The Forbidden SNL Skit

Very interesting things going on behind the scenes at NBC. It appears that a certain Saturday Night Live skit hit a little too close to the heart of the Democrat Party and the Gestapo ... I mean the Obama Campaign demanded it be pulled from the NBC website. You can read the full transcript here though.

If Obama gets elected, I fully expect that free speech will get clamped down on, not directly but in very insidious ways.

Just Another "Moderate" Liberal

I've been frequently chastised that I'm unfair about grouping all liberals together. With that in mind, let's examine what Florida Democrat Congressman, Alcee Hastings, said yesterday. He warned minority groups "to beware of Sarah Palin because 'anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and Blacks'.”

And the outrage against this comment from "moderate liberals"? Sorry but all I hear are grasshoppers chirping in the silence.

Just imagine the outrage if a McCain-Palin supporter had said something similar!

Multiple Gems of Wisdom from Dennis Prager

I'm a relative newcomer to Dennis Prager but the more I listen to him, the more I see the great wisdom of this man. Here are some audio clips from his show:

Why Do Liberals Hate Christians Like Sarah Palin?


Lawyers & College Professors and Jewish Democrats


The Extreme Liberal Bias of the Media

The Latest Canard from Obama Inc.

When the Obama War Room realized how the campaign had changed because of the Palin Effect, they strategized how to combat it. One tact was to get their endless supporters in the MSM to denigrate Sarah Palin with phony story after phony story in newspapers and TV.

That's bad enough, but now the most disgusting tactic of all is being used. Members of the media and more formal supporters are playing the race card:

• Jack Cafferty
• Barney Blakeney
• Governor Kathleen Sebelius
• Colin Benjamin
  

I've seen all of this before. It was an extremely successful tactic used by the Liberal Party of Canada for years to paint their opponents, the Conservatives, as anti-immigrant. But in 2006 finally enough Canadians ignored the propaganda and elected the Conservatives. Lo and behold, it was suddenly discovered that all such racist tarring done by the Liberals was a complete lie.

Sadly, fanatical Democrats are seeking to start a race war in America . . . if it'll help them win victory on Nov. 4th. Dennis Prager has some insightful comments about this here & here, and explains that if Obama loses then the only ones who could possibly be racist are Democrats, since Republicans would never vote for an extreme liberal like Obama regardless of his race or sex.

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Here's a telling editorial from a Republican named John Doggett. Oh, by the way, he happens to be black.

Republicans vs. Democrats

This is too funny:

I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl the other day. I asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up and she replied, "I want to be president!" Both of her parents are liberal Democrats and were standing there. So then I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied, "I'd give houses to all the homeless people." "Wow - what a worthy goal." I told her, "You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where this homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward a new house."

Since she is only 6, she thought that over for a few seconds. While her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"

And I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

An Outspoken PUMA

If you're not yet familiar with the new PUMA acronym, it stands for "Party Unity My Ass!" There's nothing formally organized but there's an informal movement of Democrat women who are campaigning against Barack Obama because of what happened to Hillary Clinton. The biggest question facing political pollsters right now is just what percentage of female Democrat voters will switch over this time and vote for McCain-Palin.

Here's a good rant from one of the more outspoken PUMA women.

New Term: Blueneck

South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate "whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”

Classy Ms. Fowler, really classy. If one didn't know better, they'd think such words came out of the mouth of a redneck. But you'd never accept that moniker so perhaps "blueneck" is more appropos?!? Whichever the case, inspired by Obama's own words: "A pig with lipstick is still a pig, Ms. Fowler!"

Here's one fellow's more stinging take on it.

One thing he said is something I thought about a week or so ago. Can we talk honestly with the politically correct blinders removed? From a male perspective, a lot of these women making the most venomous attacks against Sarah Palin are not exactly the most physically attractive women, are they? Wouldn't stop me from voting for them because looks don't matter whatsoever to me when it comes to a politician. But I wonder what a psychologist would say about this commonality of appearance amongst her most outspoken antagonists?

Might it actually go back to how such women were sidelined in high school, with boys wanting to date more attractive young women?

Camille Paglia: A Fair & Balanced Critique of Sarah Palin

After the absolute train wreck that was Heather Mallick's embarrassing hate piece on the CBC website, it was a refreshing change to read this interesting column by Camille Paglia. Ms. Paglia is an unabashed Obama supporter and an ardent feminist. Unlike the aforementioned CBC hack, Paglia can think outside of the painted lines of her general political doctrine and has taken the time to do so. Among other important issues, she has carefully thought about the morality arguments on both sides of the abortion debate.

