Hillary Clinton: Crazy, Pscho Ex-Girlfriend, Or Crazy Like A Fox?

The MSM is saying it’s ovah for Hillary, and Democrats are trying to quietly signal to her to throw in the towel. But Hillary’s having none of it. In fact she’s pressing on with visits to three states, today. And she even sent a formal letter to Obama trying to “shame” him into allowing the Florida and Michigan votes to count, and seat their delegations at the Democrat convention, (which may not end up helping her enough to matter, when all is said and done).

So what’s going on in that pretty little head of hers?

MadAtoms suggests the crazy ex-girlfriend scenario:

Despite all the math counting her out, Hillary Clinton fervently remains in the race to become the Democratic nominee for president in 2008. She has become the Democratic Party’s psycho ex-girlfriend, and she’s not going away without a restraining order.

It’s 2:31 AM. The Democratic Party is sleeping peacefully when it hears its phone buzz on the night stand. It rolls over and sees “Hillary” on the caller ID. It pauses briefly, considering pushing “END” and not dealing with this shit tonight. The thought is appealing but the Democratic Party knows that if it doesn’t take this call, another one is only minutes away.

DEMS: …Hello?

Hillary: Hey baby.

DEMS: C’mon Hillary. Enough with this.

Hillary: Don’t you get it? You NEED me.

DEMS: No, I don’t. It was fun while it lasted but I’m with Barack now. I made my choice, it’s done.

Funny stuff…go read the whole thing.

Martin at MVRWC just says she’s teh crazy.

BUT.

All joking aside, there might be a method to her madness. Dick Morris has an interesting theory:

OK, so Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is staying in the presidential race despite losing among elected delegates, facing a slimming lead among superdelegates, losing the popular vote and behind by 2-to-1 in the number of states carried. She slogs on, hoping against hope for a sudden turnaround in the race.

Apart from the psychological reasons for her stubbornness, is there a more subtle political calculation going on?

Is she continuing her race so as to have a platform from which to continue to bash Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the hopes of so damaging him that he can’t win the general election? Is she doing this to keep her options alive for the 2012 presidential race?

Hmmmm. That means she could be the Republicans’ best friend right now. Because she’s just gonna keep knee-capping him all the way to the convention. Here’s why:

If Obama is elected this year, he will seek reelection in 2012 and Hillary would have to face taking on an incumbent in a primary in her own party if she wanted to run, a daunting task. But if McCain wins, the nomination in 2012 will be open. And it might be worth having. McCain will be 76 years old and the Republican Party will have been in power for 12 years. Not since FDR and Truman has a party lasted that long in power. When the Republicans tried to do so, in 1980 and 1992, they fell flat on their face.

Hillary is using white, blue-collar fears of Barack Obama to try to stop him from getting nominated or elected.

She is playing on his “elitism” by hammering him on blue-collar issues and is mincing no words in painting him as a stranger to blue-collar white America.

Hillary is attracting the votes of cops, firefighters, construction workers, union members. Are they in love with Hillary? They can’t stand her. But they are terrified of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers and the various influences to which Obama seems to be subject. By playing on those fears, Hillary is undermining Obama’s ability to get elected.

Go Hillary! Woot!

Hat tip: Janette of All To Thunder for the Pscho Ex-girlfriend link.

UPDATE:

Francis W. Porretto concurs with Dick Morris.

Should Obama “Disown” Reverend Wright?

I have to do one more quick post before I go to bed.

Some pundits like Byron York, and Andrew Sullivan are offering Obama free advice, strongly suggesting that he “disown” Reverend Wright.

York:

“I think he’s going to have to walk farther away from Wright, if he wants to win the general election,” one Democratic strategist told me Monday night. “He could say, ‘This is different now. Just to eliminate any questions, I am going to leave this church, because I believe the country is more important.’ It would say that Wright’s rhetoric has no place in his campaign or the lives of his children.” (As the Wright controversy has festered, observers on both sides of the political divide have wondered, usually in whispers, about Obama’s decision to take his young children to Wright’s church.)

Sullivan:

Obama needs not just to distance himself from Wright’s views; he needs to disown him at this point. Wright himself, it seems to me, has become part of what Obama is fighting against: the boomer, Vietnam era’s obsession with its red-blue, white-black, pro and anti-America fixations. That is not what this election needs to be about; and Wright’s massive, racially divisive and, yes, bitter provocation requires a proportionate response.

We need a speech or statement from Obama in which he utterly repudiates this poison, however personally difficult that may be, however damaging the impact will be.

(Here’s Ace’s hilarious take on St. Andrew’s change of heart).

First of all, STOP trying to help the enemy, Byron.

(Here’s Karl Rove trying to give him some free advice, too). Stop that!

