Bolton on Biden: Get ready for Obama's international crisis

John Bolton, one of the few adults in American foreign policy, has a few words about Joe Biden's warning about Obama's guaranteed early international crisis as a political babe in the woods.

Barney Frank promises to raise your taxes

Barney Frank, the Congressman who birthed and burped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other assorted leftwing disasters, has got a plan to get us out of the mess he created: Raise taxes!

Keep the hits coming, Barney. With friends like you and Joe Biden, Obama don't need no enemies.

Two "Joes" outranks one "Colin": McCain-Palin win!

Out of commission on my home blogging computer for almost a week and I missed blogging. Hopefully all is fixed now. Did some "troll" hit me with a bug? Possible. You're not paranoid if folks really are out to get you. And Obama and his trolls and leftwing nuts are playing very dirty.

Question: Do two "Joes" outrank one "Colin"? Out here in redneck country, the answer is HELL yes! Between Joe the plumber and Joe the Biden (Charles Krauthammer said Biden is a Republican plant and I think he's right) the two "Joes" have been playing havoc with Obama's coronation. Joe the plumber is a hero because he doesn't want Obama spreading his hard-earned wealth around to the 40 percent of folks who don't pay taxes in the first place. And Joe the Biden is the unlikely hero who opened his big mouth and admitted Obama ain't ready for prime time. Vote for Obama and get your international crises early and often! Who's up first? Ahmanutjob in Iran? Chavez-Khrushchev in Venezuela? Big Daddy Kim in North Korea? Putin-Stalin in Russia?

And what's a Colin Powell endorsement worth? Not squat to us rednecks who never liked him in the first place since he talked President Bush the 1st into pulling the plug on the first invasion of Iraq just when we had Saddam Hussein by the short hairs and shoulda finished him off.

If not for Colin Powell getting squeamish about victory, there would have been no war in Iraq.

And tell me just one thing the man accomplished as Secretary of State in President Bush the 2nd's first term. I'm waiting. Just like I'm also waiting for someone to tell me exactly what kind of executive experience Barack Obama has. Still waiting. Time's up. Same answer. Big zero.

So liberal pollsters and liberal media keeps on lying like a rug and Sarah and John are gonna shock 'em all in two weeks. I love the smell of burning nutroots rage on the morning of Nov. 5.

The real story of Bill Ayers, Barack's bomb-throwing buddy

Five Feet of Fury puts together this ad that should be running by the McCain campaign about Bomb-Throwin' Bill Ayers, neighborhood "guy" who gave Barack Obama his first job after law school and helped launch his political campaign. Next stop, White House. Will Bill bomb it, too?

Kristol to McCain: Don't Worry, Be Happy

Charles Krauthammer has written that John McCain has already exceeded his "two Hail Mary's per campaign rule." McCain tossed one long TD when he backed the surge in Iraq in the dark days of 2006. Everybody but McCain, President Bush and General Petraeus said it wouldn't work. It did and the Iraq war turned around miraculously. Hail Mary II was picking Sarah Palin from obscurity as his VP choice.

Despite the MSM's wolfpack attacks, the American people still love Sarah amidst all the bad press so Palin is Hail Mary TD No. 2.

Since then, nothing has gone well for McCain and even the economy has conspired against him with the housing credit crisis sucking all the air out of the campaign. With the constant media drumbeat of the impending return of the Great Depression, panic is infecting voters as well as the stock market. But the polls are still tight, showing a slight trend toward McCain and away from Obama's "inevitable win." Today's record surge on Wall Street may mean the sun is shining again on McCain. I can hope.

Yet William Kristol says it's time for one more Hail Mary from McCain: Fire the Campaign and do the unthinkable, go positive to voting day.

What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over. Shut down the rapid responses, end the frantic e-mails, bench the spinning surrogates, stop putting up new TV and Internet ads every minute. In fact, pull all the ads — they’re doing no good anyway. Use that money for televised town halls and half-hour addresses in prime time.

And let McCain go back to what he’s been good at in the past — running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate. Palin should follow suit. The two of them are attractive and competent politicians. They’re happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free.

