Politics and Government in America

On this morning’s edition of “Meet the Press,” Barack Obama once again established his position that he will not admit that the surge was a success. He continues to repeat the trite, and untrue, that we do not know what the result would have been had we followed his plan. We clearly can see that if we had pulled our troops out instead of sending more troops in, the result would be more violence and not less.

This is just one more example of Obama’s poor judgement. He made a comment about the Senate Banking Commitee being “my commitee.” This implies that he is at least a member of the commitee, if not the chairman. Neither is true. He sits on the Foreign Relations Commitee, but has never been overseas until his college road trip last week.

When asked why the vast majority of Americans think that John McCain would be a better commander in chief than he would, Obama blamed it on racism. “I don’t look like commanders in chief of the past,” Obama said.  Obama also said that we need to do more to combat racism in this country. However, can we really claim that racism is a problem in this country when Barack Obama is a serious candidate for president?

Barack Obama also called Bill Clinton “one of the smartest men in politics, ever.” Really, the smartest? Does that not call into question what we can expect from an Obama presidency? Can we really expect a change in the way things are done if Obama’s role model is Bill Clinton? Let’s remember all of this when it come time to vote in November.

Barack Obama has been backpacking through Europe and the Middle East these past couple of weeks. When he was asked why he was spending time over there even though he is running for the presidency in the United States, he says “these are the people I expect to be dealing with for the next eight to ten years.” Excuse me? I thought the president served for eight years maximum, and that’s if he gets elected.

That’s not his biggest flub though. Consider this little gem he said during his Berlin speech. “In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help us make it right, has become all too common.” That’s right he told the Europeans he was one of them in his attitudes about the United States. Later he added, “Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center of a Europe at peace.” The column was built to symbolize victory in war alright, victory by the Nazis. This is the symbol that Obama chose to represent peace in Europe.

Then there is this little gem, my personal favorite. “The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil. As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya. ” That’s right, every time you drive to work or to the grocery store, you are committing an atrocity on the scale of 9-11.

However, Obama did learn somethings on his trip. He came home and told us all that the war in Iraq is winnable. Now everyone in the hit and run media is running stories about how we can actually win in Iraq. Funny, but just last month he was telling us Iraq was a quagmire and we had to run away from there as fast as we could. His new line is we are winning so lets get the heck out of Dodge before our military does something crazy, like succeed, and screw up his chances to be president. Meanwhile the new tag line in the media is that McCain is coming to be in line with Obama’s veiw on Iraq. Why? Because the Messiah now believes we can win, so John McCain must now agree with him and not the other way around.

We should never forget that when given the chance to run for President of this country, or president of Europe, Barack H. Obama chose Europe. We should never forget that when he was given the choice between visiting our troops without turning into a campaign add or going to the gym, Barack H. Obama chose the gym. We should never forget that every time he has to choose between standing up for the United States or being popular with our enemies he has and continues to choose our enemies.

The United States Army has developed a plan to teach medics how to treat gunshot wounds without “on the job training.” They are going to shoot pigs and then have medics treat the wounds inflicted. The reason for this is that pigs are the closest analog to humans in the animal world.

However, PETA is opposed to this idea. They would rather our soldiers die because the people tasked with keeping them alive do not have the skills to do so.  PETA would rather our soldiers die than a few pigs get hurt. In fact the pigs are supposed to live if the medics do their job and at the worst, if the pigs die then they were going to be slaughtered anyway. Fresh pork on the mess hall menu is the worst case scenario, where as dead American kids is the worst case scenario if the Army doesn’t do this.

The dirty little secret is that the liberals in PETA want our soldiers killed. Like most liberals they view the U.S. military as the source of all evil in the world. Their mindset is that the more soldiers who die then the less the military will be used and that will  be better for everybody. The ways the liberals are trying to tear down this country and it’s defenders are often subtle. Watch, look, and listen so that we can stop them from dragging us down into the darkness of mediocraty.

Barack Obama has said that criticism of his wife “infuriating.” He also said that people who have differing viewpoints should debate him rather than his wife. This all as his wife and family become a more visible part of his campaign and Moveon.Org and Dailykos.Org launch a new round of attacks aimed at Cindy McCain.

Barack Obama said that attacks against his wife are misguided because  she is “the most quintessential American woman I know.” The most quintessential American woman is one who has never been proud of her country until her husband was a serious contender for president. The most quintessential American woman thinks that “our souls are broken in this country,” and that America is a downright mean place.

The problem with the hands off policy that Barack is demanding when it comes to his wife are several. She has placed herself out there as a public figure, makeing speeches and pronouncing policy. Her statements are just as much fair game as the statements of any other campaign spokesperson. The other problem is, that while he claims he would never take shots at his opponents spouse, he also has not called on his attack dog 501(c)(3) allies to pull their attacks.

No conservative that I know has engaged in any attacks on Michelle Obama personally. We have engaged in substantive analysis of her statements and pronouncements. This is different than attacks, and Obama should know the difference if he wan’ts to be president. The endgame for Obama is the hope that he will not have anyone make any critical statements by claiming that any substantive criticism is either racism or an attack against his wife. Remember that the only thing there is to fear is political correctness.

