Video via Hot Air.
Cautions Ed Morrissey:
The ACORN connection is an interesting political story more than a financial issue now. It reveals the tactics of Obama and his allies, in a way that makes the recent story of Obama’s Truth Squad thuggery more understandable. Obama doesn’t represent a post-partisan brand of New Politics, but instead the Saul Alinsky tactics of the New Left radicalism that erupted in the 1960s.
I should hope that those who’ve been reading here for any length of time would have seen the real Obama coming a mile away — and that all my discoursing on interpretation theory, kernel assumptions that animate given ideologies, and the inevitable and inexorable totalitarian end game of progressivism, prepared you all for what to look for, and how best to combat it, in the realm of social contract.
Otherwise, I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all.
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 9/30 @ 4:20 pm #
I perfectly understood your motivation and purpose, Jeff.
…although that whole armadillo thing had me a guessin’ a time or two.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/30 @ 4:26 pm #
How about this one via Insty?
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/025137.php
Holy F’in’ crap.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/30 @ 4:29 pm #
I think there’s a lot here what would make for a nice sort of trial run demonstration thinger of Senator McCain’s super duper make ‘em famous powers.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/30 @ 4:30 pm #
Scratch a leftist, find the fascist gibbering underneath.
Comment by JD on 9/30 @ 4:39 pm #
Need I point out, yet again, how overtly racist this is?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 9/30 @ 4:40 pm #
We’re about to put an arsonist in charge of the fire department.
Comment by Jim on 9/30 @ 4:55 pm #
Jeff, this is not OT.
John Kekes’s new book came out:The Art of Politics: The Betrayal of America and How to Resist It.
One of the reviewers on the back cover: “This is an angry book.” It is also a profound defense of the traditional American political way of life against the present onslaught by ideologues.
Comment by XBradTC on 9/30 @ 4:56 pm #
Funny how most of this information has been floating around for months, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the news.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/30 @ 4:58 pm #
It’s good to write these things down.
Comment by dre on 9/30 @ 5:06 pm #
Acorn really works for Acorn because you know right away you’re dealing with nuts. So that’s good no?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/30 @ 5:23 pm #
Oh. I now see that others have seen the same thing.
“Obama loves me, this I know, because Newsweek, tells me so.”
Comment by Pablo on 9/30 @ 5:23 pm #
Many who’ve been reading you don’t get it, Jeff. They specifically intend not to. They mean only to misinterpret your intentions and dissuade those who might understand what you’re saying.
Mostly that bit doesn’t work. Hell, 5 years ago, I didn’t even know that a semiot was.
Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 5:24 pm #
>>I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all
O for fks sake. This prof. is a mean bastid. Nobody told me there was gonna be a test! Nobody! Not even on the fkn syllabus!
Comment by dre on 9/30 @ 5:34 pm #
“I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all.”
I thought you were grading on the curve.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 5:39 pm #
I don’t know that I saw Obama coming a mile away. I think maybe I saw that mac truck comin up the hill, though.
The graph, it started at disgruntled at my options and open and curious about Obama, and was quickly, uh no, not my cup of tea, then, hey that’s really bad smelling tea, and then I hope nobody else drinks cause it’s no good for you to oh my god that tea is poison, and HEY that could get in the water supply and OH MY GOD RUN FOR YOUR LIVES. And now my opinion of O is as low-down as a hole dug to a melamine-laced kitteh poo in China.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 5:40 pm #
It plateaued at “poison” for a while and then there was a steep drop-off.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 5:42 pm #
It would be hard to accept all at once that he’s really is what he is.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 5:44 pm #
Although I do remember thinking “what’s the matter with you, Tom Hanks, are you stupid?”
Because I thought American freedoms were something important to Mr. Hanks. Like how he might have a handle on how people died for it and so forth.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/30 @ 5:45 pm #
Tom Hanks would dress as a woman so that he could live in a nice apartment with good security and low rent.
Obama is not such a stretch for him.
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/30 @ 5:54 pm #
Just got an email showing me that the world overwhelming wants Obama. Seems there’s a “global electoral vote” landslide in the offing!
And WHOM AM I TO DENY KENYA AND NEW ZEALAND THEIR US PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE?
Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 5:58 pm #
“electoral imperialism” is what it is.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/30 @ 5:58 pm #
And WHOM AM I TO DENY KENYA AND NEW ZEALAND THEIR US PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE?
