Because twice is nice, and the Messiah is spinning so rapidly that he’s about to phase out of the space-time continuum, and there’s so much of this crapola that it can’t be crammed into a single hour….

….he’s doing double-duty, as only he can.

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When I was a boy, I was a huge Star Trek fan.  Now that I’m a middle-aged man….I’m still a huge Star Trek fan.  But now I can afford real starships and real phaser rifles and a real holodeck and a real clone of Counselor Troi (thanks to George W. Bush’s tax cuts, natch).

But this post isn’t about now, it’s about then.  Actually, it isn’t about my Trekkerdom at all - that’s an analogy for what the post is about.  But you probably knew that.

One of my older cousins (they were ALL older, actually) knew I was a huge Trek mark and got me a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise for my birthday.  Not the Constellation-class NCC-1701-A; not the Excelsior-class NCC-1701-B; not the Ambassador-class NCC-1701-C; not the Galaxy-class NCC-1701-D; not the Sovereign-class NCC-1701-E; not even Jonathan Archer’s original NX-01.  I mean the original, the classic, the Constitution-class NCC-1701.  For a five-year old Trek nut the year after 2001: A Space Odyssey and the year Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind, that was the equivalent of sex.

I carried that model around with me everywhere.  And I do mean EVERYwhere, if you know what I mean.  It was my answer to Linus’ blanket.  I’d have gotten it welded onto my body if I could have.

There was only one other thing I wanted as much as I loved that Enterprise model:  a model of a Klingon K’tinga-class battlecruiser to go with it so I could stage the epic space battles that NBC didn’t have the budget or the special effects technology to depict forty years ago.  The problem was, this was in the days before Klingons were cool, even before Gene Roddenberry had the resources to create the forehead crest prosthetics that weren’t seen until Star Trek: The Motion Picture ten years later.  There were no Klingon starship models to be had.

I was heartbroken.  But I also had a robust imagination.  So I did what any other lower middle-class kid would have done in those circumstances: I used a fly swatter and pretended it was a K’tinga-class heavy instead.

FWIW, my IKS GhIlab Ghew outlasted Captain Kirk’s ship by years, won many battles, and brought great honor and glory to the Klingon Empire.  But it was still, underneath all that Kahlessness, a fly swatter.

And Barack Obama came up with his equivalent:

What the hell?  What is this?  He’s so impatient to be president that he makes up his own personal seal?  What is he, twelve?  Sheesh, when I was fifteen and refused my learners’ permit because I was too nearsighted and stupidly went joyriding in my dad’s 1968 Ford Galaxy without my too-weak glasses and got away with everything except the big scratch I put in the side chrome when I tried to back it into the driveway and cut the corner where my mother’s painted rock was, my mother told me that was the stupidest thing I’d ever done.  My father wanted to run me through with his d’k tahg, but Mom always kept the family bat’leth handy for just such emergencies.  This is one of BO’s PR equivalents.  One of many.

I mean, look at it.  It’s the size of a monster truck hubcap.  Make a saucer out of it and he could take his kids sledding, or pirate DirecTV.  And what’s with the Dukakis pose at that podium - is he standing in a hole?

And did this little exercise in premature ego gratification run afoul of the law?  The Weekly Standard considers the possibility:

18 USC Sec. 713 …
(a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

(b) Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Was it the long arm of justice or the avalanche of ridicule (His Latin version of “From many, one”: “Truly, we are able” - aka “Yes we can!”) that would get him first?  We’ll never know, because Team Hussein has already pulled it:

Succumbing to an avalanche of criticism, Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has apparently decided to back away from its trial balloon of a new presidential seal.

Newsmax’s lead story Monday morning reported on Obama’s new version of the presidential seal, but a campaign spokesman now says it won’t be used again.

“That was a one-time thing for a one-time event,” Robert Gibbs asserted to CNN about the rather intricately designed seal that made its debut last Friday.

