Much discussion has centered around whether Hillary Clinton actually possesses human qualities such as empathy, emotion or likability In other words, things that translate to electability. She has faced so much criticism –and deservedly so– I often wonder whether she’s even a real human being with flesh and blood underneath that exoskeleton, or just some kind of grotesque machine like Mecha-Streisand™; with servos, wires and circuits; factory preprogrammed as a calculating political machine.

There has been so much discussion about her likability during this campaign, that she had to launch a website called “The Hillary I Know” in order to dispel what the media calls rumors and prove that there are actual people that like her.

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Technorati Tags: 2008, Hillary Clinton, political commentary, Politics

The 2008 primary season has barely begun and already there are more ugly examples of campaign shenanigans on both sides than ever before. It matters not that voters have consistently voiced their desire to hear the candidates’ positions on the issues; all we get is the occasional self-aggrandized version of one’s record, followed by copious attacks on their opponent’s records topped off with personal attacks on the opponents themselves by private investigators and muckrakers of every stripe.

Let’s have a look at what a few of the leading candidates are up to so you can make an informed decision about which Americans may not be the best president.

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Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Guiliani

I would like to extend my sincere thanks to The US Senate, MoveOn.org, Columbia University, and the New York Times. Together you have done more to expose the moral bankruptcy of liberalism in the United States and more to advance the cause of conservatism in the previous couple of weeks than at any time in recent history. You deserve a medal.

Hillary Clinton, Carl Levin, and other mouthpieces of the Democrat party would have you believe that the current debate over MoveOn.org’s recent birdcage liner in the New York Times is about whether or not you support the war in Iraq. To the contrary; at its core, this debate is about whether or not you support vicious verbal attacks on our military; our country; our citizenry; our dignity.

Hillary Clinton is chomping at the bit to be -lest we forget- Commander-in-Chief of the US military;

Carl Levin chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee;

Yet both had the craven cowardice along with the usual cast of characters; Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, to vote against a repudiation of the unwarranted attack on a senior soldier of the US Army who has been bestowed awards for his valor. In other words, by voting no on this resolution, they at least tacitly if not overtly support the cut-rate media smearing of a decorated senior soldier. What a bargain, huh? Gives new meaning to the term ‘cheap shot’.

The New York Times continues its sorry descent into gutter journalism with recent disclosures that it violated its own long-standing editorial policy against publishing attack ads by surreptitiously giving MoveOn.org -a partisan political organization- a steep discount. The evil influence of money in politics rears its ugly head once again. The problem with our political system is that it survives on a large infusion of dirty money. Money used primarily for attacking one’s opponent in the media. When someone gets caught red-handed; like Hillary Clinton; they give it back, or to charity. Problem solved. There’s no accountability. Not much more need be said. The Times is a mouthpiece for extreme liberal propaganda that acted improperly to advance a partisan political agenda like it has been doing for decades, and it is on life support. It should be put out of our misery.

Columbia University, that distinguished epicenter of free thought and higher learning has the hypocrisy and chutzpah to host the president of Iran, who in the past 2 weeks has asked for and been denied permission to lay a wreath at the WTC site in New York, and delivered an anti-American, anti-Semitic diatribe safely from Iranian soil prior to his departure to the US, before coming here and doing the same.

My first reaction was utter amazement that Columbia would legitimize a murderous dictator. That in itself is horribly offensive. The University’s rationale for the invitation is the free expression of ideas; free and open debate, which I fully support. I wish I could believe them. The scathing introduction almost moderated my position towards their Invitation to Evil, but in the past, they allowed an immigration debate involving the Minutemen to descend into anarchy and then dissolve before ever even starting. They also engaged in a pathetic attempt to bar military recruiters from campus because of their ban against discriminatory hiring practices.

Untold millions of heroic men and women have and will continue to serve their country; answering the call of duty to defend her against dictators like the one that Columbia University invited to speak; yet they relegate the sacrifice of these heroes whose blood cleanses the streets of those dictatorships to that of just another employee seeking a job on campus, and then try to bar them altogether. Their commitment to free speech leaves something to be desired.

