Given what we now know about Bush-style politics, Perot might have gotten a bum rap.

Another tiny but telling item from George Packer about a Republican who has decided to vote for Obama:

www.newyorker.com/.../a-straw-in-the.html

Keep talking Ayers, keep losing voters, but does McCain have anything to say about the economy?

I understand that Opus Dei and the Knights Templars were also involved in this, one of the most amazing cover-ups of the Millennium.  It would seem that the Rev Wright is a Freemason to boot, and has been inducted as an Admiral in the UN Navy that is going to bombard Utah and Missouri on election day.  "Obama" is actually Latin for Anti-Christ - it's right there, in the book of John, if you read it backwards and upside down in the original Latin - and in fact Nostradamus predicted the end of the world if a Negro Community Organizer becomes President of the United States.  

I've heard it said that da Vinci painted Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile as an ironic statement on the Kool-Air-drinking Obamabotophilocultists.  

Obama was fraternizing with Ayers, who is tied to "Afrocentric" theories espoused by Jeremiah Wright, who said "God damn America," which agreed with Hugo Chavez, who is friends with Danny Glover, who was in Lethal Weapon with Joe Pesci who was in JFK with Kevin Bacon!

Oh, sorry. Wrong game.

If McCain reads this on 'the internets', then he won't dare bring it up, what a slap down!

andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.../republicans-who.html

Seriously, what the hell has happened to the National Review?  I used to like reading it to see what the smart kids on the other side of the aisle are thinking.  Now, save for a few, it's just another conservative holding tank for nutty conspiracy theorists and people with a raging case of Islamophobia.

adaglas:  Isn't that what were really afraid of?  That it all goes back to Kevin Bacon.

Normally I don't advocate the use of illegal drugs, but if Kurtz is looking to escape the implicitly accusatory and self-esteem-shattering effects of a burdensome, inexorable, and ubiquitous current reality via a palliative endorphin rush triggered by irrational and/or irrelevant cognitive leaps of faith, I'd suggest he try smoking some methamphetamine. He'll get to where he is now, but with far less work.

National Treasure 3: The Quest for the Real Barack Obama?

I second Girlwonder's comments.

<blockquote>what the hell has happened to the National Review? </blockquote>

I don't know what else anybody could have expected since Kathryn Lopez was hired as gatekeeper for their online operation.  There's still Ramesh, Derb, and a few others, though Corner postings by the not-stupids seem to be on the decline.

Speaking in France, Jesse Jackson expanded on the ways in which American foreign policy will change in an Obama administration:

Prepare for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week.

He promised "fundamental changes" in US foreign policy - saying America must "heal wounds" it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the "arrogance of the Bush administration."

The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end.

Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.

While predicting that the Obama administration will implement drastic changes in domestic policy as well, Jackson declined to be specific about what might be done. He was more willing to be concrete with regard to foreign policy, specifically the Middle East:

Jackson is especially critical of President Bush's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

"Bush was so afraid of a snafu and of upsetting Israel that he gave the whole thing a miss," Jackson says. "Barack will change that," because, as long as the Palestinians haven't seen justice, the Middle East will "remain a source of danger to us all."

"Barack is determined to repair our relations with the world of Islam and Muslims," Jackson says. "Thanks to his background and ecumenical approach, he knows how Muslims feel while remaining committed to his own faith."

It's noteworthy that Jackson does not consider himself a Zionist, and believes that Obama is not a Zionist, either. I don't often agree with Jackson, but this time I think he's right.

www.powerlineblog.com/.../021773.php

adaglas: You are on fire, dude.

Ayers, is the vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers.

Maybe this was part of the Bill Ayers education plan?

8th grade students in Racine, Wisconsin are now using textbooks that contain a 15 page section on Barack Obama.

Note: No Hillary, No McCain, No Palin, No Bush... Just Obama!

This is beyond freaky.

