A Primer For The Week

The campaign "silly season" (as Barack Obama so eloquently put it) has indeed begun.

How incredulous it seems, then, that Barry Soetoro would hit it off with such a bang? After railing against "campaigns of cynicism"?

Let's talk a bit about hypocrisy.

For starters, refer to Obama's latest accusations to a John McCain ad. The ad, well-constructed and factually accurate, points to Obama as having almost no record on education, whether reform or legislature-wise, except the paper trail of pushing a bill that would have taught kindergarteners and grade schoolers non-abstinence sex education. Not the brightest idea in the world.

So what does Obama do? Well, he continues his trend of calling McCain a "liar". Yes, that's right. Annenberg's Factcheck.org (which describes itself as nonpartisan but is so obviously in the tank for Obama that it's disgusting) attempts to refute the McCain campaign's ad. In doing so, this infuriated the National Review Online, which has posted the most concise account of the fiasco so far, advantage McCain.

But this isn't anything new. Obama called the NRLC "liars" when they pointed out that Obama himself lied when he said that he would have voted for a "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" that had the same language as the federal version. He voted against a second version of the bill, which has been shown to be the same as the federal version. In other words, he was for the execution of abortion-surviving babies, no matter what.

The buck doesn't stop there. Obama's campaign, after its announcement that it would "plan sharper attacks for the issues that matter, to paint McCain as 'out of touch'", immediately put out an ad chiding McCain's lack of experience with...sending e-mail. That's right, he can't run the country if he doesn't send e-mail. Wait, I think there's a list of presidents somewhere who weren't adept at sending e-mail, either. Here it is.

George Washington, 1789-1797
John Adams, 1797-1801
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
James Madison, 1809-1817
James Monroe, 1817-1825
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
William Henry Harrison, 1841
John Tyler, 1841-1845
James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
James Buchanan, 1857-1861
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
James Abram Garfield, 1881
Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
William McKinley, 1897-1901
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001

So, the only president who did send e-mail was...George W. Bush? How does that figure?

That's beside the point. Recently, Jonah Goldberg unearthed a 2002 Boston Globe article that explains how McCain's war injuries make it difficult for him to comb his hair, dress himself, and yes, use a keyboard. Now we know that Barack's making fun of disabled people? I take offense. This really sticks to the issues, guys.

Now, Obama's been going on about issues a lot, lately. Like the issues of how many houses McCain owns, how McCain shares a lot of personal attributes with Bush, and what "lipstick on a pig" really means. Issues that really matter to the American people. Issues...that we care about deeply.

Of course, the Obama campaign has harems of reasons to be scared. Anyone seen the polls, recently? McCain is leading the national average. He's winning in Ohio and Wisconson. He's winning Colorado by 2 points, and is in a dead heat in the always-Dem Minnesota. In New York, he increased his standing by 18 percentage points, now within the 5-point range of Barack Obama. In California, he's also within a 9-point margin, unprecedented for a Republican. And perhaps best of all, he's got a very comfortable lead in Florida. So comfortable that Obama's campaign has packed their bags and moved.

So while we're in an Era of Good Feelings for now, take a look at these articles. I found them quite interesting, some required reading.

Obama's Stealth Socialism- Pointedly reveals Obama's socialist leanings from youth to present.

Reaganomics (supply-side economics)- Describes why conservative economic policies of the Reagan era work, and still work, and need to be reformed back to the original supply-side method (today's economic policy is very different, with the enormous government spending combined with unnecessary tax cuts).

It's Over For Obama- Written by "The Architect" himself, Karl Rove, explaining why Obama's chances are severely waning.

American Thinker A source for debunking any and all Palin myths, lies and distortions about herself, her family, and her record. Also great on the Obama-Rezko links.

Who Lied About Iraq?- Destroys the popular notion that Bush lied, people died.

Myths About the Bush Tax Cuts- A very hefty read, but one to use against liberals that suggest the Bush tax cuts screwed us all over and pandered to the wealthy.

That's just the tip of the iceberg of all the good stuff that's out there at present; as for me, this post is done. Good night, and good luck.