The Virtue of Selfishness

It's an Ayn Rand election, objectively speaking.

"The point is, though, that -- and it’s not just charity, it’s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to get in the middle class -- it’s that when we actually make sure that everybody’s got a shot – when young people can all go to college, when everybody’s got decent health care, when everybody’s got a little more money at the end of the month – then guess what? Everybody starts spending that money, they decide maybe I can afford a new car, maybe I can afford a computer for my child. They can buy the products and services that businesses are selling and everybody is better off. All boats rise. That’s what happened in the 1990s, that’s what we need to restore. And that’s what I’m gonna do as president of the United States of America.

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

I'm quite sure now that he's an ass. What McCain and Palin...AND EVERYBODY ELSE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD...mean by "socialistic" is taking money from one group and giving it to another group to be "fair". Giving "tax refunds" or "tax cuts" to people who do not even pay in to the system. How is that fair, Obama?

Apparently in the 1990's: "all kids went to college, everybody had decent health care, everybody bought computers for the kids, drove around in new cars, and all boats rose".

Anybody else remember it that way?

Helpin' Him Help Me

Not sure that I watched the same infomercial my blissfully ignorant fellow citizen did:




Free gas and mortgages!

Joe the Guitarist

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry endorses John McCain. I'm not really one who places much stock in celebrity endorsements, (or even ex-Secretary of State/Ted Stevens character witnesses ) who jump on a bandwagon with two weeks left in the campaign. BUT...in a Liberal dominated industry like the Music Biz, it's heartening to hear that at least one Rock Icon describes himself as a conservative.

“I’ve been a hardcore Republican my whole life,” he told the Herald. “My mother and father drilled into me from the very start that if you work hard and be positive, you’ll get what you’re working for. I guess I’m living proof of that.”

I've been a Joe Perry fan since I was 13-years old. Thanks for sayin' it's so, Joe.

Shrinkage

Dr. Helen, the fabulous mate of InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds gives me a brief shout out in her discussion with Roger Simon and Bill Whittle at PJTV. About 6:00 in she mentions my Reverse John Galt idea. Watch the whole thing, it's excellent.

Thanks, Dr. Helen!

Billy Mays for HopeyChange

The amazing new politics that takes from the makers and makes more takers. Civilian Defense Troops with $500 million dollar budgets...doing what?

Here's a bunch of your fellow wretched citizens in what are supposed to be shocking "after photo" vignettes of the Bush years, when in reality they'll be treasured by those same families for generations to come as "that time before we had to become hunter/gatherers" if Proconsul Obama actually ascends.

Big party in Chi that night.Invite only. ID required.

Bring your ShamWow.

Change The World, Rearrange The World

I read a comment on a blog that claims the Mainstream Media is creating an historic event by helping Obama get elected. I think this is accurate. By overt cheerleading and gilt-by-omission, they have created a glittering, glowing image that offers "Hope" and "Change" to the huddled masses.

"Hope" of erasing the stigma of race relations in America by electing a bi-racial candidate of dubious origins and negligible accomplishments. "Change" in the attitude of Europe towards our foreign policy by affecting their own malleable standards of right and wrong. Obama never talks about Liberty. He does not express any great desire for Freedom. He wants our international social status improved. He wants more international members on the USA Facebook page.

These are goals that cannot have a price tag that is too high. The Constitution is "fatally flawed". The Courts are "imperfect vehicles for Change". We need new and better ways of imposing our will on an electorate that should have no say in the matter. We need to keep them at bay with charges of racism, should they oppose our feel-good fiats. These are the goals of every Liberal in America...at a minimum.

I remember reading that the number one reason J-school students were following that career path was to "make a difference". Not report news, not inform the public, not be the objective free press.

Make a Difference. They don't want to be a "Witness to History", they want to be Midwife.

I voted straight ticket Republican yesterday. I'll make my own difference, thanks.

The Reverse John Galt

So, if Obama actually wins this election and delivers on even half of his promises, I'm vacillating on whether to pull a reverse John Galt and plug IN to the system. I don't qualify for any government programs at the moment - as far as I know. Being a typical hard-working middle aged white person - like Obama's grandma - I was raised to earn your own way. I have not looked into getting government cheese, food stamps, utility bill assistance, etc. Never crossed my mind.

Well, I did get food stamps for about a week or two in college, (25 years ago) and was so embarrassed by that fact that I rode my bike across town to use them, not wanting my local grocer to know I was out of work and out of food. Of course, shame and embarrassment are so passe these days that food stamps are de facto currency in some areas.

So I mean to look into every government assistance program Obama/Pelosi/Reid provides or funds. Even if I don't sign up, at least I'll have an idea where my money is going to. But if I do take an occasional sip from the public teat, consider it my own way of "spreading the wealth" back around to me.

