Anyone who thinks we will ever be rid of these extremist idiots should watch this. This guy is a professor at a university in KUWAIT - a country who really should be grateful we forced Saddam Hussein from their soil (or sand?) during the Gulf war in the 1990’s. This is how these radical Islamic types show their gratitude…
Throughout President-Elect Obama’s campaign for the White House, he paid a good deal of lip service to being a unifying person who would “reach across the aisle” to bring people together in order to compromise and best resolve the seemingly insurmountable issues that confront our nation without the interference of “partisan politics.”
Wow - how refreshing that sounded… and the message caught fire - igniting one of the most impressive campaigns in American history.
But with Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as Chief-of-Staff, the reality of the Obama Administration is coming into focus; it’s Barack’s way or no way.
For the uninitiated, Rahm Emanuel once stood up and pounded a steak knife into a table screaming “DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!” while rattling off names of Clinton foes following the 1996 campaign (source). He sent a dead fish to a former colleague who had pissed him off. I mean, there are crazy people in Congress (you could easily drop about any Ted Stevens reference here to prove that point), but Rahm takes it to a whole new Godfather-esque level. This guy is just off.
Couple that powder-keg demeanor with the fact that Rahm ran Freddie Mac from 2000-2001 during a period of constant scandal regarding campaign contributions (source). Oh, and he’s a product of the Chicago political establishment - which should raise a red flag or at least an eyebrow.
Beady-eyed, five-headed Liberal pundit Paul Begala described Emanuel as having “a big old pair of brass balls,” and that he is “just what the Democrats need to fight back.” (source).
Fight? Wow - that seems like **gasp** more of the same!
That’s right - while disparaging the current Administration’s strong-arm politics, (and for good reason), the reality is that the next one will be just as bad… only the Obama Administration will be so far to the left that we’ll think LBJ is back in the White House.
And to add insult to injury, now President-Elect Obama has decided to deride former First Lady Nancy Reagan by making an offhanded remark about her rumored consultation with “spiritual advisers.” (source) Nice work there Hussein - take a shot at arguably one of the greatest Presidents in history via a rumor involving his wife.
I guess the high ground is a bit much to expect from you, Mr. President-Elect… after all, you spent more money on negative ads than any candidate in history, (source) so why should we expect that you’d have a change of heart now that you are mere weeks away from moving in to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
Pass the Hopium - I need a fix…
All I can say is that “You’ll be sorry, America.”
I sure hope I’m wrong, but that happens so rarely…
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!
- Karl Marx
The only good thing I see in this is something I just saw on one of the morning shows. A reporter was commenting that an image of all the presidents was being displayed and Obama’s was added. The reporter commented to a woman, “You know, 12 of those men owned slaves,” to which the woman replied, “That stain is washed.”
Yes - we are on the precipice of electing this man to the Presidency.
I weep for America.
I like Joe Biden. I was pulling for him in the Primaries - but now I see why he was shot down by his party and ultimately had to settle for being the #2 on the ticket. The funny thing is that people the media focused like a laser on Sarah Palin, mining her interviews for gold nugget gaffes to sabotage the Republicans’ chances this year. Perhaps if we’d have seen more of this on the air, maybe people would be more concerned with Barack Obama’s VP selection, and the polls would not be favoring the Democrats…
Apparently the Obama campaign issued a juvenile “we’re taking orur toys and going home”-type of response to this interview:
“There’s nothing wrong with tough questions, but reporters have the very important job of sharing the truth with the public — not misleading the American people with false information. Senator Biden handled the interview well; however, the anchor was completely unprofessional. Senator Biden’s wife is not running for elected office, and there are many other stations in the Orlando television market that would gladly conduct a respectful and factual interview with her.”
“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election.”
That came from Campaign spokesperson Laura K. McGinnis.
Gee Joe… if you can’t stand the heat… don’t try to take over the kitchen!
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a long-time fan of The Daily Show. While I disagree with some of the political viewpoints embedded in Jon Stewart’s comedy, I certainly always enjoy the show and actually TiVo it nightly.
With that out of the way, I have been increasingly turned off by both Stewart and Colbert’s Comedy Central shows in recent weeks. It’s always a given that the Left is going to receive a better shake by those guys, but it has gotten outright disturbing how these shows could virtually pass for light-hearted Obama / Biden campaign ads of late…
…then I saw the first clip below wherein Jon Stewart went for the cheap applause when performing at a college in Boston last week by saying that he just wants to say “F*** you” to Sarah Palin in response to a statement she made that many on the Left have seized upon as a divisive remark against large urban areas. (story here)
At a recent fundraising event, Governor Palin said:
“We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe…that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation.”
An excerpt of Stewart’s routine is posted here:
Stewart, as well as fellow New Yorker Joy Behar of ABC’s The View both found it convenient to invoke a 9/11 reference recently in response to Governor Palin’s statement, which I find particularly ironic because both have flamed Republicans like Rudy Giuliani for mentioning 9/11 at all. I guess the double standard is one that suits someone like Stewart particularly well though; after all this is the guy who appeared on CNN’s Crossfire and tore into both Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson saying that their divisive actions were “hurting America.”
I guess it’s okay for Jon Stewart to make vitriolic, divisive remarks though - because in his own words, he’s just “fake news,” and therefore conveniently immune to any of the complicated entanglements of journalistic ethics or common decency.
And around and around we go…
Franklin is on the $100 bill, Washington is on the $1, Lincoln is on the $5… so it seemed like a nice bit of political satire to suggest that Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama could appear as the the face on Food Stamps if he is elected in November, given his “spread the wealth around” liberal views.
But a small GOP-club took that idea a bit too far when they printed a rather offensive picture of Obama on a food stamp alongside a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a rack of ribs, the Kool-Aid man, and a slice of watermelon (story here). What’s worse is that members of the group don’t see the racism in the comic.
Those ribs sure do look tasty though… I miss Summer already… 
In spite of the fact that the media has tried to demonize Joe “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher in the wake of the third Presidential Debate by engaging in the typical muckraking journalism reserved only for the GOP and their allies this year, the “inconvenient truth” for the Hopium addicts in the Obama Camp is that Obama clearly says (at the very end of this clip) that “When you spread the wealth around” it makes it better for everyone.
Uh - doesn’t this smack of Socialism?
Many pundits and analysts have been quick to rush to Obama’s defense - like David Gergen on CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” this morning - pointing out that our government just pumped billions into the banks - which is also incredibly socialistic. That is a very flimsy argument though - when you consider that We the People were sold on a panic scenario - which an overwhelming majority of Americans opposed anyway, but we were forced to accept. So Mr. Gergen - the fact that we just bailed out a bunch of corrupt corporations somehow makes Obama’s political leanings less Socialistic?
Come on - how dumb do you think we are?