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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl" - Shirley Chisholm

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

E.E.L.P.s - Effete, Entitled, Little Pricks

(firstly, Rush - I know you're using my gags...go for it...)

onward:
The thesis of most of this blog is this: Obama is an effete, entitled, little prick. Because he is black and a talented speaker he has garnered a large following of white, effete, entitled, little pricks. (Olbermann, and that pan head on Hardball are good examples here. Also, Huffy, the integrity slayer.)

Yes - I SAID IT! I WROTE IT! OBAMA IS WHERE HE IS BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. (even my black sister-in-law agrees....) Other than hammering away at what an E.E.L.P. Obama is - another goal is to take back some of the language from the E.E.L.P. cabal currently running most media.

First word to be seized back from the EELPs - RACISM. The recovery of this word will take time and effort.

Rule one: It may be used judiciously and only were verifiable racism can be discerned.

Rule two: It applies to ALL RACES. (Wright and that Catholic freak Obama advisor, Phlemmbot, are racists)

Rule Three: If an EELP, or any Obama Pod, uses it the rest of us have an obligation to vet the usage and demand clarification. They have abused the word so severely that they cannot be trusted with it.

Rule Four: Willful willy nilly accusations of racism should be responded to with a direct, fierce, and historical reminders about what racism really is. Addressing a candidate's weaknesses is not racism. Stoking race resentment with bullshit about a former President IS.

Rule Five: Sexism is a bigger problem in the U.S. than racism. Period. All progressives must come to terms with this and demand action -

The effete little pricks are not in any real sense true progressives. They tend to give lip service to labor, justice etc, and/or theorize about them - but almost never do the heavy lifting. They maneuver around cocktail parties and joust for tickets to get on David Geffen's jumbo dingy. Generally, what they have been good for is cash. Not a bad thing in itself. However, they are overreaching and demanding things we cannot allow them to have. Esp us liberals of the old school. They are taking progressive basics: words, thoughts, ideas - the working class itself - and spitting on them.

Today's word to reclaim from the Obama pricks: Racism.

Use it with thought and consideration - or not at all. The millions of real victims of racism deserve respect. Not the exploitation of a bunch of Harvard and Princeton gas bags.

Labels: effete pricks, gas bags, Keith Olbermann's nick name in college was "Scatty Kathy", olbermann

Friday, June 27, 2008

Roll of the Dice

Remember, back in the day, when Democrats were all united against Bush & Co?

I wrote a post about torture and that if we are torturing in order to defeat the terrorists we have become the terrorists.

What I see now is that many, many "democrats" in order to defeat the GOP have become the GOP.

Damn our Principles, full steam ahead.

Senator Obama lies to win the nomination stating in writing he'll take public financing if the Republican nominee does the same. Garners the support of Newspapers and progressives for his stance.

Turns out he can really raise the dough so he declines public financing in lieu of outspending John McCain.

His faithful Obamanation think it's great. He is using public financing because the money comes from the public. He's not using tax payer dollars, isn't he great? Yeah, ok, but he lied.

Senator Obama put a statement up on his web site in February of this year stating that he will never support a bill on Fisa that includes Telecom Immunity.

What happens when the bill comes up? He and Harry Reid will "try" to take immunity out but we have to fight the terrorists, by giving up our rights. Oh, and he'll change it once he's president. And isn't it terrible that the House Democrats put him in this position? Why couldn't they have waited until he's President?

He's willing to gamble with your fourth amendment rights. But the Obamanation knows what he really means, because, well, he's a constitutional lawyer/professor. And McCain is worse! If McCain wins he'll have all this power that Senator Obama will vote to give the president so we have to vote for Obama because he'll give it back because he says he will.

Does your head hurt? Are your eyes crossed?

Glen Greenwald has a story up on Salon about Olbermann. You know, that crazy guy who had a special comment about Fisa and telecom immunity a few short months ago? How it was the end of the world as we know it? Until Senator Obama says it not.

One of the comments was - this is where I draw the line in the sand. I cannot vote for Obama if he votes for the bill with immunity in it. I cannot vote for him if he doesn't filibuster.

Does the Obamanation have a line in the sand? Right now, I'm going with no. They trust his "words" even when his actions say the opposite.

Back when I was still a Democrat I was accused repeatedly of being a Republican because I cannot vote for Obama.

Turns out the Obamanation are the Republicans. They are no different from the Bush faithful who back their man no matter what. Nothing can make them question their faith in Dear Leader.

