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Blaming Bush No Longer Working for Obama

January 26, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Economy, Unemployment Comments Off

Lack of a formal education does not necessarily mean that an individual lacks intelligence. One of the most brilliant US Presidents was completely self taught. Abraham Lincoln not only taught himself to read, write, and factor numbers, he taught himself law.

Lincoln became a successful attorney before he tested the waters of American politics. He next engaged one of this nation’s most gifted orators in a series of debates which led to Lincoln’s rise in American politics. One could argue that the debates with Stephen Douglas showcased Lincoln’s true genius. He not only understood what to communicate to his audience, but how to communicate it.

The left-wing main stream media and the political left have been touting the brilliance of Barack Obama since he was a little known state senator in Illinois. But over the past year we – the electorate – have come to know that Obama’s brilliance as an orator is limited to his ability to read prepared remarks from a teleprompter. If all it took to be labeled as brilliant was an ability to read from a prompter, any high school graduate should be labeled brilliant. But they aren’t. And neither is he.

We have seen, on just a few occasions, Obama’s communications skills devolve into almost unrecognizable gibberish. On those very few occasions where he has left his prepared script – or if he allows questions for which he hasn’t prepared answers – he suffers from Biden like gaffs. The now famous Cambridge Police comment for example.

When drifting off script, Obama drops more ah’s and um’s than a pimple-faced 14-year old boy asking out his first date. This is an indicator of his attempts at qualifying his remarks. His need to qualify is 2-fold. First he needs to cater his message to his desired audience always showing himself in an almost messianic light. Secondly, he needs to formulate the official line, sounding authoritative, without revealing his entire agenda. Because as we all know if he reveals too much he won’t be able to get it passed the people. This is his flaw.

If you haven’t noticed, he has limited himself to only one-on-one interviews passing up every opportunity to answer questions from the press pool. He’s done this since his gaff about the Cambridge Police in July. He selects only Infestation friendly “news organizations” which, I suspect, submit questions in advance so that Obama’s answers can be carefully prepared and loaded into his trusty teleprompter prior to taping the interview. Some gifted orator.

George W. Bush by contrast was a better communicator when he ditched his prepared remarks and spoke directly to the American people. But ask yourself – Why?

Bush like Lincoln knew how to communicate with his audience. Unlike Obama who has an incessant need to speak as if he swallowed the Oxford New American Dictionary, he wasn’t comfortable reading off a prompter. He was better at delivering his message in a plain ordinary way. Speak directly to the people in language they all can understand. But the intelligentsia mocked and ridiculed Bush for his manner of speech and billed him as an idiot because of the way he said “nuclear”.

Obama they tout as brilliant in spite of the fact that his 1st year in office is an overwhelming failure. Bush may have been lacking in rhetorical refinement but at least his Administration was able to keep this nation from being attacked on its own soil for the remainder of his Presidency. In Obama’s 1st year, we have been attacked 3 times. Bush staved off 2 recessions and kept the nation working at the beginning of a 3rd. Too bad Obama couldn’t even accomplish keeping us working.

On inauguration day last year unemployment was around 6.2% – the highest of the Bush years incidentally- today it sits at 10.0% in spite of the passage of the Obama Porkulus package that was meant to keep unemployment below 8%. On inauguration day last year the national debt was at $10.6 Trillion. Today it is approaching $12.3 Trillion. During the Bush years the national debt increased an average of $600 Billion per year. In just the first year of the Obama Infestation the national debt rose $1.7 Trillion and the Senate is poised to raise the debt ceiling another $1.9 Trillion. All this spending and no jobs. Nearly 7 million jobs have been lost just since Obama took office. He can claim that he saved 2 million jobs (a stat that cannot be confirmed in any way) but the fact remains a net loss of 7 million jobs has occurred.

What’s Obama’s answer for the worsening of the economy? It’s Bush’s fault.

Aren’t you kind of getting tired of that answer? When can this President take responsibility for his own failure? I won’t hold my breath waiting for a truthful answer to that question.

The old question in politics seems to apply. “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” Framed that way I’d have to say – “NO!” But ask yourself, “Are you better off than you were 13 months ago?” The answer again is, “NO!”

