Fireworks, Greek columns, and lies...

"Did you see it? Were you there? AAAAAHHHHH!!! He's here! He touched my hand!!! I'll never wash my hand again!!!"
Are Obamaniacs any better than Dittoheads (google it)?
What struck me about Obama Presley was how he can come out and "outline" his plans without saying anything. I mean really nice talking points but where's the meat? They were bullet points that are hard to argue with (many of them anyway). The real question is HOW? How will you live up to the promises? And with who's money? The government's money oh I see, hmmm... remind me again where they get their money.
The other part that got under my skin were the half-truthes and lies about himself and McCain.
"McCain voted with the President over 90% of the time. Well check out the pot calling the kettle black (can I say that?). He voted with his own party 97% of the time, but don't worry we're all about CHANGE! That's why he picked one of the longest tenured people from Washington to be his running mate because "the best ideas don't come from Washington, they come TO Washington." Oh wait that didn't illustrate his point at all did it. Oops!
He promises to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. Hmmm... the bottom 50% don't pay taxes and the top 5% pay most of the taxes. How's that going to work? Where will he get the money to fund all the health care and college funds again? Hmmm...
No capital gains on small businesses? Remind me where will all this money come from for stuff? And what's a small business? Hmmm...who decides that?
He's not good at understanding these new form of communication called a JOKE. He made as a statement of fact that John McCain defines middle class people as "those earning less than five million dollars." McCain did say that as an obvious joke and even told us it would be taken out of context. Watch, he goes on to talk about fiscal responsibility. Well said McCandidate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zovk-H5qmBE

Back to "The Chosen One."
Does he really expect us to believe that he will balance the budget with more entitlements?
And which programs that "don't work" will he be cutting? Hmmm... this is going to get interesting. If McCain can engage him maybe he can expose O ditty as the fraud that he is. McMaverick has got two months to press Obama-a-rama to explain how he's figured "every dime" in his fiscal plans. That's a lot of coin! Who is he "O-Rainman"?
I look forward to the debates he's promising, that he's conveniently avoided all summer. "Oh what's that Mr. McCain, you want to debate? I was unaware of all your numerous invitations." Of course town hall meeting style won't work, you can't fit enough Obamaniacs in a town hall. Hmmm...how about the SUPERDOME in the friendly confines of New Orleans? There's nothing he could do to use that as politcal drama could he?

I love McCains new ads. Here's a great one. He only uses Demo's words and even Obama's own words about how he's not prepared to be President. BRILLIANT!!! Somebody on his staff has a McBrain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nA1MwOE86U

We need a better name for Obamaniacs. How about "Zobamies--the walking BRAIN-DEAD." Post your submission. Somebody has got to have something even better to describe people who support an inexperienced "leader" and don't even know why they like him (Hillary had her own crew.) Maybe its the syncopation of his name O-BAM-A. See its easy for the weak minded to chant. Mc-Cain doesn't work so well. He needs a more chantable name. Does McCain know any Jedi mind tricks?

Is it just me or does this sound like a politcal race in Ireland between McCain and O'bama?

Not just any woman.

