A winning campaign slogan of course!

That’s the chant that’s been shouted from Muslim countries for decades. Yet, somehow during the Bush administration, the Left and the MSM (redundant, I know) kept covering the arab hatred of America as if it was something new, something concocted as a result of Bush’s foreign policy, something directly related to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, something directly related to Guantanamo Bay prison, etc.

But Obama’s been in the White House for two years now and the chants are still the same. Western (read: American) reporters are being attacked while covering the rock-throwing in Egypt and somehow the MSM and D-baggers on the Left are no longer pronouncing this incivility as an American-generated problem. Suddenly it’s a just a regional issue among the rubble-pounders. They want to pretend that Obama has cured the hatred like they claimed he would.

Except for the inconvenient truth… they hate America. They always have. They always will.

According to Charlie Rangel, it’s Republicans’ fault you know about his ethics violations. Despite being the one who committed the acts and abused the elected office, he wants to shift the blame to his political opponents… and accuse them of playing politics in this matter.

Rep. Charles Rangel told Harlem leaders Saturday he signed a plea deal on ethics charges but that the GOP pushed for a trial.

“He said he had signed an agreement. He was ready to go but I guess politics came into play,” said Assemblyman Keith Wright (D-Manhattan), one of about 50 leaders gathered for a Harlem district meeting Saturday.

Another attendee said Rangel implied, “It was Republicans that didn’t want an agreement” and that he signed a deal before the ethics committee released its report last month.

You know, Charlie, the easiest way to avoid this public embarrassment and the “political maneuvering of Republicans” is to… STOP ABUSING YOUR ELECTED POSITION FOR IMPROPER PERSONAL GAIN.

I hope the trial is messy, painful and strips you of any future taxpayer money forever. Enjoy retirement, Jackass.

Thank goodness the White House has converted the official White House website into a campaign tool for promoting propaganda and collecting information on political dissenters, or I wouldn’t have a place to submit this “fishy” disinformation being disseminated in public forums.

“I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.”

Never supported single-payer, huh?

I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.

And again on the campaign trail a year ago:

“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,” Obama told some 1,800 people at a town-hall style meeting on the economy.

And just as a reminder:

“I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.”

Yeah, Barry, someone’s lying about your healthcare plans… but it isn’t us.

They say a “gaffe” is defined as a moment when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Barack Obama, meet the gaffe.

Transcript:

“The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system…”

Don’t worry, Barry… Freud says there’s a perfectly good explanation for your slipup. (Unless you just want to blame the teleprompter again)

Isn’t it interesting how the same people who used George W. Bush’s gaffes as evidence to bolster their claim that he was an idiot think Barack Obama is some sort of saintly intellectual and oratory genius?

Despite the fact that Barack Obama isn’t really so good at the speaking thing.

• He’s shown he can’t function without reading from a teleprompter… repeatedly.
• And the word heard most often in any speech or interview he gives is “uh“.
• He apparently doesn’t know the difference between privacy and piracy.
• He can’t properly pronounce the name of a company he uses as an example to bolster his policies.

He’s also not so good at the geography thing.

• He thinks there are 58 states in the U.S.
• And he thinks that Arkansas is closer to Kentucky than Illinois, which actually borders it.
• He thinks Austrian is a language.
• And he thinks Afghans speak Arabic.
• And he thinks Iran is “tiny” and doesn’t pose a serious threat. (though later he declared that he’s considered Iran a “grave threat” for years.
• He calls Sunrise, FL “Sunshine“, Sioux Falls, SD “Sioux City“, Rapid City, SD “Grand Rapids“, Wyoming “Wisconsin“…

Nor is he very good at the sports thing.

• He thinks the mascot for Penn State is the Nittaly Lions.
• And he thinks the White Sox played at “Cominskey Field“.

The healthcare thing? Nope, not good at that either.

• He thinks a kid having an asthma attack needs a breathalyzer.
• And he apparently can see dead people.

But surely he’s been trained in proper protocol. Wrong again.

• He bows to middle eastern kings.

But someone who is President certainly should know their history. Nope, not that either.

• He thinks the automobile was invented in the U.S..
• And he also said he had a “claim on Selma” because he was the offspring of a couple who first met during the march on Selma… which actually took place when he was 4 years old.
• He claimed his uncle was part of a group of Americans that liberated Auschwitz, despite the fact that it was liberated by the Soviet Red Army

Surely, though, the guys knows who’s in his own cabinet, right? Wrong.

