Barack Obama – why the rush?

Considering the undeniably extreme liberal record that Barack Obama has, the well established pattern of chosen radical associates and the obvious need for any politician to court moderates in a general election, why run for President now, rather than set oneself up for an easier run later? It’s obviously too close to that record and those associates for Obama to convincingly distance himself in a manner that doesn’t speak of mere political opportunism, so why the hurry?

Long gone is the opportunity to even try saying this is where I came from, this was my journey and I’ve learned that extremes are not what I agree with and I’ve grown over the years. Even that would have been difficult to swallow with Barack attending Jeremiah Wright’s church until only recently and praising him in his book, or continuing to email and be in contact with Bill Ayers until at least 2005. This closeness to his extreme liberal record naturally results in unintended moments of honesty, such as “bitter, clinging”; unplanned pregnancy is a punishment, and “spread the wealth around”.

Perhaps it’s merely hubris that causes one with such a lack of experience to run before he’s had time to position himself better for appealing to the entire nation. Barack Obama may still win, but that would be in spite of his rushing for the prize, rather than taking time to prepare a more centrist record of legislation as well as personal associations.

Of course Barack Obama still tries to sound moderate, though his answer to Joe the plumber and the audio from 2001 reveal his tendency to socialist views quite clearly. Perhaps he could have avoided the damage if he had at least more distance from that 2001 radio program and well as the other data points of his current record. But then this is supposed to be a Democrat year. There are more Republican seats up for election than Democrat. This alone gives odds favorable for the Democrats to pick up seats in the Senate. Add to this the GOP foolishness in dealing with corruption, their deplorable lack of discipline with spending and a media that is reflexively liberal, and the Democrats even stand a chance to gain a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. Let’s briefly not that this would also be an argument for electing John McCain and Sarah Palin, the only two in this race who actually have verifiable records or reform, even standing up to their own party to do so.

If one is not an extreme liberal, would Democrats having such power be so important that they would begin running only several years after saying they did not have enough experience to do so? Yes, arrogance could be a sufficient explanation. After all, that 2004 speech sure got a lot of attention and judging from the Greek columns, Barack Obama is not lacking in self-importance.

It seems the Democrats are swaggering lately in anticipation of gaining this control. Barney Frank says we should cut our military budget by 25% - while we are still at war. Nancy Pelosi thinks it would be good to not have to compromise with Republicans. Democrats are considering the elimination of 401k tax advantages and then mandating a government retirement plan. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd blocked increased regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which was a major contribution to our current financial crisis. Joe Biden authored the assault weapons ban. Democrats want to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine and perhaps expand it to the internet. Democrats want to eliminate secret ballots when workers are deciding whether or not to unionize.

If one has become a moderate, yet has a recent record that is just as liberal as, or even more than the above, along with a self declared lack of experience, why choose to run for President when the party that is proposing all of that is the one that may have enough power to actually enact the entire wish list? Is there any comfort in saying that Barack Obama is just so arrogant and full of himself that he just couldn’t take his own good advice and wait?

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Obama and Ayers guilt by association only?

That would be the talking point many respond with when Barack Obama’s relationship to William Ayers is brought up. Other strategies would include minimizing what Ayers, his wife Bernadine Dohrn and the Weatherman actually did and noting controversial figures who are connected to John McCain. Some will also complain that it is only a “scant” relationship that Obama had with Ayers. Let’s see how well these arguments hold up.

Let’s first deal with the actions of William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and the Weatherman over the years.

A brief summary of some of the information here, here, here and here.

William Ayers did not care about innocent people being killed by his bombs.

Dohrn refused to testify in regard to the crime in which “two Nyack police officers and a guard were killed”.

According to the FBI informant Dohrn planted a bomb that killed a police officer.

They discussed killing 25 million die-hard capitalists in re-education camps.

They tried to kill a judge and his family.

William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are unrepentant to this day.

Trying to declare these people were only doing property damage certainly does not cover the extent of what they wanted to accomplish. One also has to wonder at the desperation of approving of the use of two bombs, each with at least a dozen sticks of dynamite, as an appropriate means of committing vandalism to make a political point. Then again, it may just be a complete lack of morality or a personal confession to future action that accounts for someone sinking to such a level of argument.

