On His Periphery

Just some Obamanational schlock & awe from the dog days of a boycotted (by me) campaign....

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Campaigning with the Chief Stumbling Block in some Indiana burg named Elkhart last week, Senator/ex-Governor Evan Bayh - who is billed as a "centrist" the way 6'5", 275-pound Hulk Hogan's "Thunderlips" character was billed as being 7'0" and 390 pounds in Rocky III - actually uttered this:

“Senator McCain yesterday was saying that his solution to America’s energy challenge was to drill, drill drill. Well, that sounded a lot like my dentist to me. Look even Arnold Schwarznegger - the governator - who’s known for being a fairly straight shooter, says that drilling alone is not the answer to American’s energy challenge,” said Bayh.

Well, gee, Senator, by that token it sounded a lot like the Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson porn video to me.  Not that I've seen that, mind you, but it sure sounds like a lot of fun.  Almost as much fun as affordabilizing gasoline and electricity once again.  And almost as much fun as you appear to be having insulting the intelligence of your listeners, who know bloody well that McCain's Lexington Project is not just "drill, drill, drill," but is in fact way too comprehensive for his, and our, own good.  Sheesh, haven't you seen the friggin' windmills in his energy policy ads?

While Bayh was indulging in his toadying, the Author & Perfector of the Marxist faith couldn't resist upstaging his foolishness:

“We need to give an energy rebate to families to give them some immediate relief. The mother who is having to cut back on groceries because of rising gas prices. The guy I met who couldn’t fill up his gas tank to go on a job search, didn’t have the money. I’ve said that we need a $1,000 rebate - energy rebate to provide families a little bit of relief over the next four to six months,” Obama said.

A rebate.  "Immediate relief".  Uh-huh.  That's like tossing an extra life jacket to the Titanic survivors while regaling them with the "hope" of all the ships that are EVEN NOW rushing to their rescue.  Even if there were ships coming, they'd never get there before we all froze to death.

I, for 210 or so million, would rather be drilled from the icy Atlantic now, thank you very much, not given a lift in "the guy's" old beater, held upon the surface by St. Barry's magic wand.

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The Chosen One hails Detroit's municipal leadership:

Picking up where the audio leaves off, "....he" - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick - is the first mayor in Detroit's 307 year history to spend time in jail for everything from perjury to assaulting a police officer.

He's also an Obama superduperdelegate.  And, obligatorily, not the Kwame Kilpatrick Obama thought he knew.

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Newsmax reports that Bright Morning Star is raking in "record" amounts of campaign cash from outside the country - $2.8 million through June, or 7.33 times McCain's total.  J-Ger takes note of some of the rather curious details:

Over at the American Thinker, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs looks through FEC reports and spotlights some donations to Obama that raise serious questions.

She noticed $33,000 in donations from two brothers living in the Gaza Strip. (The Obama campaign says they returned the money.)

She finds a donor named "Hbkjb, jkbkj" living in the city of "Jkbjnj."

Or a donor named "Doodad", occupation "DFGFDG", employer "FDGFDGF, who has donated $10,780.00.

Hey, maybe "jkbkj Kbkjb" is the expat second cousin twice-removed of the guy in Elkhart with the empty wallet and gas tank combo.  You know how money-grubbing distant relatives can be.

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At least one elected Democrat appears to not want to bask in the Jemimah Glory this fine campaign season - and, purely by coincidence, she's actually in a gen-u-ine tough re-election fight:

The Baton Rouge Advocate reports that Senator Mary Landrieu, D-LA, the only Senate Democrat in a competitive race this year, was listed as a co-host for a $100-per-person DC fundraiser for Senator Barack Obama, D-IL, until suddenly, she wasn’t.

The event, “Girls Night Out: Lipstick, Laughter and Libations,” (you can see the cached version which includes Landrieu’s name HERE) is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, August 18.

I prefer "Broads, Buicks, and Buckley" myself.  Hey, "Barack" would have fit in there, at least alliteratively, wouldn't it?  But not, it seems, for Senator Landrieu, though she vehemently protests that this is just a "clerical error".

Insert Jeff Foxworthy redneck joke here.

