Its about time!  Worried about being re-elected many Democrats are running away from Pelosi.  They are going so far as to run TV ads saying that they are not with her!  Does this sound familiar?  In 2008 and 2009 there were many Republicans running ads saying they didn't back Bush's policies in efforts to distance themselves from him.  The problem was the American people didn't believe it, because of the voting records.  Many of these Republicans lost.   Both sides of the aisle back then were guilty of spending and so was Bush, so technically all were to blame, except those who apposed the crazy spending bills and earmarks.  

Unfortunately, its not the exact same thing this time.  The GOP side of the aisle has opposed major legislation including Obamacare and others that are raising the debt to historic levels.  These Dems distancing themselves from Pelosi, unfortunately, voted for all of these.  So no matter how many ads they run or how they try to run away from her, there's no getting away from the facts.  Or that botox'd face.  It will probably haunt them well after their career ending election.

Read more here:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41608.html

op Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day. In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks. Congressional approval ratings are at an all time low. They no longer believe the jobs and housing markets will recover — or that anything resembling the White House’s promise of a “recovery summer” is under way. They are even more concerned by indications that House Democrats once considered safe — such as Rep.Betty Sutton, who occupies an Ohio seat that President Barack Obama won with 57 percent of the vote in 2008 — are in real trouble. This may not just be an attack on democrats, but an attack on congress completely.

Dems are worried and they should be. Polls show Dems losing all over the country. This is typical of Americans though. Let's all go vote Obama into office (big mistake) and then see the economy get worse even after all that stimulus which basically did absolutely nothing at all. Congress will be in gridlock for the next 2 years, Hillary will go against Obama (if he seeks another term) and she will win the DEM nomination. Republicans need to make sure they get something done. They cry a lot these days and crying doesn't help at all.

Who said there weren’t any jobs out there? Speak Ebonics? Here is your chance to work for the DEA!

The agency is serious about needing nine people to translate conversations picked up on wiretaps during investigations, Special Agent Michael Sanders said Tuesday. A solicitation was sent to contractors as part of a request to companies to provide hundreds of translators in 114 languages.

"DEA's position is, it's a language form we have a need for," Sanders said. "I think it's a language form that DEA recognizes a need to have someone versed in to conduct investigations."

They are needed in Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans and Miami. If you graduated with a degree in linguistics, hopefully you studied some Ebonics. That may be a requirement to get the job.

If Harry Reid loses in November it will be a major blow to the Democratic Party. One of the main reasons is because his opponent, Sharron Angle, is relatively unknown and Reid should not lose to such an unknown candidate. This is supposed to help Reid, but according to polls it’s not helping. Angle has an ace in the hole and that is the economy. She will prove that under Reid’s leadership the economy got worse, not better. The ironic thing is that both candidates are becoming more and more unliked by voters. Nearly eight of 10 voters who remain undecided or who don't like Angle or Reid say they, too, would have preferred if the staunch conservative hadn't won the June 8 primary over her more moderate foes. And 58 percent of such nonaligned voters say they wish Reid hadn't won the Democratic nomination, suggesting a majority of Nevadans are unhappy with their choices. Reid is confident however that he will pull out a victory. We’ll have to wait and see. Personally I think Reid will lose, but there will be a re-count, he will not go down gentle into that good night unfortunately.

Bye bye Harry!

 The title of this was the title of a piece on Reuters UK today on Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speech about Barack Obama. “Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday the United States was deeply hated in the Middle East and told U.S. President Barack Obama that "beautiful" speeches alone would not improve its image in the Muslim world.” More specifically, “Even if they give sweet and beautiful talks to the Muslim nation ... that will not create a change.” Khamenei said.

So I suppose this confirms the hypothesis in a previous article of mine where I mentioned that Obama loves to give his speeches but unfortunately people don’t want to listen to poetic talk, they want action. Obama still wants to sit down with Iran? Why would he waste everyone’s time? It’s clear they could care less about the U.S. And they certainly could care less about Israel. Khamenei made reference to them as a “cancerous tumor in the heart.” That is very flattering.

