Up North | Forget Obama . . . Where’s Our Palin?
A Canadian paper longs for a political figure as confident and game-changing as as the USA’s Sarah Palin.
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Across The Pond | Truth
The UK’s Times Online says it right:
For at least the next few weeks the press will follow Mrs Palin’s present and dig deeper into her past, still hoping for some morsel of stupidity or evidence of cupidity to doom her.
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No one paid much attention to the fact that she had been elected governor of a state. Or that she got to that office not because, unlike some politicians I could mention, her husband had been there before her, or because she bleated continuously about glass ceilings, but by challenging the entrenched interests in her own party and beating them. In almost two years as Governor she has cleaned out the Augean stables of Alaskan Government. You don’t win a statewide election and enjoy approval ratings of more than 80 per cent without real political talent.
Never mind all that. She didn’t have a passport! She was a former beauty queen! It was so axiomatic that she was a disaster that I was told by lots of savvy men - with deliciously unconscious sexism - that the real problem was what the choice said about Mr McCain and his judgment: cynical, irresponsible, clueless. It was as if Mrs Palin wasn’t really a human being at all, but an article of Mr McCain’s clothing that showed his poor taste, like wearing brown shoes with a charcoal suit.
Democrats think that Mr McCain, with the social conservative Mrs Palin, will launch an old-fashioned culture war at them, using her appealing manner to drive a populist assault on the familiar Republican issues of God, guns and gays.
Perhaps this Manichean interpretation will prove true. But I suspect that it misses the real appeal of the Republican team. The opportunity for McCain-Palin is not reaction, but reform - a reform rooted in a distant conservatism that could be due for a comeback
Hailing from Arizona and Alaska, the Republican ticket has a chance to rekindle a western conservatism different from the old Yankee paternalist sort or the Bible Belt version. They like their guns out there (some still kill their own food) and they are pro-life and deeply pro-America, of course. But at a time of grave challenges, the themes of economic freedom and opportunity, the resistance to the idea that government holds all the answers, could resonate with voters.
This is an election, as the Democrats have realised all along, about an America on the cusp of change. With the moose-hunting, establishment-taunting Mrs Palin at his side, Mr McCain might represent a bigger change than the one that his opponents are offering.
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By: Jefferson
When Is This Movie Coming Out?
Can the Democrats do anything without trying to present it like some Hollywood blockbuster? Can they just give speeches? Do they need scripts and actors for everything they do? Can they just be real every now and then?
Of course, when they are real they are usually so repelling to normal Americans that I can sort of understand all the scripting. But still . . .
A church of liberalism. A cult of personality. Ignorance is bliss.
How dumb. All of this ridiculous imagery. All of these ridiculous costumes.
Invesco Field will never be the same.
01.20.09. McCAIN’S FIRST DAY.
By: Jefferson
Hope And Change
Here’s something that could bring hope and change to some people.
By: Jefferson
Obama Cares For The Poor, Huh?
OK.
By: Jefferson
Daddy Yankee Endorses John McCain
The “Gasolina” singer Ramon Ayala, aka Daddy Yankee, endorsed John McCain this morning at a high school, earning squeals from hundreds of teenagers before this jewel occrurred:
Asked what his song “Gasolina” is about, Ayala said with a grin: “Energy independence.”
By: Jefferson
Abolish Culture Subsidies
Canada’s Western Standard has an opinion piece up on the negative effects on both culture and taxpayers when culture is subsidized by the government.
When government subsidies culture, it is both taxpayers and culture itself that suffers. For the good of both, these subsidies should be abolished.
I don’t know if that’s an accidental misspelling of “subsidizes” or some weird Canadian way of looking at things.
By: Jefferson
Across The Pond | Boris Johnson Takes The Olympic Flag
In Beijing, Europes’s most popular new conservative leader, London Mayor Boris Johnson, took the Olympic flag to signify the start of London’s reign as host city. London is scheduled to host the 2012 summer games.
By: Jefferson
McCain Ad Ridicules Obama, Pelosi, Potential VP Candidate Kaine
Pretty awesome stuff here. My favorite part is that thing from last week where Tim Kaine of Virginia tried to give Barack Obama credit for ending the Georgia/Russia conflict.
What a doofus.
By: Jefferson
Is Barack Trying To Look Like Ahmadinejad?
President Tom? Is that you? Oh, I’m sorry, Messiah. Your jacket confused me.
He’s just so . . . normal.
This isn’t worse than Barack draped in an upside down flag, though, is it? Of course not. It was just a jacket. Other stuff Professor Obama and his friends have done are legitimately ridiculous and disqualify him for the high office of President of the United States.
By: Jefferson
Across The Pond | Tax “Weapon Knife” Manufacturers
The American media is still obsessed with pretending that removing guns from American life will reduce crime. In fact, statistics show otherwise. Still, the Europeans have moved on. They got rid of as many guns as possible, and now kids are just killing each other with knives.
Would it be absolutely ridiculous for them to try to remove knives from life? Yes. Will they try to find a way to overtax knife-manufacturers, draw distinctions between kitchen knives and weapon knives, etc.? Probably. I’m sure they already are.
Do you see the similarities?
Some people just don’t respect individual liberties and the rights of people to defend themselves. People who are going to commit crimes will do so and use whatever weapon necessary to do so. In the meantime, law-abiding folks need to have a means of defense. However, the people who don’t respect individual liberties use the wrong approach in trying to reduce crime and set laws in place that punish gun ownership (self defense weapon ownership). Then the law-abiding folks are terrorized by criminals.
Consistency will reduce crime. Schizophrenic government will not.