Provide total media accessibility on their campaign planes and buses. Kick most of the aides off and send them out to swing states to work for the state coordinators on getting voters to the polls. Keep just a minimal staff to help organize the press conferences McCain and Palin should have at every stop and the TV interviews they should do at every location. Do town halls, do the Sunday TV shows, do talk radio — and invite Obama and Biden to join them in some of these venues, on the ground that more joint appearances might restore civility and substance to the contest.

Most on the right are saying McCain has been too much Mr. Nice Guy, time to take to take the gloves off. The left, hypocrites all, are accusing him of running the worst scorched-earth campaign since Attila the Hun, ignoring all the bile spewing daily from their own ranks.

J.R. Dunn of American Thinker is of the "right" persuasion, urging a campaign closer based on Obama's Three Strikes consisting of Bomb-Throwin' Bill Ayers and his equally psychotic wife Bernadine Dohrn, ACORN voter fraud and The New Party socialist revolution.

A terrorist bomber, what may be the largest vote-fraud operation in history, and a political party calling for a socialist revolution in the United States. Obama has certainly been a busy little bee -- though not too busy, it seems, to cover his tracks in all three cases. As well he might -- anybody with such a history has a few questions to answer. And Obama knows this full well, considering the effort he's put into ducking those exact questions since his campaign began.

But those questions must be asked and answered before November 4^th. Which, needless to say, is a job for Superwoman. Sarah Palin's relentless hammering brought the Ayers story back to the surface. She must now tie the three strands together: Ayers, ACORN, the New Party, and pound at it until it can no longer be ignored. (Of course, this will be an extremely upsetting experience for Kathleen Parker and David Brooks, but that can't be helped.)

If the three can be bundled, and the resulting package adequately presented to the American people, Barack Obama is through. American voters have made it clear time and again that they have no use for the political extremes of either left or right. Obama plainly suffers, at best, from a weakness for crackpot left-wing politics, and at worst from a yearning to create a revolutionary situation in American society. The first reveals an immature personality, one easily led and given to romantic concepts of how the world works. The second is evidence of serious maliciousness.

We require neither in the oval office.

And somewhere between right and left, there's Bill Kristol, urging a Monty Python: Now for something totally different. Who knows, maybe The Maverick will zig and not zag.

So why not go for Hail Mary number whateveritis? I can't help but remember another "Happy Warrior," Hubert Humphrey, who never won the big race. A fella named Richard Nixon whipped him soundly.

But what do I know? I'm the stupid schmuck who said the voters weren't stupid enough to vote for Bill Clinton. I was wrong then. Twice.

A Tale of Two Memoirs: McCain and Obama

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother scanning the headlines daily of the Noo Yawk Times and the Washington ComPost. Most days there's nothing there but the usual pro-Obama drumbeat and anti-McCain-Palin BS. Even though I'm reading them online, I invariably get a noseful of BS and have to fan the blow flies away as if I was flipping pages made of dead trees. Same ol', same ol' BS every single day.

But if nothing else, it's a daily reminder of how knee-jerk-left the so-called "mainstream" media is and how far in the tank for Obama they are, without any apology or even attempt at "fair and balanced" reporting of political news. Case in point, today's so-called review of John McCain's memoir of his five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, the best-selling "Faith of Our Fathers" which was made into a TV movie.

Obama's real-world experience spans his first gig as "community organizer" in Chicago, hand-picked by Bomb-Throwin' Bill Ayers to blow through $150 million in grant money with zip to show in results, a few years as a lawyer for ACORN among others and an almost invisible record as a state senator and first-term U.S. Senator. Never run nothin' but his mouth, yet he's allegedly written not just one, but two memoirs (one or both very likely ghost-written by Bill Ayers without credit) and Obama is acclaimed a literary star and prime Presidential timber.

John McCain's memoir openly credits his co-writer, campaign aide Mark Salter, which renders it all political puffery, so saith the NY Times.

