Court watch: California gay marriage ruling…Upholds SF licensing scheme, 4-3 decision in a favor of a “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship”

Recent events have added weight to the already overweight left swinging pendulum

Some new decisions that added momentum to the left surging American Pendulum have just been forced upon the American people. Adding Obama or Clinton to the top spot as our American leader will increase the weight and speed of that pendulum. The Pit cannot be far behind.

California Supreme Court overrules voters:

From Hugh Hewitt,

The question we must address is whether, under these circumstances, the failure to designate the official relationship of same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Damage Done By Courts

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 1:49 PM Today’s decision by the California Supreme Court is yet another judicial putsch. It is appalling. Incredibly, a feverish will to power on the part of small numbers of judges is rapidly eroding a citizen’s standing as the ultimate lawgiver. Courts unbound by any sense of limits, by any sense of restraint, threaten the basic understanding that has long undergirded the Republic –that the laws proceed from the open consent of the people, and that the ultimate laws, the federal and state constitutions, are documents of fixed meaning and structure, not merely window dressing on the rule of judicial elites or empty phrases waiting for elites to fill them with meaning.

Today’s ruling framed the question before the California Supreme Court this way:

This stuff keeps getting more unbelievable all the time:

Michelle Malkin Writes:

By Michelle Malkin • May 15, 2008 12:11 PM

A California Supreme Court decision on San Francisco’s gay marriage licenses is expected within the hour.

Gay marriage supporters are prepared to hold a “celebration of love.” Social conservatives are prepared to go to the ballot box: Malkin Writes

If you don’t think this ruling will affect your church, then think a little more. Will your church be able to refuse to preform such a marriage? Will the next step be to make it against the law to refuse gays as leadership in your church or as staff in your church office…..

We must not be complacent. California decisions always affect the national trend. We must be diligent.

Scroll Down to Read the California Supreme Court Ruling.

Watch out for the Crash of the Pendulum against the American Economy and your Freedoms.

The already heavy pendulum has been overweighted with the Polar Bear fiasco. Hold onto your pocket book, your car, your livelihood, your kids. We are in for a joyride of liberal controls and halting the American economy and the American Dream.

From Hugh Hewitt we can read about this newest Debacle:

Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Polar Bear Pincers On Productivity

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 10:54 AM Yesterday’s listing of the polar bear as “threatened” was accompanied by Secretary of the Interior Kempthorne’s assurances that the listing would not be allowed to be manipulated to regulate greenhouse gas emissions throughout the U.S.

This was false hope dressed up as “guidance.” The law is the law, and the Endangered Species Act is very specific about how federal actions that could harm a protected species are to be treated, and the criminal penalties for those who ignore the ESA’s commands. Very quickly the environmental activists served notice that they would be using the ESA to stop greenhouse gas emissions.

From USA Today’s coverage:

Kassie Siegel, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, said the group does not accept Kempthorne’s view. The act requires federal agencies to take steps to reduce or eliminate those impacts on threatened species, she said. “There is no exemption for greenhouse gas emissions.”

If the government fails to address global warming, “we can and will go to court to enforce the law,” she said.

We are in trouble Folks!!!!!

Michelle Malkin:

Update: Here’s the ruling.

To the ballot box we go.

More from SFGate:

Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.

In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship.” The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when it takes effect in 30 days.

But it could be overturned in November, when Californians are likely to vote on a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. Conservative religious organizations have submitted more than 1.1 million signatures on initiative petitions, and officials are working to determine if at least 694,354 of them are valid.

If the measure qualifies for the ballot and voters approve it, it will supersede today’s ruling. The initiative does not say whether it would apply retroactively to annul marriages performed before November, an omission that would wind up before the courts.

The legal case dates back to February 2004, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the city clerk to start issuing marriage licenses to couples regardless of their gender, saying he doubted the constitutionality of the state marriage law.

The state’s high court ordered a halt a month later, after nearly 4,000 same-sex weddings had been performed at San Francisco City Hall. The court annulled the marriages in August 2004, ruling that Newsom lacked authority to defy the state law. But it did not rule on the validity of the law itself and said it would await proceedings in lower courts.

