You remember the feeling you had the first time you realized a vast difference in your perception of something from your childhood, and reality? A first return to a childhood home, where you remembered an endless hall to slide sock-footed down, only to find it stilted in comparison to your memory? Maybe a slide on the playground that you remembered as towering, only now as an adult you see that it’s a mere six steps up, and less than five feet high? That feeling you have when you realize that things are not as they appeared is what I experienced again just today. Call me stupid (Crash, don’t even think about it), but I’m just now putting together the terms we’ve heard Rev. Wrong (remember, I refuse to call him Rev. Wright . . .cause he ain’t right), and others use of late.

Ignorantly, I gave Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt. When he said that he is a Christian, and that he has been faithful in his church for years, I assumed that he was talking about mainstream Christianity. If my memory serves me this time, I don’t remember ever hearing the terms  ”Black Theology”, or “Black Christian Theology”, or “Black Liberation Theology” in reference to biblical teaching within a church body of Christians. After all, Jesus died to create one race, the body of Christ, made up of Jews, Gentiles, whites, blacks, red, yellow, olive, etc, didn’t He? I have experienced a sudden insight into what they (Rev. Wrong and his supporters) have been describing. An epiphany of sorts from the simplest information, that somehow I’ve missed until today. Obama has said  that he’s a Christian, what he means is he is a ’Black Liberation Christian’. . . . that’s a whole new species. I’ve been wrong holding him to the same standards I understand a Christian to be. Not a perfect Christian mind you, just a believer in general.

This feeling of abrupt understanding was short lived, unfortunately overshadowed by my new confusion as to how the words ‘black liberation Christian’ all work in conjunction with each other. Can someone enlighten me?

Amidst all this chaos . . . God loves me . . .

Jeremiah Wright, the gift that keeps on giving, out did himself at the National Press Club today.   Just when we thought we had seen it all this pugilistic pastor proceeded to pander to the press at the expense of Barak Obama and the Dems.  His narcissistic act served to torque up the wringer on the already fully engaged donkey’s tail.  Consider the following.

This performance obviously was devastating to Obama unless…….he takes a strong and uncharacteristicly combative stance of complete repudiation of all Wright stands for.  This is highly unlikely for two reasons.

First, it is not in his make up.  Hillary Clinton learned in the two previous debates that he is not the street fighter that she is.  Consequently, she continues to goad him into further debates.  To this point he has not fallen prey to her ploy.

Secondly, by doing a 180 on Wright, Obama would likely lose many of his die hard “stick it to ‘em” contingent.  Granted, his “rock star groupies” would stick with him, but playing hardball with Wright might force Obama to ride the political pine.  He can’t risk a hard stance on this issue.

That the democrats have a problem is a gross understatement.  Obama is weakening in both substance and delivery.  Clinton is fighting like a cornered alley cat.  And don’t forget the Clinton machine.  The bloom may be leaving the Clinton rose, but they still have political saavy like no other politicians we have seen in sometime.  Also, the Clinton’s have proved themselves ruthless, with concern only for themselves and little or none for their party or for, to use the oft used political cliche, the American people.  Yes, the delegate count seems to rule out the possibility of a Clinton victory……I’m not convinced.  I thought Monica Lewinsly would take Bill Clinton down but it didn’t.  Then there was Paula Jones, Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey, lying in a deposition and an impeachment, none of which felled him.  So don’t count out the Clinton………whatever it is.

If the democrats, who obviously realize the conundrum they are in, use the super delegates to extricate them from their problem and turn to the “more electable candidate”, Hillary, they run the risk of a racial backlash.  To not do so places them in the unenviable position, in my opinion, of supporting a candidate whose strengths are the ability to use the word change 5 times in every paragraph and the blind following of a group unwilling or unable to think clearly and logically.  Not a good set of choices!

Stay tuned, there is obviously much more to come.  It just gets gooder and gooder.

He’s been doin this stuff too loooooong. Just look at the original publishing date (2006) from the political cartoon masters,  www.coxandforkum.com

And he has the brazenness to imply to Secretary Rice ‘Gosh, I didn’t know you said “Don’t go” . . . I thought you were speaking Chinese and said “Gung ho” . . . I didn’t know you really didn’t want me to go. . . jeepers!’

