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Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s Dangerous Pals, cont.

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.

139 Replies to “Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s Dangerous Pals, cont.”

  1. Warren Bonesteel says:

    I perfectly understood your motivation and purpose, Jeff.

    …although that whole armadillo thing had me a guessin’ a time or two.

  2. Mikey NTH says:

    How about this one via Insty?

    http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/025137.php

    Holy F’in’ crap.

  3. happyfeet says:

    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.

  4. N. O'Brain says:

    Scratch a leftist, find the fascist gibbering underneath.

  5. JD says:

    Need I point out, yet again, how overtly racist this is?

  6. Jeffersonian says:

    We’re about to put an arsonist in charge of the fire department.

  7. Jim says:

    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.

  8. XBradTC says:

    Funny how most of this information has been floating around for months, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the news.

  9. happyfeet says:

    It’s good to write these things down.

  10. dre says:

    Acorn really works for Acorn because you know right away you’re dealing with nuts. So that’s good no?

  11. Mikey NTH says:

    Oh. I now see that others have seen the same thing.

    “Obama loves me, this I know, because Newsweek, tells me so.”

  12. Pablo says:

    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.

  13. urthshu says:

    >>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!

  14. dre says:

    “I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all.”

    I thought you were grading on the curve.

  15. SarahW says:

    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.

  16. SarahW says:

    It plateaued at “poison” for a while and then there was a steep drop-off.

  17. SarahW says:

    It would be hard to accept all at once that he’s really is what he is.

  18. SarahW says:

    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.

  19. alppuccino says:

    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.

  20. Jeff G. says:

    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?

  21. urthshu says:

    “electoral imperialism” is what it is.

  22. alppuccino says:

    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?

  23. urthshu says:

    mark-to-market now suspended is what I hear

  24. Pablo says:

    Did anyone ask Poland?

  25. MC says:

    Erm, did you notice that there is embedded video on PW? OMG! This is going to change the world!

  26. urthshu says:

    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.

  27. Pellegri says:

    Comment by Jeffersonian on 9/30 @ 4:40 pm #

    We’re about to put an arsonist in charge of the fire department.

    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.

  28. N. O'Brain says:

    “#Comment by urthshu on 9/30 @ 5:59 pm #

    mark-to-market now suspended is what I hear”

    Wow, good news for a change.

  29. Bob Reed says:

    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…

  30. MC says:

    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?

  31. Dash Rendar says:

    Jonah Goldberg’s book was quite timely.

  32. urthshu says:

    >>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

  33. Dana Gilbert Ward says:

    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?

  34. Dana Gilbert Ward says:

    “Jonah Goldberg’s book was quite timely.”

    Just in time for his mom to simultaneously experience orgasm.

  35. dre says:

    Couric: Can you name a few?

    Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too including Jeff G.’s “Protein Wisdom”. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, “wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?” Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.

  36. dre says:

    “Comment by Palin Pervert on 9/30 @ 6:45 pm #”

    Oh good the O! Pervert Truth Squad is here

  37. dicentra says:

    “I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all.”

    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!

  38. urthshu says:

    This looks about right

  39. McGehee says:

    I confess that I’ve spent the last 7 years failing you all.

    Get that armadillo dancing just once, and all will be forgiven.

  40. urthshu says:

    Ummm?

  41. steveaz says:

    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.

  42. guinsPen says:

    A predictable 79% of Americans disapprove of GWB, with only 26@ approval.

    That extra 5% must belong to those extra 7 states.

  43. Lesley says:

    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.

  44. Cook County Election Officer says:

    guinsPen-

    That extra 5% must belong to those extra 7 states.

    “If only 5% of the dead voted, we must need a ‘community organizer’…”

  45. geoffb says:

    #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.

  46. Mister Fixer says:

    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.

  47. McGehee says:

    There’s another step beyond elections that we need to start thinking about while we are still able to.

    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?”

  48. JimK says:

    A Chicago pol with an oily smooth tongue. Yech. What’s not to hate?

  49. 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.

  50. Victor. says:

    “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.”

    […]

    “to restore the voice of black soldiers who fought in the war”.

    […]

    “I have not invented anything,” he declared.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4853669.ece

  51. geoffb says:

    #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”.

  52. Smedley says:

    THE WORLD WILL NEVER FORGET HOW YOU OPPOSED THESE MODERN-DAY BOLSHEVIKI!!!11! COURAGE BROTHER!!!1

  53. Smedley says:

    OR BROWNSHIRTS!! WHICHEVER!!1!

  54. geoffb says:

    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.

  55. happyfeet says:

    oh. I couldn’t watch at work. Stanley for real looks a lot like a Stanley, huh. Very earnest.

  56. Tman says:

    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!

  57. PEACE BE UPON HIM says:

    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

  58. thor says:

    No surprising shit here; Stanley Kurtz is a most boring Rove-packer.

    O!

  59. happyfeet says:

    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.

  60. David R. Block says:

    You are doing an excellent job. Keep up the good work sir, and don’t let the bastiges get you down.

  61. geoffb says:

    Your mighty seriousness blew out my rather tenuous work wifi connection.

    My little electromagnetic microwaves are impressed. Me, ehh not so much.

