This just in from the Department of Inconvenient Correspondence...

McCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie

Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below.

McCain's letter -- signed by nineteen other senators -- said that it was "...vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]...operate in a safe and sound manner.[and]..More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either...should fail."

Sen. Obama did not sign the letter, nor did any other Democrat.

Sen. Obama didn't even vote present on this one. Hopefully the media will take note... yeah, couldn't even make it through that sentence with a straight face.

This just in from the Department of Overreaction...

Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.

Uh... huh? She dropped the hammer on a guy that wouldn't drop the hammer on a guy that shouldn't be roaming the streets, let alone be carrying a badge, and this is an "abuse of power"? Riiight. That's what reformers do you morons. Meanwhile, The One has a racist America-bashing pastor for two decades, helps funnel cash and power to a man whose goal is the violent overthrow of the capitalist system by brainwashing our children, helps funnel cash to groups hellbent on undermining the electoral process, took an active role in the sub-prime mortgage debacle that is threatening not only our economy but the economy of the world yet Gov. Palin is the one abusing power?

Racist!

Uhm... sure.

Black Congressmen Declare Racism In Palin’s Rhetoric

“Racism is alive and well in this country, and McCain and Palin are trying to appeal to that and it’s unfortunate,” said Representative Ed Towns, also from New York.

Pointing out that someone who wants to run this country has a penchant for involving himself with people who have major beefs with this country is racist? Hell, this is coming on the heels of comments about his connections with... wait for it... wait for it... a white guy and that's racism? Oh, shut up. I'm not saying racism doesn't exist still. I'm definitely not saying that it's a "white folks only" thing either. 'Cause it's not. But I am saying that this is typical racecard tactics the Democrats have become synonymous with.

Speaking of walls...

I certainly hope they nail this SOB to one. I loved this bit:

His father, a Memphis Democrat, is chairman of Tennessee's House Government Operations Committee. Mike Kernell has said he had nothing to do with the hacking incident.

Sure you didn't Mike. I'm sure raising a kid in a Democrat pol's house and then sending him off to college, for further indoctrination, had nothing to do with his PDS going this far.

So Many Problems, So Little Wallspace...

These jokers should be lined up against the wall... right next to Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, and Maxine Waters (to name a few).

This just in from the Department of Danger Assessment...

Biden calls Palin's criticism 'mildly dangerous'

WASHINGTON - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican rival Sarah Palin is injecting fear and loathing into their campaign with her criticism that Barack Obama is friends with a terrorist. He called the effort "mildly dangerous."

The only danger is to the facade Sen. Obama has erected around himself. I love the accusations of "injecting fear and loathing" by Sen. Biden. As if the standard election practice of Democrats running around telling people how the Republicans are going to starve children, throw people out on the streets, and the rest of the usual class warfare playbook doesn't inject fear and loathing.

The Second Debate...

Good heavens. If I was a doctor and I had a patient suffering from insomnia, I would prescribe watching this debate. I can't tell you how many times I was tempted to chuck my remote at the screen. Dammit John, either kick this putz in the nards over the crap he and his have been involved with that has, in no small part, brought about our current economic meltdown or just concede the damned race already. Seriously. You aren't going to out socialist this guy, why the hell do you think even attempting it will work?

This just in from the Department of Straw-Grasping...

Who You Callin’ a Maverick?

Considering the family’s long history of association with liberalism and progressive ideals, it should come as no surprise that Ms. Maverick insists that John McCain, who has voted so often with his party, “is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase.”

“It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ ”

“He’s a Republican,” she said. “He’s branded.”

Oh shut up. The folks who were calling him a "maverick" the most have been the leftist media, lauding him for jamming his thumb in the eye of President Bush every chance he got. Sen. McCain, as much as the leftist would now have you believe otherwise, is not Pres. Bush 2.0 and he's most definitely not the flaming right-winger they want to portray him as now that he's running against a Democrat instead of Republicans.

This just in from the Department of Unending Blessings...

Politics and Palin lure viewers to "SNL"

The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers.

"SNL" averaged a 7.4 household rating/18 share in the metered market overnights, Nielsen Media Research said on Sunday afternoon. That's within a tenth of a rating point of its September 13 premiere, which itself was the highest-rated show since December 14, 2002, when Al Gore and Phish appeared.

"SNL" is up 49 percent in the metered markets compared with the first four weeks of last season, as well as up 42 percent this past Saturday compared to episode No. 4 last season.

Here's to you having that goldmine of a source for material for the next sixteen years!

This just in from the Department of Self-Inflicted Wounds...

Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating Five

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday is launching a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.

