Uh Oh – Obama looks in to Climate Engineering

Apparently the Global Warming alarmists are convinced that the situation is so dire that we need to darken the skies or something.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say that probably won’t be a good idea. If I’ve learned one thing from Hollywood movies it’s that scientists always try to do something to save the world, but ultimately end up creating a problem much larger than what they were ultimately trying to stop. Seriously though, this is just one more thing that the Obama administration is trying to push on people in order to expand the size of government.

If the blotting out the sun technique doesn’t work they can always just try and make, wait for it, artificial trees!

Another geoengineering option he mentioned was the use of so-called artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide—the chief human-caused greenhouse gas—out of the air and store it. At first that seemed prohibitively expensive, but a re-examination of the approach shows it might be less costly, he said.

Ahem, just for the record, CO2 levels rise at a rate that follows temperature increase and not the other way around. So, if the temperature was dropping then, and only then, would CO2 levels drop by the vaccuum trees. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the trees would do nothing but gobble up CO2 from the air that actual trees would absorb and convert back in to oxygen so that humans could continue, you know, breathing.

Just sayin’.

Mad World – I now have an excuse to post this again.

If you watched American Idol last night then you heard Adam Lambert sing a song titled “Mad World”.

Some people actually remember the original Tears for Fears version, but the most popular cover of the song was done by Gary Jules and was featured pretty heavily in the cult favorite “Donnie Darko”. I personally think that the songs popularity helped rocket Gears of War to fame with it’s use in the promotional video.

Personally, I love the song and considering I look at my governments current actions as nothing but an exercise of insanity the song holds a different meaning for me. Either way, watch the video that inspired the idol singer and enjoy.

TARP problems: Financial Crisis is “far from over” even though Govt plans to spend up to 4 trillion dollars.

Boy, that $700 billion ballooned awfully quickly didn’t it?

“We still have a long way to go. A very long way,” Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor who chairs the panel, said in an interview today with Bloomberg News.

The panel reported that the government has spent, lent or set aside more than $4 trillion through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

When the government first started throwing around this word “bailout” and began creating the TARP fund I knew that this was going to turn in to one giant mess. I told all of my friends and family that there was no way that $700 billion dollars would fix the problem, and when I even mentioned that the incoming administration was planning on injecting up to TRILLIONS more I was told that the “people wouldn’t stand for it”.

Well, here we are, 700 billion has ballooned up to 4 trillion and that’s just the TARP fund. That isn’t including the President’s bloated budget that was passed, the “stimulus” package”, or the 900-item pork project filled Omnibus bill that was passed either. Yet, even after all that money they have planned to spend (which will actually increase the deficit exponentially up until the year 2019 and not cut it in half like our glorious teleprompter told us) we’re still in a “crisis” and it’s far from over?

Sounds to me like the administration is just trying to drum up more social dischord so that then they want to spend more money they’ll just convince the people, again, that the country is in a “crisis” and that unless they spend millions/billions/trillions more of the taxpayers hard-earned money that it’s only because they are trying to do the right thing. When, in reality, the government spending is doing nothing but impoverishing our future generations.

Project P.U.M.A. – This is why GM is failing

So, the Hummer model is being removed from the market, but this tiny piece of crap is getting a green light?

GM has slashed product-development programs, advertising and spending on auto-show events. But it will take to the streets of Manhattan on Tuesday to show off a prototype of the vehicle, called PUMA, for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility

Its even got a stupid acronym for a name, and one that falsely advertises that the car might actually be relative to an actual Puma. This abomination can barely reach 40mph and it looks absolutely ridiculous, but in GM’s quest to be “greener” they are tossing out car models that actually sell and are trying to force this garbage at consumers.

Sorry, but this is absolutely infuriating. Is it any wonder why foreign cars like Audi, BMW, and the Japanese car-makers are constantly beating us in the markets?

Russia in Defiance: Still has Troops in Georgia

Hey, remember that conflict between Russia and Georgia a while back? Remember how Russia made a deal to keep troops out of Georgia when it was over?

Yeah, looks like they decided that the deal was off.

The Russian military, working with the governments and the small military forces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two separatist regions in Georgia, has stationed forces in two large swaths of territory that were under Georgian control before the war. Observers and diplomats say Russia has also used attack helicopters and stationed tanks in areas where none existed before the war.

So, instead of fulfilling one of the basic requirements of the cease-fire and agreement between Russia and Geogia, it looks like the Soviets Russians are just going to station troops, tanks, and heli’s within the reason anyways. Woo, those Russians really go out of their way to look like total douchebags don’t they?

In other news: The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has recently hailed American President Barack Obama as his “new comrade”. Aww, isn’t that sweet?

Anyone else getting that sick feeling in their stomachs yet?

Like a Thief in the Night: Congress passes 3.5 Trillion dollar budget.

Apparently Obama hasn’t figured out that to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term he’s going to have to stop spending money like it’s going out of style.

Not only does this bill increase the 2009 spending over what the final year of the Bush Administration was spending, but this is compounded on top of ALL of the other spending that Obama has waved his pen and made possible this year. The Stimulus Bill + Omnibus bill + the new budget bill will pretty much put us in to the poor house for the next 12 years and there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight for more government spending.

Oh, as if to make matters worse lets see some highlights from this horrendous budget:

Voting along party lines, the House and Senate approved budget blueprints that would trim Obama’s spending proposals for the fiscal year that begins in October and curtail his plans to cut taxes. The blueprints, however, would permit work to begin on the central goals of Obama’s presidency: an expansion of health-care coverage for the uninsured, more money for college loans and a cap-and-trade system to reduce gases that contribute to global warming.

“Expansion of Health-care for the uninsured” seems to be the big ringer in that last statement, but the Cap and Trade system will do nothing but cause energy costs to skyrocket. So, it looks like not only will the government spend more of our hard-earned money like the generational thieves that they are, but they plan on making life almost unsustainable for us by imposing riduculous energy costs upon us and possibly a universal healthcare system that will do nothing but dismantle one of the best healthcare systems in the world.

Things aren’t looking good, folks.

Hopefully they will get better, but if I had to wager a guess what the rest of this President’s term will look like by looking at his last 72 or some odd days? Yeah, not looking at all like a bright future ahead for America.