  62. TmjUtah says:

    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.

  63. Jeff G. says:

    Smedley = Moops.

    These li’l guys are so cute, what with all their li’l stage names.

  64. SarahW says:

    Sometimed HF is a true Caravaggio with words.

    Obliged to denounce, then:

    TENEBRIST!

  65. geoffb says:

    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.

  66. SarahW says:

    My stage name was supposed to be Kathryn McCauley.

    But to get some acting talent I had to marry it.

  67. SarahW says:

    Chicago bagmanchurian /really big spiders. Pick yer poison.

    .

  68. geoffb says:

    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?

  69. SarahW says:

    59 is put the subject 58 in sharp relief using violent contast.

    Like one of those chiaroscuros where whatsit Holopherns is getting his.

  70. SarahW says:

    You can drop that extra “is”, there.

  71. SarahW says:

    shoot, it’s “Holofernes” like the plant.

  72. SarahW says:

    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.

  73. 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.

  74. J. Peden says:

    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.

  75. MC says:

    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?

  76. yeah, MC, kittens would chill everybody out, I think.

  77. MC says:

    Maggie – or at least something to put the ketchup on…

  78. geoffb (JARAIP) says:

    Thank you Sarah, I admit that “Holofernes” sent me to Wiki.

  79. I don’t think kittehs are fond of the ketchup, MC.

  80. SarahW says:

    Maggie Katzen, that’s so cool! He was as good as smoked salmon on a crisp!

  81. SarahW says:

    gravlax, even.

  82. dicentra says:

    Kitties! Did I hear summat about kittehs?

    That’s the biggest drawback about P-dub: you can’t post LOLcats in the comments.

  83. Smedley says:

    FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS!!1!

  84. Pablo says:

    THEN THEY CAME FOR THE JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT!!!!

    And it was good.

  85. Rusty says:

    #58
    Said the ‘O’ packer.

  86. alppuccino says:

    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.

  87. Salt Lick says:

    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.

  88. Salt Lick says:

    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]

  89. Mr. Pink says:

    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.

  90. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    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.

  91. urthshu says:

    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.

  92. thor says:

    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.

  93. B Moe says:

    Don’t you have an autobiography to read, thor?

  94. urthshu says:

    OT, but I was killing time reading this and it somehow reminded me of hf.

  95. N. O'Brain says:

    Comment by thor on 10/1 @ 7:07 am #

    thor, go wipe the white O! stuff off your chin, you pritiful loser.

  96. Mr. Pink says:

    hick-tarded, white-trash, Thor why do you hate white people?

  97. Mr. Pink says:

    There is obviously no social sitgma with being racist against white people anymore. Feel free to hate them.

  98. urthshu says:

    hahaha. or not.

  99. urthshu says:

    [space filler post to bring it to 100]

  100. urthshu says:

    100/

  101. urthshu says:

    dammit

  102. Rob Crawford says:

    urthshu, I only see 93 comments. Sorry.

  103. chimmichurri says:

    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)

  104. urthshu says:

    >>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.

  105. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    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.

  106. SarahW says:

    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! !

  107. urthshu says:

    Fun with charts

  108. mcgruder says:

    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.

  109. alppuccino says:

    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.

  110. Mr. Pink says:

    To be honest I can not think of one issue that Carter and Obama disagree on off the top of my head.

  111. alppuccino says:

    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!

  112. alppuccino says:

    Put “feet of” in there somewhere

  113. alppuccino says:

    toss in an extra “the” too

  114. Sdferr says:

    “…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.

  115. Mr. Pink says:

    Hey al that ad is playing on the radio here in VA too. It even has amusement park music in the background.

  116. Mr. Pink says:

    I think at politics President Bush has been the worst President in my lifetime. At running the country not so much.

  117. alppuccino says:

    It even has amusement park music in the background.

    That’s the kind of attention to detail that helps Obama sell the tonic.

  118. happyfeet says:

    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.

  119. Mr. Pink says:

    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?

  120. alppuccino says:

    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.

  121. urthshu says:

    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.

  122. urthshu says:

    Here, as in the US, I mean

  123. alppuccino says:

    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.”

  124. mcgruder says:

    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.

  125. cranky-d says:

    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.

  126. mcgruder says:

    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.

  127. Sdferr says:

    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.

  128. McGehee says:

    The blame for the rise of Obama falls largely to the Mainstream Media 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.

  129. thor says:

    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!

  130. N. O'Brain says:

    “… public floggings should’a never been outlawed!”

    thor’s kink shines out from behind the clowud of bullshit.

    Pitiful, really.

  131. Mikey NTH says:

    #124 mcgruder:

    NCLB will work well when the testing standards are changed – Denouncing your Parents, Singing Songs of the Leader, Sit-Ins, Bomb Throwing…

  132. […] Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s Dangerous Pals […]

  133. alppuccino says:

    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.

  134. lee says:

    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!

  135. TmjUtah says:

    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.

  136. Pellegri says:

    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. :(

  137. Et says:

    I am very suspicious of Axelrod, he looks like Hitler, do you agree with me?

  138. 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.
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  139. Mark Jones says:

    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!

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