"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, October 18, 2008

THE REAL OBAMA: ANTI-ZIONIST


WHY MUST OBAMA MINIMIZE SO MANY OF HIS PAST RELATIONSHIPS?
YOU KNOW THE NAMES:
  • WRIGHT.
  • AYERS.
  • KHALIDI.
  • REZKO.
  • SAID.
IF THEY WEREN'T COMRADES, THEN OBAMA WOULD HAVE NEVER EVEN TRIED TO MINIMIZE HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM.

THE VERY FACT THAT OBAMA HAS TRIED - AND FAILED, BECAUSE HE WASN'T COMPLETELY TRUTHFUL - TO MAKE THESE RELATIONSHIPS SEEM LESS THAN WHAT THEY WERE INDICATES GUILT.

ALL COPS KNOW THAT SUSPECTS WHO COME CLEAN BEGRUDGINGLY AND CHANGING THEIR STORIES SLOWLY TO ADJUST THEM TO ACCOUNT FOR NEW FACTS ARE GUILTY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

A VIDEO "FANTASTIC FOUR": WHO OBAMA REALLY IS AND WHY WE MUST ELECT MCCAIN







OBAMA GETS HIS BIGGEST US CROWD IN ST LOUIS: 100,000


100,000 IS A LOT OF DUPES.
  • STILL: HE GOT A BIGGER CROWD IN BERLIN THAN IN ST. LOUIS. WHY!?
  • WAS THERE A ROCK BAND IN ST. LOUIS, TOO?
  • WHO BUSSED THESE HORDES OF MORONS INTO ST LOUIS? WHICH UNIONS?
JUST ASKING...

More here.

Aerial photos of Obama's stunning State Senatorial experience

I don't hear much about Barack Obama's experience. So I decided to do a flyover of the neighborhood where Obama served as a state senator. Specifically, the apartment complexes rehabbed and managed by his biggest backers. Folks like convicted felon and (17-year friend of Barack's) Tony Rezko. And top campaign officials like Valerie Jarrett and Allison Davis.

Here's just one of the partially uninhabitable properties called Grove Parc Plaza Apartments, a 1000-unit complex. Quoting from the Boston Globe:


Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this [past] winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.


Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.



Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.

Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting. (This number now exceeds $500,000).



One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.

* * *

Obama [rewarded his backers with] legislative action as a state senator. In 2001, Obama sponsored a successful bill that increased state subsidies for private developers. The law let developers designated by the state raise up to $26 million a year by selling tax credits to Illinois residents. For each $1 in credits purchased, the buyer was allowed to decrease his taxable income by 50 cents.

The developers gave Obama their financial support. Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko all served on Obama’s campaign finance committee when he won a seat in the US Senate in 2004.

“In the winter I can feel the cold air coming through the walls and the sockets,” said Anthony Frizzell, 57, who has lived for almost two decades in a Rezmar building on South Greenwood Avenue. “They didn’t insulate it or nothing.”

Sharee Jones, who lives in another former Rezko building one block away, said her apartment was rat-infested for years.

“You could hear them under the floor and in the walls, and they didn’t do nothing about it,” Jones said.

The problems came to public attention in a dramatic way in 2004, after a sport utility vehicle driven by a suburban woman trying to buy drugs struck one of the buildings, causing it to collapse. City inspectors arrived in the ensuing glare, finding a long list of code violations, leading city officials to urge the federal government to seize the complex.

In the midst of the uproar, a small group of Lawndale residents gathered to rally against the Democratic candidate for the US Senate, Barack Obama.

The organizers had a simple message: Cecil Butler had donated $3,000 to Obama’s campaign. Habitat had close ties to Obama and Obama had remained silent about Lawndale’s plight.

Paul Johnson, who helped to organize the protest, said Obama must have known about the problems.

“How didn’t he know?” said Johnson. “Of course he knew. He just didn’t care.”

“I’m not against Barack Obama,” said Willie J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing and a former public housing resident. “What I am against is some of the people around him.”

Jamie Kalven, a longtime Chicago housing activist, put it this way: “I hope there is not much predictive value in his history and in his involvement with that community.”


Sorry, Jamie: there is; and we should all worry.

Source: Boston Globe: Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy and Ten degrees below zero.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:
  • THIS PROJECT WAS AS "SUCCESSFUL" AS LBJ'S GREAT SOCIETY."
  • WHY DID THEY BOTH FAIL!?
  • SIMPLE: SOCIALISM SUCKS. AND BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING PROGRAMS ARE ALMOST ALWAYS CESSPOOLS OF CORRUPTION.
  • OBAMA EPITOMIZES BOTH: SOCIALISM AND CORRUPTION.
  • WHICH IS WHY HE'S THE PERFECT STANDARD BEARER FOR THE IDEOLOGY HE REPRESENTS.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

WHERE WOULD OLMERT WANT TO LIVE AFTER HE LEAVES OFFICE

Ruthie Blum Leibowitz, in her latest JPost column, has another note to make about Ehud Olmert and his real estate scandals:
In a short piece headlined "Olmert wants to live on Rehov Barak," (October 13), Ofer Petersburg gave readers yet another glimpse into the real-estate interests of the outgoing prime minister and his wife, Aliza. According to the report, the couple has been eyeing a NIS 10 million villa - on a half-dunam plot - in the upscale North Tel Aviv neighborhood of Tzahala, though they'll be looking at other properties before making up their minds where they will settle after leaving the prime minister's residence. And just so we should all be clear - and disapproving - Petersburg reminded us that the Olmerts already own an apartment in Tel Aviv, as well as the house on Rehov Cremieux in Jerusalem... you know, the one he's under investigation for.
Apartments he doesn't deserve to have, I'd say.

THE ENTIRE ELECTION COMES DOWN TO THIS: WHO WILL VETO MORE REID-PELOSI BILLS, OBAMA OR MCCAIN?



  • REID AND PELOSI HAVE MANAGED THE WORST, LOWEST RATED, MOST CORRUPT CONGRESS EVER.
  • DO YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE CARTE BLANCHE TO RAISE TAXES AND SPEND YOUR MONEY ANYWAY THEY WANT!?!?
  • IF YOU DO, THEN VOTE FOR BARACK " "$750 MILLION IN EARMARKS" OBAMA.
REMEMBER: SINCE HE ARRIVED IN DC, OBAMA GOT MORE MONEY FROM FANNIE MAE THAN ANY OTHER MEMBER IN CONGRESS.

