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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.

Obama on divisive politics: “We will end it by telling the truth”

During last night’s speech in North Carolina, Barack Obama said the following, referring to the divisive way the political game is played:

We will end it not by duplicating the same tactics and the same strategies as the other side, because that will lead us down the same path of polarization and of gridlock.

We will end it by telling the truth.

We will end it by telling the truth forcefully, repeatedly, confidently, and by trusting that the American people will embrace the need for change, even if it’s coming from an imperfect messenger, because that’s how we’ve — that’s — because that’s how we’ve always changed this country, not from the top down, but from the bottom up, when you, the American people, decide that the stakes are too high and the challenges are too great.

FAIL. You’ve been fact-checked, Barry.

You’re going to tell the truth, Barack? What, did you decide suddenly to turn over a new leaf?

See, he can keep repeating this lie and play divisive politics himself by painting all of his opponents as “fear mongers” and racists, but he’s not fooling me with his rhetorical gymnastics. Here’s how he rolls:

* Opponent points out his faults, whether it’s his far-left agenda, his lackluster Chicago Democrat political record (that shows nothing resembling “change,” “unity,” or “hope”), or his history of alliances with radical leftists.
* Obama says this is divisive, and a distraction from the issues.
* Obama lies about his opponent’s record and agenda.
* Obama surrogates pile on, calling opponents racists.
* Obama surrogates/supporters lie about and attack the other candidates, and repeat absurd and demonstrably false accusations about them. (AKA “libel.”)
* Opponents are called “divisive” for drawing attention to Obama’s actual history.
* Obama surrogates claim that it’s all a smokescreen for what’s really just fear of a black President.

You tell me–who’s being divisive, if he and his supporters aren’t?

When IS he going to start telling the truth?

Hillary’s Not Backing Down

She’s not going anywhere yet.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A campaign aide says Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned herself $6.4 million in the past month.

Politically wounded and financially strapped, Clinton plunged back into the presidential campaign Wednesday even as Barack Obama declared that Tuesday’s primary results left him with a “clear path to victory.”

Her website doesn’t look like they’re winding down, either–although they’re asking for $5 donations on the splash page. I admit it - it’s awfully tempting to send in $5 just to keep the circus going, but I don’t want to end up on the DNC’s beg list. I get enough phone calls begging for money from Republicans as it is, thanks. And more importantly, that’s $5 I’d rather send to John McCain, anyway. Looking at the Obama fundraising juggernaut, McCain’s gonna need it.

Ed Morrissey:

Truthfully, Hillary has been a long shot since the first Super Tuesday defeats made Obama the front-runner. Operation Chaos may have helped her to remain in the race, and her predicament certainly made her a better candidate over the last few weeks, but her strategy always relied on convincing superdelegates to dump Obama. His unexpectedly strong showing in Indiana will convince them to stick with the frontrunner.

So how long will it take? Will Hillary really go all the way to Denver before surrendering? I’d guess that they will contest the last few primaries remaining. Kirsten Powers made a good point last night on Fox when she suggested that Hillary sees herself as a safety net — ready to take over if Obama has a “catastrophe” on the campaign trail. It would have to be at least an order of magnitude worse than Jeremiah Wright to knock him off the ticket now, but Hillary may be resting her ambitions on such slender reeds, and she doesn’t lose anything but time and money running out the string now.

Hillary won’t leave until the last primary contest closes its polls.

She’s not finished with her campaign, but writing is on the wall. West Virginia votes on Tuesday (the 13th). Kentucky and Oregon are on the 20th. After that, it’s just Montana, South Dakota, and Puerto Rico. All eyes on the superdelegates now…

~~Yoda~~ Patrick Ruffini made a good point at Twitter this morning about the protracted primaries:

I’m hoping Hillary stays in so we can have a full 50 state electoral map of this contest. The demographics will be studied for decades.

Oh, yes they will. It’s a rare opportunity.

Hillary Barely Squeaks Out a Win in Indiana, Obama trounces her in NC

Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh is claiming to have beaten the Obama campaign. LOL. Um…not.

