Chuckles from Hope-n-Change!

-click on any to enlarge-

Beware narcissists... they do think alike...

-thanks again to Stilton Jarlsberg at Hope-n-Change-

______________________________

Mark Levin: Screw the Olympics- What about the War?

As usual, The Great One Mark Levin gets right-to-the-point: President Obama needs to get his freaking priorities straight, and now.

Fourty-three Americans have lost their lives in the Afghan field of operation since commanders asked Obama for more troops last month. And there's still no decision... as he wings-off to Copenhagen to try and pay-back the racketeering scum of the Chicago Machine with a massive Olympic windfall to skim-off of.

President Sarkozy tried to tell him at the UN that he needs to make some decisions re. winning the Afghan war- warning that we don't live in a "virtual world". But Sarkozy has also been heard to say that he finds Obama not only incredibly niave... but he's also such an arrogant fool you can't tell him anything... thus the French President's incredible frustration in trying to deal with him.

Here you'll hear Levin give it to the Boy Wonder with both barrels blazing- eg.:

"He's wondering what to do... Well, the right thing to do is to destroy these barbarians..."

Give 'em hell, Mark:



►h/t Government Mess

________________________

Levin's #1 Bestseller is Liberty and Tyranny-
available at Amazon.com:

_______________________

Wall Street Execs "Betrayed" by Obama

Welcome to the club, boys- right-along with all the other people the Dear Leader used to get into power. And don't be surprised if you're treated like yesterday's garbage now that you're no longer needed by this pompous, self-serving swindler... that's just standard operating procedure in this WH.

As reported in the NY Post, Wall St execs believed what Obama told them when he said he'd be a moderate in office... which was obviously a blatant lie, now that his reckless spending and political brinkmanship have already brought the country to the edge of the abyss. Rather than enjoying the benefits of an economic recovery under sensible WH guidance, dismayed execs are now wondering just how radical this guy is... how much damage he can do, and how far he's willing to go with his rabble-rousing class-warfare rhetoric and agenda.

But they shouldn't feel too bad... according to neoneocon, bewildered financial advisers in Obama's own administration such as Giethner and Summers -even Volcker- have complained in private that they are rarely consulted by the hubristic, deluded Obama on any policy- basically the same treatment that Hillary and Gen. McChrystal have been getting from him. So where is Obama getting his advice in an area which he knows so little about? neoneocon tells us -here-... and it's not reassuring.

That's how it works with a disloyal narcissist like Barack Obama; those who can no longer bring him incremental power and control are of no interest to him whatsoever. Just ask former close Obama friends, allies, and/or sponsors Wright, Rezko, and Blagojevich- or anyone else who became a burden to Barack... and therefore are now treated like lepers whom he's never even met.

Barack takes care of Barack... first and foremost. The radical, Alinskyite/Marxist agenda is second... and the Democratic Party third.

All the rest of you who supported Obama as a post-partisan, post-racial, and/or a moderate have been lied-to, tricked, and used.

Realize that, and pray for the country that you handed to this megalomaniac... a gargantuan mistake for which we'll all pay dearly.

►h/t Memeorandum

_________________________

More Independents Leaning GOP; Party Gap Smallest Since 2005

According to pollsters at Gallup, 48% of Americans identified politically as Democrats... or said they were independent but leaned to the Democratic Party.

At the same time, 42% identified as Republicans or as independents who leaned Republican. That six-point spread in leaned party affiliation is the smallest Gallup has measured since 2005.

The last time Republicans were this close to Democrats in terms of total party support was back in early-mid 2005... when George W. Bush was just in the early months of his second term as president... Read more -here-

►h/t Memeorandum

________________________________

Palin's "Going Rogue" Already #1

Sarah Palin's anxiously-awaited Going Rogue -not slated for release until November 17th- has surprised many observers by already going to #1 at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.

A Palin source told POLITICO that she "is very grateful" for the strong early sales.

"This book has taken off like a rocket," the source said.

This alarming development should have the long knives of the Left coming-out in a panic-stricken haste- but as Dan at Riehl World View notes, even the right-leaning, Alexander Hamilton-founded New York Post did a harsh, factually-nonsensical Page-Six hit piece on Palin this week. So you have to wonder: who on the Right would want to do a thing like that? (you get one guess...) Read-up on that -here-

And while the Post's purporting that their "industry expert" source feels "blithering idiot" Palin has little hope on the lecture-circuit, they somehow overlook the fact that Palin is already receiving hundreds of speaking offers, as noted by Jammie-Wearing Fool -here-

They also fail to touch-on just how this simpleton could have accomplished so much in life... especially when compared to the smiley styrofoam dink the press is propping-up in the WH now.

Back in reality, Alaska was a pretty corrupt system until Palin stepped in. Her reforms took on entrenched politicians (inc. Republicans), a mafioso-style union boss, and Big Oil.

