Help needed: Canvassing in Ohio

This comes from the folks at Hillbuzz who are dedicating their weekend (and sacrificing Christmas presents) to canvassing for Mccain/Palin in Ohio by volunteers who live in Chicago. They are doing it for free, but the materials they need cost some bucks: buses, accommodations, kits (buttons, stickers, etc.) and they need all the help they can get. They are asking for donations to help fund this trip in a mission to help get Ohio secured for McCain and Palin. I’ve donated a small amount myself and wouldn’t ask a single one of you to do the same if that weren’t the case. It’s easy as pie to do and completely secure as you can do it through PayPal, just like some of you may have done before. Please don’t feel that small amounts are too insignificant to bother: even $5 raised from a bunch of people adds up. If they get enough money they might be able to rent a car or two instead of relying on volunteers on the ground there in Ohio.

So please, folks, help out in any way you can! $1, $5, $10, $20—anything at all! I know these are tough times for everybody–I’m a single mom myself who is working through a post bacc program, I totally feel your pain! But in the long term this will pay out great dividends because the folks at Hillbuzz are committed to the belief that McCain/Palin are good for our country, and I agree. They will preserve our rights and take us in the direction we want to go–not in small part because they listen to our voices! That’s the kind of leadership that is good for our and our children’s futures, and is totally worth the small amount now. I hope you will think of it as a small price to pay for liberty.

To get to the link for PayPal and the original post, please click here; the original post is also copied below:

We need to ask for your help. We’re putting together a canvassing trip into Ohio this coming weekend to bring what we hope will be about 70 DeMcCrats for McCain and Young Republican supporters into Ohio to canvass for McCain/Palin in the Buckeye state. We’re still short of what we need to rent buses for this trip, and cover the accommodations and costs for our volunteers while there. We’re also buying as many DeMcCrats for McCain and other McCain/Palin buttons and stickers to hand out in Ohio as we can. This is a bipartisan effort here in Chicago — and the biggest push we’ve ever made for canvassing. It’s a long ride from Illinois to Ohio, and the bus is expensive. We’ve all scraped together what we can, but need help covering the rest.

So, if you’ve been a regular here and have enjoyed what we do — if we’ve made you laugh, smile, or helped you stay informed about this election — please contribute whatever you can to make this weekend of canvassing happen. If we raise enough, we can even rent cars when we get to Ohio so we can cover much more ground canvassing, and not have to rely on other volunteers already there. For many of us here at HillBuzz, Ohio is our home state, so we’re especialy committed to winning this state for McCain/Palin…just like we did in the primaries for Hillary Clinton.

Every little bit adds up towards our goal — and puts another 70 or so people on the ground for McCain/Palin in Ohio, where we’ll make a big difference. We’re putting everything we’ve got into this effort — there literally will be no Chirstmas presents for anyone we know this year because it’s all going to winning this election. We believe in McCain/Palin and think they are what’s best for America, so we’re doing all we can to win on November 4th. But, we do truly need your help.

$1, $5, $10, whatever you can give will make a huge difference. Without your help, we won’t be able to pull this off. If we find 900 people who read this blog who can give us $5, we can make this happen.

Let’s close out this election together with a big win for McCain/Palin, by sending as many of us from Chicago into Ohio to fight hard on the ground!

Please help us!

Thank you in advance to all; your time and donations will be appreciated immensely!

For those who love freedom: The First Leaflet of the White Rose

Perhaps some of you may recognise the words that follow, some not. In that instance they are the words as written by a WWII-era resistance group known as the White Rose. Led by brother-sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, the group wrote, printed and distributed this and other leaflets at unimaginable risk to themselves. In the end they were caught and the Scholls, amongst others, were executed for their “crimes.” However, the ideals for which they fought, amongst them the right to live ordinary lives of happiness and seeking growth and prosperity, won out in the end, even if the Scholls did not live to see their hard-won victory.

