Category: Opinion

Is Obama going to toss Hillary under the bus?

I personally do not buy it. But that is what they are saying.

Powerline Blog reports the following:

Former President Clinton has been working overtime to drag Barack Obama across the finish line in this year’s election. Clinton has been hands-down President Obama’s most effective advocate. His personal credibility may not be substantial, but unlike Obama, Clinton produced a non-disastrous presidency. Thus, his overall credibility vastly exceeds that of the current president.

So how is Obama awarding Clinton for his heavy lifting? By throwing Clinton’s wife under the Benghazi bus, it appears. On Friday, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that responsibility for the consulate in Libya fell on the State Department, not the White House. This followed Joe Biden’s claim during the Thursday debate that “we” (apparently meaning Biden and Obama) knew nothing about the Libya mission’s request to the State Department for extra security.

To support this claim, Powerline blog links to Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, which itself has a credibility problem; and a claim by author Ed Cline, who has a problem telling the truth in his writings. Anyhow, Ed Cline writes the following:

“Not only would it be hard to predict how it would play out as far as Hillary is concerned in the future, but it would certainly damage Obama’s chances for re-election if she resigned,” he said.

Klein said relations between the Clintons and President Obama have reached a new low, most recently with Obama ignoring Bill Clinton’s offer to help him and Vice President Joe Biden prepare for the debates with the Republican ticket.

“He had very clear ideas on how they should do that,” Klein told TheDC. “He never once got a response. And it absolutely sent him into orbit. He was furious that he would be treated this way, especially after what he did, in his view, at the Democratic convention in giving that nomination speech for Obama.”

Added Klein: “His fury turned to deep concern when the Benghazi business unfolded because he was deeply troubled by the appearance that the White House was going to throw Hillary under the bus, which in fact it appears it is doing.”

Klein said Bill Clinton’s informal legal team is made up of people he’s used in the past in legal situations. He asked them by phone to tell him how Hillary Clinton should handle this situation and what to do if she is subpoenaed to testify to the House Oversight Committee and provide them with memos regarding Benghazi.

The author said the situation is obviously complicated by Obama’s re-election, but also the possibility that Hillary would run in 2016.

“If she is left with this stain on her reputation, it could seriously damage her chances for election,” Klein told TheDC. “And this is what is really bothering Bill more than anything.”

The Agonist is not buying it and neither am I. Above anything at all, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are faithful Democrats to the very end. I do not believe for one lousy moment that Hillary Clinton or Bill or even Obama would risk ripping the Democratic Party to shreds over something like this. I might not be a professional when it comes to politics; but I am not an idiot. I know the Democratic Party well and with them, party always comes first. Nice try guys, but it is not going to happen. If anything at all, there will be some profuse apologizing and it will end with that.

So, nice; but, no. Sorry, but no. Rolling Eyes

Others: Wizbang, Fausta’s Blog, Patterico’s Pontifications, National Review

Best Bus Driver Ever!

I do believe this bus driver ought to get the driver of the year award!

The first video comes via the Smoking Gun:

Here is an alternative view:

Now, there is the woman, who got socked in the jaw, playing the victim card!

Now, let me get this straight, this crazy woman, gets on a bus, acts like a total idiot; (for lack of a better work or at least one I want to print here!) and then when she gets socked in the mouth —- she is the victim? Confused

Here is what this moron woman did, before she got socked in the jaw:

OCTOBER 12–The Cleveland bus driver who delivered an uppercut to an unruly female passenger told cops that he struck the woman after she grabbed his throat and spit in his face as he was driving, according to police reports.

Artis Hughes, 59, was interviewed by officers shortly after the September 18 confrontation with Shi’dea Lane, 25, on a Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus.

Video of the fight (see below) went viral online this week, prompting RTA officials to suspend Hughes, a 22-year veteran, and characterize his behavior as “absolutely unacceptable.”

When cops responded to the stopped bus around 4 PM, Hughes and three passengers described Lane (pictured at right) as the incident’s aggressor. Hughes told cops that Lane initially boarded the bus without paying, claiming, “I left my bookbag.”

