He Who Walks on Water


My inner masochist led me to watch what I knew would be a nauseating slobberfest over Barack Hussein Obama, but even I was unprepared for what I saw this morning on the revolving door for democrats and the dinomedia otherwise known as ABC. There, on Good Morning America, was former Clinton apparatchik George Stephanopoulos, followed by former “objective journalist,” Linda Douglass, actually introduced as such by Chris “my dad was the dem governor of New York and could also read a TelePrompTer really well like Obama” Cuomo, the whole thing presided over by the unctuous Ms. Fake Sincerity herself, Diane Sawyer. This is just the beginning. Please don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I didn’t see the Messiah’s speech, but I will watch some of the cable shows where I’m sure I’ll be force fed more of it than anyone should be subjected to. And these libs are always whining about torture …

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The hysterical response of Barack Obama and his always amusing band of slobbering media flacks over President Bush’s speech to the Knesset yesterday was not surprising. I’ll take that back. OF COURSE, they were apoplectic when the president spoke of “the false comfort of appeasement.” The blatant use of the “a” word to accurately characterize what they like to call “remaking America’s image in the world” sends them into orbit. It is yet another example of the undeniable truth: if you want to enrage a liberal, don’t lie about them. They spend enough time lying about themselves for it to have any impact. No, if you want to enrage a liberal, tell the truth about them. Still, even for this bunch, this was over the top.

Predictable or not, I found it hilarious to watch democrat apparatchiks, along with the democrats who haven’t run for office (that would be Obama’s MSM cult) express their anger over the president’s “deeply offensive comparison” (Hillary), which was “outrageous,” “ridiculous” “bull***t and “malarkey” (Joe Biden) which was a “probable swipe at Barack Obama” (that news hag on MS-NBC whose dad was Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy guru, which should disqualify anyone in the family from being taken seriously about anything if you ask me). The real side-splitting stuff came when a couple of these pinheads suggested that this statement by the president was a gift to the Obama campaign because it “elevated” him to the level of having a foreign policy debate with President Bush, which they characterized as roughly equivalent to being invited to challenge Michael Moore to a situp contest. Victory is assured. This “Bush the idiot stepped in it again!” was the most humorous part. That and listening to MS-NBC’s David Schuster pronounce Neville Chamberlain “ne-VILL’ Chamberlain.”

Mr. Not Ready for Prime Time himself expressed his sadness over the “false political attack” launched against him by the president. Don’t you love it when people try to cop that whole “I’m far too dignified and hyper-intelligent to ever allow a mentally-challenged ignoramus to upset me. I just feel sad and sorry for the poor chump” routine? I watched the speech a few times, and maybe I missed something, but I didn’t hear the president mention Wonderboy. Of course, I can understand why he and anyone else might get that impression given that BHO has consistently expressed his desire to play patty-cake with every America-hating dictator he can find. Sen. Obama (D-Hamas) loves the image of the International Man of Peace, who will follow in the footsteps of his democrat predecessor, the King of the Useful Idiots, Jimmy Carter, figuratively and literally, if he becomes president, surrendering to our enemies in the hope that they will love us, going hat in hand to visit our enemies, who will no doubt struggle to stifle their laughter while listening to him try to reason with them. There is the possibility that the pompous gasbag could bore them to death, but I don’t think we should hold out hope for that.

The president’s statement was simply a mirror that forced the democrats to face the hideous reality that is their collective white-flag waving puss. I’m not surprised that they recognized themselves.

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This morning’s news reminded me again of the consequences of government-sanctioned racism, otherwise known as “affirmative action”: the whiny sense of entitlement, the enormous chip on the shoulder, the need to pretend that the mediocre are really the most excellent among us. The reminder came in the person of the poster girl for the above-referenced characteristics, Michelle “how am I supposed to pay for ballet lessons on my lousy $300,000 a year salary?” Obama. Malignant Michelle wants everyone to know that it’s time to change the subject and stop talking about the Church of the Black Panther that her politician husband used to help launch his career in Chicago, and do you know why? Think for a second. These are liberals we are talking about, remember. Why else? For the children, of course! Yesterday in Indianapolis, she said that talking about the racist, Black Liberation rev doesn’t do anything for her children’s education. I think that’s all taken care of, Mrs. O. Don’t they attend the University of Chicago lab school, an expensive private school? I don’t know how you manage to afford it in this mean country!

Here’s the video.