Second of all, what can he possibly say as a means to explain how he was able to sit in Reverend Wright’s pews for 20 years, and listen to that garbage? He can “disown” Wright all he wants, but he can’t disown his participation in that loathsome church for 20 years; a church that practices the profoundly racist Black Liberation Theology.

He, and Wright, and the media can spin spin spin all they want that Wright was taken out of context, but the American people, (the majority, anyway) are not such ignorant buffoons that they would believe such unmitigated bullcrap. The unedited versions of his sermons, taken completely in context, (which he sells in his own church giftshop!) are even worse.

So to say that Obama just needs to “disown” his Pastor of twenty years doesn’t cut it. But don’t tell the panicky nutroots that. They’re still holding on to hope, (and change).

What Obama really needs to do is drop out before he does any more damage to race relations in this country.

UPDATE:

GOP operatives, always slow on the uptake, are finally noticing Obama’s weaknesses, and are preparing a $500,000 hit on him. Something tells me it’s going to be lukewarm, and unsatisfying:

Whereas Obama once seemed an almost cultlike figure who transcended race and class, the narrative that has emerged from his campaign’s recent trials has given Republicans hope that the Illinois senator can be tagged as an elitist with the same effectiveness with which Michael Dukakis and John F. Kerry were so labeled.

The elitist story line has provided Republicans with press release fodder against freshman Democratic House members and statewide elected officials in roughly two dozen states.

Whoa, Nellie! Hardcore! Elitist, eh?

The guy’s got our nations enemies, tin-pot dictators, known commies, radical pinkos, (and Reverend Wright) supporting him; he’s buds with a former terrorist, for crying out loud, and the best they can do is try to paint him as an elitist?

They had better do better than that, by God.

Oprah’s Popularity Sliding

And it seems to be coinciding with her support for Obama.

Coincidence?

Much hay was made nearly a year ago when Oprah Winfrey announced that she would support — and campaign for — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Her effect in boosting support for Obama in early primary and caucus states like Iowa (which he won), New Hampshire (which he lost) and even South Carolina (which he won) is debatable.

Much less attention has been put on the effect the endorsement has had on Oprah’s own popularity. “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, launched in 1986, is currently the longest running daytime t.v.show. Within 10 years she was enjoying a 78% favorable rating in an American Political Culture Survey. At one point she was second only to Mother Teresa in a ‘most respected and admired’ poll.

I never understood her appeal, myself. But I’ve never been a daytime t.v. watcher.

And then, seemingly out of nowhere, Oprah announced on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on May 1, 2007, that she would officially endorse her longtime friend Barack Obama for the presidency — the first time she had ever thrown her support behind a political candidate.

Almost instantly, Oprah’s popularity in America plummeted. An August 2007 CBS News poll showed only 61 percent of Americans were favorably disposed to her — a considerable drop of 13 percentage points from a similar survey conducted just seven months prior.

Then she decided to start stumping for him.

To woo voters in crucial primaries, Oprah made appearances in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire in early December 2007.

But by the time Fox News/Opinion Dynamics asked Americans about their attitudes toward Oprah in a survey conducted about 10 days later, Dec. 18-19, Oprah’s favorability ratings had dropped even further — to 55 percent — the lowest level of favorability ever registered for Oprah in opinion surveys. Oprah’s negatives also spiked, with one in three respondents (33 percent) reporting unfavorable impressions of her.

Also not helping Oprah is her increasingly open and embarrassing embracement of a flaky New Age type spirituality:

Apparently, after Oprah left the Trinity United Church of Christ, she began practicing another unorthodox brand of ‘Christianity’. She is now involved with the dissemination of a self study program of spiritual psychotherapy, described by some as a New Age Christianity. A quick check of Snopes confirms our worst fears: Oprah is knee deep in the New Age goo goo.

No doubt, this is causing her to bleed Christian viewers.

Back to The Politico:

The results of a March 26, 2008, AOL Television popularity poll of television hosts reveal Americans may now embrace Ellen DeGeneres over Oprah by a wide margin. Forty-six percent of the 1.35 million people who participated in the poll said the daytime talk show host that “made their day” was Ellen, compared with only 19 percent who chose Oprah. Nearly half (47 percent) said they would rather dine with Ellen, compared with 14 percent who preferred Oprah.

I find that shocking…and delightful.

Hat tip: Lucianne

People Find This Funny?

