Grammar Nazi! Wednesday, Feb 25 2009 

Comarade Obama and Media and Politics and Stupid People , , , 1IDVET 17:51

Grammar Nazi!

God help me. I love it so.

Obama and “Me”

The president’s adulators praise even his bad grammar.

It’s one thing for a supposedly combative press to fawn over a presidential candidate—and now a president. Who wants to devote precious column inches to Barack Obama’s ties to radical bomber Bill Ayers when Sarah Palin’s wardrobe demands investigation? Why shoot ordinary photographs of the president when you can portray him as a haloed Byzantine saint? But now the New York Times has gone too far: it is attempting to rewrite the history of English grammar in order to flatter the president.

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B.O.’s First 30 Wednesday, Feb 25 2009 

Comarade Obama and Politics , 1IDVET 17:49

After 30 days of unreal spending and stupidity on the part of Teh One, I give you this:

A Month of B.O.

By Ralph Alter

Has it been but a single B.O. Presidential moon? It’s hard to believe the sheer volume of hyperactive bumbling the Obama administration has crammed into the space of a mere 30 some days. Perhaps it’s the technological superiority of the Obamanauts that has enabled them to ratchet up the level of administrative dysfunction so thoroughly.

Recall the dismay expressed by Obie One’s staffers when they found that the White House technology apparently consisted of a few rickety abacuses and an intercom made of a series of tin cans cobbled together with string. While this primitive gear may have sufficed for the Bush administration to do their cipherin’ out by the White House cement pond, it was woefully unacceptable to the hip new Prez and his Windy City Rollers.

With their exceptional technical wizardry, the new administration was able to nominate nearly twice as many Cabinet candidates as previous Presidential administrations, sometimes several to a single post. The nomination process has been the first truly bi-partisan effort by an American president, as Obama’s selections have included both tax-payers and non-tax-payers.

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Still Waiting GOP Wednesday, Feb 25 2009 

Comarade Obama and Politics and Republicans , , , 1IDVET 17:45

We’re all still waiting. I hope the GOP finally gets off its collective ass and starts to put forward the message. The BS the BO is trying to pull is easy to expose for what it is. Stay on message and hammer it like you mean it.

Republicans Must Give America More Than That

Posted by Bobby Eberle

On Tuesday night, Barack Obama delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress. Standing before the legislators and the American people, Obama presented a laundry list of spending programs and made the call for even more government intervention. What ever happened to capitalism and the American way of life?

Yes, the speech was everything I thought it might be. But, I’m not sure what made me more angry and frustrated: Obama’s tour de force of socialism or the Republican response. Republicans are supposed to offer an alternative to the Democrats, right? We are the party of smaller government, lower taxes, equal opportunity, and freedom. I heard none of that. How are Republicans supposed to win back seats if America can’t tell the difference between the two?

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Beating a Dead Horse Wednesday, Feb 25 2009 

Comarade Obama and Neo-Marxists and Politics and Stupid People , , , , 1IDVET 17:41

I just love beating this horse. How’s that conversation workin’ out for you there moron? You should resign for stupidity.

More on the race issue:

Eric Holder’s Tragic Prison

By Ed Kaitz

Some years ago at a major university out west I was hired to teach minority students courses in expository writing. Most of my students were African-American. They were part of a “bridge program” at the university that allowed “provisional” students (those whose entrance scores were sub par) to demonstrate within a year that they could handle the academic regimen at the school.

I realized that most of the students had been accepted through an affirmative action policy, but I was committed to helping them make the grade. My strategy was simple: hitch their sense of self-respect and self-confidence to their performance in the class. In other words, help them to understand that self-esteem is a product of achievement.

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Thoughts on the Recession Wednesday, Feb 25 2009 

Comarade Obama and Economics and Politics , 1IDVET 17:38

And some thoughts on the recession from Victor Davis Hansen:

Perverse Thoughts about this Perverse Recession

I do not understand at all this going into debt for almost another trillion dollars, and then immediately promising to balance the budget soon (like blowing off your foot near an emergency room), or how “stimulate” differs from “borrow”, or why the more noble victim is the one who sought to borrow too much for too much house and then defaulted, rather than he who chose to borrow less for less house and paid his mortgage on time each month and now subsidizes the less responsible. (The former apparently will still have the larger house, the latter the smaller.)

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Da Speech of Teh One Wednesday, Feb 25 2009 

Politics , , , , , 1IDVET 17:35

The AP is actually checking facts? No way! Hmmm. Maybe they are. But checking facts of Teh One? No way! Go over there and read them all. It’s about time the MSM got off their ass. Will it last, or will they get back to sucking off Teh One?

FACT CHECK: Obama’s words on home aid ring hollow

OBAMA: “Regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market. People bought homes they knew they couldn’t afford from banks and lenders who pushed those bad loans anyway. And all the while, critical debates and difficult decisions were put off for some other time on some other day.”

THE FACTS: This may be so, but it isn’t only Republicans who pushed for deregulation of the financial industries. The Clinton administration championed an easing of banking regulations, including legislation that ended the barrier between regular banks and Wall Street banks. That led to a deregulation that kept regular banks under tight federal regulation but extended lax regulation of Wall Street banks. Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, later an economic adviser to candidate Obama, was in the forefront in pushing for this deregulation.

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President’s Auto Gaffe No Laughing Matter

In his address last night, president Obama implied that an American invented the automobile (”The nation that invented the automobile cannot turn away from it”). It doesn’t matter that the president was unaware this is false. Politicians can’t be expected to know everything

What matters is that neither he nor anyone in his inner circle apparently thought it was important to fact check his first major speech to the nation. What other parts of his speech and policy platform are based on mistaken assumptions, we might well wonder?

Alas, some very important ones. In his campaign fact sheet on “21st century threats”, then-candidate Obama declared that

When Sputnik was launched in 1957, President Eisenhower used the event as a call to arms for Americans to help secure our country and to increase the number of students studying math and science via the National Defense Education Act.

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The Truth about Medical Bankruptcies

During his speech to Congress last night, President Obama declared that health care costs “causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds.” His numbers are just a little bit off.

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