Category Archives: Scribbles

Indeed, Barry creeps me out

A friend and sometimes reader says he finds some of my political humor offensive. Well, the truth is, almost nothing I write about politics is intended to be humorous. For instance, I seldom see Baby Barry as a subject for wit. I call him a baby, not to try to be funny, but because he has almost no experience, political or otherwise. Only the Democrats, who have thoroughly shamed themselves since 9/11, would be callous enough to nominate an empty suit like him primarily for his race.

Indeed, like Rick Moran, I find a lot of what BB does and says to be creepy: His "royal we" talk, the changing of the presidential seal, his radical (ACORN) background and radical (Ayers) and racist (Wright) friends and mentors, the speaking as if he was already president, and the way ** everything he does is a press release. I also agree with Ms. Ferraro who was shouted down when she said he wouldn’t be where he is today if he was white. That’s so obviously true. But, in the end, I guess I do find him hard to take very seriously. This, for instance, doesn’t surprise me. I’ve never believed he could win. Americans are too smart to put him in the White House.

Inspired, in part, by Fresh Bilge.

** This item seems to be in dispute. More at the link.

Edwards-Hunter scandal grows

First Fox News picked up on it, and now the Philadelphia Daily News–or at least a column on their Web version–is saying "it may be true." The PDN is overlooking Fox’s corroboration of a major part of the National Enquirer’s initial work, but maybe that’s on purpose. Anyhow, it’s a start.

OOPS:  Well, now, I see, via Mickey Kaus at Slate, that the Charlotte Observer preceded even Fox.

Mac backs ban on affirmative action

In Arizona, that is, the latest state whose voters are taking up the referendum cudgel against quotas–which certainly had a value in the late 60s and early 70s but have merely become unfair now that they are institutionalized, almost half a century later.

Baby Barry, a quota boy himself (how did you think he got into Harvard), is "disappointed," of course, calling it "divisive." How predictable. The real "divisiveness" is the minority quota system, itself. Elect BB and you will only get a whole lot more of it. Meanwhile, the referendum process is under assault–by, well, what do you know, the same people who want more quotas.

Childe Barry

"And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child’s journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over."

Better than any old bounce in the polls, eh?

Via Simply Jews. 

Scooped

The Dinosaur Media continues to ignore the Edwards-Hunter sex scandal which every supermarket shopper is aware of and the conservative blogosphere has been chewing over for five days. Thus the DM is merely making itself look ridiculous. Not to mention double-standard. Even their Brit subsidiary, with a lot less to lose politically, is upstaging them. The "progressive" blogs–the so-called netroots, or nutroots if you disagree–also are out to lunch, so far.

UPDATE:  Well, Fox is in.

The foreign vote

Baby Barry, apparently, has the German vote. Mac has–believe it or not–at least some of the North Vietnamese vote:

"If I were an American, I’d vote for McCain."

Via PajamasMedia.

The sermon to the Germans

Looks like this could be an all-Baby Barry day. But, really, going all the way to Berlin to give a rousing speech to, the Germans? Why not a rousing speech in Des Moines? What is this guy running for, chancellor? Maybe he could get them to send some troops to Afghanistan, which he says he cares so much about? He asked for it, but others have asked. I suppose this is the fruit of growing up in Indonesia. If he’d grown up in the U.S. he’d know better. Maybe.

 As it stands, BB, you have about as much chance of being elected president of the U.S. as Bob the Builder, the British fellow whose slogan ("Yes-We-Can") you stole, as every five-year-old knows. Heck, you confuse them. Where are Scoop, Muck and Wendy? I haven’t spent much time listening to Rush Limbaugh, but he’s got your pomposity down perfectly–which is why the Nancy Pelosis and Harry Reids want so bad to get him off the air.

UPDATE:  As David Brooks says BB’s speech "…was the end of history on acid."