Random Meanderings Open Thread

6eorge Jetson

correlates negatively w/ the S&P 500.

The S&P 500 has been going up as Zero™’s political capital has been falling. If Americans want the S&P to keep going up, they’ll have to continue to increase their opposition to Zero™’s agenda.

http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

Hey Neil. I posted another blog today and used Colorado as a tag, but it doesn’t show up on the Colorado State page. This has been happening to me for awhile. I notice it’s working for others. Was it something I said?

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

Those have been unreliable since the jump to wordpress. I don’t know why, but the feature never was very straightforward to develop unfortunately.

Raven

The man was never a servant, public or otherwise. He was a public master. He was a very powerful and effective politician and was never a friend of this country.
But he was a very good friend of his political allies.

6eorge Jetson

for the last time.

http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

As the state races are starting to heat up, I was hoping to make use of the feature.

njre

It is obvious that we cannot stop Obama and gang transforming our Constitutional Republic into a fascist, socialist, Marxist or communist country by fighting their corrupt policies and appointees one at a time.
Besides Grand Juries, lawsuits, state sovereignty movements, rallies, Congress is the one with the ultimate authority and power to vet a presidential candidate and remove a usurper. Congress and most of We the people know that Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be POTUS. Americans WILL NOT tolerate letting a usurper destroy America from within!
Let us conduct a ?Congress Blast? to blast them into carrying out their sworn duty to defend our nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Although congress has mostly turned deaf ears on us so far, some of them are beginning to openly challenge Obama?s citizenship. Obama?s own actions and attitude have weakened his and his Dem?s position. More and more people are demanding this issue to be addressed. The waves are building and building. We should keep riding the waves till they turn into tsunamis! Before the 9/12 DC rally to challenge Obama?s eligibility, we must insist that congress investigate Obama?s constitutional eligibility. The constitution has provisions for removing a usurper should Obama be found ineligible.
The usurper and gang have been shoving through heinous legislations after legislations, appointing myriads of unconstitutional czars and communist advisors, at lightning speed, to destroy everything that America stands for: government takeover of healthcare, cap and trade, amnesty of illegal aliens, card check, anti freedom of speech laws and FCC commissioners/advisors, anti rights to bear arms legislations, nationalizing banks, auto industry, insurance co., takeover of Census, empowering corrupt labor unions, ACORN and the likes?.. the list goes on and on.
How much more will congress tolerate before they act to defend our Republic?
We have had enough! We won?t take it any more!
We must make the 9/12 rally a rally to force investigation of Obama’s eligibility! That is the only way to save our Republic!
So I am calling for all of us to give congress a final warning shot before the rally. We must conduct a massive ?Congress Blast? now ? write to insist that they publicly demand Obama prove he is a US Constitution article 2 natural born citizen with undivided loyalty to United States, i.e. a person born to 2 US citizen parents, constitutionally eligible to be the president of United States! When Obama is found to be constitutionally ineligible he will be removed from the position of the presidency and everything he ever did in the capacity of the presidency will be null and void.
Let us all send to the Republican Congress a brief but precise message (let us all speak in one voice):

Senators, Congressmen,

We, the American people, will not take it any more!

FACT: Mr. Obama has not proven himself to be constitutionally eligible to be the president of United States. He claimed to be a natural born citizen to the state of Arizona but has not even provided a hard-copy of his original, long form, vaulted birth certificate from wherever, Hawaii or Kenya or Indonesia or Canada! The online digital image of a prima facie ?Certification of Live Birth? posted by the unauthorized, non-governmental Factcheck.org is NOT conclusive proof of his citizenship status, let alone his status as a constitution article 2 natural born citizen, which is an absolute constitutional requirement for the US presidency ? the requirement for the president to have undivided loyalty to the United States.

FACT: all of you in congress know the fact mentioned above.

FACT: Mr. Obama has undoubtedly manifested the clear and present danger of a person with divided loyalty. He is, in effect, the enemy from within. (Why is he pushing all sorts of unconstitutional policies? Why do you and all of us have to fight all his anti-American policies and appointees?)

FACT: this is strictly a matter of Constitution, any claim otherwise is pure nonsense.

