The title of this post is specifically to get it shown at the top of searches on Google so that when people search for Ken Sherman they find it and know why I think he shouldn’t be running for the Assembly seat in the 40th District of California which he is seeking.
Ken Sherman is a piano teacher, which while being a noble and decent profession, in no way qualifies him for a political office.
You can see the first post I did on Sherman here. I explain in that post why he shouldn’t even be consider by anyone that considers themselves a conservative, but I want to recap that and tell you why I am posting about this again.
Ken Sherman has posted (and taken down when it was pointed out what he did) anti-semitic videos on his only website, a myspace page. Any candidate for an office higher than Student Council at a high school should have an actual website. I have no idea if Ken is running a campaign on the cheap, he doesn’t know any better or he is simply thinking that only a myspace page is good enough, because Ken won’t return calls.
Ken has also promoted events sponsored by Move On Dot Org, an extremely far left group. The event he promoted on his myspace page was a candle light vigil against the war, which by default means he is against the troops.
Ken’s campaign manager has posted lies about Ken’s opponent, Armineh Chelebian, while at the same time failing to divulge his position in the campaign. While it may not be illegal to post comments without divulging your position in a campaign, it is extremely unethical to do so, especially when you are posting comments in favor of your employer and posting lies about your employers opponent.
Theer has been some speculation amongst some activists here that Ken Sherman is a mole from the Democrat party, and is only running to secure the nomination so he can drop out and leave the seat uncontested for the Democrats. If Ken Sherman does win next Tuesday, and drops out of the race I’d like to see the Attorney General of California open an investigation into Ken’s finances and those close to him. I’d be willing to bet that if he is a mole, he has a handshake deal with the Dems to get paid for securing the seat for them. But that’s just a theory of mine.
I tried several times to speak with Ken, and after reaching him on his cell he said he’d call me later. His steadfast refusal to get together for a one on one so he could present his side of the issues is proof positive to me that he is hoping to ride this out until Tuesday.
So spread the word. Don’t vote for Ken Sherman if you live in the 40th district in California. If you do and by some stretch of the imagination he wins you will be getting what you voted for. An unresponsive person of questionable character.
*DISCLAIMER; These are my thoughts only. I am not connected in any official capacity with any campaign for any office.
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Get thee (and your friends) to the petition site!
While you’re at it, “double tap” Congress by using this petition from Mitch McConnell’s office, too!
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The Body Language Lady take on the Obamesiah’s visual signals, and…it’s freaking scary:
Obama’s Revealing Body Language
Filed under: Celebrity Analysis, Political Candidate Analysis, Commentary, Body Language Analysis — patti @ 11:25 pmIf you have been watching Obama speak and give interviews you may have noticed that he seems to reveal spot light more than even the most egotistical of political candidates. He spends a half hour going through the crowd after he is introduced, shaking hands like a Messiah. He has this condescending look down his nose at your sneer when he talks to interviewers and looks especially perturbed and angry when berating someone who he perceives is attacking him. He morphs his voice and body language to suit each audience in a manner that goes beyond customization to easily acting a part. I believe he is narcissistic. Here are other narcissistic nonverbal and behavioral cues that one of my blog readers wrote about Obama.One of my readers is getting his doctorate on evolution and ecology and wrote me:
“I’ve spent years trying to recognize the most accurate indicators of NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). There are a handful that I’ve come to trust, though they’re a bit difficult to convey.
1. An amorphous expression that looks like a child, about three years old, needing approval. I’ve almost never seen this expression in someone who isn’t NPD (occasionally in Borderline Personality Disorder, a closely related type II personality disorder). To me, it’s an exceptionally good indicator. It’s often a fleeting micro-expression (hard to catch without practice). It’s an expression of yearning and need, directed toward the person they’re interacting with. In males, it makes the face look like that of a little boy. Some psychologists argue that a developmental stage goes awry in NPD, roughly around the age of three.
