Friends, sorry for my long delay in postings, I have felt inspired to return to this blog and contribute along with all my new colleagues. My favorite morning show is MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough, former Congressman from Florida. On his show on May 5th, he had Hilary Clinton, Democratic Senator from our great state of New York as one of his guests. I have realized that the greatest power she has is the pander. She spent almost the entire 10 minute interview speaking of the Gas Tax holiday she wants to institute in three weeks (I’ve posted the link under this paragraph). The day before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, she couldn’t pander enough. There’s truly a difference between telling the people what you can do for them and outright making up national policies in effort to acquire votes from states that you don’t represent. She even uses Tiki Barber’s appearance on the show to pander. I’ll admit, before I was enlightened, I had cast my ballot in favor of her and every time I see her speak now, I regret it.
She speaks of financing this gas holiday by taxing the oil industries which employ so many people in this nation. If they’re not making as much money, they won’t be able to give as much money back to their workers, or pay as much taxes back to the government that she wants to use for her social agenda. I agree that gas prices are too high but this is not the answer. She wants to give a $10,000 credit to help people afford hybrid cars. How is she going to pay for it, especially when there are children without health care, a social security system that is going bankrupt and soldiers without proper equipment in the Arabian desert.
All during this swing of primary states, she has talked about how the voters of Indiana and North Carolina believe in her and her message and that she is going to do everything she can for them. I know the votes have already been counted but I’m still waiting for Hilary to do something for me, her constituent in Western New York. I wonder if I’m the only one who feels forgotten as she’s trying to find a better gig and leave us folks behind.
Even though I’m voting for John McCain (I just can’t bring myself to vote for Socialism in this country) I was however very impressed with Barack Obama’s speaking ability. When he has some momentum, his speeches are uplifting and you are actually glued to your seat listening to him. However, when he hits a bump in the road, like when the Hillary political machine attacks him for a misspeak or with the Reverend Wright issue constantly looming over his head, Obama gets really thrown off his game. He stammers with his response and it takes some time for him to get back on track. My concern is that if he’s elected President, he won’t have the luxury of taking time to compose himself when he hits the daily bumps in the road as Commander in Chief. As Bill Clinton and George Bush found out, the leader of the free world has to be able to react immediately and with confidence and decisiveness.
Raila Odinga is the current President of Kenya and the leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Human Rights Watch has investigated ODM and claimed they organized ethnic-based violence in the Rift Valley of Kenya in order to take control of the disputed recent presidential election. In all, Kenyan police confirmed the deaths of 526 people nationwide. Other reports have it as high as 1000 people killed.
Odinga’s campaign had an interesting theme to it – ”Change”. If that sounds familiar its because Obama campaigned for and supported Odinga. Odinga claims to be a cousin of Obama. Remember that photo of Obama in Muslim clothing in Kenya? That was during a visit to support and meet with Odinga.
Why didn’t Obama talk to Odinga and get him to stop the violence? This is how he proposes to solve our problem of evil people wanting to kill us. Will situations like this be political death for Obama as people finally start to learn who he is?
Sorry for the late analysis on the Pennsylvania Primary. It was so exciting I fell asleep at 8:30 on Tuesday.
We keep hearing that Barack Obama is not stoppable and Hillary needs 60% of the remaining primaries to catch up in delegates. There are many problems with this. First of all we have 50 states. Last time I heard Florida and Michigan were part of the union. Florida is the 4th largest state. Remember how all the Democrats felt about Florida in 2000?
The next issue is the archaic Democratic system. Hillary won Texas big, almost by 5% of the vote, yet because of the double caucus Obama actually won more delegates! Obama seems to do well in caucus states. But when they have a conventional vote where MoveOn.org thugs can’t intimidate voters, Hillary does very well.
Right now Hillary is about 450,000 popular votes behind. If you add Florida in she is ahead by a slim 20,000 votes. If you include Michigan she is ahead by over 130,000 votes. I do not include Michigan because both were suppose to take their names off the ballot but only Obama did (is that smart by Hillary or dumb by Obama, what kind of President do you want?) [Read more →]
I am starting to see a trend with Barack Obama. He is fragile! It sure is difficult for a politically correct party like the Democrats to say anything about him. Lets take a look at his fragility.
