Unpatriotic Dissent

Obama decides to stifle the opposition - to him - in the final days of the race:

Journalists from three major newspapers that endorsed John McCain have reportedly been booted from Barack Obama's campaign plane for the final leg of the presidential race.

The Washington Times reported Friday that it was notified of the Obama campaign's decision Thursday evening -- even though the paper has covered Obama from the start.

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The New York Post and Dallas Morning News also have been kicked off Obama's plane, according to the Web site The Drudge Report.

Well, so much for Obama's claims to post-partisanship. I guess you're either for him or against him.

Obama's Version of Family

In his acceptance speech in Denver, Democratic (socialist) Party presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama said:

"That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper."

Only, not so much:

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.

And, don't forget that half-brother who lives in a hut in Kenya, too.

If he's this cavalier and uninterested in taking care of his own relatives - now that he's a millionaire running for POTUS - do you really think he's going to be interested in the people of this country?

Thank god for the British press, for they know not what they do.

The Tale of the Tapes

So the LA Times is suppressing a tape in which Barry H. Obama praises a Palestinian terrorist cum university professor. Well, this should be damning enough even without the audio or video of B. Hussein O. praising a Palestinian terrorist:

John McCain's presidential campaign Tuesday accused the Los Angeles Times of "intentionally suppressing" a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet where then-state Sen. Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian scholar and activist.

In this parlance, activist=terrorist and scholar=propagandist.

Obama Hates the Constitution

Listen to Obama talk about the Constitution:


And then there's this:



Obama thinks the Constitution is flawed? He's upset the Supreme Court won't pursue redistributionist legal decisions? What country does he think he lives in?

Much more at Ace of Spades HQ.

The Latest Trick

Ann Althouse examines the latest lie by the mainstream media about Sarah Palin:

"[Sarah Palin] is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone. She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else."

"Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

Althouse rightly notes the anonymity of the source making the claim, and one of her commenters notes:

A controversial claim resting on attribution to an unnamed source, that serves the agenda of the agency? Why should I not think it's a lie? I say they made it up. Name the source and give us the video of them saying it, or tell us why we shouldn't think you're lying. You don't get to behave the way you've behaved and ask for trust.

The mainstream media have committed seppuku this election cycle, doing everything they can to push Obama over the finish line ahead of McCain, and this is nothing different, trying to spread a new meme late in the game to try to influence undecideds (if there are any). Will the lies get bigger and more outrageous the closer we get to election day? Probably.

The final October Surprise has yet to be sprung.

This Can't Be Good

For Obama's version of a national "health plan:"

From his sickbed, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has secretly been orchestrating meetings with lobbyists and lawmakers from both parties to craft legislation that would greet the new president with a plan to provide affordable medical coverage to all Americans, a measure he has called "the cause of my life."

So, before Obama's even elected, other members of his own party are outflanking him on key bits of his platform, with Kennedy seeking the "glory" for forcing Americans onto a government-run health "insurance" plan. I'm guessing the long-term Congressional Democrats are going to roll Obama like a drunk hobo if Obama is elected, and as a result, Obama is going to have to go all Stalin on them to get them in line, which could result in total chaos in Congress as the Democratic wings slug it out for control of the power.

Let Slip the Socialist Mask

The real Barack Hussein Obama:



Via Gateway Pundit. Obama lives in some distopian alternate fantasy version of the United States of America, and he wants to seize power and actually create a distopian version of the United States of America.

Oh, sure, he thinks it'll be utopia, but that's because he's a millionaire who wants to spread the wealth around, just not his own.

Stealing the Election

The Democratic Party is trying to steal/buy the election, and they're not even hiding it. Everywhere across the nation, socialists pretending to be Democrats are hoovering up illegal campaign contributions by the millions, one and ten and $200 at a time. Ace has the links.

Now, if the left succeeds at stealing this election, does the Second Civil War begin on Nov. 5? Because, seriously, if they do steal this one, they'll continue to steal all the rest until the end of time until the media begins reporting that 99% of the vote was cast in favor of Democrat Party politicians and 1% of the population is sent to Alaskan re-education camps where they are taught how to be "real" Americans.

Obsession

The mainstream media is, oddly, obsessed with Sarah Palin's shoes and wardrobe. Or, maybe, just her legs. Question: why no obsession with hyper-sexualizing Michelle Obama or Jill Biden? Aren't they sexy, fashionable women?

