TO PHOTO WALK

THANKS PRESIDENT BUSH

Breitbart has it right.

I have a dark secret to tell before the election so that it's on the record. It's something that is difficult to say to certain friends, peers, family and, lately, many fellow conservatives.

I still like George W. Bush. A lot.

For starters, I am convinced he is a fundamentally decent man, even though I have read otherwise at the Huffington Post.

President Bush is far smarter, more articulate and less ideological than his plentiful detractors scream, and, ultimately, he will be judged by history - not by vengeful Democrats, hate-filled Hollywood, corrupt foreign governments, an imploding mainstream media or fleeting approval ratings.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history. He may end up a victim of his own tough choices, but the cheerleading for his demise when Iraq's outcome is yet determined has hurt America and possibly set up the next president for the same appalling partisan response.

The fact that the United States has not been attacked since Sept. 11, 2001, far exceeds the most wishful expert predictions of the time. Perhaps facing another al Qaeda-led barrage would have reinforced our need for national unity, caused us to recognize the gravity of the Islamist threat and fortified Mr. Bush's standing at home and abroad.

Yet, thankfully, that never happened. And Mr. Bush has been punished for this obvious success.

By most accounts, al Qaeda is reeling from the damage inflicted by our efforts against the once-thriving terror network. Yet reflexive enemies of the president - including Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee - shamefully mock him for not having caught Osama bin Laden.

It's a playground taunt from the same people who never seriously advocated for a strong military foray into the regions where bin Laden could have been caught. These Daily Kos armchair generals also rhetorically ask why we don't invade North Korea or Saudi Arabia. Yet no one takes this hypothetical warmongering seriously, or expects a President Obama to go on the offense in any of these conveniently preferable hot spots. It's meant to hurt, not help, the president.

While President Bush has been marshaling a multinational force to take on modernity's enemies in foreign lands, the American left has decided to go to war against not only Republicans but also moderate Democrats.

Bush hatred was a fait accompli.

Back in November 2000, when Al Gore contested Florida and the demonizing of George Bush began full-bore ("President Select," "Bush Chimp," "the illegitimate president"), I told Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund, "You watch, the Democratic Party will never grant Bush his humanity, and they will never let up."

And they never did.

The Democratic Party chose to send a clear message that the impeachment of President Clinton incurred by the newly minted Republican-led Congress and the upstart new media - talk radio and the Internet - would be countered by unprecedented partisan fury.

The media will shape "the truth" that Democrats were always behind the initial Afghanistan effort or were poised to grudgingly accept the president whom they previously mocked as "illegitimate."

But those brave liberals who stood by the president were mostly a small minority, and all of them have since been excommunicated for their apostasy.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and actor Ron Silver were presented as cautionary tales to left-of-center politicians and public figures who would lend support to a wartime Republican president.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who was described as the "conscience of the Senate" when he ran for vice president with Al Gore in 2000, was summarily dismissed from the Democratic Party for dissenting over one thing.

And the youth movement that is fueling Obama-mania is riddled with minds that do not have the perspective of what happened before Mr. Bush, and why the media and the Democratic Party have stood against Mr. Bush and his motivations from the word go.

Much of Mr. Bush's 28 precent approval rating is born not of "failed policies" - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better.

Mr. Obama said it best: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

I don't think Albert Einstein could have devised an equation to guide the leader of the free world during the wildly tumultuous post-9/11 realities without a modicum of help from the opposition party and the vast majority of the print and electronic media.

Right now, America appears to be leaning toward electing a man for whom popularity is a paramount concern. That means he must trust the American media and the American electorate to guide him to difficult decisions, not the other way around.

The American people pay closer attention to "Survivor: Gabon" than to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Yet the majority will soon have a greater say in how we proceed in the war on terror. We are headed to the "American Idol" presidency. The last thing I want is my text vote on the financial crisis to have a say on how we proceed.

If Barack Obama is elected the next president of the United States on Tuesday, I hope the Republican Party and conservatives take the higher road. The republic cannot handle another four years of undeclared civil war while we have real enemies out there to fight.

FROM VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

In the National Review Online:

The Messianic Style   [Victor Davis Hanson]

Individually, the extra-electoral efforts are irrelevant. But in the aggregate, they start to add up. In 1996 Obama goes to court, challenges the petition signatures of mostly African-American voters, and gets all his rivals eliminated from the ballot and so de facto runs unopposed.

In 2004 sealed divorce records were strangely released destroying the chances of his chief Democratic rival Blair Hull; then in the general, lightning again struck, and Republican front-runner Jack Ryan's sealed divorce records were likewise mysteriously released—and he too crashed, in effect, leaving Obama without a serious primary or general election rival.

