293 posts tagged “political” (page 3)

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...

My wife and I have our computer screens to our front-right as we sit in the family room at might, and we read different articles while watching a movie or the Fox News lineup... or Chuck or The Office, of course, on their particular nights. We continually talk back and forth about what we're watching and reading, and I often send her links to something I think she might find particularly interesting.

I find it hilarious when I send her too many links, too fast, because each new one appears mid screen. Sometimes she's reading in an unaffected area, but more often, it lands smack on top of where she's at, and she'll quickly, without making a sound, drag the note top-right until she's ready to consider it. So when one follows another, sometimes in a matter of seconds because I'd been saving the links since I'd come across them earlier, they start to form a vertical row on her screen, and then there's the occasional "tsk" that gets me to laughing silently.

I mention all this because last night, after a while, I noticed we'd had a prolonged period of quiet, and there was a vertical row of notes on the right of her screen - she hadn't commented about anything, and I hadn't been screaming for a while, so I asked, "What are your reading?" Often her answer to that question comes back, "Things," but last night, I got an unusual reply - a Jeopardy style reply...

Wife: Who do you admire most?

Twenty years ago, I would have instantly said, Ronald Reagan, but that's just how long it's been since I've thought about it, and how long we've been just that short of heroes.

But still, it didn't take me ten seconds to respond.

Me: Rush Limbaugh

For an instant, I surprised myself, but as my thoughts caught up to my mouth, I realized that no one better embodies the values and attitude that made America what it is and would make it better than this brilliant man.

Yes, I said "brilliant." No one can do what Rush Limbaugh does, much less for five days a week for twenty years. He entertains while he educates. Even Ronald Reagan didn't do that. But Rush's brilliance isn't about longevity and perseverance, it's about how quickly the man thinks, and how often his instant analysis is both so dead on and immensely more detailed than any two other people could hope to come up with during a long dialogue.

Wife: He's a lot like you.

Me: No, I'm something like him... but just in the way we think, I wish I could be like him in demeanor. I'm much closer to Michael Savage.

Wife: Oh yeah!

Me: Limbaugh's amazing. He really does it the right way. People accuse him of being arrogant, but God knows what I'd be like if I were that right, that often, the way he is. I think he's actually very humble. He puts up with callers I couldn't tolerate for a second, and he usually so gracious and affable and funny, and I'm often astounded because he doesn't need that nonsense. He's truly giving himself for his country and what he believes in.

(Pause)

Me: Why did you ask me who I admire?

Wife: I'm reading an article about Rush Limbaugh.