I myself happened upon a book about the group about twenty years ago and have never forgotten them. I learned that Sophie, especially, with her determined expression and flowered jumper, struck a note with many other young girls, here in the United States, in her native Germany and in many countries around the world. Sophie Scholl was robbed of her family, her education, her freedom, and ultimately her life. But she never stopped fighting for freedom. Her brother, as well, was determined to resist and become a doctor after the war. Of course, we know, reading these words, waht they did not know, could only suspect or wonder about, as they wrote them.

Currently we are wondering not only about the outcome of the upcoming election, but not how much of a reality all our fears about an Obama presidency, how much of a reality these fears really are. Examining the nature of them, an honest person cannot dismiss what it all points to, and must resist allowing freedom to be bargained for, must stand up and declare unwillingness to allow freedom to be treated as if it were an historic and collective dismissal of the natural right of one person or group to mandate how all others should live. We the American people are unwilling to surrender the freedoms that have been fought for by those before us, many of whom gave their lives so that we may decide individually how to pursue the course of our lives, to decide which path will best take us to the road to prosperity–to operate under the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. “We the People” are the first words of the preamble to our great Constitution, not a mistake or cöincidence, but a deliberately placed phrase that speaks to the reality of how our government works: for us, and not we for them. The privileged position of this phrase is a testament to the knowledge and reason that the people, who are to be informed and not denied information, are to make decisions that benefit the country and not support the few through forced disbursal of private property. We are a nation of people who work to create who we are, and thus far American ingenuity has made progress never before seen on Earth in such a short period of time. No nation has been so free, and the ongoing caveat that always accompanies this knowledge is that such freedom must always be jealously guarded, as there will always be those who, for their reason, seek to strip it from us.

With that in mind it is worth re-reading the words written by The White Rose over 60 years ago. Emphasis mine; you may very well find your own.

Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be “governed” without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes -crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure – reach the light of day?

If the German people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order in history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass – then, yes, they deserve their downfall.

Goethe speaks of the Germans as a tragic people, like the Jews and the Greeks, but today it would appear rather that they are a spineless, will-less herd of hangers-on, who now – the marrow sucked out of their bones, robbed of their center of stability – are waiting to be hounded to their destruction. So it seems- but it is not so. Rather, by means of a gradual, treacherous, systematic abuse, the system has put every man into a spiritual prison. Only now, finding himself lying in fetters, has he become aware of his fate.

Only a few recognized the threat of ruin, and the reward for their heroic warning was death. We will have more to say about the fate of these persons. If everyone waits until the other man makes a start, the messengers of avenging Nemesis will come steadily closer; then even the last victim will have been cast senselessly into the maw of the insatiable demon.

Therefore every individual, conscious of his responsibility as a member of Christian and Western civilization, must defend himself against the scourges of mankind, against fascism and any similar system of totalitarianism. Offer passive resistance – resistance – wherever you may be, forestall the spread of this atheistic war machine before it is too late, before the last cities, like Cologne, have been reduced to rubble, and before the nation’s last young man has given his blood on some battlefield for the hubris of a sub-human. Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure.

From Friedrich Schiller’s “The Lawgiving of Lycurgus and Solon”:

Viewed in relation to its purposes, the law code of Lycurgus is a masterpiece of political science and knowledge of human nature. He desired a powerful, unassailable state, firmly established on its own principles. Political effectiveness and permanence were the goal towards which he strove, and he attained this goal to the full extent possible under the circumstances. But if one compares the purpose Lycurgus had in view with the purposes of mankind, then a deep abhorrence takes the place of the approbation which we felt at first glance. Anything may be sacrificed to the good of the state except that end for which the State serves as a means. The state is never an end in itself; it is important only as a condition under which the purpose of mankind can be attained, and this purpose is none other than the development of all of man’s powers, his progress and improvement. If a state prevents the development of the capacities which reside in man, if it interferes with the progress of the human spirit, then it is reprehensible and injurious, no matter how excellently devised, how perfect in its own way. Its very permanence in that case amounts more to a reproach than to a basis for fame; it becomes a prolonged evil, and the longer it endures, the more harmful it is…

At the price of all moral feeling a political system was set up, and the resources of the state were mobilized to that end. In Sparta there was no conjugal love, no mother love, no filial devotion, no friendship; all men were citizens only, and all virtue was civic virtue.