When the libs pull out the “for the children” card, you know their critics are on to something. Anyone who buys that baloney He Who Walks on Water was trying to peddle on Tuesday, that he didn’t know what Rev. Wright was all about, must also believe in the Tooth Fairy. He disinvited him to this presidential announcement. Then on Tuesday, he just dissed him. Six weeks ago in Philadelphia, Obama said Rev. Wright was like family, and I guess he meant it. After all, if you can throw your grandma under the bus, anyone is fair game, no?

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On March 18, Barack Obama (D-Hamas) said “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.” Now, suddenly, today based on the speech that his spiritual advisor/mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave yesterday to the National Press Club, has disowned, disavowed, and just generally dissed the man, saying:

“The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe they ended up giving comfort to those who prey on hate.”

The person I saw yesterday, and Friday night on Bill Moyers’ show, was definitely not the person I saw screeching “God damn America!” and “Barack knows what it’s like to live in country controlled by RICH WHITE PEOPLE!!!” Yesterday Jeremiah Wright seemed to be having a veritable lucid interval compared with the raving lunatic Obama kept by his side for 20 years. He appeared almost rational the last three days, as opposed to the way he appeared behind the pulpit.

Senator, what changed? In your statement severing ties with the man who mentored you and helped facilitate your political career, you mentioned Rev. Wright’s praise of wackjob/anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. You mean the guy your church gave an award to in December of last year? Are you suggesting that you didn’t know about that either? You didn’t know that your pastor blamed the United States for 9/11–”AMERICA’S CHICKENS have come home to roost!!!”–in much more virulent terms than he did when he reaffirmed that opinion yesterday? You never heard his claim that the evil racist American government created the AIDs virus to kill black people? Apparently, there was a lot about this guy that Mr. Good Judgement didn’t know. Yet he was a member of the church for 20 years, was married by Rev. Wright, who also baptized his children. Senator, WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?

I think that the BHO Kool-Aid drinkers, the emotionally-driven Cult of the Personality crowd who couldn’t tell you at gun point what position Obama has on the issues, will be placated by this blatantly expedient, hasty 180 by their guy. The apparatchiks, who share Jeremiah Wright’s opinion of our country, will spin this speech as putting the matter of Obama’s anti-American world view to rest. Nothing to see here. Move on. This bitter clinger doesn’t see it that way. I agree with what Sen. Obama said Sunday during that kid glove appearance on Fox News Sunday: his pastor’s views are an a legitimate political issue, as his relationship with unrepentant former terrorists and current America haters Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Repeating: connect the dots, people.

Apparently the thing that most irked BHO was that Wright claimed that Obama’s previous half-assed denunciations of Wright were politically motivated. That was the last straw. Dare I point out once again that the way to really anger a liberal is to tell the truth about him?

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During last Sunday’s Democrat debate on CNN, our own junior senator, the prenatural Barack Hussein Obama, declared even asking the question about whether English should be the official language of our country to be “divisive.” You see, in the lofty realm in which he operates, there’s no room for any of that pesky “partisan bickering,” otherwise known as serious discussion of important issues. That would require an admission that there is another possible solution to the many serious problems that liberals already know how to fix. They’ve got the answers. All they need is your money and your cooperation, which they hope they can obtain with a minimum amount of coercion. That’s what he means by his stock in trade, that “different kind of politics,” “bipartisan” and free of “cynicism,” made so much more palatable with a good healthy helping of white guilt.

Last night, during the U.S. Senate’s discussion of amendments to this mess of an immigration amnesty bill, Senator Lindsey “John McCain, Jr” Graham, had enough. After He Who Walks on Water introduced his amendment, which would have sunsetted the proposed point system in the bill, which gives visa preference to those with education and work skills, rather than based on having relatives living in the U.S. That change is on the labor unions’ wish lists, and just last Friday, Barack told the Culinary Workers in Las Vegas, that he was in solidarity with them on this issue. “The people who came through Ellis Island–nobody was testing them to see if, you know, they were Ph.D.s in physics,”he said, mentioning the one group of Ph.D.s who don’t vote overwhelmingly for liberal democrats.

The kerfuffle is being reported by the 20th century media, but just that, not the inside story. That’s why you come to the Illinois Review. Here’s the backstory: Barry Hussein was pandering to the unions, hoping to cut into John “I Feel Pretty” Edwards’ support, and using this amendment to do it. In other words—I hope that you are sitting down—playing partisan politics, and taking a page out of the playbook of one of his political mentors, Dick “Eddie Haskell” Durbin, who learned a long time ago that you need to act one way and say certain “moderate” things when you’re down in the living room with Ward and June (the average voter) and only reveal your genuine extremist self when you’re upstairs in the bedroom with Wally and the Beav (Chuckie Schumer and Teddy Kennedy).

