Can Hillary do it?

I'll be voting for her today. I think: yes. I think, in the very last 4 to 5 days, Hillary has found effective ways to shift momentum in her direction. I think she will win enough votes to keep her in the race, with a legitimate chance at the nomination.

Barack has not closed the deal. Hillary, like the NYGiants going into the Super Bowl, has a legitimate chance to win. Barack could close the deal tomorrow. But I don't think he will. I really like Hillary's chance to make a late comeback and win the Dem nomination. I sense momentum is shifting away from Barack.

All that said, I'm pretty much the worst political prognosticator ever. Even I don't give much weight to my opinion. I just felt like sharing.

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I sent this creepy Obama video to my cousin, who plans to vote for Obama today. I've watched it several times. It is creepy and catchy! The creator is musician Will.I.Am.(the guy in the hat)

My favorite part happens in the final 15 seconds. Will.I.Am stands beside Jessica Alba, and they both chant "Obama. Obama." Will.I.Am is so happy! His reaction is EXACTLY the same as my reaction would be: "Damn, man! I'm tryin to be cool, but I'm chantin "Obama" RIGHT BESIDE JESSICA ALBA!!!" He can't keep himself from smiling. It's exactly how I would be.

Spring Training! Texas Rangers Hitting

Evan Grant writes an interesting article about the Rangers efforts to change from free swingers to grinders who work the count, and who force pitchers to throw more pitches per at bat.

The Red Sox, the Yankees, and the A's are especially talented grinders. They force pitchers into high pitch counts. It's difficult for a starting pitcher to go beyond the 5th or 6th inning against any of those teams, and many times I've seen starting pitchers bounced in the 3rd or 4th innings against those teams, having already run up 80 or so pitches in that short period of the game.

One thing which disappointed me about Mark Teixeira was that he refused, last season, to tweak his free swinging approach. Even if the Rangers were behind by 3, with the bases empty, Teixeira was swinging away for doubles and homers. He was selfish.

I expect Teixeira will mature into more of a grindy kind of hitter. He is still young, and headstrong, and eager to protect his coming gigantic free agent contract. He needs to produce numbers Scott Boras can work with.

I'm happy to see, in Evan Grant's article, that hitting instructor Rudy Jaramillo has bought into the grind-it-out batting approach. I had wondered if he was secretly resisting it.

I do worry that the grind it out approach will mentally overload young hitters Jason Botts and Nelson Cruz. I am more concerned with their success than with any other aspect of the Rangers this season. I want them to have clear heads, and to be relaxed, when they go to the plate.

I suspect manager Ron Washington tends to overload young hitters with too much information and too much pressure. Both Botts and Cruz have far more natural hitting talent than Ron Washington ever dreamed of having. Sometimes, I suspect Ron Washington types of scrappy, mediocre hitters do not have enough patience with big talent guys. Everyone develops in their own way - thankfully. If the Rangers had a team full of Ron Washington type hitters, they would be lucky to win 70 games.

Evan Grant says new acquisitions Josh Hamilton and Milton Bradley are both grind it out types of hitters. I applaud Jon Daniels for moving in this direction with the Rangers offense. I wonder if Nolan Ryan will buy into it?

I do wonder about Michael Young and Hank Blalock. They are both free swingers. I wonder if they will tweak their hitting approaches at this stage of their careers? I speculate that they will, yet this will be interesting to watch.

I also wonder if this makes Saltalamacchia more likely to be traded. As a hitter, he is still young and malleable. Yet, last season, he was one free swinging dude. Nothing about him indicated that he would ever be a grind it outer. It's possible the Rangers hope to build his value by refining his catching skills, then trade him. Taylor Teagarden will make a fine major league catcher. And there's plenty of catching coming behind Teagarden. A free swinging Saltalamacchia may be expendable.

Obama Girl: I like a boy who rocks a doggie tag

Oops! Remain committed to showing every Obama Girl video. Had missed this one, from September.



