Month: October 2008

It might be a bit late in the game for my liking, but I’m glad to see that McCain is finally raising what I think is the best argument in his favor: ALBUQUERQUE (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee John McCain , trailing in the polls, raised the prospect on Saturday of a complete Democratic takeover…

Reason links this very amusing YouTube video showing Bill Ayers calling the cops on reporters and Bill O’Reilly advising Obama to throw Ayers under the bus: (Via Glenn Reynolds who’s having fun with O’Reilly putting on Ayers.) While I also love the delicious irony of seeing a man with a notoriously murderous attitude towards police…

You think you have First Amendment rights? Well, yes, you do. But try saying something that offends the ruling class, and you’ll see what happens. In a previous post, I characterized the invasion of Joe the Plumber’s privacy thusly: The way they have done a complete, invasive background check on this citizen is shocking. While…

I love the logic at work here. Nervousness about Barack Obama hurts the market. Yet the more the market hurts, the higher Obama goes in the polls. This would seem to be correlated in this chart: This reminds me of the way people who are afraid of getting bitten by a dog will often end…

Yesterday’s post about Ayers became so long with updates that it’s looking cluttered. When I started it, I had not seen the video about Ayers and his buddies’ plans to murder 25 million Americans, nor had I had a chance to examine his book Prairie Fire in much detail, although I did note that Ayers…

It should probably be the “wronged parties”, but then we would be talking about citizens. Which will come up eventually but not quite in that context. And what is the context? Obviously some one is getting it. What the heck am I gibbering about? The inevitable political season wheeze that “we need to punish a…

In the early days of the Obama phenomenon, I harbored hopes that Barack Obama’s viable candidacy might cause a sea change in the way America sees itself in terms of race, as it does appear to be genuine evidence — in the broadest possible sense — of the final demise of American racism as we…

What? You think this is some kind of Godwin joke? No my friends, it is not. It is for real. A. Hitler has made a Credit Card (CC) donation of $19.45 to the Obama Campaign. Obama has all the safeties turned off on his credit card (CC) verification system. Frankly, its easier than I’d believe…

Is California in play? You might think so given this report from Yreka, California in The Siskiyou Daily News. Last week, Louise Gliatto, a volunteer at the Republican campaign office, handed out the last McCain-Palin yard sign. The last campaign button went a few days earlier. There is a good supply of McCain-Palin bumper stickers,…

I’ve written a number of posts about Bill Ayers, and I was especially horrified by his organization’s plot to blow up American soldiers at the Fort Dix NCO club. And while I know that terrorists are generally unconcerned with civilian casualties, still, I had not read about Ayers’ role in an attempted Detroit police station…

In today’s Detroit Free Press, I read about an interesting promotional idea — free pizzas in exchange for McCain campaign signs: A Warren pizzeria owner received threatening phone calls Wednesday after a political pizza deal went awry. “They’ve been actually calling here and threatening my life,” said Salvatore’s Pizzeria owner Diana Franzoni, who previously offered…

Have you heard that McCain voted with Bush 90%-95% of the time? I’ve heard it so many times my eardrums are ready to burst. Of all the talking points in the Obama campaign, I think it is probably Point Number One. I hadn’t really given much thought to looking into the details, although it did…

Orson Scott Card is a Democrat. He is also a fierce critic of the press. The in the tank for Obama press. An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America: I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to…

In my long discussion of the Michael Smerconish endorsement yesterday, I should have made it more clear that in terms of the big picture, Michael Smerconish is what film gangster Hyman Roth would call “small potatoes.” Most ordinary middle class people — especially the undecideds who don’t read newspaper pundits (much less blogs) — have…

Real Clear Politics has Obama up by 11 in Pennsylvania as of 22 Oct 008 0300z. And yet Governor Rendell is nervous about Pennsylvania and is asking Obama to return. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has sent two separate memos to the Obama campaign in the past five days requesting that the Democratic Presidential candidate–as well…

I just learned something new, and I am horrified. While I often condemn socialists and socialism, until today I had not realized that the word “socialist” is code language for “black”: The “socialist” label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually…

If there’s one thing that’s worse than Bill Ayers, it’s his respectability. How did it happen that a guy like that came to be respectable? The same way bad people always become respectable, of course. Nice respectable people fail to speak up. By “nice” I mean the very people I referred to in this post;…

Like a lot of people, I’ve been wondering about those polls. If McCain were to pull ahead of Obama (as he has four or five times before), wouldn’t the Obama campaign be so scared that they would want the results either changed, statistically skewed, or somehow not reported? I realize they don’t have the kind…

“He did not write a blurb for his book,” Burton said. “He did not.” So said Obama spokesman Bill Burton, specifically denying what Zombieboy had to go out and specifically track down. Here’s the picture. Of what Barack Obama absolutely Did Not Write. While I’m at it, I figured I might as well scan page…

Now that Philadelphia conservative radio talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has “decided” (for Obama), M. Simon is disgusted. So am I. In fact, I am so disgusted that I don’t know what to do. I realize that everybody’s mind is made up so what could I say that chould make much of a…