The Race Card

Barack Obama was trying to say that John McCain is trying to scare voters from electing Obama and went on to say "You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on the dollar bills."

John McCain's campaign cried foul and said that Obama is playing the race card and Obama's campaign replied "Barack Obama in no way believes that the McCain campaign is using race as an issue, but he does believe they're using the same old low-road politics to distract voters from the real issues in this campaign."

What did Barack Obama think when he said he doesn't look like the men on the money? Any rational person knows exactly what he meant. He said what he meant and he meant what he said. Then when McCain responds he accuses McCain of dirty politics. I guess Obama expects that even his opponents are supposed to fawn all over him in the manner of the main stream media.

The media has inserted itself into the story.

Listening to the main stream media one would believe John McCain and his campaign have said nothing in the past week other than complaints about the media's love-fest with Senator Barack Obama. All McCain did was merely state the obvious, but they're not going to let him get away with it.

Rather than report the story, the media has now become the story, intertwined with the Obama campaign. They've entered into a credibility damaging viscious circle that goes something like "We love Obama, now we are reporting on our love for Obama because his opponent pointed it out, so we must now attack the opponent".

ABC News has the headline Anatomy of an Attack: How McCain Hit Obama - McCain Camp Seethed, Then Began Landstuhl Attack by Touting Hannity Comments on their website. Including the title, the article mentions the McCain campaign "seething" three times. About McCain's ad regarding Obama scrapping his plans to visit our wounded troops the author writes "The McCain campaign dropped the bomb...... an extraordinarily harsh attack line: 'And now, he made time to go to the gym, but cancelled a visit with wounded troops'."

Of course, ABC made the Obama campaign's retort sound extremely reasonable: "The Obama campaign was quick to cry foul.....This politicization of our soldiers is exactly what Sen. Obama sought to avoid." They failed to point out that had Senator Obama visited Landstuhl without the press it simply would have been a sincere gesture from the man who wants to be president. It became political when he scrapped the visit because he couldn't bring his reporters along.

When did criticizing a political opponent become an "extrordinarily harsh attack"? Oh yeah, when the politician making the criticism is the opponent of your love child.

Is Obama running for President of the USA or the EU?

Barack Obama is planning his big tour of Europe, details to be announced. He wanted to give a speech at Brandenburg Gate in Germany, but ran into a snafu when PM Angela Merkel raised objections as he is not a sitting president and why should a presidential hopeful use one of Germany's most historic places for political gain?

Barack Obama is billing (to us) his visit abroad as a "fact finding mission". He's as popular in Europe as he is with the left in the US. He's going over there on an adulation mission, on our dime.

He will also travel to Iraq, hoping to enhance his national security credentials. According to ABC News that may not be as easy as he thinks. Apparently the American troops over there aren't on board with his plan for defeat. They spoke to Major General Jeffrey Hammond about Obama's withdrawal plan.

Asked if he considered it dangerous to pull out if the withdrawal is not based on "conditions," Hammond said, "It's very dangerous. I'll speak for the coalition forces, men and women of character and moral courage; we have a mission, and it's not until the mission is done that I can look my leader in the eye and say, 'Sir, Ma'am, mission accomplished,' and I think it is dangerous to leave anything a little early."

At this point, who really knows what Obama plans to do if he's elected, he waffles so much it's hard to tell. But judging by what he has consistently said until recent weeks, it's a good bet that he will withdraw our troops before there is lasting stability in Iraq.

Our troops aren't on board with his withdrawal plan, they want to stay until the job is done. So what is his motivation to go to Europe and the Middle East? He knows that he's wildly popular with Europeans, Palestineans and the rest that are jealous, resentful and downright hostile to the United States. He wants to say to Americans "Look at me! The whole world loves me!" The problem with his plan is he's running to represent the United States of America. Rather than spend our money to go overseas, why doesn't he remain in the US, having a dialogue with the American people about his big spending, defeatist plans for us?

Mitt Romney-The Obvious Choice

Thanks in large part to the Democrat controlled, incompetent and irresponsible House and Senate, economic news seems to get worse every day. With the Democrats sabotaging our economy on so many different levels, it only makes sense for John McCain to choose Mitt Romney as his running mate.

Governor Romney has a proven track record as a successful business man. He understands the US economy better than most politicians, as he has actually worked in the private sector. When it comes to the issues Romney is right on just about everything. He has the ability to raise a ton of cash, which McCain is going to need to compete against Obama this fall.

