Fox's Juan Williams compares Palin choice to Affirmative Action

On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Juan Williams could barely contain his anger as he flatly told the white people on the panel he didn't want to hear complaints about affirmative action ever again, now that this woman has been selected. This woman is Governor Sarah Palin.

Not only does Williams continue comparing apples and oranges (Obama for president, Palin for vice president), he arrogantly dismisses Governor Palin as a totally unqualified person to be where she is, as if her accomplishments were nothing.

It will be fun to watch the Governor take these media egos farther down as she continues to win the hearts and votes of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas, Indiana...

Gee. I'm amazed they can get up in the morning now that reality is hitting them--Obama may not win.

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McCain's rope-a-dope pick of Governor Palin

John McCain picked a nobody--someone like us--to walk beside him to the White House.

Predictably the mean pundits are out in force to destroy Governor Palin and in so doing probably alienate the very people they are trying to win over, the undecided voters in the swing states.

Let's see how long Obama's surrogates will tug on these ropes.

Roping the dope
Did you know she only has a minor undergraduate degree from a small college in Idaho?

It's odd that the twit who made this ridiculous statement failed to mention Governor Palin's degree is in Journalism and she's a graduate of the University of Idaho.

Even before she's out of the gate the left media has attempted to turn her into a insignificant individual--kind of like the rest of us, who obviously doesn't know anything about anything, minimalizing the people who are also part of this country. The media can't even relate to a journalism degree, which seems odd considering their core profession.

Oh, and by the way, state universities provide educations for the "rest of us." This elitism is soooo tedious. and it's only a matter of time before people get a belly full of it.

Roping the dope
Did you know she was just a mayor of a small town in ahem Alaska? How could that be anything special; why would we elect someone whose resume is so thin?

Well, the facts are she's run a company, run a home, run a small (icky) town government, then threw out some bad guys in her own party as she rose the the Governor's office. Let's see, compared to Barack Obama's 143 days in the senate and his never having had to at least meet a payroll, it's quite amazing the Dems would even bring it up.

Obama's never so much as run a lemonade stand. He's seems like he's a mama's boy who has been taken care of his whole life by women like his grandmother, his mother, when she was around, Oprah, Michelle, women: the people he and his campaign have insulted for the last two years.

Obama is just another fatherless boy who's seeking to ameliorate his inadequacy about his own masculinity. Like Bill Clinton. Like so many dysfunctional men in the Democratic (and Republican) party who evidently are frightened by a woman like Sarah Palin.

Hey, Dems, in fact, do bring it on; let's discuss the actual accomplishments of the two candidates. Of course, Obama's lack of experience is fine for the presidency, but Governor Palin's, which consists of practical application and executive experience isn't enough for the vice presidency.

Roping the dope
She's appointed herself as the poster girl for the Right to Life. She is nothing more than a shill for the murderers of the extreme right who hate women.

Interesting that people would go after her in such a wantonly vindictive manner, as if her dedication to her family of five, including her Down's Syndrome child can somehow be construed someone's shill. That takes a lot of years and experience, if that's true. I suggest women who are so fearful of Governor Palin take a look at themselves and stop throwing the word "murderer" around. That can get a Pro Life person in trouble every time.

People watch this and see how crazy the Left is. It will backfire in swing states because it's insulting to a woman who is head and shoulders above those in dignity and in personal action. and is a powerful testament to her. The Left had better be careful as they try to demonize this good woman.

Roping the dope
She has no foreign policy knowledge; how can she be expected to step into the job without that?

Well, she does manage a state that is bordered by two countries. But that's probably not the foreign policy experience they're griping about.

My hunch is Governor Palin will take the podium and go toe to toe with Biden. At least she didn't lie about her "thin" resume and serially plagiarize large and copious "papers."

Biden, of course, will try to hurt her personally. That's just the kind of man he is.

Roping the dope
The Republicans chose her because they're pandering to the woman vote.

No kidding. I like being pandered to for a change!

Roping the dope
She has some baggage, I hear...something about corruption in her own administration...getting her brother in law fired?

The event has been vetted and vetted and vetted. I'm not worried about it, and I think the corruption within Alaska's politics are what people will talk about. Mavericks have enemies, especially big fat senators who build bridges.

Roping the dope
Well, then she's just another woman who doesn't deserve the job. She's like Hillary who thought she could skip up the ramp to the Oval Office by being the president's wife. She's just like most of those women who kick in young guys' balls and act like their mother. Yeah, just another woman getting a break who doesn't deserve it. How many middle aged women who have given their lives to a corporation have heard those very words from the Young Turks who push them aside.

It seems to me that the skipping the Dems are talking about also included some nifty side stepping from a little boy who wants to be president and won't wait till he's ready. The argument still plays. There is no comparison between the two situations and two candidates. Apples and oranges.

Roping the dope
She's a member of the NRA which is a front for (fill in the blank) ______ and Americans hate guns...

Except for the Americans who hunt with them and are proud to own them, who live in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado and Alaska. They're also very concerned and cling to those guns and Bibles when progressive Dems come around, and still happily cling to the Second Amendment, just in case.

And finally, the best rope a dope yet
McCain's too old to be president...look at how the two of them look like Father and Daughter.

This is what I expected. Either sixty is the new forty, or it isn't. People can't have it both ways in their personal lives by trying to look hopelessly young and attractive and then personally insult the candidate who is older by calling him bumbling. Andrea Mitchell with her new mouth, the MSNBC preoccupation with youth, and their empty whining to each other, listening to a sportscaster, Keith Olbermann as if he has anything important to say. That's bumbling and incoherent.

Gosh, there are a lot of dopes out there who can't leave these ropes alone!

Senator McCain has picked a vice presidential candidate who's an awful lot like who we are or want to be. Governor Palin's story appeals to our sense of American character, grit, courage and know how. Senator McCain is appealing to Americans' better nature by selecting her. He must have a lot of faith in her.

She really is kind of like us--only better.

I'm guessing the old jet jockey saw a sortie that was risky but worth every ordnance he had on board. As it turned out, he fired and hit the target dead on. Let's see how far this choice goes in flushing out and exposing the facts from the rhetoric that stands for what Obama offers: that is, nothing, just words.

Good move, Senator McCain. You've roped these dopes into telling the truth about themselves and about their ideas. They can't hide anymore.

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Pray for God's will...

because according to the media, and in my opinion, candidate Obama is about to overwhelm the McCain candidacy by sheer showmanship.

What I personally pray for is his sincerity.

Regardless of my plans to shape God's will, I would like to publicly offer a pray for Senator Obama and his family. His achievement is fabulous and we mustn't let our differences stand in front of our unanimity of progress.

Let us keep the Obama family in our prayers. We must not allow those who would use the Senator's ethnicity against him so as to stay in the good graces of individuals who have ideals that transcend some of the rhetoric of the day. We must come together in trust and unanimity.

Barack Obama is making history tonight as he accepts the nomination for president from the Democratic Party.

I'll allow him his glory. He's earned it. And if he wins? Well, he's growing, just as JFK did. Let's see where his true heart lies. After all, that's all that matters in my WASP eyes. (I love meritocracy, don't u?)

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Bill Clinton: Will the Old Lion forget their betrayal and make nice?

(Fox News story down below)

I have the feeling we will see a Bill Clinton who attempts to keep control while he delivers his "make nice" speech tonight.

But underneath I think what might happen is the old adrenaline will start flowing, as it does with rock stars who hear the masses cheering, and he will lose control. I don't think the old Bill would've; I think a post-quad bypass Bill might.

I watch for him to slap the wrists of those who betrayed him during this campaign, insulted his wife and forced him into a position of having to defend his honor regarding civil rights. Bill may be a philanderer, but I do think in all honesty he was always driven towards the African-American goal of equal opportunity. President Clinton's sense of having been betrayed must be horrific personally and politically. I can't imagine how I'd feel under similar circumstances.

I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Clinton finally lets them have it. He's not a team player sometimes. Tonight might be his night, not Barack's.

After all, the Old Lion has to teach the young lion upstart a lesson--in public.

As a fellow Leo (both Bill and Barack are also Leos), I can't wait. What a drama.

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How much did Hill get for the acclamation?

(Fox News story follows below)

We'll see how much of Senator Clinton's campaign debt gets paid back now that the Obama people and the Clintons have come to an real understanding.

My bet is Hill gets every vendor, including herself, paid off now that Bill can say what he wants and she motions to bring the roll call vote to close and affirm whassiname as the nominee. She would've made a hell of a president for the Democrats. Sorry, but it's true.

So, was it about money all along?

Pride and ego?

Self-respect.

The future?

It's probably all of the above that moved Hillary and Bill to hold the line against the kid. And why not?

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Fox News caves in to Obama's Ayres ad intimidation

http://www.americanissuesproject.org/

If you think it's bad now, just wait till the Obama group is in charge. You've seen how they steamroll others. Why would they change when they get real power?

My link above is to the ad Obama's lawyers are trying to shut down...like none of what took place in the 60s ever happened. The Democrats again are rewriting history. Barack Obama announced his political career in the home of Bill Ayres, the American terrorist, whose murderous accomplice-wife sat back and reminded everyone again how they hate America as recently as a year ago. Barack calls them mainstream.