Obama’s speech today, again, was apologetic to the Arab world.  Obama is trying to sweet talk Muslim nations so that he can be responsible for a big peace effort in the Middle East. (Another Jimmy Carter) But what Obama does not realize is that the majority of Muslim nations in the Middle East are not interested in peace. They are so peeved, and have been for over 30 years, at the United States, that sweet talking them and pandering to them will not solve this problem.  Obama cannot solve the Iran nuclear issue this way. Moreover, Obama is alienating the one jewel of the Middle East which is Israel. He basically dissolved George W. Bush’s policy that permitted Israel to increase the number of settlers in communities that Israel wants to retain if the Palestinians establish an independent state. Above all else, Obama is snubbing Israel by not even including a stop there during this trip to the Middle East.

Obama’s inexperience is showing and no matter how many speeches you make you can’t change the facts that there are real threats in this world that care more about themselves than you. They are willing to blow themselves up for their religion and they are willing to create Armageddon to obtain their goal of martyrdom. I really don’t think Obama is checking his email account on that Blackberry otherwise he would have gotten the memo on this.

Last week Obama announced that he is creating a whole new department to be headed by a Cyber-CZAR. Yes, this department will investigate and figure out what to do about cyber crimes. Another bureaucrat is going to tell us what we can and cannot do online. Is he going to suggest software that everyone must install on their computers so that the government can monitor everything you do online? Internet regulation aka censorship is on the way. The socialist united states are ready to have state run media take over at a moments notice. How exciting. This is ironic, they want to work on getting rid of internet crime, but at the same time they cant stop someone who accidentally posted a 200+ page document on the web indicating locations of our uranium storage and other nuclear information.

Read about it here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090603/ap_on_go_ot/us_us_nuclear_list

It seems to work for our government you have to be the stupidest person alive and not have a clue how to use a computer. How in the world can you mistakenly post a 200+ page document online??? The file is huge, its pretty obvious you read what you post on a site isn’t it? Or maybe they don’t. The White House response “Someone made a mistake” You think?

I certainly hope they don’t give this person a position in the new Cyber-Crime Department. Otherwise all of our social security #’s will be leaked along with your driver’s license number.

Good grief.

This week, Obama announced a new Army Secretary. During this time there was news from Arkansas about a slain soldier who was working as an army recruiter. It could have been a great time for Obama to speak about this event. The White House was silent. The new secretary, John McHugh also said nothing about this event. I find this a bit bothersome. They both knew of this because the FBI was already investigating this, and the FBI reports incidents to the White House and other departments. Are they trying to hide the fact that the person who did the shooting and the killing was a Muslim convert? He told investigators that he attacked soldiers "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past" and aimed to "kill as many people in the Army as he could."

Meanwhile, Obama is in the Middle East hanging out with his buddies and no doubt apologizing to them for America. . I couldn’t tell if he bowed this time to the King of Saudi Arabia, the White House did not allow any photos of the meeting. I wonder why. Every time he goes overseas it seems like it’s an excuse to say “I’m sorry for the way America is.” Is he ever happy to be an American? After all he is America’s #1 spokesperson, isn’t he? Building relations with Muslim nations seems like a top priority for this administration. Where as taking care of a major threat in North Korea or securing our borders here at home are a distant second. No matter how many people get sick at home or even could potentially die from an attack in the future, Obama will still be just “talking.”

It seems whenever an extremist does something to America, Obama turns the other cheek. He seems to want to wait to get a consensus on what to do or just doesn’t care. Could it be that he sympathizes with their cause? Could it be Obama lied when he said he wanted to get tough on terrorism and hunt the correct suspects? Or could at be that Obama cares more about himself than he does about the people he represents? When you have terrorists in your own country, perhaps you should start there and remove them. The guy they caught had it all, “Material seized from Muhammad's truck and apartment — including guns, ammunition and Molotov cocktails — led federal agents to caution that copycat attacks could not be ruled out.”