Daniel Hannan MEP = Awesome

I know that I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I just HAD to add this video.

I wish that this guy would sit down and talk with Obama and constantly repeat the lines “You can’t spend your way out of recession” over and over again. I’ll be attempting to come back and take care of this old place more often, but as time does not stop for no one….we will have to see.

WaPo – “Free the GOP from Social Fundamentalists”

In the never-ending war between Progressive Liberalism and Social Conservatism it would seem the left has launched another volley against the right. Obviously feeling emboldened in the presence of their marxist savior they feel it is time to try, once again, to assimilate the GOP in to their fold by convincing the Republican party to cut away its largest base: Social Conservatives.

This isn’t a new tactic and the Left has been trying to find any way that they can to rid themselves of the constant conservative thorn in their side. So, now that The One has been elected to take the highest office they feel now is as good a time as any to start their all out attack upon the conservative crowd by convincing the rest of the GOP that they don’t need them. The only problem with that is that the Social Conservative base actually makes up the largest portion of the Republican party. Without Social Conservatives the rest of the GOP would basically just be, well, Democrat-Lite.

And that’s precisely what they want.

Following the conventional wisdom of the past two presidential elections, McCain tried mightily to assuage the Republican Party’s social-fundamentalist wing. His selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose social views are entirely aligned with that wing, as his running mate was clearly meant to demonstrate his commitment to that bloc. Yet while his choice did comfort those voters, it made many others uncomfortable.

So, by following the conventional wisdom of the last two elections McCain was wrong to try and persuade the social conservative crowd to support him? I wonder just how greatly McCain would have lost if he didn’t have what few Social conservatives actually went and pulled the lever for him.

In the wake of the Democrats’ landslide victory, and despite all evidence to the contrary, many in the GOP are arguing that John McCain was defeated because the social fundamentalists wouldn’t support him. They seem to be suffering from a political strain of Stockholm syndrome. They are identifying with the interests of their political captors and ignoring the views of the larger electorate. This has cost the Republican Party the votes of millions of people who don’t find a willingness to acquiesce to hostage-takers a positive trait in potential leaders.

Really? The most leftist, liberal state in the entire country just went out and voted to ban same-sex marriage and your actually going to sit there and actually claim that “Social Conservatism/Fundamentalism” was what caused the GOP to lose the Election? The passing of Proposition 8 is proof enough that most people in this country have a tendancy to lean towards the social aspect of conservatism when they are making a social decision. However, as those glorious exit polls (which you shove in everyones faces) will also show you, this election was not decided by people voting on their conscience or their beliefs in social fundamentalism.

The Economy decided this election. FISCAL Conservatism, supposedly one of the staple platforms of the GOP, was no where to be seen in the last eight years and the American people watched as their economy rose to one of its highest levels and then completely crashed to a halt in a matter of weeks. We have seen the largest percentage of government expansion EVER in the last eight years, and the GOP basically went on an all-out shopping spree in pork projects. The GOP began sealing their own fate when they abandoned the principles of fiscal and economic conservatism and took the people of America for granted. So, when the economy began to falter who was the people going to blame? The Democrats?

Well, it would have been easy to blame the democrats had it not been for the fact that the GOP  seemed to absolutely refuse to address any of the problems that had actually caused the economic crisis. The truth of what caused the economic crisis, as exit polls show was the most important deciding factor on the election, is out there and if anyone is willing to search for it or, oh, I dont know, ****ing REPORT IT they’ll find that the real blame can be traced back to the Clinton Administration, the retooling of the Community Reinvestment Act, Barney Frank, Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson (who were both Fannie Mae CEO’s during the time when FMae was cooking the books), Rahm Emanuel (Who was a board member at Freddie Mac when THEY were cooking the books), Chris “Countrywide” Dodd, and finally Barack Obama.

However, the Media refused to reveal any of that and continuously supported Barack Obama and the only stories they would run about the economic crisis were ones where the Democrats were, erroneously, trying to place all of the blame upon the Republican party. Also, it didn’t really help much that the GOP never tried to clear their name nor did they ever try to speak out against the accusation of blame.

The “Social Fundamentalist” section of the Republican Party, however, DID try to bring tons of issues to light to try and get McCain to fight back against Senator Obama. However, at every turn the “Moderates” told the GOP base to shut up and go away. When Palin was brought on board the GOP base was energized and began to find interest in the election once again, but whenever somebody tried to bring up the long list of dirty scams that the Democrat party was involved with, well, McCain would just brush it aside and act as if was never brought up.

Lets look at all of the issues that many of the Social Fundamentalists/Conservatives tried to bring to light and was largely ignored by their own candidate:

• ACORN Voting Scandals and Obama’s extensive association with ACORN
• Obama’s association with William Ayers
• Obama’s association with radical Pastor Jeremiah Wright
• Obama’s association with Rasheed Khalidi
• Obama’s experience or his drastically lacking thereof.
• Obama’s Socialist or Marxist views on Radicalism and Redistribution of Wealth (It took a plumber to finally get that moving)
• The fact that Obama never explained how he was going to give 95% of Americans a tax break when 45% of Americans don’t even pay taxes.
• McCain never confronted Obama on the fact that the Senator was the second largest receiever of campaign funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac just behind Chris Dodd.
• McCain never addressed the fradulant donation system that the Obama Campaign was using (and was proved to be using) to accept all those millions of dollars

Whenever we Social Conservatives tried to bring any of this to light the McCain campaign would ignore it and just go on as business as usual.

McCain didn’t lose because of the Social Fundamentalists, oh no, he lost because he ran a disasterous campaign and because he refused to address ANY of the issues that should have disqualified Senator Obama from ever becoming President. However, despite the cries from the Republican base (The fundamentalists as you call them) McCain ignored them and just continued on without them.

So, how can one possibly argue that the Social Conservatives/Fundamentalists cost McCain the election when the social cons were being ignored? The truth is they cant without sounding like a bunch of raging idiots.

UPDATE: HotAir now has something up about this piece. Morrissey is right: “Growth Through Dismemberment does not Work”.

Failed News Anchor Katie Couric Advises Gov. Palin to “Learn About Governing”

No, I’m not making this up.

