Half the Country Says Thanks to the Other Half For Screwing Us All

Sorry, been silent awhile because I just couldn't stomach writing about the mess that occurred in early November when Obama won reelection. Well that and the fact that my factory got the shit kicked out of it by Sandy and I been working a lot of trying to put it back together.

So here are my thoughts on the various issues regarding the election:

Why Obama Won:
We've become what liberals have been hoping for for decades; a nation that wants shit for free. The recession hit, unemployment was extended to 99 weeks, lazy people realized after two years how to live off the government teat and they don't want to go back to the grind. In essence, they love free shit and voted for the dude who would give them more. They couldn't care less that it's me, you and every other hard working person paying for it. It's an alien mindset to me but I see people like this all the time; they work for a few weeks (usually poorly and only long enough to get unemployment benefits again), work an angle to get laid off or fake an injury and then sit home and watch Jerry Springer. The former Land of the Free and Home of the Brave is now the land of the moocher and home of the taker.

Why Romney Lost:
Dude is plastic. Dude is rich. Dude is a Mormon. Dude doesn't sound sincere. Dude is to moderate. Dude never won over conservatives. Dude said he would rein in spending and the moochers mentioned above hate that. Dude scared the hell out of women.

What It Means: 
Short answer: we, our military, Israel, your bank account and your savings are all fucked for the short term. Obama is taking it as a mandate and he doesn't have to answer to anyone now. Best case: we have a 2014 that mirrored 2010 and put some more of a check on him. Worst case: One or more of the conservatives on the Supreme Court retire, the Dems win the House in '14 and this asshole goes all psycho communist for the duration of his term. Think I'm joking about the communist crack? The house organ for the former Soviet communist party even says we're complete idiots for reelecting this fucking moron and calls Obama a "communist".

What You Can Do:
Write your congressman. Write your newspaper. Enlighten people (if some mindless Obama voter suddenly wonders why they are suddenly $3,000 lighter in the wallet, explain that he needs to pay for all the stuff you reelected him to do...and then flatten their tires or bust their fucking tail light---I kid).

American isn't gone...yet. I would like to say those who reelected Obama are fellow Americans but they aren't, they are "progressives" and liberals first and Americans second. They care only about ideology and moving ever forward in that direction.

These are dark times but so were the late 1970's and we got Reagan out of that. Hang tough my friends.

An Open Letter to Independents and Moderate Democrats

To my fellow Americans who still believe that America is the greatest nation ever created on Earth: You may call yourself an Independent or a Reagan Republican or anything but a liberal, let me try to sway you.

Let's look at the what may make you vote one way or the other--what are the issues that matter and let me try to persuade you to rethink your vote for Obama.

Gay Marriage: You may be one who believes that a man and a man should be able to get married or at least have a legal civil union. Romney does not believe that on religious grounds. But Obama did not believe that until it became politically expedient for him to do so. The media spun it as "evolving" but Obama is a political animal and he thought it would give him an edge (even the ultra far left Nation didn't believe this BS). So think about it, do you really want to vote for a guy who changed his core belief simply to gain political points or a guy who sticks to his beliefs?

Foreign Policy: The Obama camp has spiked the ball so many times over killing bin-Laden that it's completely out of air. Really, tell me any president who wouldn't have made the call to go after the man who killed 3,000 Americans. That wasn't a difficult decision to make--yes, it could have backfired if it didn't work or the SEAL's failed but it didn't and Obama is hailed as some tough guy who makes tough decisions. I'm sorry but a tough decision would have been sending in the SEAL's to rescue an ambassador and two SEAL's who fought for 8-hours defending the ambassador's life.

Abortion: If this is the sole issue you vote on then you have to rethink your priorities. "Reproductive rights" are not an issue in this election. Believe me, if Mitt Romney were elected, Abortion would be far down the list after the economy, jobs, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, the global war on terror, the deficit, the debt, the failing manufacturing sector, etc. It's the law of the land and will continue to be so. Liberals and some Democrats think evangelical christian run the party, that's so wrong as to be ridiculous. Evangelicals have as much say over the GOP as African-Americans and Jews do over Democrats. Yes, they are pandered to during elections but largely forgotten when implementing actual policy.

Spending: Yes, I know the GOP was not really good for the nation's pocketbook when they held the purse strings but Obama is worse by a factor of ten. We cannot keep spending, it's not sustainable. Programs like Social Security and Medicare will cease to exist if they are not overhauled and some tough decisions are made. Obama has stolen $700-billion from Medicare to make Obamacare "revenue neutral' but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Healthcare: Anyone who has actually taken the time to study Obamacare knows there's no way all the happy promises Obama made can really be true. The cost is exorbitant and the quality of care will deteriorate to the point we will have two tiers: those who are forced into Obamacare and those who pay for their own, better care. This is a multi-trillion dollar boondoggle and is destined to be the biggest governmental failure ever.

