Is It Too Late For Obama To Declare A Mulligan?

Call it Joementum!

It’s official: Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate.

Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 23-25, the first three-day period falling entirely after Obama’s Saturday morning vice presidential announcement, shows 46% of national registered voters backing John McCain and 44% supporting Obama, not appreciably different from the previous week’s standing for both candidates. This is the first time since Obama clinched the nomination in early June, though, that McCain has held any kind of advantage over Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.

Barack Obama: That Was Not The George Hussein Obama I Knew

This guy lives on one dollar a month.

Here's a Real Shocker

According to the AP:

Attorneys for embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick say they won't try to have his travel restrictions lifted in time for him to attend the Democratic National Convention.

Spokesman Marcus Reese says Kilpatrick is focused on "serving the citizens of Detroit, not on presidential politics."

Kilpatrick can't leave the Detroit area as a condition of his bond on two assault charges.

I wonder how many other superdelegates and close friends of the Dalai Bama will not be able to attend the convention without violating the conditions of their parole?

Speaking of Democratic sleaze, neither John "Two Timing Americas" Edwards, nor his love child, appear on the convention schedule.

Nor does the Good Reverend Jesse JacksoN-word, who has spoken at every Democratic National Convention since 1984, presumably because of Secret Service concern over the security of the Democratic presidential nominee's genitals. However, Jackson's son, Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., will speak, ironically enough, on the "One Nation" theme today.

In Camelot!

In the darkest, deepest reaches of enemy territory, the Queen summoned up the moldy ghosts of Camelot to try and revive her faltering campiagn.

According to the Lewiston Tribune, at a campaign speech in Clarkston yesterday, the Governor said:

"I first met Michelle when she visited Washington a few months ago," Gregoire said. "She reminded me of Jacqueline Kennedy. Like Kennedy, I'm predicting she will be loved and respected around the globe. As a child, I was inspired by John F. Kennedy, and I see that same kind of inspiration coming from Barack Obama. That's why I think he's the right choice. It's time for America to get new leadership."

Yep, JFK inspired the young Chris Gregoire so much, just 3 years after his assassination, she joined a sorority at UW (later becoming president) that only allowed girls that were white and Christian.

No doubt the Queen was prompted to make such an absurd comparison by Obama's "Ich Bin Ein Beginner" speech and Michelle Obama's "Jackie" sartorial makeover. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Gregoire's Kennedy connection is as strained and incredulous as BHO's own fanciful tale of JFK bringing his father over from Kenya.

And Obama Said, Let There Be Renewable Energy

Obama declares that our economy will be transformed. Big words for a man who "has never run so much as a Dairy Queen."

By 2012 he would "require" the economy's huge energy sector to -- here things become comic -- supply half as much energy from renewable sources as already is being supplied by just one potentially renewable source. About 20 percent of America's energy comes from nuclear energy produced using fuel rods, which, when spent, can be reprocessed into fresh fuel.

Obama is (this is part of liberalism's catechism) leery of nuclear power. He also says -- and might say so even if Nevada were not a swing state -- he distrusts the safety of Nevada's Yucca Mountain for storage of radioactive waste. Evidently he prefers today's situation -- nuclear waste stored at 126 inherently insecure above-ground sites in 39 states, within 75 miles of where more than 161 million Americans live.

But back to requiring this or that quota of energy from renewable sources. What will that involve? For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing. Obama seems to believe that if a particular outcome is desirable, one can see how to require it. But how does that work? Details to follow, sometime after noon, Jan. 20, 2009.

Sometimes I think that, in order to vote, one should have to be at least as analytical as George Will.

America: You're Guilty Of Racism

Barack Hussein Obama isn't winning by a landslide. There's only one explanation - you're a racist.

Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?

If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.

Piss of the know-it-alls, vote McCain.

Joe Biden - Bullshit (revisited)

An American Carol: The Ghost of Pauline Kael Past and Present

Lately, I find myself reminded of Pauline Kael, the long time movie critic for New Yorker magazine, who famously expressed her incredulity at Richard Nixon’s landslide victory over George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election: “I don’t know how Nixon could have been reelected. I don't know anyone who voted for him.”

