"Obama To Dispatch Female Surrogates"

This is the best political campaign ever! Now starring Barack Obama as Harcourt Fenton Mudd:

and Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius as Mudd's women:

"These go to eleven."

So said Nigel Tufnel. Imagine what would happen if McCain & Palin are elected and Palin inherits the presidency. We've seen the media and the left (pardon the redundancy) reach some pretty revolting depths as they suffer through their eighth year of Bush Derangement Syndrome; imagine the white-hot flood of molten hatred they'll heap on President Palin as they try to destroy her - a wife and mother who dares to put on her shoes and step out of her kitchen without the blessing of the old feminist hags. They'll have to turn their amps up to eleven.

Quick! Fire up the youtubes!

Someone needs to do this to this like yesterday already.

Update: here's a working link to the video. Lots of rich Americans telling us that America sux, dude. Only the Big O can save us.

What are the odds...

...of a McCain/Clinton ticket?

Too good to be true

Introducing the Ronco Gaffe-O-Matic!

CNN is reporting that Barack Obama has chosen the worst possible running mate: erstwhile presidential candidate Joe Biden. Since the only thing that has stood between Biden and the presidency is his mouth, and since Obama is no chrysostom himself, this should be lots of fun as the Republicans mop the floor with Obama/Biden. It won't quite be a Mondale/Ferraro blowout, but it'll still be a fun November 4 for Republicans.

Unless the Democrats really do nominate Hillary Clinton - then all bets are off.

Update: I didn't realize, because I don't keep up with Bideniana, that he's a pro-abortion Catholic who believes that life begins at conception. Figure that one out. At least he's consistent, though: he supports the death penalty both for criminals and for children.

Thanks, Barry

It looks like my alma mater, the University of Illinois, is covering for yet another corrupt Chicago politician.

A crazy prediction

By the end of the upcoming Democrat national convention in Denver later this month, Hillary Clinton will be their presidential nominee. Perhaps with Barack Obama as her running mate. It'll be even more entertaining than the Olympics!

The Prophecy of the Obamessiah

Fun satire from Gerard Baker at the Times Online. I'm starting to think the Democrats are on track for another landslide loss.

Slave Nation

Jim Lindgren takes a look at the historical antecedents of Service Nation.

The immunological argument against immigration

Here in Small Town, Illinois, we don't see much of the illegal-immigration crisis aside from an occasional Spanish name in the newspaper's police column, usually someone arrested for drunken driving or domestic violence. Immigrant crime isn't even a big issue in the large nearby cities.

But while my wife and I were discussing the recent news about vaccines and autism (apparently John McCain linked the two recently) we stumbled across an argument in favor of strict immigration control: these people pouring over the border haven't had their shots and some of them are likely to be carrying God-knows-what infection that's been practically eradicated in America. For us and our children, that's a compelling reason to support closing our southern border. It also seems to be a compelling reason to keep kids away from government programs that service the children of illegal immigrants, such as Head Start.

UPDATE: a measles outbreak in San Diego by way of an unvaccinated 7-year-old child who brought it from Switzerland.

Howard Dean endorses John McCain

As Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in his endorsement of John Kerry in 2004,

"The real issue is this: Who would you rather have in charge of the defense of the United States of America, a group of people who never served a day overseas in their life, or a guy who served his country honorably and has three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star on the battlefields of Vietnam?"

Gee, John McCain's military honors include the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, the Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Flying Cross, and he saw a bit more action in Vietnam than John Kerry did.

Hat tip: Jake Tapper

What if?

If she wins the Democratic nomination, can Hillary Clinton name her husband, the former President Clinton, as her vice-presidential candidate? The 22nd amendment to the Constitution doesn't seem to rule it out:

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

Obviously I'm not the first person to think of this.

A bit over the top

Obamamania has jumped the shark, as illustrated in this video. Me, I'm skeptical of the attribution of Godlike qualities to an ordinary corrupt racist Chicago Democrat.

Angling for a job

Looks like AP journalist Ron Fournier wants to be President Hillary Clinton's press secretary come next January.

Abortion, that Jesuit tradition

Saint Peter's College, a Jesuit-run school in Jersey City, is providing the venue today for a "Rally for Change" and organizational meeting hosted by Chicago Democrat Barack Obama. I guess abortion is one of those core Jesuit traditions.

Farewell, Des Moines

I'd think that the very first act of a newly-elected President would be to nuke Des Moines, Iowa. Some of the Presidential candidates have been full-time residents of Iowa the last few years, traveling to every last little coffee shop and beauty salon to whore themselves to every last Iowan. Don't they (the politicians and the Iowans) get thoroughly sick of it all?

On the other hand, I wouldn't mind owning an Iowa teevee station. These campaigns with their round-the-clock commercials are the closest thing to money trees you'll ever find.

Meanwhile, three cheers for the doughty legislators of New Mexico and South Dakota who put their state primaries last on the schedule. Surely no campaigning politician will bother those lucky citizens.

WQAD says I'm with Fred

Says it right here, and it says my preferences are perfectly opposed to those of Mrs Clinton & Chicago's Senator Obama - they don't even show up on the list.

I'd happily vote for Thompson or McCain; I'd hold my nose and vote for Huckabee, Romney or Giuliani, and I'd vote for a Democrat before I'd vote for Ron Paul.

To digress a bit, I once voted for a big-time Democrat - Paul Simon for US Senator in my first election (I blame my youth and stupidity - I apparently swallowed the local Democrat propaganda that passed for news). I've also voted for a couple of Democrats here in Small Town, IL - the previous owner of our house for township commissioner and our realtor for township assessor or somesuch. To digress from a digression, the latter guy is an 80-something-year-old WW2 veteran and fellow parishioner with more energy than most teenagers.

Yeesh

I don't hang out much in the fever swamps of the net, so I was surprised to find a crackpot-Ronulan convergence at the Lew Rockwell website and blog: the paleos are hot for Dr Ron.

Subsidiarity

Which is not what you get from Santa Hillary. We'd rather keep our own money and educate our own children, thankyouverymuch. Does she even know where government money comes from?

"Isn't this like when you get presents from family members and you know they charged it on your credit card?" —Ann Althouse

HillaryCare in Illinois

We have excellent but danged expensive insurance through Wolfram Research, so we investigated Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's "KidCare rebate" program. If you're approved, you get a monthly check from Governor Rod to help cover the cost of insurance premiums.

Nice, eh? Not so much. We don't make the $X.00 per month required to have our kids covered by the rebate program, and we don't make the $X.00 + $300.00 per month required to cover all of us.

Yes, we're too poor to receive help with our insurance premiums. It then became obvious what the governor is up to. Poor people like us shouldn't have medical insurance at all - we should be vassals of the all-powerful Democrats who run Illinois like a plantation and we should receive all care and treatment through them. The high thresholds for rebates are an incentive to leave insurance and enter the state system, which we can't bring ourselves to trust with our special-needs children.

A point to remember in the upcoming presidential campaign season: Illinois' health program is a testbed for HillaryCare's socialized medicine.

Workforce anecdote

This bit from Glenn Reynolds reminded me of something. On our last trip to Indiana it was strange to see Anglo-Saxon-style Hoosiers doing outdoors work. Here in Illinois Mexicans do that sort of work outside the smaller towns. Why the difference?

HillaryCare + HealthVault

equals some kinda nightmare. Imagine the combination of nationalized medical care, a Big Brother medical database (Microsoft's HealthVault) and the coercive power of government.