Most people really don't care what religion he practices. To those who call him a flip-flopper: he has nothing on Obama. Much has changed since the primary season and now more than ever McCain needs a running mate with strong economic credentials.

On top of all of that, there is a lot of conservative support for Governor Romney, although that support came a bit too late for him to win the primary. His CPAC speech was a huge hit with the young conservatives and Romney could be just what Senator McCain needs to re-energize the conservative base.

Does anyone else see the irony?

Barack Obama is planning to give a speech in Berlin this summer. Apparently, he wants to speak about "re-building the trans-Atlantic alliance", whatever the heck that means. Didn't the election of Angela Merkel do that already?

One has to wonder which Obama will be speaking in Berlin. Will it be the far left Obama beloved by the American Communist Party or will Obama's second act continue? You know, the one where he pretends to be a more centrist candidate in the hopes of gaining favor with those of us who hold more traditional values.

It is very ironic, that a man whose policy proposals seem to be right out of the Communist Manifesto has chosen Berlin as the venue of a major speech.

Related posts:

Obama on Patriotism
Collectivists vs. the Individual
Obama the Collectivist

Update: From the Brussels Journal, read about what the Europeans are saying about the flap about Obama's Berlin speech.

2008 McCain Landslide?

The American Thinker has an interesting piece today by Kyle-Anne Shriver-Could 2008 be a McCain Landslide? The scenario wouldn't be surprising at all.

Obama keeps making mistakes. Nobody really knows where he stands because of his nearly constant shifting of positions. At least with McCain, he's been around long enough where we can trust he is who claims to be. Who is Barack Obama, really?

He was born in Hawaii, raised in Indonesia and spent his young adult life hanging with radical left-wingers in Chicago. He went to a church with a racist pastor for 20 years. He wrote a couple of books hyped by Oprah and became a millionaire. He spends $10,000 a year on dance lessons for his kids. Most of the time he's been a US senator has been spent campaigning for the presidency. Yet he acts like he knows what life is like for average Americans in Kansas, Indiana or Tennessee. Who does he think he's fooling?

Dan Maffei-bought and paid for by the far left

Dan Maffei is running for Congress in New York's 25th district. He's running a new commercial in which he says that his grandfather's little factory closed and one hundred Syracusans lost their jobs. He is going to "stay and fight" to make Syracuse a great place to live again.

He says in his commercial that people leave NY for jobs in other states. Yet he fails to see the connection between the liberals in NY and their policies which have caused businesses to close and people to move away. People don't leave New York to live in California, New Jersey or Massachussetts. They leave NY to live in states with low taxes, where people can still afford to do business.

Mr. Maffei likes to remind us that he grew up in Syracuse. He leaves out the part about him being in Washington DC for most of his adult life. He doesn't mention that the only reason he moved back from Washington was to run for Congress. He also fails to mention where all of his campaign cash is coming from. His donors include the likes of George Soros and Eliot Spitzer. That doesn't include the thousands given to him by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

His sales pitch about being a home town kind of guy is nonsense. The people weren't buying it the last time around. Let's hope they don't buy it this time.

Hey Obama-Slavery is Illegal in the US!

Slavery:
noun
1. the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage]
2. the practice of owning slaves
3. work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
Dictionary.com

I guess Barack Obama didn't get the memo that a war was fought in America and slavery was abolished. From his own website:

Obama will set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year. He will develop national guidelines for service- learning and will give schools better tools both to develop programs and to document student experience. Green Job Corps: Obama will create an energy-focused youth jobs program to provide disadvantaged youth with service opportunities weatherizing buildings and getting practical experience in fast-growing career fields.

Don't you love the way they call it "service learning"? Does that somehow change the definition of his plan?

Barack Obama Picks up a Key Endorsement

Barack Hussein Obama has picked up the endorsement of North Korea and Kim Jong Il!

The newspaper expressed hope of better ties between North Korea and the United States under an Obama administration, saying that even if McCain won the election, he could not reverse U.S.-North Korea ties.

Pyongyang favors Obama because he has vowed to meet leaders of rogue states, such as the North Korean leader, without conditions if elected.

Barack Obama now has endorsements from most of America's enemies, including Hamas, Venezuela and Jimmy Carter.

Thank you to the American Interests blog for tipping me off.