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Obama in Crisis II: Melanie Phillips in Agreement


Echoing what I said in last week's Obama in Crisis: Weakness or Supportive?, Melanie Phillips spells out clearly Obama's support of our country's enemies, and his disdain for America:
 
 
The only thing she doesn't mention is that his support for and agreement with our enemies extends into the Western as well as the Eastern Hemisphere - meaning Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
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Another "Useful Idiot" Drinks Obama's Cool-Aid

Providing still more evidence of his cluelessness, or downright disingenuousness, Colin Powell claims that McCain's choice of Sarah palin brings the candidate's judgment into question. 

But as for the elephant in the room, Obama's entire life of tight connections to Marxists and anti-American rascists - not a peep.
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Colin Powell: Deaf, Dumb & Blind

When the Founders, knowing they were risking their lives, fortunes and sacred honor, declared in the world-shaking Declaration of Independence, that all men had unalienable rights, among which were "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", were they including "among" these three the right to a congenial "Tone"?

And somehow I don't recall that the writers of our Constitution claimed that we, the people, wrote that great document "in Order to Form a more Pleasant Tone".

Nevertheless, as with many late-to-the-party, know-nothing, opportunistic, "undecideds", laboring under the weight of their self-importance, Colin Powell felt at this late stage that he just had to endorse Barack Obama and then chide the "Tone" of the McCain Campaign.

Never mind Obama's "tone" when speaking out against protecting born-alive infants.

Never mind Obama's "tone" when belittling rural Americans for "clinging to guns and religion" out of "frustration".

Or for telling Joe Plumber he wants to spread the plumber;'s wealth around.  Or Joe Biden's nasty rhetoric.  Or Jack Murtha's, calling Western Pennsylvania racist and our Marines (once directed by Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) murderers.

Never mind the tone of Obama's supporters threatening lawsuits against people who "tell lies" about Obama.  Never mind the continuing "tone" of BO's associates through all his years.

No, it's a fellow soldier's "tone" he doesn't like.  But it's a soldier who endured far more than Colin Powell ever did.  And who, unlike Powell in the Gulf War, wants America to win.

I always suspected of Powell that he had no center, or even historical knowledge, when it came to a philosophy of government.  Now I know it.

Another RINO.  Another phony.  Another beneficiary of racial preferences biting the hand that feeds him.

Tone deaf, dumb (unfortunately not in the meaning of speechless), and blind ... to the danger of what Obama and an unfettered Democrat Congress will be to the Constitution, our rights, and our freedoms.
 
Pathetic.
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Left and Right: Irreconcilable Differences

Glad to see someone just come out and say it, as Dennis Prager does here.
 
There will be no unity in America until either the left or the right wins.  The differences go deep, to the fundamentals of the nation's founding.
 
Enough of this wimpy talk about "my friends across the aisle".  Some of them might be friendly with you at lunch, but they are not the friends of America, who they will not have over for lunch but rather have for dinner.
 
And enough, Senator McCain, of this silly, or at best disingenuous talk of "I respect Barack Obama and his accomplishments".  Please tell us just what those accomplishments are that you "respect"? 

His steadfastness in supporting the killing of born-alive infants?  His channelling of millions to oufits like Acorn for a failed attempt to indoctrinate, er, improve the educaton of our children with anti-Amercan ideas? 

His "organizing" of "communities" to stage in-your-face protests to get themselves money, and get the organizer more personal power and advancement? 

His non-support for Israel?  His willingness to meet unconditionally with some of the world's worst tyrants? 

His writing two books about, well, himself and outlining his non-accomplishments?  

His throwing his grandmother and then his Pastpr/Mentor under the bus? 

His funding whith others money of the hoptal where his wife works that resulted in her getting a huge wage increase of a sort sedonom seen in the "caring industries". 

His not playing the race card by accusing you of playing the race card? 

His big accomplishment of sitting quietly in a pew for twenty years listening to Reverend Wright decry the hated American "white establishment"?  Maybe that would be an accomplishment if Barack had been chained and beaten while being forced to listed to Wright's bilge, as you were forced to do in the Hanoi Hilton.  But Barack volunteered for this "servce" and sood it lik a (new) man.
 
