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Palin: A Star is Born!

Posted by Bert Chapman on Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:07:36 AM
Sarah Palin's acceptance speech last night was awesome!  She ably described the values she lives by and how she would seek to implement those values into governmental policy.  Her speech demonstrated that she has a solid mastery of the problems affecting policymaking in Washington and was particularly effective in skewering Harry Reid as the personification of so many of those problems.  She also demonstrated a strong grasp of energy's economic and strategic importance that is far superior to anything Obama and Biden are intellectually capable of grasping.  For instance, Joe Biden was one of the five Senators in the early 70s who voted against construction of the Alaska pipeline.  Palin also denounced the scurrilous liberal media attacks against her and her daughter because she does not adhere to the abortionist and secularist worldview they consider proper for women entering the political arena.
 
In addition, she demonstrated a feisty resolve that was Thatcherian in its intensity and left no doubt that she has the intellectual capacity, communication skills, and moral courage necessary to assume presidential responsibilities if that becomes necessary.  I am particularly looking forward to seeing her debate Joe Biden in four weeks.  She will more than hold her own against plagiarizing Delaware blowhard.
While she will have to endure a lot of crap from the liberal media, I'm confident her faith, grit, and learning abilities will enable her to grow in confidence and her knowledge of governmental issues and frustrate the attempts of the media and liberal feminists to portray her as being "unqualified" for the presidency.  Last night's speech was a thunderous refutation to her imbecilic critics and a demonstration that a new star has appeared in conservative politics and in the American political constellation.
 
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Palin's Selection!

Posted by Bert Chapman on Friday, August 29, 2008 3:08:18 PM
Count me in as a conservative who is fairly excited about McCain's selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as GOP Vice-Presidential candidate!  Palin has a compelling personal story and comes across as an extremely genuine person whose life story will resonate with many people.  She is a solid social conservative, has a strong understanding of energy issues, and a demonstrated record has a reform minded conservative who has battled entrenched political forces within Alaska.  The only discordant note in her speech to the Dayton rally today was referring to the "glass ceiling" which is a bit of leftist feminist rhetoric she should avoid in future speeches.  She will need some additional tutoring in foreign affairs issues to go up against Biden, but I'm confident she'll be a quick study.  In fact, I'm looking forward to seeing her put Biden in his place when they debate.  She has been called "Sarah Barracuda" and I think she won't tolerate any bs from Biden.
 
Two particularly important points must be made about Palin's selection.  First, this will help reassure most Conservatives that McCain cares about our issues and is committed to implementing many conservative principles into his public policy including fiscal conservatism and governmental ethical reform.  The second, and most important point, is that it demonstrates to women that if they want to achieve real political power and maximum personal achievement that this is best accomplished by supporting conservative political and governmental principles.  Republicans treat women as individuals with unique God-given talents who can enrich the political and governmental process through their abilities.  Republicans recognize that individuals, instead of the government, enrich their communities, states, and nations.  Democrats, in contrast, treat women as pathetic victims who need constant governmental support to achieve personal goals. Democrats believe that increasing women's dependence on governmental structures is the way to maintain their political power base.  In contrast, Republicans seek to empower all individuals and their families regardless of their race, religious beliefs, or gender.
 
Palin will undergo intense scrutiny these next few months.  We can only hope and pray she's tough and resilient enough to weather the assaults against her from the Democrats and the liberal media.  Her compelling personal story should help her immensely as will her religious faith.  Sarah Palin has more credible leadership experience to be commander-in-chief than Barack Obama and far more wisdom.
Palin should emulate the example of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  An analysis of Thatcher said that some women politicians act like women and expect to be treated like women while other women politicans act like men but expect to be treated like women.  This assessment went on to mention that Margaret Thatcher acted like a man and expected to be treated like a man.  Hopefully, Sarah Palin will be inspired by Thatcher's example and conduct herself accordingly.  She has already made history and stands a credible chance to become America's first female Vice-President.  McCain's selection of her could be a critical factor if we are to be spared from a Barack Obama-Joe Biden Administration. 
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Sample Democratic Convention Daily Agenda

