Psilons, in my campaign?
The debate on Friday was to focus on Mr. McCain’s perceived strength, foreign policy. Mr. McCain had not planned to devote large blocks of time to debate practice as did Mr. Obama, who was holing up with a tight circle of advisers at a hotel in Clearwater, Fla., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to prepare. Mr. McCain had a preparatory session on Wednesday afternoon at the Morgan Library in Manhattan, but advisers said it had been interrupted by his decision, announced immediately afterward, to suspend his campaign.
If you are up on the whole “Clambake” then you must know what Clearwater, Florida is, right? Let me remind you:
If you’re still here and you didn’t watch the video and am still not clear on where Clearwater is, it’s practically the center of the non-celebrity world of Scientology. Demographically, it’s a strange choice for the Obama campaign to appear there, what with the CoS’s somewhat tarnished public image. I’m going to have to do a little digging to look to see if any well-known CoS members are in the Obama campaign.
It appears I’m not the first person to question this
This is troubling to me, as I’ve been more and more concerned about how the CoS goes about defending itself from criticism in very aggressive and/or paranoid ways. In Fact, I’m sure that I’ll get a few hits over here just for this post.
So, what do you think, is there a CoS mole in the Obama campaign?
US Politics are Sexy: Fiscal Conservatives
Fiscal Conservatives
US Politics are Sexy: Obama is unprepared for Office
Obama is definitely more qualified to be President than George W. Bush was, and is definitely more qualified to be President than McCain. How so? Well, on the former point, one only has to look at Bush’s history to have that question answered. If Bush was qualified for the job, then Obama certainly is. On the latter, one only has to look at McCain’s lack of grasp of economics & foreign policy, & his continued blunders, plus his rather shady history in the Keating 5.Obama has served 11 years in elected office, including 8 years in the Illinois Senate and 3 years in the U.S. Senate. He is the only candidate to begin a presidential bid with experience at both the state and federal levels. He brings more elected experience to his presidential campaign than Ronald Reagan (8 years as California governor), Perot (zilch), George W. Bush (6 years Texas governor), Hillary Clinton (7 years as senator), John Edwards (6 years as U.S. senator), Giuliani (8 years as NYC mayor), Mitt Romney (4 years governor). Obama has much more foreign policy experience than either Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan had when they were elected.
But if the best candidates are those with the most experience, then you surely believe that Strom Thurmond should have become president.
Remember: The three presidents who historians consider the greatest of all time (Lincoln, Washington, and FD Roosevelt) all had much less legislative experience Obama. Abraham Lincoln served but a single term in the United States House of Representatives and less time in the Illinois Senate. Even Eisenhower had virtually no political experience.
Experience? 30 years in the senate will not necessarily mean you will make good decisions on foreign policy, or will choose smart, pragmatic advisors/cabinet members. There are few people with more experience in public life over the past 40 years than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld - and George W. Bush was around politics his entire life. Have they done a decent job? Do you trust ‘em? If so, you’re a chump.
Telfon Coated Presidency
For our friends overseas, imagine for a moment that when you go for a job interview you were asked what team you supported? Perhaps, when you went to the doctor they asked you what Chapel you went (or didn’t go) to? Outrageous, right? You’d want to spit blood if you didn’t get the job when someone asked you in an official capacity what shirt you wore to the match, right?
The Folks in the Bush Whitehouse did this as a matter of process. It’s fairly clear that the Bush whitehouse was a 100% self-sustaining political nepotism engine. Which is outrageous when one considers how this was applied to non-political roles.
High-ranking political appointees at the Justice Department labored to stock a prestigious hiring program with young conservatives in a five-year-long attempt to reshape the department’s ranks, according to an inspector general’s report to be released today.
Report says partisanship reigned in Justice Department hiring program
When we see this kind of crap going on south of the border, amongst the “enlightened” conservative movement there, one wonders why Canadians still seem to think the Home-Grown variety are going to perform any differently. The Liberals may have been fattening the coffers of their friends, but at least they weren’t destroying the Canadian way of life or giving in to the Bush Whitehouse while they were in office. The Harper conservatives seem keen on only two things, social conservatism and emulating the conservatives south of the border. Stay tuned for new scandals with the Tories mirroring those south of the sensible.
Meanwhile…
The internal audit already has produced one grand jury referral. Federal prosecutors in the District recently issued subpoenas to former employees in Justice’s civil rights unit as part of a probe into discrepancies in 2007 congressional testimony by Bradley A. Schlozman, an interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo.
Maybe this will come out in the wash, but when my Democrat friends were all telling me about how Patrick Fitzgerald was going to shake the Whitehouse like a bone and get the bastards, I knew that it would fall flat. I imagine this will all come for nothing too.
Go Teflon Whitehouse!
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Full Day over, stumped by a copy/paste error in the afternoon
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New blog post: For Rememberance Sake and SSH in the Future http://tinyurl.com/6g2zbm
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HTOP is the Shizz, that is all.
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New blog post: Racist of the Week: Sad Bastard BNP Member http://tinyurl.com/5kcsdt
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I had to use a MAN page to resolve a question and consult Kernel notes to verify something, truly this is a golden nerdy age.
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Good Morning, took ages to get going today, hopefully the flywheel is up to speed now.
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On the phone praying to the Insurance Gods and listening to the same 4 songs over and over again...and again
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On the phone praying to the Insurane Gods and listening to the same 4 songs over and over again...
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My Question is: Will Jello Biafra be okay with Obama "Not" walking to his inauguration? The constant threats hove got to considered.
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Tragic and Entertaining - Tradgetaining http://tinyurl.com/5l75gl