Other information obtained via the AP,
“New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said investigators found Google Earth images of various places, including Times Square. In Atlanta, FBI Agent Stephen Emmett said Muhammad had information regarding a "Jewish entity within our jurisdiction."

Still no response from the White House. Will there be a response when a larger terror strike occurs within our borders or will Obama and his “security” advisors laugh and say something like they have been saying when events occur, ‘We are still looking into this’ or ‘we need a special committee and Czar to take over the investigations.’ Maybe Obama should visit William Long’s family and apologize for not giving a damn that their son was murdered for (and while) serving his country. Not go overseas and apologize for Americans protecting themselves against potential threats.

Read more info here:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQACNshVFYt6M9CDykHq6DKqPhiwD98JEEOO2

I got my copy of Bruce Springsteens new album, Working on a Dream today.  No it has nothing to do with Barack Obama, thank God, but what the dream is I’m confused.  Bruce is late in his career and I think he realized his dreams already, but then again there’s always room for another one.  The album isn’t as bad as many critics claim.  Those same critics thought Magic was decent, and I thought its concept was over the top but the music was decent.  On this release Bruce seems rushed.  I realized this album was done quickly like Magic (I thought that was rushed also) but it doesn’t seem like he took the time to listen to his mix and didn’t do many lyric rewrites like he used to in his Glory Days.  Brenden O’Brien loves strings way too much.  I love strings in my music too, but the over production is a bit much.  The funny thing about this album is that it doesn’t really sound like Bruce.  It sounds like the Beach Boys, the Byrds even Roy Orbison.  The funny thing is that Bruce’s guitars on many songs are very similar to the style I admire from Marty Willson-Piper of the Church, who loves the 12 string, the Rickenbacker guitar, the Beach Boys and the Byrds.  I just feel the production is a bit much.  Although I think this album is better than Magic, it lacks Bruce’s keen writing ability via his lyrics.  It seems like his masterpiece The Rising has never been duplicated and may never be.  I have liked pretty much every album he has released until Magic and this album I can say I enjoy listening to, but its not really Bruce.   Maybe another tribute album would have been a good idea but I digress.

 

The songs:

Many critics blast The Queen of the Supermarket.  The song isn’t that bad.  There’s much worse on Magic in my opinion, but the concept of the song I don’t understand.   Musically its fine, but its not Bruce.

 

Outlaw Pete’s string line is almost an identical copy to the song I Was Made for Loving You by Kiss.  Listen to it and you will probably agree.  But like that or not the song sticks in your head.  8 minutes to open an album is a bit much.

 

Working On a Dream, the song itself, if it’s the single, which I guess it is, isn’t worth a single status.  Its not bad again musically, but the lyrics are so basic, I would expect maybe a brand new 15 year old songwriter to write these.  Not very deep, not very Brucelike.

 

This Life is the Beach Boys ala Bruce – never heard Bruce use harmonies like this, not bad, and the band sounds like E-street.  It’s a pretty song.

 

What Love Can Do sounds like it should be on Magic, same style of many songs on that record.  Poptastic.  Nothing wrong with it.  Would like to listen to it a bit more.  More of the 2000s Bruce Springsteen -- nothing awesome, nothing bad.

 

My Lucky Day is your typical Bruce Springsteen song.  The drums, keys, guitars are very E-Street and the reverb on Bruce’s voice matches Bruce’s songs from years past.  Not a bad song at all, like this one.  Good one for the concerts.

 

Good Eye – I was not aware Bruce was a blues singer.  Interesting concept here, but I think I will be leaving this one to Muddy Waters or even Led Zeppelin.

 

Tomorrow Never Knows – Very short little country song here.  I like the beat, like Nils’ steel guitar.  Nothing wrong with a simple song.  Good for middle of the album, good placement, no crazy production thrown at this.

