August 28, 2008

Oops!... He Did It Again

Get ready for Barack Spears and the Temple of Duh:

As if a Rocky Mountain coronation were not lofty enough, Barack Obama will aim for Mount Olympus when he accepts his party's nomination atop an enormous, Greek-columned stage - built by the same cheesy set team that put together Britney Spears' last tour.

[snip]

"We've done Britney's sets and a whole bunch of rock shows, but this was far more elaborate and complicated and we had to do it in far less time," said Allen, of RDA Entertainment.

"The biggest challenge has been making sure we don't damage the playing field underneath."

Asked who is harder to satisfy - the Democrats or Britney - Allen replied: "I better not answer that."

Honestly? I just hope Obama remembers his underwear.

(h/t/ Hot Air)

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Democrats Against Obama... Starring Barack Obama

As the overwhelming majority of Americans who aren't political junkies begin to get to know Barack Obama, it becomes increasingly obvious why first-term Senators with exceedingly thin resumes rarely ever run for President.

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Do Not Blaspheme, Non-Believers

Instead of making a good-faith effort to explain his 21-year working and personal relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, Barack Obama has chosen another route in an attempt quell the building controversy; he's having his campaign incite his followers to shout down his critics.

Obama's campaign has previously threatened broadcasters who would carry an ad linking Obama to Ayers, and has also asked the Department of Justice to shut down the group that made the ad.

The intense campaign to silence dissenting voice has also included a recent campaign email asking Obama supporters to deluge Chicago-based broadcaster WGN with complaints to pressure the radio station to cancel an appearance by Stanley Kurtz, a writer with National Review who is researching the documents of the Chicago Annenburg Challenge.

The Challenge, co-founded by Ayers and chaired by Obama, took tens of millions dollars in grant funds and public and private matching funds with the stated goal of increasing the quality of education in Chicago. The program was utterly ineffective, and some critics are suggesting that the challenge was little more than a slush fund for left-wing radicals. At least $175,000 was funneled to Ayers' friend, SDS radical, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Barack Obama supporter Mike Klonsky's Small School Workshop.

I wrote earlier this week:

Barack Obama wants to convince us that it shouldn't matter that Bill Ayers, Ayer's dead terrorist bomber girlfriend, his terrorist wife and their cronies declared war on the United States and murdered its citizens. The murders, the treason, the bombings of American targets in a war they declared... all distractions.

I was dead wrong. The Barack Obama campaign doesn't want to convince us of anything. It simple wants to threaten and bully critics into silence.

Freedom of speech is nice, if you can keep it. As a blogger, I wonder how much we'll have left if ever faced with a Justice Department run by the Silencer in Chief.

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August 27, 2008

Aww... I Upset Sully

"Even by the still-falling standards of the degenerate conservative movement, this was a disgusting post."

Degenerate, disgusting, whatever.

What he doesn't and can't call me is wrong.

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Ayers: Bombing America Not A Big Deal

Someone should ask Barack Obama point blank: at what point during his 21-year relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (and to a lesser-documented but no less real extent, Ayer's terrorist wife and Charles Manson fan, Bernadine Dohrn) did Ayers and Obama discuss Ayer's involvement with the Weather Underground, and what was said?

In over two decades of knowing each other and running in Chicago's political cauldron of aging New Left radicals, SDS leftovers, graying Weatherman, Marxist-Leninists, angry activist priests and fringe religions, the "glory days" of the 1960s and 70s must have come up in conversation.

Did the bombings ever come up in conversations at one another's homes? Did they ever have side conversations before or after the official business of their many working relationships in the ABCs Coalition, the Woods Fund, and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge?

Mr. Obama owes us an explanation.

For his part, a three-year-old interview in a current Ayer's story fills in part of the puzzle:

In the interview, conducted three years after the September 11 attacks, Ayers argued the U.S. government had carried out "many other acts of terror ... even recently, that are comparable," and claimed he and his bomb-planting comrades were "restrained" in their actions.

Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, served with Barack Obama on the board of the charitable Woods Fund of Chicago for three years and helped launch Obama's political career in Illinois by hosting in his Hyde Park home an informal campaign event for the future state senator in 1995.

Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by "hope and love," not despair, and said he did not think the group's violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were "a big deal."

What a very interesting psychological profile Mr. Ayers must have.

Was it "hope" or "love" that led his fellow Weathermen to purchase two cases of dynamite, lengths of pipe, and roofing nails to build anti-personnel bombs?

Ayers was the boyfriend of fellow Weatherman bomb-builder Diana Oughten. Oughten was thought to be constructing massive pipe-bombs that used roofing nails for shrapnel in a Greenwich Village townhome, when they accidentally went off.

The target of those bombs wasn't to be a statute in an empty park at night.

It wasn't a federal building targeted at a time when most employees would have gone home.

The anti-personnel bombs she and other Weathermen were constructing were designed expressly to take the greatest human toll possible, and they were to be placed at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey, targeting young soldiers, their wives, their girlfriends.

The multiple bombs were built to cause as much loss of life as possible, similar what Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold tried to do with their failed propane bombs at Columbine.

But the Weathermen never made it to their target of choice. The bombs they meant for innocents detonated as they were being assembled in a townhouse basement, killing terrorists Oughten, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins.

Perhaps they would be happy to know that the bombs worked as designed, if prematurely. From the pieces of Oughten they were able to collect after the blast and other evidence, they think Oughten was standing over one of the bombs, perhaps with her hands on it, when it went off.

If the Weathermen had been successful in detonating multiple nail-filled bombs a dance filled with off-duty soldiers and their dates, would Bill Ayers still claim that the bombings of his group were " no big deal"?

Bloody taffeta and lace and the images of shocked, mutilated survivors would have changed that equation.

Just because the Weathermen were spectacularly unsuccessful in their attempts to prepare for mass murder doesn't make them any less vile.

Nor does it excuse Barack Obama from consorting with them for over 20 years.

Update: Andy McCarthy runs very much a parallel route, Bill Ayers: Unrepentant LYING Terrorist.

