Sunday afternoon humor: Why Arab/Muslim Americans should not vote for Obama (page doesn’t work in Firefox, IE only)

Arab and Muslim voters thought, in Obama that they were witnessing a candidate with a shot of wining, that he was not part of the pro-Israeli establishment that fills the halls of power in Washington who usually go out of their way, sometimes slavishly, to support Israel at expense of Arab and Palestinian rights.

But Arab and Muslims voters did not have wait for too long for their disappointment to arrive when they felt that Obama had increasingly started treating them like a plague avoiding them at all costs so as not to upset the racists and bigots in this country.

In Detroit, last June, Obama’s staff made sure to remove two Muslim American women from the seats behind Obama so as not to “ offend” American voters, as if Muslims voters are not “fully” Americans.

This insult to Muslims is too deep to let it go so easily, it also speaks volumes about the hatred and racism in the American society where Arab and Muslim Americans are usually at the receiving end of its repeated blows, and with no end in sight.

Gee, just because a good chunk of the Religion of Peace has declared war on America, and the so called moderates are barely visible, no, no reason to be worried about Muslims here in America.

Looks like Barry’s voter blocks are slimming down, eh? He can’t really count on the Hillary voters, he can’t count on the youth vote, he can’t count on Obama Girl showing up, he can’t count on the senior citizen vote, and, now, he can’t count on the Jihadi block vote.

John McCain has picked his running mate and we here at McCain Blogs are anxious to find out just who it will be. Read more below.

John McCain

The top picks at this point are Sarah Palin (my personal favorite), Carly Fiorina, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. Here are bios of Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney and Tim Pawlenty’s wife Mary Pawlenty.

Other potential vice-presidential candidates have taken themselves out of the running. Kay Bailey Hutchinson has stated she’s not been asked and doesn’t want the job. Bobby Jindal took himself out of the running a while back stating he wants to keep the job he has.

The names of Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge have both been floated out, but both are thought to have issues that wouldn’t go over well with the conservative base. They are not likely picks.

Of course, there’s always the chance that our favorite maverick could do something totally unexpected and pick someone no one sees coming. I almost hope he does. He does have the freedom at this point to pick a bit of a risky running mate.

There have been rumors that Romney has been assigned a secret service detail - but that’s just a rumor. Pawlenty has canceled appointments for today and tomorrow. So anticipation is growing.

McCain will make his announcement in Ohio tomorrow (if it doesn’t leak out just in time to compete for news coverage with the Obama speech). Several of the potential picks are now making their way, with their families, to Ohio.

We’re keeping an eye on it and will let you know just as soon as we know.

Technically, she is not a MILF, but, I wouldn’t mind if she was my sugar momma! Maureen continues her assault on the Messiah in today’s column, Two Against One, and shows a sense of actual humor, something most progressives are lacking. Crying, fainting, smearing feces on themselves (which, I guess is humorous, if disgusting,) screaming in rage, yes. Humor, no. Maybe she is slowly coming to the dark side

In the dead of night in a small hideaway office in the deserted Capitol, a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal.

They grin at each other as they lift their celebratory shots of brutally cold Stolichnaya.

“Our toast to The One,” they say in unison, “is that he’s toast.”

“Obama should have picked you, Hillary,” John McCain tells her. “It isn’t fair, my friend. But it just makes it easier for me to whup him.”

“Don’t worry, John, I’ve put it behind me,” Hillary replies. “I’m looking toward the future now, a future that looks very bright, once we send Twig Legs back to the back bench.”

Wait, did she just call Barry “Twig Legs?” The NY editors are going to get strongly worded letters shortly which all seem to look the same. Will the Barry camp whine about Mo being mean?

“He’s a bright young man, but he got ahead of himself,” McCain says. “He needs to be taught a lesson, and we’re the ones to do it. Have you seen the new Bloomberg poll? Obama’s dropped and we’re even again. The Bullet’s getting all the credit, but you and I know, Hillary, that it’s these top-secret counseling sessions we’re having. And thanks again for BlackBerrying me the Rick Warren questions while I was in the so-called cone of silence.”

“Oh, John, you know I love you and I’m happy to help,” Hillary says. “The themes you took from me are working great — painting Obama as an elitist and out-of-touch celebrity, when we’re rich celebrities, too. Turning his big rallies and pretty words into character flaws, charging him with playing the race card — that one always cracks me up. And accusing the media, especially NBC, of playing favorites. It’s easy to get the stupid press to navel-gaze; they’re so insecure.”

I suppose Mo’s point is that the McCain campaign is using many of the same tactics against Barry as Camp Clinton did, but, Mo seems to approve. If it works, do it.

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Actually, now that she has dropped the Bush and Cheney Derangement Syndrome, and the Times got rid of their silly Times Select foolishness, I check Mo’s column quite a bit. Especially since she seems to be one of the few journalists who has not been sucked in by the Cult Of Barry

While Obama was spending three hours watching “The Dark Knight” five time zones away, and going to a fund-raiser featuring “Aloha attire” and Hawaiian pupus, Hillary was busy planning her convention.

You can almost hear her mind whirring: She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps. Like taking candy from a baby, except Beanpole Guy doesn’t eat candy. In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama.

Go Mo!

