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Posted at 10:38am on Jul. 11, 2008 Barry at the Gate. He's not wanted.

Angie Merkel: "Nein!"

By Mark Kilmer

German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not want Obama to speak at the Brandenburg Gate.

Earlier, I had whined, as is my recurrent wont, about Barack Obama's strangely arrogant desire to speak at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate when he visits Europe later this year. That Gate, when it was metaphorically closed, was the scene of one of the modern world's historic speeches, when Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to open the gate and to "tear down this wall!" Now, Barry wants to invite the requisite Reagan-comparisons by talking HopeChangeHope at a place where the world's reality changed. What a lightweight!

Well, this is apparently getting some bad air in Germany these days.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she opposes the idea, referring to the highly symbolic landmark as an “inappropriate” setting for a speech linked to a domestic American political campaign.

And, as Politico.com reports in the same peace, an anonymous "American in Berlin with high-ranking diplomatic experience" describes:

“If he comes here, and does something like [speak at Brandenburg] against the wishes of the head of Germany’s government, he could be seen as somewhat arrogant, as presumptuous, that he disregarded her wishes and went ahead to do this anyway,” said another American in Berlin advising the German government on the matter.

Barry says he wants his foreign policy to be based on folding to the whims of foreign governments, though he phrases it differently. His politics of personal appeasement would be on shaky ground if he were to try to play Reagan in a TV event at the scene of one of Reagan's greatest symbolic triumphs.

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Posted at 12:23pm on Jul. 10, 2008 ENPR: Obama has two potential veep picks in PA

By Mark Kilmer

I wrote this for the PA Water Cooler blog, but it should be of interest at least to the Pennsylvanians amongst us:

Tim Carney writes the Evans & Novak Political Report (ENPR) for Bob Novak, and today he looks at possible veep choices, two of whom are from Pennsylvania. There are no Republicans – which is not surprising, I guess, as it is not altogether clear that our Keystone Commonwealth still has a GOP – but two Pennsylvanians made the list.

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Posted at 9:58am on Jul. 9, 2008 Lefties get angry as Obama exposes his confused self

The pied piper of Chicago is losing his musical pipe.

By Mark Kilmer

Obama became a multi-millionaire in campaign cash via the money page at MyBarackObama.com. Now, the Chicago Tribune reports, there has been a rebellion.

Amid criticism from the left that he has eased toward the center on a number of issues in recent weeks, the presumptive Democratic nominee has angered some of his most ardent supporters while triggering something of an online mutiny. Thousands are using MyBarackObama.com to angrily organize against him because of a changed position on terrorist wiretap legislation that awaits Senate action as early as Wednesday.

I took a look, and it is almost wholly dross, but this bit from a commenter calling himself Enrique seemed to strike a rational version of the prevailing tone in Obama-ville:

Read On…

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Posted at 8:50am on Jul. 8, 2008 Michigan MSM isn't in the tank for Obama at aaaaaaaaall...

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

All those weeks ago when Barack Obama visited Grand Rapids you'd have thought the Beatles had just arrived from Liverpool.  That the allies had rolled into Paris.  That a certain foot touched the top of a certain mountain.  You could watch an hour's worth of constant coverage, leave the house, drive downtown, find parking, go to the event, sit through security sweeps and pomp and circumstance and all of the speeches, find your way through the crowd, get back in your car, fight traffic the whole way home, cook a frozen pizza, open an ice cold beverage, kick back in the lay-z-boy and the anchors at WOOD TV 8 still hadn't taken a breath.  Wall-to-wall media coverage for hours without commercial interruption.  When McCain comes to town you get a five minute blip on the eleven o'clock news.

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Posted at 10:25am on Jul. 7, 2008 Toward an Understanding of the Obamian Language

A Compendium of Useful Words and Phrases for the Traveler, Student, and Businessman

By blackhedd

Here at RedState, we have more than our share of accomplished linguists, and the appearance of a new language in nature is a matter of great interest to us.

