TOBY PETZOLD

Barack Hussein Obama has a problem with women. I don’t know if this can be attributed to his upbringing under the influence of Islam, or fatherlessness in general, but it is a real factor in his character.

First, in a move that has already sealed his defeat, he refused to choose Hillary Rodham Clinton for the ticket. We may find some day that she told Obama she wasn’t interested and that he made a pledge not to disclose that, but does that sound plausible? Why should that have been a mutually satisfactory arrangement in light of all that led up to the convention? These two people have their party split in half and they will lose the Presidency because of it. Neither of them can claim that party unity is important if dismissing the idea of a unity ticket was what they came up with. They could have sold themselves as a virtual Co-Presidency for Change —with explicitly enunciated areas of authority for Hillary— and it would have energized the Democratic Party. Instead, after picking Joe Biden from a position of weakness, Obama let it be known that Hillary hadn’t been vetted as even a pro forma gesture when he had said that she would be on “anybody’s short list” for the Vice Presidency. That’s disrespect —which is also what the Obama candidacy itself is.

Then, when John McCain introduced Sarah Palin last Friday and utterly disspelled the afterglow of Obama’s show at Caesar’s Palace, Obama’s campaign immediately proceeded to freak out. It’s all been bewildered condescension ever since, accompanied by a very obvious, almost adolescent, sort of jealousy of the attention she’s drawing. What a crybaby Obama’s become (emphasis mine):

Sen. Barack Obama ditched his normal languid cool today, punching back at Gov. Sarah Palin as he spoke with reporters in York, Pa, hotly defending his work as a community organizer. He said he assumes Palin “wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutinty. I’ve been through this for 19 months. She’s been through it, what four days?”

Obama’s hackles were clearly raised by Palin’s dismissal of his community organizing –a response to his earlier dismissal of her record as a small-town mayor. “Why would that kind of work be ridiculed?” Obama said. “Who are they fighting for?” The idea that community organizing is not relevant to the presidency, he said, just shows why Republicans “are out of touch and don’t get it.”

What does that even mean, Barry? It isn’t any more necessary —by your own purported standards— to consider Palin’s gender in regards to how she’s “treated” than it is to consider your racial identity in how you are treated. You are a remarkably immature man and an egomaniac who can’t stand admitting he’s wrong. Not only have you rejected the one woman who could have made your candidacy a success, but now you can’t even bring yourself to acknowledge that there may be another woman out there who’s better than you at electrifying the party base. Sarah Palin is at least as qualified to be a national leader as you are, dude, so you’d better recognize.

This story out today about Oprah’s refusal to invite Sarah Palin on her show is very curious. How do we even know about it? Did Oprah actually come out and publicly declare that she will not have the Governor of Alaska on or is this all leaky and second-handed disinformation? Unless Oprah is orchestrating this as a prelude to some grand concession to popularity and sisterhood, I think it’s a bad idea for her business for her to be seen as such a recalcitrant beeyotch. What does it get her? Is Obamessiah putting some pressure on her to not give in? Who knows? But it makes her look like a partisan and that’s not the way to keep a lot of her audience happy.

One would normally say that the host of a show can invite whomever he or she pleases, but the usual rules don’t apply to Oprah. Her favor is a cultural imprimatur. Her appeal is supra-racial. She is an icon. And icons can spot other icons in the making from a hundred miles away.

It moved me deeply to see Edward Moore Kennedy address the DNC on Monday. That remains my favorite emotional moment so far. Hillary’s speech, however, was a masterpiece. It is the most impactful moment yet. I thought Mrs. Obama was lovely and exquisitely controlled. La Pelosi reconceived the white pantsuit in famous fashion. Biden needs a monster performance tonight. And Obamachrist? I predict he will emerge before those fluted Greek columns tomorrow night with a whacked-out professional wrestler mullet-weave and a boast in his throat. It will be a moment like the one a person feels in the split second he knows he’s going to fall a long way. There’s an adrenaline rush that makes nonsense of time and propels him into the air: “FLY, damn you! FLY!!!”

Nancy Pelosi, who showed how to wear white out (yeow!) before Labor Day this evening, apparently doesn’t know that natural gas is a fossil fuel. In her appearance on Meet the Press yesterday, she repeatedly made this ignorance clear, as John Hinderaker culled from the transcript in the quotes below:

BROKAW: Well, I think most people understand that, but at the same time, if we work our way off carbon-based fuels, in the meantime, this is not going to happen overnight.

PELOSI: No, it isn’t, but you could — again, you could reduce the price at the pump immediately with (inaudible). You can have a transition with natural gas. You can have a transition with natural gas. That is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.
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PELOSI: I’m — I’m investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
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PELOSI: Well, that’s not — that is the marketplace. The fact is, the supply of natural gas is so big, and you do need a transition if you’re going to go from fossil fuels, as you say, you can’t do it overnight, but you must transition.

These investments in wind, in solar and biofuels and focus on natural gas, these are the real alternatives.

That’s remarkable. Does she really not know that natural gas is a carbon-based fuel? This is the woman who has the power of life and death over our energy policies? Remarkable.

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? 

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.

Is it really possible that Barack Hussein Obama authorized the dissemination of the handwritten prayer he stuck in a crack in the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week? When I first heard that the note had supposedly been plucked out by a bystander and published, I thought it was a pretty contemptible thing to do, regardless of my dislike for the non-Christian phony who stuck it there. But if these new rumors prove true —that Obama actually shared his prayer with reporters upon leaving the King David Hotel— then I will have to revise my list of his most egregious campaign moments thus far.

The reason the rumors ring true is that this is a man who abandoned his church because it had become a political liability for him. Making a press release of his prayer to the Almighty doesn’t sound like much of a stretch at all.

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?

John Hinderaker is saying that Barack Obama told a reporter in Sderot, Israel today (emphasis mine):

Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.

To which Hinderaker adds:

But Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Obama just made that up so he could count the committee’s action as one of “my deeds.”

If committed by a Republican, this would be a gaffe of historic proportions. Even a Senator as inattentive to his duties as Obama certainly knows what committees he serves on. For him to fabricate the claim, out of whole cloth, that the Senate Banking Committee is “[his] committee,” strikes me as another sign of Obama’s megalomania. That, plus more evidence that he is totally at sea without a teleprompter.

Surely, there’s just some sort of misunderstanding, right?

Just caught the last few minutes of Madame Couric fluffing Obama Soter —and it turns out that the reason he’s going to hold a campaign rally in front of Hitler’s favorite monument to Prussian militarism is to get the krauts “to feel good” about America again. And to say we’re sorry to our “old enemies.” So very, very sorry.

Obama is an abomination. Inshallah, this wankfest he’s been on this past week will be the beginning of the end of his hopes. Surely Americans won’t reward this degree of narcissism.