Follow this link to view an effective video attack on Barack Obama. The video is well done and features footage of Jeremiah Wright’s GD America, um, sermon, interspersed with 9/11 footage, including some of those still-horrendous, still-haunting images of people leaping to their deaths from the WTC.  One of the more surprising aspects of this particular video is that it appears at a Dim site. Even more surprising than that: the video was posted there by a Hillbillary supporter, ostensibly because if the Dims do not say it, the GOP will. Well worth checking out…

 

To kno-o-ow Hill is to loa-o-oathe Hill...

And few people know Hillbillary any better than Dick Morris, campaign advisor for Bill Clinton’s successful 1996 reelection bid.

Hillary’s list of lies

Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here’s her scorecard:
 
Admitted Lies

• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)

Whoppers She Won’t Confess To

• She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there). 

With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward? END EXCERPT, which appears courtesy The Hill.

Mark Steyn, on one of those Hillbillary lies:

The defining fiction arose back in the mid-Nineties when she visited New Zealand and met Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest, and for some reason decided to tell him he was the guy her parents had named her after.

Hmm. Edmund Hillary reached the top of Everest in 1953. Hillary Rodham was born in 1947, when Sir Edmund was an obscure New Zealand beekeeper and a somewhat unlikely inspiration for two young parents in the Chicago suburbs. If any of the bigshot U.S. newspaper correspondents on the trip noticed this inconsistency, they kept it to themselves. I mentioned it in Britain's Sunday Telegraph at the time, but like so many other improbabilities in the Clinton record it sailed on indestructibly for years. By 2004 it was preserved for the ages in Bill Clinton's autobiography, on page (gulp) 870:

"Sir Edmund Hillary, who had explored the South Pole in the 1950s, was the first man to reach the top of Mount Everest and, most important, was the man Chelsea's mother had been named for."

Eventually, when it was noticed that Hillary was born six years before the ascent of Everest, Clinton aides tried assuring skeptics that her parents had seen a press interview with Sir Edmund in his beekeeping days, Mr. and Mrs. Rodham apparently being the only Illinois subscribers to The New Zealand Apiarist. Then, in the early days of her presidential campaign, Sen. Clinton quietly withdrew the story, by which time the damage was done. Edmund Hillary passed away a couple of months back, and, as I recall, the New York Times headline read:

"New Zealander For Whom Sen. Clinton Named Dies; Also First Man To Climb Everest. Sen. Clinton Was At The Summit To Greet Him, After Landing Under Heavy Sniper Fire From The Abominable Snowman."

And more from Steyn, this time on the protracted battle between Obama and Hillbillary:

Alas, Sen. Sir Edmund Hillary Danger Rodham Clinton couldn't have foreseen that the Democratic primary season would dwindle down to the Palm Beach recount replayed as a civil war: Two 50-50 candidates slugging it out, but both Democrats – and so the party's formidable skills at the politics of personal destruction and its fierce determination to win at all costs are now turned in on itself: As Edwin Glover said of the British defenses at Singapore, the guns are pointing the wrong way. END EXCERPT

Scholars and diplomats who have closely studied civil wars describe them almost as forces of nature, grinding on until the parties exhaust themselves, shredding bonds that cannot be stitched back together even long years after the killing stops. James Fearon

Here’s hoping the Dims spiral out of control and into civil war, wherein Fearon’s assertion about irreparable damage is borne out…

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"So I made a mistake," she said. "That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation." ~ The Hillinator, speaking about its latest deviation from the truth.

From the New York Post article "NOW BUNKO HILL IS UNDER FIRE"

Courtesy Breitbart.tv.com:

22% of Democrats Want Clinton to Drop Out; 22% Say Obama Should Withdraw

From Rasmussen Reports:

From Gallup:

Hat tip to reader Andrew P. for the cartoon.

(L)ast week, Barack Obama told America: "I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community."

What is the plain meaning of that sentence? That the paranoid racist ravings of Jeremiah Wright are now part of the established cultural discourse in African American life and thus must command our respect? Let us take the senator at his word when he says he chanced not to be present on AIDS Conspiracy Sunday, or God Damn America Sunday, or US of KKKA Sunday, or the Post-9/11 America-Had-It-Coming Memorial Service. A conventional pol would have said he was shocked, shocked to discover Afrocentric black liberation theology going on at his church. But Obama did something far more audacious: Instead of distancing himself from his pastor, he attempted to close the gap between Wright and the rest of the country, arguing, in effect, that the guy is not just his crazy uncle but America's, too. Mark Steyn, from his Saturday March 22, 2008 Op-Ed “So much for the 'post-racial' candidate”

Find me someone at 20 who is not a liberal and I’ll show you someone without a heart. Show me someone at 40 who is not a conservative, and I’ll show you someone without a head~Winston Churchill

Playwright David Mamet shares his after-forty epiphany, in “Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal”, excerpted here: 

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

As a child of the '60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative, and that people are generally good at heart.

