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I <3 Joe Biden

So It's McCain who showed bad judgement when picking HIS running mate but not Obama?

Obama picked the guy who said in the primaries that Obama wasn't ready to be president, McCain IS ready, and that it's not a position that lends itself to on the job training.

Obama picked the guy who thinks JOBS is a 3 letter word

Obama picked the guy who thinks the U.S. and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon

Obama picked the guy who thinks that Article 1 of the constitution defines the VP's role

Obama picked the guy who has been on the wrong side of just about every major issue in his entire career. Just a few examples

In favor of Appeasement of the USSR during the cold war
Against the SDI
Against Welfare reform
Against Clean Coal
Against the first Gulf War
Against the "Surge"
In favor of dividing Iraq into 3 countries (which just about everybody laughed at including the most dems)

And now he's guaranteeing a major international crisis if Obama gets elected!

"Hey vote for us and we'll be in another war within 6 months!!!! Yeah!"

I think he also said something to the effect of he's going to need the support because what they're going to do won't seem to make a lot of sense?

What? So you know already that when this guaranteed crisis arises you're going to look like a couple of idiots at first?

Seriously, if we find out 10 years from now that he was being paid by some republican 527 i will not even be a little bit surprised. I mean i agree with Mark Levin that he's the dumbest man in the senate, but i find it hard to believe that he's the dumbest man in the world. What are they putting in the water down there in Deleware? How does this guy keep getting reelected?

But hey, at least he's not the most popular governor in the country who runs the largest state with a record of reform and a history of doing the right thing for the constituents no matter if she has to fight her own party or not.

Also, i'm starting to have a new appreciation for Madeline Albright after this exchange.

For the Good of the Masses

And so it begins.

The populist rhetoric being spewed by President Bush right now is good cover fire. It makes it seem like the government is protecting you and not stealing your financial liberty. He's making it sound like he had to do it or else the little guy would be hurt by the "golden parachutes" of some of these CEO's.
Powell is the big betrayal? No, Powell has decided to judge a man based on the color of his skin rather than the content of his character. Or maybe Powell just doesn't want to have McCain appointing judges like he said. Powell split with Bush on Affirmative action and he's always been pro-choice. Maybe that's it? It doesn't matter.

Bush is making a grab for his legacy. His Presidency is coming to an end and it coincides with a financial debacle that he didn't create but will be and is being blamed for, and what is he doing to try to fix it? Well he just took a huge step towards controlling the entire banking industry in this country and set a dangerous precedent for the future.

I guess he figures hell, FDR did it and look how everyone loves him! Unfortunately for Bush FDR is a liberal icon because of his socialist actions. History glosses over the idiocy of the FDR years. History won't be so kind to Bush.

Barack Obama has not even been officially elected president yet, but socialism American-style is on the march.

Weekend Is Almost Over

Another newsweek approaches.

Time for McCain to get to work and close this election strong.

Because....

Its business.

Its business time.

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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann von Goethe

The Mush Of The Irish

My Grandpa Jack was a bookie. Before you start romanticizing Soprano style hooked noses and broken fingers, let me explain that his was and is a legal profession in Ireland and the tools of the trade are a sharp mathematical intellect a clipboard and a crumpled tweed hat. Save the cannolis and Adidas track suits for the movies.

Following in his footsteps I ran bets for bit for a man that raced dogs out of Donegal. Some of his dogs were champions and I made a lot of money (for a 20 year old kid) while working for him. Thing of it was though, besides for my first and as it turned out losing bet I put on one of his dogs, I bet against him for the next year and smashed it like chikezie.

See the funny thing is I'm what most people would consider lucky. For example, I had a stretch there when I won my office NCAA pool four years running and generally do very well in Vegas and other gambling endeavors. For fooks sake I (with some help from Rhino and friends) shut down The San Juan Ritz crap table a few year back. We didn't break the bank but we hurt them real good and you know that hurted.

Funnier even, although I am superstitious I don't believe in luck. To do so in my opinion would be to short change your efforts in achieving good fortune while making excuses and using a crutch for the tough times you encounter.