Labels: fraud, liar, Obamanation, olbermann

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Today's Obama reading: The Apocryphal Book Of Olbermann:

A reading from the apocryphal Book Of Olbermann:

So it came to pass in those days
that the land of the Patriots chose a new leader whose name was Patrick.
Patrick's words had given hope to many.

The apostle Axlerod knew Patrick's words
and he went to the Lord Obama and gave him the same words
for to sooth the Arugula Tribe
and make them like Sheep

But Axlerod worried that the Lord would be accused of word theft.
And then Lord Obama was accused of word thievery
by a two bit tobacco chewing racist
named Cracker McHick

But the Lord said:
Be not afraid of the racists.
I have not stolen Patrick's words.
I riff with my brothers.

And many at a gathering asked
what is 'riff ' Lord?

And the Lord said: Listen to this allegory.
And while the gathered Arugulas sipped
upon their Lattes and Carmel Macchiatos
and nibbled Tofurky Weiners a top the hoods of their Priuses
the Lord said:

"The Lord must be allowed to steal words.
I am a busy Lord and can't be expected to come up with new speeches all the time.
Obey me and do not question."

A curious disciple said -
But Lord that is not an allegory.
It is merely 3 sentences.

Then the Lord's eyes became like slits and he said:
Respect my AuthoraTAY! Hope! Change!
I am the Alpha and the Beta.
Hope! Change! Changey Hopey Change!
Change-o- Hope- o- Rama!
Hopeish! Change a lish us!
Hopetastic!

The Lord went on repeating variations of Hope and Change
until the apostles rolled a blunt
and became Fade-eth.

Then the Lord left the gathering for to smoketh.

The Word of the Lord.

Labels: Keith Olbermann's nick name in college was "Scatty Kathy", Obama, olbermann, Patrcik Duvall

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Profiles in Courage?

Back in the day, when we used to watch Countdown, Mr. Olbermann had a running story about how Bush played the terror card to stop the momentum of Senator Kerry during his presidential bid.

Does this sound familiar?

Senator Clinton soundly defeats Senator Obama in West Virginia. The following day Edwards and NARAL announce their endorsement for Senator Obama.

Senator Clinton wins Ohio. Two or three superdelegates come out for Obama.

Senator Clinton wins Pennsylvania. Two or three superdelegates announce their support for Obama.

David Broder had an interesting piece in the Washington Post about Jack Kennedy's 1960 campaign. Jack Kennedy went to West Virginia and campaigned hard even though he was projected to lose. He convinced anti-Catholics that he was the better choice. He compared Kennedy's campaign to Obama's. Obama decided not to talk to the people of West Virginia. What happened to his promise to unite and talk to everyone?

One commenter pointed out the Senator McCain went to Selma (the first Republican Presidential candidate to do so.)

I read about McCain's visit to Selma and also his visit to Memphis. Regarding his visit to Memphis, I thought, McCain is a lunatic, he's gonna get chewed up and spit out. I read how the crowd of several hundred African Americans in Memphis that day yelled at him, taunted him, called him a liar. When McCain talked about how he was sorry for not voting for the MLK holiday, one black man toward the front said, "It's okay, we all need some forgiveness every now and then." That's what I will remember about his Memphis visit, a white man standing near the balcony where MLK was shot dead and a black man acknowledging McCain's mistake and forgiving him.

Lest we forget, Senator Obama took his name of the ballot in Michigan because he thought he was going to lose. He didn't bother campaigning in person (except for one visit) in West Virginia because he was going to lose. (He actually outspent Senator Clinton in the state 2-1.)

How can we support someone for President who doesn't bother showing up unless he's guaranteed a win? How does that translate into someone willing to go to the mat for us with all the problems coming down the pike? Where's the courage in that?

Labels: Clinton, Jack Kennedy, McCain, MLK, Obama, olbermann

Sunday, April 20, 2008

And the unconscious Sexist of the Year award goes to...

