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Ensign Ed is always too quick on the trigger with his bipartisan praise:

Last April, I complimented Barack Obama for his principled stand against the corrupt practice of providing “street money” to political organizers in Philadelphia.  He insisted that his new kind of politics didn’t allow for the cash-on-demand tradition in Philadelphia, and that his organization would remain voluntary.  Even with ward bosses playing the race card against him in response — claiming that Obama spent his money at “white” television stations instead of on black volunteers through street money — Obama held firm.

Strangely enough, the Chief Stumbling Block has now changed his tune on the grassrootiest mode of buying - and fabricating - votes:

According to U.S. Representative Bob Brady, the local Democratic Party chairman, Senator Barack Obama’s general-election presidential campaign in Philadelphia will be run differently from his primary operation, which relied more on volunteers than on Democratic ward leaders and did not provide street money on Election Day.

“We’re not going to pay for votes or pay for turnout,” Obama said before the Pennsylvania primary.

But Brady said that the campaign has promised street money to pump up turnout in November. And now that Obama is the official nominee, his campaign will team up with the city’s Democratic ward leaders, who traditionally help get out votes.

Yeah, it's another flip-flop. Yeah, it's another of Lucifer's lofty, high-falutin' principles heaved overboard like a corpse into a cold, isolated, murky lake.  But did you really expect him to hold to that impossible idealism if he wasn't at least twenty-five points ahead in the polls?

Here's all you need to know to understand this latest reversal:

1) In April, Obama held firm on not sullying his campaign with cash-wad-armed street hustlers;

2) Obama lost the Pennsylvania Donk primary to Hillary Clinton by double-digits, sparking a nominating season-closing losing streak that only the ubiquity of the Democrats' proportional representation delegate rules prevented from becoming a total collapse;

3) Obama - assuming that Hillary doesn't succeed in submarining the nomination away from him - is in a general election dog-fight with John Sith McCain instead of the landslide cakewalk everybody expected;

4) Unless he pulls some miracle surge out of his nether regions, another loss in Pennsylvania will almost certainly cost BO the election.

There's only one principle, and one principle only, that Barack Hussein Obama will not abandon: He'll do ANYTHING to win.

Come to think of it, that's most of why he isn't winning....

UPDATE: 'nother case in point:

Every time I grow weary of the fight, every time I slide toward the temptation to think that maybe the Democrats aren't completely despicable after all, they vomit up fresh evidence of the vileness that so indellibly defines them.

Case in point #1: America is in "extreme distress," and only Barack Hussein Obama can save it:

An upside-down flag IS the international symbol for extreme distress.  The rather obvious thematic implication on this holographic credential for BO's Nuremburgesque acceptance speech rally-cum-golden-calf-in-more-ways-than-one is that, just as he told that little girl at a recent appearance when she asked him why he's running for president, America is "not what it once was," and only he, the Pocket Savior, can redeem it.

Obamanoids weren't quite stupid enough to come out and admit it, but their lame-ass explanation/demurral more than succeeded in making them look like they thought their listeners were:

Matt Chandler with the Obama campaign says the flag is not upside down. He says it is a stylized flag designed to blend the stars on Senator Obama's shirt with the flag blowing in the wind.

Natalie Wyeth with the Democratic National Convention Committee sent 9NEWS the following statement Saturday night:"The DNCC community credentials incorporate patriotic design elements. They do not depict an actual American flag. The DNCC has full and complete respect for the flag and all rules of display."

Typical Obamarrhea.  Don't believe the clear evidence of your eyes, believe what we tell you that flagrantly defies it.

Check out the pic again.  There are two objects in it; one is a profile of Lucifer; the other is an American flag.  And it is f'ing upside-down.

I don't know why they didn't just say that to show Old Glory right-side up with the blue field in the upper-left as it is supposed to be, Obama would look like he was hanging upside-down like Toby Maguire when he first kissed Kirsten Dunst in the first Spiderman.  That would just make them look incompetent, something to which you'd think they'd have grown accustomed by now, as opposed to equal measures of arrogant, contemptuous, and borderline insane.

