Barack Can't Win the White House

I never thought I'd like Hillary Clinton this much. But after seeing her competition, Barack Insane Obama, Clinton looks so much better. Part of me is also beginning to think Obama will be "easier to beat" in the general election.

Think about it. He got trounced in both Ohio and Pennsylvania. Trounced. If a Democrat is going to take the White House, they need BOTH of those states. Ohio is a key battleground state, while Pennsylvania is a state that demographically represents the United States with its diverse populations, large cities and small towns.

If Obama has so much momentum WITHIN the Democrat party, if he is the front-runner, why aren't the Democrats of Pennsylvania getting behind him to end this thing and move on to the general election?

I think this primary - which he lost by 10 points - tells us that he can't win the White House. While I'm not the biggest McCain fan, I am more nervous of an Obama presidency. He has proved himself an elitist who disdains people in small towns who "cling to their guns and their religion." He has a crazy anti-American, racist pastor who he calls his spiritual mentor. His wife was only recently able to say she was proud of America "for the first time in [her] adult life." And, at a recent rally, he gave Hillary Clinton "the finger." He doesn't deserve the Presidency, and I think even Democrat voters are starting to realize this. Thus, he doesn't have a chance in the general election.

But, I'm still cheering for Hilllary, to keep chaos alive.

Are babies ever a punishment?

"I've got two daughters - nine years old and six years old - I'm going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of sixteen." - Barack Obama, March 29, 2008.

Watch the video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg

Brave New World here we come. I cannot believe Obama (or anyone) would think that a woman could ever be "punished" with a baby. PUNISHED. Wasn't there once a day when a baby was WELCOMED into the world, not viewed as a punishment? In fact, I'd argue most still are - and most women are still excited at the prospect of having a baby.

I have been reading the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It takes place 600 years into the future, when a one world government has transformed the world through scientific and psychological engineering. Efficiency, community, solidarity, and the value of the "collective" are all placed as the highest values. People are genetically engineered and conditioned to perform certain jobs and "everyone belongs to everyone."

But half way through the novel, we discover that not the entire world is under control. There is a group of "uncivilized" people. In that part of the world, "the Reservation," our main characters learn that "in the Reservation, children still are born, yes, actually born, revolting as that may seem ..."

There are other places in the novel where one cannot fathom that a child could be "born" for they are all cloned in this future world - all new people come into the world in a highly scientific and programmed way. There are not supposed to be any "unexpected" births, much less pregnancies. Everything is about efficiency and it wouldn't be efficient for women to unexpectedly become pregnant. That would be revolting.

Obama doesn't want his daughters or any women to be "punished by a baby." He seems to already be living in this Brave New World. The question is, will we?

Is Hillary really an Obama girl? New video

Is Hillary Clinton really an Obama girl? The real Obama girl is back. She tells us that she "was there [with Obama] back in June, when it wasn't the cool thing to do..."

Now, she's back... and she can't believe Hillary is "still in it." Her advice to Hillary: it's time to get out of the race, "maybe you'll be the VP."

Barack: "He's ready... at 3am... steady." She claims Hillary is still in it, because she's "an Obama girl, too." Maybe she is?

Check out the new videos posted by DC Republican. Hey maybe if Obama becomes President, the Obama girl will keep making these videos. She's hot.

Globalist John McCain taking us to the Left

I will applaud Senator McCain's efforts to want to "repair" America's image abroad and to work more closely with our allies. But, I am distressed that he wants to not lead our "allies," but cater to them .

He seems to already be doing this on global warming. Even his own website touts the fact that John McCain has "been a leader on global warming" and says this is "an issue we can no longer afford to ignore." Thank you, Al Gore, ... uh, I mean, John McCain.

There is more evidence out there that man-made global warming is a hoax. "If" global warming is happening, well, duh. For billions of years, the earth has had cooling trends and warming trends. We might be in a warming trend, but we're not even sure of that. Just 30 years ago, many scientists were warning of "global cooling." If we're going to work with our allies on this, why not the Czech Republic? Their President, Vaclav Klaus, recently gave a speech in New York City about global warming alarmism.

