The Oncoming Landslde

Michelle makes a great point, this monring:

How dare the ABC moderators ask questions about topics that are, you know, topical?

How dare they ask questions that-gasp!-conservatives are asking.

How dare they explore questions of character, truthfulness, and judgment?

Don’t you know you’re supposed to do the Schoolmarm thing or the Suck-Up thing or the Bogus Plant thing?

Don’t you know you’re supposed to just let the candidates bloviate about Compassion or Global Warming or Diversity or some other MSM-designated Important Issue?

Indeed. In looking over the ratings numbers for the debate, I note one strange thing; Usually, you get some tune-outs as people fall asleep or life intrudes. The number of tune-outs during this debate was strangely low… far lower a percentage than I would have figured on. In short, those who came, stayed to watch until the last dog was hung. If what the debate offered wasn’t what the people wanted to talk about, they’d have left, or so I would think. They didn’t.

So, in spite of what the leftards are saying about what Americans REALLY want to talk about, I’d say offhand, the people watching approved of the subject matter covered. They liked the format and the questions asked.

The disconnect between what he left side of the sphere thinks they should have discussed, and the reaction to what WAS discussed, is telling, I think… and it indicates a McGovern type bloodbath for the Democrats come November. Which, come to think on it, may be why they’re screaming so, just now. They know what’s coming. You see, those people who stayed to watch, are the ones the Democrats are going to need to connect to between now and November.  Personally, I don’t hold out much in the way of chance it’s going to happen.

Aliza Shvarts,Yale ’08, wanted to make a statement, Martine Powers. Yale Daily News:

Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

Joyclyn Elders said that, “abortion should be safe[sic], legal and rare.”  Even Elders didn’t seem to envision abortion as a sport.   There is one or more fathers who have  had the sons killed for sport and are about to see their dead human remains presented as if they are some weird kind of art.   This not art.  It is butchery.    Will the fathers of these dead babies please step forword to give their sons a proper civilizied burial.   No man can stand mute while some depraved bitch uses his dead son’s body as if were art.

Is there no shame at Yale?

More: Dana Stevens, XX Factor. Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Cassy Fiano.

Update:(Bit) Billy notes the story and says:

It would do me a world of good to see that little girl sent to her room without supper.

And for some reason, I am reminded of past conversations I’ve had with Billy, and one comes to mind about the natural consequences of a principle. In this case, that  these children are not human.  

In that context, I am reminded, for some reason, of lampshades.  Argue, if you will about ‘did the nazis really do that’, but regardless of the outcome of that, this girl has either followed suit, or gone one better, and on the very same principle.

