The Dems Are Defining Themselves

I was just watching T.V. and heard Bill Clinton's snake head, James Carville, damn John McCain's V.P. pick, Sarah Palin, as a creationist. Well, that's a subject I care a lot about, so I looked up her statements and also found this:

“To quote just the first part of her statements on creationism and ignore the second is misleading; because in the clarification she’s describing a position that doesn’t cause me (a staunch anti-creationist) any discomfort.”

-- Charles Johnson, who's been on this beat a long time, describing what would be dishonest political tactics, on Little Green Footballs

Now, look at what Google shows is already happening across the board - online and on T.V. - and decide for yourself if the Democrats aren't shading the facts. Playing "the politics of fear"? Willing to attack a woman - and a mother - "making history"? Is this "Change"?

Sure looks like it to me.

Don't Make Me Answer That

“Do Democratic presidential campaign committees think we are all stupid or do they suffer from some sort of group delusion?”

-- Clarice Feldman, asking the only question that matters - and which deserves an answer - during this election, for Pajama's Media

Yes: You Can Always Use Chanting, Trickery, And Rabidly Screaming The Word "Vagina"

“You get the distinct sense watching Ms. Palin, a self-professed feminist, that at 44 years old her views are still malleable, that her ideology is trumped by a momlike dedication to common sense, the sort of momlike common sense that strikes you as the antithesis of whatever the fuck has been motivating Dick Cheney all these years, and that it may be common sense to oppose abortion when you're moving up the political ladder in a tiny state dominated by dudes who barely get laid anyway.

But this is national now. What worries me about Sarah Palin is that Sarah Palins of this country, the non-ideological non-dogmatic no-nonsense swing-voting suburban soccer mom demo — have up until now had every reason to vote for Barack Obama.

They still do, of course. The key now will be getting Palin to say so herself somehow.”

-- "Moe", revealing the creepy and politically cynical outlook that keeps the Democrats in the losing column, for Jezebel

Whoa: Ex-Lax Chose A Real Woman!

Alaska's Governor, Sarah Palin, is a very pleasant surprise,...

But It Must Be Done (If It Can)

“Describe your biography, lay out your policy ideas, defend the Democratic party as a whole,....”

-- Jim Geraghty, pointing out that one thing on Barack Obama's convention speech "to do list" was very-much not like the others, on the National Review

I'd Rather Shoot Lawn Furniture

“We saw Stevie Wonder sing two songs! And, uh, Sheryl Crow sing like 7,000 songs which all sounded like shopping for lawn furniture on heroin.”

-- Ken Layne, nailing my thoughts on the one-square-of-toilet-paper-for-you and ex-Mrs. Armstrong's "talents" exactly, on Wonkette

Know What You Forgot

The speech sucked, too,...

Forget What You Know

"Some people seem to forget that John McCain, for all that he is an “old guy” and a bit boring, is also a known entity and a man who has long-been respected by many centrists, independents and even Democrats. It seems to me just a little sloppy to assume that Obama’s numbers should be “huge” against a man as substantial as McCain, or that people who have liked and respected McCain for years would suddenly push him aside and commence swooning over Obama, if they were not such racists.

Barack’s race is not at the forefront of my consciousness, and I think that’s true for many Americans, and yes, that’s something to be proud of - but I don’t know if other Americans, particularly those invested in identity politics (or addicted to the ease with which flinging a “racist” or “sexist” or other label can end a debate) will accept even the possibility that this might be true."

-- The Anchoress, stating the case for whitey on her blog

BTW - listen to Barack's crazy callers, unleashed to stop this radio interview with Stanley Kurtz, trying to give reasons (or not) for their clueless attempts at censorship. Damning.

She's Not Gay - Just Very, Very, Confused

"Why do I have this relationship with France?" [Madonna] asked the 1,500-member audience.

"I'm always drawn to working with French people — and frenching French people! Vive la France!"

The mother of three — who turns 50 in August — famously smooched Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.

After that kiss, her daughter Lourdes asked her Material Mom if she were gay.