In this campaign, Acorn galvanizes to register voters and almost immediately runs into serial charges of voter registration fraud. Now an Obama ad runs asking Americans simply to take the day off to help get out the Obama vote: apparently American businesses, universities, and the government all are supposed to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars in lost collective work days to subsidize the Obama campaign in order "to change history"?

When one marries all that with the swarming of radio stations when someone like Stanley Kurtz goes on, the threats to go to court to stop ads, or the blacklisting of TV stations who dared to conduct tough interviews, the same old pattern reappears of by any means necessary. And in turn the explanation for all that?

The messianic style—the cosmic tug to "change history", or stop the seas from rising or the planet from heating, juxtaposed with the creepy faux-Greek columns, Michelle's "deign to enter" politics snippet, the fainting at rallies, the Victory Column mass address, the vero possumus presidential seal, and the 'we are the change we've been waiting for' mantra—reflects the omnipresent narcissism: the exalted ends of electing a prophet always justify the often crude and all too mortal means.

If this is considered 'right', I'd rather be wrong with McCain.

LIPSTICK AND ALL THAT

So the little Messiah wasn't referring to Sarah Palin huh?

Who believes him? No one. His audience figured it out immediately. The shouted out "No hockey Mom."

And now the empty suit himself is offended that anyone would question his motives. This guy is not just a lying, hack Chicago pol. He has more brass than a Kansas City fire engine!

How about this Barry Hussein Obama: You can dress up the community agitator, but he is still just an empty suit. But of course I don't mean you. Oh no, of course not. How dare you think so.

Or how about: You can send your old lady out there to choke on the words that she loves her own country, but she is still just a loudmouthed, uppity radical. But of course I don't mean the lovely, flag waving Michelle. Hell no.

These people are through. Their true anti-American, lying, it's all about me attitudes are finally being exposed to the country at large. Even their apologists in the MSM can't ignore the air rushing our of the balloon.

My only hope is they keep up their vicious, typically left wing, Democratic tactics. Every time they open their mouths we add to our victory.

This is for you BO:

Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama

After Charles Krauthammer, who is a better writer and analyst than Gerard Baker? This is from his Times On Line article (HT - RCP)

Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama

By Gerard Baker

Democrats, between sniggers of derision and snorts of disgust, contend that Sarah Palin, John McCain's vice-presidential pick is ridiculously unqualified to be president.

It's a reasonable objection on its face except for this small objection: it surely needs to be weighed against the Democrats' claim that their own candidate for president is self-evidently ready to assume the role of most powerful person on the planet.

At first blush, here's what we know about the relative experience of the two candidates. Both are in their mid-forties and have held statewide elective office for less than four years. Both have admitted to taking illegal drugs in their youth.

So much for the similarities. How about the differences?

Political experience

Obama: Worked his way to the top by cultivating, pandering to and stroking the most powerful interest groups in the all-pervasive Chicago political machine, ensuring his views were aligned with the power brokers there.

Palin: Worked her way to the top by challenging, attacking and actively undermining the Republican party establishment in her native Alaska. She ran against incumbent Republicans as a candidate willing and able to clean the Augean Stables of her state's government.

Political Biography

Obama: A classic, if unusually talented, greasy-pole climber. Held a succession of jobs that constitute the standard route to the top in his party's internal politics: "community organizer", law professor, state senator.

Palin:A woman with a wide range of interests in a well-variegated life. Held a succession of jobs - sports journalist, commercial fisherwoman, state oil and gas commissioner, before entering local politics. A resume that suggests something other than burning political ambition from the cradle but rather the sort of experience that enables her to understand the concerns of most Americans..

Political history

Obama: Elected to statewide office only after a disastrous first run for a congressional seat and after his Republican opponent was exposed in a sexual scandal. Won seat eventually in contest against a candidate who didn't even live in the state.

Palin: Elected to statewide office by challenging a long-serving Republican incumbent governor despite intense opposition from the party.

Appeal

Obama: A very attractive speaker whose celebrity has been compared to that of Britney Spears and who sends thrills up Chris Matthews' leg

Palin: A very attractive woman, much better-looking than Britney Spears who speaks rather well too. She sends thrills up the leg of Rush Limbaugh (and me).

Executive experience

Obama: Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of his campaign staff and a vast crowd of traveling journalists

Palin:Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of 500,000 people in her state, and that impact crucial issues of national economic interest such as the supply and cost of energy to the United States.

Religious influences

Obama: Regards people who "cling" to religion and guns as "bitter" . Spent 20 years being mentored and led spiritually by a man who proclaimed "God damn America" from his pulpit. Mysteriously, this mentor completely disappeared from public sight about four months ago.