Real Debate Wisconsin reported:

My 8th grade son is in an advanced English class at a public middle school here in Racine, Wisconsin. I just found out that my son's new (copyright 2008) Wisconsin - McDougal Littell Literature book has 15 pages covering Barack Obama.

I was shocked - No John McCain, no Hillary Clinton, no George Bush - Just Barack Obama. I'm wondering how it is that Obama's story gets put into an 8th grade literature book? It would be one thing, if it was just the tidbit about his boyhood days, but 15 pages, and they talk about his "Life of Service". Honestly, what has Obama really done to be included in this book? Not only that, but on page 847 there is a photo of Obama at the 2004 Democratic Convention with at least 8 Obama signs in the background! Front & center is an www.obama2004.com sign.

Now I understand that many teachers are liberals, but does the school have the right to shove Obama down our kid's throats? All the kids grouped together and read the story. After that, they discussed it... I guess it appears that Obama is planning ahead. If he doesn't get his coveted Presidency, Obama is going to make sure, that the younger generations know all about him, and his "life of service".

gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/.../unreal-new-8th-grade-english-textbooks.html

Hey, jake, you forgot to make a point.  Or say anything relevant.  

But I love the "Jesse Jackson is always wrong except right now."  Good show, person who Jakey is cut-and-pasting!

Kurtz is to the Annendale project is what Geraldo Rivera was to Al Capone's vaults.

jacob,

If you think you're pissed about "Barack Obama," a living, breathing human being, being foisted on our nation's innocent schoolchildren, imagine how atheists and agnostics like me feel about having the ridiculous bullshit myth about "God" shoved down our throats every time we turn around. Every time I see "In God We Trust" on a dollar bill, I think of the punch line from that old joke about the Lone Ranger and Tonto, surrounded by hostile Injuns, and LR says, "I guess we're finished," and Tonto says, "What you mean 'we,' Kemosabe?"

Myths are everywhere if you know where to look for them.

At this point I think JACOBT1 needs to have his ID REVOKED.

Maxblum -- damn it, you came up with it first... though I am sure that really, that idiot Zucker has already come up with it and is working on a really horrible 'satire' that will suck even worse than American Carol.

What makes Jake think that Jesse Jackson has a direct pipeline to Obama's thinking on this or any other issue?  Not long ago Jackson expressed a strong wish that Obama be deprived of his testicles.  I don't imagine they speak much.  This whole post was hot air.

williamyard,

"God" is not being foisted on our nation's innocent schoolchildren, Obama is.

Let me get this straight. Obama was a politician from Chicago, has traveled extensively, was a college professor, has served in the Senate, has probably associated with hundreds of thousands of people, and the worst thing the wingers can come up with is that he went to church where the pastor was pissed off about slavery and racism and that he served on a charity board with a guy who didn't like the war in Vietnam a lot, man..... I lived in white bread suburbia most of my life and I've know much badder dudes than Bill Ayres and Reverend Wright. Man what's in Obama's CD collection I'll bet you he's got some gangsta rap cds, maybe even some Bill Ayres-esc anti-Vietnam schnit like CSNY.

gflibCDL ,

Let me get this straight.  What's the point of your spin? Who are you trying to convince?

Are you just trying to have some fun?  

Jakey's right I'm afraid.  Why, just look at what some of today's textbooks are peddling to our impressionable youth:

Science:  An object at rest will remain at rest, until it is inspired by Barack Obama.

English:  All complete sentences must contain a subject, a predicate, and a reference to Barack Obama; otherwise, it is a sentence fragment.

Math:  If Barack Obama leaves Chicago at 5 pm traveling 85 mph, and John McCain leaves Phoenix at 6 pm traveling 35 mph, how far behind will McCain be by the time Obama has changed the world as we know it?

History:  George Washington was the Father of his Country.  Barack Obama is its super-cool Uncle.

Gym:  The game that's sweeping playgrounds across the nation?  Obamaball.