Some of the couples immediately sued in Superior Court and were joined by the city of San Francisco, which said it had a stake in ensuring equality for its residents. The case that ultimately reached the state Supreme Court consolidated four suits, one by the city and three by 23 same-sex couples in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

It seems to be against my better judgement:

But I have decided to play along. I think it is time for me to play a little. I am in the counseling field and I usually end up somewhere along the line telling my clients to play more.

So now I am taking my own pill.

The game is meme? I am not even sure what that name is all about, but I am going to be a good sport and play with the other blogerists. We all need to play more as we have been so involved in this political race thing. Obama, Hillary, and McCain…..arg! I think God has combined the three candidates we have to teach us all a lesson on who our real true leader is, Jesus. Thank you Lord for the painful reminder.

Back to the Game, Here are the instructions….I think:

First, I was tagged by Selena who was tagged by somebody named Ric Booth. So I went to ric’s blog and copied these instructions,

ric booth’s blog here,

He wrote these instructions, Check out his blog for further details. Ok so I am joining in on this meme thing,

Here is what I know so far from ric booth,

On Monday I was TAGGED by lovewillbringustogether (a.ka. love).

The four requirements for this meme are:

1. Write the title to your memoir using 6 words
   Life was So Simple Before I Died
   Actually, I wrote this title long ago.
2. Post it on your blog
   check. Actually, I posted this long ago too.
3. Link to the person that tagged you
   check.
   
4. Tag five more blogs
   hmm… 75% is a C in my book.
   Ok…
   inProgress
   Samwrites2
   themostexcellentway
   Skunnydroppings
   SharpIron

Also, the title above does indeed contain 6 words. It also contains 5 words. Technically speaking. However, if you are confused, remember I doesn’t count. It may also be helpful to remember i do know how to write.

Here is Selen’s version of the game,

The four requirements for this meme are:

1. Write the title to your memoir using 6 words
2. Post it on your blog.
3. Link to the person that tagged you.
4. Tag five more blogs

Here is mine: Desires my Creator despite my flaws.
This is my life story. I truly love God despite myself.

Blogs I am tagging:
Mike, our crazy & fun pastor
NectarFizz, my silly blogger friend.
Peak9, loyal blog commentor & snowboarder dude.
Rigg, long winded blogger, that needs an idiot page.

I added Selen’s version to my post to prove a piont. the point is that I can be lonnnnng winded.

That is probably why you haven’t seen my meme yet, and I haven’t sent out any tags…yet. Because I still feel a need to be really clear on my memoir and who I tag.

As I always need clarification I had to find out what a meme is so

Meme from Encyclopedia Dramatica,

Meme

Jump to: navigation, search

The meme is the final stage in the life of a butterfly

The word meme (Pronounced: meme) is a term coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene. Originally used to describe packets of cultural information, it was adopted by the internet to describe viral lulz or frunz. Its original meaning is no longer used except by sociology majors.

Meme is commonly used by people who aren’t retarded because it is in fact shorter to write the word “meme” than to write out “internet phenomena” or “something that will wind up on G4 tomorrow for all of the nerds to fap all over”. It is well known that the only people that care about internet memes are sad fucks with no life.

Sometimes bloggers refer to memes as a word game or short quiz taken and posted as comment bait. The more comments a user receives about their results the higher the chances are of that thing spreading. Then most often Memes are taken by fucking Idiots and totally fucked up and or overused which eventually leads to the death of a meme, but here is a example of the lifespan of a meme.

So let’s look at the word Memoir from Webster,

1: an official note or report : memorandum2 a: a narrative composed from personal experience b: autobiography —usually used in plural c: biography3 a: an account of something noteworthy : report bplural : the record of the proceedings of a learned society

— mem·oir·ist \-ist\ noun

As for my memior in six words not counting “I”.

For now “I” am still working on “it”

And about that long winded thing, Selena. I don’t know what you are talking about.

God Bless

Coming to the Rescue is a Banner of the American Culture:

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 5:34 PM

First, please consider a donation to CaringForChina.org. This organization runs orphanages and medical clinics in China, with a specific mission of caring for abandoned children with specific health needs. One of their orphanages was evacuated in the quake and the children –many with special needs– are in tents outside their home. Their medical facilities are going to be operating at full tilt for the foreseeable future and your help will go directly to victims of the disaster. CFCC has opened a special earthquake fund. You can contribute online or send a check to:

Caring For China
3300 S. Fairview
Santa Ana, CA 92782

Thank you.