But sometimes when you sort through a bucket of hogwash, you find a butterbean and such is the case with this NY Times McCain hitjob.

In the memoir, Mr. Salter helped sharpen that point into what became the new refrain of his boss’s political ascent. Mr. McCain had thought “all glory was self-glory,” but prison taught him “there are greater pursuits than self-seeking,” Mr. Salter wrote for the senator. “Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles.”

In the Navy archives, Mr. Salter found an oral history in which the senator’s father recounted his last meeting with his own father, on an American ship in Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II.

“Son,” the first Admiral McCain had told the second, “there is no greater thing than to die for the principles — for the country and the principles that you believe in.”

After you sort through the NY-Times-title-speak hogwash of "Mr. Salter said Mr. McCain's grandfather said to Mr. McCain's father," the principles in "Faith of Our Fathers" still shine through: There is a glory greater than self-seeking in being ready to die for your country.

So let me ask in NY-Times-title-speak, just what principles does "Mr. Obama" believe in? Hope? Change? Hope in what? Change to what?

The quotes that explain the entire financial meltdown

Ed Morrissey at HotAir:

For those who want a smoking gun to show the genesis of the financial collapse, this short sequence from a longer video I posted this week will do it. Clinton HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement of a lending discrimination complaint with Accubanc, a Texas lender whose prerequisites for mortgages came under attack from “community organizers” at the Fort Worth Human Relations Commission and the city of Dallas. I clipped out this sequence to underscore its importance:

Morissey continues:

Here, in fact, is the genesis of the problem, the ideology that created the monster. Cuomo, the Clinton administration, and Congress believed they had the right and the power to determine acceptable risk for the lenders, rather than lenders determining it for themselves in a free market. Even while imposing risk standards on lenders, Cuomo admits that he expects a higher default rate on the new loans — which is why the lenders didn’t want to write them in the first place.

In other words, the CRA didn’t get used to fight discrimination, but to force lenders to give money to high-risk borrowers for political purposes. And Cuomo knew it.

That was the political arrogance at the heart of the collapse. However, the CRA was more a sideshow than the actual problem. When Congress decided that enforcement alone wouldn’t generate enough mortgages to boost their political fortunes, they had Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac eliminate the risk entirely for lenders through the purchase of the subprime loans. Without that risk and with almost-guaranteed short-term profits of subprime loans, lenders went wild while Fannie and Freddie repackaged them as quasi-government bonds for investors.

While Democrats like Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi keep blaming “greed” for the collapse, it was Democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd building that “greed” into the system in order to drive the subprime lending market. And it was Democrats like Frank, Dodd, Maxine Waters, and Lacy Clay who suggested that regulators like Armando Falcon were racists for blowing the whistle on the Ponzi scheme they created.

The Democrats decided, as Michelle says, that mortgages were a civil right, and wouldn’t cost the American taxpayers a dime. How well is that working out, America? And now, the question you have to ask yourselves is this: Do you want the nation’s economic policies run by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, and Frank for the next two years?

Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd and Frank, just the crew to take us back into the Great Depression.

Guilt By Participation: Obama and Bomb-Throwing Bill Ayers

New RNC ad: Guilt By Participation

Obama invites ACORN into his administration

2007: Obama Says He Will Invite ACORN to "Shape the Agenda" as President

PUMA's Pounce: The 'Celebrity' Video

Revenge of the PUMAs strikes, NoBama Obama.

On the Second Amendment, Don’t Believe Obama!

On the campaign trail, Senator Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights to sidestep and camouflage the truth. But even he can’t hide from the truth forever… his voting record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history. The facts speak for themselves. This election day, vote to defend freedom…because if Obama wins, you lose.

From the NRA Political Victory Fund.

