Okay, we have two men. Both are successful. Both married. Both have kids.


One man thinks he can get away with anything. The other man knows he can’t.
One man uses words to make people believe in him. The other man says only his actions will make people believe in him.
One man believes he is a healer. The other knows he has caused a lot of pain.
One man doesn’t understand why people are critical of him. The other knows the whole world has reason to be critical.
One man believes he has no shortcomings. The other man has sought out help to overcome his.
One man wants to make a whole new set of rules. The other wants to be held accountable to the old rules.
One man tries to cover up his past. The other tried, got caught, owned up to it, and sincerely vowed to change his ways.
One man blames everything on his predecessor. The other blames only himself.

I don’t know about you, but there’s only one guy I can’t point to and tell my kids, “See him? That’s a man.”


Good luck, Tiger.

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Check out this recent quote from President Obama:

In this one quote, Obama proves himself to be a hypocritical, lying Marxist buffoon. Am I being too harsh? I don’t think so. Consider this:


1. “like it or not” – This was actually a slip of the tongue. A little nugget of truth in a statement packed with lies. “Like it or not”? Who the hell wouldn’t want our financial system to work? Answer: communists, marxists, socialists, anarchists. Obama is just posturing and attempting to appear to be centrist. In reality, it is he who doesn’t want our financial system to work. Otherwise, why the quadrupling of Bush’s deficit, the nationalizing of industries, the ruinous health care legislation and cap and trade, the devaluing of the dollar, etc…?


2. “so we can’t be demonizing every bank out there” – Seriously? I wonder who’s been doing that?


3. “we’ve got to be the party of business” – That’s a laugher. Democrats, the party of business? Has anyone produced more anti-business ideas and rhetoric than this guy? Again, our Misleader is trying to appear centrist.


4. “because they produce jobs” – What?! Get out of here! Obama has been saying for over a year that the government produces jobs. Hence, the $787 billion “stimulus” bill. Is he being sarcastic here?


I can’t take it any more.


I just can’t take it.

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He’s not just the President. He’s the King of Distortion, Deception, and good old fashioned Dishonesty.

And now is your chance to vote for athe Biggest Lie (so far) from our fork-tongued President!

Folks, this isn’t going to be easy. There are so many boldfaced whoppers to choose from!

Good luck!

OBAMA’S BIGGEST LIES

1. “I wasn’t in church during the time that these statements were made. I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally.” (Yet, Obama was close enough to Rev. Wright to call him his ‘spritual mentor’ and have him preside over his wedding? Hmmm….)

2. “Frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.” (I like that Obama added the word “frankly”. This guy is good!)

3. “I would put my health care plan forward and I would welcome input and say, ‘here are my goals: reduce costs, increase quality coverage for everybody. If you have better ideas, please present them.’ But these negotiations will be on C-SPAN. And so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the choices that are being made.” (Ha! Did anyone believe this load of garbage? I mean, next thing you know, health care protesters are being called Nazis, mobs, racists, un-American…)

4. “We will go through our federal budget, page by page, line by line‚ eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.” (Seriously, the $10 trillion dollar man said that.)

5. “This budget is sober in its assessments, honest in its accounting, and lays out in detail my strategy for investing in what we need, cutting what we don’t, and restoring fiscal discipline.” (Actually, there are about six lies in that one sentence.)

6. “Already we’ve identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade.” (Stop, stop. You’re killing me.)

7. “I’ll also institute an absolute gift ban, so that no registered lobbyist can curry favor with members of my administration based on how much they can spend on a fancy dinner. I’ll make our government open and transparent, so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people’s business. Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. And as President, I’m going to make it impossible for Congressman and lobbyists to slip pork-barrel projects or corporate welfare into laws when no one’s looking. Because when I’m President, meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. No more secrecy – that’s a commitment I make to you as President.” (Oh gosh. Where to begin?)