And the nominees for unconscious SEXIST OF THE YEAR are...
1. Chris Mathews - The goofball on Hardball who is utterly unaware of his mommy issues, which ooze nightly from every pore in his face.
2. Frank Rich - for his high flying ability to find yet another intellectually bankrupt reason to attack Senator Clinton. The ex - theater critic thinks the Obama show should not have to be bothered with the female competition.
3. Ducky, the king pin of the DailyKos - for transforming his liberal blog into a neo-Rockefeller, neo-Stalinist attack Hillary machine - no small feat.
4. Keith, the frontrunner - One barely needs to repeat his qualifications for Unconscious Sexist of the Year. The snotty, nightly attacks on Clinton, the use of "slut" and "ho" to describe female celebs, the bug eyed "special comment" about Ferarro...
5. The sublimely unconscious Ms. Huffington - for using her divorce cash to re-create herself for the 43rd time - now as the Left's very own Phyllis Schafly. The Huffpost attracts nasty Obama cult members like hungry dogs at a junk yard. They routinely call Senator Clinton a "controlling bitch" and gleefully re-write her history. Her assault on powerful, self confident women is all the more enticing because she is so good at pretending to be one herself - when not lolly gagging on David Geffen's yacht.

Labels: Dailykos, ducky, hardball, olbermann, sexist

Weapons of Mass Resentment

John's post on Ted Kennedy got me thinking about the SUPER delegates who support Obama.

I wonder how much of their support is because they believe in his policies and how much is resentment towards the Clinton's.

Donna Brazile - possible the worst campaign manager ever. Is she angry at the Clinton's because she believes it's President Clinton's fault Al Gore didn't become President? (I won't say he lost the election because he didn't.) Is she jealous of the fact that President Clinton had two terms?

Howard Dean-a loser. Unfair to be booted out of the race because of the scream? True enough, but losing Iowa was really the reason he gave up his bid. Does he resent that Senator Clinton lost Iowa and came back? Or is he like Ms. Brazile and is jealous of the only Democrat who won two terms since FDR?

Ted Kennedy - one thing I'll give him is he is not hypocritical enough to suggest that Senator Clinton should abandon her campaign. And as much respect as I have for President Carter he was beatable. Obviously. But Ted Kennedy couldn't do it.

John "Windsurfing Madness" Kerry - TWENTY KNOTS - HOLD MY CALLS! Let the Swiftboaters go unanswered for way to long and then once it had started to fade brought it right back into the spot light. Could not have run a worse campaign from a phone booth in Yankton, South Dakota with no change. Of course he comes out for Obama, they're cut from the same cloth. He must wonder, how did I lose to that schmuck and how did Clinton get to win?

Gary Hart. Nursing old resentments because the super delegates "gave" the nomination to Mondale. In actuality, he had less pledged delegates than Mondale but he had won the last contests so he argued that he had momentum on his side and should be the nominee. Odd, that he would support Obama.

Tom Dashle - blames President Clinton for making him Minority Leader.

Nancy Pelosi. Please vote this woman out. Right now she is the highest ranking woman in Washington. She doesn't want to give that up.

Huffington and Dowd - also don't want another woman to do better than them

Olbermann - who knows? He's lost his mind and his viewers and neither are coming back.

You can blame President Clinton for a lot. I was angry about the blow job because it was wrong and it diminished the good that he did. But the way all of the people above talk about him now you would think he lost, like them.

I'm supporting Senator Clinton, whether she is on the ballot or not. I am not afraid of a strong woman.

Here's my quote of the day:

Ms. Michaux and Ms. Prigg may be among the "bitter" people Mr. Obama was talking about -- a teacher, Ms. Prigg has no health insurance and says she may lose her house because her salary won't cover the monthly mortgage payments.

But both women said they're sticking with Mrs. Clinton.

"I felt back in the 1990s when the Clintons were in, I lived pretty good, and now my life is going down the tubes, like everyone else's," said Ms. Prigg. "When I met her in Pittsburgh eight years ago, I told her, Hillary, no matter what you run for, anyone who stays with Bill deserves my vote, and she loved it."

"I feel like I AM Hillary Clinton," she said. "Strong women are all Hillary Clinton."

Thank you very much Ms. Prigg, I couldn't say it any better.

Labels: Clinton, dean, Donna Brazile, Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, olbermann, Ted Kennedy

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Worst Person in the World!

Oh, Keith, congrats! You've topped your own list! Get out the confetti and balloons.

Now, I could be wrong, but I searched the MSNBC site (as I no longer watch Countdown) and I found no mention of Randi Rhodes being named a Worst.

You did, however, name Elton John one for saying the reason Senator Clinton is behind:

in part at least, because of prejudice against women. I never cease to be amazed at the misogynistic attitudes of some people in this country.

Isn't that just horrible! How could Elton John say that there is sexism in America? That is deserving of a mention on Mr. Olbermann's list! Sexism, misogyny, never. Now get back in the kitchen and make some cookies, ladies. Mmmmnnn, snickerdoodles!