During an interview with Glamour Magazine this is what Couric had to say about Gov. Palin:

I think she should keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing. But I’m not anyone to give advice to anyone about anything.

Then, uh, why give any sort of advice that you, yourself, recognize that your not qualified to give? That statement right there is pretty much exactly how those College Football coaches must feel when they go on those radio shows and get tons of ridiculous questions from callers, who have no coaching experience whatsoever, grilling them on why said callers team completely sucked that night.

Your right Katie. Your not anyone to give advice to anyone about anything.

Ever.

“The Paradigm Shift”

The term “Paradigm Shift” is a phrase that many have heard but few rarely understand. The term actually originates from a man named Thomas Kuhn to describe the differentiating changes within the ruling theory of science. In a nutshell it has basically been referred to as a “scientific revelation” and until it found mainstream popularity within the marketing realms as a type of jargen used within marketing circles it had only had any real relevance in the Scientific community.

Now, the reason why I bring this up is because the term “Paradigm Shift” has been so overused that it has fallen in to the realm of irrelevancy, and it is this level of irrelevance that I find so many conservative commenters and bloggers achieving lately. In fact, the very term “Conservatism” has been so overused by so many people in the political realm for so many years that the actual meaning has somehow been lost on those who claim to subcribe to the true ideal of it. During the election many self-proclaimed “Conservative” writers and bloggers would continuously push themselves on the scene to decry many fellow Republicans or Conservatives for being too conservative or for supporting a running mate candidate who held far more conservative beliefs than the actual presidential nominee.

Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan, for example, had been held up in the past as being “conservative” writers in the past and were pretty well respected by those who knew them. However, in the late stages of the Election, both of them were making headlines, but instead of making waves in the media by questioning how supremely leftist Senator Obama is or questioning his associations with some pretty nefarious individuals they were, instead, screaming their heads off about how Palin was a bad pick for the Republican ticket. Two supposed conservatives were repeatedly bashing the most conservative side of the Republican ticket and fairly nastily so.

What seemed to be the problem? Palin was pro-energy, pro-life, favored limited government, was a great supporter to the military, supported lower taxes, had a history of reform in the Alaskan government, actually HAD executive experience as a governer, and was just a generally decent woman all-around. Yet, Parker and Noonan lashed out against her by claiming that she was dragging the ticket down and Parker even called for Palin to drop out of the ticket to “save her country”.

Why?

Well, the only conclusion I can seem to come to is that both Noonan and Parker are of the “Cocktail Conservative” crowd. A group of people who claim to subscribe to the ideals of conservatism over a glass of wine during dinner, but in actual daily practice will only admit to such ideals if means that they will remain politically relevant.

If there is one certainty that can be said about the Republican party: It is we eat our own.

Still, I question the intentions of these so-called conservatives and why they, bright minds who supposedly uphold the positive theme of conservatism who were so quick to lower the hammer upon someone who was far more conservative than the front-runner. A front-frunner, I should add, who has a long reputation for constantly being at odds with the more conservative sides of his own party. John McCain gained the stigma of being labeled a RINO (Republican In Name Only) during the primaries and it stayed with him throughout the campaign. Are these writers, his supporters, also cut from the same cloth? It would appear so.

While some “conservatives” were busy trashing one of their own others were freaking the hell out. Now, to be fair to Ace (whom I respect greatly), he is a libertarian conservative, and he has spent nearly 99.9% of his time supporting the conservative agenda on his own. He’s been a far greater bastion of conservative truth than the two pseudo-cons I mentioned above. However, even the threat of financial collapse was too much for him to bolster down and stand up to government expansion. He, and many others, were adamant that the bailout was the only thing that could save our economy. A strange idea considering our economy is based upon limited, if any, government intervention.

It’s called a free-market for a reason.

Even the Senate republicans were jumping on the bandwagon to support the bailout program. However, as a last bastion of hope, the House Republicans were standing up to the bailout and were crying out in large numbers against it. They defeated it once, but even they fell to the pressure to get the bailout passed. However, it must be pointed out that the pressure was not coming from PEOPLE, but it was coming from these very same pseudo-conservatives and the democrats who served in the chairs next to them. The citizens hated the idea from the start, but the supporters of the largest expansion of government in history were going to pass it anyways.

And they did.

Where did it get us? The supporters of the bailout looked down upon those who opposed it and called their cries of “creeping socialism” nothing but irrational fears and phobia. Though, not even two months later, it would seem that many of those bailout supporters will have to eat their words.  They wont though, and who could blame them? They invested too much of their faith in to the convincing words that everything was going to be “ok” if they could just pass that bill. Now, instead of a “bailout” we are seeing a “buyout” and the government is buying up stocks in private banks. How is government owning stakes in private businesses capitalism (a sister ideal of conservatism) again? Well, it isn’t, but it is a definate scary path towards the fears of creeping socialism that many of the bailout opposers were forseeing. If the Republicans in the Senate and House had only practiced what they preached (conservartism) then the bailout would never have been necessary. However, as the crisis grew bigger you found out who was serious about their ideals and who just liked to claim membership to the club.

And what of the Republican Conservatives after the election? More “Conservatives” are seemingly lining up to say that the Republican party is doomed to a permanent minority while others are even going far enough to defend the strange plans that our new President-Elect has in store for us. Many on the left have been quick to claim that this past election season was the death of Conservatism and the Right-Wingers, but was it really? The very same people who supported McCain (and hated Palin) were the ones who were front and center in this campaign, and if it was their man who lost (a man who had considered leaving the republican party after the 2000 election) then would it not be more appropriate to say that it was the moderates who hold the keys to failure?

If anyone was paying attention at all they could easily see that true conservatism wasn’t even at the party. At least not until Palin was introduced and then as soon as she was brought on to the scene the pseudo-conservatives tried to be rid of her and claim she was far too right-wing to help the campaign. So, those of us who subscribe (and practice) the ideals of real conservatism we have a question to ask ourselves.

“Do we continue to let those who do not truly belong write the narrative and speak for us?”

I, for one, don’t plan on it. I have found that these self-proclaimed conservatives* have hidden behind an ideaology that they never really intended on adhereing to and have used that veil so often that they have become their own “Paradigm Shift”…..

