If Republicans want to win this election, there needs to be a laser-like focus on the following issues/guidelines for the next three days:
KISS Method - I am a big proponent of the Keep It Simple, Stupid method because Americans don't do well when the message is convoluted. Case in point, McCain's healthcare proposal, which is has the stupid part right, but the keep it simple element is missing. Barack Obama's message is "I will give you healthcare." McCains message is "well, you're employer won't give you healthcare anymore (which sounds negative) and it won't be a tax break for your employer (again) and then I will send you a check for $5K and you can buy healthcare, sort-of, and you might be able to buy it from another state." Do you think Homer Simpson wants this? This is reminiscent of Medicare Part D, which was so simple and easy to use for Seniors they couldn't figure out how to get their drugs through the pile of paper-work. It's not going to resonate if McCain keeps talking about his plan this way, regardless of whether his plan is better or not (those interested should note that Obama's handlers actually were the first ones to offer McCain's idea in 2005, but no one seems to care about that.)
Instead, McCain needs to tell people, "My goal is to make sure as many Americans are covered, and we will work tirelessly to see that goal through. But we will not make the Federal Government your healthcare provider, and if you want to know why, lets look at the facts of how social medicine actually hurts the system and makes getting treatment even more challenging overseas. I say we have a country that spends $2 Trillion on healthcare every year, and $800 billion of that is on administrative expenses. Lets get electronic medical records into your doctor's office, lets cut that $800 billion in half, and lets take the $400B and put it in a pool that will support Americans that need emergency care but don't have health insurance. And lets tell the insurance companies that they have 2-years to make this happen by pressuring their doctor's, because the insurance companies will no longer foot the bill for your doctor's inefficiencies. It's 2008 and we need to take the doctors office out of the 1950's."
Taxes: Make it clear that Obama will not cut taxes. He is the 2nd most liberal senator, and has no interest in cutting taxes and we don't want a president that determines whether you are rich enough to pay the way for those which he believes are too poor. We started out with Obama saying 250K a year or more is rich. Now we are down to 120K, thanks to Bill Richardson.
Make the tax issue, and the moving target of who is rich, into a bigger point of Obama's tendency to LIE. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Obama has lied endlessly, from his relationship with Ayers, to Rashid Khalidi, to Reverend Wright. Do we really believe that Mr. Obama, who belonged to the same Church for 20-years, never heard anything bad from his Reverend? We have seen just one or two sermons. Obama has seen 100's. Is it possible that Obama hasn't heard these types of sermons? No. Then why are we giving him a free pass here. He has lied endlessly, and we have no choice but to make this assumption because any time we want to see the evidence, he locks it up. Senate Records? Locked. Rashid Khalidi? Locked, won't talk. Ayers, guess he stopped talking when he gave the timely 9-11 interview where he said he wasn't sorry and didn't go far enough. Please stop saying you were only 8. There is no statute of limitations on terrorism.
Time to implement the less is more solution. The last two weeks have proven one thing: Joe the Plumber resonates. Whenever you are asked a question on any topic, you are down to three word answers. Example:
"Mr McCain, you have said you would like to keep the troops in the ME longer than Mr. Obama to see this war through. Please explain."
"Sure, I think JOE THE PLUMBER, and HARD WORKING AMERICANS, like JOE THE PLUMBER, realize we don't want to waive the WHITE FLAG of SURRENDER (ok-4 words.) We are at a crucial moment, and the notion of SPREAD THE WEALTH and waiving the WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER are not options. When I look around me, I see a nation of JOE THE PLUMBERS, all living THE AMERICAN DREAM, and they don't want a SPREAD THE WEALTH administration and they don't believe we are air raiding villages, they believe we are SPREADING THE FREEDOM, not SPREADING THE WEALTH"
That's JOE THE PLUMBER, HARD WORKING AMERICANS, WHITE FLAG of SURRENDER, SPREAD THE WEALTH, WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER, JOE THE PLUMBER, THE AMERICAN DREAM, SPREAD THE WEALTH, SPREADING THE FREEDOM, and SPREADING THE WEALTH. Tough to get confused.