Okay, seriously? If Operation Chaos were such a big deal, how the hell did Hillary not clean up in Indiana? I mean, just a week ago, weren’t we all thinking she’d have a double-digit win over Obama because of the latest Crazy Uncle Jeremiah Eruption? But Rush gets some phone calls in to his show and reads liberal rags whining about Operation Chaos, and that translates to the margin of victory for Hillary? No. Don’t believe the hype, kids–it’s about ratings. Nothing wrong with ratings–that’s his job, and he does it well. Just don’t take this too seriously, okay? Especially you silly libs, who are no doubt crying about this as “proof” that you got robbed. STFU. You can STFU too, Sean Hannity–this isn’t your baby, so quit trying to rock it.

So…a week ago, the Wright Eruption happened, and people were suddenly thinking HRC might actually get the nomination after all. People were saying she was getting close to Obama in North Carolina (a state teh Obamination is now calling a “swing state”–LOL), and that her lead was widening in Indiana. Oh, how wrong that turned out to be just a week later. What happened?

Honestly, I’m a little disappointed; I wanted Billary to have a stronger reason to keep in the race until the convention, just like every other Republican voter did, including Rush Limbaugh in particular. Hey, maybe since Rush put Operation Chaos at parade rest a week ago…maybe that’s what had the effect. Heh. (Sorry, he can’t have it both ways.) So this is probably it for the “inevitable” candidate, for all practical purposes–barring another Crazy Uncle Jeremiah Eruption, although I don’t think he can have much more effect on Democrat voters at this point. Certainly Comrade Ayers won’t either, considering his philosophy is neatly aligned with Democrats today. At this point, Barack Obama could probably get caught smoking hash with strange gay men and all his friends in a mosque, and most of his supporters would still vote for him anyway. Hillary has canceled her appearances for this morning, and we’ll see what that means as the day progresses.

Here’s where we are today.

Coming into Tuesday, Clinton was some 415 pledged delegates short of the number needed to clinch the nomination-that count does not include Florida and Michigan. Obama was just 280 shy entering Tuesday. Come Wednesday, Obama will likely be within 200 delegates of reaching the magic number of 2,025 pledged delegates.

If the Clinton campaign decides to fight on, the race for the nomination could enter a contentious and confusing phase as the end of the primary season nears. The Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee is set to meet at the end of the month, where members will debate whether to seat the delegations from Michigan and Florida. Tad Devine says that meeting could be the start of weeks of procedural wrangling between the campaigns, assuming the Clinton campaign takes up that fight.

“Anything from inconsequential action to turmoil can come out of that process,” Devine says. “It’s really up to the campaigns to decide what they want the tone of this to be, because the rules are such that they could go as nuclear as they want if it drags on, especially if it gets to Denver.”

Oh, and Harold Ickes warns of October Surprises. “A curious strategy,” indeed.

Watch Howard Dean go to war with the ~~RAAACISTS!!!~~ Clintons now–and with the superdelegates if they don’t start showing their cards. This is gonna be fun. :D

Election LOL-apalooza

I guess I shouldn’t “LOL,” but it is funny how Democrats are always shrieking about unfair elections when you read stuff like this:

We entered the Crooked Creek Baptist Church in Washington Township at approximately 10:15 AM and noticed an Obama volunteer had set-up directly across from the voter check-in table. We noticed that she was actively speaking to voters. The sign on the table stated “Trouble Voting? Talk to me.” and “Obama for America.” She wouldn’t identify herself and directed us to call the campaign for information. We contacted the County Clerk’s Office and they stated they would contact the Polling Inspector to investigate. See the video for yourself: …

Busted! Idiots.

Oh, and you stay classy, Clintonistas. (At least they weren’t cheating–just obnoxious.)

As with the Pennsylvania primary election, you can follow breaking news reports of election shenanigans at Election Journal. If you have Twitter, you’ll get even faster updates by following them.

Others to watch at Twitter: Patrick Ruffini, Campaign2008, and Political Ticker.

a steaming pile of obama part 2

Hey, Edwardsina, where the heck are you? Dang it. 4 hours at the hair dresser. I’ve had it. She’s going to pay. This week, I’m taking care of that.

Sorry boss. Traffic was terrible. The limo was stuck in traffic.