FACT: it is way overdue that Mr. Obama be thoroughly vetted NOW. If he is an article 2 natural born citizen he should have no objection to providing all vital documents to prove it, just as Senator John McCain had readily provided his original birth certificate when requested for Resolution 511.
It is absolutely mind-boggling and unbelievable that Mr. Obama has spent over a million dollars to hire attorneys to SEAL ALL his vital documents and records, including his original birth certificate!

We the people have had enough. We absolutely WILL NOT take it any more! This is our last friendly warning. A line is drawn in the sand.

To act or not to act to remove the usurper? A choice you must make NOW!

XXXXXXXXXX
Citizens for Upholding the Constitution

P.S. the following links have all the info you need:

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-natural-born-citizen-clause-is.html

or

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

____________________________________________________________
Patriots: Republican congress email list for your convenience: (if you can deliver in person a hard copy letter to your lawmaker it will be great) (please save this in your own file)
jross@algop.org; mjoffrion@algop.org; info@gagop.org; info@ilgop.org; perre@negop.org; wvgop@wvgop.org; info@texasgop.org; chas@tngop.org; info@utgop.org; info@nygop.org; gary@okgop.com; mcclure@ncgop.org; information@ndgop.org; info@negop.org, political@njgop.org, info@gop.com, chas@tngop.org, gary@okgop.com,
johncornyn@gopsenators.com,
“DeMint” , Jim_Inhofe@inhofe.senate.gov, “Adam_Brake@LGraham.senate.gov” , alan_hanson@shelby.senate.gov, “Alana_Hyman@enzi.senate.gov” , althea_stmartin@murkowski.senate.gov, Amanda_Makki@murkowski.senate.gov, “Andre_Harper@Voinovich.senate.gov” , “Angela_Mikolajewski@Voinovich.senate.gov” , “Angela_Youngen@Voinovich.senate.gov” , anne_caldwell@shelby.senate.gov, arne_fuglvog@murkowski.senate.gov, “Beth_Hansen@Voinovich.senate.gov” , “Beth_Martens@Voinovich.senate.gov” , “brendan_plack@thune.senate.gov” , Bret_Bernhardt@demint.senate.gov, “bryn_stewart@barrasso.senate.gov” , “Chris_Joyner@burr.senate.gov” , “Chris_Paulitz@Voinovich.senate.gov” , “chris_tomassi@enzi.senate.gov” , “chris_walker@burr.senate.gov” , “chris_wall@burr.senate.gov” , “Colin_Allen@LGraham.senate.gov” , “Courtney_Shadegg@Coburn.senate.gov” , “Daffnei_Riedel@thune.senate.gov”

mbecker908

Politico has the story and the videos are from there…

And lets not forget Liz…

Oh, and now that Teddy Kennedy is dead there is no bigger jackass on the planet than Sam Donaldson.

bs

I rarely read posts that are edited that way. The fonts may look nice to the author, but I find it incredibly distracting and hard to read. The post that I promoted earlier is an exception – it wasn’t as bad as some from the appearance perspective.

I do most of my authoring in a text editor and then I copy/paste it into the visual editor on RS and add links, blockquotes, etc.

bs

http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

My blogs must just suck.

mbecker908

I just checked and both videos are still up at Politico.

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

It can always be fixed I’m guessing.

mbecker908

press the button and it says something like “Copy Embed Code”. Press that button and it says “Code Copied”. I pasted that into the comment, it generally appeared like a YouTubish kinda code string so I posted the comment.

If you follow the link to Politico you can see the code.

SteveLA

Neil

One term is only going to happen if the Republican standard bearer offers something that Obama does not. Think Ronnie and Jimmy, think Slick Willy and Bush Sr.

Right now, I see no one on the Republican side that can make the case to dump Obama, not yet at least.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

But I keep trying anyway’ not for a FP spot but in the hopes that something I write will make sense to somebody who can do something about it.. Me, I’m just a housewife work-at-home grandma with no power except my voice and my fingers flying over the keyboard complete with typos and grammatical errors.

http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

Your stuff is always good. Keep it up, because we do like it.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

Practice makes perfect so maybe one day… for the both of us.

Cheryl

I don’t see a lot of discussion from Redstate on him. I like him.

http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

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http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

In its own way the Republican party is in as much turmoil as the Democratic party. The focus of their turmoil is different but still there.