Posted by Bert Chapman on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:27:24 AM
9:00 AM Opening Invocation-Shirley Maclaine and her imaginary New Age Avatars
9:15 Nancy Pelosi-How to Keep Oil and Gas Prices High and Not Address America's Energy Problems
10:00 John Conyers-It's Time for Slavery Reparations and Other Irrelevant Criminal Justice Issues
10:45 Wiccan Prayer Observance
11:15 Plagiarism Seminar-Joe Biden will demonstrate how you can plagiarize a leftist British Political Leader's speech and still become
your party's vice-presidential nominee.  Sure to inspire current and future plagiarists!
12-2 Lunch at the place of your choice.  Be sure to avoid transfats, places that use sweatshop labor or products produced in sweatshops, avoid non-union, non-organic, patriarchal, racist, homophoboic, misognyistic, and military-industrial complex owned entities or subsidaries.
2:00 pm. Pretend to care about the poor rally.  Great opportunity to denounce Bush tax cuts!
2:30 Promoting carbon trading and other global warming delusions.  This session will teach delegates how to address environmental issues by imposing onerous legal, economic, and regulatory burdens on the poor and middle class.  Particular emphasis will be placed on developing the ability to use incendiary and vituperative rhetoric to denounce critics of Democratic environmental beliefs.
3:30-4:00 Break.  Should not be used for emitting a carbon trail.
4:00 Neville Chamberlain Appeasement Appreciation-This session will teach delegates how to appease Islamist terrorists by advocating continuing withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.  Delegates will be given the opportunity to adopt a Guantanamo terrorist and contribute to their financial and legal support during their incarceration.  Delegates contributing at premium level will get the opportunity to fly to Guantanamo to meet, greet, hug, console, and commiserate with their terrorists.  Those of a spiritual inclination may actually choose to "pray" with their terrorist adoptee.  (Not that we would allow this to happen in public schools.) or
4:00 Promoting Homosexuality Seminar-Learn how to promote gay "marriage", civil unions, bathhouses, and the transgendered lifestyle in your community, place of worship, library collections, museums  etc.
5:00 Oprah Winfrey Show.  The Oprah will be telecasting her show live at the convention center and help get us fired up for our messiah's acceptance speech later this week.
6:00-8:00 Dinner at the place of your choice.  Same lunchtime ideological and dietary conditions apply.
8:00 Comedic medley by Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson.  Extra special appearance by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
9:00 Bill and Hillary Clinton discuss political ethics with Tony Rezko
10:00 Featured speaker-Bill Ayers will discuss his "good old days" with the Weather Underground and how he and Barack are soulmates.
 
 
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Obama Picks Biden

Posted by Bert Chapman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 1:02:16 PM
My first response on hearing Obama picked Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate was "if you plagiarize enough you might get to be Vice-President."  Biden's first presidential run in 1988 went down in flames when it was revealed he had plagiarized one of his speeches with rhetoric used in a speech by then British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.  My next reaction is that by picking a Washington insider with 36 years in the Senate, that Obama is showing his own insecurities and destroying the remaining residue of his infantile rhetoric about "change we can believe in."  Joe Biden is an old-line liberal apparatchik who has received favorable treatment on a house sale from the influential credit card and banking industry in Delaware, a duplicitous demagogue who, while Senate Judiciary Committee chair in 1991, told Clarence Thomas, that he supported his confirmation than proceeded to try and stab him in the back, during the most sleazy confirmation battle in U.S. History.

Biden is a foul-mouthed undisciplined poltroon who has been an abysmal failure on the Democratic presidential campaign trail on two occasions.  None of the policies he's advocated for in his political career have improved the economic standards of anyone other than well-heeled liberals, he has no commitment to reducing spending or the size of government, he's a thorough going liberal including being a strong abortionist, and his much vaunted foreign policy acumen will not stand up against significant scrutiny.  He has criticized the war in Iraq without advocating credible alternatives to win the war.  His plan to partition Iraq by ethnic groups may have superficial appeal but it will not help that country achieve the cohesion it needs to be a stable part of the region let alone be able to contend against the dangerous menace a nuclear-armed Iran will pose to that region.  He has demonstrated no prescience on dealing with North Korea, a rising China and the threat it poses to Taiwan, he has failed to support Colombia in its battle against drug terrorists and the subversion against his government sponsored by Hugo Chavez, and has been timid in his response to Russian aggression against Georgia.  Do we really think such an individual has the foreign policy wisdom to advise Barack Obama?