A law of the state made it the duty of Spartans to be inhumane to their slaves; in these unhappy victims of war humanity itself was insulted and mistreated. In the Spartan code of law the dangerous principle was promulgated that men are to be looked upon as means and not as ends – and the foundations of natural law and of morality were destroyed by that law…

What an admirable sight is afforded, by contrast, by the rough soldier Gaius Marcius in his camp before Rome, when he renounced vengeance and victory because he could not endure to see a mother’s tears!…

The state [of Lycurgus] could endure only under the one condition: that the spirit of the people remained quiescent. Hence it could be maintained only if it failed to achieve the highest, the sole purpose of a state.

From Goethe’s “The Awakening of Epimenides, Act II, Scene 4:

SPIRITS: Though he who has boldly risen from the abyss Through an iron will and cunning May conquer half the world, Yet to the abyss he must return. Already a terrible fear has seized him; In vain he will resist! And all who still stand with him Must perish in his fall

HOPE: Now I find my good men Are gathered in the night, To wait in silence, not to sleep. And the glorious word of liberty They whisper and murmur, Till in unaccustomed strangeness, On the steps of our temple Once again in delight they cry: Freedom! Freedom!

Please make as many copies of this leaflet as you can and distribute them.

Anne Pressly, news anchor, dies following attack

It was just a few days ago I woke up in my own bed to the news that a young Arkansas news anchor had been found in her bed, beaten nearly to death.

I never heard of Pressly before, and my only contact with Arkansas was that I drove through it twice, but my first instinct was that she had been targetted.

I could always use the excuse that I was still half asleep, but at the moment I feel like it’s closer to: even in that border between the waking world and sleep, some messages hit you like a ton of bricks. I’m not some sort of genius to think this way, and I certainly admit I could be wrong. I hope I am, because if I’m not it means the line between where we have been and where I’ve been concerned we are going has been crossed.

I have written here a couple of times about the disturbing pattern of violent messages and depictions against Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, messages and images not only ignored by people in positions to stifle them, but also perpetuated by them. The contorted face of Sandra Bernhardt as she swears up a storm in her verbal assault on Palin, and talking about how Palin should be gang raped. Madonna is going to kick Palin’s person, an artist draws an image of a fist slamming so hard against Palin’s face that a tooth is knocked into the air and the glasses fly off her face. And that’s just the beginning.

So to tell you the truth, whatever it may say about me and my willingness to think it, for better or worse, when I heard about Anne Pressly being beaten in her own home, in her own bed for God’s sake, my mind went straight to what I consider the obvious consideration, although it seems to be some question that hangs in the air waiting with baited breath for someone to ask it. It’s so in plain view that the question itself is confused a to why it hasn’t been summoned, and the worry it carries burdens it all the more.

I don’t think I’m being unreasonable. Especially given my initial reaction following the hoax perpetuated by some Munchhausen inflicted student, who claimed to have been attacked for her political beliefs. “Oh my God,” I said aloud, and then went silent as the radio announcer’s voice told of her report that it had been a “big black guy.” Now I know the statistics about black on black crime, and although the hoaxer is white (what I didn’t know at the time), the statistics still speak on a high enough level that a crime perpetuated by a black against a white isn’t far fetched. Still. There’s something about “a big black guy” that just sat within me in a wrong way, although it didn’t really register it at the time, at least not openly. I think it comes from the Samantha Smith days, when the mother of two babies drowned them and claimed her car had been jacked by a black guy. Following exposure of her lie, blacks were rightly angry, as their race seemed to be a convenient tag for crime.

