No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for March 18th, 2008

Obama – “I don’t want to be an enabler”…Uh huh!

by @ 22:37. Filed under Politics - National.

Barack Obama has yet to explain why, when he knew about Jeremiah Wright’s hateful speech, he remained a part of Wright’s congregation for 20 years.   Maybe he just has a tin ear for hateful speech?   Maybe he has a heart larger than any of us and is able to forgive heinous comments that you and I would recoil at?

Apparently not.  

Take a look at this video of Barack commenting on the Imus’  remark about female basketball players.


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In case you missed it or don’t want to watch the link, here are the relevant questions and Obama’s answer:

David Gregory – "¦Do you think (Imus) should be fired?

Barack Obama – I don’t think MSNBC should be carrying the kinds of hateful remarks that Imus uttered the other day.   He has a track record of making those kinds of remarks"¦

David Gregory"¦will you or would you be a guest on his show in the future?

Barack Obama – no I would not"¦.he was fine when I was on that show.   I don’t want to be an enabler or be encouraging in any way of the kind of programming that results in the unbelievably offensive statements that were made just a few days ago.

So….Obama believes appearing on another Imus show, a show that Barack says has a track record for hateful remarks would be enabling or encouraging that kind of behavior.

Wow!   1 appearance or 20 years, 1 appearance or 20 years, 1 appearance or 20 years, 1 appearance or 20 years.

Revisions/extensions (11:24 pm 3/18/2008, steveegg) – Attempted to fix the embedded video.

Mandatory YouTubage

by @ 21:44. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – Cuffy via doubleplusundead)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I didn’t exactly hear a specific repudiation of the post-9/11 sermon from Rev. Wright…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8[/youtube]

…by Barack Hussein Obama today.

Is the NRE Spring Hill campaign about to backfire?

by @ 18:18. Filed under Politics - National.

Cross-posting from the TownHall version

That’s pretty much what Shoebox is saying in stating we are going to see a Clinton/Obama ticket on the Dem end. I’m not yet quite sold on that inevitability, either as a ticket or as the next occupants of the Oval Office and the Naval Observatory. At this point, all that ticket is guaranteed to do is prevent the collapse of the Democratic Party that the various campaigns to keep Clinton alive, from MKH’s efforts to Rush Limbaugh’s quite-successful Operation Chaos to my own Spring Hill campaign, was designed to bring about.

It definitely is (I am not ready to say “was”) a high-risk/high-reward effort. I can’t speak for anybody else, but my hope is that things would get so caustic, the Nightmare Ticket would not happen and a major core constituency would take November off. Unlike Shoebox, I believe things are that caustic, though like him, I doubt that we will see John Edwards or Bill Richardson on the ticket for much the same reason he believes that ticket is inevitable. Even at that, most of those on that short list have the same “racialism” problem, only that would be in the open.

If the Nightmare Ticket does happen, I am counting on so many panders to the left being made that it would be rather difficult for them to return to the center. Fortunately, Obama made that job a bit harder with today’s speech. I’ll also state that neither we nor the middle were Obama’s target audience. Ed Morrissey believes it was the superdelegates. I humbly disagree; they’re looking for electability in the general election, and on that front, this speech sure seems sorely lacking. Rather, I believe it was to reunite the various colors of the radical wing of the Dems behind him, the general election be damned.

That speech, and the reaction to it, also plays into something Shoebox put up yesterday on Obama losing Generation Y. Because The Hammer is a Gen Y’er, I’ll point in the general direction of her take on that speech. The $192,000,000 (or whatever is going to be spent on the general election) question is whether the Gen Y’ers and the middle are simply going to be turned off to Obama or turned off to politics entirely. If it simply is to Obama, the election will be John McCain’s for the taking regardless of his missteps with conservatives and regardless of whether the Dems heal themselves between now and November.

