Does this count as a surprise?

For a man who has taken in over half a BILLION dollars in donations and to be down in ANY poll at this point proves the adage about Senator Obama…he can’t close the deal.

And Mr. “Open-minded” is kicking press out of his plane. There’s something strange about a man who supposedly has this wrapped up and is now showing his true nature. Just ask an average citizen who asked The One a question.

Once again…he’s raised over half a BILLION dollars…and he’s flailing away.

From 1996 until around 9/10/2001 I probably was apathetic towards politics and the GOP. I voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and sighed relief when he DID win in Florida and finally got the inaguaration under way.

Of course, something happened on 9/11/2001 and I’ve never looked back since or looked at serious left-wing candidate since then.

But also during that time, two things happened. I seriously considered letting my Reason subscription lapse (which I did 2-3 years ago) and I started to view the Libertarian Party with a resigned shrug of the shoulders. See back in 2000, their grand plan was to *hope* for Al Gore to win the White House. Come again? Well way back when, their theory went that America, horrified by the socialism presented by Gore and his cronies, Americans would reject it and of course go towards…the Libertarian Party.

I think they’re trying to re-create that scenario once again. Or they’ve just been in the woods for too long.

People probably have libertarian feelings deep inside of them, ie liberty, but the LP and its overlords seem to be fascinated with the White House every four years, rather than building up a group of “minor-leaguers” in the House or even Mayoral positions. Hell, even State level representatives. But no, they throw their gusto behind some darkhorse candidate that has as much chance of winning as Ralph Nader and then they go back to being the usual Reason(ed) assholes that they usually are. Not saying every one of them are assholes, but overall it’s the same crap they torture themselves with every Presidential election.

If the face of the LP, which is Reason magazine these days, thinks bringing in ol’ Barry into the White House along with a House and Senate full of donkeys is okay by them, I think it should resign their party to dung heap of serious political endeavors ala the Whigs and the Free Soil parties. Do they not think once ensconced they will do whatever it takes to hold onto what they ultimately view as “theirs”(power)? They have a lust for power and bigger government…how in the name of hell can these so-called people of liberty even think Americans would be able to VOTE for a libertarian candidate at that point?

But yes, in a perfect world, Republicans would stand off against Libertarians, not Liberals. The left as essentially killed off classical liberalism, so what’s to say they wouldn’t try to kill off parts of the Constitution? Or introduce that mythical notion of a second Bill of Rights.

Originally found at The Corner.

Your team is 0-8 and during a game after you scored a touchdown, you were going to unfurl an “Obama” banner in the endzone?

And is it any wonder why the Cincinnati Bengals are a complete laughingstock in the NFL?

How eerie that a book written in 1957 gets it right today…

“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Aconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

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“Or did you say it’s the love of money that’s the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It’s the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is the loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money- and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.”

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

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“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

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“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted, or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality.

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“Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters’ continents. Now the looters’ credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide- as, I think, he will.
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“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns– or dollars. Take your choice- there is no other- and your time is running out.”

If Macaca can bring down George Allen or Trent Lott can be brought down by his “poor choice of words” or Tim Foley can be booted for texting a Congressional page (not even having physical contact mind you), then surely Senator Obama should be at the very least scrutinized for his ties to Bill Ayers.

Or Tony Rezko

Or Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson

Or Communist and child rapist Frank Marshall Davis

Or Rashid Khalidi

And no Big Media, asking some tough questions here and there less than a week before the election doesn’t prove anything. It shows how bankrupt your industry really is and needs to be gutted for the sake of common sense.

So says the AP…as usual.

Even this close to Election Day, racial tensions and the numbers of late-deciding voters identified by the AP-GfK polling leave room for doubt. But the surveys confirm what McCain aides acknowledge privately — their chances of winning are low.

The polling shows Obama holding solid leads in Ohio (7 percentage points), Nevada (12 points), Colorado (9) and Virginia (7), all red states won by Bush that collectively offer 47 electoral votes. Sweeping those four — or putting together the right combination of two or three — would almost certainly make Obama president.

I suppose if I were Allahpundit, I’d being *sighing* right now or wondering what I could do. Then again, I read it’s from the AP and just shrug it off. As everyone should.

Charles Barkley, you are a damn buffoon. Is calling you a buffoon racist? I don’t give a shit anymore.

I’m not voting for Barack Obama because of his skin color Charles, I’m not voting for him for many other reasons.

