Watching this election unfold has been a rollercoaster - (sorry, too lazy to find a less worn metaphor). A few days ago I was sure it was over. Now I am back to wondering and being unsure again. My gut checks are almost inexplicable at this point. The latest ABC WAPO poll has McCain gaining 5 points since the debate. Is that why? Maybe.
This whole year does not sit well with me. And not because my candidate was shown the door. Though, that did not help. It started well before June. Clinton fought hard, but never with the best ammo she had. This is not "Clintonian"...she did not fight like the "Clintons I knew". She did, however, remake her image. The Hillary of September 2007 was seen as entitled and imperial. The Hillary of September 2008 is seen as a smart, tough, fighter.
It made no sense for her to avoid using the best ammunition if she "will do anything" to win. Anything except take down the most fragile candidate since McGovern??? Any number of readers here could have (given what the Clinton's surely knew and about 500,000 dollars)- taken Obama down in January with ads featuring Ayres and Wright. McCain ran ads for two weeks in July and leveled the field - readying it for what I thought would be the knock out in August or September.
Again: NOT HARD. The depth of BHO's deceits are available for all to see. NoQuarter has compiled a great data base of Ayes/Obama ties that goes back generations. and Ayres is just one element in the Obama charade.
McCain is being pushed to the wall...yet again...the info on Obama is out there waiting to be put in concise, irrefutable 30 second spots. And yet his punches are glancing blows in, ads and in the 1st debate. It feels intentional.
It is as if we are being gamed. I've felt this since Iowa.
Today it seems the game is still on. Pelosi's behavior yesterday is BIZARRE if she wants BHO to win. She made a jackass of herself and reminded Independents why they don't like or trust Democrats. An ad with Pelosi/Reid/Obama's faces asking: Is this who you want in charge of your money for the next 4 years? Is a GOP no brainer. Then again 2 years of these 3 in charge, with Bush back in Crawford, and the GOP brand comes roaring back and no conservatives have to stomach a President McCain. All the while, they have a field day eviscerating Carter 2 and setting up President Gingrich in 2012. Not a good trade. But not an awful one either.
Whatever mercy the GOP is showing BHO in 2008 will not be shown Pelosi in 2010. Pelosi is Speaker for 4 years if McCain wins. She is Speaker for 2 more years if Obama wins.
I don't know what the game is. But I still believe much of it is unseen and unexplained, and going on like gangbusters behind the scenes. McCain does not seem RESIGNED to me. He seems like a man not all that worried. Biden, on the other hand, is not wearing the VEEP collar with any joy. And frankly, Palin is just fine. She's going on Right wing radio and kicking ass. Screeching about CBS/Couric is all well and good - but guess what - the voters she's "in charge of" don't watch Katie Couric. I am sure Gwne Iffle will do her best to trip her up Thursday. We shall see...
A new blog called ComeonPilgrims has two great youtube clips up. I would post them both but I want you to CLICK on the site. The 1st is North Korean kids singing to Dear Leader. The second is ...well...let's just say it is in a home in the "whole foods nation" and it is appalling.
Seriously, I never, EVER, remember the GOP being this sick. It's hard to imagine the mentality of people who use children as propaganda tools. The scariest part is the PODS think this is just FINE. As did the prosecutors who set up the "truth squad". I truly believe it did not cross their minds that is might seem...uh...UNAMERICAN...maybe...
The parents of this POD Children's Choir probably never had a whiff of doubt about their small children singing for a DEAR LEADER.
Watch them. Stay close to the toilet. Puke will be acoming...
With the economic outlook going from grim to grimmer to Code Red, it is a damn shame we do not have Clinton on the ballot. I don't give a "sh*t who thinks I need to "get over it". I am "over" a lot - trust me. Nevertheless, this is a situation Hillary was born to solve.
Gotta love those "super" delegates - pick the cool teen to do the adult's job! Way to go, kids!
The market is looking better today. But let's keep with the doom theme for a bit longer:
Before the clip at the bottom I have a few thoughts. If you are not in the mood to read - Please skip the thoughts and view the clip.