 

****Life Itself – Probably my favorite song on this album, the problem with this one is that the chords remind me of a sped up version of My City of Ruins from the Rising.  Listen to the lyrics, slow them down and put My City over them and see if you think the same.  Or even very similar to Paradise as well from The Rising.  I guess it’s the minor chords.  The guitar distortion is a bit strange to me, not sure I would have used that one.

 

**Kingdom of Days – This ballad is very similar to songs from The River, one of my favorite Springsteen albums, and this song does not disappoint.  Another good one.  But I wonder what some of the lyrics mean and again Brenden Obrien’s Strings are a bit much, he could learn something from Brian Eno.  Brenden, check out Coldplay’s latest album buddy.  I still like the song.

 

Surprise, Surprise -  It’s the BYRDS!  No wait, its Marty Willson-Piper from The Church!  Oh man, when I heard this and Marty was talking to me.  I was waiting for his voice to sing this.  Wow.  I cant hate this song, I really don’t hate much of Bruce’s work at all, even though the lyrics are basic.  The chords are almost exact as a few tunes penned by Marty.  For those of you who don’t know him, check out The Church and then link to his Myspace page.  www.thechurchband.com

 

The Last Carnival – This song is for Danny, and I can see why.  I loved Danny very much, growing up listening to his keyboards, he was definitely an influence on my music.  The way he can just add parts at just the right spot, amazing.  Great keyboard player. 

 

***The Wrestler – BRUCE!!!  Yeah this is Bruce’s Oscar Song. Good one.  I like it, but then again who doesn’t.  Its typical Bruce and probably one of the better songs on here.

 All In All I Give this 3 out of 5 stars.  Its not bad and its not great. I think I gave Magic 2 of 5 simply on the music from the E-Street band alone even though the tone of the album didn’t sit well with me.  This album has some production problems, perhaps Bruce should seek out another producer, but I doubt it.  Where was Clarence’s Sax? This album is missing the Big Man!  I thought the whole thing seemed rushed.  The songs were written too quick, not typical of Bruce.  Its almost like he wants to release as much as he can these days.  Sometimes its best to wait several years and come out with another The Rising.  I do not agree with Rolling Stone this is not 5 stars and its not a classic, sorry guys.   Bruce is slipping back to the 90s when his albums were tolerable and had several decent songs with a hit or 2, but as whole they were average.  Same with this one.

This is worth listening to and enjoying though.

Songs to download – Life Itself, Kingdom of Days and The Wrestler

 

