Barack Obama Hedges On Support For Ground Zero Mosque

NYDailyNews.com:

President Obama refined his defense of the Ground Zero mosque Saturday, saying his previous comments defended the right to build it, not the "wisdom" of its location.


The clarification came less than 24 hours after he spoke in support of the project during a White House celebration for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.


"My intention was simply to let people know what I thought, which was that in this country, we treat everybody equally and in accordance with the law, regardless of race, regardless of religion," the President said during a visit to the Gulf Coast Saturday.


"I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there," Obama said. "I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That's what our country is about."


Obama's Friday night remarks on Park51 - a planned Islamic community center and prayer space two blocks north of Ground Zero - sparked strong reactions from both sides of the issue.


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Obama "profoundly wrong" via Twitter.


"There is no issue of religious liberty. He won't face truth," Gingrich wrote.

Backpedaling.

Obama Stan Bob Herbert Admits That Barry Blew It On Unemployment

Of course, conservatives have been saying that the unemployment rate should be priority No. 1 for Barry for over a year now:

The Obama administration seems to be feeling sorry for itself. Robert Gibbs, the president’s press secretary, is perturbed that Mr. Obama is not getting more hosannas from liberals. 

Spare me. The country is a mess. The economy is horrendous, and millions of American families are running out of ammunition in their fight against destitution. Steadily increasing numbers of middle-class families, who never thought they’d be seeking charity, have been showing up at food pantries. 

The war in Afghanistan, with its dreadful human toll and debilitating drain on the nation’s financial resources, is proceeding as poorly as ever. As The Times reported on Friday, an ambitious operation that was supposed to showcase the progress of the Afghan Army turned into a tragic, humiliating debacle. 

And while schools are hemorrhaging resources because of budget meltdowns, and teachers are losing jobs, and libraries are finding it more and more difficult to remain open, American youngsters are falling further behind their peers in other developed countries in their graduation rates from colleges and universities. 

This would be a good time for the Obama crowd to put aside its concern about the absence of giddiness among liberals and re-examine what it might do to improve what is fast becoming a depressing state of affairs. 

It’s not just liberals who are gloomy. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll this week found that nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe the country is on the wrong track and a majority disapproves of President Obama’s handling of the economy. Nearly two-thirds expect the economy to get worse still. 

Mr. Obama’s problem — and the nation’s — is that in the midst of the terrible economic turmoil that the country was in when he took office, he did not make full employment, meaning job creation in both the short and the long term, the nation’s absolute highest priority. 

Besides responding to the nation’s greatest need, job creation would have been the one issue most likely to bolster Mr. Obama’s efforts to bring people of different political persuasions together. In the early months of 2009, with job losses soaring past a half-million a month and the country desperate for bold, creative leadership, the president had an opportunity to rally the nation behind an enormous “rebuild America” effort. 

Such an effort, properly conceived, would have put millions to work overhauling the nation’s infrastructure, rebuilding our ports and transportation facilities to 21st-century standards, establishing a Manhattan Project-like quest for a brave new world of clean energy, and so on.

Greg Gutfeld Takes On Liberal Smear Merchant Media Matters

Mediaite.com:

It’s been only a few weeks since Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert enacted a mutual detente with arch frenemy Andrew Breitbart, but Boehlert hasn’t shied away from making new foes, the loudest of which is Fox News’ Red Eye host (and future Muslim gay bar proprietor) Greg Gutfeld. After allegedly tweeting “EPIC FAIL” at him, Gutfeld dedicated a special Greg-a-logue (and Robot Theater!) to his new rival.


Gutfeld’s special comment didn’t only attack Boehlert, though he did take the hardest punches. It also took on the New Hampshire politicos wishing for Sarah Palin’s death online for the same thing: using social networking sites like political soapboxes. Two notes on that point: (a) ranting about adults talking like children on social networking sites and mentioning Sarah Palin without pointing out that she may be the absolutely worst offender? and (b) there is an argument to be made that, if you’re on Twitter anyway, there’s nothing wrong with using internet speak. There is no hard and fast rule for political discourse on Twitter or Facebook, and plenty of strong arguments to be made for not holding what is said on such platforms to the same standard as what one is paid to write in a publication.


