You can search this story http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/11/america/trooper.php
all day long for some relevant keywords and you won't find them. Among the keywords you won't find in this story are:
"death" - as in the death threats Wooten was found to have made against Palin's family members
"beer" - that Wooten drank on the job in his patrol car
"drunk" - what Wooten was found to have been while on the job
and "taser" - what Wooten did to Palin's 11 year old nephew.

I hope the rest of the international press isn't this selective in its reporting.
Yes, Palin is corrupt in an incredibly small way - if you accept the report's conclusions (there are lots of reasons not to accept them). If Palin were really corrupt, Wooten would have had an unfortunate accident.

BTW, THE finding that Wooten threatened Palin's family members with death was an official finding. How is it that he was allowed to keep his job? Is that the 'old boy network' that Palin fought against?

TOTA

Obama's sympathy for the poor is bound-less because every need he can identify and address is another group of clients for the state.

According to Kathleen Parker's newest article, Obama has a special place in his heart for the Appalachian 'hill people'. Let's be serious. Obama's mentor thinks whites are the enemy (at least Jews, anyway, by his own words). We know what Obama thinks about PA whites, he must think the poor Appalachians are living in caves and still trying to get a grip on 'fire'.

Obama is not evil. He is a selective perfectionist. He sees gross imperfections in the world and he cannot abide them. This is a fine mindset for a charity worker or a law enforcement officer, but not for someone with aspirations to great power.
The world is by nature imperfect; the evolutionist atheists on the left ought to embrace the process whereby the strong survive and the herd is culled, but they do everything they can to retard it (the rest of us care for the unfortunate because they are God's children). Those who believe themselves creations can abide the world's imperfection; this imperfection is not a dead end, and is necessary for the existence of real love, which depends upon a willingness to suffer. Those who accept reality can also abide imperfection, knowing that trying to eradicate it often makes things worse, or creates new problems. But not the leftist - he must agitate to tear down the foundations of the very land upon which he stands because it is not perfect.
It would be one thing if the leftists were willing to explicitly lay out what they want to do, as a few brave souls have done. But they have to wrap their intentions in words that mask their actual desires - they know that people don't want what they want, so they hide it and try to fool people. By doing so they subvert democracy. Republicans lie, but they aren't lying about their basic intentions.
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Obama's interview with Gibson was laughable. Of course these items are handled as "some on the right are saying", or "McCain is attacking you by saying". When these issues are addressed, Obama is given an out right off the bat - it's clearly all irrelevant and political, only the right gives a fig about it.
The public knows more about Todd Palin's 22 year old DUI than they know about a half dozen Obama black holes: Ayers, Khalidi, Raines and Johnson, Fannie/Freddie money, and Obama and Ayers pissing $110 million down the drain with their activist handling of the Annenberg Challenge.
There's a reason, of course. If taxpayers know the garbage that Obama approved in his stewardship of the AC, whilst rejecting fundamental study areas like math and science, he would not win the election. This is his only executive experience, where he was able to make decisions, and they were about Obama and politics first, a lot of other things, and finally, about quality education.

Fear not: Their answers to the Ayers thing will not hold. They're saying now that Obama didn't know Ayers was a terrorist when he went to his house to launch his demagoguery. That's absurd on its face. He says he assumed Ayers had repented - is it really conceivable that he never discussed this with anyone? Ayers was clear and adamant about his virtue, saying he would to it all over again, only better.

Here are the first two clear lessons learned from this:
1. The fact that Ayers is a 'respected figure' in Chicago politics and a professor there tells us only that Chicago politics is extraordinarily radical, not that Ayers is not a radical marxist. Apparently, you can be anything other than a conservative and find some place in Chicago politics. There is a reason Alinsky (sp? - who cares, he's a monster) chose Chicago, and he clearly planted seeds there. It was the Alinsky people who brought Obama there to work, once Obama was determined to go there because it was so radical.
2. It will not matter what the bulk of Obama's supporters come to believe about Ayers, it will be irrelevant. They will still support the man. Even if the once anticipated Michelle Obama "whitey" tape actually appears, most of their supporters won't care, and will think the right is evil for bringing it out. In short, the bulk of Obama's supporters have motivations that transcend national cohesion, national security, and common sense.

TOTA

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE48S8JW20080929?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10279

Kathleen Parker wrote an article that was otherwise not worth reading except that 1. it appeared in National Review, and 2. She called on Palin to step down.
Now the old media are using Parker to bludgeon Palin. The Reuters article cites three elements that paint a troubling picture for Palin. 1. Tasergate 2. The media have piled on 3. 'Conservatives' are starting to pile on.

THAT IS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no Reuters article without Kathleen Parker's stupid piece.  "Tasergate" is a left wing lynching, and old news, and no one takes seriously a media article saying a politician is in trouble because the media is piling on her. There is no article without Parker. Brooks has zero credibility with conservatives, they couldn't have done it with him alone. Parker doesn't either, especially after this, but now Reuters had two names to throw in - National Review and Brooks.

Is this what Parker pictured unfolding? How about an apology for throwing blood in the water when the old media fish were already circling? Parker owes Gov. Palin a tearful apology. It matters not a whit that she thinks she was speaking truth. NO GOOD COULD COME OF IT so it amounts to piling on a good person who has already been mercilessly abused.

Now as the media sharks are using Parker to try and destroy Palin, Parker continues to try to justify herself, but she knows now that what she did was narcissistic and destructive, not to mention incredibly stupid and ill-advised, assuming she actually wants to see a republican president.