Jobs: Here we sit at 7.9% unemployment (of course the real number is much higher but smoke and mirrors, etc) and a federal bureaucracy that stifles expansion and growth. Real wages are plummeting and a great many people are now working at jobs much below what they were trained for. We will have an entire generation of young people who are four years late in joining their chosen field of work.

I could go on but you get the picture. What's the most important thing to you and your family? Can we really afford another four years like the four we just suffered through? That's the real question you answer when you select one candidate or the other.

How Sandy Can Affect the Election

Sandy's gonna be a bitch and she's gonna stick around a little while making life miserable for pretty much everyone from DC to Boston. How could affect the outcome of the presidential election?

Let's suppose there's widespread power loss through the northeast. Let's further suppose that it takes three, four or even seven days to get power back on. People will want to blame someone and the easiest person will be Obama. No, it wont be Obama's fault but Katrina wasn't Bush's either and he was stained from that until he left office.

Let's discuss a couple of hypotheticals:

Romney will have the luxury of not being in a place of power and thus unable to help in any way. Yet he will be able to visit damaged areas and look presidential while critiquing Obama's actions. The media will side with Obama but he will get the blame. Add to that the fact that the last areas to get power back will be suburban and rural areas where more Republicans and undecideds live. The longer they go with power, the more pissed they'll be and the the more likely to go Romney. This will be especially important in Pennsylvania where the Philly suburbs such as Chester, Montgomery and Bucks and more rural counties like Pike and Lancaster may help swing the state to Romney--a state currently leaning Obama.

What about the rest of the nation watching the pictures of devastation from massive flooding? Will that affect votes?

This will not have an affect on MD, NJ, NY, CT, RI or ME since they are firmly for the president but it may swing some popular votes Romney's way.

Scenario two:

Power is out for long periods and electronic voting machines cannot be used in many rural areas. How does that play out? Is it legal for electronic voting machines to be used in Philadelphia when they can't be used in Potter County? That's a state decision and Governor Corbett will be scrutinized whatever way he chooses to go.

What about absentee ballots? Travel is going to be restricted for a few days and the US Postal system is not what it once was. Will an extension be granted?

This is uncharted territory and could swing this election after a year of hard campaigning (or in Obama's case, four years). Next week will be downright surreal.

The State of the Election

Amazing. For those of us junkies who follow politics as closely as the NFL, it's stunning that the last two years of covering daily events has led us to the last two and a half weeks.

Obama instituted what we can all hope will not become the normal: the eternal campaign. From January 20, 2009 we've borne witness to an administration that was more focused on reelection than anything else. It's left us in a hole that will make the alleged one left that obama always bitches about  by George W. Bush seem positively shallow.

So where are we now? What is the state of the election this close to voting day?

In my opinion, it's positive on many fronts. The RCP electoral map finally shows what I believe to have been the true nature of this race for months but biased polling kept hidden--Mitt Romney is in front. And note, that's not including Florida and Virginia in Romney's column. Polling in both those states show Romney ahead.

That's a pretty clear path to the nomination and one in which Obama never saw coming. Granted, Virginia could go the opposite way with the northern part of the state chock full of government employees who fear for their jobs and that trumps all.

But what about Pennsylvania? Ohio? Wisconsin? Or incredibly, Michigan--a state where Obama used our tax dollars to prop up union supporters at the cost of investors simply to gain an electoral advantage and they don't seem to be returning the favor as vehemently as expected.

The polling is still tightening up as the polling firms that were biased towards Obama need to save face or look really ridiculous at the end. I'm guessing that within the next two weeks, every state i listed above is a tie.

And what of an October surprise? I'm guessing the Obamatons have nothing up their sleeve or they wouldn't be glomming onto inane phrases about "binders". At the same time, Obama still hasn't answered the raging questions on Benghazi and the deaths of four Americans. Let's see; binders of women versus a dead ambassador that was covered up, I'm banking on the American people to see through the rhetoric and make an adult decision on who should lead us going forward.

However, the wild card is the utter stupidity of some voters that could turn the tide for Obama. To give you just one glaring example, I give you this:

Which Joe Are We Gonna See?

I don't have the faintest clue how to even predict this debate. I mean, we know Ryan will be on his game, the dude has mastered the facts unlike anyone else and knows policy inside and out.

No my friends, the real wildcard here is Joe Biden. He won't be saved by something the media can glom on to like Sarah Palin winking or other such garbage. Old Joe will have to actually perform well and he's got the campaign riding on his shoulders after the Obama meltdown last week.

