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Now that Democrats have finally finished pleasuring themselves, perhaps we can all come back down to Earth for just a moment and face reality. There’s a lot of tough work ahead and Barack Obama is woefully unprepared for the task at hand. Although he won the election, he also laid bare his innumerable weaknesses and set his own expectations so incredibly high, he may never live up to them.
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After nearly 2 years, mountains of lies, countless examples of media misconduct and billions of dollars
in mudslinging, Barack Obama has made history as the 44th, yet first black President of the United States. Democrats also further tightened their clutches on Congress. Although not quite the whoopin it was hyped to be, it was substantial enough to send a loud and clear message to the Republican Party:
Get back to basics and stand up for the principles of your constituency or you’re finished.
in mudslinging, Barack Obama has made history as the 44th, yet first black President of the United States. Democrats also further tightened their clutches on Congress. Although not quite the whoopin it was hyped to be, it was substantial enough to send a loud and clear message to the Republican Party:
Get back to basics and stand up for the principles of your constituency or you’re finished.
Barack Obama’s victory had nothing to do with his experience and everything to do with John McCain’s
ineptitude. Obama’s campaign ran a smooth, polished operation that utilized all mediums of communication. His ads were everywhere. He had a tremendous fund raising advantage having taken back his word on accepting public financing. He also quite effectively utilized the Internet.
ineptitude. Obama’s campaign ran a smooth, polished operation that utilized all mediums of communication. His ads were everywhere. He had a tremendous fund raising advantage having taken back his word on accepting public financing. He also quite effectively utilized the Internet.
The Presidential race was statistically even until President Bush’s announcement that the economy was on the verge of meltdown. Neither candidate offered anything in the way of solutions, rather they simply went along for the ride with Congress on their bailout bandwagon. Had it not been for Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber, McCain would have self-destructed completely.
McCain was never a viable candidate in the eyes of true conservatives to begin with. His admission that his knowledge of the economy was less than stellar didn’t help matters. His announcement that his campaign was suspended so he could help solve the economic crisis came across as a cynical political ploy and began the process of nailing McCain’s campaign coffin shut.
McCain ran an absolutely dismal campaign. There were numerous issues that he either used ineffectively, too late or not at all. While raising the issue of Iraq, McCain failed to really hammer Obama on it. For his part, Obama tried to avoid Iraq and McCain failed to capitalize on that. Obama’s stances on Illegal immigration and granting driver’s licenses to illegal aliens was never mentioned by McCain. Nor was Obama’s bombastic pastor Jeremiah Wright. Obama’s associations with Tony Rezko and William Ayers were brought out in the final weeks, far too late. As a result, they never had a chance to stick in the public consciousness.
John McCain had all the enthusiasm of an undertaker and failed to land a single blow on Obama until the final weeks when he was on the ropes himself. Now that it’s over the campaign finger pointing has begun.A favorite target has become Sarah Palin.
After watching this woman through the campaign, I will say this: Although she electrified the Republican
base, I am thoroughly convinced she was woefully unprepared. That said, the fault still lies with John McCain. McCain staunchly defended Palin’s qualifications and said she was thoroughly vetted. If her lack of knowledge was not discovered during the vetting process then those who did the vetting are to blame, as is McCain for not controlling the process. And if it was discovered and McCain chose her regardless, then the fault lies squarely on his shoulders for not preparing her properly. In the end, she came across as a real human being who connected with people in a way that no Republican has in a very long time. She has a bright future in the Republican Party, but she has a lot of work to do as well.
base, I am thoroughly convinced she was woefully unprepared. That said, the fault still lies with John McCain. McCain staunchly defended Palin’s qualifications and said she was thoroughly vetted. If her lack of knowledge was not discovered during the vetting process then those who did the vetting are to blame, as is McCain for not controlling the process. And if it was discovered and McCain chose her regardless, then the fault lies squarely on his shoulders for not preparing her properly. In the end, she came across as a real human being who connected with people in a way that no Republican has in a very long time. She has a bright future in the Republican Party, but she has a lot of work to do as well.