But of course we know why they didn't shrug sheepishly and concede the point: Because they are the children of Barack, and Barack is god, and gods don't make mistakes.

Perhaps that helps explain their twisted concept of law & order:

In 2003, a CBS4 investigation named Lauricella, a 29-year police veteran, as one of three top commanders in the Denver Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Bureau who were routinely leaving their posts in the middle of the afternoon to work an outside job as a $30 an hour crossing guard for a private school. The revelation triggered a criminal investigation, reforms in DPD off-duty policies and hefty fines and suspensions for the other two commanders. One was suspended for thirty days for his conduct and fined another ten days pay. Denver’s Manager of Safety ordered another lieutenant suspended for twenty days and he was fined thirteen days pay.

However, Lauricella’s case was even more egregious. After he was confronted about working an outside job in the middle of his normal work day, someone immediately doctored Lauricella’s time records, changing dozens of days to try to make it appear he had been doing nothing wrong. A special prosecutor appointed to examine the case, ruled no criminal charges should be filed, but said the tampering with Lauricella’s time records was “suspicious … inappropriate” and concluded it was “highly unlikely” anyone other than Lauricella had falsified his work records.

Lauricella was suspended for seven months during the investigation but resigned in August 2003 rather than face disciplinary measures, which could have included termination.

Say hello to one of the DNCC's security consultants for next week's First Coming.

It couldn't have happened any other way, could it?

From The Campaign Spot blog over at NRO:

There are certainly the highly humorous aspects of Barack Hussein Obama's whirling-dervish finger-pointing and flip-floppery.  These are a blessing as a psychological bulwark against its tiresome, and viler, shades.

Let's revisit the Hussein Cash Machine, shall we?

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $51 million in July and the Democratic National Committee reported $27.7 million in donations last month, putting Obama in a strong position for the fall campaign.

Obama began August with $65.8 million on hand and the DNC had $28.5 million available, according to statements released Saturday. His July total was slightly less than the $52 million he raised in June.

Obama’s Internet-powered fundraising efforts have shattered all previous records for a presidential campaign, bringing in a total of $390 million so far. The Illinois senator has announced he will forgo public financing for the general election, giving up $84 million in taxpayer money for the final two months of the campaign and committing himself to a steady pace of fundraising.

By contrast, Republican candidate John McCain has raised just $140 million and has agreed to accept public financing for the general election and the spending restraints that come with it. McCain has remained competitive, however, because of the fundraising success of the Republican National Committee.

Sounds great at first blush, doesn't it?  But when the fundraising totals of the respective candidates and their national party committees are aggregated, the heretofore bankrupt, sadsack GOP is actually in parity with or even a little bit ahead of its Democrat counterpart.  This reflects the much greater "bang for the buck" that Team Sith is getting versus Team Messiah, a function of how current events have reshuffled election issues to the fore that weigh heavily in McCain's favor and to Obama's distinct disadvantage, in addition to Lucifer's insatiable gaffery, hauteur, smearmongering, and extremism.  Indeed, he's doing as much or more than Lord Queeg himself to sell the Arizona senator to the electorate as the better choice for president of the United States.  It's almost like an in-kind contribution of his campaign resources to McCain.

Expenditures are always the other side of the budget from income.  There are a lot of people who make more money than I do, but whose net worth is probably a lot less than mine, because they "spend to their income" and beyond, whereas I'm so tight I squeak.  BO, unsurprisingly, has that same problem vis-a-vie his "senior" opponent.  Given that McCain kept his promise to take the $84 million in public financing for the fall home stretch - dough he doesn't have to spend a dime to collect - while Obama has to "earn" his as a consequence of his treacherous decision to abandon his own public financing promise, his nearly three-to-one fundraising edge over Sailor from the beginning of the cycle will prove a lot smaller than it looks.