So what Joe will we see? Perhaps the folksy Joe who's everyones friend? Probably not since that Joe always says something incredibly stupid. How about foreign policy Joe? Possibly since Ryan is smarter and will pummel him on all issues, especially since Obama's in the midst of a self-inflicted wound that has lasted a month today with the embassy debacle in Libya.

I'm really not sure but I'm guessing even if Joe makes about ten mistakes and Ryan destroys him and leaves him slobbering in the corner, the media will call it a draw at least because they know full-well that Obama's campaign can't survive another disaster.

The Arrogance of Obama

Humility. The dude has none and that is one of those character flaws that always sinks people.

Barack Obama actually believes his press clippings. Going back to his Hawaii daze and his Chicago days, he was showered with accolades and told just how smart he is. No one ever told him he was just a man with luck, an above-average intellect and some powerful second city backers.

Kind of like the kid who can throw a 70 MPH fastball at the age of 11. By 15 he's popping it at 87 and the everyone is still praising him. But then he hits 16 and the other kids can hit a fastball really far and he's brought back to earth and realizes he has to actually work at throwing a curve, change-up or slider.

Except Obama never was exposed to the kid who could pound the shit out of a ball. Obama never actually was stretched out intellectually during his debates and never had any vision guiding him to, I don't know, vote yes or no or write a bill that actually could get passed. Sure, he faced Hillary Clinton but in spite of what the media says, she's not all that bright either. I mean, think about it, after Juanita Brodderick, Gennifer Flowers and the endless others, she was still shocked that Slick Willy was getting a hummer behind his desk. Hell, any guy paying attention knew it just by looking at the smug bastard.

But Obama has never been challenged and you saw it on his face during the last debate. He thought himself the school yard bully and instead of beating the little Mormon kid, the little Mormon kid popped him right square in the mug, broke his nose and made him bleed on his tailored shirt.

But just like the bully, Obama would never admit he got an ass-whipping of epic proportions. The bully dances around and screams "lucky shot" or some other such bullshit while his friends stand gaping and everyone else snickers. And just like the bully, Obama will never, ever admit he lost or could have done something better to prepare because the bully, stud pitcher or so-called smartest man ever doesn't have to:

When President Barack Obama stepped off the stage in Denver last week the 60 million Americans watching the debate against Mitt Romney already knew it had been a disaster for him. But what nobody knew, until now, was that Obama believed he had actually won. In an extraordinary insight into the events leading up to the 90 minute showdown which changed the face of the election, a Democrat close to the Obama campaign today reveals that the President also did not take his debate preparation seriously, ignored the advice of senior aides and ignored one-liners that had been prepared to wound Romney.

I love that the arrogant SOB really believed he won. He probably still does and that's where I believe Romney can land some serious body-shots. Obama doesn't believe in practice, he will go through the motions just like the 15-year old fireballer does. Instead of getting down to business and learning his facts, he'll act like he's preparing.

You see, Obama has never been challenged and thinks he's smarter than all of us. But like i always tell my son, there's always somebody better out there. Someone is working their ass off and looking to take your starting position. Some people eventually get it and some end up second string. Let's hope this is the latter.

No Way to Spin That Beat Down

Last night, I asked my wife to sit and watch the debate and made it a point to say nothing while it all played out. I said to her to just give me her honest opinion when it was over. Now, my wife is essentially apolitical, a fiscal small c conservative but a social center lefty. She pays the bills and wants less taxes to be taken but overall is pretty middle of the road.

So I sat there quietly--no small feat for me--because I usually holler at the TV during the debates. I didn't want to sway her even a little. About 9:30 she turns to me and says "Romney is kicking Obama's ass".

If my wife had that opinion, I'm guessing a great many others did as well. It was such a beat down that the only people I heard even remotely insinuate that Obama won were Juan Williams and David Axelrod (and I'm not really sure about him). Hell, Stephanie Cutter was left with only one play and that was to call out Jim Lehrer. Oh yeah, Al Gore blamed the altitude, what a fucking douche that dude is.

I can't recall ever seeing a take down like we saw last night. Mitt came in with a plan and Obama looked stunned that he was actually required to be there and answer to a mere Republican. Think about it, who has Obama had to answer to or who has told him he was wrong on any issue in the last four years? No one, including the media or his advisors. The media kisses his ass, his advisors kiss his ass, members of his party kiss his ass and the GOP establishment has been marginalized by the racial card (excepting Allen West).

So the shock Obama must have felt to have Romney come in and tell him he has failed the country was something to see. Obama looked peeved that he even had to be there and even more pissed that he now has a record to defend that is indefensible.

