Army of Dog

Last night’s Democratic debate has given most of the left a world-class case of the vapors. Evidently, when Democrats get treated like Republicans by the media it’s time to throw the outrage machine into high gear. The debate itself has been covered from both sides, and the general consensus from the legions of Obamaniacs was “hey, no fair!”

I can understand their frustrations, mainly because candidates I support have been treated like that by the media for as long as I’ve been politically aware. The fans of Senator Hopey should, however take heart. Their fearless leader has taken this opportunity to plead for more of their lunch money. I know this because I am on the official Obamessiah for America email list and I receive these kinds of critical messages on a daily basis. Yeah, I’m cool like that. I comb through this crap so you don’t have to.

Today’s missive, complete with “Important” tag, is cleverly titled “Gotcha” like every other article, blog post, and email message written by Obama supporters and party activists describing last night’s debate. It’s written by David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, and it starts out like this:

Friend –

Did you see the debate last night?

If you did, you saw more gotcha politics and distractions than questions about the pressing issues affecting our country.

In fact, it took more than 45 minutes before Barack was asked about the economy, health care, or foreign policy.

The horror! Don’t these media bastards know that there job is to throw out softball questions to the Obamessiah so that he can talk about how he’s going to totally bring hope and change to America and rescue us from the clutches of Bushitler. God!

Don’t think for a moment that the media is the only one to blame however, because that Clinton bitch just looked a little too comfortable with the whole thing.

Regrettably, Senator Clinton seemed all too comfortable with that type of debate. She’s running a 100% negative campaign in Pennsylvania, taking every opportunity to make personal and discredited attacks against Senator Obama.

You can send a message that politics doesn’t have to be played this way.

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Hey, if you send us money, we’ll let you see the name and town of someone who is matching your gift. That way you can scribble their name all over the front of your Trapper Keeper and write poems about how you’re going to marry them and live forever on a cloud made of your Obama love.

Senator Clinton’s false, negative attacks are exactly the kind of say-anything, do-anything politics that the American people are tired of.

That’s why polls show that the majority of Americans think she’s running the most negative campaign, and 58% of voters do not find her honest or trustworthy.

Barack Obama wants to end the politics of division and distraction in Washington so we can bring about real change for ordinary Americans.

It takes a special kind of talent to call someone a liar while criticizing them for being negative and get away with it. David Plouffe does not have that talent.

Every four years there is a candidate that constantly throws out phrases like “change the tone” or “politics as usual.” They try desperately to convince the naive among us that they will be different and that they’ll run a completely positive campaign. It’s bullshit, we know it’s bullshit, and the more you try to pass it off as anything other than bullshit, the more it appears that you think we’re stupid. Seriously, shut the fuck up about your opponent “going negative.” The world is a tough place and if you’re going to whine when your political opponent says something bad about you, I reserve the right to think you’re a complete candy ass.

They are also trying to turn the “elitist” charge around with this cute little graphic:

No, you’re right, “elitist” is not the word for that phenomenon. The word is “gullible.”

Yesterday there was a story going around about Barack Obama making condescending remarks about the typical white people in rural Pennsylvania. Today the AP is running a story about the campaign’s response to that particularly huge fuck up.

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who “cling to guns or religion” were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.

“I didn’t say it as well as I should have,” he said.

It was just a misstatement you see, he was trying to explain the frustration of rural Pennsylvanians to his fellow sophisticates and he failed to couch his terms in sufficiently populist verbiage. All of these silly wingnuts trying to make a big deal out of this are just failing to understand the nuance and layered thought processes of the Obamessiah.

