MISSILE DEFENSE IN EUROPE: OBAMA'S INCOMPETENCE IS ALREADY SHOWING - AND ALREADY WEAKENING US AND OUR ALLIES

REUTERS:

Poland said on Saturday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama had declared he would continue with a missile shield project in eastern Europe, but an Obama aide in Washington said he had given no commitment to deploy the system. Poland and the neighboring Czech Republic have agreed to host elements of the U.S. defense network, designed to protect against missile attacks by what Washington calls "rogue states."

...But a senior Obama foreign policy adviser qualified what the president-elect had been reported as saying in his talk with the Polish president.

"President Kaczynski raised missile defense, but President-elect Obama made no commitment on it," Denis McDonough told Reuters.

"His position is as it was throughout the campaign -- that he supports deploying a missile defense system when the technology is proved to be workable," the adviser added.

AFP:

Washington says the shield -- endorsed by NATO in February -- is aimed at fending off potential attacks by so-called "rogue states" such as Iran, and is in no way aimed at Russia.

So.... Obama still might cancel a deployment eastern European nations want and NATO has endorsed, BUT that Russia and Iran oppose.

So... Obama might take the same position as our enemies and oppose our allies...

And in his defense all you can really say is that despite campaigning for two years to be Commander in Chief, it's not really clear where Obama stands. Or if he has the courage to even take a stand.

THIS IS AN EARLY AND SCARY EXAMPLE OF OBAMA'S INCOMPETENCE - AND HIS DOVISHNESS.

IT BODES ILL.

NEVER GIVE UP - NEVER GIVE IN!

WAS RAHM EMANUEL INVOLVED IN COVERING UP OBAMA'S AFFAIR WITH VERA BAKER?

• AS NOTED EARLIER, FORMER OBAMA SEX PARTNER VERA BAKER IS REPORTEDLY LIVING IN MARTINIQUE WHILE ON THE PAYROLL OF THE DALEY MACHINE.

• WAS FIXER AND DALEY MACHINEMEMBER RAHM INVOLVED, AND IS HIS APPOINTMENT HIS REWARD?

JUST ASKING...

• AFTER ALL, RAHM HAS EXPERIENCE COVERING UP SEX SCANDALS FOR DEMOCRATS: HE RECENTLY COVERED UP THE MAHONEY CASE.
• (MORE ON RAHM AND MAHONEY HERE.)
• (EVEN MORE HERE.)
  

• HASTERT WAS FORCED TO RESIGN AS SPEAKER BECAUSE OF THE FOLEY CASE.

EMANUEL SHOULD BE FORCED TO RESIGN, TOO - FROM HIS HOUSE SEAT OR AS COS, IF HE STILL GETS THE APPOINTMENT.

PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA DESERVES TO BE TREATED AS HARSHLY AS BUSH WAS

• IF WE CODDLE OBAMA THEN WE ARE COMMITTING THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOWERED EXPECTATIONS.
• THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT MUST BE TREATED AS ANY PRESIDENT WITH NO REGARD FOR THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN.
• AS A PERSON WHO VEHEMENTLY DISAGREES WITH NEARLY EVERY FACET OF OBAMA'S GAME-PLAN FOR AMERICA -
• AND WHO SEES NOTHING IN OBAMA'S CV WHICH LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT HE IS EITHER A MODERATE OR AN ABLE EXECUTIVE,
• I SHALL REMAIN MORE THAN HIGHLY SKEPTICAL, BUT DOWNRIGHT HOSTILE.
• I SHALL BE AS HOSTILE TO OBAMA AS THE LEFT WAS TO THE LIBERAL HAWK BUSH.

THE WORM TURNS

TIME TO END AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: THE ASTUTE BLOGERS SCOOPS THE NYPOST AND NRO

WHAT WAS AT NRO AND THE NYPOST YESTERDAY...

WAS POSTED AT THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS ON TUESDAY - THREE DAYS EARLIER.

• REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.
• SPREAD THE WORD. BLOGROLL US.

BTW: THE ONLY DIVERSITY ENFORCEMENT THIS NATION DESPERATELY NEEDS IS POLITICAL DIVERSITY IN FACULTIES AND NEWSROOMS.

OTHERS AGREE: THE GOP SHOULD PLAY BARE-KNUCKLED HARDBALL AGAINST OBAMA - AND ASAP!

VIA GLENN.

WILL OBAMA, REID AND PELOSI PURGE THE BLUE DOGS?

THEY'RE WORRIED.

• I THINK THEY'RE RIGHT TO BE.
• THERE'S NOTHING IN OBAMA'S OR EMMANUEL'S BACKGROUND THAT SUGGESTS OTHERWISE.
• THEY ARE BOTH EXTREMELY LIBERAL AND EXTREMELY CORRUPT CHICAGO MACHINE POLITICIANS.
• IN FACT, MANY FEEL OBAMA CHOSE EMMANUEL NOT ONLY TO PAYBACK THE CHICAGO MACHINE BUT TO BE HIS ENFORCER IN CONGRESS.
• IT'S GONNA GET UGLY. AND A LOT SOONER THAN MOST REALIZE...

OBAMA'S CHIEF OF STAFF: RAHM EMANUEL: WALL STREET'S NUMBER ONE BAGMAN IN CONGRESS; A CHICAGO MACHINE RACKETEER AND A MEMBER OF FANNIE MAE'S BOARD

• I WONDER HOW THE LEFTIE ADORERS OF OBAMA REALLY REALLY FEEL ABOUT THE FACT THAT OBAMA APPOINTED FORMER CLINTONIAN, AND LONG-TIME CHICAGO MACHINE MEMBER RAHM EMANUEL AS CHIEF OF STAFF ?!?!?

• THAT'S CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!?!?

• ONLY IF YOU'RE A EFFIN' MORON AND A DUPE.

• EMANUEL WAS EVEN ON THE BOARD OF FANNIE MAE DURING MOST CORRUPT ERA.

• BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

• OBAMA'S 4 YEARS ARE GONNA MAKE CARTER LOOK LIKE REAGAN AND CLINTON LOOK LIKE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!

AFTER THE USA TURNS SHARPLY TO THE LEFT, ANOTHER SOCIALIST COUNTRY TURNS TO THE RIGHT: NEW ZEALAND!

THE SOCIALISTS LOST IN NEW ZEALAND! THEY GOT TROUNCED: 45% TO 34%!

TOO BAD MORE AMERICANS DIDN'T REALIZE THAT PEOPLE LIVING UNDER SOCIALISM KNOW: SOCIALISM SUCKS. IF MORE AMERICANS REALIZED THIS THEN THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SUCKERED BY OBAMA'S PROMISES.

SO MANY AMERICANS ARE IN THE DARK BECAUSE THE ELITES IN THE AMERICAN ACADEMY AND IN THE DOMESTIC MSM ARE LEFTISTS WHO HAVEN'T LIVED UNDER SOCIALIST WELFARE STATES AND THEREFORE ARE IN DENIAL ABOUT THEIR INEFFICACY.

IT AIN'T.

EASTERN EUROPE, FRANCE, ITALY, NOW NEW ZEALAND -- AND SOON GREAT BRITAIN - ARE ALL REJECTING SOCIALISM.

• IT'S SAD THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE TO SUFFER A HUGE DOSE OF SOCIALISM FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
• AT LEAST THE SUFFERING OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL CAUSE WILL EDUCATE ANOTHER GENERATION OF AMERICANS.