This is a very interesting story. Our friends at the UAW have really overstepped their bounds. Its bad enough that they have jacked up salaries and hourly wages for the workers it represents over the past 30 years, now it seems to want more from the government to cover the companies of the workers they represent. The last time I checked the UAW is not GM or Chrysler. It’s a ‘Union’. A union of what we have no idea. And unions do what they wish. And what they’ve done over the past 30 years is make these auto companies pay outrageous wages to their workers while other companies from overseas have moved in and started plants in the United States. These companies do not belong to this union, why? Because they are from Japan. And what do they pay their workers? An honest wage for an honest days work. They give them full benefits and very nice vacation time. And many Americans work for them and enjoy life. But this isn’t enough for the UAW, they need more. Because without their union dues they wouldn’t exist. And why raise union dues? Because your workers make more and yes they will thank you by paying you more in dues. What happens if GM or Chrysler loses jobs? You lose union employees and our UAW bosses lose money. Poor them. This whole thing stinks. Remove the UAW now. Get them out of the picture so that GM and low ball Chrysler can get back to work. Remove all the executive salaries that are $250,000 - $1million a year. Start restructuring your company like the airlines did several years ago. Lets remember, those airlines are now looking in the next quarter to make a profit for the first time in 8 years. The UAW is at fault along with the executives of these companies. I agree its not the worker, but when you pay a worker $60/hr to do a job that Toyota pays a worker $25/hr for, then you have problems. And this is exactly what we are seeing. Its gone on far too long. Ford does not want loans, doesn’t need it because their executives get paid correctly and no one is trying to take funds they don’t deserve ( so far ). The problem with the UAW is that they are trying to say they cut wages from $28/hr to $14 for first time employees recently and they cut benefits. Wow! Really? Why are you telling companies what they should pay their employees? Lets talk about first time employees. Where is their training? Is this before or after training and how many hours on the job? Everyone in Michigan would love to start a job at $28/hr. Sign all the unemployed up! The UAW is cash hording, and everyone knows it. The problem is in order for them to make money, they need to have their members make more. Its been going on for far too long. End it now. Don’t ask the federal government, which did nothing to hurt these companies by the way, to fix your problem. UAW? Unemployed Auto Weasels. If they really cared about the companies they worked with they would have fixed this 25 years ago. Lets not forget that Chrysler years back was pretty much bankrupt. If it hadn’t been for Daimler and then Cerberus Capital Management that bought it all, they would be lost already. So lets remember that these companies, minus the unions are at fault as well. Get rid of the union. Get rid of the overpaid execs. Start fresh and see what happens. Sounds to be like a bankruptcy may be the best way to go. Yes some people will lose their jobs, and in my opinion the ones that should are the top brass, not the lowly worker. But unfortunately they may lose out. But hey, they can always go to Toyota.

 

And the winner is? (Drumroll).   Sarah Palin!!

Who????

Many Republicans are asking that question as I write this no doubt. She is the governor of Alaska. Obviously the McCain campaign was thinking that this crucial swing state in the cold white north will be a major turning point in the election. Hardly. Alaska is not a swing state, it holds a very small number of electoral votes and would have gone to McCain in November anyway. So it definitely was not the state. Why did they nominate Sarah Palin you ask? Simple. Hillary Clinton is not running for President or even Vice President. Sarah Palin would be the first woman to hold the office of VP and she is a republican, a conservative one at that.  One problem is that Obama’s team is going to point out her inexperience. McCain lost the experience debate when having her as his running mate, but I believe running a state is much more demanding that being a state senator or a senator in the US Senate for a year. 

What worries me is that McCain just lost the edge on the debate on the economy. Had he picked Romney, the economy would no longer be an issue to discuss. Now Obama’s team has yet another thorn in McCain’s side.

Bonuses to Gov Palin :

1)      Her husband is Native American. This is a major bonus.

2)      She has a son serving in Iraq. (So she is definitely experienced in this area, sorry Cindy Sheehan)

3)      She also has a newborn Down Syndrome baby at home. As unfortunate as this is, it will do the country some good to learn about this disease and why it affects so many newborns.

4)      She is Conservative – Much more than McCain is. We just don’t know about what policies of McCain’s she agrees with or disagrees with.

One thing this announcement did was take the fire away from Barack’s speech in his temple on Thursday night. The focus is off Obama and definitely on McCain and the republicans. Perfect timing for going into the convention this upcoming week.

Speaking of Alaska, on a side note:

Somebody needs to phone Mike Gravel and let him know that the primary race is over and that a candidate has been chosen in his party. I think he is still campaigning. What a space cadet. According to wikipedia he is now a libertarian!! Why is it that when these morons don’t contribute anything to their party they always turn into libertarians? Time to retire and go fishing Mike.

Jeremiah Wright is destroying Barack Obama. So much so that Obama, has come out and formally disagreed with Wright, the guy he has been listening to for 20 years talk his hate speech. Wright knows what he is doing. He is so peeved at Obama for stating that he does not agree with Wright or that Wright was not his mentor, et al. that he is going around the country giving speeches to the contrary. Who to believe? Obama is right to disown Wright, but the damage has already been done. No one believes that after 20 years of attending this maniac’s so-called church that Obama didn’t have some of his nonsense sink in.