Apparently Obama hasn’t gotten the memo from the American People. It was delivered in Virginia and New Jersey in November and in Massachusetts on the 19th of January. But he still isn’t listening. His answer to his failures? Double down on his agenda.

A headline on the Drudge Report yesterday read, “Would ‘Rather Be Really Good One-Term President’…”. Somehow I don’t think there is any danger of that happening. He’ll be a one-termer alright. But being known as good… Put it this way, how does history remember Jimmy Carter?

My point about formal education is simple. George W. Bush graduated from Yale and with the exception of his use of rhetoric, Obama appears to be less intelligent than Bush. Comparing himself with the self-taught/self-made and brilliant Abraham Lincoln is not only inaccurate, but bordering on criminal. Obama may have graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law, but the only thing he has in common with Lincoln is their adopted home state.

/rant

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Souter Out – Who Will Obama Pick?

April 30, 2009 Abortion, Barack Hussein Obama, Chicago Politics Goes National, Democrat Corruption, Homosexual Agenda, Judicial Activism, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Stupidity, The ACLU, socialism View Comments

With over 100 unfilled positions in the Obama Infestation, President Juggears will have the opportunity to fill another vacancy – Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. National Public Radio is reporting that Justice David Souter – a Republican disappointment to say the least – will be announcing his retirement from the high court.

This prompts the question – Who will the POTUS appoint to fill turn-coat Souter’s seat on the high court?

Using the logic that Barry will be under tremendous pressure to replace Souter with a woman and understanding the political debts that he owes the Chicago Democrat Machine for his election, I predict that he will select Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Madigan has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood which fulfills Juggears’ pro-death agenda. AND Madigan served in the Illinois Senate with Juggears. They are pals according to her Wikipedia page.

My other suggestion would be ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero to pander to the gay community but I think that he’s saving Romero as a replacement for Ginsburg or Stevens.

Comments are open (until noon Eastern Friday May 1. 2009) on this post so feel free to express who you think Juggears will appoint.

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Normally Dem Friendly AP Calls Obama Out on Deficit Responsibility Denial

President Juggears attempted to shift blame for the escalating federal budget deficit onto his predecessor…

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“Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit…. That wasn’t me. Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis, financial crisis, since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps. So you’ve got a lot of Republican economists who agree that we had to do a stimulus package and we had to do something about the banks. Those are one-time charges, and they’re big, and they’ll make our deficits go up over the next two years.

However, the normally liberal friendly Associated Press isn’t buying it. In an unusual confirmation of just exactly how the federal government is defined by the United States Constitution, the AP reminds us…

Congress controls the purse strings, not the president, and it was under Democratic control for Obama’s last two years as Illinois senator. Obama supported the emergency bailout package in President George W. Bush’s final months – a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.

To be sure, Obama opposed the Iraq war, a drain on federal coffers for six years before he became president. But with one major exception, he voted in support of Iraq war spending.

The AP even goes further confirming Republican and Conservative reminders that President Obamaramadingdong is actually making the economy worse with his “fix” for our nation’s financial woes.

The economy has worsened under Obama, though from forces surely in play before he became president, and he can credibly claim to have inherited a grim situation.

Still, his response to the crisis goes well beyond “one-time charges.”

He’s persuaded Congress to expand children’s health insurance, education spending, health information technology and more. He’s moving ahead on a variety of big-ticket items on health care, the environment, energy and transportation that, if achieved, will be more enduring than bank bailouts and aid for homeowners.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated his policy proposals would add a net $428 billion to the deficit over four years, even accounting for his spending reduction goals. Now, the deficit is nearly quadrupling to $1.75 trillion. – emphasis mine

For all the excuses that the AP makes for the man with the middle name Hussein in their article, they also are pointing out his disconnection with the truth. Which is in fact something that we on the right have been telling you since before YOU voted for him. YOU, the American voter, are responsible for what is happening with our country. YOU, allowed Barry the Wonder Turd to become POTUS in spite of questions that have gone unanswered to this day. YOU elected him without knowing who he is. And YOU buried your head in the sand when he began to show his colors before the election writing off verbal mistakes which gave us glimpses into his intent.

