July 07, 2008

Wesley Clark, Fired General!

Earlier General Wesley Clark, retired and former candidate for President made some remarks about who might be qualified for president.  Of course, everybody knows that Clark was being a surrogate for Obama and Obama’s attempts to lessen the allure of John McCain’s military service since Obama has none.  But Clark seems to have stepped over the line when he said “I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.” That raises an interesting question:  What would Clark have said about the military and other exploits of other presidents?

 

Wesley Clark on George Washington:  "I don’t think crossing the Delaware River standing up in a boat in the middle of winter qualifies Washington to be president.”

 

Wesley Clark on John Adams:  “I don’t think being a diplomat in France and Holland during our bloody revolution qualifies Adams to be president.”

 

Wesley Clark on Thomas Jefferson:  “I don’t think writing the Declaration of Independence qualifies Jefferson to be president.”

 

Wesley Clark on Abraham Lincoln:  “I don’t think splitting logs in Illinois qualifies Lincoln to be president.”

 

Wesley Clark on Ulysses Grant:  “I don’t think accepting Lee’s Sword at Appomattox qualifies Grant to be president.” 

 

Wesley Clark on Teddy Roosevelt:  “I don’t think riding up San Juan Hill with a bunch of washed out cowboys qualifies Roosevelt to be president.”

 

Wesley Clark on Franklin Roosevelt:  “I don’t think getting polio and riding around in a wheel chair qualifies Roosevelt to be president.”

 

Wesley Clark on Ike Eisenhower:  “I don’t think sitting on a battleship while our brave soldiers invaded Normandy qualifies Eisenhower to be president.”

 

Wesley Clark on John Kennedy:  “I don’t think letting a Japanese Destroyer ram your PT boat, sinking it, qualifies Kennedy to be president.” 

 

Clark seems to have thought that having no substantial experience qualifies Obama to be president, and certainly he thought that being the fired military commander of NATO qualified him to be president. 

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July 06, 2008

Second Thoughts?

Second Thoughts?  I don't understand that! Just because the Lightbringer flips more often than a pancake maker in a roadside diner!

With a tip O' the GM Derby to Eric Allie of CNSNews.com

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June 30, 2008

Jacoby on Obama

Jeff Jacoby flat out nails, eviscerates and otherwise flays Obama's flip-flop on gun possession and rights to the same.  

As a candidate for the Illinois Legislature in the 1990s, Obama had supported legislation to "ban the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns," so it wasn't surprising that he endorsed the gun ban being challenged in Heller while campaigning for president. In November, for example, his campaign told the Chicago Tribune that "Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional." In February, when a questioner during a televised forum said, "You support the D.C. handgun ban," Obama readily agreed: "Right."[emphasis added]
  Obama now says he believes in the right to keep and bear arms.  As Obama himsself said Riiiight!

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June 29, 2008

Gen. Wesley Clark Evaluates Candidates

Gen. Wesley Clark showed that his experience, military or otherwise, has not qualified him to be a good judge of Presidential candidates.

Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama's campaign, ...said that McCain lacked the executive experience necessary to be president, calling him “untested and untried” on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”  “I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”

I suppose that Welsey Clark thinks that Sen. Obama's vast experience in the military and as a Senator qualifies him to be President.  This guy is a hero to the left?  Associating with the left must make one unable to think logically.

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June 27, 2008

Obama Talking White?

Is Barack Obama talking "white?"  Well, that's what Ralph Nader says that he is doing.  But, go see and judge for yourself. 

Video Link:  Obama... Brush ya shoulders off

Authored by Woody

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April 13, 2008

The Dimwitted Dodo Awards

I suspect that all of you are aware that there are fools in this world.  Sometimes those fools rise to positions of power and prestige, sometimes by outrageous fortune, those fools come to represent all that we hold dear, trash it and then we wonder what the hell happened.

[Jimminy+Carter+copy.jpg]And so it was with the presidency of Jimmy Carter.  In 1976 Jimmy was elected president largely on the anger of America at Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon who trashed the office of the Presidency and resigned in disgrace just ahead of impeachment. 