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FactCheck.Org: Obama Lied About his Born Alive Votes

Barack Obama coverup attempt fails:

At issue is Obama's opposition to Illinois legislation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 that would have defined any aborted fetus that showed signs of life as a "born alive infant" entitled to legal protection, even if doctors believe it could not survive.

Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 "born alive" bills as backdoor attacks on a woman's legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been "fully in support" of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.

We find that, as the NRLC said in a recent statement, Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly identical to the federal act he says he would have supported. Both contained identical clauses saying that nothing in the bills could be construed to affect legal rights of an unborn fetus, according to an undisputed summary written immediately after the committee's 2003 mark-up session.

The choice of a temple theme for Obama's stage now seems even more appropriate, as his nomination is indeed turning out to be a Greek tragedy.

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August 26, 2008

Jeep Jihadi Gets Up to 33 Years

Progressive university town that Chapel Hill is, they'll probably have some there protest the decision which resulted from Taheri-Azar's attempt to kill UNC-Chapel Hill students in The Pit with a rented SUV.

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The Left's Obama Assassination Fantasy

There are a lot of people who have hopes of Barack Obama being the target of an assassination attempt during the Democratic National Convention this week in Denver, and not all of them are his enemies. The arrest of a four drug users with stolen weapons and a single outlandish assassination claim has made that all too clear.

Local news reporters see the possibility of a career-enhancing national story. National news reporters in mass market liberal enclaves see an opportunity to once again push a meme they've been hammering at for over a year, of a racist American heartland. This meme, of Americans as violent backwards yokels, is a meme that smug Europeans dearly love as it helps them maintain the delusion of continental sophistication in the face of their own cultural decline.

Of course, none of this would be possible without the unhinged few in a nation of 300 million that would like to see Obama dead, including thus far a halfwit bail-bondsman wannabe, a Charlotte, NC man suffering the lingering effects of a brain injury, and now a quartet of meth-addled idiots with rumored ties to white supremacists and outlaw bikers.

As you may well imagine, bloggers pounced on the story as the local news did, taking shreds of information and trying to determine just how serious of a threat Barack Obama faced.

As it turns out, not much at all:

A half dozen federal security officials have told The Mouth that the supposed plot to assassinate Barack Obama during his Thursday acceptance speech in Denver by four armed dope suspects was considered a bunch of hooey.

Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, and several other drug suspects linked to white supremacist groups were busted Sunday after Aurora, Colo., cops saw him driving a rented pickup erratically.

"What's in plain view? Guns and a bulletproof vest," a federal agent assigned to the Democrats' Denver nominating convention told The Mouth. "One rifle had a scope sighted in at 750 yards. But he said they werent his guns."

Cops went looking for Gartrell's pals at two hotels. At the second hotel, their knock on a door prompted a suspect to leap out his sixth-story window and break his ankle in the fall, sources said. During interrogation, one of the suspects dimed out a buddy for allegedly threatening to kill Obama, officials said.

"They all had meth with them. There is no evidence of a plot other than one guy's word, and meth heads aren't that reliable (with the truth)," the federal agent said.

Meth heads aren't exactly known for being a member of any reality-based community, and so the story might have flown completely under the radar as so much drug-addled hot air were it not for the fact that weapons, ammunition and a spotting scope were recovered during the initial arrest.

But what of the weapons, and the plot alleged by a single suspect? Police have not released much in the way of detail about the weapons or any plot, but as no key details have been released to the contrary, it seems likely the scope rifles were likely factory deer rifles and conventional commercial scopes, details which authorities are expected to release in a press conference later today.

The claim of the rifle being sighted at 750 yards is simple hearsay repeating of the suspect's claim; one cannot determine wher a weapon is zeroed with any certainly by simply looking at the weapon's scope. If the police haven't fired it, they simply don't know if it is sighted at 750 yards, or if it has even been sighted at all. One must also take into account that the weapons were plain view with no protective case in the suspect's pickup truck when confiscated, and the jarring of a moderately-sized pothole could easily render a scope's zero worthless at all but close range.

There is little chance that those arrested posed any serious threat, or even had a plan at all.

An average shooter with a scoped rifle can hit a man-sized target at 100 yards with regularity. An average shooter who has been practicing can make the same shot at 200 yards with no discernible change in point-of-aim. A good shooter who knows his gun, ammunition, and wind conditions can make the shot at 300 yards most of the time, but much beyond that, wind drift, ballistics, shooter experience, imperfections in trigger control and limitations of the weapon and ammunition make such shots improbable even on a stationary target with plenty of time to prepare and fire.

Simply put, there is very little chance that anyone outside of a highly trained team of a well-trained precision long-distance shooter and a equally competent spotter could make such a shot as one at 750 yards, nor even any verified opportunity that Obama would present himself as a target in any venue at that sort of range.

Many leading liberal bloggers, of course, aren't waiting around to determine if there was an actual threat to Obama. A possibility of a threat, however non-viable, is all the excuse they need to blame the racist and ideological hate that liberals just know is at the core of every Republican's soul, and even claim that McCain needs to denounce such morons, as if he had any role, knowledge, or ties to a group of no-account meth users.

I could of course point out that these same liberal bloggers and their ideological kin have been silent in recent years as Andrew Mickel, a radical left-wing progressive Indymedia contributor, earned a spot on death row for assassinating a police officer because of his exposure to radical left wing ideologies. I could just as easily point out they've turned a blind eye time and again to video games, tee shirts, "art," and left wing hate speech which has advocated violence again conservative political figures, authority figures, and the the military. Hell... even Barack Obama himself includes among his friends of many years left-wing terrorists and murderers.

But perhaps the most sinister undertone is the hint of hopefulness among a certain element of the left wing that perhaps someone will succeed in assassinating Barack Obama.

Such a tragedy would serve as a confirmation of their firmly held beliefs that conservatives are evil, and could possibly trigger a backlash that would fill the anarchists among them with glee. At the same time, an Obama death would provide progressives with a martyred hero in place of what troubles many of them the most; deep-seated and well-placed fears that Barack Obama is precisely what his record suggests, a shallow, vain, and arrogant opportunist who has created impossible expectations with little possibility that he capable of coming close to meeting those impossibly inflated expectations.