YOU, whether YOU voted for Barry the Wonder Turd or not, are equally guilty as those who did because YOU didn’t do enough to prevent his election. YOU, allowed him to get away with avoiding substantive debate and taking his eloquent speeches on face value.

By failing to demand answers to the questions about his place of birth and his associations with known domestic terrorists, racist pastors, and known Communists, YOU have failed the American people past, present, and future.

My conscience is clear. I did my part. I voted against him and wrote about him. I asked the questions to which I am still demanding answers to. Where were YOU?

I find it incredibly disconcerting that the AP – the liberal propagandists that they are – are doing more to counter Obamaramadingdong’s pretty speeches attempting to absolve himself of all culpability than YOU are. It is time to act. It’s actually past time to act but the time for burying your head in the sand is OVER.

With the defection of Arlen Spector to the Democrat Party the Senate Majority Leader has the super majority required to bypass the Will of the People. It is now more imperative than ever to take away that majority.

1/3 of the Senate is up for re-election next year. We need to either reduce that majority to make it possible for the Republicans to block harmful legislation (no matter how well intentioned) or regain the majority in the Senate. Every single House seat is up and it is possible – no matter how improbable – to regain the majority there as well.

We also need State Houses. For example – Ohio.

Commie Ted Strickland is up for re-election in 2010. If not for the corrupt way in which his predecessor governed, he would NOT have that office now. Ken Blackwell would. But that wasn’t in the cards thanks to Bob Taft. But Ohioans have a shot in 2010. If someone like John Kasich can be persuaded to run, he would be elected by the Buckeye State.

It is YOUR job to find qualified candidates in YOUR state to throw these Commie Bums OUT OF OFFICE. So get up off YOUR [three letter term for Democrats] and get it done.

News Source – The AP via MyWay News

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What Party?

December 9, 2008 Democrat Corruption, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News View Comments

From FoxNews.com:

Illinois Governor Arrested on Corruption Charges

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested in Chicago Tuesday on two counts each of corruption charges relating to trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested Tuesday morning in Chicago on two counts each of federal corruption charges stemming from allegations Blagojevich was trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder.

The arrest is part of a three-year probe of “pay-to-play politics” in the governor’s administration. The criminal complaint by the FBI says each man was arrested on two charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery.

The charges also relate to allegations that Blagojevich and Harris schemed with previously convicted defendants and Obama associates Antoin Rezko, Stuart Levine, Ali Ata and others to arrange financial benefits in exchange for appointments to state boards and commissions, state employment, state contracts and access to state funds.

Blagojevich and Harris will have an initial appearance in U.S. District Court Tuesday.

A statement by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant said Blagojevich and Harris “allegedly conspired to sell U.S. Senate appointment, engaged in pay-to-play schemes and threatened to withhold state assistance to Tribune Company for Wrigley Field to induce purge of newspaper editorial writers.”

“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” Fitzgerald said in a statement.

“Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States Senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism,” he added.

Grant noted that Blagojevich was elected in 2002 after Illinois Gov. George Ryan retired in the face of federal corruption charges. He was convicted and sentenced in 2006 to six and a half years in prison.

“Many, including myself, thought that the recent conviction of a former governor would usher in a new era of honesty and reform in Illinois politics. Clearly, the charges announced today reveal that the office of the Governor has become nothing more than a vehicle for self-enrichment, unrestricted by party affiliation and taking Illinois politics to a new low,” Grant said.

Federal authorities were permitted by a judge to record the governor secretly before the November election after raising concerns that a replacement for Obama would be tainted.

Fitzgerald’s office said the 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich was taped conspiring to sell or trade Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife, including an annual salary of $250,000-$300,000 at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.

They also allege Blagojevich is heard on tape demanding a corporate board seat for his wife worth as much as $150,000 a year; promises of campaign funds, including cash up front; and a Cabinet post or ambassadorship for himself.

The Chicago Tribune was first to report the arrests. Informed Monday of the wiretap, Blagojevich told reporters that his discussions were “always lawful” and he defended a close confidant, John Wyma, who turned on him. Wyma as “an honest person who’s conducted himself in an honest way,” Blagojevich said.