Yeah; kind of like a quadrapelegic going streaking, or meeting your girlfriend’s parents and asking her mother if she’s up for a threesome.  And the best part of all?  It’s another Obama flip-flop!  Man, he doesn’t even stand by his own mountainous conceit, even if it does keep humping his leg.

I think I’ll design my own seal.  It’ll look like a dinner plate with a pudgy, dozing eagle holding a TV remote in one foot and a teriyaki New York steak in the other, and the paunch covered by a shield featuring this handsome fellow….

….and the tlhIngan Hol motto, “DaHjaj ghaH QaQ jaj Daq Sop” (”Today is a good day to eat!”).

It’ll blow away Possumus Playa’s pathetic plate….

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Further insight into the pacifist sewer that is Barack Hussein Obama’s “strategic thinking”:

Barack Obama says if Osama bin Laden were captured on his watch, he’d want to ensure he doesn’t become a martyr if he were prosecuted. Obama said he’s not sure that the terrorist mastermind would be captured alive.

But if he were, Obama said he would want to bring him to justice “in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he’s engaged in and not to make him into a martyr.”

Uh, don’t you have to be killed in order to become a “martyr”?  If you’re captured alive, that doesn’t fit within that definition, right?

And why would it require a “way of bringing him to justice” for “the entire world” to understand his murderous acts?  Didn’t “the entire world” spend the morning of September 11, 2001 sitting in either shock or racous celebration (you know in which part of the world) before their televisions as passenger jets flew into both towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and, but for the heroism of four passengers on the fourth one, the White House or the U.S. Capitol?  And how much of a “martyr” would bin Laden really be if he got captured after the meat-grinder through which al Qaeda has been fed by the U.S. military over the past six years at the Bush Administration’s direction?

No, Senator, the danger isn’t that he’d become a martyr, even by your misdefinition; it’s that he’d become a hero, as his trial would take place in a U.S. civilian court, with bin Laden accorded full constitutional rights, including the right of discovery into every intelligence secret on al Qaeda the U.S. government has, and the ability to turn his trial into an O.J. Simpson-like media circus and ultimate mockery of justice.  That IS what the U.S. Supreme Court decreed last week.  Which makes it far more likely that he would be killed on the battlefield - martyred in actuality, and in the anonymity he doubtless fears - an anonymity to which you would doubtless contribute as you wouldn’t want to be known as the man who “murdered” George W. Bush’s “public enemy #1″ without due process and all that rotgut.

Given that Senator Obama did, almost by rote, praise that oligarchical atrocity, it’s all the more emblematic of his candidacy that he exposed his off-the-cuff ignorance yet again in butchering his “don’t make bin Laden a martyr” metaphor:

Obama, a former senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, cited “that principle of habeas corpus, that a state can’t just hold you for any reason without charging you and without giving you any kind of due process — that’s the essence of who we are. I mean, you remember during the Nuremberg trials, part of what made us different was even after these Nazis had performed atrocities that no one had ever seen before, we still gave them a day in court and that taught the entire world about who we are but also the basic principles of rule of law. Now the Supreme Court upheld that principle yesterday.”

(Though Obama was clearly referring to the principle of giving criminals a day in court, it’s worth pointing out the distinction here, that the Nuremberg trials did not give Nazi war criminals access to U.S. courts, but to a special international military tribunal created by the U.S., USSR, France and the U.K. Though Nuremberg currently is considered a model for international law, it’s not as if Rudolph Hess had access to challenge his detention in U.S. federal court.)

Ensign Ed piles on with further clarification:

It’s not as if the military tribunals offered by Congress and the Bush Administration fell below Nuremberg standards, either. They allowed for even more rights for the defendants than Nuremberg, or would have if the Supreme Court hadn’t twice stopped them before determining whether they worked. In fact, the tribunals as conceived in the last iteration closely match what American soldiers receive for their own trials under the UCMJ.