This should give Romney a nice little boost in the polls and more importantly, it shifts the momentum to Romney in a big way. 68-million people watched last night. Of those, perhaps 3 or four million were undecideds. Romney may just have stole them last night in what typically is the most-watched debate. I imagine many moms who watched that may have only heard that Romney wants to ban abortion and cut school funding were impressed by him. They may have been inclined to vote Obama but after seeing that ass-kicking last night may just go the other way.

Empty Chair Throws DNI Under Bus

Harry Truman famously had a sign on his desk that said "the buck stops here". Obama should have one that says "the buck stops..."with arrows pointing in every direction but toward him.

The first rule of leadership is that you are responsible for the good and the bad. A true leader humbly passes the credit to those who work for him and accepts the blame when things go wrong. Unfortunately we have Obama so that ain't happening. The man gladly took credit for killing bin-Laden  when he was half a world away but is still blaming Bush for everything that is wrong.

The Libyan terror attack that resulted in the death of the first ambassador killed on duty since 1979 and three others was a serious intel disaster. It may have been the fault of the CIA, DIA, NSA or any other alphabet agency but ultimately it was Obama's fault. So what do you think he did? Did he say, yes, this was an act of terror on a day we should have been prepared and I take full responsibility? Silly you, of course not, he got one of his underlings to take the rap.

This blog and many others knew that it was a terror attack right away but to admit that would mean Obama would take a hit on the whole lame "I killed bin-Laden and I'm the baddest mother on the planet because I got bin-Laden" edifice they built so the administration obfuscated and said it was a mob that got out of control. Anyone with any military knowledge laughed. Our fearless leader even sent his UN Ambassador out to the morning shows well after it was clear to parrot those talking points.

So now that that ridiculous story has been proven to be a lie, Obama needs someone--anyone to take the rap as long as it's not him. Enter the Director of National Intelligence groveling:

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/09/28/170078/intelligence-office-says-it-got.html#storylink=cpy

“In the immediate aftermath (of the assault), there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo,” spokesman Sean Turner said in the statement. “We provided that initial assessment to executive branch officials and members of Congress, who used that information to discuss the attack publicly.”

Let's play a game and pretend this is true. We're supposed to believe that the lead intelligence expert in the nation would actually say to the President that it was a mob that formed up and used finely sighted mortars to attack the ambassador in a secret safe-house and used direct and indirect fire to assault the house?

If that's the case, Obama appointed the worst DNI in history and should lose his job for it along with the DNI.

This is an out and out lie and it should be the turning point of the election if--and it's a big if--Romney hits him on it. It occurred on 9/11 and we know that al-Qaeda loves important dates. I have no intel background and I saw it right away.

We need a leader who cares about the country and his people. Obama cares about no one but Obama and it's led us to the abyss. It was also a pussy move to release this on a Friday when it will be glossed over.

Shocker! Obama Believes in Redistribution

I know this will surprise many of you but yes, BHO believes that taking from the so-called rich and giving to the poor is the way the world should be. I mean, he hid it pretty well with his war against the "rich" (meaning those making over $150,000 per year), Obamacare, his drive to make as many people dependent on the government as possible and his run-in with Joe the Plumber. But now we have it all out in the open:


Obama's classics always come behind closed doors such as his "bitter clingers" comment (a comment that was way more offensive). He, like all libs cannot say what they actually believe because people would look at them as if they were nuts. Americans work hard, make profits and rely on their own skill and intellect to get ahead and provide for their families, redistributionism is as un-American as arresting a guy who made a bad movie that pissed off some religious zealots...uh, wait...

 That's why I'm all for Romney saying "hell yes I said that the 47% who don't pay taxes will never vote for me." That will resonate with people who actually get their ass out of bed in the morning, drive to work, pay taxes, support those who don't and get pummeled by high gas and food prices because of Obamanomics. Of the 47%, I'm sure there are a good amount who are embarrassed that they are not paying taxes and want to make enough to do so.

 This race just became the fight of the century with two ideologies battling. One is the side of big government, handouts, enslavement to the state, reduced wages for everyone, insanely high taxes, chronic double digit unemployment and an economy headed over the abyss while the other is one of limited government, reduced taxes, more jobs, higher wages and greater American success. I know what side I'm on and if Romney can articulate it during the debates he'll win this election going away.

All Things Can Be Explained By The Offspring

Whether it's people with self esteem issues, pop culture insanity, bad drivers, sexual abuse or the downside of the hook-up culture, Dexter Holland and the boys have written about it and do it in a whimsical but intelligent way.

 This one seems fitting at this point in time so close after the conventions:

Going to see The Offspring in a couple of weeks. They still rock, check out this crowd down under a few years ago.

*Note: Videos and pictures seem to be sized wrong, I've tried different things and they don't work well. Just click on pictures or video to see full size.