By the way, the Ayres weren't convicted because of a legal technicality. Meanwhile, these people are receiving money from tax payers as professors instead of languishing in Leavenworth where they both belong.

Regardless, the media refuses to run this ad, even Fox News.

Roger Ailes's inability to do what's right must come from racial intimidation and fear put out by the Obama campaign. Otherwise, what? There's no other reason that comes to mind that he turned this ad down other than pressure.

I don't like people who try to take away my right to free speech. Not in any way, in any form.

It's time to get real about Barack Obama's intentions for those who don't agree with him and fight back with all we have--beginning right now.

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Rick Warren's presentation is everything

Religious charlatans are not new. Americans have been preached at by some of the best showmen in the world. The practice started in the upper part of the northern hemisphere the day they stepped foot on a rock in Massachusetts and continues to this day. In fact, it started with Native American shamans.

I won't mention names because they know who they are.

When I first attended Rick Warren's Saddleback tent not far from where I lived in about 1998, I was impressed with its organization. I thought the staff did a great job--the parking challenge was horrendous, but I had been so hurt in other big evangelical churches with their spiffy pastors (even the word, pastor, is really too evangelical for this mainline Protestant) that I just couldn't bring myself to really listen critically to Rick Warren. I was pretty much done with all of them.

I had heard so many of these guys who just didn't get it as far as I was concerned.

Southern Baptist Convention
Who knew? Today, they have legitimacy.

Now that the president of the Baptists can flap on TV about their own personal go-to guy for God; perhaps, flap he should. This is not a criticim. This is a suggestion that you all listen and learn and judge by the fruits of his labor.

Something new, since I've been to Saddleback is they're out of the tent and into a nice church...with lots of parking and a staff to handle all of it. Their co-missions seems to keep rolilng on, one which is close to my heart.

Saddleback doctrine-wise is just like the first baptist church in any town; they believe the exact same thing about salvation--being born again through Christ--the part that everyone who isn't goes so nutty over.

Rick Warren is no charlatan from what I'm seeing these days. Like many other great unnamed preachers before him, he knows you get more with honey than you do with vinegar. His delivery is not new. From the sounds of him, he would be the first to say any "success" he has is because God placed him where he is. After all, he comes from a line of Southern Baptist preachers, so he probably knew his Bible very, very well before he presumed to stand behind the pulpit.

Add to his obvious ability to select capable people to surround himself with, Rick Warren is a true magnet of the typical Orange County upper level technocrats. They help him deliver the message with their expertise. That's what it takes, you know--people who know what they're doing. Where else but the OC?

Rick Warren, someone whom I thought once might be another circuit preacher with a bunch of weird, ego drivenideas, as I have found out is hardly a phony. His sincerity and lifestyle actions speak as loudly as his motivational sermons. He appeals to real men and women who need a church home or something like that and have a belief in something, maybe in Jesus, but for sure in something. He has them walking in the door in droves with their kids, stopping at the desk to sign up for their own purpose driven lives.

The other more persistent, some call less tolerant Christians, including those in his same brotherhood, who have turned people off by their "demeanor" in evangelizing might take a lesson from Pastor Warren. When churches stay relevant in people's busy lives by toning down the rhetoric and turning up the concern, attracting people to Christ and His Gospel becomes its own message.

How does that happen? Well, obviously the man has to smarter than the dog, as my mother used to say. Rick Warren, son and grandson of men of God, is a leader because he qualifies as one and first knows his Bible, doctrine and understands and lives his own faith. You can't teach it if you don't live it.

The rest, Saddleback, came later.

And now that Pastor Warren is participating in history with this evening's presidential forums with Obama and McCain, I expect he will maintain his equilibrium. I'll pray for God's guidance as Warren brings more souls to Christ. His way.

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Why would Putin choose now to invade Georgia? Why wouldn't he?

It's perfect.

There appears, from the world media fed by the infotainment distributors that Americans are thoroughly against all involvement in foreign wars. Could be.

Communists have never been so pretty as they are these days. Just look at them in Moscow (as it dresses well and drinks well, while it removes what we Americans take for granted, basic rights such as freedom of the press, as it "re-nationalizes" those private industries which Putin so desperately wanted to be "private" back in the early years when he really wasn't a Communist, and now...if we look closely, there's some sick 21st century logo that looks benignly like a scifi channel video on the tanks that rumble towards the Black Sea.

Besides, look at all them purty Olympic thingies. They seem like such nice people...

So, as the new Russians, aka Putinists regain territory with their imperialistic war--by the way, when someone mentions the imperialist US "invaded" Iraq and it's the same as Russia invading Georgia?

It isn't. America's leaving Iraq and will probably be out of the country by 2012; Russia has not only gained Ossetia it has taken over Georgia explaining there are no more boundaries. Russia got land.

All we got was a bunch of crap from a bunch of whiners there in Iraq, here in America and all over the world.

Anyway, I suppose Putin is counting on the antiwar sentiment of Americans ala pre WWII, ala pre Pearl Harbor, thinking Americans won't do anything so he can flex his muscles and take territory while he can. Again, he may be right. But then that was then. Now?

He may be also depending upon a black white election dynamic that was never in play before to put America on the defensive. That is why it's so important for quick response from the state department and Israel. The Bush administration obviously are not deterred from that reality.

Of course, our friends in Israel's only alternative is to hit Iran immediately while Russia is on the offensive. Obviously we cannot allow Russia to continue to supply Iran with nuclear materials during this time of Russian aggression. I would hope the president would gather his credits with Merkel of Germany and Sarkozy of France, not to mention his pals in the Independent States--Poland, et al., and stand strong. I say "obviously," but those of us who remember the Cold War also recall the intractability of those who said we could contain the U.S.S.R., that evil empire.

The evil empire that Reagan called out. Containment.

The McCain response has been perfect, by the way.

Barack Obama's response, quite too late and tepid (typically) it seemed to me and weak, would have given Putin another three or four days to kill another two-thousand people.

Madeleine (I-had-my-stage-debut-with-Kim-Jong Il) Albright insists Bush should send Rice to Russia immediately. I don't quite know what they'd talk about considering the situation.

Secretary of State Rice

Hey, Vlad, you've killed a few people down in Georgia.

Vlad "Kissface" Putin
Well, I am trying to rebuild my Soviet state. Can you blame me? It's in my blood, Kondikuska ...my Marxist, Soviet blood.
(beat)
Nice leggings...you do gymnastics too...and play piano.
Cabbage and sherry?

At least President Bush has acted by sending Secretary Rice to Tbilisi (they wouldn't dare kill Rice) and placing missiles in Poland pointed east so that there could be some damage control.

Meanwhile, while Obama studies real, real hard, reads his Cliff Notes and tries to figure out ancient Russian bear politics, which he can't do because he wasn't there and can't just jump into the middle and know it all because he read it, Vladimir Putin has a plan: it starts with C and it ends with r.

Why? Because Russia's hungry and drunk. Their production of food is down thanks to the new free markets in the old satellite bread baskets and there's a huge increase in alcoholism among its men. They have internal problems besides just the old Russian imperialistic urges. Russia has big problems. Check out the recent writings on American Enterprise Institute from the experts. You'd be surprised what the western press ignores.

I discovered something today which I find absolutely phenomenal that it has not been reported: Vladimir Putin's grandfather was the personal chef to both Lenin and Stalin. Why that has not been a feature story in the western press is beyond me. It is not as if I hadn't done a lot of research on Putin for other articles; I had years ago and no where did I see this information until today.

I have to remember the reason we might not have access to data; the dissembling of our own intelligence agencies by the Clintons; and the leftist-ridden state department policy changers and bureaucrats in Washington and Russia's redesign, reconstituting and reassembling a new, more responsive KGB. Moreover, there is an increased ability to capture information now more than ever.

Next thing he'll be admitting to is his involvement in laying the first block at the Berlin Wall. Hey, great things begin small.

It's a perfect time to invade another country--when your core enemy seems weak and its people silly. Let's hope he's wrong.

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The Chinese Olympic Commies can sure put on a show, can't they?

Gee. This must be how Rome, ancient Egypt, the 3500 southern American slave owned plantations and all those other places that utilized slave labor to build their grandness became so fabulous.

They almost had me.
Great ceremony, the bird's nest, the pretty girls, the warmth, everything perfect. Right up until the time the Chinese soldiers took hold of the Olympic flag. Then I felt a chill down my spine. The pili on my arms stood up like I was still in the caves of France as a bear approached...no, nothing's really changed.

These people in so much red mean business.

Khrushchev, Hu, Putin, Medvedev
Meanwhile, Russia still looks like it's still full of the same old Commies of 1968 when they rolled tanks into Prague as yesterday and Friday Medvedev sent warplanes and 500 tanks into the country of Georgia and killed 2000 civilians.

Vladimir (when will we ever learn not to trust guys named Vladimir?) Putin's the same KGB guy I wrote about five years ago, only's he's got Armani clothes and great shoes and big old wifie's got a personal trainer and bleached her hair and got a bunch of Botox. Didn't work, though; I noticed he also has his own personal Party Concubine, a gymnast, which brings all sorts of imagery to my nimble mind.