Bonus: Seems a good place for this:

The manure Barack is shoveling: Part 3 1/2 - Fantasizing in public; crowd cheers

How many Arab American families have been rounded up without benefit of an attorney?

With great confidence, I give you the precise number: zero.

You want to see Arab American families rounded up without benefit of an attorney? Try Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Morrocco, Algeria, Libya.



Something else: government is not our keeper. We help our fellow citizens via private enterprise, not government program. We help our fellow citizens via protecting opportunity.

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A fun place for this next(hot off a YouTube launch on Friday). This video is unfair, in the sense that it could be made about any campaign. Also, including the cocaine stuff is a low blow(heh!).

Still, it is fun. It does resonate, because of what we know about Barack's campaign going in. Might this, if it goes viral, pry some young voters away from Barack Messiah? I think yes. But maybe that's just the optimist in me!

The manure Barack is shoveling: Part 3 - Desire for black identity affects his politics

Previous Posts:
Barack knock
Michelle Obama: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."
Did I mischaracterize Michelle Obama?
The manure Barack is shoveling: Part 1 - Limited love for America; unlimited love for (fantasy) ideals
The manure Barack is shoveling: Part 2 - Not ready; why meeting with oppressive dictators is bad policy

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.
--Pope Benedict XVI

"I'm going to back Obama ... I can't wait to see what he stands for."
--Actress Susan Sarandon, Mid-February, 2008

Picture and caption courtesy of Time Magazine:

Father of Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya (left) and Ann Dunham with her two-year-old son Barack Obama.


Greg's note: Ann Dunham and two year old Barack are as cute as they could be. Look closer. Look at how proud she is of her son. Everything about her just screams out love and pride. She is compelling. I am drawn to her. When living in the Phillipines, she awoke Barack at 4:30 every morning, to tutor him, so his education would not fall behind the education of his American peers .

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Shelby Steele's "A Bound Man" is a short (145 pages), dense examination of Obama and race. I'm 2/3 of the way through, and so far it's the best examination of race in America which I have ever read. It's Steele's fourth book on race in America, so maybe he is mastering the subject.

Steele believes Obama is running on race. When your campaign overtly proclaims it "transcends race", your campaign is actually all about race.

Steele delves extensively into Obama's excellent early book: "Dreams of My Father." Obama writes, with some self-knowledge and some self-blindness, of his search to belong to the black identity in America. Barack possibly feels a special urgency because of his mixed race heritage. Steele:

The issue of race--so nicely contained and deactivated in the Barack Obama political persona--is very much alive within the man. Black identity has been a lifelong preoccupation. By the surface facts of his life--the mixed race background, the childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia--it would be easy to assume that he might be indifferent to the whole business of race and identity. There is a tendency to see Obama as a kind of "new man," someone spared the fate of being simply black or white in America.
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But Obama is not such a person. His books show a man driven by a determination to be black, as if blackness were more an achievement than a birthright. And this need within him puts Obama at odds with himself. His plausibility as a candidate comes, in part, from the perception that he is not driven to be black, that he is rather lightly tethered to his race. But the very arc of his life has been greatly influenced by an often conscious resolve to belong irrefutably to the black identity.

Steele writes that racial pride is a good thing; yet the racial exceptionalism of "black identity" in America (which demonizes and denigrates white people) is a bad thing. Steele, whose own mother is white and whose own father is black, and who also enjoys and desires "belonging" to the black identity, writes of the irony of a racial exceptionalism which demands conformity. My paraphrasing: to be authentically black, you must denounce your white mother and your white relatives; and you must denounce their values - which might be the very self-reliant values which enabled your success. You must embrace victimhood as virtue. You must embrace ideas which you know, if you think about them honestly, to be untrue. However, if you don't wholeheartedly embrace the lies, you cannot belong. You don't get to be "authentically black." You are in a bind. You cannot, if you have a drop of black blood in you, belong to the white identity. You cannot, if you refuse to embrace the lies, belong to the black identity.

