Joe Biden: Elect Obama and Get an International Crisis

Joe Biden:
Elect Obama and
"Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis"

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"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you."
--Joe Biden at Seattle Fundraiser

A bit of Election 2008 Comic Relief:

Straight from Joe Biden's mouth (From Biden to Supporters: "Gird Your Loins", For the Next President "It's Like Cleaning Augean Stables":

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

Biden also talked about his helicopter ride from Hell, but was careful to note it was due to a snowstorm--not al-Qaida.

Biden also had a "Media Clarity Moment".

After speaking for just over a quarter of an hour, Biden noticed the media presence in the back of the small ballroom.

"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here," he joked.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?


by Mondo
hat tip: Little Green Footballs - Elect Biden and We'll Have an International Crisis
image: dbkp file

Obama: Fiddles in Hollywood While Wall St. Burns

Culture Watch vol. 33
Nancy Morgan
Right Bias.com




Last week saw an unprecedented government intrusion into the private markets as they continued bailing out, with our tax dollars, failing companies. This is called socialism. For more on this frightening trend, check out, 'Caution: Government At Work.'

ELECTION '08:

As world financial markets melted, Obama took time out from hobnobbing with Hollywood celebrities to pronounce capitalism as a failed institution. No one in the media questioned him on his alternative. They were too busy trying to brand Sarah Palin as some sort of religious loon.

The drive-by media was also too busy to question Obama on a credible report that he tried to influence Iraq to delay the withdrawal of US troops until after the election. Logan Act anyone??

Electioneering has begun in earnest with polls showing a dead heat between Obama and McCain. I expect that may be due, in part, to the Obama campaign's decision to send Obama's teleprompters on the road with him. Or it could be due to the efforts of a group of Palestinian students living in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, who gather nightly to phone US voters and urge them to vote for Obama.

Meanwhile, the investigator looking into Sarah Palins' firing of a state trooper, Stephen Branchflower, has been slapped with a lawsuit by Alaska residents who believe his inquiry represents an abuse of their tax dollars. Alaska legislators, meanwhile, announce that the investigation will be finished before the election, meaning, in time to influence the election.


GOOD NEWS:

In what hopefully could become a trend, students at Dos Palos High School actually staged a protest - by wearing patriotic regalia to school - after a sophomore was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting an American flag. Cool Jeans!

In the face of a legal challenge, search engine Google was forced to lift its ban on pro-life advertisements. Technology is coming closer to developing software that analyse a person's speech, voice and facial expression to determine if they are telling the truth. Imagine the implications.

Remember the war on terror? Top U.S. counterterrorism experts say al-Qaeda is "imploding" and that its violent tactics have turned Muslims world-wide against them. Here at home, the FBI says violent crime is on the downswing. Good news, all around. You probably heard it here first.




CULTURE:

Speaking of violent crime, check out the latest face of terror. A schoolboy, the youngest Briton to be convicted of a terrorism offense, was jailed for 2 years for his part in a world-wide plot to target non-Muslims.

97% of 14 to 17 year-olds play video games. Another survey shows that half of all Americans believe in guardian angels. (Hint: the guardian angel they believe in is NOT the government.) Meanwhile, a Riviera Beach law against 'saggy pants' has been ruled unconstitutional. Cracks are now legal.

Over in Poland, legislators are seriously considering introducing 'coerced treatment' of pedophiles. Translation: castration. And India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on a controversial machine: a brain scanner. Here in the US, a former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job at the Library of Congress because he was in the process of becoming a she won a discrimination lawsuit.

A new study calculates that a full one-third of American college students have to enroll in remedial classes. The bill to taxpayers for trying to bring them up to speed on stuff they were supposed to learn in government schools is a whopping $2.3 to $2.9 billion, annually.



Search giant Google is set to launch its new "Google phone" operating system this Tuesday. Google is also planning on deploying all the supercomputers it uses in its internet search business to barges located seven miles off shore, away from national laws and taxes.

Speaking of taxes, it appears our government is trying to collect billions of dollars in late taxes from nearly half a million federal employees. One of the most prominent, is Congressman Charlie Rangel, who got caught cheating on his taxes. Did I mention he is head of a key tax writing committee?