Jimmy ran against the hapless Gerald Ford, a good man, an honest man but one who was portrayed as a bumbling fool.  His slip on the stairs of Air Force One didn't help, nor did the ongoing "joke" of the antics of the SNL crew in general and Chevy Chase in particular.

None the less, in retrospect America knew that it had elected the wrong man in '76 and opted to toss the bozo from Georgia out on his keister in '80 in favor of "The Great Communicator" Ronald Reagan.  Now, lest we be accused of being partisan (which of course we are) let us also acknowledge that a big reason for dumping Carter was less than that he was a fool, as much as it was for his total mismanagement of the economy and of the Iranian hostage crisis in which the Iranian "students" rubbed the face of America in the dirt for 444 days releasing them only when Reagan took office.  Since that time, the bad peanut farmer and former president has made an ass of himself traveling the world in support of thugs and murderers.

Now Jackass Jimmy is set to talk to Hamas thinking that this will settle peace between Israel and the Pali's.  See, he is still blinded by his own incompetence.  The United States has a policy of not dealing with terrorists.  Every time that policy has been violated, we have ended up with the short end of the stick and sometimes our brave men and women in uniform have paid the price.  Sometimes, when we don't take terrorists seriously we end up with things like the Marine Barracks bombing, the U.S.S. Cole disaster and 9/11.  Yet, there goes bumbling Jimmy Jackass who has yet to learn that Hamas are a bunch of murderous thugs who launch rockets against civilians, murder and pillage, and trow prisoners off of tall buildings. 

Yeah Jimmy, that's the ticket.  In this most recent proof that Jackass Jimmy is a fool, he stated:

"I feel quite at ease in doing this, I think there's no doubt in any one's mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process."

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"I think that it's very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire — things of this kind."

Oh Jimmy, have you gone completely soft between the ears?  Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question wasn't it?

So, for this month's Dimwitted Dodo Award may I present Jackass Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States (and thank God he's not any more).

More at Fausta's Blog and Obi's Sister

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March 25, 2008

I Misspoke

In May of last year, I announced on this site that I was running for president: 

T he time has come the GM said,
To talk of many things!
Of Congressmen, and Senators; of Governors and Kings!
And why current candidates ain’t so hot,
and whose candidacy has wings;
Of GM's run for President and other Silly Things!
And to be honest, no one seems to give a damn!  Oh sure, lots of people [lots... you gotta be kidding... only 10...--ed. --ahhh, shuddup] wanted to be in my cabinet, but no one set up funding mechanism, no one contributed a dime and then I realized - -  don't have a solid resume that I can lie about.

So, let me tell you why I'm executive material:  You see, it's like this, in 1970 I entered the army and was headed for Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga.  I finished my tour and was shipped overseas to Vietnam where in no time flat, I was assigned to clean out a vipers nest of Viet Cong and NVA in the Central Highlands.  In fact, it was the same area that my dad was assigned to when he was a Lt. Col. in 1961-62.  When I arrived, the fire base that I would call home for the next 24 months (I extended my tour) was under attack by the combined forces of two battalions of V.C. and 4 of the NVA.  Our Helicopter was hit in the tail rotor and we spiraled down into a hard landing.  I jumped out of the bird and immediately picked up an M-60 and began blasting away at the enemy.  No time for any greeting parties in that hot zone. 

As I was saying, with my overheated M-60 and several thousand rounds of ammo in belts around my torso, I marched forward against the enemy.  The motto of the Infantry School is "Follow Me!" and so the defenders of the fire base did.  We marched into hell killing thousands of VC and NVA in the process. 

Just as we thought that the battle was won and just as I shot the last round of ammunition and killed the last VC, a grenade was tossed by a dieing NVA Major.  I saw that the Grenade was going to kill a FNG private who was on the copter with me so I jumped on the grenade and smothered the blast with my body.  I was killed immediately and awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.

