Oddball: Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can’t lose! You’re on!

Kelley’s Hero’s headlines tonight’s debate.

Does that empty vessel Obama and his stooges really think they can frighten a man that has faced death more times than he can count. This is the first time in my 70+ years of life that I have witnessed a presidential election where one party ran a national hero and the other party ran leftist nothing.

rplat on September 26, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Well said.

The History Professor was correct:

At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior.

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”

Barry Oh! found that it was a “distraction” to be called back to DC to meet over a pressing economic issue because his handlers– Pelosi, Reid, and Paulson aides– were doing the heavy lifting while Barry Oh! was phoning it in.

When THE ONE brought up the Republican alternatives with an eye to criticism, even though he was unfamiliar with the details, he just demonstrated once more how inept he would be in any negotiating role, much less one that demonstrates leadership. Moms Pelosi and Dad Reid let Junior head out onto a highway on his new bike sans training wheels, and Junior was a big FAIL.

Now, Barry Oh! wants to shine on the public in a debate with sound bites and baritone pseudo-gravitas while cameras record and flash because Rock Stars are only comfortable when there is adulation. (Look out: Chrissy Matthews may have to wear super-sized Depends® to contain his tingles.

You have to learn to pace yourself,
Pressure
You’re just like everybody else,
Pressure
You’ve only had to run so far, so good,
But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you see
Are loaded guns in your face,
And you’ll have to deal with pressure!
 
You used to call me paranoid,
Pressure
But even you cannot avoid
Pressure
You turned a tap dance into your crusade,
Now here you are, with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice,
You have no scars on your face,
And you cannot handle PRESSURE!
 
All grown up and no place to go,
Psych 1, Psych 2, what do you know?
All your life is Channel 13,
Sesame Street, what does it mean?
 
I’m sure you have some cosmic rationale,
But here you are, with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice,
You have no scars on your face,
And you cannot handle PRESSURE!
 
One, two, three, four,
PRESSURE!!!!!

I’m a little amused by the sudden priority of holding a presidential debate today, rather than have two Senators focus on an emerging national crisis that simply can’t be rescheduled.

According to the WSJ, the presence of the presidential candidates isn’t helping the overall process. With McCain and Obama out of town, the chances of a negotiated agreement being reached go up greatly.

From the WSJ:

At a Senate Republican meeting, some Republicans including Utah’s Robert Bennett, who had been a vocal supporter of the earlier tentative agreement, appeared unhappy. “They weren’t too happy with McCain,” said one aide to Sen. McCain, adding that there was some “grousing” that the candidate wasn’t fully embracing the emerging compromise.

Sen. McCain “goes to a meeting and all of a sudden, we lose all the Republicans who have been working with us for the last five days,” said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, a California Democrat. “This has to be a bipartisan deal. Unfortunately Republicans walked off the field.”

Steve Z on September 26, 2008 at 4:02 PM

It’s quitE possible that The “O” is so disorganized in his own mind….
This just might be a blow out….yea…under pressure…

right2bright
You’ve misrepresented the article. The article said that Reid had not summoned McCain. Your quote is from an unfounded assertion of a McCain aide in response to the article. The link said the opposite of what you said it did. But sorry about calling you a snake. I went too far there and take the unfair accusation back.

snaggletoothie on September 26, 2008 at 4:29 PM

Thanks, but I never misrepresented the article, I stated that Reid back away from that, I don’t know have much clearer I can be then giving you a link and saying he backed away from that. BTW, Reid never denied saying that, if you want to believe Reid has honor above all, that’s your foolish right. But show me where Reid denied stating that…he won’t because they have it on tape. I think you stating that this “aide” who was Mike Salter a senior advisor, is underestimated. It was added as an update because Tapper meant to mislead (and obviously was successful because look at you), Salter set the record straight.
So once again, Reid and Pelosi knew they could not pass this without McCain’s blessing, right or wrong that shows the power of McCain, however Obama was never part of the mix, showing that he is just a puppet.
You see it your way, I see it mine…

Today, we get the revolt of the elitists, with Parker’s “send Palin home” article in NRO that comes right out of the Howard Dean playbook, Heather MacDonald, and Peggy Noonan (Rod Dreher too, though he’s just an idiot).

Kathleen Parker is probably referring to Palin’s non-response to Couric’s question about a second example of when McCain bucked his party in the Senate. But Palin probably didn’t want to bring up amnesty or the McCain-Feingold bill, so maybe she looked silly there.

But then again, why didn’t Couric ask Joe Biden about HIS running mate’s accomplishments? Biden, despite his long experience in the Senate, would have been equally stumped, because there aren’t any!

I just listened to one of Obama’s foreign policy advisors lamenting that McCain is under pressure not to make a slip because it could be disastrous.

Who said he would send troops into Pakistan without Musharraf’s permission? Oh, wait a minute, that wasn’t McCain.

Who said he would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions? Oh, wait, that wasn’t McCain.

Who tried to delay the withdrawal of troops from Iraq after saying he wanted to withdraw them all in 16 months? That wasn’t McCain either.

Who argued against the troop surge, then told O’Reilly it worked beyond his wildest dreams? Not McCain.

Sure…McCain is really afraid of a slip in a foreign-policy debate. What he needs to do is slam Obama on his derailing the bailout plan and his habitual lying.

Sheep to wolf: Watch out, I bite!

Barack Obama and John McCain already have jobs(They are Senators), and in a crisis, that’s where they should focus.

The Debate will only make things MORE partisan, the debate should have been rescheduled like McCain said.

Obama and his campaigns complaining about making the partisan debate go forward will hurt the economy.

right2bright on September 26, 2008 at 3:33 PM

snaggletoothie, did you crawl back under your rock??

And Peggy is, just …. in vain search of a coherent thought lately. Hillary might have made her happy.

BigD on September 26, 2008 at 2:37 PM

Dubya could have made her very happy,..all she wanted was to be major speechwriter for him. He didn’t give her the nod and it’s been all downhill ever since. Notice how often she refers to Reagan’s great communication skills? She’s too coy to take direct credit, but will certainly bask in the comfort of reflected warmth.

right2bright
The link you gave to prove that Reid summoned McCain says the opposite of what you say it does. You’re a bit of a snake (sorry, lying snake).

snaggletoothie on September 26, 2008 at 2:38 PM

Well, seeing as you called me a liar…let me pull the quote from the article…and then you can twist in the wind you little SOB, sorry stupid SOB.

UPDATE: McCain senior adviser Mark Salter emails: “Yesterday, Harry Reid said that consensus couldn’t be achieved without John McCain’s leadership. John stepped up and is providing that leadership. Now Senator Reid seems to have changed his mind for reasons we’ll let him explain. But what he should understand is that this isn’t about Harry Reid or John McCain or Barack Obama. It’s about the American people and, in the words of Warren Buffet, the financial Pearl Harbor they’re facing. John’s committed to doing his part to help avert that calamity. We hope Senator Reid is too.”

As you can see the quote is in that article…
Next time read all the way through, instead of the first couple of sentences…that will help you understand what is written and save you the embarrassment of looking like the fool that you are.

Love the bit on your website that says “not as smart as he thinks he is”. Heh.

AubieJon

It’easy because nobody is as smart as I think I am.