• WE WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO PUT THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF SOCIALISM WHEN WE WREST CONTROL OF THE MSM AND THE ACADEMY AWAY FROM THE LEFT.
• WE CAN DO THIS BY DEMANDING POLITICAL DIVERSITY IN FACULTIES AND MEDIA OUTLETS.

WE MUST END RACIAL DIVERSITY QUOTAS AND DEMAND POLITICAL DIVERSITY.

WE LIVE IN A 50/50-52/48 NATION, POLITICALLY.

ALL FACULTIES AND NEWSROOMS MUST REFLECT THIS.

IF THEY DON'T THEN IT'S A SIGN OF BIAS - BIAS WHICH MUST BE ERADICATED.

OBAMA THE IDIOT MAKES AN IDIOTIC FAUX PAS IN HIS FIRST POST-ELECTION PRESSER

HOW "PRESIDENTIAL":

IN HIS FIRST POST-ELECTION PRESSER, THE IDIOT OBAMA SLURRED NANCY REAGAN.

HE CALLED HER TO APOLOGIZE.

THIS GUY AND BIDEN ARE IDIOT TOOLS OF THE ULTRA-LIB AND ULTRA CORRUPT CHICAGO MACHINE.

IF LEFT ALONE, THEY WILL MAKE THE PENDERGAST MACHINE LOOK SAINTLY.

WIKI ON THE PENDEGRGST MACHINE:

Pendergast was famed for his common touch and helped pay the poor's medical bills, provided jobs and had famous Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the poor. One way or another Kansas City voter turnout tended to be close to 100 percent in the Pendergast days.

... Despite Prohibition, Pendergast's machine and a bribed police force allowed alcohol] and [gambling.

Additionally many elections were fixed to keep political friends in power. In return, Pendergast's companies like Ready-Mixed Concrete were awarded government contracts. Under a $40 million bond program the city constructed many civic buildings during the Depression. Among these projects were the Jackson County courthouse in downtown Kansas City, and the concrete "paving" of Brush Creek near the Country Club Plaza.

(A local urban legend, that bodies of Pendergast opponents were buried under the Brush Creek concrete, was finally put to rest when the concrete was torn up for a renewal project in the 1980s.)

He also had a hand in other projects like the Power and Light Building, Fidelity Bank and Trust Building, Municipal Auditorium, and the construction of inner-city high schools. Pendergast was able to place many of his associates to positions of authority through out Jackson County.

Pendergast handpicked Harry S. Truman, the 1934 candidate for U.S. Senate...

UNLESS WE STOP THYEM, OBAMA, DALEY, EMMANUEL AND THE CHICAGO MACHINE WILL MAKE THE PENDERGAST LOOK LIKE PIKERS.

TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY - PART 2: WE MUST USE EVERY WEAPON IN OUR ARSENAL - INCLUDING RLELNTLESS OVER-THE-TOP PERSONAL ATTACKS

BUSHITLER. CHIMPY MCHALLIBURTON. ETC.

• THE LEFT USED THESE TACTICS.
• WE SHOULD TOO.
• RELENTLESSLY.
• WHY!?
• THERE'S A WHOLE NEW CROP OF 10-17 YEAR OLDS WHO NEED TO TAUGHT THAT THESE LEFTIST DESERVE NO RESPECT.
• ONE OF THE REASONS OBAMA WON IS BECAUSE FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS ANTI-BUSH RHETORIC WAS HEIGHTENED AND NON-STOP.
• IT BRAIN-WASHED THEM.
• WE MUST FIGHT BACK..
• BEING A GENTLEMAN IS NICE, BUT IT'S NOT HOW HARDBALL POLITICS IS WON.
• WE'RE FIGHTING THE CHICAGO MACHINE.
• WE BROUGHT KNIVES AND THEY BROUGHT GUNS.
• WE GOTTA GO NUCLEAR..

AND WE GOTTA GO NUCLEAR NOW.

NO WAITING UNTIL INAUGURATION.

NO HONEYMOON.

OUR FUTURE CAN'T WAIT.

TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY - PART 1: WE CAN DEFEAT THE DEMOCRATS THE WAY THEY DEFEATED US: ATTACKING THEM PERSONALLY

The Left defeated us in stages.

By attacking our highly skilled leadership.

It started YEARS ago.

First they went after Newt.

Then Trent Lott.

Then Tom Delay Delay.

They went after Karl Rove RELENTLESSLY.

They didn't go after these guys on SUBSTANTIVE issues but on side-issues.

WE NEED TO TARGET THE DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP THE SAME WAY:

Rahm Emmanuel must be targeted for his corrupt or inept Fannie Mae directorship and his ties to Wall Street money; (he was the single largest recipient of Wall Street money in all of Congress last year!).

We need to target David Axelrod for his corrupt astro-turfing and the Obama Campaign's illegal fundraising and the campaign's hypocrisy on fundraising.

We need to target Nancy Pelosi for all her and her husband's corrupt dealings.

We need to target Jack Murtha on all his corrupt pork.

We need to target Harry Reid on his children's lobbying and his corrupt land deals.

We need to target Biden on his series of land deals which got him his huge estate - and on his children's lobbying.

We need to target Obama on his marital affair and the Rezko deals.

We must attack these men personally to derail them politically.,

that;'s what the Dems did to us.

Turnabout is fair play.

Sarah answers back

After all the lies that the press invented about her during the campaign, all that the latest flood of unsourced allegations show is that the press realize she might unseat Obama in 2012

Sarah Palin refused to rule out a run for the White House in four years' time as she hit back at extraordinary allegations from aides to John McCain about her "hillbilly" shopping sprees and breathtaking ignorance. As the controversy over her vice-presidential candidacy intensified following the Republican defeat on Tuesday night, Mrs Palin responded to a barrage of anonymous allegations from the McCain camp, including binge-buying of luxury clothes and a claim that she did not know that Africa was a continent....

Landing in Anchorage, Alaska, after one of her aides described the allegations as "unfair and sickening", Mrs Palin was greeted by crowds chanting "2012!", to which she replied: "We'll see what happens then." Addressing the Africa allegation, she said: "If they're an unnamed source, that says it all. I won't comment on anyone's gossip based on anonymous sources. "That's kind of small, of a bitter type of person who anonymously would charge that I didn't know an answer to a question. So until I know who's talking about it, I won't have a comment on a false allegation."

She has also denied going on shopping sprees. Nicolle Wallace publicly defended Mrs Palin yesterday, taking to a morning television show to call her "the most undiva politician I have ever seen". Mr McCain's aides say they were also dismayed that, without informing the campaign hierarchy, Mrs Palin scheduled a call from President Sarkozy of France just before the election. In fact, the call was from Marc-Antoine Audette and his fellow comedian, Sebastien Trudel, who are notorious for prank calls to heads of state. Mrs Palin appeared to believe that she was talking to Mr Sarkozy and when told that she would make a good president herself some day, she replied: "Maybe in eight years."

On Wednesday, as the finger-pointing began, Mrs Palin said: "I have absolutely no intention of engaging in any of the negativity because this has been all positive for me." She said it was time to savour Barack Obama's victory and "not let the pettiness, or maybe internal workings of a campaign, erode any of the recognition of this historic moment".

Meanwhile, interview requests from such talk-show luminaries as Larry King and Oprah Winfrey poured in to Mrs Palin's office in Alaska. "The intensity of all the interest is amazing. Everyone wants to talk to her," said Bill McAllister, her spokesman.