Oh-oh, I just re-read the above, I must have been exhausted from typing and misspoke, I actually spent my entire Army career at Fort Polk, La. and Fort Benning, Ga. and never left the country.  But if Hillary can misspoke and Obama can misspoke, Hell you won't mind a little embellishment from me will you?  Nah, I didn't think so.

UPDATE:  Hey Hillary, Misspeaking involves something like calling someone George instead of Greg.  It does NOT involve making up a tale out of whole cloth!

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December 08, 2007

Hey Pelosi, I Got your Undignified Ri-chere!

Screwball Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated that Dick Cheny's comment was "beneath the dignity of his office.”

Cheney's comment was "They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.” speaking of the poor performance of the Democrats after taking control in January.

If, after all the things that Reid and Pelosi and other Dem politico's have said, Pelosi thinks that is undignified, I'd hate to see what she considers scathing.  An example:

"I believe that the president's leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions ..." Nancy Pelosi 5/20/2004

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALL...

So, Mrs. Speaker, since I'm not dignified at all, here is my response to you:

 

 Updated with the Pelosi quote on the Bush Admin.!

 

 

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November 16, 2007

Telling It Like It Really Is - A New Way To Treat With Heads Of State

Juan Carlos, King of Spain had the right idea. During a meeting of Hispanic Honchos, Hugo Chavez, Bully Boy of Carracas was lambasting Aznar of Spain.  Juan Carlos, bless his pea pickin' heart told El gallito de pelea de Caracas (the fighting cock of Caracas - an insult because it implies a chicken) to Shut Up!  Not only did Juan Carlos say shut up, but he used the familiar "tu."  Another insult. 

So, recently, there was another exchange between the United States State Department and a foreign ambassador in which the US Deputy Assistant Secretary Craig Kelly at the State Department called in the Bolivian Ambassador Gustavo Guzman in to essentially tell Evo Morales, President of Bolivia to knock off making allegations against US Ambassador Phillip Goldberg. 

Morales, a leftist Chavez wannabe has been making scurrilious comments about Goldberg and we, the US that is essentially said "Knock it off turkey."

What a delightful turn of events.  I can foresee a new diplomatic way of life:

From: US Embassy

To:  President Putin, Russia

Listen Puttie-pa-toot, we are getting sick and tired of your bullying and posturing in Russia.  You aren't the Soviet Union any more, you are broke and a pitiful excuse for a human being.  So stop it before we have to squash you like the cockroach you are.

From:  US Ambassador to the United Nations

To:  The United Nations Human Rights Commission

My dear sirs, you have no idea what the hell you are doing.  None of you little creeps gives a damn about human rights or about security or taking care of the people in your piss-ant little countries.  You are a disgrace to the diplomatic field and all you want to do is rale against the United States and Israel.  Well, I've got news for you, you bunch of high falutin' excuses for statesmen and women, if you don't start acting in the best interests of all of the world and not your petty tyrannies, The US is going to cut your funds off and push your silly little organization into the ocean.  You creeps can go to hell for all we care.  Get with the program.

From:  George W. Bush, President of the United States of America

To: Mahmoud Amerdinerjad or however the hell you spell it, President of Iran

Listen Mahmoud, you little hitler wannabe, I've about had it with your posturing, your shipping arms and explosive devices to Iraqi insurgents and Al Qaeda types.  I've had it with you thinking you have the right to join the nuklear (or however you spell it) club, I've had it with your treatment of Israel, Jews, homosexuals and women.  I'm telling you now, either get with a human rights program or go watch the God Father... especially the part about the Movie Producer.  Get me scumbag?

Yeppers, I think that this would be JUST THE THING!

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August 24, 2007

Kongress for Kids!