In places liberals don't want to talk about, they'd rather have a martyr than a failure. That is the reason they pounce upon even the remotest possibility of Obama's untimely end with such fervor.

The audacity of hope, indeed.

Update: Druggies never posed a threat.

Three men who authorities initially feared were plotting to assassinate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention are facing only gun charges — signaling they never posed a real threat.

A federal law enforcement official in Denver said the three men and a woman also arrested on Sunday are not expected to be charged with making threatening statements, conspiracy or other national security-related crimes.

[snip]

The likelihood of an assassination attempt on Democratic presidential candidate Obama was downplayed by law enforcement officials in Colorado and Washington.

"We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said in a statement.

Another AP account offers telling information, including statements that could reasonably be interpreted as clues that the weapons may have been small caliber, perhaps rimfire rifles.

"The capability and their opportunity and what they had for their weaponry — I don't see that they would have been able to carry it out," the official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Nearly any centerfire rifle would have to be assumed as at least a somewhat credible threat as an assassination weapon out to several hundred yards at a minimum, but the official seems to indicate that the weapons recovered were not viewed as a significant threat with his remarks about the capability of those arrested and their weaponry. While rimfire rifles can indeed be lethal at close range, they fire tiny bullets at relatively low velocities, severely limiting their effective range.

This seems to be further hinted at in concluding paragraphs:

Law enforcement officials were also investigating whether the men were linked to vandalism shootings that targeted at least two federal buildings in Denver over the past two weeks. Windows were shot at the U.S. Custom House and the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Station on the same street in Denver's downtown Federal District.

Additionally, a bullet was recovered from a Hertz rental car that was hit on Aug. 15, and authorities are now looking to see if it could have matched the guns seized from the men.

If shots fired into federal buildings are only considered vandalism, it once again seems to indicate rimfire weapons. Additionally, most centerfire bullets, rifle or pistol, will either complete penetrate through the sheet metal and glass of cars, or shatter upon impact, in most cases not leaving behind much to recover. A rimfire bullet fired into a vehicle, however, could very well not have enough escape the vehicle or fragment, meaning that authorities could recover a bullet and potentially link it to other attack via the rifling marks left on a bullet.

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1 "Barack Obama himself includes among his friends of many years left-wing terrorists and murderer"

What murderer are you talking about?

Posted by: Nikolay at August 26, 2008 11:08 AM (lgv3U)

2 "Barack Obama himself includes among his friends of many years left-wing terrorists and murderers"

What murderers are you talking about?

Posted by: Nikolay at August 26, 2008 11:09 AM (lgv3U)

3 I agree that it wasn't much of a plot. I do take exception to your analysis regarding how difficult a shot might be. When I was in the army we were expected to hit a pop-up at 300 yards without a scope. We did regularly and we were not graduates of any sniper school. probably never woul

Posted by: Seth at August 26, 2008 11:55 AM (ym9Ho)

4 Seth,

Thanks for your comment - I was beginning to wonder if the Army was training supermen based on what we need just to qualify.

Note: any average person with zeroed mechanical sights (not a scope) should be able to knock off the 50 and 100 meter targets all day long from a supported position. The 200s and 250s should also be regularly hit. The 300... well, I tended to save those bullets.

Posted by: SGT Jeff (USAR) at August 26, 2008 12:22 PM (yiMNP)

5 Nikolai, where do we start?

PM Raila Odinga of Kenya, first cousin of Barack, is a bloody Marxist hybrid, who wants to impose Sharia against the wishes of the US backed government...Barack flew to Kenya and supports him wholeheartedly!!!

BTW, Odinga's son is named Fidel, probably one of your heroes, Nikolay!

We know that Che Guevara posters were placed in Obama's Houston campaign office.

We know of his association with William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn.

We know of his associations with Muslim radicals in Chicago who have funneled money to Hezbollah and Hamas.

We know of his desire to meet, without pre-conditions, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, Ahmedinejad, Assad, etc.

We know he thinks we can't lecture the Russians about Georgia, because we are an invading force throughout the world.

We know his muse in Hawaii was Frank Marshall Davis, an unrepentant communist.

I can go on and on....

Posted by: Carlos Echevarria at August 26, 2008 12:25 PM (WTS66)

6 Look for Dave Neiwert at Orcinus to get all lathered up about this one. He's about the number one fabulist on right wing hate groups and conspiracies. Thet're right around every corner for Dave. It's a wonder he can sleep at night.

Posted by: daleyrocks at August 26, 2008 12:31 PM (i/fLn)

7 Hey Carlos! Since you seem to believe every email that you've ever received, I've got some money in a Nigerian bank account that I'll let you keep 20% of. Just send me your bank account info and I'll be sure to wire it to you.

Posted by: Nuff Ced McGreavey at August 26, 2008 01:17 PM (U1V8D)

8 Carlos, even by the non-existent standards that you guys enjoy, he asked for the murderers of Obama's acquaintance. You mentioned people who freak you out, but ideology you don't agree with does not a murderer make.

Nice try with Bernadette Dorn though.

Actually, not. It's pathetic. Really.

But let's play the stupid game: Do you know that George Bush met -- and fell in love with -- Russian KGB butcher Vladimir Putin?

You guys scrape whatever it is that's 20 yards beneath the barrel.

Posted by: Jay B. at August 26, 2008 01:18 PM (x7Shh)

9 IIRC, when I served we zeroed our M-16s at 25 meters. Given the trajectory this also meant they were zeroed at 250 meters. Like Seth, I regularly hit the 300 meter pop-up silhouettes and I'm no professional sniper.

Posted by: Itchy Brother at August 26, 2008 01:19 PM (mYJgW)

10
What murderers are you talking about?


Barack Obama's fundraiser hostess Bernadine Dohrn, in specific, who is believed to have to have both built and placed the bomb at a San Francisco's Park Police Station. FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl said Bill Ayers told him Dorhn was responsible for the blast. San Francisco Police Sgt. Brian McDonnell died two days later, and is the only bomb death in the SFPD's long history.