American Exceptionalism is not just a Slogan:

Americans always come to the aid of others. We do it out of our God given innate sense of duty. We do it because we are a compassionate nation. We do it because we have the means. We have the means because our system produces wealth, our determination says never give up, our heritage is one of achievement, our people are strong, and our culture is one of competition. the American way adds up to having the means to help. The American way produces helping people. We give because our people have something to give and our people are caring compassionate givers.

Michael Medved has a great thought on why Americans are who they are:

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Respecting - And Recognizing - American D.N.A.

By Michael Medved

In today’s ruthlessly competitive international economy, the United States may benefit from a potent but unheralded advantage: the aggressive edge sustained by the inherited power of American DNA.

The radical notion that our national character stems from genetics as well as culture has always inspired angry controversy; many observers scoff at the whole idea of a unifying hereditary component in our multi-racial, multi-cultural society. Aside from the varied immigrants who now make up nearly 15% of the population, the forebears of today’s Americans journeyed to this continent from Asia, Africa, Latin America and every nation of Europe. Our stark differences in appearance, if nothing else, argue against the concept of common DNA connecting contemporary citizens of wildly divergent ancestry. (more)

If our strength comes from DNA than all the more reason to celebrate our country’s success:

We are the people who survive and build the future. We are a people that appreciate our success and use it to go back and help others. I believe that American Exceptionalism has been one of the best thing to happen to the world and humanity. Our compassion requires us to continue on the path of the American Culture that has made us what we are today. Back peddling like the Leftist want will be unhealthy for the human population. We must take our heritage, our system, our God given compassion, and yes even our DNA into the next century and continue to be the Shining City on the Hill.

Dennis Prager echos my thought with this post:

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

If On the Wrong Track, Why Go Left?

By Dennis Prager

Today’s most widely accepted political belief is that because an unprecedentedly high percentage of Americans — 81 percent — believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the Republicans are headed for a major defeat this coming November.

If this is the case, it can only be because the American voter translates “headed in the wrong direction” as “because the Republicans have had their way, so it’s time to let the Democrats have theirs.”

That should not be the case. I count myself as one of the 81 percent who believes America is headed in the wrong direction, and that is precisely why I am voting Republican. Moreover, I suspect I am not alone among the 81 percent in ascribing the wrong track to the leftist, not the conservative, influence on American life. (more).

This is not the time for America to circle the wagons:

This is, as in the past, a time for America to move forward, challenge our enemies, confront our fears, and achieve our goals. We must continue to aim high and run the race to the end. We must also teach our children that American Exceptionalism is a good thing that works for the entire world. Some might malign our strengths and drive as imperialist, but they fail to look at our compassion which tempers our power. I am not saying that we have to militarily conquer the world like a modern day Alexander the Great. But we must not back down from being a role model and helper to others. We must continue to show the world the American Way and keep waving our banner of compassion, strength and freedom so that others will take up the banner and strive toward these high ideals.

Game over for Hillary

Her Master Plan, Her Demise!

(Close your eyes and imagine Hillary and Bill)

The scene we all know is coming in the Clinton household

Bill and Hill at War!

Wouldn’t it look this way.

(are they talking about Lewinski?)

Hillary Put a Fork In It!

Michelle Malkin Has this to say about Hillary:

By Michelle Malkin • May 7, 2008 05:52 AM

She gave it her all, found her voice, lost her voice, smiled through her lies, lied through her cries, schemed, clawed, and cackled.

But alas, it was not enough.

She’s reportedly canceled her morning TV appearances today.

The New Math strategy is blowing up in her face.

She barely eked out an Indiana win with a puny, 2-point margin.

And although her campaign blog devotees haven’t given up, all signs point to Game Over.