How do you think Kenya’s going to take it when Barry can’t come up with the benjamins?
Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 5:59 pm #
mark-to-market now suspended is what I hear
Comment by Pablo on 9/30 @ 6:03 pm #
Did anyone ask Poland?
Comment by MC on 9/30 @ 6:05 pm #
Erm, did you notice that there is embedded video on PW? OMG! This is going to change the world!
Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 6:05 pm #
I *like* it when they do those international polls for the US pezzydent, BTW. Nothing but nothing gets an American’s back up more than foreigners telling ‘em what to do.
Comment by Pellegri on 9/30 @ 6:11 pm #
I’ve actually been told that a surprising number of firefighters have arsonist impulses, which is why they go into the job–because it means getting close to things that are on fire.
Dunno how true that is, though… Not that I don’t get what you mean.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/30 @ 6:12 pm #
“#Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 5:59 pm #
mark-to-market now suspended is what I hear”
Wow, good news for a change.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/30 @ 6:14 pm #
I knew that O! was an epic phony, an ideological far leftist, master race card playa, and an empty suit ever since the primary campaign started; but I admit to be a bit taken in after seeing his keynote speech at the 2004 DNC-he wuz on de ideological DL. But, I’ve always been a sucker for good oratory; I also was taken by Mario Cuomo’s address in 1984 and Billy Jeff’s first few addresses-even though I disagred with the content of those speeches, the speechifyin’ was good…
Ideologically speaking, O! is like those light skinned blacks that their racial bretheren used to accuse of “tryin’ to pass”; he’s really to the left of Stalin, but tries to come off as an amalgam of Jack Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt…
Comment by MC on 9/30 @ 6:16 pm #
No really, I mean for the last some weeks, whenever Jeff posts a pic I get nothin’, now I get video!! I think this is the first embedded video in the history of PW - that right Jeff? Did you finally get that WordPress video thingy installed?
Erm, will it work in the Pub?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 9/30 @ 6:16 pm #
Jonah Goldberg’s book was quite timely.
Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 6:18 pm #
>>I’ve actually been told that a surprising number of firefighters have arsonist impulses, which is why they go into the job–because it means getting close to things that are on fire.
Called a Reaction Formation. Repression of psychicly disturbing obsessions -> outlets which are [sometimes] healthier. Like a sadist becoming a dentist, if you like Little Shop of Horrors
Comment by Dana Gilbert Ward on 9/30 @ 6:42 pm #
A predictable 79% of Americans disapprove of GWB, with only 26@ approval.
Maybe he should just shut the fuck up. Every time he opens his yap he loses a couple of points. Does he want to shitcan McCain?
“McCain’s problem: Fifty-three percent of registered voters think he’d lead the country in the same direction as Bush, inching back up over a majority.
Forty-eight percent of registered voters are uncomfortable about McCain’s age, a new high. And while Obama has advanced since mid-June in the sense that he’s a “safe” choice for president, to 55 percent, McCain has lost ground on this measure; 51 percent now see him as safe, down 6 points.
Obama continues to trounce McCain on enthusiasm. Sixty-one percent of Obama’s supporters are very enthusiastic about their choice, vs. 38 percent of McCain’s.
For all that, Obama does not have the race in the bag.
Though more registered voters say Obama than McCain won Friday’s debate, Obama has not progressed in the sense that he’d make a good commander-in-chief of the military, and remains under 50 percent in this measure.
The number who say he’s got the kind of experience it takes to serve effectively as president, while a majority for the first time, is only narrowly so, 52 percent.”
How can one party Meltdown worse than Chernobyl?
Comment by Dana Gilbert Ward on 9/30 @ 6:45 pm #
“Jonah Goldberg’s book was quite timely.”
Just in time for his mom to simultaneously experience orgasm.
Comment by dre on 9/30 @ 6:47 pm #
Comment by dre on 9/30 @ 6:48 pm #
“Comment by Palin Pervert on 9/30 @ 6:45 pm #”
Oh good the O! Pervert Truth Squad is here
Comment by dicentra on 9/30 @ 6:51 pm #
“I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all.â€Â
You never save me pie. I come late to the party and there’s nothing left but a banged-up tin and crumbs.
We’re about to put an arsonist in charge of the fire department.
A lot of radicals possess the same psychology as arsonists, making them civic arsonists. Their only goal is to see it all burn to the ground. Don’t care why, don’t care how, just burn, baby, burn.
