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calendar   Monday - October 13, 2008

Because it would be evidence of a huge lie, that’s why

CNN’s Campbell Brown: So what if Obama was a Muslim or an Arab?

I guess this is another one of those daily moonbat posts. Well, maybe not moonbattery in the pure form, but a certain kind of willfull blindness seems to be in evidence.

You may find it hard to believe that this remains an issue in this campaign, but it does. The candidates, both candidates, are still getting questions about Barack Obama’s ethnicity and religion. If you are even semi-informed, then by now you already know that of course, Barack Obama is an American.image

Of course, Barack Obama is a Christian. Yet just a few days ago, there was a woman at a rally for John McCain incorrectly calling Obama an Arab

Of course? Willfull blindness much? Actually Campbell dear, he is an arab. If being 50% black allows you to be black, and being less than 50% black allows you to be black, then being significantly arabic on your father’s side allows you to be an arab. His father was, at most, the child of an arab and a black person. Or perhaps the child of two arabic black people. So daddy Barack is at least half arabic. The muslims in Kenya are black people, but they are also arabs. And they identify very strongly with being arabs. That’s why they have arabic names. The Christian blacks there have Christian names. Very simple.

So what if Obama was Arab or Muslim? So what if John McCain was Arab or Muslim? Would it matter?  When did that become a disqualifier for higher office in our country? When did Arab and Muslim become dirty words? The equivalent of dishonorable or radical? Whenever this gets raised, the implication is that there is something wrong with being an Arab-American or a Muslim. And the media is complicit here, too. We’ve all been too quick to accept the idea that calling someone Muslim is a slur.


Not true Campbell darlin. Calling someone a flea bitten, goat raping, carpet stealing, wife beating, pedophilic, 7th century dune coon is a slur. Calling anyone a jihadist is a slur, IF they’re innocent. But since you ask, so sorry to let you down, but you do remember 9/11? You do remember the 1972 Olympics? You do recall all those years in between with the endless series of terrorist acts all carried out by guys named Mohammed? Guess what? Islam - or if you must keep at least part of your so pretty head buried in the sand - “radical” or “fundamental” Islam is our enemy. And they’ve said so a billion times, for 1400 years now. It’s what violent jihad is all about. So maybe the lines have become just a wee bit blurred lately, and members of that faith are viewed with a bit of skepticism by the rest of us. Lie down with dogs, get up with a suicide vest. Smart muslims over here probably know enough to speak out against terrorism and violence, and the smartest ones know not to take their religion too too seriously. So yeah, unpleasant as it may be, we have “good muslims” and “bad muslims” in our midst. Until this thing is over, they’re going to have to walk on eggshells. But we aren’t shooting them in the street, we aren’t beating them in the dark (90% or more of these “islamaphobia” cases turn out to be self-induced, ie faked) and we have neither deported them nor rounded them up in camps. They aren’t even being fired from their jobs, and the police and other public services have bent over backwards to see that they aren’t getting unfair treatment. That’s as good as it’s ever going to get for people who share some major core identity with an avowed and active enemy of the United States.

There are more than 1.2 million Arab-Americans and about 7 million Muslim-Americans, former Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, successful business people, normal average Americans from all walks of life. These are the people being maligned here, and we can only imagine how this conversation plays in the Muslim world. We can’t tolerate this ignorance—not in the media, not on the campaign trail. Of course, he’s not an Arab. Of course, he’s not a Muslim. But honestly, it shouldn’t matter.

I don’t know why you break those populations up, since 95% of all Arab-Americans are muslims, or at least were muslims when they came here. And honestly, they aren’t being maligned. Hardly at all. Less than us evil white males are, that’s for sure. And all the ones who might suffer a little malignment need to do is to change out of the Immigrant Pants, dress like Americans, and assimilate a little. At which point we wouldn’t be able to tell them from Hindus, which everyone knows are hard working, very well educated people with excellent family values.

But you were talking about Obama. Are you high sweetheart? Are you that naive? Or is this just more of CNN’s bias creeping in, trying to lay down some more guilt against us whiteys?