Uncle Jay Explains the News

Uncle Jay Explains the News - July 2, 2007

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August 16, 2007

Mussolini Chavez Tries For "President for Life" In Venezuela


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He stood at the edge of the balcony, jaw out-thrust, glaring at the crowds, looking like the pugnacious tyrant that he was. Raising his hand in a fascist like salute he roared out to the crowd that he was the leader, that the legislature had granted him, or soon would if they knew what was good for them, the leadership of the country for as long as he wanted. Or at any rate, long after the current law allowed. This was to make sure that all of the people, all of the businesses had a chance to change from a formerly fairly backwards society to the modern imperial democracy that the people deserved and wanted. Benito Mussolini? No, Hugo Chavez, dictator of Venezuela, not that there is a whole lot of difference between them.

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez called for changes to Venezuela's constitution Wednesday night, delivering a key address pitching reforms that are expected to allow him to be re-elected indefinitely. [emphasis added]

Source

The National Assembly, completely under the thumb of Chavez's supporters and sycophants, is expected to give Chavez what he wants. Chavez stated:
They accuse me of making plans to be in power forever or to concentrate power. We know it isn't like that. It's power of the people," Chavez said. "So many lies in the world. I doubt there is any country on this planet with a democracy more alive than the one we enjoy in Venezuela today."
What really amazes me, not that this petty tyrant is trying to grab power (hell, he already has) is that there is not a bigger outcry in this country.

To be sure, I'm not advocating invasion or wresting control of Venezuela via a US sponsored coup (we screwed up in a similar situation with Allende in the 70's) but no outcry at all? Where are the democracy supporters in this country? I hear bloggers on the right decrying this thug. I hear a few on the left doing the same, but overall? I'm surprised that as far as I can tell, Jimmy Carter (who oh so sickeningly proclaimed Chavez's last election fair and above-board) hasn't said a word.

It will be interesting to watch and see if the MSM picks up on this. Oh sure, the WSJ has, so has The Guardian and USA Today. But where are the others? The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, LA Times? As of this posting, they haven't even picked up the AP wire-story as far as I can tell. Perhaps they aren't interested or perhaps they secretly want to see this thug sticking it to Bush directly and the United States indirectly

The State Department wants to wait to see what the "proposals" are before commenting.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday that the U.S. would wait for details of Chávez's proposal before commenting on it. He added that Chávez in the past "has taken a number of different steps…that have really eroded some of the underpinnings of democracy in Venezuela."

Source - The AP

Why wait, if the folk in the State Department don't know what is going down in Venezuela by now, they need to be fired! Nuts, even a 12 year old with a modicum amount of interest in South and Central America should be able to see what is going on down there.

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August 03, 2007

What Could Be Worse Than Bush?

When polls don't count to the Left:

Zogby Poll: August 01, 2007 - Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse – only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war.

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July 18, 2007

Pitiful, Just Pitiful!

After an all night debate, Senate Republicans have successfully blocked an effort by the Democratic leadership from removing U.S. Troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008. The final vote on the cloture issue was 52 TO 47 with only 4 Republicans supporting the measure: Sens. Gordon Smith of Oregon, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and joining these three was Sen. Susan Collins also of Maine who is up for re-election next year.

The Republicans in the Senate (and elsewhere) have stated that this was a useless political stunt by the Democrats who continue to harp on an issue that they do not have the power to change. But, I disagree, the move by the Democrats has two purposes, one of which is not intended, but more about that later. The primary purpose of this "useless" debate is to sway public opinion for a period of time long enough so that the Republicans will eventually "give up" and support the Dems in their efforts to be the de facto "Commander in Chief." And, if the Republicans are as spineless as they have been in the past, it might just work.

The other purpose that I alluded to above is that this really does show how the Democrats are less interested in solving this issue (pull out vs. come up with a real plan to win the war against the Islamofascist elements of Islam) than in giving in to a mistaken interpretation of the mandate of the last election. The Democrats truly believe that they were elected to get us out of Iraq, but the reality is that it was more a vote against entrenched Republican spend-a-holics who had the taint (real and imagined) of corruption. That the Democrats in congress are equally corrupt, if not decidedly more so, does not seem to have entered the minds of the electorate. And, I have to hand it to the Dems, they did a masterful job of painting the Republicans as do nothing but spend, hand money over to corrupt lobbyist like Jack Abramoff and pseudo-pedophiles like the congressman from Florida.