There's No Spinning Dismal Job Numbers

Upon the release of the August jobs report, people were looking a sign, any sign, that things were going in the right direction. Everyone was disappointed. 96,000 news jobs and 368,000 dropping out of the labor force is wretched by any measure.

Of course, the administration hailed it as a good sign but anyone not watching MSNBC or high on the DNC vibe still could see it for what it was, a continuing sign  that the stagnation and dreary economic situation isn't changing anytime soon.

As of today, there are more people out of the job market than at anytime since 1948. This is the worst run of +8% unemployment since the Depression and the numbers for young people are dramatically worse. We now have four years of college grads who are under-employed and starting off their work lives in a deep hole. Engineers are working grocery store clerks, lawyers are taking unpaid internships and older people are staying in the job market instead of vacating their positions and allowing the next generation to work it's way up. There are now more than 88-million people without jobs in what used to be the most prosperous economy on the planet.

Of course, the Fed will now use this as a reason to pump more and more money into an already saturated market and the value of the dollar will dive. Regardless of who wins the election, inflation will be a headwind for years. The vile mix of declining salaries and rising costs will hurt us in ways we can't yet comprehend.

But the real ugliness is yet to come. On January 1st, all of the Bush tax cuts will expire and sequestration--1.5-trillion in cuts to mainly the military--will kick in and the bottom that we feel we are currently at will drop out even further.

This is Obamanomics in all its glory. A Keynesian stimulus that stimulated no one but Obama's cronies and increased regulation and uncertainty on job-creators have given us the single-worst economy since my father was a kid. This is liberal ideology writ large. While the country faces economic uncertainty, the Democrats spend three days talking about abortion and booing God. While people are suffering, the supposed "party of the people" cheers for bailouts that have failed and a continuation of the policies that have put us here. They also ran the convention exactly how they run the country.

If there were ever any starker choice as to what direction we should go, I don't recall the time. Do we continue down the road to ruin or do we say enough and dig in our heels, fight back against a horribly biased media and elect a man who knows how to turn failure around? All one has to do is look at the chart below to see just how incredibly bad the last four years have been. The choice is easy if one looks at it honestly:

Teddy Kennedy, Jerusalem and Monica Lewinsky's Rabbi: The DNC is a Mess

Regardless of what one thought of the Clint Eastwood speech, you cannot argue the fact that the RNC was a well-run affair. Speakers came on when they were supposed to, the GOP was the same at 7 PM as they were at 10 PM and it was a well-oiled machine, unlike the DNC, which features every lefty psycho they could find.

Juxtapose that with the DNC, which started yesterday.

So far, in the last 24-hours, they have announced they would move Obama's speech from an 80,000 seat stadium to a smaller arena because of "the weather", a former Solyndra-connected crony was seen fleeing from TV cameras while guards stopped reporters and Democratic leadership rammed through a platform change that re-inserted the word "God" and language stating that Jerusalem is indeed the capital of Israel after they got pummeled for removing it.

Here's footage of that ignominious moment in democratic history with LA Mayor Antonio Villairagoso looking about as constipated as anyone I've ever seen on a stage:



Check out the Arab voters getting highly irate. Don't sweat it Arabs, Obama's been doing this to blacks since he started running for office--taking them for granted as he's doing with you now. You be the judge and listen to the crowd. This was a great example of how Democrats win elections...by cheating their asses off.

It started off just swimmingly (pun definitely intended) with a video tribute to Ted Kennedy--a man who allowed a young woman to drown and got worse from there. I guess the Robert Byrd KKK tribute video is scheduled for this evening right before Bill Clinton, who once said "“A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.” about the current president, takes the stage.

To top it off, the idiots who organized this whole charade actually scheduled Monica Lewinsky's Rabbi to give the benediction after Slick Willy exits.

This last 24-hours sums up the last four years nicely: no one seems to be leading the show, everyone is in it for themselves and democrats have no idea what the hell they are doing. But don't worry Dems, the media will portray this as the greatest spectacle since the Big Bang and the rest of the right-thinking world will just laugh at you.


Update: Treach has some fun as well. Update #2: Oh yeah, how the hell did I forget this: "The government is the only thing we all belong to". Stalin would be so proud of his modern useful idiots.

Celebrating National Empty Chair Day

Big enough for both Obama and Biden.

Update: People are getting creative:

Luis Rosas' chair is bowing to other leaders. 

Trending #2 on Twitter as we speak. Here's some other pics. 

Obama Tries to Slow Romney Momentum

Coming off a very successful convention, the Romney campaign seems to be building a little momentum at just the right time. Both Gallup and Rasmussen have him leading and the stated goal of humanizing Mitt seems to have worked with overflow crowds turning up to hear him.