Let’s say he was, and had been up front about it:

“Hello, my name is Barrrrrrackkk Huzzzzein Obama. I’m an Arab-American Muslim who happens to be part African and part White. And I’m running for President, because I believe in a Change for Socialism, and I Hope you do too!”

He would have been allowed to campaign. But people would have somehow listened more to what he was saying. And taken a good hard look at his background, his family, and his friends. And wondered if it was a Good Thing, and likely decided it Wasn’t. And that’s all, really.

Now, let’s say he is, always was, and has been keeping it a secret. Which is what many people suspect right now, because so much of his past is locked away. This means he’s been lying to us. This means he is a total phony, a fake, a fraud, a pretender. And we don’t like that. So if these turned out to be true, believably true, then the evidence of a campaign of lies would be overwhelming. And he’d get about 8.2 million votes (your 1.2 plus your 7) at most. We’d reject him utterly. Because he tried to put one over on the whole damn country. Not because he was a member of the wrong religion or ethnic group. Because he was a liar. And maybe because he was a far left Socialist too.



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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/13/2008 at 09:19 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - September 18, 2008

olbie gets caught telling fibs about sarah

a short video from our very own Bruchy.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/18/2008 at 03:29 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - September 11, 2008

Read_Me.Next

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/09/08/the-palin-portfolio-phase-two-damage-control-or-the-clash-of-civilizations-comes-home/

Cricky rinky. You rikey!

Warning: linked article contains “Big Words” like “exculpation”, “conspicuous”, “repudiation”, and “multifarious”. Word processor may contain peanuts or tree nut by-products. If you only read at the “Dumas” level (because I can’t let a good comment thread go) then let this one pass by; I’ll give you the Bottom Line instead: Smashing on Palin is backfiring and it’s funny to watch the NY Times grasping at straws gyrating in the vortex dancing real fast trying to rationalize show why they’re right. See? I just saved all our dum basses a good 10 minutes. To the other 1083 readers: wasn’t that a great bit of writing? Most enjoyable, smirk smirk!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/11/2008 at 09:14 PM   
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calendar   Monday - September 08, 2008

Michael Moore: the stupidest white man. ( Moore is someone I admit I’d love to have in gun sight)

I really don’t HATE that many people. Honestly I don’t.  Lets see, there’s the MIL but I don’t wanna shoot her.
I’m not even sure I hate OBL as much as I do Moore.  I see him, Moore, as a prime traitor and a gross lying SOB.  So yeah, I’d probably take a pot shot at the bastard if given a chance.  I imagine that looks pretty bad here in print but hey.  It’s how I feel about that slug.
Apparently a writer for the Telegraph doesn’t think much of him either.

Some of the comments on this are a bit over the top.  Don’t ya just love these “experts” who know about America and haven’t a clue.

By Daniel Hannan
The Telegraph

I’ve just walked past a poster in Victoria Station plugging Michael Moore’s new book. “Bring back the draft - but only draft the rich. If they have to serve, they won’t be so eager to start ridiculous wars,” it says.

Hmm, let’s see where these political shirkers are skulking, shall we? Why not start at the very top, with the presidential and vice-presidential candidates? Sarah Palin’s son Track is being deployed to Iraq next week.

Joe Biden’s son Beau is scheduled to go on 3 October. John McCain’s son Jimmy had been quietly serving in the desert without his father making a fuss: the old boy was furious when the news leaked. (Moore plainly finds such modesty incomprehensible). The only one not to be risking his children is Barack Obama, whom one can hardly blame since a) he opposed the war throughout and b) his beautiful little girls are 10 and 7.

In fact, the skiver here seems to be Moore himself, who managed to shoot the whole of Fahrenheit 9/11 without at any stage risking his generous arse by actually visiting Iraq, where much of the action is set. Falstaff-like, the greasy tallow-catch prefers to roar from the sidelines: “A plague on all cowards - give me a cup of sack, boy”.

(shiver, lazy person who shirks work and responsibility. not to be trusted.)

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Posted by Drew458   United Kingdom  on 09/08/2008 at 07:32 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - August 27, 2008

Don’t Stop Believing

Talking heads on the news are running wild. Gosh, because of the way the DNC rules are set up, the delegates could nominate Hillary for VP!!!!!!!1111!!! And then Biden would be out and she would be on the ticket.

