Remember the creepy Obama Children’s Chorus? Well, now we have the Obama Junior Fraternity Regiment. I’m telling you, this stuff is getting creepier and creepier.

Its great that these kids feel inspired and aspire to greater things for their lives. Its great that they chant about taking personal responsibility. Its great that they are working on personal discipline. The creepy part is the worshipful rhetoric about Obama. He truly IS the Obamessiah!

Thanks to Daniel for saving the video and letting us put it back up after it got yanked

Urban middle school students uniquely display their understanding of the democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s health care reform plan. The chant “omega, alpha” symbolizes the end of the old way of thinking, and the newness in their ideas and thoughts. Barack Obama has invoked thought even in the minds of the youth.

Gateway Pundit noted one particular paragraph in Barack Obama’s campaign speech in Berlin, Germany on July 24th. Here’s the quote from Obama’s speech:

Now the world will watch and remember what we do here - what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time?

(emphasis mine)

Wonderful words. Socially conscious words. However, they’re words. Obama offers only words. John McCain offers words, too, but he backs up those words with concrete action. He has already literally lifted a child in Bangladesh from poverty. I wrote about Bridget McCain a few weeks ago. Bridget McCain is the adopted daughter that the McCains lifted from poverty from Mother Teresa’s orphange in Bangladesh.

Meghan McCain kissing sister, Bridget McCain

Here’s the story from Gateway Pundit:

In 1991, John and Cindy McCain adopted a beautiful young girl from Bangladesh.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

(I)n 1991 Cindy McCain was visiting Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh when a dying infant was thrust into her hands. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her. She was met at the airport by her husband, who asked what all this was about.

Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation. “I hope she can stay with us,” she told her husband. Mr. McCain agreed. Today that child is their teenage daughter Bridget.

…(T)here was a second infant Mrs. McCain brought back. She ended up being adopted by a young McCain aide and his wife.

“We were called at midnight by Cindy,” Wes Gullett remembers, and “five days later we met our new daughter Nicki at the L.A. airport wearing the only clothing Cindy could find on the trip back, a 7-Up T-shirt she bought in the Bangkok airport.” Today, Nicki is a high school sophomore. Mr. Gullett told me, “I never saw a hospital bill” for her care.

And THERE is the choice this election year. On one hand we have Barack Obama, a gifted speaker who has absolutely no history or accomplishments to back up his rhetoric. He is untried. He is inexperienced. He has a proven history of questionable associates. He has a proven history of questionable judgment concerning foreign affairs. He is all about words.

On the other hand we have John McCain - a statesman with a long history of service, accomplishments and sacrifice for our country. He has proven himself repeatedly to be a man of character, a man of good judgment, and a man of thorough knowledge and experience in both domestic and foreign affairs.

I pray that when American voters are alone in the voting booth in November, the majority will see the clarity of choice - they’ll see beyond the pop prince of words and know that action is what is needed - not pretty words - and they will vote for John McCain.

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.

Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor

In other news: Barack Obama has raised $1.5 Billion for his children’s college fund campaign in the last two hours.

Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor …. Let the bodies hit the floor

h/t The Median Sib

You win some, you lose some. In this case, Hillary Clinton is at the top of the ticket. According to the Pig Book she has beat out her competition for taking home the most pork.

Meanwhile Barack Obama, a brand spanking new Senator, gets second place. That’s a lot of pork for such a new Senator. It has to take a certain amount of arrogance nerve for a first term Senator to sneak that many pet projects into legislation. Of course, it helps when you understand that the democratic mindset is that any money you earn is theirs to take in taxes and spend as they see fit.

The nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its newest Pig Book, an overwhelming detailing of all 11,610 pork barrel projects inserted in the current fiscal year’s appropriations bills by individual members of Congress.

These semi-secret spending measures cost taxpayers an extra $17.2 billion this fiscal year alone. This is the first year legislators have had to attach their names to these measures

That’s B for billion dollar$. In extra spending. That typically didn’t go through the usual legislative committee screening. A huge increase over the previous year.

