Anger Mismanagement

The Pelosi Effect: Dow Loses 777 Points After Partisan Speech Riles House Republicans

"Democrats believe in a free market. We know that it can create jobs, it can create wealth, it can create many good things in our economy. But in this case, in its unbridled form, as encouraged, supported, by the Republicans — some in the Republican Party, not all — it has created not jobs, not capital, it has created chaos."

-- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, striking a conciliatory note, as it were, in a speech immediately before the bailout vote which went down in flames 228-205

NRA Ads Obama Wants to Censor

"Way of Life"





"Veteran"





"Defend Freedom, Defeat Obama"





"Pennsylvania Values"

The First Presidential Debate: McCain the Statesman VS. Barack the Poser

B.O. Hussein was at his lying “best” at the first presidential debate of the 2008 election season tonight. What a poser. John McCain took him to the cleaners by exposing the Obamafraud’s naivete, inexperience and ignorance.

"The Other Way"

“People will go in that polling booth and say: ‘You know, I really admire Senator McCain. He gave about all you could give to this country without getting killed for it. But I’ve got to have a change, and I’m going the other way.’ ”

-- Bill Clinton, still unable or unwilling to say Barack Obama's name, on "Late Show with Dave Letterman" on Monday night.

“Is it me, or he didn’t want to say the name ‘Barack Obama’?”

-- Comic Chris Rock, following Bill Clinton on Monday's Letterman's talk show.

Bill Clinton: He's really, really glad to see John McCain

John McCain, in suspending his presidential campaign to (eventually) head back to Washington from New York to help the push for a financial rescue plan, may have nixed a planned appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman" and cancelled a chat with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

But McCain wasn't about to snub his old friend, Bill Clinton, this morning. And the ex-president, for all his expressions of support for Barack Obama and predictions of victory in November for his fellow Democrat, continues to give the impression he's definitely hedging his bets.

McCain kept his promise to address the annual meeting in the Big Apple of the Clinton Global Initiative, founded to fight malaria, global warming, poverty and other ills that know no borders. McCain's wife, Cindy, and his running mate, Sarah Palin, came along to lend support.

The Times' Bob Drogin also was there, and he reports, that Clinton was effusive in his introduction, saying he was "personally profoundly honored" and "profoundly grateful" that McCain showed up.

Obama, he noted less warmly, would speak to the group later by satellite feed from Florida, where he's been encamped for prep sessions for the Friday debate that may or may not take place.

Sure doesn't seem like Bill is campaigning his heart out for the Obamalomaniac.

Country First

Senator John McCain's decision to put his presidential campaign on hold and return to Washington, DC, in order to deal with the financial crisis and the bailout proposal to solve it. The MSM was quick to call McCain's move a "stunt" and cast aspersions on his motives since the senator has also ask that the presidential debate scheduled for Friday in Mississippi be postponed. Predictable.

Our nation's capital is the last place the Obamafraud wants to be this week. Taking a stand is not his forte. Besides, believe it or not, there are bigger egomaniacs than he in his party. The Obamafraud can't possibly outshine the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chucky Schummer and Barney Frank to name only a few.

Showing up to work would actually diminish B.O. in the eyes of the electorate and he knows it. Going to Washington raises McCain's profile, on the other hand. It fits his maverick image. It shows leadership and a willingness to set politics aside for the sake of the country. The Obamafraud is no maverick.

McCain: Country First. Always

Obama: Obama First. Again

Obamanocchio

"I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there. We will fire government managers who aren't getting results, we will cut funding for programs that are wasting your money and we will use technology and lessons from the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of government.The only way we can do all this without leaving our children with an even larger debt is if Washington starts taking responsibility for every dime that it spends."

-- Barack The Liar at a campaign rally in Green Bay, WI, yesterday.

B.O. Hussein is beyond shameless. The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate has now crowned himself the King of Fiscal Conservatism. There's believing one's own hype and there's being a sociopath. The Obamafraud has just crossed the line.

