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I thought I'd like to keep it light today rather than dwell on the unimaginably horrible consequences of an Obama victory. There will be plenty of time for that beginning tomorrow it if happens, and this might be the last time anyone can joke about it.

But after staring at a blank page for twenty minutes I drew a complete blank. And when you put that on a blank page, it's remarkably transparent. Or maybe it's blank squared, I'll leave that for you to decide. 

I realized that I'd been blaming all the comedians' failures on liberal bias, but that I, myself, had never before sat and strained to come up with something humorous about Obama. Now I may have to embark on my next quest:  for the elusive Obama punchline...

OK, it's not exactly true that I came up with nothing at all. First I blamed women for demanding the right to vote, and then I tried to imagine another minority with Obama's experience being where he is, but I couldn't picture an Indian community organizer on the reservation who served as Chief for a hundred and forty days being hailed as a Savior, so I tried to widen the scope, look at other angles, characteristics, and stereotypes... and it all bombed.

In the end, the only person I could blame and be sure of being right was Eve, and what's funny about her?. But that got me to wondering why people didn't consider Eve before they started handing out ballots to women? It's a vicious circle!

And why was there no Ross Perot back then? He would have tested the concept in a couple of States to see how it went before going national. Or why didn't Congress do what they did with Bush's tax reduction - give women the right to vote but have it expire in five or ten years?

I know, Senators and Representatives probably didn't want to be nagged by their wives for the next decade, but that's exactly why we are where we are today - nobody wants to take any heat anymore. Could you picture women brow-beating the Founding Fathers into letting them vote?

And that led me to ponder the question: could you picture anti-war protesters outside the Alamo? OK, that has nothing to do with Obama, but it might actually have stopped a war - because then both sides would be shooting at them! 

See the problem? In fact, all our problems would be put in proper perspective if Congress and the President would just ask, what would Washington or Jefferson or Madison would do. Then, even if Obama were to be victorious, according to the Constitution, he'd only be three-fifths of a President..

Come to think of it, isn't that exactly what we'll be getting if he wins?

Randy Newman needs to revise the song to... "White people got... no reason to live..."

I've been saying for a long time that white people are responsible for all that's wrong with America, and I've often had to go into much detail in explaining that it has nothing to do with racial bigotry.

But I won't have to do that anymore. I just came upon a headline that conveys my exact point in eight simple words:

Madonna and A-Rod Helicopter to Jerry Seinfeld's House

And the story fills in any missing details.

"After the big gamble on subprime mortgages that led to the current financial crisis, is there going to be an even bigger gamble, by putting the fate of a nation in the hands of a man whose only qualifications are ego and mouth?" - Thomas Sowell

Early this morning I wrote the following:

Obama: Horrendous

Just from a practical point of view, Barack Obama is horrible for America. His inexperience alone is dangerous because he's running at a time when even the most experienced people are severely challenged to guide the country through some of our worst economic times while overseeing two vital wars.

Obama has not a single credential for doing any of it. It's as if, as a parent on the brink of financial disaster, you'd ask your know-it-all teenage son, not just for advice, but to manage your affairs and get you out of the mess.

That would be crazy enough, but hopefully your son would share your best interests, and he wouldn't be saddled with a shadowy past involving drug use and associations with the worst sort of characters, and he wouldn't use the opportunity to enhance himself at your expense.

So it is with those of his ilk that they must sell the sizzle by conveying confidence and certainty when, if that confidence exists at all, it exists only in their own minds because they have no steak to offer for sale - so substance, no achievement. And more likely, the confidence they convey is a front.

You can chalk it up to Obama being naive due to inexperience were he not so arrogant and cavalier. But Barry Young summed it up nicely this morning when he mentioned the movie, The Candidate. Here's the tagline from the movie:

"Too Handsome. Too Young. Too Liberal. Doesn't have a chance. He's PERFECT!"

When Robert Redford won, his big question?

"Now what?"

I put the above aside as I often do because I felt it needed more development. Then it came to me, not in my mind, it came to me in the form of a Thomas Sowell column. Here's his take on the same theme, and the rest of the story:

Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise — whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team — is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama's trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges — very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in real world.

The signs of Barack Obama's self-centered immaturity are painfully obvious, though ignored by true believers who have poured their hopes into him, and by the media who just want the symbolism and the ideology that Obama represents

Then Dr. Sowell adds this:

"This is our time!" he proclaimed. And "I will change the world." But ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon..

While perusing the reviews on IMDB, I came across this from a fellow whose review is from January, 8, 2007:

Redford's views are supposed to be embraced by the viewer, but his speeches are so full of idiotic left-wing rambling that only the most left-wing viewers will find him appealing. His speeches are written with intent to make him likable for the viewer, but in reality Redford's character only has empty, trite, old rhetoric to show; meaningless political banter that gets votes - not the words of a wholesome idealist..

And Robert Redford was only running for Senator...

