I Am Coming Around...

Yes, I'm sure you Democrats were right over the last eight years.

Dissent really is the highest form of patriotism.

I feel some dissent coming on. More after the vacation.

Normally, This Is Where They Plead With You To Vote...

...for someone, anyone. I don't want to insult your intelligence by saying that. You know from a quick scan down the page my opinion on the election.

Plain and simple, Barack Obama is exactly the wrong man.

From his tax plan that doesn't make any sense if you actually pay attention to it (because its not a tax increase if we just let the tax cuts expire!), to his left-wing judicial philosophy, to his seeming lack of concern about the threat of Islamic extremism, to his pie-in-the-sky plans to spend every dollar he can get his hands on, he's a nightmare candidate.

Let's not even touch on the cult-like devotion, the egocentrism, the Great Seal of Obamaland, et al.

John McCain isn't perfect. But I can guarantee you that spending won't go through the roof, that judges won't be making stuff up on the fly, and that the mullahs will be scared every time he gets on TV.

In a time full of uncertainty, it is not the time to be giving the Big Job to a guy whose main qualification for the office is that he speaks well.

Transformational Figure, Transformational Figure

Keep saying it and it might be true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pviJvH_SE5A

Vera Baker.

Who is Vera Baker? Listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUZwnBhRds

Things that make you go...hmmm. I'd say this was out of character for Obama, but after you've been made out to be a strange combination of Jesus Christ, Dr. Phil and Superman, it's hard not to think that you might engage in something of that nature.

But then again, I bet Michelle can get old quick.

Since You Won't See It On CNN or MSNBC

Apparently John Galt has donated to the Obama campaign. Why is this newsworthy, you ask?

John Galt is a character in an Ayn Rand novel.

The Obama campaign has been taking donations from people who don't exist, with fake addresses, but from the same credit card, in its online fundraising. Apparently they have disabled any and all security for this kind of thing on their website (this was the case earlier in the day).

How much of last months $150 million that he raked in will have to be sent back? How many people donated multiple times? Why is there no media investigation?

I can't answer the first two but the third is pretty obvious.

National Review has been all over this today. Check this out on NRO.

The Last Card Played

The ace Barry Messiah was saving got tossed on the pile last weekend. Colin Powell has endorsed Barry. I have to think that it was a strategic play; after all, the best time would really have been next weekend, right?

No, I say, the best time for Team Messiah was now. Why, you ask?

Simple. Joe the Plumber.

A guy who did nothing more than ask a question and get a surprisingly straight answer-"spread the wealth" I think was the term used, right, Barry?-had the week from hell. His tax records, voter registration, work history, all that stuff was put in the press. Why? Because Barry the Bus Drivin' Messiah decided to canvass his neighborhood that weekend. He's not a McCain staffer. He's not a politician. He's a plumber (a residential one, we know now-but what does that matter?) who wants a better life and to keep what he's earned. And for calling the Messiah's plan socialism, what does he get?

Literally the kitchen sink thrown at him. And people are noticing it. So when McCain threw out Joe as a 10 in the last debate, Joe had to be made into a Deuce. And it is ready to backfire-even though most of the national media doesn't care. So it has to disappear-and what better way than a former Republican Secretary of State coming to the Messiah?

I don't know who Powell really sways, though. He's pro-abortion, so that bloc is out. He's already, you know...sympatico with Obama on...other things. He's not really from anywhere, so a state is out. Maybe vets, but I doubt it. And after all, he was the guy who made the case for George Bush's War in Iraq. His deputy was the guy who outed Valerie Plame (though she was never really in...ah, forget it, it makes my head hurt).

I guess the Messiah really does grant forgiveness for all your sins.

You Want to Take On The Plumber?

You take on one of us free thinkers, you take on all of us. What the left has put the guy through-for asking a question of their Messiah-is disgusting. I am Joe.

From Confederate Yankee...

Democratic state senator and staunch Barack Obama supporter Hollis French of Alaska boasted in early September that he would provide an "October Surprise" which would upset the McCain-Palin campaign. Indeed, he originally planned to time it for October 31, four days before the election, for maximum impact, until
other legislators forced him to abandon that particular strategy.

Today, however, in an episode of political theater that would make Josef Stalin blush, French gave it his very best shot: The investigator he hired and directed, Steve Branchflower, has labored mightily and given birth to a bloated and redundant 263-page report which boils down, for purposes of the ongoing presidential campaign, to two paragraphs that completely contradict one another. And the one of them that's unfavorable ignores the most important — indeed conclusive — evidence on point, but goes on to provide Branchflower's guess as to whether Gov. Palin has done anything improper.

Please understand this, if you take nothing else away from reading this post: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body. It contains no new bombshells in terms of factual revelations. Rather, it's just Steve Branchflower's opinion — after being hired and directed by one of Gov. Palin's most vocal opponents and one of Alaska's staunchest Obama supporters — that he thinks Gov. Palin had, at worst, mixed motives for an action that even Branchflower admits she unquestionably had both (a) the complete right to perform and (b) other very good reasons to perform.

All that work, and they get this. At least they get a few headlines out of it.

Just to Get You Ready...

McCain is going to lose Ohio. How can I tell this now, a month out? What poll has given me this insight?