Mahmoud’s Traveling Circus ended as well as could be expected, but it served no purpose other than to confirm that which we already knew. Ahmedinejad stood there smiling smugly the whole time, he didn’t answer any of the questions posed to him with anything other than obfuscation and disdain, and his appearance probably didn’t add much to the debate over his or Iran’s intentions. The only purpose his bellowing served was to stoke the fires of US resentment with those Iranians still listening by showing how he stood up to the arrogance and debauchery of the Great Satan.

So to aforementioned bastions of liberalism and others like you:

My sincerest thanks. I salute you. Just keep Movin’On.

Technorati Tags: Columbia University, Hillary Clinton, MoveOn.org, New York Times, US Senate

Democrats are perpetually beating the drum of support for our military men and women. They try and hide it with all of their might, but the true contempt they hold for our nation’s military always seems to escape from the lips of those who speak for the party itself. As a veteran, I consider their insults morally repugnant.

Last year, they screamed for change in Iraq, threatening to pull the plug by whatever means necessary. They purposefully avoided using terms like “withdrawal” or (more accurately) “retreat” to describe what they sought from the President. They said they had a mandate: a “change of course” and a “redeployment”. President Bush gave them both in the form of thousands of extra soldiers to hand the Iraqi government and military some breathing room.

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Technorati Tags: Charles Schumer, General David Petraeus, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Iraq

Although I often scoff at corny liberal bumper stickers, the latest one “2008: End of an error” couldn’t be more prescient, given the political landscape we find ourselves in. As an independent conservative, I readily admit that on the issue of George Bush, I now have come to agree with many a liberal and believe that Bush has surpassed Bill Clinton as the worst president in American history.

That doesn’t mean that I’ll necessarily crowd the polls to vote for a Democrat just because Bush has turned his back on me and millions of other Americans, just that Bush was all talk. Nothing more than a bunch of Texas euphemisms. He has consistently failed to deliver during the balance of both terms, angering Democrats (good) and alienating Republicans (bad).

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Technorati Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Illegal Immigration, Iraq, John Edwards, Politics, Terrorism

Democrats continue to hide their disdain for America’s military. But every now and then, it seeps out into the open. Despite their phony expressions of support, they will never convince this veteran that they are serious about us or the national security of this nation. With very few exceptions, Democrats have collectively become the anti-war party. The party of Jane Fonda, who once strapped on a Vietnamese anti-aircraft weapon and giggled in support of North Vietnam. And their rhetoric is beginning to reflect it. Consider this plethora of recent examples:

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Technorati Tags: Alan Colmes, Barack Obama, Cindy Sheehan, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Jane Fonda, MoveOn.org

With nearly two years left until the 2008 election, many of the candidates will travel to key primary states to get an early edge, courting voters and making stump speeches. Hillary Clinton is no exception. She has had her eye on the White House for years despite numerous denials. A few years back, she made a strategic drift to the center, hoping to woo veterans and other segments of the conservative base by trying to appear hawkish on the war in Iraq. But now, sensing a sea change in America’s support for the war, she has reversed course and is listing to port once again.

Many conservatives are horrified at the prospect of another Clinton presidency, but I am more worried about potential shenanigans by the First Lady, should Hillary get elected. I don’t believe she will win the White House, although it’s too early to say what will happen. I also don’t believe there are many Americans who haven’t already made up their minds about Mrs. Clinton. She is far too polarizing a figure.

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Technorati Tags: 2008, Highway of Death, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Terrorism

“A political solution, while more desirable, is not possible until one side of a conflict has their nose bloodied sufficiently to start talking and stop fighting.” - Yours Truly

Hillary Clinton will say or do anything to get elected. All that she seeks; indeed, all that she lives for is absolute power. She has demonized, henpecked, browbeaten, slurred, exaggerated, lied and bullied her way to where she is today with no indication she is about to stop now. To the contrary, her recent comments indicate she is continuing her fabrications in hot pursuit of the Presidency.