2. The eyes of NPDs usually have an unusual look. My face-reading friend describes them as “dead eyes”. I perceive NPD eyes as “no boundary between inside and outside”. Some people perceive them as magnetic. There’s reduced activity in some of the musculature around the eyes. This includes a reduced response to emotion-laden scenes or speech (e.g. less of a startle response to disturbing visuals). At times, it can produce a “detached” appearance - or a languid, even slightly sleepy look. The startle response of pupils (e.g. to disturbing scenes) is often diminished relative to normal people (both less of a change in pupil diameter, and a longer lag before pupil size changes). I think people with NPD also spend less time playing through internal imagery (visible in eye tracking and facial expressions).
3. There’s also something I call “frozen cheeks”. Muscles in the cheek region aren’t as mobile as in normal people. This is partly due to a subtle expression of contempt and partly due to increased control over appearance.The contempt can often be an open clear-cut expression, but much of the time it’s just a subtle tensing of the musculature, underlying the “apparent” expression.
Obama displays all of these (the first as micro expressions). There’s also his entitlement body language, his glares, his cocked head and “looking down the nose”, etc.. He occupies quite a bit of space and also frequently initiates physical contact - e.g. putting his hand on someone’s back or arm.
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People with NPD are typically hypercompetitive and hate losing. One woman I know of would throw the checkerboard across the room if she lost a game of checkers with her eight year old son. Obama is clearly hypercompetitive and is known as a bad loser - people that he has played poker with comment on him being a poor loser, and he’s said to be a bad loser in politics as well (e.g. when he lost to Bobby Rush).Narcissists that I’ve known are generally charming and very well-liked (except by those they’ve injured). They often set up a cult of personality, though on a much smaller scale than Obama - a circle of admiring people.
There’s a need for a high level of admiration.
[…]
And it goes on. Worth the read. Discusses the empty personality that has to create a veneer to present to those around him, the communicating without saying anything, to criticize while not appearing to do so.
The good news: His arrogance should do him in.
Update: Toss in the idiot will say anything without doing basic fact checks.
Somehow, I can’t see electing a this man to an office that criticizes Hillary for not reading the resolution to go to war, and President Bush for not responding more quickly to 9/11. For cripes sake, he took 20+ YEARS to decide his pastor was saying something bad. That will be classic. He can join up with Jimmy Carter, making decisions decades after he leaves office. But, even worse, he tossed Rev Wright under the buss when he, the great BhO was dissed. How can I trust him to stand up for anyone besides himself? Notice how the whole disavowel of Rev Wright feeds the main point of this post…
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It seems the Army (and I’m sure plenty of other “operators” have the cowards on the run, but, it’s not just our servicemen who have been a part of this:
Iraqi military: Al-Qaida fighters on the run from northern city of Mosul
LEE KEATH
AP NewsMay 25, 2008 17:40 EST
Al-Qaida fighters and other Sunni insurgents have largely scattered from the northern city of Mosul in the face of a U.S.-Iraqi sweep, fleeing to desert areas further south, an Iraqi commander said Sunday. He vowed the forces will not allow them to regroup.
The U.S. military said al-Qaida in Iraq was “off-balance and on the run” but remains a very lethal threat, tempering remarks by the U.S. ambassador a day earlier that the terror network was closer than ever to being defeated.
The comments came amid a flurry of attacks in Baghdad and other areas, most likely attributable to Sunni insurgents. A roadside bomb targeted a patrol of U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters near a mosque in northern Baghdad, killing one of the so-called Awakening Council members and wounding three others, a police official said.
Bombings and shootings killed three people in and around the city of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, where U.S. forces waged a fierce offensive last year to break al-Qaida domination of the city, police said. Police officials in both cities spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
[…]
The surge was to give the Iraqi Government time to breath and grow. I’d say it was a success. Too bad the Democrats are too politically deaf to hear such reality that translates into a coming peace, and more importantly, fewer deaths. Peace through strength, not appeasement.
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NSFW if you have raging liberals around. A little rough language, but nothing more than you’d hear high school kids using on the street.