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THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES:

• Obama voted to ban hundreds of rifles and shotguns commonly used for hunting and sport shooting
  Illinois Senate, SB 1195, 3/13/03
• Obama endorsed a ban on all handguns
  Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization general candidate questionnaire, 9/9/96
  Politico, 03/31/08.
• Obama voted to allow the prosecution of people who use a firearm for self-defense in their homes
  Illinois Senate, S.B. 2165, vote 20, 3/25/04
• Obama supported increasing taxes on firearms and ammunition by 500 percent
  Chicago Defender, 12/13/99
• Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting
  United States Senate, S. 397, vote 217, 7/29/05
• Obama opposes Right-to-Carry laws
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 4/2/08, Chicago Tribune, 9/15/04

Imagine what an Obama administration will be

A message from Howard Kaloogian, Our Country Deserves Better Committee - www.OurCountryDeservesBetter.com

The next time you hear a friend tell you that this race isn't important because he/she thinks the media is too biased, or that Sen. McCain isn't being tough enough on Obama, or because people seem to want "change" I want you to ask them if it's ok then to sit back and do nothing and allow the most extreme liberal into the White House in our nation's history?

To those of you who are thinking of throwing in the towel yourself, I want you to stop and think about what I just wrote -- and then ask yourself if you can think of any President in our nation's history who was more of a radical liberal than Barack Obama would be?

When you look at the people that Barack Obama has chosen to associate himself with, you get a sense for what an Obama administration would be like -- the people he would tap to help run this nation.

Obama spent years working with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers on education issues in Chicago. So you know the type of person we can expect to see as Secretary of Education.

Obama opposed taking military action against America's enemy (al-Qaida in Iraq) yet wanted to bomb Pakistan at a time they were working with us to defeat Islamic terrorists. Would it therefore be at all surprising to see a Secretary of State or Defense be someone like Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans? Evans is one of the co-founders of the Marxist, far-left organization, Code Pink, which traveled to Iraq and gave over $600,000 to the families of terrorists who killed Americans.

What post would someone like Revered Jeremiah Wright get? Barack Obama thought it was just grand to listen to this guy offer spiritual advice for 20-years, and we all know that Obama would still be a close friend and supporter of Rev. Wright if it weren't for the stink that talk radio and Fox News Channel made about Wright's racism and anti-Americanism.

Who will Obama put on the Supreme Court? You know it's going to be someone who is an abortion radical, and opponent of 2nd Amendment rights. Can you imagine all of the high-profile cases decided by close votes on the Court that will now swing towards judicial activism and leftist ideologies with Obama-appointed Supreme Court Justices creating a new majority bloc on the court?

Can you imagine the type of person Obama would appoint as ambassador to the United Nations? I mean here is Mister "World Citizen" himself, Barack Obama regularly apologizing for America and acting ashamed of our legacy and accomplishments in the world. Now he'd have the power to have the United States represented by a Blame America First apologist who would be only too happy to have the UN issue edicts scolding America and telling us how how we are to behave on the world stage.

Are we to give up now, and allow Barack Obama to appoint someone from ACORN to run the Federal Elections Commission?

Folks, I'm not trying to scare you -- I'm trying to get you to wake up. You don't have to wonder about who Obama associates himself with and what kind of agenda he has had. It's all there on the record for everyone to see: Barack Obama is a militant leftist, who hangs out with very bad people who say and do things that are very bad to this country.

I love these United States of America to much to sit back and do nothing and to allow a man like this to be President and Commander in Chief.

I cannot subject our military men and women to four years of saluting Barack Obama as their Commander in Chief.

We must fight on, and realize the power we have to change the nation and change the world when we are all committed to the fight.

I've sent this email you're now reading to over 100,000 people. I hope you'll share it with others. Ask them to join our cause and to take action with us. We've got a little more than 3 weeks to act. You can walk precincts or phone voters for the McCain/Palin ticket. Call into talk radio programs, or write letters to the editor of your local newspaper to show your support for Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin.

You can work with organizations such as mine, http://www.OurCountryDeservesBetter.com or join with any other similar organization.

COME JOIN "THE STOP OBAMA TOUR" OCTOBER 15th - 29th

Come out to one of our 35 rallies supporting the McCain/Palin ticket and opposing the Obama/Biden ticket during our national "Stop Obama" tour. (More details on that effort here: http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/nationaltour/index.html )

It doesn't matter how you take action it just matters that you get involved and fight hard, fight honorably, and fight with passion. The love we have for our country, for our freedoms, for the opportunity that is offered, the abilitiy offered to us as Americans to decide who will be our leader -- and who should not be.