B.O. and his pathetic surrogates claim that Jesus was a "community organizer." Next they'll tell us the Lord was a hustler, too.

Blacks, White Liberals, Women and Independents Against Obama. Did I Miss Anyone?

Obama was heckled by a group of about 20 "Blacks Against Obama" protesters during a rally in Florida yesterday. It was a comical and ironic spectacle at the same time. Check it out. Notice the Obamaelist's paternalistic condescension.






But that's not all. Here's a little something that should keep the Obama campaign up nights.

Obama trouble: One third of white Dems see blacks negatively. Will they vote McCain?

WASHINGTON | Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," ''violent" or responsible for their own troubles.

The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.

Certainly, Republican John McCain has his own obstacles: He's an ally of an unpopular president and would be the nation's oldest first-term president. But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.

More than a third of all white Democrats and independents — voters Obama can't win the White House without — agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks, according to the survey, and they are significantly less likely to vote for Obama than those who don't have such views.

Such numbers are a harsh dose of reality in a campaign for the history books. Obama, the first black candidate with a serious shot at the presidency, accepted the Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a seminal moment for a nation that enshrined slavery in its Constitution.

"There are a lot fewer bigots than there were 50 years ago, but that doesn't mean there's only a few bigots," said Stanford political scientist Paul Sniderman who helped analyze the exhaustive survey.

The pollsters set out to determine why Obama is locked in a close race with McCain even as the political landscape seems to favor Democrats. President Bush's unpopularity, the Iraq war and a national sense of economic hard times cut against GOP candidates, as does that fact that Democratic voters outnumber Republicans.

The findings suggest that Obama's problem is close to home — among his fellow Democrats, particularly non-Hispanic white voters. Just seven in 10 people who call themselves Democrats support Obama, compared to the 85 percent of self-identified Republicans who back McCain.

The survey also focused on the racial attitudes of independent voters because they are likely to decide the election.

Lots of Republicans harbor prejudices, too, but the survey found they weren't voting against Obama because of his race. Most Republicans wouldn't vote for any Democrat for president — white, black or brown.

Not all whites are prejudiced. Indeed, more whites say good things about blacks than say bad things, the poll shows. And many whites who see blacks in a negative light are still willing or even eager to vote for Obama.[More]

It's all well and good that "many" Whites who view Blacks negatively are still "eager" to vote for Obama. Problem is, White women are flocking to the McCain-Palin ticket.

Thank you, Sarah "Moose Shooter" Palin!

Cute

"People shouldn't make a decision this time based on, 'I like that guy' or 'she's cute'."

- Michelle Obama's lame attempt to diminish Sarah Palin's appeal

Palin: Way cuter than Michelle. Classier, too. And has ALWAYS been proud of America.

Senator Norm Coleman's Campaign Stop in Rochester Today

Three Blind Mice

Liberal "Patriotism" Not Love of Country But Paying Higher Taxes

I do hope Obama and his handlers keep Biden on the ticket despite pressure from Democrats to dump him in favor of Hillary. If they do throw Biden under the bus, I would like to suggest a more suitable and appealing running mate for the Obamafraud: his long time email gal pal Scarlett Johansson.

Fighting Corruption, Pelosi Style

"Given Chairman Rangel's continuing ethical lapses, he cannot effectively carry out his duties as chairman. Thus, in order to remove one obstacle to this Democratic Congress actually addressing and solving working families' concerns, you, as the Speaker of the House, must insist that Rep. Rangel step down from his Ways and Means Committee chairmanship pending an investigation of his ethical lapses."

--HouseMinority Leader John A. Boehner (R-OH) in a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi regarding U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel's multiple "ethical lapses."

Rangel Says He Will Pay Back Taxes; GOP Wants Him Out of Chairmanship
By Christoher Lee

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 10, 2008; Page A13

As House GOP leaders called for his removal from the powerful chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) announced yesterday that he will repay an unspecified amount in back federal, state and local taxes on unreported income from a Dominican Republic vacation property.