They just won’t let go. Ever. Even the ones on Fox News.

The spirit of Dan Rather lives on in each of them, denying reality until after the bitter end.

Losers.

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RULEZ? WE DON NEED NO STINKING RULES!
4:50pm Denver time:

Hillary Clinton: “And I move, that we suspend the rules, and that by acclaimation, we nominate Barack Obama as our candidate for President of the United States.”

Motion seconded ... approved ... and the crowd gives voice. Barack Hussain Obama is now officially their choice. Why bother counting? Can we all go the hell home now? Um, no. Now they need to tell us how wonderful he is for the next hour or so, then we have to watch the Biden Bullshit Nomination Nonsense.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/27/2008 at 02:35 PM   
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calendar   Friday - August 08, 2008

No John Edwards posts here

The Silky Pony is all over the news again. Today it’s a big story on the networks that a week or two ago he was caught in a hotel with his mistress and his love child. Oh, scandal!! Oh hypocrisy!! Oh boredom. Oh yawn. Every network has entire gangs of talking heads yammering on by the friggin hour.

Anybody who looked into this ambulance chaser 4 years ago knew he had something on the side. While his wife was home bravely surviving cancer for another day, the Breck Girl was out gittin him some. It wasn’t news then either. It wasn’t news the dozen or so times he’s headlined in the tabloids since then. But this week it’s news.

Now the Mr. Two Americas is off the campaign trail, out of the running again, gone back to channeling the unborn and whatever else greaseball lawyers like him do ... suddenly the MSM discovers he has a mistress? Suddenly they’re all uppity because this is the guy who was preaching Family Values? Well, fine, hmmpph!!

I question the timing of this.

I think the one and only reason that this is MSM news now is because it’s nearly a sure thing that Obama is not going to pick Hitlery as his VP choice. And OBullshit has to make a choice damn soon. And Edwards may have been a contender. At least the Silky Pony has name recognition. Hey, and nickname recognition too! And he did manage to grab enough votes this time to be #3. But the media wants Hillary, and by gumbo, it will dish whatever dirt and smears are necessary to get what it wants. Because they run the country you know. And they’ve made no bones about that since Watergate. Just ask them. Do you think they also have a special event planned for BO some point after his inauguration ... maybe in Memphis? They won’t want to leave Hillary off to the side for too long you know.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/08/2008 at 10:50 PM   
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calendar   Tuesday - July 22, 2008

New York Times rejects John McCain opinion piece after running Barack Obama editorial

May I assume you folks already knew this?  If not ....


The New York Times has rejected an opinion piece on Iraq by Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, less than a week after publishing a similar article by his Democratic rival Senator Barack Obama.

By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 12:26AM BST 22 Jul 2008

David Shipley, the op-ed page editor of America’s most prestigious paper asked Mr McCain to rewrite his piece, a move likely to revive allegations of bias in the media towards the young Democratic contender.

A recent study found that the news television networks had run more than double the number of stories about Mr Obama than Mr McCain since early June.

Mr Shipley told the McCain campaign that he was “very eager” to publish the senator but suggested a new “approach”.

“The article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq. It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory - with troops [sic] levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate,” he wrote.

The McCain campaign was stunned by the email, which seemed to be trying to dictate its policy. Not setting a timetable is at the core of the Arizona senator’s views on Iraq.

Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the campaign, said: “John McCain believes that victory in Iraq must be based on conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables. Unlike Barack Obama, that position will not change based on politics or the demands of the New York Times.”

The campaign noted that Mr Shipley was a former speechwriter for former Democrat president Bill Clinton.

The New York Times issued a statement, which pointed out it had published at least seven op-ed pieces by Mr McCain since 1996.

“It is standard procedure on our Op-Ed page, and that of other newspapers, to go back and forth with an author on his or her submission. We look forward to publishing Senator McCain’s views in our paper just as we have in the past.”

Though the New York Times is known for its liberal stance, the “op-ed” or comment page routinely runs articles by Centre-Right columnists, some of whom are supportive of Mr McCain.