Black & White on the Grey Matters (Nitty Gritty)
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The Nazi thought police are at it again. I’ve never been one to shy away from a story - I’m not a politician, nor do I have a dog in presidential fight.
I’ve posted about the recent attack on me personally at my blog.
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Motivated to write this by “CAIR Sabotaging Anti-Terror Training in Seattle.” Been rolling around in the gray matter for a while, but that posting pushed my button. Pardon my unprofessional (no one pays me for this) attempt at political satire.
One with the “revised and extended without objection” comment I began at LGF:
It’s been buggin’ me lately, but it seems all our “leaders” want us to do anymore is hang our heads in shame, constantly issue apologies, step out of the way of wild eyed killers, who tell us they intended to act that way when they find us anywhere in the world, and turn our gaze to the walls, all to make up for having the unmitigated gall to pickup and leave an oppressive settings many nations of the world to come and be free, to exercise choice, to expand our personal talents into something good, which now has become the economic engine for the entire rest of the world. Go figure, 4% of the World’s population manages to drive the rest of the markets…and they hate that. Are we perfect? Nope. Have we done something no other country can replicate, without the use of slave labor? Oh, yeah, they tried that for 70 years…biggest practical joke ever played on mankind…thank you Karl, the retired industrialist for coming up with such a great idea. Whoda thunk he was such a comedian?
Others, who cannot rise to shake off their chains, now and in the past, sit and blame us for inability to take action of their own, as well as to pretend that their unfortunate lot in life if the fault of those who risked and stood to say “NO MORE WILL I BOW TO ANOTHER!”
There are those, and we have been cultivating them in our own society, who demand we turn over the fruits of our efforts, be they from free speech or free enterprise, so they may have the life earned be others, and at the same time demand that those who labored have it no longer.
Such a mentality never rescued anyone from the aftermath of a major earthquake, collapsed building, nor combat, or a street gang’s assault.
I have moments when I consider just saying let’s just close the history books on this “experiment” in human history, disestablish the United States of America. You know, I suspect we have found the maximum population size that can handle the truth, and we exceeded it sometime in the late 1950s. What began the downhill slide? Not sure, that’s too large a bite for me to try and take today, as it has been in the past. It has been a nation that was proud and compassionate that brought us this far. To gravitate from proud to fearful and whimpering will put us in a place where we won’t be able to afford to be compassionate, to each other, let alone to those around the world who we help as we are able, for no other reason than they are people in need.
This was to be but a short comment about wondering in text when someone would have the guts to pen the bigger thesis in the same vein as Shelby Steele did in “White Guilt.” It’s time for someone to step up to the plate, maybe Bill Whittle, to write “American Guilt: How the Republicans and Democrats and a multitude of fear mongering, left wing, self esteem is more important than a swift kick in the a$$ morons and Michael Moore convinced American to despise itself into its own demise.” Who will have the guts to publish it soon, because once we fall to this idiocy, no one will be allowed to write it.
America seems, at least at the level the MSM portrays it, has become nothing more than a battered spouse, who cannot bring themselves to rise and get out of the situation. How apt is this? Consider how our politicians continue to pass more laws outlawing the use of words, and the courts can;t manage to tell anyone it’s too bad your feeling are hurt, but grow up and get a life. No bruises, no medical bills, no concessions…now leave the court room. The amazing thing is we allow minority opinions to supplant all other things. The point is not to advocate people not being civil, it’s not to allow one person’s emotions to drive the actions of the rest of society. Toss in my lawyer “friends” who would rather consider the payment on an 8 series BMW than the unintended consequences of court action they request be taken on behalf of their clients. That’s how we have arrived, in micro steps down a bad path, and once it’s clear we’re headed that way, then no one wants “to change” and can’t see that it not really bad now, so what’s the big deal…oh, right up until a state’s supreme court tells a majority of voters you’re wrong.