I don't know about you, but the Republican ticket has the hotter chicks. Michelle and Jill ain't bad looking - Jill was probably a hottie in her youth - but if this were one of those Magic the Gathering card games, the Rs would take the Ds deck.

If that's how those games work, that is.

Not that this means anything, but the mainstream media brought it up, first.

The Next October Surprise...

Via Ace of Spades HQ, the latest bit of information regarding the supposed "economic crisis" we're in:

During a meeting with business leaders in Louisiana, George Bush said people's attitudes had changed from "near panic" to a "more relaxed" approach.

He put it down to the effects of the huge bail-out agreed with Congress to sustain the financial system.

Earlier, Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke said more government spending may be needed to combat the slowdown.

Although Mr Bernanke stopped short of saying the US was in recession, he said the American economy was likely to be weak for several quarters.

So, we're not in a recession, probably won't go into a recession, but things will maybe kinda sorta be "weak for several quarters," which means for the next however many quarters, GROWTH will continue to occur in the US economy. This phony economic crisis has been obvious to me since George Bush sprang it on us. The confusing part is why everybody in Congress went along with this? The angry part is that Bush - a Republican - sprang it on us five weeks before an election in which one of the major candidates for president is a dime store socialist bent on creating some sort of totalitarian nanny state.

Does Bush hate McCain so much that he would do this to America?

The really confusing part will come Nov. 5, when you realize that almost all of the asshats currently in Congress will have been re-elected to Congress, after having done this to us.

Econ 101

This is news? Really:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc's U.S. customers, increasingly worried about their own financial security, are waiting until they get their paychecks to buy even the most basic necessities, the retailer's U.S. division head said on Tuesday.

Uhh, shouldn't everyone automatically wait until they get paid before they start spending their money? Indeed, can you spend your money if you haven't been paid, yet? (Well, sure, if you want to use credit, but,well, that wouldn't be smart)

Evidence of an economic slowdown, or just the mainstream media reporting what should and or does happen as a matter of "real life"? What the hell does "waiting until they get their paycheks to buy even the most basic necessities" really mean, to boot? "Even the most basic"! Uhh, what non-basic necessities are people buying ahead of their paycheck arrival?

Idiots reporting economics.

Silent or Silenced?

Doug Ross produces a very good list of reasons not to vote for Obama, with links. I'd say forward to an Obama friend if you've got one, and I've got one, but if your friend is like mine, he's probably stopped clicking the links in the email.

Useless Idiots

How do you explain this:

Pushed to meet daily quotas and bullied by bosses if they didn't, Ohio ACORN workers faked voter registrations, signed up people more than once, and even paid off registrants to keep from being fired, its canvassers told The Post.

"Every day, there was pressure on us. Every single day," said Teshika Elder, a Cleveland single mom of three who worked for ACORN this summer.

"We had meetings every morning where they'd go over your quota; they'd yell at you if you were low," said Elder, 21. "They'd sit us down and say if you didn't do better, they'd suspend you. They'd say, 'Try harder next time,' [and] if you didn't get it, you'd be fired.

This is ACORN management threatening its employees to do better at "registering" "voters," and the idiots being managed willfully submit to be bullied for whatever couple-of-dollars-an-hour they were paid (anyone want to guess if they got minimum wage or "living wage"?). This is how idiotically stupid people on the left are, not even realizing the creeping totalitarianism they are willing to power and more-or-less eagerly submitting to.

But, I guess it must beat working for "the man." I mean, who wants to work at a Super Target and get the 10% employee discount when you can work for a state-sponsored voter fraud organization and ensure a 10% tax increase, more welfare benefits and food stamps?

Defining Racism Down

So, if it's racist to say "Barack Hussein Obama" because saying "Hussein" implies something - what, I don't know - then, does that mean that Obama's mother and father were racists for naming him "Barack Hussein Obama?"

Just asking, is all.

Or, "Go medieval on his ass"

What needs to happen to stop Obama:

What matters is defining Barack Obama. And McCain best realize that if he’s to have any chance whatever, he needs to continue to pound away at Obama’s political and ideological lineage and make the case to voters that the man who’s been speaking to them in pleasing bromides has, for his entire political life, been involved with organizations and causes that have very clear plans of action — and that those plans often involve redistribution of wealth, funding for “social justice,” and gaming the system to destroy it from within.
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In short, “Maverick” (gag) needs to flesh out Barack Obama — not because it might win him the election, but rather because we as a country deserve to be told what the press has worked so hard to cover up, rationalize away, and excuse. He needs to go negative like a fucking viking.