However, there are several who might rise to that position over the next year or so. It’s a long way to 2012, yet.

bs

Therefore what you write must be good.

DCTrav

Can anyone give a quick tutorial on how to do so?

Thanks.

bs

…in 2004. He didn’t even complete a single term as US Senator. So it’s quite possible that our “standard bearer” could come from out of nowhere.

bs

this is why it is so important for us to support candidates like Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and others that have the kind of ideology that can lead the GOP in the proper direction and can eventually get us where we need to go.

Cheryl

on the other hand I’m not sure I want the other side to see our cards if that makes sense. I like your Hillbilly Politics site!

Cheryl

and listening/meeting them in Atlanta was so rewarding. Rubio just rocks, Haley too

http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

Since you post on the FP all the time, that means I do as well.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

the ability to block things like this.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

mbecker908

1. Find a newspaper article that interests you and that you feel is both under reported and that you have a “different” take on.
2. Link to the article.
3. Explain your “different” take.

Wait for comments.

A second tutorial would be:

1. Find a politician in your state/region who has done something that has been generally missed (good or bad) by the media.
2. Link to reports of said behavior.
3. Comment on behavior.

mbecker908

open thread instead of posting it as a diary. You show promise for that alone.

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

And in a site moderator’s diary no less. The same site moderator who blammed Britcom. Plus a diary length sig line.

Bad form, njre.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

Whether she is or isn’t aiming for the top spot herself, she’s gunning for the liberal takeover and should be commended for that alone. I doubt there is much more they can throw at her and she hasn’t broken, yet.

Thank you for the compliment on my blog site.

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

Click on Create New Diary Entry and have at it.

mbecker908

FACT: You are a raving idiot.

mbecker908

http://theminorityreportblog.com David Hinz

I mean he set up a puppet persona more than a week before he got bug zapped — good planning on Britcom’s part, don’t you think?

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

If someone had given jccbin the advice you gave DCTrav his “post” might not be locked now.

Brevity. He had the gall to declare brevity. LOL!

Trelaina

have reached the same level of insane annoyance as RONPAULRONPAULRONPAULRONPAUL!!!!!!!

I am ready to join the ranks of those who would like to see a similar response from TPTB that was afforded to them.

Right or wrong, it’s reached the point of diminishing returns….if it was EVER getting returns at all.

toughintn

If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to.
It’s pure gold!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0

SteveLA

If you’re into very long and very high odds, go to Vegas and put $20 on Palin making it to the Presidency in 2012. The odds on that bet would be astronomical.

If you win the bet, you can throw RS one heck of a Beer Bust….LOL

LISA BULLOCK-HOCK

Most VP candidates on the loosing side just go away–I think that is what Sara Palin was going to do, but the liberals in their infinite wisdom, just couldn’t let her go. It became acceptable to hang her in effigy, trash her family, constantly write tabloid stories that her and her husband are getting a divorce, talk about her daughter’s in very inappropriate ways (Letterman), and it was funny to liberals. They just couldn’t get enough of themselves. I can’t imagine David Letterman still having a job if the same joke was made about President Obama’s children. He would have been chased out of NY by an angry pitchfork carrying mob.

So what they have done is kept her in the news, when she speaks people listen to what she has to say. Just look at face book, and her comments about death panels. She really started getting this healthcare debate really fired up, because people still listen to her because the liberals would not leave her alone. It’s looks as though their liberal misdeeds have come back to bite them in the butt. Serves them right.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

I know it’s probably not all rosy for her but I find it a bit humorous that someone who is supposedly so innocuous has them in a constant uproar.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

I would throw that bash, too.

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

Susannah appears to have one in her latest entry. Everything that should be on the right side of the page is below the comment box, at least in FireFox it appears that way.

I did use the contact email, but I’m not sure how often that’s looked at on the weekends.

