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Point to ponder

If, as the leftist Boston fishwrap opines, talk radio is now “irrelevant”, then why is the left still pushing for a reinstatement of the ill-named “Fairness Doctrine”?  I guess “freedom of choice” applies to slaughtering your babies, but not to what you listen to on the radio.

November 17, 2008 Posted by | Fairness Doctrine, hypocrisy | 2 Comments

Obama’s new White House counsel? How about a presidential assassin’s defender?

“Hope”…for thugs.  Sickening details:

Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.

Craig is intimately familiar with the president-elect’s record because he played the role of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in debate preparations.

The officials said Obama has settled on Craig but were not sure when the appointment would be announced. 

Ed runs off a partial list of some of Craig’s most notable cases:

Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost, who else had the benefit of Craig’s counsel?

  • Elian Gonzalez’s father – Craig represented the father who demanded the return of his son after his estranged wife died trying to take Elian to freedom. Most people saw this as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt from Fidel Castro, attempting to embarrass the US. The dispute got resolved when Janet Reno ordered an armed assault on the house where Elian’s family in the US provided him a home.
  • John Hinckley, Jr – Craig presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family now.
  • Kofi Annan – The former Secretary-General of the UN hired Craig to defend his interests in the Volcker Commission probe of the Oil-for-Food scandal, which put billions of dollars into Saddam Hussein’s pockets while providing cash for Annan’s son, his deputies, and some allege Annan himself.
  • Pedro Gonzalez Pinzon – A Panamanian legislator wanted for murdering an American soldier in 1992. The Dallas Morning News demanded that Obama force Craig to drop the case during the campaign, but no report of whether he did is easily available.

I doubt that any President has selected the defender of a presidential assassin as White House Counsel before now. Does anyone want to guess how long that takes to become a Trivial Pursuit question?

Pray, my friends.

November 17, 2008 Posted by | Obama, shameful | 5 Comments

Job application for the new administration

Want to work in the new administration?  Be prepared to relinquish your privacy.  Chuckle on this one, folks:

The New York Times first uncovered the 63 topic questionnaire the next administration asks cabinet post candidates to complete. It’s a background check that is more involved than any Presidential Administration before. The goal is to prevent political scandals that have plagued the politics of the past, but some of the questions involve topics you might only consider talking about with your clergy.

Full text of the extensive questionnaire is here (in PDF format).  Some moist morsels of hilarity:

(10) Writings: Please list and, if readily available, provide a copy of each book, article, column or publication (including but not limited to any post or comments on blogs or other websites) you have authored, individually or with others. Please list all aliases or “handles” you have used to communicate on the Internet.

Weren’t we told that anything he wrote while in college was off limits and irrelevant?  The prez’s writings are unimportant, but those of his minions are supremely important.  Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

(16) Please list each membership, including any board memberships, you or your spouse have or have had with any political, civic, social, charitable, educational, professional, fraternal, benevolent or religious organization, private club or other membership organization (including any type of tax-exempt organization) during the past ten years. Please include dates of membership and any positions you may have had with the organization.

Ayers’ Annenberg Challenge?  Obama’s New Party and Democrat Socialist Party memberships?  Off limits, irrelevant.  Next up:

(27) Please describe the mortgage terms for any properties listed under Question 21, including the rate, date, holder, service entity, and any special circumstances surrounding the acquisition of the mortgage.

Tony Rezko ringing a bell?  Moving right along:

(61) Have you had any association with any person, group or business venture that could be used – even unfairly – to impugn or attack your character and qualifications for government service?

Dude, that one’s too easy.  Moving on:

(63) Please provide any other information, including information about other members of your family, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect.

You mean like an aunt who’s in this country illegally?  Or a brother living in squalor in Kenya while you live in posh Hyde Park?  Or a wife who is finally, after her entire life, proud of her country?  Lemme guess: Off limits, irrelevant.

Exit question #1:  Why is it that when the Bush administration wants to get intel on terrorist activity, such as e-mails, phone recordings, etc., it’s a massive invasion of privacy; yet when The One wants to go through your personal life (including electronic communications) with a fine tooth comb, it’s kosher?

Exit question #2: Can we get Barry O himself to fill out the questionnaire?  After all, by his own standards, the Obamessiah would not be qualified to serve in his own administration!