Allahpundit sums it up in one paragraph:

Slate’s keeping an eye on RCP’s running popular-vote totals and notes that not only will Obama widen his delegate margin tonight, he’ll erase the PV gains she made in Pennsylvania. In fact, as of this moment, even if Florida and Michigan are counted RCP gives her a popular vote lead of just 3,000+ votes — a margin of less than one-tenth of one percent. And that’s assuming that the popular vote totals from the caucuses in Iowa, Washington, Maine, and Nevada (which weren’t reported) aren’t counted at all. If you estimate for those states, he ends up with a lead of more than 100,000. Which means she has nothing left to commend her to the supers except an electabilty argument unsupported by a single key metric or even circumstantial evidence that Pastorgate has done Obama grievous damage at the polls. Are they going to take the nomination from the first serious black candidate for president without any compelling data to hang their decision on? Not a chance. It’s over. Let’s move on.

The Clintons are not known for graceful exits.

This should be entertaining, to say the least.

***

More on the denouement:

Rick Moran
Belmont Club

The New Nixon Says:

The Law of Unintended Consequences: Dashed Hopes?

May 12, 2008 by Frank Gannon | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Senator Clinton’s parade has become so forlorn that one almost hates to rain on it. Her only hope is that something will turn up that forces Senator to withdraw from the field. Given both Clintons’ personal and political backstories and their joint capacity to “discover” devastating information about opponents, this hope is not entirely unreasonable. Then, bygones will be bygones with a vengeance, and instead of being excoriated for having prolonged the agony and hurt the party, Mrs. Clinton will be celebrated for her undaunted determination to hang around until the last superdelegate nailed down. (More)

MIchelle Obama Complains and Complains:

Where is her thankfulness for her life, her breath, her freedom, for being born in America? Where does she say thank you to God for her own existence and blessings? Where is her thankfulness for her family and for being married to a man who has 50 Million Dollars sent to him each month?

In Everything give thanks;

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

(I Thessalonians 5: 18, NKJV).

From Michell Obama’s Speech on May 2nd, 2008, in North Carolina,

(transcript here ; My words in Bold, except the Bible verse of course)

And this is where Barack gets it. He understands that our challenge is us, that we have lost a sense of empathy.

(I don’t know about your but I feel insulted when she says that I and the people I know have lost our empathy)

We have had leadership that has told us you can go it on your own. You don’t have to worry about your neighbor, just make sure your little world is okay. You don’t have to compromise and sacrifice for anybody, just take care of yourself. We’re a nation at war right now, where the only people sacrificing and compromising on a regular basis are the soldiers who are over there fighting, and their families. We’ve all been told just keep shopping, don’t worry about it. And at first glance, that notion that we don’t have to worry about anybody else feels good, feels like it’s a burden lifted, that if I just keep fighting to get to my bar, then I’ll be okay.

(Michelle like so many liberal leftists has completely bought into the Michael Moore “Bush is Evil no matter what” belief. Bush has spent more time and money than any president on fighting Aids in Africa, Bush has been the most active president in getting faith based organizations into the mix at helping Americans. Bush’s empathy and compassion list could go on for my whole post, maybe next week. This lady and I dare say Obama himself have been feeding our citizens venomous lies, this is not empathy, compassion, or let’s all get along; this is hatred!)

But the truth is, is that we are one another’s brothers and sisters’ keepers, that we cannot measure our greatness as a society by the richest and strongest.

(Oh yes we can. Our greatness is watered, fertilized and nurtures by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Our expansion of wealth, capitalism, free enterprise, innovation, production, work ethic, and leadership has keep this country prospering. Greatness is the engine that pulls the cars of all of us along to our own successes. She needs to go back to school and take a few courses in economics)

We measure it by the least of these, and that’s what Barack understands. And right now, my view is the only reason we’re not there is because we haven’t had the right kind of leadership. We need a little inspiration. We need somebody whose going to challenge us to be better as a nation. And the only person in this race who I believe has a chance of uniting this country around a set of common values is my husband, Barack Obama.

(It’s always someone else’s fault we don’t succeed. It is the big bad republicans that have kept us down. All we need is a guy who hates the establishment, hates greatness, hates republicans, hates success, hates the American Way, Hates our military, and hates people like me, All we need is his inspirational bring us all together. He is the one and only man who can unite us?)

Michelle, What Are You Thinking,

Where’s Your Thankfulness?

“but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalmsand hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thinks always for all things to God the Father in name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God” (Ephesians 5: 18-21, NKJV).

But for this very reason, giving all diligence,

add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance,

to perseverance godliness, to godliness love.

