democratic Convention begins on Monday in Denver.

Brilliant. Carl has more.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

This week's movie premiere in Denver




Idea: Reliapundit.

Design Awards


Sean sends along his nominations for best designs:

Best solicitation for soccer tickets.

Best refrigerator magnet.


Best Google advertisement.

Best T-Shirt design.

Best shopping bag.

Best public service ad.

Best updated Mona Lisa (if she visited Texas).

Linked by: Sondrak. Thanks!

ACORN, the Soros-funded Vote-Fraud Consortium, is at it again


Michelle Malkin's ACORN Watch has hit the motherlode. Remember ACORN? It's the liberal front group notorious for voter registration fraud including paying for votes using crack cocaine.

Milwaukee’s election chief on Wednesday turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney’s office for possible prosecution, saying they tried to submit falsified registration cards... [bringing] to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow... [after the Commission was notified about] questionable cards in the latest batch collected by its workers...

All of the workers targeted for investigation were paid employees of two liberal groups running voter registration drives, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Community Voters Project… [and included]

• Seventeen apparently filled out voter applications and then signed the cards themselves. That involved two to four cards in each case.

• Twelve submitted cards for individuals who later told ACORN they never filled out an application. That involved one card in each case.

One submitted a card for a dead voter. That was the second such case; a Voters Project worker previously submitted a card for a deceased voter.

• One was apparently making up driver’s license numbers for an unknown number of voters.

• One submitted about a half-dozen applications for already-registered voters.

Just consider this "Chapter 900" of ACORN's storied and illustrious background.

Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party...

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn's practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

...Given this history, it's not surprising that Acorn is so hostile to voter identification laws and other efforts to ensure fairness and accuracy at the polls.

I'll try and disguise my shock.

Linked by: Memeorandum. Thanks!

Messiah picks acolyte, new signage appears



Related: Can you spot the difference? (Obama-Biden Edition).

Lines o' the day: Awesomely awesome


Ron Hart: "It takes two Americas to warehouse John Edwards’ sins."

Allahpundit: "Top Clinton advisors tell CNN they’re outraged by how she was treated... The only way this could be more awesomely awesome is if it involved robots. As it is, I’m downright woozy at the thought of what’s in store on Tuesday night."

Commenter Robcon at Hot Air: "[The Democratic ticket has] bigger problems..
Obama Biden
Osama Binladen."

Ann Althouse plays Boggle™ with the candidates' names:


• Hmm. Obama Bin Biden. That's catchy!

"The dirtiest place on the planet"


A VBS video captures the city of Linfen, China...

...the dirtiest place on the planet.

Spending a day breathing the air is about the same as smoking three packs of cigarettes.

The scary part is that there are a lot of cities in China like this.

Linfen produces what any country with a billion people needs: energy.

It's a city of endless factories all spewing toxic chemicals into the air and water.

There are no clouds, just a permanent smog hovering over the cityscape.

Every day thousands of coal trucks go between Linfen and the rest of China's cities.

Then they come back empty for more.

Coal is the main source of energy in China and Linfen is the hub of coal mining.

Not only does Linfen produce huge amounts of coal, but it consumes vast amounts as well...

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Watch it all. And recall that China has at least 16 of the 20 most polluted cities on the planet.

While it's admirable that America continues its relentless drive toward cleaner technologies, Al Gore's plans to heavily tax the United States through his "carbon-trading" scheme will have almost no impact whatsoever until China begins to clean up its cesspool.

Can you spot the difference? (Obama-Biden Edition)


Some bumper-stickers from campaigns past:












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Now see if you can spot the difference: what happens when someone shares the ticket with The One?



Biden's name is almost a mirage. Talk about playing second fiddle.

Update: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air links (thanks!) and cleans up with a question that slices to the heart of the matter:

The font color was a deliberate choice by the designers. Why not both names in stark white, the better to be seen clearly? It’s almost as though the Obama campaign wants to de-emphasize Biden, which might also explain why they announced his selection in the dead of night. Are they embarrassed already by Biden, or can Obama brook no encroachment on his share of the spotlight?

Also linked by: Blogs for John McCain, Don Surber, Southcoast Today, ReverseSpin, Bluegrass, Red State, Say Anything and American Thinker's Thomas Lifson, who summarizes: The One We Have Been Waiting For breaks precedent in demoting his running mate to not just a smaller typeface, but darker, washed-out, weak-looking lettering on campaign signs. The cult of the personality may not wear as well with Americans as with North Koreans.

Hat tips: 4president.org and John Raytheon. Obama-Biden video screencaps: YouTube.