Good gravy. Here we go again. Didn't the NY Times try this already? Even that Democrat Bob Bennett, who helped investigate the "Keating Five" mess said Sen. McCain didn't do anything wrong. The most important bit is that Sen. McCain learned a lesson from that mess and started down the path of being a reformer. While Sen. Barack "Hopenchange" Obama still has yet to learn anything from his poor judgement (which further illustrates how poor his judgment and how great, to borrow a word from Charlie Gibson, his hubris is) and has yet to actually reform a darned thing.

I certainly hope this *snicker* attack ups the ante and the next chapter in "The Obama You Don't Know About... But Should" book Gov. Palin is [finally] reading to us from will cover how in 1994 then "community organizer" Barack Obama sued Citibank under the CRA to force them to make the same bad loans other banks were being forced to make by other "community organizers" and certain congresscritters (most, if not all, having a 'D' after their names). And how the CRA and its misuse and the unintended consequences have, in no small part, flushed our economy down the crapper.

Update: (Via Michelle Malkin) Looks like McCain's reading this chapter. Or at least, tying the two together. He really needs to point out the 1994 shenanigans. Folks have been wondering what a "community organizer" does, now we know part of it. I mean, other than flooding the electoral process with bogus votes in an attempt to steal (yet another) election.

Obama Youth II - Electric Boogaloo

Teacher Suspended For Releasing Obama Youth Video

"I went through the public school and when I was there no one cared about either candidate," voter Christopher Slocum said.

I remember the first time one of my teachers (in a public school) got us involved in the electoral process. It was the Ford v. Carter election and we took dried beans, one with a green dot for Ford and one with a blue dot for Carter(if I remember correctly, which I doubt, but they were marked beans) and we were to choose one of the beans and put them in a "ballot box". She then explained how the voting process worked and got into the Electoral College as well. She did not, however, dress us up in para-military clothing and choreograph a disturbing little "show of support" for one candidate.

I challenge any of the so-called liberals to check out footage of the Hitler Youth and the various Young Pioneer-type organizations... and then check out that video. This is some seriously scary stuff, people. I mean, scarier than the stuff the leftists think those to the right of them are up to because, unlike that stuff, this stuff is really happening.

Furthermore, I certainly hope the title of the article is incorrect. The teacher shouldn't be suspended for releasing the video. They should be sacked for having anything like that at all take place (filmed or not) in a school. And any teacher who releases video of this going on at their school should be praised for letting the rest of us know, whether that was their intention for releasing it or not, what the hell is going on.

Must be something in the water...

... at the LA chapter of NOW. Tammy Bruce who saw the light, so to speak, some time ago, and now Shelly Mandel who is *gasp* supporting Sarah Palin.



Who 'da thunk it. That cricket noise you hear is the "mainstream" media's lack of coverage of Ms. Mandel's endorsement.

This just in from the Department of Thought Police Enforcement...

Analysis: Palin's words may backfire on McCain

AP - Palin's words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee "palling around" with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn't see their America?

In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers' day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.

Nothing new here. Question "The One" and his judgment or his record or his associations and you are a racist. It would be funny if the implications weren't so frightening. This may comes as news to Mr. Daniel, but being a terrorist does not, necessarily, have anything to do with a person's race any more than it does being a rapist and murderer or (are you listening Phil Donahue?) a serial killer.

There are, and have been, people who have a beef, in this case, with the United States, and have taken this to the level of violence. Bill Ayers happens to be one of those people. And Sen. Obama, as much as the "mainstream" media and Obama cultists (but I repeat myself) would like to deny it, is an associate of his. Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist. That doesn't mean he's "brown" or an Islamist anymore than Timothy McVey. It means he had a beef with the US and took it to the level of violence.

One of the reasons I have always had a problem with the use of the "war on terror(ism)" label is that terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology. We're not in a "war on terror" anymore than we were in a "war on kamikaze" or a "war on blitzkrieg" in the early-to-mid 1940s. We are in a war with racial Islamists. But they aren't the only people who would like the US, as we know it, destroyed. The problem being is that one of the guys running to lead the US has a predilection for hanging out with such people and should bear the scrutiny it would if the "mainstream" media was intellectually honest or... you know... the person in question had an 'R' after their name instead of a 'D'.

This can't be pointed out enough.

Great stuff. I have to admit my ignorance about Martin Luther King being a Republican. Makes total sense when you think about it. But runs contrary to the steady lie the Democrats have been propagating for much of my lifetime. Hence the "think about it" caveat.

This just in from the Department of Fuzzy Math...

Wow, talk about working backwards from a desired conclusion. Not that this is in anyway shocking mind you. The "mainstream" media has been doing this as a matter of standard operating procedure for decades.

Obama Youth

How is this any different than the brainwashing a certain "Bohemian Corporal" was up to back in the 1930s?

Wake the hell up people.