Increasingly irrelevant and meaningless.

[*I would like to point out that I am not lumping Ace from AoSHQ in to that group. I do not question his conservative ideals, but only find fault with his willingness to accept a bogus bailout plan that most people found to be an appalling piece of legislation.]

Obama’s Compulsory Civil Defense Service – Rahm Emanuel Audio clip

Ever since it was mentioned a lot of people have been talking about this enigmatic program being referred to as a Civil Defense Service. While I will take the advice of others not to hurry and rush out screaming the H-word at first wind of this, but I will go far enough to say that this is really, really creepy. We have survived for 240 years without a compulsory civil defense force, so I really do not understand the need to build a civilian paramilitary to handle whatever this new force is supposed to handle. The reporter in the video is trying really hard to get Emanuel to answer the questions about the Barracks or Uniforms, but Emanuel just laughs at him as if the concerns of this reporter are somehow amusing.

Another thing that bothers me is the video clip from Obama at the end. He claims that this new Civil Security Force should be “Just as powerful. Just as strong. Just as well-funded.”, and I wonder just how far and how much training this new force would have to go through to be just as powerful and strong as our Armed Forces. Will this new Civilian defense service be armed? Will they patrol the streets as a type of secondary police force to keep the peace? What exactly will their purpose be?

Another thing that bothers me about this is the sheer hypocrisy of the idea. For years the left has complained and cried foul against the Bush Administration for “fear-mongering” and using the threat of terrorism to scare people in to supporting the War in Iraq. However, in the clip you can hear Rahm Emanuel using the same tactic of cohersion that the left has accused the right of trying. Aside from Emanuel’s own “fear-mongering” to try and convince the reporter that the mandatory civil defense service is necessary we, the people, have been given no other reason why this draft service is being created.

I also question Obama’s claims that this new force will be just as well-funded as the U.S. Armed Forces. Where will he get the money to arm his new civilian defense force? I believe we all know the answer to that.

This just screams bad idea, but you people voted for the guy. People wanted Hope and Change and it seems they’ll get it whether they like it or not.

Obama’s Chief of Staff on Freddie Mac Board while scandal was brewing.

Hope and Change you can be appalled with.

Wow, I guess all that talk of bringing change and new politics to Washington was just a bunch of smoke and mirrors. So, as Obama’s first appointee he declares that Rahm “Go F**K Yourself” Emanuel will be his Chief of Staff, and the good news of what an upstanding person Emanuel is has already begun to just poor in.

President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.

So, in the light of one of the biggest housing scandals that this country has ever seen, Obama goes and chooses a man literally knee-deep in the scandal as his Chief of Staff. We already know that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was very largely to blame (among other things) for the Housing crisis, so for Obama to appoint a board member of Freddie Mac who was involved with the company during its scandalous times should really throw up a red flag on just how corrupt this new Administration is going to be.

Hope and Change people. Hope and Change.

The Palin Factor: Playing the Blame Game

So, the elections over and we now have President-Elect Barack Obama heading to the white house in 2009. While the majority of the news media is covering this “historical election” there is a smaller portion that is obsessively focused on the McCain team. Trying to act as if McCain’s loss is some type of political enigma that needs to be deciphered political pundits, from both the left and the right, are lighting up the newscasts with “reasons why McCain lost”.

Or, well, I should say reason.

It would seem that the McCain staff has decided to place all of the blame on Sarah. Which, I have to be honest, is the most retarded thing that I have ever heard. However, because the mainstream media has loved being as much of a hinderence to Governer Palin as they possibly could, they’ve decided to dig up as much dirty laundry about Palin they can find now that the election is over with.

Why? Because Governer Palin could actually be a very powerful GOP candidate in 2012.

The nefarious McCain advisers and staffers will gleefully comply because they have suffered from unexpected jealousy ever since Governer Palin was announced to be running as McCain’s VP pick. Let’s run down the list of “grievences” that the McCain staff had woth Palin:

As late as Tuesday night, a McCain adviser said, Ms. Palin was pushing to deliver her own speech just before Mr. McCain’s concession speech, even though vice-presidential nominees do not traditionally speak on election night. But Ms. Palin met up with Mr. McCain with text in hand. She was told no by Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest advisers, and Steve Schmidt, Mr. McCain’s top strategist.

I felt it was extremely odd that Palin didn’t even address the crowd. Considering that Palin was the most powerful figure on the ticket it almost seemed out of place not to have her give some type of final words, but I suppose since everyone was supposed to be focusing on John McCain that they didn’t want to draw any attention away from him in his final speech. However, considering how “gracious” his speech was I felt that what people needed to hear was something from Palin. The crowd didn’t want to take the high road. They wanted to hear promise and hope for the future.

McCain gave them praises for a Socialist.

Anyhow, moving back to the Palin blame game:

On Wednesday, two top McCain campaign advisers said that the clothing purchases for Ms. Palin and her family were a particular source of outrage for them. As they portrayed it, Ms. Palin had been advised by Nicolle Wallace, a senior McCain aide, that she should buy three new suits for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September and three additional suits for the fall campaign. The budget for the clothes was anticipated to be from $20,000 to $25,000, the officials said.

I find it pretty shallow to try and find fault in Governer Palin for buying $150,000 in clothing for her public appearances when Barack Obama was being given custom-fitted suits for each appearance and he had a greek f**king temple built for him at his nomination. It’s pretty freaking idiotic to point fingers at your OWN CANDIDATES when the opposing sides doing far far worse in terms of excessive spending for personal accomidations.

So, what’s the point of all of this back-biting? Jealousy is the only thing I can think of. That and the McCain staffers trying to remain politically relevent after their guy lost. I suppose that Schmidt and Salter figure they can try and continue their political lives if they throw Palin, a VP pick that was largely criticized by the beltway pseudo-conservatives, out and try and smear her name.

Fox News was claiming that Palin was “throwing tantrums” and “going rogue” by certain anonymous McCain staffers. Well, I would have thrown a tantrum too if I had to deal with the amount of stupidity that seemed to just flow from the McCain campaign in the last few weeks.

