Confused yet?

In a brilliant piece at NRO, Victor Davis Hansen sums up the Obama/defeat wing of the DNC:

I think a conventional narrative is slowly forming about Iraq something like the following:

I supported the successful three-week war. I opposed the flawed occupation. My principled criticism, however, led to the salvation of Iraq, which is important and necessary. Yet I did not support the idea of being in Iraq, but now don’t oppose it either. My model of intervention in Afghanistan was the proper one; difficulties there are due either to others’ improper implementation or an unwise diversion of resources to Iraq. If the president employs unilateral action, he should be more multilateral; if multilateral, he is an outsourcer and should by more directly involved and unilateral.

Just remember the details of this narrative, monitor how it is modified to fit the daily pulse of the battlefield, and then almost everything we hear makes sense.

Perhaps to a brilliant mind like yours, VDH. As for me, I'm still trying to figure out why Americans continue engage in a death-wish for defeat for their own.

Perhaps it is a throwback analogous to other species feeling the need to eat their own young.

Obama, Inc?

It appears that Obama's alleged birth certificate has been deemed a forgery, calling to question whether Obama was born in the United States, which would be a Constitutional prerequisite for his ability to legally run for President.

A petition for the Obama campaign to release a paper copy of his birth certificate was allegedly met with a veiled/not so veiled threat against the petition originator's family from an "Obama supporter," which forced the originator of the petition to shut down the site.

This suggests that the Obama campaign, which has taken Clinton, Inc., head on, is not afraid to utilize Clintonian tactics in dealing with detractors.

Just where is that birth certificate, Barack "Hussein" Obama?

Obama defines "Patriotism?" **(UPDATED & BUMPED)

“As Mark Twain, that greatest of American satirists and proud son of Missouri, once wrote, Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” We may hope that our leaders and our government stand up for our ideals, and there are many times in our history when that’s occurred. But when our laws, our leaders or our government are out of alignment with our ideals, then the dissent of ordinary Americans may prove to be one of the truest expression of patriotism."

-Barack Hussein Obama, in a speech delivered on 30 June, 2008-

So that explains Barack Hussein Obama's close relationship with one William Ayers, whose patriotic duty (by Obama's definition) included setting bombs and killing innocent people. Heck, according to Obama's definition, and by Ayers' own admission, he just wasn't patriotic enough.

That also explains Obama's close relationship with one Rev. "God Damn America!" Wright.

For in Barack Hussein Obama's world, these men, and others, have demonstrated, in Obama's own definition, the "...truest expression of patriotism," in spades.

An axiom that I have long held is that liberals have no chance of winning a debate in the arena of ideas, unless they are given rein to re-define the terms of that debate.

The heinous practice of killing a baby in what should be the safety of a mother's womb, heretofore known as abortion, is now known as, "reproductive health."

The process whereby the government confiscates wealth from productive Americans for redistribution, formerly known as "taxes," are now known as "contributions" or "investments."

Today, "the messiah" stated,

surely we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism. And surely we can arrive at a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the best of America’s common spirit.

If Obama's sense of 'patriotism' embodies his established pattern of associations with "patriotic" individuals, such as Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, and others, whom he must consider "...the best of America's common spirit," then color me unpatriotic.

I ain't buying it.

***UPDATE**** 7-1-08 10:32pm

There are a lot of people who say that the photo at the top of this post is taken out of context; that Obama momentarily had his hands down by his crotch.

Well, you be the judge:

McCain did this to himself.

Not that we won't be able to clobber Obama on a myriad flip flops, dance-arounds, terrorist and thug love-ins and Nipper-Dog moments, but John McCain did this one to himself:


***UPDATE***

Chris Muir has this take:

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True, albeit a bit too optimistic, IMO.

I'm not even sure we'll have that after he's through with us.

Thank you sir, may I have another?

Just hadda post this...

I'm going to be out and about again today, and I'll be doing a ride-along with a friend of mine who's a cop. Should prove for an interesting day.

BTW--gas prices here in the Chicago area are hovering at around $4.25 per gallon (I probably wouldn't have been able to afford this trip if I didn't have my motorcycle); I'm wondering if Illinoisans' good will toward their favorite son diminishes somewhat as they hear him say things like this:

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Quiz: 143 days.

...refers to:

1. The average shelf life of a Twinkie.
2. Number of days Helen Thomas has gone without a bath.
3. The number of days before this guy changed his underwear; or...
4. The number of days of experience Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama has in the Senate.

