JUST KEEPING IT REAL.

AND THIS IS ONLY TIL THE END OF MAY, 2008.

MINGLE ISN'T BIG ENOUGH TO CATCH THEM ALL HERE.



http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/21/barack-obama-gaffe-machine/


Barack Obama: Gaffe machine
By Michelle Malkin • May 21, 2008 07:43 AM Here’s my syndicated column this week. Hardly a comprehensive list–and sure to grow.

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Barack Obama: Gaffe machine
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:

* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.

*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:

“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”

*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:

“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”

I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.

*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”

“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Barack Obama–promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah–is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?

not so big a gaffe after all, huh?

sounds like mcCain gets it and you don't.





www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270 -

updated 3:03 p.m. PT, Fri., Sept. 19, 2008
NEW YORK - Wall Street extended a huge rally Friday as investors stormed back into the market, relieved that the government plans to restore calm to the financial system by rescuing banks from billions of dollars in bad debt. The Dow Jones industrials rose about 370 points, giving them a massive gain of about 780 over two days, and Treasurys fell as money flowed into equities.

The government’s proposal, while still a work in progress, has placated investors who worried that a continuum of bad bets on mortgages would hobble more financial companies and cause further damage to the strained banking system and the overall economy.

“If a solid plan is put in place, it’s definitely going to be a positive in easing the pain,” said Stephen Carl, principal and head of equity trading at The Williams Capital Group. He added, though, that the set-up of any plan will determine its success.

and for the next two days, the market rallied and not only recovereed the losses of that day, but added to the value of equities by that much more in trading by the close friday.


That week, bank stocks appreciated by 50% or better.


buyers getting in on the trough made a killing.

just thought you'd like to kow.




AIG soared as well.


but it's not over.

not by any means.

Senator Robert Dole spent his career carrying a pen in his polio deformed hand that was of little use to him.


very few Americans ever noticed.

It never got thrown in his face, but he addressed it in his bid for the presidency.

one has to wonder........

It is the content and character of the man that leads well that is what we ought to focus on, not how pretty and fresh his flesh appears to be.

looks can be very deceiving.

so does nobama when he is pouring the KOOL AID.

His slogan of "yes we can" has a ring to it, huh?

somewhere in here I shared the obama site offering to give you your neighbors phone numbers so you can proselytize his message for him.

He has wonderful tracts for you to download and print.

He teaches you what to say and how to approach them and coerce them into registering to vote and vote for him.

That is drinking the KOOL AID.

sounds like a religious mission to me....he loves presching to the choir and working them up to sing his song.



Funny how I am getting blamed for nobama's tactics.

we thrive staying away from the KOOL AID!!!!!!!!!!

YOU WISH!!!!!!!!


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[from a kid's sugar-enriched drink in fruity flavors] When someone who should know better succumbs to marketing influences and actually begins to believe the propaganda being dished out by a vendor, they are said to have drunk the Kool-Aid. Usually the decortication process is slow and almost unnoticeable until one day the victim emerges as a True Believer and begins spreading the faith himself. The term originates in the suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple cult in Guyana in 1978 (there are also resonances with Ken Kesey's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests from the 1960s) . What the Jonestown victims actually drank was cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid, a cheap knockoff, rather than Kool-Aid itself. There is a FAQ on this topic.

This has live variants. When a suit is blithering on about their latest technology and how it will save the world, that's ‘pouring Kool-Aid’. When the suit does not violate the laws of physics, doesn't make impossible claims, and in fact says something reasonable and believable, that's pouring good Kool-Aid, usually used in the sentence “He pours good Kool-Aid, doesn't he?” This connotes that the speaker might be about to drink same.
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Here is the effect of the limitations imposed on the Mann Act, which constrains the Judiciary from using it as a precedent to going after white collar crime.



Please DO NOT reduce this to a discussion of white slavery, no matter how tempting.

The point is how the law works, not the specifics of this law.


Something like this application of law to federalist governance won't fly in international free trade.