MORE HERE.

SHARI'A LAW VS. JEWISH LAW

David Yerushalmi writes on Front Page Magazine about the differences between Islamic and Jewish law.

OBAMA'S FIRST TRIP TO KENYA WASN'T UNTIL THE SUMMER BEFORE HE WENT TO HARVARD

Obama didn't go to Kenya until the summer before he went to Harvard Law (which he got into with the help of a Texas Muslim).

Obama had already been to PAKISTAN, oddly enough. YES: for some reason the "atheistic" Obama thought Pakistan was the best first foreign country for him to visit.

Why did he make the trip to Kenya so late in his life, and only just before he went to law school?

He has already been a "community organizer" in Chicago for two years. (In Chicago. Not in Honolulu. Not in Wichita. Not Nairobi or or NY or LA or Jakarta. Not in any city he was directly related to... IT WOULD SEEM, but Chicago of all places. What connection did Chicago have for Obama?)

There is ONLY ONE PERSON WHO CONNECTS ALL THE DOTS: Frank Marshall Davis - the commie from Chicago.


Davis was at the very least an important mentor for Barack. But perhaps he was more than a mentor.

Maybe Davis was Barack's biological father. WILD, BUT POSSIBLE. Listen up for a second: Only this connects all the dots. And it explains why Obama went to Kenya SO LATE IN LIFE: to bolster his "Obama connections" and diminish or even hide his Frank Marshall Davis/Chicago connection. And it explains why Obama hasn;t really goiven any money to his "family" in Kenya - why his half-brother languishes in poverty. And it explains Obama's instant connections to Chicago's other socialists, like Alinsky and Ayers. And to Chicago's big Black Muslim, Louis Farrakhan (who connects him to the Texan who helped him get into Harvard law).

My gut feeling is this: Obama found out while at Occidental that Davis was his REAL father and that fact changed his life: only then did his life take on a SEROUS direction and purpose, one rooted in the DREAMS OF HIS REAL FATHER: the communist dreams of Frank Marshall Davis.

I suspect that this is why Obama transfered to Columbia - where he studied with Edward Said and probably became a pal of Ayers (also from Chicago). It is probably why he then went to Chicago. And then went to Harvard and then went back to Chicago. He was being groomed to fulfill his REAL father's dreams. Groomed by Davis and Ayers and the other disciples of Alinsky.

Here's a photoshop of Barack Junior with a real photo Frank Marshall Davis's legitimate son, Mark Davis, and a photo of Obama Senior:


















Obama looks more like Mark - and Frank - than any the member of either Obama's senior's family of the Dunham family.

Mark and Barack look more like each other than OBAMA SENIOR.

That's just UNDENIABLE. I mean you gotta believe your own eyes,. don;t you!?

And it all adds up.

LOOKIT FOLKS: Obama knows who and what he REALLY IS:

FACT: he really is a pal of Ayers - who might have wrote his TWO memoirs.

FACT: he really is an acolyte of Davis and Alinsky and Wright.

FACT: he really is a white-hating race-baiting socialist.

And I feel that he knows who his real father is, too.

TRUE OR NOT, Obama is not only the most radical and least experienced person ever to run for the US presidency, he's the biggest liar to ever run, too.

YES: A BIGGER LIAR THAN BILL CLINTON.

Vote Accordingly.

A WORD OF ADVICE TO THE ELECTORATE: IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS


Imagine that the presidential race is sorta like a girl deciding who she's gonna marry.

The race up until now has been like effin' around; you know: Barack has been the sexy guy ya wanna do the dirty thing with.

As if voting in the primary is who ya might wanna shack up with for a while.

But now it's getting time to make a bigger decision than who you think will make a thrill run up your leg, or be a hot one night stand - or a series of hot one night stands, if you're lucky.

Now it's actually gettin' close to the time we gotta decide who to vote for; we gotta decide who's gonna be POTUS. Commander in Chief. PRESIDENT. For four years.

It's like marrying time, folks.


Barack may be the bad guy you date.

But McCain is the good guy you marry.

In your heart you know I'm right.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA TANKS-- McCain Pulls Within 2 Points of Obama

Obama Tanks: GALLUP's 'traditional' likely voter model shows Obama with a two-point advantage over McCain on Thursday, 49% to 47%, this is within poll's margin of error, via Drudge Report.

Investor's Business Daily- the most accurate poll in the last election says Karl Rove, also has Obama's lead slipping to just 2 over John McCain with 13 percent still undecided. It's going to be a long 20 days for Obama. He'd better pray the markets collapse- again.

Meanwhile... The Obamedia is running a headline on Yahoo that voters are souring on McCain as Obama stays steady(?) It's funny how things work out that way.

More... The AP-Yahoo poll (pdf) also has a two point race with Obama at 44 and McCain at 42. Oh my... They even over-polled dems and still got this result! *Gulp*

Flopping Aces described the McCain strategy behind the gains.

Source (See the original for links)

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH (2). Email me (John Ray) here

A message below from the "Our Country Deserves Better" PAC

If you were watching The O'Reilly Factor the night before the final presidential debate, you saw our TV ad "Obama's Wrong Values" shown in its entirety. National media have picked up on the dramatic impact our organization is now having on this presidential election in the key battleground states that will determine who wins this election: Barack Obama or John McCain.

The Our Country Deserves Better Committee has already placed TV ad buys totaling several hundred thousand dollars in key swing states, and are expanding the size of this TV ad buy with each day.

Perhaps this is why Barack Obama's supporters are so concerned that they are making wild accusations against us - the latest: they say that the "Obama's Wrong Values" TV ad calls for the assasination of Barack Obama, simply because we highlight Obama's refusal to put his hand on his heart during the national anthem.

Daily Kos, which endorsed Obama's campaign back in the Democratic primaries and continues to carry his water, made these shameful accusations online for all to see. Their supporters have contacted the Secret Service and are now harrassing TV stations, pressuring them not to run our ad.

