Obama Likes Chavez’s Policies So Much, He Wants To Duplicate Them

Yeah, yeah, I know all you liberals out there hate to have to admit that Barack Obama’s policies mirror many of those by other leftists currently and throughout history but you’ll have to get over that phobia. Here is a nice summary of how Obama’s “windfall profits tax” mirrors that of his fellow traveler Hugo Chavez:

To compete with Hillary Clinton’s pandering on a gas tax holiday, Barack Obama proposed a windfall profits tax on oil companies of his own last moth. The Obama plan is not unlike the windfall oil profits tax passed by Hugo Chavez just two weeks earlier. Obama would slap a 20% tax on the cost of a barrel of oil above $80 for all domestic oil companies. Chavez tax hits only foreign oil companies and charges a 50% rate for the cost of a barrel of oil above $70. The difference between Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama is only a slight matter of degree.

But no … he’s no socialist right?

Everyone’s A Fascist Except The Fascist

Left wingers all around the world never like to be called left wingers. Hugo Chavez is a prime example. Even though he proudly promotes fascist socialism, he goes to extreme lengths to trash other people as fascists:

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell, but stopped short of insulting the woman leader on Mother’s Day.

Instead he called her a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism.

“Ms. Chancellor, you can go to …,” he said, pausing for effect and eliciting giggles from the audience, a group of military officers, cabinet ministers and government officials. “Because she’s a woman I won’t say anything else.”

Ok, yeah Germany has some socialist tendencies but for Hugo Chavez to continually project his own beliefs on others is humorous. This is a man that has nationalized industry, confiscated private property, is a de facto dictator, promotes a Venezuela against the world mentality and shuts down television stations that disagree with him.

For reference fascism is defined as: “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual” … check … “and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader,” … check … “severe economic and social regimentation,” … check … “and forcible suppression of opposition” … and check!

Hugo, look in the mirror. You sir area a fascist.

McCain Continues On Global Warming Train

Once again, if anyone needs to know why I will not vote for John McCain you only have to understand his insanity on certain issues. Issues such as Global Warming:

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.

Really? Undeniable huh? Only to Al Gore and his disciples.

This man is a loon. We just came out of an incredibly cold April and he is talking like this? You cannot have “free market” solutions as McCain suggests to a bogus claim (i.e. man made Global Warming). This is like saying you believe in free market solutions to the collapsing universe.

John, you can keep saying over and over again that the grass is purple but it doesn’t make it true!

I shutter to think what is going to happen when these enviro-retards like McCain figure out that water vapor is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2. We’ll have to cap every lake, river, ocean and stream to prevent them from emitting their lethal pollutants into our atmosphere.

But don’t bother them with facts – they just get in the way of a good story.

Michelle Wants To Be Queen Bee

Apparently talk of an Obama/Clinton ticket for the Democrats come November may be only wishful thinking for liberals. Michelle Obama wants to be Queen of the White House and doesn’t take too kindly to the thought of another woman sharing the spotlight.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

Of course we all know where Michelle Obama stands – not being proud of this country until her husband became a front runner for the nomination and all. She also apparently doesn’t care much for the idea of a woman as vice-president. Much less a white woman.

Sooner or later I’m sure she will let her true feelings about Hillary slip in public and verify this. She does have a problem keeping her pie hole shut after all.

Bernie Ward Finally Admits To Child Porn

First it was “research” or so Bernie Ward claimed when the left of Hillary Clinton radio talk show host was caught with child pornography. Now he has finally given up that pathetic defense and admitted to his guilt:

SAN FRANCISCO — Bernie Ward, the most prominent liberal voice on Bay Area talk radio for more than two decades, admitted Thursday to distribution of child pornography by e-mail in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years.

Ward, 57, a former Roman Catholic priest, was a fixture on KGO-AM 810 for three hours every weeknight, known in recent years for his fervent denunciations of President Bush and the war in Iraq during his news talk show. He also hosted “God Talk,” a Sunday morning program on religion, and was a prolific fundraiser for the station’s charity drives.

But his career disintegrated Dec. 6 with the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment, issued three months earlier, that charged him with two counts of distributing and one count of receiving Internet images of child pornography. KGO fired him Dec. 31.

At least in this one instance for his liberal it really was “all about the children,” a popular claim as to why leftists do what they do.

Bernie, I’d like to introduce you to your new prison nickname “Bunk Muffin” … have a great five years you sleaze!

Vote Buying? Dem Super Delegate Demands Money For Vote!

