The Terrifying Obama Youth

From the Onion: “Gifted Youngster Sells Cookies To Buy Attack Ad”

As usual, the Onion nails it… Yeah, it’s satire. But it’s dead on. That, and it’s hard to tell the difference once you factor this and this into the equation. The “beyond the facts” part is just perfect.

Rezko Ready to Sing?

The Sun-Times is hinting toward the possibility that former Chicago slum lord, convicted felon and political ally of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Chicago) and Senator Barack Obama (D-Chicago) Tony Rezko may finally be ready to tell federal prosecutors what he knows about the dirty inner workings of the Chicago Machine.

At this point, all we have to go on is speculation, since no announcement has been made by the Feds. What we do know is that Rezko’s sentencing has been put on hold, which indicates that he may be (and probably is) talking. The other great unknown is how much damaging information Rezko may have on either Obama or Blagojevich. Earlier this year, Rezko wrote a two page letter to U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve claiming that he had not been party to any illegal activities involving either the Governor or the Senator.

Was Rezko merely covering for his pals, or does he really lack the kind of air tight, rock solid knowledge that could torpedo King Rod and the False Messiah? One must wonder.

If Rezko does have anything of value to share, there’s no time like the present. With less than a month to go before the election, time is running out. As for Blagojevich, his reign of terror has gone on long enough. It’s time for Tony to sing so the Feds can take out the trash.

“Dangerously Crunchy”

Even WAND doesn’t take themselves this seriously!

Two Words and an Acronym: Early, Often and ACORN

Barack Obama has suddenly pulled ahead in ten of eleven key battle ground states, including Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. McCain still leads in Missouri. Not shockingly, serious allegations of voter fraud are being investigated in all eleven of those states, with Obama’s longtime pals at ACORN out front and center. In Ohio, ACORN has actually admitted that “it cannot keep fraud out of its voter registration operation” This according to Fox News.

In Nevada, ACORN claimed to have registered “Tony Romo” and “Terrell Owens” of the Dallas Cowboys and the FBI raided ACORN’s Nevada offices Tuesday looking for evidence of fraud.

The Fox article gives a state by state rundown of ACORN’s seedy activities, so go read the whole thing now. Remember also that Nancy Pelosi and friends saw fit to include a $100 million cash payout to ACORN as part of the infamous bailout package, before it was stripped out of the bill by House Republicans.

Pajamas Media is also reporting that in Indianapolis, for example, 105% of the total population is now registered to vote. Again, we’re not just talking about 105% of eligible voters, which would be suspicious enough. We’re talking about 105% of the city’s population.

The way it looks right now, Obama has taken his filthy Chicago style machine tactics nationwide with the help of ACORN, and we are rapidly becoming the United States of Illinois. Our country is being stolen out from under us as we speak. Even if Obama wins in a landslide on November 4, the truth is we will never really know for sure how close he came to a legitimate victory.

Photo credit: Fox News

There’s a Moral in this Story

Here’s a Tribune story out of suburban Chicagoland that very nicely illustrates the difference between the Republicans (McCain) and the democrats (Obama) in this year’s presidential election. Of course, the story itself has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. It’s about baseball. But if you swap out “Cubs Couple” for McCain/Palin and “Sox Couple” for Obama/Biden, you’ll get the point.

Like the Cubs Couple, the the McCain campaign seems quite content to poke and prod and just hope for the best, while Obama and the Democrats, like the Sox Couple, go in for the kill. Sad, but true.

That, and the story’s just a classic chapter in the ongoing history of the Cubs vs. Sox rivalry. Do not ever tell me that Yankees vs. Red Sox is the best rivalry in baseball. It’s easily a distant but deserving third behind Cubs vs. White Sox and Cubs vs. Cardinals. 

Here’s the link. Enjoy!

Photo credit: Chicago Tribune

Stay Classy, Cubs

How to Make a Bad Situation Worse 101: Losing is never any fun, and getting swept out of the NLDS has to be an especially bitter experience. But there is just no excuse for acting like a destructive four year old. Rick Telander of the Sun-Times explains:

Moments after the final out (Alfonso Soriano fanning on three pitches), one of the Cubs — maybe two, maybe all 25 — took something large and hard, like a shoe or bat or sledgehammer, and busted a fair-sized water pipe at the back of the visitors’ dugout.

Water gushed out, and very quickly the floor of the area leading into the locker room was flooded.