Source

Michelle Malkin has more. And there is a good Canadian comment here. And a bit on the possible source of some of the accusations here.

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Judge Bans Use Of "Illegal" and "Aliens"

This is very much in keeping with the usual Leftist fantasy that changing the word for a thing changes both the underlying reality and people's attitude towards it. In fact, the new term rapidly acquires all the associations of the old. Already, I am not the only one to use "undocumented" derisively, for instance.

"Arizona's Supreme Court Justice has agreed to enforce the Hispanic Bar Association's demands of banning the terms "illegal" and "aliens" in all of the state's courtrooms. Claiming that the terms are inflammatory, the president of Arizona's Hispanic Bar Association, (known as Los Abogados) has asked state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor to stop using them at trials or hearings because they create perceptions of judicial bias.

"The Webster's dictionary defines the adjective "alien" as "belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing" and the noun "differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility". This is exactly what is intended. The denial of using this language is itself prejudicial. This goes to the core of the debate. They are "alien" and "different". "Illegal" is also not allowed"

In a strongly worded letter to the chief justice, Los Abogados' president says attaching an illegal status to a person establishes a brand of contemptibility, creates the appearance of anti-immigrant prejudice and tarnishes the image of courts as a place where disputes may be fairly resolved.

It further points out that no human being is illegal and that a national Hispanic journalism association has roundly criticized the reference for dehumanizing a segment of the population. The letter goes on to criticize the state's High Court for using the term "illegals" in at least two opinions and the term "illegal aliens" in dozens of others.

It concludes with a list of acceptable and unacceptable terms relating to illegal immigration. Among those the group wants banned are; immigration crisis, immigration epidemic, open borders advocates, anchor babies and invaders. Among the acceptable terms are foreign nationals, unauthorized workers and human rights advocates.

Source

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Rahm Emanuel: Universal Service

According to this November 6, 2008 article in the Examiner, the following appears in The Plan: Big Ideas for America, a book Rahm Emanuel coauthored:

It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. ...

Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs.

Community, community, community!

According to the same article in the Examiner,

Emanuel and co-author Bruce Reed insist "this is not a draft," but go on to write of young men and women, "the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service." They also warn, "[s]ome Republicans will squeal about individual freedom," ruling out any likelihood that they would let people opt out of universal citizen service.

Of course, as White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel himself cannot put into place such a plan of universal service. But his position on this topic is indicative of one direction the upcoming administration might take. Moreover, Obama has stated his support of fifty hours of government-approved service as a federal requirement for earning a high school diploma.

We also have the following video snippet of Obama:

The big picture: America is no longer ruled by whites

The article below is written by the Chief Reporter for Britain's leading conservative newspaper. It addresses matters that U.S. commentators tend to slide over (out of political correctness) but which need mentioning, in my view. There have been many knowledgeable analyses of the demographics behind Obama's victory (e.g. by Karl Rove) but to me they seem unable to see the forest for the trees. The plain fact is that there is large population growth in segments of the population who are systematically hostile to the GOP and it is difficult to see a way around that. Will Obama be the first in a long line of Democrat Presidents?

The only hope -- and it is a good one -- is that the Donks will make such a huge mess of things in the next two to four years that many voters will vote for any alternative to them. That suggests to me that the GOP senators should make sparing use of the filibuster in the next two to four years. Let the Democrats have their own way on most things and just say "I told you so" when it all implodes (e.g. in huge unemployment). Let them hang themselves by their own stupidity.

President-Elect Obama attracted 43 per cent of the white vote, with 55 per cent backing John McCain. But because white voters make up an ever-decreasing percentage of the total, Mr Obama still achieved an overwhelming victory because he attracted 95 per cent of the black vote and two thirds of Hispanic and Asian voters. Black and ethnic minority voters accounted for 26 per cent of all votes cast in the election. As recently as 2000, they made up just 19 per cent of voters. At the current rate of change, white voters will be in the minority by 2042, and with black and ethnic minority voters traditionally voting Democrat, regardless of the candidate's skin colour, the Republicans are facing a long-term problem.

Mr Obama's campaign team said the Democrat had put together a "national coalition" of voters from all backgrounds. "We were able to overcome a lot of the things that a lot of people thought were insuperable barriers in our politics," his chief strategist, David Axelrod, said. Mr Obama may not have won over the majority of white voters but he still managed a larger slice of the white vote than any of his recent predecessors, including Bill Clinton. The President-Elect also increased the Democratic share of the vote in almost every other demographic sector. Male voters were split almost exactly down the middle between the two candidates, compared with 55 per cent voting Republican in 2004, and Mr Obama increased the Democratic share of the female vote from 51 per cent in 2004 to 56 per cent.

One of the biggest swings to the Democrats came among the youngest voters, with 66 per cent of 18-29 year old voters backing Mr Obama, compared with 54 per cent in the previous election. Mr Obama also picked up 69 per cent of first time voters, compared with just 53 per cent who voted for John Kerry in 2004. One in five of all first time voters were black. Dr Scott Blinder, Research Fellow in US Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford, said: "As well as the changes in the racial composition of the electorate, we have seen a significant shift in the youth vote towards the Democrats. "Obama has taken 69 per cent of first time voters, a significant increase on previous elections, and that might have long-term implications for the Republicans, as we are seeing a whole new generation of Democratic voters coming through.

More here

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OLMERT'S 9TH QUIZZING BY POLICE

Ehud Olmert, still as disrespectful as ever, undergoes his ninth interrogation yet.

Eventually, he's going to go down for his crimes, and learn an important lesson.

WHITE MARINE SERGEANT AND HIS BLACK WIFE TORTURED AND MURDERED BY 4 BLACK MARINES UNDER HIS COMMAND

A HORRIFIC, VICIOUS CRIME:

A Brooklyn-raised Marine sergeant and his new bride were tortured and killed execution-style in their California home - allegedly by four other Marines under his command.

... Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, who was raised in Bensonhurst, and his wife, Quiana, were found bound and gagged in the ransacked house, each shot in the head.

... Charged with murder and other crimes are Pvt. Emrys John, 18, of Maryland; Lance Cpl. Tyrone Miller, 20, of North Carolina; Pvt. Kevin Darnell Cox, 20, of Tennessee, and Pvt. Kesuan Sykes, 21, of California.

THE VICTIMS:



THE PERPS:

WAS BLACK RACISM AGAINST WHITES AND MISCEGENATION THE REAL MOTIVE?

IF SO, WILL IT BECOME A ROUTINE PART OF OBAMA'S BRAVE NEW WORLD?

MILTON FRIEDMAN ON LIMITED GOVERNMENT

SEVEN PLEDGES FOR AMERICA

THERE MUST BE NO HONEYMOON FOR OBAMA.

THE GOP MUST OPPOSE OBAMA, PELOSI AND REID IN A CLEAR AND SIMPLE WAY WHICH ALL AMERICANS CAN UNDERSTAND.

THE GOP NEEDS TO MAKE A STAND IN CONGRESS, BY TAKING SIMPLE, CLEAR STAND ON KEY ISSUES.

HERE'S HOW: "OUR SEVEN PLEDGES FOR AMERICA":



"WE WILL VOTE NO ON ALL NEW TAXES."








"WE WILL VOTE NO ON ALL DEFENSE CUTS."








"WE WILL VOTE NO ON ALL OIL-DRILLING BANS."