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I decided Sowell's conclusion was worth adding here, but I'd recommend you read the whole column for more of his comments on Obama, and of near equal importance, his comments on Biden:

Add to Obama and Biden House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and you have all the ingredients for a historic meltdown. Let us not forget that the Roman Empire did decline and fall, blighting the lives of millions for centuries.

"I don't want to go on the air and tell you he's done nothing, I mean his whole village is waiting to kill a cow." - Barry Young

Regardless of the outcome of the election, I will be watching a lot less on Fox News. I realized this last night as I was first screaming at O'Reilly, and then Sean Hannity. Why?

Actually for different reasons. As I've mentioned, I despise Bill O'Reilly. In his never ending effort to appear "fair and balanced," he says and does the most phony and outrageous things - last night he defended Obama.

He also asked people to vote on how they felt about his coverage of the candidates: did he favor Obama, McCain, or neither? I voted that he favored Obama. That's because they didn't offer the choice: Am I helping to elect the Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran?

If he'd asked that, the answer is clear - any favorable coverage of a man who is so deceitful and dangerous is treason.

Have I gone way over the top? I hope so. I mean, I still can't figure out how America can elect scum that has assumed human form, but if it does, I so want to be wrong in every possible way. The only trouble is, I won't be. Obama has already shown plenty of who he really is in a thousand different ways.

Sean Hannity is very different from O'Reilly, but the result is the same. That's because he's only half the show, the stronger half to be sure, which is surprising in itself considering how weak he is overall. I mean, he talks a good line, but he's far too friendly with people who hold views which are anathema to him.

And last night, Hannity had Huckabee as a guest, someone almost a clone of himself, but weaker still, and while Huckabee talked a good line, at the very end, he smiled at the Nonentity. I came unhinged. My wife said, "All he did was smile." I told her that it was possible to acknowledge him without smiling. Smiling conveys equality.

And then there's those endless panel discussions all over Fox everyday. They serve no purpose other than to fill up time, and I'm forced to sit through liberal garbage (to be kind) in order to hear what the conservative has to say. And after doing that, you invariably realize that you've already said or thought what the guy who's right is saying. I need that?

So enough of Fox. I'll listen to Rush, and I'll try to catch Ann Coulter and Mark Steyn when they're on, and I'll even listen to Hannity's radio show, but I don't want to hear another liberal again - ever. And that goes even if McCain wins.

If that sounds harsh, I assure you, they feel the same about you, and the difference is that they'll be trying to silence even the O'Reillys if and when they have all the power.

July 4th is America's birthday. November 4th may become the birthday of the new America, which would really be back to the future. I know it's unlikely, but I consider it updating the American Dream.

Anyone who thinks the Republicans have learned any lessons from their losses, past, present, and future ought to talk to Trent Lott...

The former (and not future) Senate Majority Leader says Senate Republicans should try to lure Joe Lieberman to join the GOP.

"They should aggressively pursue him,” Lott told The Hill.

"If the Democrats take away his credentials or they take away his committee, why would he want to make them a majority?” Lott ran on...

“We need different points of view and Joe would bring that.”

“I don’t agree with those who say you’ve got to be a total, pure Republican on every issue.”

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Every issue? How about more than one, Trent?

You've heard of "Jungian?" well, now there's "Jongian."

The dictionary defines it as: harboring  the most paranoid yet hilarious beliefs in utterly unfounded conspiracies, and name-dropping them onto your prominent friends who had, heretofore, only been regarded as run-of-the-mill liberal loons.

Steven Milloy is to science what Mark Steyn is to politics. He's done more than anyone I've read to debunk the religion of "global warming," the idea that we can operate our electricity grid on wind power, and the belief that coal can be "cleaned" economically.

He has a column today about something I hadn't heard - that a bunch of Nobel laureates have endorsed Obama - and he methodically, thoroughly and completely debunks them!

A radio caller just now, decrying those who want to win by losing - who hope that Obama will screw things up so badly that Republicans will be welcomed with open arms in 2012, pointed out that the changes Obama can and will make will still be affecting his unborn granddaughter.

Michelle Larson responded that "The changes he'll make will be irrevocable... irreversible."

Barry Young followed that with the al Qaeda militant's prayer:

"O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him,"

You might want to copy that so you can use it the next time you don't like somebody?

For my part, I'd like to restate something I first said in 1992 - there is no limit to the damage a Democrat can do in four years.

And we've just been warned that if Obama isn't elected, the streets will run red with blood. I don't know about you, but I'd pay to see that!?

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Do yourself a favor and get today's Barry Young podcast, and listen to the second hour (he's only on two hours a day).

The Almost Famous Barry Young, America's best local talkshow host, noted today that if Obama is elected, Democrats and Republicans both will be crying on November 5th.

By the way, podcasts of his show are now available on the KFYI website. I think you'll love him. Like Obama, he often says nothing, but he says it way better than Obama does, and very unlike Mr. Emptysuit, Barry can be hilarious...