“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Author: Tickler
Democrats Maintain Prison of Poverty in U.S. Cities
Looking for still more proof that Democrat social and fiscal strategies (hehehe) fail? Please take a few minutes to read Glenn Beck’s excellent article on the poorest U.S. cities and their governments. Yep, you guessed it…
Five of the 10 cities with the highest poverty rates (Detroit, Buffalo, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Newark) have had a Democratic stranglehold since at least 1961: more than 45 years. Two of the cities (Milwaukee and Newark) have been electing Democrats since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line in 1908.
Two cities, 100 years, all Democrats.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, the asylums in those cities must be as full as the soup kitchens.
It would be nice to have a research staff to collect all of this kind of info for my humble publication, but I’m a staff of 0.05. I guess I’m just glad someone’s got the resources and time to call out the island of misfit toys we know as liberals.
Comic Relief: Obama without a crutch (uh, teleprompter)…
This is what the unscripted Obama is made of (as if the Saddleback Forum wasn’t enough proof)…
The messiah Obama losing luster with liberal base
After the spanking Obama received at Saddleback, the tide seems to be turning. The silly liberals, previously blinded by the piercing glory of the Change Savior, now see in him what the rest of us have seen all along: not much.
Read this article in the Mercury News, good assessment of the DNC’s poor problem-solving skills
And here, even the DNC PR firm, MSNBC, is forced to acknowledge the issue by poll numbers
In addition to Obama falling on his face without his teleprompter net, another piece of the puzzle, the success of the surge in Iraq, has to have many of the fence-sitting Americans reconsidering the completely unified tuck-tail retreat position the liberals have held. Oh, held until recently when notice the surge working and regrouped to claim some kind of credit or at least prognostication. Just silly. If only we didn’t have it in writing, audio, and video.
Obama, Abortion Extremist
Scary review of Obama’s abortion views based no on what he claims, but what he does on the record. A portion of the article follows but please follow the link after to read the entire article. It’s surprisingly sad how little regard these people have to human life.
Asked by Pastor Rick Warren when a baby gets rights, Obama said, “I’m absolutely convinced that there is a moral and ethical element to this issue.” This is a crashing banality couched as thoughtfulness. If Obama is so sensitive to the moral element of the issue, why does he want to eliminate any existing restrictions on the procedure?
In 2007, Obama told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that the Freedom of Choice Act would be the first piece of legislation that he would sign as president. The act would not only codify Roe v. Wade, but wipe out all current federal, state and local restrictions on abortion that pass muster under Roe, including the Hyde Amendment prohibiting federal funding of abortion. This is not the legislative priority of a man keenly attuned to the moral implications of abortion.
At Saddleback, Obama said determining when a baby gets rights is “above his pay grade.” Leave aside that presidents usually have an opinion about who deserves legal rights. If Obama is willing to permit any abortions in any circumstances, he’d better possess an absolute certainty about the absolute moral nullity of the fetus.
He told Warren that he favors “limits on late-term abortions, if there is an exception for the mother’s health.” But the exception he wants is so broad it makes the restriction meaningless. Obama opposed the partial-birth bill that passed the House and the Senate, 281-142 and 64-34 respectively, and has criticized the Supreme Court for upholding the law.
It’s not just partial-birth abortion where Obama is outside the mainstream, but on the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act — the occasion for his televised accusation of lying.
In 2000, Congress took up legislation to make it clear that infants born alive after abortions are persons under the law. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League opposed the bill as an assault on Roe, but it passed the House 380-15. Back in the Illinois state Senate in 2001, Obama spoke out against and voted “present” — effectively “no” — on a similar bill, aligning himself with the tiny pro-abortion rump of 15 congressmen.
Gang Green, The Politics of Recycling
There was a brilliant article in the WSJ a few days back about the evangelizing church of green and the hypocrisy of the whole (bowel) movement. Definitely take the time to READ IT HERE.
A good passage from the article…
In reality, household recycling is mostly about absolving the guilt of Lexus liberals who just hate themselves for enjoying an affluent 21st-century lifestyle. The aim seems to be less saving nature than building self-esteem.
And it has worked. Too well. I can barely tolerate the proud recyclers, hybrid-car owners and “save the polar bear” button-wearers who smother us with their self-righteousness. A few weeks ago I was at the house of some friends, and I accidentally tossed a plastic Gatorade bottle into the glass recycling bin. You would have thought that I had made a pass at their daughter.
This is just another way in which the self-loathing liberals avoid true service to their fellowmen and the search for meaning.
McCain Proves Superior At Saddleback
I hope everyone had a chance watch the forum with McCain and Barry Oblivious. If not, please do so below. While Obama was struggling to begin half of his responses with uhhh, ummm, I, I, I think…, McCain had clear ideas with conviction in them and his whole presence was much more impressive than I expected. It’s good to see the relatively unscripted side of these two (though of course they both have somewhat memorized positions on all of these issues).
Obama
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6
McCain
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5
Related articles…
Chris Matthews on GOP Likeability
…in his typical DNC spokesman mode (yes, folks, he thinks his oblivious partiality is being subtle enough to not be noticed) speaking on Senator McCain
But I just think that McCain’s problem is he’s over 70, he’s standing there with John Warner, who’s much older than him. He’s standing with Tom Davis, who’s retiring. He looks like an army in retreat in Virginia. That’s what it looks like tonight. The Virginia Republican party used to own that state. They could elect people that are not particularly likable. They were able to do that in the past. Now they’re having a hard time even fielding a candidate against Mark Warner.
Obama’s Political Accomplishments? [Crickets Chirp]
Perfectly stated by the gentlemen from Texas.
What else needs to be said?
Of course, now this same Chris Matthews (Left apologist and agenda jockey) has become devoted cheerleader for Obama in a very monogamously romantic way… remember, he “felt this thrill going up [his] leg” as Obama spoke.
Good for Voight!
Here’s a link to his op-ed piece in the Washington Times that started all of this. Here’s an excerpt…
The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.
Those same leaders who were in the streets in the ’60s are very powerful today in their work to bring down the Iraq war and to attack our president, and they have found their way into our schools. William Ayers is a good example of that.
Thank God, today, we have a strong generation of young soldiers who know exactly who they are and what they must do to protect our freedom and our democracy. And we have the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus, who has brought hope and stability to Iraq and prevented the terrorists from establishing a base in that country. Our soldiers are lifting us to an example of patriotism at a time when we’ve almost forgotten who we are and what is at stake.
Thank you for speaking out John!