Oh, and Reagan Democrats: way to ignore the thesis of this post, but thank you oh thank you for bringing those facts to light. I will now vote for Obama and like it. THANK YOU!
Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 6:51 pm #
This looks about right
Comment by McGehee on 9/30 @ 6:55 pm #
Get that armadillo dancing just once, and all will be forgiven.
Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 7:09 pm #
Ummm?
Comment by steveaz on 9/30 @ 7:15 pm #
All I needed to know was that Obama hailed from So. Chicago, and all the rest just fell into place.
Chicago gets the reputation it deserves: a bad one.
I sat glued to C-SPAN during the whole Election 2000 debacle, and when I learned that Gore’s campaign manager, Daley, had sent a raft of lawyers ahead to Broward and W. Palm Beach counties, I knew the fix was in.
I also noticed that every day for about a week during those tense times, the same, gruff hooligan was out in front of the “Count-Every-Vote” crowd riling them up, just like I’d seen the same big Palistinian guy doing whenever CNN’s cameras would show up after an Isreali missile strike killed another Hamas-er in Gaza.
The tactics between Chicagoan rabble-rousers and Pali instigators were identical. Which was quite a shock because I thought modern, wealthy America was different from, like, “over there.”
Now, just like the Pali’s, instead of hounding their keepers to improve their local living conditions, Chicago’s disenfranchised are getting in our nation’s collective face. I hope we can break them of this habit this year.
BTW: if Theresa Heinz Kerry, Marc Rich and Teddy Kennedy really want to buy homes for folks who can’t afford them, they should just do it and leave the rest of us out of it. Lord knows they’ve got the cash. That Axelrod fellow is friggin’ millionaire for Christ’s sake. Thing is, that’s not their real goal, or they’d have done it already.
Just as the Arabs have yoked the Pali’s that they’ve trapped in Gaza and the West Bank to their global enterprise, ultra-wealthy liberals are harnessing America’s trapped po’ folks in cities like Chicago to achieve their own “larger goals.”
BTW2: Isn’t Chicago just an old rail-road town anyway - that’s why manufacturing companies (with their mobbed labor-unions) moved there in the first place. But with the decline in the manufacturing industries the city’s business model is defunct and maybe it should just dissolve, like, say, Enron did.
No jobs, no growth, corrupt politicians, neighborhoods under the thumb of pushy “community organizers - maybe Chicago should give up the ghost and go the way of the Dodo bird. Its citizens will survive the exodus - it’s political system will not, unless its players can nationalize the model, and quick.
Cue Obama.
Comment by guinsPen on 9/30 @ 7:27 pm #
A predictable 79% of Americans disapprove of GWB, with only 26@ approval.
That extra 5% must belong to those extra 7 states.
Comment by Lesley on 9/30 @ 7:38 pm #
Tom Veal, on his “Stromata Blog”, uses this quote as a header:
“That posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream.” - Richard Hooker
Please continue writing, Jeff. Its important that posterity know you kept fighting.
Comment by Cook County Election Officer on 9/30 @ 7:41 pm #
guinsPen-
That extra 5% must belong to those extra 7 states.
“If only 5% of the dead voted, we must need a ‘community organizer’…”
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 7:45 pm #
#13, 14, 37,
“Otherwise, I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all. “
not
“I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all. “
Quoting out of context is just so, so, well, MSM.
I see no failure on Jeff G’s part. Professors can’t fail, they can only perish from lack of publication, or too little single malt.
Comment by Mister Fixer on 9/30 @ 8:26 pm #
It’s a wonderful thing when the evidence you’ve gathered that a cougar has been stalking you is the incredibly conspicuous presence of claws in your back and teeth in your neck.
Congrats, America. We let this happen. Fascism doesn’t go away just because you have elections. There’s another step beyond elections that we need to start thinking about while we are still able to. I don’t know what that is, but it’s something every American with even half an eye open should be thinking about. We aren’t witnessing the end of the Bush Administration and the beginning of the Obama Administration. We are witnessing the end of the USA and the beginning of something… Else.
Saddle up, boys. This is gonna be a bumpy ride.
Comment by McGehee on 9/30 @ 8:33 pm #
The one I always recommend is, Nag your elected representatives so they think about you every time they have to make a decision.
Even if it’s only, “Wide stance or narrow?”