Jeff G. notes that if, after defining Obama for the electorate, it still eschews McCain in favor of Obama, well, it's our fault because we'd been told he's a socialist and all that. But the people in the electorate are ignorant about socialism as there's no overtly-hostile socialist totalitarian nightmare state on the planet to point toward as an example of what Obama wants to begin building right here at home (China won't do because of the state-managed capitalism and tourism: people can visit, stroll around, and buy stuff, something you couldn't do in the USSR). Just about anybody under 30 has no useful memories of the USSR.

That, and I heard a dude having a political conversation on his cell phone the other day, and he was describing a political conversation with a different person he'd had earlier, and this bit was chilling: "...he said he can't vote for him because he can't support a socialist, and I was unfamiliar with that term so I had to look it up, and I still couldn't figure out what it was."

Might I suggest that McCain, in order to break through the media force shield and the decades-long mis-education of the American people, adjust his intensity these last few weeks not merely to the level of viking, but to that of Roman, and that he treat the Obama campaign as Carthage. He needs to dismantle The One brick-by-brick and then salt the soil so that nothing ever grows there again.

The Garden of Eden

Just heard on the History Channel on a show about The Garden of Eden:

"Climate change around 6000 BC affects the whole planet, and sea levels rise, creating the Persian Gulf."

This was the end of the most recent ice age. Now, explain how human activity at that time - the end of the Neolithic Era - had anything to do with the earth's climate changing.

There is no anthropogenic global climate change, it all has to do with solar activity. There's nothing we can do about it. There is no "Earth Climate" that is natural, normal and predominant. There is only ever-changing variations of climate on the planet. I think it was super hot during the dinosaur eras; and, don't forget about the various ice ages that have gripped the planet.

Human-caused global climate change is nothing more than a secular religion.

The Money Question

If you earn it, is it yours? Or should the government have a say in who gets to spend some of your money? Obama has an answer for that question:



Well, at least he's being honest. I mean, it's not like you worked hard to earn the money that Obama is going to give to someone else to spend. And, anyway, it's more fair this way. Just because some people can't/won't try hard(er) to succeed doesn't mean they don't deserve success.

The Garden State: Growing Idiots

The people of this country have been so ill-served by the public education system that many of them don't seem to realize they can vote their way out of a political/taxation/corruption nightmare. Witness New Jersey:

In places like the old Soviet Union, Zimbabwe, and the DPRK, people have to vote with their feet because they don’t have a meaningful vote otherwise. In America, people can vote with their ballots.

If New Jersey government has gotten so out of control that a majority of adults no longer want to live there, the less costly alternative would be to vote out the current government and try a new direction.

I lived in the nightmare state of New Jersey for exactly one year, and fled as soon as I could (after one year). That was the year the corrupt New Jersey supreme court allowed the Democrats to put then retired Sen. Frank Lautenburg on the ballot after their initial candidate had to drop out because of scandal, and despite the state constitution saying that such a thing could not be done.

But, as elsewhere, the idiots who vote don't realize they can vote the incumbents out so, as elsewhere in the nation, what happens when the Democrats run a state for too long is that they chase out the people who can't afford it. Sadly, those people then take up residence in a new state and start voting for the same stuff they couldn't afford in the old state. Just look at what happened in New England and California/Colorado.

This is why Pennsylvania is turning blue: the idiots who voted for Democrats in New Jersey started relocating over the border into Pennsy, and then continued to vote for Democrats, turning Pennsylvania purple. It's almost as if these people get all their news and information about the Democrats from the mainstream media, when all they have to do is look with their own eyes to see what is being done by whom, and to whom.

Idiots.

An Army of Glenns

Glenn Reynolds on the future of public discourse in the mass media:

If they bring back the Fairness Doctrine, I think I'll start an organization to flood the FCC with complaints whenever there's media bias from any of the big networks. Then we'll follow up and see how they respond . . . Given the way the news has been reported this year, the Fairness Doctrine could easily backfire on the Dems.

Flood is the operative word, since all we'll be getting (are getting) is pro-Obama, pro-Democratic Party propaganda from the mainstream media. You remember the 90s, don't you? When everything Bill Clinton related was about how much of a genius policy wonk he was, a guy who read nine books at a time, remembered the most obscure policy details, and never forgot a name. Plus, he was brilliant at managing the economy and maintaining "full employment" of the American public.