Then I saw that on a story about Paris Hilton the title was A Slut and Battery. Wow, thanks a lot for that. I don't particularly care for Ms. Hilton but I guess it makes sense that you wouldn't find fault with Ms. Rhodes when you use the same language yourself.

Please go over to Correntewire.com to find more ways to spend your time now that you don't watch Countdown!

Oh, and KEITH OLBERMANN, TODAY'S WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!

Labels: Elton John, Hypocrite, olbermann, Randi Rhodes, Worst Person in the World

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Coconut Lady's Grab Bag: 4/9/08

First things first. There is a man out there (hardly a gentleman)who has been writing me since last week asking if he can grab MY bags. To quote the immortal words of Senator Ted Stevens

"NO!"

Isn't Ted a charmer?

Now that that is off my chest on to business:

Darlings, I am so glad L.R. is proving to be a refuge for Real Democrats. I am afraid we may be tasked with heaving the Barackarazzi overboard when this election is over. The Arugulas are so annoying. They just don't understand real Democrats. Now we are being called Jacksonian Democrats. Hmmm? Is this for Michael Jackson? Action Jackson? Of that darling who splattered all the paint on the floor?

Another good thing about this election: I am over Oprah for good. Bye. Bye. What a relief! She was getting tiresome anyway. Glad she showed her true colors.

Olbermann just keeps getting sadder and more pathetic. Ah, well, we had one good year, Pumpkin Face.

For any of you dears who eat: there is a problem with the foods.

Are you Lonely? Confused? Lost and all alone? Pathetic? Needy? Overbearing? Trapped between your dishonest self image and your brittle, yet still fat, ego? You need advice. Send me any questions or concerns you may have. Post them in the comments. I answer on Thursdays with love, compassion, and a hatchet. Darlings.

One good thing about oil depletion. Vegas is gonna be history.
Coconut Lady hates Vegas.

When did Matt Stone get so very sexy?
Note to self: Invite Matt Stone over for some Coconut Chocolate Cherry Balls.

On a similar note: is it too late to take up bull riding?

Coming soon: The best movie you've never heard of.

Isn't Hillary the best? An adult at the wheel.

Labels: bad judgement, bad lover, liar, liars, lies, loser, Obama, olbermann, oprah

Monday, April 07, 2008

Boycott the MSM: Misogynist Sexist Media

This one can't wait. Thanks Molly! Send this video far and wide! Olbermann, The dailykos, Huffington, Matthews, the huge majority of the media HAS BEEN BLATANTLY SEXIST. I have been saying this here for over a year. The real story is not "race" it is "gender". The story of the television lynching of Hillary Clinton is all about men mad at their mothers, men afraid of they don't measure up and the women who sign off on their Bullshit Checks.
(Someone needs to write: Olbermann on the Couch)
Boycott Olbermann and the rest! (no one deserves to be thrown on the ash heap of broadcast and net history more than Olbermann and the vicious Stalinists at the DailyKos.)

Rise Hillary, Rise.

Labels: bigots, Dailykos, fearful men. men with small penises, Hillary Clinton, olbermann, sexism, Stalin

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Coconut Lady's Grab Bag: 4/2/08

Coconut Lady is still depressed.

Coconut Lady says STOP WATCHING KEITH OLBERMANN! Go here instead.

Coconut Lady says Boycott the DailyKos. The Obamaites are freaky, angry nutjobs.

Coconut Lady : Obama's church of 20 years founded on "the Destruction of the White enemy"

Coconut Lady finally says it: I HATE OBAMA

Labels: Dailykos, Grabbag, Michelle Obama, olbermann

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Arugula Fascism

If Hillary needs to pull out for the good of the party there is something wrong with the party.

Pennsylvania voters don't make 6 figures to bloviate on television. West Virginia voters don't spend much time hunched over the laptop at Starbucks screeching into the echo chamber at the Dailykos. Many Kentuckians and Indiani (what is the plural for people in Indiana?) actually think since the election is close they have the right to participate. In simpler times -say last year - that was called democracy. I don't say "arugula fascism" lightly but the Arugula Club in the media wants the election over before all the returns are in. Hijacking an election is certainly an element of fascism. The Arugula set has a script: Shining Knight defeats Evil Queen and, by God, they want it played out.

Who can say what will finally happen in this campaign? The infantile demands of the MSM to end the Democratic race now are telling. Not about the race - about the MSM. The Obama apologists in the media have gone from excited teens to strident college kids and just this weekend they approached being good old fashioned nut-jobs.