Hughes said that after Lane, a restaurant employee, eventually paid her fare, she told him, “You a Bitch and Your Momma’s a Bitch Too!” She also reportedly stated, “Keep talking about me and I will spit on you!”

In a written statement, Hughes recalled that Lane “grabbed me in the throat and spit on me in the face.” In response, the driver said he stopped the bus, “and I protected myself.” The Hughes statement does not reveal that he hit Lane squarely in the jaw with a bolo punch that knocked her to the ground.

One witness told cops that a “drunk” Lane “got on the bus fliping out” and “started talking crazy” to Hughes. After spitting on Hughes, the witness wrote in a statement, the driver “did what he had to do.”

A second witness wrote that Lane was “loud and obnoxious” from the start, and spit on Hughes and “started hitting him.” The witness added, “That’s when he hit her back.” A third witness described Lane as “drunk” and reported that “she hit him and he jumped out of his seat and started fighting her.”

But yet, she is the victim. I bet this feckless, um, what’s a word I can use without being obvious? Thinking Wookie? WorriedDont tell anyone Anyhow, I bet this feckless Wookie voted for Obama too. It would not surprise me at all. Rolling Eyes She should be grateful that the driver was not carrying a handgun; because in some states city drivers like this here, can carry and she is lucky she was not shot. I know if I was driving a bus like that and some dumbass wookie started acting like that and attacked me and I was packing heat; she’d be a dead wookie when I got done with her! CowboyDevil

Oh, and by the way, for those who object to me using the term “Wookie,” go to tell those at Fox Nation to stop using it too, okay? Otherwise, get lost. In this case, and to this racial realist, it is totally appropriate.

Either way, she got what was coming to her and in a big way too. Feeling beat up

Others: Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit and Riehl World News

More Fibs by Biden During the Debate

This looks like a pretty regular thing here. First there was the one about the Iraq War and now this one, as pointed out by The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB):

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued the following statement, October 12. Full text follows:

Last night, the following statement was made during the Vice Presidential debate regarding the decision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force virtually all employers to include sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion, in the health insurance coverage they provide their employees:

"With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution—Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital—none has to either refer contraception, none has to pay for contraception, none has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact. That is a fact."

This is not a fact. The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain "religious employers." That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to "Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital," or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served.

HHS has proposed an additional "accommodation" for religious organizations like these, which HHS itself describes as "non-exempt." That proposal does not even potentially relieve these organizations from the obligation "to pay for contraception" and "to be a vehicle to get contraception." They will have to serve as a vehicle, because they will still be forced to provide their employees with health coverage, and that coverage will still have to include sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients. They will have to pay for these things, because the premiums that the organizations (and their employees) are required to pay will still be applied, along with other funds, to cover the cost of these drugs and surgeries.

Oopsie! Looks like Biden was wrong again. But as I wrote in that other Biden post; that is what the Democrats are all about today. This sort of half truths and such. Should not be considered anything out of the ordinary with them.

But I still say it was wrong to call him a “Jackhole.”  Fibber maybe, but JackHole?Confused Raised EyebrowSurprise That’s just rude. Not talking

Others: CNSNews, The Heritage Foundation, National Review, Weasel Zippers, Wake up America,The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler, protein wisdom, Washington Examiner, FREEDOM EDEN,LifeNews.com

Ooops: Joe Biden fibs on his vote on Iraq and Afghanistan

The Video:

Um, Oops. According to the Washington Free Beacon:

Vice President Joe Biden accused Rep. Paul Ryan of putting two wars on the “credit card,” and then suggested he voted against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“By the way, they talk about this great recession like it fell out of the sky–like, ‘Oh my goodness, where did it come from?’” Biden said. “It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card, at the same time, put a prescription drug plan on the credit card, a trillion dollar tax cut for the very wealthy.”

“I was there, I voted against them,” Biden continued. “I said, no, we can’t afford that.”

Well, there is only one little problem with that:

Then Sen. Biden voted for the Afghanistan resolution on Sept. 14, 2001 which authorized “the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.”

And on Oct. 11, 2002, Biden voted for a resolution authorizing unilateral military action in Iraq, according to the Washington Post.