Expect the same under and Obama regime, only worse (better, sorta).

Wishful Thinking or Howling into the Wind?

With about three weeks to go before we start pulling levers and pushing buttons, I find it oddly hilarious that there are right wing analysts of the election who are offering up suggestions to the Obama campaign as to how to win the election:

Obama is in an enviable position, but sitting on his lead is a bad strategy. Relying on voters’ disgust with the Bush administration may be a mistake since everyone in America understands Bush is leaving office. The question is: who should follow?

Many voters will take one more look at the candidates. When they do, Obama wants to make sure they see the face of moderation — a Democrat who understands it is 2008 and not 1968, who does not distain their values and who doesn’t misinterpret utter frustration with the Bush administration as a mandate for a radical agenda. If he can do that, he will not just have a victory, but the broad support he will need to govern in tough times.

First, maybe Jennifer Rubin is not as center-right as I assume, and maybe the advice in her post is genuine. Even so, it's still idiotic and senseless to, at this point, urge Obama to entirely make-over his campaign so as to appeal to the center in a way he is currently not.

Second, if Obama is not currently lying about his intentions regarding how he will govern - and, surely, he is lying - then adopting Rubin's points would, indeed, constitute lying to the public. This is a good idea how?

At this point in the election, changing your principles - at least, saying that you've changed your principles [or, rather, espousing new principles while not acknowledging the change] - would be tantamount to treason. How can anyone ask Obama, at the last moment, to [pretend] to sell out his base so that he can lock up Ohio and Colorado? Oh, sure, the base would realize (most of it) that he's lying to the dupes who decide late in the campaign who they support, but the dupes in the middle who claim undecided status wouldn't be aware that Obama has been racing to the right since realizing he was going to win the Democratic Primary and be that party's nominee for the presidency.

So, really, what's the point in offering up said "advice"? If Obama suddenly changed his principles, that's supposed to make me think that the genuine Obama has arrived? And, if that were even potentially the case, that's supposed to make me feel what, exactly? That Obama was willing to lie to the left for 20 months so that he could lock up the nomination and then, at the very last minute, show his true colors? This makes sense how?

I'm guessing there are plenty of people on the right side of the line who are desperately hoping Obama isn't as radical a leftist as most people understand him to be. Just because he acts like some square dull boring bureaucrat doesn't make it so, even if his personality settings are all maxxed out on square dull boring bureaucrat. I mean, what, you think to be a radical leftist you have to throw yourself to the floor and nibble on the carpet whenever things go badly?

Idiots with Votes

Don't know much about history:

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

Abraham Lincoln rolls in his grave:

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

I guess this is what you get after 40 years of socialist-undermined public education in this country. Up is down, left is right, history is fiction.

The Jig is Up

"Jim Treacher" notes something about the mainstream media:

These geniuses used to be a lot better at crafting a narrative, right? There was a time when they might have worried about ruining their own reputations in the process of advancing their political views. They'd at least make an effort to seem impartial. But if their whole industry is swirling down the toilet anyway, why keep pretending?

One last chance for glory before they check out for good.

The Deathbed Media.

The press was never impartial, it only pretended to be. Now, not so much. What will fill the vacuum that's coming, especially if the Dems win in November and re-institute the "Fairness Doctrine" and create rules regulating political speech on the Internet?

The game is over for the MSM. Reclaiming the narrative, however, might not be in the grasp of the people. Interesting times, indeed.

The Meme Event

The left pushes back against the conservative talk radio meme that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Democratic Party disasters. Of course it's leftist propaganda, it's in a newspaper. My favorite line in the article:

This much is true.

Really? REALLY? Well, that puts the entire flap to rest, then, doesn't it. (Via Jeff G.)

A Letter to a Friend

Oddly, my best friend was captured by the Obama cult late last year. I've been working on him ever since, but he refuses to budge or offer a plausible reason for why he has - out of the blue - registered as a Democrat and fully-consumed every leftist talking point. That last bit is weird, because he can instantly recite every and any whacko left-wing talking point, and when you debunk them, he blithely moves on to the next one. So, I email him from time to time. Here is one such email, written this morning:

I doubt any of this makes it through your Oforce Field, but, hell, it's only typing.

The One talks about pie. Yeah, I know, we all sound stupid, sometimes. This guy sounds stupid all the time, though.