Lindsey Graham called him out, saying the amendment would undercut “everybody over here who’s walked the plank and told our base, ‘You’re wrong,’ so when you’re out on the campaign trail, my friend, tell them about why we can’t come together. This is why.”

Barack’s amendment didn’t pass, which he knew it wouldn’t, but he can still tell the union thugs that he’s got their backs. He’ll still tell you that he’s above politics, but then, you never believed that anyway. As for Sen. Graham, let this be a lesson to you. When liberal democrats tell you that they want to be “bipartisan,” they mean they want YOU to be “bipartisan,” as in shut up, submit and pay up.

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There is a certain irony in the mainstream media blackout on Senator Barack Obama’s latest gaffe: mistaking the word “flack,” as in “to serve as a public relations agent,” something that they do on a regular basis for the senator, and “flak,” from the German Fliegerabwehrkanonen, a military term referring to anti-aircraft guns. In their zeal to conceal Barack Hussein’s complete lack of familiarity with anything remotely connected to things military, which during a time of war might cause voters a bit of concern, the media are once again flacking for He Who Walks on Water.

Perhaps, given silence about this story—cue the cricket sounds–you have no idea what I’m talking about, so here’s some background. On Friday, John McCain called Barack Obama’s vote against the war funding supplemental tantamount to waving “a white flag to al Qaeda,” prompting the junior senator/Mount Rushmore-designate-in-waiting’s campaign to issue the following written excerpt from the speech he gave in Chicago:

“This country is united in our support for our troops, but we also owe them a plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else’s civil war. Governor Romney and Senator McCain clearly believe the course we are on in Iraq is working, but I do not. If there ever was a reflection of that it’s the fact that Senator McCain required a flack jacket, ten armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles by his side to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago.”

No doubt the Obama people were patting themselves on the back, imagining the nodding approval they were getting at Moveon.org house parties all across America, and thinking “we showed him.” There was only one problem, as the following response from McCain demonstrated:

“While Sen. Obama’s two years in the U.S. Senate certainly entitle him to vote against funding our troops, my service and experience combined with conversations with military leaders on the ground in Iraq lead me to believe that we must give this new strategy a chance to succeed because the consequences of failure would be catastrophic to our nation’s security.

“By the way, Senator Obama, it’s a ‘flak’ jacket, not a ‘flack’ jacket.”

Great smackdown. The only thing that would have made it better was reminding everyone of BHO’s promise not to play chicken with the troops and his embarrassing response to that debate question about two al Qaeda nuke attacks on U.S. cities, bandaids, Bactine and the First-Responder-in-Chief on the scene to direct the ambulances. Still, a very on target response by the former P.O.W.

So imagine my surprise when I read John McCormick’s report on the controversy in the dead tree version of the Chicago Tribune Saturday and read the quote from Obama’s speech:

“Senator McCain required a flak jacket, ten armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles by his side to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago for a photo op”

This sort of helpful cleanup by our mainstream media friends is truly touching. Remember when the CBS producer, troubled that after enduring a 3-minute John Kerry stream-of-consciousness brain durmp, she still didn’t have a usuable soundbite, offered him the chance for a do-over? I can’t help but note that only liberal democrats seem to be the beneficiaries of this sort of assistance.

Can you imagine what would have happened if President Bush had made this mistake? How many times would we be favored stories along these lines: “Bush, whose National Guard experience, or lack thereof, has been the subject of frequent controversy, and who notoriously appeared on the deck of that “Mission Accomplished” aircraft carrier in a flight suit in what some characterize an unfortunate stunt, mistook the word “flak,” relating to anti-aircraft guns with “flack,” a term referring to public relations. Critics suggest that this error is indicative of Bush’s lack of military experience.”

This latest coverup is another reminder that Barack Hussein Obama is complete media creation, notwithstanding his gaudy resume (“community organizer” a.k.a. paid trouble maker, lecturer at University of Chicago, sometimes inflated to “professor” in his statements and press releases, Illinois legislator and 2 whole years in the U.S. Senate!). The flacks have done and continue to do their job to prop up this empty suit, hoping that the public will not realize how truly dangerous it would be during a time of war to have an indecisive, crypto-socialist chomping at the bit to surrender and go on defense, cluelessly leading us down the path to another 9/11.