I don’t believe I am doing the same to left leaners or Democrats because as I said above: I could easily be wrong. But I also feel sure my concerns are vindicated by their abject failure in condemning these images and discussions of violence against someone they disagree with politically. Moreover I place a lot of blame on Barack Obama, who with just a few words could, if not put a complete stop to it, apply some serious brakeage. He who has complained about a violent shout that probably didn’t even happen, as it turns out, won’t comply on his side the demands he made of John McCain–and at a debate no less. And all we hear is the rousing and gleeful whoops of how funny it was or how clever that person is to do that, and a big shout out to those who watch as it happens: the MSM. They were right to be critical of Smith and any others who tried to scapegoat blacks, many (probably most, like any other group) of whom absolutely condemn criminal behavior.

Democrats, on the other hand, don’t have a history of being scapegoated in a similar manner and they aren’t even bothering to complain about being blamed. They are too busy finding it all so amusing.

And so now here is Anne Pressly, or rather there was Anne Pressly. She was a reporter for an Arkansas station and had once done an impromptu interview of Dick Cheney in a local store’s ammunition aisle. Just a week ago went to take in W, a film she made a cameo appearance in and now, dead. In between she battled for her life and the police said it was “probably” a robber who got surprised. Speaking in practical terms here, can a robber reasonably be surprised at 04.00 in someone else’s home when that owner is asleep in their bed and could possibly wake up and hear the intruder? I’m not a criminologist, nor a detective or police officer, but I’ve read enough about crime to know that sometimes, dear readers, sometimes criminals do things to make the motive appear to be what it really was not.

I really hope I’m wrong about this feeling I am having. But even if I am, this needs to be a warning to those out there who think all the “jokes” about violence against Palin are so funny. We are at a point in which people are worshipping Obama with such fervor it’s loathsome and frightening at the same time, and such a horrifying act is no longer something that would come as a complete surprise to any of us, whether perpetrated against Palin or any of her supporters. Those of us on the right can talk about it until we are blue in the faces but the ones with real power to stop it can take this seriously, and they damn well better do it soon.

Hubris in our time

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear –
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Palin on SNL: Chevy Chase desperate for damage control

“Stuck in between the tip of Bethesda and Mazza Gallerie?” I was asked. No, no, no, wrong Chevy Chase. Although I could understand that person’s confusion, since that part of Wisconsin Avenue is probably more well-known than the washed-up actor who now is trying to backpedal for his alma mater, Saturday Night Live, in the wake of an apparent Palin popularity surge.

Sarah Palin appeared on SNL last weekend after much speculation and received a respectable welcome from the audience. Alec Baldwin, perhaps best known these days for breaking his promise to leave the country, stood alongside her but his most noticeable trait that night was his seeming inability to read his lines without a teleprompter. And at some moments, even with. He also looked, if you don’t mind the bluntness, rather skanky.

As for Sarah, well she was her usual classy self. She stood alongside the great buffoon as he insulted her up and down, playing his role of pretending not to realise she was the real Palin (knows his great friend Tina really well, hey?). Meanwhile Palin just let it all bounce off of her–don’t let the role playing fool you, she knows these are not merely “scripted insults,” and is sure-footed in her ability to blow them off–knowing, probably, Baldwin was the one who would appear the fool, in and outside of his persona of the night.

In the second skit with Palin, “Weekend Update,” Amy Poehler, about 15 months pregnant God bless her and keep her, said she thought she could perform Palin’s rap routine. According to the script, the governor had been doing some thinking and decided that her role in such a routine would not bode well for the dignity of the presidential campaign. (In “real life” not a few silly people believed Palin was actually supposed to do it and really refused.) Instead she grooved to the music with arm gesticulations and facial expressions that…well, I better leave that alone. Let’s just say she is really attractive and knows how to dance.

