The Democratic Party Exposed

You have to got to love how the Obama people have been sending out pundits and politicians all day on the news programs insisting that the Democratic party is unified and that Hillary and Bill and Obama are all cozy now. Really. They are. THEY ARE.

Either they are ignoring reality or they are hoping saying it will make it so.

They are ignoring this and this:

"At some point today, possibly employing methods antithetical to Democracy, the Democratic Party will vote for its candidate for president. The Democratic Party will vote to nominate Hillary Clinton for president or the Party will commit suicide.

Hillary Clinton’s majestic speech last night does not help the unqualified-to-be-president Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton’s kind words about Barack Obama last night merely underline the obvious: Hillary must be the Democratic Party nominee if there is any chance to win the White House this year.

But the Democratic Party is on course to self-slaughter."

The Obama camp is keeping an embarassing roll call from the floor. Do they not see how this makes those Hillary supporters even angrier??

You don't believe me? Check out this post at Talkleft where a blogger posts an open letter to disgruntled Hillary supporters telling them why it is so important to vote for Obama. Then read every single comment that tells him to basically go stuff it.

It gets better. Check out PumaPac.org. Over 1,200 comments on the last post and all opposed to Obama. One commenter said "I hope McCain has the good sense to realize the potential gift he’s been given!!!"

He does sweetie, he does.

So while Obama is supposedly "suppressing the vote" (according to some of the commenters) an ABC reporter was arrested digging up some dirt on the "new kind of politics" that Obama espouses:

Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown's Palace Hotel.

...Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.

What fun we are having exposing the Democratic party for what it is. Old school politics where wealth and lobbyists rule the day just as they unfortunately do in the Republican party.

There is no "new politics." There is only our belief in our party's platform. It really comes down to that.

**One little update. Guess how long Bill Clinton's speech is tonight? TEN MINUTES. Can you believe that? He is going to say what he needs to and then get out of there before Obama accepts the nomination.

The Racism of Abortion

It's not getting any play by the MSM, of course, but Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Dr. Alveda King was a part of a pro-life vigil Monday night in Denver. They protested in front of an abortion clinic that targets minorities (as many do). Dr. Alveda King had this to say about the "industry of racsim":

"Like racism, abortion allows us to treat people inhumanely if it makes our lives easier. And like racism, abortion provides a sense of justification for actions we know in our hearts are wrong."King calls abortion the true civil rights issue of today. "The unborn are obviously easier to discriminate against than any group of born humans. They cannot march. They cannot protest. They are invisible."

More:

"The fight against abortion is a new frontier in the Civil Rights Movement," states Dr. King. "We are not following Martin's dream if we do not stand up for the voiceless."

Catholic Archbishop of Denver Charles Chaput also spoke: (emphasis mine)

Archbishop of Denver Charles Chaput spoke about the dual obligations of Christian love - toward women and mothers in need, and their unborn children. "Acts of violence create a culture of violence - and abortion is the most intimate form of violence there is," said the Archbishop. "It wounds the woman, it kills the unborn child and it poisons the roots of justice and charity that binds us all into one human family."This facility in this minority neighborhood should offend every African-American and Latino family, and all of us, because every child lost to abortion here subtracts one more life, one more universe of possibilities and talent, from the future of this community."

You can't make this stuff up....

* This is the actual stage via Drudge. Good grief.

Remember when I said that I expected Obama to rise from the under the floor into a cloud of smoke backlit with "Journey" playing in the background?

Well, I wasn't far off:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.

The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays.
Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for president.
He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor...

Once Obama speaks, confetti will rain down on him and fireworks will be fired off from locations around the stadium wall.

via NRO

**Had to add the photo above because it's so perfect. From Political Inquirer.

Hillary!

My only thought during Hillary's speech was.."Thank God she didn't get the nomination."

She was fantastic. Seriously. Passionate and well spoken. There have got to be Democrats all over the United States knowing now, without a doubt, that they did not nominate the strongest and best candidate.

Hillary reminded everyone how she got to where she is. She rises to the task and proves she is tough, tenacious, and strong.

If that had been the acceptance speech of the nominee I would be really worried. The Obama campaign has got to be a bit worried that Hillary's speech will outshine his own. We all know Obama can be inspirational with a teleprompter, but that speech will be a hard one to beat.

Obama showed a serious lack of judgement by not asking her to be the V.P.

As a Republican, I am so grateful for that mis-step.

Michael and Me!

I interviewed Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams today for Texas Magazine (he's awesome). The commission regulates the energy industry.

So go ahead and subscribe to Texas Magazine so you can read when the article comes out!

A funny thing happened on the way to the convention...

Michelle became proud of her country.

Who is the real Michelle?