• Look, gang, right off the bat… any server that goes down under 4000 hits in a few hours isn’t worth much.  Are we clear on this?
• For those of you complaining about Bush’s Global Warming day speech… Gang, I keep telling you the guy’s not a conservative, but at best a centrist…  and you’ve gotta expect stuff like this from a centrist. Do you believe me now? And yes, I supported him because he was the better choice, given we had to chose from him or Al Gore and  John Kerry.  How good need one be to look better than either of THOSE two? By the way, there’s a lot of stuff about that in the BitsBlog Newsroom. Link is at the top of this page.
• The Popemobile rolls on.  I’m happy he’s here, if for no other reason than we get to discuss the matter.  I got into it over at OTB, yesterday with James and a few of the regulars. Long time readers of this blog will recognize elements of the discussion. Watch for the reactions, though. I’m not sure James knows what to make of my arguments. He’s tolerated me for this long, so I don’t see it changing, soon… just as well. I was rather hoping he’d take a more active role in that discussion. I gather there are a lot of peple who feel the way James does on this particular issue, but do so on less than… what shall I say… Fully logicall grounds.  I guess that’s close enough a description for the moment, though hat’s not quite spot on, either.
• Lunch is served… and it’s on Scott Erb. He’s exposed himself as a clueless liar before, but never so easily as he does here. I wonder if I should forward a copy of the discussion to U Maine? By the way, I’ll be putting something together on the topic of the Oil Bubble this weekend. Oh, speaking of which….
• I’ll be guesting for the weekend at Conservative Reader. Art’s going to be busy this weekend and has asked me to stand in. 
• Jack Murtha  who has been showing sure signs of senility for years, thinks John McCain is too old to be President? Laughable.
• Is it too soon to predict that McCain is going to be the next POTUS? I think not, if what we see this morning is of any indication.  Jonah notes that there wasn’t much on issues, last night. Hey, Jonah… why should that be a shock? When have issues come up at all, in the Democrat primary, thusfar? After all, you really can’t fit water between Obama’s policies and Clinton’s… so what is left to argue about?  Image. Who can give away more OPM. Neither Hillary Clinton Or Barrack Obama did themselves any favors, last night.  Nor is the left side of the sphere this morning for that matter. I’ve got a message for them, too.   Look, guys, I know you’re all pissed off at the news media who you think is acting like they’re all right wing stooges… (Laughable, given one of them worked in the Clinton White House)  but you need to consider that the press last night was considerably less hostle to Obama and Clinton, than the republicans are going to be in the General Election. This stuff has been out there for months, now, and some of it longer… and they’ve never been pressed on the matter.  Quit your bellicose whining for ten seconds and, strain that it is,  try thinking for that period of time… and let’s get with the reality of the thing….   If he folds up like a wet paper airplane in front of the freindly crowd in that room last night, what do you figure is going to happen in the general election?  Sheesh.
• Just down the road in Utica, NY, sits John Zogby, who says that the PA primary is deadlocked. Since the polling is too fast for last night’s events to have absorbed, yet, one might safely assume that the Democrat party to be finding both Obama and Hillary Clinton equally unattractive, before last night’s debate. With that debate added to the mix? We’ll see in the next couple days, won’t we?
• By the way, speaking of Obama and questionable relationships, how am I to take the news that Hamas likes Obama?
• 70’s and blue skies around here today and yesterday. I’m not complaining.
• Gotta love someone who has reality clearly identified.
• They’ve apparently discovered the world’s oldest tree, in Sweeden.  they figure it’s 10000 years old. One of the things the tree suggests is that when the thing was planted, summers were warmer than they are now.  So much for global warming. Quick, someone tell the Presdient.
• Finally, tonight, what the blinking hell is Fox News thinking, putting up the headline Ex-polygamist on Texas sect wives ? I mean, is group sex something they can POST on their website?

Where I come from getting your $#!+ together  means you’re constipated.

Hoo, Boy:

Barack Obama may have added more fuel to the fire for those who want to paint him as arrogant or elitist, praising himself Wednesday as “a pretty darn good politician.”

In a speech to Jewish community leaders in Philadelphia, the Democratic presidential candidate was asked whether the recent controversy over Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s retiring pastor, could lead to him being attacked by Republicans in the fall and create the possibility of turning his candidacy into one akin to failed candidates George McGovern and Michael Dukakis.

At the end of a long response, Obama said: “Let me make one last point about the comparison to McGovern and Dukakis, both excellent men, but I’m a pretty darn good politician. And I can give a pretty good speech and I can connect and inspire the American people in ways that I think will become apparent. I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t pretty good at mixing it up. And so much of the attack machine that’s been built up is part of the old politics.”

Uhhh… am I supposed to be comforted by his thinking he’s a good politician?

What does that MEAN, exactly? I mean, Stalin was a pretty darn good politician, too. I’m not sure what value is accrued to freedom by this.

No, come to think of it, I’m sure.

And what was Obama’s response? He compared Ayers to Senator Tom Coburn, who opposes abortion. Of course, Coburn hasn’t bombed abortion clinics, but Obama can’t tell the difference between a Senator and a terrorist. That won’t help him in Middle America either, and Coburn may have a few words for Obama after this night.

Ed Morrissey, Hot Air.

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After the debate last night, I noted a whole lot of traffic… all asking questions about Obama and Ayers, apparently following up on Hillary Clinton’s questions during the debate itself. (Yes, I know it was Stephy who asked the questions, but who did Stephy work for?) They came across the whole gambit of Obama posts, mentioning Ayers, but mostly due to Google PLacement, they found this post from last February.

McQ notes:

Question:

George STEPHANOPOULOS: A gentleman named William Ayers. He was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.

And, in fact, on 9/11, he was quoted in the New York Times saying, I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough. An early organizing meeting for your State Senate campaign was held at his house and your campaign has said you are friendly.

Can you explain that relationship for the voters and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?