As for the guilt by association or merely scant relationship replies, those do not square with even the currently known facts. Obama chose to begin his political career in Ayers living room. He served on several boards with Ayers and also helped direct money to Ayers “education” projects. Obama also listed a Williams Ayers book as one of his favorites. This is guilt by choosing to participate. Let’s make it clear that this does not mean Obama is a terrorist but it does mean he chose to not only associate with but to participate in work with an unrepentant domestic terrorist and small c communist/anarchist radical. William Ayers has never been quite about his past and his views. (see here and here)

The attempt at moral equivalence has already failed due to this side of the argument being so flawed due to outright deceit or complete ignorance of those trying to use it. But let’s consider that McCain has associated with controversial figures as well. One could list Keating, Kissinger and Oliver North to name a few. However, it’s pretty obvious that none of these individuals set bombs in the United States with no care for the potential loss of life and still hope they could have done more to violently overthrow the capitalist system. They also did not consider it a good  thing that regions of the United States would be occupied by the Soviet Union or Cuba after they overthrew the current establishment. Neither did they talk of how to exterminate 25 million who would stubbornly remain capitalists. This side of the argument also fails due to the extreme dissimilarities already obvious with the attempted comparisons.

But even if the moral equivalency gambit were not apples to oranges, what goes unstated by those who try to save Barack Obama from his Ayers problem is that Obama and surrogates have repeatedly lied about the depth of this relationship.

First is was just a guy in the neighborhood and their kids went to the same school. But their kids could not go to the same school because Ayers’ children are adults. Then Obama says it was just a board they worked on, but we’ve seen that isn’t the case. The story has continued to morph from Obama didn’t know about Ayers’ past to he thought Bill Ayers was rehabilitated.

What Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn shows is that Barack Obama has no problem participating in radical causes with unrepentant domestic terrorists and that he lies about it. This has become a pattern of also participating with other radicals, race baiters and corrupt political fixers with the addition of Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, “Father” Michael Phleger, Rashid Khalidi, and Odinga in Kenya and being deceptive about those connections.

At best, Barack Obama has a serious and consistent inability to judge the character of individuals. Many, right and left politically, were dismayed at George Bush saying he had a sense of Putin’s soul; yet even now there are multiple radicals, domestic terrorists and corrupt politicians that Obama has actively worked with. If it’s simply a matter of these people not being who Obama thought they were, why should anyone believe Barack Obama will judge world leaders any better? There are still many countries that do not have the best interests of the United States or even liberal democracy in mind, and would have serious motives for being dishonest in their negotiations.

If Barack Obama, as President, should have to say that Hugo Chavez or some other leader is not the person he thought they were, the damage to this country will not be undone. Of course that’s working with the assumption that Obama is just the victim of his own poor judgment, that he was fooled by these corrupt and extreme individuals. Perhaps Obama was not deceived, but then this only confirms his dishonesty and extreme worldview. Should that be the case, the true picture of Barack Obama becomes ever more disturbing and is in fact even more dangerous for the United States, should he become President.

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Sarah Palin says VP is in charge of the Senate

Some people seem to not care for the way Sarah Palin described the role of the Vice President in regard to the U.S. Senate.

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

And the outrage follows.

Indeed, while Palin suggests that questions about what the Vice President does is something only her daughter Piper would ask, Palin herself asked this very question on national television in July. Apparently, she still hasn’t learned the correct answer

This author is apparently one of the terminally stupid with the reference to what Palin said in July. That is more than adequately dealt with here.

Article I of the Constitution establishes an exceptionally limited role for the Vice President — giving the office holder a vote only when the Senate is “equally divided” (source)

Oh my, she said the VP is in charge of the U.S. Senate!

Several problems with this criticism. One, “in charge of” is much easier for a 3rd grader to understand than presides over, which is the role of the Vice President. But when you have an ax to grind, conveniently changing the level of linguistic precision required is par for the course. I wonder if these critics are aware that Joe Biden was wrong about Article I and the executive branch? If they are, I bet they don’t care near as much about that.

Two, Biden has said similar:

“I hope one of my roles as vice president will be as the person actually implementing Barack Obama’s policy. You gotta get the Congress to go along with it,” he said. “And it’s presumptuous to say, but I know it pretty well. And I think I am fairly respected on both sides of the aisle.” (via HotAir)

Let’s also consider that having only a vote when there is a tie is not the totality of the VP role in the Senate. This is covered well by JackM at Ace’s here

But Palin is actually right: The Constitution empowers the Vice President to Preside over the Senate. The majority party cannot prevent him/her from doing so.