The Harlem Democrat will file amended federal, state and local tax returns to reflect $75,000 in income from the beachfront villa that he previously failed to list on tax and congressional financial disclosure forms, said his attorney Lanny Davis.

At a news conference today, Rangel planned to release a letter he sent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) explaining the Punta Cana resort deal and another asking the House Ethics Committee to add the matter to a burgeoning inquiry. The committee is examining the congressman's rental of several New York apartments at below-market rates and his fundraising entreaties to corporations and foundations on behalf of an academic center that bears his name, his attorney said.[More]

Wasn't Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi supposed to be fighting the "culture of corruption" in Washington? Apparently, her own liberal Democratic party has received some kind of exemption from Pelosi's faux jihad on corruption.

Maybe Nancy will get a few lessons on fighting corruption in her own party from Sarah Palin when the Alaska Governor is elected Vice President.

Principled Democrat and Former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Sandy Keith Backs U.S. Senator Norm Coleman's Reelection Bid

Principled Democrat (Apparently, There Is a Handful Left)

"I believe that Barack Obama, with MoveOn.org and Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, has taken the Democratic Party — and they will continue to — too far to the left. I'm not comfortable there."

-- Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a top Hillary Clinton fundraiser and member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee as well as the DNC's Democrats Abroad chapter announcing her support for Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday. De Rothschild brought well over $100, 000 to Hillary's presidential campaign.

Obama the Opportunist

"Sen. Obama saw an economic crisis, and he's found a political opportunity. My friends, this is not a time for political opportunism; this is a time for leadership."

-- John McCain, on Tuesday, regarding Barack Obama's shameless attempt to take advantage of the collapse of investment institutions for political gain.

Don't expect leadership from Obama. On anything. You won't be disappointed.

Opportunism, on the other hand, is the Obamafraud's forte. You will get plenty of it from him. That's how he got where he is today. His is a path paved with betrayal, broken promises, cowardice, shady financing from the likes of Tony Rezko, millionaire campaign contributions from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as well as political support from unrepentant domestic terrorists and racial supremacists.

Obama: Ready to READ!

From CNN's Political Ticker:

September 15, 2008

Obama's teleprompter hits the trail

Posted: 06:50 PM ET

Obama delivered his remarks at the Colorado State Fair of a teleprompter.

(CNN) — It appears Barack Obama's teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail.

The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn't use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events.

But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.

I really can't blame the Obamafraud for this one. Without a teleprompeter in front of him all you'd hear from the community organizer in chief is " I ... uh ... uh ... you see ... uh ... well ... uh ... uh ... what I said was ... uh ... pig ... uh ... moose shooter ... uh ... hopeandchange ... uh ... "

Report: During "Victory Lap" in the Middle East This Summer, Barack Obama Played Politics With American Troops in Iraq

Playing War Politics overseas is in poor form

Obama tried to stall GIs' Iraq Withdrawal

Amir Taheri

Last updated: 4:10 am
September 15, 2008
Posted: 4:02 am
September 15, 2008

WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says.

Though Obama claims the US presence is "illegal," he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the "weakened Bush administration," Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate.

While in Iraq, Obama also tried to persuade the US commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, to suggest a "realistic withdrawal date." They declined.

Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet.[More]

If true, and all indication seems to be that it is, Obama’s shameless attempt to keep American troops in Iraq for political gain must be exposed to the whole country. And he should drop out of the presidential race immediately.

Maybe the MSM can spare a reporter or two out of the dozens who have flocked to Wasilla and Anchorage to dig up dirt on Alaska Governor and Republican running mate Sarah Palin to look into Obama’s alleged treachery.

Like that’s gonna happen.

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Biden to Disabled Vet: "Stand Up!"

Maybe Biden thinks he can heal the sick and the lame like the Obamessiah would if elected. This is not the first and certainly won't be the last Biden gaffe on the campaign trail.

Obama/Biden. "Great ticket." Right.