To quote my hero, Bugs Bunny . . . “What a maroon!”

Is anyone more anxious than I am for this traitor to quietly slither off into the sunset?

Amidst all this chaos . . . God loves me . . .

Just a quick note to thank our “Just Talking It Up” crew… our podcast is now featured in the “New and Notable” section of iTunes under the “Society and Culture” category!

The podcast and blog have shown exponential growth in just about every metric during the last two months. So, tonight, a big thumbs up to Janet, Crash, Jay, and the rest of the JTIU gang!

We’ve probably all been on a snipe hunt in our younger and more gullible years.  Well a real one was just completed with Wesley Snipe’s sentence of 3 years for tax evasion.  Three cheers for three years!  Snipes, who for years played the sniper in films, is now the snipee.  His quest for a shiny gold Oscar will be put on hold while he devours a bastille fare of Baloney Oscar for a a few months.

Conservatives almost universally are fearful of facing Obama in the Fall and believe that Senator Clinton is the easier of the two democratic candidates to defeat. Call me crazy but, as a conservative and McCain supporter I would rather face Obama than Clinton. The last few weeks have revealed his inability or unwillingness to defend his position on key areas of importance (or what should be areas of importance) to the electorate. My wife and numerous others have been vocal in their reminders to me that Obama is a rock star and is given a hall pass on substantiative issues. I concede that this has been the case. Recently, however, we have witnessed him faltering as tougher questions were posed to him. Case in point was the discussion on tax rates and revenue flow to the treasury between Obama and Charlie Gibson during the recent debate. Not only was it revealing that he whiffed on the answers but also it was refreshing that the “mainstream media” stepped up and took him to task on a critical but little known fact about the relationship between income tax rates and revenue flow into the Treasury. Gibson asked Obama to state why he felt it wise to raise income tax rates when history has shown that by so doing revenues to the treasury have invariably declined. When, however, rates were reduced (as happened in the 20′s, the 60′s, during the Regan administration and by George Bush 43 after 9/11) tax revenue flow into the Treasury increased substantially. Obama attempted to escape by discussing hedge fund issues but Gibson tried to herd him back on the reservation….to no avail. Obama’s response was that “it is unfair that certain people don’t pay their fair share of taxes”. This word “fair” is the hiding place for liberals attempting to re-distrubute wealth and thereby enhance their political power.

The above highlights Obama’s inability to deal honestly with logic, history and fact and, I believe, a precursor to the possibility that he will self destruct under increasing pressure to defend positions on which he has been given a pass during primary season. Here are, what I believe, the Top Ten….plus one… other areas he will be skewered on;

10. Jeremiah Wright….this fiasco is not over….he will have an increasing inability to justify his position on his support of Wright leading one to question his stance on religion, race and the Sovreign Republic.

9. William Ayers and Bernadine Dorn….Obama’s association with these and other designated radicals to be named later will haunt him.

8. General Merrill McPeak….A relatively unknown issue is McPeak, Obama’s choice for military advisor who before his retirement succeeded at compromising the morale of the military with his kooky positions and positive stance on Iran, among many other anti US positions.

7. “Lotta Words…No Ideas”.….”Where’s The Beef” and where’s Clara Peller when we really need her.

6. The Bradley Effect…..The racial divide exists.

5. Hillary’s Defectors….Hillary’s marginal supporters will defect to McCain.

4. Global Uncertainty……Any global unrest will make voters decide that McCain is the best one to answer the red phone at 3:00….or any other time.

3. Applicable Experience….His claim to fame is as a political organizer and do nothing senator……Wow!…a do nothing senator sounds pretty good to me.

2. New Revelations…..Probably most of the dirt is out on Hillary and has been for years….the same is true of McCain….but a dollar to a donut says there is more to come on BHO.

1. Believability….McCain has a much higher credibility factor.

And Finally……Obama Will Melt Under Pressure and Confirm His Sub Presidential Abilities!

Well Billie and Hillie have, at least temporarily, pulled their bacon out of the fire with the almost double digit win in the Keystone State. Even with this mildly impressive Pennsylvania victory, the Donkey Party still finds the outcome of the democratic war in question and their tail more firmly entrenched in the proverbial wringer. I believe that by virtue of the way the the race is playing out both of the democratic candidates are finding themselves on the road to nominal marginalization. Whether either of the candidates comes out with only minor injuries or if the wounds turn out to be lethal depends on how the victory is ultimately won.

