The Question

Best Quotes from RNC and DNC

“You know there is something wrong with the kind of job he has done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.” — Mitt Romney

“Barack Obama’s failed us. But look, it’s understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.” — Tim Pawlenty

“If Mitt was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.”—Ted Strickland

“I have seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. No, it reveals who you are."—Michelle Obama

“It’s like Hitler said, if you’re going to tell a lie, tell a big lie, and if you tell it often enough and say it in a loud enough voice, some people are going to believe you,”  --Pat Lehman (D) on Paul Ryan

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Stephanie Cutter answered the question “Absolutely.”  Of course her track record shows she doesn’t have much knowledge of the truth.  Investor Business Daily finds by most measures the country isn't making slow progress; it's falling further behind.

It is official:  The Stadium is cancelled

The Democrats have moved Obama’s acceptance speech from the Bank of America Stadium to the Convention Center.  Official reason is that rain is possible.  Unofficial reason –too many seats to fill.

Band Of America Stadium

I’ll bet Joe Biden is wondering how he could get his debate with Paul Ryan called off.  Damn, it’s indoors. 

Barack the Humble

Those were not the only times Mr. Obama may have overestimated himself: he has also had a habit of warning new hires that he would be able to do their jobs better than they could.

“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”  I believe it is called narcissism.  I think he will be in for a very bad time when he loses in November. 

And if you saw Michelle Obama’s speech, you can see it runs in the family.  

Krauthammer on Michelle Obama’s speech

And speaking of Michelle Obama’s speech last night, Charles Krauthammer found it not convincing.  He said: “I didn’t buy a line of it…..If I hear one more story of people walking eight miles in the snow, without shoes walking uphill both ways, I’m going start longing for Clint Eastwood spontaneity out here.”

 Michelle begging for dollars

Here is an excerpt from a fund raising appeal that went out after Michelle Obama’s speech.  

A woman recently told the campaign her family skipped a pizza dinner at their favorite place so that they could make a difference in this election.

That is the commitment that drives this campaign.

If you can support Barack with a donation today, please know it makes a huge difference. If we win, it will be because of what you did at moments like this....

Thanks,

Michelle

CNN Money:  August looks to be weak jobwise

It unlikely it will keep up with July’s job growth. 

What would a second Obama term be like?

Want to know what Barack Obama’s second-term agenda will be?  Looking at the VIP admissions to the Democratic convention, the assumption will be more Solyndras and more wasted taxpayer dollars.  ABC News caught former Department of Energy official Steve Spinner getting a “red-carpet” tour yesterday of the facilities in Charlotte.  Who is Steve Spinner?   He’s the man who pushed the DoE to ignore the advice of auditors and approve Solyndra’s $500 million-plus taxpayer-guaranteed loan.  It appears failure in the Obama Administration is not punished, but rewarded.

How do you know if a scandal involves a Democrat?

It’s pretty easy.  If the politician is a Republican you’ll find it in the headline or the first paragraph.  If the politician is a Democrat you have to work to find out.  In this story you’ll find it in the fifth paragraph. 

Richard Cohen calls Clinton the Anti-Obama

Cohen describes Bill Clinton of giving so much of himself while Barack Obama gives so little.

“The president who will lay out his reasons for seeking a second term is an odd political duck, a politician who does not appear to like people.  Among the people he seems to like the least are his fellow politicians, including members of the Senate with whom he once served.  The other day I talked with one of them — a Democrat — who rarely hears from Obama. This senator has zero respect for the president’s political abilities. The commander in chief is not — pardon the cloying term — a people person.”

The Government is the Only Thing We All Belong To

Belongto?

Democrats endorse government funded Abortions

The Democratic Platform endorses not only a woman’s right to an abortion, but endorses this right regardless of their ability to pay.  Now one more time, do they really want to call Republicans extremists? 

They also did away with God from their platform and took back their recognition of Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. 

Why does the left hate the right?

That appears to be the one truth we can get from the accusations by the left on Romney, Ryan and anyone else who disagrees with them.  “Thus, they must unleash the dogs of demagoguery, bigotry, and hatred.  Many of their mind-numbed followers, such as those in the entertainment community, willingly, and with no forethought, regurgitate these accusations in order to be part of the supposed in-crowd.”