By: Jefferson
How Many United Nations Resolutions Did Russia Have Against Georgia?
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) is harassed by impeachment freaks while on her book tour, and Barack Obama (D - Celebrity) is on vacation, even the New York Times admits that “Mr. Obama’s voice seems muted at a time when much of the world has been worriedly watching the conflict.”
Personally, I just wish radical leftists in our country would protest Russian escalation as much as they protested the justified and successful invasion of Iraq.
Besides, the United States had Congressional Resolutions, umpteen United Nations Resolutions, and a lot of history with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
How many United Nations Resolutions did Russia have to work with in justifying escalation against Georgia? And what history?
The only history there is exactly the history the American left hates. Georgia left the Soviet Union and established a young democracy.
Hence the silence.
By: Jefferson
Obama Repetition Seen As Unique
Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia made an absolutely pathetic attempt to give Barack Obama some credit for slowing down Russia’s assault on Georgia today. He is the one he’s been waiting for.
Pathetic.
It was a bad crisis for the world. It required tough words but also a smart approach to call on the international community to step in. And I’m very, very happy that the Senator’s request for a ceasefire has been complied with by President Medvedev.
A smart approach? Calling for the international community to step in is what leftists do every time there’s a crisis! That’s what John F. Kerry calls for. It’s what Al Gore calls for! Joseph Lieberman is probably the only elected Democrat in the world who strays from this approach, and we know what they’ve done to him.
By: Jefferson
U.S. Economy May Rebound Fastest
The dollar may surge against worldwide currencies after a steady decline over much of this decade because our economy is in the best position to recover the fastest from recent worldwide economic downturn, uncertainty, and change - according to the Financial Times.
Maybe the armageddon will hold off a few more years.
By: Jefferson
Breaking | Global Terrorism Hits Turkey
Add this to the list of reasons that “you can’t have a war on an idea” and that other list of reasons to believe that “the terrorists are in Afghanistan.”
Times Online says two bombs exploded in Istanbul,Turkey in a coordinated attack that has left 13 people dead and about 100 wounded.
Every group of people, no matter how primitive or advanced they may be, who plans and carries out attacks such as this must be eliminated so that people and economies and nations can prosper peacefully.
By: Jefferson
Obama Reassures P.M. Brown
Telegraph reports that Barack Obama “reassured” Prime Minister Gordon Brown on his sagging popularity.
The man who hopes to be the next US president said: “You’re always more popular before you’re actually in charge. Once you’re responsible then you’re going to make some people unhappy.”
Imagine being in charge of a global war on terror. You might make some people “unhappy” then, too.
I wonder if Obama ruffled any feathers organizing communities in Chicago.
By: Jefferson
Across The Pond | Labour Continues To Struggle
Labour’s defeat in Glasgow was Brown’s third byelection loss in nine weeks, but by far the most humiliating. The SNP overturned a 13,500 Labour majority to clinch the seat by 365 votes, a 22% swing that if replicated at a general election would see only 20 Labour MPs survive.
Gordon Brown is now up against the ropes and has to prove to his Labour Party that he should remain its leadership.
Labour is Socialist. The Liberal Democrats are still very left-wing, but more capitalist than Labour. Tories are similar to American Republicans/Conservatives, which is why people here used to pretend that Margaret Thatcher was a dunce.
Does that tell you anything about why Tony Blair was so “hated” for standing with President Bush on terrorism? It was a departure from what many in his party believed was right. We should be grateful that Blair saw the gravity of the worldwide terrorism situation, though.
England, Germany, and France have all become more conservative in the past few years. Terrorism and Islamic extremism have been serious wake-up calls to many in Europe. We must prevent America from going Socialist this November and work with these nations to keep the world moving in the right direction.
By: Jefferson
Obamedia Lies: 200,000 Or 20,000?
Wold Politics Review demolishes the smut peddlers’ claim that 200,000 Germans showed up to hear what Barack Obama had to say.
“Ich bin ein beginner!”
By: Jefferson
Across The Pond | Liberal Party Crumbles
The Glasgow East seat in Britain’s Parliament once considered super-safe for the left-wing Labour Party has been taken for the first time in 86 years.
To blame? Daily Mail reports:
A wave of voter anger at soaring food and fuel prices, the stuttering economy and resentment over the axing of the 10p tax rate and a hike in vehicle excise duty saw the seat wrenched from Labour for the first time in 86 years.
Raising taxes as prices go higher? Sound familiar? Sounds like America’s Democrats, doesn’t it?
The victorious Scottish National Party candidate John Mason said “Three weeks ago, the SNP predicted a political earthquake. This is off the Richter scale.The tremors will be felt all the way to Westminster.”
Some now predict that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has about two months to save his premiership, as the conservative Tory leader David Cameron has called for a general election so they may wrest more power away from Labour.
Brown, of course, brushed aside this suggestion and recited more ridiculous talking points such as how he doesn’t want to wake up in in 24 months “to see the Tories’ cutting taxes for the rich but slashing education and health budgets.”
By: Jefferson
Obama For President Of Planet Earth
Obviously the theme that’s developing in the lamestream media and at the Barack Obama campaign is that he will not just be President of the United States, but he will be President of the World.
It’s just an extension of John Kerry’s stupid global test, but I find it particularly ironic - coming from the same moonbats who complain endlessly about imaginary “colonialism.”
Patrick Ruffini, Glenn Reynolds, and others comment on this recently.
He’s the President of the World. He’s a rock star. He’s a movie star. He’s black. He’s white. He’s rich. He’s poor. He’s everything to everyone! He’s whatever you want him to be!
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