Whoops…….

Could this be what Howie and Donna were working towards:

RealClearPolitics Electoral College

(270 Electoral Votes Needed To Win)

Another One Under the Bus!

Under the bus they go,
Their transgression they may not know!
But….
It’s under the bus they go.

The wheels go round an round,
His hectoring voice never ceases to pound!
Fail him and you know…
It’s under the bus you’ll go!

Worst of all is to be one who really can do,
To Barry that’s an insult, an insult to be too blue!
So….
It’s under the bus you will go.

Red is the color he likes the best!
Pay attention to his behest….
Never show what you know,
Or, it’s under the bus you will Go!

I could go on like this all night. Barry is such rich mine of material for satire it’s just ridiculous. But….

You guessed it.

Not as ridiculous as this.

Still think Barkey is a Democrat?

Muh Daddy usta git pretty mad at me at times….

…I was a smart allecked little sucka and would not hesitate to tell him when I thought he was wrong. Which he was upon occasion. One was the Vietnam War and event you younger whippersnappers will prolly never really understand. It’s like they say, ‘Ya had to be there!’ Not to say that you cannot sit down with some books ‘stead of yer Ipod and read about it. Learn about it. But, what the fuck nobody really gives a damn they are only concerned with today. Today’s gas prices. Today’s baseball scores. Today’s chances of getting laid. Yadda and yadda…. This attitude served our chimpy ancestors, yes pal you are related to Bonzo, very well indead. It mattered not what yer cousin’s complaints about the head chimp were as long as that dude kept the troop alive. Basically, stay away from leopards and close to bananas would work pretty good as policy.

Now my dad and I actually came to blows over ‘Nam. Briefly, no knockdowns no winners and after a while he was forced to admit that, ‘Yes, you were right son. ‘Nam is a fuckin’ disaster.’ except he never swore. Which brings me to today’s post. Some have said that I need to STFU! about certain issues. Obama’s candidacy being one of them. The theory here being, as best I can follow it as it really makes no sense, it’s wrong to criticize The One as he is the ‘Democrat’ Party nominee and that anything brought up about him only helps the vile, heinous Senator John McCain. And further, Obama would be a much, much better President than McCain. I got myself in big trouble, and expect to continue to do so, when I pointed out that: First, Obama has not been nominated you can look that up; Second, It’s not clear that Obama would be a better President see Douglas Kmiec…FISA flip-flop…drill for oil in flip flop….Presidential Seal stupidity jsut for starters; Third, and this is the one where the shit hits the fan, where folks want to start swinging, I contend that Senator Obama is a horrible campaigner and a truly third rate politician. Whoa, folks really get pissed when I assert this.

Well, all you Obamacans out there what is the reality today pals? This is the reality:

John McCain is now trusted more than Barack Obama on nine out of 14 electoral issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The latest national telephone surveys find that McCain has the biggest advantage on the war in Iraq, by a 51% to 39% margin.

From the Rasmussen Report folks and it gets worse for the esteemed Senator:

Perhaps the most interesting finding of these polls is that McCain has expanded his leads on nearly every issue he had previously had the advantage on, while Obama’s leads have diminished over the past two weeks…

In the new survey, McCain has tripled his lead on the topic of immigration. He now has a 45% to 36% advantage over his Democratic opponent…

The Republican also has pulled ahead on the issue of balancing the federal budget. Two weeks ago, the candidates were tied on this issue at 40%. McCain now has a 43% to 40% lead on the issue among voters.

McCain used to be behind on the issue of Social Security but has pulled ahead of Obama for a 44% to 38% lead…

On national security, an issue that McCain consistently performs well on, the Republican leads 52% to 40%.

This mirrors what I have been asserting about Obama for over a year and a half. Assertions which have me banned from OpenLeft, Corrente, TalkLeft and Crooks and Liars. Now it may very well be that Obama will engineer a comeback and beat McCain but, another question no one wants to answer:

‘How the hell can the Democratic Party nominate a candidate for President of the United States in one of the most critical periods of our history who is struggling to compete with, not beat, compete with a Republican nominee who, given his and his predecessor’s track record, should not be able to be elected dog-catcher?

Come on guys! Come on Kos…Bowere….Marshall….Armando…Marsh…..

Explain that one to me pals. Oh great and mighty seers of the Awesome Blogosphere. Bah! None of these AssClowns can find their butts with either hand when it comes to what they are suppose to be so damn good at, political analysis. Sadly, many of the netizens and Democrat rank and file have bought off on this fantasy and worse yet consider anyone such as myself a heinous asshole for pointing out that yes, ‘The Emperor has no Clothes’ and I’m talkin’ about Obama.

