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Barack Obama Seals the Deal

Hillary's loss in North Carolina and neutered win in Indiana indicates what we all feel is true - Lady Clinton is done.

Auntie Beeb is reporting an analysis of the Clinton campaign by John Zogby. The pollster says she's over and done with, which is great for anyone who hates the braying and offensive former First Lady.

It says a lot about the enmity people feel when the mainstream media trots out Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright on a daily basis and he still pulls in the numbers. Maybe the rank and file heard the Clintons also professed admiration for the firebrand preacher, maybe they learned Wright was actually quoting the rhetoric of an American ambassador. I doubt it, but I don't doubt the Hillary hate. She is obnoxious in a way that's tough to describe.

So please head for the exit, Hillary. You may be able to loan your campaign millions of dollars , but you cannot buy the good will of the American people.

By Matt Hutaff, 0:6, May 7, 2008

Hillary Clinton is no Nag

As always, Hillary picks a real winner.

"Hillary Clinton enthusiastically picked a filly named Eight Belles to win the Kentucky Derby and compared herself to the horse," wrote Mark Halperin.

"Eight Belles finished second. The winner was the favorite, Big Brown. Eight Belles collapsed immediately after crossing the finish line, and was euthanized shortly thereafter."

How appropriate! 

By Matt Hutaff, 10:8, May 6, 2008

Candidate Smackdown

How do you react when three presidential candidates voluntarily appear on WWE?

As if you need further proof Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate remotely qualified to be human, let alone president, Monday night saw Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain appear on WWE — of their own volition. Their pre-recorded speeches were bookended by an Obama/Clinton "matchup" featuring actors and glimpses of a WWE video game with the candidates in yet another simulated brawl. 

Was the crowd drinking Brawndo? What drives calculate, intelligent individuals to pander to a crowd that screams for enforced sterilization? Is it the drive to address oneself as Hil-Rod, or to toss shout outs to Randy Orton? I don't know, and I don't care. It's beyond retarded. If you want to shake your head in shame, too, check out Huffington Post's rundown .

By Matt Hutaff, 9:22, Apr 22, 2008

Obama's Dad Said Something About Socialism

A 43-year-old editorial by Obama the Elder is proof positive the Younger sides with communism, moral indecency, and terrorism. Or something.

My father's said some nutty stuff in his day, and when I begin my run for the presidency of the United States of America I hope some enterprising San Jose State student doesn't dig up his thesis about the light rail system. It's a powder keg just waiting to go off, and I can't face that kind of pressure.

Because it makes sense that the sins of the father affect the son, some article Barack Obama's father wrote in the 1960s about one specific part of Kenyan socialist policy is making waves today. Found in the dusty annals of a UCLA library, the article has the hoi polloi in a media-induced frenzy - what if Obama introduced socialist policy to the United States, the bedrock of democracy? (Ignoring subsidized agriculture, public education and transportation, social services, and the host of socialist programs embedded in our government, of course.)

Most people won't even bother to skim the eight-page dissertation, instead focusing on logical arguments like "why didn't Obama mention this speech in one of his two books?" or "why do my fingers taste like earwax?" So let's reduce this to its base element: what does a two-score old article have to do with Barack Obama today? Are people so afraid of death by association that his father espousing socialist philosophy is catastrophic? If so, where's the fear for Dubya? The Bush Dynasty made its bones financing Hitler during World War II.

Anyone who makes this about Junior is an idiot. I'm looking at you, Ben Smith and Jeff Ressner.

By Matt Hutaff, 10:45, Apr 16, 2008

Your Vote Won't Count

It's confirmed - the election will be hacked.

PC World has an article in their most recent issue discussing the vulnerabilities of the electronic voting process. According to them, the presidential election can be hacked, to which I say, welcome to eight years ago. Rolling Stone exposed the theft of the 2004 election in 2006, and we've all heard Jay Leno belch a few hundred poorly-crafted "hanging chad" barbs since the start of the new millennium.

What can I say? Elections are stolen all the time. Sam Tilden lost the presidency to the milquetoast Rutherford B Hayes because of Republican carpetbagging and shady politics — and that was in 1876. Diebold, ES&S, and their contemporaries are just another link in a long chain of corruption and fraud. Why else would this country pay top dollar for proprietary software and buggy equipment if not to fix the outcome?

Open-source software with verified paper trails are available for free and would provide a safe and accurate vote. No wonder we're not using them. 