That said, it’s all quite hilarious:


Where did all the grown men go? Seriously, why the hell are adult males writing like catty preteens on Facebook? Have we turned into a nation of 12 year old girls, pining for the Jonas Brothers, planning sleepovers and fighting over padded bras?… It’s not just Facebook. Seriously, how can a grown man feel compelled to write “EPIC FAIL” on a tweet? Yeah, I’m talking to you Eric Boehlert of Media Matters. You’ve gone gray: time to stop braiding the hair of your Barbie Doll.

Feminists Shocked To Find That They're Raising Slutty Daughters

HotAir.com:

There’s a new nightmare on the block for femisogynist moms. Now that they’re all grown up and settled down with teenage daughters of their own, they’re shocked to find out that the sexual empowerment they’ve been championing for decades has backfired on them. How has it backfired? Well, the femisogynist moms are finding out that sexual empowerment has really turned their daughters into slutty teens.

Canadian magazine Maclean’s examined the phenomenon in a controversial article titled “Outraged Moms, Trashy Daughters: How did those steeped in the women’s lib movement produce girls who think being a sex object is powerful?” Confused moms who label themselves as feminists can’t understand why their daughters label themselves as sex objects, sleep around, and demean themselves yet call it empowerment.

But the generation that grew up reading Our Bodies, Ourselves is most apoplectic over what they see as the unrelenting pressure on girls to be sexual, and not on their own terms. “I’m so deeply pained to see where women are today and how girls—and I mean girls—are being groomed to believe their purpose in life is to be sexual beings that please men,” says Nancy Vonk, the co-chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather in Toronto and the mother of a 16-year-old daughter. Vonk recalls wearing satin hot pants when she was 15. “But it was a different time,” she says. “Back then there was at least equal premium put on intellect and what was in your head. It was the opposite of ‘Go out and please men.’ ”

Kate Lloyd, the director of program and service development for the Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario and an academic coach to teenage girls, says the heightened sexual activity concerns her. “A blow job is just like shaking hands. It’s ridiculous,” she says. “But their attitude is: ‘We’re emancipated; we’re liberated; we’re in control, don’t worry.’ They see being able to hold that type of sexual behaviour over the boys as power; I see it as giving their power away.” But one 19-year-old girl sees the double standard facing girls as more complex. “If men have a lot of sex it’s a good thing, but if women have a lot of sex it’s a bad thing,” she says. “Men have a biological imperative to spread their genes. But that should not be a reason to control women.”

So basically, the 60s era of sexual empowerment was OK, because they weren’t trying to “please men”. They were taking control of their own sexuality. Wearing skanky hot pants was groovy back then. But these girls, they’re just sleeping around! They dress like whores! They’re slaves to the men!

It was just fine for the femisogynists to dress and act like sluts when they were growing up. It’s not OK for their daughters to do it, though. What’s the difference to them, though? And why are they so confused about how it happened?

One culprit for why girls are so hyper-sexualized these days can be traced right back to the extreme sex education being taught in our schools, with the charge being led by femisogynists to keep the sex ed coming. Girls have been taught by the adults in their lives to embrace their sexuality, have been lovingly encouraged to explore their sex lives in new and innovative ways. The feminist extremists gush about the brilliance of giving their daughters vibrators, they teach middle schoolers how to have good sex. Planned Parenthood distributes sexually explicit brochures to Girl Scouts and teach 10-year-olds about anal sex. Children are inundated about sex from extremely young ages about sex, something that the femisogynists encourage, and yet they can’t understand why teenage girls are sleeping around?

Bitter irony. Montana Fishburne could tell you all about it.

Obama Stan Admits To Making A Mistake Voting For Barry In 2008

WSJ.com:

Michelle Rena Jones cheered when candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden visited south-central Michigan in 2008. She supported Mr. Obama that November along with a slate of Democrats, including Mark Schauer in the 7th congressional district.


Now, the 40-year-old is rethinking her lifelong support for the party. She has been without steady work for two years, lost her home and car and began receiving cash assistance from the state for the first time. This year, she says, “I’m willing to take a chance on something different.” Another possibility, she says, is that she won’t vote at all.


Ms. Jones is part of an unmeasured, agitated mass: unemployed Americans who don’t believe the Obama Administration and Congress have done enough to produce jobs. With elections coming up, their unease is especially troublesome for the Democrats, who control both chambers.