“I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it,” he said.

However, the Tribune was also named in the affidavit because tapes allegedly play Blagojevich directing Harris to inform the newspaper’s owners and advisers that “state financial assistance would be withheld unless members of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board were fired, primarily because Blagojevich viewed them as driving discussion of his possible impeachment.”

The Tribune Company, which declared bankruptcy on Monday, owns the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs, and had explored the possibility of obtaining assistance from the Illinois Finance Authority as part of the effort to sell the Cubs and finance the sale of Wrigley Field.

Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Solicitation of bribery carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Both carry a maximum fine of $250,000.

Isn’t it reassuring that our new President comes from the most corrupt party, from the most corrupt state, and the most corrupt city in this nation?

Details Of Complaint Against Blagojevich
Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, chief of staff, arrested

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Obama – Jim Jones Comparison, Closer Than You Think

October 29, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Election 2008, Liberal MSM Bias, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, MSM Ignorance, Opinion, Presidential Candidates, Presidential Politics, Stupidity View Comments

Note: This post originally appeared on February 20, 2008

Yesterday I made a comparison likening Barack Obama to Jim Jones. Well it looks as though I’m not far from base. A headline on the Drudge Report says:

“Halle Berry on Obama: ‘I’ll do whatever he says to do’…”

This is precisely the mindless drone type of follower that empty platitudes inspires.

From The Poltico via The Drudge Report:

Because when it comes to Obama, hyperbole seems to be the rule, not the exception.

His charms seem tough to resist, even for some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

“He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,” George Clooney told talk show host Charlie Rose.

“I’ll do whatever he says to do,” actress Halle Berry said to the Philadelphia Daily News. “I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.”

Welcome to the cult of Barack Obama.

Jim Jones had what Clooney and Berry are falling for. It is called “the Cult of Personality” and it leads to situations that produce over 900 poisoned corpses because they drank Koolaid concocted with a formula specially selected by Jones. Or a compound full of burned bodies in Waco, TX because the weak minded are willing to follow anyone who is audacious enough to tell them what they want to hear.

Others with Obama’s type of charisma? How about Hitler, Charles Manson, Shoko Asahara, Marshall Applewhite, and others skilled at charming others to their ill will. Are these the type of people that you’d want to run this nation? Vote for Obama and that is what you get.

Obama hasn’t sponsored one single significant piece of legislation in his less than one term in the Senate. He was relatively unheard of as an Illinois state Representative. He’s not said anything of substance on the campaign trail yet he’s beating Hillary Clinton in spite of the Clintonian Cult mentality on the left.

Clooney, Berry, and their like, aren’t known for making the best political choices. The did pick John “The Flip Flopper” Kerry and High Priest Al Gore of the MDI as their candidates of choice in the past. Not that whomever they favor has any weight with me but there are millions of Politically Apathetic American Lemmings* out there who will believe that their favorite singer, song writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, or other Hollyweird trash has some sort of insight into the political process that they don’t possess therefor they’ll vote how their favorite star votes.

On top of that, Obama’s business contacts seem to have questionable practices.

See:

Barack, Shady Foreign Businessman, Campaign Finances
Nahdmi Auchi, Rezko and Barack Obama
Who Are They?

Obama is dangerous. I mean come on, only Obama as the Dem Nominee would inspire me to vote for John McCain.

Videos on Jim Jones…

Jim Jones & People’s Temple Pt 1
Jim Jones & People’s Temple Pt 2
Jim Jones & People’s Temple Pt 3
Jim Jones & People’s Temple Pt 4
Jim Jones & People’s Temple Pt 5

Obama’s rhetoric is just as empty as Jones’ promises. Will you drink HIS Kool Aid? Halle Berry and George Clooney will.

“Die with a degree of dignity. Don’t lay down with tears and agony. It’s nothing to death. It’s just stepping over into another plane. Don’t be this way.” – Jim Jones November 18, 1978

What will Barack Obama say on the day his cult ends?