So back to Chevy Chase. (I know, I know.) Here he is via Hot Air trying to say it was a “mistake” to allow the popular Palin to appear on SNL:

“Quite frankly, it’s a big mistake to let her go on,” Chevy told Access Hollywood at the Give Food a Chance benefit in New York. “What was brilliant about [‘SNL’ chief] Lorne [Michaels] was that he had nothing written for Sarah and that apparently she cannot improvise herself out of a paper bag!”

“On ‘Weekend Update,’ that was her big chance,” he said. “Nothing.”

What a dork. (There’s a word I learned over at Ace’s blog that seems so fitting for Chase at this moment, but I’m not ready to make that leap.) Palin is not a comedian and that’s why there’s a script, you knuckle dragger. What’s more, she didn’t have to say anything for people to love her, which is more than can be said for him. Imagine that: someone can receive such positive attention for being herself. It should be noted the nation has been abuzz about the appearance and ratings for SNL went up higher than what they had been in 14 years. Lorne Michaels admits to some gratitude for Palin:

“I think the gods smiled on us with the Palin thing. Like if he [John McCain] had chosen Romney, I think it would be completely different,” “SNL’s” executive producer Lorne Michaels told The New York Times.

Personally I think Chase is sincere when he says it was a “mistake,” but disingenuous as to why: he can’t stand Palin, obviously, and his preference is that she do something stupid to make herself look bad. Not only did she not fulfill his dream during the Saturday appearance, but also she came off as very likable and didn’t put much effort into it. She was just herself, had fun, and was loved for it. Even many who don’t care for her have expressed appreciation for her appearance and carriage, and complimented her ability to be a good sport. Chase tries to pass off his “concern” as being for the show’s creative integrity (or some such crap), but it is painfully obvious he is concerned not only about the ratings boost, but a potential rise in popularity amongst those who didn’t like her before. Or maybe that they got a glimpse of the real Sarah, as opposed to the caricature he and his ilk try so desperately to pass off, and may start to think for themselves.

Wealth redistribution: how it works

You get to hand over your cash, and they get to distribute it.

Now don’t you feel better knowing your money will be going to subsidise such a noble lifestyle?

Filed under the “Must be nice” category next to “Is that where my donation went?” Later to be transferred to “That was part of my child’s uni fund.” Potential cross reference to “Depression planning” and “Faux potato famine.”

Thanks to richard for the tip.

The continuing saga of leftist vitriol, anger and violence

Uh, thanks, Allah. Almost lost my breakfast.

That was really funny, Terry Tate, did you think that up all by yourself? Or did you have to have Sandra Bernhardt in on a brainstorming session with you?

Well, Allah gives some background on this joker who apparently has some fans, although I personally can’t imagine what sort of humans could find this remotely amusing. “Unfunny” doesn’t even begin to describe how vile and disturbing not only this piece is, but anyone who could like it.

So let me review this again: there’s Madonna telling an audience of thousands how she is going to kick Sarah Palin’s person, Sarah Bernhardt raging-fantasising about Palin being gang raped, an artist’s depiction of Sarah Palin’s faced being punched so hard a tooth is knocked out and the glasses fly right off her face, and a mock up of someone pointing a gun at Palin’s head. And now this joker with his own twisted damp dream acted out to the framework of an already perverted Reebok commercial spot. How long ’til this becomes mainstream?

It’s not an unreasonable question given how there has been such a small amount of outroar coming from the press–if any at all. And why? Because they don’t like Palin’s political positions? Isn’t this supposed to be a country in which people can openly speak and tell their ideas–protected by the First Amendment? Since when do we go around perpetuating violence against those we disagree with? Of course there have always been “hits” on political figures, i.e. assassinations and attempts, and while not getting into any discussion on the merits of those, what I’m looking at here is the alarming phenomenon of public and private figures promoting and almost advocating physical aggression and violence–because they don’t like what someone said.

What happened to the days when you just didn’t vote for them?