Yeah, traffic. Right. Let’s continue our list of fun facts about Obama and see what we come up with. Last we talked to you, we were summarizing Obama up. In short, he’s a lefty super hero. They marvel at him. So do I. I want to know how he defies the laws of physics. He sucks and blows at the same time! If this is the best the Dems have to offer, then they will never again see the inside of the Oval Office without a tour reservation.

Good one boss! That was hilarious. Me Next!

He makes things up like Hillary does:

Obama was making fun of Hillary’s “Sniper fire landing” that never happened. Fair enough. It was stupid and a lie and she deserved ridicule. However, at a speech in Selma last year, he thanked and praised the Kennedy’s because JFK had a program that brought people from Kenya to America to study. In an attempt to suck up to the illegal immigrant community, he said his dad was one of those Kenyans and when he got here, he never left. He overstayed like the other illegals did. Later, he met and married Barack’s mom and they had Barack. Only one problem: Obama’s dad was here a full year before that program started. Oops! I guess he’ll have to unsear that one from his memory, eh?

Wow, that was good Edwardsina. I’m shocked you thought of that. Let’s continue.

He will negotiate with hostile regimes without preconditions:

In a debate, he said “If we think that meeting with the president is a privilege that has to be earned, I think that reinforces the sense that we stand above the rest of the world at this point in time” Hey, guess what? WE DO stand above the rest of the world! The USA stands for things like freedom and individual rights and the ability to choose what kind of life you want. Whether it is a life of work and success or a life of slacking off, welfare and poverty, you get to make yourself what you want. You can go from a nothing to a millionaire in this country. This country is generous to people inside of it and outside its borders. This country cares about freedom around the world. That makes us better than tin pot dictators. We are better than the rest. That’s why the line to get in is a heck of a lot longer then the one getting out. That doesn’t mean all Americans are better than all others. We have some big time losers too (one is named Barack). However, America is better than the rest. Being better, we have to stand for something in the world. We have to make sure people who get face time with the president are people we want to promote. Simply put, a picture with a president is worth a 1000 guns. If we meet with a butcher like the leaders of Iran or Syria, we make them legitimate in the eyes of their people. If we meet with them, we say the terrible treatment of their people by them is legitimate. We cannot do that when they stand for everything we are against. We have to have standards and we must keep them. So yes, it is a privilege to meet the president and it needs to stay that way. That means no meeting with our enemies unless strict pre-conditions are met. Heck, even Hillary knows that. Sheesh.

Think about what he is thinking when he says “It reinforces the sense that we stand above the rest of the world.” What his logic says is that we are not and should not strive to be superior. Therefore we are inferior or mediocre. Hey, Barack, by your own logic, if being superior is so bad, are you going to strive to be an inferior and mediocre president? Look, some people are good at football. Some are bad at it. Some are really good and are superior at it. We reward excellence. The best get big contracts. The rest watch them on TV. It’s the same with countries. Some are good in the world, some aren’t. What he is saying is that we should not be excellent, and we are not excellent, and we should not demand it from others. Therefore we are no better than the thugs. That is wrong. But the ironic twist is this: if not for this great nation being superior and being the one that everyone wants to get into, Barack’s dad would never have come here and Barack would be sitting on a dirt floor in a grass hut with flies crawling all over him in the middle of Kenya. But hey, the Whitehouse isn’t anything better, right Barack?

Later we’ll delve into Barack’s crime beliefs. Let’s just say they are scary as heck. Here’s one example: In Illinois, a lot of cities have banned guns. You flat out can’t own them. Gee go figure, the crime rates in these cities skyrocketed. Well, to combat the onslaught, a lot of citizens kept their guns and didn’t turn them in. People would defend their homes, and after the police collected the bad guys, they then arrested the home owners for having the gun. In some cities, it was a felony, in others a misdemeanor. The state government stepped in and decided to consolidate the laws. A new state law was proposed that would make it only a misdemenor for defending you in your home if handguns were banned in that city. Obama voted against it and for making it a felony to defend yourself with a gun. So someone kicks in your door and you defend yourself with a gun, you become a felon. It doesn’t matter what the person wanted to do to you. You are a felon and could be going to jail. Barack’s world view: thugs, criminals and dictators are great, you suck now pay the government more. This guy should be an easy win when this stuff hits the news media.