* * *

Regarding the ability to hit the target at "x" distance, I see that many of you are citing your military marksmanship experience, where M16s with open sights are used in slow fire prone to what, 500 yards?

I'm not saying that folks can't hit such targets by any stretch of the imagination and perhaps should have phrased things much more specifically, but that they have to be trained shooters, especially if you're only going to get one shot, firing at a target on a different vertical plane. When you get ranging shots, on horizontal targets at known distances, effectively using previous misses to dial follow-up rounds on target, of course you can hit the target.

It's when you have one shot, and one shot only at unknown distances on different planes where it gets very difficult to make the longer shots with one bullet.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 01:41 PM (xNV2a)

11 Barack Obama's fundraiser hostess Bernadine Dohrn, in specific, who is believed to have to have both built and placed the bomb at a San Francisco's Park Police Station. FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl said Bill Ayers told him Dorhn was responsible for the blast. San Francisco Police Sgt. Brian McDonnell died two days later, and is the only bomb death in the SFPD's long history.

You'd think that armed with hearsay evidence from an FBI informant, they'd have been able to at least arrest Dorhn and charge her with murder. But they didn't. Were the cops that inept? The feds? Hmmm....

Why they even opened the case up again in 1999 -- and no indictments, no indictments were handed down.

So what's the proof you have that EVERYONE else didn't have back in the day?

Posted by: Jay B. at August 26, 2008 02:05 PM (x7Shh)

12 The Feds was that inept... if you want to Google it, they screwed up a lot of prosecutions with illegally obtained evidence via COINTELPRO. It is hardly surprising that cases that have their primary evidence compromised of ten result in failed prosecution, and even less surprising that lacking such evidence, a grand jury convened almost two decades later couldn't find enough additional evidence to prosecute.

There is a difference between having evidence, and having legal evidence, just as not being convicted doesn't mean people aren't guilty as Hell... right, O.J.?

As Ayers himself once famously said regarding his own treasonous, terrorist acts:

"Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country."

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 02:15 PM (xNV2a)

13 Not to mention, on all Army down-range feedback lanes, the target only needs to be nicked to get scored a hit. I recall during my qualifications, hitting the berm on the 200 meter target, still recording a "hit" because the ricochet hit the target or kicked up debri enough to still score on it. Drill Sgt was laughing and said "Grace of god, private!"

Posted by: Jimi at August 26, 2008 02:17 PM (YoMR0)

14 All down-range feedback lanes in Army qualifications require only a "nick" to score a hit. I recorded a hit on a 200 meter target when my round struck the berm right in front of the target, the ricochet or debri kicked up by the round still managed to knock down the target (which I didn't see) while my drill sgt was yelling "Grace of God private!" behind me. My spotter/scorer had to tell me WTF he was yelling about afterwards. I'm lucky it was my practice qualifcation cause his laughter caused me to miss my next target.

Posted by: Jimi at August 26, 2008 02:30 PM (YoMR0)

15 >>There is a difference between having evidence, and having legal evidence

So, where's your evidence, peckerwood?

Posted by: Notnowjohn at August 26, 2008 02:50 PM (yx2x9)

16 Let's see: six goofballs in New jersey hatch a half-baked plan to storm a major army base with rifles. That's a major terrorist plot that justifies the war on terror.

Four goofballs in Denver hatch a half-baked plan to assassinate a presidential candidate with rifles. That's a paranoid liberal fantasy bordering on macabre desire among liberals to see it actually happen.

Hmmm...

Posted by: LostSailor at August 26, 2008 03:44 PM (D8XQ+)

17 Was this whole bit a "sympathy ploy" for his Obamaness or something? As if a geeked up crank head could hit the broad side of a bark an a real good day. JEEEESH!

Posted by: Tonto (USA) at August 26, 2008 04:24 PM (Qv1xF)

18 Back in my day every Marine had to qualify at 200, 300 and 500 yards with non-scoped M-16s. I can hit a much smaller than man-sized target 100 yards out today with an iron-site lever action rifle. While I agree with the rest of your analysis I think you pretty badly under-estimate weapon range and accuracy.

Posted by: Cowboy is a compliment at August 26, 2008 05:07 PM (KtP6p)

19 So you're saying that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't possibly have killed Kennedy? That's comforting.

Posted by: Shygetz at August 26, 2008 05:14 PM (Gl3TQ)

20 Oswald, a Marine Corps-trained sharpshooter, fired his first shot at JFK at just 58 yards, and his final shot at 88 yards.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 05:35 PM (HcgFD)

21 Shygetz, Oswald was a Marine-trained marksman who once certified as a sharpshooter. The shots he fired at JFK were between 58 yards for the first shot, and 88 yards for the longest.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at August 26, 2008 05:42 PM (HcgFD)

22 I see that many of you are citing your military marksmanship experience, where M16s with open sights are used in slow fire prone to what, 500 yards?

500 meters actually, prone position, slow fire, open sites. 10 out of 10 in the black on a man sized target, April 1982. I was dished one miss in the 300 offhand position though. 236 out of 250 possible including the (supposed) miss.

I paid attention to the range instructor though.

Posted by: DaveW at August 26, 2008 05:44 PM (mfNJm)

23 A rifle sighted for 750 yard shots in the hands of a meth user is less dangerous to the intended target than the surrounding bystanders. Several years ago when I shot silhouettes fairly regularly, I had to give up coffee for 5 days prior to going to the range in order to even place the crosshairs on the 500 yard ram long enough to have a chance of hitting it. A meth addict would be shaking so severely that it would be highly unlikely that s/he would ever find the target in the view window of the scope at 750 yards, even using bench bags.

Posted by: Boss429 at August 26, 2008 06:09 PM (JP9Jo)

24 I will note that though the autorities are playing down the actual threat level to Sen. Obama these dorks aren't being released. Some expressed their desire to kill him and had weapons. As drugged out and stupid as they likely are, they are going to get the full course of federal law.

