Is This Man for Real?

Michelle Malkin, today:

In all the brouhaha over the New Yorker’s satirical cover cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama, a truly “tasteless and offensive” passage in the magazine’s feature article got lost. The magazine piece quotes Obama’s recommendations for how to stop jihad in a local Chicago newspaper op-ed he had published eight days after the September 11 terrorist attacks. It’s a self-parody of blind, deaf, and dumb Kumbaya liberalism:

“We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.”

As Michelle says: “Is this man for real?”

Well, let’s put it this way; he’s quite close to imposing these fantasies on us. What Obama fails utteryly to comprehend is that there’s no way we’re going to make these bloodthirsty morons like us, shy of submission. This is not due to a misunderstanding, this is due to a religious commitment on their part.

So, Bush steps up before the mikes yesterday and says we gotta drill… open up offshore fields… and chides congress about opening up ANWR, and what happens? Price drops $9/bbl almost at once. That’s the biggest drop in the price of oil since 1991.

So, tell me again, oil haters, how our committing to drilling for our own oil, and freeing up domestic production, including ANWR, won’t have an immediate effect on the price of oil… even before such fields come online. 

Here we have the mere spectre of a commitment by the US to drilling our own oil, and the price falls like it hasn’t in nearly 20 years.  Can you imagine the price drops once Congress actually summons the  political stones to follow up with it’s own call to drill domestically?  See, here it is….This is the proof the oil-haters were hoping would never happen. And by the way, the MSM won’t report this, for that reason.

And if Congress wants further reason to do this, consider the arguments we’ve been having as regards the state of our economy. It’s in large part due to the cost of oil, and how much of it we import, right? Well, how, in the face of that, can we claim that it’s not in our interest to drill domestically?

Drill domestically, the price of oil goes down, as does inflationary pressure, and thereby the recession gets avoided.

You’d think the Democrats would be able to figure this out. Or perhaps theyr’e just waiting for the election, so they can credit a Democrat President for the fix actually being implemented?

Update: (Bit)

As of noon, the price of crude had dropped another $4.50/bbl. Again, all on the reaction to Mr. Bush’s comments yesterday. The market is taking off, too. All of which goes directly to my arguments, here.

Bruce at Q and O

I really can’t blame Julian Bond for this. After all, we’re talking about the end of an industry.

Racial disparity will remain an issue in America, regardless of whether Barack Obama is elected as the nation’s first black president, the chairman of the NAACP told the organization’s national convention Sunday night.

Julian Bond, a veteran civil rights leader, said Obama’s candidacy doesn’t “herald a post-civil rights America, any more than his victory in November will mean that race as an issue has been vanquished in America.”

But he drew loud applause when he said the country, and “all of us here,” are taking pride in the success in this year’s campaign by a candidate who couldn’t have stayed in some cities’ hotels a few decades ago.

Of course, if I were a betting man, I’d bet that for the majority of America (I probably should say white America) an Obama victory will signal our entry into a “post-civil rights America”. The Bonds, Jacksons and Wrights of the world aren’t going to like it, but in fact, it will be time to move on.

Bruce has this one right, here. I’ve been saying for years that the worst thing you can give a liberal is the solution to the problem he supposedly seeks, because that problem existing is his means to power. Actually SOLVE the problem, make that problem go away, and that means to power goes away, too.  Never forget this is not about solving problems… it’s about power.

The one thing he does get wrong….Obama winning or losing isn’t going to keep the Bonds and Jacksons and Sharptons of the world from ending up on the scrap heap of history. He’ll just get a short reprieve. And what happens if as I expect, Obama proves to disappoint? We’ll hear about how he’s half white.

Senator Obama this morning said that he wants a foreign policy that is “tough, smart, and principled.” This afternoon, I ask: was it tough when Senator Obama voted to order U.S. forces to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline—regardless of the recommendations of our military commanders, regardless of conditions on the ground? Was it smart when Senator Obama opposed the surge and predicted that it would fail to improve security? Was it principled when Senator Obama said that he would order U.S. troops to retreat from Iraq, regardless of the humanitarian consequences for millions of innocent Iraqis—even genocide? Was it tough and principled when Senator Obama said he would be open to changing his plan for Iraq after going there and talking to General Petraeus—only to change that position a few hours later after being heatedly criticized by organizations like Moveon.org? I say respectfully, the answer to all of those questions is no.
Senator Obama also said this morning that he wants a foreign policy that recognizes that we have interests “not just in Baghdad, but in Kandahar and Karachi and Tokyo and London.” But what Senator Obama does not seem to recognize is that—in an interdependent world—what happens in Baghdad affects our interests in Kandahar and Karachi and Tokyo and London. What Senator Obama does not seem to understand is that—had we taken the course he had counseled and retreated from Iraq—the United States would have suffered a catastrophic defeat that would have left America and our allies less safe not just in Baghdad, but in Kandahar and Karachi and Tokyo and London

Drew M, Ace of Spades Hq.