We all know about schoolyard bullies and the routine theories re: how insecure they are, etc. Could these otherwise ordinary (word use relatively in some cases) beings be so threatened that killing or severely harming Palin makes them feel better about themselves and their insecurities? There’s an imbalance in this description, because “insecurity” seems too small a word to stand parallel and in partnership with the violence being promoted these days.

I also have to wonder: “Why Palin?” No, I’m not saying that in consideration of why Hillary wasn’t the object of such attacks. (Although Clinton did endure some abuse coming from self-hating idiots.) No, what I’m thinking about is that surely some of these people dislike John McCain as much as they do Sarah Palin. So how come nobody’s making the moves against McCain? Not that I am asking for it to happen, of course; it would be just as despicable. But the fact that he is a man can’t stop itself from crossing my mind, and the horrible consideration that even amongst the female population, violence against women not only is still acceptable, but also can be considered funny, especially when the intended target is someone who disagrees with them.

This is perhaps nowhere better reflected than in some of the video responses at the YouTube site itself, such as:

montalvomachado
Maaan, she deserved that! Hilarious.

or

jaeastman
pretty sure dr. king would find this pretty lol-worthy

or

MudkipRex
Get used to having a black president, you racist moron. Obama is going to win. And he’s the better candidate too.

Not only were there few comments that directly objected to the depiction of a large man crashing into a small female (what in real would have killed her), but there were ones such as the last (above) that justified it with the implication that she had it coming because of the alleged racism inherent in the McCain campaign and its supporters. In fact, the first reply I quoted above comes out and says, “[S]he deserved that!” And in failing to recognise their own out-of-control behavior and irrational ways of, erm, thinking, there even is the assertion that Martin Luther King would have approved.

By the way, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was Joe Biden’s baby. Why isn’t he speaking up against this monstrous trend?

With the Obama scare measures against freedom of speech already happening, a bunch of pre-pubes dressing up in fatigues to worship their candidate, children being indoctrinated to sing love songs to him, the proposal of some sort of civilian gang (funding same as the actual military’s) and now tacit approval of violence against Obama critics, I’m not only still wondering how far this will go, as I wrote last time, but also when the American Cultural Revolution starts.

Oh yeah: The media are spreading fears about “Republican anger” on election night. Snort.

Paranoia and violence on the left

First we have one reporter claiming he heard a supporter at a McCain/Palin rally shout out, “Kill him!” when Obama’s name came up. Based on only that word, newspapers around the US reported the story and hyperventilated about how concerned they are supporters of the right are “gripped by insane rage.” There were accusations and statements about Sarah Palin whipping supporters into a frenzy and crowds getting out of control.

Nevermind that for the past eight years threats, calls of death wished on Bush and others, and all manner of insults and extreme statements have been openly uttered without any whinging from the MSM.

If that wasn’t bad enough, it turns out this whole “Kill him!” story may have been a mere fabrication. The Secret Service could find no evidence the incident ever occurred. (Via Ace)

OK, let’s review for a moment: One reporter claims he heard something, newspapers and commentators across the country pick it up with no questions asked, and the left is “outraged.” When questions are asked and no evidence is found, the left remains “outraged” and the editor only has something to say about “facts reported [being] true.” My question is this: What facts?

But that’s not the end of it. While the hypocritical left stand by and watch all this, and watch their messiah all but advocate tearing down the life of a man who dared to complain about his tax policies–

–they make sure the world knows about an incident in which a pair of young men at a Palin rally were “beaten up” by a couple of 65-year-old women a few days ago.

I would be included in those who normally condemn such, ehem, atrocities given I don’t condone violent actions to get a point across. Truth be told, however, I’m not having a great deal of sympathy with people who seem to be “ignorant” to the facts regarding repeated attacks, physical and verbal, on McCain/Palin supporters and their property. Property? Some may find it absurd I am making a case out of this, but the truth is that for many this sort of thing too often has been the precursor for what is yet to come: worse. Sarah Bernhardt on gleefully about Sarah Palin being gang raped, Madonna telling a concert audience she would kick Sarah Palin’s person; it’s not surprising their fans and leftie supporters, who tend to be one and the same, follow their despicable examples, or take it upon themselves to show the world their own insane rage:

*Obama supporters in Philadelphia sported “Sarah Parah is a [disgusting vulgarism referring to female genitalia]” t-shirts and yelled “Let’s stone her, old school” over the weekend.