Auntie Zeltuni: Obama's Aunt is living illegally in the US, in Boston, in government housing. Remind the people of America that they are footing the bill right now for Obama's Aunt who is hear illegally, and say if Obama is ok with you paying for his Aunt, an illegal alien, you are only seeing a glimpse of what Obama will do with your money in the White-house. Do you want to pay for Auntie Zeltuni's government housing? And if Barack Obama is such a big proponent of SPREAD THE WEALTH, why isn't he sharing any of his millions with his own Aunt. Hammer this point home. Obama is great at spending your money, but not his own. He will tax you to death, but won't take open up his own wallet to his own aunt. He will battle terrorism, but wont enforce immigration laws in his own family.
Zogby polls are swinging.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
The Ten Cannots
- You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
- You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
- You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
- You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
- You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
- You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
- You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
- You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
- You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
- You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.
-William J. H. Boetcker, minister and outspoken advocate for individual liberty (1916)
Thursday, October 30, 2008
It has been confirmed, the 17 year old SLUT is preggo again!!
No, this is not a repeat headline. Unfortunately for this dumb ass whore, she is in fact preggo, again. Yes, that makes 2 times before her 18th birthday. Fuck, that is insane.
If you have been tracking The Angry Trader, you will remember last year I posted a short note on my nomination for parents of the year--Jamie and Lynne Spears.
Well I am back nominating them, once again. I am also throwing in Jamie Lynn as the biggest moron ever to walk the earth. Yes, it has been confirmed that she is preggo again. As I indicated weeks ago--she got pregnant thinking that you cannot get pregnant by having sex while breast feeding!!! Are you fucking kidding me??
So hats off to the proud grandparents! You two have done a sick ass job raising your kids, talking to them, teaching them morals and values and getting them ready for the real world.
These morons prostitute their teen kids out there, make them look like sluts looking to bang any and everything and then allow them to run wild in Hollywood. What do they expect? What are they thinking?? I am guessing that they are just looking at all the $$$$ coming in (or they were) and fuck the kids.
Every time you turn around now one of these two misfits are all fucked up. Britney out of rehab out with a total piece of shit album, hoping to resurrect her career. Trust me, it is only a matter of time before she is back in rehab.
As for her sister, this whore effectively just ruined what was left of her career. That Disney show, Zoe 101 was her show...she was the star. That will fucking end today, believe you me. They had to rewrite the show during her first pregnancy...do you think that wholesome Disney is going to do it again for her? Especially because everyone knows she got pregnant by having unprotected sex (twice)and thinking that her dripping boobs are sperm blockers. Jesus.
The irony is that the Spears family does not believe in abortion. Taste that whore. 2 fucking kids before your old enough to vote, let alone legally consume alcohol.
I would really like the Spears parents to come to my house and explain to my young kids how and why that slut bitch got pregnant again.
The more I think of this, the words, WHITE TRASH come to mind. I figured I would show some pics here, highlighting these two retarded ass misfits.
CUTE AND SWEET JAMIE LYNN SPEARS
UNLIKE HER FAT & UGLY SISTER - BRITNEY SPEARS
Hey Bitch--You are NOT SUPPOSED TO CONSUME CAFFEINE WHILE YOU ARE PREGNANT--didn't your mother tell you this? Oh right, she does not give a shit about you or your sister!!
From teen heart throb to fat and soft. What the fuck happened to you, Bitch? Did mommy forget to tell you to take care of your body? How the fuck will they continue to live their glorious life style without you and your crack whore sister sending in the checks??
Father and soon to be deserter of both kids and this stupid bitch. How bad does he want out? Reports say he is freaking the fuck out over his impending marriage to the bitch with an IQ equal to a can of corn.
The Angry Trader
BUT BUT MCCAIN GAVE MONEY TO KHALIDI
Ok, lets address this before the Huffington's out Huff themselves.
An organization that McCain chaired gave $1M to an organization described as an independent academic research and policy analysis institution” created to meet “the need for active Palestinian scholarship on issues related to Palestine.”
Big difference than going out to dinner with and celebrating the life of Khalidi. $100 bucks if anyone can prove McCain knew the intentions of Khalidi when he gave the money, and if McCain was invited to the dinner to celebrate Khalidi's life. Oh, wait, then you would have to go to the video tape.