• Ask me again why Mass Transit doesn’t work.
• Apparently when you’re only half black, your skin gets a might thinner. The list of things that cannot be spoken grows ever longer with this guy. What do you suppsoe would happen if he ever had governmental power to back up his obviously desperate need for approval? The American Thinker has more.
• Here’s some more on Google silencing anti-Obama Bloggers that I mentioned this morning.
• Want to know what Phone Sex Operators really look like? Leave it to Boortz to come up with that one.
• Gateway Pundit notes there’s a lot of airbrushing going on at Obama’s website.
• James pokes fun at the mistake made by some of the MSM wonks about Captain Ed’s place. But look, don’t laugh too loudly. I didn’t say anything when he first posted this, but perhaps it’d be an education to speak to Dodd about how many hits he was getting a year  and longer after he took down his excellent Ipse Dixit.
• Here we go again… Obama says Iraq is a distraction’. The man needs watching, I think, for his own safety.  He needs 24 hour supervision.
• I note with interest the rumored impending demise of yet another Air America outlet, 950/WROC, here in Rochester.   Apparently, the format just isn’t producing numbers. Gee, big shock; given they haven’t elsewhere, either.   Insiders there tell me the only reason Err America stayed on in this market as long as they did was that they couldn’t figure what else to do with the signal… which strikes me as singularly short sighted.  It’s interesting, the excuses given, today fror this failure.  Back in the station’s glory days, it was doing top-40 radio, and was turning in listenership numbers that made the crosstown 50KW blowtorch 1180/WHAM look like they weren’t even trying; WBBF, as they were then known,  killed every other station in town as a matter of routine. While  WHAM covered 38 states and Canada. little WBBF couldn’t even reach the county line. Yet WBBF had more listners. The programming, you see is the deal. But for Air America, we hear all about how the signal is too weak at 1000watts.  Thing is, that was the case back in the day, too; No changes there.  Nor, given it’s hemmed in to the south by 25KW WPEN in Philly and to the west by 50WK WWJ in Detroit, is the station’s owner, Entercom, likely to be able to improve the signal much, if any. (And yes, a lot of other signals, too… Maryland, and Utica, NY to name but two…)   I’ll give Entercom this much; they did put in a new transmitter just recently, a top of the line job, that really carries for a 1kw signal. Sounds good, too. Still didn’t matter much.  So finally and belatedly, they come to the conclusion that the programming is the reason their numbers are in Sir John Carpper’s elegant device.  Sheesh. Well, at least they got it. What next for them, then?  One trusted source says Sports… ESPN, particularly.  And that makes some sense. There’s only one sports outlet in town…  Clear Channel’s 5000watt WHTK/1280, which is being clobbered, listener -wise, a lot of the the time,  by Entercom owned 550/WGR, in Buffalo,  another 5000 watter, some 65 miles west… particularly during football season.  This is, after all, Bills country. Given the co-ownership, I wouldn’t be much shocked to find the two stations doing a lot of simulcasting, myself.  But, bye bye, Air America. Nice to see I called it.
• Supposedly, we’re having lunch at “Sticky Lips” BBQ tommrow, in Rochester.  It’s one of the many really first rate BBQ places around these parts, ranking right up there with the Dinosaur, and “Famous Dave’s” though that one is less of a local affair, being a Chicago based chain.  I’ve long been of the opinion the best way to end a lot of what’s going on with the radical Islamists is to bom the places they’re hdiing in, with good BBQ. Nobody I’ve ever seen can resist the stuff.  The resulting angst will keep them off the war path for quite a spell.
• Oil’s off by around $7 today, as of noon or so. I’m telling you, gang, the market is trying to get sane. Wouldn’t shock me, though to see Iran doing some sabre rattling to raise the price again, though.
• How to lose 140lbs all at once. And no, I’d not advise it.