Today in America, we’re witnessing the birth of a language (“Obamian”) which borrows heavily from the grammatical structure of American English, but with a heavy influence in matters of linguistic construction from the writings of George Orwell. Like any truly distinct language, Obamian has been observed to be highly consistent in regard to vocabulary and syntax.

We’ll be watching the development of this new language closely, with the ultimate aim of producing a complete vocabulary and grammar.

For now, here’s an initial set of essential words and phrases for the traveler or businessman (pronunciation generally follows American English):

"Consistently": Whenever this word appears (typically in the formulation "My position on XYZ has consistently been..."), it signifies that a flip-flop will appear in the next sentence.

"Inartful": This term (often appearing as “I expressed myself inartfully”) is used ironically to give a subtle impression that the speaker is acknowledging a flip-flop, while in reality he's blaming journalists for it.

"Puzzling": The speaker uses this word when a mainstream press outlet calls attention to one of his flip-flops. The term signifies that the speaker is not amused, and is intended to convey a vague threat or menace.

"This isn't the person I've known for many years": This phrase signifies that the speaker is about to throw a long-trusted friend or political ally under the bus.

This is the first installment. Feel free to add additional citations or naturally-occurring formulations of actual Obamian speech in the comments.

-Francis Cianfrocca

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Posted at 8:28pm on Jul. 3, 2008 Obama is nothing. No Dem nominee since Fritz has been something.

By Mark Kilmer

Barack Obama is not any particular thing, ergo he is nothing.

He's ready to refine his position on Iraq and troop withdrawal:

Obama told reporters in Fargo, N.D., that he is “going to do a thorough assessment."

"When I go to Iraq and I have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I'm sure I'll have more information and will continue to refine my policies," he said, according to CBS News. “I have been consistent, throughout this process, that I believe the war in Iraq was a mistake.”

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Posted at 9:42am on Jul. 2, 2008 Obama's Countrywide-like Sweetheart Mortgage Deal

Obama's Judgment Fails Again

By California Yankee

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Shortly after being sworn in as a U.S. Senator in January 2005, Obama bought a Georgian mansion in an upscale Chicago neighborhood. Obama bought the house for $300,000 less than the asking price of $1.95
million.

The Obamas' income had just risen dramatically. As a U.S. Senator, Obama got an annual salary of $162,100, Random House agreed to reissue an Obama memoir as part of a $2.27 book million deal, and the University of Chicago Hospitals promoted Michelle Obama and more than doubled her pay, to $317,000.

To finance his new mansion, Obama secured a $1.32 million loan from Northern Trust in Illinois. Obama received a discount on the loan:

He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, below the average for such loans at the time in Chicago. The loan was unusually large, known in banker lingo as a "super super jumbo." Obama paid no origination fee or discount points, as some consumers do to reduce their interest rates.

Compared with the average terms offered at the time in Chicago, Obama's rate could have saved him more than $300 per month.

So who cares? Perhaps you should. Read on, there is more.

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Posted at 8:45pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Turn off the giant Obamatron

We've paid to see this movie, and now we won't pay again.

By Mark Kilmer

There you go again. Reagan said it to Fritz Jimmy, and I repeat it in the same spirit addressed to the media.

Look at what they are telling us: That as the GOP Sharpens Attacks on Obama, they've noticed that In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying.

Meanwhile, as Obama Fiercely Defends His Patriotism, they've talked to a few people and discovered that McCain game plan worries insiders. (In early July? What kind if idiot "insiders" are these, if their opinions are accurately portrayed? Sorry, but lefty bloggers do not count. For much. Interested, yes. Worried? Hardly.)

Notice how Barack the August soars above the pagan rhetoric of the GOP and of his lesser-endowed fans, while John McCain is unleashing the flea-bitten hordes, bitterly clinging to the stale demons of the yesterday's politics.

