George W. Bush: Obama Fluffer

Can someone please explain why the bloody hell George W. Bush is vigorously fluffing Barack Obama?

Bush seems to be doing everything he can to make sure Obama will have no trouble screwing the country with socialist economic policies in the event he takes office.  Once we’ve bailed out Wall Street, sent checks to people who don’t pay taxes, and nationalized American banks, will Obama’s redistributionist rhetoric seem as radical?

Something’s getting stimulated, and it’s not the economy.

October 15, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Economy, George W. Bush

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HuffPo: Portraying Obama with a White Woman is Racist!

Do you see anything wrong with this photo?

Yeah, me neither.  But a whole gaggle of lefties say Matt Drudge was playing the race card by posting it on The Drudge Report yesterday.

According to HuffPo commenters, Drudge was intentionally trying to ruffle the feathers of white male Republicans, but it’s the liberals at HuffPo who have shown their true colors yet again: Klan white.

October 14, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Liberal Absurdity, Racism

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Say It Ain’t So, Rove

So apparently “The Architect” Karl Rove bought into Obama’s attempted politicization of his dying mother’s experience arguing with insurance companies:

He had the night’s emotional high point when he talked about his dying mother fighting her insurer over whether her cancer was a pre-existing condition.

I know the night wasn’t rife with tear-jerking sentiment, but does a guy who reveals he stood by and let his dying mother battle insurance companies really get to lay claim to the emotional high point of the debate? Should I really sympathize with Obama, a man who failed to insulate his mother from the stress and frustration of dealing with insurers during some of her final weeks on this earth?

Obama might believe that health care is a right, but playing the cancer card isn’t, and it’s time to call him on it.

Hat tip for the Rove article: Hot Air Headlines

October 9, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Election 2008, Health care

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Epic Fail: Obama Tries to Play the Cancer Card

Most pundits and reporters are calling the second presidential debate in Nashville a solid win for Barack Obama, and I have to wonder if they watched the same debate I did. I’ve read tons of debate analysis, some excellent and some undeserving of linkage, and I have yet to see anyone discuss what Obama revealed about about how he treated his dying mother. In answer to Tom Brokaw’s question about whether health care in America is a privilege, right, or responsibility, Obama said:

Well, I think it should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills — for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that.

You want to know what’s really “fundamentally wrong?” Barack Obama let his dying mother spend some of her last moments arguing with insurance companies. Energy that could have been put toward fighting her monstrous disease was channeled toward navigating bureaucracy, and her son, a 34 year old “man,” couldn’t find the time or the heart to shoulder that weight for her.

This is personal for me. I was years younger than Obama when my mother lost her life to cancer, and it never occurred to me to burden her with medical bills and insurance negotiations as she lay in a hospital room receiving blood transfusions and chemotherapy treatments. I didn’t realize my mom was dying at the time, but all the same, I handled the phone calls and mail from the insurer, and I made damn sure she didn’t have to think about those things.

Why didn’t Barack Obama fight with the insurance companies on behalf of his dying mother? Was he too wrapped up in his career as a lawyer, lecturer, and author? Was it her right and not his responsibility?

Barack Obama’s callous disregard for his mother is deeply disturbing. Just as sickening is his attempt to use her suffering for political gain after he apparently did nothing to help her.

And in case you still find Obama to be a man of character, let me remind you that he saw no problem with admitting, on live television, that his mother spent her final months arguing with insurance companies. He admitted this because he doesn’t believe it reflects badly on him in any way. Blame the government, he says. Blame the system. Blame the greedy insurers. Screw that, Barack: I blame you.

Dealing with insurance companies sucks. It takes more time, effort, and mental stamina than any cancer patient should have to give. But it’s manageable by a healthy, young person working on the patient’s behalf. Tens of thousands of Americans have juggled other responsibilities to be there for their ailing loved ones, and I hope each one of those people watched the debate.

I hope they caught Obama’s revelation and found it as sickening as I did.

October 8, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Election 2008, Health care

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Bill Ayers Makes Awesome Dinner Company!

Want to know the latest reason Barack Obama’s ties to violent unrepentant terrorist William Ayers shouldn’t be held against him? Ayers and his terrorist wife make lovely dinner companions.

That’s the conclusion of retired University of Chicago professor Richard Stern after attending a handful of dinner parties with Ayers and his “attractive” wife Bernardine Dohrn.

I didn’t hold their fiery and criminally violent behavior against them. As in Chekhov’s wonderful story “Old Age,” time had planed down the sharp edges and brought one-time antagonists into each others’ arms. As far as I know, Ayers and Dohrn are loyal to the selves which led both of them to jail (though not for long), but they were busy doing other things, useful things, Ayers as educator, Dohrn as a legal counselor. They’d raised the child of a weatherman who’d been jailed, they were taking care of Bernadine’s ill mother, they were doing many things educated community activists were doing.

Yeah, and I bet Bill Ayers would make a delightful inauguration guest too.

October 7, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Election 2008

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The Deep Childishness of Contemporary Liberalism

A 700 billion dollar bailout looms ominously on the horizon, and Barack Obama wants to make sure he can still increase early childhood education funding? Here’s the relevant line from the first presidential debate:

The problem with a spending freeze is you’re using a hatchet where you need a scalpel. There are some programs that are very important that are under-funded. I want to increase early childhood education….

Bill Kristol’s analysis of that gem is spot on, and contains my new favorite description of liberalism (in bold):

We’re in a major financial crisis, and Barack Obama wants to increase spending in an area where there’s notoriously little evidence that spending has paid off, an area that in any case isn’t a primary responsibility of the federal government (or perhaps of any level of government). Obama’s ritualistic invocation of early childhood education as deserving ever more funding is a reminder, one might say, of the deep childishness of contemporary liberalism.

I love that line. It does a superb job of capturing what I’ve discovered as my views have moved rightward. Full acceptance of doctrinaire liberalism requires a childlike shallowness of thought, almost a suspension of disbelief.

As one’s depth of thought about politics, governance, and law increases, there arises a stunning cognitive dissonance. Those who successfully cross the expansive chasm between contemporary liberalism and reality have shed that deep childishness of liberal thought.

Unfortunately, they’re few and far between.

September 27, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity

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