But that’s the problem isn’t it. The media won’t print these inconvenient truths. They are covering for this guy and we will have to embarrass them into doing their job. To show you what we’re up against, here’s a little media research. Here is an apple to apple comparison on how the media is treating Obama different from everyone else. Back when the Republicans were having their nomination process and it looked like Romney had a chance to win the nomination, there were over 200 stories in the press on how Romney’s grandfather and great grandfather had many wives and how would that shape Romney’s world view. Romney actually had to address that and point out that he is married to one woman and was never even divorced. However, only one paper has bothered to mention that Obama’s FATHER had many wives as did his grandfather. For some reason that isn’t important and won’t impact Barack’s views. I guess they expect democrats to be slime. Look, I know people shouldn’t be tied to their fathers, but in this case, the media wants it both ways. One way for Romney the republican, the other for Barack the democrat.

We’re in for a fight this year, so donate to those 527’s and let’s get to the blood letting. God Bless you and God Bless America! Good night!

Slurs from Clintonista Mickey Kantor in ‘92 about Indiana: Real or fake? Original clip from the War Room found: FAKE!

WOW. I just saw this at Rightwingsparkle.

Denials at the Politico:

I just spoke to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of “The War Room,” who said his film had been doctored to produce a widely-viewed YouTube clip.
[...]
“He does not say that. He does not say that,” said Pennebaker, after viewing the clip.

He said the initial expletive referred to the anticipated reaction in the Bush White House to the fact that Ross Perot’s polling numbers were holding strong.

“What he says is he’s surprised Perot’s numbers are holding,” said Pennebaker in a brief phone interview. “He says they must be shi**ing in the White House.”

The second expletive, he said, appeared to have been entirely fabricated, with new audio dubbed onto the original movie.

Ace said the whole film is available online, and I just found the clip from the original film. Look around 4:35.

I can’t tell what he’s saying in the alleged “special N-word” part (”How would you like to be a worthless white n****r”). You decide.

(Update to add this audio clip, via The Politico.)

(End update)

Kantor denies (obviously):

Kantor, on Friday, insisted that the latter part of his statement never took place and that it made no sense for him to use such language.

“Indiana was not even on our radar screen,” he said, “And I was talking about the polling and not the people… If you look at The War Room, this is not the way Carville or George interpreted my statement. This is frankly libelous.”

Kantor said he was in the process of contacting “the best” libel lawyers to approach YouTube.com about the process of removing the video from its site. He suggested that The Huffington Post, too, should not print even his defense, as it would be an advancement of a non-story.

“I don’t need to be defended,” he wrote. “When you write it, what you are doing is extended the libel.”

While Kantor said he had no idea who was behind the video or what intent he or she might have, he offered that political motives were at play.

Ya think?

I have to say, it seems pretty damn implausible that Kantor would say “worthless white n****rs” or refer to voters as “shit” with a camera in front of his face. Sounds like a fake story to me.
It’ll be fun finding out who in the Obama cult cooked up this scheme.

UPDATE: Well, you can see the original video has been taken down already. Second thoughts after a threat of a libel lawsuit? ~~Heh. Here’s what the person who posted it (indy007q) says, though:~~

According to this video Bill Clinton Campaign Chairman and Hillary Clinton ‘08 Advisor Mickey Kantor tells George Stephanapoulos and James Carville: “Look at Indiana…it doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white ni**er?”

But over HuffPo, Sam Stein, who initially broke this story, now says that Kantor’s racial slur is a hoax. Kantor has yet to deny calling Indianans “shit,” however.

UPDATE: At Politico, Ben Smith just talked to D.A. Pennebaker, who directed “The War Room.” Pennebaker said that the “shit” expletive referred to the Bush reaction in the White House.

“What he says is he’s surprised Perot’s numbers are holding,” said Pennebaker in a brief phone interview. “He says they must be shi**ing in the White House.”

Pennebaker said the racial slur was entirely fabricated.

No comment on the racial slur from indy007q? And he’s still going with Kantor calling Indianans (and not the pollsters or the Bush ‘41 people) “shit?” What chutzpah.