LISA BULLOCK-HOCK

It just shows how really scared of her that they are. If they didn’t think she was a threat, then they would have left her alone. It really strikes me funny how people said that she was an idiot, ect… they don’t get by the people, of the people, for the people? Do they really want leaders that think of them as peasants and constantly talk over them? I can’t understand why someone that speaks simply and not down to people and not over their heads is stupid? I just think that some people are just so uninformed, they can’t really find their way out of a political paper bag.

mbecker908

Well, maybe not, but she did resign from the job the people of Alaska elected her to do and that’s a pretty inauspicious start if she’s aiming at “higher” office.

izoneguy

How Sarah Palin Rope-a-Doped All-Too-Many Liberals

http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/2009/08/28/how-sarah-palin-rope-a-doped-all-too-many-liberals/

Cheryl

all the time here in central CA and up north, suburban bay area, the “McCain” part gone, but Palin remains.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

a moving target is harder to freeze than one locked into position as per Alinsky’s rules.

I have no special insight, or interest in having one, into Palin’s psyche but it sure is funny watching the libs.

SteveLA

Palin was on the Right side of the bumper stickers and we all know that the glue on the Right side is stronger….:;)

SteveLA

mbeck

Never confuse yourself or the worshipful masses with facts, or for that matter real accomplishments. You should know that, and besides, you should be saving yourself for the next Gary posting anyway. I think Art has even begun to pace himself when it comes this topic.

Cheryl

the one they pick on the most is the one they’re all scared of.

JadedByPolitics

at the 9/12 event and obtw if they are I will enjoy taking them down!

mbecker908

Palin cut and run from an elected office to do… we still don’t know what.

The excuse she gave for resigning is more than enough to convince me that I’d probably never vote for her, at least in a primary.

So far, she’s nothing more than a commenter, a reasonably effective one, but nothing more. On the national political stage she’d get ripped to pieces because she’s got an extraordinarily thin resume – like maybe zero actual accomplishments – and she won’t have the media to cover for her like Zero.

I think she can probably be reasonably effective at rallying the base and maybe raising money and working as a commentator. Beyond that, at least for the next 20 years or so, she’ll not be holding or even seriously contesting political office.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

But like the rest of them, he couldn’t leave well enough alone and had to take some parting shots about Town Hall meetings and shouting… which, of course, is all the right’s fault.

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

They’re using non-standard html that WP is n’t liking. I’ll see about making WP more lenient on this, as I’m gradually doing every time people co mplain about some site’s weird videos not working

mbecker908

Actually, I’ve taken to just ignoring Gary. Along with pretty much the rest of the Redstate family. He puts up his 3,500 words, gets no recs and three or four comments that basically say “Go away, you bore us.”

mbecker908

determines “who” you pick on. When you’re just looking for a distraction, you pick on the easiest target. Palin has pretty consistently made herself an easy target.

SteveLA

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

Some of the videos have size settings that are more than the RS template can accommodate which pushes everything down.

avgamerican

BHO is in fact the most radical president we have ever had. This is not republican vs democrat politics as usual. We have a shadow gov’t. One in which they are working over time to bypass the Constitution to enact a radical agenda. Obama has appointed radical czars to oversee his policies, a strategy to keep these people out of the public light. He may be a natural citizen with unnatural roots and influences which is probably more the point. And he is apparently going through alot of expense and trouble to block the American people from seeing his background. So I would not down play the significance of it.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

it won’t matter because it will be too late. Whether it’s a birth certificate or something else in his records which makes it a waste of energy and dollars that could be used to fight the takeover that is happening before our eyes.

To me, it’s all in picking battles you can win and that’s one that can’t be because Obama has resources that you don’t. Why not fight the battles we have to fight to stop what’s happening and worry about that one later?

mbecker908

Oh. No. That’s another thread.

JadedByPolitics

wife’s blog for all four entries I can assume my frogs are safe now

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

but that was the gist of it.

$peciallist

classic

http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

I can easily see him as a President, is the tobacco lobbyist thing too high a hurdle?
Maybe I’m missing it, but is there anything negative I’m not seeing?

mbecker908

Well! I never.

My feelings are hurt.

http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

Looks like one by ColdWarrior called “Twenty Ten” is pushing the right side.

avgamerican

That’s where the whole battle was then. POTUS knows what would happen if his affiliations are discussed in the open that’s why Glenn Beck is being targeted. They know he is a political threat to them. POTUS knows very well he maybe a one term president already. His specific purpose is to destroy us economically (healthcare cap and trade) and militarily (dismantling of CIA defense cut backs) so we will be vulnerable to international threats (economic military take over disolving our soveriegnty). Did you know that Mark LLoyd, BHO’s FCC chairman is pushing 100% taxation of conservative talk radio? Did you know that this man praises Hugo Chavez’ socialist revolution? This stuff has too be aired. The American voters have to know what BHO really is. By all means, I think the American people have the right to know where BHO really came from, natural born citizen or not.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

of all the varying comments.

