Pitbulls, pigs and jackasses; Sarah Palin and her critics slug it out

It is getting annoying watching the media self-destruct the way it has in the last week. Ever since the Republicans called them out on their preference towards Barack Obama, the entire MSM has been in a state of confusion. MSNBC has removed both Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from political coverage to try and maintain some credibility, while others like CNN continue to attack Governor Palin with everything they can dig up. It is no surprise that both the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post throwing everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink at the Republicans hoping something slows down their recent success, but many of us were shocked when foreign publications, like the Guardian, decided to enter this political discussion. Let’s take sometime right now and sort out what is going on and who is to blame for all this confusion…

Lipstickgate and Obama’s treatment of women – I am guessing right now Barack Obama is regretting making that lipstick comment the other day. For all those who missed it, here is a link to the Youtube video. Done watching? This is a joke done in poor taste at a time when Barack should be watching his words more carefully. I would like to know what the Democrats are thinking lately with all that is being said, especially by Joe Biden (doesn’t help when he makes comments like these) and various Obama spokesmen and supporters. Right now John McCain and Sarah Palin are leading in the polls, due in part to these lapses of judgment, so all they are doing is giving Republicans more to work with. This isn’t how you run a campaign…

Mark Cunningham wrote a nice article on this yesterday, explaining how Barack’s campaign isn’t working due to two facts; Obama hasn’t run against a serious Republican before, and that his campaign isn’t geared towards the national stage. One point he made in his article really stuck out to me…

Axelrod is also known for playing the race card, but that can backfire, big-time – especially when neither he nor Obama really has much feel for the political and cultural landscape of most of the nation.

David Axelrod, Obama’s man political strategist, has overplayed the “race card” during this election, and it is starting to show. We remember Barack’s comments on race before, his infamous “did I mention he’s black” and “he doesn’t look like those other presidents on the dollar bill” speeches, not to be outdone by his new “maybe he’s got Muslim connections”, and most of us are getting sick of it. To have the nerve to come out and cry fool over the Republicans making an issue of gender and questioning his comments on the basis of sexism is beyond hypocrisy. YES, the McCain campaign has overplayed “Lipstickgate” but you can’t portray yourself as the victim when you have been whining about racism since the Democratic nomination race. It is called politics Obama, and many were starting to think you were actually good at it until all this.

I would really like to know who is writing the Democrat’s speeches since they should obviously be looking for new employment elsewhere. I am going to cut Barack some slack on this, mainly because someone else is telling him what to say, but enough is enough. First Oprah refuses to have Palin on her show (“The Big O” with a big mistake), then Michelle Obama calls her “not smart” (this all coming from the woman who solidified her husband’s patriotism by FINALLY being proud of her country) and now this? Two words, DAMAGE CONTROL, definitely something Obama and Axelrod need to learn about. If the Republicans try to make an issue out of this, you say a quick comment and move on. You don’t go to David Letterman and discuss this, nor do you make a speech trying to clarify your statement by reexplaining what you “really” meant (that didn’t work last time), and you certainly don’t accuse your opponents of making an issue out of nothing when your track record is nothing but that. All this won’t help him, especially when people are actually thinking this is just another in a long line of sexist attacks. I am sure PUMA has something more to add, but I am moving on…

UPDATE: Seems that Mrs. Obama will pick up the sexist “torch” by calling Sarah Palin cute. At least she isn’t angry and unpatriotic Michelle. Both Hot Air and Michelle Malkin’s blog cover this if you want to read up on it.

Foreigners on American voting and 9/11 – Today marks the seventh anniversary of the September 11th attacks in 2001. I will never forget sitting in the school cafeteria watching CNN coverage of this, watching the towers fall, and then sitting at home hours later with my family as the world tried to understand how this could happen. Cousins of mine were in New York sightseeing, and were among the lucky ones who weren’t in the Twin Towers when the planes hit, but three thousand other people weren’t so lucky. As Americans morn, WorldPublicOpinion.org gives us just one more reason to be upset today. Seven years later and the world thinks like this?

Okay, so let me get this straight, after all the research done, after all the ACTUAL scientific research done to prove that the official story is true, why do we still have this? While I am not here to, those who want to debate me on this, I know a great website that will hopefully change your mind. Back to the point, it is disheartening to think that our closest allies don’t even believe that al-Qaeda, the same group behind the Madrid and the London bombings, is responsible for this. It is no surprise that both Nigeria and Kenya are well informed on the issue, their citizens deal with the evils of Islam on a daily basis, but to think after former Prime Minister Tony Blair gave that speech following the London attacks, only fifty-seven percent of people in his country believe that al-Qaeda was behind it. This isn’t fiction, in Canada right now, one of these terrorists is about to be convicted on charges related to those attacks, he was recruited at the mosque down the street from my high school, so why all this disinformation? Why is it so hard to believe that Islamic fundamentalism caused this? Political correctness, anti-American hatred, who knows, but what I do know is that we shouldn’t be their taking political advice on anything, especially foreign policy from people who pretty much refuse to believe that a terrorist network could have conducted this attack. That is, however, what is happening…

ABC reports that 22,000 people polled in 22 countries around the world believe that Obama would be the better President. The United Kingdom’s Russel Brand begged Americans during his latest MTV appearance to vote for Obama. John Freedland, also from the UK, has decided that the people of America don’t know how to vote for the candidate best for them, among others. Even Arianna Huffington, a Greek national, has done her best to force her perverted world view on the American people with her hateful website. While Greece wasn’t on the list, Turkey, their closest neighbour, ranked the lowest on the list of European countries which believed that al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11, something which should tell us about Greek feelings on this issue following the trend shown in the poll. With all this, knowing full well that these people are out of touch with the reality, the seriousness of the problems Americans face, why should they have any political credibility?

