In the vice presidential debate that took place between Algore and Jack Kemp in 1996, Algore repeatedly presented differences of opinion between Kemp’s positions and those of Bob Dole who was the Republican nominee that year.  The point that Algore was trying to make was that the Republican ticket was weak since they had such differences of opinion.

Let’s fast forward to this year when Joe Biden is having a terrible time trying to stay focused on Obama’s positions.  Just in the past couple of days, Biden has stated that he’s against clean coal, criticized an Obama campaign ad that put down McCain for his lack of computer skills, and got on Obama’s wrong side on the AIG bailout.  This all occurred just a few days after Biden “disagreed” with Obama’s own choice of a running mate when he said Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice.

If Algore is right in his idea that disagreement in policy positions really shows weakness of a ticket, Biden and Obama have to be looking like the two stooges.  Maybe Algore will join his old running mate in endorsing McCain.

And to throw another fresh Biden gaffe into the discussion, he said  “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

In case anyone doesn’t know, the stock market crashed in 1929 and Roosevelt didn’t become president until 1932.  There’s also the little matter of the unavailability of television for Roosevelt to have “got on” in regardless of whether Biden’s little event happened in 1929 or 1932.  Since Obama hasn’t made clear his position of this gaffe, we don’t know whether this is another point where they disagree.

Obama has been promising a new brand of politics since he began his campaign for president.  Today it was revealed that his campaign is responsible for videos smearing Sarah Palin.

I suppose in a few days the most we can expect from Obama is for him to say that this wasn’t the Axelrod that he knew.

Imagine the fury in the MSM if the McCain campaign team had been responsible for smear videos on either Biden or Obama.

http://www.examiner.com/x-701-National-Defense-Examiner~y2008m9d22-Smear-videos-against-Palin-linked-to-Obama-campaign

A series of videos designed to spread lies about the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin has been connected to a professional Public Relations firm. Those videos also share production qualities used in pro-Obama videos produced by Obama media campaign strategist David Axelrod.

Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden announced a plan today aimed at helping the middle class and economically disadvantaged deal with the high costs of transportation.

“The last 8 years of the failed Bush administration have seen transportation costs soar well out of the budgets of most of Americans”, Biden said in a speech at an abandoned hangar 15 miles west of Carruthersville, Missouri.
“My plan will offer air fares and bus fares well below 50% of today’s going rates. While destinations will be limited at first, as this campaign ramps up we will add more destinations although some will be on a last minute, first come first served basis.”

Biden cited Bush administration waste as the main problem for affordable transportation.
“You take this bus right here”, Biden said while pointing at a 50 ft. charter. “It probably gets somewhere around 8 miles to the gallon, yet it only had 7 people on it when it arrived. There’s a jet on standby at the Memphis airport, it flew all the way from Oshkosh, Wisconsin with only 8 people aboard. A massive waste of our dwindling resources which are becoming more scarce every day due to the Bush administration policies which John McCain will follow in lockstep.”

Biden then set forward a sign up sheet for anyone wishing to lock in reduced fares on his campaign bus and jet, which press corps abandoned 48 minutes after the announcement of Sarah Palin as the GOP vice presidential nominee.

When asked by a reporter from the Carruthersville Democrat Argus newspaper what happened to the 8th person on the plane, and why they weren’t also on the bus, Biden said “That was the reporter from Grit, I think we lost him at the Waffle House in West Memphis. I thought I heard the Koss guy say something to him about performing a 55th trimester abortion on him and then he was gone.”.
“Seriously though, all these planes and buses running empty all over this country is a travesty. People can’t afford to go anywhere and stuff’s running around empty. Black people are stranded, even clean black people. A black person would have a better chance getting on a plane if they had a towel on their head and were chanting death to the infidels. No one can afford transportation, well no one except for the Jews. We all know they’ve got money. They’ve always had money, cause they won’t spend any. they’re tight. Don’t forget the Catholics either. They’ve got money. They jet their priests all over following me around refusing to give me communion. Those priests are wrong about that abortion thing. I think it was St. Jude who said “What goes around comes around”. I’ll go with that doctrine. No one with a funny hat and pointed shoes knows more about doctrine than me, I’ve been in the Senate for 40 years.”

Biden closed the gathering by singing a hymn which he said he had written on the bus trip from the Memphis airport. Only a few lines were heard as the drone of a cropduster pulling back into the hangar sent a reporter and 2 secret service agents running for cover.

“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound”
“That saved a wretch like me”
“I once was lost, but now am found”

It is very common these days for people to blame George W. Bush for everything bad that happens in the world. Obama is even blaming George W. Bush for Hugo Chavez coming to power in Venezuela:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/24/obama_bush_fostered_chvez_rise/

Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama yesterday accused President Bush of complicity in the rise of his most fervent nemesis in Latin America through what Obama called a “negligent” US foreign policy that has created a void for anti-American leaders to extend their reach in the region.