And that will not be fun for them.

Threat to a presidential candidate: yes.
Capable of pulling it off: unlikely.
Length of likely stay at Club Fed: the maximum.
My reaction: Give 'em the max that can be done.

They should have stopped at cow-tipping.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 26, 2008 06:14 PM (TUWci)

25 They should have stopped at cow-tipping.


BWAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!!

"It's funny because it's true."
~Homer J. Simpson

Posted by: dixiechiken at August 26, 2008 07:05 PM (V4FvP)

26 Going with Boss429 on this one... a tweeker couldn't possibly be able to hit anything with any decent degree of accuracy. Read John Plaster's treatises "Sniper" if you want a good 'how to' book, or you can do what I did and go to Benning's "One Shot One Kill" School.

Just to give a reference as to the difficulty in hitting at 750 YARDS...Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock in Duc Pho, South Vietnam made a shot that stood for 35 years (until Afghanistan in 2002) at a recorded 2,500 yards, or 2,250 metres using a .50 Cal or 12.7mm round... somehow I don't think these guys were or are in the Gunny's league. Nor do I think they had a .50 at their disposal. The current record for a shot using a 7.62x54mm round (.308 Commercial) is currently Staff Sgt., Jim Gilliland. he currently holds the record for a 7.62mm round shot... at 1,250 meters in Ramadi in 2004.

Posted by: Big Country at August 26, 2008 08:20 PM (niydV)

27 As Ayers himself once famously said regarding his own treasonous, terrorist acts:

"Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country."He talked about being guilty of bombing buildings, not about murdering people. If fact, he is quite emphatic that he never killed anyone.

Posted by: Nikolay at August 27, 2008 03:52 AM (RNpZs)

28 Sweet Christ, you right wing nuts really are... nuts. You really live by the notion that if you say something enough, it actually becomes true.

The good news is that Obama WILL be the next president, whether you nutjobs like it or not, and we can begin to move away from your insane thinking. Your time is over, boys.

Posted by: Tony at August 27, 2008 09:43 AM (GLZ/C)

29 Where are these lefties hoping Obama gets assassinated? I live in NYC and I've never met any. I think they must be a figment of your fevered imagination.

Posted by: Robert S. at August 27, 2008 09:45 AM (ocFg6)

30 Thanks for pointing out how well you know LIBERALS. Your capacity for personaly empthy is astounding. Obviously, all of us LIBERALS would like to see Obama murdered. That would be great. In fact, that's why we voted for the guy in the first place. Because we're as conniving and craven as you wingnuts are.

Sarcasm aside, George Bush is the most successful murderer in recent world history. McCain is friends with him. Kind of invalidates your whole point about Obama's friends, don't it?

Posted by: Reed at August 27, 2008 09:54 AM (bmgov)

31 You are a fucking PIG.

Posted by: Chaz at August 27, 2008 09:55 AM (fEVvj)

32 This is the most idiotic post I've ever read, and anyone who takes anything you say seriously is worthy of a straight-jacket, as are you...

Posted by: edsbowlingshoe at August 27, 2008 09:57 AM (X9LlJ)

33 This is really a hateful site. I am a fiscal conservative and social tolerant. My politics are much more Goldwater with a few exception, than anything else. I left the party in the 90's with the rise of the Rush Limbaugh and evangelical movement. These people are nothing but opportunists looking to make a buck and don't give a damn about the country. If you want an example of empty hype you need look no further than our current administration. Anyone who took a single class in world history or even had a passing interest in the last 60 years of middle east history knew we were being sold a bill of goods. I grew up lower middle class but succeeded to make an income in the top 2% or so. I am not even the group that this administrations policies help. They are geared to the top .1% or so. Obama is not a bad man. He is a self made man. He comes from a modest background and through his own talents and work made it to his current position. The Democratic party is the worst we have with the exception of Republicans. The best of the Rep party have left. I would have loved to see a Hagel/Bloomberg ticket (in that order) but given our choices of a man stuck in the last century and showing clear evidence of mental decline and Obama, that is easy.
Obama is not that liberal. He is left center and very pragmatic in many ways. I long for an America where science and reason rule the day and stupid superstitions and sound bytes and transparent talking heads are seen for what they are.

Posted by: dabouv at August 27, 2008 10:12 AM (UfWP5)

34 "Such a tragedy would serve as a confirmation of their firmly held beliefs that conservatives are evil"

Well, no -- but this post is a confirmation of my deeply held belief that conservative bloggers are idiots.

Posted by: dpoyesac at August 27, 2008 10:13 AM (JRxps)

35 Steadfastly reaching for new lows in journalism on a daily basis

Posted by: Mike at August 27, 2008 10:21 AM (1e2Ga)

36 RE: associations with murders

It's interested to hear that people concerned with Obama's associations with terrorists. Are you also concerned with Bush's association with terrorist sympathizers such as Elliot Abrams, Otto Reich, John Negroponte - men who participated in supporting terrorists throughout Central America, men who do not believe in democracy in the United States (their participation in the Iran Contra scandal was expressly illegal) or elsewhere (evidenced by their support for dictators in El Salvador and Guatemala)?

Posted by: steelcity at August 27, 2008 10:25 AM (WbBEJ)

37 Do you ever just sit back and read what you've actually written. I mean, this is literally insane. I hope you catch a bullet in your dome while your family watches.

Oh, and I'm voting for McCain.

Posted by: Stacy at August 27, 2008 10:34 AM (jwPlH)

38 A rifle sighted for 750 yard shots in the hands of a meth user is less dangerous to the intended target than the surrounding bystanders.

That's comforting. I guess the cops should let them go, then, if all they're going to do is kill innocent bystanders.

Posted by: Mike at August 27, 2008 10:41 AM (dPk0t)

39 Please tell me this post is a put-on. Right? I mean, as depraved and as vile and as delusional and as paranoid and as just plain vicious as the whack-job right wing can be sometimes, this is just too ghoulish and obscene to be taken even remotely seriously. So, it's got to be just a rather lame and pathetic and not terribly funny attempt at a joke, right? Right?