The reason Obama is where he is is a topic for another day. Until then remember A.Citizen’s ironclad guarantee to you and every other citizen of this still great nation which is:

‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it’

Yeah, I stole it from Voltaire. Or so you think just another example of how things we ‘know’…well, we really don’t. One of my goals is to get folks to understand why that quote is so important. Sadly, the chimp brain is not wired to understand this meme.

That’s why they made Socrates guzzle some hemlock. Not too worry. I ain’t guzzling’ no hemlock. No. Matter. What.

Res Ipsa Loquitor my fellow Progressives…

…..from a guy who’s made millions on his judgment of character we get this:

The following is a letter sent to DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias telling him why, from a rational investor’s point of view, Obama has not earned the author’s vote. The letter was sent by one of the DNC’s biggest donors, a donor who has historically maxed out to the DNC and who was a maxed out donor in both the Kerry and Clinton campaigns, in response to comments by Tobias that she could not see the forest through the trees.

You decide.

Dear Andy,

So you want to know what is taking me so long to “get on board”?   Let me try to answer with some discussion of what my 25 years on Wall Street and the Hedge Fund community have taught me, and what insights I can share in order to explain my stance.

As you know, anyone in our profession meets with countless management teams on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.  The “plots” change from time to time and the cast of characters play musical chairs. After awhile, they become all too familiar.  You have seen the movie before.  When you spot the corrupt CFO enter the scene, it immediately casts a doubt on the rest of the management team.  One or two conclusions can be drawn – either they are inept or they wanted a dishonest player.  Neither answer provides any comfort, but always insight.  I have been lied to by the best of them over the decades; I am sure you have had similar experiences.

After years of stepping in land mines, I learned to read people and situations. I had no choice – my listening skills were honed, my gut fine-tuned.  I picked up on what was and was not said, and I always paid close attention to the cast of characters.  The actions of a management team always told me more than anything they ever said.  If they were bailing out, so was I.  If the head of sales left unexpectedly, alarm bells went of.

In the thirteen years that I have had audited results, I lost money in only one year, and then only in single digits.  I am proud that I was able repay my investors’ faith and confidence in me by compounding their funds assets, net of fees, at 18% over those 13 years.  I took my responsibilities seriously and when I knew I could not give it 110% of my energies, I turned it over to someone who would.  My investors deserved someone who would work tirelessly on their behalf, looking under every rock in support of their interests.

The fact that I became successful was not what made me proud.  It was how I did it.  My soul is intact.  It was the self-imposed rules and standards that I adhered to.  I believed in a win, win, and still do.  My investors always came first.  I never screwed anyone over.  I made plenty of mistakes, but I always owned them, never blaming others.  I treated everyone fairly and with respect, believing everyone has
something to offer.  I always tried to do the right thing.

So what does this have to do with me not falling in line and
supporting Obama?  Well everything as you can see.

Andy, if I worked and served the people in the 13th District in
Chicago, I would have known all of the players.  And to win that district, would I have gamed the system to run unopposed?  Tony Rezko would not have had a seat at my table.  Either Obama is a fool and is blind to what should have been obvious, or someone like Tony is fine by Obama’s standards. The guy is a dirtball. And a dirtball would not
be part of my circle, certainly not my inner circle.  I would rather not be elected than associate with someone like Rezko.

Nor for political or any other reasons would I choose Rev. Wright, Rev. Meeks, or Father Plager as my spiritual mentors. Again, he is either blind or an opportunist.  Would I be hanging out with Mr. Ayers? Would you?  Would you refuse to be photographed with Gavin Newsom?  There is a pattern with this guy – he manipulates; the ends justify the means.  He lacks character.

Getting not one bill passed in the first 6 years of his career in not inspiring.  Having Emil Jones hand him the ball 26 times on the one-yard line in order to make Obama a United States Senator does not cut it either.  What deals he made, he did to benefit no one but himself.  He never worked long enough in either Senate to help the people who elected him.  Andy, I could never imagine you taking credit for legislation someone else slaved over. Starting in his community organizing days he claimed sole responsibility for other people’s accomplishments all for the purpose to boosting his career.

