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Obama’s sexist streak continues

Relax, “Sweetie“, and you just might like it.  Quoth The One:

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

Pig?  Stinky fish?  OK, so maybe he was talking about McCain and not Palin, right?  Well, the crowd didn’t take it that way, did they?

Reporters were a bit skeptical that Obama intended to do that; from the sketchy reports we have, he seemed to be talking about how John McCain can claim to represent change but isn’t really an agent of change.  But [Mass. Gov. Jane] Swift said, “it’s pretty clear the crowd thought that that was the insult he was leveling.”  And Swift made the (hopefully) undeniable observation that Palin is the only one of the four national candidates who wears lipstick.

Maybe the Hildebeast, Ferraro, and other women were onto something with this “O as sexist” meme.

September 9, 2008 Posted by | feminism, McCain, Obama, Palin, shameful | 15 Comments

Biden: Republicans don’t care about special needs kids

Presumably, the “Sweetie” running on the other side of the ticket doesn’t love or care for her Down’s syndrome child.  This is sleazy for even Greasy Joe’s standards:

Was Joe Biden referring to Sarah Palin, a mother of a child with Down syndrome, when he made this comment?

“I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there’s joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?”

Biden received a thunderous ovation when he made the remark at a town hall style meeting this morning in Columbia.

Good to see that Greasy Joe is listening to his #1′s suggestion that “kids are off limits” in the campaign.

I’m thinking that Sen. Infanticide doesn’t really want this “who cares about babies?” / “embryonic stem cell research” issue coming up right about now.  If the cretin who opposed the Infants Born Alive Protection bill (for those of you on the left, that was Sen. Obabykiller) was content to let a Down’s syndrome baby die a slow death in a soiled utility closet, it’s safe to say he would have no qualms about killing such a baby in order to harvest his/her stem cells.  Only in Liberal La-la-land does killing a baby to use its stem cells equate to caring for children.

Team McCain-Palin responds:

Barack Obama’s running mate sunk to a new low today launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special needs children. Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign.

For the love of God, McCain, run with this sound bite…and run with it far and wide!

Exit question: Can Biden save himself by “confessing” that he’s a serial plagiarist and therefore stole the sickeningly offensive line from someone else?

September 9, 2008 Posted by | abortion, Biden, McCain, Palin, shameful | 1 Comment

Obama: Against 527′s before he was for them

Change (of mind) you can believe in, ladies and germs.  The latest in a long line of lies nuanced policy revisions, from Ed Morrissey:

Marc Ambinder has the latest reversal from the Chicago distributor of New Politics. Barack Obama has spent the past two years railing against the influence of 527 groups in election cycles, and has insisted that he will not tolerate their presence on his behalf in the general-election campaign. Just like his pledge not to bail out of the public-financing system and his promise not to raise soft money from lobbyists, though, it appears this commitment has expired, thanks to his sinking fortunes:

There’s been a spurt of 527 activity on behalf of Sen. John McCain, but Barack Obama campaign has suddenly gone silent on the subject.

That’s because, after of year of telling donors not to contribute to 527 groups, of encouraging strategists not to form them and of suggesting that outside messaging efforts would not be welcome in Obama’s Democratic Party, Obama’s strategists have changed their approach.

An Obama adviser privy to the campaign’s internal thinking on the matter says that,with less than two months before the election and with the realization that Republicans have achieved financial parity with Democrats, they hope that Democratic allies — what another campaign aide termed “the cavalry” — with come to Obama’s aid.

Sidebar: Right about now, Barry O may be second-guessing that decision to forego public financing…although his in-kind contributions from the MSM are a type of “general public” financing, no?

Anywho, the left’s “agent of change” is nothing more than a garden variety pandering politician who’s not above lying through his teeth and betraying principles if it suits his needs.

September 9, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama | 1 Comment

Poll: Liberals wants Supreme Court to rule on “fairness”, not Constitution

A scary, yet unsurprising, look in to the gourds of liberals.  From Rasmussen:

While 82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obama’s supporters agree. Just 11% of McCain supporters say judges should rule based on the judge’s sense of fairness, while nearly half (49%) of Obama supporters agree.

Remember this whenever you hear some brain-dead leftard rant about Bush supposedly “trashing the Constitution”, OK?  The left cares about the Constitution only when it serves their interest.  The rest of the time, it’s just a cocktail napkin that the Founding Fathers scribbled some words on the back of.

September 9, 2008 Posted by | Constitution, McCain, moonbats, Obama, polls, Supreme Court | 4 Comments

Newest MSM non-scandal blows up in their leftist faces

The MSM Palin Freakout-O-Meter is registering off the charts.

Check this out: the Washington comPost is reporting that Gov. Sarah Palin billed the state of Alaska for per diem charges that…um…she was allowed to bill the state for!  Excerpt:

New Washington Post “Expose” on Palin:

You have to read the article carefully to figure this out, but what the story ultimately reveals is that Palin (a) billed the state for most expenses allowed by law, including per diem when she stayed in her own home (her “duty station” was the state capitol of Juneau) in Wasilla; (b) didn’t bill the state for other expenses, when she could have done so lawfully, such as per diems for her children; and (c) spent a lot less money on expenses than did her predecessor, especially on travel and by ridding herself of the state’s personal chef. [FWIW, she apparently maintained two residences, the governor's mansion in Juneau, which by state law is her official work "base" and where assumedly she didn't get a per diem (but where her predecessor had a personal chef whom she let go), and Wasilla, from where she commuted to Anchorage for work when the legislature wasn't in session. Saintly to take the per diem she was legally entitled to when in the second residence? No. Worthy of the lead headline on Washingtonpost.com? Please! Not illegal, not unethical, and not a scandal.]

