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Krauthammer Revisits the 'Race' Speech

Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:12:05 am PDT

The Barack Obama campaign is desperately hoping that most Americans are dumb hicks with the memory retention of soap dishes; because if they start to compare what he said in that Philadelphia “race” speech last March with what he said last Tuesday, he’s sunk: The ‘Race’ Speech Revisited.

“I can no more disown him [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother.”

— Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18

Guess it’s time to disown Granny, if Obama’s famous Philadelphia “race” speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was not just believed. It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union. A New York Times columnist said it “should be required reading in classrooms across the country.” College seniors and first-graders, suggested the excitable Chris Matthews.

Apparently there’s been a curriculum change. On Tuesday, the good senator begged to extend and revise his previous remarks on race. Moral equivalence between Grandma and Wright is now, as the Nixon administration used to say, inoperative. Poor Geraldine Ferraro, thrice lashed by Obama in Philadelphia as the white equivalent of Wright’s raving racism, is off the hook.

These equivalences having been revealed as the cheap rhetorical tricks they always were, Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.

At a news conference in North Carolina, Obama explained why he finally decided to do the deed. Apparently, Wright’s latest comments — Obama cited three in particular — were so shockingly “divisive and destructive” that he had to renounce the man, not just the words.

What were Obama’s three citations? Wright’s claim that AIDS was invented by the U.S. government to commit genocide. His praise of Louis Farrakhan as a great man. And his blaming Sept. 11 on American “terrorism.”

But these comments are not new. These were precisely the outrages that prompted the initial furor when the Wright tapes emerged seven weeks ago. Obama decided to cut off Wright not because Wright’s words or character or views had suddenly changed. The only thing that changed was the venue in which Wright chose to display them — live on national TV at the National Press Club. That unfortunate choice destroyed Obama’s Philadelphia pretense that this “endless loop” of sermon excerpts being shown on “television sets and YouTube” had been taken out of context.

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1 vxbush  5/02/08 8:13:42 am reply quote

Man, it really hurts when they come to bite your rear end.

2 sattv4u2  5/02/08 8:13:47 am reply quote

“I can no more disown him [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother.”

Run Granny , Run ,,,,,, here comes the BUS !

3 Occasional Reader  5/02/08 8:13:59 am reply quote

Krauthammer should have his name legally changed to MoonbatHammer.

4 debutaunt  5/02/08 8:15:43 am reply quote

Reality - Hammer.

5 taxfreekiller  5/02/08 8:15:45 am reply quote

If you start to review what Al Gore has said about Global Warming and compare it with the web cams at the worlds ski areas you get a way different story.

as in Aspen today

[Link: www.aspensnowmass.com...]

6 Tarkloon  5/02/08 8:15:53 am reply quote

Precisely the comments indeed!
Meanwhile the Kos Krowd Krazies are frothing at similar comparisons from Glen Beck and Ann Coulter:

[Link: www.dailykos.com...]

7 NoSubmission  5/02/08 8:16:40 am reply quote
Grandmothers and buses.


Meanwhile, we've got a war going on, a troubled economy and al quaeda at our throats.

8 debutaunt  5/02/08 8:17:35 am reply quote

Keep hammering.

9 JammieWearingFool  5/02/08 8:19:28 am reply quote

Soap dishes everywhere take umbrage at such remarks.

10 buzzsawmonkey  5/02/08 8:19:56 am reply quote

re: #1 vxbush

Attack killer chickenssssssssss....comin' home....to rooooooost.

11 red satellite  5/02/08 8:19:58 am reply quote

Krauthammer is the man.

12 Silhouette  5/02/08 8:20:25 am reply quote

I thought he already disowned the woman who stayed up nights with him, fed him, clothed him, and saw to his education. For that audacious guy who provided sperm and then abandoned one or two families.

13 chinesearithmetic  5/02/08 8:21:25 am reply quote

This week it's malice toward all and charity toward none. Tune in next week for further updates..

14 redshirt  5/02/08 8:22:01 am reply quote

Has Obama the great "Uniter" just divided the black vote? There were big voices praising him and supporting Wright. Now, the gauntlet has been thrown. Will blacks line up with Obama or Wright?
A nation divided, a party divided, and now blacks divided. Obama is batting 1000.

