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Quote of the day, Obama’s “pots and kettles” edition

Wow…did The One really say this?  Yes, indeed.

Not long after the Obama campaign signaled it wouldn’t go directly after Sarah Palin, the candidate goes right at her.

Well, how about Gov. Palin? She’s you know, an up and comer from Alaska. She – they’re starting to run an ad now saying she opposed the bridge to nowhere. Well now, let’s get the facts clear here. When she was mayor, she hired a Washington lobbyist to get earmarks – pork barrel spending – all the things that John McCain says is bad, she lobbied to get! And got a whole lot of it. When it came to the bridge to nowhere, she was for it until everybody started raising a fuss about it and she started running for governor and then suddenly she was against it!

You remember that? For it before you were against it? I mean you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just recreate yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid.

It’s unusual to see the presidential nominee so focused on his rival’s running mate, and a sign that her wattage is changing the race a bit.

Pots and kettles are coming to mind.  Oh, wait…that’s racist, isn’t it?  Someone do me a gi-normous favor and remind me to care, m’kay?  Thanks in advance.

September 8, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama, Palin, quote of the day | 4 Comments

Nobody believes “photoshop of Palin in bikini” pic…except for CNN

Quoth Allah:

We’ve now reached the point where gossip sites are forced to debunk rumors being circulated uncritically by the mainstream media.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 8, 2008 Posted by | CNN, media bias, Palin, photoshop | 3 Comments

Obama: I won’t rescind tax cuts in recession

This dude’s just making stuff up as he goes along.  No wonder he’s losing now.  Anywho, from the AP:

Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.

Nevertheless, Obama has no plans to extend the Bush tax cuts beyond their expiration date, as Republican John McCain advocates. Instead, Obama wants to push for his promised tax cuts for the middle class, he said in a broadcast interview aired Sunday. …

Not renewing the tax cuts has the exact same effect as rescinding the tax cuts: taxes increase.  Either he doesn’t know this, or he’s counting on everyone else not knowing it.

Think about that for a second: Obama is saying that if the economy is bad, he won’t worsen it by raising taxes.  But for some weird reason, it’s OK to worsen the economy when it’s not bad?  If this isn’t a tacit admission that tax cuts are good for the economy and tax increases are bad for the economy, then what is?

September 8, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, Obama, taxes | 4 Comments

Convention Dems throw away thousands of American flags

When the cameras and bright lights of the Democrat convention were gone, the left reverted to normal form: sending thousands of American flags they had waved on TV into trash bags headed for a landfill.  Full details and a chronology are here, and pictures are here.

But hey, don’t you go and question their patriotism or anything, m’kay?

“Returned to manufacturer”…in garbage bags?

September 8, 2008 Posted by | moonbats, shameful | 4 Comments

Obama: Sure, I wanted to join the military!

I buy this as much as I buy Hillary’s assertion that she wanted to join the Marines.

But hey, we can’t totally reject The One’s assertion outright, since there’s no way to prove he did or didn’t want to sign up.  But considering that he didn’t write a word about it in either of his two Biblical chapters memoirs, color me with the Skeptical crayon.  Check it out:

Mr Obama was asked by George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “This Week” programme whether he’d ever thought about military service and replied: “You know, I actually did. I had to sign up for Selective Service [a means of conscription in case of war] when I graduated from high school.

“And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there.

“And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”

Oh, I see.  Because there just is no need to join the armed forces unless you get to blow people up.  This will no doubt come as quite the surprise to the millions of Americans who have joined the military over the last several decades without such a motivation, right?  Love of country, college tuition assistance, job training?  Nah…bunker busters and human entrails, baby!

Ace has a colorful retort:

Vote for Barack Obama

It is only due to bad timing he didn’t get his chance to kill livestock, cut off ears, ravage villages, blow up bodies, and behave in a fashion reminiscent of Jenjhis Khan.

Heh.

Exit question: If the left uses the brain-dead mindless smear “chickenhawk” to describe people who support our troops who go off to battle (yet these folks haven’t personally enlisted themselves), then what term would these idiots like to come up with for people like Obama who claim to want to go to war to kill people, but then don’t actually enlist to make it happen?  Is it somehow more noble to want to go and kill yet don’t follow through?

