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Newsweek surpasses itself

The authors must be extremely talented persons - to perform dazzling fellatio on teh Obamessiah™, whilst simultaneously writing a shameless puff piece on his behalf is some feat.

But don’t worry. They accomplish it with aplomb - I suspect they’re still wiping each other’s chins - but the article made it into Newsweek (who have abandoned any pretense of objectivity and are now openly cheerleading for teh Obamessiah™) with the entirely unbiased headline “Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble” (yes, they did call it that).

There are no screamers on Team Obama; one senior Obama aide says he’s heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be “no drama,” he told his aides. “I don’t want elbowing or finger-pointing. We’re going to rise or fall together.” Obama wanted steady, calm, focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a campaign—or a presidency.

Oh baby……oh yeah….right there…..that’s it baby! Who’s your daddy?

Don’t worry though, they are journalists, so they can maintain OBJECTIVITY.

The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities.

People were ahem, scared, by rioting, and flag-burning and people smoking weed in the streets? Those NASTY Republicans, always scaring people.

Obama disdains cable-TV talk-show shoutfests as trivial sideshows, and he tends to discount the seriousness of campaign gaffes and flaps. As a result, he was slow to denounce the most recent round of tirades by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. By failing to alert Obama to the gravity of the Wright fiasco, “I don’t think we served him well,” admits his chief strategist, David Axelrod.

Is that haughty disdain, of the John F. Kerry variety, or just the regular disdain of typical white people? (Interesting that this genius needs David Axelrod to ‘alert’ him to the ‘gravity’ of his Pastor going around accusing the God-damned US Government of indiscriminate mass murder, amongst other less serious indiscretions).

Obama’s almost preternatural equanimity has helped keep his campaign on an even keel. Although he can seem slightly humorless on TV, as he is fencing with an inquiring anchorperson or debating an opponent, he has a light touch in the office, and he can laugh off adversity.

Preternatural equanimity, as in shaven, pregnant, web-footed MILF’s blowing Thai ladyboys? (Seriously, was this manuscript submitted with the pages stuck together?).

After watching his father’s triumph in 1988 and failure in 1992, George W. Bush had a good feel for the mechanics of campaigning: the importance of money, message and geography. His 2000 campaign was well managed by a tight group of loyal aides, with little infighting. It was only after he became president that voters began to grasp Bush’s failings as an executive—his disdain for expert opinion, his stubborn approach to policy or rivals, his fatal lack of follow-through.

Like his decision to cut and run in Iraq? His shameful cheerleading for Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas? His willingness to believe that any accusation from a sworn enemy of America is a prima facie case of our brutal imperialism?

Oh no, that would be the authors, wouldn’t it?

Obama, at least, seems to be more curious than the current president. Ruchi Bhowmik, a legislative counsel in Obama’s Senate office, is one of the staffers whom Obama has called upon because she was too quiet in a gathering. “When he’s at a meeting, he’s very inclusive and a very good listener,” she tells NEWSWEEK. “He’s not looking to dictate what everyone is discussing, and he wants to hear what everyone is thinking. He doesn’t discount things.”

(Take a listen at the door of the authors as they wrap up:

“Yeah honey, do you like it there? Does that feel good? Oh baby…..that’s right…..yeah..yeah….yeah…yeah…..yeah….right there baby….oh look at that baby….oh My God…oh My God…oh My God!!!!!

OK we’re finished, let’s send it in to the office.”)

i’d say this will work

Investors Business Daily, the bastion of clear-headed conservative thought, nails a strategy for beating teh Obamessiah™

Confront his vacuous platform. (I would also add; use his own words to describe his positions and thereby label him a featherweight radical liberal neophyte (who is more than peripherally connected to a bunch of dubious, corrupt slime-merchants from the sleaziest arena in politics)).

The way Republicans will beat Sen. Barack Obama is by making the election a referendum on him — by exposing his dangerous agenda and radical record. There are signs that the GOP intends to do exactly that.

Mitch McConnell, as usual, is in the vanguard.

McConnell, a longtime member of the Senate, also pointed out that the image of Obama as uniter and bridge builder is nothing more than a legend.

“I can’t think of a single occasion” when Obama “has been involved with Republicans on any meaningful legislation,” McConnell said. “He’s a straight-line, big-government, high-taxing liberal.”

Never a truer word spoken, and it needs to be repeated until the voters are saying it in their sleep.

Hillary is a dreadful egomaniac without a scintilla of regard for the truth, and she’d be a seriously bad President. That said, she’s almost a grown-up with a record of occasionally taking adult positions on very important issues that sophomoric lefties like Obama would simply sniff at and deem naive (or some other Carteresque code words for ‘offensive to middle-class campus radicals’). He’s the real deal, if you use that term to describe elitist nanny-state crypto-Marxists, and stopping him is a job that needs to be taken seriously.

I suspect the voters will come to this realization and deliver the White House to John McCain, but our side needs to make sure there’s no possibility of that not happening. An Obama Presidency would be catastrophic for America, and arguably the world - his ideas have been tried on every continent across the globe, and, put very simply, they don’t work, never will, and generally cause untold misery and suffering.

By all means let him be a standard-bearer for the moneyed-elite Democrats in their urban coffee-house cocoons, but for God’s sake don’t let him near the football.

hillary clinton is a complete mentalist. for real.

Demonstrating that mathematics and naked ambition are not always compatible, the gibbering wreck formerly known as Hillary Clinton declares her intention to soldier on.

Clinton made reference to her interview with USA Today where she said “Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

Either this woman knows something we don’t, or is no longer in control of her faculties - she cannot overhaul teh Obamessiah™ in either delegates or the popular vote unless the Michigan and Florida delegations are apportioned 100% in her favor; which can only happen if she takes the fight to the credentials committee at the convention. If she controls that committee, which it is alleged she does, and they are prepared to ram through such a rule change, which I suppose they might, then she becomes the first nominee to lose a Presidential election in July.

It’s hard to imagine even the Democrats being so staggeringly stupid, but one never knows. What I do know is that if a Republican had used the words that Hillarious did to describe her target voter, they’d be hounded out of town by 8 o’clock tonight.

Iran and syria are at it again

Lebanaon looks set to explode. Again.

Clashes broke out in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley today as rival factions prepared for what many in the country feared would be a bloody showdown between the Government and the Shia group, Hezbollah.

At least one person was killed when fighting broke out in a mixed Sunni and Shia neighbourhood near the Bekaa town of Chtaura as supporters of Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement fought partisans of the pro-Government Future Movement.

(Note from Markos: Can somebody please find an angle to Blame Boosh™ for this? It’s patently obvious that the criminal invasion of Iraq by the crusaders and occupiers has stirred up this unpleasantness in a region where peace and tranquility have otherwise reigned for centuries. Please pass on approved progressive responses to Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean).

Uh-oh! Methinks perchance Messrs Carter and Obama are needed to smooth things through with a bit of hope and, errrm, some change, and some talking to enemies, and stuff.

Last night, Sheikh Rashid Qabbani, the Sunni mufti of Lebanon, delivered unusually harsh criticism of Hezbollah, describing the party as an “armed gang of outlaws that have carried out the ugliest attacks against the citizens and their safety”.

An armed gang of outlaws! WHAT???? These people are legitimately-elected representatives of the people!! Or perhaps he’s absolutely right, and the scales are falling from the eyes of the people regarding radical Islamism - Lebanon could actually become, together with Iraq, a bulwark in the fight against these barbaric savages, if they tough it out and destroy the rag-tag gangs who actually do the fighting (Hezbollah will of course deploy their very own Comical Ali to hail the great military victories of their street thugs, all the while downplaying the actuality of Lebanese troops shooting them like fish in a barrel).

The Higher Shiite Council, the leading authority for Lebanese Shia, today accused the Government of “bias” and blaming it for triggering the crisis.

Triggering it by not capitulating to the threats of a bunch of seventh-century hoodlums, one assumes?

But Marwan Hamade, the Minister of Telecommunications, told The Times that the Government had no intention of rescinding its decisions.

“Hezbollah has unmasked itself. It is not a resistance movement, but a militia trying to take power in Lebanon,” he said.

Quite so, old chap, quite so. The only part you need to add is ‘funded by a pencil-necked weirdo and a grinning midget psychopath from the Axis of Evil’.

Courage, as a proven fabulist once said.

raving. nutjob. holds. forth - world. yawns.

Michael Moore has given teh Obamessiah™ sumthin’ he don’t want: His endorsement!!!

Seems like if you were sitting in the front row when haughty, French-looking Senator Jean Le Kerry reported for duty (hurl) in 2004, you’re likely to go for Barry H Obama.

Moore endorsed Obama in a 1,100-word posting on his Web site Monday. It includes praise for the Illinois senator and harsh words for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic Party and the Bush administration.

Obama’s disciples will undoubtedly be trying to crash the Moore server, hoping news of the great man’s endorsement doesn’t reach any typical white people, fearing the brown folks and clinging to their guns and bibles.

Moore goes on in his typically understated moderate style:

“What we are witnessing is not just a candidate but a profound, massive public movement for change,” Moore writes. “My endorsement is more for Obama The Movement than it is for Obama the candidate.”

The 54-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker was hardly as kind to Clinton.

“Over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting,” he writes, saying that she has tried to “smear” Obama, “Like you were nuts. Like you were a bigot stoking the fires of stupidity.”

Obama, The Movement™. Wow!! I’m thinking of joining this cult myself!!

But, talking of bigots stoking the fires of stupidity, Moore admits to the cause of his probable brain injuries, which undoubtedly lead to his political tourette’s syndrome:

“I, like the majority of Americans, have been pummeled senseless for eight long years,” he writes. “That’s why I will join millions of citizens and stagger into the voting booth come November, like a boxer in the 12th round, all bloodied and bruised with one eye swollen shut, looking for the only thing that matters - that big ’D’ on the ballot.”

The biggest ‘D’ should be on your hat, you unhinged hateful loser, if the actions of your government ‘pummel you senseless’ but you stay and take it.

Clinton repulsed me, but I never felt bloodied or bruised. Just a little grubby, itchy, and in need of a good shower.

i blame bush and more dancing on hillary’s grave

I cannot help myself. Even though teh Obamessiah™ is now almost certain to be the opponent in November, I still seek out and laugh at examples of lefty columnists writing plain truths that we have known for years about Hillary! Like they have some sort of amazing insight!!

(OMG, I have a secret to tell you: Hillary Clinton is a liar!!!! No, seriously, she tells lies!!!!)

This time it’s the unerringly pompous Richard Cohen, who reveals some blindingly obvious facts about Hillary - namely that she couldn’t tell truth from a broomhandle up her arse, a truism which he’s only just noticed: oh but by the way, Hillary’s lying is Bush’s fault!!

The story was just plain nuts — and Clinton herself has been at a loss to explain it. But for many voters, it encapsulated their suspicion, their anxiety, their hesitation about Clinton: She lies.

NEVER!!!! Really??????

…but let me suggest Bush’s “worst legacy” is what he has done to whatever trust Americans still had in their government. This administration’s incessant lying, its secrecy — its creepy Cheneyism with its petty justifications for torture and violation of privacy — is its worst legacy, one that will endure long after Wal-Mart opens a branch in Sadr City. Only an idiot would trust this government.

See? Hillary is a liar because Bush secretly tortured Iraqi children and listened to their cellphone conversations in Dick Cheney’s basement. It’s not hard!!

And that Wal-Mart gag? Comedy gold.

Maybe we could have Ricardo Cohen’s views on the secrecy surrounding Vince Foster turning up, ahem, dead, in the White House Counsel’s Office. I won’t wait for that little gem.

Errrm, but incessant lying, Little Richard? With not one example cited? Not one???Surely if the lying were so ‘incessant’ we might be treated to a little ‘for instance’ by a writer of Mr Cohen’s (self) importance? Mais non. Rien.

He does include one HUMDINGER in his final paragraph, though; revealing the feelings of 60% of Americans (who have felt this way for 16 years, while Dick Cohen was rubbing himself at the thought of Bill’s Great Works™):

Now, about 60 percent of the electorate doubts her honesty.

We do, we do, but only due to your guidance, oh perspicacious one. Thank you.

it’s cooler because it’s getting warmer

See?

Me neither.

The journalists that parrot this rubbish have lost any sense of inquiry, and have simply become an organ of propaganda transfer for the global warmingist left.

It’s not gotten any warmer since 1998 - this is a fact that not even the global warmingists can deny.

This year is wet, cool and getting cooler. Another fact nobody is attempting to deny.