A poor economy never bodes well for incumbents. Cook Report, the nonpartisan political newsletter that tracks congressional races, estimates that 73 House seats are vulnerable—including Mr. Schauer’s. This group has two things in common. Almost all (66 of 73) are held by Democrats, and most include counties that have unemployment rates exceeding the national average, according to data assembled by The Wall Street Journal.

Federal Appeals Court in New York Rules Against ACORN

Newsmax.com:

A federal appeals court in New York City has thrown out a decision that barred Congress from withholding funds from the activist group ACORN.

The ruling Friday reverses a decision by a district court. That judge found Congress had violated ACORN's rights by punishing it without a trial.

ACORN describes itself as an advocate for low-income and minority home buyers and residents.

Critics say the group has engaged in voter registration fraud and embezzlement. They say it has violated the tax-exempt status of some of its affiliates by engaging in partisan political activities.

Wonder if Rachel Maddow will continue to refer to this as some "bogus" issue FOXNews made up just to "scare white people".

Democrat State Rep. Timothy Horrigan Jokes About Sarah Palin's Death, Resigns

Newsmax.com:

A New Hampshire Democrat resigned on Thursday after news emerged that he was talking about celebrating former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s death on his Facebook page.

State Rep. Timothy Horrigan, D, made these comments on his page Wednesday:

“Just for the record, I don't wish Sarah Palin dead... but not merely for compassionate reasons. I also want her to live because a living Sarah Palin is less dangerous than a dead one. Her rise to the status of Head Tea Partier had nothing to do with anything she ever said, did or accomplished--- but as long as she lives she might be able to say or do things which could serve as a moderating influence. And she also might commit a gaffe bad enough to shock her followers, though that is unlikely. Unless of course she endorses Obama for President in 2012.”

The Washington Post, reporting on the incident Thursday, wrote that the social networking site still lists Horrigan as a state representative. But less than 24 hours after posting to Facebook, Horrigan sent a formal letter of resignation to state House Speaker Terie Norelli:

"I wish to resign from the House of Representatives effective immediately, and to discontinue my re-election campaign for Strafford County District 7. I apologize for thoughtless remarks I made which have brought this House into disrepute. I enjoyed my time in the House and I thank you personally for your support over the years."

Horrigan was on Facebook again Thursday afternoon -- this time to post an apology specifically mentioning Palin and the nature of his remarks:

"I would like to offer a specific apology for making comments about Sarah Palin which could be--- and were--- misconstrued. She is, as far as I know, not a bad person at all--- and certainly she deserves to live a long and happy life."

 It's who they are.

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Now this is hilarious.

Obama/Clinton In 2012?

TheDailyBeast.com:

2012 is still two years away—a veritable lifetime in American, or any other, politics. But that shouldn’t stop us from talking, or even fantasizing, about the next presidential election. After all, what else is there to lick our lips over these days—Linda McMahon? Michaele Salahi? Mad Men?

Given the political imponderables—and there are many, many of those—there are three things one might say for near-certain about 2012:

1. Barack Obama will run again.
2. Joe Biden will not be the ideal running mate for Obama.
3. Hillary Clinton, cocooned at State, will be her party’s least sullied heavy hitter; and the way the Democrats deploy her could make or break the party.

The vice president’s job is Hillary’s for the asking—and, if the Republicans aren’t careful, the taking.

In a perfect world this could certainly work, surely it'd satisfy rabid Clinton fans/Barry haters for the time being (or at the very least until, God forbid, Billary gets a chance to spike Barry's grape juice) and more importantly, the Repubs would have a hard time facing the likes of an Obama/Clinton ticket no matter who Mitch Romney selects as his running mate. But I put the likelihood of it happening on a scale of nil to none. For starters, no way would Barry's ego allow him to make such a huge concession and push aside his clown of a VP for the likes of Billary. Plus, Barry and his narcissistic ass would never let anyone as large as Billary share the spotlight (nevermind the fact that Billary are just not to be trusted by anyone with a brain). Secondly, let's say Barry's radically-Leftist policies continue to wreck havoc on the country to the point that his approval numbers venture into the 30's (or even lower), wouldn't the goalposts have to the shift to the point that we'd have to begin making room for calls for Billary to run again for Prez instead of settling for VP? Sure they would. Lastly, either way, I don't think Billary has it in her to be Barry's sidekick or run for President again. Sure a part of her will always want another shot at Prez, but on the surface Billary seems to have settled in nicely with the Secretary of State role--I think she gets a kick out of feeling like a VIP while getting in the ass of brutal foreign dictators, more importantly her travels as SoS keep her away from that loathsome dick of a philandering husband. Obama/Clinton 2012? Fat chance.

