Exclusive: Thursday, April 3


Author: Presidential Watch 2008

Date Published: 2008-04-02


Presidential Watch – Daily – Thursday, April 3

 

Hillary's "Sniper Fire" + Obama's Pastor Disaster = McCain Looking McFine

Doug Giles, Clash Radio.com 

 

It seems as if Hillary's paranoid, narcissistic demons have become so powerful that they now override reality/common sense and Emily Rose her into saying things that are not just a little off but way out in left field. This chick is slippin.'

 

Is Hillary so far gone that she thought she could float the lie that as a sitting president's wife, their daughter, a famous comedian and a stack of other VIPs drew sniper fire in a foreign country and somehow it didn't make it on the evening news? I smell brains frying.

 

Unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton the proposed scenario her unclean spirits sold her on didn't play out like [her advisors] promised. She floated her lie and was totally busted. So, what did she do? What all liars do: namely, cover their lie with another lie. Hillary said she misspoke and has just been really tired and blah, blah, blah.

 

As one who has had morons who didn't know what they were doing discharge a weapon at my feet, there is no mistaking when you're being shot at. For Hillary to play this card shows how desperate and demented this dame really must be.

 

With Hillary getting busted for another double-meat-with-cheese-whopper lie with Obama's scat-laden, "I never knew my pastor for the last 20 years was a hating, racist ditz" twaddle, McCain is looking mighty McFine. Look, I don't care if McCain is 113 years old and isn't rabidly conservative on every issue; his character qualities of strength, honesty and steadfastness put him furlongs ahead of the feckless, deceptive, socialistic Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. Read article.

 

B'rer McCain and the Briar Patch

Clarice Feldman, American Thinker.com

 

In the classic Song of the South  the wily rabbit begs the fox not to throw him into the briar patch knowing (what the fox doesn't) that he can easily escape the bushes' thorns and jump off to freedom, and that the fox will certainly do what he has begged him not to do.

 

I loathe the co-called Campaign Finance Reform Act sponsored jointly by Senators McCain and Feingold after an unethical, if not illegal, largely sub rosa campaign by the tax exempt Pew Foundation. To me the Act is an unconstitutional abomination, but the Democrats, who had clearly pre-arranged their end run on the Act's strictures by creating countless 527 organizations (many of which were up and running when the Act took effect), no doubt figured that Senator McCain was their perfect patsy to spearhead the passage of this legislation which they could pawn off as a bipartisan clean government move.

 

We've now had time to see it in operation and know the 527s, in fact, can say and do almost whatever they choose in federal elections. They are not to coordinate with candidates' campaigns in their actions, but no one can look at big operations like MoveOn and say with a straight fact that this hard-to-enforce limitation has worked out well. It seems to me that ironically McCain-Feingold, which seemed a gift to the Democrats may well be a briar patch that allows McCain to leap off to victory but ensnare his opposition which thought it would hurt Republican candidates.

 

It seems to me that ironically McCain-Feingold which seemed a gift to the Democrats may well be a briar patch that allows McCain to leap off to victory but ensnare his opposition which thought it would hurt Republican candidates. Read article.

 

Teflon John? Democrat Attacks Fall Short

Guy Benson, Townhall.com

 

If a salacious political firestorm is the media equivalent of Christmas morning, the events of the past few weeks have packed American punditry's stockings to the brim. From the appalling videos of Jeremiah Wright, to Barack Obama's cynical evasion of his pastor problem, to Hillary Clinton's Bosnia fables, the nation's televisions, radios and blogs are abuzz with the energy of scandal.

 

Lost in the shouting, analysis and breathless reporting is an important political development: The Democrats have offered a few recent glimpses at their initial plan of attack against John McCain, and the clumsy, off-the-mark contents of their general election playbook should be encouraging to Republicans.

 

Fortunately, a prominent Democratic campaign adviser has provided Republicans with fresh ammunition to combat the '100 years' argument. It turns out that Gen. Tony McPeak, an Obama military confidant, made almost precisely the same argument about Iraq in a 2003 interview. When asked about Iraq he said, "We'll be there a century, hopefully. If it works right." So whenever Obama regurgitates the 100 years line to ridicule McCain, Republicans can simply cite Obama's own adviser, who sided with McCain on that particular point. Read article.

 

Media Rally 'Round Latest Democratic Deity: Journalists Glorify Barack Obama as Martin Luther, Jonas Salk and Nelson Mandela of Campaign ’08 

Reality Check, Media Research.org

 

Panicked by the success of Rush Limbaugh's “Operation Chaos” — urging conservatives to vote for Hillary Clinton in upcoming primaries to keep the Democrats in disarray — liberal reporters are becoming even more outspoken in praising the man they regard as the all-but-certain Democratic nominee, Barack Obama.