When I wrote my review, I was trying to be respectful of the man’s age; unlike some. However, when someone who is old tells a lie, just I do not respect that at all. Again, this is all that the Democrats have left; lies, scaremongering, class warfare and race warfare. Anymore, it pretty much comes with the territory of the left.

Others: Mediaite, Naked DC, Babalú Blog, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, Jammie Wearing Fools, Instapundit and The PJ Tatler

Video: New GOP Ad: “Joe’s laughing at the issues, are you?”

As I wrote in my take of the debate last night, Joe Biden’s laughing and smirking as not a good thing.

Well, as I expected, the GOP went after him on that and here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtemaHgjyA&hd=1

It is a very effective ad and one that the Democrats and Joe Biden brought on themselves. Laughing at your debate opponent is never a smart thing to do.  especially seeing that Ryan was correct about everything he was saying about the Obama Administration.

At least Ryan did not call Biden a “Jackhole,” unlike some people. 🙄

(H/T Jeff G.)

Mark your calendars: I actually disagree with AllahPundit

I hate to say it, but AllahPundit is full of crap!

He says that Biden acted like a “Jackhole.” Which is a bunch of malarkey.

Biden no more acted like a “jackhole” than Ryan acted like a smug smart mouthed little punk.

I suppose that making up stuff about Mary Mapes during the Bush era and saying untrue stuff about Ron Paul is not being a jackhole?

Pot meet kettle.

….and, yeah, he gets paid — by Salem Communications to print that tripe. 🙄

AllahPundit so needs to be outed and badly, he is getting too cocky and too sloppy anymore.

Just sayin’

Go here to read a fair and balanced review of the VP Debates.  

Update: I’ve removed the swear words out of this posting. I apologize to my Christian readers; but I was very highly and still am, very highly ticked off about AP’s posting.  I stand by my feelings towards AllahPundit. The man has gotten too sloppy and a bit arrogant. Sorry, but disrespecting a 69 year old man and calling him a “Jackhole” is just unacceptable. I was raised better than to do such stuff. His blog posting is highly partisan and is not even a true reflection of what really happened. I guess that is what happens, when you become a corporate blogger. He should be outed and made to face the music on what he posts.

My verdict on the Vice-Presidential Debate

Here is my official opinion or verdict on the Vice-Presidential debates. Unlike the last debates, I actually watched this debate, in its entirety.  I also have an opinion on them and it might actually shock you about how I really think about them. If you were are following me on twitter, you already know; so, this is for the regular blog readers who actually come here.

Unlike the last debate, which from what I have read and seen in the clips, Obama stumbled, while Romney get the upper hand. This debate was different, and it seemed that the moderator had better control of the debate.  Biden and Ryan both were fully prepared and both represented their positions and their own set of facts very well.

At first, Biden kept snickering and making guffaws at Ryan’s statements, which I felt made him look horrible before the American people. Somewhere in the debate, Biden figured out that this was not helping him at all, so he stopped doing it. I felt that doing this, helped him out a good deal.

Biden did have a few stumbles and memory lapses  which is understandable seeing the man is 69 years old and debating a young man who is only two years older than me! (Ryan is 42.) But for the most part, Biden was on his game. To be quite honest, Biden did better than I and many other bloggers thought he would. There was on funny moment, when Biden wanted to swear and said “stuff” instead of the word, for which farmers normally call fertilizer.  Biden also used the word “malarkey” quite a bit too, which really does date Biden.

Ryan was wonky on policy and really did stand out, he never got angry at all. Biden was never angry, but did defend his policy positions very well and sometimes with a bit of force.

Alright, How did you feel about the Democratic Positions?

Well, obviously as someone who does lean a bit to the right, I would disagree with most of the Democrat’s positions. I did feel that it was good that the moderator started out with Syria and I was very much not impressed with Biden’s excuses for the failure over there with our embassy. Biden seemed to be wanting to place blame on the State Department and not on the White House where it belonged.  Furthermore, I found the scaremongering by Biden on Social Security and Medicare to be quite predictable and typical for the left. I was not really surprised or shocked about anything that the Vice-President said at all.