Steele says, between the lines, that Barack Obama is a dangerous man. Barack's fervent desire to be authentically black 1) leads him to ignore(at least in his political positions) the lessons of self-reliance which aided his achievements, and 2) REQUIRES that he embrace the victimhood lies, and all the trope which that implies, and all the political positions and programs which go along with the trope. Steele in an interview with WaPo:

The problem here for Barack, of course, is that his racial identity commits him to a manipulation of the society he seeks to lead. To ‘be black,’ he has to exaggerate black victimization in America. . . . Worse, his identity will pressure him to see black difficulties — achievement gaps, high illegitimacy rates, high crime rates, family collapse, and so on — in the old framework of racial oppression.

More from "A Bound Man"

That he would join a church this steeped in blackness, with so many other churches available, only underscores his determination to be transparently black.
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How can Obama sit every week in a church preaching blackness & not object that he was raised quite well, thank you, by three white Midwesterners? Obama is the kind of man who can close down the best part of himself to belong to this black church and, more broadly, to the black identity.

It's a bit off topic, but I also liked this

So Obama is not given to “fresh” or “new” ideas. It is hard to be an iconic Negro and original at the same time. He works within convention not against it. When you are an iconic Negro you are original, not in your thinking, but in your person

Steele's book was published in November, and therefore written even earlier. Still, that is a right on reading of Obama. In the last 1/3, which I have not finished, Steele asserts that the Barack phenomenon is not so much about Barack as it is about white America. This reminds of something Peggy Noonan wrote:

[Barack Obama's] big draw is this. In a country that has throughout most of our lifetimes been tormented by, buffeted by, the question of race, a country that has endured real pain and paid in blood and treasure to work its way through and out of the mess, that for all that struggle we yielded this: a brilliant and accomplished young black man with a consensus temperament, a thoughtful and peaceful person who wishes to lead. That is his draw: "We made that." "It ended well."
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People would love to be able to support that guy.

More from "A Bound Man":

It was not a hard-earned and carefully evolved individuality that won [Barack] entree’ into national imagination. It was the matching of his racial persona with a hunger for racial innocence in white America…

This next is in the final summation of "A Bound Man". Read in context, it does not seem so starkly harsh as it does when excerpted. Still, I include it here:

What gave Barack Obama the idea that he could plausibly run for POTUS? Was it that he had evolved a compelling vision for the nation grounded in deeply held personal convictions? Or was it he had simply become aware of the his power to enthrall whites?

A Time Magazine article, about Barack Obama, written by Shelby Steele.

This creeps me out

Nuremburg rallies meet a tent revival.



Near the end, a woman says: "He's almost like a revival for a lot of peoples' souls." Yeech.

"I want to live in a world without fear."
Good luck with that. You might consider being thankful for fear. It enables you to identify love.

"Basically I just want the war to end."
The war will end when Jihad Culture is resoundingly discredited amongst Muslims. Until then, Jihadis will continuously try to kill enough of us to scare the rest of us into submission.
If you know of a better way to resoundingly discredit Jihad Culture(other than democracy and rule of Constitutional law), please do share.

To my sensibility, this is an anti-Obama video. It hurts him more than it helps.

Hot Air:

An evolution in the Messiah’s cult of personality:
[...]
I like the fact that they start off talking about policy and then just sort of give up as the chanting takes hold and the platitudes issueth forth.
[...]
Try chanting along with them. See if it makes you want to give up on Iraq.

Needing some Friday silly

Redneck Mansion:



IMAO:

Kent:
Nader for President
He's not a power-crazed lawyer bent on destroying defense and capitalis.... aw sh*t.

Frank J:
Affirmative Action
Whose dumb idea was this? The solution to racism is to ingrain racism into our laws and hiring practices? Some may say you should fight fire with fire, but, if my house were ablaze and the firemen showed up with flamethrowers, I'd be like, "Hey! Don't fight fire with fire!" That why I'm 'gainst affirmative action.

Allah:

It is a great affront to god that a woman so saucy should also be learned, but there is the problem with your women in a nutshell, America.
Pro: They are looking good.
Con: They attend school.
You must accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.