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Michelle Obama has been thinking about it for months, as have some of Barack Obama’s supporters. “It” is the threat of assassination. Thinking about it, but not worrying about it, the Missus assured us last February on “60 Minutes.” After all, “As a black man, Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” she said with resignation. Apparently, Mrs. Obama doesn’t realize that that’s impossible, at least in her neighborhood, since she lives in a gun-free utopia (read “mandatory victim zone”), the city of Chicago. She also seems to believe that white people can’t be shot. I hope she’s right. I’d feel a lot safer going into certain neighborhoods at night. Talk about your “white skin privilege.” Since Barry is half-white, maybe if she’s right and he does get shot going to the gas station, God forbid, it will only be a flesh wound.

Like Michelle Obama, I believe in things you can’t see like the WSPS (White Skin Protection Shield) and of course, the Tooth Fairy. Not really! Like I almost believe Barack the Hack needs Secret Service Protection because of some mysterious, undefined “threat.” Here are the obvious reasons:

Hillary has it, and it makes her look like she’s already the president. Barack Hussein can’t have that, especially after looking not ready for prime time in that debate last week against Hillarita. It was the man against the boy, and I mean that just the way it sounds. I’m sure that when Barry responded to a question about nuclear attacks on two American cities by talking about first responders and Mrs. C responded with words like “retaliate,” all the Chicago machine pols on his staff had mini-strokes. Talk about sounding smooth down there like a Ken doll! It’s even more embarrassing when the only girl on the stage has the biggest set of cajones. So to make up for his perceived (and genuine) lack of experience, he wants to work on his image. The Secret Service agents are the perfect prop.

What better way to keep the white guilt ginned up than to darkly suggest that he is a potential assassination target by citing supposed “hate speech” on wacko web sites? By that measure, every conservative in America should have Secret Service protection, given the level of seething rage on leftwing moonbat websites. That’s not the point, though. The point is to subtly remind everyone that BHO is a target because he’s BLACK. Is too, no matter what Al Sharpton says.

To buttress his image an a Kennedyesque figure, a la JFK or Bobby Kennedy. They were assassinated. He must be just like them!

Speaking of shootings, is it just me or does anyone else find it ironic that Barack Obama, a supporter of not only rigorous gun control, but also of putting anyone who has had any treatment for mental illness on a watch list, was protected by private security guards? Ironic, yes, but not a surprise for this son of the Daley machine. King Richard has his armed security, authorized to carry firearms in the city of Chicago, where guns are banned because, you see, unlike the little people, he, BHO, and other politicians need protection. Where would the rest of us be without them? Did you just say “better off?” Bite your wicked tongue.

If you need more persuading that this is political theater, here’s two words for you: Dick Durbin. Yes, Eddie Haskell was behind this whole charade from the git-go. If that doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.

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People say daytime TV is an intellectual wasteland, a slough of ignorance which perfectly illustrates the old adage that ‘empty barrels make the most noise.’ I must admit I have feared the loss of precious IQ points from watching “The View,” something that I can’t guarantee hasn’t happened, but I did learn something yesterday on daytime TV, something that could save lives, on the “Oprah” show. It involves keeping guns out of the hands of mental defectives, something that gun grabbing Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and the NRA agree on.

No less an authority than He Who Walks on Water himself thinks that’s a good idea.
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After the Virginia Tech shootings, Barack Hussein Obama said “If we know that he got mental health services, then there should be some way of preventing somebody like that from buying any kind of weapon.” I think that by “he” Barack the Hack was referring to the Virginia Tech murderer, Mr. Cho, and as usual, when he’s spewing his trademark rhetorical vomit, he hasn’t bothered to think through the implications of what he’s saying. This is a guy who opposes violating the so-called privacy rights of foreign terrorists by listening to their phone calls or allowing the FBI to discover that they’re checking out the Anarchist’s Cookbook from the local library. He’s so adamant about preserving the “right of privacy” that guarantees “a woman’s right to choose” that while he was in the Illinois Senate, he voted “present” on a law that mandated medical treatment for an infant lucky enough to survive a botched abortion. Now he wants the government to put everyone who got treatment for mental illness on some sort of watch list? This is the sort of idea that will send his buds at the ACLU to their computers to send out hysterical press releases promising a slide down a slippery slope ending with involuntary lobotomies for anyone who does anything the least disturbing like or skulking around the neighborhood without saying hello to the neighbors, or watching “Dancing with the Stars.”