And this matters. Why?

Because whoever sits in that chair has actual parliamentary power in a couple of areas.

For example, say you are watching C-Span and you hear two Senators shouting at the chair for the privilege of speaking, or to ask a procedural question. The only person who is recognized to legitimately take the floor, is, by Senate rules, the person who the Presiding Officer hears and acknowledges first.

If Palin were in that chair, she could make the call as to who is recognized to speak or to ask a parliamentary question. By using this ability, Palin could, in fact, structure the order of debate or to render a procedural inquiry moot.

In fact, procedurally the President of the Senate (or their designee) makes all the calls. The President of the Senate can be overturned by a vote of the Senate, but, absent that vote, the ruling of the Chair governs the action on the floor. It is not far fetched to say that on a controversial bill, a President of the Senate who wished to delay proceedings could in fact force repeated votes to overturn his or her rulings.

Be sure to read it all as he gives a real world and relatively recent example as to how that matters.

Considering this Palin critic starts with the stupidity of saying that Sarah Palin didn’t even know the role of the Vice President in July, it’s hardly surprising he sounds like some typical myspace tards. I’m quite sure the author is as impervious to being corrected as they are. Then again maybe he already posts his drivel in various groups on myspace.

Funny, that someone of such mental caliber *snort* is writing for a publication with “Think” in the title.

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God love ya Joe Biden

Joe Biden says what Barack Obama would probably not want too many to have on their minds while voting.

"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

Ed Morrisey’s commentary in part (be sure to read it all):

Isn’t this an argument for electing someone with more experience?  Why should we elect a man who will embolden our enemies and push us to the brink of disaster?  Biden seems convinced that electing John McCain will make our enemies abroad much less sanguine about provoking us — which is one of the best arguments yet heard for electing McCain. (source)

Which brings up the following:

Does America, at this time, need someone who already has a record of “miscommunication”?

• Bitter, clinging, xenophobic …
• NAFTA will be unilaterally revised, nah, just campaign talk. *Oops* that was misunderstood.
• Iraq please delay agreement for a new administration. Nah, just a misunderstanding.
• Jerusalem to be undivided.

Or a record of outright foolishness?

• American troops just bombing villages in Afghanistan.
• Hey, let’s openly state we will invade a country with nuclear weapons and a large population of Islamic extremists.
  • When someone has the need to talk tough due to insecurity, it can result in scuttling delicate and secret arrangements that are in place.
• Georgia and Russia morally equivalent while Russia is attacking our ally. Oops uh uh, what John McCain said.
• No free trade for an ally, which will benefit American companies/jobs.
  • Accompanied by a falsehood. Uribe has actually drastically reduced the killing of unionists and increased the prosecution for such crimes.
• Meet with terrorist supporting regimes without preconditions.
• Odinga/Kenya

Or lack of honesty?

• Bill Ayers just a guy in the neighborhood
• Never worked for ACORN
• Born Alive Infant Protection Act
  • Obama continues his infanticide lies
  • Obama campaign admits he lied about infanticide
  • Barack Obama needs to talk to Inigo Montoya
  • Barack Obama and pro-life voters?
• They will remind you that I’m black

Or the inability to judge people accurately?

• Rezko
• Jeremiah Wright
  • That being after nearly 500 sermons. Or did he lie about having not heard such things?
• Bill Ayers
  • Thought he was rehabilitated despite Ayers being very open and public about his lack of contrition. Or is this another lie and Obama just didn’t mind that Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist?

That’s quite a record for just a campaign. Why should we believe it will only be wonderfully better when the stakes are much higher? Why should we expect the pattern to change when, as Joe Biden predicts, a crisis occurs?

Will Barack Obama cave in to demands from our enemies? Will allies be left to fend for themselves? Will Barack Obama overreact because he needs to prove how tough he is? There will be no do over, media spin or non-reporting that can bring back lost lives should Barack Obama be tested and he perform per his well established patterns.

Some have talked recently of Barack Obama being teachable. His own vice president has said he will be tested because of his inexperience. What price will America pay while this neophyte is stumbling and trying to learn?

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ACORN voter fraud

There is now evidence that ACORN’s voter registration fraud has resulted in fraudulent votes.