Did she suppose that McCain might actually dump her? NO MATTER THE STATED REASON that is what people would perceive if she left. He's going to throw away all of the interest generated among women? Does he put another woman on the ticket? Anything Mac would do would look like naked voter manipulation, or would be resented, or both. Parker is THOUGHTLESS or MAD. The only winning scenario if Palin leaves is if the public loves her so much that they punish the democrats and the press for the abominable treatment of her. Not likely. It would probably be seen as a vindication of their nastiness.

The left now loves Parker, and most of the right would rather never hear another word from her, ever. If Obama wins and this Parker insanity plays any role in it, she's the new Tokyo Rose.

TOTA

It's a real pleasure to see the McCain campaign surging, and to see the Senator consistently talking like a conservative. He's said enough about the issues that matter - judges, border security, taxes, etc. - that conservatives feel they can hold him accountable if he strays from promises. And the environmental issues are likely to disappear - they are being overshadowed, and a consensus is starting to build that the Earth is entering a cooling period, and that we can do little about climate change in any event, absent complete cooperation from burgeoning China and India. McCain can point to economic uncertainty and the real lack of significant consensus on climate change as reasons to put off action in favor of further study.
None of us doubt that America will always be first in McCain's heart, and his desire to see government contained appears to be real, as does his zest for new energy production. In short, even without Palin, McCain is looking like the kind of candidate we could have stomached in any case. Had he picked Romney, given the current meltdown in the credit markets, conservatives would have found other reasons to be energized. Outside the party, there is another source of energy that ought to make the party react like it's been slapped - Obama's apparent Marxist leanings and racialist thinking.

But with Sarah Palin in tow, McCain's swelling campaign has become a tidal wave. In addition to the party loving her, she connects with normal people, and contrasts sharply in nearly every regard to the charlatans on the other side.  Mrs. Palin appears to be so fundamentally decent that she serves as something of a sanity check: If you find yourself hating this woman, there is good reason to believe that you suffer from some kind of mental illness. You may find yourself surrounded with people who agree with you, who likewise hate her. They, too, are likely suffering from mental illness.
Consider: Biden is a foreign policy 'expert' who voted for the war, against the surge, and wanted to break Iraq into three permanently warring pieces. He opposes missile defense, going back to the beginning. He's scary on foreign policy, and a giant liberal on other issues. He's got lots of experience sitting in the senate, but very little experience making sound decisions there. He would make a lousy VP or President. But we don't hate him. I haven't heard a hateful word spoken about him on talk radio, and I listen to about 10 hours/day. In contrast, many on the left have a pulsing, visceral hatred for Sarah Palin. They want to see her destroyed and humiliated. Those people should seek therapy. Har har - No, I'm not kidding. If the idea of Sarah Palin fills your heart with anger and hatred, you are in need of help.

Back to luck. Yes, Palin represents an incredible bit of luck for the GOP. The energy issue likely killed Obama before Palin even came along. That, her, his gaffes, and his increasingly shrill and strident approach have cooked him for good. But it took Palin - a stroke of luck, exactly the right person at the right time and in the right context - to drive the nails into the coffin. With any further luck and good fortune, President McCain and VP Palin will actually do something significant and improve the brand of the GOP. If they can't, we're probably cooked. This is the third election in a row in which we got lucky.

In 2000, had Gore not shown himself in the debates to be an insufferable blowhard, he'd probably have won. Had he not insisted on a selective recount, he'd have lost with great honor and probably won in 2004. Had the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth not come along with their book, showing what a phony preening jackass John Kerry is, and had he not been such a flaming liberal, Kerry would have won. The Democrats have yet to nominate a moderate. The GOP has yet to craft a message that is widely appealing to Hispanics. If they ever do, leftists will form a human chain on the border to keep any more of them out. As things stand, our demographic advantages are diminishing. It's true that conservatives breed more than liberals, but their kids then get run through the leftist-dominated culture and consciousness-forming institutions.

In short, our luck will run out some day unless something fundamental changes. Perhaps the conservative/reform branding by McCain/Palin will stick. Something has to change, we can't count on luck forever.

TOTA

(End the debate, Senator Kerry - show us your scars.)

The movement left isn't unearthing much in Alaska, so they're moving on to warmer climes, Africa. Yes, the dark continent has yielded dark secrets sure to sink Palin - specifically, her connection to a man in Africa who has been called a witchhunter (at least by the leftie author of the hit piece). I take it apart here.

But since we're in Africa, let's linger and consider irony. It turns out that over the last ten years, Joe Biden and wife have given $3690 to charity, on a total income of $2.4 million. Over that same period, a man named George has lived in Africa, and has reportedly earned about $3650 (George says $120 over that period, $1/month, but others say $1/day). To make things even more incredible, George is sort of connected to Biden. He's Obama's half brother! Obama visited George two years ago. Obama visited George two years ago. (not a mistype. I repeated it two times to emphasize that Obama visited his destitute brother George just two years ago, and is aware of his brother's borderline existence). Two years later, George is still raking in $1/day.
If my dates are right, two years ago was the year Obama published his second autobiography, earning him something like $4 million in one fell swoop. Obama gave a lot to charity that year, about 1.5% of his income, though at least 2/3 of what he gave did nothing but promote leftist causes. Not one hungry mouth was filled with the bulk of what little the Obamas gave to charity, certainly not George's.