A. Pelosi is a disaster as Speaker of the House. I would say she is the Worst Speaker Ever - but I don't know the history of the House well enough.
Suffice it to say:Pelosi sucks.
Remarkably she used her time on the floor BEFORE the vote to hammer at and blame the entire financial mess on Bush and the GOP. I don't care about the content of what she said in this case. I heard it and did not disagree entirely. That's not the point. To throw this verbal bomb BEFORE the vote was:
1. Proof she's a moron. 2. An attempt to make sure the bill failed. 3. Both
Any GOPs that may have been on the fence voted No after her eruption. So much for a new era in politics.
B. The clip below exemplifies my disgust and sadness about the Democrats. From what I can tell so far most of the blame for the Freddie/Fannie debacle belongs to the Dems. They are the "something for nothing" Party now (with the perfect nominee to carry this banner forward.)
C. Since many of the DEMs defending Fannie/Freddie corruption in the clip are Black I expect to called a racist. Whatever. blah blah blah. The word has been rendered meaningless by the Obama campaign. These Reps are idiots. Idiots come in all colors.
D. I resent 700 billion (or whatever it is now) of tax payer money being spent to salvage the damage idiots on all levels did to the system. Saving this monster from eating its own is not worth our money or effort. Let the chips fall. We need to start living within in our means.
I guess you could say that today I am glad Pelosi is so bad at her job.
That's all, Folks! Many, many, things have ended this year...I believe one more event is over today: the election. I see no way the Democratic nominee loses. On his side: he's got the anxiety of the people, the media, Wall Street, and the Chicago machine. Not bad. tuff to beat that in any year. Much less a "Democratic" year.
Tell me why I'm wrong. I'd sure like to know.
Is there an "October" surprise that had an effect on an outcome? I can't think of any.
Is there a 527 (where are the 527's????) ad run in October that has effected an outcome? I don't know of any. They all run in the summer.
Rezko is now talking to prosecutors. Will this matter in the next 5 weeks? Doubtful.
Is there a "whitey tape?" Doubtful.
I sat and waited for Clinton to take Obama out. It would have been easy enough. She never did.
Now we sit and wait for McCain to take Obama out. I could create the ad. You could create the ad. It is easy pick 'ens with this guy. Yet, McCain only releases of series of glancing blows about "ready to lead" - (this line is already worn out. The line is: "DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS?")
The whole thing is fishy. Obama is easy to take down it - yet no one is doing it. Why?
The Obama Left's and the media's lynching of Sarah Palin is obscene. That is pretty much all I really want to say here. But I'll keep going. I am not referring to arguments about policy - that is always fair, and it would be nice to hear Obama yappers stick to policy arguments. Their candidate either says nothing of note or flip flops so this is admittedly difficult for them.
A series of out right lies have been spread about Palin by Obama Pods. These lies have been repeated in the MSM so widely that they now pass as fact.
Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She did't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.
She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.
Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."
Palin never required victims to pay for their own rape kits.
Palin has also been attacked by the Obama Left in the same way they attacked Clinton in the spring. This bullshit has also been widely reported on by the MSM - having the effect of giving propaganda the weight of fact.
Her pregnant 17 year old daughter was vivisected by the Obama Left.
Andrew Sullivan called for a paternity test on her youngest son.
Hypocritical statements about her presumed inability to work and maintain a family came from LIBERALS. Or rather alleged liberals.
In one month her entire life has been dug up, examined, and trashed. Yet, almost anything that questions Obama's narrative is off limits. Even connecting Obama to Fannie Mae's former President is called "racist".
Echoing Randie Rhodes last Spring (who called Clinton a "fucking whore") Sandra Bernhart gleefully called for the gang rape of Palin.
If the MSM had ripped into Biden's numorous idiocies and corrupt familial and credit card company ties I might call this a case of ugly politics as usual.
If the MSM had ever questioned Obama the way Gibson did Palin, I might call this part of the game that must be played.