This video of Randi Rhodes’ “comedy” act has been out for two days, but I’m only now getting around to watching it:

What jumped out at me, (besides of course her crude words for Hillary and Ferraro), was how utterly unfunny she was. I guess all that’s required to make a group of liberal, drunk morons clap and laugh, is a few well placed cuss words. But what a completely twisted and nonsensical set, that was; “thin left-wing comedy gruel”, as Allahpundit would say. It didn’t speak well for her, or for her audience….ummm…(I’m holding back a little…) Can I speak plainly here? These people are totally insane! What some have described as “a mixed reaction” to her profane descriptions of Clinton and Ferraro, sounded like overwhelming approval to me. But that’s besides the point…the woman had nothing… nothing even remotely humorous to say. I’m not saying that only because I’m a conservative. I can laugh at liberal jokes. I used to laugh at Dennis Miller all the time, when he was the Weekend Update anchor on SNL back during his liberal days. I’d laugh, and be mad at him at the same time. But he’s a funny guy.

Randi Rhodes ain’t funny. She ain’t none too smart, either. It shows. Apparently she’s an embarrassment to some of the smarter libs, too.

So the question I have for Air America is, (given her unstable history):

if it was okay for her to air a “comedy” skit about Romney supporters going on a killing rampage if McCain becomes the nominee…

and…

air another spot threatening to assassinate President Bush for trying to reform Social Security…

and…

it was okay to compare the Bush family to the Corleones and say “Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw,” (making gunshot sounds)…

among many other embarrassments…

…why all of a sudden are you now just putting your foot down?

Hmmmmmm?

Would this be the first time she has ever directed her special brand of ignorant bile at other liberal Democrats?

The McCain Girls

Warning: May cause bleeding of the ears.

Help me out here…could this possibly be a Democrat dirty trick?

Hat tip: Jonah Goldberg

RELATED (Sort of…at least according to Youtube):

This is really scraping the bottom of the barrel, but my nine year old thinks it’s hilarious.

So without further ado, I bring you…Farting and Burping McCain:

Smart Thinking! School Protects Children From Internet Predators By Covering All Their Faces With Smileys

I’m not quite sure what the point of posting these pictures at all, would be, but hey! These kids are certainly protected!:

From This Is London co uk:

A primary school has been accused of being alarmist for covering up the faces of pupils on its website – apparently to protect them from paedophiles.

Bizarrely, the images have been altered with the type of smiley faces popular during the Acid House dance craze of the 1980s.

I guess I missed that one. Does anyone else remember an “Acid House Dance Craze” in the 1980’s? I guess it was big.

Headmistress Clare Reece said yesterday: “The public nature of the internet is an issue we feel strongly about.

“Not all parents want their children’s picture on there.

Does the Headmistress know that thousands upon thousands of schools post classroom pictures on their websites? If the parent chooses to allow it, they check the “yes” box on the permission slip, if not, they check, “no”. That’s all there really is to it.

Here’s an action shot:

“‘Ey Nigel, I like ‘ow you have your arms up like a cheeky monkey!”

“‘Ow do you know that’s me, you gormless git?”

Is it possible the Headmistress is being overprotective?

Frank Furedi, a sociology professor at the University of Kent, said the school was being alarmist.

“Every time a school takes silly measures, it says we see the world through the eyes of a paedophile.

“They think that any innocent picture of school children will somehow be subverted and manipulated.

“These pictures serve a very important purpose of giving children clear images of their experiences, something they can remember later in life.

“Depriving ourselves of these experiences is not only irrational but serves no purpose whatsoever.”

More pictures at the This Is London website.

UPDATE:

Dave in Texas reminds me that there is a precedent for this sort of thing. Even some grown-ups we know feel the need to protect themselves from internet predators in this very same fashion!:

Rosetta:

Geezer, Dave, and Mesa

Hat tip: Crime Scene KC

Alaska’s Governor, Sarah Palin On McCain’s V.P. List

There continues to be much buzz about Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin being a potential nominee for Vice President on the Republican ticket. There’s even a Draft Sarah Palin For VP website. So who is this Sarah Palin?

Rush calls her, “Alaska’s Babe Governor”.

The American Spectator calls her “one of conservatism’s own:

She’s young being only 44 (two years behind Senator Obama), she is wildly known to despise government corruption. She defeated a horribly entrenched and corrupt Republican political machine in Alaska. She has a son in the U.S. military. She’s strongly pro-life, belonging, in fact, to Feminists for Life.

Gov. Palin could become the Republican Party’s Segolene Royal, the French Socialist Party’s glamorous leader known for her heels and political bite. She is the perfect antidote to Sen. Obama’s cheap thrills, and would help rejuvenate conservatism.

Slublog, posting at Ace of Spades HQ, a few weeks ago, said:

Palin is actually a good pick for serious reasons. She took on a sitting governor in a primary and beat him soundly. She fought corruption in the state government, is pro-life, anti-tax, a lifetime NRA member and has cut spending in her state. Having her on the ticket would undercut the “making history” soundbite that’s bound to come out of the Democrats no matter who they nominate.

Here’s the cute video Slublog posted:

I’m beginning to like this idea more and more.

