Palin Connects & Inspires

An op-ed was written by Rex Murphy in Canada's Globe and Mail last Friday called "Obama inspires; Palin connects." If by, people believing he'll magically pay their rent and utility bills you mean "inspire" then yes, I guess you could say Obama inspires.

I still don't understand what people found so convincing in Obama's campaign speeches. I listened hard but found that he never said anything... or anything I believed, rather. Anyone that spends that much time listing types of people in their rhetoric and all the things he can help those people with, is nothing more than a glamorized used car salesman. He never explained to those people how he was going to give them all of that help and those people never did their math. Nothing he ever said made any rational sense to me. The man is one helluva a teleprompter reader though.

Murphy wasn't talking about the shyster I see when Barack talks but I'll give him some slack given the other part of his piece. he states:

The other great speech of the U.S. campaign season was Sarah Palin's on receiving the vice-presidential slot on the McCain ticket. This was a speech delivered under even greater pressures than that of Mr. Obama. John McCain's choice of Ms. Palin had been early and widely criticized, and in some quarters ferociously reviled. She had never really been under the national spotlight before. The entire media were focused on her with an intensity almost unseen in the annals of vice-presidential politics. If she'd been just “okay,” or messed up, John McCain's campaign was over. It was the highest of high-stakes gambles.

Did she deliver? She soared. She was the very acme of self-confidence and ease. She mixed a natural charm with a mischievous edge of sarcasm toward her opponents – even daring the unthinkable by pinging The One himself. It was her “first serve” on the national stage and she delivered an ace. The backwoods hick knocked it out of the hall that night – not only did she not sink the McCain campaign, she gave it the only real vitality and spark that gloomy, tight, fussy little campaign had from start to finish.

Her speech, in fact, was the rhetorical equivalent of Mr. Obama's crucial one. They do not as speakers, it is obvious, share the same idiom. Mr. Obama is utterly composed, deliberate down to gesture and word, very conscious that he is a “figure” on a stage. Mr. Obama “bestows” himself on an audience. Ms. Palin has none of that. She will never speak in front of faux Greek columns. She walks on the stage much the same way she'd go into a gas station. But she's shrewd in her choice of themes, has a marvellous feel for her audience, and a confidence that will never be confused with arrogance.

Sarah Palin knocked that speech out of the park and ignited, for the first time in a long time, a conservative firestorm. Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians, and everyone in my house was positively giddy after she delivered those words.

The media however lost it's collective mind and Brian Williams even went so far as to read Joe Kline's blog post that amounted to a declaration of war upon Palin. A declaration that I believe is still in effect over a year later.

Murphy continues:

...Ms. Palin has a more forceful bond with her supporters than he with his. Mr. Obama offers a kind of self-flattery to his worshippers. They feel exalted that they have the intelligence or sensibility to see how remarkable their man is. But he remains remote. Ms. Palin works close up. She offers those much invoked, but actually neglected figures, “the ordinary Joe or Josephine,” a real sense that she does represent them.

That is one of the biggest threats to Obama's second term. Sarah Palin is actually what Barack Obama pretended to be. What David Axelrod and the others that were pulling the strings of that campaign wanted the public to believe.

Barack Obama isn't "one of the folks" as Bill O'Reilly would say. He grew up wealthy and has had everything handed to him on a platter ever since. Sarah Palin is "one of the folks" and always has been. We the "folks" know one of our own when we see them.. She is us.

That may account for part of her connection to her supporters. There is also the fact that Sarah Palin is courageous and is providing a voice for the people who felt theirs have been ignored for too long. Congress continues to make stupid decisions and Sarah continues to shoot Facebook missiles right into enemy territory. An instant rebuke to the actions of the power drunk political class.

Sarah Palin may have great people skills and a knack for communications. But at the end of the day, her connection with her supporters goes way deeper than any circular logo or single word slogan. Her connection is about who we are as lovers of liberty and taking our country rightfully back from those who abuse it and place us all in danger with their teleprompter speeches.

Martha Stewart Bores Me

I know the news is about a day old but what the hell? Any opportunity to kick a blue-blood ignoramus like Martha Stewart, I'm game. As if anyone cared what Martha Stewart had to say about pretty much anything, the non-domestic warlord unloaded on Sarah Palin to "Showbiz Tonight" producer Jenny D'Attoma.

"She's a very boring to me. Very boring, and a very, to me, kind of a, a dangerous person. I mean, to, she's dangerous. "

She then goes on to tell the pop-tart journalist that she doesn't really know anything about Sarah Palin outside of what her medicated friends told her at some cocktail party or "gala" that only "sophisticated" people like Stewart attend. Because not watching any of Palin's interviews or reading her new book surely makes you an expert on all things Palin, according to Headline News. Simply regurgitating the Obama group "Organizing for America" talking points is good enough to get through the tough political and social discussions held at these elite gatherings.