If the MSM had forcefully reported on the failings of Trinity or Biden's Catholic church I might call this nasty, but fair.
None of this has occurred. The Obama Left and the media have set out to destroy Palin.
I really love the readers here. I had a meeting in Pasadena Saturday and checked in when I got home after 3 - a funny email I posted as a "place holder" had generated some great conversation. I felt so pleased and honored - really I mean that. No B.S.
A reader in Cody, Wyoming sent the pics in for the Sunday "snapshot of your location" section. I love them for a couple of reasons:
1. There are the opposite of L.A. images in so many ways. 2. Wyoming is the "equality" state. Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote. They were first to allow women to serve on juries and hold public office. This is a strand of progressive American frontier liberalism that is routinely dismissed by the effete lefty pricks in the Obama/Whole Foods Nation - who often barely conceal their contempt for strong women as anyone who watches Hardball, or reads Andrew Sullivan knows. Despite her conservative politics, Palin emerges from this "Wyoming liberal" tradition. Camille Paglia seems to be the only feminist east coast commentator who has noticed this: Palin represents an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism.
The media is subjecting Palin to a high tech lynching. (guess what tonight's post is called? Yes you are correct..."The lynching of Sarah Palin")
The debate "coverage" turned out exactly as I predicted. McCain spoke with authority and specificity. Obama was vague and overtly and covertly dishonest.
The media declared Obama the winner. And has fixated on McCain's "appearance". Obama's Kissinger gaffe and the "bracelet" gaffe are being ignored by the MSM. No surprise there.
Unless we demand a balanced and a fair vetting of Obama in the next 5 weeks - the media will make him President. Contact CNN. Contact MSNBC. I mean this. Unless PEOPLE rise up against the MSM it will not change. They are addicted to Obama. An intervention is the only recourse.
I state all the time that Obama is poison. I also state often my 80%/20% rule. I am 80% sure I am correct in my assessment. I hold out 20% - I could be wrong.
However, everyday I see more evidence for my central thesis: Obama has poisoned the electorate on all levels. He has gamed the system, cheated in the caucus states, buffaloed the media, caused vast portions of the electorate to ignore damning facts about his life, claimed the mantle of leadership though he's lead on nothing, lied about who he is and where he came from, unleashed a virulent sexism, demanded the compromise of our basic rights (just today he did it again - twice - don't think for a second the flip flop on FISA was anything except planning ahead. Once in office those who BHO picks to lead WILL invade the lives of those who oppose them. Think this is nuts? Google Missouri/Obama/truth squad. ). He has created an army of blind followers the likes we have not seen in this country before - followers who have no connection to or interest in basic American values, created a base of followers who will not question a single element of his narrative, he has lowered the bar on discourse by using race as a weapon. All these elements add up to poison.
The one mitigating factor: the stage was not set by BHO. The level of deceit Obama has employed and gotten away with is only possible because of the W trainwreck. Many are looking for and open to a "saviour" regardless of the "saviour's" actual track record.
We are limping toward total statism. And it will finally arrive from the Left.
This is the opposite of traditional liberalism and traditional conservatism.
Obama has created a "truth squad" in Missouri. Check out the video at uppity woman: here. You're blood will run cold. Law enforcement is involved. On the side of Obama.
Scared yet? You should be. Obama and his minions are a dangerous mob. Believe it.
From the Missouri Governor's Office:
What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
Obama is poison.
We either find out how dangerous Obama is now or we are in genuine trouble later. I have risked friendships this year because I truly believe this: Obama has all the characteristics of a dangerous megalomaniac and he must be stopped. His control over a substantial minority of the population is also extremely dangerous. These people have all the characteristics of a well fed mob. Those supporting the "truth squad" in Missouri see no issue with arresting people with dissenting opinions. They truly believe it is a good idea and see no down side. This level of stupid, willful ignorance of our traditions, and unchecked arrogance that "they are right" and those opposed to Obama are "wrong" is the most dangerous component of all.
Don't think 1984 "can't happen here."