Answer:

OBAMA: George, but this is an example of what I’m talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense, George.

The fact is that I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn’s statements? Because I certainly don’t agree with those, either.

So this kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They’re not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn’t.

Now is it just me or does anyone else find the reference to Coburn a very poor analogy? Coburn’s a member of Congress. Obama didn’t choose to have to associate with him, so no one expects him to “answer for” anything Coburn might say, even though the job they both have requires they associate.

Not so with William Ayers. That’s an association Obama chooses to continue.

Well, there’s that, but perhaps more importantly, Coburn has never bombed the federal government, nor publicly called for us to:

“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents…

And perhaps of greater import; Relationships like this keep popping up.  This is not, as Obama likes to say, a loose relationship.  There’s lots of political connection between these two. As I said at the time this first came up:

The damage that is inflicted on Obama by this association is decidedly not that he is stupid enough to directly support terrorism, but that he is willing to suborn the radical leftist politics which lead to it. This in fact is the elephant in the room, where Democrats are concerned.

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…look closely at the politics being espoused by both Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, and in fact, the bulk of the Democratic Party today. Explain to me how the proposals they’ve been pushing.. tax the rich, et al, is really so much different. The only difference that I can see between this idiot Ayers, and the Democratic presidential candidates, is the latter have a tendency to use a weapon that is far more powerful than the explosives Ayers used: They use the more destructive weapon we call “Good Government”.

The goal in the end, is the same.

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Oh… I should note that Ayers is not the only link to radicalism. Go look up the name Bernardine Dohrn.  Look also at Ben Smith’s column of the other day. This isn’t going away anytime soon.

Larry Johnson a few weeks ago, suggested that Ayers will be Obama‘s Willie Horton, given the age of Terrorism. And I think he’s right. The American people are going to question, I think, if someone who associates with such an individual, and shares similar goals, if not the exact methods used, is what we really want in charge of our nation’s security.

Now that the press has finally, finally, finally decided to start paying attention to Obama’s questionable history, in these matters, one could logically ask, what took them so long? Too bad it had to be a Clintonista who did the asking, because there will always be the questions of credibility on the topic in the minds of some.

Addendum:(Bit)

This post made the Chicago Sun Times. Thanks.

I am not a lawyer, and I do not play one on television, but it seems like to me that a statement like this could be a cause for action, Ezra Levant:

Don’t eat at McDonald’s on South West Marine Drive in Vancouver.

Listen. I love McDonald’s, both for their food and for what they stand for philosophically. I thought that Super Size Me was a piece of anti-capitalist, anti-beef propaganda.

But when you’re in Vancouver, skip the McDonald’s on Marine Drive.

That’s because the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that one of the employees there has a human right not to wash her hands when working in their kitchen

I do not patronize McDonald’s, and will not.   However McDs has a hard earned reputation for cleanliness.   McD’s earned their reputation and are entitled to the hard won fruits of their labors.     The British Columbia Human Rights Commission admits to knowing absolutely nothing about running a restaurant, or food borne illnesses.   Yet the BCHRC has ordered McDonald’s not to enforce their hand washing policy.    That is the BCHRC has just deprived McDonald’s of their reputation as a clean restaurant.   As the BCHRC has deprived McDonald’s of something of value, to wit their reputation for cleanliness, it would seem that McDonald’s is entitled to redress, to wit the restoration of their reputation and compensation for damage done by the BCHRC.    That is McDonald’s ought to haul the BCHRC to court and sue the commission for besmirching their corporate reputation.

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Lucianne Goldberg once wrote to the effect that Maureen Dowd has really good about writing about the chick stuff.   To expand, MoDo can write.   Her problem is that she all too often writes about what she does not understand.    When MoDo attempts inside the mind of say Dubya or Karl Rove, she is lost without a clue.   On the other shoe, MoDo is chick with blue collar roots.   She knows chickdom and she knows her own roots.

Barack Obama’s (BO) Disaster by the Bay, revealed two problems.   One, BO is a condescending snob, and two, BO’s analysis is all too often simply wrong.

MoDo on BO the Snob, New York Times:

[Barack Obama] hasn’t pulled a John Kerry and asked for a Philly cheese steak with Swiss yet, but he has maintained a regal “What do the simple folk do to help them escape when they’re blue?” bearing, unable to even feign Main Street cred.

