Category: US Politics

Ok, this is just ridiculous…

In case you haven’t noticed, or are drunk on the Kool-Aid, the media kind of worships Obama. Just a few weeks ago when John McCain was in Colombia at the same time as the release of the US captives held by the FARC, instead of talking to McCain about his trip and the release, the media was gushing about how great it was Obama was at a soccer game with his daughters.

Now the great European roadtrip by Obama is going to be filled with high profile media guys, including all three network anchors.

Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the “in other political news” portion of his newscast.

But when Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Obama on successive nights.

Give me a break…

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The bank watchdog is blasting Sentaor Schumer for the IndyMac bank failure, more or less.

The immediate cause of the closing was a deposit run that began and continued after the public release of a June 26 letter to the OTS and the FDIC from Senator Charles Schumer of New York. The letter expressed concerns about IndyMac’s viability. In the following 11 business days, depositors withdrew more than $1.3 billion from their accounts.

“This institution failed today due to a liquidity crisis,” OTS Director John Reich said. “Although this institution was already in distress, I am troubled by any interference in the regulatory process.”

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A bit of a row is brewing in Germany between the pro-Obama Berlin city government and the more cautious Federal Government of Andrea Merkel. Obama wants to visit Berlin and speak where JFK and Reagan spoke, in front of the famous Brandenburg gate. Merkel and the government are saying ‘no dice’ as they feel it would give a German stamp of approval to the Obama candidacy.

What will final transpire? Wait and see.

More here:

Spigel International

London Times

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Some people have such a need for attention it is scary. Scarier than being Jack Kevorkian, Mr. Assisted Suicide? How about Dr. Death as a Congressman?

As the homicide cop once said–’you have two kinds of killers, the heat of passion type, and those who just really like it.’ I’ll let you guess which one applies here.

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Obama speaking to a mega-crowd to accept the Democratic nomination has shades of a ‘Promise Keepers’ meeting combined with something Albert Speer could arrange. It actually gives me kind of a chill. I’m not fan of the ‘Cult of Obama’ and having a mass rally of folks is actually kind of scary. If I see anyone marching with torches I’m going to hide in the basement for the next few years.]]>

A friend of mine from my early days in Washington has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post. The Jesse Helms You Should Remember. It was written by the White House’s chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen who previously served as Jesse Helm’s press secretary. It tells a different story of Jesse and some of the things that the mainstream media omitted from his obituary. ]]>