Let's hear how Prince Barack handles the real world aspect of 21st century style Communism, pretty and not so pretty. Don't expect much, considering most of our young people don't get it. Communists just love people like Barack. They eat them for breakfast. In fact, now that the Prince has established his leftist bona fides he should talk easily with these folks...live and let live and all.

The world has not changed even if people like the new Democrats say it has.

There is little real people alone can do but wake up and remember the horrors of this system then protest the ridiculous and barbaric attitudes of these bad men.

One might pray for the persecuted. Look in the sidebar for the organization, Voice of the Martyrs, that I've been working with for a few years. It's a excellent start. They give many choices and ways to help the persecuted around the globe. One of my favorites is to write letters to imprisoned Christians like the ones who possess Bibles in their homes in China or who provide secret worship services in "house" churches.

As I watched the birds nest, I had to wonder how many Christians paid with their lives to give Mao his glory. It was very Nuremberg, wasn't it. If only Leni Riefenstahl had been there to see the grandeur and precision; she and Speer would have been in absolute orgasmic Nirvana, although the Left in this country doubtless will laugh at my simplistic pairing of the two.

Thatcher, Reagan, Bush, Solzhenitsyn
There is however, MUCH governments can do, which Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were able to show to the world by their immense ability to determine right from wrong.

President Bush also displayed his scruples and principles in Thailand by speaking directly to China about their human rights abuse and again today by attending a Christian "church." Of course, since there are no Christian churches, I'm not sure how all that occurred.

Just a few hours ago, Christian protesters were removed from the infamous Tienanmen Square for peaceful praying. That pretty much says it all. Of course, we don't know where those folks were removed "to." But then, no one cares, do they? Unless they're Tibetans or live in Darfur. I have to respond immediately to the people who are nuts over Darfur, "Where were you during Somalia and Rwanda?"

That's right. Nowhere. Silent. Nevermind. We Republicans took care of it while you played in Hollywood.

God bless Alexander Solzhenitsyn for his near martyrdom. Is it a coincidence that the next generation of Russians produced a man named Serge who worked with Communists to help place a foundation of totalitarian success such as we are seeing today? I wish I could have spoken to Mr. Solzhenitsyn on this subject.

I wish also I could have spoken to him about the shameless exposure America was given by President Clinton of its nuclear secrets to China for money during the 90s. Again, we are speaking of the chickens returning, as Reverend Wright said so clearly that day in his church, to roost.

Those who are oppressed understand chicken roosting.

BTW: you can order those bracelets above by clicking on the link in VOM link. They're cheap and make quite a point. Cool, too...lots cooler than those China Dolls, I think, that will serve as nothing more than a front for the Chinese Communist Party.

Have a nice day in your freedom while you watch the 100-yard dash and try to remember those people all over the world who don't have any.

While you're at it, you might want to lay off President Bush. His irrational, illegal, bully policies have given a few people--about 80 million of them in Iraq and about 28 million of them in Afghanistan--a little bit more freedom than they've ever had in their lives.

But then, he's a Bush. Everyone hates the Bushes. After all, he's a Republican. We Republicans have no hearts. Actually, just ask Daily Kos and Move On, all those people who got the money for Obama and Clinton and that fine, upstanding gentleman, John Edwards. They'll tell you we're just a bunch of bastards.

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I wish Edwards hadn't used a "supermarket tabloid" as the culprit for his misdeeds.

But he did anyway in his mea culpa.

It seems that nobody can ever really can just say I'm sorry.

It's hard to do when everyone gives you so many excuses and all you want to do is just get it over with and move on. But he had to give find a way to save face, I guess.

Too bad. Guess he's still not done lying according to the new stuff coming out. Darn lawyers.

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Whoever approved the McCain Paris Celebrity ad needs to be fired. Today.

Damage control, boys.

Proactively speak out, take care of this. You have to and make a huge deal of it and apologize immediately. This is turning into an awful mess. It wasn't even a poor joke gone bad. It was just a bad, bad ad.

Whoever designed, whoever wrote it, whoever approved that stupid, stupid piece showing Paris Hilton should be taken off the campaign and let go.

That was the dumbest, most incoherent thing I believe I've ever seen. I said I didn't like it when it came out; now I hate it. The pride and amateur aspect of it shocks me. The campaign acts shocked at the kid's lack of respect for them.

Well, get over it. They will fight back in kind and they will kill using their only source of news and communication other than each other personally: You Tube.

First of all, did the writer not remember who the market was?

Now Paris has her own personal Obama endorsement ad in which she mocks and hurts McCain badly. Very, very badly. That l8-year old new voter market? Kiss it goodbye. They love this response...

Good thing Barack talks about things like tire pressure, because with the Hiltons now so angry , and buying air by the hour, we could very well lose this thing by a bleached blonde airhead.

Way to go, campaign. You maybe have one more of these mistakes left. Maybe.

Are you people nuts in the McCain camp? Absolutely nuts? You NEVER use another living person in ads like this. NEVER. Especially rich ones who are your contributors. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

Especially in the You Tube era. Remember they don't read, they just You Tube each other...and that's all they do, just talk to each other...and motivate each other...and tell each other lies...and talk to each other...and send each other Paris's ridiculous new anti McCain ad...

So, dumb. So damn dumb. God, I just wanna scream.

Thanks for the read.

August 8 update: The original ad in which Paris was used has been taken down by McCain's people and replaced by cogent, effective and hard hitting issues ads which at the same time use the celebrity angle. Someone threw the old one in the trash.

The Sleeping Dragon is now awake. You feed it. No. You feed it.

John McCain's "Don't make waves!" request to President Bush when he goes to China for the Olympic Summer Games leaves me cold. I don't like that kind of response to nearly anything unless it has to do with compounded interest.

But then I realized we're listening to a former POW who realizes what the effects of the President's words have on China's dissidents and its politically oppressed from a physical standpoint. He's protecting them. Then, there's the N. Korean thing.

That meaningful concern of Senator McCain's notwithstanding, I understand the phrases and words that the President of the United States utters are desperately important. What he does is as profoundly felt as anything that moves on the planet ala "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" considering where these events are about to occur and under what rule.

There could be Texas-style grand and not so noble gestures by a president who may end up with the legacy of actually forcing people into freedom...having it punctuated by an in-your face visit to a Christian house church meeting or a "drop by" at a small meeting of democrats...in a Communist country...at the end of his term. Really. It would be too sweet for words.

Wishful thinking? I wouldn't put it past him.

In the meantime, McCain's front loading the president's trip with marching orders about what to do and say is typical of why Senator McCain is not popular with Christian Evangelicals right now, I suspect.

I'm afraid I have to agree on this one with all respect.

Even though I know why Senator McCain said what he did, which I think happens anyway, I wish he hadn't said a word. But he already has. And I think he's just dead wrong. I'm real disappointed in that.

On the other hand, Obama's answer which is to not attend the Olympics at all, is a little like ignoring the elephant in the room, typical when one thinks of Obama's entire rather strange post race stance, post everything: running away from Beijing as he would've Baghdad is not the answer to tyrants.
Gentle but unswerving and unmistakeable confrontation(s) by the most powerful man in the world against the massive regime which in the 21st century still remains the major oppressor of a billion people sends a monumental message.

Even if it's come later than I think it should have, I'm pleased President Bush has decided to show some true leadership in this regard. Let's see if he follows through.

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Quit minimizing Obama's Elitist label, MSNBC. Then? You might get it.

For those of you who truly believe you're doing a bang up job there at what you do, don't read any farther. It'll just make you mad and I'd like to have you back some time.

Here's the problem as I see it
You're idolizing not analyzing. You're drowning in the wake of Obamania to the point that it is painful to watch you grasp for a life ring of reality. You're instead trying to grab onto something unreal.

Someone has to slap you out of it. Guess I'll give it a try.

Maybe you should think about your roles as journalists, not act like sycophants.

Think of your roles as public servants because as journalists that is what you are.

Think of your roles as truth tellers no matter where the truth leads you. Whether it is to the painful end or to the glorious heights, it is none of your concern because you are journalists, not results oriented individuals. It is by choice you have become journalists regardless of what it says on your business card, for most of you, anyway.

It is not in your best interest to decide how you feel about how anyone sees John McCain or Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or andrea hall from your point of view.

It is only in the best of interest of this democracy that you take the full observatory and objective (interesting words) from their point of view and then tell this democracy's people about it.

That is not happening and it's killing us. You are telling us from your point of view everything that is occurring in the world.

Why are you doing this?
Why are you consciously avoiding that which you know in your hearts is at the center of The Fourth Estate?

Have some of you been taken up by the emotion, by a repressed anger, by a sense of powerlessness that will soon be unfurled and thus ameliorated? Have you lost all of your center?

Is it about money and the industry's golden handcuffs? Do some of you have more dang money than you've ever seen in your life and you just don't want it to stop? Or your spouses won't let you? You're compromised?

Are some of you scared of what your friends will think if you don't tow the company line? Or are some of you just too damned lazy to do the work?