I am hoping you'll dedicate yourself to this fight the next three weeks. I can think of few things more important to our families and the future of this nation, and the legacy we leave for future generations of Americans.

Respectfully Yours,

Howard Kaloogian, Our Country Deserves Better Committee - www.OurCountryDeservesBetter.com

Got it? Fight on! We have too much at stake for our nation's future to quit now.

I Invented the Internet (Ep. 5, Pt. 2: McCain Fights Obama)

I Invented the Internet (Ep. 5, Pt. 1: McCain Fights Obama)

I Invented the Internet (Ep. 4: Kill and Destroy)

I Invented The Internet (Ep. 3: True Believers-Part One)

I Invented The Internet (Ep. 2: Osama's Endorsement)

'Episode 1: The Adacity' Obama and Jeremiah Wright

"I Invented The Internet, Episode 1: The Audacity." Lorne Baxter explores the life of Barack Hussein Obama, Jeremiah Wright and the theology behind it. Produced by Illuminati Pictures (www.illuminati.tv). Music by Intelligentzia.

Obama's 'October Surpise' could be game changer

Thomas Lifson at American Thinker says about this video This could be the game changer

A lifelong Democrat who has held political office and been a committeeman, Philip Berg, has brought suit over the real questions raised by the absence of a valid Obama birth certificate. His narrative of the various questions Obama has refused to answer is devastating. Graphics and sound are well-deployed to avoid tedium as factual data is conveyed in a way that allows viewers to absorb it. When he contrasts Obama's behavior when challenged (use perfectly valid legal technicalities to delay) with John McCain's full disclosure of all documentary evidence under a similar challenge (remember the flap over his birth in the Panama Canal Zone? -- who raised those questions, anyway?), there is no doubt in a viewer's mind that there is something seriously wrong here.

Someone with the unlikely name of Molotov Mitchell has produced a 10 minute and 52 second video [watch it below] that could well change the terms of the election -- if enough people watch it. Illuminati Productions has posted it to YouTube. They have provided the voting public a very professionally and engagingly done video generation equivalent of a long detailed article in a place like American Thinker.

It makes accessible to the general public some of the serious questions about Obama's citizenship status that have been vetted almost exclusively in the conservative web world. You can't get most voters to focus on print media in order to entertain a series of hard questions on what seems like a far-fetched notion. Especially those voters who rely on the Big Media. They figure that if this were true, they would have heard about it from the old familiar faces.

But you can get people to watch 11 minutes of interesting video raising a slew of questions for Obama, in fact cornering him, on the question of his birth, citizenship, and eligibility for office as POTUS under the Constitution. Especially if people start talking about the video. It's called viral distribution. A friend emails an Obama-supporting friend and dares him or her to watch.

Take 11 minutes and watch it. Then pass it along to any voter you know. Last chance to win.

Hanson says 'It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings'

President Obama?! God help us all, it's looking more likely daily for one reason and one reason only. Panic. We're in the middle of something here that nobody seems to know how to end. It just sucks all the air out of a political campaign and sanity leaves along with it. 1929. Depression.

Is it happening again? If it does, we can just lean over and kiss our behinds goodbye. Maybe Obama won't be such a terrible President after all, but it won't matter if the bottom really does fall out because none of us will have a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of. But. If.

There's always a but. Usually followed by an if. Nothing is certain in this life but death and taxes.

The fat lady ain't sung yet. She does seem to be warbling, warming up for the final aria.

But if... the rescue plan here and worldwide finally kicks in. If Wall Street finally gets over it's panic party and investors open up their Swiss accounts and start buying stocks again.

Suddenly, the sun will be shining again and voters will get their heads out of their behinds.

Then we will look around and start paying attention to this election and consider who to vote for with our common sense instead of our fears. And Victor Davis Hanson will say "I told you so."