If, however, the trend of the middle to disappear from politics entirely continues, it will be a “base turnout” election. If there is the Nightmare Ticket or “Son of Nightmare” Ticket, the various portions of the Dem base will be united, the middle will be pretty much out of play, and it will be up to McCain to actually heal his rift with conservatives to come out on top. Unfortunately, for every step McCain takes to heal that rift, he takes one to reopen it.

I haven’t said it enough, but I would be remiss if I didn’t say I thank God I got him blogging. Very short story – he was a regular commenter over at Michelle Malkin’s place, and stumbled into a few of my debate liveblogs from my pingbacks to her liveblogs. Eventually, I recognized just how good he was and he eventually agreed to try blogging as a guest-blogger. I’ll say he took to it like a duck to water; he’s bailed me out of a couple of blogging funks I’ve been in, and he’s improved the discussion here a lot.

The “Dream Team” is now guaranteed!

by @ 16:47. Filed under Politics - National.

WARNING: What you are about to read could cause black helicopters to hover over your house.   Read with extreme caution!

To steal a style from Glenn Beck:

What you need to know:

Barack Obama’s implosion over Jeremiah Wright has guaranteed that the Democratic ticket will include both Barack and Hillary.
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Congress calls for the end of DC’s gun ban

by @ 16:24. Filed under Guns, Politics - National.

Matt Lewis, among others, noted that John McCain joined a rather extraordinary amicus brief on District of Columbia v. Heller. It is rather extraordinary for a couple of reasons. First, it is extraordinary in its conclusion:

In sum, historically Congress has interpreted the Second Amendment as recognizing the right of law-abiding individuals to keep and bear arms. This Court should give due deference to the repeated findings over different historical epochs by Congress, a co-equal branch of government, that the Amendment guarantees the personal right to possess firearms.

The District’s prohibitions on mere possession by law-abiding persons of handguns in the home and having usable firearms there are unreasonable per se. No purpose would be served by remanding this case for further fact finding or other proceedings. This Court should affirm the decision below, Parker v. District of Columbia, 478 F.3d 370 (D.C. Cir. 2007).

That in itself is a rather stunning and refreshing change from the official position of the executive branch, which in essence is that, while there is an individual Second Amendment right, all existing gun controls, including the DC gun ban, do not run afoul of that.

The second is who else joined this brief. At the top is Vice President Dick Cheney, who joined in his capacity as President of the Senate. I guess that blows the notion of him actually running the country out of the water. There are also a smattering of Democrats, some of whom I would never have guessed would say that an outright ban on handguns is unreasonable.

Specifically, those in the Wisconsin delegation that signed on are Senator Russ Feingold and Representatives Steve Kagen, Ron Kind, Tom Petri, Paul Ryan and Jim Sensenbrenner (the latter 3 I would expect as they are what remains of the Republican half of the delegation).

Hey Doyle. Hey Decker. You mopes listening?

Is this “Change” we can believe in?

by @ 13:56. Filed under Politics - National.

Talking constantly about change, I wonder if this is the kind of change Barack Obama refers to:

Regarding his knowledge of Jerimiah Wright’s sermon content:

Huffington Post Blog  3/14/08

The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.

In Barack’s “speech on race” 3/18/08

Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.

Regarding funds he received from Rezko:

From the Chicago Sun-Times June, 2007

Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle. Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s.

But seven months ago, Obama told the Sun-Times his “best estimate” was that Rezko raised “between $50,000 and $60,000” during Obama’s political career.

From the Politico  3/14/08

Obama’s acknowledgment that Rezko raised as much as $250,000 for earlier campaigns, initially made in an interview with The Chicago Tribune and confirmed later to Politico, came after a year-and-a-half-long trickle of admissions about Rezko’s fundraising role and more than a month after Obama’s aides contended that they had identified and jettisoned all Rezko-linked cash. It also came as Rezko’s trial on corruption charges, underway in Chicago, brought increased scrutiny of Obama’s ties to the real estate developer, fast-food magnate and political insider.

Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama, seems to have a problem getting his arms around the facts!