Here's the TV ad that has Obama's supporters so concerned:



Friends, Obama's campaign knows they are in trouble if the truth about Barack Obama is presented to the American people. That's exactly what we are doing at the Our Country Deserves Better Committee.

We ask for your continued support to get this ad up on the TV airwaves in battleground states all across America. You can contribute $5 to $5,000 to this effort. To do so, go HERE

We'll also be posting an update on the first few stops of our national "Stop Obama Tour" - we ask that you check out the schedule for our upcoming rallies. Please come out and support us. Tell others to come out and attend one of our rallies. Full details and our tour schedule - HERE.

Help us continue the momentum we're building and get the word out through our TV ad campaigns, our upcoming 35 rallies with the "Stop Obama Tour" and the "free" media coverage we're receiving. Make a donation of between $5 and $5,000 to the Our Country Deserves Better Committee.

Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH (2). Email me (John Ray) here

POLITICAL CARTOON: OBAMA THE MARXIST

“It’s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance at success, too… I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”—Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaking to Joe Wurzelbacher, Ohio plumber.

Web site Get Liberty

Weblog: NetRight Nation

THE DEMS ARE PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS THE NEXT FEW WEEKS

Stirring the pot, from Al-Jazeera in Ohio:



From the news alert I received in a forwarded email (emphases mine):
ANP is working on a series between now and Nov. 4 analyzing the phenomenon of rage among McCain-Palin supporters which has surfaced in the past few weeks. Our first piece in the series will debut next week as we look at the rising tension at rallies we've attended, the effect of negative ads on the GOP base and John McCain's and the RNC's responsibility in fanning the flames.

For the other stories in this series, we need your help. Between now and Nov. 4, we want to document this rising rage nationwide at GOP rallies or anywhere else. If you have any evidence of rage, bigotry or deliberate misinformation among McCain supporters, whether at an official rally or elsewhere (local GOP groups, etc.), we need your help to video these events.

ANP producers have witnessed intimidation of Obama supporters, hate speech, racial epithets at these rallies. Our own reporters have been restricted by Republican operatives from speaking to supporters of John McCain or Sarah Palin.
Here's what we're looking for. Please look at this revealing report shot by Al Jazeera English:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0

We like this report for two reasons:

1) The reporter asks journalistic questions but also insistently probes people about the motivations behind their opinions but does so without the intent to provoke.

2) The approach is unbiased.

Many observers, including ANP, are worried that this agitation and rage may lead to more pointed hate speech and perhaps even incitment to violence in the campaign's last three weeks. And we would like you to help us document it.

If there is a McCain-Palin rally in your immediate area (go to http://www.johnmccain.com/Calendar/ to find out), we'd like to hear about it. You should edit the best rushes (about five minutes worth) and e-mail it to dhutchins@newsproject.org using software at www.pando.com or www.yousendit.com. Make sure "McCain Palin Rage" is in the subject line.

If we use your footage in our series, whether it is 5 seconds or 5 minutes, we will pay a fee of $500 and give you producers credit.

[...]

Davin Hutchins
Managing Producer, ANP
ANP's site is HERE.

Obama supporters are being intimidated? Funny thing, but I've been seeing the opposite happen on the web.

CROSSING PARTY L.INES: JOE LIEBERMAN VERSUS CHRIS BUCKLEY

JOE IS A MAN OF GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: YALE, YALE LAW, STATE AG, SENATOR (D), SENATOR (I). AND HE'S AN ORTHODOX JEW.



A MAN OF HIGH AND FIRM MORAL PRINCIPLES. HE PUT THE NATION AT WAR AHEAD OF PARTY LOYALTY.

CHRIS BUCKLEY IS A PUNK.



A SHADOW OF A WISP OF A SPLINTER OF A THREAD OF HIS OL' MAN, THE GREAT WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY - WHO WROTE CHRIS'S ILLEGITIMATE CHILD OUT OF HIS WILL.

HE HAS ENDORSED OBAMA, AND HIS ENDORSEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT DOESN'T HOLD WATER.

HERE'S WHY I CALL CHRISSIE A PUNK:

THE HARTFORD COURANT:

As William F. Buckley Jr.'s only child, satirist and former White House aide Christopher Buckley is poised to inherit a fortune worth tens of millions of dollars. But as Buckley waits for the estate of his late father to go through probate court in Stamford, a former Random House publicist is fighting in a Miami courtroom to increase the $3,000 a month in child support he pays for the special-needs son he fathered with her. Irina Woelfle's lawsuit blames 7-year-old Jonathan's learning problems, in part, on Christopher Buckley's refusal to have anything to do with the boy.

"The father is notably absent from the minor child's life," her lawsuit states. The legal proceedings involving Christopher Buckley's relationship with his third child — he has two older children with his wife — have received little attention. Details of the initial case that set the child-support parameters for Jonathan were sealed by Connecticut judicial authorities, who for years hid from the public such lawsuits involving prominent people.

It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that the Buckley family's efforts to keep Jonathan at arm's length don't end with Christopher Buckley. In his will, William F. Buckley Jr. leaves the contents of his estate to Christopher and the two children he fathered with his wife — and leaves no doubt that Jonathan will get none of the money.

"I intentionally make no provision herein for said Jonathan, who for all purposes ... shall be deemed to have predeceased me," wrote William Buckley, who died in February.
THE NYPOST:
Jonathan, now 8, is the product of an Christopher's affair with book publicist Irina Woelfle. Caitlin, 20, and William, 17, are the author and former presidential speechwriter's children with his now-estranged wife, Lucy. Woelfle currently works as a publicist in Florida, where she filed suit against Christopher, seeking more child-support money.

Christopher, 56, author of the satiric novel "Thank You for Smoking," pays $3,000 a month. But Woelfle's petition says their son has special needs, and she's looking to put him into a private school near her Coral Gables home.