The first time I noticed was when Maureen dowd then made a comment about his ears. Obama took her aside and let her know how sensitive he is about his ears. Next Senator Biden said he was clean. It was obvious to everyone he meant that he did not have the baggage of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. This comment stopped Biden’s presidential bid in its tracks. The Senator has a penchant for saying stupid things and I have enjoyed his foot in his mouth on many occasions, but this was too easy.
The President give him that terrible insult by saying he was articulate. After it was explained to me why calling an African-American person, articulate is an insult, I still can’t agree with it. If someone told me I am articulate I would smile and say thank you. [Read more →]
Hillary and Barack debated for the votes of Pennsylvanians last night. It was a real yawner and we learned nothing except that ABC news is incompetent as debate moderators. The first 50 minutes were a rehash of gossip that would make a supermarket tabloid jealous. Here is a time line synopsis of the questions and how I scored it.
8:00 Charlie Gibson asks a ridiculous open question. Would either be the others VP? He waits for a response. Surprised when no one answers, and not realizing he is the moderator whose job it is to decide who speaks and in what order, he quips “Well don’t everyone speak at once!” Score -1 ABC News.
8:04 WHAT? A COMMERCIAL ALREADY! Now we know why ABC did a prime time debate. Score -1 ABC News
8:05 Questions about Obama’s clinging to religion and guns comments. Score +1 Hillary
8:10 Hillary Dodging sniper fire that never happened. Score +1 Obama
8:20 The Reverend Wright and why Obama still loves him. Score +1 Hillary [Read more →]
Who will Barack Obama insult next — people who drive pickup trucks? Better yet, how about those rubes who go to NASCAR races? The wheels are falling off of his campaign.
Hopefully he won’t embarrass himself like John Kerry did in Philadelphia in 2004. (Kerry ordered a cheese steak with Swiss instead of Cheese Whiz – this brought hoots and yells from Philadelphians because ordering Swiss on a cheesesteak is like rooting for Dallas at an Eagles game.)
His campaign is starting to fall apart. There are two narratives that Barack Obama does not want to have associated with him. One is that he is an elitist and the other that he is a leftist –reasons why Democrats lose elections. Obama has managed to foster both in his gaffe and associations.
Obama is a smart but he is also rookie. Hillary, a veteran of many tough political battles, knew that if she kept in the race and continued to throw rice at the wall some of it would stick. It was only a matter of time before Obama would say or do something that would expose him for what he really is. Do you notice how those calls for Hillary to step aside have ceased?
Pennsylvania has 4.1 Million registered Democratic voters. According to the American Research Group poll Hillary has a 20% lead. If so, she will be able to wipe out Obama’s popular vote lead. If at the end of the process she has the lead in popular vote and Obama has the delegate lead, there will be a melee at the Democratic convention that will make 1968 look like a picnic.
I don’t remember Hillary complaining about China back in 90’s when her husband was granting waivers to tech companies that sold weapons to improve the accuracy of their nuclear missiles. Oh wait, those missiles were only pointed at us – notTibet. Now that she’s running for President, she has all kinds of advice - like boycotting the Olympics .
Lets go down memory lane and look at some of the Clinton’s illegal Chinese fund raising that has put our nations security at risk.
Charlie Trie, owned a Chinese restaurant in Arkansas that the Clinton’s loved to eat at. As a way if saying thank you, Charlie gave Bill’s campaign $460,000 – most in consecutive numbered $1000 money orders that his friends bought at a 7/11 one night. President Clinton Appreciated his help so much he named him to the Arkansas fire extinguisher board.
Is this all coming back my friends? The sad thing is I could go on and on. I fear the editors here at Monroe Rising will yell “enough”! All of these scandals are in a chronology in a PBS Frontline documentary. The scandals included coffees, sleepovers in the Lincoln bedroom, on and on…. [Read more →]