And guess which one of the surviving presidential candidates likes pork the most? And the least?

According to the Pig Book (”The Book Washington Does Not Want You to Read”), New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is our new grand national oinker among presidential contenders for most pork barrel spending. She inserted a whopping 281 individual spending projects into bills for the benefit of New York interests at the cost of taxpayers everywhere.

That totals $296.2 million.

Aren’t those the people complaining about how much the war is costing?? Why yes, I think they are.

Don’t worry, they’ll just raise our taxes to cover the cost of everything they are planning … plus their pet projects.

There is one Senator who has not taken a single penny … NOT ONE RED CENT … of our tax dollars for personal projects otherwise known as pork. You guessed it, Senator John McCain.

The new national hero, on the other hand, for not inserting one penny of pork barrel spending is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona. As a longtime staunch opponent of such earmarks, McCain may be expected to raise the subject of such special spending if Clinton becomes his Democratic opponent in the fall’s general election.

He may also bring it up if his opponent is Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who may be a freshman senator but still isn’t shy about inserting special earmarks into legislation cataloged by the taxpayer group’s annual report. He accounted for 53 special earmarks, totaling almost $97.4 million.

Interestingly, Ron Paul got a little pork himself even though he campaigned against it.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who still technically is in the GOP race, has campaigned against large government seeping into the lives of American citizens. However, according to the Pig Book, that didn’t keep him from proposing eight pork-spending bills totaling $22 million, including nearly $4 million to alter a Galveston bridge.

source

c/p: Blue Star Chronicles

Senator Lindsey Graham was on Hannity and Colmes last night and responded to the dems repeatedly distorting John McCain’s statement that the United States will have a presence in Iraq for up to 100 years.

The liberals are very good at sound byte politics. They knowingly distort and take statements out of context, repeat their sound byte repeatedly until many in the public start believing that their version of events is true. If you don’t keep close tabs on politics and depend on the old media for your information there is no reason that you wouldn’t believe that John McCain expected our troops to be fighting the Battle of Iraq for another 100 years. In reality, we need to remember that we’ve had troops all over the world for many years. Troops have been in Japan and Germany since World War II (over 60 years) an no one seems concerned about that in the least.

There’s a big hullabaloo today about Governor Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama. The endorsement was hailed as an important endorsement. It is thought that it will bring Hispanics to feast at Obama’s political table and he will deliver New Mexico into the Obama camp. Everyone is just ecstatic about it. Best of all, the Obama people are hoping, hoping, hoping that this makes people forget that he has aligned himself with hate-filled, racists, anti-American bigots for pretty much all of his adult life. They are hoping it’ll turn that page.

I’m sure the Clinton’s have to be steaming over this endorsement. After all, they made Richardson’s career. He didn’t have a political career before the Clintons decided that he would be the token Hispanic in their Rainbow Coalition. Its been straight uphill from there for him. He now is presented as the only Hispanic governor in the country. Apparently, he forgot who buttered his bread. Never mind, its only business.

Another thing he hopes the country has forgotten is what occurred under his watch at the Clinton Administration’s Energy Secretary.

There is more bad news for besieged Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, already scrambling to deal with horrendous security lapses at the nation’s top nuclear-weapons lab and soaring gasoline prices that have American motorists up in arms. Now two government reports obtained by Insight detailing other security problems within the department have intensified calls for the secretary’s head and doubts about whether the security overhaul he promised in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee case in any way has reversed long-standing laxity in the way the nation’s most sensitive nuclear facilities are being run.

According to one report, officials in the Department of Energy, or DOE, and at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory — where two computer hard drives containing top-secret bomb designs recently went missing under suspicious circumstances — altered reports and pressured members of an internal-security assessment task force to soft-pedal shortcomings identified in annual reviews of the lab’s nuclear safeguards.

A second report, also from DOE’s inspector general, or IG, raises the possibility that sensitive information from the department’s Savannah River complex in South Carolina, not properly erased from computer systems that were sold as surplus, may have gone to the People’s Republic of China, or PRC.