Would a hug make the hurt feelings go away???

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

before CW made his post. I was thinking maybe she inadvertently left a tag open.

http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

6eorge Jetson

with any amount of vigor. McCain’s campaign manager had taken a goodly sum of fees from Fannie, and rather than face that discomforting relationship, McCain let the credit crisis be pinned on Republicans, when it was the Dems that supplied the critical mass of suckers.

McCain was in a dead-even race w/ Obama until Lehman went bankrupt on 9/15.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

No one is going to convince you or any other that he’s not a legitimate president. In the end, you may even be right. I don’t think you are but I’m not infallible and don’t pretend to be.

The point is that it is a losing battle at the present time. The Democrats have control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. At the speed our courts move anything you find, true or false will come too late, if ever, since there are so many liberals in the courts through which you have to proceed.

Let’s say… oh… ten years down the road everything you suspected turns out to be true. Will it comfort you when you rise in the mornings and move about our new socialist country? Obama does not act alone in this or anything else and those helping him will not give up power easily so we have to prevent them getting it in the first place.

Once he was elected it was too late so let’s fight the battles where we have a chance of winning, although at times it seems a slim chance. It’s better than fighting one where there’s no chance of winning.

Deskpilot

only bears stickers of importance to me:
3 AMERICAN FLAGS, Rear window and the Left and Right rear side windows, STARS forwards
UNITED STATES NAVY RETIRED
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY
PALIN

I Pledge Alliegence to the flag(s) o fthe United States of America…,
I thank the Navy for teaching more about myself than I knew,
I am grateful for the straight-forward non-pontificating education I got from ERAU,
I pray the Sarah Palin finds her voice pure of sound and verberating clearly throughout the land before it is too late.

(picture of treasure family are in the truck)

bs

There are certainly guys like Boehner and Paul Ryan who could be excellent as well.

Susannah

….for submitting that complaint to Neil. I appreciate it.

Oh, and thank you Neil for working on it.

penguin2

Nothing on the right of the diary and all comments and ads are below.
This is a new glitch for that diary, had not been occurring before.

BTW, Jim what does it mean left a tag open? and if you use neil@redstate.com he gets the computer issues quicker. At least when they did the upgrade that’s what we did.

http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

Just wondered why his name never comes up. Was thinking there may be some huge ~~booger on his finger~~ skeleton in his closet I didn’t know about.

redtillimdead

Speaker of the House, or minority leader, is where he will stop. I think he is going to let some of his caucus fill in his shoes. He has many younger stars. Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Mike Pence come to mind. Honestly, if we re-gain the majority, I would love to see Boehner step aside and let Cantor become speaker. It would drive the MSM crazy for a Jewish Republican to become speaker

Susannah

It wasn’t doing that when I first posted it last night. Also, I promise that I didn’t write it on Microsoft Word (I wrote it on TMR and pasted it from there–pinky swear). Not to mention, it looks perfectly normal when I see it on my blog–it only looks screwed up when I click on it from the rec list.

Anyway, I was worried when I saw that it was just my diary that screwed up, because I thought that maybe you all didn’t like me any more. (Me pouting).

Now, I’m relieved to discover that it’s just some sort of glitch.

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

By left a tag open I mean a HTML code tag. I’d love to show what I mean but the site would try to use it an it would not show up.

Hmm…

Ok, let me try this. Here’s one example of a tag that would make text bold,
“b”your text here”/b” Now, instead of quotation marks use the Arrows on your keyboard, the ones you get when you use the shift key and and the comma and period keys. on the first “b” put the left pointing arrow on, yup, the left side of the b and the right pointing one on the other side. No spaces!
Same for the “/b” By the way, that slash makes the second one a close tag. If you don’t use the slash, everything you type after that will be in bold.
Here it is in action: your text here.