November 17, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama, shameful | 1 Comment

Night and Day, “Obama loves, no hates, no loves lobbyists” edition

Barry O when running for prez:

To rousing applause, Barack Obama formally announced this afternoon that the Democratic National Committee will follow his lead and begin refusing donations from registered lobbyists and special-interest political action committees.

“They do not fund my campaign,” the presumptive Democratic nominee told a small-town southwest Virginia crowd, after delivering a standard refrain that blames drug and insurance interests for blocking universal health care. “They will not fund our party. And they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I’m President of the United States.”

Barry O now that he’s won:

But more than a dozen members of President-elect Obama’s fast-growing transition team have worked as federally registered lobbyists within the past four years. They include former lobbyists for the nation’s trial lawyers association, mortgage giant Fannie Mae, drug companies such as Amgen, high-tech firms such as Microsoft, labor unions and the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress.

“Change”…right, suckers?

November 17, 2008 Posted by | corruption, hypocrisy, Night and Day, Obama | Leave a Comment

MSM not quite done fawning over Obama yet

The Kamikaze Media, drowning in an ocean of red ink, is going to take one for the team, come Hell or high water.  From Howard Kurtz:

Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled “Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story.” Or that ABC and USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama’s campaign.

Perhaps it was the Newsweek commemorative issue — “Obama’s American Dream” — filled with so many iconic images and such stirring prose that it could have been campaign literature. Or the Time cover depicting Obama as FDR, complete with jaunty cigarette holder.

Are the media capable of merchandizing the moment, packaging a president-elect for profit? Yes, they are.

What’s troubling here goes beyond the clanging of cash registers. Media outlets have always tried to make a few bucks off the next big thing. The endless campaign is over, and there’s nothing wrong with the country pulling together, however briefly, behind its new leader. But we seem to have crossed a cultural line into mythmaking.

“The Obamas’ New Life!” blares People’s cover, with a shot of the family. “New home, new friends, new puppy!” Us Weekly goes with a Barack quote: “I Think I’m a Pretty Cool Dad.” The Chicago Tribune trumpets that Michelle “is poised to be the new Oprah and the next Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — combined!” for the fashion world.

Whew! Are journalists fostering the notion that Obama is invincible, the leader of what the New York Times dubbed “Generation O”?

Each writer, each publication, seems to reach for more eye-popping superlatives. “OBAMAISM — It’s a Kind of Religion,” says New York magazine. “Those of us too young to have known JFK’s Camelot are going to have our own giddy Camelot II to enrapture and entertain us,” Kurt Andersen writes. The New York Post has already christened it “BAM-A-LOT.”

“Here we are,” writes Salon’s Rebecca Traister, “oohing and aahing over what they’ll be wearing, and what they’ll be eating, what kind of dog they’ll be getting, what bedrooms they’ll be living in, and what schools they’ll be attending. It feels better than good to sniff and snurfle through the Obamas’ tastes and habits. . . . Who knew we had in us the capacity to fall for this kind of idealized Americana again?”

But aren’t media people supposed to resist this kind of hyperventilating?

“Obama is a figure, especially in pop culture, in a way that most new presidents are not,” historian Michael Beschloss says. “Young people who may not be interested in the details of NAFTA or foreign policy just think Obama is cool, and they’re interested in him. Being cool can really help a new president.”

Well, “being cool” helped Bubba weather a storm of embarrassment and humiliation that would have swamped normal people. Granted, having no scruples or shame helped him, too, but “being cool” meant that being only the second president in the history of the republic to be impeached was a badge of honor. Clinton was the kid in school who was always getting in trouble and getting sent to the principal’s office, smiling all the way there and back…being a trouble-maker was the “in” thing, and what should have brought him shame brought him pride instead.

So yeah, I guess “being cool” has its privileges in that it means never having to say you’re sorry for sullying your reputation and humiliating yourself, your family, and your friends.
 
Anywho, what happens when reality sets in? A preview:

But what happens when adulation gives way to the messy, incremental process of governing? When Obama has to confront a deep-rooted financial crisis, two wars and a political system whose default setting is gridlock? When he makes decisions that inevitably disappoint some of his boosters?

“We’re celebrating a moment as much as a man, I think,” says Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham, whose new issue, out today, compares Obama to Lincoln. “Given our racial history, an hour or two of commemoration seems appropriate. But there is no doubt that the glow of the moment will fade, and I am sure the coverage will reflect that in due course.”