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Barry O, Barney Frank, Chrissy Dodd, Fannie, Freddie, and Bailouts

October 4, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat Corruption, Election 2008, Fiscal Responsibility, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Candidates, The Do-Nothing Congress, The Economy, U.S. House, US Senate Comments Off

Writing from Baby Gribbit’s hospital room at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center…

For the past 7 days, Mrs. Gribbit and I have been relatively insulated from current events as we deal with our daughter’s medical conditions.

That said, we have a few words to say about who is responsible for the financial crisis that Congress is and the President are attempting to ease by employing socialist practices.

This condition was set-up back in the 1970s by a President and a Congress that was convinced then, as the 110th Do-Nothing Congress is now, that a shifting of the US economy from a free-market system to a socialist model was a way forward, in other words ‘progressive’, solution for economic prosperity for the American people. History has shown that President and Congress were failures to the people of this country and we are astonished by how complicit Republican members of Congress and the President are in releasing the socialism genie from his bottle. A genie mind you that will be massively difficult, if not impossible, to shove back in that bottle. But he’s out and now we must live with their decision to release him.

In 1977, Congress and President Jimmy Carter enacted The Community Reinvestment Act. According to the Federal Reserve Board…

The Community Reinvestment Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2901) and is implemented by Regulation BB (12 CFR 228). The regulation was substantially revised in May 1995, and was most recently amended in August 2005.

The CRA’s revisions have in a sense allowed for loans to be granted to individuals who didn’t have the means to pay them back. Gas prices shot up because Congress and Presidents of both Parties have failed to adopt energy policies that would eliminate our dependency of foreign oil and people no longer could afford to pay on these ill-advised loans. And a crisis was born.

Compounding the problem was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The companies were seen as being federally backed and as such under CRA had the power to purchase these questionable mortgages and thus encouraged lending to individuals with questionable credit. Fannie and Freddie would re-sell the loans at a profit. The purchasing financial institutions believed they were buying federally insured loans. Freddie and Fannie made massive profits which they shared not only with their corporate officers, but also with politicians.

I find it incredibly ironic that those in Congressional leadership at this present time, and responsible for bringing the bailout bill to the floor of each house, were themselves recipients of some of the highest political payoffs from Fannie and Freddie? Not only that but the freshman Senator from the state of Illinois, ‘The Chosen One’, none-other than the Democrat Nominee for President of the United States took the second highest amount of money from Fannie and Freddie. Barry Obama has spent less than 4 years in the Senate and he too took hush money from Fannie and Freddie to the tune of $126,349. Friends that is over $32,000 per year in the Senate. He is supposed to be the candidate for ‘Change’!?! Sounds like the same old Washington graft machine to me. After-all, he is a product of the Chicago Machine.

Higher gas prices were the trigger of the economic free-fall but the full impact is due to poor lending practices brought about by libtarded legislation with pie-in-the-sky utopian goals of social experimentation. Experimentation mind you that had no oversight.

In 2003, President Bush proposed legislation that would have created a new department in the federal government that would have over-seen Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That legislation went nowhere. In 2005, Senator John McCain proposed legislation that would have clamped down on Freddie and Fannie and it was tabled in Committee by Chris Dodd in the Senate and Barney Frank in the House. Both are attempting to pin this on the Bush Administration. Barry O is trying to claim this as well and tie a perception of a failed economic policy. Bush and McCain attempted to fix the problem. Frank and Dodd helped to perpetuate the problem. Frank, Dodd, and Barry O are all in bed with those who triggered this mess. They are all members of the Party that made it possible and they all protected those who made it happen.

I think that perhaps we need legislation requiring any elected official, past, present, or future who take money from companies, organizations, or individuals that are bailed out by the federal government to pay the federal government an amount equal to the donations received.

Barry… that will be $126,349 Barry! Time to pony up ‘Hope’ boy!
Chrissy… your bill is $165,400! How about offsetting the price to the taxpayers banking boy!
Frankie… your share is not as much Frankie. You must be a cheap date. You would only owe $42,350 if such legislation were passed.

I won’t hold my breath since these are crooks who get to write such legislation.

Must be nice to create a problem that requires a massively expensive solution, that you get to design, someone else has to pay for, and you can place culpability for on your political opponents huh?