Side note: How can those hallowed black robed people find rights not in writing in the legal documents, yet they can’t find the ones clearly spelled out? What’s wrong with that picture/ What’s right? Well, if you’re ox didn’t get gored, who cares toady, regardless of how the same raging bull of legal precedent will most likely come to your door/cause/lifestyle. Ask the women who wanted men to be punished by taking 1/2 of their military retirement pay by federal declaration, with no regard to the present circumstances? Sounded great when Pat Schroder (D-CO) hammered it through, but sucks when a female officer in this time, who paid her civilian hubby’s college and law school bills, and funded his legal practice beginning, will have to pay him for the privilege, all because of evil, greedy, male retirees… Justice, yes, sweet revenge, as he makes about 3 times as much as she does, if you figure she gave him nothing. Do the math, accept the consequences of feel good legislation to buy a few more votes.
We, like an addict of just about anything, who has been confronted, will need someone to tell us to shut up and quit huddling in a corner and to get up and get on with life. Is it fun? No. Is it the way to recovery? Yes. Tried and true. And don’t forget that the success of the Alcoholics Anonymous and all it’s many offshoots, is founded on the very principles we demand be removed from the public square, because it hurts a few people’s feelings, and enables lawyers to log more billable hours. The way ahead was written thousands of years ago, not in 622 AD, despite what you are being told about the goodness of a religion that demands killing of those who leave it.
Future news headline: “UN World News reports the last American company was sold off today, setting a record for the disestablishment of a nation. All assets of the now gone United States Of America were ‘redistributed’ in 56 days, with Islamic based funds purchasing 92.3% of the companies, property and other assets, to include the control of the rights to ‘redistribute’ former American citizens to other nations as they see fit. A consortium of Islamic Nations, led by the nuclear capable Iran, has made a press release indicating all former area under US control would have Shar’ia Law established with 30 days, or as soon as the, as they are called “frustrated, gun totin’, Bible clutching Christian terrorists” could be rounded up and beheaded. Most are found in the South east, with other concentrations in communities around abandoned industrial plants and all major cities. The press release indicated there are plans for a ceremony in the former Philadelphia, now renamed “New Mecca,” this coming 4th of July, to publicly burn The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights and begin the beheading of all gays and men without beards and anyone who possesses a Bible. The celebration is expected to go on for weeks. Additional celebrations will follow as groups are identified for purification.”
Will that happen? No, not anytime soon, and if it is sold off, it will happen from within (oh, wait….at >$130 bbl, look how much goes into overseas banks….). Interesting, while on the subject, how the libs/Dems rail against big oil. It was Bill Clinton taking money from China other overseas “investors” in his Presidency and subsequent influence, who managed to close off major portions of the southwest with coal reserves? Just wondering… Now, the same libs, who openly speak at congressional Hearings about nationalizing “Big Oil” are the same ones who bow to environmentalists and ensure the citizens who voted them in will pay higher and higher energy prices. If there is a conspiracy of someone to make money on the oil, I put my money on the Dems and their friends. Forget the not so handsome profits of Haliburton. Consider the “windfall” those who keep us from using our own resources must be making, or will, once they leave office and the mandated scrutiny of their personal finances.
Anyhow…this is a passing frustration. I do not intend to stop sharing my opinions, for I take the words of our Founders as words to live by. Will it cost me? Not today, but it’s not too great a price to pay.
There you go…grist for the mill, food for thought, and something to comment on.
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I did this on my mac and it appears as though the volume is waaaayyyy too loud. Aside from that, though, that videocue program is really cool. I’ll be fooling around with this in the future…
It’s Memorial Day weekend, and personally I’ll be damned that this thing is going to march forward without my saying something about it–PARTICULARLY during a time when we’re remembering all the sacrifices our wonderful military and regular citizens like those that stood up to the terrorists on flight 93-firefighters and police- has and have made for us over the decades. May God Bless them All!!! And God Bless America.
Code Pink, IVAW, VVAW and Veterans for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, International ANSWER (Chicago in particular) -Harry “This War is Lost” Reid, John Murtha, Barack Hussein Obama and the rest- can kiss my northern yankee ass/grits.
