Gerard points to Brothers Judd; Judd points to Jonathan Martin’s blog at The Politico; and what is under discussion there?
McCain hit a line drive after Obama teed himself up. That’s what.
Yesterday, Senator Obama got a little testy on this issue…He said that I am questioning his patriotism. Let me be clear: I am not questioning his patriotism; I am questioning his judgment.
Zing! I still don’t support you, Maverick, and I think this is a case of the pot calling the kettle…wait, I don’t wanna go there. Anyway. On some other issues, your judgment is not so hot. But I’m gonna have to hand it to ya there. That’s gonna leave a mark. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fella.
McCain continues — and The Chosen One responds.
“Senator Obama has made it clear that he values withdrawal from Iraq above victory in Iraq, even today with victory in sight. Over and over again, he has advocated unconditional withdrawal — regardless of the facts on the ground.”
Speaking at the VFW convention in Florida yesterday, Obama said McCain should acknowledge his patriotism. “I will let no one question my love of this country,” the Democrat said. [emphasis mine]
Morgan’s mind wanders…
CITY STREET: A man is waiting at a bus stop, and he gets bored. He begins to mumble his thoughts aloud. “Hmmm,” he thinks, “I wonder if Barack Obama loves America?” SEVERAL UNIFORMED PARAMILITARY CONSTABLES run up and surround the man, the patented Obama LogoTM imprinted on their shiny new helmets. “I’m sorry, sir,” says the tallest one, “you’re going to have to come with us!”
Look at that. Another democrat for free speech.
But here’s what absolutely blows me away. I mean, really; I’m still undecided about voting for McCain, but at this point I’m starting to seriously think about putting money on him. How can Obama win? Seriously? You want to know what I’m talking about…head on over to Martin’s blog, and check the comments (north of 200, and growing, as of this writing).
Just look at all that garbage. Obama just said, plainly, that he’s going to try to control this debate by refusing to allow anyone to question his patriotism. He’s going to try to give orders to people about what to say and what not to say, what to think and what not to think.
My son had a bad day at school on Tuesday. That night he was saying he wouldn’t be going anymore. That ritual tirade sounded ingenious, inspired and brilliant, compared to what Obama said. What the hell does he mean, he won’t let anyone? It’s a cliche, for one thing; over four years old! For another thing, it’s unenforceable. Hey, Barack, I’m questioning your patriotism! Look at me! Whee, I just did it again! For another thing, it’s a contradiction because America is supposed to be a place where you can say whatever you want and think whatever you want — it’s our democrats who keep telling us it’s so. They also repeat over and over again that it’s the Republicans who are trying to take our freedoms away. And they want to contradict themselves on that within just a few syllables?
Hey, I think I can do that too.
“I will not permit anyone to question my willingness to permit people to question things.”
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
“Equal opportunity employer, women and minorities encouraged to apply.”
“I’m from the Government; I’m here to help you.”
When did it become unreasonable to expect blatant contradictions to occur across a few sentences, or maybe even paragraphs, from each other?
But out of the hundreds of comments on Jonathan Martin’s blog, most of them, or large chunk of them, are of this flavor: “Hooray, this is an issue we can use to help him win!” No, that’s not what you’re thinking — by “him,” they mean OBAMA!
“Mike” (8/20/08, 11:56 AM) is a good model cookie-cutter, by which a number of other morsels have been cut from the dough.
Of course McRove is questioning your patriotism, they’re republicans – that’s what they do! Now he’s trying to weasel out of it. You should repeat this every day until the election – McCain said you would “rather win an election if losing a war was the cost. He said it. Now whack him over the head with it!
+++snicker+++ By all means, Barry Hussein. And while you’re at it, whack us over the head with how you’re not going to let him say it anymore. Or anybody else either.
These people have no common sense at all. Normally, I’d worry about that — in fact, I still do. But common sense is something you have to have, in order to make things happen and get what you want.
Al Gore, Howard Dean, John Kerry, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama. They all expected things to happen, they all used diseased logic — not just weak, but badly diseased — and each and every single one of them must have really expected things to happen as they said they did, because they went very far in staking their reputations on it happening.
To believe Obama will win, I have to believe, first, that he’s going to break some kind of pattern here.
Well…it still is possible. God help us if it happens. But Dear Lord, I don’t wanna be that guy. With a fan base like this, he could use all the help he can get. And he’s not gonna get it.