Posted by: John at August 27, 2008 10:45 AM (qHF5N)

40 I see a lot of Sullivan readers found their way over here.

Posted by: Lee at August 27, 2008 11:07 AM (TxTIh)

41 And people want to chastise Obama as being un-patriotic. Look at the comments here, this is open discussion about a political motivated murder. What do you think terrorism is? Its politically motivated violence used against innocents in order to bring about political change.
This is America, not Zimbabwe. You are not dignified to salute the stars and stripes

Posted by: Matthew at August 27, 2008 11:41 AM (ElXdQ)

42 "I mean, as depraved and as vile and as delusional and as paranoid and as just plain vicious as the whack-job right wing can be sometimes, this is just too ghoulish and obscene to be taken even remotely seriously"

John, you mean like the depraved vile delusional paranoid just plain vicious left wing whack jobs called " 9/11 Truthers" who are too ghoulish to be taken seriously by anyone-- except liberals!

Posted by: Huntress at August 27, 2008 12:00 PM (Qn9iF)

43 "I see a lot of Sullivan readers found their way over here."

You think?
Did the overwrought essence that says "internet drama queen", except with extra estrogen, give it away?

Posted by: RW at August 27, 2008 12:47 PM (mHiW8)

44 Huntress:
Uh, no, not really. From what I have been able to discern, most of the "9/11 Truthers" defy easy political categorization. They're just nuts. But, if anything, they more closely resemble the kind of conspiratorial, paranoic, "black helicopter" types that populate various right-wing survivalist web sites than they do your typical lefty.

Posted by: John at August 27, 2008 01:00 PM (qHF5N)

45 damn, Confederate Yankee, looking at these trolls' comments, I gotta say it again:

"You know you're over the Target when you start taking Flak"...

Posted by: HKpistole at August 27, 2008 01:10 PM (/j9KS)

46 Which part is too vile disgusting and repusive to talk about? Is it the meth-heads, the lefties or the notion of assasination in general? Before you answer, read the links.

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August 25, 2008

Obama: Leave My Terrorist Friends Alone!

This attempt by Barack Obama to minimize the murderous acts of his long-time terrorist friends is pathetic.

Allahpundit notes:

His argument is so weak that it doesn't really qualify as an argument: Yes, we're friendly, but it's ancient history and I denounced what he did, so what’s the big deal about socializing with, um, an unrepentant terrorist? As for the submoronic point about Ayers's crimes having been committed when Obama was eight — a staple of the left's feeble defense of him on this subject — imagine what the reaction would be if Bobby Jindal, say, had struck up a chummy pen pal correspondence with Charles Manson while in his late 20s.

Charles Manson, you say? Yes we can.

On the morning of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times (including many who would never be able to read the paper again), I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. In retrospect, the article's headline could not have been more flesh-crawling: "No Regrets for a Love of Explosives." The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s' Weather Underground, America's first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.

"I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers was quoted in the opening line of the Times' profile. "I feel we didn't do enough." In 1969, Ayers and his wife convened a "War Council" in Flint, Mich., whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World revolutionaries conquer and destroy it. Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather miniskirt -- her signature uniform -- Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast." Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson, whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight " (the pregnant actress Sharon Tate had been stabbed in her womb with a fork), Dohrn shouted: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild! "

Oh, yes, kids.

The lovely Ms. Dohrn, Mrs. Bill Ayers, is not just the hostess of Barack Obama's first fundraiser, but an enthusiastic fan of the way Charles Mason's cult murdered a woman who was almost nine months pregnant. Dorhn is suspected of multiple terrorist acts, including building and planting the bomb that detonated at San Francisco's Park Police Station, killing one police officer and blinding another.

Bill Ayers admits directly being involved in attacks on New York City Police Headquarters, the Capitol building, and the Pentagon.

Fellow Weathermen had 100 sticks of dynamite and boxes of roofing nails they were making into pipe bombs to massacre revelers at an non-commissioned officers dance at Fort Dix. Ayer's girlfriend at the time, Diana Oughton, was building one of the nail-filled bombs when it went off in her hands. Instead of unsuspecting soldiers and their innocent dates, these terrorists killed only themselves, that time.

Dohrn worked at the law firm of Sidley Austin thanks to Ayers family connections with the firm. Other famous lawyers at Sidley Austin you might know include summer associate Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, later Michelle Obama.

Funny, how the incestuous circle ties itself in knots.

Barack Obama has been involved with the Ayers clan since 1987, when Obama led the Developing Communities Project, a component of the ABCs Coalition coordinated by Bill Ayers and led by Ayer's father. The Woods Fund, the Chicago Anneberg Challenge... Barack and Michelle Obama has a paper trail with the Ayers clan and Bernadine Dohrn that goes back more than two decades, and appears to be not just professional, but personal. Obama felt comfortable having his first fundraiser at the home of well-known terrorists, and I wonder; did the Obama's ever return the favor, having Dorhn and Ayers as guests in their mansion? Does Barack Obama's "judgment to lead" include exposing his elementary-aged daughters to cold-blooded killers in their own home?

Barack Obama wants to convince us that it shouldn't matter that Bill Ayers, Ayer's dead terrorist bomber girlfriend, his terrorist wife and their cronies declared war on the United States and murdered its citizens. The murders, the treason, the bombings of American targets in a war they declared... all distractions. And I was eight.

The simple fact of the matter is that though he has been given numerous chances, Barack Obama will not refute his terrorist friends. Instead, he just attempts to minimize their crimes.

Americans have every right to question why.

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Thank You, Barack

I hope that I am one of the first of American gun owners to thank Barack Obama for choosing Joe Biden as his running mate. You see, I had almost forgotten just how much Joe Biden has done for gun owners and gun ownership in America, until Roger Simon reminded me.

As author of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994—also known as the Biden Crime Law according to Wikipedia—Biden's carefully-manicured hands shaped the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, a law pushed through by Democrats that specifically outlawed 19 firearms by name, and tried to outlaw many others by outlawing firearms that had two or more mostly-cosmetic features.