Let’s have a little thought experiment, shall we? Say, for example, that John McCain was speaking to a group of rich, white businessmen in a private mansion right here in Dallas, Texas. As he was giving his remarks to the assembled party he began to address the struggles that the Republican Party will have in trying to woo the black vote, and he said the following:

You go into some of these urban centers in New York or D.C., and like a lot of major cities on the East Coast, the poverty has been endemic now for 40 years and nothing’s really changed for them. And they fell through the Carter Administration, the Reagan Administration, the Clinton administration, and both of the Bush administrations, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to gangs or basketball or hip-hop, class envy aimed at white people or anti-Republican sentiment or anti-American sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I’m going to bet my entire net worth that McCain, or any other Republican for that matter, would not get the benefit of the doubt from the left. He would be decried as a rich, white racist who believes that black people are too stupid to do what’s in their own best interest, and we should all be understanding because their desperate situation and their inferior intellect make them unable to see the wisdom of voting Republican.

Obama is an elitist leftist with a strong background in bitter class warfare indoctrination. If you look at the history of those who have been closest to him in both his political and personal life, it’s a virtual Who’s Who of rabid Marxist ideologues. The “beyond politics” bullshit is just that, a bullshit facade. Every piece of available evidence suggests that this guy is Markos Moulitsas Zuniga with better packaging.

I was on the Official Barack Obama campaign website signing up for email updates and contemplating the size of my donation when this video appeared on the page. Make sure you have a tissue handy.

Senator Hopey McChangey is going to deliver us all from the evil clutches of Washington politics and bring a new era of cooperation and universal health care. I renounce Satan and accept the salvation of our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

Seriously, this is starting to make those crazy Tom Cruise Scientology videos look sane and measured by comparison. The only policy issue mentioned in that entire ad is universal health care and the rest of it is just a bunch of people making the same vacuous statements for about a minute and a half.

By the way, I was contemplating a donation because this is without a doubt the most pathetic plea for money I’ve seen in this election cycle.

Please make a donation now:
Any amount — even a token.

Obama just finished his questioning and the only thought I can manage is WTF? I assume that he was attempting to set up an argument that all we really need to do in Iraq is withdraw everything but the minimum amount of personnel required to maintain the status quo. When Petraeus pointed out that this was not a realistic scenario, he got scolded like a child by both Obama and Joe Biden.

Obama then began speechifying about the fact that the bar for success was too high and what we really need to do is change the definition of victory so that we can declare it and get out. Never mind the fact that his characterization of the goals being set by the administration and MNF-Iraq is absurdly exaggerated, the notion that the specific accomplishments of our Iraq strategy aren’t as important as our ability to declare honorable withdrawal.

The only thing that made listening to this buffoon worthwhile was the look on Crocker’s face when he asked his last question. He had this smile that said “How do I answer this question without calling you an idiot?”

Martha Raddatz of ABC News conducted a thoroughly scientific poll of American military personnel in Iraq and found that almost all of them support Obama.

PFC Jeremy Slate said he supported Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., because of his stated intention to pull out of Iraq right away.

“That would be nice,” Slate said, “I’d like to be home, yea.”

SFC Patricia Keller also expressed support for Obama, citing his representation for change.

I know what you’re saying to yourself, “Brett, just because she found two soldiers who supported Obama doesn’t mean that the troops as a whole support him!” Well, obviously you didn’t read the article, because if you had, you’d know that she quotes six soldiers who expressed a specific preference for a candidate and five of the six support Obama. You’re such haters, why can’t you just stop being racist and admit that 83% of the soldiers deployed in Iraq support Obama! And by the way, the other 17% support Hillary. None of them support McCain, they like totally hate that guy.

I predict that Obama will show up on the wire services in a photo holding a dead bird that he “killed.” Otherwise, this effort is going to look a little thin.

Barack Obama did not hunt or fish as a child. He lives in a big city. And as an Illinois state legislator and a U.S. senator, he consistently backed gun control legislation.

But he is nevertheless making a play for pro-gun voters in rural Pennsylvania.

By highlighting his background in constitutional law and downplaying his voting record, Obama is engaging in a quiet but targeted drive to win over an important constituency that on the surface might seem hostile to his views.

