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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Politics.
Is it over? If you read the polls or buy into the media hype, this election is over. Obama has already been declared the victor. Remember when it would just be the West Coast that was irked by pundits and networks calling an election early? Forget about 3 to 6 hours… they’re calling this baby two weeks out. Worse still, Republicans seem genuinely afraid to take it to Obama. Why? Well, because they’re politicians and weasels by their very nature. Case in point, Rep. Michele Bachmann who said on MSNBC’s “Hardball” that Barack Obama ,”may have unAmerican views” is now running away from that statement. Apparently, nobody can question the patriotism of Barack Obama. Excuse me? This is a guy that has an angry America hating wife, a hatemongering Reverend for a mentor, an unrepentant terrorist as a colleague in community activism and a convicted felon as a political patron. IS THIS, WHAT IT IS TO BE AMERICAN? REALLY? What kind of chicken shit Republicans are running away from calling Barack on this stuff? The day is fast coming where the people that stand their ground are going to be able to say, “I told you so.” Why not be ahead of the curve on this? While the media will scurry to find cover from the impending backlash of an unAmerican Obama presidency, those like myself who have said, “This guy doesn’t represent our values,” will be seen as sages. Even Joe Biden is anticipating that we aren’t going to like what we see from an Obama presidency’s reaction to an international crisis. What did he mean by that? I’m guessing that when Israel is set ablaze, President Obama will fail to act. Or maybe that will happen when the Russians take back another satellite. No, maybe he meant when the Chinese take back their tiny island adversary.
This guy has surrounded himself with nothing but people that hate America. Isn’t that in and of itself unAmerican? What do I have to do to be considered unAmerican? Join the neo-nazi movement? No, how about I just call Barack Obama unAmerican? That seems to be the gauge where it concerns how patriotic you are. Look at Joe the Plumber. That poor bastard has been run through the mud for his opposition to the Messiah.
And still, the Republicans run for the hills. I’ll be happy to see this lot tossed out. If these are the weaklings that represent American values, good riddance. Let a new batch of STRONG, conservatives come to the fore when Obama makes America swing way back to the right. These cowards need to be retired. Let’s just hope that in the time it takes for America to realize its mistake (and to have the power to remedy it), we still have a republic on which to stand.
Woe are we that stand against the tidal wave of sycophantic, mouth breathers that have recreated themselves in his image. Take down your flags. Put up an Obama poster. Being American is about abandoning dissent and embracing inexperience. Obama good, American values bad. Drink the Koolaid, join the cult. Get caught up in the wave. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Politics.
What is wrong with the media and the democratic party in this country when they go out of their way to destroy a private citizen? Are we not entitled by birth-right to ask questions of our leaders? Is that not American? Should we all fear RETRIBUTION for asking a question? How exactly does one speak truth to power in an environment like this? The media has visited more scrutiny on Joe the Plumber, than it has its candidate of choice, Barack Obama. In concert with the likes of Joe ‘Jobs is a three letter word’ Biden the media have rushed to the defense of Obama, and painted Joe the Plumber as a fraud, a dead beat and “unlicensed”. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY?! Meanwhile, you can’t get these people to investigate, Rezko, ACORN, Ayers, Wright, Michelle, Farrakhan or any of a slew of campaign promises that Mr. Obama cannot hope to keep in our current economic climate.
Are we really prepared to suffer the leadership of the Democrats while the Fourth Estate’s nose remains entrenched betwixt Mr. Obama’s butt cheeks? Really? Is this the new press? Can we expect to see the wrath of the press unleashed on ALL WHO DARE TO OPPOSE, “The One”?
Dear God, we are so screwed. America isn’t even America anymore. Are we really going to elect this guy? Are we really going to allow ourselves to suffer through a union of the media elite and the political elite? Have we gone mad? How can we stand by and allow these thugs to take out a “REAL” American (as opposed to Iranian caviar, lobster sucking rabble rousers)?
This is horrific.
Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Politics.