The two words that keep coming to mind as the the controlled demolition squads at the "news" outlets discuss (read: insist) Clinton exiting now. They are: weird and dishonest.

A look at the raw facts would lead the dispassionate observer to conclude that the race is close. If this was a championship football game the scoreboard would read Obamites: 52 Hillarians: 45 with about 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Hillarians have the ball and are driving (see PA polls). I don't need to stretch this analogy out too much further but let's just say the Obamite side of the stadium is demanding that Hillary drop the ball now and forfeit the game.

No one can honestly assess Clinton's arguments for staying: it's very close in both delegates and popular votes, she's won the big states, there have been bad calls by the ref (Dean) and then say "Gee, we want to go home so you should quit." Wah. wah. wah. The Obamites want to beat the traffic.

It's weird.

Or is it? The media is on the field and playing the game, too. The calls for Clinton to leave are intellectually dishonest. The arguments for her to go now are vapid. So what is this about?

I have few ideas:

1. The "arugula" set has invested emotionally in the idea of Obama in the past few months. Most of the TV media talking heads calling for Clinton's departure are part of the arugula set. Olbermann and Matthews are the most obviously biased - but there are plenty of others. Huffington comes to mind. Wealthy people who think their money and position infers wisdom. Obama is their man. They have the right to their opinions. But they also have the megaphone. There are not any "Budweiser" Democrats hosting shows on MSNBC. Or feminists for that matter. Old boys network meet your new pals - the Arugula Club.

2. Unconscious sexism is clearly at play here. Imagine if John Edwards was less than 1% behind BHO and polling ahead - by large margins - in 3 of the 4 upcoming contests. Would the Arugula club be demanding he cave? Hell no. All they would be discussing is race and the race.

You see, the Evil Queen won't pack up and go like she is supposed too. The script they finished late the night of the Iowa caucuses is being rewritten without their consent. They are hopping mad.

Screw 'em.

Let the election of the next President of the United States proceed.

Ron Paul calls Obama a fraud here:

Labels: Arugula, Clinton, Edwards, fascism, Obama, olbermann

Thursday, March 27, 2008

In defense of invective

From the Idea of Ancient Literary Critisism by Yun Lee Too:
Invective ( in the Illiad) is meant to be perceived as a challenge to the elite monopoly of public discourse.

Sometime last fall it became clear that the media would not challenge the Obama campaign in any real sense. The Wright tapes, available to all for a while now, being ignored until the largest gap in the primary calendar being the central example of the media's timidity regarding Obama - or in MSNBC's case - its outright cheerleading for him.

Around the same time Clinton was hammered for a bumbled response to a question about drivers' licenses for those here illegally and the major left wing blogs began to function as a cheering section for the Obamites and as attack dogs on Clinton. The subtext of the media and blogs like the Dailykos is "ignore, excuse and blame Clinton" for any misgivings that may arise about Obama. While in Clinton's case the subtext has been to highlight and deride every move her campaign has made. The best example here is Olbermann's almost insane "special comment" about Ferarro's innocuous remarks and Clinton's response to it while excusing and encouraging a far more disturbing 20 year commitment by Obama to Wright's church.

The media narrative has been and remains: The Shining Knight versus the Evil Queen. This is patently false and based in a wild misreading of both Obama's and Clinton's histories. It is only since the Wright story was amplified that the dam has been breached somewhat. The tapes were so disturbing that Fox News could not continue to ignore their own audience - they risked losing it. The right wing radio heads have followed their lead - or lead them.

I have no issue with most of the invective used here. It has a purpose: to shove anyone who might read it into a different thought about the dominant and unfair narrative being manufactured and sold by Dowd, Olbermann and the rest. How and why Olbermann decided to use his platform to work for Obama I know not. But it is clear he has. It is no longer an outlet for those of us who want to see some balance to the mindless CNN and the biased Fox. He uses his show to dismiss Clinton and fete Obama. Nightly.

He is an asshole for this. A dirty, rabid cur.

Olbermann, like Obama, has created a situation that is more divisive not less. It turns out - that people can - and often do - think. They ask questions. They want to know more. In the case of Obama "more" never came. Further, it is became clear that no matter what negative story is on the horizon for Obama he can count on a large portion of the press to ignore or excuse it. So frustration among those who want more information became anger and sometimes fury. The reason 28% of Clinton voters state they will vote for McCain in November is, in large part, because the media has treated her so shabbily.

When Saturday Night Live highlighted this obvious to all pro Obama bias in the media MSNBC incredibly asked its viewers if SNL had an "pro Hillary" bias...stretching the bounderies of irony.