They have their meme, do Barry and his pals o' the press, but I am hereby raising my hand and shouting: ENOUGH! Stop idealizing an unreconstructed leftist whose greatest feature is his willingness to play nifty tricks on the ditzy masses waiting for a guide to come and take them by the hand, leading them to the magical land of HOPECHANGEHOPE. For all of our faults, the American voters deserve much better from all of you than this hysterical swoon. Our nation faces important problems on which our government is Constitutionally empowered and entrusted to lead. To promise us the moon and the stars when they are only models created in some left-leaning Hollywood studio is to distract us from the business at hand.

We, the American people, want to win this war and leave Iraq for the Iraqis. We, the American people, want to sweat our way out of these economic doldrums. We, the American people, at long last realize that we have the energy under our own land to solve our current energy problems AND the ingenuity which, if unfettered by trite regulations, can create and transition to the next sources of energy.

This country, to paraphrase someone of whom most of us haven't heard, has paid to see the Carter Administration, and now we won't pay again. The cost is too high, even if its face is prettier.

The giant Obamatron be damned.

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Posted at 3:02pm on Jul. 1, 2008 McCain: Obama would nominate bad justices.

Is it time to throw the Supreme Court under the bus?

By Mark Kilmer

We remember Kennedy v. Louisiana, in which the 5 in the 5-4 split Supreme Court ruled that the State of Louisiana lacks the discretion to apply the death penalty to those who rape very, very young girls. The same ruling applies to the five other States who deemed that such crime was so heinous to their communities as to warrant "the ultimate punishment."

Barack Obama felt the wind on his finger and told his audience that he disagreed with the Court's majority, but in a speech to the National Sheriffs Association in Indianapolis, John McCain pointed out that if elected, Obama would nominate justices like those who ruled in favor of the child rapists:

McCain acknowledged that Democrat Barack Obama had also disagreed with the decision that struck down a Louisiana law allowing capital punishment for people who rape children under 12. Obama said he believed carefully crafted state laws permitting execution of child rapists do not violate the Constitution.

Nevertheless, McCain asked: "Why is it that the majority includes the same justices he usually holds out as the models for future nominations?"

"My opponent may not care for this particular decision, but it was exactly the kind of opinion we could expect from an Obama court," the Arizona senator said.

Indeed, when asked by CNN in May what kind of justices he would nominate, Barry answered: Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and David Souter. Throw in the tremulous Anthony Kennedy and the antique and rusty John Paul Stevens, and there is your Court majority who sided with monsters.

I think that time has come for Obama to toss these justices under the bus; after all, they are not the Breyer, Ginsburg, and Souter he's known. Right?

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Posted at 2:09pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Don't Call Senator Obama a Born-Again Conservative [Updated]

It's important to set the record straight

By blackhedd

Since Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, there has been a lot of confusion about where he stands on policy issues. It's important to set the record straight on such matters as using government funds for programs tied to churches and other religious organizations. Obama's position on this and every other issue is crystal clear.

With the single exception of expanded drilling for oil, Senator Obama is in favor of every policy position that is recognizably conservative, and he has been since the beginning of his public career.

This includes: gun control (against it), gay marriage (against it), faith-based initiatives (for 'em), the Iraq war (in favor of victory and a continued presence), public financing of political campaigns (against it), the death penalty for rapists (for it), lower taxes (for 'em), and the flag of the United States (for it).

The Senator has not yet announced his long-held and consistent position on abortion, but he does think the conservative Supreme Court is doing a darned fine job.

Update: And Obama adds welfare reform to the list of conservative policies that he's consistently been in favor of all along. H/T Brother Moe.

All characterizations of Senator Obama's consistently-held positions as "liberal" or "left-of-center" are either unfortunate misrepresentations by political opponents (which he regrets), or legitimate misunderstandings caused by hurried or inartful statements by himself or his associates (which he also regrets).

It has been alleged that Obama is a born-again conservative. This mischaracterization is also unfortunate, as the term "born-again" implies some kind of recent conversion experience. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

That is all.