Dems have so far shot down two attempts by GOP to punish Rangel for tax fraud, meanwhile, Rangel wrote an open letter to New Yorkers saying he is the target of a "guerilla war." This is called hubris. Its also called 'politics as usual.'


ESSENTIAL TRIVIA:

Standing at just 2ft 5in high, He Pinping has been officially named the world's smallest man. Svetlana Pankratova, meanwhile, owns the longest legs in the world

The owner of the Storchen restaurant in Winterthur is improving his menu by using mother's milk in his soups and sauces. Whoa.

From the schadenfruede files, it might be comforting to know that billionaire George Soros's hedge fund may have lost at least $120 million on its stake in failed Lehman Brothers. I'm smiling. Color me catty.
An Israeli city is compiling a DNA data bank - on dog poop. Apparently they will match dog poop with the owners in order to both reward and fine dog owners who don't use a pooper scooper. How about we initiate a similar DNA test for Democrat's failed policies? Just a thought...



IDIOT OF THE WEEK:

There are so many contenders for this weekly award that RightBias is forced, by space constraints, to publish the myriad idiots lists as a separate page this week. Check out 'IDIOTS OF THE WEEK AWARDS'

The top idiot of the week award goes, hands down, to Dem VP contender Joe Biden, who stated with a straight face that being patriotic means paying higher taxes. No doubt, some will fall for this bunk, which further explains the need for an expanded IDIOT'S list. So many idiots, so little time.

Till next week, keep smiling,

by Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com

Culture Watch may be reprinted, with attribution to RightBias.com

Obama and the 'Tangential' Bill Ayers

Ayers: Part of a Pattern
Another Piece of the "Who's Obama?" Puzzle
The 'tangential' Bill Ayers




Barack Obama's relationship with domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, is not a topic for polite MSM or liberal conversation.

We're neither liberal or polite.

LBG discussed the issue yesterday [Obama’s Ties to 1970’s Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: Disassociation and Little Condemnation]. Today, we'll discuss it again.

No San Francisco cocktail party invites for us.

Democrats insist that any discussion of Obama and Bill Ayers is a "smear".

Is it?

A "smear" is defined as a "vilifying or slanderous remark". While Obama's friendship with Ayers is certainly "injurious to [his] reputation--especially now that Obama's running for president--there's absolutely nothing slanderous about it.

Generally, the truth is an absolute defense in any suit for slander or libel, and the truth is: the Barack Obama-Bill Ayers association goes back years.

The following observations, from comments at Free Republic helps put that association in perspective.

Q: What does Obama and Osama have in common?
A: They BOTH have friends who bombed the Pentagon.

This from stockstrader at Free Republic:

I wish someone would ask [Obama] just once: "Then tell me, would it be ok for a child who was eight years old on 9/11--to then have a friendship with Osama bin Laden later in life as an adult"?

We might add "running for president in 2020 or beyond" to the description of that eight-year-old child.

Mark Steyn's comment on the Obama-Ayers connection:

"Well, why shouldn't they vote on "character"? Barack Obama has no accomplishments, no legislative record, no nuthin'. So if you don't want to vote on character (ie, his condescension to crackers too boorish to understand how sophisticatedly nuanced it is to have a terrorist pal and a racist pastor), what else is left?"

[h/t: What's the Rumpus?]



Obama launched his political career from Bill Ayers' house. Ayers' has had fund-raisers for the Democrat presidential candidate. Obama chaired the foundation that Ayers wrote the grant for. Obama and Ayers served on the same boards.

This is not, as Obama told Bill O'Reilly this week, a "tangential" acquaintance. This is not "one of the thousands of people that I know".

That Obama didn't see anything wrong with Ayers until it became a campaign issue reveals something about Obama: his actions and past associations somehow seem to center around "change": as in, 'the USA is not a good place' and needs to be changed.

Ayers tried bombing his way to change--regardless of what the voters and the rest of the community had decided.

To discuss Obama's relationship with Ayers isn't to claim that Obama wants to blow things up (Obama's "Barack the bomb-thrower" remark). But it may help reveal the mindset of a man who wants to become president--before he became nationally-known.

That his campaign continues to downplay this--disingenuously, we think--is evidence that Obama's handlers feel this is a damaging issue. As LBG stated:

barrackobama.com's FACT CHECK section on Ayers cites various MSM sources which claim the Ayers-Obama connection is “phony”, ‘tennous”, and a “stretch”.