And "it's good for everybody"...right, Obama?

UPDATE: From the comments below: "I'm thinking that about one year of listening to Michelle Obama complain about an unfeeling, mean white America from the bully pulpit of the First Lady should do it".

UPDATE II: That's it...I'm off to vote early. Seriously. Straight ticket, baby.

Thanks to InstaPundit for the link. Read Mrs.InstaPundit's Galt-take here.

"W" is a big "L"

Who was the intended market for this movie?

The Bush-haters are home practicing singing songs about Obama or finding new fake names to donate under. The Bush fans don't need to see him mocked by Hollywood yet again...who gave the green light to this blue light special from a red light district director?

Here's a poll you can take to the bank. "W" is off nearly 50% from it's opening week, when the firedoglake and DailyKos mouthbreathers buttered their popcorn watching it at the mall.

Murtha Twit

Still being sued for libel for his outrageous smear against the USMC, Saucy Jack gaffes and re-gaffes. Instead of older Western Pennsylvanians being 'racist', they are simply 'rednecks'. Get that distinction?

Racists:


Rednecks:

Who Writes Your Answers, Joe?

So, a local TV anchor in Florida gets to ask Joe Biden the kind of questions that get asked of Sarah Palin all the time...tough questions, questions that need asking but are so far down the MSM list they never come up.

He punts every single answer with boilerplate talking points, but does get a tad peeved and complains "I don't know who's writing your questions", both insulting the interviewer (did Katie write hers, Charlie write his?) and suggesting the norm for Joe is knowing what questions are coming.

Here's video:

That Can't Be A Marine Corps T-Shirt...

U Seen My Credibility?
Usurpers Solipsists Mendicants Cheats?
Unbearably Sophomoric Messiah Complex?


h/t Lucianne.com

ACORNucopia of Fraud

Wow. Well you gotta slightly admire the blatant, bald-faced, chutzpah-matic, any-means-necessary tactics going on in Ohio. Everybody's got great stuff here, here and here.

I guess the definition of voter fraud, if you are a Dem, is "getting caught filing fake registrations".

The ACORN guy on TV was pleading "bad apples" and taking umbrage that his noble work was being sullied. Poor baby.

Just Words....Exact Words

Charlie Gibson and his crack staff join Team Obama officially last night. During his interview with Governor Palin, Gibson tried to prove her fundie cred with this misquote:

GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?

PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

GIBSON: Exact words.

PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words.

But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side.

That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie. . . .

GIBSON: But you went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.”

Sorry, Charlie. What she actually said...her actual EXACT QUOTE, was this:

“Pray for our military. He's (Palin's son, Track) going to be deployed in September to Iraq. Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do also what is right for this country – that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.” . . .

See, Christians - even the ones you might run into at the ABC cafeteria - often pray that their imperfect human actions are in line with what their Creator wants them to be doing. They don't presume to know what God intends, they only pray for guidance that their actions are in line with His will.

Are you, Charlie Gibson, admitting you don't know the basic details of the Christ Doctrine? What experience do you have in such matters? You, sir, were obviously unqualified to have given this interview.

The NEW Chicago Politics

From Byron York at NRO, via the Chicago Tribune Swamp blog:

[Gov. Rod] Blagojevich, who supports favorite son U.S. Sen. Barack Obama for president, today criticized Democrats for belittling the experience of Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and took a jab at the work of legislators who run for executive positions…

Blagojevich, who said he spent two summers after high school working on the Alaska pipeline, readily defended the executive experience that governors have in contrast to legislators when it comes to being presidential material.

"I would hope the Democrats wouldn't say that about a governor," Blagojevich, a former state legislator and congressman, told [radio host Spike] O'Dell of criticism that the first-term Palin lacks experience.

"The reality is, governors every day have to make decisions for better or for worse. That's part of the job. It's an executive position. And it's a position that is like what you're going to do when you're president. Legislators, they do different things. They debate and they pass their bills back and forth," he said.

"But governors make decisions, and I think it's a tactical mistake for the Democrats to question Gov. Palin's experience when she's been a governor of a state," he said. "I don't think the size of the state is relevant. It's the kinds of decisions you have to make as governor. They (Democrats) should focus on the issues and why the policies of President Bush ought to be changed and I think that's what will help Obama win."

Biden thinks Hillary should have his gig, and the Governor of Obama's home state thinks Governors have plenty of executive experience, Palin included.

Is anybody campaigning for Obama to actually be the President any more?

Deeds Most Fowler

What a loving, happy, inspirational couple.

First, Don Fowler, former DNC head and current Jackass gets caught on tape saying "Everything's cool...God is on our side", when it looked like Hurricane Gustav might do serious damage to New Orleans and completely disrupt the Republican convention. Republicans, of course, were preparing to thwart the Almighty and offer assistance to the potential victims. Not Fowler, he was flying home to be with...