Comment by JimK on 9/30 @ 8:49 pm #
A Chicago pol with an oily smooth tongue. Yech. What’s not to hate?
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 9/30 @ 8:57 pm #
Yeah Jeff we see it and recognize it, I could tell what he was pretty rapidly after beginning a short look at his past and plans. He all but admits it in his book. The problem is, society has gotten to the point that they don’t see it or don’t care, and it takes longer to explain and make sense of it than it takes to say “have the audacity to hope for change!” We’re not far from Idiocracy here: you get too much into the truth behind things and people start to glaze over and say you talk like a fag.
Comment by Victor. on 9/30 @ 8:58 pm #
“I am not apologising.†He told Italians there was “a lot about your history you have yet to come to grips with. This film is our interpretation, and I stand behind it.â€Â
[...]
“to restore the voice of black soldiers who fought in the warâ€Â.
[...]
“I have not invented anything,†he declared.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4853669.ece
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 9:14 pm #
#50,
The start of the rehabilitation of Hitler and Fascism. All the ducks must be in the proper rows for the ascension of the “Messiah”.
Comment by Smedley on 9/30 @ 9:17 pm #
THE WORLD WILL NEVER FORGET HOW YOU OPPOSED THESE MODERN-DAY BOLSHEVIKI!!!11! COURAGE BROTHER!!!1
Comment by Smedley on 9/30 @ 9:18 pm #
OR BROWNSHIRTS!! WHICHEVER!!1!
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 9:28 pm #
On both this thread and the previous one (Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming?) there seems to be a outbreak of infectious capitalism. Confined so far on the left side.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/30 @ 9:28 pm #
oh. I couldn’t watch at work. Stanley for real looks a lot like a Stanley, huh. Very earnest.
Comment by Tman on 9/30 @ 9:33 pm #
Jeff,
You’ve definitely made an impact for many of your readers in terms of realizing how destructive identity politics were and are. And yes, we saw this whole dog-and-pony show with O! coming a mile away. I think when Reverend Jackson and his cohorts suddenly realized they were getting usurped by a younger flashier version of themselves it became abundantly clear what was going on. And yes, most of your readers saw this coming a long time ago partially due to your writings.
The only thing I’ve enjoyed about the campaign so far is watching the Democrats eat themselves between Obama and Clinton, and then explode in a fiery mountain of hypocrisy from the Palin nomination that annoyed even die-hard feminist leftists.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go watch a democrat friend of mine twist himself into knots after finally getting proof (via Perky Katie!) that Palin is neither anti-gay nor a creationist. Good times!
Comment by PEACE BE UPON HIM on 9/30 @ 9:34 pm #
ADD GEOFFB TO THE LIST OF CAPITALIST RUNNING DOG INFIDELS THAT DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE USE OF ALL CAPS IS CRITICAL TO SHOW JUST HOW DAMN SERIOUS WE ARE
Comment by thor on 9/30 @ 9:36 pm #
No surprising shit here; Stanley Kurtz is a most boring Rove-packer.
O!
Comment by happyfeet on 9/30 @ 9:40 pm #
I like Karl Rove. He’s so smart but also even-keeled while being persuasive at the same time. I admire that. He comports himself really well from what I’ve seen.
Comment by David R. Block on 9/30 @ 9:44 pm #
You are doing an excellent job. Keep up the good work sir, and don’t let the bastiges get you down.
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 10:26 pm #
Your mighty seriousness blew out my rather tenuous work wifi connection.
My little electromagnetic microwaves are impressed. Me, ehh not so much.
Comment by TmjUtah on 9/30 @ 10:27 pm #
I saw nothing to actively distrust in Obama until I saw the video of his response dismissing the Ayres connection as being “some guy that lives in my neighborhood”.
In less than twenty four hours I had arrived at the full knowledge of who Ayers was, his role in launching Obama’s political career, and had scratched the surface of the Annenberg (sp?) relationship.
I believe that characterizing the current situation as a “coup” is neither hyperbolic nor inaccurate.
I understand how Dan Rather could remain in front of a camera, though. He expects to be back at a network come November.
That’s some sick shit. And it explains so much about media’s relationship with the enemy, too.
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/30 @ 10:30 pm #
Smedley = Moops.
These li’l guys are so cute, what with all their li’l stage names.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 10:32 pm #
Sometimed HF is a true Caravaggio with words.
