The convention speech was a reminder of that. Former President Clinton brought down the house, he was truly in rare form – BUT – I suspect within a few days a detailed report will come out with a list of the lies and inaccuracies he said in his speech. That will make for a future posting. For now a basic critique.

CLINTON THE FLAWLESS SPEECHMAKER
For one thing, after taking 3 minutes to quiet down the crowd, he did do what Hillary did not, he made the case for supporting Barack Obama and he did it from the 1st sentence of his speech. Bill was kinder to Hillary than Hillary was to Bill too. I suspect Bill in usual Clintonian rapid-response, on-message style had read at least a summary of media critiques of Hillary’s speech and made the necessary adjustments in his own address. I also imagine he could have done it off the top of his head as Bill has that gift for thinking on his feet and being disciplined when he wants to be.

CLINTON CHARMS EVEN MICHELLE
What was interesting was watching Michelle Obama (I honestly think she has no idea she is on camera) because at the beginning of Bill’s speech she had a sort of tepid ‘yeah, sure, right’ look on her face. Polite clapping, no visible enthusiasm like smiling Hillary and tearful Chelsea. Michelle looked downright angry at 8 minutes into his speech. After 8:50 min Bill says, “…Barack Obama is the man for this job!” Michelle finally cracks a smile and stands up and gives a more enthusiastic clap. From there on in, he goes on for about 2 minutes complimenting Barack’s personality, judgement, family, ideology and Veep pick and at 10 minutes you can see Michelle looking serious but now as if she is listening closely to him. At about 10:15 you can see her standing and smiling a bit again and nodding with someone in agreement. At nearly 11 minutes he tells the crowd Barack Obama is ready to lead and Michelle is standing, clapping and looking a little more enthusiastic, Hillary of course is beaming and waving a flag (where is Michelle’s flag? hmmm…) at that same moment. Michelle sits through several applause lines and then is off camera for several other for about 5 minutes. At 16:10, Michelle is responding appropriately to Bill’s hurtin’ people pablum. At 16:53 Michelle is enthusiastically clapping and smiling, really smiling – she is with the program at this point. At 20:30 you can see her teeth for once, really smiling and going with Bill’s assault on Bush and the GOP.

CLINTON STEALS FROM REAGAN
At About 15 min into his speech, Bill gets into the ‘are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?’ technique Reagan employed and uses it masterfully but I suspect not all the information was accurate. One thing is certainly overlooked and that is the one Democrats never acknowledge – in times of war, both parties traditionally agree deficit spending is OK. This was traditional US policy for both parties until the Bush years. After the glow of post-9/11 national unity faded, Democrats jettisoned that policy and declared open season on military and national security spending.

THE BIG LIE – WAR WHAT WAR?
From about 18:30 onto 20.30 Clinton goes on the attack against Republicans saying America never really had a chance to evaluate their ‘extreme’ policies until 2001 because it was then that the GOP controlled both the White House and Congress. Well, yes and no. Numerically and ideologically the GOP had a strong control over the House but had a slender margin of 1 seat in the Senate and that seat was held by Jim Jeffords, a liberal RINO Republican who functioned as a Democrat and he up and quit the GOP and became an independent who caucused with the Democrats giving them a functional majority. Senators like Lincoln Chaffee, Arlen Specter and Olympia Snowe were all liberal Republicans who frequently did not vote for Bush policies. When 9/11 happened in 2001, it not only killed thousands of Americans, it killed our economy, cost many people their jobs, drove up fuel prices and pushed us into a recession. Clinton made it sound as if all that has befallen America has occurred because of Bush’s/Republican ideology put into practice. Quite the contrary. A lot of Republican lawmakers were uncomfortable with growing the size, scope and power of the Federal government but felt it was a necessary trade-off in order to keep America safe. Democrats conveniently ignore this fact over and over again.