15 coquimbojoe  5/02/08 8:22:07 am reply quote

I am amazed at the complete lack of logic of Obama's denunciations and Wright's supporters.

This mess alone proves to me that BHO should never be president.

16 buzzsawmonkey  5/02/08 8:22:40 am reply quote

re: #12 Silhouette

I thought he already disowned the woman who stayed up nights with him, fed him, clothed him, and saw to his education. For that audacious guy who provided sperm and then abandoned one or two families.

The audacity of grope!

17 bolivar  5/02/08 8:23:32 am reply quote

Gee, you mean the big O is only human - why he actually talks out of his ass like every other politician and tells so many lies he can't keep the lies straight anymore? You know we tell our children not to lie and since the big O did not have a "good childhood" perhaps nobody ever told him that.......nah he is a lyin, self-centered, two-bit, no good, four-flushin, wuthless skonk. Get the hell outta Dodge big O you are not up to the task - either brain power or guts wise.

He is just making this too easy isn't he?

/ do I really have to?

18 Tarkloon  5/02/08 8:23:50 am reply quote

I still think Gordon Marock's comment:

"I did not have spiritual relations with that minister" needs to be a rotating title.

19 Kenneth  5/02/08 8:23:51 am reply quote

Obama decided to dump Wright the day before the polls showed him losing to Hillary in North Carolina. You can be he saw the numbers before they were published.

1. About the "Race speech": the account of his grandmother, the "typical white person" is substantially different that the account of the incident he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father.

2. Obama helped Wright organize Louis Farakhan's Million Man March.

20 karmic_inquisitor  5/02/08 8:24:02 am reply quote

We in the National Foundation for the Advancement of Soap Dishes find this post to be very offensive.

/Soap Dishes of the world unite - you have nothing to lose but your scum.

21 jamgarr  5/02/08 8:24:30 am reply quote

In one particularly egregious play on white guilt, Obama had the audacity to suggest that whites should be ashamed that they were ever surprised by Wright's remarks: "The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour of American life occurs on Sunday morning."

That was then. On Tuesday, Obama declared that he himself was surprised at Wright's outrages. But hadn't Obama told us that surprise about Wright is a result of white ignorance of black churches brought on by America's history of segregated services? How then to explain Obama's own presumed ignorance? Surely he too was not sitting in those segregated white churches on those fateful Sundays when he conveniently missed all of Wright's racist rants.

/CK rules!

22 Occasional Reader  5/02/08 8:24:30 am reply quote

re: #15 coquimbojoe

I am amazed at the complete lack of logic of Obama's denunciations

Hey, these are among the greatest speeches in American political history. They make the Gettysburg Address look like a Beavis & Butthead transcript. Take the hopium, and get with the program.

23 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  5/02/08 8:24:47 am reply quote

So much for BHO being such a great speaker.

24 DaveOlson  5/02/08 8:25:14 am reply quote

I believe that the dems will have a very hard time nominating Hillary, even though she is probably the stronger candidate. Therefore, this topic will be with us until November. I am looking forward to someone finding the DVD for sale in the church Narthex that shows the Rev. preaching his diatribe with Obama in the background, rooting him on.

25 haakondahl  5/02/08 8:27:17 am reply quote

Jonah Goldberg:

After Barack Obama gave his big race speech in mid-March, many critics noted that the Illinois senator had thrown his own grandmother under the bus to defend his controversial pastor. Well, Wright proved over the last few days that he would not be outdone. He not only threw Obama under the bus, he chucked much of the liberal and mainstream media under there with him. If this keeps up, to paraphrase Roy Scheider in Jaws, he’s gonna need a bigger bus.

26 varmint  5/02/08 8:27:20 am reply quote

toon

stuff is finally starting to come out about wright's replacement. obama is going to have to cut the whole church loose.

27 MrSilverDragon  5/02/08 8:27:44 am reply quote

Sorry, Obama, you clearly don't have enough fingers and toes to plug up this dyke, and the water's rising higher and higher on the other side.

28 Occasional Reader  5/02/08 8:27:56 am reply quote

re: #14 redshirt

Has Obama the great "Uniter" just divided the black vote? There were big voices praising him and supporting Wright. Now, the gauntlet has been thrown. Will blacks line up with Obama or Wright?
A nation divided, a party divided, and now blacks divided. Obama is batting 1000.