But assuming that charity works its way around the globe, the math is just too convenient to pass up: Biden's charitable giving met Obama's brother's meager needs almost precisely for a full decade. Be sure to thank him, Barack - he may not have actually been thinking about George, but you weren't either.

TOTA

Obama camp: I'll save you the trouble. Here's your next press release:

"It took the International Press to reveal the disturbing nature of Mrs. Palin's religious beliefs. She has close ties to a Mr. Thomas Muthee, an African man who is essentially a witchdoctor, a man who has been active in the brutal persecution of religious minorities, arguably something akin to religious cleansing. Mrs. Palin calls the man, 'bold'. From her other related comments, it appears that Mrs. Palin believes the man's ';powerful' prayers had no small affect on the outcome of her successful bid for governor, completed less than two years ago. It has yet to be determined if Mrs. Palin sought Mr. Muthee's 'bold' counsel during her very short stint as governor. We know from experience that religion and politics don't mix. It seems the Sarah Palin has brought us to the sad place where that iron rule must be amended to add, "Neither do politics and witchcraft mix".
Worse still, it has been revealed that Mrs. Palin is a member of what could be called a doomsday cult. The cultists are trained survivalists, and believe that Alaska will be a refuge after armageddon, which the Bible says is inevitable. Mrs. Palin's church is described as a "Bible believing" church (snicker). Do we want someone who is actively planning for armageddon just one cancer-riddled stress-blown artery away from the big red button? Rumor has it that Reagan had "Push here to eradicate evil" engraved on the button. Mrs. Palin has described herself as a Reaganite."

Drudge is great, but he links to some of the worst drivel. An example is his link today to the London Times online story connecting Palin to a charismatic African preacher. His name is Thomas Muthee, he runs a congregation in Kenya. Here are the talking points that potentially emerge for the hungry movement left:

First, it's noted that Palin spoke highly of Mr. Muthee, particularly in regard to his blessing her in 2005, prior to her gubernatorial run. In reading her account of it, one is struck by Palin's humility, "As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying “Lord make a way, Lord make a way."  And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step." And that’s exactly what happened.”'
The article continues, quoting Palin as saying “So, again, very very powerful, coming from this church,” after the presiding pastor introduced her by commenting on the “prophetic power” of the 2005 event.
Here are the talking points.
1. Palin is a religious nut, she thinks prayer affects things.  
So do most Americans, and so does science. It's not clear how, but it is clear that prayer does affect things. Did Muthee's prayer make her governor? Probably not, but it certainly didn't hurt. Does Palin think that it was responsible? Probably not. And it goes without saying that Palin would tell her fellow worshipers that the prayers made in their church make a difference. What's the alternative? "Don't bother, no one is there, you're just talking to yourselves. I only come to this church to improve my political viability."
2. Palin thinks this guy is responsible for her being governor.
This argument will be made, but anyone making it is not a serious person.

Second, the article goes on to paint Mr. Muthee as a witch doctor. In the 1990s, crime was plaguing Mr. Muthee's community. After prayer and fasting, the church members identified a woman as the cause of the problem, which Muthee referred to as "a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place." As the article describers her, "Mama Jane ran a “divination” centre called the Emmanuel Clinic." She was eventually harassed by the police and left town. The church claims that crime then fell to zero.
One juicy talking point emanates from this:
1. Palin is connected to a witch doctor.  
Is it incredible to think that some Africans might speak of witchcraft where Americans would speak of demons? Of course no such things could actually exist, so Muthee looks like an idiot anyway. If crime did go down, these folks probably did the right thing - and they took their time doing it, six months of prayer and investigation. And the town turned against the woman en masse - but they're just a bunch of savage Africans, right Timesonline? You know more about what was happening in their community than they do. Clearly there was no foundation in truth to their claims, since prayer and other superstitious mumbo-jumbo had poisoned their minds. They are religious wackos, but 'Mama Jane' and her "divination centre" are the voices of sanity. Muthee and his witch hunting clan believe in hateful religious poison, MJ believes in something vaguely religious that is not Christianity, so she's a big hero or a big victim, depending on the narrative. She couldn't be a criminal, or a charlatan, since those arrayed against her represent everything wrong with humanity.

And are we to assume that Mrs. Palin ought to have investigated Mr. Muthee's claims before being seen in the same church with him? Fine, let's apply that argument to Obama's pastor/mentor, the incredibly pissed off "Reverand Wright", and we'll see where that leads.  Mrs. Palin heard him talk about the power of prayer eradicating crime from an otherwise peaceful neighborhood, a good thing. She had no reason to believe he had conducted his own little inquisition.

Finally, the grandaddy. Here is the last paragraph:
"Her June 8 speech was to mark the graduation of students from the Wasilla Assembly of God’s Masters’ Commission, which, as Pastor Ed Kalins explains, believes Alaska will be the refuge for American evangelicals upon the coming “End of Days”. After her speech, Mrs Palin was presented with an honorary Masters’ Commission diploma."