And just imagine: under traditional international law and rules of war, it is entirely within a country’s rights and privileges to summarily execute, without trial OR due process, captured un-uniformed, illegal enemy combatants.  The Bushies bent over backwards for the terrorists even before they came under relentless pro-jihadi harassment by congressional Democrats and their counterparts on Olympus, who have now added the powers of commander-in-chief of the armed forces to their trophy case.  And now Barack Hussein Obama is either blantantly lying about de facto American citizenship for al Qaedastanis being analogous to the Nuremberg war crime tribunal, or he really is too chowder-headed to understand the difference.

Or, to put it in Ace-ian terms:

Apparently Obama is to be praised for doing the simplest and easiest things, like he’s a [bleep]ing retard who needs to be unduly complimented for making it through a tapioca break without [bleep]ing himself too much.

Maybe the MSM knows something about Barack Obama’s cognitive powers we don’t. Maybe he should be lavishly praised for a [bleep]-free tapioca.

And this man is going to be the next president of the United States?

UPDATE: Here’s how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed expressed his appreciation to Justices Kennedy, Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg, and Breyer:

“I cannot accept any attorney who is not governed by sharia [Islamic] law. I will represent myself. I will not be represented by anybody even if he is a Muslim, because he will be sworn to your American Constitution. I consider all the U.S. Constitution and laws evil. They are allowing for same-sexual marriages and many things that are very bad … Do you understand what I said?”

You can see where this is headed, cantcha?

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A tripartite follow-up on Barack’s ballsy, bellowing bellicosity….

First, from Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Barry’s “nebulous” commitment to stage an Iraq “publicity stunt”:

Mr. Zebari, who has served as foreign minister in every Iraqi government since 2003, finds Mr. Obama’s proposal worrying. In a meeting with Post editors and reporters Tuesday, he said that after all the pain and sacrifices of the past five years, “we are just turning the corner in Iraq.” A precipitous withdrawal, he said, “would create a huge vacuum and undo all the gains and achievements. And the others” — enemies of the United States — “would celebrate.”

Mr. Zebari said he told Mr. Obama that “Iraq is not an island.” In other words, an American withdrawal that destabilized the country would also roil the region around it and embolden U.S. adversaries such as al-Qaeda and Iran. “We have a deadly enemy,” Mr. Zebari said. “When he sees that you commit yourself to a certain timetable, he will use this to increase pressure and attacks, to make it look as though he is forcing you out. We have many actors who would love to take advantage of that opportunity.” Mr. Zebari says he believes U.S. forces can and should be drawn down. His point is that reductions should be made gradually, as the Iraqi army becomes stronger.

Sounds like BO was doing more listening than talking, doesn’t it?  And that Minister Zebari was telling him what he didn’t want to hear.

So, in keeping with False Messiah’s neurotic conflict aversion, he evidently told the Iraqi poobah what he thought the man wanted to hear - nebulously, of course:

The foreign minister said “my message” to Mr. Obama “was very clear. . . . Really, we are making progress. I hope any actions you will take will not endanger this progress.” He said he was reassured by the candidate’s response, which caused him to think that Mr. Obama might not differ all that much from Mr. McCain. Mr. Zebari said that in addition to promising a visit, Mr. Obama said that “if there would be a Democratic administration, it will not take any irresponsible, reckless, sudden decisions or action to endanger your gains, your achievements, your stability or security. Whatever decision he will reach will be made through close consultation with the Iraqi government and U.S. military commanders in the field.”

This is, of course, diametrically the opposite of what he has said pretty much forever on this subject, while still leaving enough wiggle room (It depends on what the definition of the words “irresponsible,” “reckless,” and “sudden” are….) to pursue an immediate retreat as quickly after noon next January 20th as humanly possible.  Besides, who’ll ever know what Lucifer promised a nameless, faceless Iraqi official who’ll be among the first executed by the Iranian/al Qaeda terror regime that conquers Iraq after we leave?