 
It's hard to imagine Biden subordinating himself to Obama campaign prerogatives.  Obama's advisors better stock up on their favorite anti-stress or anti-ulcer medications over the next few months because they will need to consume lots of pills in response to Biden's frequent outbursts of verbal diarrhea.

McCain needs to pick a Vice-Presidential candidate who is a ferocious no holds barred debater who will know how to infuriate Biden when the Vice-Presidential debate is held.  The McCain campaign also needs to stress the danger of having an indiscreet and verbally imprudent demagogue a heartbeat away from the presidency.  Some Democratic politicos are portraying Obama's selection of Biden as a political masterstroke.  I think it reflects serious weakness and insecurity on Obama's part.  If Obama really wanted to  portray himself as the candidate of change he could have chosen someone like Virginia  Gov. Tim Kaine, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, or arguably, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh.  This selection shows that Obama is committed to the political objectives of the Washington liberal elite and that he is not some advocate for substantive policy change that will produce qualitatively better living standards, governance, heightened international respect, and increased national security for the U.S.

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No to Lieberman as McCain Running Mate!

Posted by Bert Chapman on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:30:06 PM
Tonight NBC News was anointing Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman as a potential running mate for John McCain.  Since NBC is part of the liberal dominated mainstream media, this is not surprising that they would want a non-Republican to serve as the 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate.  Lieberman is, by all accounts, an honorable man.  He is generally sound on national security and foreign policy issues.  Unfortunately, he is a Democrat to the core despite his support of McCain and his principled stands on the Iraq War and other national security issues!  He might even be a plausible Secretary of Defense or Secretary of Homeland Security.  However, is an enthusiastic supporter of scientifically dubious and economically injurious climate change policies such as carbon trading. Lieberman supports unrestricted abortion and has recently cosponsored legislation to extend domestic partner benefits to federal employees and their "partners."  Where in the Talmud did this supposedly orthodox Jew come up with such a contrarian theological dispensation to support such morally depraved lifestyles?

I hope McCain doesn't think selecting Lieberman  will transform the political landscape.  Does McCain think that shamelessly pandering the the liberal mainstream media will help him defeat Barack Obama?  Doesn't McCain realize he will need the wholehearted enthusiasm of conservatives to be successful in this year's campaign?  Choosing Lieberman is a slap in the face to all Republican candidates committed to a conservative vision of traditional moral values and fiscally prudent governmental spending.   If a President McCain dies we will have a Democratic President.  Talk about the mother of stealth political coups. Picking Lieberman could recreate a scenario like 1912 when the Republican vote was split between William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt producing a Woodrow Wilson presidency.  Conservatives would desert the GOP in significant quantities and we might as well hand Obama the White House keys and call off the entire campaign.

There are plenty of good conservatives McCain could pick as his running mate including Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, and Rob Portman.  McCain should remember he needs the commitment and resources of Republicans and conservative leaning independents if he is to win and if the country is to be spared the Obamination of a Barack presidency.


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Georgian Situation

Posted by Bert Chapman on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:39:35 PM
The situation in Georgia is tragic from a humanitarian standpoint but also signals that more ominous events may occur in the Eurasian security environment in the years to come.  Russia's relative security quiescence in the post-Cold War period has come to an end.  Flush with oil and natural gas money, encouraged by a U.S. that is preoccupied with Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, and emboldened by a dubious desire to protect Russian citizens in the "near abroad," Russia's leaders now are set on pursuing a more assertive role in international affairs.  Georgia's leaders probably overplayed their weak hand in taking aggressive measures against separatist forces in Abkazia and South Ossetia.  Unfortunately, since Georgia's not a part of NATO, its ability to carry out such operations against Russian interests is extremely limited and it's unlikely to receive more than rhetorical support from the U.S. and NATO countries.  Consequently, it looks like Georgia will lose a significant portion of its territory and its ability to defend its sovereignty against future Russian encroachments is limited.
History is repeating itself as Russia seeks to reassert control over territories that were once part of the Soviet Union.
 