The point is to show how complicatedf this can get when attempting to go after unscrupulous civil grievances like LOSING MONEY i.e. the consentual nature of business transactions and profit oriented investment between two parties for the good of both parties.



see if you can grasp this.

http://www.granneman.com/blog/2006/06/01/the-mann-act-as-problematic-law/



From Roderick M. Hills, Jr.’s “The Federalist Capers” (Legal Affairs: May/June 2005):

BY CONTRAST WITH THE COURT’S RECORD IN ECONOMIC MATTERS, the pre-New-Deal court was oddly reluctant to impose any limits on federally sponsored cultural conservatism. The Mann Act, which prohibited any person from aiding in the interstate transportation of a “woman or girl” for “prostitution, or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose,” provides a useful illustration of the limits that judicially enforced federalism will go to.

Congress enacted the Mann Act in 1910 by comfortable majorities, in the wake of a national furor over allegations that young women were being kidnapped by syndicates of brothels and forced to work as prostitutes. In retrospect, historians explain the panic over “white slavery” as largely attributable to anxieties over immigration (the syndicates were said to be run by foreigners, especially foreign Jews) and urbanization, which led to a rise in the numbers of unaccompanied single women visible in public places.

Although the act was inspired by fears of coerced prostitution, it was soon enforced by the federal government as part of a crusade against nonmarital sex in general. As David Langum has shown in Crossing Over the Line, a large majority of the FBI’s Mann Act investigations during the 1920s was for noncommercial offenses, typically prosecutions of unmarried but romantically involved couples who crossed state lines. Even the purpose of protecting women from coercion was soon dropped. The Department of Justice took the view that the female “victim” should generally be prosecuted as a co-conspirator if she consented to “immoral” travel. Charges were frequently foregone if the “victim” married the perpetrator, suggesting that the statute was really a federal effort to protect males’ control over their wives and daughters. Though the federal government abandoned the effort to enforce the Mann Act in the 1930s against noncommercial sex, J. Edgar Hoover later used it in raids on brothels to collect information about public persons, like Charlie Chaplin, whom he regarded as subversive.

In short, the Mann Act was everything that you would expect from centralized enforcement of sexual morality - oppressive, gratuitous, and subject to all the abuses of prosecutorial discretion. The regulation of interstate transportation was a thin pretext for federal intervention, given that the act’s authors surely were not concerned that the states were somehow incompetent to regulate sexual morality within their boundaries.

In light of all of these concerns, you might expect that the Supreme Court would have found the Mann Act to be an easy case for invalidation under principles of federalism. But the court unanimously upheld the act in 1913 in Hoke v. United States, and then also upheld its application to noncommercial consensual sexual liaisons four years later in Caminetti v. United States.

it is not that easy.

corporate governance has evoved to keep the CEOs and top execs out of the line of fire of accountability.

they rule through others.

It took the Rico Statutes to get organized crime in their game.

Something apporpriate for CEOs is is not law.

unti;l then, their leadership is not accountable to any of the doings of subordinates beyond their direct control.

It is a slippery slope, to be sure.

exactly. he was old, not incapacitated.

neither is Mc Cain. He may be wounded, physically, but, he is alive and well and fit to lead, not man a shovel.

no kidding?

and the shah of Iran

and sadaam

they fought asgainst the enemies of this nation til they turned, except for the shah.
carter turned on him.

shall we let them all turn?


NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keep drinking that KOOL AID.

and he turned.


so did sadaam.

do we let thsat stand?


NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keep drinking that KOOL AID!!!!!!!!

my dad is 76 and nobama would call him 'sir' if he knew who he is walking with.

until he was turned.

sadaam too.

shall we let them all turn and play musical chairs and dance for the highest bidder?


NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


keep drinking that KOOL AID!!!!!!!!!!!!

until he was turned.

sadaam too.

what's your point?

let them turn and be turned and turn others.

not.

drinking that KOOL AID???????????????????

roosevvelt too.

confined mostly to a wheel chair.

perseverance?





cool.

i see your edit.

well, apparently you are confused enough to try.

you have trouble knowing what is on topic and what is not.