These cherished precepts had, over the years, become ingrained as increasingly impracticable prejudices. Why do I say impracticable? Because although I still held these beliefs, I no longer applied them in my life. How do I know? My wife informed me. We were riding along and listening to NPR. I felt my facial muscles tightening, and the words beginning to form in my mind: Shut the f  up. "?" she prompted. And her terse, elegant summation, as always, awakened me to a deeper truth: I had been listening to NPR and reading various organs of national opinion for years, wonder and rage contending for pride of place. Further: I found I had been—rather charmingly, I thought—referring to myself for years as "a brain-dead liberal," and to NPR as "National Palestinian Radio."

This is, to me, the synthesis of this worldview with which I now found myself disenchanted: that everything is always wrong.

But in my life, a brief review revealed, everything was not always wrong, and neither was nor is always wrong in the community in which I live, or in my country. Further, it was not always wrong in previous communities in which I lived, and among the various and mobile classes of which I was at various times a part. SNIP

I'd observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth, and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money, but that nonetheless, people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and privileged circumstances—that we are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but that we are a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired—in short, human) individuals living under a spectacularly effective compact called the Constitution, and lucky to get it. SNIP

And I began to question my hatred for "the Corporations"—the hatred of which, I found, was but the flip side of my hunger for those goods and services they provide and without which we could not live.

And I began to question my distrust of the "Bad, Bad Military" of my youth, which, I saw, was then and is now made up of those men and women who actually risk their lives to protect the rest of us from a very hostile world. Is the military always right? No. Neither is government, nor are the corporations—they are just different signposts for the particular amalgamation of our country into separate working groups, if you will. Are these groups infallible, free from the possibility of mismanagement, corruption, or crime? No, and neither are you or I. So, taking the tragic view, the question was not "Is everything perfect?" but "How could it be better, at what cost, and according to whose definition?" Put into which form, things appeared to me to be unfolding pretty well. SNIP

And I realized that the time had come for me to avow my participation in that America in which I chose to live, and that that country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace.

"Aha," you will say, and you are right. I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism. END EXCERPT, which appears courtesy The Village Voice.

My grandmother’s brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a Democrat in the family~Emo Phillips

Some encouraging signs for Republican chances in November (my bold emphasis)…

The lengthy Democratic primary contest bodes well for Republican chances of holding the White House, a new poll suggests.

As Democratic Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York slug it out for the nomination, many of their supporters -- at least in Pennsylvania, site of the next major primary -- aren't committed to the party's ticket in November, according to a Franklin & Marshall College Poll.

Among Obama supporters, 20 percent said they would vote for Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee, if Clinton beats their candidate for the nomination. Among Clinton supporters, 19 percent said they would support McCain in November if Obama is the Democratic nominee. (See poll) END EXCERPT, which appears courtesy CNS News.

White House strategists are feeling a new rush of optimism about President Bush's remaining 10 months in office. One reason is a new internal Republican poll, obtained by U.S. News, which indicates that while Bush's job-approval ratings remain low, some of his major policies have become quite popular. If Bush and his surrogates can make the policies better known, GOP strategists believe that will lift not only Bush's approval ratings but the overall standing of his party. SNIP

About 64 percent of likely voters approve of Bush's economic stimulus package passed earlier this year; 67 percent back his initiatives to help struggling homeowners survive the current mortgage crisis; 70 percent endorse his plan to allow monitoring of foreign communications of suspected terrorists; and 72 percent back his visit to the Mideast to promote peace. In addition, 52 percent approve of his surge of U.S. troops into Iraq. END EXCERPT, which appears courtesy US News and World Report

Looking ahead to the General Election in November, John McCain continues to lead both potential Democratic opponents. McCain leads Barack Obama 49% to 41% and Hillary Clinton 50% to 42% (see recent daily results). New polling shows McCain leading both Democrats in Georgiaand Arkansas.In Minnesota,the race is very close.