William F. Buckley, Jr.: A Life Well Lived

The impact of the man has not yet been fully realized.

WFB jump started the conservative movement in America. He was behind Barry Goldwater's candidacy. Ronald Reagan owed much of his intellectual understanding of conservatism to Buckley.

The extent to which WFB was a true original has not yet been fully realized. He fought in WWII. He sailed into international waters so he could try marijuana without breaking any laws. He was hilarious. He was surprising.

God and Man at Yale, 1951:

I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

Editorial, National Review, 1957:

The attempted assassination of Sukarno last week had all the earmarks of a CIA operation. Everyone in the room was killed except Sukarno.

-- Address in New York, after Khrushchev was invited to speak at the U.N., 1960:

We deem it the central revelation of Western experience that man cannot ineradicably stain himself, for the wells of regeneration are infinitely deep. . . . Khrushchev cannot take permanent advantage of our temporary disadvantage, for it is the West he is fighting. And in the West there lie, however encysted, the ultimate resources, which are moral in nature. . . . Even out the depths of despair, we take heart in the knowledge that it cannot matter how deep we fall, for there is always hope. In the end, we will bury him.

I read the above, and I suspect Buckley was a source of Reagan's conviction and confidence that the Soviet Union must be defeated. Reagan believed the USSR must and would be defeated when almost no other world leaders believed it. Reagan believed it when few American leaders believed it; and when Jimmy Carter was making speeches about how the USSR was not really a threat to the world, and about how the U.S. and the USSR needed to co-exist in partnership.

Address at the Yale Political Union, 2006:

Despair is inappropriate for a culture as buoyant as our own.

Ann Coulter:

Some of Buckley's best lines were uttered in court during a lengthy libel trial in the '80s against [William F. Buckley's] National Review brought by the Liberty Lobby, which was then countersued by National Review. (The Liberty Lobby lost and NR won.)

Irritated by attorney Mark Lane's questions, Buckley asked the judge: "Your Honor, when he asks a ludicrous question, how am I supposed to behave?"

In response to another of Lane's questions, Buckley said: "I decline to answer that question; it's too stupid."

When asked if he had "referred to Jesse Jackson as an ignoramus," Buckley said, "If I didn't, I should have."

Graphic shows decline in Iraq media coverage

Ace of Spades, in the same post:

Think about it: the media is willing to entertain the possibility that it is actually institutionally racist against blacks while it angrily and arrogantly dismisses the possibility it may be slightly liberal and hence anti-conservative.

[...] they're actually willing to ponder whether they are, in effect, effete Klansmen in the service of the Greater New York Metro Area Kleagle.

Yet that possibility they're willing to discuss openly, while it's simply ludicrous that they might be somewhat predisposed to one party's politics than the other.

Explanation? Simple. They know they're not terribly anti-black so it's a relatively easy and unemotional topic for them to chitter about. It's relatively easy to discuss flaws you know you're innocent of.

But when it comes to the anti-conservative bias... suddenly they're quite emotional about the charge, angry and petulant such an outrageous accusation is made in the first place.

The manure Barack is shoveling: Part 2

Previous Posts:
Barack knock
Michelle Obama: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."
Did I mischaracterize Michelle Obama?
The manure Barack is shoveling: Part 1 - limited love for America; unlimited love for (fantasy) ideals

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.
---Pope Benedict XVI

"I'm going to back Obama [...] he as a symbol has really excited people, and he's definitely confusing to everyone who really hates America for hating, you know, Muslims [...] I can't wait to see what he stands for."
---Actress Susan Sarandon, Mid-February, 2008

Barack, himself, in 2004, didn't believe he would "know what he was doing" enough to run for President in 2008. This explains why Barack adopts liberal trope, point by point by point by point, all the way down the menu of issues. Barack doesn't feel confident departing liberal orthodoxy on any issue.


Barack is not ready. Like the pretty girl who never has to grow as a person, Barack's looks and charisma may forever stunt his development as a thinker. We shall see. The main point, now: Barack is not ready. He is dangerously not ready.