Worst of all, no one is admitting to who or what caused the damage. The Cubs have officially denied any culpability, yet General Manager Jim Hendry has agreed that the team will cover the cost of repairs, pretty much conceding that someone one in the Cubs organization is a fault.

Debate 2 Results: Game Unchanged

First off, $300 billion to buy up even more bad debt? Did McCain actually say that? No, seriously… Did he actually say that? Isn’t buying up a whole bunch of bad debt at the taxpayer’s expense what the original bailout was for anyway? This isn’t going to help him with the millions of regular Americans who were/are already furious over the first bailout. The deadbeats and socialists who actually like the bailout package are firmly in the Obama camp anyway, so this didn’t sway them either.

McCain finally hit back on the Fannie/Freddie issue. The red meat conservative in me was disappointed that he didn’t take the attack even further, tearing into Dodd, Frank, Raines, ACORN, Pelosi and so on. But in all reality, he probably did the best he could for the forum he was in. Lashing out at the Democrats too much would have come off as mean and unpresidential. Obama is allowed to be mean, arrogant and unpresidential. McCain is not, and neither one of them really should be.

Ayers and friends… Not a single word from McCain about any one of Obama’s numerous radical and/or treasonous friends and associates. McCain struck out big time on this one. Going back to my last comment, I would have liked to see McCain explain the accounting scandal at Fannie Mae in strong but simple terms, and then establish the mental comparison between Fannie Mae and Enron, with the Democrats and Obama front and center. Oh, well.

For the most part, McCain and Obama matched each other blow for blow, and neither one of them really did anything to change anybody’s opinion. McCain outclassed Obama by a mile and a half on Iraq, Russia and national security. But then again, if you beleive that Iraq isn’t worth winning, that Russia doesn’t pose a threat to the US or that Mahmoud Amadinejad can be reasoned with, you’re probably voting for Obama anyway.

Obama also does well with women in a way that McCain can not. They no doubt see him as young, charming and sensitive, just as they did Bill Clinton back in the 1990’s. McCain on the other hand, is a seasoned old sailor and statesman with white hair and a stiff walk. Remember Bob Dole?

For women voting on the basis of “sexy” McCain is a losing proposition. That is, in part, why McCain tapped Sarah Palin for VP. But therein lies another glaring concern. Sarah is – how do I say this as tastefully as possible – better looking at forty-four than a lot of women in their twenties. Beauty doesn’t play well with the banal soccer mom types, and they just may vote against her out of spite, since men think she’s good looking. Joe Biden is a world class gas bag, but that won’t hurt Obama. If Jeremiah Wright didn’t hurt Obama, Biden certainly won’t.

The bottom line is this: McCain needed to go out their and light the place up. He failed to do so and it will cost him. There is still time, but not much. Last night’s performance by McCain was like striking out three times in the eighth inning when your down by about four runs. And one more thing. If I hear Obama refer to his “fist term as president” one more time, I just may throw the TV out the window.

The Organized Community

From the Chicago Sun-Times comes yet one more tragic example of Chicago style change we can live without. Literally.

An accidental hand brush between two men on a South Side CTA bus Sunday night led to the shooting death of a 17-year-old Chicago high school student.

And why did this have to happen?

Wilcox said the argument between the two men started because one man accidentally touched the hand of the other as he was getting off the bus.

There was a short exchange of threats, and she thought one displayed a handgun on the bus, Wilcox said. The other man then got [off] the bus and took out his own gun, firing back through the back door where the cousins were sitting.

There should be no question that the type of people responsible for creating and enabling what Chicago has become have no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. Is Barack Obama responsible for this terrible event? Certainly not.

In fact, it could be argued that this is exactly the kind of thing he was working against. That having been said, the needless, gang-related violence and bloodshed in Chicago has gotten progressively worse, not better.

The formerly safe, clean and upstanding All-American blue collar neighborhoods of the Southwest Side that my parents and grandparents called home for years have morphed into filthy, crime ridden, bullet hole riddled hell holes during my lifetime. Sad to say, I would never dream of moving back to a city that was once a jewel of the Midwest.  If his experience as a Chicago community organizer is Barack Obama’s primary qualification for the presidency, I’m honestly not that impressed.