Or are some of you in over your head because your really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I'm seeing lots of historical error and data screw ups. Sorry, guys. I'm too old to miss them. (By the way, I've seen you old guys let them go by the wayside uncorrected. Stop that. You owe the country the correction. Journalism is also about instruction.)

Maybe some of you "pros" need to dive under and come up alongside and tread water awhile. Catch your breath. You've been riding in that wake a long, long time now, and it gets pretty bouncy especially when Obama tacks; some of you are turning blue.

Some of you have forgotten your roots. And you feel kinda guilty every time you cash that huge paycheck because you come from people who are not college educated most likely. I say that because statistics tell me you do. You're from blue collar families, you're very self conscious about that. You act guilty about having money.

Some of you don't handle that well. You make fools of yourselves over it, in fact and it's time you got over it. You overcompensate or miss the point or do something to show that you aren't ready for prime time. So what!

You're just so star struck and in love. With yourselves, where you are, where you want to be someday. Most of that comes from not being used to being where you are. It's fun being rich and on TV, getting face time and it's probably pretty easy to get used to it. Gosh, a person could become, well, an elitist, especially if she/he married well and moved in the right circles or had the right job.

Most of that comes from not remembering who you are.

What do I want?
Real analysis. Not your hopes and dreams. Leave those with your pals at the bar after hours. Use your youth, brains and energy to get into the scene to hear what the candidates are really saying and the people are really saying then report it without your hopes and dreams.

Here's the type of question you could be asking yourselves instead of what you can do to get people to understand how to like Obama better:

Why Berlin?
What was the pull? Was it the past? Who's past? Obama's or America's? Don't glorify him based on the melodrama of someone's idology?

I'm still pressing for that answer. Without a psychological profile in addition to a complete personal investigation of the man's past we can guess why Obama would choose such an odd venue. I don't get it. What is the attachment? There's so much news to cover with Obama.

There are overtired, retired and tired working men and women who vote right here in America. There's another story.

What's going on with this huge shift in African-American demographics vis a vie post race politics? That's a huge story you at MSNBC are actually afraid to discuss, it seems, openly. Dismissing Jesse Jackson's remarks so quickly was a mistake, especially when you had children talking about it.

Better pay attention. It's a long way and time until November. Seriously.

Hardball?

Why don't you analyze not idolize?

Thanks for the read.

Don't be coy, Barack. "They'll say I've got a funny name"?

I think "hot" words are thrown around too easily by people who really don't know what they mean, especially people who shouldn't be using them.

For instance, I'll bet many people don't even know what xenophobia actually means. Correctly used it describes an irrational fear of foreigners.

So when Obama called our swing staters xenophobes, was he slipping, Freudian-wise? I'm just sayin...what with the birth certificate thing and all.

Relax, folks; it's a joke.

Then there's the word racist--one who practices discrimination or antagonism towards other races. That word's tossed around like a gamecock. What is a gamecock, anyway? (It's a male game bird, not a thing that flies over a badminton net, like I first thought. That's a, a...poppycock. No, that's foolish talk or a popular snack.)

And now for my personal favorite, the politically correct, irrationally coined noun racism: (how this reconciles intellectually with science and anthropology I'll never know; but we do live in the land of Lewis Carroll): the belief that there are characteristics, abilities or qualities specific to each race.

I was taken to the mat on that one by my ex-friends (I have many, hard as it is to believe) whose contentious and obnoxious nature argued such things, e.g., taking exception to the sun rising in the east. He refused to exhibit any sophistication as it related to DNA and tendencies to genotypes. It made me laugh to watch this idiotic liberal make his PC point to protect his ideology. Of course, his SOP was to attack me personally when he was losing his political point, which was all the time.

Words. Just words.

Mulatto. It's the new N word. Watch out. Don't use it. I found that out when I read an article in the Washington Post online magazine by a M word person who suddenly is self consciously--get ready--taupe! So he and the rest of the taupe people in this world have declared that in addition to Obama being the patron saint of taupe, there will be no more M word usage. Then he ranted militantly about Sally Hemmings and leaving her door unlocked for the president.

Exhausting, isn't it?

By the way, do you know or care what a Mulatto is? After all, that's all we've ever heard in this culture, Mulatto this, Mulatto that. A girl from Kansas hears Mulatto, oh probably ten times every one-thousand years or so.

Obama is a Mulatto, a black person's and a white person's offspring. But you can't say that anymore. It's on the Do Not Touch List in Obama's Do Not Touch Book.

Reminder to self: write a note to Barack and tell him that the big fat race cards he just played 3x yesterday? Risky strategy. They work with other Dems. Not with the opposition. And time for another memo to the minions to tell 'em to stop the payback thing, ala Ludacris--read Radio One Mayo's study on modern African-Americans. http://www.blackamericastudy.com/

Better lighten up in swing states with the race thing.

Update to memo: Barack, bad news about Bebe in Israel, huh? Your worst nightmare, kiddo, because he'll take Iran out before you can print up that meeting agenda with Khomeni or whatssiname.

Later update to memo: check with econ advisers on how to re-spin good econ news today about growth and lower unemployment rate...revise "economy in tank" remarks. Find other ways to scare people, etc. Read Clinton's class warfare playbook. Stick with old man remarks--they resonate with kids. You better hope and pray they sober up and vote.

Thanks for the read.

California earthquakes make me nerve-e-ous. I needed leadership.

I'm not only a crack reporter waiting for an imaginary press pass to cover the imaginary come back by Hillary Clinton at the Denver convention, I'm also a seamstress. More on that later...

I was just inserting the needle into the corner of my California patio pillow when the quake began. I jumped up, grabbed it and looked around then wondered what to do.

Yes, your intrepid twit, panicked. I panicked.

I can't believe that I--so strong, so able, so advanced and evolved--who actually once saved another person's life (well, I pulled the table away so the guy could give my friend the Heimlich)--panicked.

How many years had it been since I had ever asked what to do? I was amazed at my fear. How long ago? At least since the night on a 32-foot boat in the middle of the south Pacific in the middle of a 60-knot gale at night, when we had big foresail up--and I had to take the helm of the boat. Somehow we had to get that sail down.

I was so scared. I gasped at the skipper as I struggled to pull the yellow all-weather gear over my sweaty body, "I don't know what to do." I hated how the rubber felt on my salt rubbed skin.

"Head her into the wind," he called back as he raced up the companionway. Easy for him to scream, I thought.

When I finally hooked myself to the boat, I took control of the helm. I stared at the sail in awe of the force of the wind. It looked like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon. We were heeled over port about...eh...39? degrees? Not sure...the keel wasn't out of the water--yet--the very event we trying to avoid. That was the good news. It's a blur sometimes when I think back.

Which way was the wind? Where was the wind, for God's sake? I do remember wondering that. In a storm so raging it's sometimes hard to figure where the wind comes from.

The skipper hung with his mate, their harnesses hitched to the boat like my own so they wouldn't get thrown overboard and he pointed starboard. I turned the wheel and turned and turned and turned and finally the sails luffed. I could barely see through the rain and wind.

"Hold her there." Did he say hold her there? I could barely hear him and could only pray what I heard was correct. Hold her?

I watched the compass and watched the wind, hoping I was "holding her there." Was I?

I thought it took every muscle and everything I had to keep her headed into that 6o-knot wind, but somehow we all did it. The sail came down and we were safe. But it was really easier than it seemed, I'm sure. The romanticism of it was must be greater than the actual deed itself. I don't talk about it much. But it does bring to mind tonight the importance of trust and leadership.

Once the sail came down, the skipper took over and my responsibility was over.

I just needed to know what to do. Instruction. That's all we need I guess. Leadership.

Today? In the earthquake, I thought the house was going to fall on me. Our ceilings are 20 feet. The two-story stairs were before me and my husband was up in his office.

I screamed the same darned thing I did 30 years ago, "I don't know what to do!"

My husband came down immediately and asked me why was I so afraid, you know what to do. That's not like you.

I told him Lucy Jones from Cal Tech said not to get in door jambs anymore, the LA Times article said so, last week. (At least I'm respectful of science.)

No, he said, after he calmed me, that's stupid. Look at this strength, as he pounds on the door jambs.

I looked. He was right. It is the strongest place in the house!

So is the place under the stairs. It's the strongest place in the house!

I hate the media. It's my fault. I should have checked it out myself.

I finished those fab pillows and am still waiting for the press pass into the Clinton pacs or some fab media group for Denver.

Oh. And the pillows? They really are California pillows. They're a screen print of a stylized map of Southern California featuring our favorite places ala the famous New Yorker Manhattan cover but using Santa Monica, Laguna, Riverside, Temecula, Orange County, San Diego. It's perfect for California dreaming and remembering! I have to laugh considering our temblors today.

It shows us, among other things, that there are lots of things that are not under our control.

Thanks for the read.

Announce Condi or Rudi for Veep today. This ain't brain surgery, Boys.

Enough. Obviously the McCain people are clueless.

Here's what they need to do to win.