Mrs. Carol Fowler, who states that Sarah Palin's only qualification was that "she has not had an abortion". Which precludes the Mother Fowler from consideration, apparently.

Both had to "apologize" and try to explain away their vileness. Both failed.

Daddy Fowler is sorry if anyone was offended. Yup, that's what he actually said. Not sorry he said it, sorry you took it that way. It's a nuanced position, full of possibilites. If a huricane strikes the coast hard enought to halt a convention in Minneapolis, God is behind it and wants it to happen. Which is a step up from "Mr. Bush and his Haliburton Weather Machine", I'll give him that.

Mrs. "Babies Are A Hanging Chad In My Uterus" Fowler said she was talking about "single-issue" voters. Yes, Carol, there was a danger of all pro-lifers voting for Obama until Governor Palin came along. What an insight.

Imagine having to call these people friends, sending them Christmas cards, attending their God-sanctioned natural disaster cocktail parties, and haivng to say "Peace Be With You" to them in church. Ugh.

Biden Your Tongue

A late endorsement:

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America," Biden said. "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 is first-rate.”

Plagiarism is Light Work For Obama

Obama:

John McCain says he's about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, 'Watch out George Bush -- except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics -- we're really going to shake things up in Washington,'" he said.

Run with it like ya stole it, Obama!!

Cribbed cartoon captions passed off as campaign rhetoric. What's next, Ted Rall as speech writer?

Hat Tip: www.hillaryclintonforum.net

Hey Dems: That Sound You Hear...

...is your "Hypocrisy" ringtone. Distinguished from your "Racist" ringtone and your "Sexist" ringtone, which you apparently have on "mute" these days.

Either "families are off limits" as Obama has decreed, or they are not.

Joe Biden thinks they are not. Here he is inferring that if the Palins really cared about their Down syndrome baby, they'd support the Democrat version of stem cell research.

Even the One himself can't resist, claiming that

"(Palin)'s got five kids and my hat goes off to anybody who's looking after five. I've got two and they tire Michelle and me out!".

Time for a new decree it seems.

Maybe the Obama's are tired of driving the girls to school, or mabe it's from working so hard to afford the $15k each per semester tuition.

True to form, it was THE MEDIA that created a false sense of outrage. Not Obama. Not his snickering, snarky followers at the campaign stop. Nope. THE MEDIA did it.

Obama:

"See, it would be funny, but the news media decided that would be the lead story yesterday. This happens every election cycle. Every four years, this is what we do. This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about...Enough!"

It would be funny, see.


Nope, I don't.

When Pigs Fly

Ben Smith at Politico reports:

September 09, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
Obama: 'Lipstick on a pig'

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:

Quote:

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."

"We've had enough of the same old thing."

The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."

Since Palin owns the word 'lipstick" this season due to the punchline to her oft-repeated hockey mom joke, will the ever-sensitive Dems recognize the three glaring references to:

1) Sarah Palin is the pig in lipstick
2)"Old" is a dig at McCain
3) Fish" is a derogatory slang for women (ask Andrew Sullivan)

If Obama meant to imply all of that, he is unfit to be President.
If Obama did not mean to imply any of that, he is an idiot for not knowing which words are "code" words.

BTW, If McCain had characterized Obama's secretiveness regarding Ayers and Wright as "Trying to get the fried chicken recipe from Colonel Sanders", or described Obama's Marxist environmental programs as "Like watermelons...Green on the outside, Red on the inside", would that be simply using a "turn of the phrase" and would McCain not be attacked by libs?

This is a major gaffe from Obama.

UPDATE: Video added. As you can see, the crowd of post-racial light worker fans knew exactly who and what he meant. Apparently Joe Biden was introduced at a different event by Congressman Carnahan with a different take on the lipstick theme.

Hat Tip: Drudge Report

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Catchy Little Tune

The Undocumented Worker Song

By Tom Spaulding, with deepest apologies to Led Zeppelin

Waaaah, Waaaaaah,
We come to the land of the ice and snow,
From the Baltimore Sun where the press corps blows.
The spammers of the God
We’ll drive our quips to new lows,
To write the lies, bitch and cry:
Wasilla, we are coming!
Sweep the veep with thrashing pen,
Our only goal is help Obama win.

Waaaah, Waaaaah,
We come to the land of the ice and snow,
From the iv’ry towers and the Vinyard homes.
How’d ya get your fields so Green,
Without whisper’d tales of Gore,
We claim bonafides in War.
We are your Overlords.
Sweep the veep with thrashing pen,
Our only goal is help Obama win
And we will never stop to rebuild all our ruins,
For Hope and Change can win the day
Despite of all our losing.