Enough Is Enough

Here's Barack Obama's 'pig' quote:

"Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change, too. And so I guess his whole angle is, 'Watch out, George Bush. Except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we're going to really shake things up in Washington. That's not change. That's just calling some -- the same thing something different. But you know, you can't, you can put, uh, lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."

Obviously, any rational individual can see it isn't about anybody, it's about John McCain's policies and tactics.

What does the McCain campaign do? THEY LIE ABOUT WHAT OBAMA SAID. Everybody knows what is happening. Sure there are a few ignorant people who actually believe it, but all the 'Conservatives' know that it's a lie. They tell the lies so they can have a framework in which to build the appearance of a platform.

Think about this: the conservatives all know it is a lie. The ones who start the lie. The ones who pass on the lie (you've seen the emails -- try telling the sender it's a lie), and the ones who 'believe' the lie.

Here's the thing: they don't believe the lie. The lies in the system of philosophy that William F. Buckley created and has been largely hijacked by greedy people, the lies serve a fundamental purpose -- they allow reasonable people to maintain completely erroneous beliefs to achieve an end.

It gives a perception that they believe the BS -- but the problem with perception is that it can mislead. They tell themselves they believe the BS. They wink and nod and give it the eyebrow-raised you-and-me-know-what-this-liberal-idiot-is-smoking look, and pretend to know something. But they're just people. They don't know any more than the next guy. They don't have a hot-line to God. They don't even have a hot-line to Buckley.

This coat-of-many-lies has worked in the past, sometimes with a positive outcome for society. But the coat is threadbare. The lies are wearing thin. It is tedious and sad to see a great man like John McCain stoop to deceiving himself while he tries desperately to win an election in what would most likely be his last chance.

I remember when John McCain went to the dark side. Base-jumping is a description he gave John Stewart. President Bush trotted him out on Air Force One and had Mr. McCain lie about his agreement with Bush and his endorsement of George.

It was beyond sad to see McCain grovel at the feet of the man who had allowed his campaign to smear McCain about having a black child, among other things.

Let's examine that: To say that the child that the McCains adopted was an illegitimate love child. Who was black (why throw that in? to play the prejudices of the Carolina people -- PLAY THEM FOR FOOLS).

There was McCain, his family smeared, his wife, his kids . . . and he stood there and extolled the virtues of George Bush. It was like watching a slave say great things about his master.

Now, I watch McCain do the same things to Barack Obama.

Come on people -- join something. Call somebody. VOTE. Let's turn the page.

Enough is Enough.

Who Is Lying? -- The Earmark Thing

In the Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Holmes and Laura Meckler report that Sarah Palin is not telling the truth about the Bridge to Nowhere.

Link to the article:
Record Contradicts Palin's 'Bridge' Claims


John McCain and Sarah Palin are LYING about earmarks.
Here are some quotes from the article:
"Why is this one issue such a big deal? Sen. McCain's anti-earmarks stance has been paramount to his campaign. The Arizona senator has blamed everything from the Minneapolis bridge collapse to Hurricane Katrina on Congress's willingness to stuff bills full of pork barrel spending."

"As such, Gov. Palin's image as a "reformer" is part of the storyline the McCain campaign needs to complement the top of its ticket. Her quip about passing on the bridge and "building it ourselves" has been a staple of her stump."

"But she's drawn considerable fire as result. Sen. Obama's campaign released an advertisement pointing out her original support of the bridge. And on Monday, an Obama staffer emailed a photo of Gov. Palin holding up a T-shirt that was made shortly after the bridge caught national attention. It reads "NOWHERE ALASKA" and "99901," the zip code of Ketchikan."

"The McCain campaign jumped back with spokesman Brian Rogers calling the attacks "hysterical.""

""The only people 'lying' about spending are the Obama campaign. The only explanation for their hysterical attacks is that they're afraid that when John McCain and Sarah Palin are in the White House, Barack Obama's nearly $1 billion in earmark spending will stop dead in its tracks," Mr. Rogers said."

"At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks.In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation."

Well,well. The article speaks for itself, and don't miss the fact that it's in the Wall Street Journal.

Here's a breakdown of how the earmarks paid out your tax dollars per capita:

As of 2006, Illinois population: 12831970 Alaska population: 670053.

$311 million divided by 12831970 people is $24 bucks apiece for the Obama earmarks over two years.

$750 million divided by 670053 people is $1119 for the Palin earmarks over ONE year.

For the math users among us, Sarah Palin used 46 times as much per person in EARMARKS as Barack Obama.

WHO'S LYING, McCain? WHO'S LYING MRS. PALIN?

Obama Opposes McCain's Desire to Enshrine Mediocrity

Barack Obama is the closest presidential hopeful I've seen to the image I have of the heroes in Ayn Rand's books. He is innovative -- his campaign speaks for itself. Financed by people, and richer than any campaign in history. Run by those of his choice and no one else's. Defeated the juggernaut of the Clinton machine. Think about that.

Obama was President and Editor of The Harvard Law Review. I consider that no small achievement.

Obama spent 12 years as a law professor. By all accounts the subject of the classes was usually policy and government. The man taught policy and government for 12 years, and those students thought well enough of him to start the entire Obama movement.

How many times would you think students are impressed enough with a professor to create a grass-roots organization for electing the professor to public office? They form the basis of his supporters today.

During those 12 years he also served in the state senate of Illinois.

Illinois was apparently impressed with Obama as well because they sent him to Washington as their Senator.

I haven't mentioned his service to the church and his public and community service. I'm told that that doesn't count anyway.

A man who achieves these things on his own, a black man, of a single mother, no source of money other than what they can earn with humble but honest jobs, a man who reaches for the dream. A man that deserves respect.

A man who doesn't blame his situation, who pulls himself up by his bootstraps, who pays his way, who came from FOOD STAMPS to PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.

My idea of Howard Roark is just such a man. A man who doesn't come by his ideas and values cheaply. A man who lives by his spirit. A man who lifts up his fellow man rather than tear him down. A man who uses what he was given to improve the human condition, to invent new ways ahead, and to be able to attract the following needed to move the world forward.

Which brings me back to Barack Obama.

Are you telling me that in the new conservative America this man deserves vilification?

Are you telling me that his achievements are not acceptable in the United States of America?

Are you telling me that this is not the type of man for whom the American Dream applies?

If you say Barack Obama is not good enough to run for President of the United States, for who's USA do you speak? Certainly not mine. Never.

If you do not agree with my Obama/Rand connection and fail to see the correlation, I suggest you read Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'Fountainhead' again, this time look a little deeper and bear in mind that she hated political parties, but she loved people who lived their lives like John Galt and Howard Roark.

If you go only by virtue of what he has achieved, Barack Obama strikes me as a person cut of the cloth of which the United States of America is made.

Or, you can always go with those who desire to keep things the way they are. As the destructive and vindictive Ellsworth Monkton Toohey said in the 'Fountainhead': "Don’t set out to raze all shrines—you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed."

There are always lots of Tooheys out there, waiting to tear good men down. Enshrining Mediocrity.

Enshrining mediocrity is a pastime with the Republican Party these days.