For if all these things are yours and abound,

you will be neither barren nor unfruitful

in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(II Peter 1:5-8, NKJV)

WE are to preserver:

It is not for us to sit back and watch the world go by like a sage like cosmic observer. We are not to kick back in our easy chair cup and remote in hand and comment on the evil of the world while we are comfortable in our own salvation. God gives us salvation and grace, but we must be diligent to resist evil.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing:

Edmund Burke gave us these words but long before God gave us the command. As God’s saints we must resist evil and be salt and light on the earth. Keeping diligence against evil, holding to our faith, standing for virtue, living in Godliness, persevering in our resolve we will show love to those who are lost in this world.

Oswald Chambers Has Some Words:

May 10th.
	TAKE THE INITIATIVE

“Add to your faith virtue. . .” (”Furnish your faith with resolution.”) (MOFFATT.) 2 Peter 1:5

“Add” means there is something we have to do. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves, we have to work out the salvation God has worked in. “Add” means to get into the habit of doing things, and in the initial stages it is difficult. To take the initiative is to make a beginning, to instruct yourself in the way you have to go.

Beware of the tendency of asking the way when you know it perfectly well. Take the initiative, stop hesitating, and take the first step. Be resolute when God speaks, act in faith immediately on what He says, and never revise your decisions. If you hesitate when God tells you to do a thing, you endanger your standing in grace. Take the initiative, take it yourself, take the step with your will now, make it impossible to go back. Burn your bridges behind you - “I will write that letter”; “I will pay that debt.” Make the thing inevitable.

We have to get into the habit of hearkening to God about everything, to form the habit of finding out what God says. If when a crisis comes, we instinctively turn to God, we know that the habit has been formed. We have to take the initiative where we are, not where we are not.

Amen!

God Bless

What’s It All About Obama?

Obama is a Polished Politician With All the Tricks of a Hollywood Ad Agency

Obama is Not of the People He is Old School Politics Combined with

Modern Promotional Slickness

Obama has slick Hollywood, Wall Street,and

Chicago Political Machine Handlers.

He panders to all and he weaves and bobs like a prize fighter. Obama is the new political Brand Name moving up the charts. He is the Gap, the Micro Soft, the Nike of 2008 politics. We are a country of many duped consumers.

Read the Label:

A good consumer will read the label and check out the product before purchasing. If the American political consumer can get past the flashy container they may be able to resist eating the fatty lard inside the can.

Location Location Location

Marketing Marketing Marketing

Placement Placement Placement

Brand Name Brand Name Brand Name

Change & Hope - Abercrombie & Fitch

But Thanks for Asking, Says Company

Posted

by Ken Wheaton on 04.23.08 @ 04:04 PM

The blogosphere is abuzz! But when isn’t it? At any rate, bloggers and
their readers want to know just what the heck was going on at Barack
Obama’s speech last night. It wasn’t anything that Obama said. Rather,
it was the three guys standing behind him, all decked out in
Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirts. It was practically impossible not to
notice — it didn’t help that one of them broke an unspoken
Obama-supporter rule and showed up with an amateurish handmade sign in
the wrong font. The three A&F amigos were the subject of blog
speculation today. Was it gay outreach or paid product placement? Abercrombie’s official answer (and video) after the jump. (Video)

Tom Lennox, VP-corporate communications for A&F, said the company doesn’t “seek product placement at all.”
He went on: “We appreciate the exposure, but can not take credit for it. So, thanks to the Obama campaign for this great product placement. We wish we had thought of it.”
But lest anyone think that A&F, like the media, is in the tank for Obama, Lennox added, “If Hillary is interested, we have stores all over North Carolina, Indiana and Oregon.”
Lennox, who sounded like he was getting a kick out of the brouhaha, called it a fun, humorous story and said he’d fielded a few calls today from people curious about it.

The Obama campaign didn’t respond to questions.

Beat the Press: High-flying Obama plays to win

May 9, 2008 - 4:27am

By CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press Writer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Perhaps Barack Obama’s competitive juices need new outlets now that he has expanded his lead over Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.

On a five-hour flight from Washington to Oregon late Thursday, the Illinois senator came to the back of his charter plane for a spirited word game against reporters, and it was clear he did not intend to lose.

In “Taboo,” a player under time constraints must prompt teammates to guess words or names without using obvious hints. For instance, in giving clues for “equator,” the player is penalized if he says “Earth,” “center” or “line.”