Meanwhile, I have to wonder whether the Post has several reporters looking over Joe Biden’s expense reports. Does he bill the government for his daily roundtrip to Delaware? How many “fact-finding missions” has he participated in annually during his Senate career? Inquiring minds want to know?

UPDATE: The Post doesn’t do the math for us, but the total per diem claimed was $16,951 divided divided by 312 days, or $54.33 per day (the per diem is $60, so there were some partial days).

Also, the article headline, “Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home,” and some related content, is very misleading. A glance at the expense report reproduced on the Post’s website makes it clear that she requested per diem for her daily expenses, but not for lodging, and that she apparently wrote “lodging–own home” only to explain why she wasn’t requesting hotel expenses. One almost wonders whether the author of the story understands what a “per diem” is; the story notes that Palin rarely charged the state for meals when in Wasilla and Anchorage, but of course she didn’t, because she instead just asked for the per diem!

Keep it up, comPost.  Those plunging subscription and ad rates don’t perpetuate themselves, ya know?  Quips Ace:

So let me sum up, a governor bills the state for legal reimbursements and oh yeah spends a lot less than her predecessors on personal travel and that rates a front page story under the headline: Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home?

I’m starting to feel bad for the MSM. I mean, they are now reduced to debunking their own ‘scoops’ in their own stories.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 9, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Palin | Leave a Comment

Headlines, “MSM alternate reality” edition

Headline from AFP:

Bush: 8,000 US troops to leave Iraq

Great news, right?  Here’s a sample of what Newsbusters found for alternate headlines for this reality:

MSNBC:  Bush to keep troop levels in Iraq for ’08

Times Online:  President Bush to maintain US troops in Iraq until almost last day in office

AP:  Bush keeping Iraq troop levels mostly steady

Washington comPost:  Bush to Keep Iraq Troop Levels Steady Until After He Leaves Office

USA Today:  AP:  Bush won’t reduce Iraq forces until early ’09

Financial Times:  Bush to withdraw 4,000 Iraq troops

That last one is scary, in that the number is 8,000 and not 4,000.  It certainly is reassuring to see the superior math skills of a financial publication, now?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 9, 2008 Posted by | headlines, Iraq, media bias | Leave a Comment

Biden takes credit for Anbar Awakening

You just can’t make this stuff up!  The same guy who proposed breaking Iraq into three different countries/regions is now claiming credit for the Anbar Awakening.  From Commentary:

No. The surge helped make that–what made is possible in Anbar province is they did what I’d suggested two and a half years ago: gave local control. They turned over and they said to the Sunnis in Anbar province, “We promise you, don’t worry, you’re not going to have any Shia in here. There’s going to be no national forces in here. We’re going to train your forces to help you fight al-Qaeda.” And that you–what you had was the awakening. The awakening was not an awakening by us, it was an awakening of the Sunnis in Anbar province willing to fight.

Unfriggingbelievable!  Dude is shameless in his lies, no?

September 9, 2008 Posted by | Biden, Iraq, shameful | 2 Comments

Michelle Obama: Sarah Palin is stupid

From Shelly O:

Obama then moved on to politics, where she first brought up her husband’s vice-presidential choice. “I think it was a really good pick—Senator Joe Biden,” she said, and later added, “People say they have amazing chemistry, and it’s true.”

Obama continued with talk about Biden when she said, “What you learn about Barack from his choice is that he’s not afraid of smart people.” The crowd softly chuckled.

But hey, don’t you go thinking that liberals are elitists who look down their noses on normal America, m’kay?

Exit question: Considering Shelly’s recently found pride in her country, does she still have that pride now that more people in America like that Alaskan rube than her Marxist hubby?

September 9, 2008 Posted by | Obama, Palin, shameful | 19 Comments

“Independent focus group” included Code Pink moonbats

The Detroit Free-Press (a contradiction in terms, no?) ran a couple of pieces on “independent focus groups” and their reactions to acceptance speeches at the two conventions recently.  These “independents” included some Code Pinkos who, as sheer luck would have it, gushed over The One’s speech and panned Gov. Palin’s speech.

The fishwrap’s response?  “Sorry…sort of.”  Details:

A Detroit Free Press editor expressed regret Monday that left-wing and anti-war activists were included in a focus group of so-called independent voters the newspaper interviewed during the political conventions, but said he didn’t see the harm in having a “radical leftist or two” in the group.

In response to questions posed to the would-be independent panel, two members of the anti-war group CodePink — as well as two other liberal activists — offered praise of Barack Obama after his Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech. A week later they turned the tables and ripped into Republican Sarah Palin’s vice presidential nomination acceptance speech. Their comments appeared online and were excerpted in the Free Press’ print edition.

“I wish that it weren’t the case that there were two people from an activist group and we didn’t know about it,” assistant managing editor Randy Essex said of the CodePink members.

Nonetheless, Essex defended the panel’s results.

“If there is a radical leftist or two in the group, I don’t care,” Essex told FOXNews.com. “I want a robust conversation, a complete range of political viewpoints.”

The four activists were part of a group of seven self-described “independents.” Nine Republicans and 11 Democrats were also on the panel. …

It sure is a good thing that these “reputable” MSM sources have multiple layers of fact-checking at their disposals, huh?  Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 9, 2008 Posted by | media bias, moonbats, Obama, Palin | 1 Comment

   

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