Wouldn’t it have been nice if Obama had been principled and brave enough to confront the corrupt Chicago Democratic Machine? Instead of always taking the easy, opportunistic way with shady political operators like Tony Rezko? Racist preachers and domestic terrorists? Doing business with every last one of them?

As Team Obama is well-aware, the American people could end up voting for the Gipper-in-Heels in droves in 2012- as they’ll surely being looking for an antidote to the Bolshevik con-artist who's currently taking a wrecking-ball to this society. Small wonder then that the far-left moonbats of the MSM and blogosphere -in concert with David Plouffe's Organizing-for-America internet squad- are out to destroy her.

The fact that Sarah Palin's been highly-successful in life -while ignoring the liberal feminist model- is a intolerable humiliation to the Left... this helps to explain the extra dose of venom in these relentless and shameful character-assasination attempts.

Go get em ‘Cuda- you're one tough lady, and there's a lot of us who have the utmost respect for you and your common-sense conservatism.

(h/t Texas 4 Palin).

We sure are looking-forward to hearing what you have to say, Ma'am...

►h/t Memeorandum

________________________________

Be sure to reserve your copy of

Sarah Palin's Going Rogue at Amazon today...

________________________________

1-800-ObamaCare

Here's We The Problem's latest- these guys are funny, same ones who did the Obama-Drama animated rap video:

_______________________________

Kentucky Census Worker WAS NOT Found Hanging

After the dissappointing lack of politically-useful violence at the TEA parties and townhall meetings, Team Obama must have thought they hit the Alinskyite Lotto when census worker Bill Sparkman was reported by the Associated Press to have been found hanging dead from a tree near a creepy, backwoods Kentucky graveyard... and with "Fed" scrawled on his chest, no less.

Not only did this report seem a little too useful to the WH narrative of embittered reactionaries behind every tree, but the administration's poodles at the AP were sure to tie-in the Oklahoma City bombings too, just so we all "get it"- obviously the work of lethal, right-wing domestic terrorists. You know, the same fringe characters trying to stop Obama from delivering the rest of us to his statist paradise.

And while most-all reports of the event quote from the AP wire -even the local Lexington paper couldn't be bothered to get off their keister- a few of the key details obtained from the AP's dubious "anonymous source" haven't exactly aged well... so maybe it's time for some independent corroboration of some of this...?

That's why Stacy from The Other McCain -who has some background in gumshoe journalism- decided to head for the hills and get to the bottom of just what did -and didn't- happen in Clay County, Kentucky last week.

And as the irrepressible McCain is turning-over some rocks and getting-to-know the locals, the AP's specious, Obama-pumping version of events is crumbling before our eyes. Just some little things, you know... like oh, he wasn't found hanging... stuff like that. Perhaps next we'll hear that Sparkman is feeling better now, LOL.

Stacy is still down there poking-around today, so keep track of the developments in Kentucky -here- at

The Other McCain.

And Dan at Riehl World View sees these contradictions as pitting of the Kentucky State Police against the frantically-spinning leftists -here-

____________________________

►The Other McCain: MURDER IN EAST KENTUCKY UPDATE: 'Neither confirm nor deny'

Did ACORN Elect Al Franken?

At least one Minnesota newspaper has raised the possibility... and actually, it's hard to imagine how they wouldn't have been deployed to help the Dear Leader get his supermajority- isn't it?

The Twin-Cities' Katherine Kersten writes in today's Star-Tribune:

ACORN was once the darling of Democrats for its support of every item on the left-wing wish list. Suddenly, its employees can hardly find a Democrat who will answer their phone calls. When the U.S. Senate voted on Sept. 14 to cut off federal housing dollars for ACORN, the tally was a lopsided 83-7.

ACORN's foibles may seem largely irrelevant here in Minnesota, where the organization has so far been able to keep its nose relatively clean.

But ACORN does have a special place in its heart for at least one prominent Minnesota politician. Last year, it showered praise on Al Franken, endorsing his run for the U.S. Senate. Franken returned the esteem: "I'm thrilled and honored to receive this endorsement," he gushed in a press release. He added that he was "more motivated than ever to work with ACORN."...

It's worth recalling, however, that ACORN is best-known for its massive voter-registration campaigns, which focus relentlessly on getting Democrats elected in targeted states. Here its record is appalling -- and goes to the heart of our democratic electoral system...

ACORN's practices can make fraud difficult to detect. For example, "at election offices around the country, ACORN workers are famous for waiting until registration deadline to dump thousands of new documents on overworked clerks -- making it harder for them to fully vet the registration forms,"....

Here in Minnesota, ACORN has boasted of playing a major role in the 2008 elections. It claims to have registered 43,000 new voters, which it describes as 75 percent of the state's new registrations. Franken's margin of victory in the Senate race was razor-thin: 312 votes out of about 3 million cast. And Minnesota's laws on proof of voter eligibility are notoriously loose.

Did ACORN folks pull some fast ones to help get their favorite son Franken elected -- a win that handed Democrats the 60-vote, veto-proof majority that they needed to enact their liberal agenda?

Read more -here-

________________________

Other voices:

Dan at Riehl World View: "...turns out Franken is an actual nut, just as was thought"... then suggests that an investigation may be in order to uphold the integrity of the process... -here-

And this one has got to take-the-cake: Moonbattery tells us how ACORN's founder sounded absolutely forlorn as he described the foiling of a plot to kill Republicans at their 2008 convention- nice, eh?

Read about this piece-of-work -here-

Saudis Green-Light IAF Attack on Iran

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has OK'd use of it's airspace to launch go-it-alone air strikes on Iranian nuclear installations by the Israeli Air Force, according to London's Daily Express.

The issue has reportedly been discussed in a closed-door meeting in London, where British Intelligence Chief Sir John Scarlett his Israeli counterpart, Mossad chief Meir Dagan, have been negotiating with unnamed Saudi officials.

According to the report Scarlett has been told that Saudi airspace would be at Israel's disposal should Tel Aviv decide to move forward with his military plans against Iran.

The British daily added the likelihood of an Israeli attack against Iran has increased significantly after the country announced plans to launch its second enrichment facility in the central city of Qom.

What is obvious is that the Israelis are the target of an Iranian extermination plan, and cannot afford the luxury of a Pollyana, cafe-debate world view like the Barack seems to think is so stylish. Israel can go-it-alone if she has to, anyway... the IDF probably has the military capacity already to not only bomb Iran, but also then win the wider Middle East war that is likely to result.

And unlike vs. Hezbollah in 2006, the Israelis would fight this one to win, and win big... vs. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and the rump Hamas... going all-out with infantry and armor from day one.

So Team Obama would be well-advised to keep an eye on the horizon anytime they're visiting their recalcitrant new pals in Tehran... for a wing of IAF fighter-bombers coming-in at Mach 2. The Israelis did us all a huge favor in 1983, taking out Saddam's reactor in the face of world condemnation... and they'll just take care of business again.

Israel is of-course used to such lack of strategic and moral clarity coming-from it's critics... so why wait until Tehran's already-purchased Russian air-defense systems are delivered? The Iranians have already had every chance in the world to come-clean... instead, they've lied, taunted, and threatened Israel with nuclear apocalypse as they race towards jerry-rigging a nuke or two.

As for the Boy Wonder, polls show the Israeli populace has comprehensively turned against him, as he abandons yet another traditional US ally to it's fate. Israelis don't really care what this smiley plastic mannequin has to say anymore.- they'll just wait-out his (only) term while he turns the US into an irrelevant, impotent bystander... and stick to the business of aggressively protecting their country, lives, and families.

Sorry about him, Israel- most normal Americans still support you.

Read more in the Express -here-

►h/t MAinfo

___________________________

UPDATE: So it Goes in Shreveport posted an excellent column by the J-Post's Caroline Glick... re. Obama's serial treachery of US allies and compulsive appeasement of enemies...

-here-

Socialists Crushed in Germany

As Americans suffer through four years of a clueless "Progressive" administration, voters of Europe are running-away from the outdated statist model Obama emulates like somebody yelled "fire".

And although a typical European "conservative" is still more amiable to state intervention/welfare than their American counterparts, the rise of those like Sarkozy and Angela Merkel -who grew-up in Communist East Germany and knows the pitfalls of socialism first hand- shows a clear trend... socialists and big-government solutions throughout most of the continent are in decline.

Predictions of a close German election for the Bundestag were not to be, as the CDU's strong showing at the polls provided the votes needed to govern with Merkel's preferred partners this time, the pro-business Free Democrats- rather than with the leftist, anti-American SDP in a so-called grand coalition. This arrangement has kept her needed reforms hamstrung for four years... right-up until the SPD was trounced yesterday.

As noted at American Thinker:

Merkel can form a right of center government in Germany. The Christian Democrats remain the strongest party in the Bundestrat... This means that Merkel can now pursue those policies that she actually feels will help revitalize the private sector in Germany and that German foreign policy.

The percentage of the vote received by the Socialist SDP in this election was the lowest since the end of the Second World War... the socialist left of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party is wildly unpopular in the most important democracy in Europe.

Looks like the Merkel platform of lower taxes, nuclear energy, and market solutions to economic problems made sense to increasingly-pragmatic German voters... more -here-

____________________________

►American Thinker

►Deutsche Welle

William Safire has Passed On

As just reported by Reuters-

William Safire -the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist for the NYT, Nixon WH speechwriter, and entertaining linguist- died today in Maryland at age 79.

He was an author too, and got involved with Nixon/politics as a speechwriter after meeting him at the Nixon vs. Kruschev kitchen debates in Moscow- where Safire took the most famous photo of the 1960 event.

Read more -here-

& may this good man rest in peace-

__________________________

NY Times' William Safire archives -here-