So yes: Dowd is a brittle, pissy priss. Olbermann is just this side of madness. Cafferty is a gas bag, and Huffington is what she has always been: envious of any woman with more power. Or to put it another way- she's a hack with enough money to create a following. Nothing about her has changed since she traipsed around California in 1994 insulting Diane Feinstein.

Until the media comes out of its Obama trance calling out the elite monopoly on public discourse will be the order of the day here. If and when Olbermann and his ilk begin to ask fair and reasonable questions about Obama's fitness and history we can get back to a good old fashioned fight on the issues.

Labels: Clinton, invective, media, Obama, olbermann

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Barry H. Obama "shaken up" over pastor story. Still does not leave his racist church. Media fighting over "OAK" sessions

Poor Barry Hussein Obama. The "story" of "God Damn America" minister has upset him. Anderson Cooper got an "exclusive" ass kissing with Obama so BHO could whine about the "story". Not the bigot minister, mind you. He is not the problem. The problem is the story.
Cooper, when's he not walking in and out of various closets, or at Gold's gym in Hollywood, can be seen on CNN pretending to be a journalist. It is unclear if the actual "kissing of Obama's ass" ceremony took place before or after the interview. Obama may have been tired from the long hours of Keith Olbermann kissing his ass. Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd have also insisted on more "OAK" sessions of late. (Obama Ass Kissing).

OBAMA CHOSE THIS CHURCH FOR 20 YEARS. That's all the matters here folks.

Also - Clinton has vaulted ahead of Obama in the national polls again. From down 14 in Feb to up 7 yesterday.

Labels: anderson cooper, ass kissing, Obama, Obama's Church, olbermann, polls

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

In The Tank

We've been saying all along that Senator Obama's record has not been examined. We've been pooh-poohed.

We've been saying that Senator Clinton has not run a vicious campaign. We've run up against the "conventional wisdom" and the talking points of everyone from Maureen Dowd to Keith Olbmermann.

Who was right?

If Senator Obama's record had been even slightly looked at by a not completely in love with him press this story of the Church of our Lady of Perpetual Resentment (come for the pancake breakfast, stay for the rage) would have come out months ago.

If Clinton had been running a vicious campaign this story would have come out months ago.

When I talk to regular people, either pro Hillary, undecided or right they all say the same thing - the press is in the tank for Obama. They haven't bothered to get past his soaring renditions of Duval Patrick's greatest hits (he's our own Celene Dion) to look at what he's done.

They are too busy buying into his line that Senator Clinton needs to disclose her tax returns to ask him, hey if you said you made a bone headed decision to allow Resko to help you buy your house will you give it back and how can we trust you to make good decisions once elected? They believe him when he says her back hurt his knife and she should apologize.

John brought up a great point this evening that Senator Obama has not made a case for why he should be Commander in Chief. He campaigns on amorphous promises of change without offering us any concrete evidence that he can handle the job.

If he gets the nomination John McCain will be our next president. I think it was Molly who commented that you can't run a man who went to a church who's preacher said God Damn American from the pulpit against a man who fought in a war and was a POW for five years.

Super Delegates unite - we have nothing to lose but the Presidency.

Labels: Clinton, McCain, Obama, olbermann, Rezko

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Questions about Obama's judgement will not go away.

I commend Obama for his speech today. He tried, at least, to get out in front of the conversation and I like that in a politician. He tried to put the Wrong Reverend Wright in some context. Though he was moving (of course, we expect no less at this point) and personal there is only one context for Rev Wright that matters politically - He said "We should not be singing God Bless America we should be singing God Damn America." from the pulpit...

From the pulpit of a church he refuses to leave. That is the context.

I admit this: I am sick of Black Anger. My liberal guilt has morphed into liberal exhaustion. I know many who feel the same way. Many are fed up with making excuses and hearing excuses for bad behavior. For what? To hear a man spew bile from a pulpit? And to then hear a major party candidate make excuses for his membership in this man's church?

An African American commentator said on Fox - "you just don't understand the black church."

No. I don't. If Wright is any indication I no longer care to.

What Rev Wright exposes from that pulpit is not "black anger" so much as it is creepy paranoia. The sermons we have all seen are lists of every screwy idea that too many white voters have long suspected had currency in the black community:

A contempt for the country.

A belief that AIDS came from the government.

Willy nilly, shockingly mean spirited, sexual jibs at President Clinton (for the purpose of rewriting history and Bill Clinton's entire life.) The casual, joking dismissal of Bill Clinton's record on race is disgusting.