Because of the attempt to outlaw semi-automatic weapons by Biden and his fellow Democrats, interest in owning variations of semi-automatic rifles—and specifically those firearms Democrats ineptly tried to outlaw—began surging in 1994 and has ever slowed down, even though the law itself expired four years ago.

AR-15 and AK-pattern rifles in particular became very popular sellers during the "ban," and Biden deserves considerable credit for sparking interest in a portion of the market that until then was considered the realm of survivalists and military collectors. Now one can hardly visit a rifle shooting range without hearing the characteristic crack of a 5.56mm AR-15, or the boom of an AK-47's .30 caliber bullet, and both weapons often dominate the showcases of gun dealers. Far from banning assault weapons, the 1994 law Biden created helped marshal semi-automatics into the mainstream as some of America's best-selling firearms, while creating jobs for skilled workers at gun and ammunition companies rushing to satisfy customer demand for one of the few market segments that has kept growing.

In addition to what he's done for interest in assault rifles, we also owe Senator Biden and his fellow Democrats a special thanks for helping create an entirely new class of small, powerful, and easily concealable handguns.

One of the provisions of the 1994 law Biden drafted was a stipulation that pistol magazines would be limited to just ten rounds. At the time Biden drafted his law, American shooters were enthralled with large, heavy, service-class semi-automatic pistols with magazine capacities that seemed ever-increasing. In the age of the "wonder-nine," pistols carrying 15-18 rounds per magazine became fashionable, but Biden's law helped push the market in a radically different direction.

With handguns now limited to a specified magazine capacity by an arbitrary law, interest then grew in designing semi-auto pistols that were smaller, lighter, more powerful, and in most respects, more effective than those that came before them. An entire niche of compact and subcompact "carry guns" is directly attributable to Biden and his fellow Democrats, and these days nearly every company that make handguns serves this burgeoning market, with new models for this market sector being created every season. Entire gun companies—the very successful Kahr Arms is one shining example—arose almost purely as the result of consumer interest generated by Joe Biden's "gun ban."'

Entire shooting organizations—the IDPA, for instance—have grow as the result of Joe Biden's work, and interest in existing shooting sports in general has also greatly increased. It is fair to say, without exaggeration, that this Senator with an "F" rating from the NRA has done more for shooting sports and gun ownership than any Senator in the past 25 years, even if it was all accidental.

So thank you, Barack Obama, for selecting Joe Biden as your Veep. While it may not be what you intended when you selected him as your running mate, Joe Biden is responsible for far more hope and change within the American shooting community than you could ever know.

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The Monochromatic Coalition

Unity, Obama style:

When talking with the Sun-Times, the Hillary Clinton steering committee member had a word to say about sell-outs:

Taking a final shot at Jones, Cobb said, "Calling me an 'Uncle Tom’'is beyond the pale, especially considering where he is [close] with Mayor Daley and with [Gov.] Blagojevich, I am hardly the Uncle Tom here."

Identity politics — it's what's for dinner in Denver. Can anyone doubt that this same kind of political tactic took place all over Chicago and the US? The fact that it’s still happening now says that Denver may turn out to be a meltdown — if not in front of the cameras, then off-stage.

If Team Obama wanted a show of unity from the Pepsi Center, this indicates that they haven't achieved that goal, probably because they've never set the example. For a campaign that promised post-racial politicking, its candidate and surrogates haven't been above race-baiting at the drop of a hat. This goes hand in hand with Obama's repeated baseless smears of John McCain as a racist. Emil Jones just followed Obama's lead, as Obama has followed his.

Post racial = everybody is a racist, so the word no longer has any meaning?

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August 23, 2008

Oh, the Gaffes We'll Have...

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And While Democrats Still Wait For A Special Sign from the Obamamessiah...

The rest of the world already knows Barack Obama's running mate is Joe Biden.

It's rather sad, really. Back on August 10, David Plouffe, Barak Obama's Campaign Manager, promised in an email to supporters that they could, "Be the first to know who Barack selects as his running mate."

Obama for America

Dear xxxxxxx --

Be the First to Know Barack Obama is about to make one of the most important decisions of this campaign -- choosing a running mate.

You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be the first to know his choice.

Sign up today to be the first to know:

http://my.barackobama.com/vp

You will receive an email the moment Barack makes his decision, or you can text VP to 62262 to receive a text message on your mobile phone.

Once you've signed up, please forward this email to your friends, family, and coworkers to let them know about this special opportunity.

No other campaign has done this before. You can be part of this important moment.

Be the first to know who Barack selects as his running mate.

Thanks,

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

But the email and text message quite obviously didn't come to them first as the campaign promised.

If Barackophiles went to FoxNews.com, or CNN, or the NY Times instead of signing up for a silly little text message to be delivered sometime tomorrow morning, they would already know Biden is Obama's pick.

It's got to be disappointing when you discover that the candidate you helped elect into office lied to you. It must be worse to find out he's lying to you, when he hasn't even nailed down the nomination yet.

Disappointment? Buyer's Remorse? Disillusionment?

Check.

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August 22, 2008

They're Baaack...

And you thought it was over...

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August 21, 2008

Crazy So Deep It Needs A Lifeguard

So, you thought that the validation of Barack Obama's printed, notarized birth certificate by FactCheck.org would be enough to shut down the Obama Truth Movement^TM (OTM)?

Guess again, suckers. A PUMA is suing to stop Obama's nomination:

In the lawsuit, Berg states that Sen. Obama was born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii as the senator maintains. Before giving birth, according to the lawsuit, Obama's mother traveled to Kenya with his father but was prevented from flying back to Hawaii because of the late stage of her pregnancy, "apparently a normal restriction to avoid births during a flight." As Sen. Obama's own paternal grandmother, half-brother and half-sister have also claimed, Berg maintains that Stanley Ann Dunham--Obama's mother--gave birth to little Barack in Kenya and subsequently flew to Hawaii to register the birth.