I am hoping that the America-haters (of whatever complexion) will stay home and not vote in their anger over Obama's "betrayal"; and that at least SOME of the people (of whatever complexion) who had sampled the hopium will come to their senses because of this debacle.

And if the whole thing shines a light on some of the hate that is dangerously close to being "mainstream" in "black America", all the better. It's high time that the black race arsonists are banished to the same political wilderness as the white ones.

29 jamgarr  5/02/08 8:28:29 am reply quote

he’s gonna need a bigger bus.

/If that doesn't deserve to rotate I don't know what does

30 Teacake!  5/02/08 8:28:59 am reply quote

For some reason most of my friends are loonie lefties and there is nothing obama can say that will change their mind about him. Actually all these personal flaws helps the affinity they feel for him, they want to see amercia crushed and that's what they love about him

31 Montaigne's Cat  5/02/08 8:29:03 am reply quote

Obama should apologize to all the conservatives and other Americans who were outraged before he (Obama) saw the light. My fellow Americans, he should say, you were right and I was wrong. I am sorry for doubting you, perhaps you are right about many other things as well. I will be re-evaluating my positions on national security and the economy and entitlements.

32 taxfreekiller  5/02/08 8:29:09 am reply quote

Some one from the Church who was mis-used by the Rev. Wright and or the Obama family is going to make a bundle once they get the book deal ink dry, my guess Rush will get the interview and do the interview live on Fox News.

Facts count, and for sure in the National Inquirer.

33 Cartman  5/02/08 8:29:12 am reply quote

I just checked my soad dish for memory retention. Less than 1k, with several leaks.

34 johnnyreb  5/02/08 8:29:28 am reply quote

In the end nothing about this will matter to his base. They won't (or can't) see anything wrong with him.

I would love to see a poll that called the exact same phone numbers of people in NC that said they supported Obama before all of this, and which way they would vote now. I doubt there would be much of a difference.

35 cizi  5/02/08 8:29:35 am reply quote

Obama's performance in all this has bridged the dichotomy described by Wright: it has been both "different" and "deficient".

36 Cartman  5/02/08 8:29:46 am reply quote

PIMF - soap

*sigh*

37 Nevergiveup  5/02/08 8:29:50 am reply quote

re: #30 Teacake!

For some reason most of my friends are loonie lefties and there is nothing obama can say that will change their mind about him. Actually all these personal flaws helps the affinity they feel for him, they want to see amercia crushed and that's what they love about him

Get some new friends!

38 bosforus  5/02/08 8:30:28 am reply quote

When you're in the tank, you're in the tank. The zObambies remember but they'll tell themselves it doesn't matter.

39 Teacake!  5/02/08 8:31:15 am reply quote

I hope though those who have been undecided all this time and who isn't so thrilled with any of the candidates will at least be moved to vote for H or McC and prevent this disaster

40 blangwort  5/02/08 8:31:23 am reply quote

re: #27 MrSilverDragon

Sorry, Obama, you clearly don't have enough fingers and toes to plug up this dyke, and the water's rising higher and higher on the other side.

Uhh, didn't you mean dike? (ducks)

41 Occasional Reader  5/02/08 8:31:30 am reply quote

Hey, Krauthammer, would you let the poor man eat his waffle already?!

42 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:31:33 am reply quote

I will remember this for the rest of my life.

Too bad for Obama in 2008,

Too bad for the Democratic party until probably 2050.

43 haakondahl  5/02/08 8:31:45 am reply quote

re: #29 jamgarr

he’s gonna need a bigger bus.

/If that doesn't deserve to rotate I don't know what does

Agreed. I just about spewed when I read that last night. NRO should be on our shortlists.

44 Electron Shuffler  5/02/08 8:32:15 am reply quote

Twenty Years Barry. Why has it taken you this long to come to the realization that Rev. Wright's words are “divisive and destructive”.

Do you think we are that stupid?

Keep on hammering, Mr. Krauthammer Sir!

45 J.S.  5/02/08 8:32:21 am reply quote

I saw another speech by the Obamanation the other day -- I could help laughing -- the Obama was yammering on in that fake Southern dialect about "Change" -- Yah, "Change ya can buh-leave in.." (did I hear hearty guffaws in the audience?) Followed by "Hope"... I'm just hopin' the clown leaves the stage -- Enough! (I also couldn't help but imagine, throughout the Obama's speech, in the background that prancing/twirling/dancin' lunatic "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright...)

46 Teacake!  5/02/08 8:32:57 am reply quote

nevergiveup - not so easy here in new orleans... 2 kinds of people - lefties or major redneck types. I'm not either.

47 haakondahl  5/02/08 8:33:33 am reply quote

re: #40 blangwort

Uhh, didn't you mean dike? (ducks)

Not so long as it's just fingers and toes.

48 gman  5/02/08 8:34:09 am reply quote

re: #19 Kenneth

Obama decided to dump Wright the day before the polls showed him losing to Hillary in North Carolina. You can be he saw the numbers before they were published.

I agree with you. The polls were the deciding factor, not the fact that Wright spoke to the Press Club. If Obama is elected, look for Wright to show up on the national scene again, preaching his message of hate and division.

49 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:34:19 am reply quote

re: #26 varmint

I think you should put quotes around church, thusly:

obama is going to have to cut the whole "church" loose.
50 haakondahl  5/02/08 8:34:20 am reply quote

re: #41 Occasional Reader

Hey, Krauthammer, would you let the poor man eat his waffle already?!

Fantastic!

51 MrSilverDragon  5/02/08 8:34:59 am reply quote

re: #40 blangwort

Uhh, didn't you mean dike? (ducks)

Both are acceptable according to the American Heritage dictionary, but that certainly puts a different spin on the original note!

52 Nevergiveup  5/02/08 8:35:26 am reply quote

re: #46 Teacake!

nevergiveup - not so easy here in new orleans... 2 kinds of people - lefties or major redneck types. I'm not either.

Hum, I see your problem. Well, then I suggest you start drinking alot of hard liquor.

53 haakondahl  5/02/08 8:35:28 am reply quote

re: #49 Ojoe

I think you should put quotes around church, thusly:

He's going to have to cut the whole "Chutch" loose.

54 bystander  5/02/08 8:35:49 am reply quote

Sorry, I must have missed that speech. I was too busy clinging to my guns and religion.

55 Tarkloon  5/02/08 8:36:28 am reply quote

re: #32 taxfreekiller

Some one from the Church who was mis-used by the Rev. Wright and or the Obama family is going to make a bundle once they get the book deal ink dry, my guess Rush will get the interview and do the interview live on Fox News.

Facts count, and for sure in the National Inquirer.

That's an acutely keen observation, I bet there are some huge royalty advances out there shopping for an author now.

56 Nevergiveup  5/02/08 8:36:49 am reply quote

re: #54 bystander

Sorry, I must have missed that speech. I was too busy clinging to my guns and religion.

Well at least your not bitter about it?

57 haakondahl  5/02/08 8:37:24 am reply quote

re: #54 bystander

Sorry, I must have missed that speech. I was too busy clinging to my guns and religion.

If that childish liar gets elected, guns and religion will be all we have left.

The Second guarantees the First.

58 Kenneth  5/02/08 8:37:44 am reply quote

Obama's "Race Speech" was a masterpiece of conflation. Every point he made was by confusing one issue with another.

He could no more disown Wright, than he could disown his white grandmother. Wright is a racist Black man. His grandmother was not racist, she was an elderly white woman afraid of an aggressive panhandler, who happened to be black. Not the same.

Wright does not speak for all African Americans.

Legitimate grievances and resentment over racism in America does not mean the gov't gave AIDS and crack to African Americans.

59 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:37:56 am reply quote

Clingy Klingon

60 varmint  5/02/08 8:38:01 am reply quote

re: #49 Ojoe

Nobody seems to comment on this. When the Reverend Wright got up and gave the insano conspiracy sermons, the whole congregation cheered. It's a church full of loons.

61 haakondahl  5/02/08 8:38:29 am reply quote

re: #55 Tarkloon

That's an acutely keen observation, I bet there are some huge royalty advances out there shopping for an author now.

Hell, I'll write the darned thing. The truth bar has been set pretty low in that locale.

62 kansas  5/02/08 8:38:42 am reply quote

The Barack Obama campaign is desperately hoping that most Americans are dumb hicks with the memory retention of soap dishes; because if they start to compare what he said in that Philadelphia “race” speech last March with what he said last Tuesday, he’s sunk:

No worries there.

63 Kenneth  5/02/08 8:39:18 am reply quote

re: #48 gman

Oh Wright's not going away. The man has a book deal and a speaking tour lined up. He's hit pay dirt!

64 Intrepid  5/02/08 8:39:20 am reply quote

Barack Obama is finally revealing himself to his own party - he's the Chauncey Gardner of the left.

And now on Hot Air there is a portion of a vid from a '92 Clinton campaign documentary in which Mickey Kantor (Clinton's sec of commerce and trade rep) calls Indianans "White N-----s", and "Shit". Neither George Stephy nor James Carville confront him on those statements.

Kantor is now one of Hillary's advisers.

Why any hard working, self-respecting person would align themselves with the dems is a mystery to me.

65 Tarkloon  5/02/08 8:39:32 am reply quote

re: #61 haakondahl

Hell, I'll write the darned thing. The truth bar has been set pretty low in that locale.

Regnery might be interested....

66 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:39:40 am reply quote

re: #60 varmint

I pray that they are in the great minority regarding the whole of our fellow citizens.

67 blangwort  5/02/08 8:40:12 am reply quote

As contradictory as BHO is, he's going to win the election unless someone finds a picture of him standing naked in a closet with a boy scout and shaved German Shepard.

A contradictory person gives the LLL something to ponder. They like pondering. They would rather ponder things than do something.

Meanwhile, McCain is hardly a shining example of the best of the GOP, Clinton is a rerun, and the Dems are still fighting against Bush.

If nothing else, this campaign is a very ugly mess. BHO is the worst front running candidate we've seen for president in many years, and he ordinarily wouldn't get elected --except that his competitors are even bigger losers.

68 Nevergiveup  5/02/08 8:40:28 am reply quote

re: #60 varmint

Nobody seems to comment on this. When the Reverend Wright got up and gave the insano conspiracy sermons, the whole congregation cheered. It's a church full of loons.

I guess Obama, due to his rock star like quality, was always safely enclosed in a glass booth at a distant location so he wasn't exposed to said lunacy?

69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  5/02/08 8:40:46 am reply quote

re: #64 Intrepid

Barack Obama is finally revealing himself to his own party - he's the Chauncey Gardner of the left.

He is the anti-Chauncey, because Chauncey didn't hate anyone

70 tfc3rid  5/02/08 8:41:18 am reply quote

Not to act like a real tin foil hat idiot but maybe Obama's plan has worked out all along... If he agrees (secretly) with Rev. Assface Wright, then why wouldn't Obama WANT a race discussion to get to the boiling point...

71 Diamond Bullet  5/02/08 8:41:41 am reply quote

I actually met Krauthammer once. He was tooling around in this big black wheelchair - it was probably my imagination, but I'm pretty sure it had moonbat-skin hubcabs.

72 Tarkloon  5/02/08 8:41:51 am reply quote

If you think about it, the bookstores will be full of political books for summer vacation... the ratio will be 20 McCain Bashing books to 1 Barack bashing book, but the Barack bashing book will become a runaway best seller.

73 onslow  5/02/08 8:41:53 am reply quote

re: #19 Kenneth

Polling data suggests that Obama will win North Carolina.

Real Clear Politics NC Polling Data

74 wahabicorridor  5/02/08 8:42:59 am reply quote

I cannot wait for Wright's book to come out - October, I think.

75 Nevergiveup  5/02/08 8:43:05 am reply quote

re: #73 onslow

Polling data suggests that Obama will win North Carolina.

Real Clear Politics NC Polling Data

True but 10 days ago he had a 25 point lead.

76 Intrepid  5/02/08 8:43:42 am reply quote

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

He is the anti-Chauncey, because Chauncey didn't hate anyone

True. But all Chauncey had was gardening tips, and all Obama has is "yes we can". Actually, Chauncey's offerings were more useful.

77 kynna  5/02/08 8:44:21 am reply quote

Unfortunately the voting public does have only the memory capacity of a soap dish. That's how Clinton got elected. That's how his wife got elected to the senate. That's how people continue to embrace socialism.

The news media is completely devoid of any moral compass. Nobody cares to set them straight. Nobody cares that everything they 'know' is wrong because Jason Blair et al are at the foundation of all their 'knowledge.'

78 Colin Nelson  5/02/08 8:44:48 am reply quote

The Mighty K strikes again!.

Brilliant.

Hope all lizards will link to the full article, as the remainder of the CK smack down (not shown by our Charles) is masterful in scornfully exposing the intellectual rot behind the much praised first Obama speech defending the Rev Wright.

79 tfc3rid  5/02/08 8:46:08 am reply quote

re: #77 kynna

In fairness Hillary won in NY because it's NY... If you're a Dem in this state you're a guaranteed winner...

80 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:46:41 am reply quote

If you go around yelling "G-d damn America" don't you think that would have negative effects in the spiritual realm?

I think it would.

81 gman  5/02/08 8:46:44 am reply quote

re: #63 Kenneth

Oh Wright's not going away. The man has a book deal and a speaking tour lined up. He's hit pay dirt!

Yep! and you better believe every racist demagogue in the black community will be coming out of the woodworks once they get the green light (Obama elected).

Imagine 4 years of Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Wright on the networks preaching their "Whitey is keeping the black man down" message.

82 taxfreekiller  5/02/08 8:46:48 am reply quote

OT

Reach out and touch them.

Texas little green foot balls posters etal.

What goes around comes around.
The Trans Texas Toll Road and one of the main paid off help mates.

State Rep. Mike Kruse, Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, who single handed made our efforts very, very hard
in our efforts to de-rail little paid off stuge Rick Perry and his but Rudy's sell out of Texas to Spanish construction companies and Aussie Banks for their share of looting America.

Georgetown Texas, Wednesday late I-35 North of Austin ,

DWI, by State Troopers, now facing Drunken-driving charges.

Already he has said "I'll not be running this year"

To bad so, sad , do not know how this could have happened.

(snark)

83 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:47:54 am reply quote

re: #80 Ojoe

Violates 2nd Commandment too, IMHO

84 Kenneth  5/02/08 8:48:16 am reply quote
That was then. On Tuesday, Obama declared that he himself was surprised at Wright's outrages. But hadn't Obama told us that surprise about Wright is a result of white ignorance of black churches brought on by America's history of segregated services? How then to explain Obama's own presumed ignorance? Surely he too was not sitting in those segregated white churches on those fateful Sundays when he conveniently missed all of Wright's racist rants.

Krauthammer nails it.

85 hermeneutics  5/02/08 8:48:18 am reply quote

This was the line I loved the most:

"Obama's liberal acolytes are not daunted. They were taken in by the first great statement on race: the Annunciation, the Chosen One comes to heal us in Philly. They now are taken in by the second: the Renunciation."

86 Nevergiveup  5/02/08 8:48:43 am reply quote

re: #80 Ojoe

If you go around yelling "G-d damn America" don't you think that would have negative effects in the spiritual realm?

I think it would.

If you go around yelling "G-D damn America" and other overtly political diatribes, How in hell do you retain your tax free status as a religious institution?

87 BrianA  5/02/08 8:49:08 am reply quote

Obama's disowning of Wright was actually another example of his arrogance. How dare Wright disrespect and question the motives of the messiah.

88 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:49:30 am reply quote

re: #86 Nevergiveup

Don't know.

89 LeonidasOfSparta  5/02/08 8:49:34 am reply quote

Thank you Krauthammer!

90 tfc3rid  5/02/08 8:50:16 am reply quote

re: #88 Ojoe

Don't know.

Because it would just be like the racist, xenophobic, hating government to take our status away,,,

91 Occasional Reader  5/02/08 8:51:04 am reply quote

re: #83 Ojoe

Violates 2nd Commandment too, IMHO

That's the right to bear arms, correct?

/

92 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:51:15 am reply quote

Gotta go to work, Carry on, important blog this.

93 phil flavin  5/02/08 8:51:34 am reply quote

re: #64 Intrepid

Barack Obama is finally revealing himself to his own party - he's the Chauncey Gardner of the left.

And now on Hot Air there is a portion of a vid from a '92 Clinton campaign documentary in which Mickey Kantor (Clinton's sec of commerce and trade rep) calls Indianans "White N-----s", and "Shit". Neither George Stephy nor James Carville confront him on those statements.

Kantor is now one of Hillary's advisers.

Why any hard working, self-respecting person would align themselves with the dems is a mystery to me.

God help me, I am about to "defend' a Clinton associate.
The video doesn't seem to match the audio to me. Esp. when the N bomb is dropped.

94 Ojoe  5/02/08 8:51:48 am reply quote

re: #91 Occasional Reader

I like them both, try to keep them

BBL

95 cblesz  5/02/08 8:52:10 am reply quote

This point (Krauthammer) needs to be hammered continuously. So much that Barry needs to have ANOTHER press conference to discuss his flip-flopping. It is truly disgusting that the mainstream media chooses to ignore it.

96 Colin Nelson  5/02/08 8:52:52 am reply quote

Anybody care to suggest just how Rove pulled off this entire scam?

97 hermeneutics  5/02/08 8:53:10 am reply quote

Did you see the lead on Drudge -- "Jobless Rate Falling"

... and the Dow crosses 13,000; Dollar up.

This is great news, not just economically, but for Republicans. Suffer the bad economic aspects early and let the economy "recover" in time for the election.

Ours IS a great economy.

98 infidelia  5/02/08 8:53:25 am reply quote

re: #85 hermeneutics

This was the line I loved the most:

"Obama's liberal acolytes are not daunted. They were taken in by the first great statement on race: the Annunciation, the Chosen One comes to heal us in Philly. They now are taken in by the second: the Renunciation."

These people are depressing enough to make you want to go hang yourself in a shed.

99 rcris5  5/02/08 8:53:26 am reply quote

Bought a .400 Corbon chambered barrel for my Sig P220. So excited, I'll be the coolest guy on the range.

100 cblesz  5/02/08 8:54:33 am reply quote

re: #97 hermeneutics

Did you see the lead on Drudge -- "Jobless Rate Falling"

... and the Dow crosses 13,000; Dollar up.

This is great news, not just economically, but for Republicans. Suffer the bad economic aspects early and let the economy "recover" in time for the election.

Ours IS a great economy.


Please. The MSM will focus on everything that is negative. There will be no positive headlines in the NY Times, LA Times, etc. We all know it...

101 taxfreekiller  5/02/08 8:54:38 am reply quote

Go home wage slaves, go home.
Home is where the heart is, not were your an illegal.

102 hermeneutics  5/02/08 8:55:00 am reply quote

re: #98 infidelia

Hi Infidelia -- Did I ever tell you that your nic reminds me of an onion?

:)

103 MandyManners  5/02/08 8:55:04 am reply quote

re: #96 Colin Nelson

Anybody care to suggest just how Rove pulled off this entire scam?

Well, he *is* a magnificent bastard.

104 taxfreekiller  5/02/08 8:55:53 am reply quote

by the by, in Dallas yesterday,

100 May day protesters, and that included the 15 TV guys.

105 wrenchwench  5/02/08 8:56:04 am reply quote

One more time, in case someone has not seen it yet.

This is from 2004:

On this particular Sunday, the sea of black worshippers is dotted with a few white folks up in the balcony, clutching copies of The Audacity of Hope they've brought for Obama's book-signing later. Obama, sitting in the third row with his wife and two daughters, Malia and Natasha, stands, claps, prays, and sways along with the rest of the congregation. During the sermon, he watches the preacher carefully and writes notes.
106 hermeneutics  5/02/08 8:56:17 am reply quote

re: #100 cblesz

Yes, but as we type, the WSJ surpasses the NYT in readership. The more objective financial papers are the ones that are NOT going under. The lib rags are plummeting.

107 pig farmer  5/02/08 8:56:57 am reply quote

It's been toooo long since I read comments on this blog...you lizards have me spitting milk out my nose with your hilarious remarks!thank you, thank you, thank you! You make this nomination season much more bearable! you rock!

108 Occasional Reader  5/02/08 8:58:00 am reply quote

re: #93 phil flavin

God help me, I am about to "defend' a Clinton associate.
The video doesn't seem to match the audio to me. Esp. when the N bomb is dropped.

I disagree. The "those people are shit" line is CLEARLY audible. And even for the N-bomb, it's more muted, but close your eyes if you want and turn up the volume; yes, he says it.

109 zmdavid  5/02/08 8:58:15 am reply quote

re: #106 hermeneutics

Yes, but as we type, the WSJ surpasses the NYT in readership. The more objective financial papers are the ones that are