I thought that John McCain edged out Barack Obama in last night’s debate. While Obama seemed to be strong on some of the economic issues and people that have discussed the debate with me found him to be believable, I cannot seem to get an answer as to what he said that impressed. I thought that he baffled with BS when it came to the economy. The honest truth is, as soon as Barack Obama gets into office you can forget about this tax cut that is supposed to be coming to 95% of us. It just isn’t going to happen, not unless Barack Obama intends on doing away with all of the massive entitlements he plans on bestowing to a weary America. Rolling back the Bush tax cuts will only pay for so much. It is high time that people understand that Barack has spent that money twice over, especially given the current financial crisis. What do Democrats do without fail when confronted by economic circumstances such as those we currently face? THEY TAX PEOPLE… THEY TAX EVERYBODY. Case in point Michigan. I am not going to get into the specifics, but do yourself a favor and find out how the Governor there taxed people to make-up for a shortfall, and how that fell flat and the state is still in the red $300 million this year. Barack Obama lied last night, which isn’t to say that McCain didn’t… but then I wasn’t the one saying that Barack seemed believable on the economy.
Meanwhile, McCain didn’t say anything too out of the realm of reality on the economy, and he defended the Republican philosophy of tax cuts to businesses. He was supposed to sound like a total chump on the economy… but he managed to weather that portion of the debate well. Where he shined however, was on foreign policy. I keep hearing people say that Barack held his own. I’m sorry, I thought he got his teeth handed to him. He seemed to lack any credibility on Iran and Iraq, was dessimated on Afghanistan (eventhough ordinary Americans likely have no idea that Obama’s committee never called a meeting with NATO on Afghanistan and why it matters) and could only offer a, “Yeah what he said,” response on Russia. I was quite frankly embarrassed for Obama when it came to the issues of foreign policy. He fell back to the “I’m not going to have tea with Ahmadinejad,” routine… but McCain bristled and kept harping on the point. When Barack fell back to Kissinger, McCain made him pay for it. Between the, “I think John’s right,” from Obama and the, “He doesn’t understand,” retorts from McCain, I thought the actual topic of the debate (foreign policy) went to McCain.
All in all, no knock out punches. We had to go to the scorecard on this one… but McCain still came out on top.
Next up the Veep debate. I think Sarah Palin could end up being smeared all over the stage by the time it’s all said and done. If she’s smart, when Biden comes at her about Russia (and her being able to see it), she ought to respond that his running mate doesn’t seem to have any understanding of the situation having gone into a debate and offering up, “Yeah what he said,” as an answer. Obama seems as ill informed about Russia as the Alaska Governor… and last I checked, I was voting for President, not Vice President.
Let the carnage continue.
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Politics.
Yes Sarah Palin sat in her lakeside lair and nefariously plotted… well… apparently everything she’s ever done. “SCREW THOSE RAPE VICTIMS, MAKE THEM PAY,” she hissed while cleaning a rifle and impaling small woodland creatures beneath her stiletto heels. The fact of the matter is that the police department attempted to recoop costs for the tests from insurance companies and that the depth of the decision and the discussion that can be PROVED is found in how much cash was allotted for tests within the budget. Of course all of the “bloggers” (I think that term is too good for some of the garbage about this I have seen at Huffpost) want to find an evil, transsexual (because she can’t be a REAL woman) Palin snuffing out the rights of women. To this point that has not been achieved, so it’s back to troopergate.
It’s enough already… really. The investigation will go on, and sooner or later, “the truth” will be revealed. Oh, wait… no, the truth will not be revealed… because anything short of, “the woman is a criminal, a practicing witch and a man” will be deemed COVER-UP by some of the lunatics out there. Nevermind that Barack Obama’s patrons are terrorists, crooks and anti-American scumbags. No, that’s fine… BUT PALIN… whoa Palin, she will bring apocalypse. My God, she abused her authority by firing a guy that didn’t take on a drunken and reckless trooper. Yeah, this will play. PLEASE. The only people this plays with are Obamaniacs. Honestly, all Sarah Palin would have to do (and I am sure she will at some point), is discuss this guy’s record (he made it public) and the fact that he has a right to kill (to this very day) in her state. They’ll wonder why she didn’t sack the entire hierarchy of the Alaska State Troopers.