The opening of the senator’s submitted article read: “In January 2007, when General David Petraeus took command in Iraq, he called the situation ‘hard’ but not ‘hopeless’.

“Today, 18 months later, violence has fallen by up to 80 per cent to the lowest levels in four years, and Sunni and Shiite terrorists are reeling from a string of defeats. The situation now is full of hope, but considerable hard work remains to consolidate our fragile gains.”

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Posted by Drew458   United Kingdom  on 07/22/2008 at 04:18 AM   
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calendar   Monday - July 14, 2008

Associated Press now making snuff films for the Taliban

Anti-war journalism my ass. AP is an active enemy agent. We used to call them “Associated (with terrorists) Press”. Now they should be A(l-Jazeera) Propoganda. Because, well, maybe once or twice you can cross the line. By mistake. Maybe because you don’t know better. But when it becomes a habit, when it becomes regular behavior ... you’re on the other side forever.

Via Dr. Rusty Shackleford at Jawa Report:

AP Stringer Stands by as Taliban Murder 2 Women, Gets Snuff Footage

We would remind the AP that the act of the Taliban inviting a reporter to the murder means they wanted this news out there. The AP was clearly being used as a propaganda outlet for the Taliban.

Once again the AP is aiding and abetting the enemy. This time with a group listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. and which several U.N. Security Council Resolutions forbid giving any assistance to.

Will the AP be given a Pulitzer this time?

Jawa has the grisly Before & After pictures, and the (thankfully taken at night) snuff video with very disturbing audio (don’t watch it). Allah pundit questions AP’s ethics. I don’t. THEY DON’T HAVE ANY.  Ace says they’re “Not anti-American, just pro-terrorist.” I disagree a bit. THEY ARE TERRORISTS, actively working for the other side. The enemy side. This is not objective journalism. At All. Hunt them down, and kill them.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/14/2008 at 04:51 PM   
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calendar   Saturday - June 21, 2008

A Shot Across The Bows … With a BB Gun

Sometimes it’s hard to spot the media bias. Sometimes it’s bloody easy, as this weak attempt shows.

Ties to Bush on offshore drilling may hurt McCain this fall

As he tries to woo independent voters, Sen. John McCain is relying on his image as a maverick, making it clear he’s no President Bush. 

But the timing of Bush’s support for offshore oil drilling this week may spell trouble for McCain’s efforts to distance himself from the embattled White House.  The president on Wednesday urged Democratic leaders in Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling—just as McCain has been making his own energy pitch for the same.

“The next president must be willing to break with the energy policies, not just of the current administration, but the administrations that preceded it, and lead a great national campaign to achieve energy security for America,” McCain said Wednesday in Springfield, Missouri.

Riiight. So McCain’s finally coming around to reality makes him another Bush. What a crock. I got news for you, CNN. With regular over $4 and diesel over $5, anybody on any ticket up for votes in November had better be behind massively expanded energy resourcing. Or else they’re gone. It’s the Big Issue.

“I know the Democratic leaders have opposed some of these policies in the past,” Bush said. “Now that their opposition has helped drive gas prices to record levels, I ask them to reconsider their positions.”

But Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, argues that offshore drilling will not help lower gas prices in the short term.

Typical misdirection. No shit, Sherlock. Tell us what we don’t know. You think the voters are so stupid that they can’t tell the difference between a short term FIX and a long term SOLUTION? Hmmph. I think I’m offended by his patronising attitude towards us Typical Voters.

Congressional Democrats are determined to block the president’s push for offshore drilling, prohibited by a 1981 law and a 1990 executive order.

“When Congress lifts the legislative ban, I will lift the executive prohibition,” Bush said.  The issue also makes for a fascinating family drama since the president’s father, President George H.W. Bush, signed the order banning offshore drilling, while his brother Jeb more recently opposed such drilling when he was governor of Florida.

Florida’s current governor, Charlie Crist, has been an opponent of offshore drilling, but he now has an open mind about it since McCain’s embrace. Crist’s name has come up as a possible vice presidential running mate on the GOP ticket.

Nice try, but lame. Neither Daddy Bush nor Brother Bush did anything more than support the will of their constituents at the time. But views change. We call that “learning”. Trying to pin the tale on the elephant fails, since even the smallest amount of research shows that the tail (ie, blocking new energy) needs to be nailgunned right up the donkey’s ass.