The Republican Party is now in the process of cutting off their own nose to spite their face. Anonymous cowards in the McCain campaign blame and disparage Sarah Palin, yet fail to recognize the blatant violation of their own supposed core principle: That of personal responsibility. The McCain campaign stunk. Therefore the people who made up that campaign stunk. The buck stops with McCain. Although his campaign chairman publicly denied the rumors surrounding Palin, apparently John McCain lacks the guts to do so himself.
The Republican Party has lost its way. They lost me years ago. They have abandoned the core conservative principles of personal responsibility, smaller, more responsive, less intrusive and less wasteful government and conservative yet overwhelming use of military force in favor of a bloated, perverted bureaucracy that tries to fight wars on the cheap.
America remains a center-right country as evidenced by a few key points:
- Ballot initiatives banning gay marriage passed in three states.
- Overwhelming opposition to President Bush’s first economic stimulus as well as to the financial bailout plan.
- Many congressional Democrats actually won by campaigning on conservative values.
The fact that Republicans have been drubbed since 2006 has nothing to do with a leftward lean in the electorate. It has more to do with the leftward lean of Republicans when they abandon their core values of personal responsibility and less government. When they return to those values, their base will return to them.
November 2, 2008 The 2008 election is just hours away. Unfortunately, Americans are only now beginning to understand what Barack Obama meant when he said he would bring much needed change to Washington. Not lower taxes, not fiscal restraint, not government reform; but radical, socioeconomic change that completely reshuffles the deck and reorders society into what Obama believes would be fair. In the process, he would destroy our freedoms, hinder our successes, ruin our middle class and forever alter our way of life. Had it not been for a guy named Joe Wurzelbacher, Obama may have never admitted what his intentions were.
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“From each, according to his ability, to each, according to his need” - Karl Marx
The 2008 election cycle has undoubtedly been the most lopsided campaign of bias, double-standards and personal attacks by the media I have ever seen. Such are the societal mores of the party of the jackass; if you can’t win fair and square, cheat. Media tactics during this campaign are without equal in terms of their viciousness.
The fact that John McCain is still competing at all with Barack Obama is testament the very potent truth that America doesn’t want liberalism, socialism or any other ism they interpret as confiscatory. The fact that Obama isn’t having to attack McCain despite all we’ve learned recently is testament to the equally potent inverse truth that Barack Obama doesn’t need attack John McCain because his liberal media lapdogs are doing the attacking for him. No longer witnesses, they are now active participants, and forfeit any claims of objectivity.
With their tremendous reach, NBC and the New York Times are the worst offenders, but everyone in the liberal media from late night hosts to network news anchors are attempting to manipulate public opinion by engaging in personal attacks that have nothing to do with the campaign. They’re obsessed with Joe the plumber, Cindy McCain, Sarah Palin’s intelligence, wardrobe, daughter and husband. They’ve been unabashedly in the tank for Obama all along and everyone knows it. One of the best examples of their bias was during coverage of Joe (the plumber) Wurzelbacher.
ABC’s first run footage of Joe’s encounter with Obama was cleverly but clearly edited. Obama’s “Spread the wealth” remark was scrubbed, lest they betray the truth about his tax plan. As soon as Joe exposed Obama’s insane tax grab for what it really was, an angry media attacked him as relentlessly as anyone they’ve attacked this campaign. They probed every aspect of his personal life and within hours, they launched their smear campaign to try and discredit him.
- Joe’s name wasn’t really Joe, it was Samuel.
- He wasn’t really a plumber.
- Diane Sawyer noted brilliantly that he didn’t make $250,000.00 a year, yet.
- He had a tax lien on his property (like millions of other Americans) and all kinds of other garbage that is completely private personal information that should be out of bounds.