BILL PASSES THE ‘PLACE CALLED HOPE’ MANTLE
At the conclusion of the speech, Bill talks about how Obamessiah is the “21st century incarnation” of the American dream. There is some truth to that in the sense that Barack Obama is the inheritor of the benefits of the freedoms guaranteed to us all in the Bill of Rights, Constitution and Declaration of Independence and their hard fought for realization made possible through the Civil War and Civil Rights movement. Ironically, Barack Obama is not a descendant of African born slaves and he is a Democrat and the Democrats were the Party of Slavery and then Segregation up to 1964. The fact he is a Chicago Democrat only makes the irony that much stronger.

TTFN,

Jim

While I really don’t care for her policy-wise and certainly distrust her after the way her and Bill behaved for eight years, I’ll give credit where credit is due, she looks much more Presidential in this speech than anything I have seen out of BO. She certainly hit a home run performance-wise. But let me make these observations:

7) 20+ minutes go by before she attacks McCain again after paying him compliments and her comment comparing McCain to Bush was funny, not really a big knife twister like earlier comments made by Dennis Kucinich, Claire McCaskill or Barbara Mikulski.

8 ) A great irony of her speech was her linking her party with equal rights for Blacks / African Americans and Women because it was the Republican Party that freed the slaves and gave both Blacks and Women the right to vote!

9 ) Michelle Obama looked genuinely moved twice but looked wooden or even annoyed at other parts of Hillary’s speech.

10 ) Hillary said essentially if you agreed with her about women’s issues, healthcare, etc – vote for Barack Obama. She never said why she liked him or his family and she never said why he would make a good commander in chief or leader of the free world. She paid more compliments to John McCain (called him her friend) and Joe Biden then she did to Barack Obama. Basically she said to the DNC convention goers, “Barack echoes my views so vote for him”.

And of course, Bill – in a verbal smackdown said this:

Need I say more?

TTFN,

Jim

As I watched yesterday’s convention, I took note or who got the most cheers and for what was being cheered. The 1st speaker who got the most whoops and cheers was Ohio Rep and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich:

Kucinich is a good snapshot of the far-left, loony left. He took an otherwise indifferent crowd and had them on their feet cheering wildly within three minutes as he hurled out one piece of antiwar or class warfare hunk of red meat after another. Later on West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin spoke and the response was tepid at best. Manchin is a Pro-Life, anti-gay marriage, anti-illegal immigration Democrat. He gave a speech that centered around bipartisanship and the crowd snoozed except whenever he invoked the name of Barack Obamessiah. When Manchin did that it was like when Norm Peterson walked into Cheers.Similarly, later that evening during prime time, former Gov. Mark Warner received a warmer, more enthusiastic welcome than Manchin (he’s pro-abortion / pro-choice) but he is still seen as a Clintonesque ‘New Democrat‘ who like Manchin did not make heavy handed appeals to class warfare but rather to unity and bipartisanship.

Of course Warner was a businessman and has a more pragmatic approach and is an advocate of the Third Way centrist-Democrat politics and like with Manchin, got the most applause when he invoked Barack Obamessiah. This seemed to be the trend of Day 2 of the DNC. Red Meat = Applause, Barack Obamessiah = Applause, Unity / Bipartisanship = 3 people clapping.

My word of advice to independents – beware of wolves calling themselves vegans.

TTFN,

Jim

Do we believe the pretty lady in a blue dress and just mentally toss aside her and her husband’s longstanding and close relationship to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a man who was closely allied with the ‘Reverend’ Louis Farrakhan? I won’t link to or post video of Wright or Farrakhan here for the same reason I won’t post video of David Duke here – they are all hatemongers. That and I don’t want to unintentionally break the 2nd commandment by having Wright’s blasphemy repeated over and over with every click of a mouse button.

Even if we are to beleive Michelle Obama is really the pretty lady in the blue dress – in her world ‘community activists’ are heros and business people are zeros:

Factory Worker = Good, Corporate Lawyer = Bad.

While Obama & Michelle’s helping less fortunate people is laudable and worthy social behavior, disparaging the ‘haves’ to help the ‘have-nots’ is just basic Marxist class warfare and goes contrary to B.O.’s stated unity ideals. Either you embrace everyone or you turn to class warfare. You can’t have it both ways.