I’m sick to death of the Democrats denials in this matter. But what gets me more is the press’ willingness to allow those actually responsible to use them to lie to the people. And even more, the Politically Apathetic American Lemmings* who believe anything the MSM has to say.

Now if you don’t mind, I’ll get back to my sick baby.

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Is Biden Out? The Thomas Eagleton Affair Part II

September 25, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Big Mouth Joe Biden, Democrat In-Fighting, Election 2008, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Candidates, Presidential Politics, Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Candidates Comments Off

Internet rumors abound with stories of Big Mouth Joe’s impending departure from the Obama campaign soon after the Vice Presidential debate with Gov. Sarah Palin. Part of this I think is wishful thinking on the part of Hillary backers who are clinging to the hope that she’ll be named as Big Mouth Joe’s replacement. The other part is pure rumor.

The rumor is that after the debate Joe will render a public resignation citing health concerns. He had surgery in 1988 to repair 2 brain aneurysms. No one would question the motive for the change – at least in the Dems minds.

I would question the timing based on the recent public gaffes he’s made. The first being that Hillary would have been a better choice for Obama. Another suggested that FDR was President in 1929 when the stock market crashed when Roosevelt didn’t take office until 1933. He also suggest that FDR went on television to explain his plan to the country. First off Herbert Hoover was President in 1929 and television didn’t become commercially available until the 1940s and were not common place until the 1950s. So FDR couldn’t have gone on television in October of 1929 2 years before he was elected President and given an address to the people on a device that wasn’t yet available.

Mr. Biden’s grip on reality and history as the rest of the world has experienced it aside, ditching him as a running mate this late in the race would be suicide in Presidential politics. If it were to happen it would truly show that the Democrat Party doesn’t learn from its own history.

In 1972 George McGovern selected Sen. Thomas Eagleton to be his running mate at the last minute. Some say within an hour of the deadline. Not knowing that Eagleton had been hospitalized 3 times for Depression and was taking the anti-psychotic drug Thorazine. Another fact that didn’t come to the attention of anyone until later was that Eagleton had been treated with electroshock treatments in the 1960s. Eagleton was dropped from the ticket just 18 days after being named to it.

In the event you are wondering, McGovern lost the Presidential election by a huge margin. He only carried Kennedy stronghold Massachusetts (due to his replacing Eagleton with Kennedy in-law Sargent Shriver) and the District of Columbia giving him only 17 electoral votes. Richard Nixon garnered 520 electoral votes and even carried McGovern’s home state of South Dakota which had gone to the Democrat Nominee in each of the 3 previous Presidential races.

As for the Hillary angle…

Hillary does not want to be Obama’s sidekick. Slick Billy Bob Bubba said as much in the past couple of days. She wants to be the first woman elected President of the United States. The key word there is elected.

If she were to take the VP slot and they won, she could not challenge Obama for her Party’s Nomination in 2012. It would be a smart move for Obama, but a dumb one for Clinton. Unless of course Obama were to not complete his term. Anything involving the Clintons wouldn’t surprise me. So in another sense it would not be such a smart idea for Obama. After-all people who get in the way of the Clintons end up dead or ruined. Just ask Vince Foster – wait – you can’t. Because he’s dead along with nearly a hundred of other Clinton inconveniences.

Bottom line of the Hillary angle is that she’d be a fool to run with the O Dawg. She’s not the type that would play second fiddle to an upstart like Barry. It would mark the end of her political career to join his ticket win or lose. Just look at what happened to John Edwards.

Truth is that Biden will stick in my opinion. But in case he doesn’t, someone else will fill the spot not Hillary. She’s too smart and knows what it is going to take for her to get another bite at the apple. And being Barry’s #2 isn’t it.

Prediction – Biden costs Barry O the Presidency. Hillary wins the Nomination in 2012. Barry gets sent back to Illinois licking wounds caused by his associations with Wright, Ayers, and Rezko.