First hire the best PR/Election firm in the world. Whatever or whoever they're using? It's not working. Just like the first five years of Iraq...not working. Just like Katrina...not working. Just like the other things that people kept saying were pissing them off (uncontrolled bureaucracy, Larry Craig staying in office--of course, that takes clean hands, unengaged leadership, out of control spending, now Ted Stevens)...not working!

This is our problem, people: the Republican TIN EAR.

And it's by golly happening again. And I can't seem to stop it, no matter how many times I jump up and down, take my clothes off, yell obscenities, put my clothes back on, throw things, send money, take away money, nothing works, nothing.

Then:

1. Get Condi Rice or Rudi (unless they've been waiting for the war to wind down to make this announcement so Condi looks good? Yeah, right. Way to keep the faithful crazy.)
   
2. Woo the legal Latino vote by giving them security and reinstill family reasons to become Republicans.
3. Get our act together on homeland security, in other words, destroy Obama using his obvious weakness and vulnerability.
4. Go for all out drilling on and offshore.

Jeez. What do you people need--a barn to fall on ya?

And no, I will not take my clothes off again.

Thanks for the read.

The Old Lion , Bill Clinton, places a call to his pride

On speaker phone:

Uh, Hillary...hello, Darlin!


Hi, Bill. Is it really you?!


Yep. Is Chelsea there?


I sure am, Daddy. Right here.


Are you laughin yet, Bill? We're about to pee our pants here!


*riotous laughter in the background on both ends of the phone*


Are you kiddin' me?


*more riotous laughter*


We can't stop,Daddy. I wish we'd known how dumb he really is earlier! We could've taken him out!


*laughter*


Did you like how he acted in front of the Israelis? Bebe called and said he was an total dumbass. You know Bebe!


*Hillary lets loose with her crazy laugh*


"We're sorry we water board people. Gollll-ly, we're just dumb Americans trying to save your butts."


Or. Or, then in Berlin. "You Europeans are sure smart takin' down this wall and all. United they stand. DUHHH."


*they can't get enough*


Can't wait to see that little twerp squirm...like he's been elected already...never seen anything like it.


*throat clearing*


It ain't right, Hill. 'Least Jesse came back.
(beat)
Chelsea, Honey, you okay?



Yeah, I'm always good...fine, Dad.



Okay,Sweetie. I luv you. Well, you know to call when you need...Hey, honey, I got this beautiful little gold bracelet for ya next time I see ya, I'll give it...



I always do, Dad. Love ya.



*silence*



Hey, Bill.

Off speaker.

Yeah, Honey?



Tell Jesse thanks for bringin' our people back home.
(Beat)
You still think this thing is do-able?




It's a done deal, Baby. I mean, Madame President.




I knew you'd come through.
(Beat)
Thanks, Bill.
(Beat)
You always were the king of the lions.


Night, Hilliry.

Bill winces when he presses the off button.


The Old Lion licks that hurt place on his paw which is very close to being completely healed over, but not quite.

He figures he'll be needing it for the perimeter fights he has ahead of him this August.

Strangely he's no longer as concerned about the young lion.

He silently prays for forgiveness of his many, many sins and then for the stamina and energy to do what he needs for Hillary, for Chelsea, for his country--and for this funny little coalition he's built the last six or so weeks to just hold.

Just hold.Please God, just hold.

We live in fascinating times. Watch as these two people change history. But what do I know? I'm just a little girl from Kansas.

Thanks for the read.

You silly Europeans. Stop insulting me already.

Regarding Obama's trip to London:

Michelle Henery, reporter for Times of London, gushed with another black reporter on Fox News this morning that Europeans and the English could "...finally feel really, really good about themselves again..." after the past eight years of George Bush.

Excuse me? She had insulted an entire nation and didn't even realize it. Her arrogance and her youth had precluded any reality or judgment from seeping through that vast ego of hers down to whatever cortex she might happen to have inherited.

I want to scream at the arrogance of the media today. And so, with that said, I will continue my own blogosphere callout at those like Michelle Henery, Andrea Mitchell and all of them who pretend to send me their news.

Would Ms. Henery rather feel dead after the last eight years of terrorism caused by the unchecked build up of al Qaeda in the Middle East?

Would she like to experience a fear that she surely would have had to endure after eight years of unchecked corruption caused by her pals Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder who basically kept the barbarous Saddam Hussein in business? Oh yes, unchecked corruption which brings more terrorism. Bush stopped that.

Would Michelle like to live in the land of unchecked nukes that would have come from not only Iran but from North Korea because of the business dealings from France and Germany, and those peaceful really, really "eastern" Europeans, the Russians? Iran's real close, you know, and oil's king. Bush stopped that.

After all, remember, the reason France and Germany weren't coalition supporters wasn't ideological; it was pure economics--and cover up for bad deeds. Good old Jacques and Gerhard had been breaking the rules for years with Saddam and thumbing their noses at the rest of the world. Their reason for not invading Iraq and allowing Saddam's reign of terror to continue was pure D money and personal aggrandizement and greed.

The French weren't fazed by their graft. Kiss our frog behinds and while you're at it, stay away, Americans; we've always thought you were tacky.

Thank God for Tony Blair, by the way, the only Brit since Margaret Thatcher who has a conscience plus the courage of a lion. He's paid for it in an existential way, but he will be seen favorably in history for what he's done, as will George Bush.

So, preach to me, dear old Europe about unity and peace at your own risk. However, since half of Europe's populations now seem to be Muslim and as far from my own Judeo-Christian value system, I can't imagine we'd have much to talk about anyway these days, Sharia Law being what it is.

I'm getting--to use the words I heard this morning--really, really tired of little girls and boys barely past puberty preaching to me about good times and good feelings while the rest of us grown ups looks like horse's rear ends for keeping theirs safe.

I'm almost as tired of watching the Prince make gaffe after gaffe and not be called on them by anyone.

Go tend your hair and your make up, Michelle. And when you're a big girl, like Andrea Mitchell you can have your lips done like hers and be on NBC and ask the really, really tough questions. Of course, you'll be talking with a veil over your face, so it won't matter what your lips look like.

Silly Europeans. Don't insult me anymore.

Thanks for the read.

Katie? Kate? Follow through is everything, Sweetheart...Just do it, Baby!

I'm waiting...

on the west coast for your broadcast for your follow through on the Obama rhetoric...

Katie, I was disappointed that you didn't follow through last night. You should have. You looked like a shill. You didn't need to please the big boys. Please. If you don't follow thorough with the big questions tonight--in about ten minutes or so--I'll just give up on your fraction of The Fourth Estate.

I think you may have something there, Kate (ie). I'm self conscious. I don't know what to call you.

I honestly believe in that sexism thing, having lived through it most of my life. I'd like to try to make a difference. But I don't like having to convince women who make so much money--like you. I worked for women like you who were impatient with my problems and my needs. They considered me neurotic, I guess. And addictive.

I considered them spoiled. And addictive.

What a joke.

If we could've got together they would've hated me because I would've had their kids in bed at 7:30 every night. Sorry.

We definitely have our political differences but I'll be damned if I'll let some dumb guy come between right and wrong.

I'll check with all of my readership either later in the evening tonight or tomorrow after Katie's extremely tough interview with Senator Obama.

Will she do it? We'll see.

From what I saw last night I think Katie was just kidding around.

Thanks for the read.

Post Script post show: Kate reverted to Katie but I do give her credit for bucking the alphabet network mentality and asking one or two tough questions and keeping at it. Maybe she'll do it again and earn her "Kate" back.

Barack's minions in the Fourth Estate: the most dangerous part of all

A gentleman, very close to me, a 70s publisher of a high-budget liberal college daily (he was 20 at the time) and later the proud holder of golden handcuffs who was maybe headed to a major publishing job in one of the big dailies, left the industry because of people who run the major dailies...and those who wrote OpEds. They were crazier than pet coons.

But then, back then, he sort of was too. I'm glad he got over it. Once he made $500, as the joke goes, he became a Republican.

Today's media has evolved into a force of nature brought about by imagery and imagination reinforced by words. That is all there is to it. Add some music and you're off to a new reality. If it worked for Hitler; it'll work for you.

What makes them so craven, so callow, and unrealistic? Why would they come up with an idea that their own country, known for its goodness to them as well as to others, is such a horrid place? Because they've had to relinquish nothing. They've given up nothing. They have no stake in this country. Moreover, many of them are part of large group of people who are here for the very reason to disrupt things.

Look around you. We are not in a recession or a depression, yet we sound and act as if we are.

We have 98 percent of our homeowners still living in their homes, yet we are to think that we have millions upon millions, ala the Great Depression, living on the streets.

Because there are scads of press people and the world watches, Senator Obama has got away with saying that America tortures people. No one has called him on it. He says it as if he is an official representative of my country. How dare he. Yet the Fourth Estate, who is charged with protecting my democracy from reckless accusatory fascist speech, does nothing. We dare not for if we do our politically correct media will cast us as bigots. Fascists that they are.

We are told over and over that this war which many of us approved of was illegal. It has yet to have been shown that it is indeed illegal. And the press and media continue to allow spokespeople from different persuasions to perpetuate this lie. The fact is it is a legal war.