Stewart isn't the first wealthy felon to take issue with Sarah Palin, nor will she be the last. Personally, I can't wait for Bernie Madoff to weigh in.

Haunted by the Ghost of Daniel Pearl

I remember sitting in my office watching Khalid Sheikh Mohammed kill Daniel Pearl. Horrible images I chose to never revisit but stuck with me anyway. There was one image in particular that stuck with me more than the others. The disgusting sight of KSM himself, peering into the camera with the look of enjoyment in his eyes. He was still in the process of removing Danny's head and seemed to stop for a moment to relish in his own display of man's inhumanity to man. He then proceeded to take the dull blade back to his evil chore to complete his task.

Daniel died on February 1st 2002. I wonder, as a nation how much we have truly learned since then. Do we understand that not everyone in the world respects human life the way Americans fundamentally do? Because I can't think that on February 2nd 2002, this country would have ever stood by idly as our Commander in Chief decided to give the man responsible for planning the attacks of September the 11th, the same man that took so much pleasure in creating the Pearl snuff film, American Constitutional rights. This monster KSM, now has the same rights as an American citizen in our court system. Where is the outrage? The outrage is on the right where you would guess it would be. The 'right' that is daily bashed and marginalized by the new leaders of this nation and their tools in the media.

It seems to me that the current leadership's way of thinking on this issue is naive beyond reproach. At the very least it shows ignorance to the fact that we have now embolden the enemy by taking away severe consequences of fighting against the United States. To get 'three hots and a cot' for planning the murder of over 3,000 Americans (Al Qaeda stated they had hoped for a million to die) as a foreigner, in a foreign land, is a slap in the face to every American, whether they know it or not.

There are other reasons this is another amateur move by the Obama administration. In a post on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin points out:

"Criminal defense attorneys will now enter into delaying tactics and other methods in the hope of securing some kind of win for their “clients.” The trial will afford Mohammed the opportunity to grandstand and make use of his time in front of the world media to rally his disgusting terrorist cohorts. It will also be an insult to the victims of 9/11, as Mohammed will no doubt use the opportunity to spew his hateful rhetoric in the same neighborhood in which he ruthlessly cut down the lives of so many Americans.

It is crucially important that Americans be made aware that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks may walk away from this trial without receiving just punishment because of a “hung jury” or from any variety of court room technicalities. If we are stuck with this terrible Obama Administration decision, I, like most Americans, hope that Mohammed and his co-conspirators are convicted.

I agree that we should "Hang ‘em high" but we should have hanged ‘em high in Cuba. KSM declared in a U.S. military tribunal that he “decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl,” and that if those in the court didn't believe him there were pictures online. I know the the pictures he's talking about.

Now that those military tribunals are over before they could come to an end, Daniel Pearls family has spoken out. In a statement released by his parents, they state:

"We are sorry to learn of the Justice Department decision to try KSM in a NYC Federal Court.

We are respectful of the legal process, but believe that giving confessed terrorists a worldwide platform to publicize their ideology sends the wrong message to potential terrorists, inviting them in essence, to resort to violence and cruelty in order to gain publicity.

We believe that justice is better served if the trial of KSM, the confessed murderer of Daniel Pearl, be held in closed session."

There seems to be a great divide between people that see these people as terrorists and those that see them as men worthy of American birth rights.

Judea Pearl, Daniel's father penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in February of this year titled "Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil." Judea seems to understand the liberal worldview of the president and his attorney general. He writes:

"But somehow, barbarism, often cloaked in the language of "resistance," has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words "war on terror" cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil."

In that article, Judea Pearl goes through the litany on the left that seems almost apologetic for the terrorists. The government, the media, and academia have all given passes and excuses for the most violent jihadists in the world. I strongly recommend reading Judea's piece in it's entirety to understand how troublesome and systemic this worldview is. A worldview that, in my opinion is also responsible for allowing Nidal Malik Hasan to rant his jihadist rhetoric and do nothing to remove him as a danger to our service men and women.

It would behoove this president to look outside of his leftist ideology for one moment and realize that the safety of this nations people is in his hands. His job is not to make nice and befriend every evil dictator and zealot he can. His job is to keep this nation safe and secure.

Oh, "Change" Meant Getting Locked Up for Five Years

Now that's change you can believe in...You won't have a choice if the PelosiCare bill passes the Senate with it's current text. I honestly don't think that the bill has a chance of surviving both the abortion debate and the fact that the federal government wants to lock up it's citizens for not buying into their "health" scheme. According to Nancy Pelosi, "The legislation is very fair" in regards to paying a hefty financial penalty along with a prison sentence.



So have no worries. San Fran Nanny-State is going to make sure we all get our chunk of health care rationing, in a system that stands to loose almost 50% of it's doctor's if the measure passes.