Sorry, that’s NOT from indy007q; that’s just some guy who posted it at his “blog” at Bravenewfilms. Apparently HE believes it, though. Idiot. I’m getting sloppy with this shit, moving too fast.

The mystery: who is indy007q?

John McCain on Health Care

I admit I’ve sort of been hiding from the health care debate because anything coming from John McCain would be infinitely better for me (and health care is a big part of my life) than what Hillary and Obama are selling, and I’m also sort of avoiding unpleasantries like worrying about how fast socialized health care will literally kill me.

McCain is saying all the right things with his health care agenda. Here’s his intro to it in the National Review.

What exactly is the problem with the American health-care system?

The problem is not that Americans don’t have fine doctors, medical technology, and treatments. American medicine is the envy of the world. The problem is not that most Americans lack adequate health insurance. The vast majority of Americans have private insurance, and our government spends many billions each year to provide even more.

The biggest problem with the American health-care system is one of cost and access, and as a result tens of millions of individuals have no insurance. For example, we currently spend for about 2.4 trillion dollars a year on health care. A decade from now that number, under current projections, will double to over four trillion dollars.

The Obama and Clinton response to these problems is to promise universal coverage, whatever its cost, and the massive tax increases, mandates, and government regulation that it imposes. But in the end this will accomplish one thing only. We will replace the inefficiency, irrationality, and uncontrolled costs of the current system with the inefficiency, irrationality, and uncontrolled costs of a government monopoly. We’ll have all the problems, and more, of private health care — rigid rules, long waits, and lack of choices, and risk degrading its great strengths and advantages including the innovation and life-saving technology that make American medicine the most advanced in the world.

I have a different approach. I believe the key to real reform is to restore control over our health-care system to the patients themselves. To that end, my reforms are built on the pursuit of three goals: paying only for quality medical care, having insurance choices that are diverse and responsive to individual needs, and restoring our sense of personal responsibility.

Read the whole thing here, and then get more details at the Health Care section of his website.

McCain visited the Cleveland Clinic today, and the text of the speech on health care is here.

Be sure to also read what others in the media and punditocracy have had to say about his health care agenda.

Moveon.org & the DNC: 100 Years of Stupid

The Stupid.

That one’s from the DNC, not MoveOn.org, but what’s the difference? Not to worry, though, moveon.org has released their own “100 years” strawman ad called “Candles.” Really, if this “100 years” strawman is the best they’ve got (and it appears to be their election strategy, along with “McSame” - LOL), I’m thinking we’ve got smooth sailing on the horizon. Obviously the libs really do believe voters are too stupid to figure out that it’s dishonest nonsense.

But for the libtards’ benefit (since they apparently are that stupid), a little fact checking is in order. Not that MoveOn or the DNC care about those pesky things called “facts.”

Please, Democrats, do stick with that strawman campaign!

Vote Democrat

Lest you think we forgot about Miz Porky–er, I mean Hillary…

I guess since Hillary hasn’t been able to keep up with Barack Obama in the fundraising game, she’s looking for money to hold her Senate seat. Lots of it, in fact.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year.

*gulp* What the hell? $2.3 Billion? With a B? Wow. I guess since it’s too late for the New York primary, she’s just covering her bases. Hey, how’s she going to run in 2012 if she can’t keep her seat in New York? A girl’s gotta do what she’s gotta do, and what’s $2.3 billion between friends? Errr….oh yeah. Triple what everyone else asked for.

Allah adds:

This would have been a sweet talking point during the general election; too bad she had to go and tank on us in the primary. No matter. Obama’s nicely compromised on this subject as well: $98 million in special earmarks for FY2008 compared to a big fat doughnut for McCain.

Got that? A big fat doughnut. None of that drunken sailor spending for McCain, which should make even the most anti-Mac conservatives happy as well, at least. (”Should,” but I usually choose not to read the often-deranged chatter in the Hot Air comments.)

Maybe Hillary’s buying everyone in New York State their own flak vests and helmets to protect them from sniper fire. Probably a fleet of armored personnel carriers, too.

Jeremiah Wright digs in his heels at the National Press Club (Video added)

Just watched Jeremiah Wright speak at the National Press Club. What can I say? This is like watching a train wreck.