On Sunday, McCain is viewed favorably by 54% of voters nationwide and unfavorably by 42%. Obama’s reviews are 47% favorable and 51% unfavorable. For Clinton, those numbers are 42% favorable, 55% unfavorable (see recent daily results).   

The Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator shows Democrats leading in states with 200 Electoral Votes while the GOP has the advantage in states with 189. When “leaners” are added, the Democrats lead 247 to 229. Over the past month, McCain has gained ground in Ohio,Michigan, Minnesota,Colorado, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Both Democrats continue to lead in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticutand California (see summary of recent state general election polling). END EXCERPT, which appears courtesy Rasmussen Reports.

Hugh Hewitt has an idea to help McCain build on his momentum…

If Senator McCain selected a running mate early and set about the country with a team of advisors that will accompany him into the executive branch in some capacity, the contrast with the rapidly deteriorating Democratic front bench would be profound, just as this week's trip to Iraq, Jordan and Israel showcased the chasm between McCain and Obama.  Conventional wisdom says McCain waits as long as he can to name a running mate, but with a fund-raising gap that will only widen as the left gets more and more energized about having a nominee with a radical past and pastor, there's an opportunity to cement the GOP support and claim the center right and energize fund-raising and organization in front of Team McCain.  END

I like Hugh’s idea, but I would like to see McCain go even further. I suggest that the Republican nominee begin recruiting potential cabinet members and floating those names to the public. And I would like to see McCain reaching out to a couple of folks from outside the GOP; Joe Lieberman pops out as a real solid possibility…

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The Hillinator: Badly damaged, and daily taking more hits, but not totally out of commission. It will not stop until it completes its mission or is totally destroyed in the process...

Giving Team Hillbillary hope is the potential for fallout from Obama’s association with Tony Rezko scandal. And this week Obama has been put on the defensive over controversial remarks made by Jeremiah A. Wright, Reverend of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama has attended Trinity United for twenty years; Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama and christened the Obama’s daughters.  

Obama has been particularly weak in his attempts to explain his ongoing association with Wright who, among other things has:

·        Blamed the US government for creating the AIDS virus, which was ostensibly developed to kill blacks.

·        Asserted that 9/11 was America’s comeuppance for US foreign policy.

·        Suggested that American blacks should not sing “God Bless America”, but instead should sing “God D*mn America”.

Check out Ronald Kessler’s Op-Ed piece in today’s Opinion Journal for more on Wright and his pal Louis Farrakhan. 

Obama has mildly criticized Wright’s remarks, though his denunciation seems somewhat insincere. Obama compared Wright to “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with."

Relative or no, it is a pretty safe bet that many Americans, me among them, would head for the door the first time they heard anyone spouting racist or anti-American rhetoric. And, as others have pointed out, one may not be able to choose his uncle, but one can choose his friends; or his minister. Obama had a choice, yet he stayed….for twenty years. 

And Wright remains an advisor and “sounding board” to Obama.

In religion as in politics, leadership is about saying and doing things that resonate with the constituency. Essentially, we tend to follow and support people whose values we share. I wonder which part of Wright’s racist, divisive teachings so strongly resonate with Barack Obama (the great uniter) that he has stayed with the church for more than two decades….

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Just wondering: How does Barack Obama’s mother, a white woman, feel about her son’s willingness to remain close to a man who has spent so much time and energy attacking whites?

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported earlier this week that this year’s average winter temperatures are two-tenths of one degree above the average for the twentieth century. Yet this year’s temps are the lowest since 2001.

The report also noted “record Northern Hemisphere snow cover in January and above-average snow cover in February”.   

Television’s “big three”, ABC, CBS and NBC, have remained very quiet about the NOAA report. Does this merely reflect the big three’s lack of interest in global warming?

According to a recent study by BMI:

Over the last 6 months of 2007, the big three did 205 stories on global warming.

On the three networks, 80 percent of stories (167 out of 205) didn’t mention skepticism or anyone at all who dissented from global warming alarmism. CBS did the absolute worst job. Ninety-seven percent of its stories (34 out of 35) ignored other opinions. Williams’ own network, NBC, came in a close second with 85 percent (76 out of 89) excluding skepticism. ABC was the most balanced network, but still censored dissent from 64 percent of its stories (34 out of 53).

(P)eople with alternative views barely got face time on the networks. Instead, they received insults and hostile questions.

