Zephyr Light
By Mitch Berg
Allahpundit on the press’ in-the-bagitude for Obama:
I look forward to the media showing 1/1000th the interest in this case of a candidate with a thin resume lying about his credentials as they’ve shown in Palin touting the fact that she canceled the bridge to nowhere — which she did. Exit question: Does a man who comes from the same professional background as Jesus really need to inflate his resume?
What’s he talking about?
Another Obama flight of fancy, background-wise.
Read it. Get back to me.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Last time I watched evening networks news (from one of the old networks) was 1988. The Dan Rather ambush of VP Bush was the final straw. Haven’t turned on CBS/NBC/ABC at 5:30 PM since high school.
I really want to be one of the last people reading a paper each morning, but I think I see the end coming for me. The “A” section of the St Paul paper is mainly wire service stories from the NYT, AP and McCachly. Way too much McCain and Palin bashing. Even the headlines are belittling.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Yes Mitch, it’s so important to focus on this nonsense when our financial markets are in free fall.
YOUR President did nothing when people raided their IRA’s, took out heavily leveraged positions on their houses using ARMS, took out positions exceeding the value of the home, took out ‘interest only’ loans.
YOUR President took on 900 BILLION dollars (MINIMUM) in new debt to bail-out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac- issues which he was warned about in 2001!!
YOUR President engaged in nation building in a war against someone who wasn’t involved in 9/11.
YOUR President has screwed this economy from front to back – supply-side economics has failed miserably, UTTERLY to create the new, high-paying jobs in anything like the needed/promised amounts to raise up the middle class – in fact the reverse has happened.
And YOUR Candidate voted right along with him – and the only problem is, he’s my President too, but YOU want to replace him with a rubber-stamp corporate spigot.
Let’s get all exercised about Obama – and absurd claims he compares himself to Jesus. THAT will help, certainly.
I’ve gotten back to you.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:08 am
That settles it. I am definitly NOT voting for Bush this fall.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Yeah, Mitch, how DARE you post stuff on YOUR blog!!
September 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am
That settles it. I am definitly NOT voting for Bush this fall.
Me neither, but it’s okay to vote for Dick Cheney, right?
September 17th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Yes Mitch, it’s so important to focus on this nonsense when our financial markets are in free fall.
Peev, this is a blog. I can focus on one topic in one post, and a completely different one in another.
Indeed, it’s preferable to pick *a* topic than to try to bang through EVERY possible topic in one post or comment.
Just saying.
YOUR President did nothing when people raided their IRA’s, took out heavily leveraged positions on their houses using ARMS, took out positions exceeding the value of the home, took out ‘interest only’ loans.
So it’s the President’s job to protect people from themselves?
I’m not finding that in the enumerated powers.
YOUR President took on 900 BILLION dollars (MINIMUM) in new debt to bail-out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac- issues which he was warned about in 2001!!
Yep. It’s dumb for the gov’t to be in the mortgage biz at all, much less to the tune of a trillion bucks.
YOUR President engaged in nation building in a war against someone who wasn’t involved in 9/11.
Irrelevant, off topic, and wrong to boot.
YOUR President has screwed this economy from front to back – supply-side economics has failed miserably, UTTERLY to create the new, high-paying jobs in anything like the needed/promised amounts to raise up the middle class – in fact the reverse has happened.
Rubbish. Patent garbage.
And YOUR Candidate voted right along with him – and the only problem is, he’s my President too, but YOU want to replace him with a rubber-stamp corporate spigot.
I think the Constitution pretty clearly implies the President must be a human, not a piece of bathroom or kitchen hardware.
Let’s get all exercised about Obama – and absurd claims he compares himself to Jesus. THAT will help, certainly.
It will not address the issues you’ve cherrypicked and tried to use to drag the thread off-topic.
But it addresses my issue – that Obama, a less-than-one-term Senator, is utterly unqualified to be President.
I’ve gotten back to you.
It’s not quite as rewarding as I’d hoped.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Peev wrote:
. . . absurd claims he compares himself to Jesus.
In response to this quote from Allahpundit:
Exit question: Does a man who comes from the same professional background as Jesus really need to inflate his resume?
Allahpundit is not saying that Obama compares himself to Jesus. A number of people on the left have done this, though. Susan Sarandon, Cecil Roberts, Joe Klein, and Donna Brazile for starters.
September 17th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Guys whose skirts billow over their heads frantically (yes, of course I’m talking about Peev) claim G.W. has screwed the economoy, deny Reagan did anything for the economy, and praise Clinton for boosting the economy.
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/09/17/stubborn_ignorance
September 17th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Mitch, you might want to point Peev to Ed’s excellent post about how Bush tried to set up a bdetter system for oversite of Fannie and Freddy in 2001. I know Peev is reality-challenged, but letting bald-faced lies like that stand is just poor form.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
From link to the McCain website which is supposed to show Palin canceled the B2N
“2005 . . .November 16: House and Senate negotiators took the rare step of eliminating a requirement that the federal funds be spent to build the Ketchikan Bridge.
2006 . . . July 27: gubernatorial candidate Sarah Palin denies the project is a “bridge to nowhere.” [Probably about the time she posed with a Nowhere, Alaska sweatshirt to show her support.]
September 21: Palin said the money for the bridge should remain available for “a link, an access process” for the island.
October 20: Palin’s spokesman confirmed she supported the Ketchikan Bridge Project.”
Contrast that record with what Palin said: “I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere”. Congress told her now, but she kept trying to get them to pick up the tab. Simply put, in the most important speech of her life, she lied.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
RickDFL, all the funds, including the BTN funds, were released to Palin WITHOUT the requirement to spend it on the BTN. She spent the money on something else.
Her canceling the BTN was never in question until the Palin VP pick gave McCain a bounce & you guys on the left went into full-panic mode.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Rick thinks Palin should have given the money back. How quaint. Barack submitted more than 215 earmark requests for Illinois. Any outrage there, Rick?
September 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Look, this should be simple. An earmark is a direction to spend funds distributed to a senators’ or a congressmans’ district on a specific project. The BTN bookmark was particularly odius because it was a lot of money spent for the benefit of few people –probably intended to get money back to Steven’s family & cronies, if past performance predicts future results.
When congress removed the earmark — but not the money — Palin decided to spend it where it would do the citizens of her state more good.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Terry:
“all the funds, including the BTN funds, were released to Palin WITHOUT the requirement to spend it on the BTN” Exactly ergo Palin’s original claim “I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere” is false.
Kermit:
“Rick thinks Palin should have given the money back” No I think she should have opposed the original earmark and not have lied about it in her first speech.
Terry:
“When congress removed the earmark — but not the money — Palin decided to spend it where it would do the citizens of her state more good.” Perfectly sensible, but that is not what she said she did. That makes her a liar.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:33 am
perhaps Rick should take this up with the Alaskan democrats who had given credit to Palin for killing the BTN on their web page right up until she was picked to be the VP. At that point they took the web page down and changed their mind. Interesting.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Buzz: There is nothing to take up with Alaska Democrats. They, I, and everybody agree that long after Congress deleted the B2N earmark (which Palin supported), Palin refused to spend Alaska funds on it. Perfectly sensible, if less than heroic. But once again, that is not what she said in her speech. In her speech she said ““I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere”. Again, that is false. Ask Gov. Palin the simple question “when did you say “thanks, but no thanks” to Congress?”