“No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chávez have stepped into this vacuum,” Obama said yesterday, referring to Venezuela’s autocratic president who called Bush “the devil” during a United Nations speech and who has become a villain among American conservatives.

But this is yet another Obama gaffe. Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998 and was re-elected in 2000 before George Bush was the president and certainly before he implemented any foreign policy.

…It would be plastered 24/7 on all the news networks.

A week after his 57-state remark, Obama puts himself in the wrong city.

Of course, because it’s Obama, we can forgive and forget, because he’s got so much on his mind answering our prayers, moving planets, and all that stuff.

“I’m sorry,” Obama quickly caught himself. “Sioux Falls. I’ve been in Iowa too long.” Now, that line may not go over too well in the Hawkeye State, which gave him his first big caucus win way back in January.

I’m honestly surprised Sioux Falls failed to promptly vote to change their name.  Obviously the Indians…I mean the Native Americans made the mistake.

Obama went on to give yet another rousing stump speech, seeking support in the state’s primary June 3, the last one along with Montana. The Dakota crowd was enthusiastic. And the freshman Illinois senator threw in several extra references to South Dakota for good measure.

Obviously the wingnut lefties who gathered in Sioux Falls couldn’t remain indignant over the fact he disrespected their fine city because he gave such a rousing speech. It would be interesting to know how many attendees were actually from Sioux Falls, because I know that type of intro would commence in a swift booing off the stage where I’m from.

For a media who has rarely cut GWB a break from the portrayals of idiocy, they sure seem to be able to excuse Obama’s mistakes. In a country where we constantly hear about the state of our Education system (notably a Socialist incorporation), where kids lack geographical knowledge, it’s funny to listen to these people glaze over something as elementary as 50 states in our Union. Just don’t expect the NEA to take him to task on it.

hat tip: Michelle Malkin

Saddling up and singing to protest gas prices

I love this particular fellow:

Dozens of Alabama students are bicycling up to 10 miles each way to their rural high school. An Indiana man was arrested for belting out a protest song, “Price Gouge’n,” from the roof of a convenience store.

I can only imagine its lyrics included the names of our President, Dick Cheney, the Evil RepubliKKKans, and all those horrible oil companies who are making the same profit they’ve always made on a percentage basis. Stinkin’ free market, I’m sure this guy wants the government to hand out gas on the street corner everyday along with our food, job assignment, and five dollars of pay.

Here’s a thought: spend your protest time working an extra hour or three, and it will pay for that extra fuel in the tank. I guess that doesn’t get your name and picture in the local rag.

Here’s a story in my area paper that caught my eye. In my mind, this shows you the way the liberal mind works:

Judge Refuses To Lift Stay On DE Executions

WILMINGTON — Delaware will not be resuming executions anytime soon.

U.S. District Court Judge Sue L. Robinson told attorneys this morning that she wants to hold an evidentiary hearing — perhaps taking as long as four days — later this year to consider Delaware’s execution methods and whether they pass constitutional muster.

OK, no biggie, I think it’s worth taking a little time to examine something as final as execution. I mean, we want to make sure that rights are not tread upon. Obviously no court has looked at this before, so it’s worth spending the time, effort, and money to have the judicial system examine things.

Wait…what’s this?

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in a Kentucky case that the procedures used by that state were sufficient to guard against unnecessary and unconstitutional pain and suffering.

At today’s hearing, attorneys representing Delaware argued that thje state’s execution protocols are virtually identical to Kentucky’s and executions should be allowed to go forward.

In other words, the U.S. Supreme Court found the exact method used in Delaware to be constitutional.

Federal public defenders representing Delaware’s death row inmates, let by attorney Michael Wiseman, contended they were significantly different and violated constitutional guarantees.

Of course, the defender will say this. And note that there is absolutely no proof given in this article as to the differences. Why? Because this is simply a stall tactic. They found a judge with a self-importance high enough to believe that her opinion is more important than the 9 highest justices in the land (of course, in the case of Ginsburg, Stevens, Breyer, and Souter, “highest” takes on a whole new meaning). So taxpayer money must be wasted, might as well be wasted on hundreds of the most hardened criminals in the land. Just as long as it’s not used to fight those nice, happy Al-Qaedans over in Iraq, it’s fine!

Perhaps the people of this country should put a stay on the judicial system, and ascertain whether most of these judges are actually fit to decide whether a kernel of popcorn has popped or not.

If it were a decision whether abortion practices present “unnecessary and unconstitutional pain”, our overpaid Judge Judy would brush it off for sure.