*An Internet artist has designated Palin an “M.I.L.P” – “Mother I’d Like to Punch” – and published a drawing of a man’s fist knocking a tooth out of the Alaska governor’s mouth and the glasses off her face.

*“ABORT Palin” grafitti has sprouted on the sidewalks of Seattle and “Abort Sarah Palin” bumper stickers are spreading on Web stores.

*Sarah Palin-bashing Madonna performs before an audience of thousands, screeching and threatening to “kick her a**.”

*Getty Images publishes a photo of a man pointing a fake gun at the head of a cardboard cutout of Palin on display at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition building.

And no one blinks. Not a peep from the Obamedia.

But when Sarah Palin simply spotlights Obama’s longtime relationship with Weather Underground bombing terrorist Bill “We Didn’t Do Enough” Ayers?

“Inciting violence,” frets NBC reporter Ron Allen. “Concerned…for Senator Obama’s safety,” agonizes ABC reporter Terry Moran. “Beyond the pale,” cries Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. As if the no-holds-barred Obama campaign has ever had a rhetorical pale to stake.

All the world’s a Kabuki stage for the selectively outraged over rage.

So where were they all this time when this was going on?

And how about a month ago when a female McCain supporter was beaten over the head with the stick from a sign by a leftie who had this to say of his actions:

“It’s just those signs, and this election, it has me so upset.”

(Via Ace, here’s the direct link.)

What has happened to a country in which the most powerful newspapers look completely the other way when women are beaten up by the supporters of their candidate, the one they are so in the tank for that they fail the people of the United States by neglecting to report the most important details about Barack Obama but send out the cavalry and get the vapors because a plumber in Ohio, who dared ask The One a question, goes by his middle name? (Breathlessly they report, “And his name isn’t even Joe, it’s Samuel! Joe is his middle name!”)

About two months ago I thought I was being chicken shit and not living up to my duties as a responsible citizen by proclaiming my support not only for McCain, but also Palin, of whom I am a constituent and supporter. I was concerned my car would get keyed or broken into, neither of which I can afford as the single parent of a small child. But now, though they remain concerns, they appear to be the least of them. With such escalation of violent acts that go unpunished–nay even unreported–I can’t help but wonder: Will I be hurt? Will my child? These people seem to have no reservations about doctoring pictures of an eleven-year-old, spreading nastiness about an infant and his mother, mutilating property and drawing obscene scenes of abject violence–it’s so commonplace and accepted by so many on the left that I can no longer use ordinarily reliable measurements of decency to predict where it will end.

From American dream to unemployed thanks to Barack Obama

This blog of mine is fairly new and very small compared to so many others. I’m OK with this, especially because I know that if even a few people read it and talked to others in their real-life environment about the topics, it could make a real difference. And this is one topic that really needs to be spread around as much as is possible to spread. What has transpired–that someone ask for some accounting and been attacked for it–is repulsive and not at all representative of our nation. These are the tactics of National Socialists and have no place in our society. The following is taken from the Sundries Shack and worth spreading far and wide.

Pay attention, folks. This lesson is important.

The progressives have made a very definitive statement today. They have said that if you dare to speak out against their Chosen One, they will not only smear you and broadcast the details of your life to the world but they’ll also deprive you of your livelihood.

A couple of days ago, Joe Wurzelbacher was just a regular guy with a house and a son and a dream of one day seeing his hard work pay off with a better life. Then Barack Obama showed up in his front yard. Now, thanks to the Obamessiah’s brownshirts, he is likely to lose his job as a plumber.