Anyway You Look At It, Obama Is In Trouble

No Disproportionate Shift in White Women's Preferences

4-Point shift toward McCain appears about average

by Frank Newport, Jeffrey M. Jones, and Lydia Saad

Just before the Democratic National Convention (in Gallup Poll Daily tracking interviewing from Aug. 20-22), white women broke 47% to 40% in favor of McCain over Obama. In interviewing from Sept. 5-8, after both conventions were completed, white women's margin of support for McCain over Obama edged up modestly to 51% to 40%. This represents a gain of four percentage points for McCain among white women and no change in their support for Obama.

Among white men, the change in preference for McCain was very similar to the change among white women, coupled with a slight loss of support for Obama. White men went from 56% to 36% support for McCain over Obama to a 59% to 34% split now.

More generally, the data show that McCain gained four points among all white voters (both men and women), and Obama lost one point.

(For all voters, regardless of race or gender, the race shifted from a 46% to 44% advantage for Obama in Aug. 20-22 polling to a 49% to 44% advantage for McCain after the conventions. That's a gain of five points for McCain and a loss of two for Obama.)

In short, it appears that the impact of the two conventions was not materially different for white women than it was for white men, and neither group's shifts were substantially different than the changes among the overall electorate. Among all groups, McCain gained during the time period encompassing the two conventions, and Obama was roughly stable.

Despite the intense focus on the potential impact on white women of McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, the Gallup data do not show that to this point white women have been significantly different in their response to the convention period than has the average voter. [More]

It's no wonder Obama and his people are changing tactics. They look at the polls and all they see is bad news. Look for more smears, more name-calling and a ton more sexism from the Obama camp.

Bizarre

“Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

-- Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), on Wednesday, September 10, while giving a speech on the House floor

The only time liberal politicians talk about Jesus is when they say bizarre stuff like this. And then they complain when conservatives call their nominee "Obamessiah."

Panic!

Is it happening again?

September 13, 2008

Obama's Tone Sharpens as Party Frets
By JEFF ZELENY and ADAM NAGOURNEY

DOVER, N.H. — Senator Barack Obama intensified his assault against Senator John McCain here on Friday, drawing sharp connections between his Republican rival and President Bush through a coordinated, partywide message as he confronts an invigorated Republican ticket and increasing nervousness among Democrats.

“The good news is that in 53 days, the name George W. Bush won’t be on the ballot.,” Mr. Obama told supporters here at an afternoon campaign appearance. “But make no mistake, George W. Bush’s policies will be on the ballot.”

Mr. Obama amplified his criticism of Mr. McCain through new television advertisements that portrayed the 72-year-old Mr. McCain as an out-of-touch politician with a long career in Washington. The ads — among the most pointed attacks to be put out by Mr. Obama — depicted Mr. McCain as he looked when he was first elected to Congress in 1982, an attempt to undermine the new argument from Mr. McCain that he is the candidate of change.

A spokesman for the Republican National Committee, Alex Conant, accused Mr. Obama of “trying to destroy” Mr. McCain and his running-mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, with personal attacks.

“This is more evidence that Obama’s politics of hope is just empty words,” Mr. Conant said in a statement.

Mr. McCain’s choice of Ms. Palin — and the resulting jolt of energy among Republican voters — appears to have caught Mr. Obama and his advisers by surprise and added to concern among some Democrats that the Obama campaign was not pushing back aggressively enough against Republican attacks in a crucial phase of the race.

Reports that Obama is changing campaign strategy in order to counter Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is bad news for liberals. Obama is being forced to veer off script, which means McCain and Palin are setting the tone of the conversation now. What a difference two weeks make!

Thank you, Sarah Palin!

Remember!

Best Buds

Obama Says Bill Clinton Will Campaign for Him
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 10, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barack Obama revealed Wednesday that former President Clinton, once the presidential nominee's nemesis, will campaign for him during the weeks leading up to Election Day.

''There's nobody smarter in politics,'' Obama said on CBS' ''Late Show with David Letterman,'' scheduled to air Wednesday night. ''And he is going to be campaigning for us over the next eight weeks, which I'm thrilled by.''