Press release from the New Mexico GOP: (thanks to Ace)

Fraudulent Votes Cast in New Mexico

Obama’s ACORN Must Be Shut Down Before Election, All Activities Investigated

(Albuquerque, NM) – Public records released in New Mexico today confirm that fraudulent voter registrations are in fact turning into fraudulent votes. ACORN, currently under investigation by the FBI, is now confirmed to be responsible for producing fraudulent voter registrations and illegal votes in New Mexico. An inspection of public records has revealed that illegal votes were cast in New Mexico’s 2008 primary election.

“This is a bombshell. We now have undeniable proof that a significant number of fraudulent voters were cast in Democrat primary races for the New Mexico state legislature as a result of ACORN’s voter registration fraud,” remarked State Representative Justine Fox Young (R-Albuquerque). “No longer can ACORN argue that their phony voter registration forms don’t translate into fraudulent votes. They do and today we can prove it.”

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“It is safe to say that the number of illegal votes being cast dwarfs the 366 votes that decided the 2000 Presidential election in New Mexico,” said Nina Martinez, Secretary for the Republican Party of New Mexico. “Barack Obama contributed $832,000 to ACORN, organized an ACORN subsidiary, represented them as their attorney, trained some of their members and received ACORN’s endorsement. Obama should withdraw his financial support from ACORN and come clean about what he knows of their activities. Every fraudulent vote cancels out an honest vote. We must ensure the integrity of this year’s election.”

ACORN is currently being investigated in a number states for voter registration fraud. Do you like the idea of your vote being suppressed by fraudulent votes? Barack Obama doesn’t seem to mind. He worked with ACORN early in his career and paid them during the primaries for a GOTV effort. Is this the type of person that should be elected to our highest office?

Related post:

Obama’s first 100 days in office includes ACORN

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Explain what the law says and you get investigated

Don’t worry if that title doesn’t make sense, we may have new overlords soon that will give those who talk too much an education that makes it all clear.

There’s a reason guilty people lawyer up when the law starts asking questions. Now, the best advice is to lawyer up even when you’re innocent of breaking the law, especially if you do something that might offend or work against Barack Obama.

Seriously

via Protein Wisdom who summarizes:

In short, in the name of voter suppression, they’ve made it illegal for anyone to actually evoke the law, just as campus speech codes prohibit people from saying things that someone else might somehow find uncomfortable. If that isn’t Orwellian, I don’t know what can possibly reach the bar.

It sure is interesting what Barack Obama inspires in his supporters. Hey, how about we elect him president and validate this kind of behavior?

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The politics of destruction and distraction

Make sure your papers are in order and any personal controversies, errors, embarrassments and so on, are not documented, or known by anyone at all. Does that sound rather impossible? Well then, just never ever get involved in politics or even think that you as a private citizen can ask a media darling Presidential candidate any questions.

Much has been made of Joe the plumber, who asked Obama about wanting to raise his taxes. John McCain used that to good effect in the debate. Unfortunately, for our political process, even our freedom to speak, Joe has been subjected to more scrutiny by the mainstream media in several days than Barack Obama has in this entire campaign.

His ability to work is being threatened (thanks to HotAir) because he spoke up. The attempted narrative is that Joe is not really a plumber, couldn’t have made the $250,000 income that would be hit with Obama’s tax increase and he shouldn’t be working anyway, or something. The most silly are those who are whining about how McCain “used” Joe. One reasonably gets the impression that the question and Obama answer are deemed as inappropriate subjects by some.

All this doesn’t change the real issue, it only distracts from it by attempting to destroy the messenger. It doesn’t matter if Joe was a complete plant or fraud, the question even if hypothetical still stands, as does Obama’s answer, which reveals/confirms his natural tendencies and philosophy.

Obama is a liberal/socialist by record, not the moderate he attempts to sound like now in a general election. His gut reaction to Joe’s question is therefore not an anomaly or mere verbal slip but a confirmation.

Barack Obama’s views revealed in his interaction with Joe, was also displayed in an earlier interview with Charlie Gibson where in Obama steadfastly refused to step away from raising the capital gains tax because he wanted more fairness in the tax code.

So when will the in depth investigation of Charlie Gibson and his paperwork begin?

Obama supports the “fairness doctrine”, he has encouraged people to jamb the phone lines of a radio station twice now, to silence a critic. His minions didn’t have facts to counter what was being said; only smears and ad hominem attacks against the individual being interviewed. There would also be the race card constantly thrown when Barack Obama is criticized. It’s no wonder that Michael Barone, who has other examples, has issued the following warning.

Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.

Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead. (source)

At least Joe had the chance to ask his question before the demand for his papers. If Barack Obama wins will we eventually look back on that as the good old days?

Addendum:

As I was working on my post Ed Morrissey had similar views. As always, his comments are worth reading in full, so here’s the link.

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Barack Obama and the Chicago way

This isn’t about the quote by Sean Connery’s character in The Untouchables. Instead, it’s John Kass of the Chicago Tribune newspaper addressing the Bill Ayers, Barack Obama connection, and Chicago machine politics.

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Turn on the TV news when John McCain is picking up undecided voters by invoking Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant American terrorist William Ayers and, invariably, some liberal talking head will sniff in disgust and say Ayers is no big deal where Obama comes from.

Unfortunately, that's true. Ayers is a terrorist. But this is Chicago.

Obama and Ayers are neighbors and they worked together on school issues with the same foundation. Obama's political coming-out party was held in Ayers' living room when Obama was running for his first political office.

And the boss of Chicago is Mayor Richard Daley. Mayor Shortshanks has thrown his protective embrace around both men. These are facts. (source, thanks to Glenn Reynolds)

Read the whole thing, and note how money is spent by the city while it’s also laying off 1,000 city workers. Let’s also note that Barack Obama has lied, distorted and attempted to minimize the facts regarding his relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Perhaps it’s hardly surprising that narcissistic 60’s radicals would still be only thinking of their own aggrandizement while imagining they are somehow fighting the good fight. They’ve found a place in Chicago, despite their being unrepentant about their past, and have done quite well with selling out. Who would have thought that all the riots, violence and agitation would result in being paid to help manufacture media spin for corrupt politicians? It clearly says nothing good about Chicago politics with it’s convenient union of machine politics, radicals and domestic terrorists, although I have yet to see any of them erect Greek columns in their own honor.

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Obama’s first 100 days in office includes ACORN

Actually, he said this would occur during the transition, before his first 100 days and even the inauguration.

Thanks to Ace.

Why this is important is outlined here (Thanks to Lucianne).

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At times, ACORN opts for undisguised authoritarian socialism, as when it proposes that “large companies which desire to leave the community” be forced to obtain “an exit visa from the community board signifying that the company has adequately compensated all its employees and the community at large for losses due to relocation.” How much longer before ACORN calls for exit visas for wealthy or middle-class individuals before they can leave a city? This is the road to serfdom indeed, even though it begins with little steps. The proposal gives a glimpse of the vastness of ACORN’s ambition, despite the seeming modesty of its individual programs. Understanding that ambition, seven state legislatures have passed laws to block municipalities from setting their own minimum wages.

That’s only one of the reasons. Read it all, it’s long but very important to know what Obama has chosen to make alliance with.

And of course there is the rampant voter fraud that is currently being attempted by ACORN in a number of states. One example would be here in Indiana where around 5000 new names were turned in just before the deadline. So far, as many as 2000 have been found to be fraudulent. That’s just in one county. In fact, the problem is so widespread, crossing state lines, and has been an issue for several elections that the RICO Act is applicable. Will anyone in law enforcement do the right thing? We shall see, as it stands several states are conducting criminal investigations. To make all this more insulting, ACORN receives federal funds. That’s right, your tax dollars have been helping this organization corrupt our voting process for years.

For more information about ACORN and Barack Obama, this is helpful. As one can see from the information about individual states there, the fraud being discovered is enough to change close elections. But how much is not being found?

And yes, this is another matter Obama is lying about. It is a fact that he worked with ACORN activists during his community organizer days and he has helped train them since then.

It turns out Hillary Clinton and her supporters have experience with voter fraud. I used to just blow off the PUMAs. While it was nice to have them in common cause against Obama, I didn’t realize the problem went much deeper. Watch some clips from a documentary here, to see what they experienced by way of the Barack Obama campaign.

As they state, while we disagree on certain issues, our right to vote is being taken away from us. No matter your political affiliation, this is something we should all agree is wrong.

So, I come down to this. Do we believe that the Obama campaign curtailed the freedom of speech of those who opposed him? Do we believe that Clinton’s supporter’s votes were not counted fairly? If we answer ‘yes; as I have answered, than it seems to me that the fact that we disagree with Sarah Palin on reproductive choice, or creationism, or even protecting the Polar Bears—is the human rights equivalent of small potatoes. There are two basic rights that make us a democracy; two essential rights that keep us free.  If I have my voice—and my vote—I can work for all the other issues.  Without them, I can do nothing. (source, emphasis in bold mine)

Voter fraud has been practiced by Barack Obama and ACORN. Do you want to ensure that people responsible for the fraud are never prosecuted? Do you want to validate the destruction of our right to vote by helping Barack Obama be elected?