Next, behind Door #2, we have this nicely done RNC reminder of St. Barack’s anti-terrorism instincts from a Donk primary debate last summer:

Q: Senator Obama, if, God forbid a thousand times, while we were gathered here tonight we learned that two American cities had been hit simultaneously by terrorists, and we further learned beyond the shadow of a doubt that it had been the work of al-Qaeda, how would you change the US military stance overseas as a result?

A: Well, the first thing we’d have to do is make sure that we’ve got an effective emergency response, something that this administration failed to do when we had a hurricane in New Orleans. And I think that we have to review how we operate in the event of not only a natural disaster, but also a terrorist attack.

The second thing is to make sure that we’ve got good intelligence, a., to find out that we don’t have other threats and attacks potentially out there, and b., to find out, do we have any intelligence on who might have carried it out so that we can take potentially some action to dismantle that network. But what we can’t do is then alienate the world community based on faulty intelligence, based on bluster and bombast. Instead, the next thing we would have to do, in addition to talking to the American people, is making sure that we are talking to the international community.

Because as already been stated, we’re not going to defeat terrorists on our own. We’ve got to strengthen our intelligence relationships with them, and they’ve got to feel a stake in our security by recognizing that we have mutual security interests at stake.

That the perps of this hypothetical attack were al Qaeda was explicitly stated in the question.  But apart from it is where His Eminence’s emphasis falls: maybe he’d take some potential action if he’s ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY SURE that it’s al Qaeda, but only if he gets undisputed permission from the “international community,” because “we can’t defeat terrorists on our own.”  After the way he’ll gut what’s left of the military after Bill Clinton disembowled it, that’ll probably be correct.

Senator Obama forgets that, for the time being, no other member of “the international community” has anywhere near the multi-faceted military capabilities we do.  So if we “can’t defeat the terrorists on our own,” the “international community” won’t be any help, even if they were inclined to view the war on terror as anything but the “law enforcement operation” that Ba-ROCK sees it as.  Which they’re not.

And leave us not forget that in the intelligence game, there’s no such thing as having all the facts.  There aren’t any sure things.  There are only educated guesses.  No president EVER has complete knowledge of a crisis situation, and he can’t afford to sit on his thumb and wait indefinitely in the forlorn hope that he will, or countless more Americans and allies will die.

Do you even want to contemplate this man facing an Iranian nuclear ultimatum?

Which brings us to Door #3:

Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

I swear I’m not making that up.  Or, at the very least, if somebody is, it’s way up the cyberstream from me.

But there’s more:

Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”

This man is actually saying that the national security policy of the most powerful nation on the planet should be patterned after the whimsical antics of a miniature, taxidermized, exhibitionist, bulemic ursine mammal named after excrement.  And he’s going to be the next National Security Advisor of the United States.

But leave aside the puerile, mentally unbalanced metaphorical imagery, and focus in on the guiding principle underlying it: “If it” - our national security strategy - “is causing you too much pain, try something else.”  This, by implication, is a reference to the insurgency we’ve been fighting for the past five years in Iraq.  Or, rather, the fact that we’ve been fighting it instead of just running away, abandoning the Iraqis to get slaughtered (again), providing our enemies with a huge strategic victory, and encouraging them to further escalate their already existing war against us.  The last time the Pooh Doctrine guided our national security decisions, the result was an escalating series of al Qaeda and Hezbollah attacks culminating in “Holy Tuesday” six years, nine months, and seven days ago.  It seems to me that losing three thousand American civilians in the space of forty-five minutes was all kinds of “too much pain,” and fleeing the Islamic Fundies now would cause us a grievously huger load of it.

One can, of course, more succinctly and candidly rephrase Danzig’s slogan: Take the easy way out.  Cut & run.  Wave a worthless piece of paper around, crow that “it is peace in our time,” and watch the world - or at least Israel, Europe, and our own homeland - go up in atomic flames, one city at a time.