Obama and a half-dozen aides took on a team of journalists, mostly young TV network reporters who have traveled with him for months. The senator jumped in eagerly and often.

Love, a former football and basketball player at Duke University, took a turn at giving clues, asking for a mall store “where gays go to buy clothes.”

“Abercrombie and Fitch,” answered Obama. Wrong. “The Gap,” teammate Samantha Tubman correctly answered.

TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA ON ‘FNS’

by FOXNews.com

Sunday, April 27, 2008

WALLACE: Senator, you say a lot of good stuff. Reverend Wright (INAUDIBLE) are distractions from the real issues. But especially for someone like you, who’s a newcomer to the national scene, people don’t know a lot about, don’t voters have a legitimate interest in who you are and what your values are?

You can read the whole transcript here.

Im’a vote Obama-way!

Michelle Obama’s Bitterness is Something Else:

We’ve all heard her now, I hope. She is not very nice when it comes to talking about most Americans. Most Americans live their lives by working hard; taking care of their families; enjoying their free time with recreation; slowly building their nest egg and helping their children get started. Most of Michelle’s Americans struggle in soup lines to get a crumb dropped off of the table by evil rich people.

Michelle’s Americans are either righteous, caring, misunderstood, downtrodden, well intentioned, suppressed, loving, poor people who would be wealthy if it weren’t for the evil U.S. government’s policies and evil rich guys (code for white capitalist males) or Michelle’s Americans are evil, suppressive, born with a silver spoon in their mouths, get every thing you can before the next guy, selfish, bigoted, Manson owning, BMW driving, don’t worry about your neighbor, fundamentalist racist Christians who only want to amass power while dropping crumbs for the poor beggar, world dominating imperialists, Conservative power hungry evil rich guys.

Americans are mostly good hearted loving people who give more of their time and money to charity than any other people in the world. Americans work hard to raise their children and give them the best opportunity for success. My father had it better than his father, I have it better than my father, my adult children and their children are definitely better off than I am. More people are graduating from college than ever. More minorities are going to college than ever. There are more opportunities for all types of people in this country than at anytime in the history of the world.

Ms. Obama sees a cup moslty empty and yellowing from bacteria:

From her speech May 2nd in NOrth Carolina (entire transcript here),

And see what happens when you live in a nation where the vast majority of Americans are struggling every day to reach an ever-shifting and moving bar, then what happens in that nation is that people do become isolated. They do live in a level of division, because see, when you’re that busy struggling all the time, which most people that you know and I know are, that you don’t have time to get to know your neighbor. You don’t have time to reach out and have conversations, to share stories. In fact, you feel very alone in your struggle, because you feel that somehow, it must be your fault that you’re struggling so hard. Everybody else must be doing okay. I must be doing something wrong, so you hide. You don’t realize that the struggles of that farmer in rural Iowa are the same as the struggles as a city worker in the south side of Chicago, because we don’t talk to each other. And when you live in a nation with a vast majority of Americans are struggling to reach an ever-shifting and moving bar, then naturally, people become cynical. They don’t believe that politics can do anything for them. So they fold their arms in disgust, and they say you know, I can’t be bothered voting, because it has never done anything for me before. So let me stay home, let me not bother. Naturally, we as a nation get cynical.

And when you live in a nation where people are struggling every day to reach an ever-shifting and moving bar, then what happens in that kind of nation is that people are afraid, because when your world’s not right, no matter how hard you work, then you become afraid of everyone and everything, because you don’t know who’s fault it is, why you can’t get a handle on life, why you can’t secure a better future for your kids. And the problem with fear is that it cuts us off. Fear is the worst enemy. It cuts us off from one another and our own families, and our communities, and it has certainly cut us off from the rest of the world. It’s like fear creates this veil of impossibility, and it is hanging over all of our heads, and we spend more time now in this nation talking about what we can’t do, what won’t work, what can’t change. See, and the problem with that kind of thinking is that we passed that on to our children, because see, the thing I know as a mother is our children are watching everything we do and say, every explicit and implicit sign, they are watching us. And our fear is helping us to raise a nation of young doubters, young people who are insular and they’re timid. And they don’t try, because they already heard us tell them why they can’t succeed. See, and I don’t want that for my kids. (read more)

