Ann Coulter Sets Sights on Michelle Obama, Says She a Freakish Imitation of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Ann Coulter, A Fashion Horror Show

Well, right-wing nutjob Ann Coulter is at it again. She has written a new book entitled “Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and their Assault on America,” in which she accuses the liberal left of playing victim when in fact, she states, they are the victimizers. Huh? She blasts incoming First Lady Michelle Obama as a freakish imitator of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Really Ann? You could never dream of looking as lady-like and dignified as Michelle Obama. You are skin and bones. Rough on the eyes too. The world is relieved that you will never be our First Lady.

Lashing out at the Michelle O, she wrote, “Her obvious imitation of Jackie O’s style – the flipped-under hair, the sleeveless A-line dresses, the short strands of fake pearls – would have been laughable if done by anyone other than a media-designated saint.” Where has she been? From the moment Michelle hit the scene her look has been the same. But Coulter has a lot of praise for Cindy “Barbie Doll” McCain. She said of Mrs. McCain, “dressed well without freakishly imitating famous First Ladies in history.”

What I find abhorrent with Ann Coulter is the childish name-calling. She facetiously and snidely refers to Michelle as a “saint” and “Mother Teresa” and suggests that her public service career “advanced in lockstep with the political advancement of her husband.” Wow, tough words coming from a lady who has served the public well–as a nuisance. Now, there are many choice words to describe Ann Coulter, but most people dismiss her as an insignificant distraction. She also states that the media “literally wanted to have sex with him.” Too bad Ann Coulter won’t be on the receiving end of such a fantasy. The thought of Ann Coulter having sex with anyone is nauseating. Yuck!

Filed under: Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Cindy McCain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John McCain, Liberalism, Michelle Obama, New Book

General Colin Powell Unleashes on the GOP, Rush Limbaugh

Retired General Colin Powell has unleashed on the GOP and Rush Limbaugh. I can’t say I blame him, but I have to wonder about his timing. He is usually correct in his analysis and I have to applaud him for going after the Republicans once again. Gen. Powell said that the GOP must stop “shouting at the world” and start listening to minority groups if it is to win elections in the 21st century. Ouch.

In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria for Sunday’s “GPS” program, President Bush’s former secretary of state said his party’s attempt “to use polarization for political advantage” backfired last month.”I think the party has to take a hard look at itself,” Powell said in the interview, which was taped Wednesday. “There is nothing wrong with being conservative. There is nothing wrong with having socially conservative views — I don’t object to that. But if the party wants to have a future in this country, it has to face some realities. In another 20 years, the majority in this country will be the minority.”

Powell, who crossed party lines and endorsed President-elect Barack Obama just weeks before the election, said the GOP must see what is in the “hearts and minds” of African-American, Hispanic and Asian voters “and not just try to influence them by… the principles and dogma.” “I think the party has to stop shouting at the world and at the country,”Powell said.

“I think that the party has to take a hard look at itself, and I’ve talked to a number of leaders in recent weeks and they understand that.” Powell, who says he still considers himself a Republican, said his party should also stop listening to conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. “Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh?” Powell asked. “Is this really the kind of party that we want to be when these kinds of spokespersons seem to appeal to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts?” Source: CNN Political Ticker

I have always felt that Rush Limbaugh feels that he is the moral compass of the right wing. In reality, that’s furthest from the truth. Limbaugh is quick to berate Barack Obama and the Democrats on just about everything, but what has he proposed to do instead? I wish he would run for elected office and really be the voice of the right wing that he feels he is. Rush Limbaugh spews hot air and nothing else. He, along with Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, have been put on a pedestal and seem to think they speak of the majority of Republicans.

General Powell is absolutely correct in his statements and if the GOP is to rebuild itself and be taken seriously by African Americans, Latinos and Asians, then they need to lose these self-righteous goons. I have crossed party lines, much like Mr. Powell, and have voted for a Republican who, but I cannot bring myself to support a party that literally ignores blacks and Latinos. The reality is that the face of America is changing. Whites, who are a majority in the Republican Party, will be a minority in this country in a few years. So, if they do not change their mindset and be more inclusive, they will be in for a rude awakening. The GOP will be the loser in this scenario. They will have no one to blame but themselves. John McCain ran one of the worst campaigns I have ever seen, but the blame does not lie solely with him. There was a serious breakdown in the GOP and they will be faced with the same problem again in the next election. Unless, of course, Barack Obama fails miserably, which I have serious doubts about. I don’t think he could sink lower than President Bush and his administration.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Fareed Zakaria, General Colin Powell, John McCain, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case on Obama’s Citizenship

Breaking news….