Keith Olbermann Attacks Bill O'reilly's Deceased Dad To Score Political Points

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Mediaite.com:

Last night, Bill O’Reilly made a flimsy argument that Jennifer Aniston (of all people) is a threat to America for encouraging little girls to consider single parenthood. In an unprecedented move, Keith Olbermann made O’Reilly one of today’s Worst Persons in the World. This near-daily occurrence would usually merit little more than a yawn, except the crux of Olbermann’s argument was that O’Reilly made this point because he was abused by his father as a child.



Olbermann gave O’Reilly his “Worser” award tonight for the comments, which he rehashed in their entirety against Aniston’s (also transcribed for the viewers). The argument was that Aniston calling the fact that older women can now reproduce “amazing” is a dangerous message to American girls who could misinterpret this as meaning that fathers are unnecessary in raising a child. Yes, it’s a pretty silly argument, and fairly easy to debunk on the grounds that, for starters, the type of single parenthood occurring in Aniston’s new movie (where she goes to a sperm bank to pick out a “father” but then– surprise! drunk Jason Bateman hijacks the motherhood attempt) is probably not the type of Teen Mom situation that O’Reilly is warned about. That, however, isn’t the argument route Olbermann took:

“There’s been a lot of amateur psychoanalysis of what O’Reilly is doing this time. If you’ve read Marvin Kitman’s biography of O’Reilly, it’s pretty simple: Virtually every reference O’Reilly makes to his own father describes how the man hit, slapped, punched him. As Kitman put it simply: ‘O’Reilly has a history of physical abuse with his father. It is actually very sad.’”

To sum up the argument: O’Reilly says telling young women that they can be single parents later in life is detrimental to society. Olbermann says O’Reilly is the victim of child abuse. Talk about bringing a predator drone to a knife fight. (Update: and this isn’t the first time Olbermann brings this up).


Whether or not the allegations made by Olbermann via Kitman’s book are true are beside the point. Child abuse is not a political grenade to toss hastily at people you don’t like. No one’s childhood– especially if said childhood is believed to be traumatic– should be fair game to score political points. It is nearly unavoidable these days that some degree of argument on cable news is ad hominem, if only because people that spend long periods of time on television develop a reputation. This is not ad hominem. This attack has nothing to do with Bill O’Reilly in any professional or personal capacity, and only with speculation on a very serious topic that tosses it to the realm of the frivolous.


Then there’s the touchy subject of fathers in general, and how often Olbermann likes to discuss his own seemingly beautiful relationship with his father. Olbermann’s attack takes nothing away from the positive impact of having a major cable news figure routinely emphasize how important a father is in the development of the child– the world can never have enough of that, and Olbermann’s regular James Thurber segments are stellar programming. That is precisely why he, of all people, should know better than to bring someone else’s deceased father into play in the cable game. O’Reilly would be ripped to shreds for doing something similar with Olbermann’s father, and rightfully so.

Keith O's obsession with O'Reilly is worse than Andrew Sullivan's Sarah Palin fetish but the MSM media won't talk about that, any wonder why this worthless piece of scum is hated so much that even the people that work with the prick can't stand him?

George W. Bush Makes Surprise Visit To Our Troops

LATimesBlog.com:

Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, made a surprise visit to U.S. troops this afternoon.

They showed up at the USO in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. There they mingled with the returning soldiers, thanked them, chatted and posed for photos as proof of the unexpected encounter for folks back home. 

The USO just posted an assortment of the photos on its Facebook page, which quickly drew a growing list of appreciative comments. 

"What an AWESOME moment," Robert Rowe wrote. "If anyone can't see the President and First Lady's love for our nations troops, they must be dead or blind. May God Bless them ALL !" Richard Cruz wrote: "The look on that kid's face says it all...."


And Shirley Lovely Fry added: "A President and First Lady who love their country and their country's military."

You can tell how much they miss their former leader, so does most of our nation. "Do You Miss Me Yet?" Yes, Mr. President we do.