Obama speech – live thread

by @ 9:16. Filed under Politics - National.

Even though I’m also on the Hot Air live thread, I may as well do one as well. I won’t guarantee the dignity lamp will remain lit; that depends on Barack Obama.

The Morning Scramble – 3/18/2008

by @ 8:49. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I don’t know if this is going to be a regular feature, but why not take some mandatory linkage out for a test spin? After all, what good is a feed reader with 150 or so blogs in it if I don’t share the love?

James Wigderson hates yard signs with a passion.
– Why? Uncle Fred found a yard sign without the “paid for by” text.
Weasel Zippers found some sanity in Jolly Old England as female Islamic doctors no longer can use their religion to hide behind their veils
Kevin Fischer points out the inanity of Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) position that in order to fix potholes, we have to raid the transportation fund that is designated to, among other things, fix potholes.
Tom McMahon shows off the best Pez dispenser evah (at least if you’re a guy).
Ragnar Danneskjold, R.I.N.O. Hunter, finds out John McCain still doesn’t get it on illegal immigration.
Jim Geraghty catches Hillary Clinton in a fish story.
Mark McNally breaks out in song on the Obama/Wright mess.
Mike points us to a great piece by Shelby Steele on the Obama/Wright mess.
– Continuing on the Obama theme, Bruce has a few questions.
Erick at RedState has the phrase of the day – Demasochist Party.
The American Pundit and Gabriel Malor both report on a 85-year-old story of melting Arctic ice. Yep, Gorebal Warming’s been around that long.
– Speaking of Gorebal Warming, Dean points out that bacteria pump out more carbon than we do.
Warner Todd Huston at Stop the ACLU has some good news on the “Fairness” Doctrine, at least for the next 10 months.
Alan Steinberg has the headline of the day – “Prices Going Up… Confidence in Government Going Down”.
Silent E is bucking for a fill-in gig for WSJ’s Best of the Web with his exposing of the Dumb Headline of the Day.
See-Dubya has some not-so-breaking news on the lack of conservatives in the LeftStreamMedia.
– There’s so many places to choose from for news on freshly-minted New York Governor David Paterson’s admission that he cheated on his wife (and that she cheated on him), but I’ll go with Slublog’s fingering of the water supply in Albany. Also, don’t miss the comments that flashy dug up.
– Speaking of New York, JammieWearingFool relays a report that the former governor was headed toward Swimmer territory in the alcohol department.
Skinbad does the math on Elliot Spitzer and Paul McCartney, and finds that it pays to pay by the day.
Rick Esenberg catches up on the flurry of ads in the Supreme Court race.
Rick Moran asks whether capitalism and hence conservatism is dead.
William Teach brings news that the UN doesn’t know what’s in its own “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.
Jib questions the wisdom of touting plans to be number two when by the time the structure in question is built, it will be no better than number four.
– You know sports doping is bad when Janet Evans catches a story on doping in German billiards.
– Since the idiots at Fox won’t have a new season of “24” until next January, the folks at Blogs4Bauer continue their strike replacement episodes with Episode 11.

Revisions/extensions (9:00 am 3/18/2008) – And one more I was going to add before the hamsters in the server briefly went on strike (let me put it this way; the dogs are happy now):
Gateway Pundit is offering a special on Wright’s Greatest Hits.

Roll bloat – more oppressor vs. oppressed

by @ 6:45. Filed under Politics, The Blog.

First, I have to give a shout-out to Free Whitewater. The proprietor, who goes by the nom de blog John Adams, has been rather controversial in local politics, so much so that the police chief of Whitewater, James Coan, with the blessing of City Manager Kevin Brunner, used city resources to try to unmask and silence Adams.

Needless to say, Messrs. Coan and Brunner, along with Whitewater Police Detective Tina Winger, have earned their departments not-exactly-honored spots on the Harrassers In Government portion of the roll for ignoring Article I, Section 3 of the Wisconsin Constitution.

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