Particularly in light of how little all that lucre has purchased (via Newsmax Insider):

Predictions of a landslide victory by Democrat Barack Obama in the November election may be off base, according to a historical analysis.

In five of the six post-World War II landslides — defined as a victory of ten percentage points or more — the eventual winner was ahead by at least ten percentage points in the polls at the end of August, according to the analysis of Gallup Polls by Politico.

But recent Gallup tracking polls put Obama ahead of his Republican rival John McCain by a margin of only two to five points.

One landslide winner, Lyndon Johnson, was ahead of Barry Goldwater in a late August 1964 Gallup Poll by a huge margin — 67%-26%. Johnson went on to win the election with 61% of the vote.

In 1972, incumbent Richard Nixon was ahead of George McGovern by about twenty points in August. He won by twenty-three points.

Incumbent Ronald Reagan was ahead of Walter Mondale by ten points in 1984, and won by nearly twice that margin.

Dwight Eisenhower was ahead of Adlai Stevenson by at least fifteen points in two late August 1952 Gallup Polls. Ike won by eleven points.

“There was a definite cockiness that Democrats felt once they regained control of Congress, and I’ve felt it was a misplaced cockiness,” pollster John Zogby said.

And political analyst Charlie Cook told Politico: “I don’t think you see leads in presidential races over five points in this day and age. [Obama has] averaged leads of three points since spring. The key is that Obama hasn’t closed the sale.

“The question is, Does Obama ever close the sale?”

The answer is that Obama thought he "closed the sale" the day he announced his candidacy, insofar as he ever considered such a thing to be necessary at all.  And yet it is precisely that unmerited "cockiness" that is eating his campaign alive like the cancer it is.  At the rate his callow ego is metastasizing, it may not matter how much cash Team Hussein hoovers up.

That isn't the only fiscal drain the Golden Child is encountering, either.

There is a reason why I try never to have cash on my person.  If I do, and somebody hits me up for a loan, I can't turn them down by begging localized illiquidity.  In much the same way, Barry O's well-earned rain-making reputation - and equally infamous penchant for heaving so-called "principles" overboard at the slightest inconvenience - has made him his party's surrogate teat:

Facing a large deficit in the Democratic National Convention budget, officials from Barack Obama’s campaign have begun personally soliciting labor unions and others for contributions of up to $1 million. In exchange, donors could get stadium skyboxes for Obama’s acceptance speech and other perks.

Obama has regularly criticized politicians seeking large donations outside the framework of campaign finance regulations — so-called soft money — while touting the virtues of relying on small donations.

But campaign officials last month reluctantly decided they had to take a hand in raising large donations from individuals, unions and corporations. Some of the donors get special bundles of perks, including use of the party suites at Denver’s Invesco Field, as well as special policy briefings by Obama advisors, choice hotel rooms and party invitations.

What caused the shift was evidence that the Denver Host Committee was having trouble raising the estimated $60 million in cash and in-kind contributions needed to fund the convention, which runs August 24-29.

The resulting shortfall of which was, in large part, a product of the Idol's compulsive lust to be worshipped by an unparalleled multitude of supplicants and sychophants all at the same time.

And so out went this thunderous declaration....

....and in came the special interests - DEMOCRAT special interests (Big Labor, mercenary corporations, and, yes, "fatcats") - to which False Messiah somehow extended the hand unnailed from his self-hoisted petard.

Behold, the god who loves money, the Unifier who will apparently unload anything he can get his hands on and everything he purports to hold dear for another thirty pieces of silver.

In short, just another liberal Democrat.  But one all the more intolerably insufferable for the hypermoralistic sanctimony that drenches each and every one of the phony commandments he issues.

As to his sincere commandments - well, sometimes the old adage is true: You can run, but you cannot hide:

The presumptive Democratic nominee responded sharply in an interview Saturday night with the Christian Broadcast Network, saying anti-abortion groups were "lying" about his record.