Here are some key segments from her column that will stick with me for a long time:

My baby-boom generation -- typified by the narcissistic Clintons -- peaked in the 1960s and is seriously past it. . . . We need a new generation of leadership with fresh ideas and an expansive, cosmopolitan vision -- which is why I support Barack Obama and have contributed to his campaign. . . . Having said that, I must admit that McCain is currently eating Obama's lunch. . . . [The Saddleback Church] performance -- where a surprisingly unprepared Obama met the inevitable question about abortion with shockingly curt glibness -- began his alarming slide.

Conservative though she may be, I felt that [Sarah] Palin [represents] an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. . . . a woman candidate for president of the U.S. must show a potential capacity for military affairs and decision-making. . . . As a dissident feminist, I have been arguing since my arrival on the scene nearly 20 years ago that young American women aspiring to political power should be studying military history rather than taking women's studies courses, with their rote agenda of never-ending grievances.

Over the Labor Day weekend, with most of the big enchiladas of the major media on vacation, the vacuum was filled with a hallucinatory hurricane in the leftist blogosphere, which unleashed a grotesquely lurid series of allegations, fantasies, half-truths and outright lies about Palin. What a tacky low in American politics -- which has already caused a backlash that could damage Obama's campaign. When liberals come off as childish, raving loonies, the right wing gains.

It is certainly premature to predict how the Palin saga will go. I may not agree a jot with her about basic principles, but I have immensely enjoyed Palin's boffo performances at her debut and at the Republican convention, where she astonishingly dealt with multiple technical malfunctions without missing a beat. A feminism that cannot admire the bravura under high pressure of the first woman governor of a frontier state isn't worth a warm bucket of spit.

[Sarah Palin's brand of feminism is] a world away from the whining, sniping, wearily ironic mode of the establishment feminism represented by Gloria Steinem . . . Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership. . . . Frontier women were far bolder and hardier than today's pampered, petulant bourgeois feminists, always looking to blame their complaints about life on someone else.

To automatically assume that she is a religious fanatic who has embraced the most extreme ideas of her local church is exactly the kind of careless reasoning that has been unjustly applied to Barack Obama, whom the right wing is still trying to tar . . . The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.

Paglia's column is a long read but well worth it!

One Twit's Reaction to Sarah Palin

Hide the children and watch this video. Be sure to catch the last bit about "Sarah Palin only being good for 2 things" :
You think this guy is radical or extreme? Not at all! Search YouTube and search the blogosphere and it's just par-for-the-course of what you'll find.

As I pointed out to him though, the more he speaks out like this, the more he's securing a victory for McCain. Such hateful reaction to Palin is clearly doing the following:

1. Firming up the Republican base, unlike it has been so far in the campaign.
2. Repulsing undecided voters away from the Democrats.
3. Driving a huge hole in the false beliefs that liberalism equates to compassion.
   

Update: I have also encountered radical Republican supporters too, like one guy who went on & on about how the U.S. and Israel are the only countries blessed by God. I tried arguing him for awhile but when he told me that I was a socialist because I lived in Canada, I realized I was dealing with a fellow with an IQ less than 50, likely wearing an adult diaper.

Just Another Typical Liberal

No principles, just show him the money.
I suppose at least he's being honest about his "flexible" principles.

A Voice Against Jeremiah Wright

Many have been very scared to criticize Jeremiah Wright for fear of being chastised by the politically correct set. Gary MacDougal, from Illinois, isn't one of them. Read his editorial here.

Update: Mark Steyn and Charles Krauthammer chime in on the same.

The Long View: Why Obama Needs to Step Down (this time)

In the modern western world most everyone is concerned with what they can get now: today, tomorrow, maybe next month, but that's about as far ahead as most people think. In the political news cycle, the time seems to be compressed even more.

If Barack Obama wants to become President of the United States then he needs to step down this time around. The reasons are obvious. Should he continue on and become the Democrat nominee he will absolutely lose to John McCain. Just imagine months and months of Jeremiah Wright cursing America on ad after ad after ad. It will completely consume the television and radio airwaves. Obama will lose and he'll be forever tarred as "that black guy with the crazy pastor".

But if he were to drag out the process until the convention in late August and then politely step down, he will:

1. Have made it exceedingly difficult for Hillary Clinton to pick up the ball and move forward with a winning campaign.
2. Make himself look like the good guy, the loyal party member, and the patient young politician who conceded he still had some things to learn.

He can then bide his time away as a U.S. Senator. and accomplish a few important things that were missing from this campaign:

1. Prove that he is truly someone who can reach across the aisle and work with his Republican colleagues in the Senate.
2. Take a few steps to lessen his ultra-Liberal image so he can no longer be tarred as "the most liberal of all senators".
3. Get someone to help out his wife, Michelle, to soften up her public image. Right now, the perception amongst any objective voter is that she is bitter and always angry; not an appealing visage for the spouse of the President.

Then in 2012 or 2016 he can examine his realistic chances and decide when to run again. For, if there's one thing America loves, it's a defeated person who comes back to fight again.