Fact checkers or just more biased Media?

“A case in point: a perfectly correct statement by Sen. Rand Paul that the average federal employee makes $120,000 a year, while the average private-sector employee makes $60,000.  This was labeled "FALSE," by PolitiFact because the figures included benefits.  On salary alone, the folks on the federal payroll only made $31,000 more than their counterparts.”  It appears the fact checkers at PolitiFact don’t understand that benefits are part of a salary package and actually do cost money. 

November's Choice

Why the Democrats are in so much trouble -- Growth now pegged to be 1% or less

It looks like a Jimmy Carter economy.

Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who predicted the global
financial crisis, said U.S. growth will be “well below” 1 percent in the third
quarter and put the odds of a renewed recession at 40 percent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-25/roubini-sees-u-s-growth-below-1-chance-of-double-dip-recession-at-40-.html

And here's another

Banks back switch to renminbi for trade

A number of the world’s biggest banks have launched international
roadshows promoting the use of the renminbi to corporate customers instead of
the dollar for trade deals with China.

HSBC, which recently moved its chief executive from London to Hong
Kong, and Standard Chartered are offering discounted transaction fees and
other financial incentives to companies that choose to settle trade in the
Chinese currency. “We’re now capable of doing renminbi settlement in many
parts of the world,” said Chris Lewis, HSBC’s head of trade for greater China.
“All the other major international banks are frantically trying to do the same
thing.”HSBC and StanChart are among a slew of global banks – including
Citigroup and JPMorgan – holding roadshows across Asia, Europe and the US
to promote the renminbi to companies.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/182a2b70-b130-11df-b899-00144feabdc0.html

Handicapping the House

So, you think President Obama had a tough week? Wait’ll you get a load of what happened to the Congressional Democrats.

By RCP poll averaging, the GOP lock has jumped up three to 206 seats and the
Democrats lost three to 196. That ten-seat deficit was a 202-202 tie just two
weeks ago. When you consider how few seats are really in play, and that the
campaign season doesn’t really begin until Labor Day weekend, that’s a
remarkable amount of action.

http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/2010/08/25/handicapping-the-house-5/

A truly bizarre story

Last night, a drunken 21-year-old man hailed a taxi in New York City
and, after a few moments of conversation, attacked the cab driver, a Muslim,
with a knife. The attack was not fatal, thankfully, and the perpetrator was
immediately arrested. The New York Daily News, among many other outlets, hailed the incident as a hate crime:

Enright slashed Sharif across the face, arm and hand after asking
the Bangladesh-born cabbie if he was Muslim and then saying 'As-salaam alaikum'
- which means 'peace be unto you' in Arabic, cops said.

What makes this strange is that the man was charged with a hate crime, but he volunteered for a company Intersections International, a "global initiative dedicated to promoting justice, reconciliation and peace across lines of faith, culture, ideology, race, class, national borders and other boundaries that divide humanity."

In addition the cab driver Ahmed Sharifv opposed the Ground Zero mosque on the basis "that there was no need to put it there."

So you have someone who evidently volunteers at a liberal organization charged with a hate crime against a Muslim who is against building a mosque near ground zero. Do you ever get the feeling we aren’t in Kansas anymore, Toto?

A strange case indeed.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/08/027079.php

Obama Appointee under Ethics Cloud

We continual hear from the Democrats that the Republicans are “too extreme” for the American people. Yet we continue to get example of the extremists appointed by the president doing or having done extremist things.

Atty. Gen. Eric Holder is facing his first real test to enforce the
most heralded value of President Obama’s Administration—the ethics pledge.Holder is being pressured to determine whether Craig Becker, a controversial recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, has violated that pledge more than a dozen times in just a few short months.Prior to his confirmation being steamrolled past the Senate process in March, Becker served as associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents 1.8 million members, and is a former staff counsel for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

Now as a member of Obama’s board, Becker sits in judgment of unfair
labor practices, whether it’s committed by an employer or the labor organization
itself. The National Right to Work Foundation has asked Becker to recuse himself in 13 cases that involve the union but Becker has declined to do so despite a separate pledge in writing.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38704

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Blaming the TEA Party--can't take a joke?