8. “The reforms I’m proposing will not apply to those that are here illegally.” (This one got the infamous ‘You lie!’ reaction. Why was Obama accused of lying? Because nowhere in the bill is there a provision for enforcement of a ban of services to illegal aliens. Very slippery, Mr. President.)

9. “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future.” (One dime, no. But a few trillion dollars, absolutely!)

10. “Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. Let me repeat this: Nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have.” (Never mind that the government is giving employers incentives to drop their employees’ coverage and force them into the government plan. Seriously, just ignore that.)

11. “Now, I have no interest in putting insurance companies out of business.” (Giggle.)

12. “Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan.” (For the first time ever, government is going to reduce waste?)

13. “I will reduce taxes for 95% of Americans.” (Never mind that he’s letting the Bush tax cuts expire, which means an automatic 5% tax increase on everyone. Plus, Obama wants to double capital gains taxes. Oh yeah, let’s not forget that his cap and trade program will, in his own words, make electricity prices “necessarily skyrocket.”)

14. Domestic terrorist William Ayers “is just a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” (Yeah. Ayers, Jessee Jackson, and Louis Farrakan. Imagine that block party.)

15. “I will make sure that no government bureaucrat or insurance company bureaucrat gets between you and the care that you need.” (We’re supposed to ignore the 47 new government agencies proposed in the health care bill and instead imagine Barack Obama himself swooping into our doctor’s office to make sure everything is a-okay.)

16. “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” (He started his Presidency with a real doozy!)

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If you wore a Ronald Reagan t-shirt around town, would your friends and the people you work with think it was cool? What about a Sarah Palin t-shirt? What if you donned one of those before you headed out to work? Would the folks milling around the water cooler or the craft service table give you a wink and a big thumbs up?

Not so much? Hmmm.

Well, what would happen if you put on a t-shirt featuring a cool graphic photo of Barack Obama? What about Al Gore? How ’bout Che Guevara?

That would be not only a popular political statement, but a hell of a fashion statement too.

The question is, why?

Why would a t-shirt featuring a conservative politician earn you a collective eye roll (or worse), but you’d get only compliments with a t-shirt featuring a politician that was liberal (or worse). After all, you’re in a highly populated area. You’d think there would be some diversity of opinion.

I hate to tell you this. But as much as you fancy yourself a free-thinking, open-minded, inclusive human being, you’ve actually been brainwashed. I know, I know. That’s a strong term. But you’re definitely part of a very large herd where you live. No where else, except perhaps college campuses, did people vote in such lopsided numbers for Barack Obama than in New York and the Hollywood/West LA/Santa Monica corridor. In Manhattan, Obama got 85% of the vote, McCain 13%. In West Hollywood, 88% voted Obama, 11% McCain.

Those weren’t voters. They were sheep. Baaah. Baaah.

What? You don’t think a smart person like you could be brainwashed? Tell that to the Germans.

The fact is, people who are brainwashed don’t know they’re brainwashed. Some eventually snap out of it. But it’s usually too late. It’s like sleepwalking. You don’t know you’ve been doing it until you wake up in the kitchen eating cat food with no pants on.

See, here’s how it happened. You moved to New York or Hollywood. You started meeting really cool people and their equally cool friends. These folks knew what was hip. They filled you in on all the trendy clubs, shopping areas, lounges, parties, coffee shops, restaurants, and yes, politicians. You talked with these cool people about politics because that’s the cool thing to do. But talking is not debating. Agreeing with and reinforcing opinions is not exactly considering another point of view. Heck why even think about the opinions of a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobes out there in Jesusland, right?

You got swept up in a whirlwind of groupthink and you didn’t even know it. And the thing is, even if you disagreed with these cool people at first, you couldn’t say anything. After all, that wouldn’t be cool. You were silenced, then swayed. The whole time you thought you were growing intellectually, you were actually growing wool. Baaah. Baaah.

Of course, it wasn’t just the cool people playing mind games with you. It was the cool shows, the cool magazines, the cool newspapers, the cool everything. You were bombarded from all sides. You had no choice but to vote for the candidate “everybody” thought was cool. Policies and ideas be damned.