Byron York t NRO compares a few lines from Michelle Obama's speech last night to recent speech in North Carolina:

In Denver, Michelle Obama described America as a place of hope, a place where people find success during the course of “improbable journeys.” In Charlotte, her America was a dark and ugly place, where people who work hard are knocked down by sinister forces — a place where even young children burst into tears when they realize the deck is stacked against them.

In Denver, Mrs. Obama said, “My piece of the American Dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me.” Those forebears, she explained, were “driven by the same conviction that drove my dad to get up an hour early each day to painstakingly dress himself for work — the same conviction that drives the men and women I’ve met all across this country…That’s why I love this country.”

In Charlotte, Mrs. Obama said, “We’re still living in a time and in a nation where the bar is set, right?…You start working hard and sacrificing and you think you’re getting close to that bar, you’re working and you’re struggling, and then what happens? They raise the bar…keep it just out of reach.”

I'd like to know what bar Michelle tried to reach that they kept raising so she couldn't reach?

Michelle has told us who she was for awhile now. That didn't work to well, so they sent her home until last night with a sweet prepared speech that no more reflects her true feelings than the views she expressed on "The View." Both performances were carefully crafted and done well.

Update: CNN has this:

(CNN) – Michelle Obama received a phone call after her widely praised speech Monday night — from Hillary Clinton.
The Obama campaign confirms the New York senator reached out to Mrs. Obama after her primetime address to the Democratic convention. The two did not connect, but Clinton left a message.
Clinton will address the convention herself in a highly anticipated speech Tuesday night.

Did not connect????? Left a message!!! Seriously? Michelle doesn't have time to talk to Hillary or call her back!

Moonbats On Parade

Jason Mattera at HotAir goes undercover as moonbat. I think he has a future in acting. Anyway, he interviews some of them and it really is too funny:

Michelle Malkin gets verbally assaulted

By a toad known as Alex Jones.

The Ted Kennedy Tribute

I find it uncouth to speak ill of anyone who is suffering as Ted Kennedy is. They gave him a lovely tribute. I will just say that Ted Kennedy is exactly the kind of Democrat that other Democrats admire. Defined for what he did as a Senator. To how he guided government to do things that they see as helping Americans. Ted Kennedy does define the party, there is no doubt about that. He is the consummate Democrat in how he lived and how he participated in public life.

Chaos Coming? (Scroll for updates!)

Oh, I hope so. Tornados around Denver aren't the only things swirling around this convention.

Bill Clinton isn't happy.

A delegate from Wisconsin won't be showing up at the DNC. That's because she has endorsed McCain. Check out her video below:



The young evangelical and editor of Relevant Magazine slated to deliver the benediction on the DNC's first night backs out at the last minute.

Although former Presidential Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards won't be at the convention for obvious reasons, the guy who kept the press at bay long enough for Edwards to fool America is now working for Biden to handle his press.

The Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention, once called a "great mayor" by Obama and now charged with felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, and on separate assault charges, sadly won't be attending the convention due to the electronic tether around his ankle.

Black Republicans hit Obama...hard:




And the hits just keep on coming. Texas Republicans are making sure Obama regrets ever bringing up the housing issue with McCain:



Update: You think the Clintons aren't happy? Well neither is Pennsylvania Gov. Ed. Rendell:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer — but instead, he opened up a can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage."Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing," said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was embarrassing."...“MSNBC was the official network of the Obama campaign," Rendell said.

Update II: Tonight Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece will be leading a pro-life vigil in Denver.

The "Light in the Darkness" vigil, organized by the Denver Archdiocese's Respect Life office and the Office of Black Catholics, will begin at 7:30pm in Martin Luther King Park (E.38th St.), one block from the Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains abortion clinic, and will end with a candlelight procession all around the perimeter of the new clinic.

Dr. Alveda C. King had this to say:

"The fight against abortion is a new frontier in the Civil Rights Movement," states Dr. King. "We are not following Martin's dream if we do not stand up for the voiceless."

Update III: Hillary tells her delegates that she is voting of Obama, but they can vote they want to. I love how Hillary is just manipulating all this. She looks wide eyed innocent at reporters and insists that she fully supports Obama, but she so wants that roll call and hear her name over and over. Her and Obama are working on that roll call thing and Obama just wants it over quickly. Heh.

Update IV: Hillary: "I got more votes, give or take." She is perfectly evil! Now that she isn't a threat. I love it!

Update V: Just keep believing: CNN reports:

Reports that Clinton was planning to ask her delegates to support Obama were greeted by some there with angry disbelief. "Have you heard it from her mouth? Have you? Have you? Did her campaign say it on the record?" demanded a woman in a black pro-Hillary t-shirt. "Yeah, I didn't think so," she said, and walked away.