We must remember what The Fourth Estate by definition is meant to do: protect democracy, not to protect and or practice fascism tactics which has been and is on display before our very eyes--yesterday, today and tomorrow--until Prince Barack returns to the United States.

The whole world is seeing and some are even commenting on said disgraceful display. Following is an example of someone who still has critical thinking abilities.

Read it and weep (from laughing at all of the sycophants of whom will be written en masse decades later, "they were so corrupt they knew little of reality and others outside their realm.").

Then pray real hard that Rupert Murdoch and other freedom lovers like him don't die. Copy and paste.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

Thanks for the read.

Obama skipped the troops in Germany. How odd.

Because the trip is paid for by campaign funds, Robert Gibbs, the spokesman for the Obama campaign claimed Obama didn't visit the troops as previously planned "out of respect for the men and women in the military."

What an odd thing to say. How is it in any way disrespectful to use campaign funds to visit our wounded troops? I don't follow the logic at all.

What I suspect Mr. Gibbs really meant to say is this: Senator Barack Obama did not visit the troops out of respect for the men and women who sent the campaign funds.

Doesn't that make much more sense, considering the Obama supporters and how they feel about the men and women in our military?

How I would've loved to have heard that phone call.

Thanks for the read.

Little Katie Couric is now Kate, thank you. Even Prince Obama calls her that.

Katie Couric deserves a big girl name after the way she grilled The Prince on his flip flopping over the success of the surge and his absolute inability to say he is wrong, a character flaw that is becoming more unattractive by the hour, by the way. The more the Americans see this intractability the more people say...eh, I'm not sure about a guy who can't say he's wrong.

His "elegance" I've heard mentioned--usually by other men--completely escapes me. In fact, as he bounds down the airliner steps, fists up, he looks like a Muhammad Ali fixing for a good donnybrook with the next man, woman or child who stands in his way. No, that's not elegance. The man is dancing to get out of the way.

I'm bothered that he will not put his arms at his side and walk like a gentleman. That's elegance. The bounce pisses me off.

The kid's been dancing all his life. He's a born salesman, as was his father and grandadday who could "sell the legs off a couch." That's what bouncers do: sell legs off of couches.

Meanwhile, Katie decided she wants her job. She already turned a few heads a couple of days ago when she mentioned she thought there was much more sexism than racism going on in our society; and then I thought she might be talking about the Democratic primaries.

It will be interesting to see if she'll follow through on her hard nosed questioning of Obama, especially as her ratings rise. That is, if her CBS management lets her.

She's probably an angry Clinton supporter. Maybe she could be the WH press secretary.

Go get him, Katie...er, Kate!

The only problem? Think about it.

Funny how life works. God sure does have a great sense of humor, doesn't she?

*smirk*

Thanks for the read.

The NY Times didn't "agree" with McCain editorial, so they didn't run it.

And the newspapers wonder why they're going out of business.

Such arrogance is one reason.

"...the other (Obama's) editorial worked for me..."and "...I would have accepted it (McCain's) if the timelines were the same..."

Those are basically the words of David Shipley, a DEPUTY editor of the NY Times to Senator McCain as to why "he" would not use the Senator's editorial which come from an email.

At the outset, the words, "worked for me," that overused Hollywood writers and directors term indicates the man thinks about style more than substance.

The point here is clear: he, Mr. Shipley, a man I can only presume by virtue of his title has no real demonstrated knowledge of military things, has taken it upon himself to demand an entire change in strategy to reflect and "mirror" those of the Democratic front runner for president. Oh, all right, let's assume he passed this by an editorial board.

But then, all of our young people who have really no reason to carry all this angst about things military because after all we do have a volunteer military, seem to have these marvelous ideas about strategies nonetheless, kinda like those games they play on their computers. That's makes them real men, you know.

It causes me to wonder if they really, deep down, wish they were called up. So they can be heroes too.

Grow up, Boys. Worked for me, indeed.

Thanks for the read.

It's a regular Obama coup! Psst! You gotta get elected first, Barack.

How'd you like the last post? Not a lot? Me either.

You shoulda' been on this side, writing it! It was pretty uncomfortable.

Did I have you goin?

Interesting, isn't it, how lightening-fast news travels across the world? Nanoseconds.

Why, in a matter of seconds, a green kid from Hawaii who hadn't so much as visited the business end of a military rifle was already talking to a bunch soldiers in Afghanistan--on a basketball court--while some tin-horn Shite like al-Maliki was "communicating" with said kid through his "Internet" feelers about when they were going to "move" troops out of country.

Yah, and withdraw after John Wayne came in and figured it all out years before they even showed up. The hard sh*t has been done, Dudes.

Naturally the troops love the guy. I suppose. Charisma. WHATever.

Yep, they love him. What's not to love? He's what they'd like to be. Out of the service and free, I guess, after what the congress does to repay them, that's how they feel.

Why do I always feel like the bad guy?
I may as well come clean and tell you why I don't like idol worship. Because of guys like this.

Tin horns are all alike, aren't they? Arrogant as hell. They see those things like taking troops out at an appropriate time as "details."

Did you get my point? Big mouths and small wallets.

The point is don't sell them short. They will talk and talk and talk until they make their wrong points.

Thanks for the read.

Time to pull 'em out, President Bush. Enough already.

The Iraqi Prime Minister has the nerve to call on the U.S. to pull out our troops immediately, while Obama is in Afghanistan and again embarrassing the president of the United States.

It's tempting, very tempting to pull them out.

Immediately. That was al-Maliki's word today. Immediately. Urrgh.

Meanwhile, Christian Churches all over Iraq are closed and my fellow Christians are being persecuted and killed. I don't like that, President Bush. Not at all. And neither should any other American reading what I say today. Do you realize that a Christian cannot worship in Iraq today? No one speaks of it. Not one news outlet speaks of this atrocity.

Do you also realize that America will not receive any profit from the oil in Iraq? No one speaks of it.

I've had it. You other Americans should be fed up as well. This is the best it gets?

And they still hate my guts?

Sorry. This isn't good enough. I'm really, really, really tired of it all.

Pull the troops out. Let the chips fall where they may.
Do it while Prince Barack is still shooting hoops with the same men and women he put in jeopardy just eighteen months ago while the rest of the world was gaga with his charsma. Let's see how it all plays out for the charmer and the snakes he's with now.

Let's see how many night's sleep he gets later on once he realizes how many lives his magical mystery ego tour cost because of the pressure it put on the military to do other things. But that's later, after the election. He made that deal with his ego.

After all, he isn't in charge yet. Let's just move forward. Pre-emptive is the name of the game for Obama's campaign. You can't beat him. You have to beat him to it.

Of course, once we leave, the Israelis will destroy Iran, something everyone is aware of.

Something's very wrong with this administration, i.e., Jerusalem. Saudi Arabia. Talking to Iran, suddenly. Now this? There's nothing left now for me to feel bad about now. They have screwed up.

We need to get our people out, let Israel have it and begin in earnest alternative energy development AS WELL as copious off shore drilling (way off shore) and ANWAR . We can do this and quickly.

I'm sorry; I've lost my faith. Why would I want to lose one more American life for an Iraqi this afternoon after what al-Malaki has done to us?

Even Grandmas get the blues.

Thanks for the read.

It's about time the Republicans got loaded for bear

John McCain's new video about Obama's stunning and shameless flip flopping below:

http://www.johnmccain.com/videolanding/documentary.htm


Try it; if you're a Republican, you'll like it.

It documents more of Barack's arrogance on parade.

Meanwhile, I keep smelling the Old Lion's mane as he circles the camp. Is it me...?

Or have Jesse and Bill made that deal to bring back the real Negro via Hillary? The big one they made over the phone while Bill lolled on his rich friend's yacht last month? The one I talked about a couple of weeks or so ago after the primaries when I told you Bill was nursing his hurt paw that slapped out at the top cat cub who thinks he's hot stuff.

This move to the center where Barack sits and looks like Bill Cliff Huxtable Cosby who raises the class issue with all kinds of outraged people who aren't wearing nice lookin' suits. Why, just two months ago, Barack was talkin' all black and moving around the streets like he actually was black and really, honestly grew up--ahem--black.

Now he's the poster boy for get up and get goin for the man. Today he's the Reagan-style get along to get along man who looks more like Ann Dunham from Kansas, duhhhhhhhhhhh, whurrr's muh pitchfork?

Yessirree, Barack is made of great political stuff. He's finally admitting to and found out who he is. He has broken the code to greatness.

He's a politician.

He will be a statesman of some sort; whether he becomes a great one will depend upon how he handles the next few months of his campaign. I feel there must be much riding on his candidacy but I can't in my small, isolated capacity do much more than psychic readings to determine who is behind this man, this gift to the world who pulls it on a string downhill.

Something or someone has determined his fate which is artificial. Someone or something has bought our dollars, has bought capital in all our companies, has determined this strange economy. I have no doubt there is a manipulation, plus another perfect storm of corruption throughout our business community. Enron is likely only the tip of an iceberg; we'd be heartsick to know more.

We now have a systemic problem caused by the getaway with it attitude. It's always been that way. Nothing's new under the sun, as the Bible must say somewhere, probably in Proverbs.

