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Dissent is the Highest Form of…

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…RACISM?!?

Statists have lost their damn minds!

Maureen Dowd:

The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind.

Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.

But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!

Jimmy Carter:

Michael Eric Dyson:

I call B.S. on all three of them.

President Obama is not under fire for being black. He is under fire for his policies and how he is governing the country. Race has absolutely NOTHING to do with opposing the President’s worldview that America is evil and must be weakened in order to appease the rest of world, nor questioning his warped belief that a bigger, overfunded federal government will solve all of our domestic and economic problems.

Barack Obama could have been born white (he’s biracial, BTW), brown, red, yellow, olive, or plaid — and he would still be rightfully judged not by his skin color, but by his words and deeds. As a black man, I’m appalled that those on the left would rush to play the race card in defending a head of state who was elected by his peers not because of his race, but because of the promises made to usher in a “post-racial” era of politics and leadership.

Enough with playing the race card already. We’re ALL Americans — and the President is accountable to all of us, regardless of complexion.

Related: I’m in full agreement with Conservative Black Woman…

Let’s Get Rid Of Harry

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Our “esteemed” senior U.S. Senator Harry Reid used to fight against the Chicago-led mob that once ruled the Las Vegas Strip. Now, he has become one of them — and used his new-found Chicago influence to threaten the advertising director and the owners of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

R-J publisher Sherman Frederick comments:

On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal’s director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope you go out of business.”

Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.

Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.

You could call Reid’s remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.

But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid’s remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was — a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he’s shaking them down. [emphasis added]

Enough is enough. It’s time to throw Harry Mason Reid out of office once and for all. This constituent will do his part, to the best of his physical and fiscal abilities make sure that event takes place come November 2010.

For all of his “accomplishments”, Nevada’s unemployment rate is at an all-time high of 13%. Nevadans from all walks of life are struggling to make ends meet, keep their roofs over their heads, and provide for their familes while Harry Two-Face plays his “hardscrabble, up-from-poverty, Nevada-proud” act to the voters, only to turn around and knife them in the back and sell out the best interest of the state to activist thugs who don’t give a damn about Nevada residents. I’m sick and tired of him and his ilk.

It’s high time that all Nevada voters throw that dirty, rotten slimeball in the trash can and haul him off to the waste dump of defeat. Anything less that will be unacceptable.

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a Toot.”

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The Black Sphere’s Kevin Jackson comments on the looming power grab that is ObamaCare — and highlights some splinters in the Trojan horse itself:

Using his grandmother [the late Madelyn "Toot" Dunham] as an example, Obama squirmed while explaining that [Toot] likely should not have had her hip replaced, since she was dying of cancer and was 86 years old. Here was his comment:

“I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost,” Obama said in the interview. “I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother.”

“That’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues,” he said in the April 14 interview. “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.”

There is no hidden message here, as the message is crystal clear. Sometimes Obama is worse than Biden in revealing the truth, though he is sensitive to the idea not throwing [Toot] from the train. What he’s not saying is he didn’t want her on the train to begin with!

Obama would have preferred [Toot] take painkillers for three weeks, instead of have that expensive hip replacement. After all, she died only a few weeks later. But what if [Toot] had lived another year or two? Should she be kept in a drug-induced stupor or should [Toot] become Soylent Green? Only the government counselors would know for sure…

I would submit that Obama never truly loved or cared about the woman who literally raised him, gave him shelter, and jumped through hoops to give him an education — only to dismiss her for political expedience as “a typical white person”, but I digress. All I know is that I’d be damned if I threw my own mother under the bus like he did.

BTW, if you’re not familiar with the Soylent Green reference, here’s a brief primer on how end-of-life care might be handled as depicted in the 1973 film:

I hope ObamaCare fails.

Just Say KNOW

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Big Hollywood contributor Gary Graham offers a resolute response to those content to brand the Republican Party as “the party of no”.

Why? Because we say NO to socialism? NO to racism? NO to weak foreign policy footing, kowtowing to despotic world leaders? Because we say NO to socialized medicine? NO to fomenting class-warfare, NO to raising taxes on the affluent? NO to killing babies in the womb, NO to redefining traditional marriage? NO to calling returning veterans extremist nut-jobs to be placed on a watch-list? NO to thinking we can spend and tax our way back to prosperity by saddling our grandkids with a Mt. Everest sized debt?

Okay…maybe they’re right; maybe we are the party of NO. But I’d like to offer a slight amendment to that moniker… :

We are the Party of ‘Know‘.

We know the principles upon which this country was founded. The principles you Lefties are always dragging through the mud. Little things like individual liberty. And respecting the flag. And love of God and country. And respect for our fighting troops. And smaller, limited government. And a dedication to our international autonomy. And the belief in peace through strength. Trust, but verify. Rugged individualism and personal responsibility.

Damn the touchy-feely “listening tours” and other forms of navel-gazing from those who think the Republicans should be more like Democrats. Michael Steele, GOP leadership in Congress, and regional/local GOP committees should drop whatever they’re doing RIGHT now and read Graham’s post. Then they should take that baton and run with it (and if necessary, knock some sense into people with it). Let it be the “brand” that sets the Republican party apart from the REAL party of no.

And to those reading this post who feel the same way as I do, share the link with others.

Donkey Takes Off Elephant Costume

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A lot of people are in a tizzy over Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter switching his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. However, I’m not.