"They have not been telling the truth," Mr. Obama said. "And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying."

He added that it was "ridiculous" to suggest he had ever supported withholding lifesaving treatment for an infant. "It defies common sense and it defies imagination, and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive," he said in the CBN interview.

Wait for it....wait for it....

Indeed, Mr. Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday when he said the federal version [of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act] he supported “was not the bill that was presented at the state level.”

His campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law. Those concerns did not exist for the federal bill, because there is no federal abortion law.

In 2005, the campaign noted, a “Born Alive” bill passed the Illinois Legislature after another clause had been added that explicitly stated that the legislation would have no effect on existing state abortion laws.

So let's tally this up: (1) Obama lied about the BAIPA he killed at the state level in order to cover the lie that he'd have voted for the federal version; (2) he smeared the pro-life opponents who exposed his lies and called him on them; (3) within a day he feinted fessing up and then (4) doubled-down even further into the bowels of despicable absurdity by claiming that even though the Illinois version of the BAIPA he buried had the identical neutrality provisions regarding existing abortion law that the federal version had, it "still wasn't good enough."

This goes to great redundant lengths to show what an f'ing liar this man is.  But in this case it's not about his money-grubbing or his oceanic conceit, but rather a topic that Light-Bringer and his opponent were confronted with this past Saturday:

“Evil does exist,” Obama began acknowledging the premise of the question as he ticked off the evils of genocide in Darfur, inner-city crime and child abuse. “I think it has to be confronted. It has to be confronted squarely and one of the things that I strongly believe is that, you know, we are not going to, as individuals erase evil from the world. That is God’s task. but we can be soldiers in that process and we can confront it when we see it.”

I'll let Ensign Ed lower the closing boom:

If child abuse is an evil that must be confronted, then infanticide is even more evil.  What did Obama do when he saw this evil?  Did he confront it, as one of God’s soldiers?  Or did he facilitate it?

The answer now from the Obama campaign is clear.  Obama facilitated evil in order to protect abortion on demand, which was never threatened by S.1082 in the first place.

That much apparently wasn’t above his pay grade.

And this man claims to be a Christian?

Nice roundup over at NRO of the Saddleback Church question and answer session with Rick Warren. Rich Lowry thinks the Empty Suit did okay, Mark Levin thinks he was awful, but there's a consensus there that John McCain blew him away. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see it and I have only read excerpts, but it sounds as if McCain's answers came across as honest and forceful, while Obama's were contrived and forced. Gee, there's a shock. Here is Obama's awful answer to the question, "At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?"

Wow. I'm not sure that "answer" could have been much worse. I don't blame Obama for being uncomfortable about his abortion record, especially in that setting, but gee whiz, that's about the worst answer I've ever heard, no matter WHO you're trying to pander to. And of course, he never did really answer the question. McCain's answer was immediate, "At the moment of conception." His pro-life position and his determination on the war are the two reasons I can vote for him...well, other than the simply horrific thought of a President Obama.

Hey look, everybody, Barackalacka-Ding-Dong Obama-mama has another logo!

This one's purpose is ostensibly to cultivate the allegiance of Pennsylvania rednecks whom he accused of "bitterly clinging to their religion and their guns" back in the spring by giving McCain hell for voting against a blatantly protectionist bill that would have forced - Talking Points Memo's term, not mine - the U.S. government to purchase American-made motorcycles.

Now I will admit that I have a fondness for logos....

....and Lucifer's core logo is kinda nifty as far as it goes, but smearing it all over the PR landscape in one, er, incarnation after another like he was a [GASP] corporation beggars the self-parody threshold Team Hussein passed with their [ahem] abortive faux presidential seal.

Besides, as with the seal, St. Barry may have infringed a couple of trademarks in the process.  In which case, of course, it will not have been the logo he thought he knew.

