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Barry’s intentions

In the verbal rugby at my OCS email group over why we should/should not vote for Barry, his champions have turned to CAPITAL LETTERS to express their indignation that the establishment media is wasting time over Barry’s "allegedly" calling Sarah a pig, when it should be discussing "the issues." Good Dems always get exercised when the MSM steps (oh, so, momentarily) outside its habit of criticizing Republicans to criticize one of their nobles. It certainly is one of the few, if not the only times, the sycophantic media has questioned His Holiness.

I side with Treacher on this one. Barry certainly did mean to call Sarah a pig, and his audience certainly picked it up that way. Just as he meant to give Hillary the finger back in the spring when she dared to criticize him in a debate. He folds under pressure. Not a good sign for a wouldbe president. Moreover, after twenty years in the pews of his racist Chicago church, Barry’d probably like to whack Whitey a lot more than he has. But he knows that he can’t do that and get elected. So he allows himself to wallow in the safer mud of sexism. As for "the issues," that’s the standard Dem dodge, only trotted out when they seem to be in danger of losing. As, indeed, they certainly are. Surprise, surprise.

Waiting for Ike

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Too soon to be sure but Lower Colorado River Authority meteorologist Bob Rose says we could be in for heavy rain and strong winds if, after going ashore near Corpus Christi Saturday morning, the remnants of Ike decide to head north to Austin. It’s more likely now, as the new track has it coming to us as still a tropical storm. So we’ll plan on battening the hatches.

Adios Joe?

Unlike the ridiculous idea of Sarah’s self-destruction, Barry’s dumping of aging political plagiarist Joe Biden in favor of, say, Hillary Rodham, doesn’t seem so far-fetched. Some otherwise-sane people are betting on it. More likely, I think, is Barry finally accepting one of those town hall invitations that Mac has been extending since, oh, at least June–so I can retire the counter over there on the sidebar.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Here’s Spengler, in the Asia Times, predicting Barry surely will lose without HRC.

What media bias?

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Via Texas Rainmaker. No surprise, of course, to most Americans.

Fresh Bilge: Palin vs Obama

Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, is a good writer and thinker. I don’t always agree with him, but I always enjoy reading him. But this time he outdid his usual good work, so I’m posting it. An excerpt:

"The cultural contrasts of Obama and McCain are stark enough, but those of Palin and Obama are even more revealing, because these two are contemporaries: their clash will define America in the Twenty-First Century, while Biden and McCain are figures from a receding past. From this point on, it will really be Palin versus Obama. And she will win, because she is a formed and grounded grownup, while Obama is only a character in his own memoir."

Read the whole thing. Unless you dislike Palin. In which case, what are you doing here?

Watching the RNC

I said I might and sure enough I did. Couldn’t resist Pajamas TV, so I signed up for the cheapie subscription for three months and enjoyed the RNC dog-and-pony show with conservative/libertarian comment, for a change. Excellant video and audio with rare delays, only two I recall.

Especially liked Fred Thompson’s line about how Baby Barry will raise taxes, but not to worry, it won’t be your taxes, just business taxes. So, he continued, if you don’t buy bread, milk, or gasoline, or get a paycheck from a business, large or small, why, you have nothing to worry about. Heh.

But Lieberman was the best. Interesting wrinkle, having the passionate maverick Dem talk up his friend, the maverick Republican, and his maverick veep. I like the way he starts almost every sentence with "my friends," rather than "my fellow Americans," or some such. Or no salutation at all. Makes you feel like a friend.

Tonight, it’s Sarah’s turn, and I sure don’t want to miss her. I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t top BB’s reported forty million viewers for his Obamacles peroration.

That enthralling voice

Baby Barry as the corrupted wizard Saruman from LOTR? So says the Seablogger in what some might see as a stretch. But when it works, it works, and it sure works for me.