Palin: Head of her high school Fellowship of Christian Athletes and for many years a member of the Assemblies of God congregation whose preachers have never been known to accuse the United States of deliberately spreading the AIDS virus. They remain in full public sight and can be seen every Sunday in churches across Alaska. A proud gun owner who has been known to cling only to the carcasses of dead caribou felled by her own aim.

Record of bipartisan achievement

Obama: Speaks movingly of the bipartisanship needed to end the destructive politics of "Red America" and "Blue America", but votes in the Senate as a down-the-line Democrat, with one of the most liberal voting records in congress.

Palin: Ridiculed by liberals such as John Kerry as a crazed, barely human, Dick Cheney-type conservative but worked wit Democrats in the state legislature to secure landmark anti-corruption legislation.

Former state Rep. Ethan Berkowitz - a Democrat - said. "Gov. Palin has made her name fighting corruption within her own party, and I was honored when she stepped across party lines and asked me to co-author her ethics white paper."

On Human Life

Obama: Devoutly pro-choice. Voted against a bill in the Illinois state senate that would have required doctors to save the lives of babies who survived abortion procedures. The implication of this position is that babies born prematurely during abortions would be left alone, unnourished and unmedicated, until they died.

Palin: Devoutly pro-life. Exercised the choice proclaimed by liberals to bring to full term a baby that had been diagnosed in utero with Down Syndrome.

Now it's true there are other crucial differences. Sen Obama has appeared on Meet The Press every other week for the last four years. He has been the subject of hundreds of adoring articles in papers and newsweeklies and TV shows and has written two Emmy-award winning books.

Gov Palin has never appeared on Meet the Press, never been on the cover of Newsweek. She presumably feels that, as a mother of five children married to a snowmobile champion, who also happens to be the first woman and the youngest person ever to be elected governor of her state, she has not really done enough yet to merit an autobiography.

Then again, I'm willing to bet that if she had authored The Grapes of Wrath, sung like Edith Piaf and composed La Traviata , she still wouldn't have won an Emmy.

Fortunately, it will be up to the American people and not their self-appointed leaders in Hollywood and New York to determine who really has the better experience to be president.

Hmmm.....Tough Choice - NOT

So whom do you think is a more appealing candidate?

No contest. Give me the All-American woman!!

ME AND MICHAEL BARONE

Here is a link to Michael Barone's article on the USNWR blog with his astute take on Hillary;'s performance last night.

 
Here is my comment:

I LOVE IT

Mr. Barone, you are right, as usual. HRC did what she had to do in order not to be considered the spoiler when Obama loses. She is then perfectly set up for 2012. I laughed throughout her speech, knowing it was the opening gun of her 2012 campaign.

Obama cannot be elected because this country does not subscribe to his far left ideology. HRC did better in the later primaries once it was clear she was the more "normal" of the two.

I do not trust the Clintons, but they are smart and understand the game. In 2012 she will unleash her own brand of leftist nonsense, without having to triangulate against BO. But it won't work for her either. Americans hate the concept of the all knowing nanny state.

Michelle said she and Barack made it from humble beginnings to success. So why do they insult the rest of us by assuming we need their elitist help to do likewise.

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DO YOU BELIEVE CHILDREN?

Pelosi claims we should reduce our usage of fossil fuels and use natural gas instead. Of course she has no clue that natural gas IS a fossil fuel. How can you believe her about anything? You can't!

Michelle ("I hate America") Obama pretends to be your average soccer mom. Just Good Housekeeping seal of approval. Does anyone believe her? Of course not!

Hillary will pledge to fully support the Messiah. But we all know she lights candles every day hoping for a McCain victory. And all her hot air about unity is c**p. Can you believe her? Of course not!

Do you see a pattern? The hypocrites assembled in Denver claim they are against abortion but support choice. They support the troops but want to surrender. They hate high gas prices but would never drill.

They live in fairyland. And they think the American public is stupid. They think we will believe anything they say even after their years of lies, self dealing, deceptions and crooked deals.

Can you take anything they say seriously? Do you believe children?

OF COURSE NOT!!!

 

THE GORECLE EFFECT

This is what happens when uneducated "youts" listen to the ravings of an out of work, hack politician. Makes you long for the security of the Cold War.

Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon".

"A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of
apocalyptic events."

(So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of
Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.)
"The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies."

But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What's scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this
"climate change delusion", too.

SO WHAT' S IN THE BOX? (ER BARREL)

Since everyone is up in arms about oil, here is some interesting information from the California Energy Commission. Maybe the bozos in Congress should take a look and learn a little. Especially its stupidest member, Maxine Waters.

BAD GEOGRAPHY - BIG LIES

I don't think all Democrats are liars. But it seems all liars are Democrats. That's the only conclusion if you listen to Pelosi, Obama and Shrillary.