Hey, what is a few bucks to grease the palm of a delegate to the Democrat’s National Convention right? Liberals have done similar things in the past in order to bribe voters to vote for them – think every socialist (and unconstitutional) wealth redistribution program on the books from Welfare to Social Security. Each and every one of them is tantamount to saying “Vote for us” - if you want your loyalty payment that is.

And year after year liberals flood the polls to justify legalizing the theft of property from others to enrich themselves. So is anyone really surprised that Steven Ybarra would suggest that $20 million dollars would be enough to buy his vote?

Mr. Ybarra wants the money to get “shown the money” (actual quote is “Nobody showed me any money yet”) to get about a million Mexican-Americans to the polls in November to help liberals maintain their tax and spending ways.

A few questions arise from this.

First, does it really take about $20 per person to get them to a polling place? What exactly would the money be used for? Buses to haul them in? Or maybe bribes to get them to vote a certain way?

Second, does Mr. Ybarra really believe that without spending money on them, “Mexican-Americans” are incapable of getting to the polls by themselves?

Third, why are “Mexican-Americans” more special and deserving of money to help convince them to vote than say normal “Americans”?

Fourthly, why do “Mexican-Americans” not simply want to be considered “Americans”? Do they think they are special? Perhaps superior?

Certainly these are serious questions.

Al Gore Exploits Deaths For His Own Gain

Al Gore is showing himself to be your typical liberal more and more as each day passes. His latest is to blame the Myammar Cyclone and the estimated 50,000 deaths on Global Warming. Tasteless doesn’t even work to describe this man any more. Diabolical is much more apt at this point:

“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”

The problem is that really only Al Gore is the only person out there making such claims beyond a few other nutjobs that have a stake in promoting the doomsday effects of a non-existent threat. There is even data showing that the Earth has cooled recently which really isn’t in line with the whole “Global Warming” theme now is it?

But as we have learned from history about liberals is that if they cannot kill people to further their agenda they will certainly exploit the deaths that do occur and make any claim they can to try to link them to their pet causes. Causes, mind you, that always result in the loss of liberty. Just don’t forget to invest your money in their companies so that they can continue to partake of theirs.

Remember tell the “Big Lie” often enough and people will believe it. That strategy has worked for liberals for over a century.

Recent stories about the effects of … uh … “Global Warming”:
Global Warming Keeps Idaho Ski Resort … Uh … Open?
Attention: Anchorage Gets Record Snowfall Despite Global Warming?
God Sends Message To Eco-Alarmists
Manmade Global Warming At Work?

Al Gore’s lies know no bounds?
Al Gore’s Lies Continue To Add Up
Al Gore Ministries Continues Indoctrination

The Conservative And The Liberal

Early one morning the phone rang at Bob’s house. It was early on a Saturday and he had hoped to sleep in after a week of working hard but the ringing persisted and so he answer the phone. “Hello,” he answered wearily, annoyed that he had been disturbed.

“Hey you conservative jerk,” the voice on the other end yelled, “get up! Barack Obama is in town and going to prove to you that he can walk on water.”

“Jim? Is this you?”

Jim responded, “Just get your greedy little gun toting butt down to the pond in one hour! Barack Obama is going to show you!” and then hung up.

Bob, put his head back down on his pillow and thought for a few minutes about going back to sleep but then realized that this was something he had to see. Barack Obama walking on water? His friend Jim was so enamored with Obama’s ability to say anything and get away with it that he just had to see this event.

So Bob got up, put on his clothes and got into his SUV, making sure to fill up the gas tank on the way out to the pond. When he arrived he saw Jim standing among a crowd of others that had gathered cheering wildly as Barack Obama was waving from a small dock that extended out into the pond.

Bob said to his friend, “You know Jim, no mortal man can walk on water.”

“Shut up!” Jim blew up at him, “Why do you always have to let your hatred of black people come out?”

“How is pointing out that one cannot walk on water showing “hatred” to black people?”

“You know, we’ve been through this already! Obama has denounced Jeremiah Wright so stop making this about religion and stop attacking the black church.”

“What?” Bob responded perplexed. “Who said anything about Rev. Wright?”

“Just shut up, I can’t hear what Obama is saying.”

Just then a roar rose up from the crowd and Obama’s words echoed across the gathered faithful. “And now I will step out onto this pond and show you that I can indeed walk on water.” The crowd grew even more frenzied and Obama placed his first foot upon the water.

As he went to walk about onto the pond however – WHOOOSH – he vanished under the water. The crowd fell silent for a moment and then after a few seconds erupted into a round of applause as a soaking wet Barack Obama climbed back up onto the dock. He waved to them.