James Caan Refuses To Be The Typical 'Hollywood Liberal'

FOXNews.com:

Veteran actor James Caan let people in on a little secret last week. After 46 successful years among Hollywood’s most outspoken liberal stars, he’s speaking up about breaking the mold.

“I'm an ultra conservative,” he said at Moet & Chandon’s 6th Annual Hollyshorts Film Festival Opening Night Celebration in Los Angeles.

“I'm not a G** damn Hollywood liberal, I'm not,” he said, adding he only watches Fox News.

Caan, who was at the event promoting his involvement with the online platform Openfilm.com, also added that he doesn’t think Hollywood actors need to comment on every single political issue. When Pop Tarts questioned him on California courts deeming Proposition 8, which bans same sex marriage, “unconstitutional,” he preferred to keep his lips sealed.

"I don't want to comment on that. I'll let those other geniuses do that – all those actors who like to find a stage to push their agendas,” he said. “They don't have political science degrees... I certainly don't. I'll leave it to Sean Penn or Barbara Streisand to comment on that."

Long live Sonny Corleone!

Ben Quayle: “Barack Obama Is The Worst President In History”

Mediaite.com:

One has to wonder if at some point before 2012 the English language will run out of overstatement and have to start borrowing from German or some other language to achieve the ideal level of hyperbole. In the meantime may we present Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, who is running for Congress in Arizona. His campaign vid, in which he unequivocally states that “Barack Obama is the worst president in history,” has been making the Internet rounds today. Fear not, Ben Quayle — who looks like the progeny of Harold Ford meets Chris Cuomo meets Anthony Weiner meets Chris Kattan — is going to go Washington and knock the hell out of it. His words not mine.

I've said it before: wait a couple of years after and let Barry finish his term first before we go calling him "worst ever", copying them will get conservatives nowhere. Of course, this could just be a little revenge for all those who called Ben Quayle's dad "worst ever VP", but if that's the case with the current clown we have for a VP Ben shouldn't be too worried about that title sticking to his dad for long.

Martin Luther King's Niece Alveda King: Gay Marriage In "Genocide"

Despite the Left's attempts to smear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an adulterer and one-speech demagogue, it is important to remember that Dr. King was not only our greatest American hero, but more importantly a bible-worshiping Christian man who never spoke publicly on homosexuality. Thus, I refuse to believe that while risking his life for equal rights MLK Jr. ever thought that cause would include the idea of two white dudes getting married.

Harry Reid Uses Race To Garner Hispanic Votes

"Mindless loyalty on the basis of ethnicity." Sounds familiar.

Jennifer Aniston: You Don't Need A Man To Have A Baby

HuffPo.com:

Speaking at a Los Angeles press conference for her movie about artificial insemination, 'The Switch,' Aniston said that "times have changed" along with the idea of the traditional family. So if that means having one without the man in the picture, that's okay.

"Women are realizing more and more that you don't have to settle, they don't have to fiddle with a man to have that child," Aniston said. "They are realizing if it's that time in their life and they want this part they can do it with or without that."

Leave it to a member of the Hollywood-Left, the same group that supports gay marriage, open marriage, polyamory and swinging, to state that children don't deserve and need to have a mother and a father.

Robert Gibbs: Liberals Wouldn't Be Satisfied If Dennis Kucinich Was President"

TheHill.com:

The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity.

During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough.

“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”


The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”


Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”

Why Paul Ryan Makes Democrats Nervous

USNews.com:

Anne Applebaum writes in Slate about the “amnesia” among Republicans regarding their past history of running up deficits--she realizes that the Obama administration has done far worse, but because the GOP is the party of small government, she thinks it has more to answer for than Democrats do:

Before the Republican Party can have any credibility on any spending issues whatsoever, Republican leaders need to speak frankly about the mistakes of the past. They also must be extremely specific about which policies and which programs they are planning to cut in the future. What will it be? Social Security or the military budget? Medicare or the TSA? Vague "anti-government" rhetoric just doesn't cut it anymore: If you want a smaller government, you have to tell us how you will create one.

