Barrack Hussein Obama
Ready for that 3:00AM Call!!!

ooops! Hey Barrack, you're supposed to speak into the OTHER end of the phone.

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(My congratulations to syndicated columnist Mark Steyn for this OUTSTANDING article!)
 
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright thinks that, given their treatment by white  America, black Americans have no reason to sing "God Bless America." "The  government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike  law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn  America," he told his congregation. "God damn America for treating our  citizens as less than human."
 
I'm not a believer in guilt by association, or the campaign vaudeville of  rival politicians insisting this or that candidate dissociate himself from  remarks by some fellow he had a 30-second grip'n'greet with a decade ago. But  Jeremiah Wright is not exactly peripheral to Barack Obama's life. He married  the Obamas and baptized their children. Those of us who made the mistake of  buying the senator's latest book, "The Audacity Of Hope," and assumed the  title was an ingeniously parodic distillation of the great sonorous banality  of an entire genre of blandly uplifting political writing discovered circa  page 127 that in fact the phrase comes from one of the Rev. Wright's sermons.  Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years – in other words,  pretty much the senator's entire adult life. Did Obama consider "God Damn  America" as a title for his book but it didn't focus-group so well?
 
Ah, well, no, the senator told ABC News. The Rev. Wright is like "an old  uncle who says things I don't always agree with." So did he agree with goofy  old Uncle Jeremiah on Sept. 16, 2001? That Sunday morning, Uncle told his  congregation that the United States brought the death and destruction of 9/11  on itself. "We nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon,  and we never batted an eye," said the Rev. Wright. "We have supported state  terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are  indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to  our own front yards."
 
Is that one of those "things I don't always agree with"? Well, Sen. Obama  isn't saying, responding merely that he wasn't in church that morning. OK,  fair enough, but what would he have done had he happened to have shown up on  Sept. 16? Cried "Shame on you!" and stormed out? Or, if that's a little  dramatic, whispered to Michelle that he didn't want their daughters hearing  this kind of drivel while rescue workers were still sifting through the rubble  and risen from his pew in a dignified manner and led his family to the exit?  Or would he have just sat there with an inscrutable look on his face as those  around him nodded?
 
All Sen. Obama will say is that "I don't think my church is actually  particularly controversial." And in that he may be correct. There are many  preachers who would be happy to tell their congregations "God damn America."  But Barack Obama is not supposed to be the candidate of the America-damners:  He's not the Rev. Al Sharpton or the Rev. Jesse Jackson or the rest of the  racial grievance-mongers. Obama is meant to be the man who transcends the  divisions of race, the candidate who doesn't damn America but "heals" it – if  you believe, as many Democrats do, that America needs healing.
 
Yet since his early twenties he's sat week after week, listening to the  ravings of just another cookie-cutter race-huckster.
 
What is Barack Obama for? It's not his "policies," such as they  are. Rather, Sen. Obama embodies an idea: He's a symbol of redemption and  renewal, and a lot of other airy-fairy abstractions that don't boil down to  much except making upscale white liberals feel good about themselves and get  even more of a frisson out of white liberal guilt than they usually do. I  assume that's what Geraldine Ferraro was getting at when she said Obama  wouldn't be where he was today (i.e., leading the race for the Democratic  nomination) if he was white. For her infelicity, the first woman on a  presidential ticket got bounced from the Clinton campaign and denounced by  MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for her "insidious racism" indistinguishable from "the  vocabulary of David Duke."
 
Oh, for cryin' out loud. Enjoyable as it is to watch previously expert  tossers of identity-politics hand grenades blow their own fingers off, if  Geraldine Ferraro's an "insidious racist", who isn't?
 
The song the Rev. Wright won't sing is by Irving Berlin, a contemporary of  Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart, all the sophisticated rhymesters.  But only Berlin could have written without embarrassment "God Bless America."  He said it directly, unaffectedly, unashamedly – in seven words:
 
"God Bless America
Land that I love."

