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.

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.

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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.

The Downright Mean Sarah Palin and the Affirmative Action (Would-Be) President

If Barack Obama wins the presidency in November, he will be America’s first affirmative action president. Grossly unqualified, dangerously radical and completely unvetted by an adoring news media, Obama will have ascended to the highest, most powerful office in the world, carried on the willing backs of squishy mainstream liberals and dedicated hard line communists hoping for change. It is probably safe to say that if Obama did in fact look like “all the other presidents” on our money, that he would have been laughed off the national stage a very long time ago. Cases in point: Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich, both of whom are just as far to the ideological left and yet significantly more experienced politically.

Still, Obama’s wife Michelle apparently believes that the US is a “downright mean” country, and Obama himself is never afraid to throw out the always-useful race card. After all, it’s something he assuredly learned to do well during his days as an Acorn-affiliated Chicago community agitator, a significant chapter of his carefully guarded past… A past which includes long term friendships and affiliations with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers and Franklin Raines, to name four.

Aside from the Democrats’ culpability in the housing market collapse and the subsequent financial meltdown, no single weapon of truth is more valuable in the fight against the Obama campaign than a fair and open assessment of his close allies – the very people who the “change agent” with the “judgement to lead” has surrounded himself with and sought counsel from. For months, the McCain campaign has failed to capitalize on Obama’s shady ties. So when Sarah Palin recently touched on Obama’s connection to unrepentent domestic terrorist Ayers, it didn’t take the mainstream media very long to scream racism.

Why? Because Palin had this to say…

“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,”

The Associated Press, in an article linked on Drudge, countered with…

And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

and went on to say…

Her reference to Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.

Huh… What? I am missing something or did the AP just validate Palin? I don’t know too many people who host parties for people that they don’t really know or care too much about. And what race has to do with any of this is beyond me. Is Ayers not white? Is Ayers now the first person in America to be awarded victimhood status based on the fact that he is a white male? Was it somehow wrong of Palin to call Obama out for hanging around with a treasonous anti-America criminal, just because Obama is black?

But let’s not forget the infamous Jeremiah Wright situation. For twenty years, the Obamas attended Wright’s church, sat in the pews and soaked in the violent rantings of a blatant racist. But that’s okay. Palin mentioning a legitimate connection between Obama and an unrepentant domestic terrorist who once attacked the US Capitol Building, the Pentagon and New York City  police officers… Now that’s just plain racist.