One of the few magazines to strike a skeptical tone is the London-based Economist, which endorsed Obama. “With such a victory come unreasonably great expectations,” its lead editorial says.
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“The Kennedy buildup goes on,” James MacGregor Burns wrote in the New Republic in the spring of 1961. “The adjectives tumble over one another. He is not only the handsomest, the best-dressed, the most articulate, and graceful as a gazelle. He is omniscient; he swallows and digests whole books in minutes; he confounds experts with his superior knowledge of their field. He is omnipotent.”

Soon afterward, Kennedy blundered into the Bay of Pigs debacle.
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There is always a level of excitement when a new president is coming to town — new aides to profile, new policies to dissect, new family members to follow. But can anyone imagine this kind of media frenzy if John McCain had managed to win?

Obama’s days of walking on water won’t last indefinitely. His chroniclers will need a new story line. And sometime after Jan. 20, they will wade back into reality.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 17, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Obama | 1 Comment

It depends on the meaning of “Hope” and “Change”

The One was all about Hopenchange this election.  Apparently, “Hope” was a reference to Hope, Arkansas, and “change” means “a slew of Clintonistas, which isn’t really a change, but what’s another lie among good friends?”  Details here.  Ed notices, too:

For a man who ran on change and the future, Barack Obama looks more like a president with a yearning for yesterdays.  His early appointments lean heavily on Clintonistas, returning to the inside-the-Beltway clique of Democrats rather than on the kind of outsiders he promised would change the business model for the federal government.

November 16, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama | 4 Comments

Space shuttle launch

I guess I need to pay attention to the news more often.  Then again, considering the usual crap they pass off as news these days, mever mind.

Anywho, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched this evening.  I wasn’t aware of it until I was pulling into my neighborhood this evening and saw a huge bright orange flash light up the southeastern night sky.  Even living about three hours from Cape Canaveral, I was able to see the shuttle clearly.  That…was…cool!

November 14, 2008 Posted by | Florida, non-political | 4 Comments

SC Catholic priest not giving communion to Obama supporters

Good for him.  From Breitbart:

A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

“Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president,” Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein. (Apparently, referencing a man’s legal birth name is a no-no. Henceforth, please refer to JFK as JK and LBJ as LJ, m’kay? – Ed.)

“Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.”

There is nothing in the Bible that tells you that you must vote FOR someone, but there is much guidance in Scripture that you are to vote AGAINST anyone that perverts God’s will. As a matter of fact…:

“It was not an attempt to make a partisan point,” Newman said in a telephone interview Thursday. “In fact, in this election, for the sake of argument, if the Republican candidate had been pro-abortion, and the Democratic candidate had been pro-life, everything that I wrote would have been exactly the same.”

Exactly right. If a pro-life Dem runs against a pro-abortion Republican, then the Christian is to either vote for the Dem or vote for neither one.

Hope you’re sitting down for this one:

“Father Newman is off-base,” said Steve Krueger, national director of Catholic Democrats. “He is acting beyond the authority of a parish priest to say what he did. … Unfortunately, he is doing so in a manner that will be of great cost to those parishioners who did vote for Sens. Obama and Biden. There will be a spiritual cost to them for his words.”

Father Newman’s words impose no spiritual cost whatsoever. Pro-Obama Catholics’ votes and sentiments are what will be of immeasurable spiritual cost! This “Catholic Democrats” group are nothing more than a gaggle of false prophet geese, leading the lost further down the road to perdition.

This parishoner’s words sum the point accurately:

“I don’t understand anyone who would call themselves a Christian, let alone a Catholic, and could vote for someone who’s a pro-abortion candidate,” said Ted Kelly, 64, who volunteers his time as lector for the church. “You’re talking about the murder of innocent beings.”

He’s right, and there is no amount of spinning or denying that changes that truth.  People are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts!

November 14, 2008 Posted by | Christianity, Obama | 1 Comment

New study: Permanent “ice age” coming

Geez, make up your minds, will ya?  Are we going to broil to death or freeze to death?  Man, this global “warming” thingy is hard to figure out!  Anywho, here’s the latest:

A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a quasi-permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.