One example was Barack's spur of the moment debate promise to talk to the world's worst dictators. Worse than the promise was Barack's post debate reaction: rather than tamp down his debate statement - as his aides were trying to do, and were urging him to do - Barack, over the ensuing days and weeks, doubled down. Paul Mirengoff, of Powerlineblog, covers a subsequent debate:

Obama eventually won this [debate panderfest] by promising personally to talk to Raul[Castro], Ahmadinejad, etc. without precondition. He did assure us, however, that he would first prepare for these meetings.

Clinton suggested that bestowing a presidential visit on the world's worst regimes without first getting something in return might not be particularly shrewd. Obama was having none of it. That might have made sense in the old days, he said. However, now that President Bush has turned the world so decisively against us, it would smack of "arrogance" to expect anything from Raul Castro or Ahmadinejad before rushing off to talk to them.

First:
Pres. Bush has not turned the world decisively against us. This claim is either 1) naive or 2) manure. Make your choice.

Second:
Barack openly admitted (I will prepare for those meetings) he doesn't know what's going on in Cuba or Iran. Why else would he wish to talk with Castro or Ahmadinejad? Their policies and beliefs are an open book. That Barack wishes to speak with them is tacit admission he has not read the already opened book.

Third, and most important:
Here's why you don't talk to oppressive dictators: our national policy is to encourage dissenters inside the oppressive dictators' nations.

A U.S. Presidential meeting further legitimizes a dictator inside his own country. That U.S. President thus discourages the success of internal dissenters who are risking their lives to oppose the dictator.

This is not to say a U.S. President should NEVER meet with an oppressive dictator. Rather, a U.S. President should leave that meeting with enough gained value to offset the resulting discouragement of internal dissent inside the dictator’s country.

The levels of oppression inside Cuba, Iran, and N. Korea do not seem to have registered with Barack. He seems to think oppression is what happens when the media accurately quote Michelle.

This is what spontaneous internal dissent looks like in Iran. From Pajamas Media, do consider reading it all, and looking at the video:

It happens every day on the streets of Tehran: a police squad grabbed a young woman for dressing immodestly. But this time, the young woman fought back, and a crowd defended her and attacked the police. Thanks to cell phone video, the Internet, and brave Iranian citizen reporters, Ardeshir Arian is able to tell the story.

Over 300 Iranians, independently shopping at a mall, spontaneously joined together to successfully attack the Iraqi police who were trying to arrest a young woman for dressing immodestly. They chanted and/or cried out the following:

“You have put us on since 1979 until now”

“We do not want the Islamic regime”

“A revolution is happening”

“How many people do you think you can kill?”

Do we want Barack Obama to legitimize Ahmadinejad at the expense of protestors who spontaneously attack Iranian police?

Do we really want a POTUS who, rather than back away from a heat of the moment debate comment, instead (petulantly? politically strategically?) doubles down
1) in favor of Ahmadinejad, and
2) against the interests of brave Iranians who risked their lives to oppose police?

BTW, after one Iranian policeman was beaten by the crowd, and after other Iranian Police ran away, the police later came back in force, and made at least a dozen arrests(level of brutality unknown to us) in the shopping mall area.

Mavs sign Jamaal Magloire

(sung to the tune of "My Cherie Amor")

la la la la la la,la la la la la la

My Jamaal Magloire, 6'11" of coordination
My Jamaal Magloire, distant as a millionaire Canadian
My Jamaal Magloire, player of Trinidadian descent that I adore(maybe)
you're the infatuated dunker my heart beats for(maybe)
how I wish you were Kurt Thomas

In the crowded paint, or sometimes in an open gym
shooters have been near you, but you never noticed them
My Jamaal Magloire, won't you tell me how you could ignore
That obvious shooting gleam that they all wore
How I wish you were Kurt Thomas

La la la la la la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la, la la la la la la

Maybe someday you see their body language in time
Maybe someday you slap their sh** back like a pissed mime
My Jamaal Magloire, player of Trinidadian descent that I adore(maybe)
you're the infatuated dunker my heart beats for(maybe)
how I wish you were Kurt Thomas

