Btw, it’s Kowtow, no hyphen, from the Chinese.

While I’m picking nits, everyone: “cannot” is one word, not two, with the emphasis on the second syllable; “meantime” and “nevertheless” are also single words. Just sayin’.

If I made a fat joke, would that be racist too? It seems to depend on who the, er, butt of the joke is. If a white person, no. If any other race, obviously yes.

Let me get one more pet peeve off my chest regarding the demonization of Sarah Palin. This is a rank piece of hypocrisy by the Left.

We’re told she isn’t smart enough. Doesn’t have the right college degree. Imagine for a moment if Sarah Palin was a Native American. Everything else about her is the same — hunting, snowmobiling, self-made governor. Would we be hearing the liberal establishment deriding her non-Ivy education, her funny accent, her folksy word-choices? Her family’s size or values? No, we wouldn’t. Because as a Native American, she would be the product of oppression. Her having risen above it would be a tale of triumph. Her hunting and religious views (let’s say she was an animist who prayed to ancient spirits in a sweat lodge) would be accorded the dignity of a great cultural heritage.

Cast her in any other race — Hispanic, black –– and the same test yields the same results. We don’t scoff at Thurgood Marshall attending Howard University law school. It was a miracle, we are told, given the advanced state of white oppression, that he attended law school at all. Look at Bolivian president Evo Morales, the high-school drop out, former bricklayer, baker and llama sherpherd whose peculiar Catholic faith included making alcohol and coca offerings to the earth goddess, Pachamam. But because he is a full-blooded indigenous president, none of this disqualifies him in any way from holding political office.

This amounts to a form of cultural affirmative action. Whites who aren’t elites are the subject of vicious stereotyping and crude slurs. Non-whites in the same situation get a pass, indeed a pat on the back for not cow-towing to “the man.”

1) An ideology that completely mirrors the ideology of this past 8 years.
2) An ideology that recognizes the few while completely disregarding the masses.
3) An ideology that believes in taking military action against Iraq, an incident that is completely unrelated to 9/11, without solidifying our claims beforehand. In the present, we have found no evidence of weapons of mass destructions or a tie to Osama Bin Laden. The devastation of this war has cost us over 4,000 of our brave troops and counting, over 1/2 trillion dollars of taxpayer’s money and counting, and over 1 million Iraqi lives unrelated to the terrorists or insurgency.

Cost of the Iraq War — http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

4) An ideology that still believes that the Iraq War is the right war on terrorism when the Afghanistan War should had been the right war on terrorism, where Osama Bin Laden actually was until he slipped into the mountains and into Pakistan’s territory now. The Iraq War also diverted our attention away from the Afghanistan War. We now have extended our resources in two separate places and have heightened our risk to our troops, our expenses, and creating another dilemma that will take quite some time to finalize. The Iraq War will not go away overnight and it is now our obligation to see it all the way through for God knows how many more years. This has also been the most unpopular war in the eyes of the world’s communities.
5) An ideology that believes that we are at our safest state since 9/11, when a recent terrorist plot was still trying to enter Great Britain’s airports with liquid explosives heading directly to us, but thankfully the plot was foiled. While in Afghanistan, the terrorists are regrouping and strengthening and we have recently suffered another high casualty to our troops yet again within this past month. We currently have the least amount of alliances in the world’s communities due to this unpopular Iraq War. True national securities are the ties that bind us to our world’s communities and the ties that bind them to us.
6) An ideology that vetted one of the most inexperience VP ticket in history, from foreign policies to national defense. If God forbids that anything happens to this President if elected and is stricken with illness, this VP will be running the country. For a more compelling look at Sarah Palin’s VP readiness, please look at these links below —

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loUHRv3ipLE

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/09/30/palin_gaffes/

7) An ideology that believes in “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” while we are facing the highest mortgage foreclosure crisis, high unemployment rate, and the largest collapse of our financial infrastructures since The Great Depression of 1929.

This is an ideology that many of us in America are against. Whether this ideology is in the Republican or Democratic ticket is not the main issue but the fact is that America does not want to fall into another 4 more years of devastation. We cannot afford this anymore.

So here is a simple fact for America -
1) During Ronald Reagan’s Presidency of 2 terms, between 1981-1989, we were at our economic best in a quarter of a century. We made the right choice in these 8 years as a country.
2) During George H. W. Bush Sr.’s Presidency of 1 term, between 1989-1993, we were at our economic worst in a quarter of a century. We made a huge mistake as a country but corrected it by keeping him in office for only 1 term.
3) During Bill Clinton’s Presidency of 2 terms, between 1993-2001, we were again at our economic best in a quarter of a century, even better than Reagan’s era. We made the right choice again in these 8 years as a country, despite his personal scandals.
4) Now, during George W. Bush Jr.’s Presidency of 2 terms, between 2001-this coming January 20, 2009; we have been at our economic worst in a quarter of a century, even worst than Bush Sr.’s era. We really made a huge mistake as a country on this one by not realizing that the apple really doesn’t fall very far from the tree. Yet we chose this apple again the second time around.

Now, really let this simple fact sink in America and take your time to think carefully this time around about how you want the direction of this country to go.

We made history with Reagan. We then made a mistake with Bush Sr. but corrected history by allowing him to only serve 1 term. We then made history again with Clinton, despite his personal scandals. Now, we have made 2 mistakes with Bush Jr. by allowing him to serve not once, but twice. So my last question to America is, guess which candidate shares the interests of both, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.? I will let America answer this one. We are much, much smarter as a country to want to make history rather than make mistakes and to suffer yet again from our own mistakes by not using objectivity as our first and foremost agenda.

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/20/obama-chicago-election-oped-cx_re_1021epstein.html

Is this really the best line of attack? Keep trying to get people to believe Obama is foreign and a Muslim? And what if he is? There’s nothing that says the president must be a Christian. As a Christian myself, I like to see a president that is like me – but I think that as long as the president reflects my basic set of beliefs and supports my right to practice my religion, I don’t think his or her religion will get in the way.

Please try to understand that the major of Muslims are no terrorists.

http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/bho-muslim-what-if-its-true/

why?

simple – people don’t trust him and in the voting booth won’t pull the lever

sure there are 40% who are polarized (Bush hater) and the youth vote that is largely underinformed

Obama, with his massive ego, denied Hillary the election and a running mate, 20-30% of those disgruntled dems will vote republican

the fly by states don’t trust Barack

the media is vastly exagerating the polls, and is completely in the tank for Obama, most people see through this

JOe the plumber was Barak’s “Dukakis riding the tank” moment. Hard working middle class people would rather side with opportunity than hand out

no way does an inexperienced senator with socialistic intentions get the nomination

gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

has a video posted today about 8PM: “Obama, Ayers and ACORN”

well worth ten minutes of your time.

Also posted is a picture of the building where Obama, Ayers and commie Klonsky (who was involved with Ayers in the Small School Project) shared the third floor for three years.