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The Iowa Straw poll.

I find it difficult at the moment to throw my support to any of the current crop of Republican hopefuls.  Certainly I'll support whoever wins the nomination (with the possible exception of Ron Paul) to run against the incompetent incumbent. 

I'm not a Bachmann fan.  While I think she would do a better job than the current Idiot-in-Chief, she suffers from some of the same shortcomings as our Dear Leader.  Primarily, she, like obama, is an ideologue.  Not that being an ideologue is necessarily bad, but those types rarely make good leaders and Obama is proof of that.  Bachmann would make a good minority whip in the house.  She would be terrific at getting the Republicans in the House to keep to their game.  But as Leader of the free world?  Not so much.  She does not have the resume and the depth.  She does have a bit more experience at Government than Obama ever had, but it's not enough.  She has little, if any executive experience and frankly, that is probably the most important experience to have if you are going to run a country. 

Paul is too old, too racist,too isolationist, and no Republican in their right mind should even consider supporting him.  He is often described as "America's Crazy Uncle" and with good reason.  Sorry Paultards, but my opinion hasn't changed since 2008 and I doubt it will, even if by some aberration that he does get the Republican nod, I would sit out the election.  Principle would preclude me from voting for either Obama or Paul.  Maybe I'd move to Canada!

Cain, Perry, Pawlenty and Romney are the only names in the hat with any executive experience.  I'm not overly excited about any of them.

For now, I'm content to sit and watch. 

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You Might Be A Racist If...

According to Andrew Greeley, if you don't vote for Obama, it has to be Racism.  His reasoning?

The odds against the replication of the primary miracle in November, even against a disgraced and discredited Republic administration, are very high.

Race will silently trump the war, the economy, the cost of gasoline, the disgust with President Bush. One may wish that it will not be so, that if Obama loses it will not be because of the color of his skin but because the country genuinely wants another Republican administration.

In other words, if we don't elect this extreme left-wing liberal, this empty suit with an even emptier resume, who is short on national security and long on taxes, by gadfrey, we are a bunch of racist bastards.

I don't need forgiveness Father Greeley, for I haven't sinned.  My vote has to do with where Obama stands on the issues, not the amount of his melanin.  My vote has nothing to do with race.  I'm sure there are some people who won't vote for Obama because of race, but I'll bet you dollars to dimes that more people will vote for Obama because of his race than not.  That's just as racist in my opinion.

Padre, stick to your novel writing.  It's obvious you and Phleger are two peas in a pod.

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The New Improved Donko Gaffe-Matic!

Donko Acquisition Corp. announced today their newest model in their "Gaffe-Matic" Democratic Presidential Candidate...

I was going to try and write a little humorous piece about Obama and his gaffe-a-minute speech making and I just couldn't get in the mood.  Frankly, it's not all that humorous.  It's deadly serious and the MSM just seems to ignore this man's ability to make mistake after mistake and gives him a pass each and every time.

Whether it's talking to dead people, not knowing your history or even what city you are in, it doesn't seem to matter. Gaffe after gaffe, speech after speech, he can't seem to get it right.

I know campaigning is grueling and wears at you.  However, he's a young man and yet the septuagenarian he will presumably be running against doesn't seem to make those kinds of mistakes and he's running just as hard as Obama!

Bush might mangle the language, but even he didn't make the kind of factual gaffes that Obama seems to keep making.

I realize the Constitution is a little light on resume requirements, but shouldn't we expect a candidate to get the details right at least most of the time?

Barack Hussein Obama, the Donko Gaffe-Matic Candidate.

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Boo Hoo Obama!

Obama is all up in arms today because some Tennessee Republicans made a video that deals with a comment made by his wife about not being proud of America.

I can understand is desire to protect his family.  However, when you send your spouse out to campaign and they say something stupid, I'm sorry, but it is fair game.  Does anyone think it's not OK to go after Bill Clinton for the stupid things he's said?

Put yourself down range of a live fire and don't be surprised you are one of the targets.  If he wants her kept out of criticism's way, don't send her out to campaign.

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The Occasional Eloquence Of George W. Bush

Eloquence and President Bush are usually two mutually exclusive concepts.  Let's be honest.  Bush is not anyone's idea of an orator.  However, every now and then, Mr. Bush nails it.  Of course I'm talking about his speech at the Knesset today.  Speaking about President Ahmadinajahd, he said this:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history,” the president said.