See the Petition for the Congressional Investigation here, add your signature!
Crescent of Betrayal dot Com
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Apparently Scott Covington, the owner of The Piano Store in Houston Texas, on Saturday May 17, 2008, said to Chicago Police Homicide Detectives that he’s a “reporter for the DrudgeReport”, while he was trying to get information about the going CPD investigation - presumably into the mysterious Obama-connected death of the Donald Young, the gay choir director of Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity Church of Christ.
See Larry’s post about it here.
The most disgusting part about this is Covington calling Larry’s mother and trying to bilk her out of $200.00.
Why can’t they leave Sinclair and his family alone?
Certainly they can see what a poor reflection they are on Obama, his campaign, and Axelrod et al. Do we really want to have someone in office - any office - that treats people like this - or whose campaign representatives treat people like this?
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You know, I find it rather hilarious that people would accuse Larry Sinclair of making those allegations because he’s a shill for the Clinton campaign. I find it hilarious also, that they’re trying to invent a scam scenario where me, Larry and some others are trying to bilk people out of money. I find it funny that they’re reporting us to paypal and whatever other organization they can think of in order to carry on this charade of character assassination.
The Obama campaign doesn’t even bother to hide its affiliations with radical groups; its blogger is a self-described communist who has the hammer and sickle flag up in his office, and the Houston office has a picture of Che Guevara, the murdering sociopath socialist of Cuba.
Media ignores Obama concert negatives
At least some members of the much-touted crowd of 75,000 people at a May 18 rally in Portland for Barack Obama may have been there, in part, to see a popular local band that normally opens its concerts with the national anthem — of the former Soviet Union.
ugh!
“The rally drew 75,000 people, but the media did not give any credit to the opening act, The Decemberists, who are wildly popular in Portland,” says Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute of the Media Research Center. “I’m not saying that Obama wouldn’t have drawn a big crowd, but certainly when you have a band that popular opening for him on a beautiful day, that probably should have been mentioned [by the media].”
By not mentioning the band, Knight says, the media has been able to avoid a well-known fact about The Decemberists. “You’d think the media would find it interesting that a presidential candidate had a band open for him that typically plays the Soviet national anthem, the song that celebrates communism in Russia,” Knight says.
Isn’t that special?
The Decemberists lead vocalist has also performed a song about Obama that includes Marxist terminology.
Robert Knight”The front man for the group, Colin Meloy, did a musical endorsement of Obama on YouTube,” Knight explains. “And some of the lyrics include, ‘… he will shatter the putrescence and complacency among the bourgeoisie.’ … The ‘bourgeoisie’ is a term that Marxists use to describe the middle class.”
And here’s the kicker:
According to the Wikipedia entry about The Decemberists, “The band is named in reference to an 1825 revolt over the Imperial Russian succession (Decemberist Revolt). It is not related to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, although Meloy has referred to the historical Decembrists as a communist revolutionary group.”
Revolution. Change we can believe in.
The Decembrists video putting down America. Hat tip to Van Helsing.
Along the same lines, see marxist themes when Obama tries to put the entire planet on American welfare (Van Helsing, 2008):
The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) would require the United States to spend $845 billion ($845,000,000,000.00) on welfare to third-world countries. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 on each man, woman and child in the United States. The foreign aid budget now stands at $300 billion; the Act would add the additional expenditure to the already huge amount allocated to assist the world.
They love third world communist countries so much that they want to turn the USA into one.
[…] welfare does not alleviate poverty; it subsidizes it. But the point isn’t to give money to barefoot peasants, or even to the Third-World tyrants who would actually receive it. The point is to take it from you, because the less wealthy you are, the easier you are to control.
It would never occur to the Obamaniacs that they could possibly be on the receiving end of the poverty they’re looking to create with their third world yearnings.