Apparently she hasn’t read Congressman Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future, which answers every one of her questions, in great detail, with plenty of charts and graphs. He spells out proposals for slowing the growth of Medicare costs, getting Social Security back on track, and offers specifics on how he’d cut the deficit in half. If Republicans win the midterm elections in the House, he’ll be the Budget Committee chair and if any Republican has credibility on spending issues, it’s Ryan.
[See who supports Ryan.]

Yesterday’s Washington Post front page had a long profile of Ryan, which said that Ryan’s Roadmap makes his fellow (unnamed) Republicans “wince” because it has created so much “tension” within the party. While I’m sure some of the longtime GOP incumbents who were there for the Bush years may be a little uncomfortable with Ryan’s ideas, I suspect he creates a lot more “tension” among Democrats than Republicans. Here’s the best part of the article, in which he talks about the voters: 

Ryan said he does not think that voters would punish the GOP for shunning attack politics and for speaking plainly about the country's problems. He notes his own political success: He won reelection in 2008 with 62 percent of the vote despite coming from a district and a state that voted for Obama.

"It's really important, I think, not to run campaigns on some vague platitudes and rip down the other party, to hopefully win an election by default," he said. "You have to win an election by acclamation, by aspiration, by telling people who you are and what you are going to do, and then go do it once you get there."

Quotes like that show why people like Paul Ryan. His ability to speak plainly about the country’s problems, and to propose specific common-sense solutions, are becoming the alternative to President Obama’s big-spending, highly partisan, unlimited government agenda. That’s why he makes Democrats, not Republicans, in the House so nervous.

RELATED: Paul Ryan: Paul Krugman's A Lazy Dishonest Hack, Isn't He?

Levi Johnston Gets Reality Show, Running For Mayor

Variety.com:

Levi Johnston is setting his sights on the dysfunctional family business.

Johnston will run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska -- yes, the same job that propelled Sarah Palin to governor of that state (and later, the vice presidential nomination) -- in a new reality project being pitched by Stone and Co.

"Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor's Office" will center on Johnston's newfound fame as the baby daddy to Palin's grandson, Tripp.

Johnston will trade on that notoriety to make his run for Wasilla City Hall -- when he's not pursuing a career in Hollywood, of course.

Stone and Co. are already shooting the show's pilot and have started pitching the show to networks.

Johnston admitted that he wasn't thrilled at first about the mayoral campaign concept, which was pitched to him by Stone's Scott Stone and David Weintraub.

"But the more I think about it and look into it, I think there's a possibility we can make it happen," Johnston said of his political prospects. "It's something that I want to do."

The scumbag that refuses to go away.

Raheel Raza On Why She Opposes Ground Zero Mosque

HotAir.com:

Via the Right Scoop, four minutes of “hate” from tonight’s O’Reilly Factor with the author of the op-ed that Ed blogged this morning. Why would she bother weighing in against the mosque when it’s bound to earn her scorn not only from many Muslims but from the media bien-pensants who’ve been congratulating themselves over their own supposed enlightenment for weeks? For the same reason, I suspect, that Zuhdi Jasser felt compelled to oppose the mosque in his op-ed back in May: Because she really does want better relations between Muslims and non-Muslims and has a crazy hunch that insisting upon building a cultural center 400 feet or so north of Ground Zero despite wide public opposition isn’t the shrewdest way to go about it. In other words, she’s doing repair work here — and doing a mighty fine job of it, as even O’R feels compelled to acknowledge.

I watched this live, really impressive interview.

Howard Dean Claims Unpopular ObamaCare Mandate Could Be Ruled Unconstitutional

Newsbusters.org:

A well known political figure appears on MSNBC's Daily Rundown and announces, in the wake of Missouri voters overwhelmingly supporting Proposition C to remove the insurance mandate from ObamaCare, that it is so unpopular that it will probably be removed from that legislation or that the courts will rule it unconstitutional. So was the person who delivered this opinion a conservative Republican? Nope. It was Howard Dean, former Democrat presidential candidate and chairman of the DNC who made that statement to a surprised Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie.

Shocker.

Kirsten Powers Calls Michelle Obama’s Spain Trip ‘Absolutely Tone Deaf’

Mediaite.com:

It’s August– typically a buzzing vacation season for many Americans that has been hampered by the recent economic downturn. For many who find their holiday time diminished due to the recession, Michelle Obama’s vacation to southern Spain has seemed inappropriate, and on last night’s Geraldo at Large, Democratic Fox News political analyst Kirsten Powers condemned the trip as “absolutely tone-deaf,” and noted that she couldn’t “believe that she has done it.”

