May 22, 2012
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by PRESIDENTIAL WATCH August 21, 2008
Fascinating Campaign Arcana – The Clinton Memos - GO HERE.
Laugh of the day! – Obama blames McCain for messianic imagery! SEE HERE.
To view “surge of veterans for McCain,” GO HERE.
Larry Johnson discusses Obama's Saddleback performance RIGHT HERE.
The Lingering What-If Question: Clinton?
Patrick Healy, NY Times.com
No power brokers in the Democratic Party are openly campaigning for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as their vice-presidential nominee this year, and even Mrs. Clinton’s closest aides have stopped talking her up. Yet privately, some Democrats continue to see her as exactly the partner that Senator Barack Obama needs.
Clinton supporters have tried to make this point in recent weeks, winning language in the party’s convention platform that acknowledged Mrs. Clinton’s history-making candidacy, and praising her as a smart, seasoned policy wonk who could add ballast to Mr. Obama’s message of hope and change.
Indeed, a recent New York Times/CBS News poll of convention delegates found that 28 percent preferred Mrs. Clinton for vice president — by far the largest bloc supporting a candidate.
“I’ve gotten literally hundreds of letters over the last week from women saying they would still love it if she were the nominee, or if he would pick her,” said Geraldine A. Ferraro, a Clinton supporter and the only woman to be on a major-party ticket, as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1984.
Now if only the two former rivals could get past . oh, where to begin? Read article.
McCain Questions for Obama
Henry Mark Holzer, The Conservative Voice.com
Let's focus on what this pompous, pretentious wannabe said about Justice Thomas: that when appointed to the Supreme Court he wasn't 'a smart enough jurist or legal thinker, and that Obama disagrees with Thomas's 'interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.'
As to 'not smart enough,' prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, a Yale Law School graduate, was an assistant attorney general in Missouri, Assistant Secretary of Education in Washington, head of the EEOC, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He wrote briefs, policy statements, and legal opinions. He published articles and made speeches. He produced hundreds, probably thousands, of pages of legal work.
One wonders how much of this legal output Obama has actually read—especially since all of it was produced in the years before Obama even graduated from law school.
How, then, to explain Obama's demonstrably ignorant demeaning of Clarence Thomas's intellect? Simple. Regurgitation of the now-tired smear that the Left has used to attack Thomas since his confirmation hearing. (By the way, Harvard, Obama's law school alma mater, was at the center of that 'high-tech lynching'.)
As to Obama's crack about Thomas's 'interpretation of a lot of the Constitution,' it is here that the McCain campaign can make mince meat of the Democrat candidate. Read article.
Putin Upends Barack Obama’s New World Order
John Kinsellagh, Beacon Street Journal.com
The Russian invasion of Georgia is a singularly auspicious event because it has, in an instant, shattered the illusion upon which the world view of Barack Obama and his fellow European “world citizens” is predicated. The next time Russia seeks to expand its sphere of influence and threatens another democratic nation, how receptive then will the previously rapturous crowds of a disarmed Europe be to the giddy nonsense proselytized by Barack Obama just three short weeks ago in Berlin?
When the consequences of a rapacious Russian foreign policy threatening their natural gas and oil lifelines are revealed to the slumbering Europeans, will they find solace and comfort in the lofty rhetoric of Obama calling for tearing down walls and bringing peoples everywhere together?
As evidenced by his initial reaction to the crisis, the closeness in time between his speech in Berlin and the Russian assault must have been spectacularly jarring for the Chosen One, for, there is no coherent nor strategically viable response in his soft power playbook for the naked geo-political power play effected by a resurgent Russia. Obama’s “refined” response to the Russian blitz was simply a tiresome recitation of the default position of the American Left for every international crisis both big and small: call the U.N. Read article.
Georgia crisis helps McCain for now
Linda Feldmann, CS Monitor.com
The crisis in the former Soviet republic of Georgia seems made to order for John McCain. It has allowed the likely Republican presidential nominee to show his foreign-policy chops and talk tough. Since last Friday, when Russia invaded its Caucasian neighbor, Senator McCain has spoken to his old friend "Misha" Saakashvili several times, pointedly referring to the Georgian president by his nickname.