The U.S. and its NATO allies should provide military aid to Georgia and work to accelerate Georgian integration into NATO.  We should also work to expel Russia from the G8 and possibly the International Monetary Fund.  We are entering an era of a more aggressive Russian bear thanks to Putin and Medvedev's determination to reassert Russian nationalism and traditional Russian authoritarianism.  Some commentators have drawn comparisons with Munich and other examples of Western appeasement of Nazi Germany.  Such parallels have some validity but are premature at this time.  However, firm and substantive response is needed by Western democracies if we are to avoid repeating the policy failures responsible for causing World War II to break out in Europe.
 
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Obama as Community Organizer

Posted by Bert Chapman on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:17:29 PM
Barack Obama makes a big deal that he began his career as a "community organizer" in Chicago.  That term "community organizer" sounds innocuous like he was a social worker or some other benevolent philanthropist.  The truth is not quite so idyllic.  In leftist political rhetoric, individuals who are community organizers attempt to stir up rebellion against what they regard as unjust entrenched authorities.  This can usually take the form of agitating for rent control, protesting alleged police brutality against criminal elements, demanding greater welfare benefits or other forms of governmental financial assistance, and generally taking the view that members of ethnic minority groups are helpless victims unable to make rational or intelligence decision on their own and, consequently,  in need of greater governmental intervention in their lives.  Militantly radical left wing extortion groups like Association of Community Reform Now (ACORN) represent the evil organizational personification of "community organizers" that Obama romanticizes. Is this the "change" Barack Obama wants to impose on America?

What Obama should have done in  his community organizing days was encouraging people in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods to have their kids stay in school and apply themselves to their education.  He also should have encouraged them to refrain from using illicit drugs and alcoholic beverages, and to avoid sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage.  Engaging in intelligent and moral lifestyles is the true way to advance one's economic fortunes and sociological prospects instead of agitating for greater governmental control of your life and money.  Obama should have advocated that the neighborhoods he was trying to "organize" receive greater police patrolling and that criminals face tougher penalties.

Of course, we all know that having individuals taking responsibility for their lives and actions is antithetical to the political power base and intellectual ideological worldview of statist liberals like Barack Obama and his cohorts in the Congressional Black Caucus and with the preponderance of Democratic Party activists.  Rather than bringing about real change in Democratic Party thinking on social policy, Obama wants to resurrect LBJ's Great Society programs which have proven to be an unmitigated disaster for American social policy including the family life of Black America as evidenced by high illegitimate birth rates, absent fathers, and a disproportionate number of black males residing in our prisons.  If Obama had the courage to consistently raise this issue and actually advocated policies which would change this situation, he would justifiably be regarded as a transformative political leader.  However, don't expect someone who compliantly listened to sermons from "Rev." Jeremiah Wright for decades and who hasn't demonstrated the rhetorical courage to denounce Jesse Jackson to have the intellectual, political, or moral courage to take such a step.

Community organizer Barack Obama is just another leftist political apparatchik who is congenitally incapable of articulating a vision or pursuing and implementing policies which will improve the lives of Americans regardless of their social or economic status.  He will remain content to espouse his vapid mantra of "change we can believe in" while advocating statist policies which have proven to be miserable failures in the United States and other countries around the world.

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Obama Purdue's "National Security" Charade

Posted by Bert Chapman on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:54:20 AM
Barack Obama's traveling liberal national salvation show is coming to Purdue University today.  He's going to be part of a "forum" on emerging national security threats hosted by the Purdue Students for Barack Obama chapter and has invited guests who are not going to ask him pointed or unpleasant questions about his own abysmal national security policy record or understanding of national security policy issues.  Prominent associates of Obama who will be at this gathering include Indiana's junior Senator Evan Bayh and former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn who's actual knowledge of national security issues is highly overrated despite his long-service as Senate Armed Services Committee chairman.  Nunn is viewed by the liberal national security cognoscenti as something of a oracle although he should be best remembered for the shabby way he treated John Tower during the former Texas' Senator's nomination for Secretary of Defense during 1989.
 
