Post Racial?

There have been more cries of racism since Obama has become president than I remember in the past. I think it is ridiculous, unfair, and cuts off any discussion. I would love to hear the liberal menace's take on criticizing ACORN, Obama, Van Jones, etc for what I think are legitimate things (which may or may not be debatable). Why do all the dems, libs, news outlets, Jimmy Carter, and the like always cry racism when conservatives are critical. To be fair and to give credit where credit is due, Obama does not do it. But, he doesn't condemn it either. Isn't he supposed to be post racial? Why does he allow this to happen? Makes me think he likes it. What do you think?

Here are some of the comments made about the Joe Wilson thing and the march on Washington on Sep 12., compiled by the hated Rush Limbaugh. Agree with him or disagree with him, it is indisputable that these comments were made. I just want to hear a rational liberal's (oxymoron? - Ha!) take.

CAMPBELL BROWN: (music) ...vicious, racist imagery attacking our first African-American president.

LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: (newsroom noise) Gentleman Joe Wilson has done much to make the racist history of South Carolina jump back into our present consciousness.

CANDY CROWLEY: (b-roll) Critics think this is about resistance to a black man as president.

JAMES CARVILLE: People are upset with President Obama because of the color of his skin. Who cannot believe that?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Could there be a refusal to accept the legitimacy of Barack Obama as president because of his race?

WOLF BLITZER: A small but disturbing minority within the tea party movement is also blatantly anti-black.

JOHN RIDLEY: When you talk about racial image, this is not just standard debate.

ELAINE QUIJANO: (b-roll) A small but passionate minority is also voicing what some see as racist rhetoric.

JOHN AVLON: Hitler. Communism. Racism. All this ugliness is bubbling up.

ANDERSON COOPER: There is an undercurrent of racism in some of the criticism of the president.

JUAN WILLIAMS: An attack on somebody because you really don't like the fact that they are president or because of their race.

ROSS DOUTHAT: Clearly Barack Obama's race plays some role in the kind of anxieties that are roiling the political right.

CLARENCE PAGE: (outdoor noise) People are not just mad at Obama. They are mad at Jesse Jackson. They are mad at Reverend Wright. They are mad at Al Sharpton. They are mad at people who have nothing to do with Obama except they all happen to be black.

Of course let us not forget Jimmy Carter's comments from yesterday. What a nut!

And as a footnote, how in the world does Charlie Gibson not know what is happening in the ACORN story? Why is the NYT downplaying it after not reporting on it for days? Morons.

Lib Quote Of The Day

Green Czar of the Obama administration, Van Jones, the self-proclaimed Communist (not that there's anything wrong with that).

"I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was like, 'This is what I need to be a part of,'"

Well, Van, your wish has come true. You are now "part of" a radical presidency. You can retire a happy man now.

Oh, and did I mention that he is a "9/11 truther" that thinks the Bush administration allowed 9/11 to happen so that war could be declared.

"people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

This man is just as crazy as the "birthers" that the left hates so much. Where is the hate for this man?

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. He also called Republicans a-holes for trying to stop the Democrats (except he did not edit his statement). That was this year that he said this. Why does Obama gravitate towards these crazies, I wonder?

But, according to the article I just read, Al Gore loves him and Leo Dicaprio thinks he is a great man, so maybe I should just fall in line and drink the Kool-Aid as well. Let us not forget that one man is associating with all these crazy people with crazy ideas. Are we starting to think that maybe, just maybe, Obama thinks this way as well? Logic would dictate that this is true.

Lib Quote Of The Day

I have never agreed with Howard Dean on anything....until now. He actually told the truth about something. The question is "Why is tort reform not in the health bill?"

“Here is why tort reform is not in the bill. When you go to pass a really enormous bill like that the more stuff you put in, the more enemies you make, right? And the reason why tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everybody else they were taking on, and that is the plain and simple truth. Now, that’s the truth.”

Conservatives have criticized the liberals for years for being bought and paid for by trial lawyers. Conservatives have been criticized for holding those views. Well, we were right, as per usual. Now the truth is out.

Good Grief

Liberals always get offended when they get accused of not caring about the protection of the US. Then they go and do dumb stuff like this.

Gitmo Detainees Shown Photos of Covert CIA Operatives....By Liberal Groups

Morons.

Lib Quote Of The Day

Barack Obama, to his credit (don't tell anyone I said this), appeared on conservative radio-host Michael Smerconish's show yesterday. He said that he would:

"love to have more Republicans engaged and involved in this process,"

Really? Did he just say that? Is he that insane? Um, Sir, who do you think these people at the town hall meetings are? Who do you think the people being polled in these negatively trending polls are? REPUBLICANS! We are engaged. We are involved. We have ideas. You are just ignoring them.

in response to the conquistador's clunker...

let's get real here. care sales are down on used cars because people just aren't buying. NOT because the turned in cars are being junked. trust me, as someone who is currently looking at replacing our two new cars with two used ones, i've come across some awesome deals and there are tons of cars out there. i've been able to find pretty much any car i could possibly want. the lots are filled at the dealerships. the "mom and pop" used places may be seeing their inventory shrinking, but it is just a temporary thing until the program ends. those used car dealers probably lost their sales because they were price gouging and raising prices because they knew people would start buying more used due to the current fragile economy.

new car sales are up, manufacturing jobs are saved, we use less gas with more efficient cars, the environment benefits. the positives definitely out weigh the negatives in this scenario.

so the only ones truly affected by the cash for clunkers program is the used car salesman? i just see it as payback for all those annoying tv ads we've been forced to endure throughout the years.

nice try conquistador.