MoDo on BO’s characterization of suall town blue collar types who simply clinging to their religion:

Members of my clan sometimes were overly cloistered. But they weren’t bitter; they were bonding.

They went to church every Sunday because it was part of their identity, not because they needed a security blanket.

How bad can BO’s analysis get when it can not even survive scutiny by Maureen Dowd?

For the record, I concede that MoDo is better bowler than I am.    Then I do think I can roll better than a thirty-seven.

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• Has anyone noticed? Ace did… Obama’s back to wearing a flag pin. Boy, I could make a whole seperate post on the stuff we have on file from when this subject first came up. So does Ben Smith. My take is he’s trying to repair the damage done by what’s leaked out of his true nature. Sorry, Senator, I’m not buying it.  we remember what you said:
  

  “You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.

  So is it a substitute now, Senator? Given what else you’ve shown us about how far out of touch you are with most americans, is this pin’s return you trying to make out like you’re one of us? again, No sale, Senator.

• Boortz makes my point for me about the costs of food vs the subsidy of ethenol.
• I commnted earlier today on Union thugs, in Buffalo. Watch for unions to play large in the Northwest/Delta merger. It’s the only reason I can see for Oberfuher Oberstar getting into this mix.  Which places Oberstar in what kind of company, do yo suppose?
• I see where Florida has enacted the ‘bring your gun to work’ bill. Good.
• In retrospect on Basra, Captain Ed suggests that the press screwed up, bigtime… again, and perhaps intentionally.
• I commented here several weeks back about how undersea fiber data cables keep getting cut. Apparently, they’ve figured out who did it.  It’s not terrorism in this case, just simple stupidity.
• And yeah, the Pope is in country.  Im not really sure what to make of all this.  He’s doing and saying all the right things, and he’s certainly a brave soul, given the islamic terrorist threat.  But there’s something missing I can’t quite put my finger on.
• Village Voice has put up a leftwing guide for right of center blogs.
  ORIENTATION:Moonbat.
  TONE: Dain Brammaged.
  CANDIDATE: Fidle Castro
  STUPID/EVIL RATIO: 50/50. Totally Evil, but too stupid to know it.
  HISTORY:These open minded inDUHviduals called for an execution of all Republicans a while ago.
  MODUS OPERANDI: Attack anything that comes down politically to the right of their candidate, while claiming to be open-minded.  Doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to be loud.
  WHAT TO EXPECT: Nausea

And yes, I guess you’ll have to see the artcile to know what all this is about.

HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes announced Tuesday night that he has left the GOP and is considering joining the Constitution Party.

Keyes, who also ran as a Republican to challenge Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate bid in Illinois in 2004, says he is talking with leaders and rank-and-file members of the Constitution Party.

Oh happy day.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Construction union thugs used the state Department of Motor Vehicles database to target nonmember workers and their families for violence, property damage and threats of sexual assault, federal officials said Tuesday as they announced the arrests of 12 union leaders and members.The president of Operating Engineers Local 17, Mark Kirsch, and several other high-ranking officials and members were charged with extortion and racketeering in an eight-count indictment detailing a 10-year reign authorities said stunted economic growth in a struggling part of the state.

“At the end of the day, it cost the job sites and the developers and the workers millions of dollars in property damage, millions of dollars in lost jobs,” U.S. Attorney Terrance Flynn said.

At job sites big and small where non-Local 17 members were hired, union members caused more than $1 million in damage to more than 40 pieces of heavy machinery by pouring sand and grinding compound into the oil systems, breaking windows, destroying tires and cutting fuel lines, investigators said.

Particularly unnerving to investigators was the union’s ability to run potential victims’ license plates through the DMV database to obtain personal information, including their wives’ names and addresses.

“It was astounding to us,” Flynn said.

 

This will be nothing new to peple living here in western NY, nor will it to those who have been forced to deal with unions. 

The president of one business reluctant to sign a collective bargaining agreement with Local 17 was stabbed in the neck and had his tires slashed in December 2002, according to the indictment. A little more than a month later, defendant Carl Larson, a union organizer, tried to persuade the businessman to sign the agreement. The conversation is recounted in court documents:

“What are the positives? You guys slash my tires, stab me in the neck, try to beat me up in a bar. What are the positives to signing? There are only negatives,” the victim said.

