Skinless & Hopeless

Is Obamanation getting just a wee bit oversensitive?:

A retired Air Force general compared former President Clinton to Joseph McCarthy, the 1950s communist-hunting senator, on Friday after Clinton seemed to question Democrat Barack Obama’s patriotism.

Merrill “Tony” McPeak, a former chief of staff of the Air Force and currently a co-chair of Obama’s presidential campaign, said he was disappointed by comments Clinton made while campaigning for his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a speech Friday in Charlotte, NC.

“I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country,” Clinton said. “And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics.”

McPeak learned of the remarks while at an Obama rally in Salem, OR Afterward, he called Clinton’s statement horrible and compared it to McCarthy, the Republican senator from Wisconsin who held hearings on suspected Communist sympathizers in the 1950s.

“It sounds more like McCarthy,” McPeak said. “I grew up, I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I’ve had enough of it.”

A former supporter of a traitor accusing a traitor of calling the guy he's currently backing a traitor, and calling the traitor a red-baiter.  Potater, tomater, masked-debater, see's ya later, let's call the whole thing off.

Man, I MUST be tripping.

Well, at least this time it's one of False Messiah's defensors popping off in explosive boomerang fashion instead of his personal pope-pimper.  D'ya think B.O. will be as loyal to this white cracker as he is Uncle Jeremiah?  Will Mrs. Clinton even give him that chance?  If the Donk primaries were a basketball game, wouldn't Coach Obama be frantically calling time-out right about now?

Or would the Empress be monkeying around with the scoreboard right in front of the scorekeeper?

[Bill] Clinton opened his day in Charlotte, [NC] telling veterans at an invitation-only event that Hillary Clinton can provide better health care for troops back from combat and will reduce the number of troops in Iraq. He continued to highlight the military issue later in Cary, accentuating his wife's gender to emphasize his point that more generals have endorsed Clinton than both Obama and Republican candidate John McCain.

"You might wonder why that's so: Why did they endorse the girl for president? All these generals?" Clinton said.

He said that's partially because she's the only member of the Armed Services Committee in the race and also because of her support for wounded veterans. [emphasis added] 

Let's let Ensign Ed sum this one up:

Er … what? A quick check of the ASC committee page on the Senate website....prove[s] Clinton wrong. At the top of the column of Republicans sits John McCain, ranking member on the Committee. According to Wikipedia, he’s been there since 1987, or about four times as long as Hillary, who joined the committee in 2003.

And five years before anybody had ever heard of the Boris & Natasha of the Ozarks.

That comes more or less on the heels of her professed "combat tour of duty" in Bosnia thirteen years ago.  Here are the highlights of Barbarella's baptism of fire:

Not exactly a scene from Saving Private Ryan, is it?

Seems whoppers as "threadbare" as Bar-ACK's PR hide these days.  But then, to answer Ed's rhetorical question, yes, the Clinton's tall tales always were this transparent.  But back in the 1990s, people swallowed them hook, line, and sinker.  Is there any reason for the Clintons to think that their genius for palatable deception won't be at least reasonably close to that level of effectiveness only eight years later?  Particularly when they've succeeded in bulldozing "the emissary of the devil" out of his happy place, and straight into the credit-glomming competition himself:

After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the “President’s Room,” just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy.

As the half-dozen senators — including John McCain (R-AZ) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Ma) — headed to announce their plan, they met Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), who made a request common when Capitol Hill news conferences are in the offing: “Hey, guys, can I come along?” And when Obama went before the microphones, he was generous with his list of senators to congratulate — a list that included himself.

“I want to cite Lindsey Graham, Sam Brownback, Mel Martinez, Ken Salazar, myself, Dick Durbin, Joe Lieberman . . . who’ve actually had to wake up early to try to hammer this stuff out,” he said.

To Senate staff members, who had been arriving for 7 a.m. negotiating sessions for weeks, it was a galling moment. Those morning sessions had attracted just three to four senators a side, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) recalled, each deeply involved in the issue. Obama was not one of them. But in a presidential contest involving three sitting senators, embellishment of legislative records may be an inevitability, Specter said with a shrug.

The former cap'n and BlogTalkRadio flag officer adds that that was just the beginning of that usurpation, as well as the continuation of a pattern of Obama's legislative pick-pocketing:

After that press conference, one might have expected Obama to roll up his sleeves and help out with the work in getting the bill passed. His fellow senators certainly expected it, but Obama came up missing when the media attention disappeared. He finally appeared at one meeting — late — and started raising questions about issues that had already been resolved. Ted Kennedy [an Obama supporter, remember] chewed him out, and Obama retreated, never to return.

Nor was that the only bill on which Obama attempted to steal credit. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, chairmen of the Senate and House banking committees, created a proposal that would have the FHA bail out some homeowners on the verge of foreclosure. Obama didn’t just come out in support for the proposal; he tried to claim authorship for it. Despite having Dodd’s support for his candidacy, Dodd couldn’t let him get away with it, and told reporters that Obama had nothing to do with drafting the legislation.

Behold, a Messiah who covets and steals.  Didn't Uncle Jeremiah teach his disciple ANYTHING about the Ten Commandments (before re-etching the stone tablets to black liberation theological specifications)?

Oh, well, at least Rev'rund Wrong's successor in that apastorate established who the true Messiah is yesterday.  Which is kind of odd, since both suspects of that impersonation can hardly be said to be rising again of late.  And "they" call Trinity United a "crackpot church".

You DO realize who the Author and Finisher of the Marxist Faith is coming to most resemble, don't you?  As the junior senators from New York and Illinois continue their Polish firing-squad of a nomination duel, it will inevitably become so overpoweringly obvious that they belong together on the Donk ticket that they'll all but merge together into a single supercandidate: Rodbama.

Wow, sounds like a 1950s-vintage Japanese B-movie monster.  But still more than sufficient to squash the partyless RINO usurper who only looks nationally competitive now because he's not in the fight yet.

Enjoy the "Civil War" while it lasts, folks.  Once it's over, the real bloodletting will begin.

UPDATE: For those of you who thought that the McPeak "Sick Willie as Tail-Gunner Joe" comment was Team Hussein's loose cannon nadir, guess again:

"When Joe McCarthy questioned others' patriotism, McCarthy (1) actually believed, at least aparently (sic), the questions were genuine, and (2) he did so in order to build up, not tear down, his own party, the GOP. Bill Clinton cannot possibly seriously believe Obama is not a patriot, and cannot possibly be said to be helping — instead he is hurting — his own party. B. Clinton should never be forgiven. Period. This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the one on Monica's blue dress."

Hey, hey, hey, Gordon Fischer isn't a member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.  Bill Clinton ejaculation jokes are OUR gimmick, thank you very much, and we'll thank him to stop infringing on it.

He's since apologized on his blog.  Not for poaching our gimmick, but for using it on the former puddy-shooter-in-chief.

Still waiting, Gordo.