Captain Bullshit's excuse for opposing the Colombia trade deal

You remember Obama's excuse for opposing the Colombia trade deal during the debate?  Yeah, turns out that was bullshit too, not that you didn't know that.

As Jonn at This Ain't Hell points out, there is a problem with union leaders and members getting whacked, but the Colombian government has assembled a task force to try and investigate and prevent these crimes, and has been very successful, attacks on union members have dropped sharply.  As always, the Colombians meet Obama's latest litmus test, only to have him create a new one for them.  Is this going to be how we treat our allies who are making positive advances in the developing world under an Obama administration?

Obama's excuse for opposing the Colombia trade deal is based on a lie.  The Colombians have worked to stop attacks on union members, and had significant success, as Obama demanded.  Is it time to reconsider the Colombian trade deal, Barry, or will you find a new lie to base your opposition on?  Or do you just want to see the thugs of FARC get a second chance?

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Some midday funneh for you

Sully and Larry King. 

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One Media Critter "Gets It" Regarding The Bias In This Election

It appears as though Time's Mark Halperin, son of extreme lefty Morton Halperin, is calling out the media for its actions this election.

We would. We would also see a lot of stories about his going back on his word saying that he would accept the public money and would reach out to Sen. McCain to try to work out a deal. So, I think this is, this is a case of a clear, unambiguous double standard, and any reporter who doesn't ask themselves, "Why is that? Why would it be different if it were a Republican?" I think is doing themselves and our profession and our democracy a disservice.

Look, Halperin is not going to vote Republican or anything like that. But, when he calls out the media, it should receive some notice.

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Biden: Undecided voters? Well, they just havent gotten over their racism...yet.

I'm not even going to play the "imagine if Palin had said this" game.  It's too depressing:

"Undecided people are having a difficult time just culturally making the change, making the move for the first African American president in the history of the United States of America," the Democratic vice-presidential nominee said at a San Francisco fundraiser Saturday evening. "So we need to respond. We need to respond at the moment, immediately, not wait, not hang around, not assume any of this won't stick."

If anything, undecideds are more likely to vote for Sen. Obama because of his race than against him.  People who don't want a black president made their mind up in June not to support him.  People who are still undecided are the type of people who vote based on pressing issues like: "I think it would be neat to have a  woman vice president" or "It's about time we had a black guy in the White House" or "Hey! He has wicked cool hair plugs, just like me!  My decision is made". 

But that wouldn't fit The Narrative, I guess.

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Hope, Change, blurbs praising a terrorist

Zombie finds an article featuring a quote from the Messiah, offering a favorable blurb for terrorist Bill Ayers' book. 

Thanks to ECM

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All that stuff about ACORN...

...it isn't a big deal. Why it's all the fault of their canvassers.

And if you've got any questions about Barack Obama's ties to the group, well, I'm sure a call to his campaign will clear all of that up:

Obama represented ACORN as an attorney, along with the U.S. Justice Department, in a successful 1995 lawsuit against the state of Illinois that made it easier for people to register at driver's license offices. He has disavowed any connection to ACORN's current voter-registration effort.

Republicans have claimed he is linked more closely to ACORN than he acknowledges.

And it's not like a news organization like the Seattle P.I. would need to make a couple of calls or do a Google search to find out if Obama has connections to ACORN in the past, right?  Like his work as a trainer for ACORN.  Which totally never happened.  Right?  Those nasty Republicans are just a bunch of jerks, huh?

Oh, wait. Apparently they didn't make any calls or do any Google searches about any of that, seeing as how that was the final paragraph of the story. 
And that was the truth.  I mean, they said so, right?

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Interesting thoughts on ACORN voter fraud

Check this out over at Nice Deb's, the same guy who founded the SEIU, started ACORN, and the SEIU filed an amicus brief with the Brunner in Ohio.  Dude was also a former member of the SDS.  There are other SDS members who've been involved with Obama's campaign, Ayers of course being the most famous. 