Wouldn't want that now would we.
An organization that McCain chaired gave $1M to an organization described as an independent academic research and policy analysis institution” created to meet “the need for active Palestinian scholarship on issues related to Palestine.”
Big difference than going out to dinner with and celebrating the life of Khalidi. $100 bucks if anyone can prove McCain knew the intentions of Khalidi when he gave the money, and if McCain was invited to the dinner to celebrate Khalidi's life. Oh, wait, then you would have to go to the video tape.
Wouldn't want that now would we.
Democrats Specializing in Mind Control
Hitler wrote:
"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over"
"It must repeat those points over and over again until the public believes it. The principles behind propaganda are the same principles of mind control, hypnotic suggestion, and mental programming: distraction and repetition. With propaganda, distraction draws attention away from information that is true and directs attention to information that is false. Repetition of the false information imbeds it in your subconscious mind so that your acceptance of its truth becomes a conditioned response. You accept this information as true without thinking whenever it is presented to you again."
Obama has done a good job following the rules of propaganda and mind control.
"95% of American families will receive a tax cut." As I have said before, this isn't possible, and a welfare check to the 40% of the public that doesn't pay taxes isn't a tax cut.
"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over"
"It must repeat those points over and over again until the public believes it. The principles behind propaganda are the same principles of mind control, hypnotic suggestion, and mental programming: distraction and repetition. With propaganda, distraction draws attention away from information that is true and directs attention to information that is false. Repetition of the false information imbeds it in your subconscious mind so that your acceptance of its truth becomes a conditioned response. You accept this information as true without thinking whenever it is presented to you again."
Obama has done a good job following the rules of propaganda and mind control.
"95% of American families will receive a tax cut." As I have said before, this isn't possible, and a welfare check to the 40% of the public that doesn't pay taxes isn't a tax cut.
Nice Try - Chicago Tribune
Ok, back to the media bias.
There is an LA Times video tape that reportedly show's Obama and Ayers (that guy from the neighborhood that bombed several US institutions including the Pentagon and NYPD headquarters, oh and somehow convinced Obama to write a blurb for his book, and of course held that silly fund raising coffee event to get Obama's political career off the ground for State Senate (Like that hasn't happened to all of you too)) praising Rashid Khalidi, the former PLO spokesman/Arafat supporter turned Columbia University Professor (an oddly similar path to Ayers who also became a professor, has if hiding in a liberal school somehow vindicates years of terrorizing.)
The LA Times refuses to release the tape. The LA Time said three days ago that it had already run the story, and the tape doesn't need to be released. When pressed hard publicly, the LA Times has now come back with the "can't reveal our source" argument, which is very fair and true, actually. But why was this the argument 72 hours in, and not on day one. And how does releasing a tape reveal a source? Unless the source says on the tape "I am XYZ and I am video-taping this with the goal of giving it to the LA Times," how would we know who the source is simply by watching the tape?
The non Fox News world has ignored this issue until today. The Chicago Tribune, which in the interest of full disclosure has thrown its editorial support behind Obama thus rendering them completely biased and not a beacon of truth and free speech, had the following to say today:
The Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin challenged the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday for withholding a video of a 2003 dinner in Chicago where Democrat Barack Obama praised a Palestinian scholar who has spoken out for Palestinian rights.
So Khalidi is now "a Palestinian scholar" that speaks out for "Palestinian rights." Not a former PLO supporter that wants Israel wiped off the map? Not a member of a violent organization with the goal of taking statehood away from the only Democracy surrounded by enemies in the world. A scholar? Speaks out? If I spoke out with bombs and terrorist-like action, I would be in jail.
What a Joke. Let the games continue. Given the number of potential fire-storms surrounding Obama, I believe Dem's need to be very careful. First, they just lost the Jewish vote in Florida, and that's a battleground state with one of the highest concentration of Jewish people in the country. Second, I predict that in an Obama victory, more details on all of these issues related to Obama (see story below) will come to light through the first 2-years of an Obama administration, and the mid-term elections will deliver a land-slide Republican sweep, and Obama gets payback for the way he treated Bush's Judge nominees and never gets a judge appointment passed.