“The positives are that the negatives you are complaining about would go away,” Larson responded.

The U.S. Department of Labor, state police and FBI have been investigating the local since 2003, and traced the criminal activity from 1997 to the present day. The threats and violence happened everywhere from the smallest house demolition to major or publicly funded projects at high-profile sites such as Ralph Wilson Stadium and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

The investigation did not target the union as a whole, which according to its web site has 2,100 members in six western New York counties.

They should have. Criminal investigations of unions is fishing in a barrel; You’re bound to catch something.  Oh, and guess which party runs Buffalo? Anyone wonder now why the population of Buffalo has been dropping faster than the temperature in the upper decks of the Ralph in a January game?

And spare me about how the Unions are representing the workers to the management. In reality, Unions pit labor against other labor… with the added attraction of the parasite union bosses taking large portions of the added take for themselves.

And no, this local is not unique. The Buffalo News notes:

Law enforcement officials likened the case to a recent investigation that led to prison terms for several of the top officials of Laborers Local 91 in Niagara Falls.

That’s about 30 miles up the road from Buffalo, in case you didn’t know.

The local’s Web site says that its jurisdiction includes Erie, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Orleans, Wyoming, and western Genesee Counties, except for Batavia) and that the Local has been in existence since Jan. 11, 1900

It’s “jurisdiction “?  

Ummm… who appointed them? Don’t you mean, their ‘territory”?

I’d better watch myself, lest I end up face down in a plate of pasta with clam sauce.

Will someone please explain to me what service is provided by Unions anymore? I mean, shy of keeping the local thugs employed, I don’t see it.

It appears so. Indications are between May 1 and June 30th.

The War Room did a thing on this, this morning, and so did Boortz, and so does Newsmax, who says:

Contrary to some claims that the Bush administration will allow diplomacy to handle Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a leading member of America’s Jewish community tells Newsmax that a military strike is not only on the table – but likely.

 

“Israel is preparing for heavy casualties,” the source said, suggesting that although Israel will not take part in the strike, it is expecting to be the target of Iranian retribution.

 

“Look at Dick Cheney’s recent trip through the Middle East as preparation for the U.S. attack,” the source said.

 

Cheney’s hastily arranged 9-day visit to the region, which began on March 16, included stops in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Turkey, and the Palestinian territories.

 

Tensions in the region have been rising.

 

While Israel was conducting the largest homefront military exercises in its history last week, Israel’s National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer warned Tehran about expected attacks on the Jewish state.

 

“An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which will destroy the Iranian nation,” he said.

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A number of signs indicate that, contrary to the belief President Bush is a lame duck who will not act before he leaves office, the U.S. is poised to strike before Iran can acquire nuclear weapons and carry out the threat of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “wipe Israel off the map”:

 

 

According to intelligence sources, the administration now rejects the National Intelligence Estimate report issued in December that asserted Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in late 2003.

The French daily Le Monde reported in March that newly surfaced documents show that Iran has continued developing nuclear weapons. In late 2006, U.S. intelligence reportedly intercepted a phone conversation in Iran’s Defense Ministry in which the nuclear weapons program was discussed.

 

 

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Admiral William Fallon, resigned in March amid media reports that he broke with President Bush’s strategy on Iran and did not want to be in the chain of command when the order comes down from the President to launch a strike on the Islamic Republic. 

Democrats suggested he had been forced out because of his candor in opposing Bush’s Iran plans, and Esquire magazine contended that Fallon’s departure signaled that the U.S. is preparing to attack Iran.

 

 

According to a Tehran-based Iranian news network, Press TV, Saudi Arabia is taking emergency steps in preparing to counter any “radioactive hazards” that may result from an American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.? 

 The Saudi newspaper Okaz disclosed that the Saudi government has approved nuclear fallout preparations, and the Iranian network reported that the approval came a day after Cheney met with the kingdom’s high-ranking officials, further stating that the U.S. “is now informing its Arab allies of a potential war.”

And there you go.  There’s lots more to the article, of course. But it all fits rather well. As unappatising as involvement with Iran is, it beats the hell out of waiting until they release a nuclar weapon, which is what they’ve is what they’ve given every possible indication they plan to do.