Now they’ve made Barry’s convention all about them — their dissatisfaction and revisionism and barely disguised desire to see him fail. Whatever insincere words of support the Clintons muster, their primal scream gets louder: He can’t win! He can’t close the deal! We told you so!

I have to wonder: if Obama wins the election, will she still attack him? Maureen was not particularly generous to John Edwards back before the 2004 election. Could get fun!

More: Mark Finklestein at Newsbusters has an interesting POV, regarding this line in Mo’s column

The Clintons know that a lot of Democrats are muttering that their solipsistic behavior is “disgusting.” But they’re too filled with delicious schadenfreude at the wave of buyer’s remorse that has swept the Democratic Party

Mark writes:

Dowd might be a thorn in many a side, but the New York Times columnist surely has a wealth of well-placed Dem sources. When she blithely states as a fact that a “wave of buyer’s remorse has swept the Democratic Party,” is that not some pretty big news?

Could be.

And the new law is aimed at…….

Poo and pee dominated a public hearing Monday on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes.

The law, crafted in advance of the Democratic National Convention, was adopted unanimously by the City Council.

But not before a hearing laced with comedy and profanity.

Representatives from some of the groups planning large-scale protests during the DNC this month said the ordinance was unnecessary and accused city officials of fear mongering.

“The intent of this ordinance is to try to smear protesters and make them look as if they are somehow criminal or somehow going to engage in some kind of gross conduct,” said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer with the Re- create 68 Alliance.

Look at the last few words. If someone wants to recreat the 1968 Democratic National Convention, then, guess what? Shit is involved. As the Wikipedia source notes (and I have seen it elsewhere,) the first of scifi writer Larry Nivens’ laws came from the convention: “Never throw shit at an armed man.” Its corollary, law 1a, is “Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.”

Remember, during the 2004 GOP convention in NYC, liberal protesters smeared feces on themselves in the attempt to make sure police would not touch them. Sick. And, BTW, in violation of the 1st Amendment, since it is not demonstrating “peaceably.”

And let’s not forget the other massive violence that occurred in 1968 (while the same people were protesting the violence in Vietnam. Go figure.)

The ordinance makes it illegal to carry certain items, such as chains, padlocks, carabiners and other locking devices. It also prohibits the possession of noxious substances.

They had been thinking of banning gas masks, too.

Check out some of the comments at the story. Very funny stuff.

Starting with The Carpetbagger Report

Atrios asked this morning, “Does anyone understand why Obama suggesting that people keep their tires properly inflated is some sort of hilarious gaffe?”

Yes, those of us NOT in the Reality Based Community Asylum do understand. Not that the RBC will get it, but, Barry is suggesting that properly inflated tires will almost completely solve our automobile energy crisis. Now THAT is funny. The delusional “WTF are you talking about?” type. The kind of laugh you get when your bud knocks the cooler over into the pond, or barfs onto the floorboard of your classic Corvette.

A practically giddy Mark Salter, the senior aide to John McCain best known for his gruffness, told the traveling press corps before takeoff Monday morning that the would be handing out copies of Barack Obama’s energy plan during flight.

Moments after the Boeing 737 was airborne, Salter swooped past the cabin-dividing curtain and gleefully handed out tire gauges that read “Obama’s Energy Plan.” The stunt pokes fun at Obama’s suggestion that American’s improve their gas mileage by filling up their tires and will be reportedly be replicated, compliments of McCain supporters, at Obama’s appearance in Michigan Monday.

And on to Time

And campaign topper Davis uses the spat in a fund-raising e-mail:“I’m asking for your help in putting Senator Obama’s ‘tire gauge’ energy policy to the test. With an immediate donation of $25 or more, we will send you an ‘Obama Energy Plan’ tire pressure gauge.”

I might have to make another donation.

Michelle Malkin comments on this being Barry’s birthday president, and wonders who will call it racist first.

Sadly, No! doesn’t get it (shocka!)

The concept is simple: the McCain campaign knows that it will never get the GOP base excited about their candidate because they hate him. Thus, the only way to inspire Winger Nation to flock to the polls in November is to conduct a Three-Month Hate against Obama by portraying him as a pansy.

Mustang Bobby, late of The Village People touring group (cheap shot), at Shakesville tries to deflect from what is, in fact, an idiotic energy plan. It’s fine advice from dear old Dad when you get your first car, but not a guy who aspires to be president. Unless it is president of Naura

I think it’s the GOP that’s running on a flat here.

Get Bobby a waaaambulance!

You can get your very own Barry Energy Plan here. Think I am going to have to donate again.

I didn’t think the original shiny tire gauge was appropriate for Barry. Fixed

To illustrate the absurdity of all the Obama irrationality we have this from Gerald Baker at TimesOnline:

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.

He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child’s very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered “Hosanna” and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.

In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

As word spread throughout the land about the Child’s wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child’s journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.

And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.

Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

There’s more - click the link at the beginning of the post to read it all.

Via Katie Favazza at Right Wing News and her own site.

I do believe that Jib Jab has outdone itself with their latest video. View it here and enjoy ….

JibJab’s Time for Some Campaignin’ video is everything you want it to be and more. The 2008 election is upon us and JibJab is jabbing all the main actors, Bush, Obama, McCain, Hill and Bill. They’re all part of the fun.

Give it a look-see cause its Time for Some Campaignin’!

H/t to Greta