The suit, which was obtained by the Courant, pins the blame for some of the boy's behavioral problems on Christopher's complete lack of involvement.
"The father is notably absent from the minor child's life," despite the mom's efforts to try to get him involved, the suit says. "As Jonathan gets older, he requires love, attention and a notable involvement in his life from his father," the suit says.
  • IT SEEMS THAT CHRISTOPHER LOVES OBAMA MORE THAN HIS OWN FLESH AND BLOOD.
  • NOT UNLIKE OBAMA HIMSELF, WHO ALLOWS A HALF-BROTHER IN KENYA TO LIVE IN TOTAL SQUALOR EVEN THOUGH $1000/YEAR (AN AMOUNT WHICH BARACK COULD EASILY AFFORD) WOULD LIFT HIM OUT OF POVERTY!
  • THESE GUYS CHRISTOPHER AND BARACK ARE SCUM.
  • JOE AND JOHN ARE PRINCIPLED MEN OF HONOR.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

Friday, October 17, 2008

WARNING TO SOCIALISTS: UNDERESTIMATE BLUE-COLLAR TRADESMEN - LIKE LECH AND JOE - AT YOUR OWN PERIL...

ALMOST THIRTY YEARS AGO, LECH STOOD UP AGAINST THE USSR AND HELPED BRING DOWN THAT SOCIALISTS "UTOPIA" ER UM I MEAN TYRANNICAL TOTALITARIAN NIGHTMARE.


HE WAS A TRADESMAN - AN ELECTRICIAN.

LAST WEEK, JOE WURZELBACHER STOOD UP, FACED DOWN AND CALLED OUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND HAS ENERGIZED THE NATION BY EXPOSING OBAMA FOR WHAT HE IS: A SOCIALIST.



JOE IS - AS EVERYBODY KNOWS - A TRADESMAN, TOO - A PLUMBER.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT BLUE-COLLAR TRADESMEN!?!?


I think it's that they are authentic, value hard work and fair-play.

  • THEY ARE NOT JEALOUS OF THE BOSS; THEY JUST DON'T WANT THE STATE TO TAKE THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY AND GIVE IT TO ANYONE ELSE.
  • THEY LIKE FREEDOM AND THE RIGHT TO ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THEIR OWN LABOR.
  • WHEN THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR ARE TAKEN B THE STATE, YOU ARE A SLAVE.

PS: Thanks to Ace for the correction.

USING THE FEDS TO STIFLE DISSENT

Jean-Francois Kerry and his band of traitors used to say that dissent was the highest form of patriotism.

That will not be true if an Obama Administration accedes to power.

Bloomberg reports
(Hat tip-Gateway):
Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama's campaign asked the U.S. Justice Department to expand a special prosecutor's investigation to include possible improprieties surrounding reports the FBI is looking into voter fraud in the presidential race.
Vote fraud is not Obama's concern. He just wants to silence those who have exposed it.

Thus will a bolshevist administration use the organs of law enforcement to disable its critics.

You still have a chance to stop it.

Vote accordingly.

SAMMY JOE VERSUS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA EQUALS THE REGULAR GUY AND LIBERTY VERSUS THE LIBERAL ELITE AND SOCIALISM

JOE THE PLUMBER EXPOSES OBAMA AS THE SOCIALIST HE REALLY IS - AND THE PEOPLE ARE LISTENING

GOOGLE:
Web
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,370,000 for "JOE THE PLUMBER". (0.22 seconds)


NEWS RESULTS:
Results 1 - 10 of about 6,703 for JOE-THE-PLUMBER. (0.23 seconds)
THE IMPROMPTU AND HONEST ANSWER OBAMA GAVE JOE HAS EXPOSED HIM FOR WHAT HE IS: A SOCIALIST.

THIS SHOULD FLUSH HIM DOWN THE TOILET - WHERE HE BELONGS!

THE REAL OBAMA: MORE LIKE BREZHNEV AND HUEY LONG THAN KUCINICH OR KERRY

NYPOST:

October 17, 2008 --

THOUGH he's battling GOP accusations that he's an Ivy League elitist, Barack Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous, like TV show host Robin Leach, who always signed off, "Champagne wishes and caviar dreams!" While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six.

I WUZ RIGHT: BARACK = BREZHNEV

REMEMBER FOLKS:

WHAT OBAMA DOES WHEN HE THINKS NOBODY IS WATCHING IS THE REAL OBAMA:
  • A MAN WHO CONSORTS WITH TERRORISTS LIKE AYERS...
  • AND PLO-MEMBERS LIKE KHALIDI...
  • AND RACISTS LIKE WRIGHT.
  • AND WHO ORDERS IRANIAN CAVIAR AND CHARGES IT TO HIS CAMPAIGN.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

PHONY OBAMA PRETENDS HE'S RUNNING AGAINST BUSH. MCCAIN HAS ACTUALLY DONE IT!

JUST SAYING...

  • MCCAIN ISN'T BUSH, AND A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS NOT A VOTE AGAINST BUSH.
  • BESIDE, IF YOUR UNHAPPY WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, THEN DON'T BLAME BUSH AND DON'T REWARD THE DEMOCRATS:
  • BUSH TRIED TO CONTROL FANNIE MAE AND THE DEMOCRATS BLOCKED IT - WHILE TAKING MONEY FROM THEM!
  • A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE FOR FANNIE MAE AND ACORN.

Next on Democrat Agenda: Nationalizing Your 401K

I saw this today in the Wall Street Journal. Only it is not as bad as it sounds...it's much worse.

And then there was THIS... Because the Socialists running Congress are doing such an exemplary job with managing your Social Security and Medicare and determining which poor people should get housing loans they could never repay, the same Democrats have now set their sights on your 401K. THIS IS NOT A DRILL; if they get the plurality they hope to get in November, look for this to happen sooner rather than later (perhaps even before January). Read and weep--or else get off your lazy butts and throw these Marxist vermin out on their collective asses where they belong. The choice is yours (emphasis mine):

House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-CA) is holding a hearing today entitled, "The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Workers' Retirement Security."

In reality, it's a dog-and-pony show to advocate for the nationalization of 401(k) plans. The theory is that workers are too stupid to manage them ourselves, so we need to have the government do it for us.

Don't believe me? Here's what Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, one of the star witnesses, had to say :

Going forward, I propose Congress establish universal Guaranteed Retirement Accounts and the federal government deposit $600 (inflation indexed) in those Guaranteed Retirement Accounts every year for every worker. Every worker (not in an equivalent defined benefit plan) would save 5% of their pay into their Guaranteed Retirement Account to which the government pays a 3% inflation-indexed guaranteed return. Workers would earn pension credits based on these accumulations.

