Fred Thompson Tells It Like It Is…As Always.

There are certain truths that we can’t afford to forget or allow to be swept aside in concentrating on some side-show subject as we’ve done in the recent past. If we’re going to maintain our liberty we’ld better start demonstrating we’re capable;

THOMPSON: “Well, the question is whether or not we’ve kind of learned our lesson. You know, we — as the old saying goes, you know, we came to town to drain the swamp, and we — instead of that we made partners with the alligators. And now we’ve become, you know, big spenders ourselves and engaged in the same kind of stuff the Democrats have been engaged in. Have we learned our lesson? We got our clocks cleaned last time.

We need to reform ourselves. We need to learn our lesson. We need to get back to basic fundamental conservative principals. The things that we are supposed to believe in, which should guide us through all these issues that come down the pipe.

The problem is, as we sit here today, very few people on Capitol Hill have any credibility. Saying it is one thing. Saying a, you know, death- bed confession or conversion is one thing, but having a track record and standing tall when times are tough is another thing…”

“…We can’t run a typical campaign with typical kind of promises and so forth in light of what’s happened, in light of the unpopularity that so many Republicans have nowadays. And some of it’s deserved. Some of it’s not. We’ve got to have a different kind of approach, different kind of campaign and a different kind of man…”

 Sean Hannity Interview On FOX News on 4/24/08    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352582,00.html

Jeremiah Wright’s “I’m a Lunatic and Lovin’ it” Speech

In a speech ( sermon ) this morning at the National Press Club in D.C., in which his loud and opinionated admirers were seated on the main floor and the journalists were said to be in the balcony seats, Jeremiah Wright gave a select history lesson of slavery in an apparent attempt to excuse, in what we now know without any doubt, his racism and bigotry which he taught from the pulpit for several decades.

Although his speech didn’t exclusively remain in the past when he thinly masked a statement that to this day ‘all whites believe themselves superior to blacks’.

When asked what he meant in one of the infamous video clips of his attempt to justify the September 11th attacks on America with “The chickens came home to roost” Wright offers that he was simply repeating what an official of Iraq had said…which he then immediately followed up with, “You can’t do terrorism and not have it come back on you.”

Obviously, it doesn’t matter who you’re claiming to quote in pretending to excuse your words when you believe and are actively promoting exactly what was meant and in addition using an English idiom phrase to relay it. To my almost surprise, I learned that this is the exact same phrase that Malcolm X used to explain his view of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Coincidence? Hardly.

In both his ”speech” and in the question and answer period that followed Jeremiah Wright repeatedly offers his further excuse of his outrageous behavior that due to America’s ignorance of the black church “tradition” that we do not understand his preaching of racial bigotry and insane conspiracy theories from the pulpit. In a cowardly retreat from his rightful criticism of his own moral turpitude he claims this isn’t his personal fight but, that it is a condemnation of the black church…”us against them”. By suggesting he served in the military is his laughable defense against outrageously disloyal ranting. McVeigh, John Walker, James Hall, Aldrich Ames and George Tofimoff all “served” in our military also so, what’s your point Jeremiah Judas Wright?

I don’t have the transcript yet as this just happened but, Wright just solidly confirmed every single aspersion and corroborated all accusations of the most racist, vile, disloyal and depraved comments ever attributed to him and in so doing completely rendered any possible excuse Barack Obama could possibly offer in the past or future for being a 20 year member of that “church” and having a “father-figure” in Jeremiah Wright.

If you haven’t seen it yet, it wasn’t just as bad as I’ve portrayed it here, it was very much worse.

Barack Hussein Obama

http://bhobama.blogspot.com/

UPDATE:

Remember who came to the defense of Wright while Obama tried to walk a tight rope? Right, Mikey Huckabee. Despite decades of being taught the lessons of right from wrong, The Huckster demonstrates once more that he can’t detect the most foundational instruction which religion is entirely based upon in others or himself….but, he knows how to smooth it on.

OBAMA’S PASTOR RAISED IN PRIVILEGE, NOT POVERTY   http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/03/24/thoughts-on-wright.aspx

Huckabee Defends Jeremiah Wright   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNwMPNxwHmQ

Mike “The Huckster” Huckabee     http://mikeyhuckabee.blogspot.com/

Mike Huckabee’s Skeleton Closet  http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm

No cheeseburgers in paradise

(with apologies to Jimmy Buffett)

I went to McDonald’s for a burger on a bun,
But the man at the counter said, “We just can’t help you, son.”
Everythng that we used to feed the critters in the stall,
It’s all been Shanghaied to make more ethanol.

All the grass for the cattle and the corn for the swine,
Is sellin’ at the pumps for three dollars ninety-nine.
Ain’t no cheeseburgers for you in this paradise,
All you get is cold sushi with a little cup of rice.

Oh, a big cheeseburger would taste so nice,
But now they tell me I have to think twice.
The cars get the grain, and the cows won’t eat mice.
Ain’t no cheeseburgers left here in this paradise.

I went to Cracker Barrel for a tasty pork chop,
But the waitress said, “Son, you know that’s got to stop.”
“How about a can of sardines with some seaweed on the side?”
Well, good God Almighty, I’m close to suicide.
I don’t eat bait and won’t swallow my pride.