While they attack McCain and Sarah Palin or anyone remotely connected to them, they systematically bury news that hurts the Democrat candidate:
- The story about the Obama campaign staffer who cast a fraudulent Ohio vote.
- The story of the 12 other Obama staffers who withdrew their votes rather than face prosecution.
- The stories about the oral diarrhea emanating from the gullets of Joe “Hairplugs” Biden and John “Cold-Blooded” Murtha, no strangers to verbal incontinence.
Murtha’s recent racist tirades are just one among many by Democrats this election and this obsession with race betrays the Democratic Party’s own subconscious bigotry. Biden’s interview with WFTV Florida’s Barbara West didn’t help Obama’s denial of his socialist views.
West quoted Marx and then had the following exchange with Biden:
West: “How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?” Biden: “Are you joking? Is this a joke?… Or is that a real question?” West: “No… That’s a question.” Biden: (Laughter)She asked Biden a pointed, yet legitimate question about Obama’s views. Not only did Biden not answer the question, he dismissed it as illegitimate and canceled an upcoming interview. The Obama campaign then sent the station a terse letter crying foul and essentially blackballing them from doing any further interviews. That’s a scary proposition, but fits Obama’s pattern of Herculean efforts to conceal his true identity. It also betrays that his administration will be as secretive as Bush’s, if not more.
The media continues to blast McCain for his alleged negativity and overall campaign tone, while giving Obama a free pass. He has never answered a tough, direct question. Not from West, not from Wurzelbacher, not from anyone. When reporters do ask Obama/Biden tough questions they are laughed at and blackballed. As Americans, we deserve to know who our elected leaders are, especially our President. The media, once relied upon to serve this function, refuses to tell us. We know nothing of Barack Obama. He has explained away everything; Every questionable relationship or decision he has ever made:
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His relationships with socialists, hateful pastors domestic terrorists, and those who hatch voter fraud schemes.
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His time in Indonesian schools which at the time were undeniably state-run Muslim institutions
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The fact that his entire Senate career was spent running for President
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The fact that his tax plan lacked any detail until Joe Wurzelbacher got him to cough it up
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The fact he would negotiate with terrorists without preconditions.
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The fact he would fine employers for not providing health care
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The fact he would otherwise break the backs of small business.
- The fact he is withholding completely innocuous documents from scrutiny, such as calendars and appointments from his time in the Illinois Senate, medical records, college transcripts and even a college thesis.
This is a critical time in our nation’s history. Notwithstanding the core issues of the economy, energy, illegal immigration and national defense, we are looking at the very real prospect of electing a candidate whose background is unknown, yet whose fiscal, social and foreign policies resemble communism. In the process, we serve witness to the wholesale trashing of our Constitution as voter registration and election fraud threatens the very core of our democracy. If we were to elect a President who indeed has ties to socialists, who may espouse Marxist viewpoints, who was helped by massive voter fraud and media contamination, it would destroy the very fabric of our entire nation. Millions of U.S. veterans fought to secure this country against fascists, communists, Marxists, socialists and their requisite ills, yet ironically, many of these men may live to see a President who shares some of those views, but refuses to answer that question directly.
Sadly, although the media refuses to report it, Barack Obama’s own running mate made the most compelling argument against an Obama presidency as anyone to date. Joe Biden’s admonition that Obama’s election will invite a generated international crisis was another one of his unscripted moments, which usually betray the truth. Biden himself painted an Obama presidency as more of an invitation to our destruction than anything else. As Biden said, gird your loins and hold your nose, America. They say that those who are ignorant of their own history are doomed to repeat it; in this case, we’re poised to one-up it.
“I hope you don’t have any earmarks in the defense appropriations bills because they are gone and you will not get any earmarks now and forever. … That’s the way I do it!” - Rep. Jack Murtha, in response to Rep. Mike Rodgers’(R-MI) motion to carve Murtha’s pork from the Intelligence Authorization Act.