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Sarah Palin and abuse of power

Headlines matter and because they do, we have a responsibility to not rely merely on what screaming banners in bold font and colors try to proclaim.

To be complacent and rely only on the mainstream media is to abuse the power you have to be informed. That others, whether they be the Obama/mainstream media campaign or the various partisans and tools doing their work, choose to spread lies and distortions or be led by the nose when presented with such, only emphasizes how much everyone of us should take our responsibility seriously.

Now to the headline that has been going around the Obama/mainstream media circus. The headline being that an Alaska legislative report has determined that Sarah Palin abused power. When I first saw the headline, while at a bar with co-workers, my first thought was if they had no new information, it was simply bogus. Since I’ve followed this story and knew the background I kept watching, though of course I couldn’t hear what was being said. The next headline during the discussion was that the report recommended no sanctions. Interesting, that only reinforced my initial reaction to the main headline. If they really had a strong case, as the headlines scream, then sanctions would be appropriate. But how many people had been following this and saw more than the first headline? How many people only see that headline while at the grocery store and don’t even see what is reported? How many times has the media already distorted, suppressed or ignored the truth in this campaign?

Bill Dryer details the problems with what the media is trying to sell.

Branchflower report on Tasergate: Just one guy's opinion that contradicts itself and ignores the relevant facts and law (bold in original)

excerpts:

Please understand this, if you take nothing else away from reading this post: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body. It contains no new bombshells in terms of factual revelations. Rather, it's just Steve Branchflower's opinion — after being hired and directed by one of Gov. Palin's most vocal opponents and one of Alaska's staunchest Obama supporters — that he thinks Gov. Palin had, at worst, mixed motives for an action that even Branchflower admits she unquestionably had both (a) the complete right to perform and (b) other very good reasons to perform.

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Be sure to read it all, as here is much more which shows this report to be incredibly shoddy and merely partisan, and the media handling of it to be only distinguished by being more so.

But again, how many of you have only seen or heard the headlines?

In the days ahead, the Alaska Legislature could vote in support of this study. Does that then mean the report no longer has all the others fatal flaws noted by Bill Dyer? It’s obvious that such an appearance of bipartisanship would not correct those problems. Of course it’s a sure bet that the Obama/mainstream media campaign will then cry aloud about how the report is bipartisan. One very serious problem with that. The Republican party is not all that happy with Sarah Palin. That’s hardly surprising considering that she took out high level party members due to corruption. In this case, bipartisanship may only be an indication of how corruption in one party chooses to shake hands with corruption in another, when encouraged by Obama and the mainstream media.

How we choose to react to such media and political attempts to distort the truth says a lot about us. Those who willfully lie and deflect attention from Obama’s lies will continue to do the same in service to smearing Governor Palin. That so many in the media may as well be paid Obama staff and work towards the same goal, should not dissuade the rest of us being from being responsible and taking the time to be informed.

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To be or not to be messianic

If you’ve received spam emails claiming that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, have no fear, Louis Farrakhan shoots that notion down.

This appears to be part of the Farrakhan’s speech at the Nation of Islam Savior’s day, earlier this year in February. (Thanks to Lucianne.com)

Then again, Barack thoroughly rejected Farrakhan’s endorsement in March.

I’ll have to check up on eschatology again to see if the anti-Christ would reject being referred to in such messianic ways.

Perhaps Louis got confused when in January Barack Obama said:

That's his job, get you to the polls, vote for Obama. My job is to help him do his job. So I am going to try to be so persuasive in the 20 minutes or so that I speak that by the time this is over, a light will shine down from somewhere.

It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it.

Maybe Barack was just being silly and the consistently silly Louis Farrakhan missed out on the humor Obama intended.

That would be more plausible if Barack Obama hadn’t said the following this past June.

this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal

A note to those who broke their sarcasm detector, yes, this post is sarcastic. I do not believe that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, although it does appear that he has a level of narcissism that would be natural to one who is.

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It turns out Obama does have some foreign policy experience

There’s a highly charged video going around about Barack Obama’s involvement in Kenya politics. I’m not going to link to that video, instead I’ll reference an article that is more balanced in comparison. Unfortunately for Obama, the author’s conclusion is still hard to avoid, if much of what is referenced is true.

