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Truth beginning to stalk dem candidates

With the tank shoulder-to-shoulder full of leftist MSM editors and reporters, some are drifting a bit off the reservation on stories so blatant that even Chris Matthews might even be forced to report them.

I thought it very odd the other day when Team Barack announced that Pentagon canceled Obama's scheduled visit with wounded US troops at  at the Landstuhl Medical Center at Ramstein, Germany

But the military told NBC News they were prepared for The Messiah's visit today, but "for some reason the visit was called off."

Here's the truth: Obama's advance people canceled the photo-op when told political candidates are prohibited from using military installations as campaign backdrops and that "he could only bring two or three of his Senate staff member, no campaign officials or workers."

Furthermore, he "could not bring any media; only military photographers would be permitted to record Obama's visit."

Obama's World Tour '08 staff immediately opted out, but Army officials said didn't know why the request was abruptly withdrawn. "He (Obama) was more than welcome. We were all ready for him."

Obviously the man who wanted these very troops to lose the war in Iraq and worked to undermine their courageous efforts since he entered the US Senate, was very eager to use their empty pant legs and shirt sleeves for the visual "commander-in-chief" part to his campaign's big picture.

Despicable.

Get used to seeing this picture:

Left is the well- known, ambulance-chasing scumbag PI ghoul, and at right is his long-time mistress and more currently, the mother of his love child, Rielle Hunter. 

The MSM has closed ranks to protect one of their own and has ignored the months-long investigation and expose by The National Enquirer, using the excuse that The Enquirer's work is not to be trusted.

'Course the tabloid has never forged documents and used them to try and throw the re-election of a sitting president.

Edwards was tailed by two Enquirer reporters to a Los Angeles hotel July 21 where he stayed with Hunter overnight, apparently spending a lot of time with his illegitimate child. 

Surprised and cornered by the reporters as he was leaving the hotel, Edwards sprinted to a men's bathroom and held the door shut in an attempt to keep them out. This encounter is confirmed by hotel security  guards who became involved and escorted the former senator out of the hotel. 

The story of Edward's infidelity has been around for a long time; the Enquirer broke the story of Edwards' adultery and the child last year, when Rielle was still pregnant and Edwards was still considered a strong candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

After the story broke, Edwards denied the affair with Rielle, a former campaign worker, and concocted an elaborate cover story; in a bizarre twist, a well-known dem political operative Andrew Young, 41, a close friend of Edwards for years and a key member of his presidential campaign, claimed the baby was his.

Young is married and has children.

And Edward's wife, Elizabeth, is dying of cancer.

It's Bill Clinton and Monica all over again. The MSM had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the story which would eventually lead to Clinton's impeachment--just the second time in American history. 

And the dem apologists will trot out The Bubba Excuse: "It doesn't matter... it's his personal life."

Wrong... Edwards (until this little bimbo eruption) was apparently on Obama's list of possible VPs. Just another example of the type of people with whom he surrounds himself... Wes Clark, the America-hating con man, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and among others, domestic Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

And of course... it's just one more indictment of the MSM's overwhelming bias for democrats and other leftists and against conservatives and Republicans:

Exhibit A: Rep. Larry "Toe Tapping" Craig.  

Here's an example of Obama support from his hometown.... Chicago.

'Seems a recent prostitution sting by Chi-Town's Finest netted not one, but two johns who couldn't tell a cop from a real prostitute, and out came the 'cuffs.

Their mug shots:... story here.

Enemies foreign and especially.... domestic

The overwhelming left bias of the media is no longer debatable, and never more than in this election cycle. 

Investor's Business Daily reports that journalists contribute money to democrat issues or candidates by a ratio of 15:1

"Two-hundred thirty-five journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans — a margin greater than 10-to-1. An even greater disparity, 20-to-1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.

"Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10-to-1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709.

Hardly a surprise then that The NYT rejected McCain's response to Obama's position op-ed last week. In refusing to run the piece "as written", an NYT editor wrote:  "Let me suggest an approach. It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece."

