A while back I harped on the emotion vs issue theme that is carrying the Obamar canidacy.  Neat article on the American spectator about the opening of the Florida campaign HQ.

Here is the interesting tidbit: "The crowd, Hard Case notwithstanding, was mostly a friendly and approachable bunch. So before the music (if such it was) got too loud for conversation, I managed to question several people about what it was about Obama that fetched them in. Most of the answers I got were variations on the theme of, "He touched my heart." No one said a single specific thing about a single public policy, but crooned that because of Obama's charisma and manifest goodness, he would be the one to make everything right in the areas of energy, education, war and peace, and the country's economic problems. Clearly the heart rather than the cerebral cortex is the proper organ through which to reach this bunch." [italics- mine - TommyO]

All of the exposed flips, flops, lies, etc will never touch the base.  They are emotionally involved and immune to criticism of the annoited one.

Gotta get to middle America, and that is thru the economy, the economy, the economy!

Dean Barnett has a post up on the Weekly Standard blog regarding Obamar screwups.
He is correct, but out of touch, in my opinion, with the reality of this election [as is McCain].  Here is my e-mail to Dean:

TIGERHAWK CONTINUES TO MAKE SENSE IN  THIS ENTRY ON DRILLING:  READ AND SAVE!

http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2008/06/oil-at-margin.html

IS THE PRICE OF ENERGY THE FATAL CHINK IN THE DHIMMI ARMOR FOR NOVEMBER?  IF I AM A CANDIDATE FOR SENATE OR HOUSE, THIS IS WHERE I GO, ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTH AS WE WILL HAVE PURCHASED OUR FIRST FULL BARREL PRIOR TO ELECTION DAY.

TOMMYO

ANDY MCCARTHY HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK.

A MUST READ!

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTFhZTdmZWZlMGExNDRjOWRlZWUxYzEwNjg0MWEzZDc=&w=MA==

SCARY, NE?

Michael Ledeen nails it down in this WSJ piece:

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB121279291616353311.html

Go here to learn about our forthright Attorney General:

http://www2.nysun.com/article/73772

Great Stuff!!!!!!

Go here for a new insight into global warming and the perpetrators of gloom and doom:


http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/011088.html

Really good stuff.

Wow, maybe I am not a racist after all.  I wonder why the good Rev Wright would not bring this up in a Sunday Sermon.

From Gateway Pundit:

Dear Democrats-- A Letter From Lt. Colonel Frances Rice

Lincoln Heritage Institute and Something Half of Something posted this letter from Lt. Colonel Frances Rice (pictured) to the Democratic Party:

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party
By Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,U.S. Army Retired: Contributor to the LHI

"We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600's 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that: (a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854, (b) fought to free African Americans from slavery, (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans, (d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, (e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws, (g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and (h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,

Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was "stolen" from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the "Miami Herald" and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party's soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.

Thanks to ytba for the link.

From NRO this morning.  Why can't I write like VDH?

"Obama the Magician   [Victor Davis Hanson]

I think the speech has wowed Obama’s base, yet after its mesmerizing delivery wears off, it will perhaps raise more questions with most others.

The Obama narratives suggest a disturbing lack of responsibility, or of any notion of free will. Michelle, for example, apparently had no free will in taking out big loans to go to Harvard Law School, only pique that they must be paid back.

Barack had likewise no free will in allying himself as friend, parishioner, and confidant with an abject racist who is now evolved into a “former” pastor, and a “scholar” and “an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy” and “controversial” (apparently “not particularly controversial” is now inoperative).

Indeed, the last thing Obama wants, in fact, is an honest, painful discussion about race in America, especially how centuries of racism, but also as well as present demagogic leadership, white guilt, and ineffective and counterproductive government programs, have all factored into present endemic problems of illegitimacy, extraordinary high crime rates, and often racist narratives from the likes of Wright and Farrakhan to rap music — and yet have not precluded the amazing success and parity with the rest of America on the part of well over half of the African-American community.

Two corollaries always follow the Obama victimology: moral equivalence and the subtle suggestion that any who question his thesis of despair are themselves suspect.

