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Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:21 PM

OBAMA LV: SHOWING THE EFFECTS OF NEUTERING?

OBAMA LV: SHOWING THE EFFECTS OF NEUTERING?

Published July 25th, 2008

Senator Barack Hussein Obama, currently on his premature victory tour, declined to visit our brave and wounded troops in Germany.

Basking in the adulation of Germans who, unfortunately for him, cannot vote in American elections–except, maybe, in Chicago–Obama’s camp announced that his sort of scheduled visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center had been scrapped.

“Obama decided ‘it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign,’” to which a McCain spokesman, Brian Rogers, responded, “Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military.”

Valid point there, Mr. Rogers, which leads to some valid questions for Obama:

Was it not inappropriate to plan to deliver a political speech at the iconic Brandenburg Gate, a plan quashed by German Chancellor Angela Merkle?

Was it not inappropriate to presumptuously pose in front of what suspiciously resembled the presidential seal more than four months before Americans said they wanted you as president?

If it was not inappropriate to pose with our troops not in hospitals, what was the problem with performing an act of charity by going to see our wounded?

I believe most thinking Americans know the answer to that last query. In essence, Mr. Obama, Jesse Jackson must have succeeded in castrating you and you therefore didn’t possess the gonads to do the right thing. Or was it a gut fear that you would be booed out of the hospital wards?

Incidentally, anyone wishing to do something Obama refused to do and (virtually) visit those guys and girls at Landstuhl, please click http://www.noanie.com/ . That website plaintively hints our wounded get by with a little help from their friends, so be a friend.

Sunday, July 27, 2008 03:19 PM
Original article: Vive la Obama différence!

BARACK OBAMA LVII: RACIST, MUSLIM RADICAL, DRUNK, WOMANIZER, SOCIALIST

BARACK OBAMA LVII: RACIST, MUSLIM RADICAL, DRUNK, WOMANIZER, SOCIALIST

Published July 27th, 2008

To suggest that a man must follow in the path of his father is patently ludicrous.

Likewise, to suggest that if a man’s father is a forceful personality yet the son absorbed none of the father’s philosophical and moral beliefs is equally ludicrous. Senator Barack Hussein Obama’s dad was a racist, Muslim, as well as a drunk, a womanizer, a socialist, and bigamist who abandoned his wife and son when the latter was two years old, and died a failure in life, despite his alleged “brilliance.”

This is no pun on Jesse Jackson’s overheard open mic comment, but do nuts fall far from the tree?

I freely admit that I have not read the senator’s memoir, Dreams from My Father, a Story of Race and Inheritance, nor do I plan to. However, I have read reviews of said book, both formal and informal, and I have closely followed the junior senator from Illinois’ recent career and campaign for the presidency. To conclude his late father did not greatly influence him does not require a great leap of imagination.

Many of the informal reviews, such as those on Amazon.com, are gushingly effusive, bordering on idolatrous, writings praising the writer and his work as “extraordinary…amazing…eloquent…inspirational…articulate,” no small praise for an unknown 34 year old from Chicago, praise which raises the specter of sycophancy. (His book was originally published in 1995 and updated in 2004, just in time for the launch of his national political career after serving as a lackluster state senator in Illinois and after being trounced 2-1 in a primary bid for Congress in 2000.)

Other reviews label Dreams as “nauseating…fluff…tedious…racist…shameless,” but someone interested in a few quick opinions won’t ever see those since the first few dozen of 265 Amazon reviews are almost entirely of the first, very favorable, type. (Could Amazon be biased?)

This is not a book review but an opinion on the candidate’s namesake and his influence on his son. The candidate testifies to that influence in the very title of his book, Dreams from My Father.

Are we expected to believe those dreams did not include...

(For the rest of this article, please see http://genelalor.com/)

Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:33 PM
Original article: In defense of casual sex

TRACY ON A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

Poor Tracy!

She sounds like the immature, petulant 13 year old who swears to mommy and daddy that, "Well, everyone is doing it!"

Now I will sound like a parent from the Fred Flintstone Era who says, "Well, if everyone were jumping off a bridge, would you?"

Tracy also seems as if she is seeking validation for what used to be called a loose woman, or, a whore.

It's true that she has plenty of company in our revival of the 60's narcissistic self-love, aka, "If It Feels Good, Do It Movement!" I would suggest they all check out how those narcissists did in life.

Some bridges are very high and the waters below may be very shallow.

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