It just doesn't get any better than this.
1. Palin belongs to a group that thinks Alaska will be some kind of survivalist stronghold. She's basically a militia member, the ultimate freak.
We can only pray that we can actually get to Alaska if nuclear war breaks out. This sounds like old fashioned state love and pride to me, as well as common sense. In a survival at any cost situation, Alaska would be a good place to be, if you knew how to live a rugged life. But that's wacko talk, right? End of the world  - ooooh! I agree, so let's beg off with the environmental disaster garbage we've been hearing for generations. Everything is the end of the world to the left.
2. This is the only degree Palin has (add whatever punchline fits).
This is part of what the left hates about her. She hasn't been through the cookie-cutter conformity mill of highest education. How can anyone without a doctorate in leftist BS be capable of 'running' America? To the rest of us, this is appealing. She ran a successful business, then apparently brought the small town of Wasilla out of the stone age. Anyway, this degree is worth more than what some colleges pump out.
But to the left, the math is clear: Palin thinks Muthee is powerfu l + Muthee believes in witchcraft = Palin is the high priestess of witchhunts and superstitious religious gobbledygook, and it's time to sell the population on the idea that she rides a broomstick to her wacko church.

Now they have even more reason to hate her. She actually believes in a power greater than the state, she believes in a loving God. And to guide her life she follows a book that is essentially dedicated to Christ. Obama's unfolding game plan was laid down virtually point by point in the book "Rules for Radicals", which is literally dedicated to Satan. It was written by a communist who speaks admiringly of the antichrist. By the left's logic, I guess that makes Obama Satan's little helper, or something. I don't know, it's all pretty confusing.

TOTA

Steely fingernails are raking the political chalkboard. Three high-ranking wing-nuts on the left have said that Christ was a community organizer, whereas Pilate was a governor. One of these schlemiels was Donna Brazille, Gore's campaign manager. Another was a sitting congressman, so this latest bromide comes straight out of the democrat establishment, not the leftwing bileosphere.

Precisely what reaction is this supposed to inspire among sane people?"Golly gee. I never thought of it that way. I'd better vote for Obama, since he is so Christ-like."

Who is the intended audience for this latest ditty? Christians hear this kind of statement and they literally want to throw up – it's bordering on blasphemy.

The movement left's consistent mis-reading of sane people confirms their essential madness. They stare into the face of sanity and see very little that is familiar to them.


Put aside these people comparing Palin to Pilate. By the time anyone reads these words there will probably be comparisons being made to Hitler – they are already saying she thinks like an Islamic fascist. In spite of the movement left's attempts to neuter society, we still have enough raw instinct left to smell fear, and you lot on the left positively reek of it.

In their sheer panic, the movement left is doing much of our job for us. Their insulting behavior will serve to insulate Governor Palin from future attacks if something meaningful is discovered. Their bias is utterly transparent; we know she is fundamentally decent, and she is not corrupt. Unless you can alter our thinking on that level, America won't be buying whatever you throw at her. She is now above all but the most sobering criticism.

Presently, new 'revelations' are meeting this kind of response:
"Nice try. 80%+ of Alaskans like her and think she's a reformer. They've actually watched her work. Now, after having essentially told us that she is a Christ killing pig with the mindset of an Islamic fascist, you are supposed to be believed? You are a sad and sorry lot. Why don't you go have yourselves a nice nap. You're obviously tired and cranky. Again."


The movement left could have approached Palin with sanity and calm, but they are, at root, petulant children, as they show time and again. With this ongoing and worsening tantrum, they have pretty much bullet-proofed Mrs. Palin from damaging criticism.



Back to The Creator being a 'community organizer'. There is so much wrong with this that it's hard to know where to start. In the interests of brevity, let's consider just a few of the ways this rubs sane people the wrong way.

But before I get going, if there are any Obama cultists reading this (fat chance – is anyone reading this?) can we at least stipulate that Obama and Christ are not one and the same? No? Anyway....
 
First, Christ actually accomplished something and had a boss. Obama sat around griping and perhaps helping people with a few bills, but had no defined responsibilities as far as anyone can tell. The campaign touts no great stories of his saving any small part of the south Chicago community. After a lot of pissing and moaning, southside Chicago remained essentially the same place as it was, in spite of Obama's messianic ministrations. One could probably not be faulted for guessing his was largely a screw-off job, since he has never noted an accomplishment from that period of his life. Christ's 'community organizing' forever changed the world and he was tortured to death for it.

Second, Christ encouraged the downtrodden to change, to turn away from earthly concerns and embrace a unique way of living and thinking about their place in the world and their relation to God. Obama encourages a lot of pissing and moaning about earthly circumstances, encouraging the downtrodden to nurse envy and blame others.

Third, Christ forsook material comforts. Obama, until recently, flew on 'O'Force One', a private plane with more lavish accommodations than Air Force One. On that plane was a throne, a large leather one, with "President" stitched into it. For a time, it was from that throne that Obama further honed the skills he garnered from his hard work as a community organizer. Christ has yet to ascend to his earthly throne.

Fourth, Christ was humble. Though perfect, had He made a mistake he'd have admitted it. Obama thinks he is perfect and can't see even that mistake, let alone any political mistake. While the rest of us are waiting for The Creator to return, Obama is the one Obama's been waiting for.

Fifth, Christ encouraged us to give out of kindness and love. Obama wants you to give at the point of a gun. This whole notion that the leftist philosophy is close to Christianity is a farce akin to heresy. Free will is central to mankind's nature and relation to our Creator, it is what makes meaningful love possible, the reason we were created to begin with. Every instinct of the left is to crush free will, and to subjugate us to the service of the government and its clients. Christian charity elevates everyone involved, government redistribution of wealth has never had such an affect on people.

Sixth, The Creator of the universe is pro life. His work proves it. Once human beings begin to develop, the results are predictable if we don't tamper with them. Accidents of nature can squelch life in the womb, but far more often it is human hands at work, tearing up another of The Creator's masterpieces. Obama, more than anyone else in American political history, is pro-abortion; he even supports eliminating every existing state restriction on every abortion procedure. Surely the Creator of human life cannot be happy when he sees it promiscuously created and destroyed.

