HuffPo: Portraying Obama with a White Woman is Racist!

Do you see anything wrong with this photo?

Yeah, me neither.  But a whole gaggle of lefties say Matt Drudge was playing the race card by posting it on The Drudge Report yesterday.

According to HuffPo commenters, Drudge was intentionally trying to ruffle the feathers of white male Republicans, but it’s the liberals at HuffPo who have shown their true colors yet again: Klan white.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 14, 2008

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Crack That Whip

John McCain made a promise on Sunday regarding his upcoming debate with Barack Obama:

We’re going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7.

Apparently that remark whipped the left into a frenzy over McCain’s “racist” rhetoric.  (See Kos if you have the stomach for it.)

My question: does this mean Devo won’t be performing “Whip It” at their Obama benefit concert in Akron this Friday?

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 13, 2008

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October Surprise: Sarah Palin Doesn’t Henpeck Her Husband

“Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads,” according to Steve Branchflower’s report on his Troopergate probe.

Warning: don’t take a sip of your drink before reading this next part.

The Branchflower report also finds that Sarah Palin “abused her power” by not keeping a short enough leash on her husband, Todd Palin. “She had the authority and power to require Mr. Palin to cease contacting subordinates, but she failed to act,” Branchflower contends on page 66 of the 263 page behemoth. He also asserts that her inaction constituted “official action.”

Apparently Mr. Branchflower, who was paid $100,000 for his inquiry, thinks conversations in the Palin household should go more like this:

Sarah: Honey, I need you to stop trying to get Mike Wooten fired even though he tased our nephew, drove his official vehicle under the influence of alcohol, and threatened to put a bullet in my dad’s skull.

Todd: Screw that, I’m trying to protect my family and everyone else around here from a child abusing douchebag. Who cares if I make a few phone calls to express my opinion?

Sarah: I’m the freakin’ governor of the great state of Alaska and I demand that you show respect for my authority and power, so you shut your piehole and you keep it shut if you know what’s good for you.

Todd: Huh?

Sarah: You’ll be hearing from my lawyers.

If you think that’s fiction, read the Branchflower report (PDF) and check out the AP smear that charges Sarah Palin “unlawfully abused her power.” How exactly does one “unlawfully” abuse power while exercising authority in “a proper and lawful” way?

For detailed analysis of all the report’s flaws, see Beldar’s guest post on Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall blog and the official response from Sarah Palin’s legal team (PDF).

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 11, 2008

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Time to Get Some

Nearly half of the 45 million uninsured Americans could join the ranks of the insured tomorrow. No need to wait for McCain or Obama to implement a plan after taking office in January – their insurance coverage could begin now. How, you ask?

They could go get some. Watch Nick Gillespie’s simple proposal:

Most of the millions of uninsured Americans go without health insurance only because they don’t feel it’s a budgetary priority. And most of those people aren’t one-legged single Katrina victims with 12 kids (or whatever sob story Obama likes to cite at his rallies.) They’re young, healthy people who choose to take calculated risks.

The figures cited in this video don’t lessen the import of American health care reform, but they do offer some worthwhile perspective on the uninsured.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 10, 2008

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Bailouts and Stimulus Packages and Nationalizations, Oh My!

The American economy’s got a fever, and the only cure is to put a lid on government intervention.

That’s the lesson economics professors Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian gleaned from their 2004 study of the Great Depression that suggested FDR’s New Deal policies actually stifled economic recovery for seven years and prolonged the economic crisis into a 15 year Depression. (Hat tip: Jonah Goldberg.)

“Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump,” said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA’s Department of Economics. “We found that a relapse isn’t likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.”

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“The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes,” Cole said. “Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened.”

Billions of dollars were spent on economic stimulus checks, and more than a trillion is expected to be channeled toward Paulson’s bailout extravaganza. I’m no economist, but I’m pretty sure those expenditures qualify as significant government intervention and a lack of trust in capitalism.

And now, we’re looking at nationalizing banks and Pelosi has another ill-conceived stimulus package on the way? Doom and gloom may be too optimistic.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 9, 2008

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Say It Ain’t So, Rove

So apparently “The Architect” Karl Rove bought into Obama’s attempted politicization of his dying mother’s experience arguing with insurance companies:

He had the night’s emotional high point when he talked about his dying mother fighting her insurer over whether her cancer was a pre-existing condition.

I know the night wasn’t rife with tear-jerking sentiment, but does a guy who reveals he stood by and let his dying mother battle insurance companies really get to lay claim to the emotional high point of the debate? Should I really sympathize with Obama, a man who failed to insulate his mother from the stress and frustration of dealing with insurers during some of her final weeks on this earth?

Obama might believe that health care is a right, but playing the cancer card isn’t, and it’s time to call him on it.

Hat tip for the Rove article: Hot Air Headlines

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 9, 2008

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