Mark Steyn has this to say on Hugh Hewitt’s show:

Friday, May 09, 2008

Steyn On Barack Obama’s Resume and Michelle Obama’s Rhetoric

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 12:58 AM From my interview with Mark Steyn today:

MS: Chicago doesn’t sound like part of America. It sounds like we need to fly in some U.N. relief agency. They should all pull out of Burma and fly into these derelict parts of Chicago. The fact is, community organizer is a bogus term. She ought to knock it off. Real people…one of the most pathetic aspects of this race is that somehow, a guy like Mitt Romney, who runs successful companies, he’s regarded as Mr. Bloated Plutocrat like the guy in the top hat on the Monopoly board. A guy like that actually makes a contribution to people’s lives, to generating the great wealth in corporate America that pays for everything else. And a community organizer, which most functioning communities in the United States don’t have the need for, is an entirely bogus term. She is becoming, I miss Teresa Heinz Kerry.

HH: (laughing)

MS: God bless here. I used to love going to John Kerry events, and John Kerry would be droning I say to George Bush, bring it on, and Teresa used to stand there next to him looking board out of her skull. God bless her. She was a, you know, she’s a genuine, a very genuine woman. And Michelle Obama by contrast seems to have all the condescension of Teresa Heinz Kerry, plus this weird bitterness and anger. I think she’s a very strange woman.

Obama’s supporters are something else:

Have you seen this one yet?

By see-dubya • May 7, 2008 11:53 PM

Words…would only get in the way:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcViWXvVjTc]

That makes those Will.I.Am videos with Theo Huxtable look positively subtle.

Excuse me, I’ll be thowin’ it up.

P.S. Great parody of the Will.I.Am videos here.

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{Post by See-Dubya, hat tip to DoublePlusUndead, who’s sort of a rectal thermometer on the health of popular culture.}

Hillary and Bill give a New Meaning to the “Red White and Blue”

RED faced, WHITE knuckled, devil in a BLUE dress:

Seeing Bill Clinton for the first time during the Democrat primaries of 92′ sent a jolt of “Oh No” up my spine. Seeing Hillary for 16 years makes me nauseous. When do they finally go away? Is this primary just a bad dream? I can not watch the Clintons any more…not that I have been actually watching them. I do read about them and hear an occasional “speech”.

Let me go

set me free,

no more Hill ary!

The Obama’s keep on ticking:

(At lest they are still entertaining)

Barack: “I have spent my entire adult life trying to bridge the gap between different kinds of people. That’s in my DNA, trying to promote mutual understanding to insist that we all share common hopes and common dreams as Americans and as human beings. That’s who I am, that’s what I believe, and that’s what this campaign has been about,” (New York Times)

Machelle: “A separationist is more likely to have a realistic impression of the plight of the Black lower class because of the likelihood that a separationist is more closely associated with the Black lower class than are integrationist. By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desparation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.” (in her college days) (StynOnline).

So, how divisive is Obama?

Paul Begala thinks Obama is very divisive:

PAUL BEGALA, CLINTON SUPPORTER, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Well, I
think Alex makes an interesting allegation — put it this way — or
point. He said that Obama is closing the door on those white,
working-class voters. I don’t think that’s the case at all, although
some of the commentary tonight kind of bothers me.

When people say things — I love Donna and we go back 22 years.
We’ve never been on different sides of an arguments in our entire lives.
But if her point is that there’s a new Democratic Party that somehow
doesn’t need or want white working-class people and Latinos, well count
me out.

DONNA BRAZILE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Paul, baby, I did not say that.

BEGALA: We cannot win with egg heads.

Let me finish my point.

We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans. OK, that is the
Dukakis Coalition, which carried ten states and gave us four years of
the first George Bush. (Time)

The contrasts and similarities of the two Couples are fascinating:

The future of our country is critical. We must not get too caught up in the People Magazine allure of this election. We must not be romanced into a dull numbness and let America dwindle into obscurity and ruin. We need to take this election seriously and make thoughtful decisions based on traditional American Ideals and Judeo-Christian ethics. Read more on Judeo-Christian work ethics here.