McCain also wants to shut down our base at Guantanamo Bay and remove our enemy combatives from there (to where? U.S. soil?). This would potentially give the enemies we have captured on the battlefield Constitutional rights if they were to be on U.S. soil. From a conservative standpoint, I know this is a debatable question of whether we should be engaging in this action to begin with. But, so far, its working. If we are investing billions of dollars and thousands of lives to fight a "war on terrorism," why would we stop that by shutting down one of the most effective elements of that war? And why would a Presidential candidate state to our enemies that they won't have to be subjected to a particular kind of "torture" - even in an emergency situation? He has removed all forms of "torture" (and this is a loose term) from even being explored. Jack Bauer wouldn't be allowed to save us.

On many things, John McCain doesn't sound much different than the Democrats. Sure, he wants to prosecute the war against Islamic fascism - but how? Sure, he won't raise our taxes or spend as much as the Democrats. But, he still wants to sign global treaties, which in the end will reduce America's sovereignty. And oh yea... then there's the whole immigration debate.

What is a conservative to do? The choices before us don't seem appetizing.

Military Deaths Decreasing Since 1980

As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics:


The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:

1980 .......... 2,392 (Carter Year)
1981 ......... 2,380 (Reagan Year)
1984 ........ 1,999 (Reagan Year)
1988 .......... 1,819 (Reagan Year)
1989 .......... 1,636 (George HW Year)
1990 ......... 1,507 (George HW Year)
1991 .. 1,787 (George HW Year)
1992 .......... 1,293 (George HW Year)
1993 .......... 1,213 ( Clinton Year)
1994 ......... 1,075 ( Clinton Year)
1995 ........ 1,040( Clinton Year)
1996 .......... 974 (Clinton Year)
1997 ............. 817 ( Clinton Year)
1998 ......... 827 ( Clinton Year)
1999 ......... 796 ( Clinton Year)
2000 ......... 758( Clinton Year)
2001 ........... 891 (George W Year)
2002 .......... 999(George W Year)
2003 ........ 1,228 (George W Year)
2004 ........ 1,874 (George W Year)
2005 ........... 1,942 (George W Year)
2006.............. 1,858 (George W Year)
2007...... 1,014 (George W Year)*

*This is an estimate for 2007 based on deaths suffered in Afghanistan and Iraq (numbers could be higher, but we do not yet have a full report for 2007).

Reagan years (1981-1988): 17,201 deaths
George HW Bush years (1989-1992): 6,223 deaths
Clinton years (1993-2000): 7,500 deaths
George W years (2001-2007): 9,806 deaths

The source of these numbers is included in this CRS report to Congress:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf

Is Obama the Messiah? Change you can BELIEVE in?

There is apparently a whole website devoted to (mocking) the fact that Obama is the Second Coming. (I think it's mocking it). Here it is: http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

I also found this You Tube clip on the Obama Messiah website that shows images of Obama interspersed with real quotes of what people have said about him. It is set to Depeche Mode's song, "Personal Jesus." Yes folks... it's Barack Obama, "reach out and touch him." http://youtube.com/watch?v=5UhXaE_XL_8

This has to remind us all of the quote by G.K. Chesterton, “When men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”

Finally, if Obama is the Messiah, where was he on Easter Sunday? He missed a great sermon by the NEW pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ who continued with more insane comments. You can read more about that story here: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/23/in-eastor-sermon-trinity-united-pastor-compares-rev-wright-to-jesus/

Michele Malkin asked that same question on her blog. Apparently, Obama headed to the beach. The most likely bet was the U.S. Virgin islands. I think Obama wanted to get as far away from Trinity United Church of Christ as he could. Or maybe he just wanted to spend some days in the sand before he continued to launch his messianic mission.

Hope for the Conservative Future

You know, there seems to be a constant stream of pessimism coming from conservatives all over the country. Sometimes our laments begin to make us sound like liberals. But, for the most part, conservatives have different complaints than liberals do. We constantly think we're "losing." Part of that reasoning is that we look around and we constantly point to examples of cultural decadence. Even me, with all my optimism, sometimes I fall into this camp of pessimism myself.