Perhaps I’ve been wrong all along about Jack Murtha. Perhaps he does have a conscience; a soul. Could it be that he actually apologized for something hurtful he said? Nah, more than likely his mouth was just running on a bit of Dutch courage from his Congressional three-Martini lunch.
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October 19, 2008 The Constitutional rights of all Americans are being systematically violated by hundreds of thugs in the Democratic Party - and to such an extent that a high likelihood already exists that the 2008 Presidential election has already been irreparably tainted. And when I say thugs, I’m not just referring to the loose assortment of mixed nuts at ACORN, either. I’m talking about the party leadership including their candidate. Americans may want change, but Democrats are willing to resort to theft and thuggery to obtain it.
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October 12, 2008 Every four years, we put a new tenant in the White House, hoping beyond hope that perhaps things will be different. But things are never different. If we are to have true change in Washington, we must also sweep Congress clean, purging the Capitol of the foul stench of pork and uselessness that’s wafted through there for the last 40 years. Fortunately, this year, all 435 House seats and half of the Senate’s 100 seats are up for grabs. If we start now, we can finish the job by 2010.
“Madam Speaker, this is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle of it, and I’m not going to eat that cow patty.” - GA Congressman Paul Broun
With Congress’ unconstitutional decision to exact collective punishment on us all by using nearly one trillion U.S. tax dollars to engulf our entire nation in the bad debt of a few, we may still call ourselves America, but this is surely no longer the land of the Free, nor the Home of the Brave. It is the land of monstrous, tyrannical, socialist government that cares nothing for the backbone of this nation; the middle class. We are slowly being suffocated to death under a pile of ever-increasing debt and are now being held hostage by thugs on Wall Street and within our own government whose collusion created this abomination.
September 28, 2008 “Can’t we just all go out there and say everything’s OK?” - President Bush during contentious negotiations over his 700 billion dollar corporate welfare program
I make a comfortable living exposing defects in the work products of others. It matters not whether it be a system of integrated software components, a supply chain, transportation system or electrical grid; the search for defects in processes or their physical implementation that result in the failure of major systems must always start at the failure itself and work backwards until the root cause(s) can be found.
Most major disasters cannot be traced to a single point of failure. Rather they are the result of a combination of factors. Generally speaking, if any one of those factors is removed from the equation, the disaster becomes a near-miss. But the fact remains, every disaster is dependent upon one or more root causes that often involve human intervention. And many disasters turn out to be completely avoidable.
The root cause of our current economic woes can be summed in one, single word:
Greed
“The Photographs of Senator John McCain have been removed temporarily while Jill Greenburg is in discussions with the Atlantic. Furthermore, we deeply regret the misspelling of the word “warmonger.” - Statement from artist Jill Greenburg on McCain photo fraud.
With less than six weeks to go until the 2008 General Election, it is increasingly evident that Democrats are growing desperate. If America truly desired Obama’s brand of change, he would have left John McCain in the dust long ago, but they’re still locked in a statistical tie. Democrats were caught off guard and were completely blindsided by the McCain campaign’s brilliant choice of Sarah Palin to fill the Republican ticket and they have struggled to maintain their momentum ever since. In recent weeks, the Obama campaign and their supporters have found it necessary to resort to pure lowbrow tactics and vicious personal attacks in order to try and mislead people into voting for him.
A recent analysis by the University of Wisconsin shows that seventy seven percent of Obama’s recent ads are characterized as negative, compared to McCain’s fifty six percent. I guess when your ideology is morally bankrupt or your basic arguments are intellectually inferior, that’s the kind of foolishness you have to engage in.
“I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.” - Barack Obama on why the U.S. military had no need for his soldiering services.
In my life thus far, I’ve been fortunate enough to have visited four of the seven continents. I’ve been to well over 20 countries and over half the United States. I’ve sipped sake’ with Japanese workaholics, and pounded ale with polished German and British executives. I’ve known seasoned sailors and Marines, farmers, well-drillers and have associated with people from every conceivable background.