In short, what he said:
1) nobody complaining knows anything,
2) nobody listened to his sermons,
3) if you knew ANYTHING, you’d know he’s absolutely right about everything he’s said,
4) it’s all in the Bible, and
5) if you disapprove of him, you’re dissing his mama and you’re attacking the black church.

You really have to see it for yourself–the obnoxious arrogance, the broad brush with which he paints ALL black churchgoers and ALL people who disagree with his point of view, and especially the way he weaseled around the questions he was asked about Obama. Oh, and he got in his chickenhawk slam as well, when a question was asked about his patriotism. “I was in the Marine Corps, unlike Cheney” (paraphrased). Yeah, and Timothy McVeigh, John Allen Muhammad, and Lee Harvey Oswald were in the military, too. I’m sick of hearing about Wright’s Marine Corps service; it doesn’t absolve him of all sins or even prove that he loves this country. Clearly he does not love this country.

I’ve got news: this isn’t about attacking the black church. This isn’t about attacking blacks. Not all blacks agree with you, Jeremiah Wright, and not all defend your political statements or your theology. He’s got a lot of nerve–or maybe it’s just delusion. I suspect he’s more accustomed to interaction in an echo chamber.

I didn’t bother writing about the ridiculous appearance at the NAACP, but Ed Morrisey did. I was appalled at what he was saying then, but at least he wasn’t as combative - presumably because he was in an echo chamber. But this appearance at the National Press Club was just crazed. I can’t decide if I’m pissed or if I want to just laugh because he’s just provided a ton of fodder for the 527s supporting Hillary and McCain. I guess I feel both. Obama’s in deep doo-doo if Wright keeps this up - Juan Williams has said it’s almost as if Wright doesn’t want Obama to be President. I think he’s wrong; I think Wright actually believes people will identify with what he says. Either way, this is like watching a train wreck.

You just know Hillary Clinton is ecstatic right now. At the very least, Wright just handed her Indiana on a silver platter.

More later, maybe; I’m just reacting right now. I just can’t believe how offensive this guy is. I think I need to distract myself from this before I end up wanting to schedule a botox injection to erase the angry frown on my face.

UPDATE: Added link to ABC’s Political Punch above. ~~I’ll add video when I find it.~~

UPDATE 2: Via the HuffPo (I won’t even look at the comments - I’m annoyed enough already). This is only ten minutes of it, though, and it doesn’t have the worst of it, but it’s a decent clip of his extended rant.

Another update: C-SPAN has the full video (.rm format, bleccch).

The Columbian Free Trade Agreement vs. the Democrats’ Anti-American Partisan Politics

Colombia Tariff Ticker

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Stupid Democrats

US-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement

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partisan politics

Colombia is the United States’ largest market in South America. This agreement will level the playing field for California’s industries and help them to compete better with other countries that export goods to Colombia. Because of high tariffs, California only exported $321 million in merchandise to Colombia last year, less than 1 percent of the $134 billion worth of exports our state shipped worldwide.

If the agreement takes effect, California stands to gain billions in new business opportunities by removing costly tariffs that put our goods at a disadvantage and keep many Colombian consumers from buying our products.

Unfortunately, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently refused to allow a vote in Congress on the Colombian trade agreement. Instead of representing California’s best economic interest, Pelosi is playing partisan politics.

This should be a no-brainer, but look at how Pelosi’s defenders present their position here (in the comments). It’s Bush Derangement Syndrome, and nothing more.

Remember New Orleans? Remember how they’re still trying to recover post-Katrina?

At this week’s Three Amigos summit in New Orleans, where Mexico, the U.S. and Canada met to discuss and defend free trade, President Bush was right to also bring forth New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

The mayor of the hurricane-hit city made an impassioned plea to Congress to pass the Colombia free trade agreement for New Orleans’ sake. He knows how badly his city needs every break it can get, three years after the biggest disaster to ever hit a U.S. metropolitan area.

“New Orleans is becoming an even greater international city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,” Nagin wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last November, “and we are making every effort to capitalize on trade liberalization that will flow from these FTAs (free trade agreements). Our port system is ideally situated to take advantage of the Latin American FTAs.”