Obama has stated again this week that he didn’t fully know Wright’s views and that he didn’t attend the church regularly. He is lying. Obama may not have been there everyday, but he certainly heard this guy go on and on about hating America and white people. This ‘black liberation’ movement as its called is definitely ingrained in Obama’s head, or at least Wright’s version of it is. Case in point: Obama’s comments about heartland America regarding bitterness. We all know who he directed that to.

A month ago during Obama’s BIG speech on race that the liberal press went gaga over:
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother.”

Remember that? So I guess Barack will not be going to any African American Events in his hometown anymore, nor will he be calling his grandmother ever again. There is a reason why everyone is still talking about this, and that reason is Rev. Wright. If he did not respond and kept quiet, Obama would probably have gotten away with something huge. But the pressure on Wright’s ego was too much to handle. A pastor is not to have an ego, although many do, it is not part of theology. Maybe Wright’s theology is no theology at all but rather a reincarnated 60’s Black Panther dogma.

Whatever it is, Wright is not going away any time soon, and Americans are now seeing Barack for who he really is, which is exactly what I said he was months upon months ago. You are known by the company you keep but even more so by the company that you double crossed. Obama was to be the great race ‘Uniter’. Now it looks like he is going to be the great “Divider.”

Coming to a TV near you? That would be something.

To some Obama losing Pennsylvania was not that big of a deal. After all he is still ahead in delegates and only lost by 10 points. To others, the 10 points he lost by is a huge margin. He has been slipping further down in polls, meanwhile, Hillary is moving up. If you could put both of them in the ring who would win? Hillary of course! Obama would run away and hide, just like he is doing now.

Barack is making mistakes, which Hillary is proudly pointing out in all of her ‘attack ads’. And Obama is running away like a scared little chicken. He knows that if he enters another debate he will lose. He has done horribly in recent debates because the questions are too hard for him to answer, well, hard for him to answer honestly. Questions about Rev. Wright, his ‘bitterness’ comments, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn will surface once again. Last time Obama could not answer them, truthfully. We saw Mr. Orator turn into Mr. Mumble mouth. If it’s written on the page, he can read it, but if he’s trying to come up with something off the top of his head forget about it. Hillary’s people know this, so they want more debates. Obama is afraid. He should be.

In his speech after the primary on Tuesday, it appears Obama continues to believe that since he is the only candidate that is for ‘Hope and Change’ aka the new ‘Ambassador of Hope’, a cause that many believe is as empty as I think his head is, it causes him to receive more criticism thus creating distractions on his ‘issues’, which we are still waiting for specifics on many by the way:

“After fourteen long months, it’s easy to forget this from time to time – to lose sight of the fierce urgency of this moment. It’s easy to get caught up in the distractions and the silliness and the tit-for-tat that consumes our politics; the bickering that none of us are immune to, and that trivializes the profound issues – two wars, an economy in recession, a planet in peril.”

Apparently Obama has no idea where he is or what he is doing. The only one losing sight (along with votes) is him. The criticisms he is receiving from Clinton, among others, are all apart of politics. He sounds like a cry-baby who doesn’t like to be picked on. All this talk about hope and change and we see that he cannot change and is hopeless: From wanting to sit down with Iranians, to having a racist wacko preacher as a mentor, to telling middle America that you are bitter so you turn to God and guns, and a wife who isn’t exactly a spokesperson for patriotism. What else will we uncover as time continues? Republicans, and more importantly, John McCain hope for a lot more.

In polls, Hillary has a lead in Indiana and Kentucky. Things are a bit tighter in North Carolina.

Too bad these two cannot duke it out physically. My money would be on Hillary. Something tells me she uses Bill as a punching bag. It would get the highest ratings on cable for sure.