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Mancow: “I’m gonna take a sledge-hammer to it” “You’ll go to jail for it?” “Absolutely”
Radio talk show host Mancow Muller is asking his listeners to help SHUT DOWN the crescent memorial to Flight 93. (Audio 27 seconds.)
Mancow describes how the giant crescent points to Mecca, and how the four terrorists are consistently placed in the symbolic Islamic heavens (the crescent and star parts of the design), while the 40 heroes are consistently depicted as symbolically damned (placed outside of the symbolic Islamic heavens). Good stuff (1 min, 21 sec).
“You have to see it to understand…” says the pro-war libertarian host, directing his listeners to CrescentOfBetrayal.com where they can find pictures like this (a familiar sight for our blogburst readers):
The Tower of Voices. 40 symbolic souls, literally dangling down below an Islamic shaped crescent, soaring in the sky overhead.
Using Islamic symbol shapes invites an Islamic interpretation, and in Islam, if you don’t go to heaven, you go to hell (the fate of ALL unbelievers). Forty symbolic souls, never to rest in peace, gonging for eternity in their symbolic Islamic damnation.
Mancow on civil disobedience
Congressman Tancredo was scheduled to come on Tuesday’s show, but got stuck in a hearing. Near the end of the show, Mancow says Tancredo will be rescheduled, then he lays it on the line. He thinks his show and his listeners have the power stop this atrocity from being built, but if the crescent memorial does get built, he is going to take a sledghammer to it. They can send him to jail. At that point it won’t matter. There are limits to what Americans should stand by for (1 min, 21 sec).
Last week’s show was good too, with segments from Tom Burnett Sr. (45 sec) and Alec Rawls (2 min, 49 sec).
Robert Spencer
An unexpected extra came in the middle of Tuesday’s show when Robert Spencer was on to talk about Islam. Mancow asked what Spencer thought about this memorial controversy and Robert stepped up with another piece of the expose, pointing out that the 9/11 date is to be placed on the center line of the giant crescent, in exactly the position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag. (43 seconds.)
Exactly right. The date goes to the star on the Islamic flag. The date goes to the terrorists. Graphical proof here (“Terrorist memorializing feature #1″.)
With the difficulty of getting just the Mecca orientation across, the discussion almost never reaches these other explosive details. How does Mr. Spencer find the time to be so knowledgeable about so many things? You da MAN Robert!
Pilgrimage to Somerset
When Mancow is able to reschedule the two Tom’s, Tom Burnett says he is going to urge listeners who want to visit the memorial to plan for the weekend of August 2nd, when the Memorial Project is scheduled to have its next public meeting. Then they can help protest the crescent design, and anyone can sign up to speak during the public comment period.
Maybe we can even get Mancow to make the pilgrimage, and if Congressman Tancredo will call for a Congressional investigation, we just might be able to ram the food cart through the cockpit door. Just do it baby. Let’s roll.
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Success in Iraq: A Media Blackout - is a piece by Ralph Peters at the New York Post. As he and others have mentioned on numerous occasions, our success in Iraq isn’t something the media want to cover; it’s the failures that are given front page headlines.
May 20, 2008 — DO we still have troops in Iraq? Is there still a conflict over there? If you rely on the so-called mainstream media, you may have difficulty answering those questions these days. As Iraqi and Coalition forces pile up one success after another, Iraq has magically vanished from the headlines. Want a real “inconvenient truth?” Progress in Iraq is powerful and accelerating.
Raise the flag and cheer “hurrah!” Where are the ticker tape parades? WE ARE WINNING!!!! Wouldn’t you love to see at least one headline that proudly trumpets that news from the hilltops?
To be fair to the quit-Iraq-and-save-the-terrorists media, they have covered a few recent stories from Iraq:
* When a rogue US soldier used a Koran for target practice, journalists pulled out all the stops to turn it into “Abu Ghraib, The Sequel.” Unforgivably, the Army handled the situation well. The “atrocity” didn’t get the traction the whorespondents hoped for.