Journalists also called skeptics “deniers,” conjuring images of Holocaust deniers, and cast them as flat-earthers – ironically forgetting that there was once a scientific consensus that the earth was flat.

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Speaking of MSM bias, Newsbusters reports that it took awhile for the big three to get around to mentioning that Eliott Spitzer is a Dim:

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, substitute NBC Nightly News anchor Ann Curry and reporter Mike Taibbi failed to identify disgraced outgoing New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat, but on Thursday night Curry finally informed NBC viewers of the party affiliation -- a fact network journalists always consider relevant when a Republican gets caught in scandalous behavior.  SNIP

For the record, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric cited Spitzer's party on Monday and Wednesday nights while ABC's World News didn't until Wednesday evening.

The morning shows have completely blacked out the fact Spitzer is a Democrat.   END EXCERPT

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For what it's worth: The same media suppressing dissent about global warming, and dragging its heels in citing Eliot Spitzer’s political affiliation is the same MSM covering Barack Obama…

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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has admitted that he has been involved in a prostitution ring. This is the same man who when he was attorney general went after the prostitution rings. So apparently for not giving him good service . . . Jay Leno

If Gov. Spitzer resigns over his prostitution scandal, he will reportedly go into private practice as a lawyer. When asked why he wanted to practice law again, Spitzer said, “I like businesses where you charge by the hour and screw your clients."  Conan O’Brien

Earlier today, the governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, resigned. In his resignation speech he said, "To whom much has been given, much is expected." Which is the same thing he said to that $5,000-an-hour hooker.  Jay Leno

Political experts say that before the scandal, Hillary Clinton had considered him for a possible running mate. Now, Hillary is considering Spitzer as a possible husband. Conan O’Brien

Stay red…

Samantha Power, then an advisor to the Obama campaign, speaking to a reporter from The Scotsman:

"We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win.

"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.

Ms Power said of the Clinton campaign: "Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there, too.

"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'. But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive." END EXCERPT

Chief Clinton spokesperson, Howard Wolfson, in a May 6, 2008 conference call to reporters (courtesy My Way News):

"After a campaign in which many of the questions that voters had in the closing days centered on concerns that they had over his state of preparedness to be commander in chief and steward of the economy, he has chosen instead of addressing those issues to attack Senator Clinton," Wolfson told reporters in a conference call. "I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president." END EXCERPT

Robert Novak, posting Thursday at Real Clear Politics, does not see a ceasefire any time soon:

(There is now) the prospect of seven weeks of fierce campaigning by the two candidates stretching out to the next primary showdown April 22 in Pennsylvania, but also perhaps what Democratic leaders feared but never really thought possible until now: a contested national convention in Denver the last week of August. SNIP

A showdown in Denver may be unavoidable.

Such a showdown would reveal consequences of eight years of Democratic procedural decisions that made no sense save for the premise that Hillary Clinton, as she expected, would be handed the nomination on Super Tuesday Feb. 5. Holding the convention unusually late raises the prospect of not knowing the identity of the Democratic nominee until shortly before Labor Day. The decision to deprive Michigan and Florida of delegates because their primaries were scheduled too early cannot stand in a contested convention. That Hillary Clinton's candidacy still lives forces Democrats to cope with their mistakes. END ARTICLE

Even the libs are onto Hillbillary’s scorched-earth tactics. Lefty loon Jonathan Chait, who most frequently puts crayon to grocery bag for the Los Angeles Times, had this to say today in hard-left leaner the New Republic:

Clinton's path to the nomination is pretty repulsive. She isn't going to win at the polls. Barack Obama has a lead of 144 pledged delegates. That may not sound like a lot in a 4,000-delegate race, but it is. Clinton's Ohio win reduced that total by only nine. She would need 15 more Ohios to pull even with Obama. She isn't going to do much to dent, let alone eliminate, his lead.

That means, as we all have grown tired of hearing, that she would need to win with superdelegates. But, with most superdelegates already committed, Clinton would need to capture the remaining ones by a margin of better than two to one. And superdelegates are going to be extremely reluctant to overturn an elected delegate lead the size of Obama's. The only way to lessen that reluctance would be to destroy Obama's general election viability, so that superdelegates had no choice but to hand the nomination to her. Hence her flurry of attacks, her oddly qualified response as to whether Obama is a Muslim ("not as far as I know"), her repeated suggestions that John McCain is more qualified. SNIP

Clinton's path to the nomination, then, involves the following steps: kneecap an eloquent, inspiring, reform-minded young leader who happens to be the first serious African American presidential candidate (meanwhile cementing her own reputation for Nixonian ruthlessness) and then win a contested convention by persuading party elites to override the results at the polls. The plan may also involve trying to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations, after having explicitly agreed that the results would not count toward delegate totals. END EXCERPT

Look for Hillbillary to hit Obama often and hard over the next few months. One target for Hillbillary, and eventually for Republicans, is Barack Obama’s connections to Chicago area (ahem) businessman and fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko. Rezko is a businessman the same way Tony Soprano is "in sanitation".