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Check out the big balls on Bob

One Robert Bauer writes to Attorney General Michael Mukasey:

"It is apparent,'' he wrote, that law enforcement officials are serving "improper political objectives...''

You're damn right there, Mr. Bauer. You're damn right...


Oh, wait. The thing is, Bauer isn't complaining about the Missouri law enforcement officials acting as an Obama Truth Squad at all. No, it turns out he's bitching about this:

Obama's campaign attorney said the investigation should look into a leak to the news media that the FBI is probing allegations of voter registration fraud by a grassroots organization called ACORN. The group's activities were denounced by Republican nominee John McCain in the Oct. 15 presidential debate.

Robert Bauer, general counsel to the Obama campaign, wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey a day after the Associated Press, citing unidentified law enforcement officials, reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating ACORN. The name is short for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

That's right. Robert Bauer, Obama's campaign attorney, is complaining about the idea that the FBI might be investigating ACORN for voter fraud, claiming that the aim of the investigations is to "suppress the vote and to unduly influence investigations and prosecutions."

Un-fucking-believable.

Update: The McCain campaign responds.

(Via JammieWearingFool, who has a quote from an earlier version of the article that seems to have gone down the memory hole.)

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I'm shocked!

Roger Ebert gave W. 4 stars.

Seriously, is that an anti-Republican, pro-Lefty movie that he hasn't given at least 3 stars? 

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Surprise!

The whole thing about Obama offering 95% of Americans a tax cut while increasing spending by umpty-billion bucks? Well, it turns out that the plan is kinda vague.

I know. I'm shocked about that, too.

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Civilized political discourse

I'll leave it up to you to guess which sides the victim and the culprit in this case are supporting:

A man was ticketed for unlawful dumping after admitting to putting dog feces in his neighbor's truck for political reasons. Police Sgt. Jerry Edblad said a 19-year-old St. Cloud man told police he has found small baggies of dog feces in the back of his pickup truck for the past few weeks.

The bags of dog shit started appearing in the back of his truck after he put up a sign in his yard supporting a certain candidate.  This one sure is a real puzzler...

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I Know! Let's Trust Those TV Debate Analysts!

Especially Jeffrey Toobin.

He seems focused on the debate.

Thanks to David Cho

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You'll plumb in the gulag!

The media is already doing what they can to destroy Joe the Plumber for daring to embarrass Dear Leader.  Anyone surprised?  No?

UPDATE: Of course.  DUmmies start up a thread to smear Joe the Plumber.

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Shocka: Lefty college professors support terrorist

Want to read a great big pile of crap sprinkled liberally (pun very intended) with weasel words and evasions? Well, look no further than this heaping helping of FAIL by one Jack Stripling at Inside Higher Ed:

William Ayers has been trashed by conservative pundits and labeled “an unrepentant domestic terrorist” by Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, but the University of Illinois at Chicago professor has garnered the support of a growing number of peers who admire his scholarship and see the attacks on him as an affront to academic freedom.

While I have no doubt that there's a raft of lefty college professors who admire Ayers' "scholarship" (among other things) let's cut the crap here, Jack. To say that he's been trashed" by conservatives is subjective, I guess, but that bit about him being "labeled" an unrepentant domestic terrorist (note the lack of scare quotes) is disingenuous at best, especially when one considers the famous interview he gave the NYT back in 2001. But moving on...

Ayers, who helped found a Vietnam-era protest group that was blamed for bombing government buildings, has been a faculty member at Illinois-Chicago since 1987. In a statement signed by faculty members across the country, professors have spoken out against “the demonization” of Ayers, whose alleged ties to the Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama have made headlines.

Oh, so they were "blamed" for bombing government buildings, Jack? That's funny. I kind of got the sense that they took, you know, credit for that shit. But I guess that's just me "trashing" respectable academics.

Now, for the statement:

“It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans,” reads the statement, which was posted on www.supportbillayers.org. “His participation in political activity 40 years ago is history; what is most relevant now is his continued engagement in progressive causes, and his exemplary contribution — including publishing 16 books — to the field of education.”