"Yeah, I didn't think so." I'm dying here this is so good.

I think I'll just keep bumping this with updates. Fun week.

More Hillary supporters going for McCain

Sweet.

Sixty-six percent of Clinton supporters, registered Democrats who want Clinton as the nominee, are now backing Obama. That’s down from 75 percent in the end of June. Twenty-seven percent of them now say they’ll support McCain, up from 16 percent in late June.
“The number of Clinton Democrats who say they would vote for McCain has gone up 11 points since June, enough to account for most although not all of the support McCain has gained in that time,” says Holland.

Go PUMAS!!!

Meet The Protestors

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What a sad excuse of humanity.

For some fun reading go here.

Unwashed hippies and losers yelling "F" you to the camera! The Daily Kos Kids love it of course!

Scroll these fantastic pictures of what's happening outside the convention center!!!!

This pretty much sums it up

via Sheridan Folger

Although that does sum it up, I thought a review of what Democrats actually said and did might be helpful:

When Bush doubled down with the surge in early 2007, Democrats placed a huge bet on failure and sat back to enjoy and cash in their winnings. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid released a joint letter that said a surge would be useless; Senators Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel introduced a resolution opposing the buildup; votes of no confidence followed in rapid succession. "We are going to pick up seats as a result of this war," Reid exulted. Democrats in the Senate spent much of their time forcing a series of votes designed to get their opponents on record as backing the war and the president. In June 2007, Reid declared the war lost.

By the end of that summer, disturbed by some hint that better news might be coming, Democrats tried a preemptive strike on the testimony to Congress of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. "Dead flat wrong," Biden pronounced their assessment, before it had even been delivered. Rahm Emanuel predicted a report deserving of a "Nobel Prize for creative statistics or the Pulitzer for fiction." Hillary Clinton said the reports of improvement in Iraq required a "willing suspension of disbelief." Signs of success gave Democrats the vapors. In the face of an optimistic report from General Jack Keane, one of the principal authors of the surge strategy, Representative Nancy Boyda of Kansas became so unnerved that she fled from the hearing. "There was only so much that you could take until we in fact had to leave the room for a while," she said.

If the mere possibility of small signs of progress could so unnerve Democrats last summer, the party might want to lie down and rest for a while as it contemplates a convention, a campaign, and an election to follow, with no failed war to run on, and no George Bush to blame for it. If the war has been won, somebody has to have won it. They can still claim the war failed (in spite of succeeding), or is likely to flare up again at any moment, but that makes Obama's lack of experience still more disturbing.

Read the whole thing. It's delicious.

This is what a goober I am.

I get into bed at 10:00 last night and watch the entire speech Lyndon B. Johnson gave at the Democratic National Convention in 1964 on C-span.

It struck me that it seemed to be that at one time we all agreed on where we needed to go, we just disagreed on how to get there.

Now, sadly, I think we no longer agree on where we need to go.

The Celebrity Continues...

It is interesting to note, as First Read does, that Obama has not held a press conference in over two weeks. The press having access to Obama has been declining except for....People Magazine. They were the first group that Obama and Biden let have access to them as a ticket. No hard questions on Russia there I imagine.

Really? People magazine.

Figures.

I cannot wait for the debates.

Catholics, Let's Be Clear

Archbishop Chaput in Denver lays out the teaching on abortion perfectly: (emphasis mine)

Lopez: Is there an abortion litmus test for Catholics?

Archbishop Chaput: “Litmus test” is a media expression that’s front-loaded with the assumption of some priestly censor checking off behavioral-compliance boxes. That’s not how any sincere believer thinks about his or her faith. Faithful Catholics want to live their faith fully — and one of the principles of Catholic social teaching is that we can never deliberately kill innocent human life. Abortion always, deliberately kills an innocent unborn child. Nobody can honestly claim to be a faithful Catholic and then support a false “right” to abortion; it’s just an elegant way of evading the brutality of what abortion actually does.

Lopez: Is there any virtue to the Cuomo-esqe personally opposed, etc. formula we see over and over again with politicians, especially Democrats?

Archbishop Chaput: The problem isn’t unique to either political party, and no, there’s no virtue to the “personally opposed” argument at all. The word “virtue” comes from the Latin virtus meaning strength or courage. I don’t see much courage in maneuvering around the reality of abortion with sanitized labels like “pro-choice.”

Lopez: Whenever I write about Catholics and abortion, I am immediately asked, “What about war? What about the death penalty?” What about them? Can a Catholic vote for Senator “Surge”? We have killed people in Iraq, after all.