I grew up on the streets of Los Angeles before it became a Third-World extension of Mexico because of an invasion of illegal aliens. I lived through earthquakes, mudslides, riots, firestorms and heatwaves along with a representative sampling of every conceivable type of human being on Earth. I thought I had seen just about everything by the age of 25. But every now and then, I read or hear something uttered by a candidate for national office that is so patently absurd, I simply can’t believe it.
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Regardless of which political party you support, in order to gauge where exactly the country would be headed under a particular candidate’s leadership, most people would listen to the speeches, read the party platform, or in the case of Candidate Obama, simply take him at his word. Conventional wisdom holds that comparing a candidate’s voting record to their rhetoric exposes any weaknesses in their commitment to actually do what they promise. But if one desires a truly unvarnished look into the political future under either party, one need look no further than the 2008 National Conventions in Denver and St. Paul.
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“Congress is presumed to know the terrain against which it legislates… If Congress can appropriate billions for this aspect of national defense and not know how it is accounted for, then God save the Republic.” - Chief Justice Mayer - U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Today’s veterans enjoy unprecedented care and support, but we have not always offered previous generations of veterans all of the support that we indeed owe them. How quickly we forget that if not for their sacrifices, we’d speaking German or saluting the Rising Sun.
The Korean war was called the Forgotten War because it was sandwiched between and overshadowed by the dual traumas of WWII and Vietnam. We forget that in three years of fighting in Korea, we lost nearly 37,000 men. Contrast that with 4,000 dead in Iraq, the 10,000 or so casualties since September of 2001 or even the 58,000 U.S. servicemen killed in Vietnam over 10 years. Korean War vets served just as valiantly as any generation of soldiers. They sacrificed heavily; indeed proportionately even more so than present-day veterans, but while Presidential candidates dangle free college tuition, fewer, shorter deployments and cutting-edge medicine in front of today’s veterans, most of these retirees have been forgotten, as have many of their brethren who served in WWII and the broken the promises that were made to them in return for their service.
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August 24, 2008 “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy… I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” - Joe Biden to the New York Observer - Jan. 2007
Thanks to the tremendous reserve of mercy shown by Barack Obama, we won’t have to wait until the start of the Democratic Convention in Denver to find out who his Vice Presidential pick will be. Obama has finally announced that his running mate is Delaware Democrat Senator Joe Biden. The skies have cleared, the Angels are singing and the universe can now return to equilibrium. I sincerely hope that all Americans who signed up for Obama’s historic text message weren’t disappointed or feeling left out by its delivery in the wee hours of the morning. You should now breathe that collective sigh of relief because you’ll soon be deluged with spam seeking campaign contributions.
I am delighted that Obama has chosen Joe Biden, the legendary windbag, plagiarist, Delaware Democrat and a six-term Senator who is a card-carrying member of that exclusive club that Obama has so often railed against in the past, Washington insiders.
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Democrats are running a bit lean these days. Some would say they’re on nothing more than vapors.
Although it seems that proponents of more oil drilling have the upper hand in the energy debate at the moment, getting a single drop of oil from the ground is another matter altogether. Opponents have pulled out all the stops, resorting to parliamentary maneuvering and intellectual dishonesty to avoid bringing the subject up for a vote. It’s clear they have no intention of engaging in compromise or cooperation to reach a speedy, comprehensive solution to our short and long-term energy needs.
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Jayme Evans is a veteran of the United States Navy, military analyst, conservative columnist and an advocate and voice for disabled and other veterans.
Jayme's brutally honest, in-your-face political commentary has been published in many west coast newspapers. He is an active member of the Military Writers Society of America and a regular contributing columnist to a growing list of Internet sites including WebCommentary, Canada Free Press and Conservative Crusader. He has also written guest editorials for Military Magazine and American Daily and has been a frequent guest columnist on WorldNetDaily writing about legislative and veteran's issues.
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