-Francis Cianfrocca

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Posted at 4:56pm on Jun. 30, 2008 My Name is Troy Aikman

By E Pluribus Unum

OR, HOW TO INSULATE YOURSELF FROM PERFECTLY DESERVED CRITICISM

File under : Obama | Macho Bambi at it again | how dare you challenge my patriotism

First of all, apologies to Troy Aikman - this is not a blog about the immortal captain of our 3 juggernauts of 1992, 1993, and 1995. The Dallas Cowboys of that era remain supreme as the best team that ever took the field. [and shut up you tired Pat weinies - nobody loves you or cares what you think]

Imagine hearing a speech by Troy Aikman that contained the following:

I have found, for the first time, my devotion to the Philadelphia Eagles challenged—at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears about who I am and what I stand for. I will never question the Eagle-love of Jeremiah Trotter. And I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine.

Read on for Obama comedy.....

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Posted at 12:35pm on Jun. 27, 2008 Obama's Gun Obfuscation

Obama Sraddles On

By California Yankee

Yesterday, reporting on reactions to the Supreme Court's decision striking down the D.C. gun ban, the Associated Press headlined "McCain backs gun decision, Obama straddles issue."

Here's video of Obama straddling the issue:


Just before the Supreme Courts decision was public, Obama disavowed his "inartful" statement calling the D.C. gun laws constitutional.

Wait. There's more.

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Posted at 8:17am on Jun. 26, 2008 Obama Should Confront His Muslim Issue Head On

It Shouldn't Matter If Obama Was Muslim

By California Yankee

Hardly a day goes by when you don't see some reference to it -- the "smear" that Obama is a Muslim. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal posed the question, "It is inaccurate to call Barack Obama a Muslim. Is it a slur? On Tuesday, the New York Times headlined an article "Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama." Wednesday, Ed Morrissey asked, "Obama running from Muslims?" Even the broadcast media interviews Mulsims about the issue.

I'll get back to those articles in a bit. First, I call on Obama to face his Muslim issue head on. Nothing else will make this "smear" rumor go away.

Like Romney did with the Mormon issue, and Obama himself did with the race issue, Obama must deal with these rumors head on. Obama should give a speech, in which he repeats that he is not Muslim, and goes on to explain why but it should be fine with Americans if Obama were Muslim.

Before the Obamatons launch the hate mail, let me say that I was raised to respect others and was taught that I should strive, like God, to be "no respecter of persons." I've always tried to do that. It does not matter to me what a person's religious beliefs are. What is important to me is that our leaders have some religious belief. And I am comforted by the recent Pew findings that most Americans agree with the statement that many religions – not just their own – can lead to eternal life.
Notdogmaticcorrected

In the 20 or so months since Obama caved and broke his word that he would not run for president in 2008, he has been unable to dispel the "smear" that he is Muslim.

Read on, there is much more.

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Posted at 9:42am on Jun. 25, 2008 Obama's Padding

Padding A Resume Is Lying

By California Yankee

Padding A Resume Is Lying.

Obama has spent about $75 million on about 140,000 airings of ads so far. So of course last week he found it necessary to launch a new ad to introduce himself:

About 46 seconds into the ad, we are told that Obama “passed laws” that “extended healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected,” and in the usual manner of these political commercials we are given a little citation at the bottom.

The citation reads “Public Law 110-181 1/28/08”. That law is the only federal legislation cited in the ad — the other two items mentioned were from the Illinois legislature and referred to other issues raised in the ad.

The problem is Senator Obama never voted for that legislation. Public Law 110-181 is part of the defense authorization bill which passed the Senate in January by a vote of 91 to three with six senators not voting. Obama was one of those six absent senators.


Some in the media overcame Obamamania and highlighted Obama’s false ad claims [Read on, there is more]:

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Posted at 5:51am on Jun. 25, 2008 Breaking His Word - Change That Works For Him

Don't tell us words don't matter

By California Yankee

McCain's presidential campaign released a new web video, called "Words."
The new video focuses on Obama's broken commitments to accept public financing.


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