Jazz Queries

Couple of questions posed for viral discussion at The Moderate Voice - which I've always thought is a stupid name for a blog, since moderates don't have anything to say because they don't stand for anything, leading to the inevitable riff on that old axiom, "If a moderate says something does it make a sound whether anybody is present to hear it or not?"

Anyway, Question #1 reads:

What would the response be if Senator Barack Obama, D-IL, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter?

To the Obamas and this hypothetical pregnant, unmarried, teenage daughter?  Nothing.  The press would respect their privacy and bury it.  The Right, being normal, decent human beings rather than the vicious, worthless animals their Lefty counterparts are, would leave them alone.  And any conservative who was tempted to have some partisan fun with it would be far, far too cowed by the guaranteed Enemy Media massive retaliation that would ensue if they did.  Which wouldn't stop the nutters from trying to smear conservatives for plotting precisely that.

Incidentally, is there any doubt in anybody's mind that, regardless of what their daughter wanted, the Obamas would compel her to get her kid sliced, diced, drawn, quartered, folded, spindled, mutilated, scalded, acid-burned, and hoovered?  Because their "compassion" wouldn't let her be "punished with a baby," dontcha know.

Would Sara Palin, given her breadth of experience, history, views and issues, been selected by Senator John McCain as his running mate if she were a man?

Based on her background, experience, biography, youth, integrity, and personal dynamism?  Absolutely.  It's her "maverick" reputation that most impressed, well, Maverick.  There were plenty of other GOP women -  and men - to choose from, after all, but none of them brought anywhere near as much to the table ideologically, philosophically, and politically.  Except for Fred Thompson, of course, and he's calling Governor Palin's selection a "masterstroke".

As I've said before and will continue to point out, there is a "Dan Quayle" - a pathetic, embarassing, gaffe-a-minute, greenhorn, light-weight, not-ready-for-prime-time naif - in this race.  But it's not Sarah Palin:

Anderson Cooper asked Barack Obama last night to answer the claim that Sarah Palin has more applicable experience than he does. In response, he completely ignores Palin’s status as governor, and then makes the claim that a campaign counts as executive experience:

AC: Some Republican critics say, you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They’ve in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What’s your response?

BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, fifty employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I’ve passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.

Oh my Lord.  Seventeen "uh"s in a single 147-word paragraph.  That's an "uh" every 8.65 words.  Dan Quayle may have jumped up and down and clapped his hands when Pappy Bush introduced him as his running mate, but I don't recall him ever stammering like this.

That's largely because he wasn't full of crap and in need of a perpetual pair of mental Depends.  I'm frankly astonished that a CNN talking head actually asked The Chosen One this question.  Maybe it was borne of Anderson Cooper's smug arrogance that OF COURSE Obama has more experience and is better qualified to be president than dollop of Alaskan T&A, so this would be a batting practice pitch that BO would easily club into the upper deck.

I know, I know, it sounds so garishly implausible that Cooper wouldn't realize he was firing a cannonball at the Donk nominee and the batter was grasping a pipecleaner.  The best part is Barry didn't get this question in a Fox News interview, so Obamanation can't claim he was "ambushed" by the "right-wing media".

His answer...Good God, what a mess.  His "executive experience" is running his campaign?  But he DOESN'T run his campaign; that's the job of his campaign manager.  All Obama does is go out and run his mouth on a daily basis.  Just like "the legislation he passed" on FEMA reform, which consisted of adding his name to the bills of colleagues and....going out and running his mouth.  Not the first time that he's tried to glom credit for somebody else's legislation, either.

Why does he ad lib this ridiculous, rambling, dissembling nonsense?  Probably for the same reason he completely ignored the insignificant detail that Sarah Palin is not the mayor of Wasila anymore, Dorothy, but the governor of Alaska, the boss of ten times as many employees as the Obama campaign and overseer of an annual budget approximately eighteen times the size of the total contributions Team Hussein has raised since Lucifer announced his candidacy in January 2007.  If, you know, the Messiah didn't have a disciple to handle all that executive stuff for him.

But stepping back from the roaring idiocy of this man's irrepressible hubris for a moment, really, what else was he going to say?  The first reflex of Obama's campaign was to belch forth another boomerang of a statement ripping McCain for picking an "inexperienced" running mate.  It must have dawned on somebody that that was like the late Foster Brooks impersonating Pat O'Day to try and talk Teddy Kennedy into checking himself into a Schick-Shadle hospital, because that shop hasn't uttered another peep about the Barracuda since last Friday morning.  I'm sure they thought that the Chief Stumbling Block was safe from any such questions that would show so baldly just how naked an emperor Barack Obama is.

So, when Anderson Cooper sprung The Question on His Unholiness, he was caught completely flat-footed, rhetorically fell down and pooped his pants (again), and, uh, uh, the, uh, rest, uh, uh, is, uh, hist-uh-ry.

Team Sith was highly amused:

“For Barack Obama to argue that he’s experienced enough to be president because he’s running for president is desperate circular logic and it’s laughable.  It is a testament to Barack Obama’s inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin’s executive experience managing a budget of over ten billion dollar dollars, and more than 24,000 employees.”

—Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008

All I know is, if Sarah Palin "uh'd" her way through an interview like that, she would be "Quayled" off the national stage before the next sunrise.  And she's running for vice president.  Barack Obama has been doing it for the past six months, and he's seeking the top job.

I don't care how far the Enemy Media spreads its collective legs for this boob, how can he possibly be (nominally) leading this race?  Heck, how is he within single digits?