Be that as it may, Republicans voted Dem in a fairly large number of places electing an awful lot of Blue Dog Democrats to replace Republicans, but the truth of the matter is that those individuals are going to be "at risk" come the next election and if the Democrats continue to play their silly little games they will loose out in the Senate as well. And, don't think America doesn't remember and think about comments from idiots like Harry Reid (D. Nevada) stating that the war will equal votes for Democrats.

In fact, I think I just may encourage Democrats to keep on doing what they are doing. It will just prove how insane the current Democrat leadership is; the definition of insanity being "To keep doing the same thing expecting a different result."

Score card: Reps = 1; Dems = 0

Pitiful, just pitiful!

Update: Fausta sees it the way I do, but she has photographic evidence of Harry Reid reaching for Nirvana. Go and read the whole thing.

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July 17, 2007

Democrats Trim Budget Buster

Congressional Democrats have taken a magnifying glass to the federal budget and found the one, yes, the one agency that represents government waste and needs its funding cut. Any guesses as to what that agency does?

Democrats Eliminate Budget Buster

The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget It wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law.

In the past six years, the Office of Labor Management Standards, or OLMS, has helped secure the convictions of 775 corrupt union officials and court-ordered restitution to union members of over $70 million in dues. The House is set to vote Thursday on a proposal to chop 20% from the OLMS budget. Every other Labor Department enforcement agency is due for a budget increase, and overall the Congress has added $935 million to the Bush administration's budget request for Labor. The only office the Democrats want to cut back is the one engaged in union oversight.

...OLMS, the Labor office that watches over union disclosure forms, says that last year 93% of unions met its reporting requirements. But the other 7% deserve scrutiny. Union members deserve to know how their dues are spent. They might want to know that in 2005, the National Education Association gave more than $65 million to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and dozens of other liberal advocacy groups that have nothing to do with the interests of teachers. In 2006, 49 individuals employed at the national AFL-CIO headquarters were paid more than $130,000. "Union members are also discovering the extent to which their dues money is funding lavish trips for union officials to luxury resorts and other expensive perks unrelated to collective bargaining," says Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. ....

What else can we expect from this "most open, honest, and ethical Congress in history?" Next on the Democrats' list...the Department of Defense.

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July 02, 2007

Reidie Rage BoyTM


The President has commuted Scooter Libby's prison sentence. And already the howls are coming up from our own homegrown Reidie Rage Boy™. Reid began howling and pontificating within seconds of the announcement that Libbys 30 month prison sentence was commuted leaving intact the fine and two years probation. Bush noted:

I respect the jury's verdict," Bush said in a statement. "But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison."
Reidie Rage Boy™ of course decried the Presidents constitutional perogative calling it disgraceful. Bush also stated:
Others point out that a jury of citizens weighed all the evidence and listened to all the testimony and found Mr. Libby guilty of perjury and obstructing justice. They argue, correctly, that our entire system of justice relies on people telling the truth. And if a person does not tell the truth, particularly if he serves in government and holds the public trust, he must be held accountable."
I will give this to Harry Reid. When Clinton got off with nothing more than impeachment but no conviction, Harry Reid announced that it was also disgraceful and that Clinton deserved conviction and a prison sentence for committing perjury. He also excoriated Clinton for the massive number of pardons at the end of Clinton's term including pardon's for financer Marc Rich and Hillary's brother, calling those two pardons, among others, a disgusting exhibit of power that the president has, but should never have used. Oh, wait, he didn't say either one of those things - my bad!

Update: For Moose's information, The Blah Blah Blog has a list of those pardoned by Clinton

Update 2: Oh, and let's not forget one of the more famous pardons:

Susan H. McDougal, Mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341; aiding and abetting in misapplication of Small Business Investment Corporation funds, 18 U.S.C. §§ 657 and 2; aiding and abetting in making false entries, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1006 and 2; aiding and abetting in making false statements, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1014 and 2 convicted in 1996, pardoned on December 22, 2000 - 30 days before he left office.

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