There is an LA Times video tape that reportedly show's Obama and Ayers (that guy from the neighborhood that bombed several US institutions including the Pentagon and NYPD headquarters, oh and somehow convinced Obama to write a blurb for his book, and of course held that silly fund raising coffee event to get Obama's political career off the ground for State Senate (Like that hasn't happened to all of you too)) praising Rashid Khalidi, the former PLO spokesman/Arafat supporter turned Columbia University Professor (an oddly similar path to Ayers who also became a professor, has if hiding in a liberal school somehow vindicates years of terrorizing.)
The LA Times refuses to release the tape. The LA Time said three days ago that it had already run the story, and the tape doesn't need to be released. When pressed hard publicly, the LA Times has now come back with the "can't reveal our source" argument, which is very fair and true, actually. But why was this the argument 72 hours in, and not on day one. And how does releasing a tape reveal a source? Unless the source says on the tape "I am XYZ and I am video-taping this with the goal of giving it to the LA Times," how would we know who the source is simply by watching the tape?
The non Fox News world has ignored this issue until today. The Chicago Tribune, which in the interest of full disclosure has thrown its editorial support behind Obama thus rendering them completely biased and not a beacon of truth and free speech, had the following to say today:
The Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin challenged the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday for withholding a video of a 2003 dinner in Chicago where Democrat Barack Obama praised a Palestinian scholar who has spoken out for Palestinian rights.
So Khalidi is now "a Palestinian scholar" that speaks out for "Palestinian rights." Not a former PLO supporter that wants Israel wiped off the map? Not a member of a violent organization with the goal of taking statehood away from the only Democracy surrounded by enemies in the world. A scholar? Speaks out? If I spoke out with bombs and terrorist-like action, I would be in jail.
What a Joke. Let the games continue. Given the number of potential fire-storms surrounding Obama, I believe Dem's need to be very careful. First, they just lost the Jewish vote in Florida, and that's a battleground state with one of the highest concentration of Jewish people in the country. Second, I predict that in an Obama victory, more details on all of these issues related to Obama (see story below) will come to light through the first 2-years of an Obama administration, and the mid-term elections will deliver a land-slide Republican sweep, and Obama gets payback for the way he treated Bush's Judge nominees and never gets a judge appointment passed.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Helicopter Ben Cuts By 50 bps -- Woo Hoo!!!!
Thanks for that, Ben! To honor your spirit of generosity, we thought we'd highlight a few other recent examples of someone/something really "making a difference in the world":
- Greenland's parliament has increased subsidies for domestic ice production. Al Gore praised the move as "essential to my plan to fight global warming despite the fact that we are on track for the coldest winter in 50 years."
- Alan Greenspan admits that he "may have been wrong" about a few things. Naaaaaahhhhhh...
- Planned Parenthood sends a complimentary box of condoms to Jamie Lynn Spears. That should help going forward, don't you think?
- Barack Obama plans targeted tax cuts for hookers. Hookers must (a) be over the age of 50, (b) make less than $1000 a year because they are so fugly or (c) have been registered by ACORN in at least 10 of the 57 states to be eligible.
- Oprah endorses Amazon's Kindle. Scary to think that Amazon might not have hit its Q4 guidance without an endorsement from this gravity-challenged windbag.
- Sell-side analysts downgrade everything 6 months too late. The market couldn't have bottomed until this happened, so next time you see a Model Monkey give him a big hug!
- Margin clerks take the price of oil below $70 per barrel. We're actually serious about this one. Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have bullets in their head by year's end, and that is clearly a good thing. On the other hand, Vladimir Putin will now almost certainly invade one of the Baltic nations. Short Latvia, Long Finland!!!
Could you imagine if Mccain said....
'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
' I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela'
Think the media would take an interest?
'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
' I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela'
Think the media would take an interest?
Hail to the Chief
FROM THE MESSIAH'S OWN BOOK!!!
Judged by the company you keep?
"The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated."
Judged by the company you keep?
"The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated."
Is the Media Really Biased?
Tough to tell if the media is really biased.