More pictures…by popular demand (Geoff):

Former beauty queen:                                                      In the car:

Naughty librarian:

More from Vital Signs:

Governor Palin has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho but, thank goodness, she lives her life with much more common sense than most in that profession. Palin is the wife of a commercial fisherman and the mother of four children, the eldest of which joined the U.S. Army last fall. Palin is also a former beauty queen, cheerleader, musician, mayor, and was a point guard for the Wasilla High School Warriors when they won the state basketball championship in 1982.

And, oh yes, Sarah Palin is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and a strong defender of the sanctity of human life.

What’s not to like?

Louis Farrakhan: Obama Is “The Hope Of The Entire World”

I wonder if Farrakhan’s “space brothers” have been communicating with him again:

In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better.

The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours’ Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.

“This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,” he said. “This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. (What? No white???) If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.”

No, I believe the word is fooled.

Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”

A…..Messiah, perhaps?

Gateway Pundit said it best:

It’s now an official mutual admiration party: Obama loves his minister- His minister loves Farrakhan- Farrakhan loves Obama.

A Circle of Hope!

Farrakhan also leveled small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has been engaging in dirty politics.

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Finally, an endorsement she’s not going to get, that she doesn’t actually want.

Seriously though….is the McCain campaign taking notes? This needs to come back and haunt him as does so many other things.

Study Shows 3 Out Of 4 U.S. Mosques Hotbeds Of Anti-West Extremism

This is alarming:

The Mapping Sharia in America Project, sponsored by the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, has trained former counterintelligence and counterterrorism agents from the FBI, CIA and U.S. military, who are skilled in Arabic and Urdu, to conduct undercover reconnaissance at some 2,300 mosques and Islamic centers and schools across the country.

“So far of 100 mapped, 75 should be on a watchlist,” an official familiar with the project said.

Many of the Islamic centers are operating under the auspices of the Saudi Arabian government and U.S. front groups for the radical Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt.

Frank Gaffney, a former Pentagon official who runs the Center for Security Policy, says the results of the survey have not yet been published. But he confirmed that “the vast majority” are inciting insurrection and jihad through sermons by Saudi-trained imams and anti-Western literature, videos and textbooks.

So far 102 Mosques and schools have been looked at. Preliminary findings include:

• Ultra-orthodox worship in which women are separated from men in the prayer hall and must enter the mosque from a separate, usually back, entrance; and are required to wear hijabs.

• Sermons that preach women are inferior to men and can be beaten for disobedience; that non-Muslims, particularly Jews, are infidels and inferior to Muslims; that jihad or support of jihad is not only a Muslim’s duty but the noblest way, and suicide bombers and other so-called “martyrs” are worthy of the highest praise; and that an Islamic caliphate should one day encompass the U.S.

• Solicitation of financial support for jihad.

• Bookstores that sell books, CDs and DVDs promoting jihad and glorifying martyrdom.

Of course, Mapping Sharia In America isn’t alone in its concern. Congressman Peter King (R. NY), puts the number of extremist mosques at 85%.

Here he is on The Neil Caputo Show last year, making his case:

Related:

A recent video posted at Mosquewatch.

Iraqis With Fake I.D.’s Headed For U.S. Nabbed In Mexico

WND has the story:

Two more Iraqis with false Bulgarian passports were detained by Mexican officials in Monterrey – bringing the total to four this month.

Wisam Gorgies, a 34-year-old man, and Rana Nazar Peyoz, a 26-year-old woman, reportedly flew from Madrid and landed in Monterrey, according to reports in two Mexican newspapers today.

Following questioning, the pair admitted they intended to reach the United States. They were taken to Saltillo in the state of Coahuila, for final determination of their status.

Mexican officials said the are investigating “a network that could be made up of Mexicans operating in Greece who are selling false Bulgarian passports for $10,000 to European and Middle Eastern citizens.”

More at WND.

How many of these are we not catching?

Dry Run? TIA Passenger Had Boxcutter in Hollowed Out Book

This is slightly concerning since the DHS has stated that “Terrorist Use of “Dry Run” Tactic May Be Tip-Off for Imminent Terrorist Attack.” Just sayin’.

The 21 year old Clearwater man is facing 10 years in prison:

About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration.

When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled “Fear Itself.” The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside.

His story:

After Baines was read his rights, he said his cousin had cut away the pages to make the hollow section in the book. Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates.

Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.

Sounds innocent enough, but wait!:

Officers found books in the backpack titled “Muhammad in the Bible,” “The Prophet’s Prayer” and “The Noble Qur’an.” He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.Several sheets of paper in the backpack included rap lyrics that referred to police, narcotics, weapons and killing. Baines told officers he is a rapper who writes his own lyrics and that rap music writers need to “play the part,” the report states.

Well good for him! He gets to “play the part” in the big house, now.

Also covering this story:

Michelle Malkin

Captain’s Quarters

Hat tip: LGF