Ah well, maybe we're just to complacent with the good times we've had here in the U.S., largely due to those "permanent things" the left despises.  Maybe we're content that since we have fewer years to live than do our children, and we've worked hard, we can sit back and let the other fellsa  as play at being earnest for awhile. 

We've been spoiled by not having had the experience of those millions upon millions who lived (and more often died rutally) under leftist regimes in the 20th century.  And most of our children, miss-educated by the likes of Bill Ayres, aren't aware of, or don't believe any of it did or even could have happened.
 
As I recollect, probably imperfectly, from Whitaker Chambers' marvelous book Witness, the final battle between left and right will be fought by communists and the ex-communists (Chambers was one); between those who have released the dogs of tyranny and cried havoc, and those who have seen the loss of freedom, sheer terror, and dehumanization, at first hand.
 
Sadly, seeing might truly be our only way to believing.
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Obama's Secretary of "Education"?

Investors Business Daily addresses William Ayers' continued radicallism, especially regarding his focus on "education" (read "indoctrination").

One of the reasons I think Obama cannot "fully repudiate him" is that he quite likely has an agreement with Ayers, who after all held his coming-out party, promising him the position of Secretary of Education. 

Or maybe the head of Obama's "civilian national security force". 

Or both. 

Or maybe it's the same thing.
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McCain: Ignore the Stupid Questions

As Andy McCarthy says in NRO's "The Corner", McCain needs to speak not to the "townhall" audience, often filled with the likes of the pony-tailed kid looking for a government daddy in Clinton's townhall, but to all of America.
 
If the moderator chooses a, well, stupid question, politely, and quickly, bounce off it and get out your message, hitting Obama over and over again.
 
Some (liberals in the tank for OB) may hate you tonight (who cares, you're rich and a Senator) but more will respect you in the morning.
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But Don't Hold Your Breath

But, given McCain's tendency to show anger and outrage to friendly audiences only, and to suck up to his "friends" on the other side of the aisle lest they not like him (as if they do anyway), most likely we will hear Casper Milquetoast feeling our pain ala Bill Clinton, using the same sappy inflections used when, as the GOP's Presidential candidate, pleaded with the country to please, please wear sunscreen when outside.
 
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No Time for Socialism

What we should hear from McCain:

Taking inspiration from Andy Griffith's 1958 movie,

in tonight's debate and for the rest of the campaign,

McCain should stress over, and over, and over:
 
It's "No Time for Socialism!".
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Palin Prayed Over: Ooooh, Scaaary

With the aghast tone of this AP report, "Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'", the media once again displays its total disdain for Christianity.  It doesn't even seem to have an inkling that to most Christians, and even many non-Christian Americans, the content of this prayer is not all that odd, much less alarming. 
 
The odd thing is that Ms. Palin was not even the one doing the praying, but was prayed over by a guest pastor, Bishop Thomas Muthee, someone from a different culture, and a man "of color".  Usually the left falls all over itself for such a spiritual person.  Desmond Tutu could perhaps have given this prayer.
 
While Pastor Muthee's Word of Faith church is thought by some Christian scholars to be "outside the pale" of Christian orthodoxy, praying for protection from satan (evil) and praying for financial support for a mission in life, having fellow congregants lay their hands on you, is commonplace and seems rather innoucuous. 
 
In trying to paint Palin as scary because of this prayer, the left only points the other three fingers back at itself, for Barack Obama's spiritual mentors are far outside the pale of Christian orthodoxy, and his poloitical philoshophy mentors, mostly Marxists, are far and away outside of the the Founder's beliefs, American beliefs. 
 
Now for the kicker.  Bishop Muthee is from Kenya.  I wonder if he knows Barack Obama's brother?
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Obama's Neighborly Taxes: Part II

Four days ago I posted on candidate Obama's comparing taxes to his "neighborly" act of tipping a waitress.
 
Today Jeff Jacoby more thoroughly covered the theme in his Boston Globe article, in which he points out that Obama is not quite so generous in his non-imaginary life in the area of personal charitable giving (all of us have fallen short, of course).  The article prompted a few more thoughts of my own.
 