These are the people on whose judgment the lives of you and your loved ones will depend for at least the four years beginning next January 20th, gentlebeings.  My only questions are two:

1) Now are we expected to trot off into bovine obedience by Barry’s manly swagger or just moo?

2) You don’t really think you’re going to get any sleep tonight, do ya?

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Only liberals, who believe in nanny state for life, would make an ad saying that “even when my child is 18 I will not allow them to make their own choices.”To the “mother”: You are dumb, if elected your child will only be 9-10 when McCain leaves office! Either you are making a BS point or you honestly believe there are pre-teens in the US Armed Forces. Either way…DUMB.

In conclusion, this is the type of garbage that made me start CIR. People trying to bash the military and its leaders. And look at where it is coming from… THE LEFT! It used to be Uncle Sam saying “I want You.” And the country responding with “yes.” Now the left has their MOTHERS speaking for them telling Uncle Sam to “F OFF.”

Readers of this space (and God bless you, each and every one) know by now - really, should have known long, long ago - that I have believed with unshakeable conviction ever since Bill Clinton rode off into the sunset seven years, four months, and twelve days ago that his wife, the Wicked Witch of the West Wing, the Queen of Mean, the Empress, the Woman With The Upside-Down Legs, and the biggest beer-swiller this side of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would be the next president of the United States.

The reasons were legion: she wanted it, everybody in the Democrat Party KNEW she wanted it, everybody in the Democrat Party knew WHY she wanted it, everybody in the Democrat Party knew HOW MUCH she wanted it, and since the Democrat Party still belonged to La Clinton Nostra lock, stock, and French tickler, everybody knew to not get in her way.

Except, as it turned out, Barack Hussein Obama.  But he was such a rube, despite his charisma, personal magnetism, and rich mahogany goodness, that the Clinton Machine would chew him up in no time and stick the remains in the veep slot where he belonged so as to make Mrs. Clinton the double-maker of “history” in ensuring that no white European male would occupy the post of Leader of the Free World for the next decade and a half.

Her coronational processional was the conventional wisdom up until the Donk primary season began, and BO didn’t get out of her way, but actually took a small delegate lead and held it ever since.  This has not shaken my belief that Hillary would, nevertheless, capture the nomination and go back to the White House.  I lived through the ’90s; I watched La Clinton Nostra in action; how they never made a mistake; how they were always several steps ahead; how they survived swarms of scandals any one of which would have been enough to torpedo any of their predecessors; and how they effortlessly ran rings around their clumsy, hapless GOP opponents at Election time and all the calendar pages in-between.

The Clintons do….not….lose.  EVER.  PERIOD.

Or, to quote the recently retired “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, “To be the man, you gotta beat the man.”  Nobody has beaten the Clinton Machine in twenty-eight years.  You just don’t bet against that level of unbroken success.  By hook or by crook (by both, really), no matter what the pledged delegate count was, no matter what “It’s over!” rumors were floating around, enough superdelegates would be “reminded” of where their “best interests” lay that the junior senator from New York would get what she wanted.  I had seen nothing yet to persuade me otherwise.

Until now:

After hours of emotional testimony and sometimes contentious debate, Democratic Party officials agreed yesterday on a pair of compromises to seat Florida’s and Michigan’s delegations to their national convention. But a part of the deal drew an angry reaction and the threat of a subsequent challenge from the campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The compromises by the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee called for both delegations, originally barred from the convention for violating party rules, to be seated in full in Denver but with each delegate casting only half a vote.

The actions by the committee were aimed at bringing the long and sometimes-bitter Democratic nomination battle between Senator Barack Obama (IL) and Clinton (NY) to a close and to ensure party unity as the Democrats head into the general election. But the decisions prompted bitter and sometimes-tearful reactions from some members of the audience, who repeatedly shouted over the committee members as they voted….