In terms of the campaign itself, I had the opportunity to witness his methods up close.  During the primaries I was in 6 states, 2 of which had caucuses; it was not clean.  El Paso was a joke with the Obama campaign stealing the caucus packets, locking supporters out – Intimidation 101, 102 and
103.  Fair elections do not seem to be a priority in my birth state. No other machine exists from the days of Boss
Tweed, but Chicago’s.  How many elected officials are in jail?They are the joke of the nation. It is called the Chicago machine for good reason.

It was clear that what I saw and experienced was not a fluke or isolated incidents, but coordinated, deliberate and arrogant.  I got to see him and his organization for who he is and what it is – not inspiring, to say the least.  Not something I would have, in business, endorsed in any way.  In fact, I would most likely have reported them to the appropriate regulators.

Andy, I have consistently found you to be a compassionate person, but more importantly you have always put your money where your mouth is.  Does it not bother you that a guy like Obama can serve a poor district and give away a paltry $1000 to charity?  He only stepped up his giving when he decided to run for President and he knew his charitable
giving would be made public.  How could anyone see that much misery and not try to personally do something about it?

Please, show me something this guy ever did that was not done in a calculated fashion to create and advance his own personal narrative?  Something selfless, perhaps, just because it was the right thing to do?

Every person I have talked to who worked at the Law Review at Harvard with him, or in the later part of his career, said the same thing: he was arrogant and self-centered.  One person laughed, saying Obama wanted to be King of the World, that he was always running for something, never staying in one place long enough to amass accomplishments or be held accountable.

Do you not you find it troublesome that he has hundreds of paid bloggers, posting vicious attacks not only about the Clintons but her supporters as well?  The whole purpose was to cast him as the second coming, while trashing her and quashing other points of view.

At first I thought is was just some hyped up kids, and then a pattern emerged.  He paid others to do his dirty work.  The most egregious sexist cracks were rampant, both on the Internet and the MSM. Yet, what did Howard and Obama say? Nothing. Obama promoted it, paid his bloggers to write it.  Never once did he try to stop it.  Howard, after the damage was done finally commented on it, but barely.  Wink,
wink.

Andy, I heard remarks that still make my jaw drop.

You know I consider myself a centrist.  The right wing of the
Republican Party scares me, but so does the left.  Ideologues of either side should not have control simultaneously of the executive, legislative, and judicial arms of the government.  Absolute power corrupts, be it on the left or the right.  Ha, but you will say….  the courts.  If you have the legislative branch, all will be fine.  McCain voted Ginsberg in, he is not a stupid man and certainly not an Ideologue, and he took heat in the primaries for refusing to have a litmus test for judges.  And need I remind you that Obama thought Roberts was an acceptable appointment until some more experienced hands in the Senate told him that would not do?

Painting him as Bush 3 is a little annoying, and what’s up with the MoveOn Baby Alex commercial?  Give credit where credit is due. McCain went against his own party twice on immigration reform, on ethanol subsidies, and campaign finance reform. He started talking about Global warming 8 years ago. I don’t agree with McCain on a number of topics, but I do believe he has principals and a backbone. He is not
willing to say anything to get elected.

I can’t say the same for Obama who is turning out to be more like Bush than McCain; Obama is at least as arrogant as W, just more polished. Are you not ashamed, in these past weeks, of his reckless abandon of any pretense to a moral center on issues such as FISA, separation of church and state, gun control?  And what he did to one of my heroes,
Wes Clark?  Insulting my intelligence and my standards will not win me over.

But, in this conversation, you will say, McCain wants to be in Iraq for 100 years.  No, he said that as in Japan, or Korea, we could have a presence. We have been in both of those countries for 60 years and not leaving any time soon, and the world is safer for it.

Next will be, McCain is not knowledgeable about the economy.  While with Carly Fiorina, who I remember from her Lucent days, at a town meeting he turned the mic over to Carly when asked about the mortgage mess, painting her as the expert.  Wow – he gave a woman a compliment, praising her knowledge, referring to her as the expert.  How often
have you praised Charles, or me, and everyone for that matter? Why? Because you are gracious and you know it reflects well on you.

All this might not bother me if so much if the stakes where not so high, but they are.  I am an issues person, not a cult of personality devotee. Substance matters. Barack is a politician, an inexperienced one at that, pretending he is different.  I just see him as arrogant and power hungry.  Our country deserves better, someone I would be proud to do business with.

Andy, my country comes first, not the Democrat party.  Having said that, I believe that the Democratic Party has just kicked away the best candidate and our best chance to redeem our country, Hillary Clinton, a proven centrist. Given his resume, or should I say the lack of one, he is either ineffective or hiding something, neither answer gives me the warm and fuzzies. If she is chosen in Denver, you can
count on my full and enthusiastic support.  Until then,

I own my vote.