Wurzelbacher registered as an apprentice with the Ohio State Apprenticeship Council in November 2003, according to Dennis Evans, spokesman with the Department of Job and Family Services. Records show his training, which was sponsored by A & W Newell Co. of Toledo, should have been wrapped last year.

“We don’t have a record of completion,” Evans said. “All we know is that he registered in the program and has gone through to the point where we should have record of completion, but we don’t.”

And that’s not the only record that’s missing from Wurzelbacher’s file. He doesn’t have a plumbing license required by the city of Toledo to practice, according to a staffer with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher, who now works for Newell Plumbing & Heating Co., said the owner, Al Newell, has a plumbing license and that “because he works for someone else, he doesn’t need a license.”

But even that’s not true, according to the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher can’t legally do plumbing work without a license, regardless of his boss’s certification.

A staff person with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection told On Call this afternoon that her division will contact Wurzelbacher to notify him that he can’t work without a license.

“We’re trying to track him down,” she said.

Ace says this is the doing of “Toledo officials” but it isn’t. They’re just doing their jobs. They would have had no reason at all to look into Wurzelbacher if someone hadn’t dropped the dime on him. It could have been one of those self-important union jerks quoted in the article. It could have been one of Obama’s blogger mob. Heck, it could even have been a journalist. But someone squealed and demanded that Plumber Joe be investigated.

I’m going to lay this at Barack Obama’s feet. He’s not oblivious to what the left-wing blogs nor the MSM are doing. At any point he could have contacted a reporter or two, maybe a couple or three bloggers, and told them to lay off. He could have called off most of the dogs in a hot second and it would have taken him no real effort at all. Heck, he could have had one of his people – David Axelrod, say – make the calls and it would have taken him mo more effort than a short conversation.

But he didn’t. He let this continue. In a day or so someone will ask him about it and he’ll feign ignorance or innocence or whatever ploy happens to be getting him out of the spotlight that day. In the meantime, Joe Wurzelbacher’s going to end up without a job. And he didn’t do a damned thing but disagree with Barack Obama.

Doesn’t this make you even a little angry? It makes me bloody furious.

The Anchoress says that Obama has told the entire country “…don’t dream too big. Don’t dare to dream too big, because if you do, we’re just going to chop you down to size, so that everyone is the same” It would have been bad enough if he had stopped there. But he let the mob rage and plot.

And now…this.

I wonder if he’s proud of what has been done in his name? I wonder if he’s smiling right now?

(via Hot Air)

UPDATE: You want to know what Barack Obama was doing instead of calling off his rabid mob? He was making fun of Plumber Joe.

Click here for some facts about this disgrace perpetuated by Barack Obama.

So tell me again: Why are you voting for Obama?

“For the election, Obama or McCain?”

“I like Obama.”

“What don’t you like about McCain?”

“McCain seems to not really know what he’s doing right now.”

“Are you more for Obama’s policies because he’s pro-life or because he thinks our troops should stay in Iraq and finish this war?”

“I think our troops should stay in Iraq and finish this war. I’m really firm with that, definitely.”

“OK. Now how about as far as him being pro life? Do you support Obama in that case?”

“Yeah. I do. I do support him in that case.”

“And if he wins, would you have any problem with Sarah Palin being vice president?”

“No I wouldn’t, not at all. Not at all.”

“So you think he made the right choice in that?”

“I definitely do.”

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This is one example of three people interviewed on this tape, and while I understand that there are going to be supporters on both sides who confuse or don’t even understand policies, I don’t dismiss the considerations of those people who wonder that some Obama supporters–black or white–don’t even seem to care what he supports. It’s all over the place and the race card is being played hard and strong by Obama supporters, including the MSM, in reference to virtually anything said by McCain/Palin or anyone who supports them.

I’m wondering if I should be more nervous, though, that some people hold voting cards and seem to think Obama’s running mate is Sarah Palin.