* When a battered, bleeding al Qaeda managed to set off a few bombs targeting Sunni Arabs who’d turned against terror, that, too, received delighted media play.
* As long as Baghdad-based journalists could hope that the joint US-Iraqi move into Sadr City would end disastrously, we were treated to a brief flurry of headlines.
* A few weeks back, we heard about another Iraqi company - 100 or so men - who declined to fight. The story was just delicious, as far as the media were concerned.
Then tragedy struck: As in Basra the month before, absent-without-leave (and hiding in Iran) Muqtada al Sadr quit under pressure from Iraqi and US troops. The missile and mortar attacks on the Green Zone stopped. There’s peace in the streets.
And so he hides in Iran as his minions lose. Peace in the streets is only a tragedy for those cheering the terrorists on. But for regular Americans, this is a major victory and *wowsers*, we should be spreading the good news around in every which way we can, and putting it on the MSM’s blogs and in the comments sections on their articles. And we should especially find time to thank our veterans with Memorial Day approaching.
Today, Iraqi soldiers, not militia thugs, patrol the lanes of Sadr City, where waste has replaced roadside bombs as the greatest danger to careless footsteps. US advisers and troops support the effort, but Iraq’s government has taken another giant step forward in establishing law and order.
There goes the notion that the IVAW likes to spread around - that Americans are killing innocent Iraqis; Iraqis themselves are standing up and defending their streets. With the Anbar Awakening that was such a disappointment to Bin Laden he was compelled to reference it in one of his speeches, it is not surprising that Iraqis have stood up. This is one of the reasons I’m so proud of the work of Pat Dollard who spent months in Iraq documenting the ‘other side’ of what Michael Moore depicted in his Fahrenheit 9/11 film.
My fellow Americans, have you read or seen a single interview with any of the millions of Iraqis in Sadr City or Basra who are thrilled that the gangster militias are gone from their neighborhoods?
No, sadly, no. But wouldn’t that be something if they started to realize this bias is the very reason they’re not selling papers and people are turning away from the MSM? Or…is our defeat so important to them that they will continue singing the terrorists’ praises to fewer and fewer readers/listeners/viewers?
this article will be appearing tomorrow at the Talon.
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Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
(Cross-posted from Faultline USA)
As for party crasher, Ron Paul, or the latest Libertarian to throw a hat into the ring, forget about it!
Here’a an excerpt from Ron Paul Hopes to Crash McCain’s Party
“ . . .In recent primaries, as many as 25 percent of Republican voters chose a different candidate, with many pulling levers for Paul and former GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, who snagged 27 percent of the vote in the Pennsylvania primary.
A similar phenomenon also occurred in 2000, when 33 percent of Republicans voted against Bush in the Colorado primary though Bush was the presumed nominee by then.”
As for the chance of a Libertarian snagging the presidency - NOT! According to Southern Political Report
“There are at least six candidates, including Barr, who have announced for the Libertarian nomination, but in theory a candidate who kept all the others from reaching the 10 percent level could stand on the stage alone.”
So it’s quite clear that a vote for anyone other than the Republican candidate, John McCain, would effectively split the Republican party. And a vote for any of these others would insure that a Democrat wins the presidency!
Do conservatives really want that to happen?
Many conservatives, including myself until recently, have been so upset with McCain’s stance on immigration that they just haven’t been blogging much about McCain, nor have they quickly jumped on to the McCain bandwagon.
But, like it or not, both Obama and McCain are concentrating on the Latino vote for one good reason. Neither can win without it!
According to UPI May 11th
“Latino voters play an influential role in this year’s presidential cycle, the Times said, with Democrats courting the Hispanic vote in GOP strongholds like Nevada and New Mexico while Republicans work for the same in California.”
Tuesday morning I listened as one local “conservative” talk show host spent a great deal of time talking about Obama’s advantage over Hillary while mentioning several times that the McCain’s campaign is woefully short of funds. Well not exactly.