These days, the mainstream media seem entirely populated by Pauline Kaels. In their competition to establish whose reporting can be more worshipful of Barack He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Middle-Named Obama, they cannot imagine that anyone could hold a contrary view. Those who live in this philosophical cocoon cannot understand why public opinion polls do not show Barack Obama winning in a landslide. And you can bet that they are reeling from a Zogby poll earlier this week showing Republican John McCain with a slender lead among likely voters. This was the year of hope and change. This was supposed to be the year when all the stars and computer models agreed that Democrats would win not only the White House, but would gain overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress. Why even bother with an election?

We’ve been here before. Newsweek magazine’s assistant managing editor Evan Thomas famously stated in 2004 that the press corps, “wants Kerry to win,” and that the media would, “portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic.” He predicted that the media favoritism would be worth up to 15 percentage points.

This season’s campaign started this last spring when the press anointed Obama as the post-racial silver-tongued messiah who would at last lead America out of eight years of wilderness and into the Promised Land. His ever speech was hailed as historic. They filtered contradictory news from their reporting and caricatured John McCain as a fumble-mouthed, befuddled old man clinging tenaciously to a discredited ideology.

One media survey showed that the big television networks’ coverage favored Obama by 3.6 to 1. Washington Post media analyst Howard Kurtz reported this week that, in the big networks, stories that were flattering of Obama outnumbered critical stories by 6 to 1. Howard Kurtz aside, the Post confessed its own bias. This last week, the Post’s ombudsman reported that the paper’s disproportionate coverage of Obama over McCain “didn’t look good.”

The gushing press coverage that Barack Obama received during his world tour was emblematic of the press’s Kael-like disconnect from the real America. Only those media stars in good standing with Obamamania were allowed privileged seating on the campaign plane. And none dared jeopardize that status. Everything that Obama did was perfect. Everything he said was inspiring. Images from the tour deserved to be painted on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, covering those stodgy old Michaelangelo sketches.

And ever since, Obama has sunk in the polls. How can that be? How can NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN all be wrong?

Well, part of Obama’s problem is that the great unwashed, whose ballots count every bit as much as Katie Couric’s, seem to have a longer memory than their media overlords. They know that the incontrovertible wisdom that Barack the Holy espouses today is often at odds with the incontrovertible wisdom that he uttered a few months ago. The great unwashed know that tire gauges will not solve our energy shortage. Americans who are paying over $4 per gallon for gasoline also know that the 6 or 7 years that Obama claims will be needed to derive benefit from new oil exploration represents a much shorter time horizon than any relief they will realize from the science fiction solutions that he advocates. And Americans cannot understand why a man who touts his unfailing judgment as his primary qualification for president cannot recognize that the surge in Iraq worked and that success is firmly in our grasp.

And we should not underestimate Americans’ distrust of the media. The same people who now assure them that Obama is The One are the same people who deliberately ignored John Edwards’ failings. Should Americans trust the judgment of a press corps that cannot compete with the National Enquirer in the field of investigative journalism?

Americans know in their hearts that should John McCain emerge as the winner on the evening of November 4th, the wise men and women of the media will find racism as the only explanation that makes sense. And Americans already resent that.

How else could they explain an Obama loss? After all, no one they knew voted for McCain.

A Vote for the Queen is Another Vote for Obama?

According to an interview in The Stranger, the Queen fears she won't be able to grab ahold of Obama's coattails in November:

I think Senator Obama has brought out a new generation of voters that have not voted before. And some of these folks -- I know, because I’ve talked to them -- feel they’re engaged to voted for Senator Obama and then they’re done, failing to recognize the important of, he can’t do much of anything alone, if he doesn’t have a Congress he can work with, if he doesn’t have governors he can work with, if governors don’t have legislatures they can work with.

So I think our job is to convince these folks, it isn’t good enough to be engaged by saying, “I’m going to vote for president of the United States.” You’ve got to get engaged and look down the ticket and ask yourself, “Who are these folks and do I want to support them?” So I think that is going to be very important.

Yep, she's running scared. In what figures to be a Democratic year, especially in deeply Blue State, it's not a good sign that an incumbent Democratic governor is essentially whining that "a vote for me is another vote for Obama."

My daughter was over at the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle a few weeks back and was astonished that the Queen showed up to introduce the band "Vampire Weekend" (possibly due to her resemblance to one of the undead.) As noted above, she begged the thousands of twentysomethings in attendance to vote for Obama AND her.

The problem for the staid 61 year-old bureaucrat, a big government apparatchik since 1969, is that she inspires about as much enthusiasm in young people as Count Chocula, not Count Dracula.