• He introduces his Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates as “William Gates“. Granted, Gates was a Bush appointee, so we can cut him some slack on this one. It’s not like he goofed up on the title of his own pick for a running mate… wrong.

Maybe math is his specialty. Then again, maybe not.

• He said 10,000 people died in a Kansas tornado that actually killed 12 people.
• and 100 million people died in a cyclone in Burma, a country with a total population of 42 million.

And it’s quite telling that his supporters were so cheerful at his blissful admission of ignorance on the campaign trail last year when he was asked about the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site. Despite the fact he’d actually voted on the issue.

George W. Bush was a genius compared to this mental midget. Dope and change, man, dope and change.

Received a few emails about this story.

Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was “no” after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. “I was just totally speechless. I was like, ‘You’re kidding me,’” McLucas said.

McLucas’ husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.

Stifling a cry, McLucas said, “I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing.”

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie’s flag herself.

If the sight of the American flag is offensive, one has to wonder why this idiot came to America in the first place, and why he or she is still here. Instead of coming here to enjoy and exploit the freedoms America provides, and then complaining about the very symbol of that freedom, why don’t you go back to your hellhole, third-world, flies-in-your-face, desert-dwelling, crappy country where you can enjoy the sight of less offensive things like starving children, murderous dictators and ebola. Jackass.

UPDATE: Many of you who emailed me the story also copied me on emails you sent to Kindred Hospital. Apparently they heard you loud and clear.

Kindred Hospital and its corporate bosses in Kentucky got a lesson in patriotism Wednesday.

After a thorough roasting in the blogosphere, Kindred officials decided to let hospital supervisor Debbie McLucas put an American flag back on her office wall. “We have invited the employee (McLucas) to put the flag back up,” Kindred said in a brief press release.

Good work!

The Democrat fundraiser, Norman Hsu, who was fundraising for Hillary Clinton and other high profile Democrats while a fugitive on 1991 fraud charges was convicted this morning in New York of violating federal campaign finance laws.

And while this story is in the media for the brief 15 seconds it will likely be covered, let’s not forget what our current Secretary of State thought about this crook’s corrupt fundraising practices…

“What am I going to do with you, Norman? You are working so hard for me that I just don’t know what to say any more. I’ve never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective and really just having greater success supporting someone than you.”

Seems Barack Obama’s Secretary of State has a habit of immersing herself in campaign finance law violation scandals.

So when will Moveon.org organize protests and marches against the irresponsible government spending? Apparently, not until the Community Organizer in Chief changes his party affiliation.

In a completely expected and long-anticipated, unsurprising move, Arlen Specter announced today that he’s going to disenfranchise the voters of Pennsylvannia who elected a Republican to the Senate by switching his party affiliation to Democrat, and shifting the balance of power to a filibuster-proof total of 60.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

Of course, most normal conservatives have found his political philosophy to be in line with Democrats for years now.

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party. But I saw the stimulus as necessary to lessen the risk of a far more serious recession than we are now experiencing.

Someone apparently confused “big tent” with “big spend”…

It has become clear to me that the stimulus vote caused a schism which makes our differences irreconcilable. On this state of the record, I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.

Translation: Pat Toomey’s announcement recently that he’s running for the Republican nomination in the Republican senatorial primary means Specter’s RINO career in the Senate will be coming to an end shortly, so he’ll take the DNC payoff and hope to earn a committee chairmanship in the process.

I have not represented the Republican Party.

On this, we can agree.

But don’t worry, Specter says he will still oppose card-check…

My change in party affiliation does not mean that I will be a party-line voter any more for the Democrats that I have been for the Republicans. Unlike Senator Jeffords’ switch, which changed party control, I will not be an automatic 60th vote for cloture. For example, my position on Employees Free Choice (card check) will not change.

And we know how much Specter’s word is worth…

Sen. Arlen Specter said Tuesday that he will not run for reelection in 2010 as a Democrat, but might run as an Independent.

“I am staying a Republican because I think I have an important role, a more important role, to play there. The United States very desperately needs a two-party system. That’s the basis of politics in America. I think each of the 41 Republican senators, in a sense — and I don’t want to overstate this — is a national asset because if one was gone, you’d only have 40, the Democrats would have 60, and they would control all of the mechanisms of government. [Democrats] are trying very hard for the 60th vote. Got to give them credit for trying. But the answer is no.”

While you’re at it, can you please take Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and John McCain too? We might as well just use this opportunity to drain the swamp entirely.