The real abuse of power in this case comes from the union (no I AM NOT ANTI-UNION). I can’t believe they took up for this trooper. Legitimate claims are ignored and fought haphazardly but this guy is defended vigorously. Unreal. Sorry kids, there will be no frog march to the firing squad for the evil genius that is Sarah Palin.
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
This week we watched the wheels come off of the cart where it concerns the financial markets. Believe me folks, this has been a long time coming. Alan Greenspan was a reckless steward of the economy and if you want to point a finger at a single villain in all of this, he is surely your man. We have a ways to go to see ourselves through all of this and I think that it is going to take industry reinvesting in America to bring about change. We need to build the most efficient engines, wind turbines, desalination equipment (water will be the new oil soon), solar cells, the list goes on and on. There is an emerging market where it concerns resources and we need to be at the forefront. Still, the candidates speak of revamping the financial sector while ignoring the fact that we need to first bring money back to this country.
While John McCain is seen as old school and beholden to special interests, Barack Obama maintains that HE and HE ALONE can bring real change to the financial markets. If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering how. Obama’s approach to campaigning surely hasn’t shown me anything different. He hasn’t changed the game. It’s the same cliched blood sport it’s always been. Where McCain is looked to as business as usual and therefor an ineffective agent for change, Barack Obama casts himself as this rebel rebuking big time corporate contributions or money from lobbyists. Is this true? No, not really. The industry he professes to want to change already owns him and people should realize this from the start. For all of his change rhetoric, his panhandling seems pretty status quo.
GOLDMAN SACHS…..$691,930
CITIGROUP…………….$448,599
JP MORGAN CHASE…$442,919
UBS AG………………….$404,750
LEHMAN BROS……..$370,524
MORGAN STANLEY….$318,070
Additionally, Merrill Lynch, FannieMae and FreddieMac are also big time donors. A former head of FannieMae was on Barack’s Vice Presidential vetting team. Here are the numbers by individual industry:
COMMERCIAL BANKS………………. $2,081,809
HEDGE/PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS.. $1,979,162
INSURANCE COMPANIES………….. $1,290,434
SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS….$9,873,356
So, there you have it. When Barack Obama is standing on the stump proclaiming that he is going to bring change to our ailing markets, you think about these contributions. You can similarly consider the same about McCain because he is likewise indebted to these outfits. McCain however has no political ambition beyond this election and further is not setting himself out there as some kind of squeaky clean outsider. McCain has to live down the whole Keating/S&L scandal and I think the guy is well aware that it’s a cross to bear. Barack will likely need these folks in his corner for a long, long, time to come. So you tell me, seriously, who is it that has less to lose by taking on an enormous task like this?
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
You knew it had to happen. As soon as Barack Obama started to slip in the polls I thought aloud, “It’ll be blamed on racism.” Now let me say that I have no delusions, I understand completely that some people will vote against Obama because of race. It’s just the way it is, just like I know that some people are voting against McCain because he’s old. I have heard, “He’s a creepy, mean old man,” more than once from friends of mine and even my kids. To this day, I have no idea how the girl is going to cast her first vote for president. She relates to Obama’s youth and there is little that I can do to offset that by way of a reasonable argument. People bring baggage and their own perspectives to the voting booth. What irks me about the sudden “racism” outcry of the media and the Democrats is that it completely ignores the fact that Barack Obama has made SERIOUS miscalculations in the last couple of months.
