"…promise to offer a $300 million [federal] prize for the development of a battery that would ‘allow the leapfrogging of the current generation’ of electric and plug-in hybrid cars." And, of course, drilling off our East and West coasts and in Alaska for more oil.
Hey, a prize was good enough to spur Charles Lindbergh to fly the Atlantic. All Baby Barry has come up with is fining the oil companies. As if that would do anything for gas prices.
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Tagged battery challenge prize, Gas prices, McCain, Obama
Of course the Dems are going to run ads attacking Mac. The Repubs sure are going to run them attacking Baby Barry. But do the Dems have to lie so blatantly? They’re still retailing that distortion of Mac’s hundred years comment regarding Iraq. Beyond that, however, this anti-military ad–courtesy of TFG–with the Uma Thurmann look-alike saying McCain can’t have her precious baby boy, is quite a hoot. Just wait until Alex grows up a little and sees the G.I. Joe action figures at the supermarket, then figures out that half the guys at his pre-school are playing with plastic soldiers or watching Power Ranger videos. Scream your head off, mom, and forbid all you want. That will just make him more inclined to enlist when he’s eighteen. As he should, if he’s got any gumption.
UPDATE: NYTimes "fact checks" the ad, at least debunking the lie, but then inserting its own dubious ad calling Iraq "an overwhelmingly unpopular war." No surprise that the video is a product of MoveOn.org, the same folks who libeled Gen. Petraeus in a full-page NYT ad. But MoveOn’s partner in it, according to the NYT, is a shocker: the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Good grief.
MORE: Don Surber suggests little Alex’s side of the conversation, via Doug Ross @ Journal:
"Hi John McCain."
"This is Alex."
"I realize you cannot pick your family."
"But sheesh."
"What a dingbat I have for a mother."
"She’s a loon."
"Single mom."
"Eats seaweed."
"Calls the dog her ‘animal companion.’"
"Doesn’t bathe because soap is made from oil and she wants to reduce her carbon footprint."
"You can see why she’s a single mom."
"Fortunately, Dad was a regular guy."
"An Alex P. Keaton type."
"Maybe that’s how I got my name."
"Look, about this Iraq thing."
"Can I sign up now?"
"I know I’m little and all and way underage."
"But you gotta save me. She’s a loon."
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Tagged Don Surber, DougRoss@Journal, G.I. Joe action figures, hundred years in Iraq distortion, McCain, Obama, plastic soldiers
Baby Barry and Mac apparently can’t agree on the formats for more than a few "debates," as contrived as the "debates" have been in the past and likely will continue to be. Baby Barry’s got the money and, so far, the polls and so he has no reason to give Mac anything. Can’t blame him for that. As for Mac, well, some of the Seablogger’s pessimism is starting to rub off on me. Mac the moderate better get off it and start explaining why he champions the Iraq campaign and why the rest of us better suck it up, too. There are good arguments, but he needs to make them and not try to duck the whole thing. Starting here, where even the Dem thinktankers agree, would be a good idea.
Baby Barry loves it, the Supremes ignoring precedent to hand out Constitutional rights to alien enemies captured abroad. McCain is appalled, and he’s not alone.
"’The Nation will live to regret what the Court ha[s] done today,’ Justice Antonin Scalia writes in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush. Fred Thompson thinks so, too.
I immediately thought of President Lincoln, who suspended habeus corpus for every American during the Civil War, and the South hadn’t even knocked down any buildings with thousands of people in them.
UPDATE: All hail the imperial court. It’s for sure the jihadis will. In practical terms, however, it could boil down to our troops taking a lot fewer prisoners. They’re not likely to jeopardize their own lives to keep the imperial court happy.
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Posted in The War
Tagged Boumediene v. Bush, habeus corpus, Justice Antonin Scalia, McCain, Obama, U.S. Supreme Court
Harken to the tortured cry of the lying looney-bird, explaining why McCain should not be president:
[Iowa Democrat Tom] Harkin said that "it’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up."
Apparently this is why we need the Weightless Man in the White House whose inexperience includes no military service or tradition thereof. Insane. Harkin has trouble with heroes because he was only a phony one himself, several times over, in fact. Quite the liar, this particular Dumbocrat.
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Tagged Harkin, McCain, military service, Obama, The Weightless Man
I think the liberal breakdown, when McCain wins the presidency, will be much more severe than after Bush was re-elected. I know several whose worlds crashed and burned. Just wait’ll Barry swan dives.
More Burkean than, for instance, Gingrich: "To movement conservatives, McCain represented heresy. But to the conservative movement, he represented a return to home truth." —Jonathan Rauch
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