Before moving on, I would like to challenge assertions that I am being a hypocrite by giving my political opinion from one foreign country, while dismissing others because they are also not America. Canada and the United States has a symbiotic relationship, especially with our geographical connections. William Lyon Mackenzie King, a former Prime Minister of Canada, “fireproof house” speech showed how the safety and security of our country was linked to yours. Economically, no other two countries are closer, a relationship which goes back all the way to World War II when American investment super-accelerated Canadian industrial development. Our success, our very livelihood depends on the United States, and that is why we watch this election so closely. While Britain and many other European countries have turned to China in recent years to meet their Economics needs, Canada is still very much interconnected to the United States. That isn’t hypocrisy, it is common sense, so now we can move on to another issue…

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin tackled this article yesterday. I have to agree with her on this, it is more then a coincidence that many of the people saying al-Qaeda wasn’t behind the 9/11 attacks also want Barack Obama as President. I think this may be a result of some kind of worldwide illness (they are obviously suffering from serious hallucinations), that or everyone is “drinking” the same “Kool-Aid”.

Continued attacks on Sarah Palin by the far-left – I would like to know who makes the decisions over at CNN. While MSNBC has at least tried to make themselves appear less partisan, “the most trusted name in news” has decided to continue their blatant support of Obama’s presidential bid. This Anderson Cooper 360 report contradicts an earlier report on the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere”, inferring that it was Palin who requested funding for that project. As CNN previously reported, it was Senators Ted Stevens and Doug Young who requested the money, and it was Congress itself that gave this money to Alaska to spend any way they wanted. It is clear that CNN’s attempt at “honestly” portraying Sarah Palin needs to be kept honest (Come on Anderson, get your facts straight). This isn’t the end of their smears, just last night, Larry King brought on a slew of liberals to slander the Governor further. Kiki McLean, a former Hillary Clinton campaigner who not only sold out her candidate but her gender to be part of the Obama’s team, decided to forgo doing actually research and repeated various falsehoods and smears which the far-left has been pushing for the last week (since when did the Daily Kos and the Democratic Underground become credible?). Surely she could have check her facts through various sources (NewsBusters and Factcheck.org handled a few of these false claims) instead of bending the truth, but I am sure she would rather gorge on donuts then look over the validity of her claims (I have no respect for someone who sells out on everything to further her own career). Pathetic…

Arianna Huffington was also on last night whining and complaining about how President Bush was bankrupting the country, ignoring not only the four years of solid growth his tax cuts brought the American people, but also that it is Obama, not McCain who will bankrupt small business by raising taxes. This woman is far worse than Kiki, a vile creature who’s main source of income is a website dedicated to anti-American lies and slander. After a failed gubernatorial campaign, which depended entirely on hating the President, she continues to pretend that she has political credibility. Last night for example, she accused both John McCain and Sarah Palin of various “crimes”, including flip-flopping (ignoring Obama’s lengthy track record again, especially on this issue), while not providing any proof to back up her claims. Even I have a link for every claim I make, knowing full well that my own credibility depends on whether or not I can ACTUALLY back up what I say (quoting your own website’s filth doesn’t count Arianna). In my opinion, she is just jealous of a woman who worked to get where she is instead of making the journey on her knees and back (you heard me right, she married rich). I just wish Chuck Norris, who was also on Larry King, would have nailed her with his signature roundhouse kick (a dream yes, but one I wish would have come true). He did, however, discredit her rants through asserting her own elitism (for most it seems, excess money leads to stupidity). The problem I am having is trying to figure out why people still believe her…

It isn’t just the Huffington Post, many other sources are doing the same. Mudflats, for example, seems to simply copy and paste stories from the various far-left websites around the internet. Even after the New York Times retracted their story about Palin’s links to the Alaskan Independence Party, this site continues posting this story in an attempt to smear the Governor. The disturbing thing is that they know it is a lie and still print it, hoping in some twisted way that it will help put Obama in office. This isn’t the worst of it, the Daily Kos actually had a story tying Palin to al-Qaeda. Ignoring Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers, these “truth seekers” make Sarah Palin out to be a sleeper agent for Osama bin Laden. How can anyone believe this dribble? This is something that sounds like a “Bad Disney Movie”, not Matt Damon’s pervert political analysis.

I will not discuss the numerous smears lodged against Palin since McCain picked her as a running mate, but I encourage those who want to know more to check out my posts Dishonesty and distortion, as well as Myths and mayhem for the facts behind these lies.

UPDATE: Seems ABC’s Charlie Gibson’s “hit job” on Sarah Palin didn’t go over too well with a few bloggers, including Michelle Malkin. To be the first person to interview the Governor, he really dropped the ball on this one. You could tell he didn’t respect Palin, especially when he questioned her on foreign policy. It is sad to see that Obama and his supporters still don’t know how to treat a woman.

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All in all, I am not surprised at what is going on lately. The MSM is in disarray, the far-left is panicking and no one seems to understand that Sarah Palin isn’t worse than Hitler. She is a 44 year-old mother of five who has fought her way up from the local PTA to the governorship of Alaska, someone who should be celebrated the world over, not condemned because she happens to be a Republican. It is pretty sad that these “progressive” liberals can’t see past their own bias and realize that this is the woman they have been looking for, for years, a determined mother fighting to change the world for the better. That sounds like a pretty good Disney movie to me.