"WE WILL VOTE NO ON ALL BILLS WITH EARMARKS OR PORK."







"WE WILL VOTE NO ON RETREAT FROM OUR ENEMIES."








"WE WILL VOTE NO ON ALL NEW GUN CONTROLS."








"WE WILL VOTE NO ON WEAKENING LAW ENFORCEMENT."






PASS IT ON...

UPDATE: POWER LINE HAS SIMILAR THOUGHTS REGARDING THE CENTRALITY OF A GOOD SIMPLE CONSISTENT CONSERVATIVE MESSAGE:

the Republicans' problem doesn't lie with their leadership, it lies in their inability in recent years to articulate conservative principles and apply them to legislation in a way that the American people find persuasive. To a great extent, their ability to do this was undermined by the fact that some Republicans were more interested in cementing their own popularity through spending increases. Being in the minority may well free Republicans to go back to taking principled, conservative stands on legislation.

I THINK THAT THESE SEVEN PLEDGES - OR SOMETHING LIKE THEM - ARE JUST THE TICKET.

PROOF OBAMA BOUGHT THE WHITE HOUSE - AND WHAT IT BODES...

THE DEMS USED TO ABHOR THE MIX OF MONEY AND POLITICS.

OBAMA'S DECISION TO REND ON HIS WON PROMISE AND LONGSTANDING DEMOCRAT PARTY POSITION ON PUBLIC FINANCING PROVES HE HAS NO PRINCIPLES AND IS A BAD OMEN.

HOW MUCH DID MONEY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME?



WE REPORT; YOU DECIDE:

OBAMA OUTSPENT MCCAIN BY NEARLY 10-1 PER VOTE

DISGUSTING. I'D SAY IT WAS HYPOCRITICAL OF THE DEMS, EXCEPT MAYB E IT PORVES THAT THEY REALLY HAVE NO CORE PRINCIPLES.

ANYHOW...

THIS HYPOCRISY, OR LACK OF PRINCIPLES, IS WHY OBAMA WILL FAIL:

TO STEER THE SHIP OF STATE THROUGH UNCHARTED WATERS, DURING STORMY TIMES AND ROUGH SEAS, YOU NEED A COMPASS AND "AN INMOST CHART".

• REAGAN HAD THIS - WHICH IS WHY HE WAS ABLE TO SUSTAIN HIS COURSE AFTER CUTTING TAXES WHEN THE INITIAL PERIOD WAS MET WITH AN INCREASE IN ECONOMIC HARDSHIP.

• BUSH HAD THIS, TOO - WHICH IS WHY HE WAS ABLE TO SUSTAIN OUR NATION'S COURSE IN IRAQ WITH THE SURGE DESPITE THE FACT MANY PEOPLE WERE CONVINCED THE WAR WAS LOST AND DOUBTED IT WOULD WORK.

• OBAMA EITHER HAS NO PRINCIPLES - OR IF HE DOES, THEN BY EXAMINING HIS LIFE, WE CAN ONLY CONCLUDE THEY ARE LEFTIST PRINCIPLES WHICH HAVE ALWAYS FAILED EVERY TIME THEY'VE EVER BEEN TRIED EVERYWHERE THEY'VE EVER BEEN TRIED.

THIS MEANS WE'RE IN FOR SOME ROUGH TIMES.

BETTER BRACE YOURSELVES...

DOMESTIC WIND TURBINES: 'A NET USER OF ELECTRICITY'

A fun email from Paul Biggs [p.m.biggs@bham.ac.uk] below:


The October edition of Which? Magazine [in the UK] reported on domestic wind turbines in an article entitled 'Wind turbine blows cold.' Which? installed one in a house and monitored it from December 2007 to June 2008. The result was that it used more electricity than it generated. This is because the turbine includes an "inverter" that converts the energy into electricity to go into the mains, and the inverter needs power which it draws whether the wind is turning the turbine or not. If the 'greens' want to 'save the planet' with domestic wind turbines, then they will have to make sure that they live somewhere very windy. Given the energy used and costs involved in manufacturing, installing, maintaining, plus eventual decommissioning - there may not be anywhere that is windy enough!

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McCain was too "moderate"

Excerpts from Ann Coulter below:

Last night was truly a historic occasion: For only the second time in her adult life, Michelle Obama was proud of her country! The big loser of this election is Colin Powell, whose last-minute endorsement of Obama put the Illinois senator over the top. Powell was probably at home last night, yelling at his TV, "Are you KIDDING me? That endorsement was sarcastic!"

The winner, of course, is Obama, who must be excited because now he can start hanging out in public with Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright again. John McCain is a winner because he can resume buying more houses. And we're all winners because we will never again have to hear McCain say, "my friends."

After Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election, Hillary Clinton immediately announced that, henceforth, she would be known as "Hillary Rodham Clinton." So maybe Obama can now become B. Hussein Obama, his rightful name.

This was such an enormous Democratic year that even John Murtha won his congressional seat in Pennsylvania after calling his constituents racists. It turns out they're not racists - they're retards. Question: What exactly would one have to say to alienate Pennsylvanians? That Joe Paterno should retire? Apparently, Florida voters didn't mind Obama's palling around with Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, either. There must be a whole bunch of retired Pennsylvania Jews down there.

Republicans lost this presidential election, and I don't blame the messenger; I blame the message. How could Republicans go after B. Hussein Obama (as he is now known) on planning to bankrupt the coal companies when McCain supports the exact same cap and trade policies and earnestly believes in global warming?

How could we go after Obama for his illegal alien aunt and for supporting driver's licenses for illegal aliens when McCain fanatically pushed amnesty along with his good friend Teddy Kennedy? How could we go after Obama for Jeremiah Wright when McCain denounced any Republicans who did so? How could we go after Obama for planning to hike taxes on the "rich," when McCain was the only Republican to vote against both of Bush's tax cuts on the grounds that they were tax cuts for the rich?

And why should Republican activists slave away working for McCain when he has personally, viciously attacked: John O'Neill and the Swift Boat Veterans, National Right to Life director Doug Johnson, evangelical pastors Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee, various conservative talk radio hosts, the Tennessee Republican Party and on and on and on?....

How many times do we have to run this experiment before Republican primary voters learn that "moderate," "independent," "maverick" Republicans never win, and right-wing Republicans never lose? Indeed, the only good thing about McCain is that he gave us a genuine conservative, Sarah Palin. He's like one of those insects that lives just long enough to reproduce so that the species can survive. That's why a lot of us are referring to Sarah as "The One" these days.

For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president. Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.

More here

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A Mephistophelian look

I am following the Coulter advice above:



The above looks to me like Mephistopheles saying: "Now you've got it coming to you. You just wait and see"

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PAPER DEFEATS ROCK

Reflections upon this historic election have employed the pendulum metaphor. This swing ( or wobble ) from left to right is a natural result of democracy- just as price fluctuations are the result of a free market. Another metaphor - which I borrow from a childrens game - Rock Paper Scissor - is perhaps more telling. John McCain was the Rock and Obama the Paper. John McCain represented values that are permanent and unchanging. Barack Obama was a blank page - undefined, flexible. His campaign was based on the creation of a brand accompanied by simple slogans: Change/Yes We Can. By maintaining his personal and political ambiguity Obama emerged as a concept who, williingly served by an uncritical mass media, was defined in the minds of his audience. You might ask -why didn't McCain employ a Scissor? I think the paper could have been cut into a thousand pieces but like starfish they would regenerate into the original ambiguous Obama brand.