James at OTB:

Michael Yon says that we’ve won the war in Iraq and all that remains is clean-up.

I tell James:

Do not be fooled. There are a number of people who have been leaning toward this false hope of “declare victory and get out” for some time, now. And now that they can no longer claim with any degree of logic that we’re losing in Iraq, they take this approach.

However, like the claims that there’s no way to win in Iraq, this, too, is a lie.

The president suggested a long time ago, that this was going to be a long war… far longer than it has thusfar been. I suggest we’re dealing with a mislabeling and thereby a misperception.

Here’s the deal; Iraq wasn’t a war, but a battle within a war. That our enemy is still active and still seeking our defeat seems to have been amply demonstated near the Afghan/Pakistan border yesterday.

I submit that the war’s not over, it’s just the field of battle that’s changed.

As the the International Relations and Security Network has recently said:

Over the last two months, more US troops have died in Afghanistan than in Iraq, highlighting the depressing truth that, while violence in Iraq may have been decreasing; in Afghanistan, the Taliban- and now al-Qaida-led insurgency in the south and east continues to pose an escalating threat to the country’s stability.

It has also drawn attention to the way that the war in Afghanistan has been, in the words of General Dan McNeill, the man who until recently led the US military effort there, “under-resourced.”

Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, admitted this month for the first time that he wished more troops were available for the conflict in Afghanistan, which is larger and more populous than Iraq, but where the US has less than a quarter as many troops.

“Afghanistan […] remains an economy-of-force campaign, which by definition means we need more forces there,” he told reporters. “I don’t have troops I can reach for […] to send into Afghanistan until I have a reduced requirement in Iraq.”

This, despite the public assessments from US intelligence officials that the safe haven al-Qaida enjoys on the Pakistan-Afghan border is the most likely site for the planning and execution of terror plots against the US homeland.

All of which is why Bush went out of his way to suggest that the enemy would be found and defeated, regardless where he goes. He knew the effectively borderless nature of the region would affect our plans and so it has.

We’ve had a hard time of it in Iraq, there’s no question. And our victory is deserved, and yes we should feel good about it. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that we have a long way to go yet, in terms of the total war effort.

All of this is something which neither Obama or McCain has reacted to in nearly a proper fashion as yet.  Reality, afte rall, does have a way of over-running the best laid plans, particularly political ones.

From Michigan comes J B Williams, who says in part:

Obama’s useful idiot minions [1] on college campuses across America may have no clue what types of change Obama has in store for America. But every Marxist, Socialist and Communist around the globe, knows all too well…

 “We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!”

 This is a very common statement among the many anti-American Americans currently marching in the Obamamania Revolution to force change in America. But I took this quote from a group on Obama’s official campaign web site, calling themselves, Marxists, Socialists and Communists for Obama”

 According to the group’s statement on Obama’s web site, “This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency”. – “Under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat.” [2]

 How can so many Americans be so easily duped into rallying behind the most unqualified man to ever seek the Oval Office, who also clearly represents the will of Marxists, Communists and Socialists everywhere? – In direct opposition to every American value ever known?

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 One side searches for Utopia in the American dream, via American principles and values of individual liberty and personal freedom to define Utopia and pursue it under their own steam via a free-market capitalist system that allows every human being to determine his or her own destiny.

 The other side believes in the Marxist group-think definition of Utopia, where all human beings are not Created equal with equal opportunities, but rather made economically equal via man made laws, regardless of unequal individual efforts. This group seeks their idea of Utopia via the Marx concept, “from each according to his ability; to each according to his need.”

 All other ideological differences are rooted in this one fundamental difference

 Though both sides call themselves “American” and even “patriotic,” only one of these belief systems is wholly American. The other is wholly anti-American.

 I realize this news flash comes as a shock to many of my fellow Americans today, especially on the well indoctrinated college campus where “higher learning” is better defined as “dumbing down.”

 However, if you can honestly refer to Marx, Engels, Stalin or Lenin as “pro-American” idealists, you have spent too much time in higher learning and had the common sense drummed right out of you.