Obama’s biggest general election liability: His bitter half

She’s more like a Siren…..or a Fog horn…Leghorn:

Michelle Obama’s latest drawn out diatribe degrading the United States was trumpeted last Friday night. You can here the speech here (I dare you to listen to the whole rant). Michelle spent the better part of a 11/2 hours putting down America and the country we are. Michelle Obama’s new phrase for “Yes We Can” comes out in these words:

“We’ve learned that we’re still living in a time and in a nation where the bar is set, right?”

“They tell you all you need to do is do these things and you’ll get to the bar

“So you go about the business of doing those things”

“You start working hard and sacrificing, and you think you’re getting closer to the bar, you’re working and you’re struggling, you get right to that bar, you’re reaching out for the bar, and then what happens?”

“They raise the bar. Raise the bar. Shift it to the side. Keep it just out of reach.”

“She tells the crowd at Ovens Auditorium here in Charlotte to work the crowd, perhaps 1,000-strong, into a prayerful mood before the last North Carolina appearance of Michelle Obama” (Byran York).

Maybe her new slogan should be “No We Can’t”

Michelle keeps complaining and complaining and complaining. It makes me wonder, “If Barack Obama is the great healer, the man that is going to bring this country together; the man who will bring the world together in a sort of Barry Manilow-holding-hands-and-signing, “I’d like to give the World a Coke” moment,

“Everybody Sing Along”

Then why can’t he keep his “sweet” wife happy?

Michell must be the most unhappy woman in America. The Reverend Wright must be the most unhappy pastor in America, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn….well we know how joyful they are; Tony Rezko must be the most unhappy political influencer in America. So why aren’t they happy after knowing and loving Obama for all of those “happy” years.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, and Kim Jong Il will a be happier when Obama comes to town:

They’ll all be singing with Obama,

I’d like to give the World some Hope

with socialistic love and

keep America under wraps

while we rebuild the world

It’s Our Real Dream

We need to keep America Down

so men like you and me

Can rule the World in Perfect Harmony.

It’s our real dream.

Well, I tried but I think you get the picture.

Obama can’t keep his good friends happy; he can’t keep his pastor happy; he can’t even keep his wife happy. How is he going to bring “Joy to the World”? (Oh another song comes to mind….I will spare you).

Read more about Michelle Obama’s speech:

Michelle Obama Says ‘Amen’
America’s angriest would-be First Lady wows ‘em in Charlotte.

By Byron York

Charlotte, N.C. — “Tomorrow, we shall achieve the victory, that the kingdom of God may come on earth as it is in heaven, and all those who love the Lord and will vote for Obama, say Amen.”
“AAAMMMMEEENNN!”

When it comes to giving a rip-roaring pre-election invocation, you just can’t do better than Rev. Joseph Lowery. The 86-year-old civil-rights legend has come to the Ovens Auditorium here in Charlotte to work the crowd, perhaps 1,000-strong, into a prayerful mood before the last North Carolina appearance of Michelle Obama, wife of the man whose election will herald the coming of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. And as Lowery gets going, it’s clear he’s waited for this moment for a very long time.

Michelle Malkin:

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 7, 2008 06:02 AM

With Barack Obama on the verge of sewing up the Democrat presidential nomination, my syndicated column this morning looks at his biggest general election liability: The Missus. I’ll be on Fox and Friends this morning at around 7:15am to talk primary results.

Are you ready for hope and change? Barack Obama better hope his bitter half has a change of attitude if she expects to assume the title of first lady in November. She’s been likened to John F. Kennedy’s wife, what with her chic suits and pearls and perfectly coiffed helmet hair. But when she opens her mouth, Michelle O. is less Jackie O. and more Wendy W. — as in Wendy Whiner, the constantly kvetching Saturday Night Live character from the early 1980s.

…The Today Show in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright debacle included this tellingly narcissistic passage:

[Mrs. Obama]: “‘I’m so proud of how he has maintained his dignity, his cool, his honor.’

“Obama gently tried to interrupt, admitting to being embarrassed by the praise.

“‘But I am proud of you,” she said.

“I know,” he replied.

We all know. So get over yourself already, haughty spirit. Pride doesn’t photograph well. And bitterness leaves frown lines. Which means Botox bills. Which “struggling folks” like you and your husband simply cannot afford.

Try smiling for once. It’s cheaper. Michelle Malkin: