TOBY PETZOLD

I’m watching yesterday’s Fox News Sunday program and Claire McCaskill’s defense of Obama’s reaction to the Russo-Georgian Olympics war is laughable. Did you watch that? She’s almost shockingly stupid (emphases mine):

WALLACE: Senator McCaskill, one of Obama’s top foreign policy advisers, Susan Rice, went after McCain this week, and let’s take a look at what she had to say. “John McCain shot from the hip a very aggressive, very belligerent statement. He may or may not have complicated the situation.”

Senator, how did McCain complicate the situation? Or was he just quicker than Obama to understand and recognize Russian aggression?

MCCASKILL: Oh, listen, there’s no question that Barack Obama understood this as Russian aggression and took a strong and principled stand against the actions of Russia, but this is not a time to make political points. What Barack Obama has said…

WALLACE: But I mean, excuse me. But I mean, it was Susan Rice who was making political points, Obama’s top foreign policy adviser.

MCCASKILL: I think John McCain’s reaction to what happened in Russia did not reflect well on the position he should have taken, and that is one of understanding we have one president in this country, and that Secretary of State Rice and President Bush need the support of both presidential candidates in a very tricky time as it relates to Russia and the neighboring states that are trying to establish democracies.

Here are two Obama surrogates —Susan Rice and McCaskill— who are utterly blind to their own man’s idiocy. Is it possible that Obama’s campaign believes that McCain has antagonized or goaded Russia into seizing more and more control of Georgia? That’s ridiculous. The only people John McCain has goaded is their crew. Or is it all somehow related to the Obamans’ claims that McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann is somehow manipulating events in Georgia, too? What nuttiness.

Far clumsier is McCaskill’s idea that Obama respects the prerogative that Bush and his Secretary of State must exercise in dealing with what is actually quite a shocking development, when you stop to think of it: Russia has attacked one of its former Soviet republics? Amazing development. But, in fact, it’s obvious that Obama regards himself as a world statesman already —a citizen of the world, one is tempted to add— who is in no need of deferring to a mere President of the United States on such minor issues as our withdrawal from Iraq or from NAFTA or on other foreign affairs.

McCaskill is a frivolous hack who expects her rewards in an Obama Administration, but who will get none and justly. The idea that this country would surrender itself to the absurdity of this Democratic phenomenon becomes smaller in my mind all the time. But I fear it could happen, even though it must not.

We need this Democratic Convention to be a huge disaster. Things need to go viral and haywire —shockingly stupid. Obama can get the stupid started tomorrow by picking someone other than Hillary. Please, please, let it be Joe Biden.

The only way Obama can win is if he picks Hillary. I don’t see how that can be disputed.

If he picks Joe Biden, which has been the buzz du jour, then he gets nothing in the Electoral College he wouldn’t have gotten anyway and, for his pains, he gets to constantly clarify the latest pile of Biden’s unburdenings.

Remember Bentsen and Hedges in ‘88? Well, how about Clean and Jerk in 2008?

Go ahead. Steal it. Cause that shit were funny.

Barack Hussein Obama is helpless in the face of his own ego. Which may explain why he has apparently authorized his campaign to release a 40-page point-by-point rebuttal of Jerome Corsi’s best-selling attack on him. I’ve read about half of it so far and the second-biggest mistake they make —after their foolish acknowledgement of Corsi’s work in such a fussy and conspicuous manner in the first place— is the ridiculous assertion that

AYERS AND DOHRN ARE MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT WITH TIES TO THE MAYOR

Ha, ha! Really? The “establishment”?! Obama really thinks he can defend his long-term associations with a pair of unrepentant terrorists from the 1960s by insulting them in such a way? Is there any clearer evidence that this unqualified liar has no ear —no real sense— for the moral center of our culture? He is a cultural interloper and an embarrassment of the anti-Americanism of the Democratic Party.

Listen carefully, Barry. Your friends and mentors are anti-American assholes —and you are their lord and savior. Your candidacy is almost hallucinatorily preposterous; a weird outburst of mass stupidity so severe that it mocks all reason. How did you get so far? By lying. By bullying the liberal losers who infest the Democratic Party into totally surrendering their asses to your perilous brand of racist and socialist nonsense in a new package.

Get thee behind me, deceiver.

It’s already boring, but just read the following passage from John Edwards’ confession yesterday:

I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby.

Sounds like someone’s paying hush money. Sounds like at least one other person is demanding it. Jesus. This thing isn’t even half-done, is it? 

The usual Leftist ninnies are just mewling about about John Edwards’ anti-climactic confession of adultery this afternoon, but I couldn’t care less about the Hyperambitious Phony’s love life; I’m frankly surprised he would take valuable time away from teasing his do to fornicate. The greatest scandal, after all, is not Silkiness’ human frailty, but the extreme and undeniable pro-Democratic bias of Big Media. I’m talking about the Tiffany Network and the Electric Peacocks and the Grey Lady and the Whore of Babylon (oh, alright —the Los Angeles Times). The major broadcast and cable news organizations and the major wire services that feed them put an unambiguous embargo on the mere discussion of a legitimate news story involving a man who was a Vice Presidential nominee in 2004. These craven manipulators of America’s public opinion took it upon themselves —in a massive group demonstration of antitrust— to purposely ignore what is now proven to be the truth about a major public figure. Had this major public figure been a Republican, there cannot be any question that the whole sordid thing would have been analyzed and hyped beyond all recognition. The New York Times made damned sure to wonder aloud on its front pages just a couple months ago about a flimsy non-story (i.e., a lie) involving John McCain and some female lobbyist, but then suddenly found journalistic integrity and declined to condescend to the level of the National Enquirer when it came to the Breck Girl? What monstrous hypocrisy. What discreditable conduct for the so-called Paper of Record.

Americans should be ashamed that we still permit a small handful of obvious Democratic partisans to control the greater part of the television and print media in this country. It is an indictment of our information-gathering habits —especially in these days of the World Wide Web— that the news isn’t news for most Americans until the man on the TV says so. The wretched Wolf Blitzer is on my TV right now, as a matter of fact, breathlessly unburdening himself about this nonsense when one knows that his network wouldn’t have just waited around for manna from heaven if this mess had been about Cheney or McCain; they would have sought it out like the craphounds they are. CNN wouldn’t have sat back wondering whether they should put their seal on this story —and thereby verify it in the public mind— but that’s what happened here, anyway, isn’t it? They waited until they couldn’t wait any longer. And for one reason: because John Edwards is a Democrat.

Big Media is a meretricious drag on the quality of our political discourse. It is a great joy to me every time I hear that Pinch Sulzberger’s stocks have fallen again or that the LA Times is laying off more and more staff or that nobody’s watching Madame Couric. Real, triumphant joy. I somehow believe —if only for a while— that it may yet be possible to really democratize our political knowledge as Americans and throw the sorry apologists out.

Have a look at this piece in the Investor’s Business Daily on Barack Hussein Obama’s associations with honest-to-God Communism:

A careful reading of Obama’s first memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” reveals that his childhood mentor up to the age of 18 — a man he refers to only as “Frank” — was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his “subversive,” “un-American activities.”

In a belated story on the relationship, the Associated Press describes Davis as “left-leaning.”

In fact, Davis was a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, according to the 1953 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii, which labeled him “a bitter opponent of capitalism.” The report was introduced as evidence in the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee hearings probing the “Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States.”

It may be unfashionable and even risible to dredge up the history of America’s fight against Communism, but it was a real thing that lasted for a long time. Truman fought it in Korea, Kennedy fought it in Cuba, and LBJ fought it in Viet Nam. Nixon and Reagan certainly made it part of their lives’ work to resist and destroy Communism. In fact, America spent most of the Twentieth Century confronting the Communist ideology here and abroad.

And why is that? Because it is an alien and inhuman sysem, opposed to human liberty. And where it could not succeed as an ideology of choice, it was forced upon many hundreds of millions of human beings —at the point of a gun and over the course of decades.

So let the liberals and the Leftists laugh at the charge that their choice for President is a man who was steeped in the gall of Communist and radical socialist doctrine from an early age. Let them laugh when it is finally asked, “Barack Hussein Obama, what did you learn from Frank Davis? How do you apply those lessons to your vision for America?”

These are entirely relevant questions. But you wouldn’t have to ask John McCain what he learned from the Communists.

Because you already know.

Isn’t it odd how banality can become sinister? Even Barack Hussein Obama’s mottos are verbal adumbrations of the hollowness of his creed.

It isn’t enough for me now to hear apologies from the idiots who perpetrated the nonsense of this man’s nomination; I want more. I want these people to admit that their judgement in choosing our leaders is contemptuous of this great civilization —which prospers despite them.

Here’s to death knells. Here’s to the triumph of common sense —and to the patriotism that doesn’t have to be asserted, but only lived.

The Speaker of the House announced today:

Americans know that thanks to the two oilmen in the White House, consumers are now paying $4 a gallon for gas. But what Americans should realize is that what the President is calling for is drilling as close as three miles off of America’s pristine beaches and in other protected areas.

The President has failed in his economic policy, and now he wants to say, “but for drilling in protected areas offshore, our economy would be thriving and the price of gas would be lower.” That hoax is unworthy of the serious debate we must have to relieve the pain of consumers at the pump and to promote energy independence.

How are Bush and Cheney responsible for the huge spike in the price of oil across the world? Could it be that the two most populous nations on Earth are seeing huge spikes in their own consumption of oil —and that this, above all else, is what’s driving these prices? It’s nothing but lunatic gibberish to blame these “oilmen” for the astonishing growth of China’s and India’s economies.

Were it not for the completely outmoded restrictions placed on domestic oil production and refining capacity by asshole Democrats, the United States would obviously be in a better position to adapt to the global increase in the price of oil —again clearly driven by the spike in Asia’s consumption.

Our country does not allow new oil refineries or new nuclear power plants to be built because of the anachronistic “concerns” of asshole Democrats. These restrictions weren’t an issue when we were paying a buck a gallon not too many years ago, but now? The lack of foresight on the part of environmentalists and their Gaiist fringe is now costing us all. Our economy is suffering not because we don’t have the resources, but because assholes and Edenists won’t permit their use.

Note that the same sacks of hippie shit who think themselves superior to Christians by virtue of Science are the ones who have no confidence in American drilling and refining technology. How much oil was spilled when Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Region? Not even enough to get Obama to Davos and back.

Why are the Democrats handing such a gift to the Republicans? I don’t know. But if Bush is smart, he’ll pull a Truman on these do-nothing liars this summer and make them reconvene the Congress to allow a vote on lifting these stupid restrictions. If there’s some Republicans in trouble who’d rather be back home campaigning, then let them make their case to their constituents from the floors of the House and Senate. They’ve got work to do and they can damned well do it from there.

It isn’t enough to be offended at the obscenity of Barack Hussein Obama’s nomination by the Democratic Party; one must recognize what a danger this man has become and act against it. This utterly vapid speech he gave in Berlin today is a declaration of ego the likes of which I have never seen in an American politician. The only thing that comes close is the narcissism of Huey P. Long. Then again, the Kingfish got things done, whereas this unqualified liar has merely used the system to advance himself personally without actual regard for the welfare of those whom he claims to represent.

We are witnesses to the increasingly deranged fantasy of a cultural interloper and a post-American demagogue. He has abused all decorum and has made a mockery of both JFK and Reagan —and for what? The benefit of footage for his campaign ads? He actually thinks that his Big Media carnival show of a whole week’s duration is a substitute for the hard work of dedication, experience, and real judgement in foreign policy? What an obscenity!

And standing there before a crowd of 200,000 Germans was this miserable crypto-Muslim fraud, condemning his own country before the descendants of mass murderers:

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

There is no excuse to not vote against this idiot come November. Just the who the hell does he think he is?

Dan Collins said I had to read this, so I did. Of Barack Hussein Obama, Michael Knox Beran writes:

His charisma is grounded in empathy rather than authority, confessional candor rather than muscular strength, metrosexual mildness rather than masculine testosterone. His power of sympathetic insight is said to be uncanny: “Everybody who’s dealt with him,” columnist David Brooks says, “has a story about a time when they felt Obama profoundly listened to them and understood them.” His two books are written in the empathetic-confessional mode that his most prominent benefactress, Oprah, favors; he is her political healer in roughly the same way that Dr. Phil was once her pop-psychology one. The collectivist dream, Obama instinctively understands, is less scary, more sympathetic, when served up by mama (or by mama in drag).

My greatest concern now is that the deconstructions of this unqualified liar will become so numerous and varied that they will merely add kindling to the fire of his fascination —and make Obama the indispensable man of the age. Are we Americans far enough removed from the sinister influences of Big Media? Can someone such as The One —as McCain is now said to be calling him— really wield that much power over the minds of enough people to seize the most powerful office in the world? The contempt of the Democratic Party for this country deeply alienates me when I can bear to think of it. Their choice strikes me as nothing short of anti-American.