But Barack and his wife are really liberals, not centrists who will unify Americans:

• 70-90% Americans favor a ban on Partial Birth Abortion but Barack Obama opposes one. Not only that but in February 2004, his wife, Michelle, sent out a fundraising letter, which actually stated her concern over the rise of conservatism in the Country, and that the ‘so-called’ partial-birth abortion was a legitimate medical procedure that should be protected.
• He voted against filtering pornography on school and library computers and he voted for sex education for kindergarten children through the 5th grade.
• Also, in 2001, he voted “present” on a bill to keep pornographic book and video stores and strip clubs from setting up within 1,000 feet of schools and churches.
• In 1999 he was the only Illinois State Senator to vote against a bill barring early release for (criminal) sex offenders.
• He sponsored S.CON.RES.53: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that any effort to impose photo identification requirements for voting should be rejected. (source: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Defends Partial-birth Abortion Junior U.S. Senator from Illinois By Donna Hope, published Oct 24, 2006)

• End-of-life self-medication ok; euthanasia by others not ok. (Apr 2008)
• Ok to expose 6-year-olds to gay couples; they know already. (Sep 2007)
• Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska’s ANWR. (Nov 2005)
• Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
• Designate sensitive ANWR area as protected wilderness. (Nov 2007)
• Willing to meet with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Il & Hugo Chavez. (Nov 2007)
• Voted YES on continuing federal funds for declared “sanctuary cities“. (Mar 2008)
• Chief co-sponsor of IL ENDA, against gay job discrimination. (Aug 2007) (Source)

Do you think Obama ever came home and Michelle said to him, “Gee honey, that sure was a really liberal vote you cast today, was that wise?” I’d be willing to bet Bill and Hillary have had discussions like that but only because they are so Machiavellian about every step they take. I think Obama and Michelle fall closer to the ‘true believer‘ category if the Moveon.org money he has raised is any clue.

Moveon.org is run by George Soros and Soros uses loopholes in the law to spend huge amounts of money backing liberal politicians. If Barack Obama becomes President, he has a plan to use our taxpayer dollars to fund Soros’ organizations and similar ‘do-gooder’ groups which are really front organizations for left wing causes posing as public interest groups.

More Research on Michelle & Obama

Who Are Barack And Michelle Obama?

Get Inside Her Head – Michelle Obama Senior Thesis
Part1
Part2
Part3
Part4

Judge for yourself.

TTFN,

Jim

I always thought Jim Leach was pretty weird by Republican standards and now I know why. Only an alien from outer space would pose as a Republican and endorse Barack Obama. Don’t beleive me? Listen for yourself:

Now I never have been and never will be a fan of Hillary Clinton but I must say I admire some of her followers. My personal hero lately has been Debra Bartoshevich. I’ll tell you why too. Years ago – and I will come clean, the first election I voted in was Mondale -vs- Reagan back in 1984. In that race I voted for Mondale because in spite of the fact I really found Reagan attractive as a candidate I could not reconcile his tax cuts with his promise to increase military spending. I just did not think it was fiscally responsible back then but I also did not understand how cutting marginal tax rates increased personal spending and thereby increased government revenue. That was the 1st reason, the 2nd was that I was a fan of Senator Bill Proxmire, our ‘maverick’ senator back then (who was really an independent) who was Democrat by party affiliation but was very fiscally responsible.

Proxmire held out for a long time before endorsing Kohl for the above reasons. While Proxmire never dispensed with his Democratic party affiliation, he spent the remainder of his life fighting wasteful government spending. In each of his last two Senate campaigns, Proxmire refused to take any campaign contributions and spent less than $200 out of his own pocket on each campaign.

Proxmire put his country and his convictions before his party and for that reason was a true American hero, for similar reasons, I now say Debra Bartoshevich is a true American hero. In the best of Wisconsin traditions of independence – she decided to put country before party and is going to support John McCain over Barack Obama.

Debra videos:

What could be colder or crueler than late term abortion? It is a sign of how far we have fallen (and when I say ‘we’ I mean not just American society but especially the Christian Church) that such a thing can even be discussed so dispassionately in a Church filled with so-called Christian believers.

Barack Obama may have a form of Godliness (humanistic religiosity) and a human charisma when he speaks but he has no heart.

TTFN,

Jim