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Theme of the Night – McCain’s Qualifications vs Obama’s Rhetoric

September 3, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Election 2008, GOP/RNC, John McCain, News, Opinion, Presidential Candidates View Comments

The argument of substance over words was pushed home last night by a very well delivered speech as to who John McCain is. Fred Thompson educated those who may not have known the extent of John’s character by detailing the ordeals of John’s life which shaped that character. Joe Lieberman explained the appeal of the man from an “outsider’s” point of view. He chose to emphasize that this is a time when we need a man for President who is prepared to govern not make finely tuned speeches.

This prompted me to revisit something that I wrote a few weeks ago…

Is Articulate Rhetoric A Presidential Qualification?

That seems to be the question of the season.

Many on the left (and right for that matter) use George W. Bush’s problems with vernacular as a measure of his intelligence and attempt to equate his problematic use of language (rhetoric) to his ability or qualification to lead. This is a false assumption. Many can speak eloquently but don’t have the practical ability to lead a lemming to the sea.

This truth brings up the question of Barack Obama’s qualifications to become leader of the free world and Commander-in-Chief of THE most powerful military force known to man. Is is qualified to lead?

He has never served in the military, never run any size private enterprise, never served on a board of a corporation, held office as a mayor of any city or governor of any state. His time as a state Senator in Illinois seems to be lackluster as he voted “Present” more times than taking a definitive position on any issue – save the recently revealed opposition to providing newborn babies who survive partial birth abortion procedures medical care under the guise that it somehow would lead to the eroding of Roe v. Wade. The only reason he took any kind of defining position on that issue is due to his love affair with infanticide. He loves to kill babies as evident by his A+ rating from NARAL and Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion provider.

He has shown that he can make weak-minded drones faint on stage and captivate audiences with his vague calls for ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’, but does that mean that he’s qualified to lead? I don’t think so. Jessica Simpson is capable of filling an arena with thousands of adoring fans but I don’t believe anyone in this nation would elect her dog catcher.

The point is my friends that we begin to journey down a dangerous path once we elect individuals based on a cult of personality which is all that Obama is. The most prominent leader of any nation elected in this manner was Adolf Hitler when he was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1932. The world can ill afford to elect anyone leader of any prominent nation based on his ability to speak and extract radical emotions from crowds of people. Especially when his positions on how to lead are clouded in a fog of vague rhetoric about ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’. Hitler dared Germans to ‘Hope’ for a ‘Change’ back in 1932 and it led to nearly 11 million civilian deaths. Can you base your vote on vague rhetoric? I can’t.

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Documenting Obama’s Lies – Running in ‘08

August 25, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Corruption, Election 2008, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Candidates, Stupidity, US Senate Comments Off

With this week’s dog and pony show at the Jackass Convention, I thought I’d introduce a little reality to my public discourse.

Barack Hussein Obama is a lying stack of bovine excrement. My proof?

Courtesy of The Obama Files:

1/22/06

On “Meet the Press,” Tim Russert and Obama had the following exchange:

Russert: “When we talked back in November of ‘04 after your election, I said, ‘There’s been enormous speculation about your political future. Will you serve your six-year term as United States senator from Illinois?’”

Obama: “I will serve out my full six-year term. You know, Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you get weary and you start looking for new ways of saying things. But my thinking has not changed.”

Russert: “So you will not run for president or vice president in 2008?”

Obama: “I will not.”

Following the Clinton model step for step isn’t he. Clinton too promised that he wouldn’t run for President but instead complete an elected term – as Governor of Arkansas.

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Is Articulate Rhetoric A Presidential Qualification?

August 12, 2008 Abortion, Opinion, Presidential Candidates View Comments

That seems to be the question of the season.

The point is my friends that we begin to journey down a dangerous path once we elect individuals based on a cult of personality which is all that Obama is. The most prominent leader of any nation elected in this manner was Adolf Hitler when he was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1932. The world can ill afford to elect anyone leader of any prominent nation based on his ability to speak and extract radical emotions from crowds of people. Especially when his positions on how to lead are clouded in a fog of vague rhetoric about ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’. Hitler dared Germans to ‘Hope’ for a ‘Change’ back in 1932 and it lead to nearly 11 million deaths. Can you base your vote on vague rhetoric? I can’t.

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Is Articulate Rhetoric A Presidential Qualification?

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That seems to be the question of the season.
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