Alex Pappas is a political reporter at the Daily Caller. He previously
wrote for the Mobile Press-Register in Mobile, Ala. Pappas is a graduate of The
University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., where he studied political science
and was editor of The Sewanee Purple.

A writer for a St. Louis alternative newsweekly tells The Daily
Caller he does not regret speculating in a story that the suspect of an
attempted arson of a Democratic congressman’s campaign office was a Tea Party
activist.

It turns out that the suspect in this week’s firebombing of
Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan’s campaign office in St. Louis was actually a
liberal blogger and former paid campaign worker for Carnahan’s
campaign.

“As to the legions of Tea Party adherents who are calling for my
head: No, I have no regrets. I was having fun — at their expense,”

http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/26/newsweekly-falsely-speculates-arson-suspect-is-tea-party-activist-writer-says-tea-party-activists-can%E2%80%99t-take-a-joke/#ixzz0xnaLe7c1

Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats

One of Washington's principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former
GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats
and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The
number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving
its downtown location near the FBI and moving to a high-security building near
the U.S. Capitol.

http://politics.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/08/25/tea-party-group-hit-with-death-threats

I put these two stories together. We keep hearing how the TEA Party incites violence, yet there hasn't been a single case where a TEA Party person has done anything violent while there have been numerous instances of violence against them or leftist trying to pass themselves or their actions off as TEA Party people.

Americans OK With Mosques In Their Own Town, But Not Near Ground Zero

The iron law of zoning disputes in America can safely be summed up by the
acronym "NIMBY," for "Not In My Back Yard." But a surprising new poll
shows that when it comes to mosques, Americans are actually more "YIMBY" -- "Yes In My Back Yard." They are more welcoming of Muslim houses of worship than one might expect, especially in the wake of the furor over building an Islamic
center near ground zero. New research from the Public Religion Research
Institute shows that 76 percent of Americans would support Muslims in their community building an Islamic center or mosque provided they followed the same rules and regulations required of other religious groups

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/26/americans-okay-with-mosques-in-their-own-town-but-not-near-grou/

Are the Democrats Victims?

It appears the Democrats with a failure to get a bounce from their healthcare vote are working on playing the victim while condemning the TEA Party movement.

Today we hear the Harry Reid canceled an appearance because of angry calls, e-mails and even threats. His press secretary said there were no threats of violence initiated against Reid but he canceled because of the threats against his invitation to speak. If you don't understand what this means, neither do I.

In the meantime Chris Matthews raised another nonissue regarding Rush Limbaugh referring to the Obama regime. "I never heard the word 'regime,' before, have you?" he said to NBC's Chuck Todd. "I don't even think Joe McCarthy ever called this government a 'regime.'"

However a brief check on google for Bush regime and you are welcomed with over 1.5 million hits. It appears that Matthews has suffered a major memory loss.

On June 14, 2002, Chris Matthews himself introduced a panel discussion about a letter signed by many prominent leftists condemning the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror. "Let's go to the Reverend Al Sharpton," Matthews said. "Reverend Sharpton, what do you make of this letter and this panoply of the left condemning the Bush regime?"

Andrew Breitbart returns to the theme, to devastating effect.

"On March 20th, something truly extraordinary happened. On the eve of the health care vote, a group of black Democrat Congressmen (eschewing the private tunnels they usually use to cross from their offices to the Capitol) chose to walk en masse through a crowd of protesters, confident that the knuckledragging Tea Party goons they and their media pals have reviled for a year now would respond with racial epithets.

And then, when the crowd didn't, the black Congressmen made it up anyway. Representative Andre Carson (Democrat, Indiana) insisted he heard the N-word 15 times. He's either suffering from the same condition as that Guam-flipper from Georgia, or he's a liar. At a scene packed not only with crews from the Dem poodle media but with a gazillion cellphone cameras, not one single N-word has been caught on audio. (By contrast, see my post yesterday for how easy it is to get it on tape when real epithets are flying.)"

http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/04/02/barack-obamas-helter-skelter-insane-clown-posse-alinsky-planes-to-deconstruct-america/

So be prepared. We will hear over and over again how racists and hateful the opponents of Obama, the Democrats, and the Healthcare bill are. Be prepared to be vilified and condemned. But use this as a motivation to vote those who do this out of office.