Everytime Nobama makes his callous and racist remarks and he is called on the carpet for it when his socialist proselytizers come out of the woodwork to extoll his pluralistic inclusiveness, all that Nobama has ever said that contradicts nobama is somehow the fault of his eenemies, and not his responsibility to bear.

The sexist and racist nature of nobama and his diversity crew fail to act like pluralists when left to their own liberty to be wgho they are when they let their hair down speaking to their socialist bases.

The racism and sexism of the nobama camp is focused clearly against White conservative christian voters that will not buy his duplicitous lies and find nothing but contempt from nobama.

But like nobama, his supporters through transference and projection play the bi polar blame shifting game like what you are doing here and ascribe nobamas delusions onto us that refuse his atrophied locquaitiousness.



simply put, mirror, you are trifling.





have some KOOL AID.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/NCLB-ActII/



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NCLB: Act II

The latest news on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.

David J. Hoff has been reporting on the biggest issues in K-12 education for more than 10 years for Education Week. He primarily reports now on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
September 17, 2008
'Top-Down' Politics Turned NCLB Into Monster
With Monday's news that there's a 10,000 pound gorilla called NCLB, I decided to go out and look for it.

I made stops at an Aspen Institute forum and a Department of Education advisory board meeting. I never found that gorilla.

By yesterday I was asking: Why is it that NCLB is seen as a monstrosity on the campaign trail but not in Washington?

I think I've got an answer, thanks to Michael Dannenberg of the New America Foundation. Dannenberg, who helped write the law as a staff member for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., explained to me that the politics of NCLB are more "top-down" than "left-right."

He means that the policy elites in Washington—President Bush, Sen. Kennedy, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., to name a few—endorse the general principles of the law: standards, testing, accountability for results. You can also put states leaders such as governors and chiefs into that group.

But people on the ground who have to put those things into practice resist them. They don't necessarily believe that tests deliver results that should be used for accountability and see NCLB supplanting the decisions they've usually made.

That's why events where Washington policy folks (like the one put on by Aspen on Monday; see here for some complaints about the lopsided agenda) invited the speakers, the message on NCLB is upbeat. It's also why the NEA and AFT are fighting to change the law; their members on the ground are demanding it.

It's also why Barack Obama and John McCain are either ignoring NCLB or are making promises to change it. When one of them moves into the White House, which side will they choose? The Washington leaders (aka the top) or the teachers, school board members, and district leaders (aka the down)?

P.S. Dannenberg points out that some NCLB issues follow the traditional left v. right debate. Funding and vouchers are the best examples.

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September 16, 2008
NCLB: Wild Beast or Creature to Be Tamed?
I'm still on my search for the 10,000 pound gorilla that is the No Child Left Behind Act. Even with this photo to guide me, I didn't find it at the U.S. Department of Education this morning.

Instead of being scared of the law, the department officials there seemed to be planning for its future. "We think you're going to be a good resource for the department," Deputy Secretary of Education Raymond J. Simon told members of the National Technical Advisory Council. "You're going to be a good resource for Congress."

All of this bodes well for NCLB, he said. Bush administration officials will set new policies in motion that improve the law, and their replacements will be ready to put their own stamp on those policies. And Congress will have the advice of experts as it decides what to do about reauthorizing it, Simon said.

The panel members then delved into a discussion of how to structure politics to assure that a state's performance index is accurate and whether to make changes in the department's policies over growth models. There was no talk of trying to slay NCLB—or even make major changes to it.

After two days, I'm asking myself: Why is it that NCLB is seen as a monstrosity on the campaign trail but not in Washington?

Maybe I'll have an answer tomorrow.

why is that mirror?

as far as I am concerned, the looney liberals want nothing better than to erase us God, duty, guns, mom and apple pie crowd from civil discourse as backwards rednecks beneath their elitis dignity.

they kill babies with impunity.

wht not adults?

they want to free all of the oppressed people in prison,,,yeah right.

and imprison the free and the brave that serve God and country and make it poosib;le for them to take over and move us over.

It is definitely on topic.

This conutry is not a conservative bastion of reactionary traditions, but one of "progressive" fascist socialism dictated from the elitists as spoon fed pablum.



mmmmm...mmmmm..good.