One of the things I have maintained is that Hillary’s Clintonoid clout would ensure that the full Michigan and Florida delegations would be seated with full voting power.  Sure, those two swing states violated the DNC’s primary scheduling rules, and Mrs. Clinton left her name on the ballot in Michigan after the other candidates withdrew theirs, but that wouldn’t matter, because she wouldn’t even have to remind Donk poobahs whose party it still was.  The notion of shutting out both, or even a half-assed “compromise,” simply was not going to happen.

Imagine my astonishment.  I don’t know whether to call this ingratitude, or an uprising, or a coup, but the DNC has done the unthinkable: they’ve crossed the Boss.

And even given La Clinton Nostra a taste of its own thieving medicine:

But it was the Michigan plan, approved by a 19-8 vote, that drew sharper opposition because of the way that state’s delegates will be awarded. Under the plan, Clinton will be given 34.5 delegate votes in Denver to Obama’s 29.5 delegate votes, a percentage distribution recommended by leaders of the Michigan Democratic Party but opposed by the Clinton campaign officials, who said it violates the results of Michigan’s January 15 primary.

“This motion will hijack - hijack - remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton,” said Harold Ickes, who oversees delegate operations for the Clinton campaign and is also a member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee. “This body of thirty individuals has decided that they’re going to substitute their judgment for 600,000 voters.”

Arguing that the Michigan compromise “is not a good way to start down the path of party unity,” Ickes warned that Clinton had authorized him to note that she will “reserve her rights to take it to the credentials committee” later. Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson later affirmed that Clinton will reserve her right to challenge the outcome.

Hillary Clinton, in plain, non-Vulcan English - and in her entitlement-addled mind - is getting screwed.  “For the good of the party,” of course.  I suppose I should be laughing until I puke, and if my party had actually nominated, you know, a Republican instead of Benedict McCain, I probably would be.

I’m not sure what this means for the rest of the campaign.  The Dem establishment has now officially closed ranks behind False Messiah.  Without the full seating of Michigan and Florida, Mrs. Clinton probably can’t get the nomination, even as her superior-electability arguments gain more and more  and more heft.  However, on the other hand, this compromise raises the nomination-clinching threshold by ninety-two delegates, placing it out of Obama’s reach in the last three nominating contests (Puerto Rico, Montana, and South Dakota), and making him dependent on tipping enough superdupers his way to get over the top.

Yes, he’ll be closer than she is.  This DNC compromise is probably indicative of the difficulty she’ll have in turning the superduper tide.  But if hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, God only knows the wrath that a jilted Hillary Clinton - and her First Gigolo wannabe husband - can wreak on the party that rejected her and its gaffe-a-minute naif of a candidate.  Double-H sums it up succinctly:

What will fascinate is his and Hillary’s conduct between now and November.  Will he and she undermine the already troubled Obama candidacy, having concluded that four years of McCain and a return to the White House in 2013 is to be preferred to eclipse at the hands of a rookie and his band of radical friends and backers?

That, gentlebeings, is the grand bull moose gold medal winner of rhetorical questions.

I have also been rigidly skeptical of all this “Obamanationals will defect to McCain if Hillary wins” and vice versa nonsense.  There’s simply no way, with total power within their grasp, that Democrats would take ANY chance on losing a third straight presidential election, no matter how self-destructive the GOP has become.

I still think that in the event of a Hillary victory.  But if Obama goes over?  In THESE circumstances?  With the party that cannot forget Florida 2K turning those very same imagined tactics on La Clinton Nostra for real, with a sprinkling of Dred Scott-ism (Michiganders and Floridians as half-delegates) for good measure?  I think you have to figure all THOSE bets are off.

The third article of certitude I have stood by throughout this campaign to date is that John Sith McCain has a better chance of making the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team than he does capturing the presidency.  In a cycle as anti-GOP as this one, with Level-5 force hurricane winds at the Democrats’ backs, and THE notorious RINO usurper as the incumbent party’s standardbearer, the question isn’t whether Darth Queeg is going to lose, but whether he can beat Goldwater and McGovern for biggest margin of defeat.

