Nightly Ramble: Crazy Traffic, Experience, Or Something Like It,The Rezko Effect, More

• Been getting downright crazy traffic the last couple months, and none of it bigger than the last week or so. No particular reason I can see. Usually when we get traffic spikes it’s due to one article or another that

And the first thing Rezko pal and now-Democrat nominee for president Barack Obama says in response to the guilty verdicts is, “This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew …”

Um, reality check, please?

Yeah, really. I mean, how

Tony Rezko guilty, Michelle has the details:

Guilty on four of first five counts; guilty on 16 of 24 counts involving mail/wire fraud, money laundering, and corrupt solicitation charges

I am sure that BO will call this another distraction. Will

• From Boortz, a vid of Obama telling us how he wants to disarm America. Apparently, he hasn’t leaned the lessons of Viginia Tech. Disamring people is only going to make situations like that worse… and there’s a lot

I got an E-mail overnight wondering why I’d not mentioned Obama getting enough delegates to win the nomination for his party. (Shrug)
OK… here…. from yesterday, here’s a note from ABC’s political page

Sen. Barack Obama achieved the 2,118 needed

• Did you see this about Pfleger? Michelle Malkin points this up, today:
  

  Say it with me: Boo-freaking-hoo. Via the Chicago Sun-Times’ Cathleen Falsani:

  Pfleger has apologized for “the words that I chose” and for “my dramatization.” Pfleger told me he

• You really have to wonder what motivates people sometimes, when you see stories like this one.
• But… Obama could no more disown his church, than he could disown his…. Oh.. Wait. Never mind.
• Of Hamburgers, food police, and such.
• I

Losing The Election

(Sung to the tune of “Losing my religion”)

The election’s bigger
It’s bigger than Religion
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
to get that oval office….
Oh no, I’ve said

Obama is going to unite the country?

He cannot even unite his party.

Don Surber.

In war, and politics, everything is expendable.  It one time, BO needed the Trinity Baptist Church to establish his political blackness.  Well BO got his blackness and he has now thrown the Trinity Baptist Church under his campaign bus:

ABARDEEN,

Mrs. Clinton’s scorched earth policy, Boston Globe:

LAST YEAR at the beginning of the presidential primary season, Democrats were giddy with excitement. Not only did we have an embarrassment of riches in our candidates but we had two

• Yeah, posting’s been light, today. Been rather busy at work.
• Another Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption contest
• Sister says Bob Dole unloaded on Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a “miserable creature” who greedily betrayed his former

• Fuel prices have had a small effect on the amount of travel over the weekend, though not as much as they apparently figured on. The difference amounts to about 1% less than last year.  The problem with judging how

“If Dan Quayle had seen fallen heroes in an audience Al Franken would have made it the title of a book.”  -Martin McPhillips, in a comment at Q&O

 

Yeah, that’s the snark of the day, by a longshot.

According to Maria Gavrilovic, CBS News:

Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six