Lucky #7: Others told the story of Christ's life, with his direction. These were biographies. Obama favors autobiographies. Ah yes, who but Obama could contain, even in two books, the monumental achievements of his life?

I will say it again and again: the fact that this man has already penned two autobiographies, in spite of accomplishing approximately diddly squat with his years of public service, tells sane people all they need to know about him.


This is a season of insanity in an age of madness. Hillary Clinton looks positively Reaganesque next to Mr. Obama, and I can't be alone in longing for the days of good old Bill Clinton – considering the present alternative. Is there a conservative anywhere on the planet who would not break their arms pulling the lever for Bill before they would even consider voting for Obama? Compared to Obama:

Bill Clinton is a veritable giant among statesmen, a renaissance man, a gentleman of the highest character, and a man of unparalleled dignity, honor, and self-control. A man not to be trifled with on the international stage, Bill's calling is selfless service, and he lives and breathes America.

Obama lives and breathes Obama.


TOTA

Oinkgate is better than the alternative. The original script of the speech had Obama calling Palin a "pork-eating white devil'. They scratched it at the last minute because (and I quote an Obama spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity), "Pork is the other white meat!"

The original version also had a different approach to McCain. My source got hold of the original (again I quote), "And the pig's running mate, the less popular member of the ticket, is like some broken down old rag doll that some ratty mongrel dog named "Bush" can't stop humping!"  (at this point Barack was to gyrate his hips for about 80 seconds, miming sex, complete with miming of hair pulling and butt slapping. Then:) "McCain is broken! Look at his wacky arms and legs! Does everyone here know that he can't lift his arms above his shoulders, or bend his knees? What a stinky old retard!"
In the end, after a raucus internal debate, and much disappointment within the campaign, they decided to instead call McCain a stinky old fish.
They knew that the original version of the old political bromide just referred to a fish. By adding, "stinky and old" - the most common perjoratives leveled at McCain by Obama's top ranks - they knew they could get their bitter, brittle comtempt for the man across to the public.

Oinkgate is the just latest flub by Obama. He either
1. Showed terrible judgment in using the remark innocently, or
2. Used it purposely in hopes of getting a giggle from his base and tarnishing Palin.

Either way, he's proven once again that he's not the slickest fish in the bucket. He cannot reliably gauge the impact of his statements and actions.

Since we cannot know his motivations for certain, let's isolate the facts that can be gleaned, facts that are indelibly true, facts as hard as diamond:

1. Mr. Obama has bad judgment, period. Intended as an insult of not, it was obviously scripted, and a terrible idea.

2. Mr. O's fans are a crude and nasty lot. The crowd, at least, was sure he was talking about Palin, and they were gleeful. They could barely contain their excitement - the man child had finally fought back against Palin in a way they could relate to, "Well, she's a pig! Neener, neener, neener!". Classy guy, classy crowd. I expect more from my four year old, and when my two year old acts this crudely I'm disappointed.
These people are the dregs of society: hangers on, angry misfits, and intolerant malcontents. And the crowd is no better.

You can be certain that if the shoes were precisely on the other feet - if the same remark were made before a conservative crowd and aimed by a conservative at a liberal - there would at least have been gasps, probably murmurs, and possibly boos. Definitely not the universal glee expressed by Obama's pathetic lot.

3. Obama never does anything wrong in Obama's mind. Here he may have insulted a woman, and his reaction is not to plead innocence and apologize nonetheless, his reaction is petulance.

4. Obama is a crude and thoughtless person. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he wasn't talking about Palin. How did he react to what must have seemed like a strange reaction from the audience? He could have wondered - "That's a shopworn phrase, why are these people going nuts? Have I simply been incredibly boring up until now? Oh - maybe they think I'm talking about Palin. I'd better clarify this right now, and offer an earnest apology to her. I don't agree with her about anything, but she's a lady, and an American." He didn't think this or say anything to qualify his remark, instead he plowed on to compare McCain to a stinky old fish, and talk more about Palin. He relished the reaction, because he is small-minded. And let's admit it - he is, uh, boorish, and, uh, painfully, uh, boring.

5. Obama and his advisors are terrible strategists. I'm sitting here in my underwear, and I can think of several ways Obama could have turned this to his advantage. I mentioned one earlier, the script should have included an immediate aplogy, perhaps a scolding of the crowd, uplifing words about civility, and a call for a new start to the termperament of the campaign. Another option would be to do what he never seems capable of doing - saying he is sorry. He could have said that he didn't mean it that way, but probably should have judged by the reaction of the crowd that some would misinterpret it. An appropriate line might have been, "I think it is fair to say that Gov. Palin is a beautiful woman. She resonates, and her story resonates, with millions of American women. What presidential candidates say has to be said with due respect to their opponents; our words have to be weighed with care, and I failed to do that. That I've given obvious offense has caused me considerable worry and upset, and I want every American woman across the country to know that I am truly sorry. I will speak with greater care in the future."
Something like that would actually cause people to take a second look at the guy. Too grown up, and too late now, after his "Enough is enough" tirade.