As David Postman of the Seattle Times points out, liberals in King County may vote for Obama and then stop at the top of the ticket, as they did with Kerry back in 2004.

Obama: America Is Not A Place Where He Would Want His Children To Grow Up

“America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”

But, don't question his patriotism.

Gateway Pundit has the story and a fine collection of Obamisms, B. Hussein and his wife's.

The Cult of Obama

What's your favorite cult?

The Giant Black Balls Of Obama

But of course, that couldn't save Keith Olbermann from falling for it.

KEITH OLBERMANN: What about when it backfires? Because it seems like the celebrity ad continues to echo. And Bob Herbert of the New York Times was on this network pointing out something I don't know that anybody noticed before this morning. That not only in that McCain ad where there two underdressed blondes mixed with the black guy in the ad, but there were also images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Washington Monument, and the Victory Column in Berlin -- as Bob Herbert put it, "phallic symbols." Three phallic symbols, two blondes and Barack Obama. So this is not just a sexist ad anymore. This is what they used to called "miscegenation," isn't it? This is what they used against Harold Ford.

JONATHAN ALTER, NEWSWEEK: Well, to suggest that somehow, you know, Obama's going to-

OLBERMANN: He's going to wind up dating those women-

ALTER: Yeah.

OLBERMANN: That's the idea.

ALTER: That's the oldest and deepest racist, you know, canard in American history, really, is that, you know, the slave is going to come after the wife of the plantation owner. I can't, sort of, dissect and decode these ads that way. I just, somehow maybe my media literacy is lacking. I didn't read that out of those ads, but I can see how some people would. And the larger issue, I think, is clear, which is they're trying to portray him as being uppity. Now, is that racist? I'm not sure, you know.

OLBERMANN: Well, if we're playing Password and you say "uppity," the word that comes into my mind, that's racist, yes. Yes.

ALTER: Yes. That is clearly what the larger subtext is. As for the phallic stuff, I'll leave that to others.

OLBERMANN: Well, all right, we'll just drop it there.

Obama, On Your Shoulder

I am so looking forward to 8 years of lectures from The One.

The One

He makes Cassius Clay sound humble.

Obama Did Bringeth Forth Plentiful Oil Upon The Land - And Saw That It Was Good Enough For Government Work

Let it be said that Barack Hussein Obama doth bringeth upon the land plentiful oil for our cars from a tire pump. And, he saw that it was good. Truly, he is The One. This week just passeth, Barack Obama showed that we must send the Bible back to the editors for updates and revisions. Certainly we will need to add a few new chapters, maybe even an entire “Modern Testament,” dedicated to proclaiming and witnessing for the new messiah.


Following up his Berlin address to the “citizens of the world” (inexplicably delivered in English), Obama descended upon this great land from the heavens and declared himself the chosen one, a task that Jesus left to others. On Monday, before swooning disciples he declared: “This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”

The following day, he spoke before an audience of unbiased journalists who gave him multiple standing ovations.

And he was just getting warmed up. After declaring himself The One and bringing unbiased journalists to their feet in applause, he stepped forth on Wednesday and solved the oil shortage in a most messianic fashion: “We could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling by making sure your tires are properly inflated.”

Truly it is a miracle. The 10 billion barrels of oil locked up by Congress in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the 18 billion barrels locked up by Congress along the outer continental shelf, the 90 billion barrels elsewhere in the arctic, and the forbidden 1 trillion barrels in oil shale can all be replaced by airing up our tires? Who knew? Surely we need no more signs to reveal The One to us. But it’s worth reviewing the signs given us so far.

When thirst threatened the Jews in the Sinai wilderness, all that Moses managed to do was strike water from a rock. Big deal! When you think about it, that’s not so different from drilling a well. Jesus fed thousands with but 5 loaves of bread and two fishes. But anybody who has dined in an elegant restaurant recently knows all about small portions. Surely, Barack Hussein Obama’s oil miracle surpasses all who came before.

And when we start viewing Barack Hussein Obama in the light of a true messiah and not simply a candidate for the most powerful office in the world, his supposed lack of experience comes into new perspective. What were Moses’ credentials? He was nothing more than the spoiled, adopted son of a pharaoh. Jesus was naught but a carpenter and a fisherman before embarking upon his ministry. Where in either of their work histories does one find the qualifications for the roles into which they stepped? The preparations do not measure up to Obama’s. Not only did Barack Hussein Obama spend two whole years in the United States Senate before declaring his candidacy but, previously he worked with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). So he certainly knows all about voter fraud.