I don't doubt that hundreds of thousands of people "participated passionately" in various causes in the sixties. It's just that, you know, most of them didn't blow shit up. And forgive me for being impertinent, but that's still relevant now thanks to the fact that we've got a presidential candidate whose only qualification seems to be his vaunted sense of judgment, but who didn't see anything wrong with working with and (at least on occasion) socializing with an unrepentant domestic terrorist. Oh, and as far as his "exemplary contribution" to education, let's not forget that we're dealing with somebody who has a "small-c communist" philosophy as far as that's concerned.

I'd tell you to read the rest (everybody's least favorite fake Indian makes an appearance) but it'll probably cause you to throw up a little in your mouth.

(h/t)

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The Violent Left

Since the media is trying to repackage the "angry white male" of the 90s into "angry racist mobs," John Hawkins has put together a short list of choice quotes from various leftists, but of course, these are just emotional outbursts derived from the frustration over the war crimes and hate perpetrated by Republicans, they couldn't help themselves.

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Does Barack Obama Like Pie?

 

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Just a guy from the neighborhood

There's a link-rich column on the Obama-Ayers connection over at the American Spectator that's worth a read. Here's a taste:

EVEN IF WE ACCEPT the argument from ignorance, we know that Barack Obama had heard about Ayers' past by 2001, as a campaign spokesman recently admitted to Mark Halperin of Time magazine. That year, Ayers was photographed stomping on an American flag, He also reminisced about his bomber days in a profile that the New York Times had the misfortune to publish on September 11. People have parted company with each other for lesser reasons, but nothing Ayers did or said caused Obama to resign from the board of the comically progressive foundation on which they both served at the time.

Moreover, as Stanley Kurtz points out, when a New York Times reporter writes that Obama has never expressed sympathy for Ayers' radicalism, "he's flat wrong," In fact, Obama helped bankroll that radicalism via grants to school projects and community organizing groups that teach what Ayers calls his "small-c communist" philosophy.

Like they say, read the whole thing. And maybe pass it on to a friend or two who are sitting on the fence.  Do they really want a president who sees nothing wrong with communism in education policy, even of the "small-c" variety?

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ACORN and the Financial Meltdown

Here is a pretty good (seeming, I'm ignant but this jibes with what I DO know) map of the ACORN/Fannie/Freddie/Obama/Frank  situation.

(h/t: Absinthe & Cookies)

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Don't know much about history

You would think that lefties in South Carolina, of all places, would know a thing or two about this kind of thing:

Vandals spray-painted the words “Republican means slavery” on the door of the York County GOP campaign headquarters overnight Friday.

Oh, right, they're probably well aware of which party fought to free the slaves and which party fought not just against that, but for segregation and Jim Crow, too. They're just flinging poo.

Oh, and how's this for some irony (with my emphasis):

In York County, Republican leader Glenn McCall is among the first African-American [sic] to chair a county party in South Carolina. He’s also one of two black representatives on the 100-member Republican National Committee.

McCall said he believes the vandals were trying to influence voters at a time when polls show a tight contest.

“It just goes to show the election is much closer than folks would have you believe,” McCall said. “We have probably the most liberal ticket on the Democratic side that we’ve ever seen. When I look at the polls, it’s within the margin of error. There are people who are just getting nervous about that. As a result, they do desperate things.”

While I'm not sure I'd like to be the chairman of a county GOP organization right about now, I kind of doubt the experience is akin to being human chattel.

(Via Hehindeedpundit)

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Too Bad The Deciders Will Ignore This

Yeah, doing what Tapper references here is Freedom Of Speech, but it still is vile.

It's sad that probably the most even handed political reporter covering this election is Jake Tapper. And yet, the Deciders will ignore this for more coverage of a crazy old lady screaming that Obama is an Arab.*

H/T This comment by ECM.


* And given what is going on over at Ace's, I am not, by any means, defending the "monkey" or "Arab" references. Those fools, and those who defend them, have no place in my party or my conservative movement. I am just trying to point out the differences in coverage.

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