Instead of commenting on this, I will simply give you the tease and the link.  It’s well written and worthwhile. I do also want to call to yoruattention to a specific Williams places int his post of his:

Truth is what the Obama campaign fears the most. So, they will make certain that truth is hard to find and they will get plenty of help from all information outlets, including the search engines which are actively removing anti-Obama materials from search results under the heading of “hate speech.”

 Don’t believe me? Try Googling American Spectator, the oldest conservative magazine in America and watch what happens. In the search result, Google will tell you “This site may harm your computer.” If you click to go to the site anyway, a Google page will come up with this message instead, “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!” as you are being denied access to the site.

 Now, this is a very serious charge. As such I checked it out, and he’s quite correct.  I would be interested in an answer to the question of just why (offcially, at least) this site is so listed. I mean, what’s the excuse given? If I’m the Spectator, I’m laying suit against Google.  I’ll be interested in anything our readers find, as well.

But I must tell you, that J B Williams has just made the Bits Blog Roll. Excellent work.

Barack Obama is simply too stupid to  be president.   BO the moron does not know the difference between a law enforcement agent upholding our nation’s law and cold blooded jihadists

Drew M. Ace of Spades Hq, reports that BO conflates law enforecement with terrorism:

When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it.

Drew asks:

I’d like to ask Sen. Obama if there isn’t a human cost to enforcing all laws? Lots of people who are arrested have families and their are dislocations caused by just about every arrest. Why exactly is it so important to consider the impact of enforcement of immigration laws on families when it’s not a consideration in other cases?

While BO confuses ICE agents for terrorists, he thinks real terrorists, the jihadists, who carrried off Nine Eleven are simply misunderstood, Stop the ACLU:

We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.

We second Stop the ACLU comments:

Indeed. It is amazing that Americans are even considering electing this idiot as our President. How much media coverage do you think this will get? Obama should hope that no one actually reads this article in the New Yorker, because the controversial cover cartoon is hardly the worst.

The primary job of the President is to protect the American people.   A president who is too stupid to be able to distinguish friend from foe is simply too stupid to be president.

Addendum: 

It only seems natural that the moron who is unable to distinguish friend from foe would also be too stupid to be able to distinguish his would be staff officers from his line commanders.  Mark Finkelstein, News Busters:

BARACK OBAMA: I’m going to call in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and give them a new mission, and that is to bring the war in Iraq to a close. We are going to get out.

 Mark nails BO’s big problem and gaffe:

The Joint Chiefs of Staff does not have operational command of U.S. military forces. That authority resides in the commanders of the various Unified Combatant Commands

The Joint Chiefs have never held operational control of U.S forces.  But how would BO know this?  The DOD was organized in 1947.   BO is ill equipped to hold a seat in Congress, much less be the Commander-in-Chief.

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Dr. Rusty Shackleford, Jawa Report, links to an Associated (with terror) Press snuff film:

AP Stringer Stands by as Taliban Murder 2 Women, Gets Snuff Footage [UPDATE: Worse than Bilal Hussein!][UPDATE: Confirmed: Took Video of Murder]

Comments:

• The victims’ alleged crime was prositution.  So when did sex work (Mrs. Clinton’s lingo) become a capital offense?
• So when were the women given their day in court?
• Why does the AP describe the cold blooded murder of two women as an execution?
• Soldiers have no right to summarily kill non-combatents.  Where is the cry over war crimes?
• The AP whore,  Rahmatullah Naikzad, seemed have advanced knowlege of the women’s intended murder.   Naikzad made no effort to stop the murders.  Is it AP’s policy to employ people who aid and abet murder?   If so why?
• What have I over looked?

Good work Rusty.

