B.Hussein Obama's Emerging World View

The cover of this week's Newsweek lists a story by breathless Obama cheerleader Fareed Zakaria called "Obama: An Emerging World View." This is someone who expects to move into the White House in six months. Hasn't he left it a little late in the day to be acquiring a world view? Has the MSM become so immersed in its role as the propaganda arm of the Obama campaign that they've become completely innured to irony?

Flippity Flop

I forgot about these:
Wearing a flag pin. Flip.
Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. Flop.

Give me a W-E-A-S-E-L.

Blinded by the Light

You have got to love this picture. As usual, the Obamarama crowd is as politically and culturally tone deaf as the BHO himself. Intended to ridicule alleged right wing fears about The Obaman, the New Yorker instead skewers lefty stereotypes of conservatives. As meta-politics turned high comedy, it doesn't get any better. It's a little weird that the New Yorker was so out of tune with the zeitgeist, but I guess they were just blinded by the light.

Scenes From The Religion of Peace, I.

Scenes like this barely provoke comment anymore. It's a long way from protecting poor baby Alex from John McCain.

The Meta-universe of Senator B. Hussein Obama

Has B. Hussein Obama ever said or done anything that he doesn't instantly regret and seek to undo? Does he, like Colonel Flagg, keep himself in a state of constant confusion so that he can never be forced to give a straight answer? Or does he live in some kind of discursive hyperspace where there are alternate Obamas living in alternate realities?
Pull out of NAFTA? Flip.
Jeremiah Wright? Flop.
Campaign finance? Flip.
Immediate pullout from Iraq? Flop
FISA? Flip.
Putting his kids on tabloid TV? Flop.

Look, the man is a W-E-A-S-E-L.

Prediction, he'll flip on what he said about kids learning Spanish.

Does Jesse Jackson Know About This Handy Device?

Do you think the good Reverend has a set of these babies in his pocket. There's a fortune to be made here. A matched set of Hillary Nut-crackers and Jesse Jackson Nut-cutters. There's a factory in China geraing up right now.

Obama Takes Us Monkey Fishing

Silent Running has an interesting take on the Odumbo birth certificate matter. I'm pretty sure that the Obamessiah was in fact born in a manger in Hawaii in 1961 just as he claims and that he has the birth certificate to prove it. The O's are just spinning this out in the hope they can get an O'Reilly or a Limbaugh to bite. Then they'll pull out the certificate and have a good laugh. Let's not go monkey fishing with Obama.

The Pot & The Kettle: Vodafone & Telecom

I read somewhere last year that some wag had said ...all New Zealanders hate Telecom and there's nothing they hate worse than the thought of giving them any more money for anything else. Add Vodafone to the list. When is the government going to open the mobile and broadband markets in this country and cut these gougers off at the knees.

The New Zealand consumer is getting raped by these people (Sky TV is another offender, but that's a tale for another day). We have the most expensive and worst broadband and mobile service on the planet because of the Vodacom duopoly.

Boycott the iPhone (which is no prize either...I've got one, I know). If you have to buy it, get it off the Internet or have a mate bring you one from Singapore or Europe.

Obama's "Communication" Problem

I'm not entirely sure what's going on with Odumbo. Is it that: 1) He just says whatever his advisors put in front of him without asking whether it blatantly contradicts something he said earlier or is plain stupid. 2) He's a liar on the order of the Clintons. 3) He just doesn't have any strong opinions about anything nor any sort of intellectual framework to his thinking. 4) He has early-onset Alzheimer's.

A) If it's #1, then it's back to Jimmy Carter and the White House Amateur Hour. The man is just too feckless and inexperienced to be President. Added to a political tin ear for anything outside the African-American/egghead/Malibu opinion universe, we have a man who is not ready for prime time. Give him a few gray hairs and rich(er) wife and we have John Kerry redux.

B) If it's #2, do we really want to go through another four or eight years of wondering whether the President's worldview has any relationship at all with objective reality? Big O's lies are of a different sort than Clinton's. Bubba tried to lawyer his way out of the truth without getting caught telling direct falsehoods. He wasn't very good at it, but he tried. BHO on the other hand is more the post-modernist. His words mean just what he intends them to mean and nothing else. Look at his Smear Fighting page and his explanation of the flag pin controversy. Essentially, he just says it never happened.

C) If it's number 3, see A) above.

D) If it's number 4, maybe he'll put me on his web site.

Complete Intellectual Collapse

The insanity of the Bush administration's so-called Korea policy has reached the point of, as John Bolton so aptly put it, "total intellectual collapse. North Korea handed over to the Chinese a piece of paper that might has well have been a hold-up note. They admitted to all the stuff we already know about and don't really care about and completely left out any mention of the plutonium bombs and uranium enrichment program. Anyone with eyes or ears has long known that the State Department prefers any deal to no deal, but there is now the real possibility that history will one day judge Christopher Hill, Condoleeza Rice and the President to have been complicit in the destruction of an American or Japanese city by a North Korean nuclear weapon.

Here's Hill before the agreement:"This idea that we would ignore the most contentious items and take them up later is ridiculous. I don’t believe in ‘carve outs’ and even if I did (which I don’t) how in the world would this work in practical terms? Do you really think we could make concessions on the basis of an incomplete declaration, then somehow we would be able to return to the contentious issues AFTER – AFTER!!!??? — giving away all our leverage? Why? I can tell you this stupidity has never been under consideration by anyone who is part of the process or truly close to the process."

In the event of course, the "declaration" did leave out all of the "most contentious" problems. Here's Hill after the agreement:“you’re looking at a partially finished product here and we’ve got to finish the job.” “Obviously, we would like to deal with things in one fell swoop, but sometimes,” Hill told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on July 1, “you have to kind of do things on an incremental basis… I would draw your attention to the fact that a year ago they were producing plutonium and not only are they not producing plutonium, but they can’t produce plutonium because the thing is disabled.” That's hardly the point. They may or may not be able to produce plutonium now, but they already enough for at least one and maybe as many as a dozen low yield bombs. They're also continuing to enrich uranium. That was omitted from the declaration--just an oversight, I'm sure.

There are only two possibilities here. Either Hill is a liar on the order of Bill Clinton, or he was completely duped by Rice and the President. In either case he should resign.