Slowly but surely, your country, your wealth and your freedom is being stolen out from under your noses. A few of us see what is happening; sadly, the majority do not. Short of an out-and-out revolution, waking up enough of our citizens to what is happening is our only hope.

How many modern day Paul Revere's are out there? The British aren't coming, but the Marxists are already here and they are about this steal this thing out from under your noses.

The good news: you don't need horses, you don't need "One if by Land, Two if by Sea..." -- you just need your computer. But it is time to get busy, not just with the like minded, but also with newspapers and other periodicals. It is time to threaten sponsors to stop buying their products who advertise on propaganda networks like CNN and MSNBC. It is time to volunteer to get out the vote. It is time to give money until it hurts--because it is going to hurt a lot worse if these Thugocrats get their way. In just three weeks can be the beginning of losing your right to have your vote counted accurately, losing your weapons and right to defend yourself, and even your right to speak out against the thugs who smile and talk about "hope" even as they plan your demise. Talk radio? History. Your internet communications? Monitored, just like the STASI. Your property? Theirs, just because they say so. Your earnings? No--their earnings, to "spread the wealth" just as Barack let slip to Joe the Plumber.

I don't think that people get how dire this situation is: it is ALL in jeapordy. Everything we stand for. And that's on top of the ever-present catastrophic terror threat from Islamic zealots; of unbridled anti-Semitism and the destruction of Israel; of their turning the US economy into Cuba-style socialism; and who knows what else. Auditing political "enemies" or anyone who dares to question them? Just look at how they are treating a plumber who dared to question their candidate!

What else? Emasculating our military and technological advantage? Re-education "camps" for dissidents? Soup kitchens and mediocrity for all?

It's all on the table--more than ever before in our long storied history; ladies and gentlemen, fellow citizens: this bunch wants it ALL. The whole enchilada.

And only YOU stand between them and getting their wishes. It is time to stop complaining about it and to do what you have to do.

It is not too late. You MUST get out there, spread the word about the danger we are in, and work like there is no tomorrow until November. You must expose the corruption wherever it can be found (and it won't be hard...).

Because--here's the thing--after November, there may be no tomorrow for this Republic and its Constitution...

This is our Gettysberg. This is our Utah Beach. This is our Valley Forge. We have two choices: either to surrender to tyranny or to take our country back. What's it gonna be?

Obama's Tax-Cuts Scam

The following graphic says it all:



From this article in the Wall Street Journal:
Obama's 95% Illusion
It depends on what the meaning of 'tax cut' is

One of Barack Obama's most potent campaign claims is that he'll cut taxes for no less than 95% of "working families." He's even promising to cut taxes enough that the government's tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% -- which is lower than it is today.

It's a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he's also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of "tax cut."

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase "tax credit." Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals:...
Read the rest. The Obama tax-cuts plan is a tool for wealth redistribution.

Stogie points out the following:
What Obama's plan would do is to write a check to the millions of Americans who currently pay no taxes at all. For those of us who work for a living, we will pay higher taxes to support this massive transfer of wealth.

Another item in Obama's tax cuts are the tax credits he will provide. All but one of these tax credits are refundable -- the others only work if you have a tax liability. The liability is reduced by the credit, but you don't get it as a refund.
Pity that the Obamamaniacs believe their candidate's promises. Those promises are full of hot air.

(Crossposted from Always On Watch)

Buffet New York Times Op-Ed: "Buy American. I am."

We here at Astute Bloggers have been saying for the past week, it's time to buy American.

THE financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity will falter and headlines will continue to be scary.

So ... I’ve been buying American stocks. This is my personal account I’m talking about, in which I previously owned nothing but United States government bonds. (This description leaves aside my Berkshire Hathaway holdings, which are all committed to philanthropy.) If prices keep looking attractive, my non-Berkshire net worth will soon be 100 percent in United States equities.

Why?

A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-term prosperity of the nation’s many sound companies make no sense. These businesses will indeed suffer earnings hiccups, as they always have. But most major companies will be setting new profit records 5, 10 and 20 years from now.

A little history here: During the Depression, the Dow hit its low, 41, on July 8, 1932. Economic conditions, though, kept deteriorating until Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933. By that time, the market had already advanced 30 percent. Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific. The market hit bottom in April 1942, well before Allied fortunes turned. Again, in the early 1980s, the time to buy stocks was when inflation raged and the economy was in the tank. In short, bad news is an investor’s best friend. It lets you buy a slice of America’s future at a marked-down price.

Over the long term, the stock market news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

You might think it would have been impossible for an investor to lose money during a century marked by such an extraordinary gain. But some investors did. The hapless ones bought stocks only when they felt comfort in doing so and then proceeded to sell when the headlines made them queasy.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. Indeed, the policies that government will follow in its efforts to alleviate the current crisis will probably prove inflationary and therefore accelerate declines in the real value of cash accounts.

Equities will almost certainly outperform cash over the next decade, probably by a substantial degree. Those investors who cling now to cash are betting they can efficiently time their move away from it later. In waiting for the comfort of good news, they are ignoring Wayne Gretzky’s advice: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.”

I say the puck is going to be where the ideas are. Money follows ideas. Ideas thrive in freedom. As long as America is free, it will be the great investment, and money will flow to America.


UN chief: Hizbullah must be disbanded

From Associated Press:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that Lebanon will not be a fully sovereign state until Hizbullah, and other militia groups are disbanded.

"Hizbullah's maintenance of separate military assets and infrastructure is a fundamental challenge to the government's attempts to consolidate the sovereignty and authority of the Lebanese state," he wrote in a six-month report to the UN Security Council, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

"In addition, several Palestinian militias operate in the country, inside and outside of refugee camps," said the secretary general, adding that they also undermine the stability of the country and the region.

In the report, Ban also said he was encouraged by the positive developments in relations between Lebanon and Syria, but called on the two countries to take further steps to improvesecurity along the border.

"Over the last six months, Lebanon has experienced both the ruinous effects of sectarian violence and hope and optimism," he said in the report.

"I applaud the historical steps that have been taken so far by Presidents Suleiman and Al-Assad," he said. "For the first time since their independence, the two neighboring states are establishing diplomatic relations.

The foreign ministers of Syria and Lebanon signed a document Wednesday formalizing diplomatic ties between the two countries for the first time in their turbulent history.