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AP calls this one a near-miss, but I say it counts as the biggest Obama gaffe yet:

He would not have nominated Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court because he wasn't experienced enough at the time.  That's what Obama started to say, and everybody knows what he meant by what he DID go on to say about Thomas not being "a strong enough jurist or legal thinker."  The equivalent of what he almost said and what he quickly substituted applies to his presidential candidacy in, um, spades.

That gaffe would have been replayed daily for the next two and a half months.  A disaster narrowly averted?  Well, perhaps; but throwing in the racial slur of the white Antonin Scalia being "brilliant" while his (half)-fellow African-American Justice Thomas is a moron isn't a bad consolation prize.

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There's really no end to False Messiah's verbal incontinence, but we'll wrap up this edition with two hilarious recent examples.

Team Hussein's conclusion: Russia invaded Georgia because of John Sith McCain's perspicacity vis-a-vie Vladimir Putin, and his refusal to retreat from his long-time warnings about the direction in which the Czar's neoimperialism has been taking the Russian Federation made the crisis worse.  What was REALLY needed was "quiet diplomacy," like Barack Obama's initial drawing of moral equivalence between aggressor and victim, followed by Barack Obama's reflexive multilateralist instinct to take the crisis to the UN Security Council, on which Russia, of course, has a veto, followed by Barack Obama's giving up and following Senator McCain's lead.  The latter of which another of the Chosen One's hundreds of foreign policy tutors touted in a different interview, which I guess means that BO's Three Hundred are completely confused about their boss' complete confusion.

And then cometh the greatest howler yet, even more than the aforementioned inexperience boner:

BRODY: Let me ask you a little about some of these ads that John McCain has been running not just on television, but on the web. Let’s face it, let’s call a spade a spade, there has been some Messianic references, there’s been some antichrist stuff going on, the celebrity, they’re trying to pigeonhole you a certain way. Do you believe this is being done on purpose?

OBAMA: Well of course it’s being done on purpose. They’re not spending a whole bunch of money to make me out as a good guy. They’re engaging in the kind of politics that I think we’ve become accustomed to which is you try to tear your opponents down and you engage in sort of slash and burn tactics. And very personal sort of personal character attacks. And one of the challenges for us in this campaign is how do you make sure those attacks are answered quickly and forcefully, but also truthfully and that we don’t fall into that same kind of tactic.

No slash & burn for Barry, no sir!  That demurral is foolishly brazen enough, but the suggestion that it is Team Sith that came up with the messianic meme and accompanying imagery ought to have His Eminence hauled away by the men in the white coats and butterfly nets.  Or was it truly Darth Queeg, using some heretofore undiscovered nuance of the Dark Side of the Force, that some how Charlie McCarthyized Barry into saying this:

Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.

Or the speech in which he made mention (paraphrased) of "a light shining down from above" and a "voice telling you" that "you must vote for Barack".  Or the avalanche of deified artwork depicting the Chicago Cherubim in decidedly non-mortal settings.

I've been following American politics for almost thirty years, and never have I seen a candidate display so much arrogance with so little to justify it.  The man is a cipher, a tabula rasa on which the twenty-first century American version of the Communist Manifesto has been stenciled, leavened by a puerile sense of entitlement that he gets to make all the rules without being subject to them.  He really believes he gets to say anything he wants and deny saying it if he gets called on it, as well as smearing McCain with comments he never uttered and see him crucified for them anyway.

The only other conclusion I could possibly draw is that BO is trying to lower public expectations of his candidacy and election chances.  But that would credit him with a degree of humility, prudence, and ability to see how he comes across to others that has not once been in public evidence.

Barack Obama is his own evil, but his hopeless misperception of it as virtue renders him incapable of confronting it.  He is the court jester that thinks himself Prime Minister, the fool that is the butt of his own joke.  And even if it costs him the election, he'll never know it.

Which makes it all the funnier to the rest of us, even if it is becoming akin to laughing at Special Olympics kids trying to run the hundred meter hurdles.