They said it was a lie about Edwards (or Kerry, I forget, but I think it was Edwards) in 2004. Back then, the Republicans agreed and didn't press the issue, seeing as how the media wasn't going to do any legwork. Then, in 2007, the media didn't say anything again, and it turned out Edwards really did have a girlfriend and a love child. Strange, that. So, could this be true? Maybe, but I doubt we'll ever find out.

Do you like free and fair elections? How do you feel about the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac "crisis" forced on us? Hmm, I wonder who's promising to work hand-in-hand with ACORN should he become president? ACORN?!?! Nothing to see here, move along, folks.

Now, I can entirely understand why you would want to elect a first-term US senator with no managerial experience, no executive experience, a man who has never led men, a man who wants to undermine your right to own a firearm (Joyce Foundation, what's that? Who cares!) (who would Obama put on the Supreme Court, pro or anti gun justices? Hmm), a man who sat in the pews as Jeremiah Wright preached Black Liberation Theory and antisemitism and anti-Americanism, a man who sat on the board with unrepentant anti-US terrorist Bill Ayers (he bombed stuff 40 years, ago, how's that matter now?!?!? Oh, wait, he claims he didn't do enough, then, and now he's working to undermine the US education system? Hmm). Plus, of course he wants to do away with the "Bush tax cuts" and implement a national health system, raise taxes on "the rich," redistribue money from those who make more than $250,000 to whatever interest groups he feels "deserve" it, because, as Joe Biden said in the VP debate, it's "fair." And, who doesn't want to give the UN more money and send US taxpayer dollars to third world nations to alleviate their pain?

Sounds good to me! But, then, I'm a racist, gun-clinging, Bible-thumpin', wrapped-in-the-flag neocon who wantst to invade oil-rich countries and steal the oil under the pretense of nation-building and fighting Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. I'm simple that way.

And, yes, McCain sucks, especially if this bit is true. I think McCain knows there is no honor in defeat, and given the media environment we've had in this campaign cycle, there's no way to know what's true and what's a lie (that is, in the media reportage, given the sheer amount of pro-Obama coverage and the large amount of fake pro-Obama stories and phony polling, it's hard to know what the actual situation in the nation is, since there's no honest reporting about it).

And, hey, look at that, a political email without any hysterical scare caps. I need a coffee. Cheers!

Wait for it...

GO STEELERS!!

Oh, right, bye weekend.

He almost never writes back.

Electioneering?

Is someone trying to steal the 2008 election?

Seems

like

it.

Now, is it Democrats trying to steal the election, or Republicans? Democrats, you say? I wonder why?

Following the Rule of Law

In Chicago, if you're a ruler, you don't have to follow the law (especially the one you enact):

They either don't have to abide by the laws they pass, or they can simply pass a new law exonerating themselves should they get caught.

Democrats, of course. As new-age socialists, they think they should be able to tell you how to live your life, but think they know better about how to live their lives. They're your betters, you understand.

Now, extrapolate this to the rest of the country, and you know why it is perfectly fine for most Democratic lawmakers to be rich people, but want to tax other "rich people" because they make too much money. Only, Democrat rich people won't surrender their millions, first, as a show of leadership. That would make them poor, and, well, they're our betters, and that wouldn't be prudent.

I know why people don't vote for Republicans, but, honestly, I don't know why anybody votes for Democrats.

Protecting Crime from Prevention

In Britain, you have no right to defend yourself:

A gardener who fenced off his allotment with barbed wire after being targeted by thieves has been ordered to take it down – in case intruders scratch themselves.

The UK is shuffling off to the dustbin of history.

Going Down!

Disastrophe, or the coming of a buyer's market? I dunno, but this isn't exactly what I want to hear:

"Through these efforts, the world is sending an unmistakable signal. We're in this together and we'll come through this together," Bush said.

Kumbaya, and all.

Cocktail hour here starts about 5 p.m.

Finding New Rights in the Constitution

Bill Whittle sums it up:

During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Barack Obama was asked if he thought health care was a “right.”

He said he thought it was a right. Well, if you accept that premise, I think you can ask some logical follow-up questions: Food is more important than health care. You die pretty quickly without food. Do we have a “right” to food in America? What about shelter? Do we have a “right” to housing? And if we do have a right to housing, what standard of housing do we have a right to? And if it is a right, due to all Americans, wouldn’t that mean that no one should have to accept any housing, or health care, which is inferior to anyone else’s… since it’s a right?

Do we have a right to be safe? Do we have a right to be comfortable? Do we have a right to wide-screen televisions? Where does this end?

