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Obama and his party lying about “nonproducing” oil leases

Anytime you hear some dimwit regurgitate DNC talking points about the oil companies refusing to drill on lands they already lease, debunk that lie with this.  Read the whole thing, but savor the excerpt:

Oil companies take leases not because they know there’s oil on the land (or under the sea), but because they think there might be oil and need the lease in order to explore that possibility and to secure the legal right to pump it if they do find it. It’s simply ridiculous to assume, as the Democrats’ talking points do, that each and every lease actually contains a huge amount of recoverable oil, and the oil companies are simply refusing to drill there. Instead, the claim goes, the oil companies are clamoring for the right to grab up additional leases… which then, of course, they will also leave untouched.

Why are oil companies securing leases for oil they know is there but have no intention of drilling? If their goal is to not drill, why bother with the expense of a lease at all? They’re all in on it together, in this conspiracy theory, so they can all just agree to not drill at all. They hardly need to pay the government money for the right not to drill.

June 30, 2008 Posted by | Obama, oil | 4 Comments

Maybe Democrats really ARE Satanic!

From Confederate Yankee:

Too bad they worship someone other than the Obamamessiah:

Prosecutors said Craig’s victims met him through a shared interest in Satan worship. They alleged Craig shackled his victims to beds, kept them in dog cages and starved them inside his Albany Street home.He was charged with beating one victim with a cane and a cord and with raping a woman.

Johnson, who was third vice-chair of the Durham County Democratic Party and vice-chair for the Young Democrats, was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting. Prosecutors said she knew her husband planned the crime and watched as they were committed.

She has resigned her positions with the Democratic Party, said state Sen. Floyd McKissick, D-Durham.

When reached for comment this afternoon, Obama said, “this is not the Satan-worshiping third vice-chair of the Durham County Democratic Party that I knew.”

Heh…for the snark, not for the crime.

June 30, 2008 Posted by | bizarre, Obama, shameful | Leave a Comment

Sexist Obama underpays women

When he’s not busy patronizing professional women by calling them “Sweetie”, the Obamaliar likes to spend his time engaging in some bold-faced lying laced with shameless hypocrisy.  From CNS News:

While Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president, an analysis of his Senate staff shows that women are outnumbered and out-paid by men.

That is in contrast to Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s Senate office, where women, for the most part, out-rank and are paid more than men.

Obama spoke in Albuquerque, N.M. last week about his commitment to the issue and his support of a Senate bill to make it easier to sue an employer for pay discrimination.

“Mr. McCain is an honorable man, we respect his service. But when you look at our records and our plans on issues that matter to working women, the choice could not be clearer,” Obama told the audience in New Mexico, a voter-swing state. “It starts with equal pay. Sixty-two percent of working women in America earn half or more than of their family’s income. But women still earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2008. You’d think that Washington would be united it its determination to fight for equal pay.”
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On average, women working in Obama’s Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That’s according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama’s Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one — Obama’s administrative manager — was a woman.

The average pay for the 33 men on Obama’s staff (who earned more than $23,000, the lowest annual salary paid for non-intern employees) was $59,207. The average pay for the 31 women on Obama’s staff who earned more than $23,000 per year was $48,729.91. (The average pay for all 36 male employees on Obama’s staff was $55,962; and the average pay for all 31 female employees was $48,729. The report indicated that Obama had only one paid intern during the period, who was a male.)

McCain, an Arizona senator, employed a total of 69 people during the reporting period ending in the fall of 2007, but 23 of them were interns. Of his non-intern employees, 30 were women and 16 were men. After excluding interns, the average pay for the 30 women on McCain’s staff was $59,104.51. The 16 non-intern males in McCain’s office, by comparison, were paid an average of $56,628.83.

The Obama campaign did not respond to written questions submitted on the matter Thursday by Cybercast News Service.

Maybe his H.R. person “isn’t the H.R. person I know”!

June 30, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama | Leave a Comment

Moonbatosphere targeting McCain’s service

Apparently, the leftosphere thinks this will be an effective campaign technique.  Hey, tinfoilers, knock yourselves out.  They already think it’s funny to make fun of his teeth (yanked out in the Hanoi Hilton) and his blinking, so why stop there?

Exit question: If McCain’s service, which consisted of being a bomber, qualifies as “war crimes” to the left, how exactly do they square that circle with Kerry’s shooting of a Vietnamese kid in the back?

June 30, 2008 Posted by | McCain, moonbats, shameful | 1 Comment

Wes Clark destroys any VP aspirations

What a sleazy son of a b#tch!  From FNC (via Michelle Malkin):

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a key military adviser for Barack Obama, dismissed John McCain’s war record as a qualification for readiness to be president.

Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Clark downplayed the plane crash that led to McCain’s captivity during the Vietnam War, and said the squadron McCain commanded “wasn’t a wartime squadron.”