Such unmitigated news media arrogance is unprecedented, and yet another indication that the left no longer makes even the slightest effort at objectivity or journalism's ethical standards of fairness.

The Times, et al, used to perform a journalistic "watchdog" role for America, collectively, as "The Fourth Estate."

Now it's the "Fifth Column".

In Obamanation News: The State Dept. ruled that its employees are not to attend Obama's speech in Berlin because it has been deemed "politically partisan".

The leftists at State (90% of everyone who draws a paycheck) are outraged. It's 5:1 many will go anyway; they can always get jobs at the Times.

The Weekly Standard reports that via MSNBC, former Gen. Wesley Clark continues his inability to open his pie hole without encouraging our enemies, attempting to undermine our war effort and slandering the troops he used to "lead".

His explanation for the overwhelming success of "the surge": "Actually, the surge was about Baghdad and it was not about Anbar province," he said. "They didn't bring more troops out to Anbar."

(Wrong, you four-star idiot, 4,000 of my jarheads performed up to the Corps' fabled battle tradition in clearing Anbar.)

A minor mouthpiece for Obama, Clark insisted that the US surge accomplished little, and that the defeat of al-Qaeda was orchestrated by the Iraqi Army after the Saudis bribed the Sunni tribes. 

Fellow Marine: 

The UK's second-highest combat award, the George Cross, will soon be awarded to a British Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher who threw himself on an enemy grenade to save his comrades.

Left--he holds the tattered remains of his pack which was shredded in the explosion.

The action occurred last February in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

While on recon patrol, Croucher realized that he had activated a trip wire; he immediately dropped and smothered the grenade. The explosion blew him into the air.

“I felt the tripwire hit my shins," he said. "You know immediately what that means. All I could do in the moment was shout out, ‘Grenade’ before diving on top of it.”

For five “agonising” seconds he lay on his back, certain he would be killed or seriously injured, before the device went off. He was thrown into the air by the force of the explosion but survived with minor injuries as his rucksack cushioned the blow. “It was incredible. I escaped with only a nose bleed and a headache,” he said. 

And in Hollywood Hypocrite News: 

 

"Ich bein ein Beginner....."

What Bizarro World-Karl Rove political geniuses in the Obama campaign determined that their boy should run for president in Germany?

As far as I know, this is unprecedented for an American politician.

We're Americans, and by our very blood and Revolutionary DNA we do not look to Europe for much of anything. History shows that particular turnstile operates the other way. 

Fresh off his attempt to undermine his country by trying to negotiate an end to the Iraq War in an afternoon (also a first), The One again shows he's not only pathetically naive, but woefully underestimates America's stomach the arrogance shown by the following:

“It is not going to be a political speech,” said an Obama senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background. “When the president of the United States goes and gives a speech, it is not a political speech or a political rally.

“But he is not president of the United States,” a reporter reminded the him.

You'll recall his rework of the Presidential Seal in his favorite U.N. helmet-blue that went over like John Murtha at a Marine Corps Birthday celebration.

Maintaining our "Americanism" when overseas, our flag, the trappings of our highest office, standing at attention with hand over heart during the National Anthem... all symbolic and very important to the vast majority of us, if not Barack Hussein Obama.  

Merci beaucoup?

Since LM31 is your main source of 411 on hip hop culture (sic)... we bring you this:

Something called Nas (left) is outraged at Fox News for its “pattern of racist attacks against black Americans,” among them  Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.

He joined ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org to deliver more than 620,000 petition signatures demanding Fox executive and broadcast staff immediately stop being racists.

... and beating their wives.

And you can't make this up:

William Leonard Roberts under the nom de stupid, Rick Ross - Trilla MC, is a rapper who found success 2006 because his lyrics reflected his background as a "cartel kingpin."

He shot to international attention with his first album which was based on events that he’d lived through.

But now because his career hangs in the balance because of widely-circulating rumors (which he denies) that in his past he worked as a..... prison guard!

Reports that Ross’ has fabricated his ‘cartel kingpin’ past could be devastating for his credibility and in turn, the longevity of his career.

