Obamabus
Posted at 2:36pm on Jun. 27, 2008 "Obamabus *HUNGERS*!!!!!"
"Prepare the Native American voting bloc for the sacrifice!"
By Moe Lane
Yeah, I'm anthropomorphizing: I currently see Obamabus as being this vaguely humanoid yellow school bus, drawn in a vaguely Aztec style (or maybe I'm thinking Mayan). The important thing has to be that the left hand/front tire needs to holding a bowl with the word "Hope" on it and the right hand/front tire needs to have a knife with the word "Change." And, oh yeah, make sure that the Obamaseal is right in the middle of what we should probably call its "chest."
Or something like that.
Anyway, the latest victims of Obamabus are, ironically enough, Native American groups. Apparently the Senator has learned the fine old Washingtonian tradition of making a deal with Native tribes, then casually breaking it at the first sign of inconvenience:
(Read on, after the fold)
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Posted at 11:47am on Jun. 27, 2008 News Flash: Liberal Judging Not Popular
And Barack Obama Knows It. Shhhhh, Don't Tell The Voters
By Dan McLaughlin
TIME Magazine's Massimo Calabresi thinks that Barack Obama is being savvy in "moving to the center" by announcing that he sides with the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court (and at least to some extent against his own prior positions) in supporting the individual Second Amendment right to own guns and the death penalty for child rapists. Plainly, Obama is hoping for gullible reactions like that of Jay Newton-Small, who tells us:
Of course, there's little Obama would be able to do to about either ruling, even as president. So, his comments come purely as opinions that give voters an idea of where he stands on the political spectrum.
What he's hoping to avoid is the reaction of Andrew Hyman, who notes that Obama voted against Justices Roberts and Alito (who he now supposedly agrees with) and cited Justices Breyer, Ginsburg and Souter as model Justices even though he now disavows their views on these cases. As Hyman observes, don't watch what Obama says but what his preferred judges do. Because Obama sure as heck is not going to put people like John Roberts on the Supreme Court, and as Calabresi admits, Obama won't be eager to talk about that:
Read On...
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Posted at 5:04pm on Jun. 26, 2008 "I didn't go around wielding a bunch of clout."
Not The City of Chicago He Knew
By Dan McLaughlin
...and the entire city of Chicago goes under the bus, along with the whole Illinois Democratic Party. Barack Obama never really knew you:
"You will recall that for my entire political career here, I was not the the endorsed candidate of any political organization here," the Democratic presidential hopeful said at the Westin Hotel downtown. "I didn't go around wielding a bunch of clout. My reputation in Springfield was as an independent. There is no doubt I had friends and continue to have friends who come out of the more traditional school of Chicago politics but that's not what launched my political career and that's not what I've ever depended on to get elected, and I would challenge any Chicago reporter to dispute that basic fact."
Well, so much for Obama touting his experience as a significant player in the state legislature. Of course, Obama's managed to make his records as a State Senator disappear, and aside from his war speech and his first book, it's awfully hard to find any evidence of his public statements before 2004. Presumably, his Illinois record on guns will be next down the memory hole.
Aside from his own record, it's not hard to see why Obama wants nothing to do with his old friends and allies, now that even Illinois Democrats are talking about impeaching their own governor (more here), among the many scandals and fiascoes surrounding the Illinois Democrats. (Maybe the socialist New Party will still have him). Of course, the Chicago Sun-Times isn't fooled enough to avoid mentioning this:
Obama friend Tony Rezko was convicted of corrupting state government, but Obama was never implicated and has returned contributions Rezko made to his Senate campaign. Obama did run as an independent Democrat but worked closely with state Senate President Emil Jones, an old-school organization Democrat. Obama runs for president with the full blessing of Mayor Daley.
"Worked closely" is, I guess, a euphemism for Jones basically creating most of Obama's legislative record by adding Obama's name on other people's bills, and bringing home a whole lot of Obama-directed pork ever since. As Jones once said, I'm gonna make me a U.S. Senator":
Read On...
Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Corrupt Democrat Watch | Obamabus | Obamafiles | The Chicago Way — Comments (6)/ Email this page » / Read More »
Posted at 2:55pm on Jun. 25, 2008 A Modest Proposal to the Obama campaign regarding Deviations from their Holy Writ.
For it is quite confusing for us poor heathen to keep track.
By Moe Lane
As Hot Air has noted, Governor Richardson today contradicted the established wisdom of the Obama campaign today:
He not only agreed that we need to drill more - I distinctly heard him include the Gulf Coast in that - he actually spoke out against corn-based ethanol! This, of course, is a violation of the Words of Obama, who is both against Gulf drilling and is beloved of the domestic ethanol lobby.
At least he is... today. Maybe. It's hard to tell; after all, he was for public financing, talking to dictators without preconditions, and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright until he suddenly wasn't. So it's hard to say whether this is rank heresy or simply the announcement of a new Obama prophecy. Clearly, this is only going to go on being a problem for the rest of this election season, so we need some way to distinguish between the two. Fortunately, I have come up with a solution that should work quite well.
Read on.
Posted in 2008 | Giving Them the Business | Obamabus | Obamafiles | Obamaseal — Comments (21)/ Email this page » / Read More »