That’s right–even Ray Nagin understands it.

Democrats have made New Orleans the cornerstone of their diatribe against President Bush. They’ve derided the city’s slow pace of recovery from the nation’s most devastating natural disaster, as well as wasteful aid spending.

But disregarding the pleas of Mayor Nagin, whose city will uniquely benefit from free trade with Colombia, makes them look like carpetbaggers. Nagin’s call ought to be a warning to Pelosi that Democrats’ sincerity about recovery in the Big Easy is on the line.

Frankly, they discredited their claim to sincerity about everything long ago.

The Case for Columbia (PDF, but sort of viewable below)

The U.S.-Colombia TPA has plenty to offer U.S. exporters, service providers and investors. Specifically, the U.S.-Colombia TPA:

* Levels the playing field for U.S. companies who will enjoy tariff free access into Colombia once the Agreement takes full effect.
* Provides new market access for U.S. consumer and industrial products such as textiles and agricultural products.
* Provides unprecedented access to government procurement.
* Liberalizes the services sectors.
* Opens the Colombian market to remanufactured goods.
* Protects U.S. investments in the region.
* Strengthens protections for U.S. patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
* Improves customs facilitation.
* Provides benefits to small and medium sized exporters.
* Addresses government transparency and corruption, worker rights, protection of the environment, trade capacity building and dispute settlement.
* Requires important reforms of the domestic legal and business environment that are key to encouraging business development and investment.

This isn’t an “exciting” issue for most people, but it’s important, and it’s just another reason why the Democrats are WRONG. It’s just another reason why Barack Obama is horribly wrong about everything–this fits right in with his Marxist/statist ideology, and that ideology has an immediate, tangible, negative impact on America.

Contact Grandma Pelosi (and your Congressman) and tell her Americans deserve better.

Terrorists Support Democrats!

Seedubya has done a nice little chart so you can keep track of which terrorists support which candidate. (Larger, clearer versions are at the link.) BE SURE to hit the links he’s posted for more that goes beyond what would fit on the chart–and yes, file those away in the dossiers as well.

stein hoist Nice Deb, with a massive list of nasty Friends of Barry.

New York Times Endorsements = “We don’t want you to win”

Just as the New York Slimes “endorsed” John McCain and later launched the Most Ridiculous Smear Campaign of the season on him, they’ve done it again–this time with Hillary. Remember they endorsed her? LOL.

The Low Road to Victory

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

Gaze at their confusion.

By staying on the attack and not engaging Mr. Obama on the substance of issues like terrorism, the economy and how to organize an orderly exit from Iraq, Mrs. Clinton does more than just turn off voters who don’t like negative campaigning. She undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that she is more qualified, right now, to be president than Mr. Obama.

She’s not qualified to be President because she isn’t worshipping at the altar of Teh Obamessiah!

HAHAHAHAHAHA. FAIL! Poor, innocent widdle Prince Barry. Everyone’s picking on him, and he’s playing so nicey-nice! Not. He talks a big story about “unity” and other bullshit platitudes, but in the same speeches he bloviates these things, he’s as divisive and negative as anyone else, and far more gloomy and prone to exaggeration, if not outright lies. Obviously, the NYT editors and others in Obama’s Amen Corner are too blinded by his dazzling halo to comprehend plain English. Hot Air has video of Hillary’s response to the NYT hit.

Make no mistake–Hillary won big last night, but she isn’t going to win the nomination. Period. I think she knows it, too–and has for a while. Rich Lowry points out what should be obvious to anyone by now.

She’s preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama. And she’s softening Obama up for McCain, prodding at and exposing her fellow Democrats’ weaknesses.

If you’ve paid attention at all to Dick Morris over the last several years, regardless of your feelings about him (he’s got Hillary Derangement Syndrome in a bad way), you know why she’d do this. She knows–or should know, unless yesterday Pennsylvania made her overconfident–that her campaign for 2008 is effectively over, and she’s preparing for 2012. She can’t win in 2012 if Obama is President. Not that she will win in 2012, but you can be sure she’ll die trying.

