On Politics. Joe Biden is Obama’s vice president. Let the games begin. He is giving a speech as I write. Following Obama’s introduction he comes off as a pathetic speaker. They are not going to immediately campaign together. This probably is smart because he simply cannot follow Obama on the stump; he just does not give a speech the way Obama does. His first gaff, in my opinion, was to reference McCain’s multiple houses. This man lives in a 1.3 million dollar house, too. He may have started out poor in Scranton, Pennsylvania, but he is certainly no longer a poor man. He said that Americans sit around the kitchen table to discuss how to pay the bills and make ends meet in these difficult times created by Bush and McCain. (Note that, not Bush/Cheney, but Bush/McCain.) I have to doubt that he or Barack sit around the table in the kitchen after the kids are in bed to talk about these kinds of financial difficulties. McCain does not either, I expect, but so what? Isn’t it the American dream to get rich? Obama in his speech said that it was time for a tax policy that rewarded work not wealth. What kind of a policy is that? Is he suggesting that we all work for free? Isn’t it the goal of work to accumulate wealth? I know what he meant—tax the rich, but that is not what he said.
Additionally, Joe Biden is a pro-choice Catholic. That should give Republicans food for attack ads. Biden voted for the war and floated the idea of splitting Iraq into ethnic enclaves. He is a 35 year Senator with a history of gaffs. The best one, I think, is that he had to withdraw from the 1988 presidential campaign when it became known that he plagiarized part of a speech, something Obama has done and it all rolled off while he rolled on. They are two birds of a feather except nothing sticks to Obama.
And what about Hillary? The last thing for her and Bill to do will be to disrupt the convention. I am deeply disappointed that she will not be running for anything. It is taking all the fun out of this election and I am going to miss her. While I do think that it still can be lost by John McCain, I also think that with this VP choice, Obama did the Republicans a huge favor and probably handed them the election.
On the Biden biography, it struck me that a man born in 1942 had depression parents and most people from the depression era have a similar story of odd jobs and hardscrabble life during those years and for some years thereafter. The war years, although there were suddenly many jobs and wages were good, were years of scarcity that continued to make life hard for everyone.
I signed up to get the e-mail that would announce Obama’s VP, but before that happened, an invitation arrived inviting me to train as a campaign helper....
Dear Friend,
I want to tell you about an exciting program we're launching in Illinois. It's called Camp Obama.
During this two-day session, people like you will be taking their support for this movement to the next level by learning the organizing principles that this campaign and our movement for change are built on.
Camp Obama attendees will receive real world organizing experience that will have a direct impact on this election. Graduates of Camp Obama will go on to become Deputy Field Organizers who will lead this campaign to victory in crucial battleground states around the country.
By participating in Camp Obama, you'll get the kind of experience that Barack got as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, where he learned that real change happens from the bottom up.
That experience transformed Barack's life and made him who he is today.
Camp Obama is your chance to put those very same principles into action -- to win this election and to strengthen democracy in communities around the country.
After completing the program, you'll be required to work as a Deputy Field Organizer in a battleground state where you'll be organizing supporters and helping lead our grassroots Get Out The Vote operation.
Apply for a spot at a Camp Obama near you and become a leader in our movement for change:
This campaign relies on the passion and enthusiasm of ordinary supporters, but it needs leaders who can organize those supporters and turn their enthusiasm into votes on Election Day.
Camp Obama is your chance to step up and become a leader in this movement.
I would love to go to that camp. Now is McCain going to organize like this? Probably not.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
It's a crazy day again. We are waiting on pins and needles for Obama's VP pick. I wish it was going to be Hillary and I still can't rule out some kind of disruption by the Clintons. They surely have not changed their innate character. It seems, however, that Obama has not even vetted her. So we wait. But we are not idle. We are reading the number one Amazon book Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. This book was written for the express purpose of exploring and exposing the public policy agenda of Barak Obama. This is the same author that gave us the Swift Boat book during the 2004 election cycle. He has done the same great job with this book. I am almost finished. It is fascinating. Living in the People's Republic of Illinios, the papers were full of the Rezko trial. If any association of Obama's should sink him, it is this the one. But no, no one on the radical Marxist left seems to be listening. Or they are using their selective hearing and are purposely not hearing all the evidence that Obama is a Chicago Marxist liberal with no experience, lots of shady connections and friends, and a worldview that should scare the liver out of every liberty loving American. But no. Saturday is going to be a facinating day in Illinios.