What has Obama achieved and what will he do? The time for talk is over. Now his actions will tell. Soon he must govern and lead. I doubt he expects his charismatic talk alone will move the leaders of China, Russia, Iran, Syria or North Korea. His selection of Rahm Emanuel, and rumors he will be rewarding the Kennedy machine for their support, demonstrate that Obama and his team understand the political game in Washington and that they intend to play it full out.

FEAR NOT

BIGGEST POST-ELECTION STOCK CRASH IN HISTORY

President-elect Obama made more history today:

The stock market posted its biggest plunge following a presidential election as reports on jobs and service industries stoked concern the economy will worsen even as President-elect Barack Obama tries to stimulate growth.

Yeah, or maybe investors have figured out that more socialism isn't going to stimulate much of anything except more dependency.

THAT WAS FAST: BUYER'S REMORSE: STOCKS FALL BY BIGGEST AMOUNT IN ANY POST-ELECTION DAY - EVER!

VIA GLENN:

U.S. Stocks Post Biggest Post-Election Drop ...

Biggest Rally Erased

The market's decline came a day after the biggest presidential Election Day gain since the New York Stock Exchange first opened for trading on a voting day in 1984.

BRACE YOURSELVES: OBAMA'S BASIC POLICIES WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE - THEY ALWAYS HAVE, EVERYWHERE AND EVERY TIME THEY'VE EVER BEEN EMPLOYED...

A SEVEN POINT PLAN FOR AMERICA

THE GOP NEEDS TO TAKE A STAND IN CONGRESS.

A SIMPLE, CLEAR STAND ON THE KEY ISSUES.

HERE IS A SEVEN POINT PLAN FOR AMERICA:

1. NO NEW TAXES
2. NO DEFENSE CUTS
3. NO OIL-DRILLING BANS
4. NO EARMARKS
5. NO RETREAT
6. NO NEW GUN CONTROLS
7. NO MORE LIBERAL JUDGES
   

THE GOP MUST OPPOSE OBAMA IN A CLEAR AND SIMPLE WAY WHICH ALL AMERICANS CAN UNDERSTAND.

THIS COVERS IT IN MY BOOK.

MORE SIMPLY THAN THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA, TOO.

PASS IT ON.

GRAMSCI TRIUMPHANT!

Andrew C. McCarthy notes the leftward drift of youthful voters:

Preliminary indications are that the youth vote (ages 18-29) was way up: an increase of somewhere over 2.2 million (maybe way over) from 2004 (a year in which it was very high), and as much as 13% over 2000. The Left's dominance of the academy is now having a material impact on electoral politics. As we think about the future of conservatism, we ignore that at our peril. [Emphasis added.]

The "left's dominance of the academy" includes not only Ivy League institutions, large State universities, but also the teachers' colleges that prepare young people to promulgate the Teachings of Chairmen Chomsky, Zinn, and Ayers to elementary and high school students. This is the triumph of the Gramscian walk through the institutions of the West, weakening our culture from within.

There was never any chance for a Maoist peasant revolt in the 20th century West, and the Leninist vanguard of the working class has also faltered. But Gramsci's approach is still working. Gramsci was perhaps the most dangerous communist strategist of all.

Lenin held that culture was 'ancillary' to political objectives but for Gramsci it was fundamental to the attainment of power that cultural hegemony be achieved first.

It is no accident that self-avowed revolutionary communist and unrepentant would-be mass murderer Bill Ayers chose to follow up his underground career in terrorism with a career as an "educator," transforming America's schools from places where our history, our freedoms, and our technological know how are preserved, into places where our own children are indoctrinated into becoming the radical insurgents who will bring down their own country, and with it the rest of the free world.

McCarthy recommends study of Roger Kimball's book, Tenured Radicals. In addition to that resource, I'd like to add a note of praise to the often unheralded but surely vital work of David Horowitz, who has struggled against the radical corruption of the academy for years. Check out the resources at Front Page.

CHICAGO MACHINE TRIUMPHANT?

Maybe this is good news.

ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.

As Rosslyn Smith notes at American Thinker:

How interesting that the first name offered by our President elect who ran on the platform of hope and change is a veteran of the Clinton administration who has long been known to be Chicago mayor Richard Daley's eyes and ears in Washington, DC.

Thin gruel, but perhaps Barack Hussein Obama's inner Chicago machine hack will temper his lifelong apprenticeship to communists, radicals, racists, and jihadists.

ALREADY!

76 days before Barack Hussein Obama's inauguration, Israeli MK Eldad warns that his country is facing a nuclear Iran alone:

"Israel should prepare for a situation that (US president-elect) Barack Obama will try and pay for agreements for a withdrawal from Iraq with Israeli interests.

"Israel should know that from now on it is facing the Iranian nuclear threat on its own, because Obama wants to talk to Iran and has already accepted a nuclear Iran," he added.

The challenges about which Joe Biden warned are starting to accumulate . . .

RUSSIA UPS THE ANTE

It's happening already . . .

President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will deploy missiles in its Baltic Sea territory in response to U.S. missile defense plans.

There will be more challenges to come . . .

(Hat tip: Insty.)

THE MEDIA WON

They created Obama. They could have destroyed him in a minute if they had wanted to. Instead they promoted him, covered for him and used anything they could to discredit his opponents.

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ACERBIC DERB

John Derbyshire is probably right:

What won this election was the packaging skills of David Axelrod, the swooning complicity of the media, the ruthless opportunism of Barack Obama, and the unprincipled thuggishness of his supporters.

But so is Maggie Gallagher:

This vote [a sweep for pro-marriage amendments in California, Arizona, and Florida], like earlier votes in Wisconsin, Oregon, and Michigan, affirms that when it comes to marriage there is no such thing as a blue state or a red state. Americans support marriage as the union of husband and wife.

And so is Mark Levin:

It will be difficult to voice legitimate criticism of Obama and his policies if the response of his campaign and surrogates these last many months — some vicious and some perfectly fine — is any indication. I agree with Mark when he underscores the battle ahead. It is very serious.

On the other hand, I am not sure that Obama's victory really proves Mark Hemingway's assertion:

In so far as an Obama victory proves that America truly is a meritocracy where the arbitrary circumstances of your birth won't impede your success, that is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

Well, may the seriousness of the battle bring forth the best that we have. I should probably close with a stern quote from LOTR. Any suggestions?

IT'S TIME FOR NEW GOP LEADERSHIP IN THE CONGRESS

Out with McConnell and Boehner.

In with Demint and Cantor.

WE NEED CLARITY, FOCUS AN A CLEAR COMMITTMENT TO CONSERVATIVE VALUES AND CONSERVATIVE POLICIES.

AND DISCIPLINE.

The simple program:

• NO CUTS TO DEFENSE.
• KEEP DEPLOYING MISSILE DEFENSE.
  
• NO EARMARKS; NO TAX INCREASES.
• KEEPING SECRET BALLOTS IN ALL UNION VOTES.
• NO TO KYOTO.
• KEEP THE OCS OPEN FOR DRILLING AND OPEN ANWR.
• NO TO ANY MORE GUN CONTROLS.
  

UPDATE: DERB GETS IT:

What did it all get us, those 8 years of pandering and spending?

If GWB had turned his face against new entitlements, closed the borders, deported the illegals, held the line on calls to loosen mortgage-lending standards, starved the Department of Education, and declined those invitations to mosque functions, would the GOP be in any worse shape now?