• So, when Obama was in front oa AIPAC, he told them Jerusalem must remain undivided. Next day, (Actually only a few hours later ) he remembers his freinds in Hamas who endorsed him, and says the future of the city should be negotiated. He calls it poor phrasing. I call it poor lying.
• It figures. Cynthia McKinney is the Green Party nominee. How much she will draw of of Obama’s vote is an open question, but it does strike me as interesting that she’s making the attempt. It’s cheesy, for her even to make the attempt, for one thing.
• Shut up, Arnold. Just shut up.
• Amazing to me how long it took the MSM to jump onto this “hacked cellphone” story. I guess the problem is they never figured out how to blame George Bush for the problem.
• Seems Devner isn’t making out all that well from the DNC coming to town.  It’ll be interesting to see the Democrats lose to McCain in the Devnver voting breakout.
• Levant seems to feel Canada needs to be on the list of Human rights abusers. I think so as well, and said so when the Mark Steyn bit started.
• I spoke of the cover of the New Yorker this morning. But nobody… well, OK, damned few, are talking about the story behind that cover.  Jammie Wearing Fool is one such person, though.  Note the Rezko link in the New Yorker article…. not that anyone will do anything about it.
• I’ve been quoting Jen Rubin here quite a bit of late.  Here, she talks about some of the interesting earmaarks Obama is linked to, and wonders why McCain isn’t making much of it. (Shrug) I suppsoe that will come. Don’t want to peak too soon.
• Interesting that Stephen Green comes to the same conclusions about Jackson’s “I wanna cut his nuts off” outburst, that I did a week or so back.
• I see Mike Smirkonish is talking abut leaving Radio before long. Mike, for those of you who don’t know, works for 1210/WPHT in Philly. During the winter months, I listen to him regularly. (PHT doesn’t get up here well daytimes during the summer) Given we’ve been seeing him on Glenn Beck’s TV show of late, might this be where he’s bound… TV? Time will tell.
• Bush removed the ban on offshore drilling that he’d placed in effect years ago at a news conference at 13:30 eastern time. It’s a ban that never should ahve been put into place, but it’s understandable why he made order; He was trying to out-green the Democrats.  It’s like I’ve been saying since 99… Bush is no conservative… he wa merely a better choice than Gore. Granted, that wasn’t hard.
• If you’re curious, Angelina Jolie had the twins, apparently a couple days ago. Shows you how much it means to me, I didn’t know.
• The one thing that comes up in reading Obama’s new plan for Iraq… it’s his old plan for Iraq, with a different headline.

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For all the cries of local ownership of radio stations as opposed to larger concerns like Clear Channel, none of the  people encouraging small independent stations has ever gotten around to dealing with the issue I see coming from New Jersey this morning, by way of Scott Fybush and his NERW.

*Central NEW JERSEY is a tough place to operate a local AM station these days, up against a dial full of FM signals from within the state and neighboring New York and Philadelphia, not to mention a plethora of other entertainment and information choices.

So it was probably only a matter of time before Greater Media pulled the plug on most of the local programming at news-talker WCTC (1450 New Brunswick) and oldies WMTR (1250 Morristown). That day arrived July 2, as both stations flipped to satellite “Good Time Oldies,” with only separate local morning shows remaining to provide some sort of local identity.

Scott goes on to explain the particulars, but I think you get the idea. There’s no way that those signals would have survived as long as they have under single ownership, and even given corporate support from Greater Media, they’re not making much of a profit. The places are making more from network fed spots than they are trying to sell to local ‘Ma and Pa” stores.

(Datapoint:  Greater Media is a fairly large company, owning something on the order of 20 stations in that region… one of them being 950/WPEN in Philly)… but they’re still nothing on the order of ClearChannel or Cumulus)

This comes down to two questions, IMV;

1: Is there some way of making single owner stations profitable?

2: Given the idea of the free market, is that really something we want to do?

Addendum: This post made the Chicago Sun-Times website via Blogburst. Thanks.

I know that Bit already posted on this but want to add my two cents.

Mike Allen, Politico, is reporting that thecampaign of Barrack Hussien Obama is bellyaching about being depicted as a Muslim:

The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.

We second Dan Riehs, Riehl World View:

Geesh! I guess this is what we have to look forward to with Obama’s “new politics.” Is there anything he isn’t prepared to be outraged over? I thought satire was acceptable humor within the political realm? Not so much when it comes to the media-anointed one and his AK-47 toting spouse. But why did they leave out the little suicide vests for the kids?? ; )

Oh, and lest someone else forget to point it out … all humor has it’s basis in reality. Evidently the article doesn’t, as it suggests the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has been painting Obama to fit the cover. Since when has Hillary been considered part of that

 BO if you want “tasteless and offensive”, Michelle says “Welcome to public life.”

I have witnessed eight years of tasteless and crude leftarded attacks on George W Bush and his administration. So pardon me, if I don’t get overly worked up it some leftarded publication wants to eat one of their own. Welcome to the big leagues BO.

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From the GateWay Pundit:

New information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government. Speaker Pelosi was doing this while at the same time she refused to bring a free trade agreement with Colombia up for a vote in the US House. In fact, Pelosi took extraordinary steps to block this trade agreement with America’s closest ally in South America.