BTW, since you use firefox, there’s a simple way to do this without typing out all that code. Text Formatting Toolbar, a FireFox add-on. Just highlight your text and click the code type you want in the toolbar. Makes doing hyperlinks easy.

mbecker908

Just like we beat Clinton on issues. Then we decided to impeach him for the hell of it and we got our heads handed to us.

If we concentrate on real issues – health care; the economy, etc – we will beat the crap out of him. If we give the idiots a foothold on the “birther” crap we will once again leave the playing field with our heads detached.

http://www.scottbomb.com scottbomb

Imagine a Jindal-Palin ticket.

http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

I was going at it with a lib last night on of all things a Facebook post. Claimed he wasn’t a lib, then I knew…
RonPaulHeartsURonPaulHeartsURonPaulHeartsURonPaulHeartsURonPaulHeartsURonPaulHeartsU

It feels like Night Of The Living Dead.

DISCLAIMER
Yeah, RP makes sense on some economic things.
But when the Living Dead come forth with the “…and by the way George Bush{insert illegally invaded Iraq/caused 9/11/etc]”, well it just seems like I’m dealing with a ~~Liberal Communist~~ Progressive.

http://brockwayfamily.spaces.live.com/ Erick Brockway

…like beat you over the head with an SEIU sign.
I found one possible poster child for them; yeah it was in a cornfield…

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

But right now the big ones are health care and cap and trade. That;s where the fight needs to be focused, with a wary eye on Lloyd, Susstein, Jones, et. al. We certainly don’t need to focus, or keep a wary eye, on the birther BS. If somebody gets something rolling on that, fine. But we got two bigger fights right now, and frankly the left is trying to use the birther nonsense on us over those, trying to distract us.

I think you listened to Britcom too much.

redtillimdead

I’d like to see Jindal/Cantor. Or Pence. Or Ryan. Imagine: Jindal/Haley or Jindal/Williams (Michael) also, I see Jindal as a good choice for Romney’s VP if he wins the nom, as Romney can talk health care, but Jindal can. But, Jindal is from a red state. We need someone from a blue/swing state. Romney is good because he’s the former governor of Massachusetts with deep roots in Michigan. I doubt he could deliver MA for us, but MI is very possible. Then, for his VP, he could pick Cantor or McDonnell, depending on how he is polling in VA, Pawlenty to deliver MN, Roy Blunt (if he wins) for MO, Rob Portman (again, if he wins) for OH, if Rubio wins he could deliver FL for us.

http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

In the first few days after Palin was announced as the Veep, I was very surprised to hear liberals bring up her “lack of experience” as Obama has even less and has never led anything. I’d be interested in anyone’s analysis why this point the liberals emphasized, including a major gaffe by Biden on the first day of McCain’s announcement, never came back to hurt Obama. There was an early attempt by conservatives to use Palin’s “inexperience” against Obama, but it didn’t stick. (It may be that nothing would have stuck. I mean, even Obama’s infanticide vote didn’t shock 53% of voters.)

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

or wordpress is. I’ve seen others have some formatting errors when they crosspost from another blog. And I’ve seen people use italics in a comment. forget to use the “/i” close tag (with arrows instead of quotes, penguin ), or mis-type it and every comment from there down AND the right side of the page is in italics!

Us?? Not like you anymore? That would be like not liking a cool drink on a hot day. Impossible!

http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

BS, just saw your 7:51 pm post below.

avgamerican

What he is bringing to the open is obviously causing a stir in the BHO administration. They know where their vulnerable. Now the question is, is their a republican candidate willing to take on the fight to expose Obama and his hordes? I’m not sure. This is why it may be up to talk radio, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and redstate posters to force it out in the debate. BHO has to be forced to admit or deny his radical alliances. BHO can not be allowed to hide behind traditional liberal talking points. GOP congressional leaders should be asking BHO right now, why he has appointed an admitted communist to a white house post. Why aren’t they?

mbecker908

We expect people in high positions to be competent and have some relevant experience. The Ds don’t give a damn, all they care about is image.

Secondly, the media will cover up a lack of competency on the part of a D and beat the R on the issue on the same page.

Frankly, it was difficult to make a case about Obama’s lack of experience and competency with a candidate like McCain who has no real experience other than being a Senator, which is to say, he has no experience. And in McCain’s case his competency can be argued.