For now, it's a winning issue for McCain. The Russian-Georgian conflict's impact on the presidential race could depend on whether it is a one-week story or a three-month story.
"If we move to something resembling an uneasy status quo ante, then this will fade as an issue," says Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "It will have been something that got onto the radar of Americans but not right in front of them. If that's the case, I would probably still argue that it's of some marginal benefit for McCain."
The reason, he says, is not because of Obama's reaction but more because it reminds people that "we live in a world filled with tough customers who don't always act in our interest, and it reminds Americans of the need to have a tough customer in our White House." Read article.
The Shape of the Race Changes
Richard Baehr, American Thinker.com
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the contest for President has become a real horse race, close to a tossup (Obama maintains a 1-2 point lead in the tracking polls). The 17 days of the Olympics and the exploits of Michael Phelps have driven most political stories off the front burner, other than Russia's aggression against Georgia.
The Russia-Georgia story played into John McCain's hands, with McCain quickly and forcefully condemning Russia's actions, and Barack Obama, vacationing in Hawaii, seeming to offer little in response but a call for a Security Council meeting and a ceasefire. Obama, a believer in the effectiveness of international organizations, may have forgotten that Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council and was unlikely to agree to anything counter to its interests.
So too, Americans seem to always rally around our athletes during the Olympics. The candidate perceived as the soldier/warrior, McCain stands to benefit more from any burst of patriotic fervor associated with the Olympic Games than Obama. Read article.
Obama & the DNC: “America's Hitler”
Always For Hillary.Blogspot.com
On tonight's show, OBAMA CAMPS were discussed, too. These cult-like camps basically teach Obama's THUGGERY and VOTER FRAUD techniques. I had heard the rumors before Iowa and at the time was told it couldn't be true. But it was. Obama had BUSES full of people come into Iowa to caucus for him. People who had no business caucusing in Iowa!
BOUNCERS were at the doors as part of the voter intimidation, voter suppression techniques. Obama supporters held the voter packets - all pre-filled out with Obama's name on them. There were more voter papers than people in the room! Clinton supporters were told to go to different buildings, were threatened. If this doesn't scare YOU, you must be an Obama supporter or one of his THUGS!! Read blogspot posting.
Nightmare on Dem Street
Jonah Goldberg, Townhall.com
For months now people have been saying to me, "Do you really think they're gone?" "Is it finally over?" "Is the coast clear?"
The questions have been in response to Barack Obama's supposedly yeoman service in putting an end to the Clintons in public life.
My response to those who believe our long national nightmare is over has always been: "Have you seen no monster movies?"
Freddy Krueger always comes back. Jason re-emerges from the pond one more time. Dracula had so many comebacks, nobody was surprised to see him hanging with Abbott and Costello.
Of course the Clintons will be back.
If the monster-movie thing is too offensive for you Clinton voluptuaries out there, think of it like this: They're like Richard Gere in "An Officer and a Gentleman" (who, coincidentally, is hounded by a charismatic black dude but never gives up). They've got no place else to go.
And I was right. The Clintons are back. The coffin lid has sprung open, the seal of the crypt has been broken, the mutant virus has escaped the lab. Both Clintons will speak at the Democratic convention, and Hillary will get her I-told-you-so's.
In the horror flicks, it's not that the creatures are impervious to damage, it's that no matter how much you hack them up, they seem to come back again. And again. And again. The Clintons have been horribly damaged, but they press on.
Bill Clinton is no supernatural serial killer - faint praise to most, too generous to a few. But he does have this juggernaut-like way of getting where he wants to be. Read article.
The Morning After the Morning After the Night of the Return of the Living Undead: This Time, It’s Personal.
David Kahane, NRO.cvom
It seems like just yesterday that our beloved Bambi was all dressed up like a kid on the first day of school, jaunting off to strange places with names even funnier than his. And although wet behind the ears, he wowed ‘em wherever he went.
And yet… where was the bounce? Obama’s statistically insignificant lead over that wrinkly old white dude, what’s his name, barely budged. And then the usual Rethuglican Smear Machine critics starting carping that the former Barry Soetero didn’t have what it takes, wasn’t a closer, blah blah blah. Luckily, the major media took Che’s suggestion from the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical, when Evita comes a cropper before her London visit: “You’d better get out the flags and fix a parade. Some kind of coming home in triumph is expected.”