So, my bottom line on the VP Debate: It was a draw;  neither side scored a knockout blow. Both sides fought and counter punched very well. Points to Biden for defense, and points to Ryan for substance and articulation. Now, as for the impact; I really do not see this debate really making much difference in the polls at all. There really was no really impact event in the debate at all to case a big jump in the polls. Snap polls aside, I really do not predict any sort of long-term poll change at all.

I believe that if Romney or Obama comes out in the next debate swinging and does engage Romney that things could look for him. However, if he does what he did last time, the Democrats had better start planning for 2016. Personally, I predict that Obama is going to be tougher in this next debate. I think he was preoccupied with something else or possibly worried about coming off sounding like an angry black man. Either way, it will be interesting to watch.

There are my thoughts, how did you feel about these debates?

Update: Here is the round up of blogger reactions to the debate. 

 

 

 

 

The latest on the attack in Benghazi and the Obama Administration’s bungling of it

I have purposefully avoiding this story, because I was a bit worried that I would come off sounding like the hyper-partisan bloggers that have covered this story. However, I believe it has come to point now, where this story is taking on a bit more uglier role. One where the Government, under Obama, simply screwed up horribly bad. In fact, they have screwed up to the point where even some media outlets are breaking from the Obama bias and are starting to ask questions too.

First there is this video, which comes via HotAir.com, which I highly recommend you go read what AllahPundit has written over there; this is some serious brutal stuff:

Watch as Darrell Issa grills the State Department rep, and listen to her utter incompetence: (H/T AllahPundit over at HotAir.com and get go read his posting, it is amazing one.)

Heck, even Shepard Smith over at Fox News Channel, who is, they say, a liberal — even he is pissed off about this:

I mean, how bad has this gotten? This bad:  (H/T AllahPundit)

I mean, this goes well beyond partisan politics, this is an utter disgrace and an embarrassment to the United States and the World. As an Americanist; I find this sickening as can be.

…and what does the Obama Administration’s talking-heads have to say about this?

This:

Money Quote:

Well, look, I think that’s quite a heady accusation from Congressman Chaffetz and I know Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have been out there making outrageous political accusations as well. The fact is, to the President and to the administration, this is not a political issue. No one wants to get to the bottom of this more than the President. …The administration is providing information they had access to at the time. And the intelligence community has come out and said that this was an organized act of terrorism. But for us, it’s not political. For the President, it’s not political. And it’s unfortunate it’s being brought to that.

To wish AllahPundit replies, and I believe he speaks for a good part of Americans, especially Independents, like me:

Please spare us all the sanctimoniousness about getting “political,” because whether or not the president of the United States and his administration are equipped with the capabilities to deal with serious threats to our national security sure seems like kind of a big deal that voters deserve to know about.

And let’s not pretend nobody in the Obama administration got political with this by trying to portray a dishonest narrative downplaying the true motives behind the attack. Blaming the entire thing on some stupid video was an embarrassing ploy designed to depict to voters that Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East have been more successful mitigating terrorist influences than they actually have, and the administration’s inability to keep its story even remotely straight suggests that there was perhaps a little more on their minds than only U.S. security interests. Sure, everybody wants to get to the bottom of this — but the Obama administration also has a very vested interest in misdirecting voters’ attention away from their foreign-policy failures, more so now than ever.

I have to agree, it is no wonder that there is a poll showing Romney leading Obama by one point, which erased a six point lead by Obama.  Some would say that this is due to Obama debate performance; but I think it is more than that; Independents like me have watched this Libyan case for a long while and I believe Independents are going to see this President for what he really is. Which is a rank Amateur, who rode a wave of affirmative action and black empowerment to the White House, only the realize that job was a bit tougher than he thought.

But, this is far from over; I believe that the bus tossing has begun and I believe before it is over with, there are going to be political friendships ruined for life. Michael Walsh at the NRO’s Corner agrees:

Now, it seems, that Team Obama has decided to try and save U.N. ambassador Susan Rice — whose reputation in the IC could hardly be lower — and perhaps press secretary Jay Carney as well by tossing the nation’s spooks under the bus, in which direction they’re also nudging Hillary Clinton. 