Here’s a little test for you. If you’re reading this article and it’s really, really pissing you off, guess what? Brainwashed.

Now, I’m not trying to say everyone who voted for Obama was brainwashed. It’s just that when you live in places like New York, Hollywood, and most college campuses, you’re living in a very insulated world. A closed society. That does not lead to true open-mindedness. Quite the opposite.

You could say, “Well, there are heavy conservative areas that voted in huge percentages for McCain.” You’d be wrong though. Let’s look at Dallas County (home of George and Laura Bush). The people there voted 57% to 41% for Obama. What about the state of Arizona (home of that old guy on the other ticket)? People there voted 54% to 44% for McCain. Unlike New York and Hollywood, those are reasonable numbers.

Still don’t think you’re brainwashed? Okay. Prove it.

Here’s what you do. Scrub your mind with soap. Watch a different news channel once in a while. Turn the radio to a different station now and then. Read a different website, magazine, or newspaper. Talk to some of the uncool conservative people, if you can find any. Try to understand why they think the way they do. And try not to call them names. Instead, listen. You don’t have to agree with them. Just try to know where they’re coming from. Believe it or not, it could change the way you think and vote. It might even change the kind of t-shirt you wear.

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Unlikely, inexperienced, but nice-looking guy from obscurity steps up to the microphone, belts out a soulful a cappella rendition of something from the ‘60s, and the female judge melts. The black guy bobs his head with the tune and smiles. Even the caustic and pompous Brit is charmed and instantly hailing the contestant as one of the few yanks who actually gets it.

And while it makes for good ratings in the “reality”-based wasteland that is today’s TV fare, we’re learning very quickly it’s one helluva bad way to elect a president. Even if you disagree with my assessment of his performance thus far, the fact remains that Barack Obama truly is the first American Idol President. He even managed to preempt the original version of the show one night (probably the only one who could ever pull that off).

Unfortunately, the implications of such a phenomenon will be far more difficult to lose than the singer himself–certainly more difficult to dispatch than the billions of dollars of wealth that have continued to disappear since he took the stage.

The fact we knew nothing about him as he worked his way effortlessly through the process made him all the more appealing. That smile. The well-spoken smoothness. He was of today, while taking us back and reminding us of that other young guy from so long ago.

Next to that old curmudgeon he was up against, he sparkled. Sure the old fart had a compelling story about all those years in a Vietnam prison camp thing, but…Vietnam? Are you kidding? We didn’t even have wireless then. That crap doesn’t sell on TV anymore. Hell, he wasn’t even raised by a single mom.

So in the end, of course, we all had a pretty good idea what would happen, but watched anyway as the female judge teared up, the proud black guy gave him 9-plus out of ten and the across the pond type was now not nearly so condescending.

The newest American Idol rose to his anointed place in the season finale, January 20th, 12 Eastern, 11 Central and all swooned or at the very least Tivoed it. The Nielsen’s came in and were off the chart.

Only bad thing was, it was over.

Well, no, not literally over, sure, there’s that whole four-years thing, that’s true– but the fun part was over. You know, like in the “wow that was awesome sex, but gee it’s kind of a drag though about all that nine-months business.” Still, at least we had the Super Bowl to look forward to and “that old Springsteen dude, he can still kinda bring it, can’t he? “He’s such a DILF.”

Then again, looking back at all the different seasons of American Idol, each with a different winner, you do begin to see a bit of a pattern.

The idol-ness doesn’t last too long.

Oh sure, People will keep up with ‘em for a while and US and OK! will fill you in on the home life and pets, but…well…this is TV and we get tired of things. They just go away eventually ‘til Ryan Seacrest does one of those “Where are the Brady Kids Now?” kinda things and we can catch up then.

Can’t we?

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It’s amazing how things have changed in this country. We have a Marxist in the White House. And the protestors in the streets are normal, taxpaying patriots (instead of the usual grab bag of stringy-haired leftist whack jobs).