[cue music from Jaws]
She’s ba-ack, Barack. Read article.
Was young Obama Indonesian citizen?
Aaron Klein, WND.com
Was Sen. Barack Obama a citizen of Indonesia at any point in his life?
That question has been circulating on the blogosphere with increased fury the past few days, since a photograph emerged of Obama's school registration papers as a child in Indonesia – the world's most populous Muslim nation – showing the presidential candidate listed as a "Muslim" with "Indonesian" citizenship.
An investigation into Indonesian citizenship law and a review of Obama's biography and travels suggest the Illinois senator at one point may have been a citizen of Indonesia. That would not necessarily disqualify Obama to run for president, but it could raise loyalty concerns. Read article.
Obama's War on Women
Editorial, NY Sun.com
The Obama campaign has at long last lifted the veil of mystery that has surrounded the Democratic presidential candidate's tax increase plans. Mr. Obama's two economic advisers, Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee, have an op-ed piece in today's Wall Street Journal, and it isn't pretty. To begin with, they propose bringing back the 39.6% top income tax bracket, an increase from the 35% current top rate. On top of that, he'd impose a new payroll tax on those top earners of 2% to 4%, bringing their marginal tax rate to as high as 43.6%.
Meanwhile, the most astonishing sentence in the op-ed is this one: "His plan would not raise any taxes on couples making less than $250,000 a year, nor on any single person with income under $200,000." It amounts to a declaration of war on two-income families, a marriage penalty of punitive proportions. If those two single persons with income just under $200,000 get married, Mr. Obama is going to hammer them with a huge tax increase. If the second earner, who in many cases is the woman, is going to have to give 54% of what she earns to the government, she might as well stay home with the children. Read article.
The End of Placeness
Peggy Noonan, Online WSJ.com
The end of placeness is one of the features of the campaign. I do not like it.
Pretend you are not a political sophisticate and regular watcher of the presidential race as it unfolds on all media platforms. Pretend, that is, that you are normal.
OK, quick, close your eyes. Where is Barack Obama from?
He's from Young. He's from the town of Smooth in the state of Well Educated. He's from TV.
John McCain? He's from Military. He's from Vietnam Township in the Sunbelt state.
Chicago? That's where Mr. Obama wound up. Modern but Midwestern: a perfect place to begin what might become a national career. Arizona? That's where Mr. McCain settled, a perfect place from which to launch a more or less conservative career in the 1980s.
Neither man has or gives a strong sense of place in the sense that American politicians almost always have, since Mr. Jefferson of Virginia, and Abe Lincoln of Illinois, and FDR of New York, and JFK of Massachusetts. Even Bill Clinton was from a town called Hope, in Arkansas, even if Hope was really Hot Springs. And in spite of his New England pedigree, George W. Bush was a Texan, as was, vividly, LBJ. Read article.
25 Reasons You Might Be a Liberal
John Hawkins, Townhall.com
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you just might be a liberal if.
* You're sure the Constitution explicitly guarantees the right to abortion and gay marriage, but not the right to own a handgun.
* You think Dan Quayle is the dumbest Vice-President we ever had because he believed a flash card that misspelled "potato," but think Obama is a genius despite the fact he believes we have more than 57 states.
* You'd be more upset about your favorite candidate being endorsed by the NRA than the Communist Party.
* You think the same criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime will just hand them over to comply with the law if guns are made illegal.
* You know that 86% of all income taxes are paid by the top 25% of income earners and you still feel that the rich "aren't paying their fair share of the taxes."
* You put a higher priority on oil pipelines possibly inconveniencing a few caribou than you do on lowering the price of gas for everyone in the country by drilling ANWR Read article.
Chain-link cells with razor wire readied for those arrested at Democratic convention
P. Soloman Banda, Newsday.com
Individuals arrested at the Democratic National Convention will be processed at an industrial warehouse with chain-link cells topped by razor wire, a facility some have compared to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Groups planning marches, concerts and other events during the Aug. 25-28 convention dub the center "Gitmo on the Platte," for the nearby South Platte River.
The Denver sheriff's office, which operates city and county jails, insists anyone taken to the center will be there only a few hours while they're fingerprinted, issued a court date and released after posting bail. Others will be transferred to facilities designed for longer detentions.