Kinda sums it up for me.

I thought Senator Obama was going to ‘Unite” us….

Here is someone who does not see  it quite that way:

In response to Obama’s claim that Republicans will use race to stoke fear, Lt. Col Allen West, candidate for Congress in Florida’s 22 District issued this release: (Clarice Feldman)

“My advice to Senator Obama is to run as a Man and Leader, and the American people will evaluate you as such, not as a victim. This is a Presidential race, based solely on a capacity to lead the United States of America. It is not about skin tone…however, perhaps we should come to expect these immature statements.

It also seems rather humorous that the Presidential candidate who was supposed to be such a “uniter” and transcend race is the one talking about it the most. If Senator Obama was confident in his abilities and character, he would not need to create a crutch for failure. Senator Obama has just tipped his hand, any criticism of him and his policies will be directly attributed to racism. I congratulate Senator Obama for taking race relations in America back some 30 years.” Lt. Col Allen West

I post this not because I like Republicans but because I’m kind of partial to the truth and…well, Obama is the sort of liar I thought we’d only see once in a generation. We elected Bush. I don’t think the nation can take another lying, empty suit in the W.H. And seems like a lot more folks are coming to that conclusion.

Draft the person who got the most votes.

Introducing a new feature….

The Quote of the Week. In this era of MySpace and YouTube the spoken word remains the most powerful instrument of persuasion and the weapon capable of wreaking the most havoc upon one’s enemies. I’ve acquired a few lately about which the less said the better.

Every week I’ll be posting a quote I feel applies to our current situation in some way. A quote, as many do, which still rings with the truth in which it was forged. Still glows from the fire of conflict in which it was tempered. Life is conflict. Life is struggle to to admit defeat is to die.

Here’s this week’s:

Frederick Douglass:

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want
rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may
be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never
will.

The Results are in…..

Delegates Votes

Clinton 1916 17,802,300

Obama 2154 17,501,751

If you liked 2000 you’re probably happy with this. Or….maybe not… Hillary is now being attacked, yet again, here is an excerpt from No Quarter; first Roger Simon of The Politico:

But her fighting words only increased the need for Obama to show that he can be strong, tough and in charge. Clinton’s unwillingness to recognize Obama as the victor only increased the need for Obama to act like
a president and not like a doormat. And denying her a vice presidential slot may be a way of doing that.

Next PaganPower of No Quarter:

And according to Simon, Obama is not going to be wasting his time trying to bring Hillary supporters into the fold.

It has been a hard-fought and sometimes bitter campaign, but Obama is not, one of his senior advisers assured me Tuesday night, going to spend a lot of time in the next few months wooing Clinton supporters whose feelings may be hurting.

“I think there are always immediate feelings of disappointment and anger,” Anita Dunn said. “But in the months ahead, he must appeal not just to the constituency groups who favored her in the primaries, but those he wants in the general election, and that includes independents and Republicans.”

Another Obama adviser, who asked not to be identified, said that he was not worried that Clinton supporters would stay angry.

Obama seems to have adopted the Alfred E. Newman “What, Me Worry?” campaign slogan. He does look a little like ole Alfred. In fact he looks a lot like him if you think about it. Especially those ears. And a MAD candidacy is all too evident.

Then the scary stuff begins.

“At the end of the day,” he went on, “Hillary supporters will look at John McCain and decide they are not going to vote for a man who will put judges on the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade.”

I know it may come as a shock to Obama supporters but the President does not put justices on the Supreme Court. That is done by the US Senate. The same Senate now controlled by the Democrats that gave us the likes of Chief Justice John Roberts. So enough with these false boogeyman stories. They are all lies. But then again lies have been the core theme of the Obama Cult and their DNC and MSM enablers.

It is stories like these that we will all see in the coming weeks. Because the MSM (Obamedia), the DNC and the Obama Cult are going to do everything they can to minimize our importance. To them, nearly 18 million Americans that supported Hillary are inconsequential. As Hillary said of Bush, the same applies to Obama. And his political team made it very apparent last night.

To Obama we are The Invisible. He doesn’t care about us. He isn’t going to spend his time wooing us. He would rather try to make up the difference with Republicans. Now thats a Democratic party to be really proud of. Something I am sure Howard and Donna fully approve of.