Now is not the time to get cocky, though. The DNC convention starts this week and while they have a aged and all around lame lineup when compared to the GOP, they will be going hard at Romney and Ryan and the media will play it up with even less apprehension then normal.

Nothing is more dangerous than a cornered animal and Romney has essentially boxed Obama into that corner. his people will be scratching and spitting because they will be out of jobs, scorned as the most-inept administration ever if The One loses. Expect the race card to be tossed every minute and expect the lies to continue unabated.

You will hear about Paul Ryan's "exaggerations" and Romney's dog. You will hear about the evil Bain Capital and the jobs supposedly lost. You will hear angry old liberals driveling on about the evil GOP and the god-like man they are there to renominate. What you will not hear is anything about the economy, jobs and/or Afghanistan or Gitmo.

It will be a freak show and the American people will tune out or be turned off by it. This is Obama's chance to energize his base and turn moderates to his side but in the end I believe the hate, race-baiting and vitriol will only succeed in turning people against the administration.

And by the way, you are a racist for even reading bad things about Obama.

Mia Love Knocks It Out Of the Park

Of the many speeches we heard last night, the one that moved me the most was the one given by Mayor Mia Love of Utah. Christie did what was supposed to do and explained about hard choices and financial restraint. Ann Romney humanized her husband as was her role and Artur Davis, Nikki Haley and Ted Cruz  were highly effective.

But this speech by a young mayor of a smallish town was way more effective because she told a story that is inspirational, truly American and hopeful. Think about the true role models for young African-American women we have the pleasure of hearing in this convention: Love and Condi Rice. If you want to inspire a group that has been destroyed by and taken for granted by the Democratic Party you would have them listen to these two women. They've probably faced racism numerous times in their lives but instead of playing the victim card, they opted to become better than those who cry racism or the very racists they faced and become great. 

Imagine a poor young black girl in Camden, NJ. She's been exposed to violence, despair and the vicious cycle of government "assistance" for her entire life. Imagine she was given the chance to see and hear the speech below given by a proud American who happens to be black and imagine if she took the words to heart and chose the other path, the path of self-reliance and self betterment. That one person could be the catalyst of a radical change in a community that has been beaten down by programs designed to make one dependent. NBC was so frightened by this thought that they wouldn't even show it because if one little spark were allowed to ignite a flame, there may well be reason for hope and that hope would topple the decaying house of cards implemented by failed government policies going to back to at least LBJ. 

Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream that his children would be judged by the content of their character and that dream is alive. One example is below, the other speaks tonight. 

Media Sees Race In Every Corner of RNC

I just have no idea why we try to hide it anymore my fellow wingnuts. I mean, the jig is up (racist!) and it's as clear as black (racist!) and white. We are racists to the extreme. Oh no, we are too damn smart to do it overtly, we do it covertly so no one can figure it out. Or so we thought!

The geniuses at MSNBC seem to be on to us, especially Lawrence O'Donnell. No, we can't outsmart that guy, he's really on to every little attempt we make at a racial jibe. Check out what Sherlock O'Donnell figured out along with his counterpart Mr. Bashir:

MARTIN BASHIR: We have seen an early draft of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s forthcoming oration. Can I quote something from you? “For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems, he hasn’t been working to earn re-election. He has been working to earn a spot on the PGA Tour.” How about that? 

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He is trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely, the — lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth. They find every way they possibly can to – 

BASHIR: Lawrence — don’t you think — don’t you think that what he’s really trying to do is to suggest that the president is not paying attention to the central issues that come with the responsibility he has? Is he really – Mitch McConnell really making a connection with Tiger Woods who, of course, has become infamous for chasing various cocktail waitresses around Las Vegas and so on? 

O’DONNELL: Martin, there are many, many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point up want to make. If he wanted to make the point that you just suggested and I think he does want to make that point, they had a menu of a minimum of ten different kinds of images that they could have raised. And I promise you, the speech writers went through, rejecting three or four before they land order that one. That’s the one they want for a very deliberate reason. That — there’s – these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches. 

BASHIR: You really believe that about Mitch McConnell? 

O’DONNELL: I know these people are insensitive. I know the speechwriters are insensitive. I know the way they work. They do not have the same sensitivity level that other speechwriters do. But when you get to the Tiger Woods reference, there were people in the speech writing room, I know this, without a shadow of a doubt, who said wait a minute, do we really want to go there? Do we really want to go to Tiger Woods and the vote in the room was yes, we do. Mitch McConnell agreed to do it. 

BASHIR: Wow. Things are getting lower and lower by the day.