But we still have this little gem inserted into the middle of a news piece (please remember, that the consensus has no actual evidence for their belief, but a ‘journalist’ makes the absurd statement that follows):

The consensus among scientists is that long-term temperature rises since 1880 can only be explained by greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, caused by human activity.

Can only be explained……..by carbon dioxide (which is a result of higher temperatures, not a trigger for) caused by human activity. Even though cows fart more ‘greenhouse gases’ than the entire motor vehicle fleet of the human race.

So you see it’s a no-lose proposition - it’s man-made when the climate ‘changes’, except when it’s cooler………and then it’s………………………..LA NINA!!!!!!

Either the people who recycle this tripe know it’s baloney, or there are a huge number of bovine, credulous dupes in the world.

I suspect it’s a bit of both.

spike lee to world: I was a credulous dupe. But not now.

In a moment of (probably thoughtless) candor, Spike Lee admits that he voted for a pair of people he recognizes as absolute liars. Twice.

The Clintons, man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles. Snipers? That’s not misspeaking; that’s some pure bulls***. I voted for Clinton twice, but that’s over with. These old black politicians say, “Ooh, Massuh Clinton was good to us, massuh hired a lot of us, massuh was good!”

But that’s all behind him!

I’m riding my man Obama. I think he’s a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was Do the Right Thing.

And one day Spike, you’ll realize that he ,too, was lying to you.

I’m not sure what’s more disturbing - that

A) Spike Lee is such an idiot that it took him ten years longer than everybody else to realize that the Clintons are disgusting lying filth, or

B) Given the facts evident from point A), that he keeps being asked for his opinion.

globaloney warming update

It’s still a fantasy!

The BBC prints a story that numerous other writers have ripped to shreds so I don’t have to. Suffice to say it’s choc full of internal contradictions and unasked (let alone answered) questions.

Like, if natural phenomenons like La Nina can be the sole attributed cause of a cooling trend, then why not a warming one?

The reporter’s bias is palpable:

This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.

But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend - and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.

(Which experts, btw? Names, bona fides?)

No change since 1998, when the world was on the brink of catastrophe? No change, at all? None?

The uninitiated could conclude that global warmingism might be a figment of some charlatans imagination.

teh obamessiah™ and the wicked diplomacy skillz™

The gloss placed upon teh Obamessiah’s meanderings is starting to wear off under not-very-severe scrutiny by one or two folks in the MSM - the irritation felt by the Clintonistas as they lose to this absolute lightweight becomes more understandable (and therefore more delicious) each day.

He will indeed hear out the obscurantist regimes that plot against U.S. citizens, allies, and interests, just as he sat still while his obscurantist preacher fulminated against “white America.” Will he manage to persuade his interlocutors in Tehran and Damascus to modify their behavior in Iraq, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, Israel, and the Palestinian territories? Of course not. He was incapable of convincing a man he has known for two decades, who married him and baptized his two daughters, that his employer, the government of the United States, did not create HIV to kill African Americans.

Ouch.

That. Will. Leave. A. Mark.

Especially when delivered by John McCain in the course of a debate. This young man is going to get beaten like a rented mule.

TalkLeft - stupid, stupid, stupid

Are these people absolutely stupid, you ask? Why yes, say I!!!

TalkLeft runs a piece about the whole Florida/Hillary/Michigan/Obama/Dean/Credentials/Blah Blah Blah codswallop:

I am completely unimpressed by Howard Dean’s statement about seating the Florida delegates today.

Seating the delegates at the convention is not the same thing as allowing their votes to count in picking the party’s nominee. Timing is everything. If the delegates aren’t seated until the convention in August, it will be too late for them to have a role in choosing the nominee.

Errrrm. Didn’t the DNC tell the State parties that their delegations wouldn’t be seated if they scheduled their primary prior to a certain date, and didn’t the State parties go ahead and ignore them?

VP Are they stupid, or what? Well, for answers to that and many other questions concerning the mindset of the average reader at TalkLeft, have a breeze through comments!!! It’s a veritable bouillabaisse of panting loons, bovine automatons and raging bomb-throwers:

I am personally going to write in Mickey Mouse if they steal my vote for the nominee and force Obama on us!Many of us will be voting that way! After all, what better way to show Dean how he treated us..in a Mickey Mouse way..from a Disney state.

I quite like that idea! Mickey Mouse would actually bring quite a bit more real world experience than teh Obamessiah™, and is a more appealing personality than Hillary.