I literally disagree with Obama about everything, and I could do a better job of running his campaign than the nitwits he has handling him now. If Obama's campaign wants to hire me, they can reach me at 1-900-OLD-FISH. After listening to the 90 minute tape*, they can leave me a message (calls will be billed on your statement as, "I'm addicted to porn.com".)
*($33,600/minute - the same as the per plate charge for attendees at the recent Obama fundraiser at Jon Bon Jovi's house).

Is it too early to caution against a pity crisis? With Biden urging the lame to walk and the O-Man making one gaffe after another, this is becoming a three-ring dog and pony show. Will they end up looking so bad that millions of morons will vote for them out of pity?

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If you haven't had enough, here are a few bad jokes:

Q: What is the difference between Obama and a giant, dry sponge?
A: 37 years of marinating in leftist drivel

Rumor has it that the combination of Obama's miraculous powers and his support for stem cell research will soon have Richard Gere strolling out of his grave.
(The original version of this 'joke' referred to Christopher Reeve. Boo! Bad taste!)

TOTA

Here is a link to a letter from a Palin detractor in Wasilla: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/130532
This has gotten some play, so let's look at it.

1. The writer has personal problems with Sarah and her authenticity. Consider this statement:
"...by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans."
The next statement?
"Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters."

And her husband is a snowmobile racer. So in what regard is their life not like native Alaskans? This betrays a deeper animus - Kilkenny loves Alaska, and she considers Palin to be an outsider, inauthentic. How can this not color everything else she says?

2. The writer is a political activist. She worked for ten years with "student voting". That's probably a politically palatable synonym for something leftist. And her position problems with Palin all come from the left side. The polar bear is not endangered by any measure, this lady wants to keep it on the list so that the frozen tundra can remain undisturbed. She's in a tizzy because Palin doesn't swallow the 'global warming' bilge. I would bet a limb that she's a radical pro-abortion feminist. Any takers?

3. Palin's greatest reform victory, putting the energy companies in their place, gets about twenty words. This woman doesn't even qualify the success, she just states that Sarah did it. Does that mean it actually happened? Historians - wake up! The lady has spoken. We can officially give Gov. Palin credit for something significant. If you have any other questions of Ms. Kilkenny, Alaska's chief historian, she can be reached at 1-800-DUM-MUTT. 
If you can't reach her, there's plenty of Sarah fodder on her list. The world-threatening disaster of __________ (fill in the blank with some petty BS that this vindictive, angry harpy has on her list) is much worse than a state-wide change that improved the prospects for every Alaskan family. Let's be sure to keep all of this in perspective. 

4. The writer thinks her fellow residents are low-grade morons, and apparently they are. How else can we explain Palin's 80+% job approval rating, and widespread popularity in Wasilla? According to this lady, virtually every public action Palin has ever made has been an unmitigated disaster. How can the people of Alaska be so blind and stupid? If you didn't believe it already, this is proof that the writer is a big fat liberal.

5. Anyone can find a list of mistakes made by a public official. This wacko-nutjob finds fault with everything Palin did. She says Palin is not a fiscal conservative because she initiated a sales tax, even on food! Wait a minute - Wasilla had no sales tax? Gee, it's infrastructure must have been wonderful. And I would bet a dime to a dollar that the sales tax on food applies as it normally does - on prepared food, not on groceries. Did the writer know this and simply fail to mention it? And for the writer's edification: fiscal conservatism doesn't always mean spending less. It means spending wisely. Was the sports complex a bad idea? Perhaps, no one is perfect, except of course Ms. Kilkenny - perfectly vindictive.

6. Jealous. Jealous of Palin's many positive attributes, and jealous of her success. This lady is politically active - she's carried a bleeding grudge against Sarah into the national campaign. Why didn't she run for mayor? My guess is that we'll find out why when we talk to the other citizens of Wasilla. There's a good chance that this lady is considered bright, but nasty, and perhaps mental. Decidedly not leadership material. But you may have launched yourself into liberal prominence, Ms. Kilkenny - the left will love you for it.

7. The writer also shows her radical liberalism over the 'censorship' issue. We know that the list being circulated of "books Sarah wants to ban" is a fake - some of the books on the list were published years after the event. So let me ask Ms. Kilkenny - Does the local library subscribe to "The Advocate", the leading homosexual magazine? Why not? Are there no gays in Wasilla, and don't they deserve some support from local government? How about movies, does the library rent movies? Do they have "Greasy Truckers and Double-Wide Asses?" No? Why not? What if someone requests it? How about the series of books on assassination and bomb making? Your small town library already censors its contents, Ms. Kilkenny. You simply have liberal ideas of what pollutants ought to enter our kids' minds. Like all leftists, you laud the worst sewage vomited up as free 'speech' and never consider where it ends up Nor do you consider whether the founders ever intended bestiality and CG kiddie porn to be free speech (the left side of the Supreme Court believes they are free speech).

That's enough. This is a bitter, bitter woman. She's a hard-core leftist radical who ran up against a real woman more than a decade ago and hasn't had a good night's sleep since.

TOTA

In his Stephanopolous interview, Obama claimed to have considered military service, he said he reflected on it upon graduation from high school - there was no war on, so what caused him to sit down and give it so much thought was that he signed up for Selective Service.

But he graduated high school in 1979, and the SS was instituted by Carter in 1980.

Obviously the entire story is a contrivance. And he said it with such earnestness. Here's what this episode tells us: He is a natural born liar, and he is surrounded by idiots. No one can keep him on a leash short enough to avoid colossal blunders like this one. Clearly, he's trying to pump up his 'natural security credentials' and his patriotism. So he tells a naked lie. McCain gets his arms broken, and the closest this fake comes to military service is lying about having considered it 30 years ago.

