Othelmo da Silva's blog
Where is the Love?
Where did the love go?
Liberal Democrats feign themselves the party of moderation, tolerance and civility. Reality paints a different picture, however. Here is a small sample of headlines within the last day or so on the veritable war being waged between Barack H. Obama and Hillary Clinton for their party's nomination for President of the United States.
Clinton-Obama attacks get personal
"I'm sure that Sen. Clinton feels like she's doing me a favor because she's been deploying most of the arguments the Republican Party will be using against me in November and so it's toughening me up. I'm getting run through the paces here," Obama told The Associated Press' annual meeting.
Davis Questions Walz's Support of Senator Obama
Davis: "Obama's statements about Midwest values are demeaning"
For Immediate Release
Contact: Brad Biers
April 13, 2008
651.261.2182
April 13, 2008 (Rochester, MN) - Today, Brian Davis, Republican candidate in Minnesota's First Congressional District, called upon Congressman Walz to withdraw his pledge to support Senator Obama in the Democratic Presidential Primary. Congressman Walz, a superdelegate to this year's Democratic Convention, announced his support of Obama on February 6, one day following the Minnesota caucuses.
Davis, who was recently endorsed by the Republican Party to challenge Walz this Fall, stated, "We have learned a great deal more about Senator Obama in the past two months that is cause for concern. I find it deeply troubling that Senator Obama's stated views on many topics are so out-of-step with mainstream American values. It is shocking, if not implausible, that a Congressman representing this District could support him."
"Snob-ama" and the Many Faces of Hillary
I must credit über conservative blogger Michelle for the "Snob-ama" word play.
Obama is spinning his elitist statement of blue collar Pennsylvanians as people who cling to religion, guns and discrimination out of a sense of helplessness and desperation in the face of economic uncertainty.
"If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that."
That's the standard non-apology apology.
Hillary's multiple personalities have come out in force following Obama's elitist rant.
Saint Hillary the Pious pounced on Obama the Self-righteous almost immediately after the Illinois senator's condescending remarks were aired. More recently, she's said:
Walz: "F" Student
The non-partisan National Taxpayers Union (NTU) recently released its ratings for the 2007 session of Congress. The NTU rates all votes that affect taxes, spending, debt, and regulatory burdens on consumers and taxpayers.
Congressman Tim Walz (MN - 01) scored 3%, earning an F rating, the lowest score amongst the Minnesota Congressional delegation and well below the average of Democrats in Congress.
The Democratic average in the House is 6%, Keith Ellison's score.
Walz is tied with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton!
Whose values is Walz representing in Washington?
Obama: Elitist and Condescending
``You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years. ... And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.''
-- Barack Obama on Pennsylvania voters while at a San Francisco fundraiser
That's a liberal for you.
Obama's view is that religious people, second ammendment advocates, traditional family values folk, those who support enforcing our immigration laws or don't support unfair trade with other countries are "frustrated." You see, Obama and his party believe that if you are not a liberal, there must be something wrong with you.
Global Warming Alarmism: Liberal McCarthyism
Expert: "We're brainwashing our children" about global warming
(Available at http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2008/04/expert-were-bra.html)
``Another post from guest blogger Rick Neale of Florida Today, from the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando:William Gray, the well-known Colorado State University hurricane forecaster, routinely uses the annual National Hurricane Conference as a platform to bash global warming.
In a statement to Florida Today, Gray argued that the scientific consensus on global warming is bogus — and "a mild form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree" that mankind is in danger."
Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton
Hillary's slick willies
"How anyone could confuse Hillary's sourly cynical, male-bashing megalomania with authentic feminism is beyond me."
"Hillary may spout a populist line, but with her arrogant sense of dynastic entitlement, she's a royalist who, like Napoleon, wants to crown herself."
"I'd love to have a woman president -- but slippery Hillary, stolidly pumping and pumping her narcissistic bellows like a steam engine, just isn't it. "
That from a feminist liberal Democrat.
Sounds right.
Way to Go, "Governor Veto!": Pawlenty Slashes DFL Pork Bill by $208 million
"I'm disappointed that Democrats in the legislature were unable to say no to projects and do not share my commitment to fiscal responsibility. In this case, someone had to exercise fiscal restraint and that job fell to me."
-- Governor Tim "Pork Buster" Pawlenty on the terminal fiscal irresponsibility of DFL legislators.
Here's Tim Pawlenty's letter to Minnesotans following his trimming of the bloated DFL bonding bill. I am extremely proud of our governor's strong stand on fiscal responsibility. The priorities of liberal DFL legislators are wrong and harmful to the state.
Dear Friends:
Anger Mismanagement: Bill Clinton, The Angry Bamboozler
--Barack Obama supporter Robert Holeman, after a confrontation with former president Bill Clinton at a campaign rally for his wife at Timken High School in Canton, Ohio, yesterday.“I think the president’s trying hoodwink us, bamboozle us, put us back in the okie doke. He had eight years to do what he was supposed to do. All the things he said that she’s gonna do, he had the same authority that he wants her to have. Now if one Clinton, the male Clinton can’t get it done, how is Ms. Clinton [going to].
Bill Clinton did his angry white man impersonation again this past weekend. Clinton's infamous temper has become news one more time as he has been losing his cool in public over the last year while campaigning for his equally infamous wife.
Payola
Superdelegates get campaign cash
Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
February 14, 2008 03:54 PM
Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.
"While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today. About half the 800 superdelegates -- elected officials, party leaders, and others -- have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.