The biggest error that Obama made was in not selecting Hillary Clinton or another woman, to be his Vice President. You can tell me he did the right thing in selecting an experienced Joe Biden until the cows come home and it won’t matter a lick. Barack Obama has been intimidated by Hillary Clinton since the beginning and he grew to dislike her. He knew in the end that if he selected her as the Veep she would invariably be looked upon as the stronger member of the team. How petty, no? I mean, all I hear from Democrats is how McCain opted for a neophyte Palin in order to secure disgruntled Hillary voters. What’s worse, exploiting that angle or the fact that Obama overlooked the most qualified person for the job because of personality conflicts and a shallow ego? Who is Barack trotting out now though? Old Hill and Bill… even after he and his wife savaged the former President by warping his words and making him seem a RACIST. I think it’s hilarious that the first folks to use race were the Obama’s and now their surrogates in the party and in the media are looking to it as an excuse.
Barack Obama ignored a woman that got 18 million votes in favor of a man that got 9000. John McCain selected a woman that got not one vote, but who has a personality that Americans relate to. I can hear the cries already, “SHE HAS NO EXPERIENCE!” Well, to those partisan critics that launch into such drivvle I offer up the fact that the Democratic Party and their electorate chose INEXPERIENCE over EXPERIENCE during the primary and nobody seemed to care. Hillary Clinton was torn to shreds by the likes of Ed Schultz for not rolling over and dying. It was as if she had not earned the right to fight the good fight to the bitter end, critics be damned. Obama was the most inexperienced candidate that the Democrats offered up and he is their candidate… but woe is John McCain for his selection of Sarah Palin? It makes no sense.
Why even bother with all of this though? Why should I even waste my time trying to point out the most serious blunder of Obama’s candidacy? In the end it won’t matter. It won’t matter that some of us in this country recognize the fact that Obama is inexperienced to a fault. It won’t matter that others recognize that he engaged in a vile campaign against Hillary Clinton. It won’t matter that in not even pretending to consider Hillary as a running mate, he slapped the women of this country across the face. Hell no, it’s just easier to cry, “Racism!” and to bury the truth under the slime of such an assertion.
If Barack Obama loses, it is because of Barack Obama. It’s because of the poor choices he has made, the stupid attacks on middle America that he has engaged in when in more “evolved” company and the arrogance of a run at the highest office in the land after three years in the Senate (two of which he spent CAMPAIGNING for PRESIDENT). Racism exists, racism is real, but in the case of Barack Obama and his implosion, racism is the scapegoat. Jack Cafferty, Governor Sebelius and all of the rest of the folks crying racism can bury their heads in the sand… but the facts are, what they are. Barack Obama screwed up. He pissed off a lot of women and he has only himself to blame.
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, News, Politics.
Okay Matt… you think it’s scary that Sarah Palin will be Vice President because she was the mayor of a small town and the governor of Alaska for two years. Hmmm…. all of the questions you’re posing about her are the same kinds of questions I have about Barack Obama but I’m sure you would color me a fool for not buying off on this guy. I mean seriously Matt, what the heck do we know about Barack Obama? He was in state government and then in his first term in the Senate he decides… “I’m going to run for President of the United States”. How come I’ve never heard you speak out about that? How come it’s acceptable to have faith that this guy isn’t a neophyte unfit for the office? Is it just because he’s a democrat?
I think a lot of this experience argument is nonsense. Let’s face it, this country was founded by learned men, who were not professional politicians. They did a fine enough job of it. If Sarah Palin is a “bad Disney movie” I have to wonder what kind of stellar commentary Matt would have had to offer up in contradiction of the qualifications of those great men.
It’s nice to see that Hollywood continues to think that its opinion matters. Here’s a question for you Matt… what qualifies your opinion? Why should I think to myself, “Hmmm… Matt’s right”? The best you can do is say, John McCain is old, so let’s face it… he’ll probably die in office. Huh? Look, anybody can drop dead at any moment. Elect Barack Obama… he probably isn’t going to die. That’s a heck of a slogan!
I love the Bourne movies, but let’s face it Matt… you’re just a dopey actor.
Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
Yick! You have to practically take a shower after watching an hour of these 24 hour cable news nets. It’s disgusting and senseless banter about one thing… the election. Talking head after talking head comes out and tries to put the hard sell on you where it concerns “their” candidate. It’s like going to a used car lot, night after night. Obama he’s got low miles. McCain he’s old but gets you from point A to point B. Sarah Palin, vavavroom… flashy, new and with a nice set of rims. Joe Biden… uhrmmm… hey, come to think of it… we don’t hear a lot about Joe. Okay… he’s the minivan on the lot.