My Jamaal Magloire, 6'11" of coordination
My Jamaal Magloire, distant as a millionaire Canadian
My Jamaal Magloire, player of Trinidadian descent that I adore(maybe)
you're the infatuated dunker my heart beats for(maybe)
how I wish you were Kurt Thomas

La la la la la la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la, la la la la la la
La la la la la la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la, la la la la la la
La la la la la la

The manure Barack is shoveling: Part 1

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.
--Pope Benedict XVI

Does Barack love the America which the Founding Fathers put into place? Or, does Barack mainly love his fantasy of what America ought to be?

Does he love the America created in deference to God given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Or, does Barack love his fantasies of economic and social justice more than he loves the freedoms written into America's founding documents?

I thought this would be one post. It has grown, so far, to three posts.

We begin softly, with the insightful and tactful former Reagan speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, writing in WSJ:

[Barack Obama's] big draw is this. In a country that has throughout most of our lifetimes been tormented by, buffeted by, the question of race, a country that has endured real pain and paid in blood and treasure to work its way through and out of the mess, that for all that struggle we yielded this: a brilliant and accomplished young black man with a consensus temperament, a thoughtful and peaceful person who wishes to lead. That is his draw: "We made that." "It ended well."

People would love to be able to support that guy.

His job, in a way, is to let them, in part by not being just another operative, plaything or grievance-monger of the left-liberal establishment and left-liberal thinking. By standing, in fact, for real change.

Right now Mr. Obama is in an awkward moment. Each day he tries to nail down his party's leftist base, and take it from Mrs. Clinton. At the same time his victories have led the country as a whole to start seeing him as the probable Democratic nominee. They're looking at him in a new way, and wondering: Is he standard, old time and party line, or is he something new? Is he just a turning of the page, or is he the beginning of a new and helpful chapter?
[...]
His problem was, is, his wife's words, not his, the speech in which she said that for the first time in her adult life she is proud of her country, because Obama is winning. She later repeated it, then tried to explain it, saying of course she loves her country. But damage was done. Why? Because her statement focused attention on what I suspect are some basic and elementary questions that were starting to bubble out there anyway.
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Here are a few of them.

Are the Obamas, at bottom, snobs? Do they understand America? Are they of it? Did anyone at their Ivy League universities school them in why one should love America? Do they confuse patriotism with nationalism, or nativism? Are they more inspired by abstractions like "international justice" than by old visions of America as the city on a hill, which is how John Winthrop saw it, and Ronald Reagan and JFK spoke of it?

Have they been, throughout their adulthood, so pampered and praised--so raised in the liberal cocoon--that they are essentially unaware of what and how normal Americans think? And are they, in this, like those cosseted yuppies, the Clintons?

Why is all this actually not a distraction but a real issue? Because Americans have common sense and are bottom line. They think like this. If the president and his first lady are not loyal first to America and its interests, who will be? The president of France? But it's his job to love France, and protect its interests. If America's leaders don't love America tenderly, who will?

And there is a context. So many Americans right now fear they are losing their country, that the old America is slipping away and being replaced by something worse, something formless and hollowed out. They can see we are giving up our sovereignty, that our leaders will not control our borders, that we don't teach the young the old-fashioned love of America, that the government has taken to itself such power, and made things so complex, and at the end of the day when they count up sales tax, property tax, state tax, federal tax they are paying a lot of money to lose the place they loved.

And if you feel you're losing America, you really don't want a couple in the White House whose rope of affection to the country seems lightly held, casual, provisional. America is backing Barack at the moment, so America is good. When it becomes angry with President Barack, will that mean America is bad?
* * *
Michelle Obama seems keenly aware of her struggles
[...]
I wonder if she knows that some people look at her and think "Man, she got it all." Intelligent, strong, tall, beautiful, Princeton, Harvard, black at a time when America was trying to make up for its sins and be helpful, and from a working-class family with two functioning parents who made sure she got to school.