One of the major reasons nothing “stuck” to BO is because John Loser McCain didn’t pursue anything. He refused to fight. Just like Bush who, if it hadn’t been for the SwiftVets, would have gotten his head handed to him by Kerry.

mbecker908

Palin has more experience than Obama (or McCain for that matter) in 08, you can’t make that argument in 12. In both 12 and 16 Palin will have essentially no experience and nothing on her resume other than being a cheerleader.

mbecker908

You only pick the fights that are meaningful and that you’ve got a really good shot at winning. Break the back of nationalizing heath care – and I’m not talking about a negotiated “solution” – and kill cap and trade, kill off card check, basically stop the major legislative issues and we have a shot at bringing BO down.

Frankly, not enough people give a damn about appointments, or even understand what they do, to make any difference at all. Stimulus money going to ACORN is a much, much bigger deal than his appointments. Stop the cash, put pressure on State AGs to prosecute them and you’ll do far more damage than the “commie” and “birther” bull s&&t.

Xasteius

Achance

now that she’s no longer governor of my state.

She’s actually a very powerful voice on the National stage. She has a directness that is both foreign and welcomed to the national discourse. She says the things that the Left has told us that we can’t say out loud about them. She an I have that in common, I guess. I don’t know that I’d like to see her and a few of her Wasilla buddies trying to run the US government, but it would beat Hell out of Comrade Obama and his buddies running it.

mbecker908

Actually, it’s only a 5 but you’ve still got a residual 5 left over from the smoked salmon.

izoneguy

Any half-assed presidential candidate in 2012 can say:

“Beats the hell out of Obama for 4 more tears, I mean years.”

Baaaahhhhhhh

http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

Clever lyrics and rhymes – and the singer has a solid voice. Some great pictures too.

medamorphus

Here is wha the left said in their set-up for impeachment of Bush. All the points apply to Obama, and in only eight months.

“Under the Constitution, the president has three central obligations.”

“First, the president must “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States.” This is part of the oath of office, which is itself mandated by the Constitution. ”

“Second, the president must “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,” also part of the oath of office. In other words, the president is required to respect the role of the Congress and the courts, as well as the fundamental liberties reserved to the citizens. ”

“And third, the president is required “to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” an affirmative duty imposed directly by the Constitution. This presidential obligation carries great weight. Involved are two responsibilities, similar but separate: first, the president is required to “take care,” or to be highly attentive, and, second, the president must see that the laws are “faithfully executed,” or that the laws are fully followed. Combined, these impose a very strict burden on the president to ensure the proper implementation of the nation’s laws. “

JadedByPolitics

the birth certificate that would be Lou Dobbs. Beck is doing yeoman’s work for the bad cast of characters around The Won and that is greatly appreciated but even he is not going after the birth certificate. If Beck has let it go cannot you all FOCUS on those things which are so horrendous as to make his numbers in the 30′s by the end of the year and make him impotent? Do you have to do CRAZY for the media to feed off of? yes, yes we know they will anyway but lets give them CRAZY like DEFICITS etc. If we focus on the monetary policies of this idiot when we are questioned at townhalls etc we look smart and they look stupid!

AceInTX

and would be likewise as President IMHO.

AceInTX

Palin?…I’m holding it open concerning her….on the one hand…she’s said some things lately that have given me pause…but on the other hand…she’s the only leader make any dents in the “One’s” armor…all the damage that’s been done to him has come from the bottom up….our leadership has failed us.

I’d bath in my own excriment before I’d vote for Romney, Pawlenty, or any of the other “Big Tent” crap weasels out there…

The only other possible I’d even give a second look to would be Huckabee…(easy mbeck…I’m not all in for him by any means…but hear me out)…I supported him last year as the better of a bunch of bad choices….I never liked the fact that he caved as governor and made that state of the state address where he want through a laundry list of tax increases he’d agree to if the Dems wanted to pass it…but given the behavior of those during the pork barrel follies last spring when everyone said we’d all die if they didn’t vote for Porkulous…Huckabee was the lone voice out there out right opposing it. I take him for an articulate clown for the most part…but he deserves credit for being out front in opposition when the res of our so called leadership were curled up in a ball licking thermselves in abject fear and terror last spring!