Berlin was a Jew, and he suffered slights: He grew up in the poverty of New  York's Lower East Side. When he made his name and fortune, his marriage to a  Park Avenue heiress resulted in her expulsion from the Social Register. In the  Thirties, her sister moved in with a Nazi diplomat and proudly flaunted her  diamond swastika to Irving. But Berlin spent his infancy in Temun, Siberia  (until the Cossacks rode in and razed his village), and he understood the  great gift he'd been given:
 
"God Bless America
Land that I love."

The Rev. Wright can't say those words. His shtick is:
 
"God damn America
Land that I loathe."

I understand the Ellis Island experience of Russian Jews was denied to  blacks. But not to Obama. His experience surely isn't so different to Berlin's  – except that Barack got to go to Harvard. Obama's father was a Kenyan, he  spent his childhood in Indonesia, and he ought to thank his lucky stars that  he's running for office in Washington rather than Nairobi or Jakarta.
 
Instead, his whiny wife, Michelle, says that her husband's election as  president would be the first reason to have "pride" in America, and complains  that this country is "downright mean" and that she's having difficulty finding  money for their daughters' piano lessons and summer camp. Between them, Mr.  and Mrs. Obama earn $480,000 a year (not including book royalties from "The  Audacity Of Hype," but they're whining about how tough they have it to couples  who earn 48 grand – or less. Yes, we can. But not on a lousy half-million  bucks a year.
 
God has blessed America, and blessed the Obamas in America, and even  blessed the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose bashing of his own country would be  far less lucrative anywhere else on the planet. The "racist" here is not  Geraldine Ferraro but the Rev. Wright, whose appeals to racial bitterness are  supposed to be everything President Obama will transcend. Right now, it sounds  more like the same-old same-old.
 
"God Bless America
Land that I love."

Take it away, Michelle.
 
©MARK STEYN

Clearly, Arizona Senator John McCain has a comfortable lead in the race for the 1,191 delegates needed to secure the GOP presidential nomination – receiving a nice lift from the balloting on Super Tuesday. The latest count: McCain – 613; Romney – 269; and Huckabee – 190.
   What McCain needs to carefully consider as he writes the critically important speech he will deliver tomorrow at the CPAC in Washington, D.C. is that he is not the choice of a majority of Republican voters. He has failed to make any significant inroads in the ranks of conservatives but instead is reaping ...<< MORE >>

Retired "Brig. Gen." Keth Kerr who was featured as a "spontaneous" questioner on CNN's YouTube Republican Debate on Wednesday night (Nov. 28) is actually an operative in the Hillary Clinton campaign. On June 27, 2007, the Hillary for President organization announced the formation of "LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Americans for Hillary" and listed the admittedly gay "Gen." Kerr as a member of its Steering Committee. That fact was not mentioned by Kerr, CNN, or the program's host Anderson Cooper.

In his recorded YouTube message, Kerr challenged the GOP presidential contenders on the issue of the military's "don't ask/don't tell" policy that has been in effect for nearly 15 years. He was also invited by CNN to attend the debate in person and was given several minutes of national television time to challenge the candidates' defense of current policy. His “comments” turned out to be more like a filibuster but moderator Cooper did not interrupt.

In his self-introduction, Kerr said: "My name's Keith Kerr, from Santa Rosa, California. I'm a retired brigadier general with 43 years of service. And I'm a graduate of the Special Forces Officer Course, the Commanding General Staff Course and the Army War College. And I'm an openly gay man." That also was a little deceitful. In fact, Kerr never really reached the rank of general. He was a colonel in the California Army National Guard. It is common practice at Guard retirement ceremonies to give an honorary promotion to the state rank of Brigadier General but that is not federally recognized and the title cannot be used or the rank worn outside of the state. It has little meaning other than a nice certificate on the wall, and the use of the "General" title at local Guard functions.