TOTA

It matters not to the left that 80+% of Alaskans approve of Palin's work. Alaska had been considered' in play' in the election, which means it was a relatively moderate state. If it was split 50/50 Dem/Rep, that means that more than 60% of democrats are overlooking party, overlooking her 'archaic' position on abortion, and saying, "I'm man or woman enough to admit that someone from the other party is doing a damn fine job.'

Not the movement left. They are consumed with hatred for Sarah. They see in her a possible resurgence of conservatism, a possible start to turning back the decades of liberal ideas dominating government, the arts, academia, and even the press. If she is nearly as popular with Americans as she is with Alaskans, most people will just turn off the old media if it craps on her. The leftist media will have to give her a fair shake, so her message will get out. And that will be the end of leftism as a political force in America, at least for decades if not generations. Sarah can get away with saying much more, and saying it much more bluntly than a man could. We already know she is a caring person (except for the lunatic left, they think she is either stupid or cruel for birthing her child Trig after she knew about his Down's Syndrome. The people making this argument are numerous, and to a person they are mentally ill).
I've watched hours of interviews with Mrs. Palin, she is sharper than any politician I have ever seen. When she answers questions, she treats opposing arguments with the right tone, puts exactly the right emphasis where it should be, and leaves no necessary argument unvoiced. She is going to do extremely well with this week's ABC interview, and on October 2nd, before upwards of 30 million people, she is going to beat poor Joe Biden like a drum. People will pity him, with good reason. The main thing Sarah needs to worry about is beating him so badly that it evens out due to widespread sympathy for Biden. For this and so many other reasons, not the least of which is her obvious goodness, virtue, and beauty, the movement left HATES her.

HATE

The question is often asked, 'If you could go back in time and murder Hitler before he came to power, would you do so?' You can bet that many on the left view Sarah as similarly monstrous. Yes, that is how deranged they are. Consider: To countless abortion radicals, a country where women are forced to put their babies up for adoption instead of aborting them might as well be a giant concentration camp, the nexus of repressive evil in the modern world. Similarly, some view her as a monster because she would help bring millions of Americans out of dependence and to self-reliance, real pride, without the government carrying them every step of the way. The government can instill pride through educating and preparing people for life - meaningful pride is found in living it well as a free and independent person. That satisfaction is the enemy of the left, people who experience it do not desire to become clients of the state, which is all the left really has to offer, before the country turns to mush and the bombs fall.
Sarah repulses all of their plans, and their reaction is precisely what we would expect.

But these hypocrites cannot force Sarah to do anything. She is a lioness who will eat them - and their lunch. The movement left would love to lock up people like her, put them behind barbed wire. Incredibly, a sitting congressman, Dick Armey, said as much at a CPAC conference in the 1990s. He's right - this is what the left is fond of doing whenever they take uncontested power. They lock up those who would stir up dissent against the government (them), or they simply murder them.
It happened to at least 95 million individuals in the 20th century, almost all killed by leftist governments*. The pattern is always the same: Shut down alternate media, take away the guns, and start rounding up undesirables and those whose lives are 'not worth living'. It's happened so many times that the pattern is set. Leftist utopia is dystopia, and not everyone wants to cooperate, so the gutters run with blood.
Consider how closely the fondest desires of the left in recent years coincide with the pattern: For years they were eager to ban and/or register guns, registration being key to later confiscation. Then people realized that this was insanity so the left reluctantly withdrew into the shadows. Now they desire more than anything to punish their political opposition, the Bush administration, and also to silence the opposition of the new media. It's no surprise that accompanying advocacy of the 'Fairness Doctrine' crusade, already, is the concession that blogs and internet content will have to be regulated as well, to insure fairness.
We're in the early stages of their long campaign. If it's not derailed, the end is predictable.

Sarah gives us hope and drives us to work for the movement, even if only through giving our labor through direct contributions. That is another thing the left must crush, our hope.
You can be certain that this is a fact: Destroying the individual named "Sarah Palin" is now the primary and most urgent object of the left. Our lioness may require our assistance, be ready.

TOTA

*From the tome, "The Black Book of Communism", written by French leftists. They estimate 95-200 million people, so I have quoted the low figure. But what's 105 million individuals, give or take? They were standing in the way of the utopia that the brilliant governing leftists sought to create. As Lenin said, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Last week, O'Reilley helped try to steal the thunder from McCain by allowing the dishonorable Barack Obama to grab some of the spotlight on the night of McCain's big speech. Less known is the degree to which OR has apparently bought into the power of the old media and the radical leftist new media.

Discussing the attacks on Sarah Palin and her family early last week, OR rightly concluded that they were way over the top, and further proof that the media is in the tank for Obama. Then, incredibly, he repeatedly argued that if Palin where hit with one more scandal she would probably have to bow out of the race. Sir, if the attacks are scurrilous, why should it matter how numerous they are or how fast them come?
Forcing Sarah out is exactly what the left wants. Her authenticity has them wetting their pants. So they are pooping in the kitchen sink and then throwing it at Sarah. And O'Reilley is there cheering them on: Keep it up and I'll have to start talking about how she needs to drop out.
Then the narrative becomes, 'Why isn't stubborn Sarah Palin seeing what everyone in the know sees? She needs to exit the national stage! Too scandalous, tsk tsk.' These people are out to obliterate Sarah; they are attempting to destroy her as a person and as a political force (the first woudl have to precede the second). They want her to be a laughing stock, another Harriet Myers, but smeared with mud and worse, broken and bowing to ongoing disgrace.