So we hear of poor Barack’s grandmother’s private fears in the same breath as Wright’s public hatred. Geraldine Ferraro is understood in the same context as Reverend Wright. The Reagan Coalition and talk radio are identical to Reverend Wright — albeit without similar contexts for their own purported racism. Your own pastor, priest, or rabbi are analogous to Rev. Wright.

And then, of course, your own motives are suspect if you question any of this sophistry. For Michelle it is always “they” who raised new obstacles against this deprived Ivy League couple and their quest for the Presidency; for Barack it is those who play “snippets”, or the system of “corporate culture” that has made Wright the object of anger to similarly victimized poor white pawns.

The message? Wright’s motives for espousing hatred are complex and misunderstood; your motives for worrying about Obama and his Pastor are simple and suspect.

When Obama the magician was all done this morning, Obama was no longer under examination for terrible judgment in subsidizing a racist by his association and purse, nor was even the racist Wright under doubt; instead almost everyone else, from the system to his grandmother, to talk radio, to corporate culture, to your rabbi or priest suddenly was.

The result? This will apparently play well with a Democratic African-American audience and white elite liberals, who are already giddy and comparing the speech to Martin Luther King’s best. In this way of thinking, after all, that for the last seven years the most powerful diplomats in the world have been two African-Americans counts little (Wright, for example, slurred Sec. Rice), but that anyone would dare ask a presidential candidate to dissociate himself from a racist counts a lot.

Yet in the general election, millions will still remember how Obama’s pastor and confidant Reverend Wright cursed their culture and their country, and they will still remain confused about his relationship with and influence upon their would-be next President—and in the end they will be very much angered by all that indeed."

03/19 07:41 AM

Not much to say on this today.  I am getting despondent as it seems more and more that Pelosi has been able to subdue the dhimmis that want to vote for the Senate bill.  They voted en masse for the latest trail lawyer garbage and went home for two weeks.  So be it.

Pelosi is acting like she pulled a royal flush on the flop, and is all in.  Bush is dancing around with a high pair, and is ready to fold. FDD is running ads in key districts, but they are apparently having little effect.

What is wrong with this guy?   He still holds the veto pen, but what happens then?  It is appearing more certain that the latest garbage from the House may actually prevail in conference as the Senate dhimmis see an opportunity to further punish Bush.  Don't worry about the prior vote, it means nothing.

So the outcome is:  No bill.     Negative impact on SIGINT continues.    Country is less safe from the Jihadists.  Nobody gives a damn!
[except for a few voices in the wilderness]

Hello Mr President!  You are in charge pal.  Time to make the donuts.  A little  crybaby session with the press corps is meaningless.

However, after watching your continuous march to the rear, and failure to confront the enemy on the malicious NIE Iran Report;  the false reporting on the Pentagon Saddam/AQ report; and the ongoing waltz with Mrs. Pelosi, I ain't got much hope.

TommyO

Obamar has tried to put out the fire created by his boy, the 'Rev" on some friendly blogs and then, shudder, on Fox and the other cable outlets, and now, we are told, a big spread in Monday's NYT.  All smoke, no fire as usual from the Obamar, who apparently slept thru 20 years of racist sermons from the 'Rev'.  Anyway, below is an e-mail I sent this morning to a friend that says what I think is going on.

It seems to me that Obamar is working feverishly today on the 'Rev Wright' fiasco, not to have any influence on the primary or super-delegates, but for November.

When one takes a good look at the Obamar backers, are they not carbon copies of the old 'Rev'?  Many blacks feel the same way as the 'Rev', as do many of the young minds full of mush, as do many of the elitist white lefties.  So, as far as the campaign for the nomination goes - NO PROBLEM BRO!  The 'Rev' is not a drawback at all, but a plus to the Oamarmaniacs.

However, the nomination being only step one, how do we corral the independents and other left leaners in November including the Hillbaby women if we are perceived to be an empty, racist suit?

Answer:  dump the 'Rev', as least publicly [can you picture this guy giving the invocation at the inauguration?]

