Well, it appears as though John McCain will face Barack Osama in the general election. I personally have begun to hate my own party, as they all fell in line and supported McCain even though he is the LEAST conservative out of anyone who was running in the GOP primary. Without us even realizing it (well some of us realized it) the Dems/Indies implemented a reverse "Operation Chaos" - and we ended up with a really lousy nominee that they are well aware will be easy to beat.
Should Osama choose Hill as his running mate, that will be a virtually unbeatable ticket. While John McCain is busy shoving his head up the asses of the left, the moderates, and the media, touting lines of "reaching across the aisle," the left is going further to the left and has made no attempt to reach their hands across the aisle even halfway. Therefore, the GOP is once again left looking stupid, because our candidate is obsessed with making liberals happy, and the Dem candidates don't care a whit about making conservatives happy. Hell, our own nominee doesn't care about his base, and I almost hope he loses just to show himself and America that when you stray from your base, you lose.
But this is not the point of this blog. I would like to discuss the media's fascination with Barack Obama. Consider early on, when they were singing the praises of Hillary - a woman running for the White House! Did anyone think that could be eclipsed? Well, try a BLACK man! The media was practically frothing at the mouth. Who do they support, with a woman and a black running? The more Socialist of the two, of course, who happens to be Osama. I almost feel sorry for Hillary Clinton, because she was openly banished from her party in favor of race. The entire Democratic party abandoned her for someone that is in even more of a protected class than she, and it is altogether unfair to her. In fact, I have heard numerous Hillary-ites proclaim they will vote for McCain because their opinions have been marginalized all so the Dems could embrace a black candidate. Funny how a lot of conservatives feel marginalized since we were left without a choice, too. So maybe the Hillary-ites and the marginalized conservatives can group together and form a coalition. Stranger things have happened. But needless to say, this whole issue is one of political marginalization, and the loss of choice for many people in this country.
This fascination with Osama has lent itself to his virtual untouchability in the news. So Osama keeps company with radicals from Weather Underground, and his church in Chicago... so he is bff with Tony Rezko. Who cares? He's black! Let's support him! Not to mention, he has the single most liberal voting record in congress, right up there with his buddy, Ted Kennedy.
All Osama represents is an attempt by the left to assuage their egos that are heavy with racial burdens. By this I mean, the left's primary target and voter base consists of minorities. So by supporting a minority, they can finally claim that they really want the best for America's minorities. Whatever. If Osama were a Republican, he would be beaten to death unmercilessly by the media and the left. You have to be a far-leaning Liberal black to win the hearts of the liberals in and out of the media - and Osama is it! And, of course, because I'm saying this, I'll be labeled a racist. yet another reason Osama is swimming in a sea of support - he's one of the "protected" classes we've developed in our society - and as such, if someone says something negative about him, they are automatically a racist because he's black. What happened to freedom of speech, eh?
Here is an article written by Michelle Malkin - it is absolutely brilliant, and it sums up much of what I feel about the idea of Osama being "Held up" by the media... meaning, he can do no wrong, and if he does wrong, they correct it for him, or just fail to report it. So, thank you Michelle for writing this brilliant article:
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Barack Obama: Gaffe machine
By Michelle Malkin • May 21, 2008 07:43 AM
Here's my syndicated column this week. Hardly a comprehensive list–and sure to grow.
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Barack Obama: Gaffe machineMichelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2008
All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of "potatoe." The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush's questions about new scanner technology at a grocers' convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.
But what about Barack Obama? The guy's a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:
* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed." The actual death toll: 12.
*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."
*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: "Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I've been in Iowa for too long. I'm sorry."
*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
"There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was "speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole."
*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: "We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it's harder for us to use them in Afghanistan." The real reason it's "harder for us to use them" in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
"Here's something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I'm not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don't know exactly what's going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I'll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport."
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he's voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the "costs, schedules, and technical issues" dealing with the nation's most contaminated nuclear waste site.
*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama's "Dreams from My Father:"
"Then, there's the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don't exist, say the magazine's own historians."
* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn't "pose a serious threat to us"–cluelessly arguing that "tiny countries" with small defense budgets can't do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."
Barack Obama–promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah–is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?
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As Michelle so brilliantly writes, he's been absolved of ALL of these gaffes by the protective media. If, as she notes, a Republican would say even ONE of these things, their political career would be ruined forever.
The media has made little note of the fact that Osama is bff with Tony Rezko, who was just recently convicted of several crimes. Instead, when Osama spews his self-righteous, "Oh, I was just a bonehead" excuses, they eat it up and then spit it out to the American people, who are typically stupid enough to believe it.
How about Rev. Wright and Fr. Pflager? Oh, all he has to do is leave the church and it's good enough for the media... no mention of the fact that both of them have VERY questionable ties, including to Calypso Louie (aka the Reverent Farrakhan). Both of them spew anti-American hate speech and are wholly intolerant. He's been friends with them each for about 20 years. But he gets a free pass... why? Oh, yeah, he's black.
You know, I'm half Jewish. And a woman! But I don't count as a "protected class" because the left hasn't ever confirmed Jews as a protected class. Why? Jews don't leech off the system, and unfortunately are already loyal liberals (God only knows why they'd support those that support their enemies). Jews don't have to be promised welfare and special benefits to vote for liberals, so they are largely ignored. True story.
Even if all the above gaffes Michelle Malkin mentions aren't enough, it's his connections. And I haven't even mentioned the most horrific connection yet...
Domestic terrorist, WIlliam Ayers! A bona fide member of the Weather Underground. The beneficial alliances keep mounting. Of course, it's easy to see why the media in particular would support his extreme left alliances, so it's no surprise that they have once again sheltered their golden boy from his own horrible judgment.
I really hope John McCain shoves aside this thing he has about "reaching across the aisle" - because I hate to tell him, but he's going to reach nothing but air, since his across-the-aisle compadres are busy crowding to the left side of their party. However, I doubt he'll come this realization, and I'm quite certain he'll pick someone equally as liberal as himself to be his running mate, which will completely ignore his base and give Osama/Hill an easy victory.
Some people might accuse me of being racist and closed-minded. But I say that those who have fallen in line and supported Obama just because he's a minority are doing nothing to further the ideals of this country.