My manicurist said her ten-year old son informed her that the president said oral sex was not sex so girls could do it to him...I caught my breath when I heard it then--it seems like hundreds of years ago.

I hear more today--the progression of that child's mindset now that he's a young man--that I had predicted so many years ago when the relativists and those who accused me of being a Clinton Hater wouldn't listen to the importance of our role models staying exemplars for good...it is no use. We are seeing it in the behavior of our people.

Now we have Senator Barack Obama, the man of the hour. He who says a black man must take responsibility for his children. And they all act as if they have invented this new morality of theirs. I want to scream.

When the pop star, Michael Jackson, grabbed his crotch, a teacher friend of mine didn't find anything objectionable about that. That was the early nineties...it all starts somewhere I said to her...since when is all right for a grown man to grab his crotch? She shrugged, didn't want to commit, I guess. I want to scream.

I guess they all have to invent it themselves, come to their morality on their own. Okay.

Tomorrow I will write about this great national catharsis created by Barack Obama's candidacy to become president. Have black Americans become blinded by color and just ignored politics?

I'm not sure about that. I'm researching and looking for answers because I want it all to work out. But I have to look at some strange things on the other side too. They're screamable offenses. White men acting like asses, for instance, cause me to want to open up my airways.

I just wish we Republicans had got to Obama sooner! But then, he'd just be called a plantation black like Lynn Swann, JC Watts, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, et al. What's the difference? Put each of them next to Obama and they'd take him down.

Guess I'll just scream.

Meanwhile, we hope the cathartics will excuse the grown ups while they secure and defend the country.

*scream*

Thanks for the read.

NAJEE ALI: An open letter to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.

I found this on Newsweek's online edition, from the Comments Section July 17, 2008. It's a doozy.

July 10, 2008

*Rev Jackson, your vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News where you said you wanted to cut Barack Obama's nuts off and accusing him of talking down to Black folks by giving moral lectures at churches is the last straw for me and a growing number of African Americans who are outraged at your comments.

There are many Blacks across the nation, myself included, who are appreciative for the work and contributions you have made in your civil rights career. But at this point, you're hurting Black America and Obama.

In September 2007 it was clear that you were frustrated by Obama, when you stated in an interview in South Carolina that Obama needs to stop acting white, because you felt he was not engaged in the Jena 6 movement enough to your liking.

Rev Jackson your continued verbal attacks on Obama are unwarranted it's as if you're jealous that Obama has eclipsed you and both your campaigns for the Democratic nomination by actually preparing to win it as the 2008 presumptive nominee.

Jesse Jackson & Barack Obama

For years you have been criticized as an ambulance chaser and opportunist. Many of Dr. King's insiders and aides say that King did not trust you. 40 years ago in Memphis as King lay dying from an assassin's bullet your first thought and action was to smear your shirt with Dr. King's blood.

You then proceeded to appear in Chicago the next day on several news programs wearing the same shirt you deliberately smeared with his blood as if you were the heir of King's movement. Obama's recent comments about Black fathers not abandoning their children and accepting moral responsibility in our lives is a lesson you apparently needed to learn when you were younger. If you had, it may not have caused you to cheat on your wife and father a child out of wedlock with a former staffer.

Maybe that's what really bothered you about Obama's message to the church that Black fathers should be responsible for their children; you certainly haven't been.

Jesse Jackson and daughter Ashley

Living in Los Angeles I have watched your ten year old daughter Ashley Laverne Jackson grow up. Over the years I have had the pleasure to spend several holidays with your daughter including Christmas, her birthday parties and other milestones in her life. I will never turn my back on Ashley her mom and their family. It's about providing friendship, support and love to them while you have been missing in action.

Your daughter has never traveled or taken a trip with you, you have an annual birthday party in Beverly Hills every year where your entire family is welcome but your youngest child has only attended it once. She has had very little contact with her siblings and has never even met her big brother Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr, who apparently doesn't want anything to do with her. And allegedly (I believe it to be true ), he was the one to leak the scandal to the media concerning your affair. Now don't get me wrong, Obama is not above reproach. He is a politician and is fair game to be fairly criticized by you or anyone else. But to personally attack Obama is crossing the line. Obama is not talking down to Black people; he wants you and other dead beat dads to spend time and care for your children properly. The destruction of the Black family and absentee fathers is a major problem in our community.

It's a problem that King spoke out and fought against. 40 years after King's murder I can see why King didn't trust you. If you can't and won't sincerely help Obama in this historic run then at least stop attacking him. Listen to Obama's message of being a responsible father and start taking care of your daughter Ashley.

Najee Ali

Gosh, she's mad.

Thanks for the read!

The New Yorker Obama cartoon. My gosh, Barack. Lighten up!

The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, who says they are a liberal publication, explains the cover is an attempt to lampoon the lies about Obama's background. He hopes to help the senator. He said so.

However, the man on the street said the most offensive thing was the American flag burning in the fireplace. LOL.

See, Barack, this isn't really about you. It's about America.

Chris Matthews and Company and other liberal cable news outlet programs are half nuts because they're afraid he'll be derailed by things like this. If he's got the right stuff, he'll make it.

Lincoln was made to look like an ape in some of the more yellow papers. But with this media, Obama going to need armor and Michelle's going to have to keep her mouth shut, I suppose

BTW, if I were the editor of the New Yorker, there's NO way I'd have published that cover. It's a terrible decision. Terrible. I fail to see the satire from the left's point of view, only from the right's. It's extremely offensive to Senator and Mrs. Obama.

Sorry, New Yorker staff, I think you need to look inside yourselves and ask what Messrs Conde and Nast would do. Oh, wait. They are Conde Nast. With liberal friends like you Senator Obama might ask who needs enemies?

Maybe they need to call their buds at Salon and meet for a drink. I think their white guilt and fear that they're not helping Obama enough has screwed them up; in other words, they've lost their judgment. I can't imagine any other reason someone who is a friend of Obama would run such a terrible cartoon and think this would help.

It only perpetuates every negative image from the absent flag pin to the Osama sound alike name to the AK47 to the Muslim thing. I guess it's their arrogance on parade that shocks me so. I mean, ask yourself this question.

Not that the idiom is the same (I can't think of a magazine editor right now) but would Ben Bradlee allow such a thing?

Okay, Henry Luce? Do you see where we are in America? Do you see where we're headed if we don't think of something fast? No judgment. Now the Lefties are eating their own.

Do you see how dumb these kids are? Huh?

Huh?

And they're running our newspapers! Thank the journalism schools run by the radicals of the 60s.

*sigh*

Thanks for dropping by for the dumbass barometer of the day.

And thanks for the read.

Not Carly Fiorina, for crying out loud. For Veep?

They just don't get it.

They just won't get it.

They just continue to not get it.

I don't want another business person running a war--or the country, thank you. We saw how Bush with an MBA delegates (Brownie with FEMA, Rumsfeld, the folks in early Iraq,). I'm over the business model. Thanks. It doesn't work. Obviously.

Now I know McCain's people are senile.

I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm about to give up.

Thanks for the read.

Good grief. Obama's becoming Ronald Reagan!

Suddenly, a rumbling of middle class black Americans has said bye bye to all their sisters and brothers in the hood and moved on up to the east side, which is what they've wanted to officially do for thirty years now, thank you.

Great God Almighty, they're free at last.
It is fascinating how many regular, real African-Americans, not entertainers or sports icons who make zillions of dollars a year and live outrageous life styles describe their approval of the way Barack is dealing with "black" issues lately in addition to describing Jesse Jackson and his type as bitter, old racists.

Until just recently, no one would dare say such a thing about Jackson and others like him, the civil rights movement's last sacred cows. Barack finally has given permission to slay them, put them down, and put the rest of us out of our misery with these fools who have made a living off of underclassing an entire generation of Americans. The civil rights movement no longer is represented by this man who has gone beyond MLK's dream.

I can see black commentators, political scientists, lawyers and educators are practically giddy with relief and pent up emotion. God bless them, they can finally say what they've been thinking for years now. This is wonderful news for all African-Americans. As this freedom grows, so will the thinking of the individuals, which of course is good for America and both political parties.

I'm also interested in the irony that it took an "inauthentic" Mutlatto man, educated in British and upperclass American private schools to get this group to give them permission to move on.

Of course, that's why Jesse wants to cut Barack's parts off and serve them to him and Michelle in their next Salads Nicoise. Finally, the day has come that Jesse's and Al's been worried about: someone's come along to make it okay for the 75 percent of those black men who aren't in jail and who support their families to say adios to those people who refuse get their lives together. See ya, sucker. Your problems are your problems, not mine.

Barack might be tired of apologizing for the behavior of the dysfunctional black community, supported dysfunction, fostered by crazy stuff, romanticized by inappropriate rap groups and self-appointed black bosses who have hurt people, not helped them. It looks like he's willing only to use their help and support if they fall into line behind him his way.

Interesting to see a formerly rather aggressive Obama rap bunch jump to attention and suddenly become respectable. He's sent the memo that says xnay on the victimhood and anger evidently; maybe the same one he sent to Reverend Wright.

