American Madness

…had a crazy preacher man.

While Hillary proved in no uncertain terms that she’s capable of telling huge and easily verifiable lies, the Obama preacher issue continues to fester in the back of my mind. Here we reprint a dialogue between two family members (one pro-Clinton / one pro-Obama) as they debate the issue. We join in mid-discussion:

You are so blinded by Obama’s ability to talk bullshit you can’t see the reason his affiliation with that pastor and church is troublesome. Of course black people have negative feelings about whites, duh. The problem is Obama’s 20 years of sitting in that nasty church, hearing those sermons and now saying he personally never heard anything but a call to Jesus.

Well, I would separate out Obama’s explanation from the political content of the sermons. If he said he never heard anything but a call to Jesus, he’s bullshitting.

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In “McCain Warns Against Hasty Mortgage Bailout ” the heir apparent to the Republican Presidency said:

“It is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers.” … “Government assistance to the banking system should be based solely on preventing systemic risk that would endanger the entire financial system and the economy,” … “Some Americans bought homes they couldn’t afford, betting that rising prices would make it easier to refinance later at more affordable rates.”

Mr. McCain argued that even during the ongoing crisis, the vast majority of mortgage holders continued to make their payments.
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So, my choice on the Demo side is between demonstrably bad judgment (Obama) and outright prevarication:

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.

I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

Casey Knowles, the little girl seen sleeping in Hillary’s despicable “who do you want answering the phone at 3am” ad is now nearly 18 years old (the ad used old stock footage from Getty) and she has been campaigning for Obama! (As reported by CNN.)

Casey Knowles:

“I mentioned that we should make a counter ad, me and Obama, against Hillary,” she said. “They thought that was really funny. They actually might take me up on it.”

And, forgive me, but I just can’t help but include this one:
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“It’s hard to draw conclusions about her management style, because she is, in fact, not the manager of her campaign.”
- Hillary Clinton senior adviser Harold Ickes

The New York Times does a great job with this morning’s article on the Clinton campaign’s utter lack of direction or leadership.

I’m really really really tired of the press carping on Obama’s lack of experience. It’s the quality of the experience, dummies! The junior senator’s campaign has been a model of efficiency. Senator Clinton’s has been a mess.

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After American Madness’ veer to the left yesterday, I felt a little rebalancing was in order. As the only registered Republican on the masthead (I believe), it’s nice to see how the other side is thinking. Believe it or not, when I’m not thinking about money (GREED!), and corporations, and my investments, and war, and guns and not believing in luck, and the best way to pull on my bootstraps, I like to read. I even read the New York Times sometimes, even though my vast right wing masters at Fox News say I shouldn’t. And we all know I only do what I’m told by Fox News.

Today, I read in the Financial Times that Canada is pissed off at us because a couple of Democratic gas bags believe populism and protectionism is the surest path to economic glory. Based on the loud rhetoric, trade has taken jobs from hard working Americans (read: Ohioans) and given them to not-so-hardworking foreigners. The biggest target of their wrath is the evil North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). You know, the free trade agreement signed between Mexico, the US and Canada by one head of the Billary duo.

Both Clinton and Obama have vowed to revisit and renegotiate NAFTA once the drape measuring is done and they assume their seat on the Oval Office throne. Obama has said he “would immediately call the president of Mexico and the president of Canada (hey Barack: Canada doesn’t have a president, it has a prime minister) to try and amend NAFTA, because I think that we can get labor agreements in that agreement right now.”

And to think, he is the level-headed one. “We will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it and we renegotiate on terms favorable to all Americans,” sayeth Clinton. (more…)

A bit hokey in the execution, but funny reasoning.