Saturday, August 30, 2008

Obama on Abortion

Nancy Pelosi's Words, redirected.

I took Nancy Pelosi's comments on the selection of Governor Sarah Palin (10 years executive experience), and redirected it at a more important candidate for a more important office, who has even less experience:

Nancy Pelosi on the Importance of the Lack of Experience of Barack Obama:

"The selection of a presidential candidate is one of the most significant and telling decisions a political party can make.

The Democratic Party selection of Barack Obama raises serious questions about their judgment. Why, when the country is fighting two wars, facing an uncertain economy and an energy crisis, did the DNC make the choice that they did?

Why, with so many other qualified women and men in their party, did the Democrats choose Barack Obama? Barack Obama is not the right choice. He shares the Far Lest's commitment to murdering the unborn and continuing The Pelosi-Reid failed economic policies.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden will not bring the American people the New Direction they need."


Simple fact is, Biden has NEVER been about change or a new direction. Biden is part of the old-old guard of democrats, who were in charge in the 70s and 80s, who gave us the Carter malaise, double-digit inflation, a stagnant stock market, and a prolonged cold war.

And Obama has done NOTHING to change the direction of the failed liberal policies still clung to by the current leadership of Pelosi and Harry Reid. He has sponsored virtually no interesting legislation, and has to take credit for bills he had nothing to do with and didn't even VOTE for in order to have any resume whatsoever.

Meanwhile, McCain has a long history of standing up for principle, against his own party. Many time he was wrong to do so, in my opinion, but McCain is about a new direction, a more ethical approach. And Sarah Palin is the ultimate outsider -- only one Governor is further physically from Washington, and few have shown the commitment to take on corruption even in their own party as Palin.

Obama and Biden have zero years of experience being in charge of anything. Palin was an executive for 10 years, a governor for nearly two years, was the co-owner of a successful business, and had a career as a journalist. Obama was a community organizer who used questionable ties to gain a position in the state senate where he accomplished nothing (his campaign claimed 3 achievements in his years of service, two of which he had nothing to do with).

Palin respects life -- Obama thinks babies are a burden he doesn't want for his children. Palin supports the 2nd amendment, Obama thinks citizens can't be trusted with weapons. Palin knows "global warming" is a political construct, Obama uses it to steal liberty from the people.

In a Presidential race between Obama and Palin, Palin would be the more experienced executive, and the better leader. Obama has never lead anything -- even his campaign is run by others, and he tags along (remember his complaint that he wanted to visit all the states but his campaign only let him visit "57"?).

McCain chose wisely when he chose Palin. She isn't the most experienced Republican, but she matches McCain well, and is well-qualified to be 2nd in line for the Presidency.

When the Democrats claim otherwise, just remember -- not only did they pick a less-experienced person for hte TOP of their ticket, when they had to pick the Majority leader, 3rd in line for the President, they picked Nancy Pelosi, who isn't qualified to run anything.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Change you can count on -- Obama-style

I don't think Obama is so much a flip-flopper, as he is a candidate who has no idea what he really believes, because he has so few of his own policies, because he has no real grounded philosophy. He's just drifted through life having things handed to him, like a typical spoiled rich kid.

So obviously, he regularly says whatever he feels people want to hear.

In today's example, Obama was with Bill Nelson, from Florida. Now, Bill Nelson is a former Astronaut. And Obama has previously said he wants to cut the space program. But next to Bill, Obama sings a different tune:

TITUSVILLE, Fla - Standing with Florida Senator and former astronaut Bill Nelson 20 minutes north of the spiritual home of America’s space program in Cape Canaveral, Barack Obama committed to keeping NASA exploring the outer reaches of the cosmos for years to come - reversing a pledge to cut funding for new space flights.

Now, usually when Obama changes his mind, he pretends he didn't.

However, this time the campaign slipped up and admitted he had switched positions. Worse for Obama, they essentially admited that he did so because he just figured out NASA was important -- which isn't surprising, Obama is learning a lot of things "on-th-job":

But the Obama campaign claims that the Illinois Senator simply changed his mind about cutting NASA funds, and now supports the Constellation program – finding another way to pay for his education plans.

“Barack Obama understands how critical NASA is to America’s scientific and economic edge,” said spokesman Jen Paski. “That is why we have an alternative offset to pay for his early edcuation plan by reforming and reducing earmark spending, reforming federal contracting procedures.”

What is this "alternative offset"? If it was like his "energy plan", it would involve taxing spacecraft manufacturers of their "windfall profits".

But don't be surprised if Obama opposes this funding next week when he's in some state that doesn't depend on NASA spending. The campaign can't even figure out WHEN Obama changed his mind -- but it seems to be sometime when he stepped into Florida:

The campaign couldn’t say when the candidate had his change of heart, however.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Hey, Obama, real Presidents can do two things at once.

John McCain is running a series of internet advertisements highlighting statements made by Obama in a way that is, frankly, hilarious.

Obama's campaign for some reason is responding to these internet ads, giving them television airplay as the pundits show us what Obama is complaining about.

Today, Obama's campaign whined about the McCain commercial "The One", which has an hilarious ending with Charlton Heston parting the seas:


Anyway, as I said, Obama's campaign responded today:
Of McCain's new messiah web video, released today, Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan says, "it’s downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their jobs, a candidate for the presidency is spending all of his time and the powerful platform he has on these sorts of juvenile antics.
Of course, Barack is doing nothing about people losing their jobs, or the high price of gasoline, or doing something simple like passing appropriations bills. Nor is he pressuring the Democrats in charge to get their work done.
But the funny thing is how the Obama campaign seems to think you can't seriously discuss the issues AND put out funny ads at the same time. I guess for a inexperienced and unprepared candidate like Obama, he has to work really hard to focus on one thing at a time.
But John McCain is an experienced leader, and will have no trouble discussing his real solutions for the problems that we face, while also being able to poke some fun at all the idiotic things Obama does.
"But seriously if we have differences, we should have appeared at the Urban League convention today," McCain continued. "I've asked him time after time to appear with me on the same stage so we can discuss the issues that are important to the American people."
Of course, Obama can hardly walk and chew gum at the same time, and he is terrified to show up on the same stage as McCain, lest people see that the emperor has no clothes, that Obama is all hat and no cattle. Even when the invitation is in front of an obviously Obama-friendly crowd like the Urban League convention.