Apparently this threat to his "street cred" could be career-ending, so he's denying the whole thing despite the fact there are pictures of him in law enforcement uniform, an 18-month job history, and details of his salary paperwork complete with his security social security number.

Damn, just another case of The Man keepin' the brotha down.

Such an absurdity points out seemingly irreparable damage done to black and Hispanic youth by the so-called "gangsta" music and lifestyle.

Reality has been turned on its head when black kids believe the way to make it in life is first, become a criminal... then write down occasionally rhyming words and speak them.

Musical, singing or writing talent is not necessary; talk, look, and act like a thug and you can have fame and fortune.

The number two option for millions of black kids' view of success is simply become an NBA star.

Uh-huh.... there are 450 players in the NBA. There are far fewer "rap stars" (thankfully) even making a living, and therefore the chance of success is even more remote.

The drop-out rate in Los Angeles California-a hotbed of rap entertainment-shows that 42 percent of black students and 30 percent of Latinos quit high school last year- far more than the state average.

Now that's cred.

"And I... feeeeel like I've... been here before...."

I never watch network TV news, there are too many other sources of news that aren't propaganda mills.

So... I've seen little of the tape of the Middle East leg of Obama's trip, except I did see poorly-shot tape of him in Baghdad shooting baskets (is there a bigger racial stereotype?).

My second thought was, what's a basketball court doing on a military base in the war zone?   

But to the point... I just read this transcript this morning from blowhard Chris Matthews' show:

ANDREA MITCHELL: Let me just say something about the message management.  He didn't have reporters with him, he didn't have a press pool, he didn't do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq. What you're seeing is not what reporters brought in.  You're seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, and what some would call fake interviews, because they're not interviews from a journalist. 

So, there's a real press issue here.  Politically it's smart as can be.  But we've not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before.

Let that sink in: no reporters, not even the minimal-to-moderate chance of objective information. Why isn't every reporter bitching about being cut out of the process? Where's the journalistic outrage?

Good questions. The answer is obvious, but the real question here is will McCain be able to fight Obama and the combined forces of hundreds of millions from 527s, and the entire, in-the-tank leftist news media arrayed against him?

Bush was able to do so twice but he was running against poorer candidates both times. The left vowed this time to elect somebody, anybody with all left-of-center elements of this nation are working together. 

Sieg Heil?

Obama wants to focus the "image value" of his entire trip on the Berlin appearance where he's planning to film his speech at The Victory Column. I suppose an impressive crowd would be 40,000+; chances are he'll probably achieve that.

But it doesn't matter... a crowd of even 20,000, if shot and edited right, will give him enough good footage for impactful, presidential-looking video from now until November. 

And just whether oh where would a third-rate pol from Chi-town tap into high-level film editing and special effects expertise? You know the answer.

This was all explained before in a forgettable movie,"Wag The Dog."

And before that it was called "Triumph of the Will" in which propagandist Leni Riefenstahl chronicled the rise of the Nazi Party in 1934.

It was and remains brilliantly shot and directed, but the credits roll you have the answer to the question:

"Why didn't someone stop him in the first place?"

A large part of the reason was that the world press was in the tank for the former community organizer from Austria. 

And before the permanently panty-twisted stroke out, I'm not doing what the left does, demonizing someone as the best-known fascist genocidal creation from the depths of Hell.

Rather I am comparing two small-time highly unqualified politicians, surrounded a coterie of fawning sycophants who rose to the top of their respective parties with grandiose plans they promised would transform their nations.

As did the former corporal, the former ACORN operative possesses solid oratory skills (except he didn't need a tele-prompter); both overcame the stigma of being "political outsiders" by criticizing the status quo and promising a brave new world in which the government would care for the masses from cradle to gave.   

So successful was The National Socialists' propaganda that not only did Hitler unite the Germans, he envisioned a new world order with the the Germanic peoples in charge.

Sadly, millions of Germans were seduced by such promises, foreign leaders such as Britain's Neville Chamberlain believed the facade and not the dark reality. Joe Kennedy and even The Lone Eagle, Charles Lindbergh, were in the tank for the distasteful, strutting little man; thousands of Americans emulated the National Socialists with brown-shirt uniforms, swastika armbands and heated rhetorical.