The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a “natural born citizen,” one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.

Donofrio also contended that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, were also not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.

At least one other appeal over Obama’s citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg’s lawsuit.

To all the haters out there, the highest court in the country has just slapped you in the face. Get over it. Barack Obama is the next president of the United States.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Hawaii, John McCain, Kenya, Leo Donofrio, U.S. Citizenship

Pro-Saxby Chambliss NRSC Plays Dirty With Latest Campaign Ad, Tries to Link Jim Martin to Terrorists

Once again, the Republicans have shown they have not learned one thing from the stinging defeat in the recent presidential elections. With less than a week to go before the Georgia Senate run-off, and the NRSC has its ad group working overtime. This time the object of their “wrath” is Jim Martin and they are hitting over his 1984 vote to allow convicted murderers and other violent felons to remain free on bail pending their appeals.

Have they not learned anything from John McCain and Sarah Palin’s constant references that Obama hangs around with terrorist? What they are doing to Jim Martin goes a little too far when the ad references terrorist hijackers, which wouldn’t come under state law anyway, which was the context for this vote. Terrorist hijackings fall under federal jurisdiction. The NRSC wants to argue that Martin’s impulse as a Senator would be to allow this based on his 1984 vote. Totally ridiculous. But, did I expect any better from the GOP and their lackeys? No way.

If anything, the vote did show Martin’s concerns as a legislator being more focused on the perpetrators than on protecting community from them. Combined with other elements of Martin’s record, especially in championing parole for violent criminals. I am not overly thrilled with Jim Martin, but I am less convinced that Saxby Chambliss gives a damn about anything to help the middle class. Therefore, my vote will go to Jim Martin, the lesser of two evils, in my opinion.

To add insult to injury, Sarah “The Closer” Palin will be campaigning with Chambliss the day before the runoff. I guess, if I were the Chambliss campaign, the last person I would want to help me win is the person who got royally trounced in the election. But misery loves company. Just my thoughts, you be the judge….

Filed under: Barack Obama, Georgia Run-off election, Governor Sarah Palin, Jim Martin, John McCain, Saxby Chambliss, Terrorists

Harsh Words About Obama on the Campaign Trail By Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are Suddenly a Non-Issue

It is amazing that the whole anti-Barack Obama movement within political circles have seemed to dissipate and these same people are now singing his praises. Take Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann for example. Just a few weeks ago, she told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that when it came to Barack Obama, ‘I’m very concerned that he may have anti-American views.” Funny, on Wednesday, after narrowly avoiding defeat in her own race because of those comments, she called Obama’s victory, which incidentally included her state, “a tremendous signal we sent.” Geez, who is we?

Then Sarah “Pitbull in Lipstick” enters the fray. Of course you will remember that she vehemently accused Mr. Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” Well, she took an entirely different position on Thursday, after John McCain was roundly trounced in the election. She said, “Let us, let us–let him–be able to kind of savor this moment, one and not let the pettiness of maybe internal workings of the campaign erode any of the recognition of this historic moment we are in. And God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family.” Wait, did I hear right? Just the day before she was “calling him out” on his positions.

But the greatest about face came from none than Senator Joe Lieberman. He has good reason to try to make up with the winning ticket because Sen. Harry Reid is working really hard to kick him off his position as chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Lieberman was an ardent backer of Mr. McCain and he angered the Democrats, who in 2000 nominated him as their vice-presidential candidate. After losing a Democratic primary challenge in 2006 and then winning as an independent, he still continued to caucus with the Democrats.

Attending an event with Mr. McCain in York, Pa., in August, Mr. Lieberman said the race was “between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not.” Yeah, but good old Joe Lieberman wasn’t finished kicking the Democrats in their face. As a speaker at the Republican National Convention, he continue and went a step further. He criticized Barack Obama for “voting to cut off funding from our troops on the ground.” The problem is that was a lie. Obama voted for bills that included plans for withdrawal from Iraq and against others that did not. So Joe “Judas” Lieberman, realizing that his gamble to support McCain had backfired, he released a statement congratulating Barack Obama for “his historic and impressive victory.” It continued, “The American people are a people of extraordinary fairness.” So now Joe Lieberman has the nerve to want to genuinely find unity and move forward behind the new president. Now he said, through his spokesman that Barack Obama is a genuine patriot and loves his country. Good Lord, I am about to throw up.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Says 2012 Sounds So Far Off, The Republican Party Blame Game Begins

Here we go, the fallout from John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate has started. According to Newsweek’s Special Election Project, Sarah Palin met staff members in a towel. It gets better:

At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys’ club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. “I’ll be just a minute,” she said. It proves once again that Sarah Palin has no class. I didn’t expect any less from her.