I would say the greatest risk facing America (sorry Al, its just not global warming)is the Media turning into an Al Jazeera, Communist style brainwashing/propaganda machine. They did this for Bush when we went to war (never asked a question) and are doing it again with their undying love for Obama.
Are you biased if:
-- You wont release a video tape that show's a presidential candidate at a dinner that spewed anti-semetic hate, included friends of Arafat and the PLO, and had the candidate read prepared remarks praising the conversations said candidate had with this leader as enlightening and typical of conversations that should be had more often (i.e. show a compassionate side to terrorists)?
-- You throw your full support behind a candidate without any substance in fact with respect to the candidates policies, without vetting a candidates associations/dinner friends?
-- Your idea of research and vetting is "did you do it?" "OK, good enough for me."
-- You have one candidate on your show dancing on the stage and laughing and telling stories of said candidates childhood, while the other candidate is forced to defend the level of prosperity said second candidate achieved through hard work and a life voluntarily serving and defending your country?
-- You immediately knock anyone else that asks tough questions, and don't take issue with one candidate deciding to completely black list a small TV station for asking for interpretation of potentially dangerous and irresponsible commentary in stump speeches?
Just wondering.
Where there is smoke, there is more often than not a forest fire. Khalidi, Ayers, Rezko, Wright, Pfleger, PLO support, squashed video tapes, no birth certificate (3 suspicious days in Hawaii?), Farrakhan, admitted Marxist views (that's not a shot, read Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance), spread the wealth, welfare checks for 40% of citizens (who don't pay taxes today), Iran and North Korea are small compared to the Soviet Union and aren't a great threat to the US, air raiding villages and killing civilians, defund the troops in harms way.
YOU HAVE ALL BEEN BRAIN WASHED
I would say the greatest risk facing America (sorry Al, its just not global warming)is the Media turning into an Al Jazeera, Communist style brainwashing/propaganda machine. They did this for Bush when we went to war (never asked a question) and are doing it again with their undying love for Obama.
Are you biased if:
-- You wont release a video tape that show's a presidential candidate at a dinner that spewed anti-semetic hate, included friends of Arafat and the PLO, and had the candidate read prepared remarks praising the conversations said candidate had with this leader as enlightening and typical of conversations that should be had more often (i.e. show a compassionate side to terrorists)?
-- You throw your full support behind a candidate without any substance in fact with respect to the candidates policies, without vetting a candidates associations/dinner friends?
-- Your idea of research and vetting is "did you do it?" "OK, good enough for me."
-- You have one candidate on your show dancing on the stage and laughing and telling stories of said candidates childhood, while the other candidate is forced to defend the level of prosperity said second candidate achieved through hard work and a life voluntarily serving and defending your country?
-- You immediately knock anyone else that asks tough questions, and don't take issue with one candidate deciding to completely black list a small TV station for asking for interpretation of potentially dangerous and irresponsible commentary in stump speeches?
Just wondering.
Where there is smoke, there is more often than not a forest fire. Khalidi, Ayers, Rezko, Wright, Pfleger, PLO support, squashed video tapes, no birth certificate (3 suspicious days in Hawaii?), Farrakhan, admitted Marxist views (that's not a shot, read Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance), spread the wealth, welfare checks for 40% of citizens (who don't pay taxes today), Iran and North Korea are small compared to the Soviet Union and aren't a great threat to the US, air raiding villages and killing civilians, defund the troops in harms way.
YOU HAVE ALL BEEN BRAIN WASHED
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Top Stock Picks if Palin is V.P.
If this dumb ass whore wins, here is how I am going to play the tape and the reasons why:
1. Kimberly-Clark (KMB): This might sound a bit out there but I have been hearing of a lot of guys getting caught literally with their pants down, during the V.P. debate, and other TV interviews. Maybe it has to do with the fuck me dress and boots, perhaps guys are aroused by quirky lines such as "say it aint so, Joe." I do not get it, but I would imagine if she is VP for 4 years, guys are going to be jacking off like crazy. KMB makes Kleenex. Enough Said.