I wonder, will the New York Times be willing to call attacks on John McCain the “Low Road?” What about their own attacks? With all the money being raised by the DNC and the lib 527s, is there any doubt that the Dems are going to throw everything they can imagine at McCain, hoping something will stick? They all talk about wanting a substantive campaign, but what they’re really saying is that they want to be treated with kid gloves, while they fling poo at the Republicans. Hypocrisy is the hallmark of the Left, and the New York Times is the chief propagandist arm of all that hypocrisy.

Hillary Beats Obama By Ten, and “Fitchgate”

Can we please come up with a new suffix or prefix for big stories? And especially for trivial stories?

Presenting “Fitchgate“:

Barack Obama then launched into a rousing speech to his supporters in Indiana, but no one in the blogosphere could listen to it because they were so distracted by the three idiots wearing Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirts who are standing right behind him. The guy on the far left is wearing a t-shirt that says “Fitch” in like mile high letters. Plus, the three amigos aren’t even listening to his speech!

BWAHAHAHA!!! Actually, it’s true. At Twitter, some of us were talking about the three stooges in the Abercrombie & Fitch shirts. “Mallrat voters” is what I called them. William Beutler said, “A&F dude on the right is barely even paying attention. My guess is his two frat buddies talked him into this.” I guessed Mallrat #54 had been drinking; Sean Hackbarth said they were there to pick up hot chicks. LOL.

Hey, talking about the three A&F stooges was way more fun than listening to the Obamessiah lie and bloviate. Honestly, the guy is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Worse than Hillary by a mile. I hate the way he says “Jahmacain,” too. Drives. Me. Crazy. God help me if I have to listen to him on my teevee for four years. I so don’t get the hype about his speeches–it’s all a bunch of BS wrapped in platitudes. Listen to his speech, and tell me–what the hell is the big deal? I can’t believe people are buying this fraud. His rhetoric sure doesn’t match what he’s actually done, and it’s all about a bleak picture of America and how he can save it. Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.

In a more serious vein than the three A&F stooges, Hillary kicked NObama’s ass 55-45%. She also cleaned up among the voters who are more likely to swing McCain’s way in November–the blue-collar Democrats. I know those people; they’re my ex-in-laws in Erie, and I know they won’t vote for the Latte ~~Liberal~~ Crypto-Marxist who scoffs at their God and guns. I simply cannot fathom them not voting for a man like John McCain (the ex agrees), and they are not alone.

The Wall Street Journal elaborates:

Mrs. Clinton revealed cracks in Mr. Obama’s candidacy that started to appear in Ohio and are now big enough for Democratic concern. For all of his charisma, the rookie candidate still can’t make the sale to the white middle class voters whom Democrats must reach to beat John McCain.

According to the exit polls, Mrs. Clinton walloped him among voters without a college degree, and by nearly 2-to-1 among high school grads. She won easily among middle-income voters, as well as across the central, northeast and southeast areas of the Keystone State that are home to culturally conservative union households. These voters may not have bought her shot-and-a-beer routine, but they clearly preferred her to Mr. Obama’s “bitter” condescension. Perhaps ominously for Mr. Obama’s November prospects, Mrs. Clinton crushed him among Catholics, who are the ultimate swing voters across the U.S.

That’s my ex’s family, all right. They then go on to wonder how much is “racially motivated,” which I think is not as much an issue as those in the media apparently think. It’s the “bitter” thing, the disdain for those people. We all know how liberal elites think of “Flyover Country,” no need rehashing it. Everyone knows. If race is an issue, it’s Obama’s issue–he seems to think that being biracial and having had a single mom, blah blah blah, makes him a “regular guy.” Sorry, it doesn’t. There’s nothing “regular guy” about Barack Obama at all. Nor is there about Hillary, needless to say, but I think she got those votes because she’s a known quantity, and more importantly, she doesn’t have a Reverend Wright or a William Ayers.

A crucial statistic:

In an Obama-McCain matchup 26 percent of Clintons supporters say they will vote for McCain and 17 percent would stay home instead of voting for him. Over half of her supporters would still come out and vote for Obama in November.

GOD, I love this election. Best. Primary season. Ever.

stein hoist Bloggers Blog at twitter for the link to the A&F “gate” pic.

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