Yet for all the gloom, there are several reasons why this race is by no means over...

It is still possible that, by the week before the election, there will be a sense of respite rather than continued anger and panic — and any day in which hysteria is not the topic of the day benefits McCain. In this regard, McCain must keep reminding in simple fashion that Freddie and Fannie were catalysts that drew in the Wall Street sharks: crooked officials cooked the books to get mega-bonuses; they got away with their crimes by lavishing money on mostly Democratic legislators (including Obama); and hand-in-glove they all covered — and still are covering — their tracks under a reprehensible politically correct cynicism.

Iraq is no longer the contentious issue of the primaries where Democratic candidates outdid each other in predicting failure, but mirabile dictu turning out to be a clear American victory. No one can now believe that withdrawal by March 2008, as Sen. Obama once advocated, would have been anything but an utter calamity. McCain needs to continue to emphasize the dire consequences of accepting such a defeat. The military is not broken, but now the most experienced, battle-hardened force in the world. Iraq is not, as Joe Biden once demanded, trisected into feuding fiefdoms, but an emerging consensual state. The more Iraq is out of the news, the more the growing public acceptance that it is becoming a success. McCain should continue to ask: Did Americans want victory in November 2008 or defeat in March 2008?

The Ayers controversy is cited by the in-the-tank media as signs of McCain’s desperation. Perhaps. But amid the tsk-tsking, there are also certain deer-in-the-headlights moments among Obama’s handlers.

Why? There are simply too many ACORNs, Ayers, Khalidis, Pflegers, Wrights, et al. not to suggest a pattern unbecoming of a future President of the United States. Obama’s past statements about his relationship with Ayers (and others) simply cannot be reconciled with the factual circumstances of their long association. McCain must focus on Ayers between 2001–2005. Then in the climate of national worry following 9/11, Ayers was on recent record as lamenting that he had not set off enough bombs, and yet until 2005 still in contact with Obama — about what and why, voters might wish to know.

When Iraq and Wall Street were off the front page, Obama went moribund in the last months of the Democratic primary. Why? Not because of racism, or even public weariness with Obama’s hope and change fluff, or his flip-flops, or occasional striking ignorance about basic history and geography. He finally began to wear on the public — as he continues to when events of the day do not smother the attention of the voter — for two reasons.

First, the public tires of all the media slant, the celebrity rants, and the shills in popular culture, that in concert hourly berate, beg, threaten, and ridicule voters on behalf of Obama. We are supposed to accept Obama’s apotheosis, replete with Latinate seal, Greek columns, biblical injunctions about the seas and atmosphere, and prophesies that he is The One whom we have been waiting for. The creepy effect of ordering us to accept our own salvation becomes cumulative. So there is a quiet unease among the voters, as there always is in America, when someone finger-points and lectures them what they must do — or else!

Second, for all the two years of nonstop campaigning, Obama somehow still remains an unknown — and for apparently good reason. He has almost no record in the Senate to speak of — other than one as America’s most predictably partisan and liberal Senator. What is known of his Chicago associates is not reassuring, and so the only defense can be silence rather than exegesis. No one knows anything of his record at Columbia University, how he got into Harvard Law School, or what he was doing until he reached Harvard, or exactly what he did as a community organizer in Chicago, or how a person with no record of legal scholarship was about to be offered tenure at the Chicago Law School. Each doubt in and of itself is of little import, but again in aggregate even the generalities make voters uneasy — especially when they hear of fraud among voter registration drives, swarming radio stations to stifle those critical of Obama, and threatened lawsuits to yank pro-McCain ads.

The odds always were against McCain. And the outcome in these last few days may be seem contingent in large part on breaking news beyond the candidates’ control. Yet McCain still has it within his own power to win the election. Obama’s view of America is mostly rosy emulation of the European Union; McCain’s is to restore fiscal sanity, keep our defenses strong, and ensure that American exceptionalism remains a fact, rather than descends into an empty slogan. In that context, it makes no sense to sneer at McCain for being behind, but a great deal to hope that he isn’t.