You see how that works, one liberal asshole looks with his special racism-spotting glasses and sees the minority leader of the Senate comparing Obama to another black man (or in Tiger's case: Cablinasian) so it was super surely, most-definitely racist! Plus, said Senator is from Kentucky and we all know how racist they are down there, right?

Seriously, can anyone look at the discussion above and actually believe that it aired on a national news channel? Granted, about 3 people watch at any given moment but it is solely owned by NBC now and you'd think that they would have some professional integrity, right? I mean, NBC, the peacock. You'd be wrong however because the lefties over at MSNBC decided to talk over all the minority speakers at the convention. Mia Love, Artur Davis, Ted Cruz, why is MSNBC so racist that will not allow black people on their network?

But it doesn't stop at NBC, there are racist finders everywhere if one just has the special Lawrence O'Donnell dog-whistle hearing aid and race glasses. How about this non-racial racist incident.

Making up racist incident out of whole cloth is fun to report on but reporting on actual racist incidents is really not as good.

Damn this is going to be a really long election and one can only hope that people start focusing on the facts and can pick through this garbage the media keeps throwing out there to keep the coverage about anything but Obama's record.

More here.

2012 Presidential Election Interactive Map

Here's my entry in Taegan Goddard's 270 to win game.

Does Stephanie Cutter Ever Tell The Truth?

Short answer: Not during his campaign.

When your boss has presided over the biggest fiscal train wreck in 30 years, you can't just get away with little fibs and white lies, dude you need to go full bore down Liars Street.

Cutter has said Romney is a likely felon, said repeatedly that she didn't know the details of the death of a woman Obama's campaign allegedly illegally conspired to create and lied about Paul Ryan and and his views on rape.

Today we have her latest doozy:

Well, I think that worker probably has a good understanding of what's happened over the past four years in terms of the president coming in and seeing 800,000 jobs lost on the day that the president was being sworn in, and seeing the president moving pretty quickly to stem the losses, to turn the economy around, and over the past, you know, 27 months we've created 4.5 million private sector jobs. That's more jobs than in the Bush recovery, in the Reagan recovery, there's obviously more we need to do, and as I said to Mika at the at beginning of the program, I think that unemployed worker probably sees one person in this race trying to move the country forward and that's the president.

 Emphasis mine.

So let me get this straight: Obamanomics has created about 100,000 net jobs during his first 3.5 years; about what Mitt Romney's Bain created according to the Wall Street Journal. You've heard that bullshit 4-million number but it doesn't take into account the first 13-months of Obama's term.

Deroy Murdock destroys that argument here in one little essay.

So why does Obama keep sending her out there? It seems like an easy question to answer when you look at who, historically would be out there for a sitting president. The first line of attack would always be the Vice President, an option that disappeared long ago but was tried with little success recently. Next it would be a senior strategist such as David Axelrod--a choice that also was disastrous. I guess you can try your former spokesman but Robert Gibbs is about as electrifying as Al Gore on Quaalude so that's a non-starter.

I got it, how about we send out the head of the DNC Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? Well, that also was a bad idea since even uber-liberal Wolf Blitzer can tell she's full of shit.

So that leaves Cutter. Granted, she's better looking that Wasserman-Schultz, generally doesn't blurt out racist shit like Biden and doesn't have the irritating voice of Gibbs. Still, she's a liar of the first order if there's one thing Americans hate it's when someone lies right to their collective face.

We'll continue to see Cutter's mug all over MSNBC and CNN for the next two or three months but plainly and simply, when a sitting president has to lie to cover up your lie, you may not be long for the job and he probably won't be either.

An Open Letter to Tom Morrello

Tom,

I read yesterday that you are not such a fan of the fact that VP candidate Paul Ryan is a fan of your band Rage Against the Machine. I believe the words you used were that Ryan is the "machine you raged against". A clever turn of phrase there, buddy.

Anyway, as you may have learned throughout your career with first Rage and further on with Audioslave, your fans base is made up of a great many people with differing views, some of which would be considered conservative--but listening to you over the years I'm convinced that anyone with a viewpoint to the right of Hillary Clinton is a conservative in your eyes.

You see Tom, us with a conservative world view listen to music and some of what we listen to is harder rocking than gospel. You have to understand that our selections are kind of limited because in the entertainment industry as a whole and the music business in particular, there aren't all that many bands with a similar set of values and principles for us to listen to. I guess the only one that comes to mind quickly would be POD, the rap-rock hybrid band from South San Diego that sings of God and redemption, but I digress.

As much as it may unnerve you, us on the right enjoyed your music but as Paul Ryan noted, we didn't necessarily agree with your lyrics. Your band wrote songs about hard-left issues and thought you were (and I'm using the past tense because the band now is a caricature of what it was) some kind of secular messianic leaders. Newsflash Tom, you weren't. You were a flavor of the month band that gave testosterone-filled teenage boys a chance to feel bigger than they were. You sang of things that an seventeen year old from the suburbs thought were cool and made him seem rebellious.