This is simply a stall tactic, and the judge knows it. She’s playing along, just like any liberal would. Prevent justice for those wrongfully murdered in the name of justice for the slime that started it. Only in America would a criminal have more rights than an unborn child.

Back in 1998, Hillary exposed the extremist, unhinged “vast right wing conspiracy” that couldn’t understand that her husband, Bill, was just a guy and needed to have some fun with an intern. You see, obviously nothing bad happened because a bunch of nutjob righties forced him to do it, or something like that. Obviously.

My how things have changed. The same MSM that allowed her to play the right wing card a few years ago has abandoned her, and now she’s accusing them of conspiring against her.

Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), said Tuesday that the former first lady is hamstrung by a biased media.

I think it’s abundantly clear that this is the case, but as a conservative, I can only say, “Glad you finally get to experience it, Hill.” Up until this election cycle, it was an easy choice for the Media, and for 8 years the Clintons got the benefit of that preferential media treatment. They could do no wrong, even to the point where the Media tried to cover up Lewinsky. If not for Matt Drudge, Monica may have become the next Vince Foster. Fortunately, the people wanting the truth became known to the world as the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy,” and banded together to form a legion that has supported Fox News and many other conservative news outlets on the web. 

Speaking of Fox News, Terry McAuliffe’s opinion is interesting:

He also praised Fox News, which is often viewed as a conservative media outlet, as “one of the most responsible in this presidential campaign.”

I’m surprised he didn’t tack on something like, “Must be the Republicans want Hillary to be the nominee.” The Clinton Campaign really needs to get back to the playbook, the Daily Kooks won’t elect her President if she’s patting us right-wingers on the back.

Anyone who has paid attention to politics over the past 20 years remembers the Dan Quayle “potatoe” incident. Democrats had a field day with Quayle who couldn’t spell a “potato” correctly. Prominent Democrats couldn’t make a speech about education without making fun of Mr. Quayle.

Now the guy who is probably going to be the Democratic nominee for president makes a gaffe where he says he’s visited 57 states. The mainstream media has predictably ignored this one, but it’s out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

In the case of Dan Quayle, he was given a card by a NEA member where the famous food was spelled P-O-T-A-T-O-E. He had asked prior to the event whether the cards had been properly checked and was told that they had been. Most Americans (and surely most Democratic politicians) would have had the same reaction given the same circumstances, but in the case of Dan Quayle he was tortured for years.

If Obama wants to claim that his excuse is exhaustion, Americans should demand better from the person that will answer the phone at 3 am. Recall that Hillary used the same excuse for the sniper fire incident shortly after putting out the 3 am commercials.

Now we can sit back and see how much play the “57 states” gaffe gets from the media. We should be asking ourselves whether we want a guy that doesn’t understand elementary geography to “fix” education in America?

Theology is by definition the study of God. Does “Black Liberation Theology” involve the study of God or is it something else?

Early in this election season, Barack Obama was asked about his church and his minister. He stated, “I don’t think my church is particularly controversial.”
During that portion of the campaign, Obama was getting very favorable press
coverage and he likely thought that neither his church nor his minister would be questioned.

But the story did break and Obama initially said, “The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.” This response was not received by the American public or even the press the way Obama had hoped and so he delivered his now famous race speech in Philadephia. In that speech Obama said, “I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make
remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely - just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.”

A lot of people interpret the two statements as contradictory when he said that he never heard Wright say such statements and then said in the Philly speech that Wright said things that “could be considered controversial.” If one takes a look at the teachings of Black Liberation Theology it is even harder to believe since Obama’s church and his minister Wright are adherents of it.

Black Liberation Theology was started by James Cone in the late 1960’s. Cone wrote the book that is the basis for Black Liberation Theology. Some of the more offensive points in the book are as follows:

“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the
goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”

A Black Theology of Liberation By James H. Cone 1990 ISBN-10: 0883446855 Page 27

The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black
self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. Either God is
identified with the oppressed to the point that their experience becomes God’s
experience, or God is a God of racism…The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God’s own condition. This is the essence of the Biblical revelation. By electing Israelite slaves as the people of God and by
becoming the Oppressed One in Jesus Christ, the human race is made to understand that God is known where human beings experience humiliation and
suffering…Liberation is not an afterthought, but the very essence of divine
activity. (A Black Theology of Liberation, pp. 63-64)

Some further Cone statements:

- “All white men are responsible for white oppression.”

- “While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism.”

- “Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man “the devil.”"

- “The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black
self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples.”

- “We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal.”

A couple of conclusions immediately come to mind. This is not a study of God. This is an appeal to emotions. And it is simply not reasonable to question whether Barack Obama heard hateful and anti-American statements in his church. With a theology based on divisiveness, it is simply not possible to avoid having heard such things.