Here’s another gem, she raised William Ayers before the campaign signed off on it: Palin launched her attack on Obama’s association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain’s advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.

Still another, she spent far more on clothes than was reported: According to Newsweek, Sarah Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family–clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent “tens of thousands” more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast,” and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

The last nail to the McCain coffin, according to Newsweek, Steve Schmidt (who reportedly picked Palin as VP) would not let her speak on election night, even though she asked to speak. Thank God, the last thing we needed were comments from Caribou Barbie, who had been clearly wrong in her constant berating of Barack Obama. It was quite obvious to me that there were some tense moments between John McCain and Sarah Palin. There was no embrace after he gave his concession speech. He actually seemed to almost forget to embrace his wife. According to media reports, after John McCain and his wife left, Sarah Palin had stuck around to mingle with her “supporters.”

So, while I found Sarah Palin to be a little more than moronic, I think the McCain campaign did her a grave disservice in the way in which she was introduced to the American public. It also proves, beyond the shadow of doubt, that his choice of a running mate was a “Hail Mary” pass that was severely flawed from the beginning. For what it is worth, the bickering started well before the campaign was trounced in the election yesterday. The Republican Party brand is damaged, but not irreparable. They will have to go back to basic and rebuild the party from the ground up. The American voter, including myself, is tired of politics as usual and the Republican Party has lost its way. George Bush has done a great disservice to this country, but the politicians on Capitol Hill were complicit to some degree. They let him literally get away with murder. He will, undoubtedly, be treated unkindly in American history and will be voted as one of the worst presidents in this country’s history. As some in the Republican Party prayed for rain on Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the DNC convention, the joke is on you. The Republican Party has been hit by the millions of voters who literally rained on their parade. I think they have more than a Sarah Palin problem on their hands.

Well, I can see it now, if Sarah Palin thought she has secured a spot in Republican politics in Washington D.C., she is about to have a rude awakening. After all, according to Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency,” in part because she didn’t know which countries were in NAFTA, and she “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.” Ouch. The blame game has just begun and I have to say, Sarah, “tag, you’re it!”

Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Newsweek Magazine, Sarah Palin

John McCain Last Desperate Attempt to Smear Barack Obama Over Coal Plant Story Debunked

I have basically lost the little respect I had for John McCain. I always found him to be a Republican senator that I could tolerate, but he has proven me wrong in the campaign leading up the presidential election. He has played dirty and ran a shoddy campaign. I was not surprised to learn that the Fox News-Drudge Report-NewsBusters-McCain campaign tag team would not give up, have pushed a salacious story that the San Francisco Chronicle concealed information that Barack Obama had proposed to bankrupt the entire coal industry. This latest smear comes even when the polls are against McCain in daunting numbers.

According to the Jed Report, not only was that story false (more detail below), but it turns out that Barack Obama and John McCain have the same position on clean coal technology, and Ohio’s Republican senator said McCain’s plan to fight global warming would “put coal out of business. Further, the Jed Report states that:

The Chronicle had not concealed the recording, which had been on the newspaper’s website all along. And rather than reveal some sinister scheme, what it actually demonstrated was that Barack Obama supported clean coal technology — a position he shares with none other than John McCain.

Despite the fact that both candidates support clean coal technology, the McCain campaign tried to make the case that Barack Obama wanted to take away jobs from coal country in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and both Drudge and FOX were happy to oblige.

But just three years ago on the floor of the United States Senate, John McCain’s Republican colleague George Voinovich of Ohio took to the floor to argue against a proposal by McCain to curb greenhouse gas emissions. McCain’s proposal, Voinovich said, would “put coal out of business” and cost thousands of jobs, an argument that McCain did not contest.

In fact, McCain agreed that his plan would require sacrifice, but he also argued (correctly) that in the long-run, America would be better off. In other words, he made the exact same arguments as Barack Obama.