Still, in our wiser moments, we have always understood that character, broadly defined, is important to possess for those in high public office, in part because it tells us whether our leaders warrant our trust, whether their word is dependable, and whether they are responsible. And one of the best indicators of character is the people with whom you associate. This is basic, elementary-school level common sense. The odds are your parents wanted you to hang around with the “right” crowd instead of the wrong crowd because if you hung around with the latter it meant its members would be a bad influence on you, it would reflect poorly on you, and you’d probably end up getting into trouble.

What applies to 10-year-olds also applies to presidential candidates.

Over the years, Barack Obama hung around with some pretty disturbing characters, and what we’re talking about aren’t isolated incidents. It has happened with a slew of people on a range of issues. He has connected himself with domestic terrorists (William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn), with an anti-American and racist minister (Jeremiah Wright), and with corrupt people (Antoin “Tony” Rezko) and organizations (ACORN). What we see, then, is a pattern.

Will it be something that will manifest itself if Obama is elected President? It’s impossible to know for sure, and we can hope it wouldn’t be the case. But it might.

The concern is not that Obama will invite domestic terrorists to the White House for signing ceremonies or private lunches; rather, it is that we know enough about Obama to say that his enormous personal ambition has clouded his judgment over the years. He looks to be a man who will do disquieting things in order to climb the ladder of political success; when he was in Hyde Park, the rungs on that ladder included Mr. Ayers and the Reverend Wright. This kind of trait — soaring ambition trumping sound judgment — can manifest itself in very problematic ways, especially when you occupy the most powerful office in the world.

www.commentarymagazine.com/.../37572

Instead of cutting and pasting, jacob, why not just provide the link to the particular article you are touting and tell us some of your own thoughts on the topic?  Oh, sorry . . .  .

Let's see-

Domestic Terrorists?  G. Gordon Liddy

Anti-American and racist preachers? Falwell

Corrupt Individuals?  Keating

Corrupt Organizations?  Ummm...the GOP?

Seriously, jacob- you either don't read what you copy and paste or don't think about it.   Either way you are the worst kind of offender- you are boring.  Wrong can be dealt with.  Annoying can be dismissed.  But Christ, man, you are a boring kid.  

Common jacob. seriously? Every link you provide is from some obscure Right wing fringe blog that looks suspiciously devoid of actual seriousness, let alone actual fact. My favorite is that each link leads to another blog link as "proof" of further malice by BHO and yet we hear nothing from actual, recognizable media sources? The National Review is as relevant these days as the Onion except the Onion is funny.

As for God 'not' being foisted on our innocent children. That the religious wrong have been trying for years to instill "intelligent design" teaching in the science class as factual science, prayer in school are all subtle ways of returning public schools into quasi-religious schools says much about your line of thinking.

As one poster from your link said "We must take back the inner cities from the Democrats. We must fight block by block. And we must take back our schools, one by one. County by County, State by State.

And yes, Universities too. Harvard, Yale, even Berkeley were all started by Christians"

Quite ironic that these are the same folks that would have American return to a nation of dunces where fact-based science is replaced with Christian-approved scientific opinions like this illuminating video www.youtube.com/watch

jacob is a racist and an anti-semite, he said all blacks are stupid and that any jew who supported Obama is a disgrace to judaism, so ignore his rantings. He simply thinks he is provoking people and longs for any kind of recognition, even if negative. What a sad little man he is.

singlespeed said:

"That the religious wrong have been trying for years to instill "intelligent design" teaching in the science class ".

Without any success .

The more I watch the McCain train-wreck cmpaign of 2008 the more I am reminded of the Barry Goldwater campaign of 1964, when the GOP went into a free fall and everything they did, day in and day out, just made their fall worse.

Under the circumstances, the mention of Kevin Bacon brought to mind this scene:

www.youtube.com/watch

The fundamentals of the economy are sound.....