Where does this end? Hmm. I'm guessing it ends when the 2nd Amendment is re-defined to mean only the government's militias have the right to bear arms, the police can arrest you for saying "Hussein" when referring to Obama, and Rush Limbaugh and Hugh Hewitt are sunning themselves in Gitmo for politically incorrect speech.

Oh, and anyone "earning" more than $250,000 (excepting actors, directors, musicians, painters, novelists, journalists, comics, screenwriters and trial attorneys) is publicly considered to be an enemy of the state who will be taxed until his net income is $42,000 or less, adjusted for inflation, because, as Joe Biden noted in the VP debate, it's fair.

Ballot-stuffin' in Indy

How to explain the 105% voter registration in Indianapolis? I think it's been that way here in Philadelphia for a while, which is the only way to explain the death grip the Democrats have had on city politics for decades.

On the national stage, as I've noted before, Democrats can't win because they keep standing up increasingly liberal/leftist/progressive candidates who can't argue on the merits their case to the American electorate. So, they lie about who they are and what they want to accomplish.

And when that doesn't work, they cheat.

Which is why the left fights so hard against any requirement to show proof of identity at the polling station: it would get far fewer votes if only actual voters voted, and only voted once.

Obama and the Polls

Well, Jeff G. is concerned about this as a trend, I suspect, but, really, Obama is supposed to be at least 11% ahead in the "polls" at this point in time, because that's how the ever-diminishing mainstream media presents the Democratic nominee for president at this point in any election. The other polls, though, show a much tighter race, which means, I think, that you can't trust any of them. You already know you can't trust the "reportage" of the legacy media, so why would you fret much over the "polling" the "pollsters" produce?

The only poll that matters is the one that comes on Nov. 4 (this year), when actual voters go to actual polls and vote. Actual voters, and, of course, Acorn-created "voters."

Idiots Inside the Gates

David Plotz writes at Salon:

Red Dawn embodies conservative nutterdom in a way few films not made by Mel Gibson have ever managed. If Ann Coulter made a movie, it would look like Red Dawn. This is thanks to director John Milius. Apocalypse Now screenwriter, Conan the Barbarian auteur, and former NRA board member, Milius is a military zealot, infatuated with the warrior code. Red Dawn is really a fetish movie, an ode to guns and blood. The 2007 Guinness Book of World Records judged Red Dawn the most violent movie in history. (Amazing it has not lost this title to a film of the Saw generation, isn't it?) The only extra worth the name on the 2007 collector's edition DVD is the "Carnage Counter," an on-screen census of RPG rounds fired, civilians executed, Soviets killed, and Wolverines martyred. Blood lust saturates the movie: The camera lingers on wounds and corpses; C. Thomas Howell becomes a man by drinking blood; a feral Harry Dean Stanton, playing a gun nut imprisoned by the Soviets, screams at his Wolverine sons, "Avenge me! Avenge me!"

Milius' vision of the world is curiously—or perhaps presciently—congruent with that of modern Buchananite isolationists. World War III begins as an immigration problem: Mexico and the rest of Central America having fallen under Communist control, Latino illegal aliens infiltrate and sabotage Midwestern Air Force bases. Pathetic old Europe betrays America and refuses to come to our aid. The first thing the Commies do when they seize Calumet is round up all the gun owners—relying on "Form 4473," a real-life ATF form for registering gun sales. Milius pans from a "They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold dead fingers" bumper sticker to a Red Army soldier prying a gun from the cold, dead fingers of an American.

In my memory, Red Dawn celebrated America and its virtues. But its guiding ideology is actually fascism. The only politician in Red Dawn, the mayor of Calumet, is a quisling who rats out his neighbors for execution. His son, the student-body president, turns out to be the traitorous Wolverine, seeking immediate capitulation to the invaders and eventually leading the Soviets right to the band's hideout. Swayze takes command of the Wolverines by force, forbids a vote about whether to surrender, and demands that his fellow guerillas obey him without question. The warrior code of Red Dawn is nihilistic: Glory and death are the same; there is no higher aim than to fight. It never imagines an America that is worth saving: We have corrupt institutions and cowardly politicians.

I have no idea what made Plotz revisit Red Dawn, a movie I've seen once - for sure, once - and, maybe, twice. It wasn't a good movie. It wasn't a plausible movie, seeing as it was set in then modern times, and there was no way in hell the Soviets and Cubans & etc. were going to invade America.

