Cult of Obama Gets Hit by Reality

The left is starting to get worried over their presidential chances and they should:

"The fact that the discontent isn't being recognized, isn't being assuaged, is
disturbing. People aren't worried about the election, they're becoming
despondent about it. They're not motivated to work twice as hard, they instead
feel as if they've had the wind knocked out of them. This is far beyond a
healthy skepticism as to whether Obama can win. "

Look for a dead cat bounce after Denver. The electorate never forgot about Obama's radical associations and activities despite Democrats and the MSM's attempts to sweep them under the rug. Excuses and logical fallacies only work when your audience is as stupid and lacking in common sense as you think they are. That's why the polls have been so close for so long.

Additionally, Obama's penchant for qualifying every pro-American statement with a regurgitation of the radical chic notion of unique and worlwide American evil and guilt doesn't travel well beyond the confines of Chicago's salons.


Mc'Cain is pulling even as voters are starting to see that Obama really is as vapid and insubstantial as Paris Hilton. His disastrous appearance at Saddleback is just a preview of more train wrecks to come.


Now that Obama's teetering, watch for the Clintons to push him over the edge. His "peace in our time" failure to recognize his enemies by giving them three nights of prime time in the interest of "unity" reveals a naivete that could get us all killed if he were President.


Anyone who's been paying attention for the last twenty years knows that the Clinton's are the most ruthless and ambitious tag team in modern politics. And they're experts at not leaving fingerprints on their hits and have perfected the art of plausible denial. There is no way they're going to just pass the baton and cheer him on.


The huge Mass Obama plans for his coronation will more than likely come off as a caricature and a confirmation of Mc'Cain's ads. Having wild eyed lunatic and hypocrite Al Gore as the opening act isn't going to help. Thrown in the moonbat protesters along with the scary cult that has sprung up around him and you have a recipe for an epic flame out.

A Windfall of Idiocy

Hillary Clinton has is the latest entrant in the stupid economics tricks contest with her own version of a windfall profit tax on oil companies. Caution: If you don't know the difference between profit and profit margin, stop reading and go educate yourself. You'll be doing a great service to the country.

Hillary correctly counts on the fact that most people don't remember how this same policy not only didn't work in the 1980's, but reduced domestic production and increased dependence on foreign oil.

But she doesn't stop there in her demagoguery disguised as policy. She also wants to crack down on mythical price gouging and further regulate commodities markets with Soviet style command and control economics that have such a long record of failure that only fanatical collectivists and democrats fail to recognize it.

Remember folks: Every tax and regulation imposed on anyone is ultimately paid by individuals one way or another in the form of higher prices, shortages or any number of other costs. In short it means less freedom and more government.

Of course, no Democrat proposes to increase our own production in ANWR, the outer continental shelf or the Gulf of Mexico, where the Cubans and Red Chinese are exploring right now. Build our first new refinery in 30 years? Forget it. How about cutting down on the dozens of special blends required for dubious environmental reasons that cause refineries to shut down and drive up prices every spring and fall? No way. Expand nuclear power? Don't make me laugh. More coal production and gassification? You must be kidding.

No, The left's only solution to supply is the government mandated use of inefficient alternative sources of energy. That subsidized and tariff protected ethanol thing is working out great isn't it? There's a reason why no other civilization in history has burned its food for fuel. Because it's a really dumb idea. When an alternative fuel can replace oil on a level playing field, I'll be the first to use it. When they are forced on people artificially, you get what we have now. Higher food prices, starvation, riots and yes, deaths.




Related Note: The Fed reduced interest rates again yesterday, which will raise the cost of oil imports further as our dollars buy even less on the world markets. If the dollar was worth what it was five years ago, oil would be at least a third cheaper than it is now.

Happy Earth Day Vladimir!

Today is Earth Day and also Vladimir Lenin's birthday.