Today in the NY Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote an Op-Ed entitled the exact same as this piece here that I am about to deliver to you. I plan on taking issue with his editorial for multiple reasons. This op-ed in the NY Times was not a surprise, in fact, it was expected. Kristof tries to point out that white America does not understand Black America so therefore we do not understand Rev. Wright’s speech.

Nicholas, I’m sorry, but if you are saying that it’s a ‘black thing’ and that we don’t understand ‘black things’ you are way off base. I understood when I heard Wright talk aggressively about blaming white America for everything that goes wrong in the country. He is claiming to be a victim of white and government persecution, yet he has, it seems, a successful life with a very large church with a large ‘following’. He isn’t exactly broke either. So apparently this victim mentality is as pointless as his speeches.

Kristof continues, “Mr. Wright has indeed made some outrageous statements. But he should be judged as well by his actions — including a vigorous effort to address poverty, ill health, injustice and AIDS in his ministry. Mr. Wright has been frightfully wrong on many topics, but he was right on poverty, civil rights and compassion for AIDS victims.”

Outrageous statements? You could say that. Wright has blamed the US government for spreading AIDS in this country. He also claims that the government is responsible for selling crack cocaine to lower income black areas in the country. So, how exactly, Nicholas, do you come to the conclusion that Wright is working hard for these issues when all he does is take the victim mentality. Kristof mentions a man who goes to Wright’s church saying that his message is really about “Hope”. Hope for what? Hope to blame everybody but yourself for the behavior of certain aspects of society? If Wright was the correct man of God then he would not just be critical of the government and privileged, he would be critical of the people who are using drugs, having children out of wedlock and committing crimes. Last I checked it wasn’t just black people who do those things but whites, Hispanics and even Asians too. His work has concentrated on the wrong thing. He could also take a page out of Bill Cosby’s playbook and discuss responsibility instead of victim-mentality.

“All of this demonstrates that a national dialogue on race is painful, awkward and essential. And that dialogue needs to focus not on clips from old sermons by Mr. Wright but on far more urgent challenges — for example, that about half of black males do not graduate from high school with their class.”

Right you are there Nicholas, but every time a white person tries to have a dialogue about these issues they get cast down as a racist. One cannot have a discussion if one believes anything he is going to say is wrong and is going to offend the other party in the discussion. The other person is already expecting something offensive to come out when its not meant to be that way. Where as the people who were offended by Wright’s sermons get looked at like they have no business getting so upset and crying foul. Well, look at the big picture. It’s a double edged sword. I think people are tired of hearing about people who are always feeling sorry for themselves and blaming others for their situation. As a pastor, why not address that issue and uplift those who are downtrodden instead of giving them more reason to be miserable? Just a suggestion.

“Gail Collins is off today”. – Good for her, then maybe she didn’t read that horrible Op-Ed.
But you can if you want here : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/opinion/20kristof.html?bl&ex=1206158400&en=0d1e9305b145f292&ei=5087%0A

Is it me, or are the democratic candidates not being asked the questions that matter.

We have yet to hear Obama’s foreign policy plan. For all we know he is going to go to Iran by himself and smoke some hash with Mahmoud. He could hang out with Chavez and watch some Lethal Weapon movies. Or better yet, he could go over to Putin’s house and play the game RISK and lose. There are no questions from any reporter on anything foreign policy related that I’ve seen. No serious ones anyway. What bothers me more is that the questions to both Obama and Clinton all revolve around health care, the environment and the almighty Global Warming! Now that we’ve had one of the coldest winters on record, if not the coldest, and that over the last century temperatures have gone down, not up, they still think our planet is warming. Years ago they warned of an ice age in the future. In the 80’s we had the Ozone layer and yes, the almighty global warming. When will it end? I get called a fear monger when I discuss the war on terror which is a REAL situation with REAL consequences. But when someone discusses global warming they get a prize. If we do not handle the terrorists there will be no country to save from climate change. (thats the P.C. term for Global Warming)

Now, Obama likes to try to quote Jesus in his speeches. This from a guy who was raised by and around Muslims and claims to be a Christian. I dont care so much about his upbringing, I only care about his lying about who he really is.