“He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility,” Clark said.
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When asked by host Bob Schieffer how he came to describe McCain as “untested and untried,” Clark said it was “because in the matters of national security policy-making, it’s a matter of understanding risk. It’s a matter of gauging your opponents and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in his official positions,” adding, “He hasn’t made the calls.”

When Schieffer noted Obama has not had wartime experiences, Clark said: “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”

Retorts libertarian blogger QandO:

A squadron command doesn’t become “executive experience” only if the squadron is in a combat situation. It is either an executive experience or it’s not executive experience whether at war or during peace.

Does commanding NATO not count as executive experience if NATO isn’t at war? And btw, does getting fired from his NATO command negate Clark’s claim to executive experience?

…if the willingness to fight for your country, put your life on the line and suffer the brutality McCain suffered as a POW doesn’t make the cut as far as qualifications go, how far below that does a “community organizer” show up on the list of non-qualifications?

In other words, getting fired from NATO for nearly starting a war with the Russkies is more honorable than enduring torture for your country, and a guy who has misjudged everyone around him while toiling away being a “community organizer” has more “executive experience” worthy of being commander-in-chief.  Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.  #sshole.

Continues Wicked Wes:

…But he hasn’t held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded wasn’t a wartime squadron. He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall. He hasn’t seen what it’s like when diplomats come in and say, `I don’t know whether we’re going to be able to get this point through or not. Do you want to take the risk? What about your reputation? How do we handle it publicly?

Ed Morrissey has a summary of the Obamaliar’s qualifications in those areas:

  •  In “the matter of national security policy making.” Barack Obama hasn’t ever done anything.
  • In the matter of gauging your “opponents”, Obama wants to meet with them without preconditions despite having no national-security, military, or diplomatic experience.
  • Barack Obama hasn’t been on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  • Barack Obama hasn’t had any executive experience.
  • Barack Obama hasn’t commanded anything, in wartime or not.
  • Barack Obama hasn’t dealt with diplomats in any capacity at all.
  • Barack Obama hasn’t ordered the bombs to fall, although to be fair, he has associated himself with someone who has — William Ayers.  (Ouch!  Score 1 for Morrissey! – Ed.)

    • Look, what Clark may have “inartfully” tried to say is that POW status in and of itself is not a reason to vote for someone.  That is true.  But for that disgusting waste of oxygen to suggest that Barry O’s flimsy record devoid of any substantive achievements is more noteworthy than anything McCain has done is not just partisan hackery…it’s pure, unadulterated, shameless moonbattery.

    June 30, 2008 Posted by | moonbats, shameful | 7 Comments

    OH city cancels youth all-star game to prevent “bruised egos”

    The wussification of America continues:

    BEACHWOOD, Ohio — A local community has canceled an all-star game for youth baseball players because it doesn’t want to exclude anyone.

    The city of Beachwood and its recreation department drew the line at age 12.

    The phone lines lit up on WTAM on Thursday morning as parents and sports fans called to voice their opinion on the city canceling its all-star game for 9- to 12-year-olds.

    For decades the game has been played on July 4, but in a letter to the coaches, the parks and recreation department said the tradition is over, saying its not their desire to exclude any child from participating in a recreation event.

    The letter sites an article written by the CEO of the National Alliance for Youth Sports that says all-star games bruise young egos.

    It’s a thought he issued to WTAM host Bob Franz.

    “Below the age of 10, children don’t care. What they really care about is having fun and playing,” said Fred Engh.

    Franz has one father call in whose child would have played in next week’s all-star game. He said his son is very disappointed because this was the first year he was selected and he’s worked hard all year to get this honor.

    It’s becoming more and more apparent that achievement is being phased out of our culture, all in the name of political correctness.

    June 30, 2008 Posted by | political correctness, shameful | 3 Comments

    MSM editorial: repeal the Second Amendment

    Not surprisingly, the MSM is going crazier than a Reynolds Wrap vendor at a Kos convention over the Supreme Court’s upholding the Second Amendment last week.  The Chicago fishwrap penned an editorial calling for a repeal of the Second Amendment, which they acknowledge will never happen.  Details here.

    But here is probably the line that annoyed me the most from that editorial:

    The damage in this ruling is that it takes a significant public policy issue out of the hands of citizens. The people of Washington no longer have the authority to decide that, as a matter of public safety, they will prohibit handgun possession within their borders.

    The left just doesn’t get it, do they?  It doesn’t amount to a fart in a whirlwind what the residents of a city or state want if the end result is a trampling on the Constitution!  This is a nation of laws, and the supreme law of our land is the United States Constitution.  We are not a democracy, but we are a constitutional republic.  That may suck for the Chicago fishwrap newsroom, but it’s good news for normal America.

    June 30, 2008 Posted by | gun rights, media bias | 2 Comments

       

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