In essence, says one of the two authors, Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, the ice age cycles over the past million years are a super-slow-motion variant of the dramatic jostlings recorded by a seismograph in an earthquake before the ground settles into a new quiet state. He and William T. Hyde of the University of Toronto used climate models and other techniques to assess the chances that the world is witnessing the final stages of a 50-million-year transition from a planet with a persistent warm climate and scant polar ice to one with greatly expanded ice sheets at both poles. …

If for no other reason than to save the planet, go buy a Hummer.  Or start drilling as many oil wells as possible.  Or figure out how to make cows fart more often.  Either/or, Mother Gaia is counting on you, oh “citizens of the world”!  :lol:

November 13, 2008 Posted by | global warming | 2 Comments

MSM falls for anti-Palin hoax

Do you ever get the feeling that the MSM gets easily duped by these hoaxes against Republicans (see Rathergate) because they want to believe the stories?  Here’s the latest:

It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.

Now a pair of obscure filmmakers say they created Martin Eisenstadt to help them pitch a TV show based on the character. But under the circumstances, why should anyone believe a word they say?

“That’s a really good question,” one of the two, Eitan Gorlin, said with a laugh.

At least it’s a good thing that the MSM assumed responsibility for falling for the hoax. Yeah, right:

(For what it’s worth, another reporter for The New York Times is an acquaintance of Mr. Gorlin and vouches for his identity, and Mr. Gorlin is indeed “Mr. Eisenstadt” in those videos. He and his partner in deception, Dan Mirvish, have entries on the Internet Movie Database, imdb.com. But still. …)

They say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere.

“With the 24-hour news cycle they rush into anything they can find,” said Mr. Mirvish, 40.

Mr. Gorlin, 39, argued that Eisenstadt was no more of a joke than half the bloggers or political commentators on the Internet or television. (Ain’t that the truth? – Ed.)

An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, explained the network’s misstep by saying someone in the newsroom received the Palin item in an e-mail message from a colleague and assumed it had been checked out. “It had not been vetted,” he said. “It should not have made air.” (Easy to say, now that the hoax has been exposed. To Gaines’ credit, at least he isn’t Ratheresque by maintaining that he still believes the story to be real. – Ed.)

 As if the MSM’s credibility wasn’t ruined enough already!

Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 13, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Palin | Leave a Comment

Gun sales up since Obama elected

Sales aren’t just up…they are way up.  Go figure.

November 13, 2008 Posted by | gun rights, Obama | 8 Comments

comPost leftist columnist fawns over John Podesta

Dana Milbank swoons over former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta, who happens to be Obama’s transition dude.  How low the MSM has sunk when they fall in love with UFO conspiracy nuts!

November 12, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Obama | Leave a Comment

Fawning Obamaphile in Time magazine sees Obama as royalty

Do I exaggerate?  I think not, folks:

Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope. Barack Obama never talks about how people see him: I’m not the one making history, he said every chance he got. You are. Yet as he looked out Tuesday night through the bulletproof glass, in a park named for a Civil War general, he had to see the truth on people’s faces. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, he liked to say, but people were waiting for him, waiting for someone to finish what a King began.

Who knew that this country didn’t vote for a president, but coronated a prince?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 12, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Obama | 3 Comments

Dems trying to steal Senate seat in MN

Dems and vote fraud…go figure.

November 12, 2008 Posted by | al franken, Minnesota, vote fraud | 1 Comment

Notes on the so-called “Fairness” Doctrine

Neal Boortz makes two great observations on the left’s wet dream.  Point #1 is that controlling mass media is always one of the first steps that authoritarians take:

Note, please, that whenever despots try to seize control of a government, and with it a country, they first seize control of the means of communication. How can you observe this in country after country with despot after despot engaged in coup after coup and not understand that this is exactly what our own politicians do when they try to increases their control over broadcasting? How will the Democrat’s looming attempt to reign in talk radio be any different than Hugo Chavez’ attempts to shut down opposition newspapers in Venezuela? And trust me … the Republicans would have tried the same thing during the Bush Administration if talk radio had been overwhelming liberal. Richard Nixon used to brag about how he used the “Fairness Doctrine” to harass left-wing commentary on television. Democrats and liberals generally fail miserably at talk radio .. therefore it must be destroyed.