According to UPI May 11th, Obama has raised $240 and McCain has raised $80 million. Not bad for a candidate who hasn’t gotten much media coverage unless it’s in the form of an age related joke!
Some half-baked conservatives are actually willing to concede the presidency to a Democrat in the vein hope that conservatives will have a better chance in 2012. Really??? Not hardly!
One of the very important things a conservative president can do when Democrats control congress is to appoint federal judges. If leftist Democrats control both the presidency and congress, by 2012 we could have an irreparable disruption in the balance of power caused by the appointment of leftist “legislate from the3 bench” judges who will serve for life.
Here’s what McCain had to say about his judicial philosophy, about these renegade judges, and what John McCain pledged to do on May 6, 2008.
“ . . .There is one great exception in our day, however, and that is the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts by the people we entrust with judicial power. For decades now, some federal judges have taken it upon themselves to pronounce and rule on matters that were never intended to be heard in courts or decided by judges. With a presumption that would have amazed the framers of our Constitution, and legal reasoning that would have mystified them, federal judges today issue rulings and opinions on policy questions that should be decided democratically. Assured of lifetime tenures, these judges show little regard for the authority of the president, the Congress, and the states. They display even less interest in the will of the people. And the only remedy available to any of us is to find, nominate, and confirm better judges. . .”
“I will look for accomplished men and women with a proven record of excellence in the law, and a proven commitment to judicial restraint. I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist — jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference. My nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power, and clear limits to the scope of federal power. They will be men and women of experience and wisdom, and the humility that comes with both. They will do their work with impartiality, honor, and humanity, with an alert conscience, immune to flattery and fashionable theory, and faithful in all things to the Constitution of the United States.
There was a day when all could enter the federal courthouses of our country feeling something distinctive about them — the hush of serious business, the quiet presence of the majesty of the law. Quite often, you can still find it there. And in all the institutions of government there is nothing to match the sight of a court of law at its best. My commitment to you and to all the American people is to help restore the standards and spirit that give the judicial branch its place of honor in our government. Every federal court should command respect, instead of just obedience. Every federal court should be a refuge from abuses of power, and not the source. In every federal court in America, we must have confidence again that no rule applies except the rule of law, and that no interest is served except the interest of justice. Thank you very much.”
Hear all the Remarks By John McCain on Judicial Philosophy.
The best argument for voting for John McCain comes from Rick Santorum’s article “The Elephant in the Room: Why conservatives should support McCain”
Here’s an excerpt:
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t shy away from offering my two-cents on the issues of the day, particularly in presidential races. And anyone who has heard me talk about the presidential race over the last few months knows that I’ve had, shall we say, some serious reservations about John McCain’s candidacy. . . .
McCain is clearly the candidate with the capacity, judgment, experience and will to confront America’s enemies. He’s served our country honorably - heroically - in war. I served eight years with him on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and I can assure you he knows our military. Importantly, he also knows our enemies. He understands their capabilities and their aims. He will not sugarcoat the human or financial commitment and cost needed to defeat this enemy. . . .
On judges, McCain has repeatedly made clear that he will, as his Web site states, "only nominate judges who understand that their role is to faithfully apply the law as written, not impose their opinions through judicial fiat." Sounds good to me. . . .
This is but one example of McCain’s character - the kind of character I want in the person who answers 3 a.m. phone calls at the White House.
Those conservatives who still question whether they can support McCain should remember this: The next president will make more than 2,700 political appointments, those who really set policy, across the bureaucracy of our government. I, for one, will sleep better at 3 a.m. if Republicans are in the cabinet and in White House positions that make so many critical decisions. The idea of "Attorney General John Edwards" and "Energy Secretary Al Gore" should cause some sleepless nights for Republicans or conservatives - and those in a U.S. manufacturing sector now struggling to stay afloat.
Here’s my final argument for John McCain. He’s not Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. . . .
As for the Reagan Axiom, given his opponent, McCain is close enough to 80 percent for government work. That is why I am going to vote for my friend - John McCain.
Yup - close enough for government work!
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