So this will all be history by next Friday, unless Hillbaby wants to use it on the white steelworker, coal miner, union type middle class in Pennsylvania to turn a few votes her way.  [Note:  I grew up in Philly and immediate suburbs in the 50's.  The working class whites are as racist as they come and wouldn't vote for Obamar if he was the last dhimmi on earth. My poor departed brother-in-law, as staunch a dhimmi as they come, used the 'N' word as a reference [less than complimentary] to blacks as a matter of course.  Reminds one of Boston, eh?

Anyway, the 'Rev' is in the closet until December when he will be allowed out of retirement for some guest sermons back at good old Trinity.  Meanwhile, the Obamarmania rolls on to victory.

TommyO

Posted below is my e-mail this date to Quin Hillyer of American Spectator.  Last week he was completely pissed off at the dhimmi and said he was going to go further than a post.  so far, I have not found anything.  The dhimmis are pushing a new proposal that supposedly lets the telecoms off the hook if the gov gives the lawyers for the plaintiffs the classified docs for the TSP [which they can then sell, give to the NYT et al]

Here is the e-mail which basically says that those who have the clout need to get off their dead asses and join the fight:


I see the dhimmis have come up with a new wrinkle designed to reveal our collection secrets to the enemy via their seditious pals, the trial lawyers.  I know this move is destined for the trash bin of history per a Bushitler veto.

Questions:  I have been looking for the column you promised us in your AMSPEC blog post last week, you know, the one where you finally lost your temper and called a spade a spade.  Did I miss it because I don't know where to look other than AMSPEC?

I think it is time, since the President does not wish to enter the fray, for those with a consummate knowledge of SIGINT facts to get together and absolutely blast the dhimmis for their complete lack of patriotism.  There are a number of vulnerable dhimmi 'blue dogs' that should be attacked in their local districts immediately.

This group needs a leader [I nominate you for the job] to organize those with the knowledge an the DC clout, such as McCarthy, May, Levin, McConnell, Hayden [you know who to get] including responsible Republican leaders in the house.  Get a web site going and link everywhere you can.  Get the paypal going and collect some dough for advertisements [where the hell is the RNC in this mess?]

Where is McCain?  He is looking to get some press and is being shut out by dumb and dumber.  HERE IS HIS ISSUE!!!!!!!!

All the best,

TommyO

Copy of my e-mail today to Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator.  I am coming to the conclusion that we are all being used in another political game by both the Prez and the dhimmis.  As usual, the people lose.

"Another week, another nothing!

As the weeks pass with the Pelosi dhimmis holding firm, finding any mention of FISA in the MSM becomes more and more difficult.  The outrage in righty blogs shrinks  to , perhaps, one or two columns per week, your post on the American Spectator blog re the lack of patriotism by the dhimmis, being the latest that I have read.  You indicated that you would have a column up this week on the subject, and I await same.

However, the questions I posed immediately after the infamous House recess both on my own blog and numerous e-mails to yourself, McCarthy, May, et al, remain, the prime question being: 

What the well is going on here??

Both sides maneuver basically in silence.  President Bush speaks thru surrogates, and not very loudly.  Speaker Pelosi mainly speaks thru her actions, or, actually,  lack of action.  So, the best opportunity that the President has had in years to frame the debate on National Security lays somewhere in the weeds.  You tell me.

Have we all been taken in by a fraudulent  premise?  Is there really no threat to national security as the dhimmis say?  There is certainly no compelling argument from the White House to the contrary.  Are they correct in holding out until Bush allows the trial lawyers to proceed with their lawsuits against the telecoms? 

So, just another political confrontation in a long line of confrontations.  I believe that the issue has to be re-examined in the light of the strictly political motives of each side."

Tom O'Reilly

This morning I complained again about the lack of commentary on the FISA renewal [or lack thereof].  Lo and behold, Quin Hillyer of American Spectator, on the blog, has weighed in with a devastating accusation of 'lack of patriotism' by the dhimmi congress.  BOOYAH, Quin!!!

Read it all here:  http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=11893

Perhaps such a startling charge might awaken others who have both the clout and perspective to chime in.  Unfortunately, I am with the crowd that is just pissing into the wind, our voices unheard beyond our mirrors.  The questions I have been asking for weeks, however, are still unanswered, and probably will continue to be so.

Let's see where Mr. Hillyer goes from here.