That's the great divide in modern America, whether or not you had a functioning family, and she apparently came from the privileged part of that divide. A lot of white working-class Americans didn't come up with those things. Some of them were raised by a TV and a microwave and love our country anyway, every day.

Does Mrs. Obama know this? I don't know. If she does, love and gratitude for the place that tries to give everyone an equal shot would seem to be in order.

Ugh. Hillary doesn't get it. Pivots away from effective stategy.

Hillary doesn't understand that a candidate must hammer an effective message day after day, and appearance after appearance. Here is the winning, effective message Hillary used yesterday:

1. Barack is full of manure.
2. I've learned some things which he has not.

This is Hillary's effective medium: mockery.

She pushed her effective message for exactly one day, then pivoted into the political muck of pushing forward a photo of Barack in tribal garb. The photo proves nothing. Hillary doesn't put it inside any type of meaningful context, if such context even exists. Hillary just shoves it out there: a classic example of empty politics. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. And yuck.

Hillary: Mock Barack!

Finally, Hillary has figured it out. The way to to defeat Obama is to point to the truth: Barack Obama is full of manure. Hillary FINALLY gets it.


Hillary mocks obama
by dollarsandsense123


As a bonus, this FINALLY gives voters a rationale to vote for Hillary: 1) she has more life experience + 2) Barack is dangerously naive. Hillary also said this:

[Obama's] candidacy ... is very much about him and his personality and his presentation. [That] oversimplifies the complexity of the problems we face, the challenges of navigating our country through some difficult uncharted waters. We are a nation at war. That seems to be forgotten.

Kick his ass Hillary! It might be too late for your campaign, but kick his ass anyway!

Hillary has unsuccessfully tried to say she is the candidate with governing experience, and with "fighting" experience. She has tried to say "I've fought for 35 years." The problem is that this is fundamentally a lie. Her 7 years in the Senate doesn't spectacularly trump his 3 years in the Senate. Working as a corporate lawyer, and sitting on the Wal-Mart board, doesn't equate to a liberal's definition of "fighting for children." Being First Lady doesn't equate to governing experience. Hillary was trying to delineate between herself and Barack, but she was lying.

Conversely, when she now mocks the ridiculous manure Barack has been shoveling at the nation*, she is suddenly on the right track. Barack is both naive AND full of manure(a difficult double to pull off). Hillary HAS lived longer than Barack. She HAS seen more of life, and she HAS seen more of the difficulties of governing. She hasn't been personally governing; she hasn't been "fighting for children" for 35 years; but she HAS had her eyes open to reality while Barack clearly has not. Hillary is finally saying something true: I've learned some things about governing which he has not. Mock Barack! Mockery is the way to beat him, because of this truth: Barack Obama is full of manure.

*more, tomorrow, on the manure Barack is shoveling at us.

Zach Happy Day

Cowboys sign former Dolphins LB Zach Thomas!

These Cowboys fans are really happy to have Zach:



Zach Happy Day

Zach happy day
Zach happy day
When Zach plugged the gaps
Oh when Zach plugged the gaps
When Zach plugged the gaps
He stopped the running game dead!
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
When Zach plugged the gaps
Oh when Zach plugged the gaps
When Zach plugged the gaps
He stopped the running game dead!
Zach happy day
Zach happy day

He taught Bradie James
He taught Bradie
To watch
For the screen
and traps and dump offs
traps and dump offs!

And he'll rejoice
in blowing up
Brandon Jacobs
Brandon Jacobs!
and He will blitz
Donovan McNabb
without mercy
without mercy!

Zach happy day, Zach happy day
Zach happy day, Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day

Zach happy day
Zach happy day
When Zach plugged the gaps
Oh when Zach plugged the gaps
When Zach plugged the gaps
He stopped the running game dead!
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day

He taught Bradie James how
to watch, for the screen
for the screen
Zach happy day, Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
When Zach plugged the gaps
Oh when Zach plugged the gaps
When Zach plugged the gaps
He stopped the running game dead!
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day
Zach happy day.

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