Barack Hussein Obama gets a little too "inside baseball," and, as usual, a lot too far from the facts, for his own good:

Wow, Obama is worried about carrying Ohio?  I thought the Dems had that state in the bag already.  Apparently not.

McCain's same-day response wasn't really responsive, though it did keep him on-message regarding Light-Bringer's tax-hiking schemes:

On just the ads themselves, I'd have to give the nod to Team Hussein.  Fortunately for Lord Queeg, the good folks at FactCheck came to the rescue:

The ads would be correct to point out that McCain opposed the version of the Stevens amendment that would have effectively prohibited the DHL sale. They would even be correct to point out that he opposed the watered-down version, which merely made the merger less attractive. But it’s a stretch to suggest that McCain alone could have prevented the deal. There was considerable opposition even to the watered-down version, and President Bush opposed altering military contracts in the midst of two ongoing wars in Asia. Stevens’ amendment might have passed if McCain supported it, but there is no way to know that.

Moreover the ads go too far in attributing motives to McCain. The Arizona senator has long crusaded against the practice of inserting pet projects into spending bills, and his April 17 press release lists the Stevens amendment as just one of the spending bill’s fifty-one marks and sixteen policy changes that he opposed. We can’t judge people’s motives, but we’ve seen no evidence to suggest that McCain’s activities were directed at helping DHL do anything at all. And certainly we’ve seen nothing to suggest that McCain “turned his back on” Wilmington’s workers.

The ads also engage in some fishy causal reasoning. The mailer and the radio ad both argue that it’s the 2003 merger that is the direct cause of the job losses. But that’s far from obvious.

In fact, for several years, the merger provided significant benefits to the residents of Wilmington. It allowed DHL to invest $1.2 billion into its North American Operations. Part of that investment included transferring operations from an older hub in northern Kentucky to the Wilmington facility, a move that added about a thousand jobs in Wilmington. And while a 2003 article in Aviation Week warned that the merger could affect the survivability of either ABX Air or DHL Airways (which later became ASTAR Air Cargo), the warning proved to be, at best, premature. ABX Air stock rose more than 600% in its first year of operation (ASTAR is privately held).

Airborne’s former employees were happy with the deal, as well. A press release from the Teamsters union praised the “historic” agreement it reached with DHL after the merger. The agreement protected more than six thousand Airborne jobs by including a “no-layoffs provision” and held out a promise of “more Teamster jobs” as the result of anticipated growth. That prediction proved true for a while.

So what did McCain do?  What he always does - oppose earmarks (special interests!) and protectionism.  And were "8,200" Ohio jobs lost overseas?  Of course not.  DHL wanted to invest here because America is (still) a good place to invest and expand their business.  Which Obamanomics will make more difficult, and probably cause DHL, formerly Airborne Express jobs to....shift overseas.

But the Lion (formerly) of Trinity United will punish them for that!  Yes he will!  Yes he will!

How John Sith McCain sees Russian neoCzar Vladimir Putin:

How Barack Hussein Obama sees Russian neoCzar Vladimir Putin:

With the "big boys," of course, portraying the United States and its NATO allies.

This clip has the added bonus of being an uncomfortably accurate depiction of what's going to happen to us under the tender "leadership" of Boo-Boo Obama.  Only there won't be any Ranger Smith or Yogi to come to our rescue.

It all started with an ad from a pro-Hussein group touting what a wonderful family man the Savior of Socialism is - which is a curious thing to need to reinforce with an ad if the claim is unassailably true.  Unless the ad, between the lines, isn't really about Lucifer:

I don't know about you, but I seriously doubt the Christian bona fides of anybody who can delude him/herself into believing that Barack Hussein Obama holds "pro-family" positions.