Coincidence? Probably not. Unsurprisingly, the US Communist Party blames capitalism for the global warming hoax and every other problem in the world. And their rhetoric is so close to Democrats in general and Al Gore in particular that it's impossible to ignore. Indeed, they've given a ringing endorsement to whatever ticket Democrats eventually nominate, saying among other things: "Global warming has to be examined within a larger context of capitalism and other environmental problems... Capitalists are to blame for the crisis" As former leftist David Horowitz once said: "Green is the new red".

As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, the environmental movement is a favorite hideout for communists displaced after the fall of the Soviet Union and it's used to undermine American liberty by exploiting the good natured ignorance of its people. This is just a new tactic however, in the slow but successful effort to increase the power of government and reduce the freedom of individuals that has been going on for over a hundred years. So successful that 35% of voting age adults agree with this statement: Does the Constitution include the following statement about the proper role of government: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"?

That so many Americans think a concept that was the catalyst for the slaughter of 100 million (and counting) people is part of our founding document is a frightening consequence of allowing the infiltration of our education system by this fifth column.

The Democrat candidates, were they to be honest, would tell you they really don't have a problem with any of this since they find more common ground with Marx than Jefferson.

So happy Earth Day. I for one will cook a steak on my charcoal grill, while smoking a fat cigar as I imbibe strong drink from a styrofoam cup in celebration of what's left of my freedom.

Democrat Debate: McCain Wins

The infants on the Democrat far left are apoplectic that an MSM network would dare to ask their messiah hard questions about his true political leanings. They should be angry at themselves for putting up a little league liar when they had Barry Bonds ready to go.

Hillary has already been vetted and even her supporters know she and her husband are world class grifters. Now the playing field is being leveled as Obama's Marxist and anti-American philosophy is being exposed as this rookie strikes out on anything other than grooved pitches.

At least ABC finally realized this and decided to throw him a couple of curve balls.

Lets's look at some highlights of the presumptive nominee.

On Bitter People:

"And so the point I was making was that when people feel like Washington's not listening to them, when they're promised year after year, decade after decade, that their economic situation is going to change, and it doesn't, then politically they end up focusing on those things that are constant, like religion."

You weren't talking about "people". You were talking about rural blue-collar white people that are too stupid, superstitious and violent to see how much better their lives would be if they allowed themselves to be re-educated by you and your San Francisco comrades. You're the one who is frustrated that people actually believe they can run and defend their lives without your scary intellect. If you're going to appeal to middle class mores in order to destroy them, then try harder in hiding your contempt for them.

On Reverend Wright:

"Reverend Wright is somebody who made controversial statements but they were not of the sort that we saw that offended so many Americans. And that's why I specifically said that these comments were objectionable; they're not comments that I believe in."

Do you hear yourself? What the hell are you talking about?

"What I also said was, the church and the body of Reverend Wright's work, over the course of 30 years, were not represented in those snippets that were shown on television, and that the church has done outstanding work in ministries on HIV/AIDS, prison ministries, providing people with the kind of comfort that we expect in our churches."

You're still hanging onto that "snippet" thing? Didn't you want Imus out on the street for "nappy headed ho's'? That's a snippet. Wright's comments can fill up an entire radio segment, not to mention his racist Black Theology that you have supported for twenty years. And Wright's "outstanding work" is no more relevant here than the fact that Hitler loved dogs, Mussolini made the trains run on time and Jeffrey Dahmer was nice to his mother.

"Absolutely many of these remarks were objectionable. I've already said that I didn't hear them, because I wasn't in church that day."

That's the type of lie Hillary makes look easy. You don't have the chops to pull it off. And even we were to believe that tripe, it's impossible to imagine that a guy you called your mentor for twenty years never expressed those sentiments to you outside of the pulpit. And your wife is obviously a devoted and attentive parishioner. Has she just been leading you around by the nose all these years?

On terrorist buddy William Ayers:

"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense, George."