If Obama wins by running the primary table over the next few weeks and the super delegates fall in line to confirm his victory, the least amount of damage will occur to his chances against McCain in the Fall. A wild card in this scenario is whether marginal Clinton supporters will drink the Obama Kool Aid or will find McCain’s non ultra right wing stances more to their liking. Additionally, Obama’s chances may be comprimised by the Bradley Effect, a situation where polling fails to measure the unwillingness of voters to verbalize their true position on voting for a black candidate. Numerous elections have illustrated the efficacy of this phenomena as did the recent primary in Pennsylvania where Obama polled closer to Clinton before the voting and found himself almost ten percent behind at the end of the voting day. None of the above elements bode well for Obama in November.

If Clinton wins by running the table then there is legitimacy to the super delegates voting for her and she is, therefore, a viable November candidate. If, however, she is able to wrest the super delegate votes after not being ahead in delegate count going into the convention and thereby steals the nomination, Obama’s followers will stay from the polls in droves in November……victory McCain!

You may think that I am smoking my socks when I say that each verbal attack by the candidates coupled with the above scenarios causes the democrat’s tail to get wound more tightly in the wringer and their chance of victory to be diminished.  If so…join the crowd….I’m in the minority.

Ironic isn’t it. With a President whose ratings have hovered around 30% for months, an economy slipping into or already in a recession, gas approaching $4 at the pump, housing prices in the tank for the first time in 75 years and people fearful for their jobs, the democrats should be a shoe in for victory in November…..but they are working feverously to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I hope they are successful!

I apologize for the sophomoric humor. Especially in light of the fact that if this were real, there could actually be terrible injuries, and there may have been. But, funny is funny so I couldn’t help but put it up here. I was reminded of it through our friends at www.clanmcgraw.com . Thank’s Brian. It’s an oldie, but a goodie.

Amidst all this chaos . . . God loves me . . .

In listening to all the blather coming out of the ‘speeches’ tonight, I can’t help but think about the details of how we got here to begin with. Obama very effectively says (paraphrasing) “I’m here for the man sitting at the kitchen table wondering how he can make ends meet living paycheck to paycheck. . . I’m here for the family that just put their house on the market because they can’t make their payments” . . . he sounds like a hypnotist, and all his groupies are fainting in ecstasy as if  ‘I’m here for you’ means something other than it really does. Hillary sings the same song. I guess republicans do it too. It just all seems so irritatingly fluffy, and I get frustrated that so many people are ‘moved’ by eloquent but meaningless words.

It’s not very romantic so I suppose it wouldn’t win any votes, but I’d so much rather hear someone be honest and come out and say something like ‘You know what, we Americans got here by making stupid decisions in our lifestyles. Expecting something for nothing, buying houses we can’t really afford, living way beyond our means on credit, and being painfully unable to delay gratification. Well, it’s not governments job to bail your stupid lazy ___ out, but we’ll help you make the right decisions if you ask us, and give you a little encouragement until you get back on your feet. You may have to sell that expensive house, get out from under that balloon and take a pay cut in the process, but we’ll provide a job for you. You may not get a company car, but there’s plenty of good hard work to go around, and government can help you get that. The feeling we’ll get when we find out just how strong and independent we Americans are, is like nothing in the world. It’s what sets us apart from the rest. I’d like to be your president, and help us be the strongest, fiercest, richest, kindest most benevolent country in the world. That’s the America I know we can be again if we work together. But it will take work. On my part AND your part. Not to mention sacrifice’.

Oh well. It’ll never happen because the truth doesn’t make people faint at political rallies. And we all know that if you can’t make voters faint, you can’t be a good president.

Amidst all this chaos . . . God loves me . . .

Just Talking It Up Episode 7 is now available in the player on the left sidebar of the blog!

In JTIU #7, hear how ‘Crash’ crashes D.C! Also, who would have ever thought that Janet and ‘Crash’ have very different ideas on who they want as the DNC candidate? Listen as they have a debate of their own . . . “Just Talking It Up” style! Always fun . . . always informative . . . and always RIGHT!