The need to craft a strategy aimed at pro-gun voters underscores the potency of the issue in Pennsylvania, which claims one of the nation’s highest per capita membership rates in the National Rifle Association.

The Junior Senator, who has voted for almost every gun control measure to come before any legislative body he’s belonged to, is looking to get the typical white people in the rural areas of Pennsylvania to vote for him. These particular useful rubes happen to be more likely to own guns than the average person, but Obama refuses to concede their votes to Hillary. Instead, he’s going to try to blatantly bullshit them by highlighting his support of the right of sportsmen to own guns for the purpose of hunting. Not homeowners for the purpose of keeping some criminal piece of shit from raping their daughter mind you, but if you want to go duck hunting, you’ll be allowed to get your 12-gauge out of the mandatory gun safe, remove the federally mandated trigger lock, travel to the nearest government designated hunting area, and shoot the federally determined bag limit of the non-protected avian species of your choice. Cuz he’s a pro-Second-Amendment candidate like that.

This seems to be part of a larger effort by “progressive” policy advocates to try to “take back” the gun issue. The article goes on to talk about the “pro-gun” Democrats who are backing Obama. How in hell anyone who has the slightest affection for gun ownership could contemplate casting a vote that would give the Democratic Party more control over government power I don’t know, but the article lays on a healthy helping of the idea that the gun issue is about the freedom to hunt. It’s a painfully obvious and familiar tactic to anyone who has followed this issue at all, but it doesn’t have to work on the die-hard pro-Second-Amendment contingent. Gun control advocates only need convince enough of the “sportsmen” that they should support “common sense” gun control by pointing out that it won’t effect their precious shotguns and hunting rifles and they can get enough legislation passed to force defenselessness on the law-abiding populace.

I would wager every dollar I have to my name that when the Constitutional Congress gathered in Philadelphia and debated the issues surrounding the Second Amendment, no one in that room had so much as a single thought about using firearms to shoot a fucking duck for recreation. Not one goddamn flicker of an idea.

Drudge links to this story about the Obama campaign giving away free concert tickets as Bill Clinton was speaking on a college campus.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It was an unexpected showdown of surrogates for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton here Wednesday, and it sure looked like Obama’s representative whipped up the most excitement.

As former President Bill Clinton was extolling his wife’s credentials, Obama’s campaign office in Bloomington began giving away tickets to Sunday’s Dave Matthews concert at Assembly Hall.

Jason Schechtman, 19, Deerfield, Ill., a student at IU, got his tickets about 8 p.m. after waiting more than three hours. He met folks in line who said they’d left the Clinton rally to wait for tickets.

“I was leaning toward Obama, but this sealed the deal for sure,” he said. “The Obama campaign announced this right as (Bill Clinton) was about to speak, and it brought everyone from over there to over here.”

The two Democrat candidates are both world class turdbags, so nothing they do surprises me in the least at this point, but how is this not buying votes? Having Oprah stand on stage with you in the hopes that her fans will follow her political advice as readily as they follow her lifestyle mantras is fairly mainstream politicking, but handing out free concert tickets is not. How is this any different in terms of principle than a candidate handing out hundred dollar bills at an event?

The fact that they did this as Bill Clinton was starting a rally is not particularly disturbing, it’s just a bit classless. Obama has demonstrated repeatedly, however, that despite highbrow rhetoric, he’s pretty low-rent.

Allahpundit highlights Harold Ickes’ argument that Democrats must nominate Hillary Clinton instead of Obama because the Right will destroy Obama with the Wright controversy in the general election.

In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in discussions with uncommitted super-delegates over whether Obama is electable in a general election.

The comments from Ickes, who is Hillary’s chief delegate hunter, are to my knowledge the first on-the-record confirmation from a Hillary adviser that the Wright controversy is a subject in conversations between the Hillary campaign and the super-delegates her advisers are trying to win over to Hillary’s side.