Today's Purdue gathering will be a ritualized orgy of blaming President Bush for everything that's wrong with the world and praising the dangerously naive Obama as the solution to everything that's wrong in the world.  It's even possible that some of Obama's invited sycophantic acolytes in the audience will proclaim him humanity's messiah and the new prince of peace.  (Better not tell Michelle Obama that cause it will shoot her ethnic victimization story to bits!)  This gathering will not address real national security issues such as how the surge in Iraq is working; how to effectively fight and defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan; how to maintain effective intelligence against terroorists and other national security threats facing the U.S.; how to develop effective defenses against information warfare threats from China or other hostile entities; how to deal with China's growing military power; how to strengthen the effectivness of our nuclear weapons deterrent; how to constrain courts hellbent on giving Islamist terrorists the constitutional rights of law-abiding American citizens; how to cope with the increasing assertiveness of the Russian military who's finances have drastically improved thanks to increased oil and natural gas revenues, and other subjects.  No this is another Potemkin village exercise designed to portray Barack Obama as the benificent and prescient leader who will usher in the new millenium of change and other left wing vapidities.  We don't want to have anybody with the effrontery to show that the liberal anointed emperor has no clothes and doesn't have a clue about the Hobbesian nature of international security issues in the opening decade of the 21st century.
 
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New Yorker Obama Cover Cartoon

Posted by Bert Chapman on Monday, July 14, 2008 11:58:25 AM
The New Yorker is not a magazine I or most conservatives normally read.  Given it's geographic publication location, its political views reflect the generally prevailing infantile leftist babblings of the Big Apple.  This periodical's one redeeming attribute is its cartoons which satirize aspects of living in New York City and political issues including the Secularist Leftist Messiah known as Barack Obama.  The cover of the newest issue, which is accessible through various online sources and may be on newstands now, shows Obama standing in Islamist dress in the Oval Office.  He's exchanging fists with his wife Michelle who's carrying an AK-47 rifle with an ammo belt strapped around her shoulder while wearing an Afro whose size is so large it could probably be picked up by NORAD radar or other satellite reconnaissance capabilities.  The fireplace features a burning American flag and a paternal looking Osama Bin Laden is gazing contentedly in a framed picture above the fireplace.  It's a delightful example of political satire!
 
Obama's campaign has denounced and so has McCain's reflecting again the tendency of our political classes to not understand satire.
You've got to give the New Yorker credit for having the political chutzpah to publish this on their cover and the willingness to endure the scorn of the leftist diversity apparatchiks.  This coming academic year at many universities will undoubtedly witness "teach-ins" against such "racist insensitivity" conducted by diversity apparatchiks against this form of free expression.  I was reading some comments on this cartoon posted on the website of the leftist British newspaper the Guardian which are absolutely hilarious in their feigned outrage.  It's nice to see the New Yorker stand up for free speech and I'd like to know if I could get a suitable version of this cover to place in a standard picture frame.  If, heaven forbid, Obama becomes President, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery should consider this piece as a candidate for it's collection of official presidential portraits.
 
 
 
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Jesse Helms: An Appreciation

Posted by Bert Chapman on Friday, July 11, 2008 9:43:11 AM
While I was away on vacation, I heard the sad news about Jesse Helms death.  I was especially struck by the providential timing of his dying on July 4 like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.  Jesse Helms was the all to rare conviction politician and policymaker.  He was willing to stand alone in the face of torrential liberal hostility for what he saw as right morally and for sound public policy.  Many reports appearing in the conservative print and electronic media have also justifiably praised Helms for his personal amiability and how he treated his senatorial staff with courtesy and respect.  Make no mistake, Helms could be hard-nosed.  As chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he worked to ensure that the State Department looked out for U.S. national interests first instead of pandering to continually shifting foreign and international public opinion.  He also worked diligently to reform the United Nations wasteful bureaucracy and to ensure that this organization made some attempt to be a reasonably effective contributor to international well-being instead of generating empty rhetorical resolutions.  Helms also was willing to incur the enmity of the liberal civil rights lobby because he believed that blacks and members of other minority groups should be treated as individuals with limitless innate God-given potential instead as pathetic victims of white patriarchal hegemony and repression.  Helms played a major role in the ascendancy of conservatism in the South and the presence of conservative Republican federal and state legislators in such large numbers is directly attributable to Helm's repeated senatorial electoral victories and sound performance in office.
 