An attack on Hillary Clinton's ability to empathize because "she has never been called a niger". Meaning, one assumes, that she just doesn't get it. But lets call this what it is: an attack on her WHITENESS.

A grotesque reference to 9/11.

There is nothing unifying about any of this.

And Obama did not leave this church. By playing fast and lose with race during the past 3 months Obama has become THE divisive candidate. It may not be fair. But there it is. When a Clinton campaign aid said something remotely off base about race she put an end to them. And apologized. Obama made eloquent excuses today.

The BHO campaign used race all along. When it worked in South Carolina they used it and tried to tamp all questions about it down when the political winds blew the other way. His race did not matter - unless it did. Axelrod dictated the when and the where - and the Olbermanns played along. Wright ruined that. The talking points about race have been ripped from Obama's hands. It turns out, Mr. Axlerod, the world is not a Benetton ad campaign.

Tonight I was seeing a truly ridiculous rendering of the otherwise sublime Sweeney Todd in downtown Los Angeles so I have not seen any media. I am sure they are dutifully awestruck. I am not at all sure it matters. Time Magazine has a bunch of responses to the speech. Some are glowing, some not. Michael Munger a professor at Duke said this: A black candidate named Barrack Hussein Obama can't have questions about his patriotism, and commitment to America, not if he is going to beat a genuine war hero. I think Obama is unelectable.

That sums it up neatly. Democrats face and awful choice. A choice created when Obama's handlers decided to make South Carolina a referendum for black voters by race baiting Clinton's LBJ comment.

Questions about Obama's judgement will not go away. It is possible Obama might become a first class Senator given time. I wish he had not gotten this far before Wright's views were aired. He could then slide easily back to the Senate. Now his nomination will ensure an ugly, hateful fall campaign. Clinton's merely ensures a nasty one. After his speech today it is hard to fathom a scenario now in which he beats McCain. The GOP convention will be 4 days of singing God Bless America. There is no state Bush won in 2004 that he can turn blue. None. There are at least 4 Blue states that will go Red. Probably more. He condemned part of what Wright said but not the man. He needed to use his enormous gifts as an orator to obliterate any connection to Wright. He did not. Again, it may not be fair. But the majority will not tolerate a President who tolerates Rev. Wright's idea of America. I acknowledge that this fact has elements of racism.
A white candidate with an awful white preacher in tow might get by. A black one cannot.

Labels: Clinton, Obama, Obama's Church, olbermann, race

Friday, March 14, 2008

Is MSNBC biased? Yes. Is the Pope Catholic? Yes.

MSNBC is doing a day long hit job on Hillary Clinton. Dan Abrams, the programming boss, apparently does not have the intellectual depth to comprehend irony. He made this question their BIG story: Does SNL have a pro Hillary bias?
Really, let that sink in. MSNBC is asking if someone ELSE has a bias? If the presidency was not on the line it would be hysterical. It's like a Spitzer girl wondering aloud if women should have premarital sex.
By and large, MSNBC has whored itself out to the Obama campaign in a way that is reminiscent of Bush and Fox News. Fairness and balance are not to be bothered with when it comes to Hillary Clinton. Keith Olbermann's irrational "special comment" on Ferraro is the latest example of MSNBC's devolution into demagoguery. A friend and once loyal watcher of Countdown (he removed it from the Tivo this week) told me today he suspects there is a business decision behind MSNBC's Pro Obama bias. Left leaners already being MSNBC's base and with latte liberals voting BHO they have opted to go for the rich liberal demographic. This idea has merit. I also think MSNBC's sign off on Obama ass kissing may be simpler:

Olbermann is a quintessential white Obamite: self congratulatory, rich, smug and prone to believe his position translates automatically into some sort of special status and wisdom. You see, the rabble (blue collar voters) just doesn't understand how great a man Obama is. I've seen these traits in many Obamites. One told me point blank that Obama lost Florida because Hispanics did not unserstand how to say his name. Keith is a member of this club. A limousine liberal who thinks since he's nice to the help he is working for social justice.

Chris Matthew's is a simpleton with a woman problem. Attacking Clinton goes with the turf. With him all politics is just a big version of the boys hanging on the corner in Philly shooting the shit. A strong, capable woman comes along and confusion defaults to derision. Hillary Clinton doesn't compute in his head so he falls back into boy's club mode.

These are MSNBC's anchor shows - aside from the edifying one in which perverts show up in lovely suburban kitchens wearing only boxers.

