Archive for 2008

I BLAME HILLARY: 13% of registered voters think Obama is a Muslim.

UPDATE: Reader Ernest Gudath: “Sounds right. That’s about the same number who think Elvis is alive.” It’s probably fewer than believe that Bush planned 9/11. But the folks pushing the Obama-as-Muslim idea haven’t had as much time to work.

MORE ON THE D.C. GUN-BAN CASE, FROM U.S. NEWS:

Dick Heller, a longtime resident of the District of Columbia, carries a handgun for his job as a private security guard. But at the end of his shift, he packs up the .38 revolver and stashes it in a vault. He would like to keep a gun for protection at his Capitol Hill home, where he has endured the sound of gunfire for years. But he can’t, because D.C. law forbids it. “They give me a gun to protect them,” he says of the government, “but I’m a second-class citizen when I finish work.”

Actually, you were a second-class citizen in their eyes before. You were just allowed to have a gun to protect the first-class citizens.

WHY DON’T EUROPEANS Reproduce?

IT’S NOT MICHAEL JORDAN: “Who is the procurer of prostitutes from Chicago who is mentioned anonymously in an unsealed FBI affidavit filed by the feds detailing operations of the Emperors Club, a sex-for-hire shop that allegedly ensnared embattled New York. Gov. Eliot Spitzer?” Well, that’s a relief.

THE INTERNET IS FOR PORN, not voting. Yeah, why sully it with politics?

AT TAXPROF, comparing the Clinton and Obama tax plans: “Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both propose significant changes to the tax code that would add to its complexity. His plan emphasizes income inequality, while hers seeks to change Americans’ behavior.”

THE TSA RESPONDS on its MacBook Air cluelessness. Don’t TSA guys have an obligation to be up to date on laptop technology — at least to the degree of being aware of stuff that’s hyped as much as the Macbook Air was?

DYNO-TESTING the new Nissan GT-R.

ABC NEWS: Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11. “Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing ‘God Bless America’ but ‘God damn America.'” Suddenly, this stuff — which has been around the blogosphere for a while — has big-media legs.

UPDATE: Via Katie Granju, a PDF scan of the National Enquirer article on Obama. As I mentioned before, there’s nothing as explosive as the above in the Enquirer piece, but a lot of people will see the sensational cover. I suspect the hand of Clinton-pal Ron Burkle behind the Enquirer coverage, but that doesn’t account for the ABC story.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Roger Simon thinks Barack has some explaining to do. “As we all know, we don’t choose our family, but Obama chose this racist demagogue as his pastor for decades. It’s not funny.”

MORE: Still more here.

AND MORE: Another observation from a reader: “Obama’s people are calling Ferraro racist, but he’s listening to this stuff in church?”

INDIAN TRIBE fights unionization: ‘The position of this tribe is that the National Labor Relations Act does not apply to Indian tribes and the National Labor Relations Board does not have jurisdiction, and, that being the case, we don’t believe we have to adopt an ordinance that allows union organizing to occur. The ordinance the tribe adopted prohibits union organizing.”

IS THIS SCREWY OR WHAT? Obama gets no net gain after Mississippi win. If I were John McCain, I’d be asking why the party that put together these primary rules thinks it can run a health-care plan. Or the country . . . .

NOW IT’S OBAMA’S TURN: SOME UGLY JEREMIAH WRIGHT VIDEO: “Sure does feel like we’re plunging into the abyss tonight.”

WHAT HILLARY HAS IN COMMON WITH RICK SANTORUM: “A large percentage of Pennsylvania voters dislike both of them.”

RACE EMERGES AS ISSUE in Democratic campaign.

UPDATE: It’s not just race, though: “The whole thing appears to be hitting a nerve for some women, who see it as a replay of the ‘experienced, qualified woman passed over by slick male newcomer deemed “promising”‘ scenario.”