Obama’s solution, a push for plug-in hybrid cars and other alternatives to oil, will not give consumers short-term relief either.

Gosh, a bit of balanced reporting! How did that get in there? Oh, and O-baloney? At least a quarter of the electorate can’t afford a new plug-in car. And plug-in cars don’t save any energy anyway. It still has to be created. Unless suddenly you’re on the More Nukes platform, just like John McCain? Which would make Obama ... just like Bush!!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 06/21/2008 at 11:10 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - May 22, 2008

Proactive Pre-emptive Moonbats

Leftard Talking Head Says Teh Election Was Fixed.
6 Months Before It Happens!

Is this the MSM getting ready for a blow-out loss for their darling Obama? Sure looks that way to me. Once again, the left cries foul because they were unable to rig the election sufficiently in their favor.

NBC’s Mitchell Suggests Republicans May Cheat Obama in November

During MSNBC’s live coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell seemed to take seriously suggestions by Hillary Clinton “loyalists” who argue that Republicans in control of the election process in some red states Barack Obama hopes to carry may deny him a “fair vote” in the November general election. Mitchell: “Other Clinton loyalists, but realists, say that that electoral map is a stretch in one regard: There are ... Republican governors and Secretaries of State, if you will, Katherine Harris-type election officials in those states. ... [Obama] has to go up against the establishment, which would be Republican, and he has to figure out a way to get a fair vote, if he’s the nominee, in those red states.”

These losers are so high. They’ve all gone paranoid from smokin crack. And - you guessed it - here it comes again, the Lie That Won’t Dietm:

During an interview with Lisa Caputo of the Clinton campaign, Caputo commented that the possibility of Clinton winning the popular vote among Democratic primary and caucus voters while Obama wins the delegate count reminds her of the 2000 election. Matthews then contended that Al Gore “may well have won the election” if he had requested a statewide recount instead of “just a couple of counties” because Gore might have won most “intended votes.”

Oh Chad, are you still with us? Didn’t we give you the lethal injection you so richly deserved years ago? Unbelievable. Go read the rest here, if you can stomach it. 8 solid years and these morons haven’t changed their retarded tune by a single note. “Selected not Elected”, and elections rigged against them. Because it is simply impossible that people wouldn’t vote for Obama.

batbatbatbatbat




PS - Katherine Harris did her job. She upheld the laws of her state.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 05/22/2008 at 10:28 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - April 16, 2008

Heads to roll at NY Times

Faced with decreasing circulation, the old Gray Lady has to start scrimping. About 100 jobs are going to be cut from the newsroom, and an unspecified number of workers will be given early retirement packages.

To the staff

About six weeks ago Bill Keller announced that the newsroom would need to reduce its head count by about 100 jobs, as a result of the worsening financial picture facing this newspaper and the rest of our industry. To that end, we put on the table a round of buyouts, and began seeking volunteers among both our Guild and excluded employees.

The window for those voluntary buyouts closes officially next week—on Monday, April 21, for excluded members of the staff, and on that day and the next (Tuesday, April 22), for Guild applicants.

While we will not know the hard count until that time, every effort to handicap the outcome suggests that we are almost certain to fall short of the number of volunteers we will need. If that is indeed the case, as we expect it will be, we will—regrettably—be forced resort to some limited number of layoffs within the core newsroom.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of leftards communists journalists with integritytm.

Notice that the link is to the New York Observer. I guess this was another piece of news the Times didn’t think was Fit To Print.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 04/16/2008 at 04:02 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - April 10, 2008

afghanistan progress causes MSM to go into “TET offensive” mode

Afghanistan: better than the MSM tells you

I don’t know why I’m posting this. Any regular BMEWS reader knows the media are a bunch of lying leftist sacks of shit. The “news” is their agenda, not the truth. Via Malkin, here’s a link to an excellent post by Ray Robinson over at The Two Malcontents that examines the latest NATO reports and spells out the real truth:

the revelations in the report shred the media template to the point of making it incontestable that the American public is the victim of journalistic malpractice concerning Afghanistan.