I want to extend my own sympathy to Helms family, friends, and associates as they celebrate his life and mourn his earthly death.
 
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2008 Energy Election Opportunity for Republicans

Posted by Bert Chapman on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:45:34 AM
Despite the misery of continually rising oil and gas prices, the 2008 election poses energy policy opportunities for Republicans if they will demonstrate the political courage to exploit them.  A key factor behind the U.S.' dependence on foreign oil has been the abysmal failure of Democratic and Republican presidential administrations and congressional leadership of from both parties, to make optimum use of our domestic petroleum reserves.  This has been manifested in the failure to create new refineries for the past three decades and the failure to encourage or mandate exploration of reserves in locations such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Rocky Mountains, California and Florida coasts, and the newly announced Bakken reserves in western North Dakota and Montana.  You can read U.S. Geological Survey assessments of these domestic oil reserves at http://energy.usgs.gov/
 
While development of these reserves will take time and not end our dependence on foreign oil, it will make it possible to decrease our dependence on unstable oil suppliers.  John McCain and other Republican congressional candidates should beat the Democrats over the head on this issue and educate voters on how this refusal to exploit our domestic petroleum assets has played a major role in our current difficulties.  McCain and compatriots will need to stand up to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenagger who have been seduced by the no drilling mantras of environmentalist extortionists.  Contrary to what Al Gore, Ralph Nader, and their luddite apostles might tell you, it is possible to drill for oil in environmentally sensitive ways and oil companies are committed to enhancing environmental quality.  Republicans should also encourage support of legislation like H.R. 6001 Main Street USA Energy Independence Security Act introduced by Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer http://stevebuyer.house.gov/  which provides incentives for greater domestic petroleum exploration.
 
For to long, our country has let our energy policy be hijacked by infantile Democrats and their environmental extortionist allies on the left whose instinctive response to our dependence on foreign petroleum has been to blame purportedly excessive oil company profits and impose windfall profits taxes which, has our experience in the late 70s demonstrates, resulted in failure and higher prices and less consumer choice for Americans.  This year, it's time for Americans to get energy policy right and increase our ability to extract greater domestic petroleum resources while also working on improving fuel economy mileages and developing reliable, affordable, and dependable alternative energy resources.
 
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Bring on Barack!

Posted by Bert Chapman on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:28:53 PM
Illinois Senator Barack Obama is now the Democrats presumptive presidential nominee.  Hailed by many sectors of liberal intelligentsia and media as the newest secular messiah, Obama has ridden his vapid mantra of "change we can believe in" to apparently become his party's newest presidential aspirant.  A sluggish economy, dominated by high gas prices, and continuing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan have made many Americans, including some normally sensible ones, susceptible to Obama's seductive oratorical enticements and fresh image.

Oratorical eloquence, a new image for presidential candidates, and infantile babbling about change are not valid prerequisites for entering the Oval Office even at a time of acute economic angst.  Despite his rhetorical espousal of change, Barack Obama actually represents McGovernite liberalism at its retromingent worst.  Like the dimwitted South Dakota Senator, Obama has a naive utopian belief that international disputes with intrinsically hostile dictators or terrorists can be easily resolved by dialogue or "feeling their pain."  Obama doesn't understand that international relations and national security policy involve dealing with a Hobbesian world where possessing effective military power and the willingness to use that power to defend national interests is the essence of effective leadership.  The recent obscene anti-Israeli babblings of Iran's five o'clock shadow head "President" at the World Food Conference in Rome effectively illustrate that certain world leaders are beyond the psychotherapeutic diplomacy "messiah" Obama espouses.  Another obscene leader at this conference is Zimbabwe's Mugabe whose collectivist agricultural policies and leftist ethnic victimology rhetoric have turned what should be one of Africa's best countries into an absolute humanitarian disaster.  Don't hold your breath waiting for Brother Barack to speak truth to power to a dictatorial thug who happens to be an ethnic compatriot.