2. Unilever(UL): Hand in hand with KMB (pun intended) as they make VASELINE. Enough said.
3. Smith and Wesson(SWB)/Ruger(RGR): Can you say bear hunt? Can you say deer hunt? Can you say let's hunt all the bad guys...err...suspected criminals out there!!
4. CREE and LED industry: It is legal to possess pot in Alaska--and apparently LED's are leading a lighting revolution in the cultivation of Pot. Big uptick for this industry--she clearly likes to toke and peek out of her binoculars making sure the Russians are not coming.
5. Limited Brands(LTD): Hearing chatter already, win lose or draw she gets her own bra, nighty and stocking lines post election.
6. Jones NY(JNY): FUCK ME boots, FUCK ME boots, and more FUCK ME boots.
7. Family Dollar Stores(FDO): Low end makeup gonna go fucking wild after this slut gets in. All you can get at $1.00 per item!! That's a great deal even for a Governor who puts private expenses on the bill of the constituency.
8. Taser(TASR): She and her family are BIG fans. These things are going to be everywhere if she and McPain get elected.
9. Nike(NKE): Hockey Moms buys hockey equipment.
10. Polaris(POLE): Maker of snow machines, which we know is near and dear to the hearts of the Palin crew--also hearing that she and McPain are going to insist these are more fuel economical than traditional auto's, driving adoption through the roof.
-The Angry Trader
Monday, October 27, 2008
Free Speech; We should admire the Chinese
I have been picking up enough evidence to suggest that its questionable whether the US has a more open stance on the freedom of speech issue than China.
In China, local papers and news stations openly display their disapproval of certain government officials and policies. In the US, the lovely ladies of The View, Oprah, Tom Cruise, and anyone else with a high sense of entitlement to your ears will immediately shut you up, condemn you, obscure and omit facts, if it gets in the way of any form of balanced argument about the merits of a candidate.
Imagine walking around in a major city or university wearing a McCain T-Shirt? Imagine a respectable Republican having a fair shot to debate the issues on the mainstream media's pulpit? Not gonna happen. The day the media died, along with your freedom of speech, was the day Oprah anointed you know who as, "the chosen one." "When the Messiah speaks..." The craziest thing is that Oprah should lose ALL credibility for making those comments without vetting issues from his allegiance to radical, anti-American churches, Columbia professors from "my neighborhood" with ties to 'questionable' Palestinian, references to Marxism all over the anointed ones book, and a history of ties to ACORN.
But Oprah wont lose all her credibility. In exchange for your free pass of her abuse of her freedom of speech, you are slowly losing yours. And you can only blame yourselves for not asking the hard questions the media wont.
In China, local papers and news stations openly display their disapproval of certain government officials and policies. In the US, the lovely ladies of The View, Oprah, Tom Cruise, and anyone else with a high sense of entitlement to your ears will immediately shut you up, condemn you, obscure and omit facts, if it gets in the way of any form of balanced argument about the merits of a candidate.
Imagine walking around in a major city or university wearing a McCain T-Shirt? Imagine a respectable Republican having a fair shot to debate the issues on the mainstream media's pulpit? Not gonna happen. The day the media died, along with your freedom of speech, was the day Oprah anointed you know who as, "the chosen one." "When the Messiah speaks..." The craziest thing is that Oprah should lose ALL credibility for making those comments without vetting issues from his allegiance to radical, anti-American churches, Columbia professors from "my neighborhood" with ties to 'questionable' Palestinian, references to Marxism all over the anointed ones book, and a history of ties to ACORN.
But Oprah wont lose all her credibility. In exchange for your free pass of her abuse of her freedom of speech, you are slowly losing yours. And you can only blame yourselves for not asking the hard questions the media wont.
The Real Barack Hussein Obama
The following is a partial transcript of a radio interview of Barack Obama by WBEZ Chicago back in 2001:
"You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the civil-rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.
And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution — at least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [It] says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.
And that hasn’t shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil-rights movement was because the civil-rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that."
A caller then helpfully asks: “The gentleman made the point that the Warren Court wasn’t terribly radical. My question is (with economic changes)… my question is, is it too late for that kind of reparative work, economically, and is that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to change place?”
Obama replies, "You know, I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn’t structured that way. [snip] You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues, you know, in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time. You know, the court is just not very good at it, and politically, it’s just very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard.
So I think that, although you can craft theoretical justifications for it, legally, you know, I think any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts.”
Obama replies, "You know, I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn’t structured that way. [snip] You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues, you know, in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time. You know, the court is just not very good at it, and politically, it’s just very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard.
So I think that, although you can craft theoretical justifications for it, legally, you know, I think any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts.”
Eternal shame on the mainstream media for aiding and abetting the election of a self-proclaimed radical Marxist.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Obama: Neither Idiot or Genius
Obama is not an idiot. I disgree with most if what he says, but he is far from being an idiot. Obama's biggest short-coming? He is naive, a dreamer, an intellectual, and an overall idealist that wants to make the world a Sesame Street episode for everyone to enjoy.
No single person would disagree that Obama's goal isn't admirable and desirable. (If you don't wish this, you are not human.)
While desirable and admirable, though, Obama's strategy and ethos are extremely dangerous, anti-American, and will put America at risk as a global super power succumbed to Euro-style appeasement.
The WSJ ran a wonderful op-ed last week highlighting Obama's spending plans, with the total to be spent over the next 10-years coming in at a healthy $4.3 trillion. What is most interesting about this total is that Obama plans to execute this plan with no tax increases on 95% of Americans. This is dreaming, fantasy, and dangerous, and a sure fire way to make ensure no second term because even the top 1%, where are majority of tax revenue comes from, couldn't pay for this spending plan with 80% tax rates.
"Read my lips, no new taxes," really back-fired in Bush Sr. and made great campaign material for Clinton. Remember, "It's the economy, stupid."
There is a part of me that wants Obama to be elected, to implement his plan, and to put to bed the idea that America can be run by intellectual dreamers intent on spreading world-peace through socialism and sitting down with terrorists and leaders of terrorists states over coffee, and maybe a Big Mac (remember the Clinton/Arafat/Rabin hand-shake that was going to end the Israeli/Palestinian violence?)
But in the end, its not worth the reward. Just too dangerous. Biden is right. Ask yourself this question when you vote: Who would the terrorist, economic or violent, want to have as the US president? An intellectual dreamer? Or a respected war-hero that understands the world doesn't give a flying shit if they get to eat McDonalds?
I prefer not to vote the same way as a terrorist, and this was why Bush was able to beat Gore in 2004. Too bad Axlerod has done a better job so far in the campaign than the Rove's.
No single person would disagree that Obama's goal isn't admirable and desirable. (If you don't wish this, you are not human.)
While desirable and admirable, though, Obama's strategy and ethos are extremely dangerous, anti-American, and will put America at risk as a global super power succumbed to Euro-style appeasement.
The WSJ ran a wonderful op-ed last week highlighting Obama's spending plans, with the total to be spent over the next 10-years coming in at a healthy $4.3 trillion. What is most interesting about this total is that Obama plans to execute this plan with no tax increases on 95% of Americans. This is dreaming, fantasy, and dangerous, and a sure fire way to make ensure no second term because even the top 1%, where are majority of tax revenue comes from, couldn't pay for this spending plan with 80% tax rates.
"Read my lips, no new taxes," really back-fired in Bush Sr. and made great campaign material for Clinton. Remember, "It's the economy, stupid."
There is a part of me that wants Obama to be elected, to implement his plan, and to put to bed the idea that America can be run by intellectual dreamers intent on spreading world-peace through socialism and sitting down with terrorists and leaders of terrorists states over coffee, and maybe a Big Mac (remember the Clinton/Arafat/Rabin hand-shake that was going to end the Israeli/Palestinian violence?)
But in the end, its not worth the reward. Just too dangerous. Biden is right. Ask yourself this question when you vote: Who would the terrorist, economic or violent, want to have as the US president? An intellectual dreamer? Or a respected war-hero that understands the world doesn't give a flying shit if they get to eat McDonalds?
I prefer not to vote the same way as a terrorist, and this was why Bush was able to beat Gore in 2004. Too bad Axlerod has done a better job so far in the campaign than the Rove's.
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