I've spoken about Sara Palin here already twice. So you should already know my opinion there. I do have to say something about the public's reaction to her nomination. There's one group in particular that is amusing because they are such hypocrites. FEMINISTS! I love the feminists who are saying that they are insulted that the GOP would think that they'd be happy with "ANY WOMAN" since their standard bearer is out of the race! They are questioning this in a very funny turn of events. Here they cry discrimination all the time about qualified women being passed over for a less qualified man. They want quotas for females in hiring (not always worrying about how qualified a given individual is). They even called Ted Kennedy "Sexist" when he pledged support for Obama not Hillary last fall (would he have been racist if he'd supported Hillary instead of "O-BAM-A"?) And now that the Republicans are putting a woman on the ticket, all they can say is it is demeaning to suggest that they would vote for someone just because she's a woman. That's funny when it was Hillary Clinton how many people did you hear say "Its about time a woman got elected President!" They would declare this with some conviction. Many of her supporters would be questioned about her credentials, her accomplishments even as a Senator. It was a riot watching them struggle to come up with anything (usually nothing). The response would be then simply "I just think it's time for a woman..." or "I think its a womans turn now." Or the best and my favorite was when they would say that "she was married to the President for eight years" usually followed by some asinine comment about how we'd get Bill back too. Totally discounting her credentials, her capabilities, or qualifications because "she is a woman" and "its about time;" and as if that wasn't enough suggesting that we'll have Bill back so its a good thing. So if she doesn't know the answer then Bill will be there to back her up, or fix it. Wow! Isn't that a great endorsement for your candidate. At least Palin has executive experience, limited as it may be she's more qualified than Hillary is.
Which brings me to my other question, why is hillary the piece de resistance? What makes her the gold standard? If you tell me that she's got White House experience I'll flip out. Would you call your electrician's wife to rewire your house, or the wife of my plumber to install a new disposal in your home, would you? Even if she "ran the office" she wasn't "the guy (girl) right?"
Hillary is funny because she wasn't the one doing the foreign relations, she wasn't crafting policy, she wasn't running with and against congress. She's not it! Why they voted her into office in NY is beyond me. What has she accomplished there? Anything? Anyone? Buhler?...
Palin has done those type of executive things, boldly and with much success in spite of difficult circumstances and her not fitting "the mold." Would you ever imagine a place like Alaska would elect a woman, any woman? C'mon now seriously the frozen tundra?!? Yet she's taken on the big boys in Oil and other industries and enjoys a tremendous amount of support from her constituents. She must be doing something right.
This doesn't change the fact that I won't be voting this year. I fully intended on voting for the McCain ticket (when all of the better candidates dropped out). I can't vote for this ticket (if you haven't learned why yet then review my previous briefings starting with the one titled "The Fat Lady has Sung!" Fat Lady reference has nothing to do with this lady. She's only fat with a PH-PHAT!
I do think that there will be some fun things here if she and McCain are elected. Just think, briefings could get interesting, esp. if she became pres. "Madam President, do we push the button?" "Hang on little Trig needs to breastfeed." This sounds like an unbelievable hollywood movie about a woman, a "hockey mom for president" strollers and car seats littering the white house, secretary of defense holding the baby and getting puked on. The Lincoln bedroom is now the Lincoln Nursery painted with baby blues and stickers of "Lightning McQueen" on the walls and windows. How many stars would this get? Is Gina Davis available to play the president again?

Here's a link to an interesting article from the "Free Republic" website. They said on August 17th that Palin should be the pick and why. Read the article and note one of her accomplishments. Its nothing really, only a project that no one has been able to get done for 30 years, its also the biggest construction project in US history. Yep, she did it. Thin resume? I think not!
http://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/2063488/posts

P.S. what about calling McCain "McQueen" in honor of the movie "Cars." Nah we should probably call him Doc Hudson, an old cranky car that runs the town and was "All that!" back in the day.

Drilling in ANWR? Hmmmm...

We can't drill there its so "pristine" we can't touch it. The caribou, and polar bears etc. Why can't we touch it? Anyone ever seen ANWR? I'm not talking about the mountains, while that may be part of ANWR its not the tiny section that the oil companies want to drill. Check it out here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5MfpchQ2JE

No this isn't National Geographic but they will back this up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMKcxVdju8Q

Yes liberals you'll get upset that I'm putting links to Hannity and now Glenn but listen please with an open mind. There's something for us all to learn here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJMFbwpLSM

The funny part is that the liberals want to say that they are looking out for YOU and the "poorest among us," is that by keeping us dependent on foreign oil? Or is it by keeping gas prices high? I know how to fix it, lets tax the oil companies, that won't come back to haunt us will it? Hmmm. If you want to create high paying jobs, then let them drill. No it won't solve everything, and it won't be an immediate decrease at the pump, then again nothing will. Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to have oil coming from our own country rather than overseas? Hmm.
I live in Utah, and here and in Wyoming where drilling for natural gas has increased we've seen increased home values, an increase jobs and pay. In Vernal, Utah I'm told there are people earning $10/hour with benefits at McDonald's. Why would that be? Hmmm, could it be that the drilling fields are just too tempting? I spoke with a man who paves roads for the county out there, a job that is coveted in many places, good pay, cushy benefits. He told me that the biggest problem they have is trying to stay staffed. The locals can't resist the money in the fields. I've met people who've either not finished High School, or barely sqeaked by and are earning $80,000/year.
In Utah we have oil shale, rocks dripping with oil. It takes a bit to process it, but with oil prices passing $3/gallon it became economically feasible. If congress wants to be energy independant like they say then open up the western basin, open up ANWR, open up the ocean and gulf for drilling. Let us make and produce the oil, and then we can sell the extra overseas. Russia is making a killing, Iran, Iraq are lapping it up. Venezuela is loving it, do you notice that none of these countries are real keen on the US of A? Lets pull the plug on them. No it won't be today, but if we drilled now we'd have it later. If we'd drilled when Reagan proposed it we'd have had it ten years ago. Carter is the one who set it aside for possible oil production.
I just love how the people who are so opposed to drilling in ANWR usually have never seen a picture of it and are clueless about the scope of the proposed drilling area. The biggest part of all of this is that oil is a market based product. The companies willing to drill it are the ones who face the big risk, what has the US to gain or lose. We can gain a lot from the royalties that they will charge, and more security in having the resources here rather than overseas. We could have an oil spill, but much of this would be piped. They don't drill in the summer because the ground is too soft. Thats when the caribou come out anyway, so what's the big fuss? The only real thing that the pipeline has ever had happen is to attract more animals in the winter to the warmth. The caribou population and even the polar bears have increased in number in the last 30 years. Hmmm, isn't that similar to the time the pipeline has been there? Hmmm, sounds bad to me too. And since ANWR can't solve ALL of our problems, lets do nothing to secure our oil reserves at all. That's better.
But don't worry Al Gore says that the "new technology is around the corner." I'm sure we can change all of our power plants, cars, boats, ships, planes in the next few years, in fact in 10 years we'll probably have no use whatsoever for oil. Isn't that great? Oh wait, what do you mean plastic and vinyl are made from oil? That's just crazy talk. We'll make plastic from bat dung instead. Oooo how green is that?

P.S. More electric cars means more coal burning since most of our electric plants are run on coal and no wind can't replace all of that.

She's a Brick WAH WAH WAH House!

Okay, okay the old man picked the sweet young thing. I admit she has decent credentials, but how much will the demos and the 527's try to play this up? The two of them look like a father and daughter or the gold digger couple. So is she really just a trophy VP or a serious candidate. I know she has several accomplishments including mayor for two terms, yes it was a small town but it was executive experience with budgets and all. However she also was impressive enough to get elected governor and hold 80-90% approval ratings. That wasn't superficial. Yes she is more than "just a pretty face." It will be fun to see how Mr. no experience attacks Mrs. I've got more than you do. I just want to see who catches Joe Biden on tape saying that she's "...drop dead gorgeous..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YX2FczojUc

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The fat lady has sung!

What a lousy VP pick. McCain just put the final nail in his own coffin. I guess he doesn't have what it takes to be president. This selection is little more than political theatre. She won't bring in any votes. I'm sure the thought is that the feminists, and Clintonistas will come over and not vote for Obama choosing a woman, and lifetime feminist rather than someone from their own party. Good luck with that! After his performance last night, with all the fanfare and now McCain's choice, we've got nothing. McCain is doing "anything to win" even using parlor tricks like this, which just won't work. This looks like desperation to me. He could've brought in others who would've been more helpful although more controversial like Romney (for his money and business sense, to compliment McCains weakness on the economy), Ridge or Leiberman for being and independent despite their abortion stances, even Pawlenty would've been better. Well I guess that's that.
I can't support her because she goes against so many things that I think are important like stay at home mothers. I think more can be done to change the world by staying at home with your children and raising them up right than what can be done holding public office. Yes she cleaned up corruption in Alaska (although she's been accused of her own corruption too, check it out on Wikipedia.com) but each time she has been elected it was with small children at home. Her youngest (with Downs Syndrome no less) was born in April of this year. These children need a full time mother, not Vice President. She doesn't "have-to work" she's not a single mom or someone who faces financial hardship. This is an elected office she is seeking. I can't vote for her to do that to her family again.
Well i guess we'll have to see who we can field in 2012, maybe 4 years of Obama/Biden will get the party straight and cure America of (a) its infatuation with celebrities/novelties like Obama (b) its taste for folks like McCain who don't follow Republican ideals of small government and low taxes (c)its prejudice against people like Mitt Romney for nothing more than his religious beliefs (d) its taste for political schemers and conivers like Hillary Clinton.
Until then the political cartoonists and pundits will have a field day for the next four years providing we aren't a socialist/communist country by then.
God speed!