The one thing you can say is that Plotz is a completely unhinged nitwit idiot for using Red Dawn as a modern-day talking point about the US and its foreign policy. Worse, Plotz is such a total douchebag he doesn't realize everything he "argues" works against him and his presumed current-day critique of America. I mean, in the movie, America is invaded by communists and the locals fight back, refusing to surrender and willing to die for the cause ... and this is bad. But, then, the movie "never imagines an America that is worth saving", you know, because instead of fighting the communists off, we should've just submitted to them and admitted their ideas about how to organize society were better.

Well, there you have it. David Plotz hates freedom, liberty, and capitalism. Plotz hates the United States of America.

But he will never leave it.

The End Materializes Out of Thin Air

Well, what's there to say, really? The idiots who govern us have decided to double-down on the problem they created:

WASHINGTON (AP) - House members are getting another chance to vote on a financial bailout bill that has infuriated millions of voters after the Senate added tax cuts and other sweeteners and passed it handily.

Senators advanced the much-criticized measure in a 74-25 vote late Wednesday, sending it to the other side of the Capitol for a showdown vote expected Friday. The move was calculated to win over enough dissenting House members to get the bill through and reverse Monday's stunning defeat in the H ouse. Party leaders there planned to press rank-and-file members Thursday for the dozen converts they believe they need.

President Bush will continue lobbying, too, with the argument that businesses are having a tough time financing operations and payroll and need help. A day ahead of the House vote, Bush called business leaders to the White House on Thursday to make his case for the $700-billion package.

Let me get this straight: Democrats created programs which ultimately led to the near financial collapse of certain markets, something that may or may not have had detrimental effects on the economy, and now the US Senate crafts a "bi-partisan" bit of legislation to "fix" the problem it created, by proposing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars that the federal government doesn't have? That makes sense how?

And, what does it say that the list of the 25 no voters contains nine Democrats and one "independent" (socialist [Democrat])?

Do the Right Thing

Dan C. over at the Protein Wisdom Pub has a suggestion regarding public opinion polls:

Let’s render them meaningless, instead of instruments of propaganda.

First, they are already meaningless propaganda tools, and the public is, I believe, starting to figure this out, which is why the mainstream media is tanking in circulation and viewership. Will it be enough to stave off The One in November? I think probably, but who knows what your average Joe and Sally Sixpack understand about what's going on with the left?

Second, nobody's ever asked me, anyway, so I've been rendering them meaningless for decades. And, since the advent of Caller ID, if I don't know who you are when you call me, I don't answer the phone. Shit, I might not answer the phone if I do know who you are.

The Future Is Now

Well, this should tell you something about the "success" prospects of the social welfare state:

France heaped pressure on Gordon Brown last night by floating an ambitious plan for a ¤300 billion (£237 billion) bailout fund to rescue crippled banks across Europe.

As the world held its breath on the fate of America’s $700 billion bank bailout plan, President Sarkozy was seeking the backing of European leaders for his own lifeboat.

The good thing is, ahem, France is proposing forming a committee.

Democrats and Idiots

Not only are committed Democrats themselves idiots, they think anybody who doesn't vote Democrat is an idiot. Therefore:

In a confidential internal memorandum obtained by Face The State (PDF), the Colorado Democracy Alliance outlines a roster of "operatives" who worked for Democratic victory in the 2006 general election. The document outlines specific tasks for various members of the state's liberal infrastructure, including a campaign to "educate the idiots," assigned to the state's AFL-CIO union. Among the operation's intended targets: "minorities, GED's, drop-outs."

Oddly, the idiots behind this idea failed to realize the modern age has produced an information technology the normal people can use to transmit the secrets the Democrat idiots use to try to control them. The mainstream media is no longer in control of The Narrative, and if the left loses this election, it will likely find itself in a diminishing position vis-a-vis the American voter.

The American left is not the champion of "the little guy," it is, rather, the champion of "the big government," and as such, cares not a jot about the common man's daily grind. It just wants the normal Joe to vote D so it can take over everything, regulate everything, tax everything, and tell everyone how to best live their lives. After that, the left will just promulgate propaganda telling everyone how good everything is while everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

Just read history. This leftist BS never works, can never work, will never work. Not even if you invent matter-creating machines and warp drive and dress everyone in job-appropriate uniforms and declare money an obsolete concept. Idiots.

Answer:

No.

Not that it will matter.