They’re starving in the Congo - there’s famine in Sudan,
But the food’s goin’ in the tanks of cars and vans.
How in the devil did we get in such a mess?
Greed, granolans, government - you don’t even have to guess.

There’s plenty of oil and gas in the ground,
And underneath the oceans just waiting to be found.
But the tree huggers won’t let us drill in any case,
That’s cuttin’ off the nose just to spite the face.

Oh a big cheeseburger would taste so nice,
But now they tell me I have to think twice.
The cars get the grain, and the cows won’t eat mice.
Ain’t no cheeseburgers left here in this paradise.

Let’s take Sierra Clubbers and politicians too,
And throw ‘em the ocean while we drill a well or two.
Let’s drill in ANWR and off Florida for oil,
Before the Cubans and the Chinese come and take it all.

Then feed our corn to the hogs and grain to the cattle,
And beat these stupid moonbats in the final battle.
It’s worth every damn bit of sacrifice,
To bring cheeseburgers back to paradise,
A Pepsi and some fries would also be nice,
Bring sanity back to our paradise.

- JP

Are you better off?

The Democrat National Committee is airing a new television ad, “Better Off?”, aimed squarely at Republican presidential candidate John McCain. The ad attempts to link McCain to the presidency of George W. Bush by showing clips of McCain saying that overall, we are better off than we were eight years ago. The ad ends by asking the viewer, “Do you feel better off?”

How like the liberal Dems to ask voters to make a decision based on feelings rather than something of a more empirical nature. For example, a little over one year ago:

Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high
Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon
The unemployment rate was 4.5%

But since voting in a Democrat-controlled Congress in 2006 we have seen:

Consumer confidence drop like a stone
The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon
Unemployment rise to 5% (a 10% increase

In fact, since voting for change in 2006, Americans have seen $2.3 trillion in the equity value of their households evaporate due largely to stock and mutual fund losses. Home equity dropped by $1.2 trillion dollars, leaving 1% of American homes in foreclosure.

But the new DNC ad asks voters to consider if they are better off now than they were eight years ago, not just since the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress just a couple of years back.

Okay, fair enough. Let’s compare taxes under Bill Clinton in 1999 to taxes under George W. Bush in 2008:

Single making 30K - Clinton tax $8,400 vs. Bush tax $4,500;
Single making 50K - Clinton tax $14,000 vs. Bush tax $12,500
Single making 75K - Clinton tax $23,250 vs. Bush tax $18,750
Married making 60K - Clinton tax $16,800 vs. Bush tax $9,000
Married making 75K - Clinton tax $21,000 vs. Bush tax $18,750
Married making 125K - Clinton tax $38,750 vs Bush tax $31,250

Of course, the DNC ad mentions none of this. Nor does it call attention to the fact that either Democrat candidate would be sure to raise taxes. Obama and Hillary are both on the record as saying that if elected, they would repeal the Bush tax cuts.

So in light of this data, perhaps the DNC should not have gone there with its new ad. It leaves the door wide open for an RNC response ad bringing attention to all of the above.

So how about you? Most of you have recently prepared your tax returns to file before the IRS deadline of a little over a week ago. You’ve not only seen the numbers, you’ve worked with them.

Are you better off?

- JP

Rush’s Gift

We know that Hillary doesn’t have the decency to thank Rush Limbaugh, we covered that after Texas.  The question now will be does McCain have the courage to acknowledge that he needs conservatives?  Many, including myself, have criticized Rush for not getting behind the only true conservative that was in the race.  Had he gotten out and gotten behind Fred Thompson in September then the democrats wouldn’t be fighting like this, Hillary would have probably already backed out because she would realize that the democrat nominee would have no chance against Thompson.

That aside Rush has had more influence on the democratic primary this year than he had on the republican primary.  That was of his choosing, I don’t like it but it’s in the past and we move forward.  If McCain squeaks out a win in November it won’t be because the great moderates in our country elected him, it won’t be crossover votes, it will be conservatives that still go to the polls and vote for the lesser of two evils.  Rush has created a situation where the regardless who wins the democratic nomination 20%-30% of their base will stay home.  This is brilliant, in some states you will have a situation where fewer people may turn out in the general election than they did in the primaries.

While I think Rush could have done more to get us a decent conservative as President his greatest gift may be accelerating the fragmented defeat of the democratic party for years to come.

 

Hillary Can’t Wait: Screw’emGate

 In another Fowler report from a liberal author, Ben Barber, who witnessed a very revealing remark from Hillary Clinton and then wrote about it giving her a close enough shave to draw blood in his book ” The Truth of Power”, it’s obvious Hillary isn’t going to wait for the Oval office or be outdone with Obama’s BitterGate to start her own scandal with this skeleton falling out of her closet ( and it’s a BIG closet )…of course, this isn’t news to any of us not suffering from memory loss; 

Clinton: Screw’em  http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/17/907891.aspx

“In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.

“Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”

Hildabeast  http://hilldabeast.com/index.php?m=s

Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of Bill Clinton  http://alamo-girl.com/index.htm

The Clinton Legacy  http://clinton-legacy.org/

Hillary’s List of Lies ( A partial list anyway. )  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/hillarys_list_of_lies.html

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.” - P.J. O’Rourke

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