Obliged to denounce, then:
TENEBRIST!
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 10:33 pm #
All I needed was Chicago and Democrat. But I’ve spent most of my life less than 200 miles from Chicago and have relatives who live there. Awesome and toxic political machine. Anything it touches is poison also.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 10:34 pm #
My stage name was supposed to be Kathryn McCauley.
But to get some acting talent I had to marry it.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 10:42 pm #
Chicago bagmanchurian /really big spiders. Pick yer poison.
.
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 10:52 pm #
Spiders are easier to squash.
On the other thing, does this mean happyfeet is going around with sword in hand looking for duels? Or is his use of language similar to the painting’s style?
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 11:06 pm #
59 is put the subject 58 in sharp relief using violent contast.
Like one of those chiaroscuros where whatsit Holopherns is getting his.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 11:07 pm #
You can drop that extra “is”, there.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 11:08 pm #
shoot, it’s “Holofernes” like the plant.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 11:11 pm #
I suppose if we’re all doomed to be socialists, there’s no point in putting off a visit to Sweden.
The bug count is low.
Maybe rent a stuga with one of those nice tiled stoves.
Comment by maggie katzen on 9/30 @ 11:16 pm #
oooooh, you should go, SarahW. my parents went a few years ago. actually it was a cruise of the Baltics, but they stopped in Sweden and we have relatives there. One of which placed in some song contest many, many years ago. (ha, finally it’s on youtube!) thanks for mentioning that.
Comment by J. Peden on 9/30 @ 11:16 pm #
Just got an email showing me that the world overwhelming wants Obama. Seems there’s a “global electoral vote†landslide in the offing!
Me, I’m sticking with Fortune Cookies.
Comment by MC on 9/30 @ 11:20 pm #
Jeff’s going to post a video of a kitten. You heard it here first.
As long as SarahW is going to Sweden, you might as well pull out all the stops you know?
Comment by maggie katzen on 9/30 @ 11:23 pm #
yeah, MC, kittens would chill everybody out, I think.
Comment by MC on 9/30 @ 11:26 pm #
Maggie - or at least something to put the ketchup on…
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 9/30 @ 11:28 pm #
Thank you Sarah, I admit that “Holofernes” sent me to Wiki.
Comment by maggie katzen on 9/30 @ 11:30 pm #
I don’t think kittehs are fond of the ketchup, MC.
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 11:52 pm #
Maggie Katzen, that’s so cool! He was as good as smoked salmon on a crisp!
Comment by SarahW on 9/30 @ 11:53 pm #
gravlax, even.
Comment by dicentra on 10/1 @ 12:33 am #
Kitties! Did I hear summat about kittehs?
That’s the biggest drawback about P-dub: you can’t post LOLcats in the comments.
Comment by Smedley on 10/1 @ 1:08 am #
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS!!1!
Comment by Pablo on 10/1 @ 3:15 am #
THEN THEY CAME FOR THE JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT!!!!
And it was good.
Comment by Rusty on 10/1 @ 5:00 am #
#58
Said the ‘O’ packer.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 5:06 am #
Interesting that Obama is frantically working on getting the Ohio vote out before the ACORN/Ayres/Fannie/Freddie/Raines/Johnson/Rezko stuff sees the full light of day.
I know I missed some.
Comment by Salt Lick on 10/1 @ 5:33 am #
There’s another step beyond elections
Well yeah, but maybe for now we should demand they replace Gwen Ifill, tonight’s VP debate moderator, and author of forthcoming book praising Obama, with Chris Wallace or Brit Hume.
Comment by Salt Lick on 10/1 @ 6:08 am #
Wiki — On October 5, 2004, [Gwen Ifill] moderated the vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards. In the debate when Cheney asked for more than 30 seconds to react to a particular statement, Ifill told him “Well, that’s all you’ve got”. Ifill said that though it was not her intent, Democratic partisans were delighted with her because she was seen as being “snippy” to Cheney.[6]
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/1 @ 6:25 am #
When they have someone moderating a debate that is writing books lavishly praising one of the candidates the “fix” is obviously in and they do not care who knows it.
PS I actually liked O! until I saw those videos of his church. Noone could sit in a racist church for 20 years and just not know. The fact you got his supporters and journalists excusing it is disgusting. In their twisted logic I can be a 20 year dues paying member of the NRA and that is not proof that I support gun ownership.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/1 @ 6:58 am #
I actually liked O! until I saw those videos of his church.
