Every once in a while you hear of something refreshingly rare that indicates the permeation of politically correct jihad hasn’t seeped into every last American psyche. An example of utter obliviousness as to who our new masters are made it to the news recently:
1) Senator Obama is on the cover of TIME magazine again. Good thing nobody reads it anymore, or TIME might be accused of not being balanced in their coverage. Snicker. Snicker.
Here’s an essay, interesting in an academic way, in which the author proposes that Bill Ayers wrote Sen. Obama’s biography. You can’t prove such a thing conclusively, though one can produce a pretty persuasive case. I mention this not because it might change a vote somewhere–no way could it do that–but because I want to predict how it will be received. The argument is infinitely stronger than the “Sarah Palin’s not the mother of her child, Trig” story–but will Andrew Sullivan and that crowd even acknowledge this matter? Of course not. The goal of so many Obama-philes is not to promote truth, despite what they say. The goal is to tear down the opponent, period, full stop. Sullivan included–Sullivan especially.
Here’s a story about Tony Rezko, apparently singing like a canary about the wayward ways and their potential ties to Obama. Does it matter? Nope–not to the true believers. A lot of Obama voters are more religious zealots for their Messiah than they are informed decision makers. Tony Rezko could produce videotape and sworn affidavits in which Senator Obama is leading a bank robbery on his way to his job conducting torture at Guantanamo Bay while carpooling with Hugo Chavez and Charles Manson and many Obama supporters would 1) say it doesn’t matter and 2) call you a racist for suggesting anything untoward about their King. (And a few would 1) say the bank had it coming; 2) those Gitmo prisoners really need some torture after all; and 3) Chavez and Manson aren’t as bad as George W. Bush.)
The latest talking point the Dems are pushing is that the McCain campaign is “dangerously hateful.” Which is a pretty silly assertion, as it is built solely on a couple shouted comments at a rally–the home of hyperbole, as any grown-up knows. The reason for this post, however, is to direct you to some true hate. Just take a stroll through Puffington Host or Kaily Dos–the blogs, the “reporting,” and the comments. Remarkable stuff: vicious, personal attacks on individuals, parties, families, whole demographics and entire geographic regions. And it’s not the exception: I defy anyone to read more than a dozen comments in a row and not find some hateful and entirely ignorant comment from the liberal regulars. If Senator Obama wins this election, that will be a disappointment. But the greatest disappointment will be the handover of authority to leaders who take their cues from the most self-righteous and censorious crowd to hold the levers of power in America since the Civil War.
I have a brother who is the best joke writer I know. Thought I’d share some of his work with you all. (See yesterday’s post for the first batch.) If you’d like to have them emailed to you every day, send a note to JTLJokes / AT / aol.com. And now, the jokes!
Senator McCain claims that the U.S. is “winning” in Iraq and that a surge will lead to victory in Afghanistan. This, despite the fact the General Petraeus keeps stressing that the U.S. gains are “fragile,” and that Brigadier Carleton-Smith, former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, recently observed that a military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the U.S. and its allies must find a way to negotiate some kind of a mutually beneficial deal with the Taliban. Meanwhile, the Taliban are gaining ground while the corrupt government propped up by the U.S. is becoming more deeply involved in the opiate trade.
One answer could be that an assumption was made that jobs would always provide income for the payments of such mortgages. So, up to this stage, blame can be leveled in two directions. First, towards those politicians who threatened political retaliation if the financial system didn’t lend beyond rational limits; and second, Wall Street financiers who risked breaking the financial system by relying on poor judgment regarding the public’s ability to overcome economic challenges. Economists and those investigative committees expected to be formed will tell us more about the American roots of this economic debacle.
My brother is a shadowy figure living somewhere west of the Mississippi. He writes jokes, mostly about what’s going on in the news. Funny jokes. Very funny jokes, actually. Some so funny that, uh, I can’t even post them here. They’re that funny. Anyway, I’ll try to post them every day or so. If you’d like to have them emailed to you every day, send a note to JTLJokes / AT / aol.com. And now, the first batch for Political Mavens:
Unlike the ralliers and screechers on talk radio, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, makes a serious case that Barack Obama’s associations with “unrepentant terrorist” Bill Ayers (as well as convicted felon and the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright) is a serious issue.