Under normal circumstances, with the Democrats running one of two “historic” candidates, and the Republicans running a man that makes me throw up a little in my mouth when he talks, I would be miserable over the prospect of four years under a leftist douchebag and a Communist Party controlled Congress. Here’s why I’m optimistic. Obama really can’t lose the Democrat nomination by any fair process.

Seeing America as the source of evil and strife in the world doesn’t lose in the Democratic Party. Where it will most certainly lose is in a general election when Obama has to woo white, middle class independents and Democrats in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. These are people who normally are susceptible to the liberal message of evil corporations keeping the working man down. When someone puts together a couple of ads showing video of Obama praising Jeremiah Wright spliced with Wright’s “God Damn America” tirades, and starts running them thirty days out in key battleground states, those types of voters will not simply look the other way. No matter how pretty his speeches are, they cannot overcome the perception of agreement with those types of statements.

The only other possibility is a Clinton nomination. This too is highly problematic. Any win by Clinton at this point, no matter how it’s structured, is going to appear as theft to the black voting block of the party. There is a very real possibility under those circumstances that the long desired rift between the Democratic Party and the black vote will be a reality. It is highly unlikely that Clinton can win enough independents against McCain to offset that loss.

Either way, the Democrat candidate will be severely wounded coming out of the convention, and I just don’t think that they will be able to recover in time to beat McCain. So now all I have to worry about is what kind of liberal, Democrat-appeasing dickhead McCain will decide to be once he’s in power.

Our Lord and Savior Senator Obama lied through his pearly whites about a questionnaire that he filled out in 1996.

During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion — positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he has projected during his presidential campaign.

The evidence comes from an amended version of an Illinois voter group’s detailed questionnaire, filed under his name during his 1996 bid for a state Senate seat.

Late last year, in response to a Politico story about Obama’s answers to the original questionnaire, his aides said he “never saw or approved” the questionnaire.

They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who “unintentionally mischaracterize[d] his position.”

But a Politico examination determined that Obama was actually interviewed about the issues on the questionnaire by the liberal Chicago nonprofit group that issued it. And it found that Obama — the day after sitting for the interview — filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer.

Now we have him dead to rights! He is betrayed by his own hand! Blah, blah, blah, who gives a shit. Perhaps I’m cynical, but somehow I don’t see the legions of Obamaniacs suddenly becoming disillusioned because their sainted leader “misspoke” about whether or not he saw a questionnaire from ten years ago.

I could certainly be wrong, but it seems to me that half of Obama’s supporters would still vote for him if video surfaced showing him having a three-way with Al Sharpton and a goat. The other half get most of their news from The Daily Show and really like the idea that voting for the black guy makes them ahead of their time.

Just when the Jeremiah Wright story seemed like it might die for a while, the Rev. Otis Moss III compared media coverage of the Wright controversy to lynching. I don’t want to sound egotistical, but it’s almost like Reverend Otis woke up on Easter morning and said to himself “What’s the most hopelessly retarded thing I can utter today so that Brett has something entertaining to write about following an otherwise slow Easter weekend? I know, I’ll compare reporters asking about my predecessor’s prestigious ‘God Damn America’ sermon series to racists hanging black people in the South fifty years ago. Cuz their like the same thing anyway.”

In a sunrise Easter sermon, Rev. Otis Moss III never mentioned Wright by name, but implied that his mentor, who has delivered sermons in which he likened the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and declared it damned for its “state-sponsored terrorism,” is facing the same challenges Jesus did.”No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching,” Moss said.

“The lynching was national news. The RNN, the Roman News Network, was reporting it and NPR, National Publican Radio had it on the radio. The Jerusalem Post and the Palestine Times all wanted exclusives, they searched out the young ministers, showed up unannounced at their houses, tried to talk with their families, called up their friends, wanted to get a quote on how do you feel about the lynching?” he continued.

Seriously, this actually makes me want to go to church in the hope that ministers all across the country will collectively realize that they can say almost anything and still be less crazy than this stupid bastard.