Point #2 is that “public airwaves” is full of crap:

One more point about this “public’s airwaves” dog squeeze. How does your newspaper get to you every day? Do you think it just magically appears at your doorstep? Hardly .. it is delivered over — guess what? — publicly owned highways and roads! Yeah! The “public’s highways!” How about a Fairness Doctrine for newspaper editorial pages! Oh, wait .. there’s that darn Constitution in the way again. Don’t you just hate that?

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”…until the dissent goes against (instead of originating from) the left, in which case it must be thoroughly eradicated.

November 12, 2008 Posted by | Fairness Doctrine, hypocrisy, media bias, moonbats | Leave a Comment

Quote of the day

La. Gov. Bobby Jindal on how to run an election:

You can’t win an election simply by criticizing the other side.

Bobby, I’m a fan and all, but dude…look at the last two election cycles!  Until 2006, I’ve never seen in my lifetime where “vote for me because I’m not him” actually work.  But these days, it works like a charm.

That is the legacy of the 2001 – 2006 Republican Party, and until the GOP culture that caused that toxic damage to the party is properly handled, then “vote for be because I suck less than those guys” will likely continue to work.

November 12, 2008 Posted by | Bobby Jindal, quote of the day | Leave a Comment

Veterans Day

I would like to issue a heartfelt “Thank you” to all of America’s veterans of our armed forces.  God bless you!  :)

November 11, 2008 Posted by | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Obama bound to destroy American auto industry

GM should be assuming room temperature by early next year.  So what does the new president-elect have in store to help sotp the hemorrhaging of jobs and money from Motown’s auto industry?  Oh, just reversing a Bush executive order that will now cost the auto industry tens of billions of dollars that they don’t have…no big whoop.  Notes Open Market:

Since twenty-one percent of new cars are sold in California, this means that the auto makers would need to spend billions of dollars to comply. According to the WSJ, “The auto industry is the nation’s largest manufacturing sector, accounting for almost 4% of U.S. gross domestic product. It employs about 2.5 million people directly or indirectly, and spends tens of billions of dollars a year in research and development.” Yet granting California’s waiver would certainly significantly harm if not sink this industry, since actions to increase the CAFE standard in the past have caused many of the problems Detroit is now having.

So sayeth The One: “Hey, Michigan, thanks a bunch for your electoral votes!  In return, I’ll take what’s left of your economically ravaged state and savage it on the altar of the Church of Mother Gaia.  And you know what?  You people will keep voting Democrat, won’t you?  Say goodbye to the few jobs you had left here.”  If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that liberals are economic illiterates!

Michigan in general, and Detroitistan in particular, typify the definition of insanity: Doing the same things over and over yet expecting different results.

November 10, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, environuts, Obama | 14 Comments

Obama cultists push to create new federal holiday for The One?

This is a joke…right?  Right???

Planning under way for Obama holiday

Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation’s 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

“Yes We Can” planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald’s restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama’s honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence.  James Madison is considered the Father of the Constitution.  FDR and Truman got us through WW II.  Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union.  None of these guys have their own unique holiday, because they (and every other president) are observed on Presidents Day.  Yet a socialist empty suit who employs flowery rhetoric and has yet to be sworn in is already being pushed by his Kool-Aid drinkers for His own unique holiday?

Seriously, this must be a joke.  Satire.  A hoax.  Something like that…right?

November 10, 2008 Posted by | bizarre, moonbats, Obama, shameful | 9 Comments

Islamic weirdbeard kidnappers die from botched angioplasty surgery and Navy SEALs, but mostly by Navy SEALs

Heh.  Say hello to your 72 virgins grapes for me, will ya?

November 10, 2008 Posted by | Afghanistan, religion of peace | Leave a Comment

Washington comPost: Hey, sorry about our biased pro-Obama coverage!

Predictably, with their already anemic credibility left in tatters, the Kamikaze Media is trying to save face now that their desired result has come to fruition.  The comPost is the first to offer a belated mea culpa, but I imagine they won’t be the last.  Excerpt:

The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.

My assistant, Jean Hwang, and I have been examining Post coverage since Nov. 11 of last year on issues, voters, fundraising, the candidates’ backgrounds and horse-race stories on tactics, strategy and consultants. We also have looked at photos and Page 1 stories since Obama captured the nomination June 4.