By Matt Hutaff, 1:33, Apr 14, 2008

Hillary Clinton Lies

Forget about Obama's firebrand preacher - Hillary's vaunted 'experience' is all smoke and mirrors.

Show of hands: who doesn't the "scandal" over Pastor Wright amusing?

Punishing Barack Obama for his association with a firebrand preacher is hilarious considering the strange bedfellows in John McCain and Hillary Clinton's respective circle of friends. McCain is a charter member of the Keating Five, the senators who conspired to block investigations into the savings and loan scandals of the '80s and '90s, and Hillary Clinton has known cocaine smugglers and pimps visiting her in the White House. We get it; politicians have unfortunate tastes in associates, especially these three. So let's focus on personality defects the candidates, not their hangers-on, have.

I was corresponding this week with a reader who finds Obama little more than a smooth-talking hypocrite, but looked upon Hillary with rose-colored glasses. "The woman has her negatives," he wrote, "but she is by far the most intelligent individual I have ever had a chance to vote for." When I brought up recent investigations into campaign claims, he deflected the lies as exaggeration.

Read the following links and ask yourself what's worse - a pattern of duplicity telegraphed by a presidential candidate or a preacher rattling off a bunch of anti-establishment rhetoric a lot of Americans probably believe in secret?

• Clinton Lie Kills Her Credibility on Trade Policy: Hillary's statements saying she did not support NAFTA is disproven by over 11,000 pages of Clinton White House documents released last week. She was, in fact, an ardent supporter of the policy;
  
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Mispeakings: Hillary's heroic tale of facing fire in Bosnia turns out to be a bunch of horseshit;
  
• Hillary's Other Fabrication: Hillary tries to insert daughter Chelsea into the 9/11 mythos only to have the story destroyed by Chelsea herself; and
  
• Hillary's Lies: Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia: Half of Africa is laid to waste with more revisionist history from the Clinton camp.

This is just from a casual browsing of news articles about Hillary Clinton in the course of one morning. Each lie strikes to the heart of what makes her such a distasteful and loathsome individual. She manipulates tragedy for her own benefit, inserts herself into falsified incidents to bolster credibility, and outright lies about what little policy experience she has to look like her "co-president" monicker isn't an illusion.

She's a repulsive pathological liar, and unlike Obama's scandal where someone else said something controversial and the blowback landed on him, this stuff came from either her or someone sanctioned by her campaign. I know Americans have a short memory over this nonsense, but come on, people.

By Matt Hutaff, 11:29, Mar 26, 2008

Ron Paul Understands Economics

While the American economy circles the drain, the only candidate who understands that is Ron Paul.

Remember Ron Paul? He's the other Republican presidential candidate, the one the media has done everything they could to ignore? Well, despite rumors to the contrary he's still in it to win it.

What does that mean? It means while Obama and Clinton argue over the venomous bile spewed from Barack's church pulpit, Paul decrys American monetary policy. Sure, it doesn't make for headlines the way going around in circles over which god is more racist and hate-filled, but it does show just why Paul is most suited for the office of president.

John McCain wasn't even aware of what the PPT (Plunge Protection Team) is or what it did. For those Republicans who savor this level of ignorance in their own lives, it's a private body that manipulates the stock market to keep it from dipping down into the recession we all know in our guts is coming. Ever wish you could do that to get the best return on your investment?

McCain Republicans want to borrow more so they can spend more. The Democrat front-runners are different; they want to tax more so they can spend more. Meanwhile, what does the average American see from this reckless spending? Hyperinflation and bank bailouts at taxpayer expense.

Ron Paul wants to limit spending. In a time where the federal government abdicates its sovereignty to buy debt from foreign interests, shouldn't we all look for a candidate that feels the same way? 

By Matt Hutaff, 10:24, Mar 18, 2008

Hillary Clinton Loses Texas

Maybe this wasn't the best election money could buy!

"The Texas Secretary of State will release the official results of the Democratic primary on March 29th," writes David Knowles. "But if initial estimates hold, Barack Obama will beat Hillary Clinton in the race for delegates. CNN confirms what others have been seeing for days. While Clinton won the state's popular vote, Obama racked up more caucus support."

That means Obama "won" Texas. Who wants to bet this doesn't make the evening news? The Clinton campaign would obviously prefer to keep this little nugget of information from hitting the rank and file of American voters. 

By Matt Hutaff, 10:17, Mar 12, 2008

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