So, here we have Pelosi working with people who our government considers terrorists, and working against the elected government of Columbia, and an ally against Marxism in the region. 

Now, if you’ll recall, Pelosi was also the one who raised the issue with Armenian genocide by Turkey, as we reported here last October:

I commented the other day about this resolution about Turkey, and genocide, by suggesting that there was no way that the Democrats could be this stupid by accident, and that therefore it had to be intentional. Neal Boortz this morning addresses this one:

The resolution making its way through Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives is really starting to make some waves. What resolution? That would be the one condemning the Ottoman Empire for the massacre of Armenians almost 100 years ago. The Ottoman Empire of then would be the Turkey of now … and the Turks are less than thrilled with this resolution.

So .. why the big rush to get this resolution passed right NOW? Aren’t there more important things for the congress to attend to? Have they passed all of the budgets they are required to pass? Oops … don’t think so! But maybe there is a reason that Pelosi and the MoveOn Democrats are pushing this issue right now. Maybe they’re trying to make Turkey so damned mad at us that they’ll withdraw permission for our military to use their airbases and airspace in the war against Islamic fascism. Maybe, as Thomas Sowell puts it, this is pure and simple Sabotage.

This never crossed my mind … but it seems it occurred to Jed Babbin. Is Pelosi backing this Armenian resolution thing as a way to derail our war effort in Iraq? Would she resort to something this underhanded? Why HELL YES she would!

It’s the only logical reason for the push , frankly, to get this passed. This kind of thing was more or less my concern when we started arguing, back before the midterm elections, about the effects of “balanced government”. I was told, by my detractors at the time, that a Congress so hobbled would not be able to do any major damage. And it’s right enough, that this is not a major bill, it’s a nonbinding resolution. Yet, who can argue that this nonbinding resolution’s passage will not be damaging to United States foreign policy, and therefore the world?

At the bottom line, what we have here is the Democrats still struggling mightily to aid in the defeat of the United States, and it’s allies. last I knew, that was called “treason”.

 Indeed, in both cases, what we have here is treason.

It’s important to remember this is the house leadership, we’re talking about here. This, in particular, is the woman who told us she’d drain the swamp.

In the first case, Pelosi’s obvious intent was to prevent supplies from getting to our troups. Not only without that supply line was the surge going to fail, but they’d get their wish of “Getting” George Bush, and then also have a leg up in the general election.  Forget, of course that soldiers ahve a tendency to die for no reason when they don’t have the supplies they need. Apparently that doesn’t matter as much as the next election.

In the second case, we have Pelosi working for terrorists who happen to lean left. Forget they’re terrorists, of course.

Again, this is the House Leadership we’re talking about here.

Now, go ahead, folks… tell me again how the charges I laid out against Schumer Friday… crashing a bank and tossing a lot of mortgage holders into jeapardy, and costing the government billions of dollars… all for the purpose of getting a political leg up for the Democrats… is such a stretch.

Well, of course it should be said here (indeed, perhaps it goes without saying) that because these are Democrats, they’ll never face charges… the press will never touch this stuff… as they clearly would if a Republican were doing these things. But now, YOU know.

You really can’t make this stuff up.

Obama, fist bumping with a terrorist in the oval office.  (Gee, didn’t the most recent Democrat president, Bill Clinton, do that, where the terrorist was Yassir Arafat? ) A flag burning in the fireplace. Bin LAden’s portrait on the wall.

The author of the cover says:

I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous. It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.

Here’s someone who clearly is disconnected from reality.  I suppose we can’t expect much better from someone drawing pay from the New Yorker.

The New Yorker front office says it’s satire. They keep using that word, but I don’t think they know what it means. Given the definition actual of “Satire” (thankful nod to Dictionary.com,) I’m inclined to agree, with the words of the New Worker, if not their intent:

Satire -noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.

I’m sure we’ll be advised there some deeper menaing, and that the whole thing is the fault of  Chimpy McBush and Hitler Haliburton McCheney. It’s jolly well inevitable of late that when liberals get backed into a corner to blame their nemisis, after all.  In the end,  however, the reason any humor, particularly satire, works is because there’s a grain of truth at the center of it.  The level of anger coming from Camp Obama on this thing indicates they think so, too.

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