Sep 02 2009
So I am scanning the Drudge report this morning, as I do most days, and this headline catches my eye:
BOOZE, HOOKERS: Clinton orders probe into guards at U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan...
So naturally I think to myself, “yeah, so…?”
It was only after a more careful examination of the headline that I realized it was NOT about Clinton using hookers and booze….
Imagine my surprise.
Aug 31 2009
We now have an occupant in the White House who, by rational measure was woefully lacking in the experience necessary to hold the office of the Presidency. Barak Obama was elected, not on his record, but on a promise, the promise of hope and change. For many this meant people had hope that Obama would be a change from George Bush. By the end of 2008, Bush had become so vilified that just about any Democrat could have been elected. We as a nation are now beginning to understand the hope and change many of us desired was not the same hope and change Obama had in mind.
How did we get here? How did the desire for hope and change so completely trump experience, expertise and knowledge? Continue reading “How We Got Here – Some Thoughts on Clinton, Bush and Obama”
Oct 16 2008
A new documentary film has been made about another film, “The Path to 9/11“, a TV two part mini-series on events leading up to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. The new film is called “Blocking ‘The Path to 9/11‘ “, and was made by commentator John Ziegler, author of the book “The Death of Free Speech“. The new film is about the pressure put on ABC to cancel the film, and on the film-makers of “The Path to 9/11” to change the film to remove the most damaging references to politicians, especially the Clintons and Democrats. There is no record of pressure being applied by the Bush administration to cancel or change the film, despite certain unflattering aspects of the portrayal of Condi Rice and others in “The Path to 9/11”.
Click the link below to see the trailer, etc.
Continue reading “Censorship of “The Path to 9/11” TV miniseries: new film tells the story”
Sep 01 2008
It is clear to anyone paying attention to the Presidential race that a primary strategy being employed by the Obama campaign is to establish political equivalence between George Bush and John McCain. The Democratic candidate often repeats that a vote for McCain is a vote for 4 more years just like the last 8 years. The daily drumbeat is to fix in the minds of voters this simple equation, Bush=McCain.
The thinking behind this effort is fairly obvious. Bush is despised by the Left. McCain is like Bush. Therefore McCain should be despised as well.
Where did this hatred for Dubya come from? Why is he the object of such revulsion and animosity? The obvious answers are things like the 2000 election, the war in Iraq, the housing slump, high gas prices, hurricane Katrina, “global-warming”, Dick Cheney, “connections” to Big Oil, etc, etc, etc.
But I think the source of “Bush-loathing” goes a little farther back and is helpful in pointing out one rather significant difference between liberals and conservatives. I believe the genesis takes us to Bill Clinton.
Clinton did and said some things while in office that were considered pretty despicable by many people. They do not need to be reiterated here, no one has forgotten Monica Lewinski et al. But as a result of despicable actions he came to be despised by many, especially conservatives. But for those who did (and do) have contempt for Bill Clinton, it was because he earned it.
Enter George W. Bush. From day one he has been despised by the Left. At the time Bush took office I almost had the feeling liberals (and their mainstream media shills) were saying, “OK, now we’ll show YOU how to detest a president!” But the difference is this. Because he was despised by the Left at the outset, EVERY action he has undertaken, seen through those lenses is considered to be despicable. Bush didn’t have to earn it, it was waiting for him when he got there and it has been that way for 8 years.
John McCain is NOT George Bush (yes, I’ve seen them together). But he does share one thing with Bush without even being elected – utter contempt from the Left. And like Bush, he won’t have to lift a finger, it will simply be bestowed upon him.