We'll have time to learn about Barack's vision for America over the next few  months and it won't be a pretty one.  The fact that Caroline Kennedy has just been appointed to be on his vice-presidential search committee should clearly demonstrate that looking for a centrist or even quasi-conservative running mate for Obama is not in the cards.  Pay particular attention to the people Obama appoints to advise him on policy issues.  See if he has the guts to support the elimination of racial preferences as Ward Connerly as tried to do in recent years through state ballot initiatives.  See if Obama does anything to lessen the Democrats rigidly abortionist platform stance or if he is willing to take concrete legislative steps or executive orders to preserve traditional male-female marriage against unrelenting assaults from the gay rights lobby.  See if Obama is willing to take concrete steps to increase access to domestic petroleum reserves in ANWR, the Rocky Mountains, or off the California and Florida coasts.  See if Obama is willing to appoint strict constructionists to the federal judiciary.  If he actually is willing to do these things he might plausibly portray himself as a candidate of change.  I expect, however, that the contrary will be true.

It will be an interesting ride.  If there are actual townhall debates without moderators, as Senator McCain has proposed, I hope conservatives will attend those at fire tough in your face questions at the Barackster and see how he responds to them.

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Peaceful Woman Ruler Mythology

Posted by Bert Chapman on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:43:14 AM
Hillary Clinton's campaign has resulted in the reappearance of the mythical belief of the peaceful woman ruler.  This delusion basically states that if women ruled countries there would be universal peace because women are nurturing and would seek to resolve differences peacefully.  This basic theme has been expressed in a recently published book by former Clinton Administration Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers.
 
This claim is flat out nonsensical stupidity!  For those of us of Judeo-Christian background, we know that women, like men, are inherently sinful and subject to the same lusts and passions as men..  The Bible documents numerous instances of women engaging in aggressive behavior with Jezebel being just one of many examples.  History is replete with examples of militarily aggresive women rulers including those who engaged in preemptive military assaults.
 
England's Queen Elizabeth I ordered military assaults against Spanish forces throughout many areas of the world to help defeat a militarily aggressive country that was hellbent on restoring Catholicism to England.  Russia's Catherine the Great was an exceptionally voracious pursuer of territorial expansion and military aggrandizement.  Her rule saw the partition and dismemberment of Poland, repeated military assaults against Turkey, and the brutal crushing of domestic uprisings such as the Pugachev peasant rebellion.  The high point of British political and military power under Queen Victoria saw British forces engaged in primarily offensive military operations over enormous quantities of the world including India, Sudan, Southern Africa, and Burma, and numerous other locales.  This historical reality has continued in the 20th century.  Israel, under Prime Minister Golda Meir, conducted repeated military operations against its enemies including the Yom Kippur War.  Development of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal continued under Meir's leadership.  Recently assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto allowed her country's nuclear weapons program to proceed and supported Kashmiri separatist forces against India.  Former Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi used force against individuals and forces she believed were antithetical to Indian national interests and allowed India's 1974 nuclear weapons test to occur when she was Prime Minister.  British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waged a successful war in 1982 to liberate the Falkland Islands from Argentinean conquest, decisively crushed a coal miners strike, allowed U.S. forces to use British bases to attack Libya in 1986, ordered the assassination of Irish Republican Army leaders, and allowed IRA terrorist Bobby Sands and many of his comrades to die as a result of hunger strikes.   Mao Zedong's wife Jiang Qing was particularly noted for the violent ferocity of her viewpoints and the policies she advocated.  Philippine Presidents Corazon Aquino and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had to use military force against violent internal opponents during their rule with Arroyo being particularly willing to use force against what she sees as threats to Philippine national interests.
 
I would welcome readers sending me other examples of women rulers using military force from classical and medieval eras or contemporary examples I'm not aware of.  All of this shows is that the belief that women rulers are inherently more peaceful than men to be absolute stupidity and more reflective of how poorly history is taught in our schools and to liberal feminist pacifist delusions and political correctness.  Any female President of the United States will have to use military force to defend national interests during her presidency.  This need to use such force will be more likely if she gives any impression that she's unwilling to use overwhelming force against national enemies during her political career or presidential campaign.  Conversely, an aspiring female President who demonstrates her willingness to use decisive military force against our enemies earlier in her career or during her presidential campaign and supports policies to augment U.S. military power, is less likely to have to use it once she becomes commander in chief.  This is why the U.S.' first female president is more likely to be a conservative or conservative leaning Republican than Hillary Clinton or any other nationally prominent Democratic woman.
 