Only time will tell if Obama follows this sage advice. He's clearly a smart guy. We'll now see which wins out: his brains or his ego.

The NY Times says Forget the People of Iraq

It has long been said that today's views of the New York Times become tomorrow's talking points of the American Democrat party. They're almost always indistinguishable. This recent editorial is no exception. In it they feign concern for the Iraqi people but clearly they're just trying to invent a wedge issue to help their kids, Clinton and Obama.

Let's take a look at where things now stand in Iraq. Nothing is perfect but the very fact that there's so little news out of there these days is a testament to how well things are going. 30,000,000 Muslims have been freed from the clutches of a horrific, murderous tyrant. Democracy now exists in another place in the Middle East besides Israel. This is something we should end?!

I realize that many reading the words above will think I'm off my meds and am some kind of right-wing war monger. If so, they'd be wrong.

Can we all agree that each person's views of the world are shaped by the experiences they've had to that point in their life? Mine involve being born into a family where my father & his siblings were little kids on the German side during WW2. He was vehemently against Hitler but was powerless to do anything about it. After the war he lived in refugee camps and then at a young age had to move far away from the family, picking potatoes 14 hours a day in order to send a little money back to them.

But what emerged from the tragedy that was Nazi Germany was a vibrant country, a true democracy, and big positive to Europe and the world.

So shall the same emerge in Iraq, given enough time and commitment. If many of you get your wish and the Americans pull out, Iran's tentacles will surely reach into Iraq and turn it into a bloodbath for a time and then a satellite state. In case you're not aware, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is directly funded by Iran. They're the ones who send suicide bombers into Israel to kill innocent civilians.

War is messy. The aftermath of war is often worse. But patience is the only course of action if you want a people to have the same liberty and democracy that you've enjoyed since birth; that you were given for doing absolutely nothing in return. And things that we're given with no expectations in return are almost always taken for granted, aren't they?!

Democrats: Who's the Bigger Victim?

On the last day of last year I published My Hopes for Canada in 2008. Everything I said there applied to our American neighbours too. How incredibly sad & pathetic it is what the Democrat Presidential Campaign has devolved into. It's as if the two candidates, Clinton & Obama, were vying to be on these gameshows:

• Who's the Bigger Victim?
• Who's the Most Politically Correct?
• Who is More Hard Done By, a Black Male or a White Female?

Back home in Vancouver I don't own a TV; very much by choice, I assure you. But in Honolulu, where I am now, I've been able to watch as much TV as I want and I often scan CNN and Fox News. It has been a never ending barrage of the very worst discourse between people who are supposed to be adults. If the contestants on Survivor were given ties and pantsuits, I don't think one could distinguish which was which.

Charles Krauthammer has a humorous take on this terrible identity politics.

Hillary Clinton vs. Yoko Ono

I burst out laughing when I read this: "Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle."

You can read more here.

Are The Democrats Headed For a Repeat of the 1924 Convention?

Today I learned about the amazing/incredible/ridiculous Democrat Convention in 1924 that went through a total of 103 ballots!! It lasted from June 24 to July 9. It's a fascinating story which you can read about here and here.

You don't like me, you really don't like me!

Peggy Noonan has an interesting take on Hillary Clinton's steady decline here.

Here's a summary of the recent delegate numbers:

State	Date	Total	Obama	Clinton	Verdict for Clinton
Washington	Feb 09	78	53	25	Huge Loss
Louisiana	Feb 09	56	34	22	Loss
Nebraska	Feb 09	24	16	8	Loss
Maine	Feb 10	24	15	9	Loss
Virginia	Feb 12	83	54	29	Huge Loss
Maryland	Feb 12	70	42	24	Huge Loss
Dis of Colum	Feb 12	15	10	3	Loss

Hawaii Democrat Primary: Tuesday, Feb. 19th

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He spent much of his childhood growing up there. So you can imagine how excited Hawaiians are about the upcoming Democrat Primary. You can read more about it here.

The Current Democrat Delegate Count

Being an engineer, I love numbers. I find this chart exceedingly fascinating:

I heard that if things remain so close that non-states like Puerto Rico may eventually be needed to decide things. I'd like to get that verified but this is getting curiouser and curiouser.

An Impressive New Governor for Louisiana

Do you remember hearing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina how everything was President Bush's fault and thus by proxy, the Republican Party's? The media loved to propagate this myth.

Apparently the voters of Louisiana saw through the nonsense to throw out the incompetent Democrat governor, Kathleen Blanco, and elect a new Republican one, Bobby Jindal. He is a maverick, becoming the first Louisiana governor of Indian ethnicity. He's also only 36 years old!

Jindal has promised to clean up the massive corruption of Louisiana politics. It'll be a tough job, but he's a pretty amazing guy!