 

CBS's Harry Smith sounded like a teenage groupie on the April 1 Early Show: “Obama's rock star status is reaching historic levels. His rallies attract more fans than a Hannah Montana concert and seats are impossible to get. Believe me I've tried.” Over on ABC's Good Morning America, correspondent Claire Shipman didn’t want either liberal to lose: “Think of the race as a pro wrestling match between Martin Luther King and Eleanor Roosevelt. Whoever loses, it will be America that winds up feeling bruised.”

 

Print reporters are pulling out the stops, too. Read article.

 

Slam dunks are only in basketball

Wesley Pruden, Washington Times.com

 

Presidential candidates are a lot like new shoes. They fit better after a few strolls around the block. A candidate's flaws that look fatal in April look more like footnotes in October.

 

The row between the women and the blacks in the Democratic primaries is more entertainment than meltdown, but some Democrats are about to reach for the panic button. When the going gets tough the not-so-tough surrender to hysteria. The new polling numbers by Rasmussen, the most reliable pollster of the moment, would in fact be terrifying for the Democrats if this were October. But this is only almost April, not October.

 

What's happening among the Democrats illustrates once more that slam dunks are for March Madness, not presidential elections. Barring candidates like George McGovern and Barry Goldwater, there are no slam dunks in November.

 

Only a few weeks ago, the Democrats could hardly wait for November. But now look: Barack Obama, once the beige knight on a dappled horse, got caught hanging out with hatemongers and America-lasters in Chicago, and Hillary, ever the coquette, got caught flirting with the race issue, making up war stories about her heroics in Bosnia, and otherwise being a Clinton. Read article.

 

“Embedded Bitterness Stalls Change”

Austin Bay, Democracy-Project.com

 

Unfortunately, Obama is a victim of his own political calculations. As he worked his way through the morass of Illinois Democratic Party politics he yoked himself to a decayed and deeply-racialist spiritual adviser – and benefited politically from that connection.

 

Wright’s pulpit pounding fits of sustaining anger and embedded bitterness frustrate healing and mediation. If we’re going to criticize the US for the historical irony and travesty of permitting slavery and segregation while exalting freedom, then let’s skewer Jeremiah Wright for the personal, contemporary travesty of promoting racist hooey in the name of civil rights.

 

His slur that the US government created AIDS in order to attack ethnic minorities to a vicious, inexcusable, and racist falsehood. It follows the conspiratorial and ethnic-charged motif of Slobodan Milosevic’s anti-Albanian and anti-Bosniak Muslim rants. No – I am not saying it is the same thing. Wright is no Milosevic. He doesn’t command an army and he is no murderer. As Obama has said when defending him, Wright has a legacy of positive community development and he is a complex, multi-dimensional man. He has, however, danced in the same dangerous rhetorical flames and spit –in calculated fashion-- the venom of relentless bitterness.

 

Which is why –if he wants to be president-- Obama must dump Wright, without qualification. Read article.

 

Bush's Last Laugh

TNR.com

 

In the recent history of presidential campaigning, April is the time when hope springs eternal. When every Democratic general election candidate--Michael Dukakis! John Kerry!--looks like he might have the stuff to pull off a landslide. It is the time to heal from the knocks and bruises suffered during the primary season. You raise money, you begin building a case for the fall, you vet vice presidential candidates, you start to knock around your opponent, and you still have time to head to Florida to work on your tan.

 

That's what makes the road to the Denver convention so damn frustrating. John McCain is heir to a presidency whose accomplishments now include an economy careening toward a deep recession; on issue after issue, public opinion mirrors the Democrats' policies. This should be the one election that even the party of Dukakis couldn't screw up.

 

There are many reasons to believe that this primary season will end in tears for Democrats. Democrats are spending millions of dollars bludgeoning one another in ways that can't help but abet McCain--while McCain does a neat job of consolidating his base and building goodwill with the rest of the electorate.

 

All of which is to say that it's about time for the Democratic Party to panic. If it wants to win this election, it needs this race to end as soon as possible. Every day spent on the primaries represents an opportunity cost and diminishes the chances for ultimate victory. Read article.

 

Obama Backs-Off From His Own Buzzwords

Austin Hill, Townhall.com

 

Barack Obama got caught.