Rarely does one see a negative piece on Clinton that is substantive. The tone is always "look what the Clinton's said! My god!" The two SNL skits have gotten so much traction because they give voice to what is so obvious to the rest of us but has yet to seep into Dan Abrams corner office. MSNBC's pro Obama bias is a no brainer. Is MSNBC biased? Yes. Is the Pope Catholic? Yes.

Duh.

BHO drop kicked Rev. Wright off his campaign today. Yes, he was on the campaign despite what the nattering Obamite nabobs bellyached on blogs everywhere. (He can't be held responsible for what a minister says!!! poor Barack! They -"they" being thinking people - are being so mean to him!) So now the Obamite cult has to grapple with more cognitive dissonance - the Reverend's bile doesn't matter so much he had to be fired. "We should sing GOD DAMN America, it's in the bible!" (huh?) is not a bell that will be unrung so easily. Nor is blaming AIDS on the U.S. Government. Obama is not responsible for these vile statements. He is responsible for sticking around to hear them for 20 years.

The Syrian slumlord Obama cash man's trial goes on. Thanks to Jay in (not of) LA for sending me this quote from BHO: "There are no allegations that I was involved in anything wrong."
A simpler answer is "I didn't do anything wrong." I wonder why the great wordsmith did not just say that. I guess Axelrod was off plagiarizing tomorrow's speech.

BHO was on Anderson Cooper and Keith today trying to stem the tide of blood over Rev Wright. This proves the BHO crew understands the political gravity of the hateful man's sermons. I doubt they have any notion of the genuine contempt many American's felt upon seeing the lunatic's sermon on Fox or CNN or the Daily Show.

Finally a commentator on NPR pointed out one of my beefs about the Obama double speak on race. Race CAN be discussed when the social progress that leads to a viable black candidate is the topic. But if any one dares bring it up in any other context (say when BHO goes "black preacher" in front of an African American audience in South Carolina, but never in front of a white audience.) they are to be shunned as insensitive.

If Obama uses his race to get votes the rest of us get to talk about it. End of story.

Clinton uses her gender all the time to get votes. And we all talk about it. She does it out in the open, in front of thousands. Her gender matters. Obama's race matters. Like it or not, Ferraro said nothing that millions of people are not thinking. She wasn't even off base in any real sense. The media has been openly fascinated by the Obama campaign because he is successful and "black". So have many Americans whose memory goes beyond last week's Next Top Model. This is good news in American life. White Obama voters in Iowa pointed out that they voted for him because he was "black." (I use the quotes here only because he is also white. For whatever reason biracial still equals black in America. ) Why was Ferraro hounded for stating the same thing? Because she if for Clinton. That's why. A white supporter voting for BHO speaks to our desire to feel good about our progress. A detractor pointing out that at least part of the BHO joy ride is fueled by what amounts to white self congratulation speaks to the possibility that we might be being taken for a not so joyful ride. Therefore she must be drummed into submission. We can't have any bad feelings about Obama, after all.

But there are bad feelings about Obama everywhere. Wright has lost millions of independent voters to McCain overnight. 25% of Hillary voters state now they'll vote for McCain if Obama is the Democratic candidate. This number is closer to 40% in Southern states. (see Mississippi exit polls)
His campaign has been skillful and mean. From the LBJ distortion, to dishonest mailers, to free lance jaunts to Canada, to a wife whose stump speech is a case study in resentment. For different reasons he has been handled with kid gloves in the media. Fox has an audience that loves seeing Hillary bashed, regardless of whose doing it. CNN is in terror of being called racist. MSNBC sees the possibility of being the go to network in the Obama years. Oprah will surely grace Countdown any moment with a fly by.

Clinton, too, has been easy on Obama. I wish to God she would throw the kitchen sink at the Obama campaign. Kitchen sinks being readily available in this campaign. Why she hasn't is a mystery. She is a better person than me, no doubt.

Clinton has remained quiet on the Obama's Wright connection and relationship. Considering that the loony far Left has vilified her and her husband with schoolgirl glee - I am baffled by Clinton's silence. Obama's campaign has been nasty. As a reader of American History I have no problem with this. Obama's campaign fits the norm in terms of roughness. It actually is a bit weak. (What Adams chucked at Jefferson is the better version of what Obama is doing to Clinton.)

What I loath is that BHO presents himself as a new kind of politician whose above all that. What a crock.

Labels: bias, Clinton, MSNBC, Obama, olbermann