I win the NCAA pool a lot because I do a crap-ton of research and have friends that are insiders (coaches) in the basketball world that know more than I do.

Has nothing to do with kissing the Blarney Stone or the four leafed clover I have tattooed on my ass cheek.

I win in Vegas because I don’t overextend myself, I quit when Im ahead and I don't make sucker bets. Well except for the Yo eleven which is just flat-out fun to yell out and it rocks the table when it hits.

What's my point?

Well truth be told, I haven't been feeling all that good about McCain's chances but I'm gonna call it right now. McCain wins.

What's changed my mind?

The debates? The negative ads associating Obama to Ayers/Wright/Rezko? McCains standup routine at the Waldorf?

Nope.

This is what has changed my tune....

Irish bookie calls US race over, pays off on Obama

They aren't doing this because they think Obama is going to win, quite the opposite. They are doing this to stop the influx of McCain bets which will pay out at much greater odds. They are doing this because they do not want to lose money. They are doing to this because they want to make money. Right now Obama is the biggest sucker bet in town.

The bookies are telling you that McCain is going to win and for the first time I agree.

Bet on it.

The Outrage!

Liberals may not hate America but they sure do go out of their way to hate on regular Americans.

Seems the Obama campaign and the media are up in arms because Joe The Plumber doesnt have an actual plumbing license.

Well then why dont the dems just pretend hes an illegal alien and give him one.

If you vote dem or contribute to dems then no i.d is required.

But you better make sure you return any outstanding library books if you dare have the audacity to ask a theoretical question about your hope to better you life, because the liberal attack machine is coming to get ya!

Round 3

I thought McCain "won" the debate last night.

He was better than Obama on the tax issue
He was better on Free Trade and i thought scored some points on the NAFTA deal.
He was on the offensive more, which was to be expected. I thought he did well with calling Obama a liar on the public money issue, he got out that Obama voted against the born alive bill and even got him to admit that he was against banning any form of abortion including partial birth or late term.
They wasted much too much time with the "sticks and stones" argument in general on both sides.

McCain i thought really dropped the ball with the VP question, not that Obama did much better but Biden is a known enitity. We know what we're getting and McCain didn't seem to be ready to answer that queston and probably wasn't able to make undecideds feel comfortable with Palin.

Overall i really think McCain could have done MUCH better and Obama was unflappable as usual, but i think McCain was a little bit better on the issues.

I don't think it was a game changer, but it was the only win for McCain of the 3 debates in my opinion.

Ninth Inning Fourth Quarter Third Period Two Minute Warning....

Presidential election is drawing to a close....

The future of America is at stake....

Will things ever be the same again?

Its the.....

Dead Men Dont Disenfranchise

“The truth is that far-left groups in this country will do anything to help the Obama-Biden Democrats win the White House and maintain their majorities in Congress,” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin writes in a fund-raising e-mail sent out Monday afternoon. “And last week, we found out they're going even further to win.”
“The left-wing activist group, ACORN, is now under investigation for voter registration fraud in a number of battleground states. . . . We can't allow leftist groups like ACORN to steal this election.” link

'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS'

Dead Voters

Fake voter registration

This is happening in almost every state. Over and over and over again. This shit is fucked up. Hell, even King Shady Bill Clinton said he witnessed it personally in Vegas.

First of all, if you need someone to help you register to vote you dont fucking deserve to vote. If you know your name and you know your address its just about the easiest fucking thing you can do.

Secondly just cuz you still bitter about Florida '00 doesnt give you reason to try and steal this election. Get over it, even the NY Times did a recount and gave Fla to Bush. Gore lost, move on.

Give War A Chance

Has anyone else noticed that Obama has gone from being the anti-war candidate in the dem primaries to becoming the hawk calling for war with our ally Pakistan in the the general election?

More importantly...

Where is the outrage from the peacenik anti-war left? I havent seen any "Obama Lies Pakistanis Are Gonna Die" posters around.

Could it be The Aurora was right again that liberals are full of shit who were never anti-war but only anti-Bush and strategically used Iraq and the deaths of our soldiers as political props when things werent going well only to drop it now that we are winning?