Oh yes. Oh yes it can. Liberal as I am, I say without flinching: the death of democracy will come from the ARUGULA/"Whole Foods Nation" Left - not the far Right....
THE "Whole Foods" Left DOES NOT LIKE, TRUST, OR CARE ABOUT DEMOCRACY.
THE OBAMA LEFT DOES NOT LIKE, TRUST, OR CARE ABOUT INDIVIDUALS OR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
Like those on the far Right they care about POWER. And power alone. Obama has a well established PATTERN now- The attempt in Missouri to silence critics, the attempt in Ohio to silence a 527 ad about Ayres/Obama, and the recent attempt in PA to silence an NRA ad all fit a pattern based in Saul Alinsky's far left ideology of power at any cost.
Obama said HE would meet our enemies without preconditions. Obama is lying now. He referred to other PRESIDENTS meeting with enemies (a false and stupid conflation of historical fact.) directly implying that he AS PRESIDENT would meet with our sworn enemies without precondition. Not state department folks, not cabinet officers. HE would meet the Iranian President. FDR never "met" with Hitler.
- WAMU failed today. Even bigger news here. No more dough from China. uh-oh. This is the worst news on the week - by far. While we were told to look the other way the entire house built by U.S. dollar came tumbling down. See Howard Beale below. Network is more prescient than ever. Replace "Arabs" with "Chinese" and you get the picture. It stuns me to think this film was made before CNN and before Olbermann and blogs....
- Anyone remember the first 2000 debate between Gore and Bush? Gore clearly won on all counts - except he "exhaled" loudly. The media - at the time being in the bag for W - ignored the debate itself and spent 72 hours afterward talking about Gore's sighs. I expect something like this to come out of tonight. Some nonsense to rip McCain will be highlighted - all substance will be ignored.
- Andrew Sullivan wants McCain's camp to conduct a paternity test on Trig Palin. Now I could argue for the unmitigated misogyny of Sullivan here - but why bother? He hates strong women. End of story. This is simply another example of the intellectual poison Obama injects into those who support him. From Pelosi's belief that BHO was sent from God, to Sandra Bernhard's call for the gang rape of Palin: Obama is poison. There are now thousands, if not millions, of deranged verbal ejaculations from BHO's base scattered across the Internet. It is worth remembering that Sullivan, neo-con and recently recovered W hack, took out an ad looking for unsafe sex with another man - or group of men- after years of slamming many in the gay rights movement for trying to promote HIV awareness. At least he's not a hypocrite in the bedroom.
- While many were working O.T. in D.C. to come to an agreement on a bailout today, BHO found time to hit the gym. Good for him . Presumably he had his cell so they "could call him if they needed him. I have two ongoing theories about BHO that tie into this item. 1. He has narcissistic personality disorder. Anyone who has ever known a person with this disorder (or walked around West Hollywood) recognizes the symptoms exhibited by Obama: the football stadium, the desire to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, the fake Presidential seal, the "you're likable enough" line to Hillary...Or when he's thrown - the snotty reactions: flipping the bird, and repeating "he's not the (fill in crook here) I knew." Personal accountability is seemingly impossible for him. 2. Obama is the Trojan Horse of this election. He's the machine's front man this time around. To a certain degree it does not matter if he's "there" or not, any more than it mattered if Bush was in the room when Rummy and Cheney moved the country to war with Iraq. The machine in this case is the Media, the DNC, a whole lot of Wall Street types, the hardcore "Ayres" Left, and the Chicago power brokers. The result is the same as it was in 2000, though. A few people get a lot of power at the expense of the many. It facinates me that after all the people Obama has double crossed from Alice Palmer on that - if he wins - the Obama fan base still does not see that they will be under the bus within 3 months. Kos and Huffington surely know this. As does Sullivan. But there isn't a true liberal in that bunch anyway. I suspect the most wrenching Obama divorces will come from much of Black community and Labor. The connections here are the most shallow in tangible, policy terms.