That’s that messy little business of Richardson letting nuclear bomb secrets somehow mysteriously disappear in the hands of the Chinese back in Y2000. It happened twice in 2000 and involved Wen Ho Lee, a Chinese national who took classified information out of the labs at Los Alamos. The media and Congress were calling for Richardson’s head and decrying his lackadaisical style of management, carelessness and incompetency for extremely serious breaches of national security. The problem is, that was in 2000. It happened before most Americans had an idea of just how serious breaches in national security would soon become.

That scandal got forgotten in the aftermath of 9/11 as did many of the other national security breaches and/or mismanagement issues connected to the Clinton administration and their proxies.

So now this man who so badly mismanaged national security in the years just prior to 9/11 is endorsing Barack Obama for President. That doesn’t make me feel a bit safer and it doesn’t make me forget the glimpse into Obama’s character that we’ve been treated to over the past couple of weeks. I don’t think I’d be looking quite so smug if I were Obama.

Juan Williams is 100% right about the situation that Barack Obama is in right now with his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama is a blank screen upon which you can project whatever it is that you want the man to be. He is black, he is white, he is the most left-wing radical liberal in the Senate or he’s the man who can reach across divisions to bring about unity. He is whatever you want him to be at whatever moment in time you want him to be that.

As Juan Williams so accurately points out, we’d like to know WHO Barack Obama is. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that’s going to be something we can learn because I’m not sure that Obama knows who he is.

video via: Hot Air

Barack Obama had nothing but praise and adulation for his racist minister, The Reverend Jeremiah Wright until he got trapped like a rat and had to come out and disavow what his close friend and mentor of twenty years has been preaching from his pulpit. The hate spewed from this man’s mouth is nothing short of shocking and astonishing.

Barack’s window of opportunity to deal with this crisis in his campaign came and went without a peep from the presidential contender. Then, seemingly quite reluctantly, Barack came out to be grilled on his association with the hate monger Jeremiah Wright. Barack’s weak and unconvincing argument that he happened to not be sitting in the congregation on the days that the Reverend decided to rant on and on about the evils of the white race and the importance of separatism, segregation and keeping the black race forever in a state of victimization strained credibility to say the least. It would seem, from Barack’s words, that the only two times that Jeremiah Wright said such hateful things happened to be the two times that Barack skipped church.

I don’t know. It looked to me that the song and dance of Jeremiah Wright was very well practiced and was pretty much his mode of operation. Who knows, maybe it just happened that those isolated instances of hate-filled speech just happened to be the times it was caught on tape and just happened to be the times that Barack Obama wasn’t at church.

Do you believe him? Or is Barack just too cowardly to own up to his own culpability? Maybe Barack just thinks we are all just that stupid.

Newsbusters reports that in spite of Barack’s claims that he hardly knew what Jeremiah Wright was preaching, he was actually quite close to the man. (well, DUH!)

This video comes from Little Green Footballs and it looks like YouTube was reluctant to carry it. You know how it is. The main stream media knows better than us what we should and shouldn’t hear and see.

Well, I don’t think she intended to, but that was the end result ….

ARLINGTON, VA – U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign today released the following statement by Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker in response to the assertion by Susan Rice, Senator Obama’s foreign policy advisor, that neither democratic candidate is ready for the 3:00 a.m. call:

“At a time when our country faces an unprecedented range of international challenges and opportunities, the American people want a president who is prepared to lead our country in a dangerous world. Senator Obama’s foreign policy adviser said today that neither Senator Clinton nor Senator Obama is ready to answer a 3:00 a.m. phone call during an international crisis. We agree wholeheartedly that neither Senator Clinton nor Senator Obama have the experience or judgment necessary to lead the United States in the struggle against violent Islamic extremists who seek our destruction, or to address the complex global environment that our next president will face. Only Senator McCain is ready to serve as commander in chief from day one.”

Don’t you hate when that happens!

h/t The Pirate’s Cove

Also at Patterico.