Opening the segment, Geraldo Rivera gave some stats on the kind of money the First Lady is dropping in Andalucía and noted that, while he was a fan of the Michelle Obama’s, he was uncomfortable with the trip. Republican strategist Noelle Nikpour weighed in, noting that, while she is a Republican and, thus, expected to take the position, she still wondered what Obama’s “carbon footprint going over there” was and criticized her for not visiting the Gulf of Mexico, instead. But it was Powers who gave the more surprising comment, noting that, while she doesn’t “think it’s anybody’s business whether they spend his birthday together or not,” the Spain trip was just all-around bad optics:

“Most Americans are just not going to relate to going to Spain with however many friends she has with her… staying at this exclusive hotel, spending all this money, and it is extremely tone-deaf. Politically, it is absolutely tone-deaf. I can’t even believe that she has done it, frankly. It is not what people do in their first term.”

No political pundit is more objective on the issues than Kristen Powers. None. Screw ideology, she plays down the line and that's all we can ask for.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 8/8/10

Oil Spill 'Still A Disaster' For Parts Of Gulf

Far From Ground Zero, Opponents Fight New Mosques

John Boehner: End To Birthright Citizenship Possible

Appeal Filed Over Gay Marriage Ruling In California, Schwarzenegger Wants Gays Married

Polygamy: The New Growth Stock

Al Gore Cleared; Former VP Baffled By Sex Assault Allegations

The GM Volt: Fascism Strikes The Auto Industry

Rosie O'Donnell Claims Her Marriage Was An Act Of Defiance

CDC Report Give Media Cover To Downplay Negativity Of Shacking Up

Sen. Demint: Ratifying U.N. Children's Treaty Would Take Away Parents Rights

Sarah Palin Signs On To RNC Fundraising Letter 


Black Women Crushed By Unemployment

Chris Matthews Uses Rep. Bob Inglis As A Pawn, Asks If Republicans Oppose Obama Because Of His Race

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Yeah, because when we had white Democrat Presidents the GOP was right there in full support of their policies, cheering them on. But Chris Matthews is an idiot and Bob Inglis is clearly very bitter so of course it comes to this:

Chris Matthews on Friday actually asked a GOP Congressman if Republicans oppose President Obama because of his race.

On the 5PM installment of MSNBC's "Hardball," Matthews brought on Rep. Bob Inglis, the Congressman from South Carolina who easily lost his primary fight in June to Tea Party candidate Trey Gowdy and has been badmouthing his Party ever since.

Early in the conversation, Matthews asked, "What is it that`s gotten into your Party`s water supply, the Republican Party`s water supply, that makes them strangely hostile to the president, not just against his policies, but personally? Is it race?"

Fixated on racial conspiracy theories, the "Hardball" host later in the interview asked, "If we had about a million Heidi Klums trying to cross the border, the Mexican border of the United States, you know, the gorgeous blond from Germany or whatever, do you think that would be a problem with immigration right now, or is it really just ethnic?"

Elena Kagan Sworn In As 4th Woman On Supreme Court

Newsmax.com:

Elena Kagan was sworn in Saturday as the 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Kagan in a brief private ceremony at the court. Kagan, joined by family and friends, pledged to faithfully and impartially uphold the law.

Afterward, she smiled broadly as a crowd of onlookers stood and applauded. "We look forward to serving with you," Roberts said.

Kagan, a former Harvard Law School dean who most recently was solicitor general, was President Barack Obama's choice to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Republicans criticized her as a political liberal, before the Senate confirmed her this past week on a vote of 63-37.

She was sworn in twice Saturday by Roberts — reciting one oath as prescribed by the Constitution during a ceremony in a conference room at the court with only her family present. Kagan then recited a second oath, taken by judges, with her family and friends and reporters present.

Kagan won't be formally installed as a justice until Oct. 1 in a courtroom ceremony at the start of the court's new term. But after the oaths taken on Saturday, she will be able to begin assuming her duties as a justice, which include reviewing cases and emergency appeals filed to the Supreme Court.

If it turns out that she's a liberal it makes no difference to SCOTUS. If it turns out that she abides by the Constitution the Left will cook her and Barry's ass.