The list of the overwhelming challenges President Bush is leaving for the next president was long enough before he added, with the acquiescence of the U.S. Senate, providing India with nuclear material and knowhow. There are so many ways this is a dangerous policy that it is hard to know where to start. The “winner” is the fact that Pakistan’s military responded by deciding that it must keep up with India, and hence will seek to expand its nuclear program, one way or another. This is a truly alarming development, in a world in which alarms abound, because Pakistan is by far the country in which terrorists are the most likely to get their hands on nuclear arms, either by capturing them, having them slipped to them by cooperative elements in the military or intelligence services, or by overthrowing the failing government.
Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin may lose the November election unless they speak like real mavericks and distinguish their political positions more sharply from those of their mediocre opponents. They are trailing in the polls for several reasons. The most decisive reason is their own mediocre performance. They are preoccupied too much with bread-and-butter issues on which they cannot score many points. Most significant, however, is their avoidance of the paramount issue confronting America, an issue that transcends the present economic crisis but which can arouse and inspire most Americans. America is at war. To win this war we need to understand ourselves as well as the enemy. This is a two-fold task that McCain and Palin have failed to address in a serious way.
There is much talk about the Jewish vote. There is very little talk about the Muslim vote though Zogby reports that Muslim Arab-Americans favor Obama 84-4. This vote can be turn out to be crucial in a number of states including Michigan, Florida and maybe even Virginia. Obama may treat Islam like a disease from which he wants to keep his distance but Muslims here and abroad know he is their candidate and are sophisticated enough to keep mum.
And let’s hope this young man gets convicted, too. Even more than that, let’s hope that the many pundits and observers on the Left who said variously that Gov. Palin 1) deserved no sympathy because she’s so conservative; 2) should have had better password protection; 3) has no rights because she’s being investigated in Alaska, realize that they let their partisan passions get waaay out in front of their 1) common sense and 2) passion for fundamental rights and human respect.
After tonight’s Presidential debate I called up my friend Thinking Man to get his take. Thinking Man is my E.F. Hutton, and given his extremely prescient advice to me in June, I am more inclined than ever to listen.
Days after their $85 billion bailout, AIG sent its execs on a spa retreat to the tune of nearly half a million dollars. Send your thank you notes to our genius Congress–Republicans and Democrats together, with a friendly assist from President Bush and the “wise” pundits from both sides. Thank goodness all these tax dollars are being spent to prevent the economy from melting down! Hate for those AIG execs to miss a massage! Maybe they invited Rep. Barney Frank and his Fannie-employed life-partner from those days, too!
That’s short for Trifkovic brilliance. Here is the article, which I’m quoting from the floor, where I sit after falling off my chair laughing from reading this endorsement of the innocent broad, all emphasis mine: Editors’ Round Table on Sarah Palin: An Innocent Abroad by Srdja Trifkovic…continue here.
Stock market down 875 points in two days. Good thing the bailout passed or the news would be really bad, eh? I guess those geniuses in Washington really saved us this time!
In The convenient war against the Jews Caroline Glick argues that much of the world hopes that global Jihad can be appeased with Jewish blood. If so, many Western leaders figure, a deal can be made. After all, it has been made before. No I do not mean with the Nazis, I mean with the Palestinians:
Encouraging words over at NR from someone with a spectacular record of getting things right. Of course, remember Stein’s Maxim: Anything that can’t go on forever must eventually stop. Maybe this guy’s accuracy is reaching that point? We shall see.
Forgive me a moment, but I’m going to wax metaphysical about a recent speech by Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician and maker of the short film “Fitna,” in which he describes America as in danger of becoming “the last man standing.”
The great writer Boswell once wrote, Baseball is really two sports the Summer Game and the Autumn Game. One is the leisurely pastime of our gentle mythology. The other is not so gentle.
If John McCain is to have any hope of winning this election, he’s got to pack away the “Mr. Bipartisanship Nice Guy” routine and go for Barack Obama’s jugular. The first opportunity to rip Obama a new one? Tomorrow night’s presidential debate.
“Can you imagine the adrenaline that would be coursing through our veins if Senator McCain had stood up and said, ‘Not just no, but hell no,’ to a bailout that saddles American taxpayers so that Wall Street can be more comfortable, and Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke can say they did something?” — Mark Davis, filling in today for Rush Limbaugh
However severe the financial crisis is right now (how serious can it be given the Bailout Follies?), there is a potential silver lining: If Obama wins the election, the coverage of the crisis will immediately change. What was once an economic armageddon will be quickly be portrayed by the press as miraculously receding at the mere word of the ascension of Obama. And that’s something you absolutely can take to the bank. The media haven’t needed numbers for their claims so far. Why should they need them in the future?
Why does McCain go so easy on Obama/Democratic Fannie and Freddie liability? This is the question asked by US News and World blogger, James Pethokoukis. He writes:
