I don’t know HOW I missed this news. My support for McCain is quickly fading now. I learned of his potential choice of Mayor Michael Bloomberg for VP over at Bruce’s:

I still think McCain’s a complete piece of crap, but anything’s better than…

Huh?

What’s that newspaper you’re waving in front of my face?

Gimme that.

Oh, that’s real nice.

McCain’s now saying he wouldn’t rule out Michael Bloomberg as a possible running mate? Are you fucking kidding me? We are talking about the same Michael Bloomberg here, right? Michael Bloomberg, the very embodiment of the Nanny State? The same Michael Bloomberg who has made it his life’s mission to bury the firearms industry under mountains of costly litigation?

This would be a deal breaker for me too. To have Bloomberg as his running mate would cause me to NOT vote for McCain. I would write in another name or not even bother voting. Like Bruce, I might be found at the range unloading all day…feeling content and proud, soul intact.

Ron Paul is ending his campaign.

What is this?

Barack Obama wants to increase gas prices through a windfall profits tax that consumers will wind up paying and, as it did in the Carter era, decrease supply and increase our dependence on foreign oil.

In his latest gaffe, Obama told CNBC he didn’t really object to $4 gas, just that it occurred too quickly. Obama said: “I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment.”

Uh huh? Ok so let’s slowly increase the prices so people don’t notice, Obama? He says this as though it were a planned program or something. And this idiOt has a damn good chance of being our next President.

Yikes.

Obama is open to the idea of charging previous Administration members with war crimes? No. Don’t count on it. The immature little boy with big dumbo ears is very naive and it shows every time he opens his mouth.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to “immediately review the information that’s already there” and determine if an inquiry is warranted — but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as “a partisan witch hunt.” However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because “nobody is above the law.”

The question was inspired by a recent report by ABC News, confirmed by the Associated Press, that high-level officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and former Cabinet secretaries Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld, among others, met in the White House and discussed the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques on terrorism suspects.

Uh huh? Obama will not pursue this. Guaranteed. Why? Because he knows it would be political suicide to do so. Sure- he’ll make the noise and have his people check and look and review…but that is as far as it will go.

Someday, he might be in the position of being forced to approve things that might upset the weak knees of his liberal co horts- in the name of national security. Someday, he might be charged with war crimes too…and he will be advised against messing with the prerogatives of the leadership of the US government, and Presidential power.

Oh great.

The National Council of La Raza, a leading Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, announced today that both presidential contenders have accepted invitations to speak at its July 12-15 convention in San Diego. No details yet on when each will speak, but their appearances likely will be among the most important they make during the month.
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For Obama, the mission is straightforward: Woo an ethnic group that is absolutely essential to his hopes of carrying several key states in November but which heavily supported his rival, Hillary Clinton, during the just-completed Democratic primary season.
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McCain will face more of a balancing act when he takes center stage …

… at the convention.

As an Arizonan who last year was one of the few prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill pushing for controversial legislation that would have created a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants in the nation, McCain is primed to build upon the inroads President Bush made four years ago in attracting Latino votes to the GOP banner.

But many conservatives who strongly opposed the 2007 immigration bill — and whose turnout McCain needs on his behalf this fall — will be listening carefully to his remarks. And it won’t take much for them to renew their criticism of him on the immigration issue.

Two peas from the same pod here…and I bet there are going to be few differences between the two candidates on this. We’re doomed on this issue. Americans: Prepare to kiss your jobs/careers goodbye.

Hmm.

Expect more of these images to pop up.

And BWAHAHA read the comments at HillaryClinton.com Looks like McCain just got a huge increase in his fan club membership!

Hillary bowed out of this election yesterday (sort of) and there has been much analysis and hindsight on this. Every political and major news site one goes too has some form of Hill-Obituary. I admit: I was totally wrong on this. I thought for sure, without a doubt she would be our next President.

For years I have thought this. I’m not alone. Since Bill left office it’s been presumed that his wife, who wears the pants in the family, would begin her Presidential run. Like John Kerry, Hillary has always had the end dream of this. Becoming a Senator, raising tons of money and staying in the national spotlight were all part of a bigger plan. How she must feel now…defeated for sure. Angry. Jealous. I’d venture to say a little pissed off too.

Hillary Clinton ended her historic bid for the White House Saturday declaring she would not look back.
“Life is too short … to dwell on what might have been,” she said.

Oh but she will. Make no mistake about this. What might have been is her lifelong desire.

“She had the campaign wrapped up when she started, everybody said it was hers to lose and yet she lost,” said Ted Sorensen, a former adviser to President Kennedy who was supporting Obama. “She thought she was the best but he was better.”

Actually she is better. By far, when it comes to experience. Sometimes, experience is not an asset though. It’s a liability.

But Obama was paving a campaign on a message of change that steadily resonated across the country. Tapping small-dollar donors online, he was able to amass a war chest that soon eclipsed Clinton’s. His campaign was ground-up, while hers was top-down.

CHANGE. People want change. Hillary represented no change- just more of the same ole, same OLD. It mattered little that SHE was a woman…and she didn’t dwell on this factor. She did throw in well planned phrases of sexism here and there, and carefully orchestrated tears were shed once in awhile. It did her no good. Nothing she could have done would have altered how this turned out. Obama is the MAN (GAG ME!!) people want.

So now what? Do we think Hillary will sit back and resign her ambitions? Or do we think and suspect she just started her 2012 campaign?

Many headlines this morning are informing us of Senator Kennedy’s diagnoses of a cancerous brain tumor. It’s a nasty form of cancer and survival rates aren’t too high. I detest the man’s politics as well as his shady past; even so, I would never wish THIS fate to anyone.

The candidates react:

Obama:

“I would not be sitting here as a presidential candidate were it not for some of the battles he fought as a senator: He battled for voting rights and civil rights when I was a child. I stand on his shoulders,” Obama said.

Hillary:

Sen. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Kennedy’s “courage and resolve are unmatched, and they have made him one of the greatest legislators in Senate history.”

“Our thoughts are with him and [his wife,] Vicki, and we are praying for a quick and full recovery,” she said. “Obviously, he’s a fighter.”

She called him the “most effective” senator ever.

John McCain:

Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican who is the GOP’s presumptive nominee for president, had a similar statement.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to him. We hope and pray that they will be able to treat it and that he will experience a full recovery,” he said.

“I have described Ted Kennedy as the last lion in the Senate,” a tearful McCain said on his campaign bus in Florida. “And I have held that view because he remains the single most effective member of the Senate.”

I will pray for Senator Kennedy. He will need as many prayers as he can get and there are times to put aside the politics and disrespect. Now is one of those times.

BWAHAHA

Hillary? An ordinary average working class American? Hmm. I want her to come to work with me. And do what I do for, oh, say, 16 hours. At the hourly rate I earn. We’ll see how long she claims to be of my class…there is nothing she can do to improve my working conditions either. After all, nursing is nursing and it is what it IS.

How dare she even make such claims? What a lying sack of shit.

REMIND me why I’m being asked to support this RINO?? I just got sick.

Sen. John McCain said yesterday that Republicans have shed support among Hispanic voters because of the party’s get-tough approach to illegal immigration, but he predicted that his enforcement-then- legalization approach will rebuild those bridges.

Using a Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo, as a launching point, Mr. McCain’s presidential campaign announced a Spanish-language Web site (www.johnmccain.com/ espanol), and said the senator from Arizona will speak to this year’s National Council of La Raza convention in San Diego in July to try to court Hispanic voters.

“I believe the majority of the Hispanics share our view that the border must be secured, and the border must be secured first. But they also want us to have an attitude, which I think most Americans do, that these are God’s children, and they must be taken care of, and the issue must be addressed in a humane and compassionate fashion,” Mr. McCain told reporters at an Arizona news conference yesterday.

Yeah, yeah…humane and compassionate is happening. It always will. THAT’s not even a point. WHAT is a point, that McCain never mentions, is the high HIGH costs placed upon American citizens who WORK legally for a living. There is nothing inhumane about sending the illegals BACK HOME. It’s as simple as that. All these weepy eyed words are bullshit. To McCain, it is all about cheap labor for the business lobby. And nothing more.

Very little about John McCain excites me, I admit. I’ve read all of his platforms on the issues, and there are two that catch my eye as being absolutely necessary. The first is his foreign policy views and the War on Terror. This is mostly why I will support him.

The second issue of importance to me is health care reform. McCain dares to stand out from the crowd and today he shared more details of the idea he has. It will take a lot of people out of their comfort zones, but in order to truly reform health care we must stop our dependence upon employer-provided health care insurance. Along these lines, McCain also realized this isn’t going to possible for everyone. So he will leave in a government funded back up plan for those who cannot get insurance through the usual means.

TAMPA — Senator John McCain, detailing his plan to solve the nation’s health care crisis, called Tuesday for federal intervention with the states to assure coverage for people who have been denied insurance.

Mr. McCain’s health plan centers on eliminating the tax breaks for employers who provide health insurance for their workers — a marked departure from the current system — and giving $5,000 tax credits to families to buy their own insurance. His goal in shifting from employer-based coverage to having people buy their own policies is to encourage competition and choice, and to drive down the costs of health insurance.

People should buy their own health insurance plans. Then, and only then, will we begin to see real reform. Costs would be known and budgeted for; people would not abuse the system as so many do now. Plans would better suited for different families- those with children, those without, single men, women, older people- would all have choices as to what types of coverage to buy. It doesn’t make sense for men to have to pay for maternity coverage; just as it makes no sense for women to cover prostate care. Why should non smokers pay for the usual and customary costs associated with smokers’ illnesses?

The bleed hearts whined though:

Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, recently asserted that she and Mr. McCain could both be left uncovered by Mr. McCain’s plan because she has cancer and he has had melanoma. Stung by such criticism, Mr. McCain is trying to find a way to cover people with health problems while still taking a generally market-based approach to health care.

“I’ll work tirelessly to address the problem,” Mr. McCain said in a speech here at the Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida. “But I won’t create another entitlement program that Washington will let get out of control. I won’t do it. Nor will I saddle states with another unfunded mandate.”

We need to have a back up plan for those people who cannot get insurance. It’s pretty simple to except this fact. When we don’t, we pay for it in other ways. But we don’t need huge government programs designed to cover people who don’t truly need it; or that become so burdened with red tape and inefficiency they end up costing more to run than to pay out…(Medicare rings a bell here) Nor do we want programs like the expanded SCHIP fiasco of last fall- where middle income families could enroll on state sponsored (and federally paid for) insurance while they lived the good life making poor choices as to where to spend their money. McCain is correct in his stance on this.

Mr. McCain’s speech here implicitly acknowledged some of the shortcomings in his free-market approach. But rather than force insurers to abandon cherry-picking the healthiest patients, Mr. McCain proposed that the federal government work with the states to cover those who cannot find insurance on the open market. With federal financial assistance, states would be encouraged to create high-risk pools that would contract with insurers to cover consumers who have been rejected on the open market.

The free market in health care has blown it, time and time again. I am now convinced they deserve one and only one more chance to show they can truly solve this issue. The motive of profit and the issue of health care don’t always go hand in hand and free market proponents must start admitting this truth. We have to stop fooling ourselves into believing costs can actually go down. They never will. We can prevent them from going up out of everyone’s reach though.

McCain’s plan is radical and it will piss a lot of people off if it comes to life. We need it though. Because sooner than later not too many of us will be able to afford health insurance, and more of us than not will be denied coverage as a free market solution. Can we allow this to happen? I say no.

Who will the white men vote for?

Political commentators’ brains grew new crevices as they pondered the imponderable: Would white males go for the woman or the black? Or as Nora Ephron more pointedly posed the question: Whom do white men hate more — women or blacks?

By Ephron’s calculus, if a white male votes for a black man, it couldn’t possibly be because he finds the man a more suitable candidate. He simply hates women more.

And if he votes for the woman, he’s probably got his nutty uncle’s white-sheet ensemble stashed upstairs in an attic trunk just in case cross burning enjoys a revival. He couldn’t possibly deem any woman superior to any man. He simply hates blacks more.

Are all white males really so monolithically repugnant and predictable?

What do Obama, Jimmy Carter and HAMAS have in common? They all like one another and HAMAS wants Obama to be the next President of the US.

On the eve of a planned meeting of its leader Khaled Meshaal with former President Jimmy Carter, the Hamas terrorist organization has expressed the “hope” that Senator Barack Hussein Obama will win the presidential elections and change America’s foreign policy.

Even though Obama has said that he would not meet with Hamas unless it renounces violence and recognizes Israel, or becomes the recognized leadership of the Palestinians — he has no qualms about holding talks with the leadership of Iran, Syria, and North Korea — that doesn’t seem to bother the Hamas leadership.

“We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections,” Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas’ top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an exclusive interview with World Net Daily and with the John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio in New York.

Great. The man who has a very good chance of becoming the next President will sell out to the terrorist groups and factions, in the name of peace and good will. Screw the fact that these bastards have killed tens of thousands of innocent Israelis and would think nothing of doing that to Americans.

Gah I hate this shit.

Hehe.

How damaging “Bittergate” will be for Obama is as yet unclear, but one thing already seems obvious: It has done tremendous damage to a Democratic party already strained by internecine warfare. Among other things, it seems likely further to stratify the Democratic Party by race. As others have noted, Clinton is already the clear favorite among white, working-class Democrats, who have backed her in overwhelming numbers in places like Appalachia, Ohio. The fact that Obama apparently views these voters as a pitiable assortment of religious crazies, gun nuts and xenophobes seems unlikely to endear them to the party’s presumptive nominee.

Bonehead. Obama is SNOBAMA- a true snot of the highest order. As with all snots, he’s also weak and very stupid when it comes to choosing the right words to express himself. Or more perhaps, choosing the words that don’t express how he really feels. Snobs are like that. The sprout off and continue their aura of arrogance. But people, liberals, will still vote for him. The dumb and the dumber.

This is interesting. And has some potential to shake up the election.

Former Republican Georgia Rep. Bob Barr is considering a run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, according to FITNews.

Barr, who joined the Libertarian Party after leaving Congress in 2003, is looking to attract conservatives who are unhappy with the choice of John McCain as the expected Republican presidential nominee. McCain and Barr are at odds primarily over the role of U.S troops in Iraq, although both agree that tough interrogation methods should not be permitted.

Hmm. I think we should use whatever methods are necessary to keep Americans safe. Period. I’d like to know what Barr’s stands are on the other major issues.

FITNews wrote that Barr will receive the endorsement of Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, a GOP presidential candidate who is still technically in the race but has not suggested he would throw his support to McCain. McCain and Paul, who ran on the Libertarian Party presidential ticket in 1988, also are at odds primarily over the role of U.S. troops in Iraq.

We can’t just up and leave Iraq…as much as some think this is a good idea. We’ll get some pay back in the form of blood. And create a future generation of America haters.

“Ron Paul tapped into a great deal of that dissatisfaction and that awareness. Unfortunately, working through the Republican party structure, it became impossible for him to really move forward with his movement. But we have to have ….a rallying point out there to harness that energy, that freedom in this election cycle,” he said.

Ron Paul isn’t a Republican. He’s an extreme Libertarian. These people are considered WHACKS by ordinary average folk. They have to somehow present themselves as more mainstream while pushing their ideas.

“Ron Paul tapped into a great deal of that dissatisfaction and that awareness. Unfortunately, working through the Republican party structure, it became impossible for him to really move forward with his movement. But we have to have ….a rallying point out there to harness that energy, that freedom in this election cycle,” he said.

The big problem for Libertarians is their foreign policy stance. If they could change this, I think they would see a huge rise in support. We live in a world that has changed a lot. We have enemies who want to kill us based on free trade agreements and capitalism- the high point of the Libertarian. We can’t ignore the enemy while embracing it’s gross national product (oil)…pacifying enemies with carrot sticks of money and diplomacy no longer work. Until Libertarian’s GET this, they don’t stand a chance at ever being taken seriously.

First via The Jawa Report.

There were some other youtube videos that were very similar to this.. I’ll see if I can find them. But this one pretty much sums up the Muslim stance…

Next via The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:

What a wonderful analogy of what is going on in the Dhimmicratic Party as they tear themselves apart supporting the “Black” candidate and the “woman” candidate….

Sorry to report this news clip…

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview on Wednesday that if elected president she would push for a universal health care plan that would limit what Americans pay for health insurance to no more than 10 percent of their income, a significant reduction for some families.

Yes, but it’s also a significant increase for some of us who aren’t of the high income class people. Oh but wait…I forgot…she’s not about FAIR really. She’s about fair to her well defined idea of who is poor. The rest of us can cough up extra cash to cover these people. It used to be about shared risks. Now it’s about shared paid equal access. One only has to look at MA Health Care to see how this idea sounds good but doesn’t work. At all. The ten percent has already turned into twice that amount, and now businesses are going to be taxed and fined more as well….and they still can’t afford their own mandated health care for everyone.

Cross Posted @ Michael’s