Don’t Tread On Me, Barack

Every major poll now indicates that we are heading towards a Barack Obama victory in November, if not an all out landslide. So what? The polls are skewed (dare I say rigged) and the media outlets who conduct and publicize them are blatantly in bed with the Obama camp. At this point, any presidential poll conducted by most of the major polling organization or any of the major newspapers and TV networks, should be viewed with the same level of skepticism as a Pravda article proclaiming the greatness of Stalin. Okay, so maybe it’s not that bad. Yet. But this is as close as we’ve ever come to that on American soil.

Between now and election day on November 4, the singular focus of the mainstream media will be to trash John McCain and Sarah Palin, while shilling for the Chosen One in every possible way at every possible opportunity. Just like in 2000 when the press prematurely called Florida for Al Gore, their is a concerted effort afoot to discourage Republican turn out, particularly in the key battle ground states. Now they’re calling the whole enchilada for Obama, a full month ahead of the fact. Remember also that massive voter fraud will likely play an important role, thanks in part to Acorn and the like. We are witnessing Chicago style politics on a national scale, and this is no time for Republicans and conservatives to whither and concede.

We may not play dirty like the Democrats, but we can certainly stand and fight. There is still time, and anything is still possible. Only now are Obama’s many seedy connections coming to light, and only recently have McCain/Palin and the Republicans begun to stake the Democrats to the financial mess that they surely created. Do not think for a minute that if the shoe was on the other foot, and all the conventional wisdom pointed to an Obama defeat, that the Obama people would just lay down and take it.

Here in Illinois, we have been languishing under the oppressive rule of the Chicago Machine for decades. Our taxes are among the highest in the nation and the business climate is anything but hospitable. Last year, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich pushed for a so-called gross receipts tax that would have cost thousands of blue collar and white collar jobs.  Crooked “pay to play” politics and dirty money are the unofficial rule of law. And unlike forty-eight other states in the Union, we are required to carry a state-issued firearms owner identification (FOID) card just to exercise the limited Second Amendment rights that we are allowed to enjoy. There is no concealed carry in Illinois. And yet, despite all of the anti-gun legislation and activism here in Illinois, Chicago is a virtual war zone. But we do have All Kids and other costly forays into socialized medicine. Moreover, there is no viable two party system in Illinois, meaning that we have a Democrat monopoly on power. Top office holders are selected from within by the party elites, and paraded around on TV at election time, as if the electorate had a say in the matter.

The bottom line is this: We still have a month left to fight, and this may be our one last chance to save America from Obama, Daley, Madigan, Blagojevich, Ayers, and the forces of Chicago.

So Much for the Damn Bailout

Well, Hank Paulson (who looks like a Halloween decoration, by the way) got his $700 billion dollars, Nancy Pelosi and congress got to keep all the pork that they stuffed into the so-called bailout package, and the American taxpayer got stuck with the bill. Less than a week ago, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, President Bush and various Congressional leaders basically told us that without passing their bloated, socialist, toxic legislation, that the sun itself would burn out and all life on earth would be doomed.

Well, the morning that the House took up the measure, the stock market was trending up. And while the economy was far from perfect, there was a notable feeling of manageability, if not muted optimism. Then as the House passed the bailout bill and Bush signed it into law, the Dow took a huge step backwards… almost at the exact moment that Bush put his pen to the paper.

So now today, with the bailout’s fate no longer a question, the Dow managed to lose another 350 points overall, after opening losses of 800 points that lingered for most of the day. Local stocks took a hit, including ADM which dropped to $17.82, down roughly 66% since April. Other local notables, including Cat, Consolidated Communications and PPG all lost as well, while Norfolk Southern rose more than $1.00.

One could argue that since the bailout money has yet to be distributed, it is still too early to know if it will work. Even though the cash hasn’t been carved up and doled out yet, a positive reaction from Wall Street would certainly be in order, if the market had a positive perception of the bailout plan and the people behind it.

That having been said, the stock market is a fickle creature, rising and falling with the tide of human emotion. Therefore, a broader view of the stock market can be a good indicator of how investors are looking at the bigger economic picture. Just as importantly, it also acts as a barometer for other markets and metrics, such as the housing and credit markets, unemployment, retail sales, etc. Right about now, the vital signs don’t look so good.

Thanks to our fearless leaders, we are still stuck with the same financial crisis as before. Only now we have a steeper price tag and a heavier financial burden strapped to the back of every household and individual taxpayer.  Sadly, the lunatics are still running the asylum. The very same people who created our current economic situation, particularly those in the Democrat Party, have put themselves in charge of cleaning up the mess. Good luck with that.

Michelle Malkin sums it up nicely: Taste the Crap Sandwich.