Not only would Mr. Obama coerce others to tip his waitress, realize that he would also be forcing you to tip his waitress.  Not your own waitress but the one he decided was worthy.
 
Perhaps your waitress was unworthy.  Perhaps your waitress was good but felt pridefully that her performance was just part of the job and nothing special.  Perhaps you learned that your waitress was comfortably off and just did this job for the enjoyment of meeting people.  Perhaps you'd even rather compliment the chef instead of tipping the waitress, or maybe even the busboy, who never gets much attention at all.
 
Worse yet, it could be that Barack's waitress hadn't actually performed exceptionally but that he decided that you should give her some some of your money merely because she was pretty, or that he felt sorry and somehow vaguely responsible for her being in that job.
 
[For full disclosure I should mention that I once, and for a very short time, cooked at a Big Boy, and played tricks on cute waitresses]
 
The point is that in Barack's world it would be he and his unsavory friends who would be the ones to decide who was worthy to get, and who could "afford" to and thus be required to give.
 
Mr. Obama hasn't demonstrated any great judgement skills in picking mentors such as Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright, and Tony Rezko (and the  list goes on).  Should we expect any keener judgement from him concerning the selection of worthy waitresses?
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Palin is a Real Woman, Doniger is Not a Real Professor

Kathryn Jean Lopez, at National Review Online's The Corner blog posted this this morning.
"Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."   
 
The rabid reaction to Sarah Palin just got worse: This time, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions, University of Chicago’s Divinity School, writes that Sarah Palin is not really a woman"
That Ms. Doniger is a "professor" of "the history of religion" is not only pathetic but ironic.
 
Apparently the professor professes in public that she doesn't appreciate it when anyone professes anything about religion other than in private.
 
If that happened I guess she'd eventually be out of a job.
 
In support of that making that happen, I'll volunteer to keep my mouth shut for awhile (in private).  

Sort of like Ted Kennedy, about whose religious beliefs it's been said, "they were so private, even he didn't know about them".
 
"More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise." - Orlando Gibbons
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Obama on Being "Neighborly" with Your Money

Culled from the excellent Patriot Post:
 
'On taxes: “If I am sitting pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t—what’s the big deal for me to say, ‘I’m going to pay a little bit more.’ That is neighborliness.” —Barack Obama **Because taxes are JUST LIKE tipping the poor.'

Yes, it is neighborly to say you're going to pay a little bit more.

But it is definitely not neighborly to say that the rest of the folks in the restaurant will be forced to chip in, too!
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Lipstick on Pigs in the Animal Farm

The morning drive-time radio team was engaging callers this morning in a discussion of whether Obama’s recent “lipstick on a pig” comment was an intentional attack on Sarah Palin or merely a description of the GOP’s policies.

The audience was split on the answer but leaned slightly to the sense that Obama knew what he was doing, which is my take.

While Obama’s campaign has shown much stupidity of late, they can’t be accused of not being clever and devious. Obama and his staff knew perfectly well that in using this well-known phrase they were getting a two-fer. They could seem to be attacking McCain’s policies yet at the same time get a dig in on the bottom of the ticket, all the while knowing that the commomness of the expression lent them plausible deniability of the latter.
The evidence of Obama’s intent can be seen in his delivery of the line. First, he verbally stumbled and hesitated before making the quip.  Second, rather than maintaining eye contact with his audience during the utterance, he looked down. Thirdly, and most telling, was his full stop after the line, the rhetorical trick of someone whose script says “pause for laughter” – the laughter they knew would come.

The ironic thing is that, even if Obama was only speaking to his opponents’ policies, it’s yet another example of the Democrat trick, perfected by Bill Clinton, of the pot calling the kettle black.

Essentially, Obama’s rhetoric amounts to putting the lipstick of caring and compassion on the tired old failed, and dangerous, pig of socialism.

“All animals are equal , but some animals are more equal than others.– a proclamation from the pigs on the Animal Farm

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The Epitome of Symbolism Over Substance

The Obama-Biden ticket is the epitome of what Rush Limbaugh years ago dubbed "symbolism over substance".
 
And the symbolism, at both the top and bottom of the ticket, is pretty shoddy.
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