Thought so.

Way to stick to your, dare I say, guns.

Donkey Superstar

Although I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, the sad truth of the matter is that I am not a celebrity. I am so ashamed.

Well not a celebrity outside of the tri-state area that is, but as this election draws to an end I feel myself beginning to understand the animal that we know as the bigshot Hollywood liberal loudmouth celebrity better than I have in the past.

On a side, I just wanna give a quick shoutout to my dead mom (that's so Obama of me) for having the wherewithall to move our family the flock out of Los Angeles to the frozen tundra Finger Lakes region of the Great State of New York. I approve of that decision.

Okay back to bidness.

The surprising part is that not only am I beginning to understand them better but I hate to admit this but I am actually starting to empathize with them more and more each day.

You WILL respect my Celebr-i-tie!!!!!

Even worse is that I have recently adopted one of their pre-election political positions. I'm sorry to all of our conservative readers but I've had a change of heart.

I'd like to take this opportunity to announce that if and when Barack Hussein Obama is elected President, I am going to live in a different country. Very baldwinsarandanish of me aint it eh?

Thing about that is, and its a sad thing indeed, but if and when Barack Hussein Obama is elected President, The United States of America will have become a different country, a much different country from my beloved homeland.

So my commute will remain the same but the view is about to get much less scenic.

For Once....

I dont blame the media.

This isnt news.

We already knew this. Didnt we.

Eh Comrade Eh?

Well you should have.

Debate Round 2

Let me start by saying this was clearly the most boring debate I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a few. It was even more boring than round 1 which i did a post on titled "Debate Snoozer"

I thought Obama was the clear winner in this one if you can have a winner and a loser in this circumstance. He still didn't say anything, he didn't answer the questions he was asked, he didn't explain how cutting taxes on 95% of working Americans (he changed that to "working" for the first time last night by the way) was going to cure our ills when he's already said he will allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and also raise capital gains taxes. He followed in the footsteps of his VP candidate and practically declared war on our ally (Pakistan). In short, he didn't have a noteworthy positive event all night.

All that being said, neither did McCain. The problem for McCain, and the reason that i give Obama the clear win is that while neither of them said too much that was new or exciting, and they both said some things that were kind of shocking (Obama -Pakistan/McCain to follow) Obama said nothing a lot smoother than McCain said nothing. Early on McCain was so stuttery (is that a word) and he never shut up just repeating the same thing over and over. Obama did the same thing but at least changed up the wording a little bit. Later on when the debate switched to foriegn policy and military use etc. I thought McCain was much stronger than Obama but it was too little too late.

Finally, I must take issue with McCain on a MAJOR point that threw me for a loop. I don't have the exact words or the transcript but he said something about spending another 300 billion dollars to bail out people who are being foreclosed on! What? I hope he wins, because i'm going to stop paying my mortgage and get my house for free.
What ever happened to the republican party being the party of personal responsibility? That was a major turnoff for me and just adds to the list of things i don't like about McCain.

I'll vote for him because i think Obama is dangerous for the country, but when i'm pulling the lever i'm thinking Palin 2012.


Update: McCains 300 billion bailout for irresponsible home buyers

A Question Of Lust

The question about McCain's relationship with Keating is an important one, especially in these trying economic times.

Fortunately for us, that question has already been thoroughly investigated and the answer is that while McCain is a lot of things that I don't like, corrupt is not one of them. McCain was exonerated of any and all wrongdoing.

Now on to that other fella running for President and his past associations that nobody wants to talk about.

The problem is that we've been asking all the wrong questions. It should be obvious why Obama, as an up and comer in the Crook County political machine would want to ingratiate himself with the local power brokers. The answer to that is quite simply money.

But that's not the question we should be asking nor the answer that should concern us. The troubling part of this entire affair is not that Obama was attracted to Ayers, its that the unapologetic terrorist Ayers was attracted to Obama and saw something in the man and the potential candidate that he believed in so strongly that he would open his home to him.