More to the point, though, is the tell-tale lack of discretion that seems to pervade not only BO but every last one of his swooning Kool-Aid swillers, which in this instance confirmed that they weren't really trying to tout their guy as the next Ward Cleaver:

"Well, I don't know a lot about John McCain's family history, I do know, however, that as recently as last week I think it was, the senator made a comment in South Dakota regarding his wife entering some Buffalo Chips contest which is this topless deal and if she were to enter she would probably win it and my personal opinion and based on my understanding of the Christian faith, that's not, not, N-O-T, not the type of expression that a presidential candidate, or anyone for that matter who is a follower of the Christian faith, ought to make," said the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell. "I don't know if that is a perfect case in point, but it surely does help to juxtapose the DNA of Senator Obama, if you would, versus the DNA of Senator McCain."

My first gut reaction?  If Reverend Caldwell admits he doesn't know a lot about Sailor's family history, then he should not attempt to speak about things of which he is blanketly ignorant.

My second gut reaction?  He obviously wanted to speak about it anyway because he wanted to personally trash McCain, and cited the "Buffalo Chip" quip - which could hardly be anything other than an obvious jest on Maverick's part - because that's how meager Lord Queeg's dirt pantry is.  Which makes Caldwell's attack beyond lame.

Leading, inexorably, to my third gut reaction: could the "DNA" metaphor not unreasonably be interpreted as a racial slur?  And would it not be if a McCainiac had used to vis-a-vie Obama?  Which, by the way, McCain would never have permitted, as we've already seen this summer.

The Phil Jackson-esque Rick Warren, another oxymoronical "liberal pastor," was evidently bolder than President Bush's vickar, though, as he weasely upped the personal ante:

Caldwell then invoked comments that Rick Warren made about adultery in a Thursday interview with ABC News' Jake Tapper to raise additional questions about McCain. 

"His marital history has been duly recorded," said Caldwell, referring to McCain, "and as recently as yesterday I think it is, our pastor from Saddleback, Rick Warren indicated that he would not feel comfortable voting for an adulterer and I don't know exactly to whom he was referring but I think the data speaks for itself, and again, at the end of the day, and I really appreciate you raising this because, at the end of the day again I think the American public deserves full revelation of the candidate's character and competency. Character and competency. So, whatever questions that should be asked that would give the voting public an indication as to who they are and what they've done should be fair game."

Innuendo that is about as subtle as a kick in the groin while wearing ski boots.

As to the hypocrisy, AP exit-questioned that quite effectively:

Which opportunistic reversal is more shameless? Democrats suddenly deciding that infidelity is a serious electoral issue or Democrats suddenly deciding that no, on second thought, military experience isn’t essential in a commander-in-chief?

Oh, man, that's like getting extra hot fudge on your triple-decker ice cream sundae.  The third decker being an Obamanoid touting the competency of He Who Descendeth With A Career Resume Thinner Than The Anorexic Olsen Twin.

The Matthew-25ers share that level of competency, methinks, at least as it pertains to their political acumen.  It reveals how suddenly nervous they are about the emerging campaign trends, how in a cycle this purportedly pro-Donk Light-Bringer should be running away with the race at this point and is instead in a flat-footed tie.

It also suggests they don't realize what kind of Pandora's Box they are opening, judging by Team Sith's simultaneously sharp and blunt retort:

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers has responded to Caldwell’s criticism by saying: “These people are Obama campaign surrogates. These kinds of personal attacks are disgraceful. This absolutely exposes the hypocrisy of Obama’s claim to represent a ‘new kind of politics.’”

A Republican strategist speaking on the condition of anonymity reacted to the Caldwell comments by telling ABC News: “My advice to the Obama people: ‘proceed with extreme caution.’ They don’t want to get into a discussion of character and background. They are opening a door that they will not be able to close. They are putting on the table issues and personalities that they do not want to discuss.”

Issues and personalities like...Jeremiah Wright.  And Michael "Father" Pfleger.  And the Weathermen terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohn.  And Tony Rezko.  All that stuff that Obama is still trying to live down and put behind him, and which McCain has been scrupulously leaving alone.