The signing comes a day after Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a decree establishing diplomatic relations with its smaller neighbor - a long-standing demand of the West and Lebanese politicians opposed to Syria's influence in the country.

The two countries have not had formal diplomatic relations since both gained independence from France in the 1940s in an arrangement that many Lebanese viewed as a result of Syria's refusal to recognize Lebanese sovereignty.

Ban, in his report, said in addition to establishing diplomatic relations, Lebanon and Syria must also take concrete steps to implement other agreements reached during these meetings, including "joint activity to improve security arrangements along that border."

In his April report, Ban highlighted the mounting international concern over Lebanon's failure to fill the presidential post, left vacant after pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud stepped down last November.

In Thursday's report, he said the most significant progress made in the last six months was Lebanon's compliance with requirements for a "free and fair presidential electionaccording to Lebanese constitutional rules."

Ban said Lebanese President Michel Suleiman's election on May 25 "represented a significant step forward," but said "I remain concerned by the political assassinations and explosions that continue to plague Lebanon."

The secretary-general said that clashes in May and violent incidents since then raised concerns "that groups on all sides of the political spectrum may be re-arming."

In the report, Ban called on Lebanese parties to immediately halt all efforts to acquire and build paramilitary capabilities.

He reiterated that disarming and disbanding all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias should be done through a political dialogue "that will lead to the monopoly on the use of force by the government of Lebanon throughout all of its territory."

"The ultimate purpose of disarmament is the establishment of a strong Lebanese state for all inhabitants of Lebanon," he said.

Advice for those conservatives with palm-shaped forehead bruises

Excerpt:

Many who are rooting for the McCain-Palin ticket or against the Obama-Biden ticket are frustrated with what they view as an uninspired campaign by Sen. McCain and his advisers. That frustration leaves us susceptible to discouragement - the precise emotion that the Dems' and their mainstream media allies are working very hard at promoting, relying in large measure on political polling whose accuracy is highly suspect.

In particular, right now there's a great temptation for those of us for whom John McCain was not our first choice for the GOP nomination to already start focusing about "How He Lost It." Folks, that's way premature. I've always believed that the Dems would lead in the polls up through election day, and that any GOP nominee would be running as an underdog. Every realistic victory scenario I've ever heard for this year required our team to pass through a trough something like this one - and given the size and urgency of the economic problems, it's actually quite amazing that we're not already totally swamped.

So I'm not particularly pessimistic. Come from behind victories are sweeter, and this one would be very sweet indeed. But even if your worst fears do come true, you'll have four years to polish your coulda-shoulda arguments. And there are better things for you to do right now than just to fume, even if they may be less obvious to you at the moment...

First, recognize that no campaign is optimal. Some of the things that most frustrate you, as a committed conservative, as you watch the path of the McCain campaign may not be miscues at all in the eyes of independent or cross-over voters. And the Biden-Obama campaign has also continued to make its own share of blunders - of which, again, only some of may be obvious to you, since you're not in that swing voter group. To a larger extent than you probably would think likely, each campaign's mistakes will tend cancel each other out.

Next, keep in mind that John McCain's character traits that are dictating the kind of campaign he's runniing - which includes his stubbornness, his instincts toward compromise, and a sense of propriety and decency (which his opponent and his campaign feign but do not truly share) - are, and have always been, parts of a double-edged sword. John McCain is what he is. And he is uninterested in, and incapable of, remaking himself in any fundamental way to meet an acute campaign need. Indeed, friends and neighbors, he's already demonstrated more innovative thinking - by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate - than I would permit myself to expect back when he clinched the nomination.

And finally, keep in mind that there are limits to what either campaign could accomplish even if either were to suddenly begin to run an optimal, perfect campaign. Even among those voters who are still undecided, most of them will end up making their final decisions based on the underlying fundamentals of the election - not based on the latest proposals from either campaign over the coming three weeks before election day. Between now and November 4th, Barack Obama is not going to miraculously grow a genuine record of legislative accomplilshment, for example, and neither is he going to transmute himself into anything but a first-term Chicago politician who's still "green behind the ears." Yes, he'll come up with new panders and give-aways - tens of billions of dollars worth of those. But fundamentally, he's not gotten any better, and he's just hoping he can keep his current momentum to manage to coast across the finish line.

More here

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That evil watermelon and fried chicken again

I like both myself -- and my color is pink!




"A local Republican group has distributed a newsletter picturing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on a fake $10 bill adorned with a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken.

The drawing harked back to racist images from decades ago in America that featured caricatures of blacks eating watermelon and other Southern foods, often suggesting they were lazy or unclean. Linking Obama, who is the first black presidential nominee of a major US political party, to such stereotypes drew denunciations from various Republican officials.

The illustration appeared in the October newsletter of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated, the Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper reported today.

Source

Are we not allowed to notice that the Obamamessiah is black? It's pretty obvious that he is. Does anybody think that seeing him associated with "black" food will cause someone to say: "Wow! He's black. I hadn't noticed that before".


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Thursday, October 16, 2008

VIDEO: OBAMA MOCKING JOE THE PLUMBER

WHAT AN IDIOT:



  • OF COURSE... HE CAN'T HELP HIMSELF: HE'S A LEFT-WING ELITIST THROUGH-AND-THROUGH AND THINKS HE KNOWS WHAT'S BEST FOR THE WORKING CLASS
  • OBAMA THINKS HE KNOWS BETTER THAN WORKING CLASS PEOPLE KNOW THEMSELVES.
  • IN LEFTSPEAK: IF YOU DISAGREE WITH OBAMA THEN YOU ARE "INAUTHENTIC".
  • TOO BAD FOR OBAMA AND THE LEFT, MOST AMERICANS SEE JOE THE PLUMBER AS AUTHENTIC, AND SEE OBAMA FOR WHAT HE REALLY IS:
  • A CONMAN PROMISING TO SOAK THE RICH.
  • DON'T BE A DUPE.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

FROM CUFFY VIA HOT AIR.

WHAT TO EXPECT IF BARACK OBAMA GOVERNS FROM THE LEFT

What should we expect if a man who is "as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president" is elected?

We can expect Barack [middle name redacted] Obama to govern out of the same Saul Alinsky radical playbook that has governed his entire political career.