Seriously, there’s no reporting any more. There’s no news. It’s just show, after show, after show… discussing the election. Rarely do you actually hear what the candidates have to say. No, instead you get a well washed, spun, and neatly folded interpretation of the facts. There’s no need for you to think… we’ll do all of that for you. You just sit there and watch salesman after salesman come forth to negotiate a deal with you for the management. Well, me… I’m going straight to the manager. I am swearing off of the cable news nets for the next 8 weeks. I’ll watch the debates on C-Span and immediately turn off the television when they’re through. I don’t need to be told who won and who lost. I don’t need to be educated as to who had the night’s “zinger”. I’m a fairly competent cat… I think I can manage to determine who it is that spoke more to me and who it was that took the night.
I used to hear people say, “Reality television has run amok.” Ladies and gents, the news is the new reality television… and it’s just as fake and clichéd as anything produced in Hollywood.
Keep your used car salesmen… I’ll walk.
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Entertainment, News, Politics.
Finally, MSNBC has succumbed to the pressure, or perhaps managed to catch up with the rest of us that have realized for a long time that Matthews and Olbermann are partisan hacks. I would no sooner see Pat Buchanan hosting “coverage” of political events than I would these two guys.
The move, confirmed by spokesmen for both networks, follows increasingly loud complaints about Olbermann’s anchor role at the Democratic and Republican conventions. Olbermann, who regularly assails President Bush and GOP nominee John McCain on his “Countdown” program, was effusive in praising the acceptance speech of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He drew flak Thursday when the Republicans played a video that included a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that if the networks had done that, “we would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead, and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize.”
Matthews, who has criticized politicians in both parties, drew less criticism for his convention role but became a divisive figure during the primaries when he described how he was inspired by Obama’s speeches and made disparaging remarks about Hillary Clinton, for which he later apologized.
These two guys are pundits for the left and it was about time that somebody did something about the way they’d run amok at MSNBC. It’s been disgusting display after disgusting display with Olbermann. On the other hand Matthews’ treatment of Hillary Clinton during the primaries was both brutal and blatantly biased.
Olbermann and Matthews will remain as analysts during major political events, and officials at both networks, who declined to be identified discussing personnel moves, said Olbermann had initiated the discussions to clarify his role. They said Olbermann’s influence at MSNBC would in no way be diminished and that the shift would enable him and Matthews to offer more candid analysis during live coverage. Olbermann confirmed yesterday he had initiated the discussions.
See, this is how these people think. Okay, let’s take them out of the anchor chairs and set them loose without any kind of leash. That’s fine, at least they won’t be pretending to be impartial JOURNALISTS, which they aren’t… they’re left wing carnival barkers. Now if they could just do something about that punk Shuster.
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
McCain/Palin are leading in various polls this morning, and it has the Obama camp in a frenzy. A usually cool and collected David Axelrod sounded harried, nervous and winded as he went through a littany of anti-Palin talking points. If this is how these guys are going to react to a couple of polls, I can’t imagine how they’ll handle a legitimate crisis. I can understand the nerves, there is blood in the water. Obama ignored a woman that got 18 million votes, while McCain took on a woman that didn’t get one. Women are angry and they should be. Obama didn’t even try to vet Clinton, people see that as disrespectful. Those Americans that were going to vote for the black guy because we have to make amends and it’s time, can find a similar circumstance now with McCain and his female veep. Oh my… it seems the Obama camp is back on its heels and they’re terrible when they’re behind (especially in the gloves off blood sport of party vs. party politics). If the rest of the Obama team is taking their cues from the top aka Axelrod, I think we’ll see a lot of breathless rants on Palin in the coming days. Will it help? Probably not. Obama’s team needs to stop the bleeding and I don’t know that smearing Palin is going to do it for them.