If it were just about a guy in your neighborhood then I'd be sympathetic. I don't want to be associated with the nut next door just because I had a beer with him once. But if I also served on a board with him and accepted his contributions while he was publicly defending his past nuttiness and wishing he'd been nuttier, then I'm either a supporter of his insanity or a clueless knucklehead. Which one are you?

I was only ten when William Calley committed the My Lai Massacre. But even though he's now a fellow Floridian, it doesn't mean I'm going to hang with him just because I was too ignorant in 1968 to appreciate the evil of his crimes. Especially if he was now saying he wished he'd done more as Ayers has.

And your nyah, nyah Hillary pardoned terrorists defense is just plain childish and only highlights the fact that neither of you can be trusted.


On economy and taxes:


MR. GIBSON: Senator Obama, you both have now just taken this pledge on people under $250,000 and 200-and-what, 250,000.
SENATOR OBAMA: Well, it depends on how you calculate it. But it would be between 200 and 250,000.
MR. GIBSON: All right.

...SENATOR OBAMA: ...What I have proposed is that we raise the cap on the payroll tax, because right now millionaires and billionaires don't have to pay beyond $97,000 a year.

MR. GIBSON: Those are a heck of a lot of people between $97,000 and $200(,000) and $250,000. If you raise the payroll taxes, that's going to raise taxes on them.
SENATOR OBAMA: And that's -- and that's -- and that's why I've said, Charlie, that I would look at potentially exempting those who are in between.

Yikes!! What a mess. When did say anything about exemptions other than the maybe, sort of (won't happen) way you just did?

MR. GIBSON: And in each instance, when the (capital gains) rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?

SENATOR OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness. We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year -- $29 billion for 50 individuals. And part of what has happened is that those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair.

Well, I have to give you credit for being honest about your belief that the tax system is primarily a tool for utopian social engineering and not to fund the legitimate constitutional functions of government. It does however, reveal your typically leftist ignorance in perpetuating the lie that economics, wealth and income is a zero-sum game. You really do believe that wealthy people produce no value for others, especially ordinary Americans in return for their compensation, don't you? Unless it's you or racist con men like Rev. Wright of course.

On guns:

MR. GIBSON: Senator Obama, the District of Columbia has a law, it's had a law since 1976, it's now before the United States Supreme Court, that prohibits ownership of handguns, a sawed-off shotgun, a machine gun or a short-barreled rifle. Is that law consistent with an individual's right to bear arms?

SENATOR OBAMA: Well, Charlie, I confess I obviously haven't listened to the briefs and looked at all the evidence.

As a former professor of constitutional law, are you telling us you know nothing of what will probably be the most significant second amendment case of our lifetimes? Look, I'm not even going to bother with your other quotes on this subject because you're so obviously full of it as are most Democrats, that it's not even worth discussing.

This was a huge but inevitable loss for Obama as at some point he was going to have to put some substance behind his charismatic but vapid rhetoric. Fortunately for McCain it's happening now and he is being spared as Democrats assemble their circular firing squad. His True Believers are angry that their savior has been betrayed by other Democrats and their sympathizers for bringing up pesky facts. A Cult of Personality exists best in a vaccuum and free societies are not a hospitable environment. His fanatical followers don't know how to reconcile that and they're lashing out. Make some popcorn. The convention promises to be a riot.

Obama'a loss doesn't mean Hillary won. She lost too as Obama's ineptitude reminded us that the alternative is just a polished version of the same turd. Actually, she's the same turd that's been stinking up the place for almost twenty years and many Democrats would like someone, anyone to come in and throw it out. Obama's not up to the job but everyone else hit the bricks when he said he could and Democrats were dumb enough to believe him.

Winner: McCain

Now Hillary's Dragging My Kids Into This

Uh oh! It's 3 AM. The phone's ringing. Something's happening. Who do you want to answer the phone? If it's Bill on the other end with a dead bimbo in his hotel room, then I guess you should get it Hillary. If it's a real national problem, then I'd want someone who'd think of the country before her personal political considerations. That ain't you honey. I'd be a better choice half drunk and slipping into a raging hangover.