In August and September 2006, Senator Barack Obama traveled to South Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya as a congressional delegation of one (Codel Obama) (“Codel Obama” The Hill 9/7/2006) While in Kenya, Obama consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo Raila Odinga (“your agent for change’), who was running for President.

By most accounts, it appears that Odinga was cheated out of winning the election. Sadly, the response was violence that resulted in the loss of life. Of course that would not be Obama’s fault and the author gives him credit for trying to help end the crisis.

In fairness to Senator Obama, after Kenya erupted into violence ( and at the request of Condoleezza Rice), Obama did record a message “. …calling for calm…” and had “..near daily conversations with the US Ambassador…and Raila Odinga”

However, the article contains much disturbing information and claims about Odinga and concludes:

Clearly, Obama campaigned for someone who is corrupt, ruthless and has financial ties to terrorists. More importantly, Obama campaigned for a candidate who had the stated objective of dismantling US & Kenyan government efforts to root out Al Queda and other terrorist organizations. Organizations that had already caused the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Africans in embassy bombings. Senator Obama’s actions—intentional or not—were in direct conflict with the efforts and interests of US national security. I think this raises serious questions about the judgment, maturity and readiness of Senator Obama.

Be sure to read the entire article, located here.

At best, Obama’s naiveté and tendency to consort with leftist radicals, may have unwittingly enabled someone to gain power who wants to enable radical Muslims and hamper the ability of the United States to fight terrorism. It turns out that the poor judgment of even a junior Senator can have far reaching and dangerous effects. If Barack Obama is elected President, how much more damage will such poor judgment and understanding of the world inflict on our country?

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McCain/Palin fire for effect

McCain may not be able to fly fighter bombers anymore but it appears that he hasn’t forgotten how to deliver broadsides against a target. We shall soon see if it’s enough to crash through the media stonewalling of criticism of their anointed one.

We have Palin addressing the Ayers/Obama relationship.

Video at HotAir

We finally have John McCain fighting back against Obama’s distortions and lies of McCain’s record regarding Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac regulation.

Video at HotAir

Considering that just about any criticism of Barack Obama has now been equated to racism by direct accusation or cowardly implication by Obama and/or his tools, McCain and Palin’s latest attacks against the junior Senator can only be explained as their joining the Klan. At least that’s the bizzaro reality Obama and some his minions will no doubt try to construct within their dusty little skull caps.

Apparently Obama currently thinks the Keating Five is a reasonable response. Turns out not so much, as noted by Drew at Ace's:

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In fact, it’s likely that McCain was only kept in the case because to have removed him from it would have meant only Democrats would have been involved. That's not McCain spin, that's from Bob Bennett, the Senate’s own investigator and noted Democrat.

And btw, John Glenn was also caught up in the Keating Five mess, much as John McCain was. John Glenn has been actively campaigning for Barack Obama in Ohio.

Of course there’s the other Obama complaint that this is a distraction from the real issues. That’s rather funny coming from a candidate who has made the claim to having great judgment such an important issue in his campaign. But I suppose noting that makes one racist. If it doesn’t yet, I’m sure some Barack Obama supporter somewhere, perhaps even The One Himself, will soon make the case. Hey, apparently being racist is the new black!

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Ann Althouse vs. Katie Couric

Sarah Palin and Joe Biden even make an appearance.

Althouse takes on Sarah Palin’s answer to Katie Couric’s  Roe v Wade questions, and she looks at how Joe Biden was handled by Katie on the same issue.

Thanks to Moxie

It’s sad that such obvious bias by the media is being foisted on Americans.

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My first amendment rights are being suppressed!!

Per Maureen Dowd of the New York Times.

Add Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer-winning columnist for the NY Times, to the list of media types who have fallen out bitterly with John McCain. The McCain campaign has barred her from flying in the McCain and Palin press planes …

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"I had had a great  relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicole Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane,"

Dowd wrote in an email.

"It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney." (source, Thanks to NewsBusters)

So, according to the Dowd's non-narcissistic, incredibly deep, emotionally detached and non-bitchy take on first amendment rights, my not being invited on any campaign planes is a clear sign of 1st amendment rights suppression.

Thanks for clearing that up for everyone sweetie.

Breaking story! - Obama/Biden place Maureen Dowd on their short list for Supreme Court judges!

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