The other problem with Dazzling Deception’s test is that there’s a huge and potentially very dangerous loophole here. He wants to stop the nutcases who got treatment from getting guns. What about the ones who don’t but who obviously desperately need it? Consider the following profile: a hopelessly narcissistic, lying charmer with delusions of grandeur. He leads a double life, one in which he was sometimes a happily married family man with a beautiful wife and a two-year old daughter and another in which he engaged in anonymous gay sex at rest stops. This secretive sociopathic creep is eventually exposed when he is sued for sexual harassment and is forced to come clean, or as closed to clean as possible for a sleazeball like this character. He holds a nauseating press conference to confess and reinvent himself as a victim/”gay American,” with his stunned wife standing beside him, a sickly smile pasted on her face.
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She claims that she was shocked find out that what she thought was a storybook life was a lie, even though in retrospect there were more red flags than May Day in Havana. She never went to his parent’s home, even though they lived only 5 miles away, and he forbade her having any contact with his daughter from his first marriage. By now, you probably recognize that I’m talking about Jim McGreevey, the former governor of New Jersey. Congresswoman McCarthy, you really need to make sure that this guy doesn’t get his hands on a gun, don’t you think? No, he’s not a mental patient—yet. Trust me, if his loved ones have the sense that God gave geese, they’ll see that he gets some help STAT.
Speaking of McGreevey, is it my imagination, or do more of these sociopathic goofballs have a “D” after their names? Whether it’s Rest Stop Jimmy, Gavin Newsome, Mel “did I win the lottery? Reynolds, or the man who pardoned Mel Reynolds, the Sociopath-in-Chief, Bill Clinton, so many times we learn that democrat “rising stars” are not what they seem. MMM …a rising star who is not what he seems …who does that sound like?

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As you no doubt know by now, Barack Hussein Obama aka He Who Walks on Water aka Dazzling Deception did not disappoint when he graced the Left coast with his presence the last couple of days. He walked away with a cool $1.3 million to use in his campaign to transform not only politics, but our country. In a way, isn’t this the perfect place for him? After all, we just found out that he wrote a “memoir,” the pretentiously titled Dreams of My Father, a Story of Race and Inheritance[/tag]—try to be a tad more self-important, why don’t you–which purported to describe the moving and life-changing learning experience he had working with the residents of Chicago housing project Altgeld Gardens, but he can’t even remember any of the names of the special people who supposedly changed his life. Are you kidding me? No, this isn’t exactly plagiarism, but Joe Biden has got to be asking “what’s this guy got that I haven’t got?” When Barack makes stuff up, it’s greeted with swoons instead of the skepticism and even disgust it deserves. When Joe tries to borrow a few words from some obscure British guy, it’s all that. You know the answer, Joe. It’s all about the white guilt. Everyone knows that but for that, this narcissistic, navel-gazing screed wouldn’t have been published in the first place. He’s a phony. Why not be the darling of the land of make believe?

Now Barry’s new best friend, David Geffen, has stuck a stick in the hornet’s nest by stating the obvious about the Clintons; that is, that they lie. Stop the presses! The man-god is above our “small” politics, so he had to send one of his puny operatives out to say:

“We aren’t going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons and someone who was once one of their biggest supporters. It is ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln bedroom.”

Oh wait, I take it back. He’s not Mr. I-Deplore-The-Cynicism-of-Our-Negative-Politics after all. Here’s his shot at Hillary:

“It is also ironic that Senator Clinton lavished praise on Monday and is fully willing to accept today the support of South Carolina State Sen. Robert Ford, who said if Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because ’he’s black.’”

He is? The MSM is going to have to continue to debate that ad nauseum for another year.

Stay tuned. This will be fun.

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For once I agree with the 5th column media: Barack Hussein Obama is more authentic than the other members of the Rug Puller Party aka the September 10 Party aka—wait for it—yes, the Democrat Party. His alleged lack of guile is a complete pile of steaming manure, of course. His gift is the ability to appear to be speaking profundities full of substance when in fact he blathers on with vague generalities and platitudes that can’t withstand the most cursory scrutiny. Still, over the weekend, his mask slipped off when he said the war “should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and on which we’ve now spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”
”I was actually upset with myself when I said that, because I never use that term,” Obama said. Gee, I wonder how it slipped out this time from the articulate lips of Dazzling Deception. Actually, what Obama said in his statement of regret was also quite accurate. He never uses the term, but that doesn’t mean that he never has the thought. The simple fact of the matter is that Sen. Obama simply said what all the phony “we don’t support the war, but we support troops crowd” are always thinking.

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