Yep, same here. Although “like” might be a little strong — I had (and still have) profound distate for some of McCain’s policies, and thought that Obama might not be such a bad thing if it taught the Republicans a lesson.
After learning about Wright, Rezko, Ayers, et al., things changed.
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 7:04 am #
Good read. Excerpt:
“Their success is due to the enormous feeling among the people of Europe against, on the one hand, the destruction of their powers of self-government and their assimilation into the undemocratic Euro superstate, and on the other the threat to western culture from Islamist conquest. On both of these seismic issues, the leaders of the democracies are either burying their heads in the sand or are actively bringing them into being. With no democratic party addressing these concerns and instead demonising legitimate nationalist feeling as ‘racist’, xenophobic’ or ‘Islamophobic’, people are turning to parties which truly are racist, anti-foreigner, anti-Muslim, anti-Jew and sometimes, indeed, neo-Nazi, but which are exploiting this political vacuum just as all such parties have always exploited other vacuums in leadership.”
h/t flea
Seems that PC crapola leads to sinister outcomes. SHOCKER, that.
Comment by thor on 10/1 @ 7:07 am #
Things changed, my ass. You’ve been a consistent hick-tarded Obama-slimer since he was in the primaries. Now all that’s left for your white-trash-ass is to quack for my man McCain.
Comment by B Moe on 10/1 @ 7:13 am #
Don’t you have an autobiography to read, thor?
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 7:13 am #
OT, but I was killing time reading this and it somehow reminded me of hf.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/1 @ 7:25 am #
Comment by thor on 10/1 @ 7:07 am #
thor, go wipe the white O! stuff off your chin, you pritiful loser.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/1 @ 7:29 am #
hick-tarded, white-trash, Thor why do you hate white people?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/1 @ 7:32 am #
There is obviously no social sitgma with being racist against white people anymore. Feel free to hate them.
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 7:33 am #
hahaha. or not.
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 7:35 am #
[space filler post to bring it to 100]
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 7:39 am #
100/
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 7:40 am #
dammit
Comment by Rob Crawford on 10/1 @ 7:41 am #
urthshu, I only see 93 comments. Sorry.
Comment by chimmichurri on 10/1 @ 7:43 am #
Media? What does Obama need the media for? Sarah must be an operative. It’s the ONLY explanantion…………
” COURIC: I know you’re heading to Sedona to work on your debate. What is your coach advising you?
PALIN: I don’t have a debate coach.
COURIC: Well, what are your coaches?
PALIN: I have quite a few people who are giving us information about the record of Obama and Biden, and at the end of the day, though, it is — it’s so clear, again, what those choices are. Either new ideas, new energy and reform of Washington, DC, or MORE OF THE SAME.” (emphasis mine)
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 7:51 am #
>>urthshu, I only see 93 comments. Sorry.
Ah…Trollhammer is going to change the convention of replying to posts. No longer can one write the number, but must quote the post.
Good to know.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/1 @ 7:54 am #
urthshu, that will be fixed in the next release. Rather than hiding the comment completely and screwing up the number, it will just replace the text with (trollhammered).
So, no need to form new habits just yet.
Comment by SarahW on 10/1 @ 7:58 am #
Al, what gets me is the ACORN style shrieking about “observers” being permitted.
Lets see, nothing could be hinky here: New voters literally being rounded up from homeless shelters, no verification of identification required; voting the same day registered - and no looking.
VOTE EARLY! VOTE OFTEN! !
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 8:26 am #
Fun with charts
Comment by mcgruder on 10/1 @ 8:57 am #
There is only reason Obama has more gravity at this moment than a stray fart, and that reason is George Bush. He was a really shitty president, Jimmy Carter bad (In fairness, Carter is an ass; Bush is a really good guy).
Not everything can be blamed on him, but a lot–a real lot–can be. Here about now, we should be looking at a 38-12 McCain victory. Instead, a 40-10 defeat is perhaps optimistic.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 9:24 am #
The people of Baghdad may disagree mcgruder, since they’re building a Ferris wheel downtown. A blatant display of freedom and fun. Kinda like kite-flying.
But according to a new Obama ad that’s running in Ohio, the Iraqis should not be able to improve their lives as they see fit until they pay us back the $10 billion/month that George Bush is spending on their security.