Deep down we all like to feel respectable, I think. These young black gansta rap entrepreneurs see that nothing succeeds like success--and excess. They're going for the brass (diamond) ring while using Obama's commodity of optimism and change as their currency to make things better, and so far, it's working. Welcome to civil society, Boys! Now take that gd chip off our shoulder and get with the program.

What about the black comedians? Are they going to continue the hate whitey skits?

Now if Barack can just keep the festering underclass like that stupid woman in Denver from screwing it all up for him. Or if he can keep himself from uttering idiotic things like we all need to speak Spanish--very revealing--and he might want to move a bit further right and get off the universal health care kick.

But then, that is always the problem for those who govern. They will learn that it's not as easy as it looks. I believe I mentioned that when Pelosi and Company took over a couple a years ago. Their approval rating topped 9% last week, the lowest in history.

Yep, nothing succeeds like a nice lookin' suit, a Midwestern accent and a handshake that comes from the heart.

Promising the little dog for the kids will work too. Muslims hate dogs. That makes a lot of people in America feel better about Barack's middle name.

If the mean streets of the ghetto can get over this "betrayal," and if Hillary doesn't pull any funny stuff, he'll have a chance of being president.

Also, if Barack can convince the rest of us that he's strong enough and knows enough about "things" to keep those pesky terrorists away from my grandkids and the Middle East from exploding into nuclear war, my taxes down, the government off my back and give a break or two for small business, I'd be happy. Shoot, I'd probably vote for the kid, if I thought he'd actually do it.

But, I don't think in his heart or mind Barack is even close to doing what Ronald Reagan would do. Wasn't it just last month he was calling for the end of the war in Iraq?

All in all, though we're much, much closer together than the media would have us think, regardless of our politics. That the good news, brother.

Thanks for the read.

Phil Gramm takes the GOP down with another tongue disaster

Well, I guess we Republicans will have to just ride this latest tongue disaster out, as if there's recovery from this stupid language. Not when gas is five bucks a gallon. And the public is absolutely convinced we're close to recession, hang the real numbers. Perception is reality.

We may not have Hoovervilles, but people don't remember those. They know 21st century style poverty...everything is relative to experience, Mr. Gramm. The folks you're accusing of whining are losing everything. Do the math, Mr. Gramm. Nothing from nothing is relatively nothing. They're going to whine about it. People are funny that way.

This is like talking to deaf people. This is so frustrating and why the Democrats will win--if the country is not attacked which makes the election a whole different game.

*twirls head *

I've said what I've had to say about the Republican Party and our awful, inept leadership. I've not seen anything like this in my lifetime. Why has no one in the party stepped forward? Where are the leaders, the women? It's as if everyone is tongue tied, or away. What's happening?

This is frightening that we're letting the country slip away. And we're going to lose in a big, big way if we can't get it together fast. People and things have changed in this country, we must try to catch up and help them become Republicans.

I've written about it at least five times over the year. Of course, no one listens. They never do, they never will.

Oh, sorry; there I go again. Whining.

Tone deafness
Phil Gramm, the McCain "advisor" who let everyone in the country know that Americans are just a bunch a whiners, can come down and pay my upside mortgage payment, if I promise not the whine.

Also, if Mr. Gramm would like to help me fill up my gas tank for $79.00, while our clients hold our invoices for 90 days before paying them, I honestly promise I'll stay quiet. We'll just borrow money to live and keep the business's doors open--the banks will do fine. I bet they aren't whining as borrowing money is expensive sometimes.

Just for your information, did you know that the legal usury rate in California is 437%? No kidding. Banks charge huge interest rates of 27.5% because they can. Our lawmakers let things like that happen, you know. Lawmakers like Phil Gramm.

Since my husband has his own business and we have to cover our own insurance premiums for nearly $8000 per year for single coverage for basic major medical $5000 deductible, I'll try not to whine as I shell out $500 a month for drug coverage for my husband and me. No whining.

And no, universal care would NOT solve that problem

We need to get these old Republican men out of the business of running for president or we're going to lose. Can it be any clearer this morning? Can it?

Is there anyone in that group that doesn't take statins or have a pacemaker? Enough already.

Hey, old dudes, if you have the guts, just ask around.
This is what you'll hear: "McCain's people look like old, doddering fools."

My husband heard that from his one of his 40ish Republican clients. Most of his clients are about 40ish and new Republicans. I don't think they're very impressed.

That's trouble, friends. Trouble, especially as we watch Obama tack center.

Oh. And, stop being so offended about being called old. You are old. I'm old too. It's time to let go and give the 50-year old kids a chance. Jeez.

Thanks for the read.

At least Hillary will fight for civil rights, Jesse says.

I told you Obama's not authentic.

Much more of this and Senator O may have a bigger problem than just electability with white people and independents. He just said, I'm not kidding, that "Iran is a grave threat." No, I'm not kidding.

Will he lose his base and blacks as he goes center? Looks like he's already lost his first black bosses.

Now, Jesse Jackson's admitting he's mad that Obama doesn't have the foggiest idea about 'hood living saying off mike he "cut his n--ts out," in essense, forgetting the struggles of the black community, explaining later that it was out of a social context, of course.

Jackson's right, of course. Inauthentic. Living in Hawaii is not feeling their pain.

This is a Clinton/Old Black Civil Rights Movement chess move. Frankly, it took a little longer than I thought, but Bill showed the old bosses what a mistake this Obama is for the black community. They've been waiting for this moment for about four weeks now.

And a great move it is. It calls Obama out on the mark. I like it! Perfect, kids. I couldn't have done it better.

Flush him out. Just in time.

Now, Hill can start building up the supers delegates in time for the convention.

(Interesting. I know...you think I'm nuts. But just watch. When will you learn to trust your pal, Andrea?)

Meanwhile, I see Hillary's in the corner in her red/white/blue fight pantsuit, doing kneebends. Somethin's happenin. Watch. Look.

Now.

Do you Democrats see why I don't want to squander the most monumental moment this nation has, that of electing a African American to the presidency on a fake--a set up by a bunch of power mad, local amateurs? It's bad enough when it happens to the white community, sometimes. Not often. Sometimes.

For the Democrats to survive this it's way too important for all of us, especially to the children of this country, because of the failure of leadership both in government and in media circles to promote what we hope will be a post race culture. But first you have to tell us what that--post race--is.

Perhaps today that's unrealistic. A little too soon maybe? As long as any generation breathes who recalls the humiliation of separate facilities, it remains the responsibility of the current generations to help remember or at least recall.

FYI, I remember seeing black and white restrooms in Miami and Montgomery and Little Rock. They happened.

I, a little girl from Kansas City, was pretty darned shocked at how they treated black folks down there in the south back on that vacation. I thought it was awful and I didn't quite get it but I went along with it which I don't like about myself. White guilt.

K.C. was a liberal town. I didn't know any better. I was 12-years old. All I knew about black people was the Kansas City Athletics, and KC jazz, Lucille, our cleaning lady who loved me and William, our neighbor's man who helped her through thick and thin and everyone seemed happy, the men on the trolly who tooks us downtown. I didn't know about segregation. I was just a kid. Black people were part of my life.

When we moved to the country I was shocked at the acceptance of the N word and the bigotry that was displayed by these farm people, country people--my classmates-- who had probably never ever seen a black person. I never understood it. Where had such an attitude come from? I realize now we lived on the border of Kansas and Missouri and a lot of those folks had kin with southern sympathies.

I always had to laugh at these small farm town "aristocrats." And vice versa, I assure you. I was the city kid. I was never accepted. Of course, they were all related to each other so you could never say anything about anyone.

My family's religious background, Methodist, Quaker and Disciples of Christ provided our understanding of human relations and civil rights, so I guess I came by it naturally. Still. I had a hard time understanding the shocking outward display of racism in this middlewest classroom. I can't remember if anyone stopped it. They must have.

Jesse Jackson and the bosses and it is for me to ever, ever be that stupid. I can't help it. I didn't know any better. It was 1958. But I found out what it was about later because of the MLKs, Jesse Jacksons of the world. Not people like Obama.

I even shook Martin Luther King, Jr's hand when I was 17.

Post race? Is it the language that is objectionable to Reverend Jackson and the old guard? It may be. I don't really understand what post race means. Does that mean Barack's just going to drink white wine or whisky (Kentucky so it's without the e) from Waterford which he learned from his nouveau rich black friends who haven't even seen a dirty American ghetto street?

So, if the old black men and women feel they've been abandoned, who can blame them if the Obamaites use these stupid expressions? For the rest of us, it's downright impossible to join the discussion in good faith when you've got a bunch of Islamic terrorists breathing down your neck, you've got a guy whose Dad comes from Kenya and whose background is so complicated you can't even talk about it without being called a warmonger or racist, who sounds like such an effete and seems so untested and is running as their candidate for president.

All around, it just seems like a gyp for the American people, somehow. I understand how they feel. Maybe this is about age.

It's really nothing personal about Senator Obama. I've figured that out, by now.

I just feel like we're being duped somehow. The more I research the more I know this isn't what America really wants. Somethin's happening. I don't like how it feels. It's the psychic thing this time.

Thanks for the read.