Hmmm... which to choose.

Pinko Money.

Human Events is reporting that the Obama campaign has received $50,000 in "bundled" contributions from Code Pink. While it is not surprising that a subversive organization such as Code Pink would give a campaign contribution to a Presidential candidate who has made it a life practice to freely associate with subversives and other ne'erdowells, what is noteworthy is that Code Pink proclaims itself a 501c3 organization:

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Question: Why is a tax-exempt 501c3 organization raising money for a political candidate, while still being able to maintain its tax-exempt status?

Mr. Silvertongue.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the man with the golden dulcitone speeches that inspire us, the articulate one, junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, sans teleprompter.



And in yet another display of his superior wit and command of the facts:



What a guy! You dems have certainly made a wise choice.

What are Obama's Legislative Accomplishments?

Damned if his own supporters can figure it out.

Barack Obama: "Being There?"

Robert Ferrigno, author of "Prayers for the Assassin" and his latest, "Sins of the Assassin" has an article of what an Obama presidency may look like, in the eyes of Mahamoud Ahmawhackjob. Read the whole thing.

I had a correspondence today with Mr. Ferrigno, in which I compared Obama with the movie, "Being There," with Peter Sellers playing "Chance," the cognitively-challenged gardener (Chauncy Gardner), who at the end of the movie is being considered for a run for POTUS.

Mr. Ferrigno responded,

"Leo
you nailed it with the Being There analogy. amazing. the guy truly is a blank screen on which people project their deepest desires. we're in for some rough water, i'm afraid.
Robert

Is Barack Obama a life imitating art in this case? One would think so.

In a "Sir Edmund" Hillary Moment...

Obama tells another tall tale...

Barack Obama’s campaign scrambled Tuesday to set the record straight after the Democratic presidential candidate said on Memorial Day that his uncle helped liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II.

There were two obvious problems with the tale: Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Army, and Obama’s American mother was an only child.

Perhaps after a call to one of his pointy-headed friends in academia (perhaps Bill Ayers?), the Obama camp changed the story:

“Senator Obama’s family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II — especially the fact that his great uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. “Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically.”

The campaign said his great uncle, Charlie Payne, served in the 89th Infantry Division, and that the unit was among those to liberate Ohrdruf on April 4, 1945.

Yeahhh...that's the ticket.

Think he'll show them where the silverware is, too?

This. Guy. Is. Dangerous.

Curious.

From the Associated Press:

Former KKK member endorses Obama

WASHINGTON - Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and a one-time opponent of civil rights legislation, is endorsing Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Not that I find it particularly noteworthy that Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd endorsed Obama. What I find completely jaw-dropping is that a member of the drive-by media actually acknowledged democrat Robert Byrd's past stint as a KKK Kleagle.

What this unprecedented Hillary-Obama hatchet fight has allowed us to witness is the drive-by media's uncomfortable situation of having to pick sides between two liberal democrats; forcing them to inevitably eat their own in the process.

If nothing else, this current election cycle is making for some grand and glorious theatre.

Obama: The truth hurts.

The list of what we can no longer criticize about Barack Hussein-- (oops) -- Obama continues. Even if it's the truth. Now it just so happens that whatever his wife says is beyond reproach:

Earlier, Obama told critics in an interview aired on ABC's "Good Morning America" to "lay off my wife."

The Illinois senator was responding to an online ad run by the Tennessee GOP that, during a four-minute video, replays six times Michelle Obama's comment that "for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country." Michelle Obama has clarified her remark, saying she meant she is proud of the public's engagement in this year's political process. Obama called the ad "just low class."

Obama said that if he wins the nomination, Republicans "can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record. But, he added, "if they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because I find unacceptable the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family."

This would be fair enough if Michelle Obama didn't insert herself and her words as part and parcel of her husband's campaign. But in that very same interview, Michele Obama did just that:

In the joint interview, Michelle Obama said, "We're trusting that the American voters are ready to talk about the issues." She also denied speculation that she has ruled out a place by Clinton on her husband's ticket.

"There's no way that I would say 'absolutely not' to one of the most successful and powerful and groundbreaking women on this planet," Michelle Obama said. Empathizing with her as someone who raised "a phenomenal daughter" while in politics, she said, "I think the world of Hillary Clinton," and added, "I know how hard, just in the little bit of exposure I've had to this, what she's had to deal with and what she's accomplished."

Word to Michelle Obama: If you can't take the political heat, then get the hell in the kitchen and bake some cookies.