But you can’t burn all your friends, and the Obama forces already have a lot fewer allies than they think they do. The disrespectful way they treated former White House chief of staff William Daley is likely to come back to haunt them in the graveyards of Chicago, and the bad blood between them and the Clintons hasn’t gone away, despite Bill’s bonhomie at the convention. Should the Romney surge continue, and Ryan mop the floor tomorrow night with Mr. Foreign Policy, Joe Biden, Barry might be pretty much down to Michelle and Valerie Jarrett in the chum department.

Alienating spookdom, however, is a new order of magnitude stupid. Because spooks fight back — hard and dirty. Bob Woodward and Jake Tapper are only phone calls away. And CIA Director David Petraeus is just one press conference shy of bringing down the whole house of cards.

As the saying goes, it’s worse than a crime — it’s a blunder.

Indeed, this is going to be a very interesting story to cover; even after the election. Because, at this point, I do not believe that Obama has a prayer. I believe when it is all said and done, there are going to be ramifications for the Democratic Party for years to come. So far, they have damaged their brand in a big way. This Benghazi thing, is just lighter fluid for the furnace, so to speak.

A while back, I gave an analogy of political capital and wood, I cannot find it in my archives anywhere. But, I liken political capital to a wood burning stove, and a huge pile of wood. Every President gets an allotted amount. Bush got a BIG pile after 9/11, which he burned very well, until 2006, when the Iraq war turned to a meat grinder, and then he really burned through it. This took him 7 years. Obama, on the other hands, he burned through his pile, IN THREE FREAKING YEARS!  Obama and his idiocy, has set back the progressive cause for many years. The Democrats outlook is quite bleak.

Glass Jaw be damned; this is going to be a massive screw up on the Democrat’s part, which is going to be felt for a very long time.  As a former Democratic party voter; it saddens me that the Democratic Party went this route and is now having to pay the price. The former honorable party, has become the stupid party and for that; the Democrats have no one to blame, but themselves.

Chart: Obama’s Spending versus Bush

It is an updated one, via InstaPundit. Show this to Democrats when they try to blame our budget problems on Bush’s wars. This will prove that they are, as always; full of crap.

Disagreeing with Jeff Goldstein…..sort of

I happen to respect Jeff’s opinion, alot. He might not want to hear that; but the guy has chops when it comes to writing.

Anyhow, a bit of nitpicking here:

Just watched the debate. Not sure why people are saying Romney won so convincingly. Obama, with few exceptions, bullshitted his way through things just fine. And Romney too often sounded like a me-too statist.

Objectively, Romney won on the points and particulars, and he had several strong moments. Clearly, he’s not the leftist Obama is — though he’s still a statist. That’s a net positive, should he win election.

via First debate reactions: non-live viewer | protein wisdom.

My comments on the “statist” bit. If Jeff is referring to the, “Let’s save and/or shore up Social Security and Medicare” sort of a Statist; then yes, I would say, yes, Romney is one of those. But then again, so is the entire GOP. Because hell, a good 75 percent of their base is in that category. Now if Jeff is referring to the “Government and Private Industry Partnerships” type of a statist, I believe he would be wrong about that.

Although, I would like to see Romney’s position on Government subsidies to corporate farms and oil companies. Personally, I believe those have to go, as they put small time farmers under the gun and create an unfair environment for them. As for the oil companies, they make enough money; why should they get handouts from the Government? But that is just my populist roots, intertwined with my libertarianism shining through. I am all for capitalism, but I am not for Government picking winners and losers in the business industry at all.

On a related matter; Last night I happened to notice someone praising Romney’s performance —- Patrick J. Buchanan. I nearly fell out of my chair, when I saw him singing the praises of Romney’s performance. This is the same Patrick J. Buchanan that believes that the “Neoconservatives’ are the redheaded stepchildren of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement. To be fair, Pat’s sister Bay Buchanan is on Romney’s team, so that *might* have something to do with it. Although, you most likely could not prove it in court.

You have to know Willard’s on to something, when Bill Kristol AND Pat Buchanan are BOTH saying that Romney spanked Obama’s  butt and won the debate. If those two polar opposites in Republicanism and Conservatism agree; Romney is definitely onto something and here is hoping that he does keep it up.