 The National Socialists co-opted the German military over the years, and the party's SS or ''Shield Squadron" was a civilian counterpart which would eventually wield great power, both politically and militarily; it was "an army within the army" which, like its leader finally ran completely amok. 

Barack Obama: July 2--Colorado Springs:

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set," he said. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded."

Obama said that he wants to "integrate civilian and military capabilities to promote global democracy and development."  This would include the creation of "Mobile Development Teams (MDTs) that bring together personnel from the military, the Pentagon, the State Department and USAID, fully integrating U.S. government efforts in counter-terror, state-building, and post-conflict operations."

As well, he would also "establish an expeditionary capability" for non-Pentagon agencies, including the departments of State, Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury.

There's much more... it's all been done before.

Symbols are not cymbals

Well that didn't take long... yesterday I wrote about Barry Obama's pre-victory lap to open soon in Germany: "Stay tuned to gaffes-a-plenty mixed with overriding and crushing boredom."

Stay with me...

On the 40th anniversary of VE Day, President Reagan participated in several symbolic ceremonies in Germany. One of them was a visit to a small German military cemetery near Bitburg.

Poor advance planning missed the fact that 49 graves held remains of the infamous Waffen SS. The critical mistake was discovered after the President's itinerary was announced here and in Germany.

Reagan took a beating before and after he made the visit to the cemetery from WWII vets, Holocaust survivors and especially almost all democrat senators who formally requested him not to visit Bitburg.

It was a very bad mistake first by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for not even knowing dead SS were interred there, and then by Reagan's men who didn't check and double-check such a sensitive venue.

Further research indicated the most of the SS troopers were only 18-20 and had been drafted into the unit in the later stages of the war.

That added to Reagan's resolve to visit to Bitburg.

Obama is history-deficient:

We now have a parallel kerfuffel caused by a snot-nosed, wet-behind-the-big-ears, junior senator who is using a  European/Middle East grand promenade in an attempt to garner some faux international prestige and stature.

It's what small men do when they lack substance... just posture as if they have it in spades, but then need symbols.

Stiffed in his attempt to mimic Reagan and Jack Kennedy by using the Brandenburg Gate as a prop, he's opted to speak to expected huge  crowds beneath The Siegessäule-- The Victory Column--in Berlin.

The towering  700-foot monument to a tribute Prussia's military dominance and victories in wars against Denmark, Austria and France in the 19th century.

Originally located in front of the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, it was moved by Adolf Hitler to its current location in 1939 to make way for his planned transformation of Berlin into the Nazi capital "Germania."

Hitler knew very well the power of the such a national symbol... and he co-opted it for his genocidal cause, as it played very well into the Nazi belief in Aryan superiority.

The Siegessäule is hardly an appropriate backdrop for an American politician, and is directly at odds with Obama's canned speech about "hope and change".  

Many Germans are concerned; one member of parliament said, "the Siegessäule is dedicated to victory over neighbors who are today our European friends and allies. It is a problematic symbol."

Where are the leftist press' Reagan-Bitburg howls this time?

But GA, isn't Reagan's mistake worse...?

No; for these reasons:

Kohl had asked Reagan to visit a German military cemetery and Reagan agreed that it would demonstrate the strength of the friendship that existed between Germany and its former foe.

Reagan wanted to publicly acknowledge Kohl's support the US placing Pershing-missiles in West German which countered the Soviet missile threat to Western Europe. Kohl had been steadfast in the face of great public and political in his country.  

Reagan was the leader of the free world and in that role had to play three-dimensional world politics... how would Israel react? What would the Soviets (who suffered greatly at the hands of Hitler and the SS) do with such a propaganda windfall?

Would the error have lasting negative impact on America's interests?

In contrast Obama is a callow opportunist who represents nothing and speaks for no one; he is devoid of world-level political relationships.

He is merely obvious and ignorant, and Europe is watching.