Money and debt are the same. Without making a value judgement, I submit the following statement: The deal being worked out in D.C. right now to salvage the economy is a marriage of fascism and socialism. This is happening because money is created and does not represent "goods" or "labor" or even "value" - but debt. The more money/debt one "holds" the more power one has. $700,000,000 is debt about to be incurred and held over all of us - by a few people. Control of the currency is in the hands of bankers - not Congress, not the people. Bankers INVENT money. Controlling currency equates to controlling the system. A simple explanation of this is in the 5 parts below. I recommend watching all five parts.
If Obama loses the election it will not be because of racism. It will be because of Obamaism.
Obamaism is a rational revulsion to elevating a smug, effete, entitled brat to a position of great power. Obamaism occurs in rational people when a person is put forth as a great leader, though he has accomplished nothing - and rational people see the risk as too great.
Obamaism is not a problem, but a healthy defense mechanism. Rational people do not like their futures put in the hands of show ponies and liars. Rational people do not take kindly to a person who has run away from their past associations with criminals and terrorists. A negative reaction to this is not predicated on skin color but on rationality.
If Obama loses it will be because the majority of people see him clearly and do not like what they see. This is not racism. It is Obamaism.
I was asked earlier today if I intend to watch the debate. I don't see any particular reason to tune in.
Here's what will happen:
1. BHO will give general, firm sounding answers and take credit for things he did not do. He will double back on things he's said before. He will not be called out for the flip flops.
2. McCain will be much more specific - giving firm answers, and look more in charge. He will be called out on any apparent or media created contradiction.
We've seen this before all year. Clinton cleaned Obama's clock over and over again. The media ignored it and continued to kiss BHO's ass.
After Friday's debate, regardless of what happens during the debate, (even if BHO vomits on the first row of the audience) the majority of media will refer to McCain as "old" and "trigger happy" and Obama as "Presidential"
If I am wrong about this prediction, I'll find out soon enough via Youtube or elsewhere. If something changes the dynamic of the race it will be quickly apparent. If McCain dodders or Obama has a severe arrogance slip I might regret not watching. But I'll see the "moment" over and over again regardless.
It's like watching gymnastics at the Olympics. Let's face it: the main reason to look is to see if someone is going to screw up.
I almost never watch these "debates". I don't see any reason to start now.
A real leader won the popular vote in the DEM primaries, and she probably would have won the whole thing except she was shoved aside by a bunch of idiot, delusional, fake liberals.
I've said for a while that a this election would be decided by a major, unforeseen, "outside" event. That is to say: it would not be the debates or a flub by a candidate - or even the major issues of the primaries. It would be something else.
Is the market mess that event? Not sure. It certainly was not unforeseen. And 5 weeks is a hell of a long time in a political race. But my gut check tells me undecideds will be moving toward the party NOT in the White House in the next few weeks and they will be hard to get back for McCain.
Despite BHO's silly initial refusal to go back to D.C. (that is to say: to SHOW UP FOR WORK, for God's sake) he has gained, and will gain the most from this crisis by virtue of one thing: he's not a Republican. I have no faith that he has the ability to handle the mess any better than McCain. In fact, his economic bonefides are exactly zilch. It doesn't matter. The GOP is on track to get clobbered by this crisis.
And if the past 10 months are an indication, BHO could drop his pants and take a dump on the White House lawn this week and the media would call it "presidential."
Oh, and this is a crisis. We are witnessing a catastrophe the likes we have not seen since at least 1929 and it may well surpass that meltdown when all is said and done. Frankly, 700 billion dollars is incomprehensible. I don't know much about macroeconomics. But I do know one thing: That 700 billion bucks does not exist. It's being conjured - or printed if you like - and the more money that gets created out of thin air the less each and every dollar you and I have is worth. Hyperinflation is the next logical stop.
What concerns me is the combination of hyperinflation and an Obama administration. Or to put a finer point on it: the combination of hyperinflation and a cult of personality in power. From the vantage point of September 24th it looks like this is exactly what we will be getting. The worst economic outlook in 70 years combined with leadership that is driven by slogans and delusional projection and all I can say is: Let's HOPE we can survive the CHANGE that is coming.