When you have a regime bent upon conquest of their neighbors, negotiations are usually only done to buy themselves time.  Such was the case with Hitler's signature on the agreement negotiated by Neville Chamberlain.  History is replete with similar "agreements".

An "ingenious argument" will not change a bully's mind.  You can only negotiate with such people only from a position of strength.  They only understand brute force.  They understand that if you try and talk with nothing to back up your talk, they will win, you will lose and winning the larger battle will be that much more difficult.

If you try and buy off the bully by offering him something he values, that may work for the short haul, but soon, our bully will be back and asking for even more. 

Obama and the Democrats are howling because they say it's a mean and nasty thing to say, but Obama has indicated he will try and negotiate with terrorists.  If it didn't hit the mark, Obama wouldn't be squealing.

Everyone wants peace.  I don't want a false peace, giving away the store to bullies.  Negotiations haven't worked with North Korea and they won't work with Iran. 

I'm open, liberals.  Tell me what argument or deal Obama could make that will work with Hamas, Ahmadinajahd, or any other bully you choose. 

(Queue Jeopardy theme here)

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Is Anyone Surprised?

So the Breck Girl just endorsed Obama.  Really, is anyone surprised?  There is no love lost between Edwards and Hillary.  I never expected any other result.

The fact is that both Silky and Obama are both cut from the same extremist liberal cloth.

And no, I don't think Edwards is on the Veep short list for a number of reasons.  None the least of which is that Edwards already lost at that gig.

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Barack Obama - The Dan Quayle Of Democrats?

Welcome Real Clear Politics Readers!  I hope you look around, read more than just this and come back often!

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In 1992 in a Trenton, New Jersey classroom staged spelling bee, Vice-President Dan Quayle committed a small gaffe when he tried to correct then 12-year-old William Figueroa's already correct spelling of POTATO by telling young William that potato should be spelled with an "e".

The press , already convinced that the young Dan Quayle (he was 42 at the time) was an intellectual lightweight, ran with it.  It was a minor mistake. 

I consider myself a reasonably good speller.  I rely on spelling checkers to catch my typos more than my outright misspellings, but I do misspell things on occasion.  My main spelling nemesis is "judgment".  I am always spelling it with an "e" as in "judgEment".  Another spelling faux pas of mine is occasionally misspelling "occasional".  On occasion, I want to spell it with an extra "i" as in "occaIsional".

But Obama can say there are 57 states (he even stops to calculate the number of states) plus Alaska and Hawaii and the press says nothing.  He says that Roosevelt and Truman tried to negotiate with our enemies and he gets a pass.  Those and many other small mistakes have gotten a pass. 

In truth, I don't pay much attention to this kind of thing.  Campaigning for President is a tough gig.  You are going non-stop for 18 hours a day or more, sometimes through different time zones.  And at each and ever appearance, from the pancake breakfast with the local rotary club at 6 AM EST, to the 8 PM CST fund raiser dinner, you've got to be appear to be as fresh as you were at the start of your day.  With this kind of grueling schedule, how they remember their own name is beyond me.  On my last trip to Canada, I left the house at 3:30 AM PST, flew from Seattle to Toronto, rented a car and then drove the remaining 120 miles further east to Belleville, arriving about 7:30 PM EST (4:30 PST).  I'm telling you, making a speech at some formal dinner party would be the last thing on my "to do" list!

I do not believe for a second that Obama is stupid.  He's Harvard educated, etc.  However, I do believe he has an elitist attitude that he believes sets himself above the common person.  I think he feels like he can say just about anything and we mere mortals should just take it as gospel.

The problem is that if McCain made a similar mistake, every news network and outlet would be speculating about his age and mental agility and asking if his age is a factor. 

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John McCain Tells The Truth

Politicians will tell you that they will fix your life.  They will tell you that they will create jobs and end poverty. It's not true.   John McCain told the residents of Inez Kentucky the real truth about Government.

"Government has a role to play in helping people who through no fault of their own are having a hard time," McCain said. "But government can't create good and lasting jobs outside of government. It can't pay lost wages. It can't dig coal from the earth. It can't buy you a house."

In other words, government does not create wealth.  All government can do is get out of the way and let people do what they do best.  Income redistribution does not work and has never, ever worked anywhere it's been tried. 

Even mandating wages such as minimum wage is nothing more than a scheme to make you think you are making money.  The minimum wage was never designed to be a family living wage and raising it to some arbitrary figure and telling someone they can now afford to live better is a lie.  If raising the minimum wage works so well, why stop at 7 or 8 or even 10 dollars an hour?  Let's make everyone rich and raise the minimum wage to 100 dollars an hour!  You know why.  Because instead of a cheeseburger costing 7 bucks, it will now cost 70 dollars. 