The count was lopsided, with 1,295 horse-race stories and 594 issues stories. The Post was deficient in stories that reported more than the two candidates trading jabs; readers needed articles, going back to the primaries, comparing their positions with outside experts’ views. There were no broad stories on energy or science policy, and there were few on religion issues.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 9, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama | 2 Comments

UK PM looking to start “new world order”

Bone up on Revelation, my friends, then get your souls right with God.  After all, the efforts to launch the One World Government are afoot.  But hey, don’t take my word for it.

November 9, 2008 Posted by | Christianity, Euros | 1 Comment

Many new babies being named “Barack”

Presumably, these will be the babies that aren’t aborted and/or left to die.  The irony is clearly lost on the parents.

November 9, 2008 Posted by | abortion, Obama | 2 Comments

Quote of the day, “dangerously naive” edition

Spot on from Iowahawk, an excerpt of which follows:

Less than fifty years ago, African-Americans were barred from public universities, restaurants, and even drinking fountains in many parts of the country. On Tuesday we came together and transcended that shameful legacy, electing an African-American to the country’s top job — which, in fact, appears to be his first actual job. Certainly, it doesn’t mean that racism has disappeared in America, but it is an undeniable mark of progress that a majority of voters no longer consider skin color nor a dangerously gullible naivete as a barrier to the presidency.
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So for now, let’s put politics aside and celebrate this historic milestone. In his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial 45 years ago, Dr. King said “I have a dream that one day my children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Let us now take pride that Tuesday we Americans proved that neither thing matters anymore.

It is indeed a country of opportunity where you can accomplish absolutely jack diddly squat and still get elected to the most powerful post in the world.

November 7, 2008 Posted by | Obama, quote of the day | 1 Comment

2008 turnout about the same as 2004

The MSM spent a ton of time telling us that turnout in 2008 was going to dwarf that of other elections.  As it turns out, that didn’t happen.  From CNN:

A new report from American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes that voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was the same in percentage terms as it was four years ago — or at most has risen by less than 1 percent.

The report released Thursday estimates that between 126.5 and 128.5 million Americans cast ballots in the presidential election earlier this week. Those figures represent 60.7 percent or, at most, 61.7 percent of those eligible to vote in the country.

“A downturn in the number and percentage of Republican voters going to the polls seemed to be the primary explanation for the lower than predicted turnout,” the report said. Compared to 2004, Republican turnout declined by 1.3 percentage points to 28.7 percent, while Democratic turnout increased by 2.6 points from 28.7 percent in 2004 to 31.3 percent in 2008.

The numbers indicate that Big O only got about 400k more votes than Dubya did four years ago…but McCain got about 7.5 million less that Dubya got.  In other words, Republicans stayed home and Democrats did not, a reverse of 2004.  The GOP needs to keep this in mind the next time they get the idea that they need to nominate a “moderate”, “centrist”, or whatever you want to call him.

November 7, 2008 Posted by | media bias | Leave a Comment

Memo to the right: don’t be unhinged like the left!

By and large, most of the conservative blogosphere seems to reflect a somber acceptance of the election results.  Few paranoid conspiracy theories that attempt to explain away the results are present.  It’s not 100% level-headedness, as there are apparently groups of people starting “Impeach Obama” web sites…and the dude hasn’t even been sworn in yet!  But by and large, those are mere fringe groups, to be ignored.

I have a simple request for my brethren on the right: Don’t be like the moonbats for the last eight years!

I don’t have to tell you how batshiite crazy these deranged leftists have been: paranoid conspiracy theories about everything (listening to phone conversations, stolen elections, monitoring Internet usage, etc.), crazy protests, burning effigies, longing for executions of righties, etc.  Probably the most harmless, yet equally stupid, mindset has been “He’s not my president!”

Well, guess what?  Obama is our president, whether we like it or not.  We don’t have to be like the moonbats, who have been steeping in their own mental instability for eight years now.  There is nothing that says we have to agree with any of O’s policies once he takes over, and there is nothing that says we can’t oppose him at every turn if we believe it to be in the best interest of the country.  There even is no rule that says we have to “reach out” to him and be “bipartisan”, especially if his ideas are as crappy as we know they will be.  We can delight in being a thorn in his side, if we do so righteously.  But we cannot hate him.

Moonbats have wished awful things on this country in order to “teach us a lesson” about electing Bush.  We on the right may envision what life under O is going to be like, but I don’t know very many of us that are actively rooting for it in order to curry favor with the American electorate.  One thing from the McCain campaign did get right was this: Country First.