For many election cycles the Democrats have used charges of elitism and flip flopping to try and win elections. Now that the same charges are being leveled about the lord and savior, Barack Obama, there is a concerted effort on the part of Democrats to try and paint these as strengths. Today on Meet The Press, former congressman Harold Ford said that it was perfectly okay to flip flop on issues because everyone knows that you have to say one thing to win a primary and another to win the general election. At the same time a series of editorials in major U.S. papers are aiming to create the image that all great presidents are elitists, and that the current president is proof that electing a man of the people is a bad thing.

What this means is that the left knows that they can’t beat the charges that Obama is a flop flopper and an elitist. Rather than argue against it they are going to try and turn it into a strength. The whole time the hit and run media will let them get away with it.

Meanwhile, they will continue to paint John McCain as a flip flopper and the hit and run media will play along with this as well. It is up to us to keep them from getting away with it. If Obama being a flip flopper is okay then so is McCain and if McCain being a flip flopper is bad then so is Obama. It can’t be both ways because flip flopping by one is the same as flip flopping by the other.

For over a year now the hit and run media has been telling us that the rising oil prices were the sign of a weakening economy. For that same amount of time conservative voices like mine have been telling you that just announcing our intention to drill for new oil would drive the prices down. Yesterday, the president announced that that was exactly what we intend to do when he announced the lifting of a ban on off shore drilling. Exactly as predicted, today oil prices fell 4.4%. What could not be predicted was how the media would cover this event.

“Oil prices fell harder than they have in 17 years Tuesday, as fears that record fuel prices are spreading broad economic pain exacerbated the third big sell-off in just over a week,” was the intro to the AP’s coverage of the falling oil prices. This runs completely contrary to what they and the Democrats have been telling us for the past year or so. But they see no hypocrisy in this position because it will continue to reinforce the doom and gloom message that is the Democrats path to electoral victory.

Even in the article they broadcast that they have changed their position. “The weaker dollar has driven prices sharply higher in recent months,” Adam Schreck tells us in his article. The Democrats and the hit and run media wants you to be afraid and nervous. They want you to believe that America is declining, both because they see it as their route to power and it fits their view that we should be no better than anyone else. Keep pushing congress to lift the drilling ban. No other plan proposed so far will show any results sooner than drilling will, and drilling is the only proven method to drive down energy costs.

Jesse Jackson was forced to apologize to Barack Obama after he made some negative comments about him backstage on the Fox News Channel. The Rev. Jackson accused Barack Obama of talking down to black people and said that he wanted to castrate Sen. Obama. When he learned that his comments were going to be made public, he apologized for any hurt his comments may have caused, but he never retracted the statements themselves.

Rev. Jackson is a smart man. He’s certainly smart enough to know when a television camera pointed right at him is on, and when his mike is hot. In fact if you watch the footage, he keeps looking over at the camera perhaps to make sure it is on.  It almost seems that Jackson wanted his comments to be made public. Some have suggested that the reason for this is that white Americans so hate Jesse Jackson that if he is “caught” being critical of Obama then whites will support him. Perhaps that is what the Obama campaign is hoping for.

That being said, I would ask Rev. Jackson why Obama should be any different than  any other Democrat. Rev. Jackson has built his fortune on the fact that the Democrats pander to black people and never keep their promises. In fact any action that they take seems to be aimed at keeping the African American community in a second class status because then the Democrats can continue to pander to them and other people.

Rev. Jackson has apologized for his comments, which means that it will disappear. If George Bush, Rush Limbaugh, or John McCain had said this it would be the lead on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg and every other liberal news network. Instead they spent most of their time discussing his apology without ever saying what he was apologizing for. Does anyone think for one minute that the hit and run media hasn’t chosen a side?

If anything should convince the congress of the need to open up federal land to domestic oil production it is the current round of Iranian missile tests. The Iranians have threatened American national security, the security of our allies, and have threatened to use their missiles to blow up oil producing facilities in the region. That should be reason enough to start developing our oil reserves, which are greater than the whole Middle East.

The standard liberal answer of course is “they haven’t developed the land that they do have, why should we give them more?” The answer of course is that the land that they have doesn’t have oil on it, which is why it hasn’t been developed. We know where the oil is but the liberals and the environmentalists will not let us go and get it. Meanwhile petty thugs like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad get to hold the whole world hostage while driving gas prices up to the secret glee of liberals across the country.

James Hanson, the father of man made global warming, released a study that says that we have less than 10 years to fix the problem. He said that the last time that CO2 levels reached where we are today, 35 million years ago, all permanente ice on the planet disappeared. That’s right, 35 million years ago global warming was running rampant without any humans to create the problem. You see humans would not appear on the scene for another 33.5 million years later.

That should be enough to disprove man made global warming by any standard. If a state exists before you add in a variable and then the state redevelops, you must exclude the added variable, is what my chemistry professor once told me. What this means in simple terms is that if humans were not around WHEN greenhouse gases reached this level last time, man CANNOT be considered the cause this time.

The problem is that the scientists who should know this since it is simple undergrad science are instead running around saying “see this just proves that we need to do something, and fast. ” This is not really about science or the enviroment, it’s really about taking power away from the people. It’s about creating a virtual aristocracy which will rule us without any accountability to the people, all in the name of protecting the environment. Don’t let global warming replace freedom as the driving American principle.