 
 
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Happy 60th Birthday Israel!

Posted by Bert Chapman on Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:53:48 AM
I want to wish Israel a very happy 60th birthday as it celebrates its independence this week!  The alliance between the U.S. and Israel is a crucial one in the war against Islamist terror as reflected by President Bush's visit there this week.  The common Judeo-Christian religious heritage shared by our countries is also a crucial factor in the ties between our countries.  These bonds are strengthened further by Israel's vibrant, even chaotic, democratic government and political system.  While I have concerns about the proposed two-state solution to the Palestinean problem, I remain confident that our ties with Israel will endure and strengthen.  Israel has a innovative free market economy producing goods and services in high technology and other areas.  It is a leader in developing environmentally beneficial technologies and its democratic governmental structures and free market economy allow law-abiding citizens to receive good quality education and make optimum use of their God-given talents.  These attributes, undoubtedly, are appalling to Islamist zealots and their cohorts who cling to the delusional belief that they can destroy Israel and subject that part of the world to the misery of a totalitarian Islamist regime.  Israel's enemies are also America's enemies.
 
May God continue to bless and protect Israel and strengthen America's alliance with that wonderful country.
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Patronizing Democratic Poltroons

Posted by Bert Chapman on Sunday, May 04, 2008 1:31:30 PM
For the past several weeks, we in Indiana have been subjected to an onslaught of Democratic presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates vying for our votes.  The onslaught has been so intense, in fact, that you could say Indiana voters are getting sodomized by the Dems.  The Obamas and Clintons have been in my city of Lafayette/West Lafayette so many times you would think they were paying property taxes.  It's been exceptionally distressing seeing how many people are falling for Clinton and Obama's poisonous class warfare and Jonestown cool aid rhetoric.

Most annoying, though, is the absolutely patronizing nature of the Democrats rhetoric.  A staple of Democratic rhetoric as long as I can remember is caring for "working families."  Well, the traditional two parent nuclear family only constitutes just over half of our society and labor force demographics but you'll never hear the Dems mention this due to the toxic results of LBJ's "Great Society" social policies which have decimated the two-parent family.  Do Democrats ever think about their complicity in enacting tax, legal, and regulatory policies that have increased families dependency on government, downgraded educational institutions, and encouraged individuals to abdicate moral responsibility for their actions and the actions of their  children?

I dissed Clinton and Obama for their selective denunciation of special interests in a recent blog and that criticism also applies to Democratic congressional and gubernatorial candidates in Indiana.  In the 7th district Democratic congressional race in Indianapolis, Democrats Andre Carson, David Orentlicher, Woodrow Meyers, and Caroline Mays have all denounced organizations supporting their opponents that don't meet their sanctified liberal ideological standards.  Orentlicher shows his appalling ignorance of Internet search engines by thinking that a search of "real political change" will result in results referring to his campaign.

The most grievous instance of Democratic patronizing is on gasoline prices.  Both Clinton and Obama show their true class warfare roots by denouncing oil company profits and calling for windfall profits taxes which proved to be abysmal failures when enacted in the late 1970s.  Both of these Democratic retards, seem unable to comprehend that oil companies have been working to develop alternative fuels, that they care about the environmental impact of their work, and that gas prices are rising because of a variety of factors including economic growth in China and India which has increased the demand for oil in these and other countries.  Bird-brained Barack and Half-Baked Hillary apparently don't understand that excessively stringent regulatory policies have prevented the construction of new oil refineries in the U.S. for the past three decades, prevented potential exploration and development of oil reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Rocky Mountains, and off the California and Florida coasts, and that punitive regulatory and tax policies do not give oil companies the incentives to explore new sources for oil or to invest in alternative energy sources.  Neither Clinton nor Obama are willing to tell Americans that the U.S. is to populous and productive a country to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.  Instead, they think we are stupid ignorant rubes who are ignorant of existing scientific, technological, economic, or geopolitical factors shaping the international petroleum and energy markets.

I hope Conservatives will take the time to tell Clinton, Obama, and other Democratic dimwits these realities in the months to come.  I am especially looking forward to reducing an Obama apostle to tears because I am so sick and tired of the infantile religious cult like adoration they hold toward Illinois' junior senator and his false promises of change.

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