Did McCain address the economic issue by appropriately placing the blame of the economic housing crisis at the feet of certain democrats like Barney Frank and Barack Obama? Did he even try to bring to light that the Community Reinvestment Act and the corruption within Fannie Mae under Franklin Raines was also highly to blame?

Nope.

When the Reverend Wright issue appeared did McCain use Obama’s radical association as an example of Obama’s poor judgement in characters?

Nope.

When it was being investigated that Obama possibly had very radical and socialist views on how America should be governed did McCain try and use that information to possibly help his campaign?

Not really. It took Joe the Plumber asking a simple question to finally light a fire under the McCain campaign to address Obama’s “Redistribution of Wealth” ideals.

When the information that Obama was possibly friends with William Ayers, co-creator of the Weather Underground, started to arise did McCain try and use that as another means of showing that, perhaps, Obama tends to have pretty nefarious and radical associations?

Nope.

Did McCain properly address the ACORN issue?

Nope.

Did the McCain campaign even attempt to address ANYTHING appropriately that could have energized his base to stand behind him and win him the election?

NOPE.

The only, and I really mean this, ONLY good decision that the McCain campaign made during this election season was, in my opinion, one simple thing: He asked Sarah Palin to be his running mate.

That’s it.

Speaking as someone who had no intention of voting for McCain in the general election after it was revealed that he had won the Republican nomination (I was not happy that he was chosen as the nominee) I can honestly say that the only thing that got me exicted again about this election was Governer Sarah Palin. So, speaking as someone who had no intention to support McCain I find it absolutely appalling that the McCain campaign would practically turn on the one thing that even kept him in the race as long as he was able to.

I don’t know what 2012 will bring, but I can only hope that I’ll be able to put a “Palin 2012″ sign in my yard. If the rest of the cocktail conservatives (Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, Buckley, etc etc etc.) don’t like it then get out of the party.

Obama Exiles the Non-Believers

If you don’t worship “The One” then your not allowed in his presence.

The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs -- and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines, ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned

I guess that it’s just a coincidence that all three of those newspapers all endorsed John McCain for President? Yeah, I’m sure it was all just a big coinkidink. Drudge goes on to say that the reason why they’ve been cut out is because Obama is bringing on documentary film-makers to record the final stretch of Obama’s campaign. Still, how strange that the very same newspapers were booted were the ones that didn’t endorse the will of The Anointed One.

Erica Jong is @&$!ing Crazy! Claims Obama loss will spark second American Civil War.

Ok, through the course of this election process we have seen and heard some pretty crazy stuff. You had Ron Paul yelling about Trilateralists and how the Fed was some type of shadow cabinet that was running the world. Then you have Mike Gravel burning stuff in the woods and throwing rocks in to lakes after staring very errily in to the camera.

We’ve seen people storm rallies and conventions while flailing about like crazy people and trying to disrupt anything. Hell, we saw riot police being called in to run off protesters during the Republican National Convention because acts of vandalism were being committed all around the area. Well, five days before the election and it would seem that all of the crazies had fallen back in to their caves and would disappear from sight until the next election.

Then Erica Jong showed up and blew the lid off of stone cold crazy.

How crazy you ask? Well, here’s the prime-time quote:

“If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it’s not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”

Stone. Cold. Crazy.

Where in the hell do these people come from? How are they not locked up in an asylum for being just so ridiculously insane? Well, she is friends with Jane Fonda who isn’t exactly a shining beacon of sound mind to begin with, but this is just shocking. I don’t even think that the 9/11 truther whack-jobs are this crazy and they come up with some pretty wild shit.

Anyways, that’s just a little bit of a look in to just how far gone the Left is.

Matthews Mocks Palin for God comments in Speech

Matthews obviously thinks he’s being cute here, but he only manages to come out looking like a giant flaming douche. The problem that Matthews, and snarky, bitchy guest Joan Walsh, don’t understand is that most people in America actually DO believe that God has blessed this country with many resources that have helped us become such a wonderful nation.

Here’s Matthews particularly ugly comment:

I’m just curious about how these — I know Joan you’re giggling because you wonder how all these things work together in this ideological symmetry. You have a religious belief that goes in one direction, and your politics goes in the same direction.  I just wonder whether anybody ever compares notes in these two categories. Like oil was put here as a blessed event, but maybe it was put here millions of years ago, and if so, let’s reconsider some of our literary interpretations these days. Go ahead.

He really is a first-class douche isn’t he? Heaven forbid that someone believe that a Supreme God somehow blessed this world with resources that we might use and better our lives.

Seriously, Matt, go back to drooling over your Obama ads and leave the intellectual and philosophical topics to people who actually have a clue to whats going on around them.

Via Newsbusters

The New Obamanation National Anthem?

Haha. Glenn Beck is awesome.

Considering Obama’s views on “Wealth redistribution” and “economic justice” I don’t see that anthem being too far off the mark.

Via HotAir.

Atheists attack God. Everyone laughs at Atheists.

Seriously, this is so bad it’s hilarious

Some Atheists in Britain got their undies up in a bunch and how they’ve decided to spend money making themselves look like total douchebags. Good going.

The sides of some of London’s red buses will soon carry ads asserting there is “probably no God,” as nonbelievers fight what they say is the preferential treatment given to religion in British society.

“Oh Lord, Make my enemies ridiculous”

The ad campaign is obviously meant to enrage and insult anyone who considers themselves a believer. However, it would seem that it has had the opposite effect with sitting members of many religions.

Few believers appeared offended by the campaign, although most doubted it would work.

“I think people will ask themselves, ‘On what basis can they make that statement?” said Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain. “So it will get people thinking, so in that sense it can only be good.”

The Muslim’s aren’t offended.

The Rev. Jenny Ellis, spirituality and discipleship officer for the Methodist Church, welcomed the ads.

“This campaign will be a good thing if it gets people to engage with the deepest questions of life,” she said.

The Christians aren’t offended either.

Looks like nobody is offended except for other atheists, and that one atheist would, predictably, be Richard Dawkins who wrote the “The God Delusion”. Dawkins claims that they ads will “provoke thought” and that thinking is “Anathema to religion”. Uh, no, Dick, its not. Viciously attacking a person because they have faith, writing books and making public statements that God is an imaginary figure, and claiming that religion is a disease counts as Anathema.