"Of course if the numbers are overwhelming, that's all going to be out the door," said Capt. Frank Gale, a sheriff's spokesman. "If we're inundated with a bunch of civil unrest, it doesn't matter how well we prepare. If we get severe numbers it's going to take us forever" to process those in custody. Read article.
McCain: Obama Tried to Legislate Iraqi Failure
NewsMax.com
John McCain told fellow veterans on Monday that his Democratic rival Barack Obama tried to legislate failure in Iraq and has refused to admit he erred when opposing the military increase there last year.
McCain said Obama placed his political self-interest ahead of his country's, a theme the Arizona Republican has often repeated. McCain told a friendly convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that Obama's positions have changed as his political ambitions grew.
"With less than three months to go before the election, a lot of people are still trying to square Sen. Obama's varying positions on the surge in Iraq. First, he opposed the surge and confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge," McCain said.
"Not content to merely predict failure in Iraq, my opponent tried to legislate failure." Read article.
Criticizing the Author and Not the Candidate
Mark R. Levin, The Corner, NRO.com
It's too bad the same media that are so concerned about Corsi's background have been so reticent to do their own homework on Obama. After all, Corsi wrote a book, Obama seeks the presidency. The liberal media were slow to acknowledge the existence of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and did so only after talk radio and bloggers would not let Obama escape his close relationship with both. The Chicago media did most of the heavy lifting respecting Obama's relationship with Tony Rezko. And there are many other miscreants and radicals who have played large roles in Obama's personal and professional life.
But the liberal media are not interested in looking into most of it, have begrudgingly and superficially addressed it usually after the new media pressed it, and then downplayed it as "guilt by association" — with few exceptions. Not so with their reporting on Corsi. They want to know about anything he has ever said or written and his associations. In his case, they are determinative. And if he got a date wrong here and there in his book, or was otherwise mistaken in some minor way, the entirety of his book is discredited. We are "learning" more about Corsi than we learned about Obama prior to the all important Super Tuesday primaries. Read article.
The Jihad Candidate
Rich Carroll, The Absurd Report.com
Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘Seven Days in May’ are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader’s imagination at best-seller level. ‘What if’ has always been the solid grist of fiction.
Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years. How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as ‘chaplains’? Read article.
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The 15 best liberal fairy tales
May 22, 2012 09:03 PM
#LiberalFairyTales are all the absurd stories that liberals tell themselves and, sadly, everybody else. Here are the absolute best ones twitterers ever did tweet.
Ky. primary has Barack Obama doing battle with a phantom; Let the mockage begin!
May 22, 2012 07:50 PM
Vote-counting for the Kentucky primary is underway, and Obama is leading among preferred Democratic presidential candidates. But ah, ah, ah … not so fast there, Barack. Looks like not everything’s comin’ up roses in the Bluegrass State. ONE FOR UNDECIDED: Bath County, Kentucky Democrats take "Undecided" over President Obama by 725-715 votes— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) [...]
May 22, 2012 04:29 PM
The South Carolina AFL-CIO president is on video beating an effigy of Governor Nikki Haley with a bat. War on women, indeed, and it comes from the Left as always. To Leftist thugs and union goons, she was asking for it, you see. That "uppity" woman won't keep her mouth shut and all. Scratch a Leftist and you will find not only a misogynist, but a racist.
Media still covering for no Biden access for press, blame Romney
May 22, 2012 03:39 PM
Media bias alert! RT @zekejmiller: Worth noting, given Romney flap last week, press not given rope-line access to Biden event here in NH— Sarah Huisenga (@SarahH_CBSNJ) May 22, 2012 Um. After the “Romney flap?” You mean the “flap” that the media breathlessly and endlessly reported all while ignoring the fact that reporters were shooed off [...]
May 22, 2012 03:08 PM
I'll see your Cory Booker and raise you a Joe Biden.— David Freddoso (@freddoso) May 22, 2012 Rut roh! Shall we add him to “hostage watch?“ Biden: When Bain companies failed, it cost taxpayers money in unemployment insurance, pension costs.— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) May 22, 2012 Uh. When they are “too big to fail” and [...]
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