So when Obama bails you out, you had better check the list of approved expenditures before you purchase those brand-name snack cakes.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/1 @ 9:26 am #
To be honest I can not think of one issue that Carter and Obama disagree on off the top of my head.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 9:27 am #
Of course, I realize that you are not an Obama supporter mcgruder. I just lay the blame for his weird success at the media which ignores the main point of this post.
RELEASE THE SWIFTBOATERS!
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 9:28 am #
Put “feet of” in there somewhere
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 9:30 am #
toss in an extra “the” too
Comment by Sdferr on 10/1 @ 9:31 am #
“…Not everything can be blamed on him, but a lot–a real lot–can be…”
Mostly, I blame Pres. Bush for opinions like that issuing from people like you mcgruder.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/1 @ 9:31 am #
Hey al that ad is playing on the radio here in VA too. It even has amusement park music in the background.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/1 @ 9:33 am #
I think at politics President Bush has been the worst President in my lifetime. At running the country not so much.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 9:35 am #
It even has amusement park music in the background.
That’s the kind of attention to detail that helps Obama sell the tonic.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/1 @ 9:51 am #
Ferris wheel! Baracky should go ride! How fun is that and what more symbolizes Hope and also Change? America done some good in the world I think.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 10/1 @ 9:54 am #
I wonder if they would be spending that money on the ferris wheel if we had started that withdraw plan that Obama was touting pre-surge?
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 10:16 am #
How fun is that and what more symbolizes Hope and also Change?
I think Obama favors the more danger-oriented rides like The Plastic Shredder and The Beheader.
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 10:19 am #
Heck no, Mr. Pink. If we’d withdrawn, Iraq would look closer to that Star Trek episode where the kids were running the planet.
“Blah blah blah! Bonk bonk on the head!!1!!!”
Of course, that’s pretty much the level of political discourse here, but pay that no nevermind.
Comment by urthshu on 10/1 @ 10:19 am #
Here, as in the US, I mean
Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 10:22 am #
The Suicide Bomber is another good ride. “Pull down the bar and then buckle the belt. Keep hands and feet inside the Sentra at all times.”
Comment by mcgruder on 10/1 @ 10:45 am #
Sdferr–Sorry about that. I recant. Bush is a great and principled conservative, who took decisive action on spending like prescription benefits/healthcare, argued for education reform like No Child Left Behind that leaves American youth in a meaningfully better education system,and when confronted with a two-front war on terror, acted sharply to expand our military’s ground forces to both eliminate Al-Quaeda and guarantee Iraq’s security. As a nation, we are sharply better off for his vision of governing than we were in 2001.
he did all these things, in your world. Im sure of it. And in his wake, he left a strong and healthy GOP, capable of expressing the importance of limited government, sensible spending and budgets, and a strong, aggressive defense so that the Left is always on its heels.
I’m voting for McCain my friend, but Im not delusional about it, nor how or why we got here.
Al P–Unlike many of my countrymen apparently, I pay my mortgage–no bailout needed or wanted. I never thought Id see the day when that was a positive declaration.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/1 @ 10:53 am #
You would think a journalist would know the difference between “a Carter-like president” and “best president in the history of the U.S.,” and would realize there is room for some middle ground. However, I think the statement(s) of said journalist were mostly a troll for some hot ranting action.
Comment by mcgruder on 10/1 @ 11:23 am #
Cranky-d,
hardly. I doubt that a best ever POTUS exists, but Bush is a lot closer to carter in effectiveness than he was to Lincoln, Reagan or Washington.
Bush put us on “the right” in a position where we have to hope for some 9th inning swiftboat situation to avoid being governed by a poli sci professor.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/1 @ 11:56 am #
Don’t be an ass mcgruder. I believe none of the things you attribute to me. In point of fact, I may happen to agree with you about how ineffective or outright backward many of those policies might be.
Pointless ex post facto carping of the sort you indulge in — “Jimmy Carter bad” — puts you right with many people, no doubt. So you’ve joined the chorus, bfd. Yay for mcgruder, look how smart, he can dump on Bush with the best of them! Even while pretending to cut him some slack for being a “good guy”.
But blaming Bush for Obama? Like I said, don’t be an ass.