He has no idea what the Sermon on the Mount means. Apparently his pastor at his church doesn’t know either.  Obama also went so far to say that The Sermon on the Mount makes more sense than some 'obscure passage in Romans'.  I assume that his church does not cover anything after the Gospel of John.  Never mind reading any of Paul's letters.  What is so hard to understand in Romans Barack?  Have you read it?  Probably not.

 Could you imagine if Romney was up on the stage talking about religious values as wantonly as Obama? It would be a media fiasco! People yelling “separation of church and state!” “This guy is too religious.” But in the meantime we have Obama trying to quote from the Bible, horribly I might add, and nobody says anything. Why? Because he is trying to prove to you that he is a Christian. Now he may be, he may not be, but honestly, as a Christian myself, and many of you are too, do you go around PROVING that you are by trying to quote scripture or tell stories from the Bible? Not very often. And what makes me laugh is that all of his supporters think he’s smart and so sophisticated. What a waste.

Again I ask, where are the tough questions to these candidates on foreign policy? Nowhere. Obama wants to end wars with Islamo-fascists because he’s buddies with them? Bin Laden is sitting in his cave watching his plasma TV laughing right now. We have conservative talk show hosts telling their listeners to vote for Hillary now. Why? Because Obama is a danger to this nation. It only took them a year to figure that out. I’ve said all along that Hillary would do a much better job protecting Americans than Obama. But she certainly is no John McCain. Whoever the lefties nominate, it will be McCain’s job to convince all Americans that they are wrong and he is right. Lots of luck John, just don’t mention Obama’s middle name or the left wing media will fry cook you.

I’d like to thank the academy for providing us with the worst Oscars in recent memory.  Multiple hours of nothingness led by John Stewart.  Its hard to believe that the writers strike was over because this ceremony was horrible.  Maybe they went back to the ceremony they had planned without writers, or maybe the writers are just that bad.  They ran clip after clip after clip with no real content.  The presenters looked like they were on some downer drug and everyone who won was foreign!  I need to check to see when the last time all Americans won at the British academy awards.  Not that I am complaining, I thought that Daniel Day-Lewis was by far the best actor and I loved seeing George “Darfur” Clooney get snubbed.   It didn’t really matter because no one was watching it anyway.  According to Neilson this was the worst ratings since 2003 which was the worst over all. 

 What was even worse was the red carpet show prior to the awards themselves.  I love it when actresses who know nothing about foreign policy, war or our country, wear little orange ribbons for the closing of Gitmo.  Julie Christie, I’m talking to you. She apparently has been there so many times and have seen the conditions and believe we are keeping these people imprisoned against their will. Wrong, she has never been there.  The only torture the prisoners are really receiving is when we make them watch the movies these people are in.  I’m so happy that foreigners can come to our country, make lots of money and then tell us off.  I think there was only 1 or 2 people wearing those ribbons anyway, you can see that concept really caught on.  Retirement was the right thing to do Julie, no need to try politics this late in your life.  Dr. Zhivago is waiting.

 I find it funny that if Hollywood hates America so much, perhaps they should move to Cuba.  Since according to Michael Moore Cuba’s health care is better than ours, and his movie ‘Sicko’ was nominated for an academy award this year, maybe all of the Hollywood left will defect to Cuba.  We can only hope.  I liked when they introduced the troops in Iraq to present an award.  Tom Hanks made no mention of them as troops or anything, just people who haven’t been home in awhile.  And there were no ‘Thank-You’s’ to the troops, nor did he say ‘we appreciate what you are doing for us’ it was nothing, cut right to the troops then that was it.  Horrible.   Notice, however, anti-war movies such as The Valley of Elah or Lions for Lambs were not nominated.  At least they got that right.

 It doesn’t really matter, nobody watched it, anyway.  They were all watching Zoolander on TBS.