However, questions and deep thinking is NOT anathema.

While Dawkins seems to support the ad campaign he does complain that the ads include the word “probably” in their signs. Obviously Dawkins wanted a more direct and blunt message along the lines of “There is definitely no God” but since neither science nor any amount of outside-the-box thinking can prove that I suppose he’ll just have to deal with it.

Climate Change – Like a freight train!

Seriously, Climate Change is getting a Six million dollar man upgrade.

The World Wildlife Fund, obviously not happy with the lack of news regarding anything to do with Climate Change, has decided to ring the doom bells once again to let everyone else know that Global Warming is still out there and lurking. One bit of information they bring up is interesting however:

One of the most concerning aspects of recent data is evidence that, in some places, the Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice 30 years ahead of current IPCC predictions.

Summer sea ice is now forecasted to completely disappear in the summer months sometime between 2013 and 2040 — something which hasn’t happened for over a million years.

Oh really? The Arctic ice is melting some 30 years ahead of current predictions? Well, World Wildlife Fund, actual empirical data would like to have a word with you.

Watts has a lot of scientific language on the site regarding the actual evidence. However, to put it in simple terms the Arctic Ice has grown by 28.7% compared to what we had last year and we are now above the levels we had in 2005. The good news? It’s still growing and the Artic ice is reforming and growing every day. Obviously, someone is either lying or just hasn’t done their homework on what is actually happening in the Arctic ocean, but considering Watts actually gives data to back up their claims….I’m gonna have to go ahead and say that CNN and the World Wildlife Fund are just trying to peddle off more Global Warming alarmism to keep pushing that agenda forward.

Nothing out of the ordinary really.

Thanks Joe Biden! I no longer wish to be Patriotic anymore.

Why? Because Biden has a seriously eff’ed up definition of what it means to be patriotic.

Biden says he and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama want to “take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people.”

Under the Democrats’ economic plan, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes while those earning less — the vast majority of American taxpayers — would receive a tax cut.

Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that, in his words, “it’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”

Yeah, thanks but no thanks. I would rather NOT have the government take anymore money from the higher achievers of this society and have it being redistributed around at some government officials discretion. Why is the top achievers of the American public being the ones who are punished in this plan anyways? Because they’re successful? Because they’re wealthy and have lots of money?

In a nutshell? Yes.

Under Obama/Biden you, the American citizen, would be punished for being successful and being an over-achiever in the new society they wish to build. They’re plan isn’t a new one and it’s been tried in numerous other countries before. Namely, countries that are heavily invested in Soclialism and Communism have always been promoting the idea of “Wealth Distribution” which is exactly what these “taxes on the evil rich” are. It is a plan to, and I’m not going to sugercoat this, STEAL more money from the wealthy and successful people of America just so they can prop up the poor and unsuccessful all in the name of “fairness”.

The problem with that is that it isn’t fair at all. The successful crowd is actually going to be punished and have their wages torn from them so that it can be given to people who:

• Don’t Work
• Live on Welfare
• Have made bad decisions in life
• Who do not strive to be the best
• Who are less productive than the “evil rich”
• Who do not contribute to society

That may seem a bit harsh for me to list all that out there, but remember, I’m not being patriotic anymore due to Biden’s definition that “paying more taxes” is patriotic. I don’t want to pay more taxes, and I would prefer to pay LESS taxes or NONE AT ALL for that matter. I do not wish to see people who have made their lives comfortable and successful have their wages stripped from them just so that it can be handed down to some lazy individual who decided they only wanted to do what was “good enough” instead of what was best.

You know what’s REALLY patriotic?

• Getting a career.
• Getting a college education.
• Working more than just the minimum 40-hour work week and getting that extra money.
• Actually contributing to society instead of waiting on the government to do everything for you.
• Supporting your family through hard work and perseverance.
• Supporting your country in times of War and danger.
• Standing up for individual liberties and keeping the spirit of individualism alive.
• Serving your country and supporting the love and defense of it.

None of the things involved with REAL patriotism (and there are more but I don’t have the time) have a damn thing to do with paying higher taxes, so if Obama/Biden is what I have to look forwards to for the next four years and this crock of s*** about higher taxes is what they define as patriotism? Then color me unpatriotic.

Video’s of Biden making those statements and my reactions below the fold.

What a crock of s**t.

I seriously hate that smug little smile on his face. It’s that same type of “slick car salesman” smile that alludes to the fact that you know this deal is going to screw you over somewhere down the line.

F***! – House passes crappy, stupid, fake “drilling” bill.

I’ve been saying this for a month of so now and this drilling bill called the “Gang of Ten” compromise is nothing but a big fat lie. Well, apparently nobody (but a few of us) are taking this thing seriously because it just got passed in the house.

The bill is HR6899 and it was passed 236-189 yesterday.

Damnit.

I don’t have the massive amounts of traffic that many of my blogging allies get it, so is nigh impossible for me to motivate anyone to starting some type of outcry on the same level that we saw the American public stand up and stamp out that piece of crap Amnesty bill that McCain and Kennedy tried to pass a while back. The majority of the Americans who see this type of bill being passed must really think that it will allow drilling to the point that it will help lower gas prices.

WRONG!!!!!!!

The Bill incorporates some of the highest tax hikes on oil producers in this country that I have ever heard of. Nearly $80 billion in tax increases for domestic oil companies who wish to actually explore this tiny area the bill opens up while funneling government money in to stupid, failed alternative fuels and renewable energies.

The Bill is a HOAX and does nothing to help us at the pump. The bill is merely designed to allow the democrats breathing room politically so that they can say in the future: “Hey, look, we voted on a drilling bill and it didn’t do anything.”

Which is WHAT THEY WANT. We shouldn’t be compromising with the Dems on this issue. Why? Because we can beat them on this issue. We can actually BEAT them on this topic and were just going to take appeasement over actual victory. Well, luckily for me two of the senators supporting this piece of crap “energy bill” are in my state and they are up for re-election. Hopefully my state will kick them out of office come election day.

Whoopi asks dumbest question ever. Ambushes McCain on “The View”

Really? Did she REALLY ask McCain is she was going to have to worry about being a slave again? What the hell type of question is that? That has to be the most pathetic and ignorant type of question that I have ever seen anyone try and ask.