September 8, 2008 Posted by | Obama, shameful | 7 Comments

Biden: Life begins at conception, but so what?

Greasy Joe over the weekend:

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee for vice president, departed Sunday from party doctrine on abortion rights, declaring that as a Catholic, he believes life begins at conception.
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In the interview Sunday, Mr. Biden tried to walk the line between the staunch abortion-rights advocates in his party and his own religious beliefs. While he said he did not often talk about his faith, he said of those who disagree with him: “They believe in their faith and they believe in human life, and they have differing views as to when life — I’m prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception.”

Um…as a Catholic, you can’t be “prepared to accept”, idiot.  You must accept!

If he genuinely believes that life begins at conception, but he supports easy access to abortion, then how can anyone come to any conclusion other than Biden doesn’t care about human life?  If he actually believes what he says, then he, by his definition (and not mine), supports murder…period, end of discussion.

So, the exit question is this: Is he lying, or is he a depraved sicko…or both?

September 8, 2008 Posted by | abortion, Biden, shameful | 4 Comments

Olbermann and Matthews out as MSNBC “news anchors”

The good news:

MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as the anchors of live political events, bowing to growing criticism that they are too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign.

The bad news:

David Gregory, the NBC newsman and White House correspondent who also hosts a program on MSNBC, will take over during such events as this fall’s presidential and vice presidential debates and election night.

Oh, like Gregory is any less biased than Matthews and Blabberman!  I’ll say this about Gregory, though: his thrill in his leg is slightly less visible on TV than that of Matthews…but not by much.  Word has it that Matthews’ and Olberdouche’s audience was informed of the bad news, and both of their viewers took it badly.

Either way, it’s funny to see at least two moonbats removed from “news” coverage.  Two down, so many more to go.

September 8, 2008 Posted by | media bias, moonbats, Olbermann | 4 Comments

UPDATED: Zogby and Gallup: McCain up

UPDATES BELOW.

I don’t know how many different ways I can express my “polls with grain of salt” disclaimer, especially when one of them is the once-respected Zogby.  But here you go anyway:

Zogby:  50% – 46%, outside the margin of error of 2.1% and with a large sample (roughly 2,300).

Gallup:  48% – 45%, outside the margin of error of 2% and with a large sample (nearly 2,800).

Zogby’s poll was taken Friday and Saturday (9/5 – 9/6).  Gallup’s was taken entirely after Palin’s speech, but a third of the respondants were polled before McCain’s well-received speech.

Prediction #1: Barring some Dukakis-like screw-up by either candidate henceforth, look for this election to be a carbon copy of the last two elections…close, comes down to a state or two, and maybe not known for certain until the wee hours of the morn.  Only time will tell.

Prediction #2: The tabloidal sharks running the MSM will kick up the smear machine into overdrive in the coming weeks, making what we’ve seen thus far look like a walk in the park.

UPDATE (09/08/2008 – 09:55 AM EST):  USA Today is reporting that McCain is up 10% among likely voters.  Even in my most optimistic scenarios, I don’t see that happening.  At any rate, there it is.

September 8, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama, polls | 5 Comments

UPDATE: Oprah not bringing Palin on her show

UPDATES BELOW.

Drudge reported on this last week.  Oprah has since replied that she’s not allowing any politician to come on her show during this campaign cycle, though she did have the Obamessiah on twice before he announced his candidacy.  Apparently, her predominantly female audience is fiercely divided on her decision to not allow the first female VP candidate in 24 years on the show.

My take?  It’s Oprah’s show, and she can bring whomever she darned well pleases onto the show.  She’s campaigned for The One, so she’s invested in him.  However, she also has to be able to handle the fallout from any of her decisions, even poor business decisions like this one.  My guess is that in the end, her double standard and her choice of race over gender won’t scar her too terribly.

UPDATE (09/08/2008 – 10:00 AM EST):  The backlash against Oprah has begun, for whatever that’s worth.

September 8, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama, Palin | 5 Comments

   

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