Archive for April, 2008

Politics And Culture

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Barack Obama

Unfortunately I didn’t get to see his entire interview with Chris Wallace, only short snippets, but by what I’ve seen, and judging from Bill O’Reilly’s reaction he did himself some good. The question is will it do him any good now that the Reverand Jeremiah Wright is on the image tour (or the milking his own 15 minutes of fame tour.)  My guess is the reverand and Rezko, and Bill Ayers have dealt a mortal blow to Senator Obama’s general election campaign if not the nominating contest of the Democratic party, but we’ll come back to that after Indiana.

John McCain

I concur with Rush that John McCain owes the North Carolina Republican party an apology after giving them a hard time over a fairly innocuous ad featuring Reverend Wright, and then pivoting to sat that this is now fair game. Don’t lose Mitt Romney’s phone number. It is still my humble opinion that he’s the man best able to save you from yourself.

Miley Cyrus

At least one account of the story is that the most provacative picture in the Vanity Fair session was taken after Billy Rae had left the studio and that the Grandmother was bamboozled into thinking it was art. Shame on Annie Lebovitz for trying to make this girl into Britney Spears whether she wants to be or not. Has she always shown the best judgement? Who at the age of 15 has.

Thoughts On The Pennsylvania Primary

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Hillary Clinton will, in all likelyhood, win Pennsylvania. The only variable is the size of the margin. A five or six point lead, or by double digits as some pollsters have said. Rush Limbaugh says “Operation Chaos” is in full swing. Registered Republicans switching to Democrat ostensibly to vote for her and continue the intra-party civil war.

Barack Obama is likely to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory if not in the primary in the general election. An aritcle from Human Events was written about how he can’t take a punch.  (Verbally speaking) If he gets any hard questions: Reverand Wright, Bill Ayers or any of his other questionable associations and business dealings, he fumbles with a non-answer. His moonies in the press will simply declare it ungentlemanly to question him. But if he folds under this level of pressure, I’m not to sanguine about the odds of a positive outcome should he have to deal with Achmadinijad. The more I read about the senator from Illinois, the more he makes George McGovern look like a moderate. In the words of Dana Carvey when he played George Bush the father on SNL: “Its SCARY!”

Dick Morris

If you needed someone to make the other side of the case that not only Barack Obama is unacceptable in the general election, but so is Hillary Clinton, you couldn’t have a better source. For all of the negative impressions one gets from Dick Morris’ attitude toward the former first lady, you have to wonder what did she do to him in the past. Or is it that as their main political consultant in the run-up to the 1996 campaign he knows where the body’s are buried. And that the big picture is even uglier than any of us would even know.

So Many Stories. So Little Time

Monday, April 14th, 2008

So far behind this week due to a schedule change at work but here goes.

Barack Obama

Does he want to lose the primaries when he’s so close to winning. He lets slip statements that couldn’t better fit the conservatives’ stereotype of liberals. Bitter people of small town America cling to God and guns because they’re not as sophisticated as we are. I’m paraphrasing of course but we meaning a group of San Francisco liberals for whom the statement was tailored. The Senator from Illinois fits another liberal stereotype by trying to convey the attitude is nothing’s wrong with what he says but with us for bringing it up. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground rearing their ugly heads too. More on that next week.

Hillary Clinton

Dick Morris really does not like that woman. He couldn’t wait to call her a hypocrite for her little routine in Pennsylvania that makes her sound like the late Charlton Heston’s best friend when it comes to gun rights. Dick. We know it’s a lie but don’t spoil our fun. We’re enjoying watching it so much. After Barack Obama’s recent attacks of “Foot in Mouth Disease” I don’t know how she can lose Pennsylvania at this point.

John McCain

John. I’ve come around to the point of endorsing you. But please don’t make liberal sounding class warfare statements on the economy that get you featured on Rush Limbaugh’s website. i.e. blaming greedy Wall Streeters. Some of them are. We know this, but don’t throw out the good capitalists with the bad and remember even though the Democrats seem to be jumping off the cliff together, you NEED conservatives to get elected. You want to know what to say about the economy? Phone Mitt Romney. I know he’ll take your call.