The problem with Whoopi’s “assessment” of what McCain is trying to say is that she doesn’t understand how the government actually works. Roe Vs. Wade was never, and has never, been legislated or passed in to federal or state law. Roe Vs. Wade was a supreme court RULING which gave precedent over a certain situation which forced a psuedo-law in to being. However, on the subject of slavery, it is an issue that has been addressed by the Constitution (the basis of our law) itself and was abolished using proper legislative procedures and amendments. Abortion, however, has never been handled by the consitution nor has it ever been voted on in a legislative setting on a federal level. THAT’S why McCain said it was a bad idea because it is NOT the Judicial branches duty, nor is it within their power, to create legislation from the bench.

Overturning Roe V. Wade would actually be GOOD because it would remove erroneous precedents from history so that we can allow proper legislation to take place on the matter, and only on the state level at that.

Whoopi is just a leftist tard who has now shown that she is just as crazy as her predecessor.

Time: Global Warming strikes again…with Asthma!!!

That’s right folks! The unseen deadly force that is Global Warming, being thwarted lately with lack of Sunspots and decreasing Global temperatures, has finally devised its plan to fight back against the rising reputation it has for being a big phoney. How? By going straight for your allergies!

Time seems to think that the rise in global temperatures, which have actually been decreasing, will be good for planets due to all of that nasty carbon dioxide in the air. Plants eat that stuff up.

Anyways, if you global warming alarmists thought that your allergies were bad then you just wait. Global Warming is about to rock your socks off, so I suggest you get that Claritin pack ready.

Recent research suggests that global warming will also exacerbate respiratory allergies, as higher CO2 concentrations lead to vast increases in ragweed pollen production. “There’s no denying there’s a change,” says Paul Ratner, an immunologist with the American College of Allergies. “It’s definitely bad news for people who have allergies.”

OH NOES!!!

It gets worse from here folks:

The World Health Organization estimates that 300 million people globally have asthma, with 250,000 dying from the disease each year. That rate is up considerably over the past few decades, and scientists say a number of factors could be at work. One clear reason is rising levels of ragweed pollen — which can be connected directly to rising levels of CO2.

Don’t bother looking for a graph or anything that actually proces that statement, for Time has found it convenient to omit any type of evidnce that might back up that claim. However, I imagine that if flowers were FLOURISHING that pollen levels would rise, but then again I thought that if plants were flourishing then there would be more of them to gobble up all of the excess CO2.

So, what can people do to stop the rise of monster allergies and prevent an M. Knight Shamalamaramabam type “Happening” from coming to fruition?

Stupid Congress still trying to pass bogus Energy bill.

I’ve talked about this ridiclous and absurd “energy plan” before, and it bears repeating that I think it’s a big stinking pile of s***. As I’ve pointed out in the past the bill is hardly any type of compromise because it doesn’t really DO anything to relieve the pressure at the pump or on anyone for that matter. The bill is designed to open up a tiny, tiny, insignificant amount of drilling space in the Outer Continental shelf. While that seems like a kinda, sorta good idea it, at the same time, imposes ridiculous tax hikes and penalties upon the Oil companies for starting up exploration in that area.

Not to mention it funnels a ridiclous amount of taxpayers funds in to subsidiaries to try and fund alternative energy projects which have proven to be nothing but wapourware in the past. With most of the money being funneled in to alternative projects and huge tax increases being imposed upon the oil companies the price of gas per gallon will hardly fall, but might increase instead. If you want to know how great all those alternative and renewable subsidiaries have been doing? Just look at the last 3-4 years. Congress has passed TWO energy bills which are filled to the brim with subsidiaries for alternative and renewable energy plans. can you guess what Gas prices have done since then???

They have risen by almost $1.50 a gallon.

Can you imagine what they will do if we continue this course of wasting money on renewable sources and alternative fuels WHILE still purchasing the majority of our oil from overseas? You think $4.00 a gallon is bad? You just wait.

It’s time we “Drill, drill, drill” and people in congress need to figure that out.

*Facepalm* – Obama doesn’t remember where he is anymore.

Obama identifies one of those 57 states of America.

To be fair, everyone makes gaffe’s at some point. It just so happens though that Obama’s are frequent and usually downright hilarious. If he had laughed it off and CORRECTED himself then it would have been fine. However, the fact that he just quietly goes on with his speech completely oblivious to the fact that he has just named a state that doesn’t technically exist….well…you can see why it’s funny now.

Perhaps the anointed one refuses to corrected? Perhaps his heavenly powers are so divine that during his presidency he will FORCE “New Pennsylvania” in to existence with the sheer will that is his divine right?

Well, until that happens he just continues to look like a knucklehead.

Major News: Kim Jong Il might have suffered a stroke.

U.S. officials claim that the N. Korean leader is seriously ill.

South Korea’s largest daily, the Chosun Ilbo, said Kim, 66 and suspected of suffering from chronic illness, collapsed last month, citing a South Korean diplomatic source in Beijing.

Kim failed to show up for the anniversary parade that featured displays of armaments, legions of goose-stepping soldiers and tens of thousands of fawning North Koreans shouting praises to him in unison, according to a North Korea state TV broadcast monitored in Seoul.

These types of military fanfare events are right up Kim’s alley, so when the guy doesn’t show up to one it seems a bit suspicious. Kim’s health, apparently, is supposed to be a closely guarded secret and whenever he’s been asked about it he always claims he is in perfect health. Then again…Fidel Castro said the exact same thing leading up to his own stepping down as communist leader of Cuba. Still, other nations say not to get to invested in the belief that Kim is actually sick. Japan thinks there is another type of motive behind his absence:

“He may also not wanted to appear because international aid is drying up and the country might have had trouble giving out presents to its people to mark the anniversary,” said Shunji Hiraiwa, a professor at the University of Shizuoka in Japan.

Yeah, well, international aid is probably drying up because people do not want to send N. Korea anymore money or funding. It never gets used on its people and is usually funneled in to the military or some nuclear energy or missile project. They threaten everyone around them with missile tests and talks of weaponry being built and designed which forces concessions from other regions, but it is becoming apparent that these other regions are pretty much tired of Kim’s bullcrap.