What won this election was the packaging skills of David Axelrod, the swooning complicity of the media, the ruthless opportunism of Barack Obama, and the unprincipled thuggishness of his supporters.

What lost this election was the cloth-eared cluelessness of George W. Bush, the timid squeamishness of John McCain, and the deep lack of interest in conservative principles among Republican primary voters

AND ANOTHER THING: WHAT ALSO AIDED THEM IMMENSELY WAS THE FACT THAT (1) OBAMA IS THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED LIAR OF ALL TIME; (2) WE HAD THE "PERFECTLY TIMED" CRASH OF '08, AND (3) A COMPLIANT MSM.

THE GOOD THING FOR TH USA: AS SOON AS HE IS SWORN IN, ALL NEWS WILL BE SPUN IN PRO-USA WAYS!

PREDICTION: THE ELECTION OF AMERICA'S "CLEMENT ATTLEE" WILL BRING ON "THE OBAMA INTIFADA"

We first posted on this parallel in July, and it has come to pass: THE USA ELECTED ITS ATTLEE.

WIKI ON ATTLEE:

The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created -- aspirations that had been outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report. Within this context, his government undertook the nationalisation of major industries and public utilities as well as the creation of the National Health Service. After initial Conservative opposition, this settlement was by and large accepted by all parties[2] until Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in the 1970s.

WHAT WE POSTED IN JULY 2008:

Tired of war, the British people thought they could atke a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

WELL... HERE WE GO AGAIN!

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.

The policy of appeasement always has the same results, too.

Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism, there will be another intifada in Israel (their third), another in Europe - AND OUR FIRST IN THE USA.

THE OBAMA INTIFADA.

And Putin and Iran will become more aggressive in Venezuela.

And Putin will become more aggressive in Georgia and Ukraine.

And Iran will become more aggressive in Iraq.

And al Qaeda will become more aggressive in Pakistan and Kashmir.

And al Qaeda will attack us here again, too.

Obama will weaken our defenses by weakening our ability to gather intel by weakening the NSA Intercept Programs.

Obama will weaken us by ceasing deployment of Missile defense in Eastern Europe and Alaska.

And Obama will weaken us by cutting the defense budget.

TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL PRODUCE, WE MUST FIGHT OBAMA'S DANGEROUS POLICIES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

WE SHALL.

MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA

What will Barack Obama's presidency be like?

That is the question.

Will it follow the outlines of his centrist campaign narrative?

Will it follow the shining radical path suggested by his associations with Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn, ACORN, the "New Party," and Rashid Al Khalidi?

Will it conform to his record as a knee-jerk liberal hack politician who never deviated from the line laid out by his Democratic leaders?

As almost all news analysts agreed over the past 72 hours, Obama is a cipher. Nobody claims to know what he really thinks, or what positions he will actually take.

Now that could be a dodge, a way of continuing to cover up his radical history.

But if it is true that the strongest elements in his personality are narcissism and a Quixotic quest to remedy the wounds of abandonment by his parents in early childhood, then we might see a "pragmatic" Obama who will throw the more radical elements of his Party's program under the same bus he threw every other impediment to his electoral success.

That is I think the best we can hope for,

Unfortunately, the Democrat Party in the Congress has very few conservative or moderate Democrats left, and it is as a party dominated by radical, leftist Statists who are acting out their own psychopathologies on the national stage.

Therefore, I suspect that we will see much of the radical agenda emerging not from sweeping policy initiatives of the Obama Administration, but from the Congress.

And if his past behavior in the Illinois Senate and the United States Senate is a predictor, Obama will be content to go along with whatever they present for his signature.

Look for a concerted push by Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of their gang of idiots to quickly pass the "card-check" end of secret ballots in union elections, a return to the "fairness doctrine" in order to get independent talk radio hosts off the air, a federal measure eliminating any and all State restrictions on abortion along with protections for infanticide, and a formal timetable for retreat from Iraq.

If they get those through, bolder measures will follow.

I would expect any attempt to cobble together a comprehensive "universal health care" plan to fail. It always does.

Tax hikes, on the other hand, are likely, with considerable damage to the economy in their wake. I expect unemployment to rise significantly. After all, the neo-socialist economies of Western Europe have unemployment rates in the range of 10-20%.

I doubt there will be an immediate push to discard, ignore, and subvert the Second Amendment. The likely course for that program will be the appointment of Marxist judges at all levels of the Federal judiciary. The tenor of their decisions will be used to strangle our rights more gradually but no less systematically for that matter.

Obama's election will not defuse the angry race-baiting of the Jeremiah Wrights, Al Sharptons, and Jesse Jacksons. On the contrary, John Conyers will press for the payment of reparations to black Americans, and he will undoubtedly step up a concerted attempt to try President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld for "war crimes," if not in an American or United Nations court, then before a congressional committee.

On the other hand, the foreign policy disasters will largely flow from the White House. The leftists in the State Department will feel unleashed, and Obama may feel that he can try for a few dramatic foreign gestures, coddling America's enemies and encouraging bolder moves on their part.

Retreat in Iraq would demoralize the United States Armed Forces the way retreat from Vietnam did in the seventies. God forbid that our brave Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines feel that their sacrifices were for nought, and the tremendous successes of the three wars they won in Iraq are tossed aside by a callous, callow administration.

Look for an Iranian nuclear test before the end of 2009, along with a renewed and intensified terror campaign against Israel. Obama has already secretly promised Mahmoud Abbas that he will favor the re-partition of Jerusalem, and Israeli leftists will go along with a retreat that might spark civil war in Israel. An increasing tempo of terror attacks in the Israeli capital is already gaining the jihadists control of the streets.

Any sign of weakness on Obama's part will dishearten our allies and encourage more Russian and Chinese adventurism. Look for Putin to press and provoke wherever he can, in Georgia, the Ukraine, and against the Baltic states. I would not be surprised if Chavez invited the Russians to install intercontinental nuclear missiles in Venezuela.

To the problems that already exist in the world, the Obama Administration and the Democrat Congress will add their own folly. That's why Thomas Sowell said that a McCain administration might be a disaster, but an Obama administration would be a catastrophe.

America will indeed need continual blessings from our Creator in order to thrive. May the damage be as minimal as possible until the electorate wakes up, and may that awakening come in 2010!

WHAT OBAMA'S ELECTION MEANS: TIME TO END AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

MANY OF MY LIB FRIENDS THOUGHT OBAMA COULD NEVER BE ELECTED: THAT ELECTING A BLACK PRESIDENT WAS IMPOSSIBLE.

BUT I THOUGHT WE COULD - CUZ I KNEW THE RIGHT-WING IN THE USA ISN'T RACIST.

I WUZ RIGHT DEY WUZ WRONG. BIGTIME.

NOW, EVERYONE SHOULD ACCEPT THAT OBAMA'S ELECTION MEANS RACISM IN THE USA IS DEAD.

GOOD.

NOW, LET'S END ALL AFFRIMATIVE ACTION, PLEASE.

