Things Are Changing In Iraq

As we enter the second half of the campaign year, facts are undermining the Democratic narrative that has dominated our politics since about the time Hurricane Katrina rolled into the Gulf coast -- most importantly, the facts about Iraq. During the Democratic primary season, all the party's candidates veered hardly a jot or tittle from the narrative that helped the Democrats sweep the November 2006 elections. Iraq is spiraling into civil war, we invaded unwisely and have botched things ever since, no good outcome is possible, and it is time to get out of there...
If George W. Bush was wrong about the surge from summer 2003 to January 2007, Barack Obama has been wrong about it from January 2007 to today. John McCain seems to have been right on it all along. When asked why he changed his position on an issue, John Maynard Keynes said: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" What say you, Sen. Obama?
Obama is a young man with old ideas. He is one of the youngest men to run for President, but is an old fogey who can't adapt to a new, changing world. He doesn't have the mental agility to look at facts and see that the world has changed. Funny that he keeps asking for change, but he can't see change happening before his very eyes. He brings a a worn out Vietnam anti-war protestor attitude to a modern, assymetrical war. He brings a Black Power vs Whitey attitude to a nation that has changed. He is too late to the ''change'' party.
I'll repeat what I said on another blog. Obama said he would ''end the war responsibly.'' It is impossible to parse that so that it makes any sense. Forget the moonbats and the Bush and America haters. They're gone. But there are many like a friend of mine--intelligent, serious, decently informed--who have fallen hook, line, and sinker for Obama. I find it incomprehensible, but it is so. I hope to God

Michelle Obama Shows Her Warmer Side! Yeah, She Has All The Warmth Of A Cobra.

Michelle Obama was a guest co-host of “The View” yesterday I guess to give a bump to her husband.

Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Michelle Obama, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters were on cue to give her the bump she looked for.

That woman flat-out gives me the willies. She makes Laura Bush look like Mother Teresa.

It's so disgusting that this woman has been given free campaign time on national television. That "View" show is a disaster waiting to happen, full of a whole bunch of political whores.

Someone said yesterday that republican women don't need a makeover, i.e. Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush and now Cindy McCain. It's the democrat women who aren't ready for primetime--Teresa Heinz , Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Clinton and now Michelle (My Belle) Obama. Jackie Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson could have taught these democrat wives a few things, but class isn't easily taught.

The NY Slimes wrote that "Mrs. Obama made a point of showing her warmer side"

Does a snake have a warmer side?

I think the Damocrats in Congress are playing us like fools

I think the Democrats in Congress are playing us like fools with the gas and oil crunch. They want us to feel the pain so Obama can win on his promise of "change". This is a much better issue than the war in Iraq and on terrorism since we are winning the war. Congressmen are crooks and are using the oil "crisis" for political gain. We have to fight back. Get rid of all of them and start all over. It will cost us because we will have to continue to pay them the rest of their miserable lives, but in the long run, it will be worth it.
Many of those democrats won in that election by a very small majority. That can easily change if the voters are paying upwards of $5 a gallon of gas. I don't know about where yo'll live, but $5 a gallon is not that far off around these here parts.
The pocketbook can be a very great incentive to vote for someone who will make life easier for the person in the Ballot Box.
Nancy Pisslocie had better resign today. Anybody stupid enough to say we cannot drill our way out of this should not hold public office. We can and should drill our way out of this straight to independence and some profit for ourselves. Build refineries in the areas where the drilling would be to eliminate long pipelines that might rupture. Get rid of all the greenie weenies at once. Build nuclear reactors. Today.

When Obama Is Off the Teleprompter.

It is clear Obama’s path to victory is through the teleprompter. Let him give a big speech and he drives it like Tiger Woods hitting a fairway But let him sit for an interview with a well-prepared reporter who isn’t interested in shilling for him and Obama makes mistake after mistake.
Above all Obama wants to avoid appearances where he is unscripted or might have to go beyond memorized responses. Most of the presstitutes are unlikely to pressure Obama. What will it take to force him to appear and be tested, and very likely fail? He can't avoid the presidential debates because they are an established convention. I foresee him trying to negotiate them from being actual debates at all and more like speeches.
Obama won't go on Fox and get grilled by Chris Wallace and Brit Hume (perhaps our best MSN interviewers now that Tim Russert has passed). So the MSM is going to continue to fawn praise on the Obamaassiah. God help us all if this second coming of Jimmy Carter becomes president.

I am Not a racist!

I don’t know about you but I am sick and tired of being called one just because I am a republican . For the last several weeks I’ve listened and read as the mainstream media has blasted on about how Kentucky, West Virginia, and other heartland states aren’t going well for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama because of his race. As a New Yorker and a former Kentuckian and a member of the latest two states to be accused of blanket hatred as an excuse for Obama’s losses here, I am becoming more than a bit agitated. Let’s be honest. If Obama were a white man and had won the state of Kentucky against Hillary Clinton, then all of us labeled as gun toting, God fearing, rednecks would have been accused of gender hatred for voting against a woman. According to the mainstream media, including the larger print outlets of this state, we’re all bigots of some sort. I am offended and I find this broad generalization of my voting habits to be both wrong and more than a bit ironic. The illustrious press and their bobble-headed intellectuals are having a heyday making the case that Barack Obama’’s poor performance here is a result of deep seeded racism by uneducated voters. For instance, the first exit poll question in West Virginia after their rimary was, "How many years of high school did you complete?" Not "who did you vote for" or "why did you choose the candidate you chose," but basically, "can you read and write?" How is this not bigoted on the part of the media funded research group to frame their poll with such questions? They appear never to have stopped to think that Obama’s double digit losses in areas like this could have more to do with an offense he committed against us rather than one we theoretically committed against him. Does anyone remember his small town America clinging to guns, God and bitterness comment? I’m not bitter –– I’m just mad. The mainstream media has assumed that Kentuckians, who chose another candidate over Obama by a wide margin, could only be doing so because of his race. It’s as if they are saying, "Don’’t those poor uneducated country bumpkins see the throngs of people fainting at Obama’s feet? There is no excuse for this because we know they all have satellite!" I propose some different reasons that many of us aren’t voting for Barack Obama. It may have something to do with his upbringing by a mother who was a member of the Communist anti-western movement. It may have something to do with one of his early mentors, Frank Marshall Davis, who was a card carrying member of the Moscow linked Communist Party of America. Or perhaps his later mentor, the infamous 60’’s radical Marxist agitator, Saul Alinsky. Or it could be Obama’’s "friendly" association with the former Weather Underground terrorist, William C. Ayers. Maybe it’’s that flag lapel pin thing. In and of itself, it’s not that big of a deal whether a candidate wears a flag lapel pin or not, but coupled with his other statements and with Obama’’s wife’’s recent declaration that for the first time in her "adult life" she was ""proud of America,"" it leaves a lot of us proud Americans with some big questions about this guy. Really, Mrs. Obama, the first time you can be proud of America?
You mean you couldn’t be proud when in 1955 Rosa Parks showed the true meaning of the American Spirit and chose not to give up her seat on the bus? Or when in 1964 the hideous Jim Crow laws were abolished by the civil rights act? Or in the 1980’’s when the iron curtain fell and democracy trumped communism? Are the Obamas so self-centered that they are blinded to all of the good things about America?