They all bleat about the Air Force awarding a plane contract to a team of Northrup Grumman and EADS. Northrup will build the planes in Alabama with many more parts sub-contracted around the country.

Clinton and Obama of course rap it all up in their nonsense about NAFTA. Typical liberal propaganda whining about free trade. Blah, blah, blah. Nothing new. Same old political flamethrowing by dishonest scabs trying to appeal to a no-nothing electorate.

But that left wing doyan from San Francisco Pelosi beats them all. She tries to harpoon McCain for calling attention to the original non-bid process which gave the contract to Boeing and, oh by the way, sent people to jail.

McCain called it out, which ordinarily would have thrilled left wingers. Anything to trash the military.

But not this time. We are in an election. So all bets are off. Any lie will do.

So what does Peolosi have to say? She claims awarding the contract to Northrup Grumman amounts to "outsourcing". (Ahhh, that great all purpose Democratic buzz word lie.)

NOTE TO PELOSI: Last time I checked Alabama was part of the U.S. And Northrup Grumman is an American company.

Maybe she should buy an atlas. Then she could rely on facts not lies. But then that wouldn't be Democratic.

GET AL GORE HIS MEDS

Gee, whoda thunk? All that left wing hysteria based on junk science and a failed politician looking for love was just hokum.

Maybe next time we should rely on folks who actually know some science instead of the poly sci , liberal arts types who couldn't get past physics for poets. Read the whole article.

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

BOOBS

Not the kind you're thinking of. I mean the ones in the Berkley City Council who tried to throw the Marines out of the home of free speech.

They are Fascist BOOBS!

I just heard part of an interview on Michael Medved's show with one of these left wing schmucks. Listen to her for 30 seconds and it's all you need to know about the lies, disjointed thinking and treasonous mindset of today's left.

She accused the Marines or rape, murder and other atrocities while proclaiming how she supports the troops. Total lie typical of the left.

I hope when the Jihadists come for her and she whines and begs to be protected by the Marines, they just laugh and light another Marlboro.

Serves the boob right.

PENTAX K20D AND K200D

This was just announced and has been long awaited by the Pentax faithful. It looks hot. Can't wait to play with one in person.

Is this not pretty?My friend Norman, a knee jerk liberal but overall good guy, is in the market for a new cam. I think the K100Super or the new K200 would fit the bill for him.
Plus there are rumors of more stuff coming from Pentax in few months. Cannot wait. Now all I need is money.

RAISINS IN THE PUDDING

I don't go see a lot of movies. Most are tripe made by talentless, left wing ideologues hoping to slip one past those fools in the heartland (i.e. - east of the 405 and west of 7th Ave.)

I work in the entertainment industry and so I am familiar with the garbage flowing out of Hollyweird well before it hits the wall, er screen. It doesn't take much to discern the passable from the excreable (insider's quick tip - anything with George Clooney or by Michael Moore is crap).

So for 2007, we have the only films worth seeing: "300", "3:10 To Yuma" and "Juno".

"300" because it was just a kick ass bunch of fun that not only entertained but pissed off liberals, gays and others who took remedial anything in school. But I am being redundant.

"3:10" because I like Russel Crow. That's it.

"Juno" because it is great every year to see the little film that could, beat the big guys. Especially when it has an anti-abortion message. It was not only well written, acted and directed but it offered hope and honesty. Oh and it pissed off liberals, etc.

ALGORITHMS

What can I say?

30 below in the midwest, massive cold everywhere else and this loser still whines about global warming. Maybe he should close his hot air emitting mouth. Or stay off the private jets. Or give up the SUVs. NAH!! that's too much like what he expects from us little folk.

If he is not the biggest joke in existence. He makes Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn and Rosie almost look sane.

What is truly scary is this fool (he was in Love Story and invented the internet you know?) came within a whisker of being President. Thank God for the Supreme Court.

THE PRIMARIES

The schedule and weird rules for the primaries this year are playing havoc with our politics.

First we have and New Hampshire, with a total of 17 people, establishing front runners. Neither represents the country as a whole and to make matters worse, independents got to vote in New Hampshire, diluting the value of party registration.

We then have South Carolina, where the biggest question the boobs in the MSM can ask the Republican candidates is where they stand on the Confederate flag. And this week the only news out of the Palmetto state is whether Bill Clinton is a bigger asshole in the White House or out.

Now we have Florida. Oy vey. Rudy waits to get there and by the time he does, he's dead. Romney looks good and McCain, who was dead is BAAAACCCK. Go figure. Meanwhile Huck is somewhere and Fred is gone.

The Dems have Shrillary continuing to be blatantly transparent and Osama Obama (i.e the Magic Negro) falling into the trap of playing in the Clinton mudpit.

All in all, a hell of way to choose the leader of the free world.

Where is Reagan when you need him?