Oh, please, give me a break! Obama's out there whining again about his treatment and the treatment of his Stepford Wife by the mean 'ol conservatives. How dare we tell the truth about them? Check it out here and here. The guy is a wimp! No wonder the press fawns over his gym workouts, they've got to display *something* that makes him seem like a man.

Who chose the audio for this spot?  It sounds like the political version of the Butterfly Effect.  If I belch toward the west, tornados eventually rip through rural China, but if I fart toward the west, more cows go mad in Scotland.  'Course, I can't rip one northward - polar bears and ice cap melting, dontcha know.

I guess we know how far Obama's power ambitions reach.  Given the stupendous conceit of a man who wants to reprise a Nuremburg rally without the swastikas, I'm rather surprised he stopped at the planetary scale, even if it IS a big galaxy.

 

 

Only thing missing is a cape and a spinning rainbow.

Did you catch the ending text?  "You, too, can be an Obama groupie!"  Though apparently that invitation, and Lucifer's professed reputation as a "unifier," doesn't appear to even reach the boundaries of his own party.

Keep flapping, Barry.  Like your ingrained Leninism, that burp and snorter can't hide forever.

Blunt words for George W. Bush from a man known for unvarnished candor - but their truth is undeniable.  Particularly when you recall to whom Dubya will be handing off the presidential baton....

 

US CENTCOM Latest News Feed

British General hails normalization in Basra Posted: 15 Jul 2008 03:47 AM CDT WASHINGTON (July 15, 2008) – Security progress in Basra is “overwhelming,” the commander of Multi-National Division - Southeast said.

Generals discuss Iraqi stability, growth Posted: 14 Jul 2008 02:35 AM CDT BAGHDAD (July 11, 2008) – After a month in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Michael Oates sees a country heading in the right direction.

Attacks in Iraq drop to four-year low Posted: 11 Jul 2008 03:14 AM CDT BAGHDAD (July 10, 2008) – Iraq experienced the lowest number of acts of violence in more than four years last week.

Czech soldiers train Afghan police Posted: 10 Jul 2008 03:51 AM CDT FOB SHANK, Afghanistan (July 10, 2008) – Czech soldiers mentored and trained cadets at an Afghan national police compound recently.

Iraqi police distribute food in Zuwarijat Posted: 09 Jul 2008 03:06 AM CDT FOB DELTA, Iraq (July 8, 2008) – Iraqi police distributed bulk food products to citizens of the Zuwarijat district of al Kut July 3.

4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same LORD. 6 There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,^[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.^[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and He gives them to each one, just as He determines.

-1 Corinthians 12:4-11

I haven't had anything make me more simultaneously joyful and doubled over in delicious laughter in a long, long time (via Intern Missius):

 

 

C'mon, "Professor," why didn't you just write it off to "coincidence," or "I just ate a jelly doughnut and my fingers were sticky"?  How about just coming up with a different way of "putting the LORD your God to the test"?  Talk about pride going before destruction.

If there were any part of this that I would doubt, it's the prof fleeing the classroom.  Judging by my experiences with such scoffers, any atheist academic that's that big a proselytizing prick would be made of sterner stuff.  They don't give up nearly that easily.

If you ask me, the prof and USC should be sued on First Amendment grounds.  Any Christian higher educator who used his/her classroom as a pulpit to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ would be torn limb from limb by the ACLU.  Why should a prof who proselytizes against Christianity be any different?

Leaving ideology aside for a moment (if that's even possible where Barack Hussein Obama is concerned), Ron Kessler argues that BO's problem isn't so much that he's inexperienced as that, where actual substantial career accomplishments and the effective leadership they represent are concerned, he's all but invisible.

First, as a "community organizer":

Before being elected to the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked as a community organizer and a lawyer in Chicago.

In his memoir, Obama says being a community organizer taught him how to motivate the powerless and work the government to help them. His chief example is an effort to remove asbestos from Altgeld Gardens, an all-black public housing project on Chicago’s South Side.

But those who were involved in the effort say Obama played a minor role in working the problem and never accomplished his goal.

They also slam him for his penchant for taking credit for the accomplishments of other people that he wishes were his:

A pre-existing group at Altgeld Gardens and a local newspaper, the Chicago Reporter, were working on the problem before Obama came on the scene, yet Obama does not mention them in his book, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.”

Parenthetically, isn't it awfully conceited for somebody barely into his forties who's never done anything significant in or with his life despite ample attempts at it to be writing an autobiography and actually expecting people to buy and read it?  It should have been entitled "....A Story of Race and Entitlement."

“Just because someone writes it, doesn't make it true,” says Altgeld resident Hazel Johnson, who had been pushing for a cleanup of the cancer-producing substance years before Obama showed up.

Representative Bobby L. Rush, D-IL, says it was Johnson's work, along with asbestos testing by the Chicago Reporter, that got Chicago officials interested in the issue. Rush, who launched an inquiry into the situation when he was a member of the Chicago City Council, says he is “offended” that Obama did not mention Johnson in his account.

Of course he didn't.  Doing so would defeat his purpose: to plagiarize the resumes of his betters.  Perhaps the reason he's never actually DONE anything of note is because he was too busy dishonestly promoting himself, not unlike his half-term in the Senate has mostly been spent dishonestly running for president.  And even that half-term wasn't earned, but, between his GOP predecessor's retirement, his original GOP opponent's sex scandal, and (sorry, Ambassador Keyes) the running joke who carpetbagged his way onto the Illinois ballot, simply fell into Messiah's lap like overripe fruit.

Not unlike another prequel memoir/advance political blueprint, Dreams From My Father did telegraph the dynamic that is propelling Captain Hopeandchange to undreamed heights:

Michelle Obama has said his work as a community organizer helped him decide “how he would impact the world,” assisting people to improve their lives. Yet, in a revealing passage in his book, Obama wrote, “When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly.”

Instead, he said, “I’d pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.”

Thus, Obama admitted that he accomplished little but that he was able to cover that up with fancy talk about change.

Yet now he seeks power over the nation so he can impose "change" from the top down.  Hard not to notice the lionesque roar of that irony.  Or be appalled that such a pathetic scam from a man so indolent is enjoying such enormous success.

That indolence typified his legal "career" as well:

After going to Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago, where he briefly headed a voter registration drive and then became a lawyer. While Obama’s campaign has touted him as a civil rights lawyer, “Over the nine years that Obama’s law license was active in Illinois, he never handled a trial and mostly worked in teams of lawyers who drew up briefs and contracts in a variety of cases,” according to David Mendell’s Obama: From Promise To Power.

Local cases in which he appeared - not tried, or co-tried, but merely "appeared": zero.  Federal district court "appearances": five.  Federal appellate court "appearances": five.  In nine years.

As to his legislative "career," only one bill he's ever sponsored - a resolution essentially saying that Congolese upheaval is really, really bad - has actually passed.  And he's voted "present" a lot, on the intermittent occasions when that adjective has actually been nominally, kinda-sorta true.

I disagree with Kessler that this shows Barack Hussein Obama to be "mediocre."  Mediocrity is defined as "averageness".  This background, this record, shows Lucifer to be a near total fraud, and having been one long before he ever rose to national prominence, ran for president, and spent the past four months reiterating it every time he opens his mouth.

If there's anything that gives me hope that this noodlehead will be shot down before November, it is that it still seems inconceivable, even in this day and age of historical illiteracy and cultural decadence, that a majority of American voters can be fooled (and racially intimidated) this easily.  Surely some fraying cord of public sanity will hold instead of breaking, and I can spend the ensuing four years gleefully blasting the bejesus out of Lord Queeg for the continuance of his inevitable serial, GOP-disintegrating sell-outs to the Dems.

Of course, I thought the same thing sixteen years ago, and we saw how THAT turned out.  Why should this cycle be any different?

....or uncaring duplicity? Those are the only two choices to describe Barack Obama and his "plan" for Iraq. Here's his "plan." It's full of duplicity, misrepresentation, and downright stupidity. If we allow this man, who has absolutely no common sense when it comes to foreign policy, to become our Commander-in-Chief, we are in for a rough time. Rich Lowry takes him to task in this column, punching more holes in it than O.J.'s alibi. The more Obama opens his mouth, the more he proves that he is unfit for the office of Senator, much less President of the United States. Let's hope there are enough rational people in the United States who realize that before it's too late.

I have never shared the obsession of my fellow political junkies with the vast and hidden meanings supposedly to be plumbed from the sifting analysis of campaign fundraising numbers.  As AP argues in another context, the name of the game is ultimately not to raise a ton of money, but to win elections.  Not unlike baseball, where you don't get any points for piling up the hits but not bringing your base-runners home.

Still, I'm not completely averse to dabbling in the blogospheric/punditocratic pasttime.  And it's hard not to notice how much attention the conspicuous absence of a Team Hussein announcement of its June fundraising numbers is attracting.  We know the trend has been downward ever since Barry's favorite pastor became a household name back in early spring.  In May Darth Queeg actually outraised him by a mil, and did a couple mil better in June.  Could it be that Lucifer's cash register is picking up cobwebs at an even faster rate?

And could it be that his peculiar combination of callowness, ignorance, radicalism, hauteur, and avalanche of rookie mistakes is so damaging his "brand" that even fundraising like he enjoyed months ago won't be enough to put any distance between him and the backstabbing geezer?

Not all that long ago I would have reflexively said, "Not a chance."  Now I respectfully abstain from expressing an opinion either way.  Clips like this Obama speech to La Raza are a lot of the reason why:

 

 

So does BO really believe that enforcement of immigration laws is tantamount to "terrorism"?  Or was he just pandering to that particular audience, continuingly heedless of the impossibility of such reckless rhetorical meandering not getting noticed and splattered all over the non-Enemy Media?

Does it matter?  McCain at least paid empty lip service before this same reconquista gang to the idea of controlling the borders first before moving on to another shamnesty, and got roundly booed for his trouble.  Obama isn't even glib enough to lie when it would actually serve his purposes to do so.  And when he does lie he does it so transparently, and backpedals so incompetently, that it becomes glaringly apparent that he would arguably be better off conducting a mute "front-porch" campaign, sit on his lead, and try to run out the clock.

It'd defintely be cheaper - particularly since, recall if you will, His Eminence has eschewed public financing.

Then again, also remember who and what Messiah's base is.  Shafting the nutters on Iraq, FISA, D.C. gun control, and (*AHEM*) public campaign financing is not the way to re-open their wallets like the legs of Clinton interns.  The "ICE=Nazi brownshirts" line may be targeted specifically at them, an out-of-the-mainstream sop, a wacko peace offering.  A downpayment, anyway.

If it doesn't work by September, well, Adolph Ahmadinejad is returning to Gotham for the third time to tour his future estates.  Maybe Our Mr. Hussein can give him that guided tour of Ground Zero he was denied a year ago.

If, of course, Barry O's new best buddy isn't given other matters to attend to instead.

1 O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You and praise Your name, for in perfect faithfulness You have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.

2 You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore strong peoples will honor You; cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

4 You have been a Refuge for the poor, a Refuge for the needy in his distress, a Shelter from the storm and a Shade from the heat.  For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall  5 and like the heat of the desert.  You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.

6 On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine — the best of meats and the finest of wines. 

7 On this mountain He will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; 8 He will swallow up death forever.  The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; He will remove the disgrace of His people from all Earth.  The LORD has spoken.

9 In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in Him, and He saved us.  This is the LORD, we trusted in Him; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

-Isaiah 25:1-9