Entries from April 13, 2008 - April 19, 2008
So the French DON'T Stink After All?
Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 17:26Well, there goes another opportunity to make French jokes. Le Stink apparently isn't theirs.
Ah, well.
Breaking: War Erupts in Foreign Territory
Not only is it bad, it's worse than you think. If you thought the cold war was frightening, then you'd best see the Distortion Section for the latest BL RAG scoop. Prepare to be...hmm...prepared for the worst.
"Thousands of Angry Comments Pouring into ABC”
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080418_ABC_gets_an_earful_after_debate.html
”By last evening, more than 17,000 messages had been posted on ABC's Web site.
"What a sham. That was the worst journalism I have ever witnessed [one wrote]" . . .
. . . If Gibson was embarrassed by this, it didn't show . . . .”
Ed Koch Looks at Jimmy Carter:
Carter will no doubt shrug and ignore this, as well as all the other criticism of his Hamas-cuddling trip. It's that way when dealing with a hopeless zealot, and Carter is just such a man. He's firmly convinced that everyone else in the parade is out of step.
Anyway, it's hard to beat the satisfaction of reading another Democrat saying this about Carter. No love lost here.
"I came to know Carter well. When he ran for reelection, he asked me to campaign for him in 1980 - I was by then Mayor of New York City -- and I said that I would vote for him, but not campaign for him because he was then engaging in hostile acts towards Israel. I was popular with the Jewish community and when I would not campaign for him unless he changed his position, he called me to his hotel in New York when attending a fundraiser and said, "You have done me more damage than any man in America." I felt proud then, and even more today, since we now know what a miserable president he was then and the miserable human being he is now as he prepares to meet with Hamas."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/looking_back_at_life.html
Obama Picks up the Coveted Terrorist Endorsement
Here's the Hamas mouthpiece, explaining that Obama would "change" America, and "hoping" he wins.
But then, this Hamas leader also thinks Jimmy Carter was "noble" and a grand success as president. Given that bit of mental instability, perhaps we shouldn't take his notions too seriously.
But coming at this from the other direction, we should take it seriously that Obama is the preferred candidate of Hamas. We must ask why this is, and how this reflects Obama's agenda. And taken in combination with all of Obama's other questionable associations, from William Ayers to Jeremiah Wright, it must give us pause.
The Super Duper Elite Democrats
Well, looks like the Dem elite, led by such wildly successful luminaries as Mike Dukakis and George McGovern, are going to try to short circuit the Democratic convention process. The people's vote? Nah. Forget that. What we need is a bunch of Super Duper Elitists deciding things in advance. Keep the Great Unwashed from having too great an impact on the nomination process. We'll tell those common folk what to think later on.
If this weren't such serious business, it would be a real hoot. But it is, so it's not.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/16/the_june_solution/
Dr. Thomas Sowell is Pulling No Punches Here.
I certainly can't add much to this article, other than to say I agree wholeheartedly.
Huge
Whether or not it gets the play it deserves—and front-page screaming black headlines wouldn’t be over the top--this story
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4635175
is huge news.
It certainly puts talk about “defiling the White House" with extramarital affairs or fundraising coffees into a fresh perspective that makes them melt into relative insignificance.
The nation’s highest officials openly acknowledge they directly participated in the greasy criminal details of violating treaty obligations and decided to what level of extreme temperatures a particular prisoner would be exposed and for how many hours or days, how relentlessly he could be drowned, and how many times he was going to be punched in the face.
“Why are we talking about this in the White House?” the Attorney General objected. “History will not judge this kindly.”
I'll say.