Forget that we got “two for the price of one” when we elected “Billary”, it wasn’t much of a bargain. Forget about the scandals. Travelgate… The FBI files… The Rose Law Firm… Vince Foster… Web Hubbel… Questions about cattle futures… Forget that she was a Cubs fan, or a Yankees fan or both… Forget about the ethnic and racial slurs that many witnesses have confirmed over the years. Let’s focus on the present, shall we?

She supports amnesty for illegals, yet recently criticized Republicans –all that stands in her way– for obstructing Democrats on meaningful immigration reform. She claims the G.O.P. isn’t moving fast enough and that she would do better than they securing the border, yet her efforts could add 60 – 100 million people to the US population in the next 20 years. The truth is, no one knows exactly where she stands on important issues.

Project Vote Smart is a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort to educate voters. Candidates are administered a “test”, called the NPAT, to independently gauge their positions on wide range of policy matters. Candidates are not asked what they oppose, only what they support. Hillary Clinton flat out refuses to answer the NPAT.

On television, Clinton exaggerated her little junket to Iraq as if she was sharing in both the risks and the sacrifices of American soldiers. She also took the opportunity to lie and embellish once again. She stated that upon reaching Iraq, due to bad weather, they were advised they [Clinton, Evan Bayh(D-IN) and perhaps others] may have to divert. Their response, as she recounted to Greta Van Susteren, was that they said “Let’s try to get in to Baghdad”. My inner cynic tells me there was more to it than that.

Clinton actually overruled military brass on the ground, possibly putting US pilots and aircrews at risk, just so she could say she’d been there on the ground and the security situation sucks.

Then she told yet another whopper about not being able to chopper in to Baghdad, and having to drive the Highway of Death from the Baghdad Airport to the US controlled Green Zone, which, if she knew her you-know-what from a hole in the ground, she should know is in Southern Iraq. It is where US forces corralled Iraqi troops into a kill box after the latter fled Kuwait in 1991. Stretching yet again, she suggested that because she has to wear body armor (well, she doesn’t have to), that US forces are constrained in their movements and that this has contributed to a lack of intelligence which in turn has contributed to George Bush’s mistakes.

But by far, the biggest indicators of her foreign policy ignorance, tactical ineptitude, and a prime example of the hot air she spews, is her parroting of the Democratic talking points regarding a “phased redeployment”. She criticizes Bush for not sending enough troops, while in the same breath proposing a “cap” on the number of troops. That is for the Generals to decide, not Hillary Clinton.

She won’t give our fighting men the reinforcements or relief necessary to accomplish their mission, then proposes having them “redeploy” in phases. Redeploy to where? How many phases? How many men in each phase? Over how long? Who goes first? Who goes last? Who provides security when we only have a few thousand troops left?

Finally, I leave you with this thought…

Being an American is a privilege. I thank my maker every day for that honor; for that privilege. In her own words, Hillary Clinton thinks that being an American is an obligation. It may be a slip of her forked tongue, but the words of politicians are constantly scripted and often belie cultural disdain for those they govern.

My opposition to Hillary Clinton has nothing to do with her being a woman and everything to do with her being the most divisive, power-drunk, political figure that I have observed in my lifetime. There is simply too much documented evidence that she will say or do whatever it takes to seize absolute power, no matter how dishonest.

Technorati Tags: 2008, Hillary Clinton, Illegal Immigration, Iraq, political commentary, Politics

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

Democrats continue to choose treachery over patriotism, siding with our enemies while ignoring the realities on the ground in Iraq as well as throughout the rest of the world. While there is now some Democrat infighting over MoveOn.org’s recent character assassination of 4-Star US Army General David Petraeus (and rightfully so), there is no public Democratic Party disavowal of the attack on this American patriot. As a result, there is increasing outrage among military families and average Americans over these horrendous tactics designed specifically to divide the country. The only 2 conclusions one can draw from Democratic silence over MoveOn.org’s cheap shot courtesy of the New York Times are either political cowardice or outright approval.

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Technorati Tags: Hillary Clinton, Iraq, MoveOn.org, New York Times