Rezko is also Obama’s neighbor-literally-and there have been questions about his involvement in the real estate Obama made to get the property.

Conservative talker Hugh Hewitt, came up with the concept of a web-based clearing house for all things Rezko, Rezkorama.com. It’s worth a look, especially if Obama manages to hang on and win the Dim nomination.

Cartoon courtesy Townhall.com

Fred Barnes’ Weekly Standard article, "Now the Hard Part", lists the three things McCain must do now that he has wrapped up the Republican nomination:

And Republicans should not despair that the 2008 election is a lost cause. After things looking so gloomy for the GOP just months ago, there are now some glimmers of hope. From today’s Rasmussen Reports:

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The biggest remaining prize is the April 22 primary in Pennsylvania, with 158 delegates. According to Real Clear Politics, Clinton currently leads Obama 46 percent to 37 percent. The Dims proportion delegates based on election results, so if the polls hold up, Clinton would gain some ground, but not nearly enough to catch Obama, who would also pick up a few Pennsylvania delegates.

I'm melting! I'm melting! "Ohhhhh... What a world! What a world! Who ever thought a little guy like Barack Obama could destroy my beautiful wickedness?
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"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Sir Francis Bacon

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. Patricia Hampl

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant

"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." Napolean Bonaparte

Victor Davis Hanson has a great take on the Libs’ populist political pandering:

In these gloom-and-doom narratives by (Clinton and Obama), we less fortunate Americans are doing almost everything right, but still are not living as well as we deserve to be. The common culprit is a government that is not doing enough good for us, and corporations that do too much bad to us.

Hanson’s piece is short, well written and very much worth a complete read. And it touches on a key reason for much of the appeal of both Dim candidates: the tactic of blaming government and big business for whatever woes any of us currently face…

"A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own." —Frank Dane

Rush Limbaugh talked about the piece on his nationally syndicated radio program. So did conservative talker Neal Boortz. And about 10 RFTLC readers sent me the article, possibly for inclusion on this blog.

In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man

Hubbell’s piece deserves a complete read, but here are some of my favorite excerpts:

Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard. SNIP

He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the "poor me" attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves. END EXCERPT

As much as I enjoyed Hubbell’s piece, I also disagree with much of what he has to say. For example, I do not care much for Hubbell’s cheap shot on President Bush:

(E)verybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush.

I’m not buying that "woman as the weaker sex" crap. I know plenty of strong, smart, rational women, including my wife, my sister and my mom. And guess what: those three ladies and numerous other women are irritated about many of the same things that set off Hubbell.

Photo courtesy Ace of Spades HQ

So where does that leave Hillbillary?  Ace of Spades asserts, and I am inclined to agree, that Hillbillary will try to find a way to remain relevant:

Her next-best option now is simply to be a beloved standard bearer of the liberal left.

And now that her presidential ambitions are scotched, she will move to unabashed left-liberalism, where her heart has always been, just like another loser, Al Gore. END EXCERPT

Some people, including government officials from Russia and China, have contended that taking out the satellite was an excuse to test American anti-missile technology. That is probably at least partially true. But shooting down the satellite was a in some ways a bigger challenge than intercepting an inbound ICBM.

The highest ICBM reentry speed is about 15,000 miles per hour. Reentry is the "terminal defense segment", a point beginning about 60 miles above the Earth when anti-missile systems would intercept the incoming missile. An inbound ICBM has a strong heat signature, making it easier to find and track than the nearly inert spy satellite the Navy intercepted and destroyed.

Barack Obama won two more states. That makes 10 in a row. I think the only way Hillary’s going to get into the White House now is if she uses that tunnel Bill dug to sneak out. Jay Leno

Hillary is worried that Bill will wander off in Texas, so today she had him branded and gelded. David Letterman

Hillary Clinton still doing very well in one state: the state of denial. Jay Leno