Obama’s Youth Choir
Dear Leader’s Youth Choir
The Obama group is really excited about having this “grassroots” effort come together on just a Sunday afternoon. They call this the children’s music, but note in the video description that it was the music teacher that wrote the songs for the choir, not the students.
And as is to be expected with a political children’s choir, there is an incredible lack of substance in the songs. But what can you expect from indoctrinated kids?
[via HotAir]
The Democrats keep trying to call this the “Bush-McCain economy.” Clearly, this isn’t.
The soundtrack is pretty darn cheesy, and I take issue with the out of place question mark, but the facts I’ve checked have turned out to be right on. I just hope that McCain can do a better job of exposing this cause of crisis for what it is: not deregulation from the Bush administration, but the wrong types of regulation from the Carter and Clinton administrations.
Clearly, there is blame to be shared by all. But trying to pin this on McCain is insane.
I’ve been impressed these past few weeks at how fair Bill Clinton has been. He hasn’t pulled this political bout face and suddenly demonized McCain the way other Democrats have.
To those who have claimed that McCain was trying to postpone the debate because “he was afraid” or trying to score political points for his “country first” move, it must be remembered that McCain wanted more debates. Clinton reminds us of this:
When asked how to deal with the economic troubles recently, Biden answered that he would create jobs.
Thankfully, the interviewer didn’t let him get away with it. This reminds me earlier when an Obama ad said that he would “fast-track” new technology for alternative fuels. You can’t fast-track science. You increase spending in a particular field, but there’s no guarantee that usable technology will come from that science.
They criticize McCain for supporting drilling, but drilling is the only proven source of energy here. It may be 5-10 years away, but we have no clue at all how far away usable alternative fuels are. I’d rather pursue the “all of the above” strategy that will at least give us a back-up plan with having more of our own oil.
That’s all I’ve heard so far out of Obama-Biden is vague goals of what they want to accomplish, but not how they are going to accomplish them.
This is especially true with their economic policies. They are shooting for policies that sound good now—taxing oil companies and big corporations and giving money back to people. However, that idea is extremely shortsighted. What I want is a candidate not just with ideas, but with plans. There’s a huge difference.
When looking at examples of these tax and spend policies, we look no further to the "laboratories of democracies” the states themselves. California and New York have adopted the approach that Obama has advocated with dire consequences. The Wall Street Journal recently noted:
Anyone who thinks the path to "fiscal discipline" is through higher taxes ought to look at the current budget spectacles in New York and California. The two liberal states have among the highest tax burdens in the country, yet both now find themselves with huge budget deficits and are debating still higher taxes to close the gap.
Ideas make for great rhetoric, but plans make for great results.
Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans."The way Kornblut frame's Palins remarks isn't bad in and of itself. However, Kornblut continues:
The idea that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a view once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected even by the president himself. But it is widely agreed that militants allied with al-Qaeda have taken root in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion.The Bush administration attempted to make the link between al-Qaeda and Sadam early on making the case for war. It was only one part of an entire case war. Of course Palin isn't trying to resurrect this discounted theory.
Sen. Obama alluded to words from a sacred text in his acceptance speech saying, "At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise — that American promise — and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess."The above example is how one could take words that Obama did say, and frame them in such away with such a headline to be misleading. Everything above is factual, as was in the Washington Post piece.
Rumors that Obama attended an extremist Muslim school as a child and was at one time, or still is, a practicing Muslim, have been denied by his campagin. It is widely agreed that the allusion was most likelyin reference to the Bible--used by Christians as a sacred text.
These are just a few. I know people don’t consider Fox News “balanced” but Brooks Jackson, the guy being interviewed is from factcheck.org.
The highlights:
Jackson also makes a note about the Obama lipstick remark. As I said before, it is obvious that the what Obama was directly was referring to McCain’s policies and not to Palin. However, the audience obviously pulled a double meaning out of it—whether it was intended or not.
I think its interesting to see how charges of veiled sexism are being brought against a man who has been charging the Republican party with unfounded accusations of overt racism the entire campaign.
When I awoke to find the headline “Obama: lipstick on a pig” below a picture of Palin, I thought for a brief second that the election was over.
Then, I watched the video. The obvious literal meaning of what he was saying was referring to McCain and not to Palin. However, in light of Palin’s famous joke about hockey mom’s the statement takes on a different light:
"You know, they say, the difference between a hockey Mom and a pitbull?... Lipstick!"
I can’t say for certain what Obama’s intentions were regarding the statement. If he did meant it as an underhanded way to poke fun at Palin. But, we do know that he has a history of making these “subtle” gestures as a way to try to tear down his opponent. Interestingly, this was against another female opponent back during the primary (it comes about 20 seconds in):
Most people have made off-color gestures or said crude things. However, this is on stage in front of thousands of people. Combined with the smug look on his face, the whole thing is hard to confuse.
Hot Air also has a compilation of other things he’s said on the trail about Sen. Clinton that could be construed as racist:
“She’s got the kitchen sink flying, and the china flying, and the, you know, the buffet is coming at me.” — April 20
“You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out.” — February, Tulane University
“I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal.” — February
Now, most of these things are pretty benign. The only exception I think is the quote from April 20th, which makes her seem like an angry housewife, and not a US Senator, and opponent in a race for President.
This may seem overly sensitive, but consider if the charges of sexism were flipped to racism. The race would already be over.
"They believe in their faith and they believe in human life, and they have differing views as to when life — I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception."
“They know that you’re not real happy with them and so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me,” Obama continued, repeating an attack from earlier in the day. “What they’re saying is ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, he’s a got a funny name.’”After Obama himself said this, I think its hard for his surrogates to accuse Palin of using her gender to advantage--even if she actually has been (and she hasn't been).
"I'm used to being very productive and working really hard every day...We want to make sure that the VP spot would be a fruitful type of position."The first person to hold the Vice President office, John Adams, famously said of the job that it was, "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."