"I am the mommy pop star and she is the baby pop star," Madonna recalled telling her in an interview with Out magazine. "I am kissing her to pass my energy on to her."

-- Alissa R, attempting to drive a finger down my throat, for US Magazine

Orgy? Like "Making A Spiritual Connection"?

“Dear Newbies,

You should be grateful that your sponsor has not attempted to help lead you on a spiritual journey whose final destination is an orgy.”

-- Prudence, giving advice to a couple who find their fellow Catholic parishioners too touchy, in Slate.com.

Western Cultism: Missing The Big Picture

The worst thing about my viewing the innards of NewAge beliefs is discovering it's inherent lethality. The fist in the velvet glove. How they'll say it's all about peace and love and whatever in public but between each other talk about "washing away" those they don't like - and working, always behind our backs, to do just that.

My ex-wife (whether she knows it or not) was sexually abused, my mother-in-law was killed, and now I'm divorced and lost. I know I'm not alone. And I see society as complicit. Rhonda Byrne's "secret" is ripping off people and running away with millions and the response is muted at best. Louise Hay openly says she doesn't give a damn about right or wrong and knows she's inflicting lying charlatans, like Sylvia Browne, on the public - with the backing of PBS which supports her crap and that of others like Scientology - and nobody says a word in disagreement. Montel Williams helps out too. Oprah Winfrey leads an army of wealthy NewAge liars, and she's protected by the same generation of journalists who decided the American public needed to know about every NewAge idiot in the world - except the one John Edwards was doing - and everyone from The New York Times to The Huffington Post to The Daily Kos to Wikipedia was in on keeping what Edwards was doing from us all. Why? And exactly who all is in on it?

If we know they don't have our best interests at heart (and we do) then why does anyone else play along? To the point where they can run Barack Obama for president, with the phenomena of the "Cult of Obama" acknowledged in his run, and everybody acts like it's all so normal to witness cults in American politics and nobody bothers to investigate it. Of course not: the last time anybody decided to seriously investigate the cults in our politics, 900 Americans got killed, and all the cult's supporting politicians stayed in power.

Madonna's promoting Kabbalah, and more, with her network of friends? Why? Tom Cruise and Scientology - "the world's most dangerous cult"? Oprah leads seminars, with a schizophrenic fruitcake, on "The Power of Now" and nobody's curious as to why we have this? Rielle Hunter has no feelings for a woman dying of cancer and nobody gives a damn what kind of beliefs produce such people? Suzanne Summers ghoulishly tries to talk Christina Applegate out of cancer treatment? Louise Hay, the "mother of NewAge," says people who die in mass deserved it? Many in the Democratic Party want to be a "citizen of the world" while standing in opposition to American interests, all the while rattling on about "I'm trying to save the planet," when they took an oath to look out for the United States - and they do it to the lightest questioning from reporters in my lifetime.

Who are these people and what are they really doing to us? Who are these "journalists" that would willingly avoid such a huge story? And the most important question is the one I'm going to keep asking of my fellow Americans until my black ass gets a straight and satisfying answer:

What's wrong with you people?

The Secret: Attracted To Getting Byrned

“Rhonda actually insisted that we not have a contract – she said they limited people’s freedom, that they’re designed to guard against things going wrong, which is not the way of The Secret because it is focusing on the negative. That’s when I started to think, ‘This doesn’t feel right.’”

-- Drew Heriot, director of The Secret movie, on his lawsuit against it's creator, Rhonda Byrne, in The Australian

And this was rich (no pun intended):

"She said my company wouldn’t be working with her again and they’d be using another writer and director for the sequel. I said, ‘I can’t believe you are doing this. Are you saying there is no profit-share?’ She said, ‘Yes, but I can return the $10,000 you gave me.’"

Classy.

Dead Donkey

"What does it say that our last two vice-presidential candidates are absolutely persona non-grata in their own party?”

-- Lou D’Allesandro, a New Hampshire delegate to the Democratic National Convention, in the New York Times