WHAT OBAMA WILL DO FIRST IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS

1. RAISE TAXES ON CAPITAL GAINS.
2. ALLOW GAYS OPENLY THE MILITARY.
3. RAISE TAXES ON EVERYONE MAKING MORE THAN $100K.
4. CLOSE GITMO.
5. RAISE TAXES ON CO2/CARBON.
6. RETREAT FROM IRAQ.
7. RAISE TAXES ON OIL COMPANIES.
8. CLOSE THE OCS TO OIL EXPLORATION.
9. RAISE TAXES ON PHARMACEUTICALS.
10. SIGN KYOTO.
11. RAISE TAXES BUSINESSES.
12. SIDE WITH THE ARABS IN THE UNSC.
13. RAISE TAXES.
14. REDUCE DEFENSE SPENDING.
15. RAISE TAXES.
16. CANCEL MISSILE DEFENSE.
17. RAISE TAXES.
18. BAN "ASSAULT" GUNS.
19. RAISE TAXES.
20. BAN SECRET BALLOTS FOR UNIONS.
21. RAISE TAXES.
22. BRING BACK PROTECTIONISM.
23. RAISE TAXES.
24. BRING BACK THE "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE".
25. RAISE TAXES.
26. INVITE CHAVEZ AND AHMADINEJAD AND ASSAD TO CAMP DAVID FOR A RETREAT WITH WRIGHT AND FARRAKHAN...
    

OKAY: THE LAST ONE IS A JOKE, BUT YOU GET THE IDEA...

THESE LEFTIST POLICIES WILL MAKE US WEAKER AND POORER AND LESS SECURE - AND OBAMA WILL BLAME BUSH AND DIG US IN EVEN DEEPER.

WE'D BETTER BRACE OURSELVES...

AND FIGHT ACCORDINGLY.

IT APPEARS THAT THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG BACK TO THE LEFT - THE EXTREME LEFT...

That's the way it works: the right had it's way for a while and now it's the left;s turn.

TO BAD THEIR POLICIES HAVE FAILED EVERYWHERE THEY'VE EVER BEEN TRIED.

If Obama gets his way -- and only public outcry (such as defeated the Immigration Reform) can stop him -- America will be poorer, weaker, and less secure - and it will take us a decade or so to recover.

How sad. I feel sad for my country and for our allies. Especially Israel and Iraq.

But THANK GOD: for every Carter and Obama there's a Reagan.

Dubya was no Reagan: he presided over a HUGE boom in unnecessary spending because Dubya's compassionate Conservatism was really very centrist of not liberal thing.

Nevertheless, just because Dubya was a HAWK, they libs pilloried him non-stop for 7 years.

Bush and the GOP got blamed for LOSING IRAQ - EVEN THOUGH WE WON!

BUSH AND THE GOP GOT BLAMED FOR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS CAUSED BY THE DEMOCRATS WHO PROTECTED FANNIE MAE.

Bush hurt the GOP because - like McCain - too much of a "gentleman": Dubya didn't fight back sufficiently on the Plame thing or the numerous national security leaks and the constant anti-war propaganda in general.

Bush also devoted too much "POLITICAL CAPITAL" to reforming social security. It was the wrong battle at the wrong time.

He should have fought the Democrats harder on Fannie Mae and on energy exploration.

Bush fatigue and the MSM-propaganda and the stock plunge AND BEING OUTSPENT 7-1 all hurt McCain, but I think that Mitt might have done better than McCain.

And the Fred we saw at the convention and since was better than the one who entered the primaries late and seemed half-hearted.

MITT AND FRED MIGHT HAVE CARRIED THE DAY. But they failed to stop McCain - though this was in no small measure because the early GOP primaries allowed crossover voting, and because the MSM wanted an Obama-McCain match up.

And Rudy sucked bigtime, too.

WHO WILL PICK UP THE PIECES?

Haley Barbour is a pro.

PALIN IS A STAR.

Romney is brilliant.

And the there's this guy named BOBBY JINDAL....

Ahhh... or oy....

We have remain steadfast to our principles and fight them tooth and nail.

And look forward to the mid-terms...

BTW: Will Reverend Wright lead the invocation at the inaugural or Farrakhan?

OBAMA MIGHT WIN, AFTER ALL...

• THE NETS CALLED PA FOR OBAMA.
• IF IT HOLDS UP, THEN IT'S PROBABLY OVER.
• MCCAIN HAD AN UPHILL RACE:
• THE MSM, THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE STOCK PLUNGE, HIS REFUSAL TO USE WRIGHT OR INFANTICIDE, AND OBAMA OUTSPENDING HIM 7-1...
• NOW IT'S TIME FOR US TO BE IN THE OPPOSITION.
• WE HAVE NOBODY IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TO DEFEND ANYMORE - AND THAT'S A RELIEF.
• I FOR ONE WILL NOT LET THE SOCIALISTS TAKE OVER WITHOUT A KNOCKDOWN DRAG OUT BRAWL.
• IF YOU THOUGHT MICHAEL MOORE AND THE KOSSACKS WERE DERANGED, THEN YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET.

THE PSYCHOPATHIC NARCISSIST

The indefatigable Ali Sina analyzes Obama's narcissism at Faith Freedom.

It isn't too late.

If you haven't voted already, then --

Read. The. Whole. Thing. Now.

-- and vote accordingly.

(Thanks to reader Paul who linked to this article in a comment to my post on Obama's Sturmabteilung, below.)

AND NOT SO GOOD

There are reports of voter intimidation and harassment of Republican poll watchers in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Evidently the Democrats themselves are not quite as sure of an Obama victory as they would like you to think . . .

SO FAR, SO GOOD

For those of us who are following this election closely, the following links might be of interest:

Sean Malstrom has a thorough analysis. He has noticed that neither the McCain nor the Obama campaigns seem to think that the publicly available polls have any validity. Remember that nearly all of the predictions you see, and also the results of the legal betting sites, are based on those polls. And it has been shown repeatedly that the publicly available polls exhibit significant methodological deficiencies.

Paul Marston is predicting a landslide for McCain-Palin! The major factor in his analysis is that the disaffected Hillary Clinton voters (the PUMAs) are ignored by all of the polls, and that the defection of so many Democrat voters is historically unprecedented. He is an experienced political analyst, and he gives detailed figures to back up his perceptions.

By all accounts, voter turnout is extraordinary -- everywhere. On balance, I think that is a plus for McCain. His voters are likely under-represented in the polling data.

SONDRAK HACKED?

One of my favorite, funny group blogs, "Knowledge Is Power," at sondrak.com might have been hacked.

When you try to go to sondrak.com, you get connactivity.com, which asks you to redirect to the Longwater Development Corporation, which seems to be an ISP/web development outfit in Massachusetts.

I wonder what's up.

UPDATE: (At 4:34 PM EST.) Whatever it was, it's fixed now. Go visit!

Exit poll warning

We all remember how far off the exit polls were in 2004. But we don't recall how far off some of the leaked exit poll results were in 2006. In the races were expected blowouts - Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island - the exit polls were pretty accurate. But on some of the close ones - the ones where race-watchers want reliable data the most - they managed to botch it pretty badly.

Virginia Exit Poll Result: D: 52 R: 47. Actual result: Webb 49.59 percent, Allen 49.2 percent. The exit poll margin was 5 percent; the actual margin was less than one percent.

Montana Exit Poll Result: D: 53 R: 46. Actual result: Tester 49.16, Burns 48.29. The exit poll margin was 7 percent; the actual margin was less than one percent.

Arizona Exit Poll Result: R: 50 D: 46. Actual result: Kyl 53, Pederson 44. The exit poll margin was 2 percent, the actual margin was 9 percent.

Because they correctly predicted the ultimate winner, no one remembers these poll results as being egregiously off-base. But a few thousand votes here and there, and they would have had the wrong winner in Virginia and Montana. And you notice which direction these results skew.