Aug. 5, 2008
On Everything Because It’s All Intertwined. I am rewriting this entry because this computer made the original disappear. On this day I wrote that the world had gone crazy, the election was crazier, and for craziest person of the year I nominated Nancy Pelosi for adjourning Congress and literally turning out the lights while Republicans remained speaking on the floor. She turn off C-SPAN and turned a deaf ear to the American public who want a vote on off shore drilling and other energy legislation to help with the current crisis. I have never watched C-SPAN, but if she would turn it back on I sure would now. A courageous bunch of Republicans continue to speak from the darkened floor of the House, while the rest of the House is on vacation. The Democrats are holding up the business of the country and worse just ONE Democrat—Speaker Pelosi, which brings me to the book I finished that day--The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Death of Reconstruction. This book by Charles Lane is an eerie story. No one who reads this should every feel the same about the security of our liberty in the face of government, especially the judiciary branch.
Basically, free black men in Colfax, Louisiana were murdered on an Easter Sunday morning April 3, 1883. The ensuing investigation revealed that many of the outgunned blacks were shot execution style after they were captured. A courageous U.S. attorney in New Orleans worked tirelessly to bring the case to court only to have the outcome undermined by a Supreme Court justice and then to have the convictions overturned by the same Court. The Supreme Court decision left the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments stripped of their “privileges or immunities” clauses for use in federal civil rights prosecutions (p.261). The case’s precedent is still used today. All the federal civil rights thereafter derived from these amendments come from the “due process” and “equal protection” clauses. Even worse, it left the anti-black Democrats in control of Louisiana, and they are still in control. Remember Hurricane Katrina? It was these same Democrats who were in charge when the hurricane hit and everything fell apart. It is serious food for thought. Where might we be today if this case had had a different outcome? Also it illustrates that the Supreme Court has had many bad moments. Roe v. Wade, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Dread Scot may be the most famous disastrous decisions, but many bad decisions have been made over the years, and the state of the court today is really not very different than as it has been at many other times in the history of our country. These same Democrats are trying to take away our ability to get out from under foreign oil which has all of us enslaved today. They do not change.
On Everything Because It’s All Intertwined. I am rewriting this entry because this computer made the original disappear. On this day I wrote that the world had gone crazy, the election was crazier, and for craziest person of the year I nominated Nancy Pelosi for adjourning Congress and literally turning out the lights while Republicans remained speaking on the floor. She turn off C-SPAN and turned a deaf ear to the American public who want a vote on off shore drilling and other energy legislation to help with the current crisis. I have never watched C-SPAN, but if she would turn it back on I sure would now. A courageous bunch of Republicans continue to speak from the darkened floor of the House, while the rest of the House is on vacation. The Democrats are holding up the business of the country and worse just ONE Democrat—Speaker Pelosi, which brings me to the book I finished that day--The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Death of Reconstruction. This book by Charles Lane is an eerie story. No one who reads this should every feel the same about the security of our liberty in the face of government, especially the judiciary branch.
Basically, free black men in Colfax, Louisiana were murdered on an Easter Sunday morning April 3, 1883. The ensuing investigation revealed that many of the outgunned blacks were shot execution style after they were captured. A courageous U.S. attorney in New Orleans worked tirelessly to bring the case to court only to have the outcome undermined by a Supreme Court justice and then to have the convictions overturned by the same Court. The Supreme Court decision left the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments stripped of their “privileges or immunities” clauses for use in federal civil rights prosecutions (p.261). The case’s precedent is still used today. All the federal civil rights thereafter derived from these amendments come from the “due process” and “equal protection” clauses. Even worse, it left the anti-black Democrats in control of Louisiana, and they are still in control. Remember Hurricane Katrina? It was these same Democrats who were in charge when the hurricane hit and everything fell apart. It is serious food for thought. Where might we be today if this case had had a different outcome? Also it illustrates that the Supreme Court has had many bad moments. Roe v. Wade, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Dread Scot may be the most famous disastrous decisions, but many bad decisions have been made over the years, and the state of the court today is really not very different than as it has been at many other times in the history of our country. These same Democrats are trying to take away our ability to get out from under foreign oil which has all of us enslaved today. They do not change.