Now I'm not talking "here's a bundt cake welcome to the neighborhood" kind of affair but rather the "me and my fellow bombers think that you'd make an excellent steward for furthering our ideals and our politics" type of fundraiser.

Well it seems that Obama must have made one hell of an impression, that Ayers would name him to chair numerous committees in charge of hundreds of millions of dollars and trust him to guide his political agenda.

Now Im not saying they played Scattergories together on the weekends but this was more than a passing relationship. Lets be clear about this. Obama was hand picked by Ayers time and time again to head up his organizations. This was a working relationship based on a shared ideology.

See my friends, this matter is indeed about judgment but the important question is not necessarily why Obama would associate with the unrepentant terrorist Ayers but rather the question should be what is it exactly that the unrepentant terrorist saw in Obama that he liked so damn much.

More From the VP Debate

I don't think there is any debate out there that the Middle East is the most dangerous part of the world right now and has been for quite some time.
I also don't think there is any debate out there that Joe Biden was added to the Obama ticket to bring the foriegn policy gravitas that Obama lacks.
So obviously, if Biden was just idiotically wrong on something concerning Middle Eastern Foriegn Policy, the media would be all over it right? I mean that's his wheel house isn't it? Surely if he made any major gaffe's on this one area, the NY Times and all of the major networks that continue even this morning to point out that Palin misspronounced McKiernan would let us know that he was wrong.....right?

No of course not. At least the Wall Street Journal did a little bit of homework though.

Start with Lebanon, where Mr. Biden asserted that "When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will control it.' Now what's happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel."
The U.S. never kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, and no one else has either. Perhaps Mr. Biden meant to say Syria, except that the U.S. also didn't do that. The Lebanese ousted Syria's military in 2005. As for NATO, Messrs. Biden and Obama may have proposed sending alliance troops in, but if they did that was also a fantasy. The U.S. has had all it can handle trying to convince NATO countries to deploy to Afghanistan.

Complete WSJ article here

Palin Vs Biden

Update: I just heard Mark Levin on the radio and he was saying that Joe Biden was wrong when he referred to Article 1 of the constitution addressing the executive branch. It actually addresses the legislative branch. Not good for a guy who's been passing judgement on Supreme Court justices for decades. I Would think he should know a little bit about it. Posted 19:35hrs 10/3

I can't imagine how any honest person could watch these debates and not see that Palin scored a knockout. Not a "expectations were low so she did well" TKO, i mean a KNOCKOUT.

Why?

She was better on energy
She was better on the economy
She was better on the "who's more dangerous Pakistan or Iran" question
She basically dominated Biden in his area of strength which is supposed to be foriegn policy

As to Biden, he was on the ropes all night. She was the aggressor all night and pushed him around the ring. So what did Biden do to fight back? He did what he really does best, what his real strength is, he LIED. (and he might have declared war on our ally Pakistan)

1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more. Not to mention he would raise Cap. Gains which affects anyone who sells any investments at a profit including the stock market or real estate.
13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”
14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.

How Ya Like Me Now

Reminiscing

No, not the Little River Band song.

Since Jimbo came back i've been a little nostalgic for the old days when we used to have battles here on a regular basis and I used to beat everyone down. Unfortunately, i guess i was just too good at it because nobody comes around anymore.

Anyway, i was feeling nostalgic and started listening to my old school playlist on my ipod. I was listening for hours because it's my biggest playlist. Crazy old hip hop MC's from as far back as Whodini, Grand Master Flash, and Kurtis Blow all the way through to KRS One (I am a teacher and others are Kings! Great line) and Run Dmc. Maybe you can tell I was all about the East Coast, you west coast punks can be proud of your MC Hammer pants if you want:0

Anyway, one of my favorite rappers all time is LL Cool J. Does anybody remember this?

Mcs cant win I make em rust like tin
They call me jaws my hat is like a sharks fin
Because Im bad as can be got my voice all waxed
Some brothers think hes making records now he must have relaxed
I couldnt shouldnt and itll stay that way
The best rapper youve heard is l.l. cool j
Kamikaze take a look at what Ive done
Used to rock in my basement now Im number one