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/01/oh-sos-rejecting-election-observers/

As Stalin is supposed to have said, It's not who votes that counts, its who counts the votes.

Biden Speaks Again...

"The fact of the matter is, the only thing succeeding in Iraq right now is the plan that Barack and I talked about that Petraeus is implementing -- giving local control in the very areas with a limited central government."

So when was the complete pullout started? Did I miss this? When did Iraq get divided into three ethnic states?

Lies, damned lies, but no statistics. Woe be unto the press member who reports this Plugs whopper.

If They Do Cancel the Debates...

Maybe Joe Biden, after the week he's had, can simply fill in for both candidates.

Seriously, Plugs needs to figure it out. First he's for coal in Virginia, then against it in Pennsylvania (shouldn't he maybe remember, since he was born in Scranton-what, haven't you heard?-that coal is big in Western PA?). Then the Obama ads on McCain's age and injuries were terrible. Then there was his helicopter adventure in Afghanistan that wasn't. Then there was his meanderings about President Roosevelt (1933-45) going on TV in 1929 (when TV wasn't commercially available).

Thanks for putting Plugs in there, Barry.

We Are Not A Cult, Currency Edition

Since Obama doesn't look like the presidents on the currency, let's put him on a coin:

http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/business-entrepreneurship/2008/09/16/birmingham-firm-strikes-barack-obama-presidential-coin-65233-21832869/

Obama Camp: You Are Racist If You Vote McCain

It's been all over the place this week.

There was the Kansas governor suggesting that. There was a poll out on MSN this morning which stated it. The Obama camp put out a Spanish-language ad saying McCain favored immigration restriction, which is laughable (sadly). Jack Cafferty of CNN says that the only explanation for opposition to the Messiah is racism. So did two Democratic reps in Ohio.

Yes, it can't be because Obama has no resume-forget experience, he's not ever done a great job at anything other than writing about his favorite subject, Barack Obama-or his connection with terrorists and various left-wing loonies, his underhanded Chicago background-getting his opponenets thrown off the ballot or having their private records unsealed-or because he speaks in vague self-help terms when he's not espousing outright socialism. It must be, has to be, racism.

The Messiah Instructs

I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face…You are my ambassadors.

Please, please, please...knock on my door. I beg you. Get in my face.

A Preview of Things To Come?

Item #1: Obama supporters, thanks to the "Obama Action Wire," a part of Team Barry, floods WGN Radio in Chicago, complaining about an author, David Freddoso of National Review, hoping to silence him on a venerable radio show:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-mediasep17,0,6325137.story

Item #2: North Korea is developing an engine for an ICBM capable of hitting targets on the Pacific Coast of the US. Remember, Barry opposes "unproven missile defense systems." He lumps them in with "misguided defense policies." He also wants to slow the growth of new weapons systems. He wants to get rid of all nuclear weapons. He also loves unicorns, too, I'm sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE

We Are Not A Cult, Creepy Boy George Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5HWtYUs7iQ

I Note that Matt Damon...

...A guy who once did a movie about being a Siamese Twin...says that Sarah Palin's candidacy is like 'a bad Disney movie.'

Really? 'Cause I never caught the Geena Davis show. Did it suck as bad as people said?

We Are Not A Cult, Merchandise Edition!

The latest Obama stuff?

A button reading "Jesus Was A Community Organizer."

Also, "Change Rings."

No word on when the pieces of the true cross go on sale.

Its True: Barry Has Learned From Clinton

Barry told us earlier in the week, when describing how tough he was to subsist on hotel food for eighteen months, that because he'd gone up against Hilary Clinton in the primaries, that he was experienced.

And apparently he's learned from Hil-Rod, who once claimed to have inquired about joining the Marines in her youth (I hear you laughing out there. C'mon, she was serious! Honest!). The Messiah told George Steph today that he thought about joining the military in his youth.

(This is also the same interview where he talked about his "Muslim faith." Way to stop those secret Muslim rumors, Barry. I'm waiting for the inevitable blaming of the campaign staffer.)

I'd make a joke about the Clintons teaching him how to break his political opponents legs, like his surrogates have tried to do to Governor Palin, but he is tied up with those savery Chicago characters like Tony Rezko, Saddam's cousin, the Ayers-Dorhn clan, and the cast of thousands that is his church. He didn't need the Clintons to learn how to be a legbreaker.

But..but...Obama Hates Lobbying!

http://perfunction.typepad.com/perfunction/2008/09/waiting-for-gut.html

This simply cannot be true. Obamessiah has spoken. He does not like lobbyists. Certainly he would not employ one to raise millions of dollars and smear Sarah Palin.

Oceania still at war with Eurasia.

UPDATION: Howard Gutman on Friday:

“If my daughter had just come home at 17 years old and said, ‘Mom, Dad, I’m pregnant, we have a family problem,’ I wouldn’t say, ‘You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to take this private family problem … I’m going to go on the international stage and broadcast it to the world’,” he said.

Gutman later added: “If you take a daughter who’s got this emotional strife and subject her to the most intense scrutiny of the world at this time in her life, I think you’ve put your career above your family.”

And he hasn't been let go from the Campaign yet. Way to flip on that one, Barry.