And what about that blank space on Barack Hussein Obama’s resume under the heading for “accomplishments?” Well, Barack Obama helped Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, organize the Million Man March. Is that so different from Moses leading the Egypt’s Jews to the Promised Land?

Jesus attracted a sizable crowd to the Temple Mount, but did he have rock bands as warm up acts, as Obama did in Portland and Berlin?

And how dare anyone point out Barack Hussein Obama's unsavory associations? Certainly Barack Obama sat for more than two decades listening to the sermons of an America hating racist. And he does count among his friends a couple of domestic terrorists whose only regrets are that they didn’t detonate enough bombs. He has wallowed in the company of the corrupt political fixers that have tainted the Chicago political scene for generations. And he numbers among his closest advisers people involved in the subprime mortgage scandal and the man who enabled the pardon auction that Bill Clinton held at the end of the reign. But didn’t Jesus himself mix with prostitutes and Roman tax collectors? After all, if you’re going to spread the word, you have to go where the sinners are.

So, follow your mainstream news media overlords at ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN, and bow down before Barack Hussein Obama. He is the chosen one – chosen by them.

Barack Hussein Obama's Amazingly Stupid Idea

If you thought that John McCain and Hillary Clinton's plan to relieve gas prices by temporarily suspending federal gas taxes was dumb, it looks like sheer genius compared to Barack Hussein Obama's idea.

The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate ($500 to individual workers, $1,000 to families) as soon as this fall.

“This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months,” Obama said. “Or, if you live in a state where it gets very cold in the winter, it will be enough to cover the entire increase in your heating bills. Or you could use the rebate for any of your other bills or even to pay down debt.

I guess Barack Hussein Obama doesn't read the news. There ain't no recession. And the 5.7% unemployment rate was considered good stuff when Clinton was president.

But, here's the best part:

Friday’s proposal says Obama “is proposing to offset the cost of his emergency energy rebates over the next five years by enacting a windfall profits tax on big oil companies.”

“Obama simply asks that big oil companies contribute a reasonable share of the windfall profits they receive from high oil prices over the next five years to pay for emergency assistance for families right now,” the campaign says.

This is like scooping water from one end of a bathtub and dumping it the other. These taxes will simply be passed on in the form of higher prices at the pump. Now, if Barack Hussein Obama really wants to give the American consumer a break.....

Jon Voight Is Now My Favorite Actor

Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight (aka Angelina Jolie's dad) had an op-ed piece published in Monday's Washington Times.

I love what Voight has to say:

Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset.

The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

And Barack Did Bringeth Forth Oil From A Tire Pump

Moses struck water from a stone.

Christ fed thousands with five loaves of bread and two fishes.

Obama solveth the oil shortage by airing up the tires.

What is Barry Doing Right Now?

From Power Line:

If you Google the word "Facebook," the first entry that comes up, naturally, is the main Facebook site. The second is Barack Obama's Facebook page.

The RNC has now parodied Obama's use of social networking quite cleverly with a page called BarackBook. The site is a useful guide to Obama's friends, with videos and a news feed. What is Barack doing right now? (Facebook users will get the reference.) "Barack is hoping to settle on an Iraq policy before November."

BarackBook is also an application that you can add to your own Facebook page. Well done, RNC!

HT: Mike D.

Change Nobody Can Believe In

There's a small problem (subscription probably required) with Larry LaRocco's campaign button at left. That's not Larry LaRocco. That's toe-tapper Larry whom LaRocco would like to replace in the Senate.

A defective campaign button offered a new take on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign slogan, "Change we can believe in."

The 3-inch button was intended to show Obama standing next to Larry LaRocco, the Idaho Democratic candidate running for U.S. Senate. Rather than LaRocco's smiling face, however, the button had a photo of Sen. Larry Craig, the staunch Republican who's vacating the seat LaRocco wants to fill.

"That sounds like it's going to be a collector's item," said Dean Ferguson, LaRocco's communications director. "I'm sure Senator Obama appreciates Senator Craig's support."

Even if that were Larry LaRocco's picture, I'm not sure that the best way to get yourself elected to the Senate in Idaho is to attach yourself to Barack Hussein Obama's coat tails.