Now, at the risk of making the situation worse, imagine, please, an Obama, or a Clinton in the White House under those conditons.

I came to know Carter well.

When he ran for reelection, he asked me to campaign for him in 1980 — I was by then Mayor of New York City — and I said that I would vote for him, but not campaign for him because he was then engaging in hostile acts towards Israel. I was popular with the Jewish community and when I would not campaign for him unless he changed his position, he called me to his hotel in New York when attending a fundraiser and said, “You have done me more damage than any man in America.” I felt proud then, and even more today, since we now know what a miserable president he was then and the miserable human being he is now as he prepares to meet with Hamas.

Ed Koch, via Scott, Powerline.

It is perhaps inspirational, that as I sit down and gather my thoughts, my MP3 player, on it’s own, comes up with Pat Metheny doing “It’s Just Talk” off 1987’s “Still Life (Talking)“. (The 1990 version, not the 2006 re-release.)

I’m telling you right here and now; Doctor Thomas Sowell is a bloody genius.

Senator Obama is all talk — glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk, but still just talk.

Some of his recent talk in San Francisco has stirred up controversy because it revealed yet another blatant contradiction between Barack Obama’s public image and his reality.

Speaking privately to supporters in heavily left-liberal San Francisco, Obama let down his hair and described working class people in Pennsylvania as so “bitter” that they “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”

Like so much that Obama has said and done over the years, this is standard stuff on the far left, where guns and religion are regarded as signs of psychological dysfunction — and where opinions different from those of the left are ascribed to emotions (“bitter” in this case), rather than to arguments that need to be answered.

Like so many others on the left, Obama rejects “stereotypes” when they are stereotypes he doesn’t like but blithely throws around his own stereotypes about “a typical white person” or “bitter” gun-toting, religious and racist working class people.

And, dear reader, there’s the whole thing.. the whole argument about “bitterness” in a nutshell. He allowed the stereotypes he lives by to leak out in that moment. It’s like I keep saying, every once in a great while, they let their real selves out, and when they do it ain’t pretty.

But just for laughs, let’s play ‘what if’, and assume that he doesn’t hold these views himself. What are we looking at, then?

Well, the most logical assumption is that he’s playing to the crowd there in SanFran, who certainly holds these views, in large enough number that if he’s going to play to them he needs to alter his shtick.

In that event, what we’re shown most clearly is that there is a huge gap between what most Americans think, and what the far left thinks. We see too, that Obama is willing to play to the crowd, bending away form his basic positions to be all things to all people, possibly due to the fact that he has no real convictions himself.

Of course, Obama has a great deal of history that suggests he does in fact hold these cynical, and typically far left views of most Americans. The man is a liberal snob. In all likelihood, what happened in SanFran is that Obama showed us the real Obama. Now, hell spend the remainder of the campaign telling us how that wasn’t the real him.

If Obama makes it to the General election, he’s not going to have an easy time of it. The noises he had to make to appeal to the SanFran leftists, are going to be a huge hammering spot for McCain in the General Election, during which Obama will be spending most of his time running away from what he told the left to get the nomination.

However that may be, the ‘Bitterness’ thing also shows, by extension, that Hillary Clinton is the extreme opportunist we’ve always known her to be Let’s face it, her views on Religion and guns is equally cynical to that expressed by Obama in SanFran. If you will but recall, the entire 1996 Democrat convention was wrapped around their anti-gun movement of the time… a movement then orchestrated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. She made a career of being a gun-grabber. It’s humorous to see her now, playing the other side of the street like she’s been there working for gun rights all along. Of course she exposes herself as a fraud when she can only refer to firearms within the concept of duck hunting, as opposed to protecting ourselves from criminals, and over-large government. And I’m not even going to bother getting into the question of Hillary Clinton and Religion. I’m still to this day left with the mental image of Bill Clinton, just days after the Lewinsky thing broke open, leaving a church with a huge bible in hand… when anyone who had been watching knew he’d not darkened the door of a church in years, and his best identification of the Bible was something to fight against legally, unless he needed it as a photographic prop.

At the bottom line, and however you try to re-work the facts in this, you can’t fit water between the two of them… Obama and Clinton. The both of them say one thing and do another.

One bit of fallout for Obama… That flag lapel pin seems to be back. Perhaps he’s trying to repair the damage?