But overall the lyrics were mundane and pretty basic from an intellectual standpoint. You sang of liberal concepts but just didn't have the intellectual capacity to make a difference and string together phrases and choruses that would equal your heroes such as Springsteen. Saying the same words over and over about how cops are white and mean grows tiresome after the first paragraph.

It seems to bother you as a person that your songs didn't motivate people to take down the "man" and fundamentally change the country. Case in point: you played a benefit concert for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal and you personally have spoken up for him. Even though every shred of evidence and numerous court appearances have confirmed that the former Black Panther shot Officer Danny Faulkner in cold blood on a Center City Philly street. Jamal should be six-feet under by now but instead is considered an icon in the left-liberal community thanks in no small part to you.

Getting back into it, your music was okay. You are an immensely talented guitar player who thought could change the world. Instead, you played behind lyrics that were shallow and infantile. Zack de la Rocha screaming "fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" repeatedly is not going to change anything except maybe the chances that the idiot teenager screaming them along with you has of getting laid that night. Believe me, that idiot teenager is going to calm down, come down and go back to the suburbs to his comfy basement with X-Box and cable TV. His mind wasn't changed--at least until he gets out of college with his degree in Native-American studies and no chance of a job in Obamanation.

Now granted, you have come out in support of the Occupy movement because they are what you've always hoped for; an angry mob of liberals that have been contaminated with the lefty gene. Years of elementary school, the entertainment industry, marxist college professors--and perhaps small bit of RATM music--have made them what they are today and that is a bunch of unproductive losers whom feel they are entitled to things from the government. This is your dream and it's populated by a group that once melded together raped, murdered and generally made pests out of themselves in the eyes of hard-working Americans. It took about a month after OWS started before people said enough. It's got to make you feel bitter that 20-years of pumping out lefty anthems was destroyed by six months of watching your disciples give the finger to what America stands for while taking a shit in the street. The enemy, the Tea Party lives on while every sensible politician--even those inclined to your world view-- has run away as fast as they can.

So in conclusion, yes, some of us on the right listen to your music or did back when you were somewhat relevant in the mid-nineties. And yes, we admit it and have you in our I-Pods. But don't believe yourself to be any bigger than you are or were. It's got to be balling that your band never had the lyrical talent of your contemporaries such as Tool, Alice in Chains or even Metallica. RATM threw together hard-left phrases but never in such a coherent fashion that it made any difference. Although you did out the fans and the alleged movement by going corporate with Audioslave, made your money, then went back to playing the lefty anarchist again. A typical elitist liberal move but we won't hold it against you.

Thanks for your time Tom and keep on raging against the machine.

Regards,

ER

Romney/Ryan 2012

Mitt has made his pick and I think he chose...wisely. He did it via iPhone app too.

I wrote a couple of months ago why I liked Ryan and haven't changed my mind. Paul Ryan is a smart conservative who knows his positions inside and out and knows policy better than anyone. He also has a beautiful family, has no baggage that I've heard about, speaks with calmness and confidence, has been beat up by the media and interest groups and has the scars to prove it and is an all-around nice guy. Plus he's an outdoorsman and unlike Palin, they won't be able to demonize him for taking down big game.

That said, some of the aspects of this pick that the media will harp on are the following:

• He's white
• He's unabashedly conservative
• He's white
• He wants to seriously cut spending top-to-bottom including social security
• He's really white
• He's religious
• He's the whitest white man in America

Race will play a huge part in this because Paul Ryan has a plan and that plan is a good one. Obama has no plan, his budget got panned unanimously. Since the media can't hit Ryan for being either dumb or reckless, they will hit him as cold and unfeeling. We will see a multitude of stories where old people will have the shit scared out of them by Ryan's plan as described by the media. Fortunately, Ryan now has a platform whereby he can fight back against the media horde that has mischaracterized his ideas from day one. Hilariously, we see the New Yorker come out of the gate with this story saying that Ryan is not a good pick because he has no private industry experience. Funny because either do Obama nor Biden.

I like the pick and now we get set for a true race pitting fiscal conservatives against pseudo socialists. Keynes, Krugman and Obama vs. Hayek, Milton Friedman and Paul Ryan.

Update: Byron York has it right. This will be an election of ideas and no one has ideas like Paul Ryan for fixing what is wrong. He articulates those ideas in clear terms and doesn't mince words when it comes to discussing the dire fiscal situation we are now in under Obama. The left will try to demonize him at every turn but Ryan has seen it before and always keeps his cool. Two clear sides fighting for the soul of America; pass the popcorn.