I’m a little late with this, was out playing 9, but, looks like Senator Fluffy is making a political calculation. How soon till he calls this issue a “diversion?” (CNN)

Barack Obama resigned Saturday from his Chicago church — where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers had created repeated political headaches for the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination — his campaign confirmed.

The heat of being associated with his “divisive” and hateful, not to mention bigoted and America hating, church of 20 years apparently got to be too much for the Messiah.

Sister Toldjah was listening to it on the tellie (Monty Python was on last night)

8:01 PM: Obama is speaking, says he and Michelle Obama made the decision to leave with “some sadness.” Praises Rev. Moss and Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger. He says he’s leaving for the sake of the church, to protect it, because of the intense media scrutiny. He’s essentially defending the church. (snip)

Obama makes clear he is not denouncing the church.

I guess Mr. Hope and Change is not actually able to make a serious change.

Flopping Aces catches a funny Liberal

So in an attempt to turn manufactured right-wing ammo into blanks, Obama has completely separated himself from his minister and his church. What worries me is this: Can we expect a President Obama to cave in to the whims and will of the right on policies and issues he knows are important, if this nation is to move forward in a progressive and compassionate manner? Can we expect him to genuflect to negative reports by an uninformed, misinformed or ill-willed media?

I wonder if Joe Biden will comment on a Democrat being as weak and limp as 10 minute boiled spagetti?

Wish I had time to do a dumpster dive in the Seethe-o-sphere, and drop a few links, but, real life calls, and, after reading about yet another soft boiled liberal, I think I have to go do something manly. Like order the 12 oz steak instead of the 8 oz. Mwahahahahahahhahahahahaha!

Check out more at Memeorandum.

The answer would be (h/t The Jawa Report)

(Yahoo News) When it comes to the economy, 47% of voters trust John McCain more than Barack Obama. Obama is trusted more by 41%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that, when it comes to the War in Iraq, McCain is trusted more by 49% of voters. Obama is preferred by 37%. McCain has an even larger edge at 53% to 31%-on the broader topic of National Security.

Obama enjoys a 43% to 39% advantage when it comes to government ethics and reducing corruption. McCain has a 44% to 38% advantage on taxes.

When it comes to the economy, men trust McCain more by a 55% to 33% margin. Among women, Obama has a seven-point edge. Obama has the advantage among voters under 30 while McCain is preferred by their elders. Investors prefer McCain while non-Investors are evenly divided. Union Members prefer Obama 46% to 40%. Government Workers are evenly divided while Entrepreneurs and Private Sector Employees are more likely to trust McCain.

So, McCain is trusted by people on most issues over Obama. People over 30, and particularly over 50, are a more important voter block, because they actually get out and vote when the General election comes around. Younger people get involved early, then lose interest. Plus, McCain is preferred more by people who make money versus people who don’t.

McCain is trusted more by 25% of Democrats. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats trust the likely nominee of their Party.

25% of the Democrat Party trusts McCain over their probable nominee? That’ll leave a mark!

Perhaps Senator Fluffy can go in and send some hope and change to his buddy Mahmoud to change Iran’s mind

Iran will not give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday, days before major powers submit an upgraded package of incentives to try to coax Tehran into halting the work.

“Suspending enrichment is not negotiable … Depriving Iran of its right cannot be on offer,” Gholamhossein Elham, the government spokesman, told a weekly news conference.

Iran has agreed to a visit by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to submit the package of incentives, in exchange for a full suspension of uranium enrichment.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia — and Germany, known as the P5+1, offered a package to Iran in 2006 that also required Iran to halt enrichment.

If only we were engaging Iran in unilateral talks, but, no, the pResident ‘n cowboy has to go it with other countries, damnit!

Reason number 38979834239874 to vote for John McCain!

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon, aging hollywood actress and sex symbol, says she might start thinking about maybe moving to Canada or Italy if John McCain is elected President.

“I’ve got a lot of flak from feminists who feel that I should be supporting Hillary Clinton, but I thought the whole point of feminism is that you’re not supposed to be defined by gender,” she says…

Always busy, Sarandon is about to start work on the romantic period drama The Colossus, but with the presidential election campaign being heatedly contested, she also has bigger things to consider.

“If McCain gets in, it’s going to be very, very dangerous,” she says.

“It’s a critical time, but I have faith in the American people. If they prove me wrong, I’ll be checking out a move to Italy. Maybe Canada, I don’t know. We’re at an abyss.”

We can only hope.

Just when you thought it was safe to sit out this election because you don’t like everything about John McCain …. consider the alternative …..