Apparently, CNN's strong anti-conservative prejudice runs so deep that it is willing to resort to some cheap, dirty tricks to try to derail the Republican campaign. Given the network’s history of consistent radical liberal bias, it is difficult to believe that the Kerr incident was a naïve mistake. It is more likely that it was another attempt to sandbag the Republicans – hopefully embarrassing them on the sensitive issue of gays in the military. It didn’t work. The general stated: “For 42 years, I wore the army uniform on active duty, in the Reserve, and also for the state of California. I revealed I was a gay man after I retired. Today, ‘don't ask/don't tell’ is destructive to our military policy.”

Senator John McCain responded: “General, I thank you for your service to our nation. I respect it. All the time, I talk to our military leaders, beginning with our joint chiefs of staff and the leaders in the field, such as General Petraeus and General Odierno and others who are designated leaders with the responsibility of the safety of the men and women under their command and their security and protect them as best they can. Almost unanimously, they tell me that this present policy is working, that we have the best military in history, that we have the bravest, most professional, best prepared, and that this policy ought to be continued because it's working.”

So Hillary’s campaign strategy obviously goes beyond planting friendly questioners at her own appearances. It now includes sending her lieutenants (in this case a General) into the enemy (GOP) camp in an “Operation Harassment.”

Just think what the Reid/Pilosi/Clinton/Obama/Edwards clan would have done if Fox News featured some harrassing questions by a Guiliani operative during a Democrat debate. Am I wrong in thinking there would be a congressional investigation?

This is how the leading Democrat contender for her party's presidential nomination looks when she is with a crook ...

And this is how the leading Democrat contender for her party's presidential nomination looks when she is with an American hero ...


A picture is worth a thousand words!!!!
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My friends Bruce Eberle and Don Heiliger have reminded me of some very appropriate historial statements:

Abraham Lincoln: "Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged."

Robert E. Lee: "It appears we have apointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.
     "Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials -- after the fact."
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My thanks to Wes Vernon for his superb article "Reaching Out to Democrats and other GOP Masochisms" (Renew America - Sept. 17, 2007) in which he said some very kind words about my late father. I encouarge you to read it: Reaching Out ...
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   It was courageous of President Bush to draw a comparison between the wars in Vietnam and Iraq during his speech Wednesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City. It is a theme he will probably pursue further next Tuesday when he addresses the American Legion in Reno.

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In mid-July, I had the privilege and pleasure of speaking before two of the organizations that will surely be contributing heavily to the inventory of tomorrow’s political leaders of our nation. I can happily report that the news is very encouraging.

The College Republican National Committee held its 57th National Convention in Washington, D.C. I had been a member of that organization when I was in college, and in the 1960’s I lectured and debated on over 750 campuses across the country and worked hard to set up a Republican Club wherever I discovered there wasn’t one. So, this year’s visit ... << MORE >>

    Hillary Clinton was out campaigning in Iowa this week and for the first time she brought along her husband, Bill. She wasted no time in lashing out at President Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of “Scooter” Libby saying: “Today’s decision is yet another example that this Administration simply considers itself above the law. …This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.” Standing behind her, Bill clapped along with the audience, but without too much enthusiasm.

    Surely, the former President realized that some journalist like me would dig back into ...<< MORE >>

    I am one of many Americans who feel that we have become too dependent upon China. Virtually everything we see these days has “Made in China” stamped on it. Computers, phones, clothing and almost all plastic products. My concerns have ranged from economics (with each dollar that goes to China, they own another piece of the U.S. – our balance of trade is dangerously bad) to security issues (do we really want to be that dependent on a nation which is building rockets that are pointed at us).

    Nearly 80% of the toys sold in the U.S. each year ...<< MORE >>

    It seems crystal clear that District Attorney Michael Nifong’s misconduct went well beyond the areas of jurisdiction of the North Carolina Bar. Withholding evidence, fraud and perjury are a few obvious areas in which he could, and should, be prosecuted. Beyond that, what about the nearly $1 million in legal fees paid out by the families of the defendants? The law provides Nifong with somewhat of a shield from civil damages resulting from any mistakes committed in the line of his duties, but the North Carolina Bar committee’s ruling shows clear evidence that he went well over that line. ...<< MORE >>