Either way we’ll find out soon enough if he’s sick or just hiding from the public eye.

Awesome: Olbermann and Matthews dropped from MSNBC election coverage as anchors.

MSNBC does something smart for once.

Oh, they’ll still be around as analysts but it looks like you wont be hearing about any tingles up their legs anytime soon. MSNBC has taken a huge hit of criticism lately because they had tossed aside the veil of unbiased coverage and deliberately went as hard left as they possibly could.

After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.

The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

I don’t really like David Gregory either but he isn’t a slobbering egotistical moron like Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. Then again….this kinda does put a bit of a damper on my election coverages. I could always count on MSNBC for a laugh because Olby and Matthews would pretty much completely melt down in to rabid, frothing leftists and just make themselves look like asses everytime the camera was on them.

Oh well, at least I don’t have to hear how offended Olby is anymore at how  the Republicans dare to mention 9/11. Wow, Ashamed that his network would air a 9/11 tribute video, but if the humidity in New Orleans hits above 85% they break out the Katrina videos and flood the news with every gruesome detail of the disaster.

I believe we all know who is really exploiting what here.

OH SHI- : CERN prepares to divide by zero.

As if Doomsday needed a cover story!

SRSLY crazy science. I know that the scientists from all over the world have stated that the machine is practically harmless, but this thing is also being made by the french. Which brings up an interesting belief I’ve always had that France would somehow be involved in the worlds destruction.

Ya know….to get back at everyone for making fun of them for surrendering in just about every war they’ve been in? Yeah, this has mad science written all over it.

heh, I kid.

In all seriousness though, this could seriously be something great or something worthless, and considering that CERN dumped 10 billion dollars in to the project (which was funded by governments) I’m pretty much guessing that everyone of those scientists are hoping and possibly praying that this thing does exactly what they say it will.

If it doesn’t then I’m betting they’ll be hoping it does create a black hole to suck up all that debt they’ll be in.

Left Unhinged: 250 protestors arrested during McCain speech.

If you were watching the McCain speech at all during last night you might have seen a few of the clips of a few crazy protestors who managed to get in to the arena and were holding up signs. You might, if you were watching MSNBC, have caught a glimpse of a rather hidious looking woman strip out of her jacket and down to a pink dress and try and rush the stage. Obviously the left is getting a bit nervous of the republican competition and that’s why they do these kind of things. However, if you thought that was all that was going on….

You would be wrong.

Police arrested more than 250 protestors during McCain’s speech last night in St. Paul.

The peaceful protest, dubbed “No Peace for the Warmakers,” drew nearly 1,000 people who had planned to march to the downtown convention hall where the Republicans met.

Marchers chanted “Who is the terrorist? McCain is the terrorist” as they tried to cross several bridges that span Interstate 94 into downtown St. Paul, but were blocked by police.

It always amazes me to see people describe a protest so filled with anger and hatred as “peaceful” but whatever. I guess most of them knew it was supposed to be peaceful, but apparently a few of them didn’t get the memo:

Walsh said most would be cited for unlawful assembly and released. One person was found with a semiautomatic pistol, for which he had a permit, and others were found with bags of feces, he said.

Feces? Really? Did these people walk around scooping up abandoned piles of dog poo from peoples yards, or were they actually taking craps in bags and planning on throwing them at people? I know that the left things we conservatives are somehow weird and delusional because we believe in things like God and Morals,but I think it is high time for them to start looking at themselves in the mirror. Seriously, who’s the crazy one here? The one who believes in God or the one who is keeping bags of fecal matter on their person to throw at someone?

The real creepy thing is that these people are Obama supporters. These are the people who are so invested in Obambi’s success and are responsible for elevating Obama to cult status. They fling feces at people one minute and then point fingers at us conservatives and scream “crazy!” the next. It’s like they live in some bizzarro world where up is left and down is russia.

Oprah refusing to invite Palin to protect Obama?

It sure as hell seems that way.

Looks like the Queen of daytime media has gotten herself in to a bit of a pickle. Considering Oprah’s audience is mostly female one would think that she would invite Palin on to speak to her about being the first female on a Republican ticket, or how energizing she has been to the Republican base. However, you would be wrong if you thought Oprah wanted to do that.

Why?

Because she’s already endorsed Barack “I organized the hell out of a crapload of communities” Obama. So, by inviting Palin on the show she obviously feels that she would be damaging Obama in the process, and the funny thing is that she is right. Sarah Palin, who is not even Obama’s direct competition, has been robbing The Anointed One’s spotlight ever since her name first appeared on the scene, and Oprah knows that having Palin on the show would definately open up a chance for Palin to knock Ole’ Barry down a notch.

However, here’s the pickle:

“Half of her staff really wants Sarah Palin on,” an insider explains. “Oprah’s website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama.”

One executive close to Winfrey is warning any Palin ban could ignite a dramatic backlash!

So, Oprah, who has adamantly sided only with Obama now finds herself stuck between her own political preference and her audience. She is actually risking alienating many of her own watcher-base to protect the Obamessiah. However, if this executive is correct then Oprah could see a backlash large enough to force her to extend an invitation to Palin.

Is the the best election ever? or is it the BEST ELECTION EVER?!

UPDATE: It would seem that Oprah has issued a comment to TMZ about the story that appeared on Drudge about Oprah refusing to invite Palin.

“The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”

Except for the fact that Obama has been on her show. Twice. However, it should be noted that he did make those appearances before he was running for President.

There is one thing I would like to add to this story though. I think that Oprah is full of it and she is lying through her damn teeth. If Oprah has not wanted to use her show as a platform for any of the candidates she shouldn’t have even publicly endorsed Obama in the first place. She knew full well that her popularity would help give Obama a boost in the polls during the primaries and that’s why she went and met with him on stage and then gave her announcement. She didn’t have to physically make the announcement on her show because she knew that her popularity, whether she is sitting on set or not, is paramount.

She’s basically trying to claim that her “show” is politically unbiased while she isn’t. The only problem is that Oprah IS her show. You can’t publicly endorse a candidate and give speeches about him while claiming that your keeping your show unbiased. It just doesn’t work that way.

Personally? I think she’s afraid of Palin as is most of the left these days.