Itz News to Me

So everyone’s talking about the New Yorker cover to which I respond: it was an editorial cartoon, but - without making this a long and tiring post - I think there were some important things missing: like Obama standing on top of his grandmother, like a closet door with the likes of Rezko, Wright, et al trying to get out, and so on. In short, it was the sort of editorial cartoon that a liberal might think of, but it definitely wasn’t as hard-hitting as one which was drawn by an actual conservative would be.

But I digress…I was just reading the latest iteration of Obama’s response to this cover. Now he’s claiming it was discriminatory against Muslims. Are you effing kidding me? Of all the possible things to say about the cover, the best he and his campaign could come up with was parroting the now-discredited CAIR?

Hey, you jug-eared buffoon, let me help you out with this since you’re such a political neophyte and Class A idiot: Either laugh it off or take on the content of the cover head-on. Any other response is just weak-kneed nonsense. You’re just showing yourself to be incapable of taking a stand…even when they lampoon your wife as a gun-toting Angela Davis…You should be embarrassed…Not by the cartoon, but by your response….

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In yet another “airbrushing the past” incident, the Obama campaign has magically wiped away the evidence of his past opposition to the surge, lack of faith in our military, and general piss-poor judgment…

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Obama cited his great-uncle’s part in the liberation of Auschwitz (now corrected to Buchenwald after getting busted for stretching the truth yet again), in his Memorial Day remarks….The question that the media needs to ask, but won’t of course: was your great-uncle a “typical white person” like your grandmother?

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…so says David Lightman of McClatchy Newspapers….

Never mind that Obama is a neo-Marxist…

Never mind that Obama thinks that I’m a bitter, gun-loving, Jesus-nut too stupid to figure out things for myself…

Never mind that Obama wouldn’t even be a U.S. senator were it not for the fact that he was the last man standing after scandal eliminated a rival that would have easily dusted him in an actual election…

Never mind that he doesn’t have a single legislative accomplishment to show for his time in the U.S. Senate….

Never mind that he can’t bring himself to actually denounce the idea that the U.S. brought 9/11 on itself or that the government created AIDS to kill colored people…(He only denounced what he called “controversial statements.” He never specified which statements. His lawerly parsing wasn’t an accident.)

Never mind that he thinks I am gullible enough to believe he belonged to a church for twenty years and had no idea what they stood for…

Never mind that he thinks it’s OK to hold fundraisers at the home of an admitted domestic terrorist…

Never mind that he’s involved in corrupt land deals with enemy agents and political fixers….

Never mind that he thinks people who wear flag pins are false patriots…

Never mind that his wife is a bigot of the first order…

Never mind that his first instinct, when he got in political trouble, was to throw the grandmother who loved and raised him under the bus…

Never mind that he is unable to make the distinction between having a difference of opinion and planting a bomb…

Never mind that he is the favorite candidate of Hamas and the Iranian regime…

I haven’t even gotten to the color of his skin because I could care less. Unlike Obama and Lightman, I judge people on the content of their character. I have seen Obama’s character and found it sadly lacking.

I could go on for pages, but why should I? After all, according to both Obama and David Lightman, the only reason I wouldn’t vote for him is because I’m clinging to my fear and dislike for “people who don’t look like me.”

Too bad neither of them would ever have the courage to say it to my face.

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Just hours after getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar for planting questions and swearing they’d never do it again, Hillary Clinton’s campaign did it again.

This time they tried to claim it was just an innocent conversation between old acquaintences. Problem is, they weren’t. And it wasn’t. It was the same old sleazy underhanded Clinton tactics: they just figured that lightning couldn’t possibly strike twice. Who would think to even check so soon after such an embarrassing incident after all?

This brazen huckstering shows that for Hillary there is no such thing as spontaneity: if it’s not in her script, it doesn’t happen. And we thought Al Gore was stiff and robotic in 2000? He’s looking like a freewheeling firebrand by comparison to the rigidity of Hillary Clinton and her handlers. Not that I’m complaining, mind you…The more the American public sees of who and what she really is, the less likely we’ll have to hear from her after November 2008.

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In what has to be one of the saddest displays yet of Hillary Clinton’s inability to deal with challenging situations, her campaign just got busted planting questions at a “town hall”-type meeting in Iowa. Fearing that she would make yet another mistake by going off her pre-scripted evasive answers, she has resorted to both pre-selecting who would ask the questions, but the questions they will ask as well.

This is clearly a person completely incapable of thinking on her feet. If it’s not completely rehearsed and the message previously screened, she obviously can’t handle it. How in the world would she manage the unpredictable world affairs if she can’t even handle a small town in Iowa?

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How low can you go? It’s one thing to accuse your political opponents of lying to/about you - it’s still a low blow, but often par for the course. But now the campaign is calling the woman Hillary cited as an example of the kind of person she was going to help a liar. Not a political opponent. Just a working mom that Hillary stiffed on a tip.

Rather than acknowledge that the campaign screwed up by not leaving a tip at the restaurant, the campaign tried to lie to her by first saying the tip was left on a credit card. But when faced with the fact that the credit card machine doesn’t allow for tips to be added, the story quickly changed to “Well then, they left a $100 bill there.” A magical $100 which no employee at the restaurant could find and which was claimed only after the first lie was thoroughly discredited. Yeah right.

Just like so many before her who have dared contradict Queen Hillary, this poor woman is being called a liar to cover up Hillary’s failures. The politics of personal destruction: thy name is Hillary….

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