Kudos to Senator Obama for being the only candidate with the testicular fortitude to be against Senator McCain’s proposal to suspend the federal gas tax this summer.
I agree with Eugene Robinson, who thinks that it is time for Senator Obama to throw Rev. Jeremiah Wright under the bus.
As evidence that “our government is capable of doing anything,” (Wright) strongly hinted that he has intellectually respectable corroboration — he mentioned several publications — for his original charge that the U.S. government is guilty of “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.”
My original charge is that this guy is a race baiting fruitcake.
The longer Senator Obama takes to cut the umbilical cord with Wright, the more LEGITIMATE questions will be raised about Obama’s judgement, character, and fitness for duty.
So, you are the Chinese government, and you are getting slammed globally for your recent humanitarian record … right before the Olympic games … the same Olympic games you have been hoping for the last ten years will bring a new level of positive international recognition to your country.
Quick, what do you do?
1. Tell the Dalai Lama you were only kidding about Tibet, he can have it back
2. Tell all 1.3 billion of your citizens to start riding bicycles again – oil prices plummet
3. Endorse Obama
4. Send a ship full of weapons to thug-master Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and let the US govt score an easy propaganda win by helping to convince African countries they should not let the ship dock anywhere
Doh! He picked #4
Dumb-Donkey
Published by April 10th, 2008 in Flaming Moderate Politics and Foreign Affairs. 0 CommentsThe Dems have absolutely NO CLUE on trade issues.
Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Very scary to me that this protectionist claptrap gets them as much mileage as it does.
Obama on Iraq
Published by April 8th, 2008 in Flaming Moderate Politics, Foreign Affairs and Military. 3 CommentsTonight on the way home from work I was listening to the Senate hearings on Iraq.
Senator Obama sounded, well, presidential.
And I agreed with what he said:
1) “The original decision to go into Iraq was a massive strategic blunder”
2) We need to rachet down the definition of success in Iraq to something achievable
3) On the order of 30,000 troops will need to stay in Iraq longer term
4) A timetable for the withdrawal of the remainder is the best way to force the Iraqi government to get serious about governing themselves in a sustainable fashion
What a way to open a new ballpark
Bottom of the ninth, game tied, two outs, and Ryan Zimmerman clobbers a line drive just a few feet above the fence to end the game.
SWEET!
Congrats Nats …
Here’s an amazing stat. Out of the 31.2 million Americans (aged 17-24) targeted by military recruiters, only 4.7 million (15%) are eligible for military service. The other 85% are too fat (the most common problem), too dumb, have a history of drug use / incarceration, have medical issues, or have too many kids. And this is after the “too dumb” standards have been lowered in the last few years.
Good grief.
In the immortal words of my high school lacrosse coach: “take another lap around the field, guys”
I’m with Michael Gerson on the Obama speech. Bottom line:
Obama attempted to explain Wright’s anger as typical of the civil rights generation, with its “memories of humiliation and doubt and fear.” But Wright has the opposite problem: He ignored the message of Martin Luther King Jr. and introduced a new generation to the politics of hatred.
King drew a different lesson from the oppression he experienced: “I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate myself; hate is too great a burden to bear. I’ve seen it on the faces of too many sheriffs of the South. . . . Hate distorts the personality. . . . The man who hates can’t think straight; the man who hates can’t reason right; the man who hates can’t see right; the man who hates can’t walk right.”
Barack Obama is not a man who hates — but he chose to walk with a man who does.
For twenty years.
He just lied. Which most politicians do whenever their lips move. But Obama’s appeal is that he is not like other politicians.
He stated that he has never heard Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for the last 20 years, say any of the racist, Amerikkka-hating things that apparently run through his sermons with some frequency.
Seriously, Senator Obama. Did you really expect me to buy that?
I kind of understand this lie, though. He had to lie. Because the alternative is worse than a lie. The alternative is that he did hear this crap, with some frequency, and he stayed at that church … because, at some level, he must really buy into this stuff.
Given the available evidence, that’s the logical conclusion I arrive at. And obviously I’m not alone.
Very interesting post and comments at JustOneMinute. Money quote, in the comments:
(This depresses) the heck out of me. I’ll admit, for awhile, I enjoyed the Dem’s meltdown over identity politics, but I think the entire country is going to be worse for this election. I didn’t realize so many of my fellow Americans hated me because of the color of my skin and my collective ownership of real and imagined transgressions.
Very sad that the first African-American with a good shot at the White House, whose rhetoric so eloquently transcends race, will now have his campaign disintegrate over 20-year ties to the racist that married him and baptised his kids.
More farm pork & less common sense
Published by March 9th, 2008 in Flaming Moderate Politics. 0 CommentsUS agricultural revenue is currently 50% higher than the average annual revenue in the last 10 years, but this has not stopped Congress from pushing for significant increases to farm subsidies.
So we are going to spend more money we don’t have to pay farmers money they don’t need. Meanwhile, we’ll send aid money to developing countries that would be better served by simply opening our agricultural markets, so that their farmers could make a living selling us their produce instead of living on our handouts.
Which presidential candidate will advocate putting a stop to this idiocy?
I’m not holding my breath.