 

It wasn’t a flip-flop on the order of John Kerry’s “I voted for the war before I voted against it” moment. But Obama did, for an instant, back away from his own buzz words and “hate speech“ (I‘ll explain the “hate speech“ below), and contradicted himself. This begs an important question: how far will the buzz words and hate speech propel him in a general election cycle?

 

First, let's examine the buzz words.

 

As for America’s economic victims, Democrats will most often describe these people as “working Americans,” or ‘working families,” or “middle-class Americans.“ This is absurdly broad, and is almost as silly as singling-out “breathing Americans.” Given adequate physical capacity, most Americans breathe, all on their own. Similarly, most able-bodied Americans work - - regardless of our race, socio-economic status, family history, religion, or education - - and most of us are middle-class as well.

 

But the Democrats’ use of this broad, far-reaching terminology sets-up an interesting political paradigm. By implication, it implies that there are some participants in our American economy who don’t “work” - - they just “get rich” off of other people’s toil.

 

Obama has had enormous political success with this rhetoric, especially in front of college students and blue-collar manufacturing workers. But then he sat down for a live interview with Maria Bartiromo, Anchor at the CNBC Cable TV financial news channel, and things went quite differently.

 

Roughly halfway into the interview, Bartiromo asked Obama about how high he might like to raise the capital gains tax above its current rate of 15%. [Editor’s note: What a confused, contradictory, embarrassingly vapid reply he gave. VIEW VIDEO OF INTERVIEW HERE.] The point here is simple: “the politics of envy” works great on the campaign trail, but as fiscal policy it threatens to harm all Americans, and is ultimately untenable. Read article.

 

Barack Obama: Patron Saint of San Francisco?

Cinnamon Stillwell, Cinnamon Stillwell Blog.com

 

Obama fever has overtaken San Francisco. Undeterred by the conspiracy theories, hatred, and vitriol spewed by Obama's 20-year "like an uncle to me" pastor, Jeremiah Wright, local liberals are in thrall to their perceived savior. They seem to think that every problem, no matter how trivial, can be solved by Saint Obama.

 

As a case in point, an elderly man I was chatting with yesterday at a city bus stop about MUNI delays (a time-honored tradition in San Francisco) concluded by stating, "I hope Obama gets elected so these things will be fixed." So, along with ending poverty and creating world peace, Obama's going to make the buses run on time. Read article.

 

McCain’s Incoherent New World Order

Cliff Kincaid, AIM.org

 

In his March speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, McCain never mentioned the need to preserve American sovereignty. He could have reassured conservatives by stating his forthright opposition to Senate ratification of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, which provides for international control over billions of dollars worth of oil, gas and minerals and undermines American claims to North Pole riches. But he chose not to.

 

Instead, as the Washington Post put it, McCain promised “a collaborative foreign policy,” conducted in coordination with other nations. The New York Times said he distanced himself from “unilateralism” in foreign affairs.

 

“Liberals are going to love this speech,” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh said about the McCain address. He said it sounded like the “global test” that liberal Democratic presidential candidate and Senator John Kerry had proposed for U.S. foreign policy in 2004. Read article.

 

Barackwurst versus Hillbasa

Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Live.com

 

The Democratic primary is so close you can taste it.

 

Franktuary, a gourmet hot dog shop in Downtown Pittsburgh, has begun offering two new creations: the Barackwurst and the Hillbasa. Adorning both are red, white and blue condiments.

 

"We feel good about our chances in the Sausage Poll," Clinton campaign spokesman Mark Nevins said. "The Hillbasa is known to be a more accomplished sausage that is ready to be served on Day One. The Barackwurst, while impressive, simply does not offer the same robust profile as the Hillbasa."

 

"The people of Pennsylvania have been enjoying bratwurst for decades," said Obama campaign spokeswoman Debbie Mesloh. "This culinary delight just makes a better quality of life for the people of Pennsylvania and throughout the country. Bratwurst helps to keep America strong and prosperous."

 

Franktuary operatives continue to work out the details of another menu addition planned for this fall, the McCainine. Read article.

 

Obama ‘intended to leave no paper trail'

Klaus Marre, The Hill.com

 

The president of a prominent watchdog group said Wednesday that he believes Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “intended to leave no paper trail” during his time in the Illinois Senate.

 

Judicial Watch, which has been seeking access to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) records from her time in the White House, argued Wednesday that the Illinois senator, who has criticized the former first lady for a lack of openness, has his own “records problem.”

 

“The more we learn about the Illinois Senator, the more obvious it becomes that he is anything but the ethically upright outsider he purports to be,” said Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch. Read article.

 

 

 

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