Don't give these hateful people any help, Bill.

TOTA

ASSORTED LEFTISTS:

Republicans have a lioness, you have a 'widdle putty tat', and it's driving you crazy.

Those of you with no scruples are feeling the thrill of letting your true nature show through. You others that sound like you've gone off the deep end are simply temporarily deranged by the sudden change of tide.
Both groups know that the election lynch-pin is Palin. If you can pull that pin, or damage it, you might possibly win in November. If Palin shines as she always has, you lot have ZERO hope. Zilch, zippo, nada. ZEEERO. That's one zero, followed by nothing. And things will go much better for republicans in the congress and state houses than anyone now predicts if Palin holds up. Oh - and you don't have to worry about us being this nasty about one of your pro-abortion hysterical feminists when you finally put another woman up for a top job - it's not our nature to be this nasty. That's why you fail in talk radio - your nastiness comes through and most people find it tedious and/or repulsive.

No matter how bad things are, you haven't changed the structure and makeup of the country enough for voters to put this strange and untested man into the seat of world power. McCain probably could have picked anyone and won.
Most people see in Palin a strong, smart, and courageous woman. The left is so blinded by political ambition that you no longer recognize virtue when you see it, or you are incapable of acknowledging it. The more your attacks on her are at variance with what the rest of the population sees in her, the more lunatic you seem to the normal people.

The left in general does not understand America. Only about 20% of the voting population thinks like they do, and another 15-20% are so dependent upon government that they support your people out of self interest. That's your hard core support, 35-40%. The rest of the population is relatively self-reliant, and only susceptible to the kind of blatant demagoguery peddled by Obama when things are very uncertain. ("we are the ones we've been waiting for" - this is pure, un-distilled Marxist activist tripe.)
Notice that Obama hit his highs when the credit crisis was blowing up, oil prices were at their highest, and it wasn't clear that real progress had been made in Iraq. All of these issues are beyond his touch now; his positions are either gone or unsustainable in a general election. It matters not a whit what you leftists think of his ideas, the country at large is not going to swallow, no matter how loudly the left screams "racism". Most of the rest of us think his ideas stink, because they always fail wherever and whenever they're tried. It takes the hubris of thinking you are smarter than everyone else to even peddle his snake oil.

Most of what he had to 'offer' middle American voters is gone. He now sounds to more and more people like a typical leftist peddling favors for votes. And his favors come with strings - his 'tax cuts' are largely credits doled out for government-approved behavior only. Every instinct the man has is to look for systemic unfairness, racism, 'warmongering', or free market excess as the root of every problem, and government and soft power as the answers. Europe shows you what government and soft power get you. America is not buying.


After this election the country will be more divided than ever. Unfortunately for the left, your best spokesman will probably be irretrievably discredited as at least a closet racist and capitaphobe. When the economy improves, it will be another election under the country's belt during which the left said things were worse than at any time since the great depression - and that only radical leftist change could save us. You don't have too many tries left with this line of rhetoric before it gets so shopworn that even you are afraid to use it, for fear of revealing your idiocy. Add the likely turnaround in Europe due to free market reforms, and your utopian dreams will have to wait another generation or two to gain any traction. By then, we'll have amended the constitution to finally keep you permanently in check. If you want to dominate a population and control every aspect of their lives, you'll have to move to Canada.

TOTA

PJ O'Rourke (paraphrasing): "To liberals, freedom essentially means being able to run around with your pants down."

Obama's latest verbal blunder came at the opulent NJ home of aging rocker Jon Bon Jovi. Obama told the $30,000/plate(!) diners that he didn't believe in coming in second, and he "won't be bullied". The blunder is that the latest hammering he's taken has been at the hands of Sarah Palin. It makes one want to ask, "Iz da big bad wady hurting Bawack's wittle feewings?" Pathetic. It would not be beneath these _hyper-sensitive_ cry-babies to try to neuter Palin in the press by painting her as a bully.
But the public gets it - she's tough and direct, not a bully. Almost as many people watched her speak as watched Obama speak. This amounted to an invaluable 40 minute end run around the old media. From him, the viewers heard a lot of whining and complaining, the same old tripe we always hear from these people, and more government is always the solution. From her we heard genuine compassion, and hope. Hope always sells better than bitterness unless the population is in dire straits - and they are not. Remember how the economy, according to Kerry, was the worst it had been since the depression? Similarly in 1988 and 1992. It doesn't matter that it wasn't true, it fed bitterness and angst about inequality. Our message sells when we have an effective spokesman or woman - and we have one now. Obama is a good salesman, but the people won't trust him enough to trust him with the country's future.

TOTA

According to recent viewing data, in spite of Univision and Telemundo boycotting the Palin speech, more Hispanics watched her speech than watched Senator Obama's speech.  By what logic did the executives at these two stations justify showing Obama's speech and boycotting Palin's speech? Arguably, Hispanics and others have had lots and lots and lots of exposure to Mr. Obama. They've had very little exposure to Ms. Palin. I suppose they will argue that Ms. Palin is the VP candidate, whereas Obama is running for the top job. Still, given the interest in the speech, particularly among their viewers, they could easily have made another decision - and their ratings would have been better. But both of these networks have a leftist tilt, so don't hold your breath waiting for any surprise support from them.

TOTA