If you want to know what that will mean in human, individual terms, read Doctor Zhivago.

If you want to know what that will mean in terms of policy, consider the following:

With a Democrat Party whose radical wing will resemble the Montagne in its bloodthirsty Jacobin enthusiasm, and whose moderate wing will be a complaisant partner in sharing the spoils, a Barack Obama in the White House would quickly move to make permanent the electoral gains of the far left.

1) The "check-card" union organizing principle will become law, and secret ballot elections will no longer be required to establish or maintain closed union shops.

2) That victory will be followed by a push to repeal the Taft-Hartley restrictions, and abolish all State "right to work laws."

3) ACORN-style vote fraud will become the norm, and "undocumented Americans" will be given -- in addition to driver's licenses -- "provisional citizenship credentials" that will entitle them to vote in State and local elections. You will have by 2010 experienced the last free and fair nationwide or statewide election.

4) An Obama administration would also quickly move to severely abrogate the Second Amendment. Look for a quick reinstatement of the idiotic "assault weapons ban," combined with a series of moves intended to make the manufacture, sale, and possession of firearms by anyone other than government officials increasingly difficult.

5) A disarmed populace will result in greater freedom of action for violent criminals. Crime will rise to the horrific levels it reached the last time liberals were in control of the entire Federal government.

6) The First Amendment will also come under attack. The "fairness doctrine" will be re-instated to force Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, and all other pro-American, conservative voices off the air. The media will be firmly allied with the Obama Administration's socialist goals.

7) Freedom of speech will be limited by a university-style "fair speech" code applied at the Federal level to silence any criticism of the Obama Administration as "racist hate-speech." It will become illegal to refer to "undocumented Americans" as "illegal aliens," and any book containing such illegal hate-speech will be removed from school and public libraries.

8) Freedom of religion will also be adjusted. Muslims will be encouraged by the Administration's "civil rights" lawyers to demand more and more concessions from their employers and neighbors, until the higher status Muslims must have under sharia law becomes de facto a part of the United States Code. For example, it will first be necessary only to invite a Muslim Imam to share the stage during official Federal events, alongside a Protestant Minister, a Catholic Priest, and occasionally a Jewish Rabbi. However, in deference to easily-bruised Muslim sensibilities, it will then become necessary to accord the Imam deferential treatment and pride of place, to demonstrate that no callous American disregard insults him, and then ultimately to exclude any representative of another faith community. Meanwhile, it will be considered anti-gay hate-speech openly to preach traditional Jewish and Christian teachings about human sexuality. (The traditional Bible reading for the Afternoon of Yom Kippur [Leviticus 18:1-30], with its list of prohibited sexual relations, will be forbidden. But most American Jews won't notice that, since the Reform, Reconstructionist, and many "Conservative" congregations substituted new readings for it long ago.)

9) The Judeo-Christian definition of marriage as a sacred bond between one man and one woman will be superseded by the Courts. Once same-sex "marriage" is forced on the public by activist judges, polyamorous multiple-marriages, incestuous marriages, polygamous marriages, and even "marriages" involving animals will acquire various degrees of official State recognition. It will be considered hate-speech to decry this trend.

10) An Obama administration would adopt an "even handed" EU-style approach to the Middle East. The democratically elected government of Iraq can expect to have the rug pulled out from under it. All of Obama's tough talk about bombing Pakistan will evaporate as he indulges in a series of high-profile photo-ops with the entire parade of Arab and Muslim tyrants. Israel will find it impossible to resupply its armed forces, and an acquiescent, appeasement-seeking regime in the White House will encourage Iran to unleash its terrorist proxies with a rain of rockets and missiles all over Israel. If Israel responds militarily to the existential threat posed by an Iranian regime that has promised to bury Israel under a mushroom cloud, Iran (with Russian support) will shut down the Shatt Al Arab and unleash terror attacks all over Western Europe. These actions will result in the temporary collapse of the world's biggest industrial economies, and anti-Semitic pogroms around the world. Israel will then be occupied by a NATO-led force of U.N. "peacekeepers." The majority of the country will be turned over to the Muslim tribes, and the Jews will be penned up in urban ghettos. The Jewish holy places that were painstakingly restored after 1967 will again be desecrated and blown up as they were in 1948. Governor Palin will welcome Jewish refugees to Alaska, but this humanitarian gesture will be thwarted by the Obama Administration, which will suddenly discovered that immigration laws do apply to some people after all.

11) Since Obama will have prevented the licensing of any new nuclear power plants and any development at all of any additional American oil reserves, America will be entirely beholden to his new friends and allies in the Middle East. They will demand increasing concessions, both cultural and economic.

12) The tax code will be used in an openly redistributionist manner to reward the friends of the Obama regime and punish its enemies. "Reparations" will be paid to blacks for slavery, homosexuals for having been unable to marry, and other groups who present their claims to appropriate authorities. A higher tax load for those who actually produce the wealth seized by the government will demoralize the entrepreneurs and workers, resulting in severe losses of productivity and a prolonged depression. Unemployment will reach 25 percent.

13) If the Western economies stall, China will be unable to find a market for its goods, and the Chinese economy will collapse. This will result in widespread instability and civil unrest. There may ensue a civil war between different elements of the People's Liberation Army. China may launch a nuclear war against Taiwan. The result in either case will be to return China to its pre-Deng Hisao Ping era of poverty and famine.

14) Massive unemployment in America will lead to the creation of "CCC" style labor camps. At first, volunteers will be sought. After a while, however, there will be round-ups of the unemployed who will be forced to join labor camps or be prosecuted as "parasites." Those who are deemed enemies of the (American) people will be forced to work in the most unpleasant locations.

15) Every American will be guaranteed free access to an egalitarian system of health care. The health care we will receive, however, will not resemble the health care we enjoy today -- it will be strictly rationed and consist only of the simplest, most cost-effective, "evidence-based" treatments. Those patients who fail to respond will be offered physician-assisted suicide. Euthanasia will be an option for the recalcitrant.

16) By the time a majority of Americans realize where an Obama regime is taking them, it will be too late. In the name of "green awareness" and "multicultural" sensitivity, our own children will be recruited to spy and inform on us. The educational curriculum will follow the teachings of Bill Ayers, and emphasize social revolution rather than the math, science, history, and language skills that would enable an American civilization to thrive.