1. I’m not voting for Barack because I don’t wish to find out what “generated crisis” will test him in the first six months. After hearing people like Chris Matthews whine that Bill Clinton wasn’t going to have his shot at greatness because some Islamic terrorists used our planes as weapons against our own people, I have no patience with you media morons anymore. Reagardless of the outcome, you have shirked your duty as the objective journalists of our Republic and I hope most of your industry dies a painful death.
2. I’m not voting for Barack because I don’t believe in an America that wishes to use the tax code as a weapon for “economic justice.”
3. I’m not voting for Barack because I don’t believe the man, despite being a lawyer, understands the U.S. Constitution.
4. I’m not voting for Barack because I understand that “redistributing wealth” doesn’t mean giving everyone a fair chance, it means reparations for slavery, something that we fought a war over and is NOT happening in this country at this point in time. I have not, I will not, nor have I have any desire to have a “slave” with African descent working for me. If I were to employee an African-American for my small business in the future it will be by contract or by handshake and will pay them accordingly.
5. I’m not voting for Barack because he’s socialistic demagogue who preys upon peoples notions of fairness and equality in this country. He would sell this country out, getting his supporters angry at “rich people”, but all the while retaining all the wealth he has made over the years. This is not how American works. People who are successful and help others by employing them all the while making a profit is NOT evil and should not be a punishable act.
6. I’m not voting for Barack because he WHINES about Fox News, but all the while enjoys the felching coverage from NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Hollywood, the BBC, Lindsey Lohan and Arianna Huffington. ONE network doesn’t kiss your ass and you complain about them??
7. I’m not voting for Barack because despite not having a gun my posession, I believe the 2nd Amendment would be under assault under an Obama White House. Despite saying otherwise, his history shows that he is NOT a self-defense avocate and he is a gun banner. It has provoked my cousin and myself to joke about getting guns before they are banned, but underneath the joking, it’s the feeling that Senator Obama and a fully loaded House and Senate would bring down the 2nd Amendment.
8. I’m not voting for Barack because I believe a President Obama would enact the so-called Employee Free Choice Act. As evidenced by his treatment of Joe the Plumber, Barack Obama would strip employees in this country their rights and privacy to be strong-armed by unions who only wish to line their pockets to take their luxury vacations and pump more money into the DNC.
9. I’m not voting for Barack because despite evidence to show how utterly horrendous it truly is, he would lead us down the path towards socialized medicine.

And finally, I’m not voting for Barack because he’s a Democrat. That doesn’t mean I will never vote for a Democrat, but the modern visage of the DNC is that of being anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-Constitution. Senator Obama embodies everything that is contemptible and wrong with the Democratic party. He IS a demagogue and he wishes to bring down the what makes this country great.

Note: It has NOTHING to do with his skin color. It has to do with what he says and what he does that puts me on the path to opposing him, not his heritage or his melanin.

As for you Chuck, you bald-headed douch-bag, next time you call anyone racist for not supporting Barack Obama, it would be true karma if you were to lose your job and have to resort to handjobs to keep your gambling action under control.

Someone should’ve told Oliver Stone that people may not like George W. Bush, but that doesn’t mean they would want to see a farcical movie about him before he’s out of office.

Just like the polls about the Presidential race are usually wrong, I don’t believe the polls that say Bush has a 30% approval rating or that Congress has a 9% approval rating.

Give people credit at least though, with all the anti-War movies that have bombed over the past 2 years, even a movie about Dubya bombed since there a still a large part of the movie-going public doesn’t like to be lectured to. Or see a President that has kept us safe for the past 7 years get blasted by a hack like Oliver Stone.

Where are the Energy and Commerce Hearings?

Where are the Natural Resource Hearings?

The price of Oil has dropped  to under $65!!

I am *SHOCKED* that Congress is not investigating Big Oil for their apparent indifference to bringing in valuable taxes to the federal government.

I am also *SHOCKED* Congress is not investing Big…er…gas station for GOUGING us with gas prices that have cratered over the past month in the area.

Hey Bill O’Reilly, why aren’t looking out for little guy and railing against Big Oil now?

Why, I hope Media Matters and Senator Harry Reid don’t catch wind of anyone calling a phony soldier, um, a phony soldier. Lest they get their panties in a bunch.

Any doubts we’ll see more black soldiers coming out for Senator Obama between now and the election? Why, that’s like getting Polish citizenship to go along with being Catholic and converting to Judaism…total immunity.