I was talking to the owner of a restaurant here in Belleville, Ontario the other day.  It's called Liguine's and if you are ever in this part of the world, you owe it to yourself to stop by and grab some of the finest Italian grub within a hundred miles.  Even though the decor and service are elegant, the prices are quite reasonable.  I digress.  The owner was telling me that they raised the minimum wage here in the province by about 80 cents an hour.  This will cost him about 35,000 dollars more a year.  You see, not only does he have to raise the wages of his dishwashers, he has to raise the wages of everyone.  He has two choices.  Either raise prices or let some people go.  What he will probably do, he says, is raise prices and let one, maybe two go, depending upon business.  That minimum wage raise will be doing whoever he has to let go some real good, won't it?

The other thing is you can't tax people into prosperity.  Again, it's never, ever happened.

Government has a role.  There needs to be laws and enforcement mechanisms to ensure that business isn't ripping people off or selling unsafe products, but for the most part, it should stay out of the way and let people run their own lives and business.

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McCain's Pension

Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Weasel, did a hit piece on McCain and his pension.

McCain spent five years as the guest of the wonderful and humane North Vietnamese in what has become known as the Hanoi Hilton.  It should be obvious to you right wing Nazi bastards that they called it Hanoi Hilton because of the many amenities and comforts they provided their guests. 

Admittedly, the guests of the Hanoi Hilton had little time to get home sick.  Daily beatings, followed by bouts of sleep deprivation and interrogation ensured all of their guests did not have time to think about life here in imperialist Amerika!

From The LAT:

Sen. John McCain has long said he is in robust health and is strong enough to hike the Grand Canyon, but he also is receiving what his staff Monday termed a "disability pension" from the Navy.

When McCain released his tax return for 2007 on Friday, he separately disclosed that he received a pension of $58,358 that was not listed as income on his return.

On Monday, McCain's staff identified the retirement benefit as a "disability pension" and said that McCain "was retired as disabled because of his limited body movements due to injuries as a POW."

The hardest thing our boy Ralph has probably ever had to endure in his journalistic career is to have to buy his own booze.  This guy isn't worthy enough to wipe John McCain's ass.

Unlike the coward John Kerry who ran from Vietnam as soon as he got three scratches (And folks, if any of those scratches drew more than a drop or two of blood, call me flabbergasted) and ran as fast as he could out of Vietnam after just four months, John McCain is a real live American hero.

Screw you Vartabedian.  You are a hack!

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Crimes Against Democracy

Admittedly, this is only one Kos Kiddie Kommenter, but it's a disturbing viewpoint that needs to have light placed upon it.

Put me in charge and I will have these conglomerates broken up with their management and lackeys (Gibson, Stephanopoulos) in prison for a long time.

Crimes against democracy will be defined, codified and punishments carried out forthwith.

by Dave925 on Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 07:49:21 PM PDT
(either scroll down or do a quick [ctrl f] and search for "crimes")

Presumably, Dave925 has set himself up as judge and executioner.  He (along with all the other Kos Kiddie Kommies) didn't like how the Obamessiah was questioned during the last debate with Hillary.

Who thinks this way?

This wannabe commie dictator would "break up these conglomerates".  How?  Does he have a clue as to how that would work or would he just nationalize them and be done with it? 

Then this genius would send all of the management and their so-called lackeys to prison for very long terms.  This is the kind of intelligent reasoning that drives money making public industries into money losing nationalized industries.  It is also called Stalinism.

To this Mensa reject, crimes against democracy would become actual crimes.  It appears that he would include asking uncomfortable questions to candidates one of those crimes.  The problem with kind of thinking is that there would be no candidates or certainly no opposition candidates because if it's against the law for a reporter to ask the wrong question, it would certainly be against the law for another candidate to ask hard questions as well. 

That's why nations with crimes against democracy are not, in any way shape or form, democracies.

It is this kind of thinking that excuses Castro and Chavez when they arrest and imprison the press.

This might only be the thoughts of one, but no one called him on them

And later on, our buddy Dave925 says this:

I support Waterboarding for those who wear flag pins. Might as well be armbands with you know what on them. (He, of course, means swastikas)

I suggest that the only criminal against democracy here is our friend Dave925.  It's the exact nature of our democracy that allows guys like these their ideas.  His ilk think just the opposite.

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