This week, I was reading the opening preface to Russell Kirk's Prospects for Conservatives and came across a blurb from Kirk where he talked about a time when he conversed privately with President Richard Nixon. It was just a week into the Cambodian campaign and Nixon asked Kirk, concering the possible decadence of American society, "Have we any hope?" Nixon, with more emphasis, repeated the question to Kirk, "Have we any hope?"

Kirk replied that it is a matter of belief. "If most intelligent and energetic people come to believe the prophets of despair, then indeed ruin falls upon a state, for many folk withdraw to hidie-holes, there to conceal themselves from the coming wrath. But if, rather than despairing, people recognize the gravity of social circumstances and hopefully resolve to take arms against a sea of troubles - why, hope breeds hope, and a nation's vitality is renewed."

Kirk then goes on to remind us that every great civilization has periods of decay. But the especially great ones have periods of reinvigoration. "The conservative renewal in the United States is a response to the challenge of adverse circumstances," he says.

I don't know about you, but Kirk's words give me hope and inspiration. We can listen to the doomsdayers (like even Glenn Beck's laments sometimes sounds like) or we can find hope in our faith and in our principles, and go forward with a new call to action to take on those challenges we face. As I went around the country for ISI and as I go around the state of Florida for the James Madison Institute, I certainly find hope in a new generation of young people that are doing just - putting their principles into action - to carry on the traditions handed down to us and apply them to a new age.

(Some of the people reading this right now are some of those very people I am talking about.)

New Poll: McCain could trounce Democrats

In a new Rasumussen poll released today, it seems that McCain might just trounce either Democrat nominee. It's early and I'm not really a big believer in polls, but this one did catch my attention.

The polls shows John McCain currently leads Barack Obama 49% to 42% and Hillary Clinton 51% to 41% margin - that's double digits. And, as my friend Dustin Hawkins notes, "only a handful of states are even must-watch as most states are fairly predictable. The big ones to watch are: Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania followed by Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Missouri. The Democratic candidate would realistically need to take 5 of these 7 swing states."

In other words, there are only so many states where the Democrats are even competitive, and this year there may be some that they don't even compete with McCain on. His "maverick" Republicanism may just help defeat the far Left Democrats.

To top this off, McCain hasn't even been in the spotlight lately, as the Democrats continue to feud over race, gender, the contentious convention, the superdelegates, and the possiblity of seating the Florida and Michigan delegates. Even though Rush Limbaugh isn't a fan of John McCain, his "Operation Chaos" is working.

Obama Throws Grandma Under The Bus

Obama delivered a speech today on race in America. More like "racism" in America. There were certainly some inspiring moments of the speech, but one has to wonder why, if this subject was so important to him, did he not give it earlier? The fact is Obama only gave this speech at this time to try to salvage his campaign from the PR disaster that his pastor Jeremiah Wright created for him.

During the speech, he spoke like a typical liberal - trying to make moral equivalents on a number of items that are not justified. The biggest mistake the speech made, in my opinion, was the way Obama threw his (still living) grandmother under the bus. He morally equated her private statements to him about some less than hostile racist remarks to the very public and very confrontational racist remarks made by Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

James Taranto comments on this further in his article on "Obama and His 'White Grandmother.'"

Is Obama this ambitious to be President that he would throw his grandmother under the bus? Or is he just arrogant?

Mark Sanford: The Conservative Case for McCain

In the Wall Stree Journal's Opinion page today, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford made "The Conservative Case for John McCain." Sanford is viewed as one of the very top conservative govnernors in America. Some conservatives wish he would have ran for President.

Sanford has long been a supporter of McCain, but as he mentioned, he "sat out the first half, not endorsing a candidate." Now, he says, "we're at halftime; and the question for conservatives is whether to get off the bench for the second half of the game." He's stepping on to the field for McCain and he believes "it's important that conservatives do the same."

There is a wide margin between John McCain and the two Democrat contenders. As Sanford notes, "Hope alone won't carry us through the shadow of debt."

Is this Sanford's bid for a slot on the ticket? I hope John McCain appreciates the sentiments and puts him on. One might say that ticket would be like Reagan-Bush, in reverse order.