Ray cuts through the media spin, replacing “feelings” with facts, and goes on to list 12 crucial facts that the media somehow just isn’t telling you.

Here’s the link. Go read the whole thing. It will only take you a minute. It’s a good reminder that the media is still in full spin mode, even though coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan has decreased significantly in the past months. Because we’re winning.

Kinda makes me want to smack a reporter or three. I think they’re all secretly hippies anyway.

smallish updatey comment: wow, The Two Malcontents is a great blog! I’m blogrolling them. 


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 04/10/2008 at 06:24 PM   
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calendar   Monday - March 17, 2008

How to tell the Iraq campaign is succeeding

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That about sums it up perfectly. Since Bad News is Big News, and Good News is No News, a near total lack of news coverage on what’s going on in Iraq means things must be going very well indeed. Silly me ... the DrewNews channel would be pushing this 24-7. We live in a world turned upside down AND inside out, and I’m still thinking right side up. For quite a bit more analysis of this news tend, please visit Mudville Gazette.

Strategy Page also dashes off a couple paragraphs on this, and reaches a similar conclusion.

Since last Summer, more good news than bad news began to come back from the front. This was not useful for news organizations. Bad news makes money (by attracting larger audiences for advertisers), good news is useless. Moreover, only about five percent of Americans (military personnel and their families) have any personal interest in Iraq. There are even fewer Iraqi Americans to care. There are also fewer veterans. Only nine million American actually served in the armed forces during the official Vietnam war period (1964-1975, most U.S. troops were out of Vietnam by 1972, and the big build up didn’t begin until 1965). And only 30 percent of those were actually in Vietnam. That’s 2.7 million troops. Those who served in Vietnam represented nearly ten percent of the men of their generation. The current war on terror will probably only involved a few percent. Veterans of older wars are dying off at a rapid clip. The Iraq war is something most people simply can’t relate to.

In a word, the war has no constituency.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/17/2008 at 12:44 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - February 28, 2008

There they go again

We saw this one coming weeks and weeks ago. Today the NY Times runs some BS story trying to shake things up, and all the other scandal-whore news agencies pick up on it. Sleaze bags.

Does McCain’s overseas birth disqualify him?

source link: rehashed sleaze from the NY Times
source link: whore mongering from FoxNews

WASHINGTON — The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming.

Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.

Almost since those words were written in 1787 with scant explanation, their precise meaning has been the stuff of confusion, law school review articles, whisper campaigns and civics class debates over whether only those delivered on American soil can be truly natural born. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states.

“There are powerful arguments that Senator McCain or anyone else in this position is constitutionally qualified, but there is certainly no precedent,” said Sarah H. Duggin, an associate professor of law at Catholic University who has studied the issue extensively. “It is not a slam-dunk situation.”

US Constitution, Article II:
“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.”

This is so weak. It’s just another cock tease headline designed to sell newspapers that has no content behind it. Yes, I can read the Constitution as well as anyone else. If you are born on American soil you are an American citizen. If your parents are American citizens then you are an American citizen regardless of where you are born. It has been this way since the very beginning of our nation, and this situation was addressed specifically in the Naturalization Acts of 1790 and 1795:

1790: “And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United State, shall be considered as natural born citizens”.
1795: “and the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States”.

Let’s not forget that citizenship is usually extended to the citizens of Commonwealths, Territories, and Protectorates, of which the Canal Zone certainly was one of at the time. And if you have further doubts, go reread the 14th Amendment.

It really pisses me off when the media just puts out stories to stir the pot and keep people’s blood pressure up. Especially when they’ve tried to pull the same ruse on us before, 10 years ago. We are not all stoners with no memory you know.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/28/2008 at 10:54 AM   
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peiper over at Barking Moonbat EWS found some absolutely kickass aerial photos from WWII. I grabbed this one because I’m a big fan of the movie A Bridge Too Far.…
On: 11/23/09 04:14

Clear Thinking and Straight Talk
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Let Them Fight or Bring Them Home Read all of it--and tell every American you know to do so. (Thanks to BMEWS) UPDATE: The author of the above blog is…
On: 10/02/09 09:29



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