Comment by McGehee on 10/1 @ 12:35 pm #
The blame for the rise of Obama falls largely to the
MainstreamMedia and the willingness of Hillary and her supporters to believe in her inevitability before the delegate-selection process had even begun.Hell, the Haillaryites were believing in her inevitability before she even announced she was running for president. They were the ones who retailed the whole idea that Republicans were scared to death of her.
Comment by thor on 10/1 @ 2:00 pm #
mcgruder passed the PW sobriety test.
Bush blows and the congressional Republicans suck Larry Craig’s eggs. And then they trot out Sister “Fuckin’” Palin to us - public floggings should’a never been outlawed!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/1 @ 2:08 pm #
“… public floggings should’a never been outlawed!”
thor’s kink shines out from behind the clowud of bullshit.
Pitiful, really.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/1 @ 3:57 pm #
#124 mcgruder:
NCLB will work well when the testing standards are changed - Denouncing your Parents, Singing Songs of the Leader, Sit-Ins, Bomb Throwing…
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Comment by alppuccino on 10/1 @ 6:02 pm #
Al P–Unlike many of my countrymen apparently, I pay my mortgage–no bailout needed or wanted. I never thought Id see the day when that was a positive declaration.
Not surprised mcgruder. You seem as sharp as the rest of these folks here with some exceptions. But Barack doesn’t think he’s just bailing out the losers. He thinks he’s bailing out America.
Comment by lee on 10/1 @ 7:07 pm #
I think at politics President Bush has been the worst President in my lifetime. At running the country not so much.
That was profound Mr.Pink.
That is what makes a good leader, and why we have so few of them these days.
That is what makes Sarah so appealing, she is obviously politically adept, hello Madam Governor, but you know she is regular people. When thor calls her a rube, I see it as a feature, not a bug.
The messiah has been groomed for political office all his adult life, and he has taken advantage of the perks. Along with his wife. Nice raise there Mrs. Obama!
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/1 @ 10:12 pm #
FWIW, G.W. Bush beat Al Gore at the end of the Greatest Economy Ever Was, The End of History, and with at best a disdainful media.
He beat John W. Kerry in the middle of two difficult wars and in the face of a seriously coordinated 527 and media hate running against him.
It wasn’t politics that brought Democrats to majorities in 2006. This media construct of a decisive “undecided” demographic is horse shit - the shift of 2006 came of Republicans paying the price for not acting like Republicans.
The people that didn’t come to the polls in 2006, and thus gave the Dems their moment, are naturally inclined against just about everything there is known about Mr. Obama.
Media is out from behind the maks and curtain for this election cycle, but I actually think that works against them in the end. Meh. I guess we’ll see in five weeks.
Comment by Pellegri on 10/1 @ 10:31 pm #
thor, do you ever get tired of being a farce of yourself?
Just curious, since you and nishi are way less interesting than the trolls that were around last time I was. :(
Comment by Et on 10/13 @ 9:41 pm #
I am very suspicious of Axelrod, he looks like Hitler, do you agree with me?
Comment by Cybercorrespondent on 10/29 @ 8:48 am #
Questioning the American Bolshevik views
1. Is wealth redistribution taking money from stockholders and redistributing it to those who don’t pay taxes?
2. Is it more important to make sure that illegal votes are not disenfranchised or making sure that groups like ACORN do not nullify honest votes.
3. Would premature U.S. withdrawal from Iraq grand jihadists a victory and make all of our accomplishments, money spent and lives lost a big waist?
4. Can this country afford to grant socialist Democrats total control of the government and allow them to sacrifice our safety by cutting the military budget by 25%?
Now comes the big question. How do we stop socialism from ruining our lives?
The answer is simple. Don’t vote American Bolsheviks into power and boycott the socialist propaganda media into bankruptcy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjvBEKrGkDI
Cybercorrespondent
cybercorrespondent@gmail.com
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Comment by Mark Jones on 11/4 @ 6:43 am #
I agree. You are totally on. Today is our last chance to spread the information to our less informed friends –especially youth. Don’t give up. Why not organize info parties? Everyone will be camped in long voting lines. All you need to do is be organized. Carry a laptop. Share some choice links with the surrounding people. Show these nice strangers all that the media has been hiding. Explain what totalitarianism will look like in America.
Show people that Obama will set back even blacks hundreds of years –productive, successful blacks will lose everything and everyone will live like a Cuban –desperate, half-starved, lacking basic incentive, barely alive.
Come on, America. Today is our big day. We can get rid of this thug by voting for the better choice!