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Entry #2 in the Barack Obama obsequious, cringing bootlicker veepstakes: Virginia Governor Tim Kaine:

To borrow Ensign Ed's phrase in the interests of time, the Russians "ignored France, Germany, George Bush, and even John McCain, but he snapped to attention when he heard Obama’s 'request'?"

Ladies and gentlemen, that's not bootlicking; that's moving up to the confluence and, shall we say, "going to town".

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Is obeisance an infinitely elastic character flaw even for Democrats, though?  This blurb suggests even some Donks are not completely bereft of self-respect:

[Garry] Mauro said that because it was such a closely contested election, he is mystified as to why the Obama campaign is resisting and even balking at a roll-call vote, according to some reports.

“Are these folks so new to politics, are they so arrogant, that they think he’s different from every other nominee we’ve ever had?” he asks.

Um, yes, Garry, they do.  Because yes, Garry, he does.  Or, rather, yes, Garry, he can.  Where in the blue hell have you BEEN for the past twenty months? 

And you might want to watch what you say publicly about the Anchor.  Just ask Sacha Millstone:

[Sacha] Millstone acknowledged she was frustrated over how the Obama campaign was treating delegates who supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and told a fellow delegate, in what she believed was a private e-mail exchange, that she was not sure she could vote for Obama at the Democratic National Convention later this month.

The other delegate apparently filed a complaint with the state Democratic Party suggesting Millstone lose her status as a delegate.

Apparently the Political Director of Colorado’s Democratic Party, William Compton, took the suggestion very seriously and told Millstone via e-mail, “You are directed to come in to the Party Headquarters and explain your comments and why you should remain a national delegate…”

Millstone, who worked on the campaign for Hillary Clinton, considered the e-mail a threat.

You know what they say: a call over the intercom from the boss to "report to my office immediately" is typically not a good sign of positive things to come.  In this case, though, William Compton is not Sacha Millstone's boss, but, evidently, one of Barack Hussein Obama's enforcers, his imprimatur to stamp out any and all dissent from his Messiahship's Ascension in the interests of putting forth a face of "party unity" to the country that will be as ersatz as powdered eggs.

It doesn't matter that the Democrats have conducted a roll-call vote to nominate their candidate for the presidency at every one of their conventions going back to the one that nominated Big Business ass-kisser and all-around enemy of the middle and working classes Grover Cleveland; Barack Hussein Obama is GOD, dammit, and you do not put the Lord your Barack to the test!

Sacha MIllstone knows what's coming.  Do the rest of us?

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Oh, yes, and ya know that Naziesque gigantic rally Lucifer is going to hold at Mile High Stadium on the last night of "his" convention (assuming he gets the nomination instead of Hillary)?  Where a multitude of Colorado faithful was to be invited in to pack the 76,000 seat home of the Denver Broncos to the sky from whence their nominee cometh itself?

Turns out those ducats aren't quiet "complimentary" after all:

“I got a call that if I want the tickets I have to volunteer two shifts of three hours apiece — for one ticket. If I want two tickets, then it’s four shifts of two hours apiece,” said Berenice Christensen.

Another 7NEWS viewer sent an e-mail that said, “I received a call Monday saying I could ‘qualify’ for the tickets if I do twelve hours of volunteer work for the Obama campaign between now and Friday the 15th.” 

The viewer e-mail goes on to say, “To work forty hours at my job, get to and from work, get to and from the campaign office and complete the twelve hours in three days would be next to impossible.”

Would it be inappropriate of me to describe this as "forced labor"?  If Obama had done his big German speech in Nuremberg rather than Berlin, I don't think I'd hesitate.

But it does sound like an in-kind campaign contribution, which would be illegal for any Obamanoid who'd already topped out their contributions to his campaign.  At the very least it's a swindle.  The whole point of this twisted grandiosity was create the spectacle of the vast masses roaring their acclimation for the Hopeandchange Messiah they've been waiting for all their lives to rescue America from the current dark age of evil, greedy, snake-handling disenlightenment and lead its children into the Promised Land of Utopian socialism where every pot will have a chicken, every garage will have a plug-in-hybrid that runs on a perpetual motion engine, every tear will be wiped away, every killer hurricane will be redirected to devastate Crawford, Texas, and the state will wither away.  Now the fine print says, "and you must volunteer!"

Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't hestitate after all....