Aug. 11, 2008
On Books. I just finished two books that explore the war on terror--one fiction, one non-fiction. The Last Patriot by Brad Thor is fiction which explores the idea of a lost revelation to Mohammed that would radically change the message of Islam and end radical Islam’s argument for violence against infidels. It is fast paced, well written, and very satisfying. It is rooted in well researched history about Thomas Jefferson and the United States’ first encounter with radical Islam. Something that Thor does with this book is to separate the fact from the fiction in his story. I appreciate this because I am always bugged when I don’t know where the fact ends and the fiction begins.
The other book is by Oliver North and is a short first history on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Titled American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam, it is based in large part on North’s many trips to Afghanistan and Iraq as a correspondent for Fox News. It is full of great pictures taken in the war zones. A particularly good feature of the book is the insets of medal citations for medal recipients for bravery in the wars—stories rarely heard or seen in a war covered by much of the media solely in negative terms.
I finished three other books, too. This is what I have been doing instead of writing. I dug out the J.A. Jance books stashed at my house, put them in order, and started in. In her J.P. Beaumont series about a Seattle homicide detective, I read the first two, Until Proven Guilty and Injustice for All. They are formulaic, but fast moving one and a half day books, a good distraction. But I am interested in how the stories are developed. Jance now has at least eighteen books in this series alone. I have read number seventeen Long Time Dead, and it was very good. The third book is Day of the Dead, the first in her newest series about an organization called The Last Chance or TLC. TLC is funded by the bequeathal of a wealthy widow whose daughter was murdered and her killer never found. Its mandate is to look into unsolved homicides, usually brought to the organizations attention by relatives after law enforcement has stopped looking. This first book in the series was brutal. These books do not appear to be for the weak stomached. This one was, however, far more complex than the early Beaumont series. I will keep reading. There are at least thirty-three books in three series by Jance.
On Books. I just finished two books that explore the war on terror--one fiction, one non-fiction. The Last Patriot by Brad Thor is fiction which explores the idea of a lost revelation to Mohammed that would radically change the message of Islam and end radical Islam’s argument for violence against infidels. It is fast paced, well written, and very satisfying. It is rooted in well researched history about Thomas Jefferson and the United States’ first encounter with radical Islam. Something that Thor does with this book is to separate the fact from the fiction in his story. I appreciate this because I am always bugged when I don’t know where the fact ends and the fiction begins.
The other book is by Oliver North and is a short first history on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Titled American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam, it is based in large part on North’s many trips to Afghanistan and Iraq as a correspondent for Fox News. It is full of great pictures taken in the war zones. A particularly good feature of the book is the insets of medal citations for medal recipients for bravery in the wars—stories rarely heard or seen in a war covered by much of the media solely in negative terms.
I finished three other books, too. This is what I have been doing instead of writing. I dug out the J.A. Jance books stashed at my house, put them in order, and started in. In her J.P. Beaumont series about a Seattle homicide detective, I read the first two, Until Proven Guilty and Injustice for All. They are formulaic, but fast moving one and a half day books, a good distraction. But I am interested in how the stories are developed. Jance now has at least eighteen books in this series alone. I have read number seventeen Long Time Dead, and it was very good. The third book is Day of the Dead, the first in her newest series about an organization called The Last Chance or TLC. TLC is funded by the bequeathal of a wealthy widow whose daughter was murdered and her killer never found. Its mandate is to look into unsolved homicides, usually brought to the organizations attention by relatives after law enforcement has stopped looking. This first book in the series was brutal. These books do not appear to be for the weak stomached. This one was, however, far more complex than the early Beaumont series. I will keep reading. There are at least thirty-three books in three series by Jance.
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