Barack Obama has put out the above video as part of his campaign. He actually thinks this makes sense. He’s not considered the most liberal Senator in the Senate for no reason. He will gut our military if he gets the chance. He says he will not fund future development of next-generation weapons.

Good job, Barack. Announce to the world just how weak you intend to make us. Let everybody know there is no bite behind our bark - or in your case ankle biting yap.

The college students Barack panders to should be thinking long and hard about this. They are the ones that will have to fight the war that Barack says he will invite into our homeland. Seriously, its beyond me why anyone of military age would support him. They will certainly find themselves having to defend the country as our enemies break through the gapping wholes in our defenses. They’re salivating over the very thought of it even as I write this.

Hey, if the ultra liberal Boston Globe says it, it must be true

LAST YEAR at the beginning of the presidential primary season, Democrats were giddy with excitement. Not only did we have an embarrassment of riches in our candidates but we had two historic candidacies to enjoy. Once and for all our country would show that racism and sexism were not part of our 21st-century DNA.

Here we are at the end of the primary season, and the effects of racism and sexism on the campaign have resulted in a split within the Democratic Party that will not be easy to heal before election day. Perhaps it’s because neither the Barack Obama campaign nor the media seem to understand what is at the heart of the anger on the part of women who feel that Hillary Clinton was treated unfairly because she is a woman or what is fueling the concern of Reagan Democrats for whom sexism isn’t an issue, but reverse racism is.

Gee, I thought it was the Republicans who the racists and sexists. Of course, we are usually called that because a. we believe in equality under the law and b. The Democrats usually resort to name calling because they have no better argument. Or throwing food. They like doing that, though their aim is typically that of a 3 year old.

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Yes, the perpetually surprised looking Speaker of the House loves our troops and the USA so much that she cannot even give credit to either (via Hot Air through Ace. I thought about posting it on Thursday, but, Surrendie demanded that this story was his, damnitall!)

(Commentary) Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.

See, it was not the skills of our military or its leaders, it was those Iranians! How soon till she ends up wearing a burka while visiting Ahmadenijad?

This is why we need John McCain as President. He is not the kind of guy to sit back and let this kind of attack against our military stand.

Ace: Will she also thank Al Qaeda for scaling back its beheadings and bombings?

Abe Greenwald at Commentary: Discounting the success of the American military, denying the accomplishments of U.S. allies, and giving the credit to our most dangerous enemies seems like an especially productive week for a Democrat on Capitol Hill. After Nancy Pelosi’s post-Iraq hat trick, there’s really no need for Barack Obama to make this trip after all.

Right Voices has a hilarious graphic

I wonder if Joe Biden will be outraged when us damned neo-cons call Democrats weak on national security and question their patriotism?

How ’bout a double monkey, via Wake Up America?

Perhaps they learned their lesson about going easy on the disingenuous hatchet jobs, which they have tried many, many times this year, ever since McCain became the presumptive Republican candidate. Despite all the whining the Times did, the McCain campaign did not involved the Times in the release of his medical records, so, perhaps they are trying to get back in McCain’s good graces with a flowing piece on McCain’s history of how he went from coming back from Vietnam to the US Senate (and hopefully beyond!)

At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.

But Mr. McCain, the son and grandson of revered Navy admirals, was having second thoughts about following his family’s vocation. He had spent the previous four years as the Navy’s liaison to the Senate, sampling life in the world’s most exclusive club as he escorted its members on trips around the globe — sitting with the sultan of Oman on the floor of his desert tent, or smuggling a senator’s private supply of Scotch through Saudi Arabian customs.

He had found a sense of purpose in an apprenticeship to some of the Senate’s fiercest cold warriors. And in Senator John G. Tower, a hawkish Texas Republican, he had found a new mentor, beginning a relationship that many compared to the bond between a father and son.

It’s a long, long story, 4 Internet pages, but well worth the read, and you can probably consider it part of the Times’ penance. It is well written, and favors McCain’s side of the story.

As Don Surber writes:

Any time he screws up, the criticism is a distraction from “the real issues,” whatever those are.

Also, any time the issue is one the neophyte Presidential wannabe cannot answer

Obama, who spoke to reporters on his airplane on Wednesday night as he flew home to Chicago, said it’s “not relevant” that he hasn’t been to Iraq since 2006 and that McCain was using the argument as a diversion.

“I don’t think John McCain or the Bush administration have a very strong argument to make about their foreign policy, so they’re going to try to come up with diversions or distractions and not argue the substance,” Obama said.

That would be a #6. Except, this time, he doesn’t want to talk about Iraq.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t visiting Iraq, talking with the troops and commanders, and seeing what is actually happening on the ground in Iraq be, oh, I don’t know, an important issue?