“See,” Bob said, “I told you.”

“Told me what? Didn’t you see what he did? He did it! He walked on water!”

“What? No he didn’t. He sank like a stone.”

“Whatever! We all saw him do it! You cannot deny how great he is!”

Bob pointed to where Obama stood, “Look at him, he’s soaking wet! He fell into the water and climbed out!”

“No, he walked on water! We all saw it! Didn’t we?” Jim encouraged the crowd around him to rebuke Bob.

“Yes!” those around them answered.

“Are you all insane?” Bob asked. “He most certainly did not walk on water!”

“We believe!” the crowd responded lead by Jim. “We have seen his greatness with our own eyes!”
Bob threw up his arms. “You are all most definitely insane; too drunk on Kool Aid to see what is clear before your eyes.”

“UNBELIEVER! UNBELIEVER! HERITIC!” Bob quickly turned and ran from the crowd that was now trying to close in around him. He jumped back in his SUV and left the scene of the madness as quickly as he could.

When he got home his wife asked him where he had been and he relayed the story about how Barack Obama fell into the pond yet all those gathered denied it and claimed he had walked on water.
She shook her head and said to him, “You know better than to ever hang around with a bunch of liberals. They never admit the truth, only what they want to believe.”

Huh? Say What? Chris Matthews is #2?

The Telegraph has delved into trying to rank the most influential political pundits in the United States and has let their bias shine through. Guess who is #2 on the list? It’s none other than MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews.

About Chris Matthews they opine:

Motor-mouth MSNBC presenter of “Hardball” show, Matthews is a former Jimmy Carter speechwriter and aide to Tip O’Neill when he was Speaker of the House. He is believed to be contemplating running as a Democrat for the Senate in his native Pennsylvania. His ratings are not the highest but Matthews punches above his weight – and shouts above the hubbub.

With his infectious enthusiasm for politics, Matthews has pushed back hard against what he sees as the cynicism of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Mocked for saying that Barack Obama sent a “thrill up my leg” and accused by Clinton aides of being a misogynist, Matthews has bounced back. Always part of the conversation, his return to full-time politics would be journalism’s loss.

Boy, isn’t that a generous ranking! You know, considering fewer people listen to Chris Matthews than some of the other people on the list. Maybe the Telegraph should take a look at just the latest cable television/news ratings to see how badly Matthews actually performs.

What? Another Misleading Headline!

“White House admits fault on ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner” reads the headline from Breitbart.com. The problem is that it isn’t true at least not based on the information in the article.
Paragraph 1:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the “Mission Accomplished” banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq.

Nope, no admission of fault there.

Paragraphs 2 & 3:

Thursday is the fifth anniversary of Bush’s dramatic landing in a Navy jet on an aircraft carrier homebound from the war. The USS Abraham Lincoln had launched thousands of airstrikes on Iraq.

“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended,” Bush said at the time. “The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11, 2001, and still goes on.” The “Mission Accomplished” banner was prominently displayed above him—a move the White House came to regret as the display was mocked and became a source of controversy.

Nope, still not such admission given here.

Paragraph 4:

After shifting explanations, the White House eventually said the “Mission Accomplished” phrase referred to the carrier’s crew completing its 10-month mission, not the military completing its mission in Iraq. Bush, in October 2003, disavowed any connection with the “Mission Accomplished” message. He said the White House had nothing to do with the banner; a spokesman later said the ship’s crew asked for the sign and the White House staff had it made by a private vendor.

Still no admission there. In fact it restates the original claim that it was the ship’s crew that requested the banner.

Paragraph 5:

“President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished’ for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. “And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again tomorrow, as they do every single year.”

Nope, still no such admission.

Paragraphs 6 & 7:

She said what is important now is “how the president would describe the fight today. It’s been a very tough month in Iraq, but we are taking the fight to the enemy.”

At least 49 U.S. troops died in Iraq in April, making it the deadliest month since September when 65 U.S. troops died.

Gee, still waiting for this “admission” … maybe we’ll find it in the last two paragraphs of the story:

Now in its sixth year, the war in Iraq has claimed the lives of at least 4,061 members of the U.S. military. Only the Vietnam War (August 1964 to January 1973), the war in Afghanistan (October 2001 to present) and the Revolutionary War (July 1776 to April 1783) have engaged America longer.

Bush, in a speech earlier this month, said that “while this war is difficult, it is not endless.”

Wait … no admission there either. So where the heck is it and how the heck did the headline writer come up with such a claim?