Berg cites inconsistent accounts of Sen. Obama's birth, including reports that he was born at two separate hospitals--Kapiolani Hospital and Queens Hospital--in Honolulu, as well a profound lack of birthing records for Stanley Ann Dunham, though simple "registry of birth" records for Barack Obama are available in a Hawaiian public records office.

And just so we're clear here: this latest attempt to disqualify Barack Obama is fratricide—sniping done by Hillary Clinton supporters loyal to the Democratic Party, and not by Republicans.

Just like the rumors of a Michelle Obama "whitey" tape.

Just like attempts to claim Obama never registered for the Selective Service.

Just like an attempt to claim Obama is a Muslim, and an Indonesian ineligible for executive office, because of what his step-father wrote on a school registration form when he was a child.

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New Ad: Ayers Succeeded Where Bin Laden Failed. What Kind of Friends Do You Have There, Barack?

Simple, direct, and to the point.

Ben Smith at the Politico really disgraces himself by trying to start the meme that the ad tries to smear Obama as a Muslim and Muslims as de facto terrorists.

Uh, Ben? Bill Ayers—Barack's buddy of more than two decades—is not a Muslim.

Nice try there, Bucket, but you can't carry the water on this one.

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Death of a Breastman?

University of Iowa political science professor Arthur Miller, accused of trying to trade amateur mammography for grades, has gone armed and missing:

Officers are walking Hickory Hill Park, a 185-acre wooded park in northeast Iowa City, through the rain to see if they can find Arthur Miller, a 66-year-old political science professor who was last heard from Tuesday morning.

Police believe Miller has a high-powered rifle and intends to harm himself. There is no evidence he wants to harm others, police said, but the park is still closed and nearby residents have been warned not to linger in their yards.

Miller's cell phone, wallet and ammunition were found in his car, located outside the park Wednesday morning.

It sounds like the authorities expect a suicide, which, considering the public embarrassment and potential of a lengthy prison sentence, isn't all that surprising.

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Charming! Obama's Only Executive Role A Disaster

Anyone the least bit familiar with Barack Obama's rise to power knows "hope" and "change" are just words; he's built his career the old-fashioned way, by making powerful allies and casting those no longer useful to him aside.

It is those same business-as-usual allies in Chicago that are now protecting Obama from deeper scrutiny of his 21-year relationship with the Ayers family, specifically his involvement in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with infamous domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

At the moment the internal documents for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge are in a special collection at the Richard J. Daley Library. Think they'll ever see the light of day?

As the Chicago Tribune's John Kass put it:

The relationship between the ambitious Obama and the unrepentant Ayers is a subject that excites Republicans, who haven't really thwacked that pinata as hard as they might. It really irritates Obama and his political champion, Chicago's sovereign lord, Mayor Richard M. Daley.

"This is a public entity," Kurtz told us Wednesday. "I don't understand how confidentiality of the donor would be an issue."

You don't understand, Mr. Kurtz? Allow me to explain. The secret is hidden in the name of the library:

The Richard J. Daley Library.

Eureka!

The Richard J. Daley Library doesn't want nobody nobody sent. And Richard J.'s son, Shortshanks, is now the mayor.

Kurtz can forget about getting his hands on those documents in any useful form, and the only way they'll come to light before November is if the mainstream media starts to get irate that Obama is abusing their love for him one again. Even if that were to happen, odds are that any documents released would be "sanitized" to remove embarrassing or incriminating information. The Chicago political machine, if anything, is a wood chipper.

Not all the Chicago Annenberg Challenge documents were buried, however. At least until a few managed to slip out before the door was slammed. Those documents that have been uncovered seem to indicate Barack Obama was a spectacularly incompetent chairman, blowing through tens of millions of dollars of grant money with little or nothing to show for it.

Well, that's not entirely true.

At least $175,000 was funneled to Ayers friend, SDS radical, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Barack Obama supporter Mike Klonsky's Small School Workshop. For a man who gripes about corporate handouts, it seems quite possible that Obama and Ayers may have used Annenberg Foundation grants as a form of welfare for radicals.

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Obama's Twisted Argument for Infanticide

I heard an audio clip purporting to be Barack Obama's argument again the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) last night, but wasn't 100% sure that the audio is Obama.

Ed Morrissey notes that Guy Benson was able to dig up the Illinois legislature transcripts featuring Obama's arguments against BAIPA, and then Ed proceeds to take Obama's convoluted arguments for infanticide apart.

This passage is really remarkable for the willfully obtuse nature of Obama's arguments. By the time this debate took place, Jill Stanek had already revealed that doctors weren't providing medical care to infants born alive during abortions, at Christ Hospital, and a subsequent investigation proved that other abortion providers also abandoned such infants to die. That was the entire reason for the debate. Obama acts as if this is some curious academic hypothesis.

Instead of addressing the actual issue of infanticide, Obama twists it into a protection for abortion. He frames his own hypothetical as an abortion "for the health of the mother", but the circumstances of the mother's health has no bearing at all on whether a live infant should receive medical care. How would treating a live infant threaten the health of the mother?

Obviously, there is no physical connection between the care of the live baby and that of the mother once the baby has been born. This seems to leave us with just two options.

(1). Either Barack Obama is such a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth left wing ideologue that he blinded himself to the fact that the Born Alive Infant Protection Act was not about the abortion rights of the mother, but the right to life-saving medical care for the living human baby, or;

(2). He was well aware of what the bill was about, and coldly chose for infanticide, not once, not twice, but on three separate votes for reasons he either cannot explain or will not explain to avoid being viewed as a monster.

As a man who coldly stated that he would see his own grandchild aborted because he wouldn't want his daughters "punished with a baby" as the result of an unplanned pregnancy, anything is possible.

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"We Were Soldiers" CMoH Hero Pilot Passes

Ed Freeman, a helicopter pilot that flew fourteen missions into a hot landing zone to re-supply the 7th Cavalry and evacuate wounded soldiers in the Ia Drang Valley, has died at 80.

Check out Argghhh! for more.

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