Well, Barack Obama said it, that the gloves will come off and they would smear him relentlessly. The American people have to realize at this point that John McCain and the Republican machine are staring a loss right in the face and they cannot accept it. Too bad, but thanks to President George W. Bush, VP Dick Cheney, Senator John McCain and all the politicians who voted with Bush, America is in a financial quagmire and when you mess with people’s livelihood and their money, you get surprising results.

To read the entire Jed Report article, CLICK HERE…..

Filed under: Barack Obama, Fox News, George Voinovich, Jed Report, John McCain, NewsBusters, San Francisco Chronicle, The Drudge Report

McCain Supporter in Detroit Neighborhood Refuses to Give Candy to Kids Whose Parents Support Obama

All I can say to this is what a bitch! According to the Huffington Post, kids in a suburban Detroit neighborhood cried foul after a McCain supporter refused to give them candy because they were the children of Obama supporters.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Detroit, Halloween, John McCain, No Candy, Supporter

Lawrence Eagleburger, Former GOP Secy of State, John McCain Adviser, Says Sarah Palin Not Qualified

If this isn’t a slap in the face from another Secretary of State, then I don’t know what else is. Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State and one of John McCain’s most senior advisers offered a bleak and frank assessment that Sarah Palin is incapable of handling the presidency, should such an outcome arise, if McCain wins the election.

You see, the irony here is that McCain trumpets Eagleburger’s endorsement. He said that Palin is not only unprepared to take over the job on a moment’s notice but, even after some time in office, would only amount to an “adequate” commander in chief.

“And I devoutly hope that [she] would never be tested,” he added for good measure — referring both to Palin’s policy dexterity and the idea of McCain not making it through his time in office. Damn!

This slap in the face came during an interview on National Public Radio that was, ironically, billed as “making the case” for a McCain presidency. Asked by the host whether Palin could step in during a time of crisis, Eagleburger reverted to sarcasm before leveling the harsh blow.

“It is a very good question,” he said, pausing a few seconds, then adding with a chuckle: “I’m being facetious here. Look, of course not.”

Eagleburger explained: “I don’t think at the moment she is prepared to take over the reigns of the presidency. I can name for you any number of other vice presidents who were not particularly up to it either. So the question, I think, is can she learn and would she be tough enough under the circumstances if she were asked to become president, heaven forbid that that ever takes place?

“Give her some time in the office and I think the answer would be, she will be [pause] adequate. I can’t say that she would be a genius in the job. But I think she would be enough to get us through a four year… well I hope not… get us through whatever period of time was necessary. And I devoutly hope that it would never be tested.”

According to the Huffington Post, the indictment of Palin was all the more biting because both she and McCain have held Eagleburger up repeatedly during the past several weeks as evidence that the Republican ticket has firm standing and support within foreign policy circles. So, Gen. Colin Powell was absolutely right in his comments about Palin. To be honest, I have always found John McCain to be one of the Republicans that I could tolerate and I would have even given him a chance, but when he opened his mouth, I realized he had no clue on what ails the economy and how to fix it. What solidified my decision not to vote for him was his choice of a running mate. Sarah Palin, for lack of a better word, is a idiot, who can’t even get the duties of a vice president right. John McCain literally ridiculed Gen. Powell for his scathing comments about Sarah Palin and now Eagleburger shares Powell’s sentiments. Well, who is the idiot now?

Filed under: Barack Obama, Gen. Colin Powell, John McCain, Lawrence Eagleburger, Sarah Palin

Exxon Mobil Posts Biggest Profit in U.S. History

Well Exxon Mobil Corp. has set a quarterly profit record for a U.S. company, surging past analyst estimates. The company said its third-quarter net profit was $14.83 billion, or $2.86 per share, up from $9.41 billion, or $1.70, a year earlier. That profit included $1.45 billion in special items.Exxon’s prior record was $11.68 billion in the second quarter of 2008.

The company said its revenue totaled $137.7 billion in the third quarter. According to CNN Money, Exxon’s earnings were buoyed by oil prices, which reached record highs in the quarter before declining. Oil prices were trading at $140.97 a barrel at the beginning of the third quarter, and had fallen to $100.64 at the end. Compare that to 2007, when prices traded at $71.09 a barrel at the beginning of the third quarter, and rose to $81.66 by the end.

So, why does Exxon Mobil need tax credits from the government? Isn’t this the argument that Barack Obama has been making? So, while the economy is in the tank, Exxon managed to make history once more. Ain’t America great?

Filed under: Barack Obama, Exxon Mobil, John McCain