Remember the movie A Christmas Story? The main character, Ralphie, wanted “an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.”
Hugo Chavez is reported to have said that he looks forward to talking with “the black man” in the White House.
But, you know what? I bet he didn’t say that.
Oh, sure, Klingons speak English. Saw that on Star Trek. Cardassians, too. And the Borg. Romulans, Vulcans, Q, they all speak English. Even those green Orion slave women speak English. And those people on Twilight Zone that want To Serve Man, even they speak English.
No le pedimos que sea un revolucionario, que sea un socialista, no, sólo que se coloque el hombre negro que está a punto de llegar a ser presidente de los Estados Unidos (…) ojalá se ubique a la altura del momento que vive el mundo.”
“El hombre negro.” The black man.
If I said that, I’d be in a world of hurt. But since Chavez said it, it’s okay. Since Chavez is one of The Anointed One’s friends.
Anyway, Obama … oops, I mean El Hombre Negro … is Hugo Chavez’ choice for President of the U.S.
Even the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Borg, or any other evil race has the decency to stay out of it.
But, here in Bizarro World, it’s a positive for Obama … excuse me, I mean, El Hombre Negro … to have someone like Hugo Chavez as a supporter.
Barack Obama called John McCain, Sarah Palin, and conservatives in general, “selfish” for opposing his plan to take your money and “spread the wealth around” by giving it to others.
Some Obama supporters, like Peggy Johnson, say Obama will take care of them:
Obama has had a lead with Hispanic voters for some time — though that gap is closing — because of how he’s perceived regarding the immigration issue.
So, how do those perceptions bear up to the facts?
They don’t.
Why would Obama take care of Peggy Johnson, when he won’t take care of his own aunt?
Bill Ayers, the terrorist who dedicated a book to “political prisoners’ … like Sirhan Sirhan:
Obama knew Ayers. Obama worked with Ayers. Obama got money for Ayers. Lots and lots of money.
The whole “when I was 8 years old” line doesn’t fly, because he wasn’t 8 when he launched his campaign in Ayers’ home. He wasn’t 8 when he served on several boards and programs with Ayers. He wasn’t 8 years old when he used his position in the Illinois state legislature to get money for Ayers and his group.
Latest polls (if you believe them) show Barack Obama winning in many of the largest coal-producing states.
Of the top 15 coal-producing states, Obama leads the polls in 6 of them, for a total of 89 electoral votes:
Wyoming (338,900)
West Virginia (158,257)
Kentucky (130,688)
*Pennsylvania (74,619)
Texas (49,498)
Montana (38,352)
*Illinois (33,444)
*Virginia (32,834)
North Dakota (31,270)
*Colorado (29,137)
Indiana (27,965)
*New Mexico (27,323)
Utah (26,656)
*Ohio (22,269)
Alabama (19,324)
Totals in thousands of short tons, as of 2000. States marked with an asterisk (*) are listed as leaning/strong Obama by RealClearPolitics.com on November 2, 2008.
If McCain won those states, he’d win the election.
But here’s the reality … or so it seems: Obama leads in 6 of the top coal-producing states.
What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.
I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It’s just that it will bankrupt them.
Why would someone in those states want to vote themselves out of a job?
Maybe so they can get some of your wealth that Obama plans to spread around?
Barack Obama wants a “civilian national security force.”
Not the National Guard. Not the Reserves. But a new force.
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objective that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
What was that organization that Adolf Hitler had? Sturmabteilung? You know, the “Brown Shirts.”
Or maybe he wants to go straight to the Schutzstaffel, the “SS.”
Are those of us on the right the only ones that ever read books? Or that watched the Nazi shows on the History Channel instead of their “Search for Bigfoot” or “Roswell Uncovered” shows? Or that can think for ourselves?
Remember the movie A Christmas Story? The main character, Ralphie, wanted “an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.”