Moving on to a moron with no idea how Washington works:

VP isn’t an important enough position for Hillary in my opinion. I’ve seen the idea floated of arranging things so she became the senate majority leader. Then she’d be the main person Obama would have to deal with in the senate to get legislation through.

Two words that just might derail this idea: Harry. Reid.

What about this?

That’s like saying reality has a liberal bias because it doesn’t have any elements that favor republicans.

Yeah, right. Go and read it all; they make your hair stand on end - if they weren’t all employed as Community Outreach Workers and Green Transport Co-Ordinators for local governments, real people might actually have to deal with these freaks!!

where to start?

I know, I know. I’m slamming the wrong candidate.

But I can’t help it.

Economic genius Hillary Clinton wants to ‘create’ 3 million infrastructure jobs, starting with a $10 billion emergency repair fund to address immediate safety concerns. Yeah, I know. $10 billion would be $3,333 per job, which is probably more than her campaign staff have been getting lately, but not enough to tempt the average ex-manufacturing worker off the dole. (No mention of how this rather round-sounding number was arrived at, but some proper highway safety and structures experts like Hillary probably came up with it).

“President Bush has stood by and watched as we’ve lost 3 million manufacturing jobs. And he’s done nothing about the loopholes in our tax code that actually encourage companies to ship jobs overseas,” Clinton said. “It’s time for a different approach.”

Those are not loopholes Hillary. Businesses locate where the economic conditions are most favorable for their shareholders, customers and employees. If taxes on businesses are higher in the United States than elsewhere, and a better deal can be had for shareholders, customers and employees by relocating, then that’s what will happen. It’s really not terribly hard to figure out, unless of course you’re an idiot liberal.

Clinton also called for a long-term commitment to a modern infrastructure, including a $60 billion infrastructure bank to evaluate highway construction projects that she proposed last year.

And this would be financed by higher taxes, one assumes? So, she’s proposing to increase the cost of living, working and doing business in the United States at a time when economic growth has virtually halted. Again, not terribly hard to figure out what the effect of this would be, unless of course you’re an idiot liberal.

She also called for expanding public transit networks to the tune of $1.5 billion a year, and said she wants to use eco-friendly methods in the construction process, including the used of recycled materials in the building process.

The construction industry is already a huge recycler - steel, copper, gypsum, even carpet and ceiling tile, is salvaged and reused in the normal course of events. It’s like saying she wants to introduce food into restaurants. As usual, the market is already addressing the issue while an idiot liberal talks.

I know teh Obamessiah™ is probably going to be the Democrat nominee, but I think she could still win; Based upon experience of these two disgusting, shameless parasites, I am not prepared to declare the Clinton monster dead until the head is beaten in and the corpse is burned.

And right now the toe is still twitching.

So I have to keep kicking. Just in case.

ooopsy!

The media really are in full-on Obamessiah promo mode.

The gift that keeps on giving

This story would never have seen the light of day in a previous time. But now the media are in full swoon over teh Obamessiah™, and these stories are ten-a-penny.

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties - a practice that Clinton, a critic of the subprime industry, now seeks to eliminate.

Notwithstanding that the ‘practice’ being referred to is entirely legal (and for many lenders makes perfect sense; if you originate loans and sell them on for the initial fees, then prepayment penalties are simply gravy, but if you finance your own loans at sensible loan-time fees, then you don’t want somebody getting out of their loan after 6 months, because it costs you money - the making of which is the raison d’etre for business), it’s pretty funny that the MSM would air this non-story when they turned a blind eye to much worse and far more egregious examples of malfeasance during the Clinton era.

But anyhoo, I still LOVE IT.

For added piquancy the story contains references to Hillary’s arse-about-face business worldview, which merely enhances the schadenfreudic vibrations I experience when reading it! par example:

“I would eliminate the prepayment penalties that lead to such high rates of default,” Clinton said in a March 24 speech at the University of Pennsylvania. “I would require lenders to take into account the borrower’s ability to pay property taxes and insurance fees when deciding whether to make a loan in the first place.”

Wow! If only they had got someone with your incredible perspicacity before they lent the money!

The problem is not a micro problem. It’s a macro problem created by bundling piss-poor loans and flogging them to idiotic Wall Street chavs with no idea what they were buying. The fault originates with the market and will be resolved (as usual) by the market.