And that will be only the beginning . . .

Once Marxists hold the reins of power, it will be difficult to stop them.

But it is still possible to stop them before they hold those reins in their hands.

Vote accordingly.

THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BILL AYERS CONNECTION

The real significance of the Bill Ayers connection does not stem from the fact that Barack [middle name redacted] Obama chose Bill Ayers as a friend, colleague, and mentor.

What is really significant about Barack Obama's connection to Bill Ayers, is that Bill Ayers chose him.

Barack Obama's career in electoral politics was launched in the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

The fact that they chose to sponsor Barack Obama, and lend him the impeccable imprimatur of their radical reputations is what should concern every American.

They could have chosen to sponsor any number of African-American Democrat politicians.

In fact, before his lawyers forced her (and all his other opponents off the ballot) the incumbent holder of the Illionis State Senate seat for which Barack Obama was running was Alice Palmer. Alice Palmer is a black woman whom you might think would have been an ideal candidate for Ayers and Dohrn to support: Alice Palmer is a Ph.D. who was active as a Dean and Director of African-American Affairs at Northwestern University. You might think that would be right up Bill Ayers's alley. Alice Palmer was also an active member of the "U.S. Peace Council," which was identified by the F.B.I. as a communist-front organization orchestrated by the Soviet Union, probably via the K.G.B. In fact, Alice Palmer attended the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and wrote about that experience for the People's Weekly World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, U.S.A.

So when Bill Ayers (who describes himself as a "communist with a small 'c') and Bernardine Dohrn chose to launch Barack Obama's , one can only conclude that they found Barack Obama at least as simpatico than Alice Palmer! (There are reports that Alice Palmer introduced Barack Obama at the Ayers dinner party; she was at that time planning a run for the U.S. House of Representatives, and what that effort failed, she decided to hold onto her State Senate seat.)

That's the real significance of Barack Obama's Bill Ayers connection: that Bill Ayers saw Barack Obama as an ideal candidate to bring Ayers's and Dohrn's radical agenda into the mainstream.

And wasn't Bill Ayers right about that?

What this means, is that it is not at all unreasonable to assume that Barack Obama will govern from the hard left. What that means is not pretty. I will describe some of the likely consequences in another post.

REMINDER TO FELLOW JEWS: "THOU SHALT NOT VOTE GOP" AIN'T IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS!



OBAMA IS ANTI-ISRAEL.

ANY JEW WHO VOTES FOR HIM IS NUTS.

GOOD NEWS, JUST AS WE PREDICTED: THE OIL BUBBLE HAS BURSTED AND THE PRICE OF OIL IS CRASHING

BACK IN JUNE WHEN OIL WAS VERY EXPENSIVE AND SOME WERE SAYING IT WOLD CLIMB UP TO $200/BARREL WE SAID IT WAS A BUBBLE AND WE PREDICTED IT WOULD BURST OR CRASH.

NOT MANY OTHER PEOPLE DID, AND NO MAJOR BLOGGERS, SAVE DINOCRAT.

HERE'S WHAT WE POSTED IN JUNE - RIGHT NEAR THE PEAK:
OIL BUBBLE INSANITY CONTINUES: OIL TRADES ABOVE $140
In three months oil has gone up nearly 50%.

IT'S NOW TRADING ABOVE $140.

This is INSANE.

A BUBBLE.

FROM MARCH TO MAY - AS OIL WENT UP 50%, THE DOLLAR WAS RELATIVELY STABLE ---- CHEAP, BUT STABLE.

SO I ARGUE IT'S A SPECULATIVELY FUELED BUBBLE.

AND IT WILL CRASH.

YES CRASH. THINGS GO DOWN MORE EASILY THAN UP. HERE'S WHY:
  • TO GO FROM 100/BARREL TO 150/BARREL IS A 50% MOVE UP.
  • BUT FROM 150/BARREL TO 100/BARREL IS ONLY A 30% DOWNWARD MOVE.
  • 30% IS AN EASIER/QUICKER MOVE FOR A MARKET TO MAKE THAN 50%.
SO... IT WILL CRASH SOONER THAN YOU THINK.


Permalink - Posted by Reliapundit @ 7:51 AM
NOBODY ELSE WENT OUT ON A LIMB AND MADE THIS PREDICTION, BUT WE DID. WE GOT VERY SPECIFIC ON SEPT 18:

  • IF OIL CONTINUES ITS TREND OF LATE (THE LAST FOUR MONTHS), AND COMES DOWN TO $65-75/BARREL BY HALLOWEEN, THEN NEXT YEAR WILL BE A BOOM YEAR.
SO... DON'T WORRY. BE HAPPY.

REMEMBER: THINGS ARE NEVER AS BAD AS THE MSM MAKES THEM SEEM WHEN A REPUBLICAN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Permalink - Posted by Reliapundit @ 7:56
REGULAR READERS KNOW WE ARE OFTEN PRESCIENT, IF NOT WAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE.

SPREAD THE WORD. BLOGROLL US.

BTW: I PREDICT MCCAIN WINS.

The polls

There is a big article about polling and the media here which argues that the media bias in favor of Obama may not do him much good and that the polls favoring him may not be right.

The polls usually show the Democrat ahead "Reviewing the polls printed in the New York Times and the Washington Post in the last month of every presidential election since 1976, I found the polls were never wrong in a friendly way to Republicans. When the polls were wrong, which was often, they overestimated support for the Democrat, usually by about 6 to 10 points. In 1976, Jimmy Carter narrowly beat Gerald Ford 50.1 percent to 48 percent. And yet, on Sept. 1, Carter led Ford by 15 points. Just weeks before the election, on Oct. 16, 1976, Carter led Ford in the Gallup Poll by 6 percentage points - down from his 33-point Gallup Poll lead in August. Reading newspaper coverage of presidential elections in 1980 and 1984, I found myself paralyzed by the fear that Reagan was going to lose. In 1980, Ronald Reagan beat Carter by nearly 10 points, 51 percent to 41 percent. In a Gallup Poll released days before the election on Oct. 27, it was Carter who led Reagan 45 percent to 42 percent."

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