DBKP FACT:

Barack Obama held his first fundraiser at Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine’s home in 1995.

“Obama claims Ayers was just a “guy in the neighborhood,” but clearly he was more than that. Obama misrepresents his relationship with the man in whose home his first fundraiser was held.”
–Investors Business Daily

Here's how the Chicago Sun-Times, in a bit of WTF-ery, puts it:

Ayers is nothing more than an aging lefty with a foolish past who is doing good. And while, yes, Obama is friendly with Ayers, it appears to be only in the way of two community activists whose circles overlap. Obama's middle name is Hussein. That doesn't make him an Islamic terrorist. He stopped wearing a flag pin. That doesn't make him unpatriotic. And he's friendly with UIC Professor William Ayers. That doesn't make him a bomb thrower.

Individually, those Obama actions may not raise eyebrows at the Sun-Times; collectively, might they seem to suggest, to the uninterested observer, an Obama pattern?

In the O'Reilly interview, Obama was allowed to skate away from the questions on Ayers by saying that Ayers was "tangential": Bill O'Reilly didn't hone in on the follow-up. That's understandable: O'Reilly would like to land another rating-boosting Obama appearance on his show at some point in the future.

The Obama campaign will not, just as understandably, bring up the issue of Ayers unless pressed. The Mainstream Media will not, just as understandably, press the issue with a candidate that 90% of their reporters will likely vote for in 2008.

Which, once more, leaves it up to the blogosphere to press the issue.

We intend on doing that, along with others. To those on the right, there's a lot more to discuss about Obama and Ayers and we'll get around to that. To those on the left, "sticks and stones..."

As for the "smear" talk?

We're not asking about Obama's kids or whether he's their father: we're asking about a man from whose house Barack Obama announced his Illinois Senate bid:

The 'tangential' Bill Ayers.


by Mondoreb
images; dbkp file

John Edwards Scandal: Wealthy Democratic Fundraiser is Edwards Money Man

Mystery Man Resides in Dallas, TX



The National Enquirer released more than just the photos of John Edwards holding Frances Quinn Hunter yesterday [: it also revealed more clues to the identity of the man who, the Enquirer claims, funneled the hush money to Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young.

But, the Enquirer released the details in their print edition only, which hit parts of the country yesterday. One area of the country which doesn't have the new Enquirer yet is our own. But through the efforts of one reader--who wishes remain anonymous and who purchased a copy of the newest Enquirer for us!--that went beyond and above the call of duty, we did obtain some details about the Edwards "hush money man".

We won't spill all the Enquirer's beans here; after all, David Perel, the Enquirer's Editor-in-Chief, has to recoup the investment of a year's worth of reporting on the story.

It ain't cheap chasing around people who don't want to be found.

However, we will report a few of the Enquirer's findings about a man, about whom an earlier Enquirer story would only refer to as, "a wealthy colleague who was closely tied to the Edwards’ campaign. This same man is also shoveling cash to Edwards’ pal and former aide Andrew Young – who tried to take the heat off the ex-Senator by claiming he is the father of Rielle’s baby."



The Enquirer also wrote last week on its website [EDWARDS' HU$H MONEY TO MISTRESS]: “A super-rich pal – who was closely involved with the campaign finances – is helping John. It’s likely this man doesn’t know all the dirty details of John’s extramarital affair, but is acting out of loyalty and is not asking a lot of questions – only writing the checks,” revealed a source very close to the situation."

The newest Enquirer reveals more clues to the man's identity--to entice MSM reporters who have thus far proved resistant to investigating and reporting on the story, perhaps?

A "wealthy Democratic fundraiser" from "Dallas, TX" is part of what the Enquirer reveals.

The story also states that besides the $15,000/month payments to Rielle Hunter and daughter, F.Q. Hunter, that $20,000 is being given to former Edwards' operative, Andrew Young and his family.

The details of the Enquirer's attempt to question the man, when and how much money the wealthy Edwards' backer raised?

Go buy your own copy of the Enquirer.

Any MSM reporter with an Enquirer and an Internet connection ought to be able to run down the identity of the man in a heartbeat.

Doug Ross?

by Mondoreb
image: National Enquirer