AceInTX

Since I’m such a contrarian I doubt I’d ever be considered for the FPO anyway but it’d be nice to be set up just in case…LOL

AceInTX

Since I?m such a contrarian I doubt I?d ever be considered for the FPO anyway but it?d be nice to be set up just in case?LOL

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

Search google. It’s also free.

http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

openoffice.org

Brain cramp from seeing all the trolls this morning. Sorry

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

Ausonius

Angel Merkel’s German conservatives (CDU) lost state elections over the weekend, even though they enjoy a double-digit lead in the polls: the blame is being put on a McCain-style “above the fray” campaign:
An excerpt:

“Philipp Missfelder, a member of the CDU’s board, urged Merkel to abandon her cool campaign style and show a bit more “passion”.

“After an until-now sober and unpolitical election campaign, it is time for some more emotion,” he said, adding his voice to a chorus of complaints.

Although the Free Democrats boosted their score in Sunday’s polls, their general secretary Dirk Niebel also appeared nervous that the centre-right camp’s strong lead would fizzle.

“If the Union (Merkel’s conservative bloc) does not start making clear what it would like to achieve then there is a great danger that they will blow it again because voters will think they want to continue with the grand coalition,” he told public radio.”

(The FDP forms a ruling coalition with the CSU: they are best described as JFK Democrats-cum-libertarians (I know, quite a mix!) )

See:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c54ee9ee621e5872d5f44a2899888410.4a1&show_article=1

“Some more emotion!” Which also translates as “Define What You Believe In!”

Good advice for “compromisers” among Republicans in the Senate and elsewhere.

Warrior

but I use the RS diary writer thing. Does that eliminate me? And sometimes the thing will change fonts on me while I’m writing and I don’t know how to change it back. Is that what ya’ll are talking about?

I humbly think at least one of my diary’s was frontpage worthy. In any event, I would like to be on the same “page” so to speak, with everyone else at RS. Help.

Warrior

n/t

Warrior

any comment in which the text section is blank. I thought that was eliminated with the new RS system. I am so technologically backwards…

nessa

Now I get the “rest of the story!” thanks, I’ll try it!

AceInTX

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

Use the Visual editor within WordPress itself.

You can *save* within WordPress so there’s no danger of the article being lost.

AceInTX

You can *save* within WordPress so there?s no danger of the article being lost.

I got bitten very badly on RS two on a post I had spent 2 days on doing research and 3 hours editing for facts and natural flow only to have RS 2 dump it never to be seen again…I don’t remember what it was about…and I never rewrote it…but it was one of the best I’ve written in my mind….(of course I may be only thinking it was the best I’d ever written since I lost all the work…kind of like the one that got away when fishing…they’re always bigger in your own mind aftyer you’ve done all the work to land them only to lose them just before you slip the net under them and they swim away ever so slowly as if to taunt you)

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

Finrod

All you’d need is the same bit that’s before and after the [nN][tT] in the regexp also between the N and T. Then it would also work for me and Moe. (-:

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

ashland_avenue

The clothing of a Libyan intelligence officer is found amongst wreckage of the Pan Am flight which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. A timer which could be used in detonations is also found in the wreckage and linked to him.

The officer was charged and found guilty of the terrorist act. His nation campaigns for years and figures a way to earn his release from a Scottish prison.

Compare that with:

Three thousand are killed in terrorist attacks on NYC and Washington. Arab terrorists claim responsibility.

American intelligence officers interrogate several captured terrorists.

The information they obtain in aggressive interrogations probably saves thousands of lives. A plot to cut the cables of a US bridge is upset. And more.

The American administration decides several years later to investigate the intel operatives and the attorneys who justified their acts.

Finrod

Personally, I’d rather have some kind of option that would keep RedState from changing my smilies into graphics. I take my sig self-quote seriously, after all! (-: <— not converted because it’s reversed, only way I’ve found around it

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

Warrior

however, the diaries which have mysteriously changed fonts are the ones I wrote on Word and cut and pasted to the RS diary writer thing. Any way to avoid that?

DONTREADONME

http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

Seriously, was it a banner ad or was it a placed one? Some of these crop up because of keywords.

DONTREADONME

above the town-hall calendar. Immediately following the ad, a McDonnell advertisement came up.

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