PaganPower’s point about SCOTUS is right on. The fight for the Supreme Court is over. Obama helped put Roberts and Alito on the court; another example of his great judgment we hear so much about. Like voting for every single supplemental appropriation Mr. Decider has ‘requested’ for the Iraq ClusterFuck. The Corporatist wing of the Rethugs is in charge now and they have got what they want on SCOTUS a bunch of folks who believe that America must be made safe for any corporate excess deemed necessary for ‘maximizing shareholder value’ they are not going to let the Evangelicals fuck things up by overturning Roe vs. Wade. All of which is by way of saying SCOTUS is lost to progressives for a generations and Obama helped that happen. STFU about how we need him to ‘protect the court’. It’s delusional talk.

Bottom line: Obama, as he has all along, views any dissent from his views exactly as George W. Bush does. Of no importance and something that he can and will ignore. Welcome to the New Fascist Democratic Party™™. Hope ya like it. ‘Cause according to Obamacans, ‘There is no choice…’

Breaking: Rezko goes down on 16 Counts….

Walks on eight.

Who’s Rezko some ask? Well, it’s a real long story and since I don’t want to get typist’s cramp I’m sending you to the Chicago Tribune a still great paper which has been covering the activities of the ‘Illinois Machine’ for years. What the heck is the ‘Illinois Machine’ you ask…

Tell me you didn’t vote in the CA Primary. If you don’t know what the ‘Illinois Machine’ is and who belongs to it you have not business near a voting machine.

What’s that?

Oh….

malcontent sez: ‘Stop haranguing the folks and get with the linky’s’

Okay!

First:

Chicago Tribune and their ‘window on corruption…’

Man, that will take you hours to wade, and I do mean wade, through.

Next:

No Quarter breaks the news despite having been under various forms of  cyber-attack all night.

Next:

You think about it…do your own research.

Obama and the suicide of the Democratic Party is a topic I will be visiting time to time but I really can’t get too involved in.. As I told Howard Dean at facebook today I really cannot support the actions of the party in denying Dem primary voters their vote, a Republican tactic, to nominate a Republican-lite candidate who won by voter suppression. Howard could, of course, give f#$k what I think but hey….

It’s gonna be pretty hard to ban me from the blog where I write 93% of the posts. Jane, whom I also contacted at facebook, a woman whom I stand in awe of for her steel spine and great writing skills told the ‘Boyz on the Blogz’ and the Obamacans where it is at today. Outstanding post about what the situation realy is as opposed to having an orgasm every time the MSM announces that Hillary is conceding.

As always I report….you decide…

Flash Alert: I’m getting reports from everywhere that Hillary is conceding.  But… she’s not releasing her delegates….what next one wonders?

Supposedly we’ll know our fate soon….very soon…

AP has already graciously called the Dem primary for Senator Obama. Nice of ‘em….I gits a headache something awful when I have to add…ya know.

Anyway….

Back at the Ranch:

‘A unified front is forming in Iraq among Sunnis and Shiites, opposed to the terms of the draft of a long-term security agreement to keep US forces in the country. Muqtada al-Sadr tapped into a populist rejection of the US occupation and the Iraqi government, for now, is playing hardball.’

Yep, we’re still stuck in Iraq. Well…stuck ain’t quite the word. More like…..

We are never evah gonna leave! Jes forget about it. Get over it folks. Check out this para:

‘Juan Cole notes that they want to be able to arrest and detain any Iraqi they deem to represent a threat to security, and full immunity protection in Iraqi courts for military personnel and contractors. And the contract proposals that have been signed in recent weeks show the desire for a continuing presence, and it’s not too hard for the Iraqis to catch on to this.’

Sovereignty anyone? Read the whole thing at Hullaballo. On wonders how much longer the Iraqis will tolerate us. If the nation was unified they could wipe our Army off the map in a week. Of course as long as Bush remains POTUS they might stay cautious. He’s very likely to start lobbin’ Nukes if he thinks he’s gonna lose ‘his war’.

And I don’t see the ‘Democrat’ Party doin’ much more in response to such an action than:

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Uh…Senator…Kos….Chis….Tweety….Mr. Russert….

It’s not over ’til the votes are cast, and presumably counted although with Obama…that is not a foregone conclusion, what a freakin’ concept! Here listen to the lady here:

Sure looks ‘beat’ don’t she. I think Senator Obama is in for a fight.

Man, what could be better than a knock-down kick ‘em in the goolies Convention fight. Let’s see and hear the policies from both sides. No more hiding and blowin’ smoke from Barkey…a clear first 100 days from Sister Beelzebub.

I just loves me some Democracy in action.