Specter has always been a self-serving politician who enjoys the perks and power of elected office. Prior to his becoming a Republican back in 1966, he was a Democrat. Back then, he switched parties in order to win an election. Even as a Republican, he has been more of a Fifth Column than a principled statesman, running with an “R” next to his name in order to stay in office, and after each election, taking a knife to fellow Rs — and plunging it deep into the backs of conservatives in hopes of doing the most damage possible.

When he voted with his previous party to push through a mountain of debt disguised as “stimulus”, it was the last straw for conservatives, who rightfully found a challenger in Pat Toomey to run against him in the upcoming 2010 primary. Seeing that he would be defeated, and being unwilling to not seek another senate term, he took the traitor’s route of switching parties for his own convenience.

Today, his fellow Democrats welcomed him back home. Soon they will have him drinking the Kool-Aid in no time.

Rather than see this as a defeat, the Republicans should see this as an opportunity to return to its conservative roots, which defined the GOP as the party of liberty in contrast to the Democrats becoming the party of tyranny. The clock is ticking, and time’s too short to cry over the loss of a jackass in elephant’s clothing. Voters will pick principles over phonies — and right now, conservative voters want the GOP to stand for something instead of falling for anything in a futile effort to be all things to all people.

May the door hit Arlen Specter in the ass on the way out.

Obamaian Rhapsody

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I came across the following posted in comments at Nealz Nuze by ‘TheMuse’. And yes, the blog entry by Boortz is a must-read:

To the tune of “Bohemian Rhapsody”:

Is this republic?
Is this democracy?
When people decide,
Who’re divorced from reality.
When Dems opine,
Open your mind and think.
I’m just a citizen, I need no sympathy.
‘Cause I’m working hard, earning dough,
I’m paying bills, as I go,
Anyway the polls go, only freedom matters to me,
To me

Obama, will tax all men,
With a bold stroke of his pen,
He’ll raise our rates again.
Obama, that was my money.
But now you’ve taken all of it away,
Obama ooooo
Why do you have to pry
My last nickel from my callused hands??
I’ll revolt! I’ll revolt! Cause only freedom matters

Socialist, they nominate
Sends shivers down my spine
If he wins, we’re in hard times
I’ll lose every freedom I used to know
Forced to give them all right up for greater good.
Obama, oooo (any way the polls go)
I don’t wanna pay
For someone that has never worked for a day!

I’m just a free individual of this land!
Democrats, Democrats, why must you micro-manage?
Mercury laden lighting very, very frightening me!
Global warming, global warming
Global warming, global warming
Scam that makes our taxes grow; makes em grow-ow-ow-ow,
I’m just a citizen, my family loves me.
He’s just a citizen raising his family,
Spare his wife and kids from your Socialist decree!
I work hard for my dough, will you tax me low?
O-bama! No! We will not tax you low! Tax me low!
O-bama! We will not tax you low! Tax me low!
O-bama! We will not tax you low! Tax me low!
Will not tax you low! Tax me low!
Will not tax you low! Tax me low!
No,no,no,no,no,no,no- low low low low low low low
Harry Reid, Harry Reid. Harry Reid won’t tax me low.
Pelosi-bub has a tax rate hike for me, for me, and YOU

So she thinks she can tax me at rates sky high??
So she thinks she can tell me which light bulb to buy??
Oh Nancy, can’t do this to me Nancy
Just gonna vote out, gonna vote you outta here

Only freedom matters.
Anyone can see,
Only freedom matters, only freedom matters to me.

Anyway the polls go…

Flashbacks We Can Believe In

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Is it me, or is the incoming Obama administration shaping up to be more like Bill Clinton’s third term?

Update (11/19): Reverse_Vampyr comments:

Those of you who were deceived into voting for “change”, I hope you realize by now that you’ve been duped. You merely succeeded in electing an avowed socialist who is surrounding himself with the same lobbyists and political insiders he spent his entire campaign demonizing.

Obama’s flavor of “change” is turning out to be “more of the same”.

“Why Didn’t You Vote For Obama?”

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I’ve been getting that question a lot from liberal friends, family members, and the usual haters. However, none of those inquiries have been more banal or condescending than that from a net-heckler over at Baldilocks:

Uptownsteve asks:

“What will you black conservatives tell your grandchildren?”

It’s a question which I take to imply that, somehow, our grandchildren will presume to vilify us for voting against the man who will become the first black president of the United States. It’s a very easy question to answer, actually: we believe that political, social, moral and spiritual principles take precedence over ethnic tribalism and we followed through on that assertion. But I’m guessing that Steve needs things spelled out a bit more, so I’ll do it for him and for my great nieces and nephews and—perhaps—any grandchildren I might have through being a step-mother. Here goes.

The spelling out of the easy question is required reading, and Juliette Ochieng does a far better task of dealing with the uptown irritant with all the civility I could ever muster.

I always look beyond the packaging and trust my principles.

When Barack Obama takes the oath of office to faithfully execute the office he is about to enter and to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution to the best of his ability, he will be my President. I will pray that God may grant him wisdom and discernment to guide him in said faithful execution of office.

I will afford President-elect Obama the respect due to his role as the chief executive of our country and commander in chief of our armed forces as long as he remains steadfast and true to his oath of office. I will support him when he does the right things, and I will vigilantly oppose him when he does the wrong things — just as I have done with President Bush.

But I will never compromise my principles or “go along to get along”, which is the true definition of “selling out.” It is always best to be true to oneself than to “be true to the game”.