The message to Obamanation couldn't be more crystal clear: "We don't want to go into the gutter.  We never have.  But if you insist on dragging the campaign down into the muck, you'll drown in it long before we will."

Don't think so?  Look at how badly the Chicago Cherubim is floundering just in attempting to defend himself from a couple of center-right exposes of his "issues and personalities".

Or maybe the Dark Lord of the Sith will simply let the Bread of Death drown himself.

Running up the score just wouldn't be comitous, after all.

UPDATE: Add the DNC to the "don't know enough to bleep or go blind" list:

Oh, Lordy, where to begin?  How about that Abramoff was not a "Republican" lobbyist but was quite bipartisan in his shady dealings?  Or that the best Howard Dean's crew can do is McCarthyistically smear McCain with Abramoff links through Ralph Reed, who was himself smeared with bogus Abramoff links by a hard-left hatchet group named "Defcon"?

Or that False Messiah himself held a fundraiser just last fall at Abramoff's law firm?:

Last fall, Barack Obama quietly slipped into the Miami headquarters of a major law firm scarred by the scandals of Jack Abramoff, its once-powerful Washington lobbyist who now sits in jail.

Arriving a little after 10 a.m. on Oct. 1 [2007], Obama spent the next three hours schmoozing, speaking in a video conference to branch offices and raising money at Greenberg Traurig, a billion-dollar firm with one of the biggest lobby shops here.

Obama has now raised about $125,000 from Greenberg Traurig employees — nearly half of it at the time of the event — more than from any of the other top law and lobby firms.

Symbolically, it was a starkly contradictory event: an appearance by the candidate who crusades most adamantly against lobbyists at the onetime firm of the poster child for out-of-control influence peddling.

Public anger over the Abramoff lobbying scandal led Obama to institute the ban on lobbyist money in the first place, an aide said last year.

And McCain is "more of the same old politics"???

At the rate BO's surrogates are going, they're going to inadvertently have Obama out on poontang hunts with Sick Willie and Opie Edwards.  Or is that where we came in with this post?

Six steps to a "mammoth depression":

"It begins with a plan" - now why am I not surprised that a central planner would open his spot with that phrase?  And immediately follow that up with classist divisiveness?

1) "Grow the economy" - Just like that!  Despite, you know, the crippling tax hikes, trillion dollars in new domestic spending, and planned permanent energy crisis.  I guess that's where Clarke's Third Law comes in.

2) "End tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas" - despite, you know, the fact that the reason companies ship jobs overseas is because the federal government has already driven up the cost of labor here to prohibitive levels.  And BO plans to drive it even higher, and punish his victims for it by gouging them even worse.

3) "Give tax breaks to businesses that create jobs here" - that they won't be able to create after St. Barry jacks up their tax rates and denies them access to price-dropping domestic energy sources, after which they'll be moved over to #2 above.

4) "Invest in education" - Pour hundreds of billions more down the same socialized education rathole that is producing a generation of ignorant illiterates - which, come to think of it, probably make up a not inconsiderable portion of Obamanation.  Ah, self-interest from the Unholy One - whoda thunkit?

5) "$1,000 tax cut for working families" - That would be his economically worthless rebates from the planned "windfall profits" shakedown of the energy sector that will deny them the R&D sources to tap the price-reducing domestic energy sources to which he will continue to deny access.  And, just as a reminder, EVERY family is a "working family"; wealth does NOT create itself.

6) "Energy independence" - Deny access to REAL domestic energy resources (oil and natural gas in the OCS and oil shale deposits in the Mountain West, new nuclear plants) in favor of wasting billions more on the same "alternative" dry wells that CAN...NOT...WORK.  Behold, the wind!

Let Lucifer figure out how to tap the energy of killer hurricanes and maybe I'll start paying heed.  Might as well make the "global warming" hoax useful.

Sitting in for Senator Queeg today is comedian Jackie Mason:

"Obama Is a 'Marxist, Fake and a Phony'".  Maverick probably wouldn't approve of that message, but I certainly do.