Archbishop Chaput: I’ve written and spoken against the death penalty for more than 30 years. And along with most other American bishops, I opposed our intervention in Iraq. But these issues are different in kind, not merely degree, from the violence involved in abortion. Anyone rooted in Scripture and Catholic tradition will understand the distinction if he or she reasons honestly. Genocide, euthanasia, abortion, and deliberately targeting civilians in war — these things are always grievously wrong. But in Catholic thought, war and capital punishment can be morally legitimate under certain carefully defined circumstances. Abortion is never morally justified.

via NRO

McCain goes for Hillary voters big time

via HotAir

McCain, I have a great idea!

Only my generation and older remembers Joe Biden's exit from the 1988 Presidential race after it was exposed that he plagiarized then British Labour leader Neil Kinnock in a speech.

Here are the speeches compared.

Which brings to mind Obama taking of quotes from Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts.

Via Politico:Here are the You Tube videos:

Deval Patrick 6/3/06
"I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I'm asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."

Barack Obama 11/2/07
I'm not just asking you to take a chance on me. I'm also asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."

Obama's famous Just words" speech was also taken from Mr. Patrick:

“Don’t tell me words don’t matter,” he said in his remarks. “ ‘I have a dream.’ Just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.’ Just words? ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ Just words? Just speeches?”

I say McCain put together Obama and Patrick saying the same thing, side by side and then Biden saying the same thing with Kinnock side by side and say at the end "They don't have original speeches or original ideas."

Obama Sticks It To Hillary and Jesse

White or black, male or female. It doesn't matter how profound your history is within the party (Jesse Jackson) or how much you have given of your life to the party (Hillary Clinton), if you were a part of the past 30 yrs in a significant way and your name is Hillary or Jesse, you are being dismissed. Oh, they are giving Hillary what she wants at the convention out of fear of alienating her 18 million voters in the primary, but I have a feeling Obama won't have Hillary in his top five on his i-phone. In fact, she won't be in his phone at all.

Obama may have said that Hillary was on his shortlist for V.P selection, but the truth is that he never even vetted her. No wonder we have gotten less than estactic stumping for Obama from Hillary or Bill. No wonder the PUMA's are still ticked.

I have to give it to Hillary. She keeps getting betrayed and she still shakes it off and keeps on keeping on. She is one tough cookie.

Jesse Jackson seems to have been put out to pasture by the Obama camp. Once a Presidential contender that registered more than 1 million black voters and was the first African-American candidate to win major primaries. He gave inspiring speeches twice at Democratic conventions. But what about this time at the Democratic National Convention in Denver? Oh, how far the mighty have fallen:

Jackson and the campaign went through an uneasy minuet during the last two weeks over the issue of whether Jackson would appear at the Democratic National Convention at all. Ultimately Jackson sought clearance from Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett before deciding to appear in Denver.

Jesse had to appeal to the Obama campaign to even appear. It gets even worse for Jesse:

Jackson had expected to speak at a Democratic National Committee prayer breakfast next Thursday that will commemorate the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington. Jackson was at that march, near the speaker's stand, to hear King make his famous "I have a dream" speech. However, Jackson said Thursday that the DNC has decided to focus attention on the role of the King family and Jackson will not speak. Sharpton is scheduled to address the breakfast.

Ouch to that last sentence.

While I am no fan of Jesse Jackson, I think his life work in the Democratic party deserves a little better than that. We won't be hearing much from Jesse anymore. He doesn't seem to me to be the vengeful type and he has to keep in mind his son's future in the party. But Hillary?....She won't soon forget this and she isn't going anywhere.

Strange

I just find the whole Biden thing strange. There is this BIG buildup to the announcement of Obama's running mate and it was suppose to happen Friday. Then nothing happens Friday and Obama team says it will send out the text message on Saturday at 10am. Only they didn't. They sent it out at the ungodly hour of 4:50am ET, when absolutely everyone was sleeping, except those who work the overnight shift for the press.

Strange.

Then, after all the buildup the pick is...Joe Biden? The same Biden that has about 50 gaffes on tape about everything from saying Obama isn't ready to be President to how great McCain is, in addition to the "clean articulate black guy" gaffe. The Obama camp knew that would be played over and over.

Just too strange.

My speculation? He wasn't the first choice. The first choice said no. That would explain the delay and explain why Biden said yesterday that he wasn't "the guy."


Hillary perhaps? I mean Hillary would have been the big bang at the end of this text message drama. It would have lived up to the hype. It would have been HUGE. It would have been something talked about non stop for weeks. It would have united the party and brought on the 18 million voters who voted for Hillary. Obama isn't doing as well in the polls as expected. He is in tight race. He needs every single vote he can get. Hillary would have provided that for him.

If he didn't ask Hillary first, then I really do question his judgement.

If he did and Hillary said no, then her judgement isn't so bad after all.