We’ve witness nearly a decade of Bush Derangement Syndrome, and more recently, Palin Derangement Syndrome.  I’d appreciate it if our side didn’t create an Obama Derangement Syndrome.

November 6, 2008 Posted by | moonbats, Obama | 14 Comments

Election post mortem

First of all, let’s keep the directive from 1 Thessalonians 5:18 in mind: “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”  We shouldn’t praise God only when He gives us circumstances that we like.  We should praise Him in ALL circumstances, even those such as this election’s results.

Having said that, I do weep for our country.  Not so much because of potential economic or national security calamity that the new president-elect will likely bring on this country.  Not so much because for the second straight election, we voted for someone who stood for nothing and ran on an empty “Vote for me, because I’m not him.”  No, I think of how God dealt with His chosen people who had grown rebellious and tolerated/celebrated evil (see 2 Kings 21:1-16).  If you haven’t gotten your soul right with God yet, I would advise you to get started pronto.

If there is any silver lining for born-again Christians here in America, FL did pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman.  Therefore, our liberal state supreme court won’t be perverting the institution of marriage any time soon.

Finally, think back to the election of 1976.  An up and coming star in the GOP, Ronald Reagan, ran against the incumbent, Greald Ford, in the primary.  The establishment got behind Ford, and Ford’s loss enabled Jimmah Carter to get elected.  While that did indeed suck, the fact is that Ford’s loss enabled the GOP to move in a fresh, bold direction.  Four years later, Reagan won in an electoral landslide.  But we had to endure Carter first.

My point is that there was a prevailing thought within the GOP establishment that McCain was going to attract all these “moderates”, disaffected Democrats, and independents, all of which would propel him to victory.  It didn’t happen.  After having suffered two consecutive electoral defeats, the GOP is bound to see some housecleaning and likely emerging of new leadership and ideas.

November 5, 2008 Posted by | Uncategorized | 24 Comments

UPDATED: Election Day notes

UPDATES BELOW, THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

Finally, but most importantly, pray.  Pray for God to show mercy on this country and spare us the tribulation of an Obamination.  But more importantly, just pray for God’s will to be done, and for the serenity to accept whatever His will may be.

UPDATE (11/04/2008 – 01:26 P.M. EST):  Very interesting.  The Battleground Poll, which is administered by Tarrance Group and has had a remarkable prediction-come-true record since the 1992 election, has The One garnering 50.2% of the popular vote and Juanny Mac with 48.3% of the popular vote.  They seem to think that undecideds will break largely for J-Mac.  If so, we may possibly have a scenario where the electoral votes and popular votes aren’t held by the same person.  Keep this in mind and compare it to the final numbers to see if this guy was anywhere near being right…again.

November 4, 2008 Posted by | media bias, moonbats, Obama, vote fraud | 8 Comments

Live blogging the election

…will be done at a ton of sites.  But probably not this one.  I’ve got a lot of work to do tomorrow (while I still have a job, before Obortionist kills it).  I’m not staying up late for this one, especially watching how the last two have dragged on into the wee hours of the morning.  The sun will still rise in the morning, regardless of who wins tonight.  I’ll weigh in with the post mortem tomorrow.

So check out Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Ace of Spades, or a ton of other blogs out there for live blogging coverage.

November 4, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama | 1 Comment

Catholic bishop: Vote for Obama and risk damnation

Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks that you can’t be a true born-again Christian and vote for Obama.  Excerpt:

I would say, “Give consideration to your eternal salvation.”  Because to vote for a person who has expressed a fanatical determination to not only support abortion as it exists now but to remove all limitations on it through the Freedom of Choice Act, and to extend it without any recourse, throwing out all of the efforts of citizens over the last 35 years to place reasonable limits on abortion, that voting for a person who has expressed his determination to do this to Planned Parenthood, to NARAL — that you make yourself a participant in the act of abortion.  That’s gravely wrong, and you mustn’t do it because your eternal salvation is tied up in that important choice.

Exactly.  As G. Craige Lewis notes: “Do we, as Christians, ignore morality and side for money and opportunity?”  Although I would argue that under a President Hussein, we would have neither, I would say that if so-called “Christians” were so inclined, may God have mercy on their souls.

November 3, 2008 Posted by | abortion, Christianity, Obama | 9 Comments

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