But with La Clinton Nostra on his side to do the heavy-lifting dirty work Senator “Comity” won’t touch?  Heck, who knows?

All I do know is when I attached the slogan “Don’t let it happen again” to my “Blogs Against Hillary” banner, this isn’t quite what I had in mind.

But either way, one immutable constant remains: no matter how you rearrange the deckchairs, the Titanic is still going to the bottom.

And we conservatives are riding third class.

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OBAMA’S PAL BILL AYERS WIPES HIS SHOES ON OUR FLAG. And he did it while hangin’ with “LeBron, baby”.

The blog swarm began with Marathon Pundit’s post last night. Picked up by Michelle Malkin, it has gone viral. We’re kicking it up a notch with this post. TWD said he’d been waiting for a shoe to drop on Obama this weekend, causing Barack Hussein to stumble in the Indiana and N.C. primaries tomorrow. ThirdWaveDave had no idea how prophetic his instincts were. The shoe dropped, alright. Right on Old Glory.

The political bloggers are ALL OVER IT. Now let’s see how long it takes the mainstream media and the radio talkers to bring it forward to the rest of America. Barack’s buddy — still crapping on America.

It’ll be the topic of discussion on my show tonight. Douglas V. Gibbs joins me for the full hour before hosting his show immediately following (see post below). Doors open at 9p ET. “A Conversation with Andrea… on Blog Talk Radio”

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Barack Obama has finally repudiated Wright’s racialized theology. Now can Obama win in November?

Joining us tonight — Robert Stacy McCain, contributing reporter to The American Spectator magazine, who says Barack Obama’s “hope for change” campaign could’ve been salvaged for the Democrats, but now finds his Rev. Wright crisis reminiscent of George McGovern’s fatal 1972 campaign.

Read more at The Radio Patriot!

“…while those who call me unpatriotic have used their positions of privilege to avoid military service while sending [standing applause] while sending over 4,000 American boys and girls of every race to die [dramatic pause] over a lie.”

“Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn’t make me this color.”

During this speech and questions and answers period he managed to not answer almost all questions on the basis that the person asking had not heard the entire sermon.

Then on the War note, “he lied they died” comes to the rescue.

So Farrakhan didn’t “put him in chains” or make him a slave I would like to know WHO did!?!? When was HE in chains? And on the color part he seems to be complaining about the color of his skin…I would have to say he has to go take that one up with GOD not the white man.

TONIGHT on my radio program, we’ll talk with Richard S. Lowry, military historian and author of The Gulf War Chronicles and Marines in the Garden of Eden about today’s testimony by Gen. Dave Petraeus and Ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker before the Senate Armed Forces and Foreign Relations committees.

Also on board: Jim Antle of The American Spectator with analysis of former Congressman Bob Barr, Republican turned Libertarian, who is contemplating a third party run for the presidency.

Join us at 9p EDT on Blog Talk Radio — hit the link. We’ll be there.

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Thanks to Dave over at the AOL Political Machine. And to the folks at MyDD who posted this video. Folks on the Left, be they Obama or Clinton supporters, should know that like so many elections - the 2008 presidential sweepstakes will be about national security. Our country is still at war.

As long as the brave men and women of the US Armed Forces are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan - our nation will remain on a war footing.

And for those of us who choose to face the harsh reality of the world we live in, rather than play ostrich with our national security… this video will serve as a clarion call to the Voting Booth.

—Media Lizzy

I have a little post-script that bothers me… Pastor Wright refers to “Shanklin” instead of “Shanksville” - maybe he doesn’t remember, maybe he “misspoke” - but rest assured, the families of folks on United 93 know - along with millions of their fellow Americans.

Cross-posted @ Media Lizzy & Friends