The two were scheduled to have lunch Thursday at Clinton's office in New York. Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna said the former president would campaign for Obama at a yet-to-be announced site in Florida on Sept. 29, with plans for more fundraising and events in the works.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton already has been hitting the trail for Obama.

During the Democratic presidential primary, the former president acted as his wife's chief defender from Obama's successful challenge to her candidacy, which strained relations between him and Obama. Clinton portrayed Obama as too inexperienced for a presidential run, and Obama said sometimes it was hard to tell which Clinton he was running against.[More]

I'm glad Obama and Clinton have patched things up. Remember what they have said about each other in the not-so-distant past?

Here's Obama on Bill:

Here's Bill Clinton in his condescending best:



Obama was definitely not amused by Bill's racially charged attempt to peg Obama as "the Black candidate":




And who could possibly forget Bill's "fairy tale" diatribe?

Better Than Biden

"Make no mistake about this. Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s get that straight."

--Joe Biden, at a rally in Nashua, New Hampshire, today, on Obama's running mate pick

"Barack Obama’s most important decision of this election and Biden - the candidate he selects - suggests himself that he wasn’t the right man for the job and that Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice. Biden certainly has a credible viewpoint on this."

-- McCain spokesman Ben Porritt

Obama Calls Palin "Moose Shooter"

"Sarah Palin is a WHAAAAAAAAAAT?"

Obama, Dems sharpen personal attacks on Palin
ByJim Vanderhei & Mike Allen | 9/9/08 6:40 PM EST

Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are intensifying their attacks on Sarah Palin, as her sustained and surprising central role in this race is upending Obama’s strategy and often overshadowing McCain.

Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan on Tuesday – introducing Joe Biden at a campaign event – ripped into Palin’s record and punctuated it with this snarky jab. “There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick,” he said. Later in the day, Obama used a variation of the lipstick line, though he was clearly talking about the McCain-Palin reform rhetoric. "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said. "It's still a pig."

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, as part of his endorsement of Obama, said Palin “scares the hell out of me.” And Obama hit Palin in nearly a dozen different press releases – one day after drawing laughs at a campaign stop by calling her a “moose shooter.” [More]

Moose shooter? Here is more elitism for you. Obama is low and getting lower.

Hey, wasn't Hillary supposed to attack Sarah Pain? Why is Obama doing all the dirty work?

Al Franken: The New Face of the Minnesota DFL

The Minnesota DFL squandered its last chance for redemption this election cycle when it gave Al "Porn-O-Rama" Franken a primary election victory today. R.I.P.

Breaking: Davis Beats Day

From TheHill.com:

Davis won the state GOP’s endorsement in the 1st district but faced a challenge from an early favorite in the race, state Sen. Dick Day. He easily dispatched Day, though, leading 66-34 with 73 percent of precincts in.

Independents Breaking for McCain/Palin

September 9, 2008

McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents

Majority of independents now prefer him over Obama, 52% to 37%

PRINCETON, NJ -- John McCain's 6 percentage-point bounce in voter support spanning the Republican National Convention is largely explained by political independents shifting to him in fairly big numbers, from 40% pre-convention to 52% post-convention in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.

Layering voters' political ideology over their party identification provides the additional finding that the slim group of "pure independents" -- those with no political leanings to either major party -- grew more favorable to McCain by an even larger amount over the past week or so. McCain was preferred over Obama by 20% of pure independents in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 29-31. In the latest three-day rolling average, from Sept. 5-7, he is favored by 39% of non-leaning independents, a 19-point increase.

Obama is clearly losing independents. Big time. Thank you, Sarah Palin!

It's no wonder the Obamessiah and his acolytes are convulsing on the floor with rage. The Barracuda wears lipstick.

Pig

"What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."

-- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin during her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota last week.

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."

-- Barack Obama, the Pig, during a town hall appearance in Virginia today.


I wonder if leftist pseudo-feminists will condemn Obama. I doubt it. Remember they sided with Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey affairs.

Obama has reached a new low. Is he really so fearful and desperate as to resort to name-calling of the basest sort? I would say, yes.

Davis!