Source

NOTE: Suitably Flip and Jim Geraghty have been looking closely at the public opinion polls and predict a McCain win.

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OBAMA VERSUS MCCAIN EQUALS DAVID DINKINS VERSUS RUDY GIULIANI

• DINKINS WAS AN AMIABLE LIB WHO RUINED THE CITY.
• RUDY IS THE TOUGH GUY WHO SAVED IT.
• NOW, AMERICA HAS A SIMILAR CHOICE.
• IF AMERICA CHOOSES OBAMA, IT WILL SINK THE USA AS SURELY AS DINKINS SUNK NYC.
  

WHY THE 2008 ELECTION IS EVEN CLOSE...

1 - THE MSM IS WORTH 10%

2 - THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM MELTDOWN - CAUSED BY THE DEMOCRATS WHO PROTECTED FANNIE MAE FROM GOP REGULATION - IS BEING BLAMED ON THE PARTY IN POWER IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

3 - GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ ISN'T BEING REPORTED - AND HASN'T BEEN FOR A YEAR.

4 - THE BAD NEWS/TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA ISN'T BEING REPORTED

5 - MANY JEWS THINK VOTING DEMOCRAT IS THE 11TH COMMANDMENT - ESPECIALLY THE SECULAR JEWS.

6 - OBAMA IS TALLER, AND SPEAKS BETTER THAN MCCAIN.

7 - OBAMA IS OUTSPENDING MCCAIN BY 7-1.

NEVERTHELESS, MCCAIN - A GENUINE HERO WITH A REAL RECORD OF BI-PARTISAN ACCOMPLISHMENT - WILL WIN.

• IN A FAIR AND HONEST WORLD MCCAIN WOULD WIN IN A LANDSLIDE.

• AMERICA MUSTN'T ELECT A MAN FARRAKHAN, WRIGHT, AYERS, KHALIDI, HAMAS, HIZBALLAH. IRAN. PUTIN. AND CHAVEZ PREFER.

• NO SANE PERSON CAN DOUBT THAT THESE SCUMBAGS DON'T HAVE AMERICAN INTERESTS AT HEART.

• THEY HATE AMERIKKKA.

• AND WANT AMERIKKKA DAMNED.

• WITH OBAMA AS POTUS.... WE SHALL BE.

PLEASE GOD FORBID.

NOW PRAY - AND THEN GET OUT AND VOTE MCCAIN!

OBAMA'S STURMABTEILUNG

The blogosphere discussion of Obama's proposed "civilian defense force" has obscured the simple fact that this corps would be Obama's Sturmabteilung. Watch to see how gang bangers are recruited into it, and how it will "clear the streets" of any opposition to the Obamessiah's programs.I'd be surprised if he doesn't move to arm his own corps, in case he needs to use them against the Armed Forces, whose members are voting about 80% for McCain, and who will not likely approve of Obama's cut&run surrender and appeasement of any and all of America's enemies.

Obama already owns the media, and by using the "fairness doctirne" to eliminate talk radio, there will be no public voice to oppose him. Watch to see how he moves to choke the blogosphere and the internet, in the guise of eliminating "hate speech."

This day may well be the last free (albeit stolen) election in the history of the United States.

OBAMA SOLICITED ILLEGAL FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

Over at Pajamas Media, John Rosenthal quotes Kenneth Timmerman and uncovers evidence in Italy's Corrierre Della Sera, that the Obama campaing actively solicited illegal foreign money, deliberately asking for small contributions that could be hidden by its web-based system:

In the meanwhile, Timmerman has calculated that over $6 million in contributions to the Obama campaign from identified sources were made in non-rounded dollar amounts: such as $223.88, $388.67, and $876.09. This odd anomaly suggests that the dollar amounts were converted from foreign currencies. The donors in question gave a total of over $30 million. Timmerman speculates that roughly the same amount of non-itemized contributions from unidentified donors may have come from foreign sources. Of course, if foreign sources were being specifically targeted for “small” contributions, in order to circumvent the disclosure requirements, this could well be a conservative estimate. Timmerman’s calculations, moreover, do not include the Obama campaign’s record haul of $150 million in contributions for September, nor, of course, do they include the as yet unavailable figures for October.

A special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the Obama campaign and apply the RICO laws.

WHY DOES OBAMA HATE AMERICA?

Over at NRO, Andrew McCarthy & Claudia Rosett show how it is that a major party's candidate for President came to hate the United States he aspires to lead down the primrose path to ruin:

The United States gave the Obamas privileged educational opportunities. At America’s top colleges, they were steeped in Leftist radicalism. As they came of age, they thought nothing of exposing their children to an ideology that paints their country as racist, rife with injustice, and in need of drastic, fundamental change. And why should we expect otherwise? It is what they believe.

It is also the way things are done in the circle of friends they developed during years of living in Hyde Park — friends like Rashid and Mona Khalidi, and Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

They live their lives in a Cloud Cuckoo Land of deranged leftist posturing. Their friend Khalidi, erstwhile PLO spokesman in Beirut, is also a complete phony. And notice how it was the New Duranty Times that burnished Khalidi's phony "credentials":

Two New York Times obituaries, one published when his father, Ismail, died in 1968, and the other when his more famous uncle, Hussein, died in 1962, paint a portrait of Rashid Khalidi as Palestinian royalty — albeit with elusive Palestinian roots. Ismail Khalidi was actually a Saudi citizen, educated in American schools in Lebanon and in the U.S. — including at Columbia, his son Rashid’s current pulpit, where the elder Khalidi got his doctorate in 1955.

So it turns out that Rashid Khalidi’s claim to Palestinian heritage is derived not from the struggle but from antiquity. He was born not among the impoverished masses of Gaza or the West Bank but into a life of privilege in New York City. The Times reports that the Khalidis claim they are descended from Khalid Ibn Walid, “who defeated the Byzantine armies at the battle of the Yarmuk River in 634 that opened the way for the Arab conquest of the Middle East, North Africa and Spain” — making the family, the Times tells us, “one of Palestine’s oldest and most influential.”

Khalidi, like Ayers and Dohrn, was part of the Obamas' family circle. In summary:

Why would Barack and Michelle Obama expose their children to Rev. Wright’s America-hating spew? Because in the circle from which Obama hails, that spew isn’t considered spew. It’s considered truth, and it gets passed along from generation to generation.

Read. The. Whole. Thing. Now.

And consider what a disaster it would be if such America-hating ideology gains a foothold in the White House.

Vote accordingly.

STATE BOARD EXONERATES GOVERNOR PALIN

The "troopergate" scandal that the drive-by media attempted to gin up on behalf of their chosen candidate never did get much traction outside of the leftist lunatic fringe and those it has enthralled with its drooling drivel, but it's over now, anyway.

The Alaska state personnel board has completely exonerated Governor Palin. As reported by the AP in the New Duranty Times:

Gov. Sarah Palin violated no ethics laws when she fired her public safety commissioner, the state personnel board concluded in a report released Monday. ''There is no probable cause to believe that the governor, or any other state official, violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with these matters,'' the report says.

After all, do you think that even one of the 50 Governors would think he or she was getting out of line to question the employment of a State trooper who tasered a child, was driving drunk on the job, and took big game out of season? Wouldn't that just be normal, responsible oversight?

And Governor Palin's reassignment of State Safety Commissioner had nothing to do with that, anyway.

If President McCain decides not to run again in 2012, I think a Palin-Jindal ticket is looking pretty good.