Lib Quote Of The Day

With Democrats holding power in Congress and the White House, they are trying desperately to get everything they want passed. They even go to extreme lengths to fib about their policies and scare us into believing them (yes, yes, all politicians use scare tactics. I know.), as evidenced by this quote from House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

"Every week we don't pass a Stimulus package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs.''

Maybe those extra people live in the 60 states that Obama thought were in the country.

Lib Quote Of The Day

Our beloved supreme leader has been trying to force people to believe in his healthcare ideas lately by using campaign-style tactics. By busing in supporters he always seems to draw a friendly crowd. Hm. Weird. The other day he was trying to address the concern that private companies will not be able to compete with a government insurance plan and dropped this gem...

"They do it all the time," he said. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

...as he's trying to convince us that the government can run things better than the private market? That sounds like a gaffe to me. But, no. He thinks it's a legitimately good argument to advance his ideas. He said it again. And AGAIN!!!! Like I said before, this man is crazy.

Lib Quote Of The Day

"He's (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."

Patty Murray (Sen, D, WA)

Lib Quote Of The Day

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-Al Gore, former Vice President

The "Do-Nothingers" Are Doing Something....Again

We conservatives are accused of being naysayers, people of inaction and status quo, extremists, and people without a plan or an idea. Simply not true. It's just that our ideas are crazy, unpopular, or unreported (hopefully more of the latter, but that is debatable). But, here is a good conservative idea on how to 1) control health care costs FOR ALL, and 2) get competition into the insurance market.

Health Care Issue

We are trying to fix the issue the right way (no pun intended), but we are being ignored. Why?

Lib Quote Of The Day

I feel I give too much voice to conservative issues. And since that kind of freedom of speech is aggravating to liberals (see Fairness Doctrine and beliefs of new FCC chief), I will now express both points of view, to prevent imprisonment for having an opinion. So, I will provide a quote of the day as often as I can, from a liberal, so they can have their voices heard (at least until the liberal menace gets her computer up and running). So, here is today's quote.

Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Schelling:

"I sometimes wish we could have over the next five or 10 years a lot of horrid things happening, you know, like tornados in the Mid west and so forth. That would get people concerned about climate change."

POSTED BY The Conservative Conquistador, in compliance with Master Obama's rules

Meddling And Unintended Consequences

Whatever you do, don't let anyone ever hear me say this. I think the ideas that liberals have sound really nice. I agree with most of their ideas on the surface. Free healthcare for everyone. Very good idea. A growing economy that does not affect the environment. I am all for it. The list goes on and on. Liberals get painted with the "compassionate" brush and rightly so. Their ideas bring a warm and fuzzy feeling to the heart.

But, we conservatives have two fundamental disagreements with liberals. Today, I will address one of them.

1) We don't trust politicians. They are only looking out for themselves. They are not "compassionate" liberals or conservatives. They are self-serving megalomaniacs that don't deserve any power, with a few exceptions. So, while I like liberal ideas, I can never trust a liberal politician who all day everyday says give me more money, give me more power, let's get more people dependent on the government, and I will make it all better. Wrong.

2) This is the one I would like to address today. There are consequences to every action. You cannot do anything economically, politically, anythingally that does not have a consequence. It is like trying to squeeze one of those stress-relief balls. You push in on one spot, but another one pokes out. Let me know if this has ever happened to you. You have a rigid circular structure (lots of construction/home repair items are rings of metal). You get a dent in that structure so it is no longer a circle. Have you ever tried to make it a circle again? You can't. You push one side in and the other side pokes out. It will NEVER go back to it's perfect form, no matter how careful or thoughtful or dexterous you are. It is an unintended consequence.

Those exist in politics as well. When the government implements (sounds better than "force", right) policies in a country, there are consequences and unintended consequences. Let's get to the point. The cash for clunkers program. What a success!! The Obama administration and Congress are just drooling over themselves because of the success of the program. I too have mixed feelings on the program. On one hand it promotes freedom of choice, gets people buying cars, gets old unsafe cars off the road, and there are a slew of other consequences. But, when you push on one spot, another spot pokes out. Here is the article from msnbc.com.

Unintended Consequences of Cash For Clunkers

So, now is the program a success? Used car prices are skyrocketing (not going up, but skyrocketing). Used parts prices are skyrocketing. Anyone that is not driving a brand new car is going to have to pay more money to get parts or a new or used car. Is that fair to us? No. That is what happens when the government meddles with the economy.

What is the answer? I won't drub you over the head with conservative ideology, but the answer is the free market. It is the only thing that is unbiased, and the only thing that allows true freedom. In the free market we are ALL free to choose for ourselves what we want to do. When the government meddles, some of us are the beneficiaries and some of us bear the brunt of the unintended consequences.

POSTED BY The Conservative Conquistador

Hell Has Frozen Over

I read something today that shocked me beyond belief. A Salon.com writer (aka flaming liberal) that actually made sense. A logical liberal? I shudder to think.

Obamacare Debacle

Where Have All The Privacy-Loving Libs Gone?

Remember the outrage over the warrantless wiretapping that the Bush administration put into FISA? That really upset a lot of Bush-haters and provided a legit reason to criticize Bush all day, everyday. The argument? They said that we have rights as citizens and those rights prevent the government from listening in on our phone conversations. Perfectly legitimate argument. The conservative counterargument? The government is not listening in on everyone's conversations. Just those that are suspected terrorists. I can see how the left viewed that as a bit of a justification. I think that is a tricky issue.

But, nothing compared to what the Obama administration is doing with the "tattle-tale on your neighbor who is against Obamacare" plan. The White House keeping the computer information of everyone that visits a .gov website? That is ridiculous. Where are all those privacy-loving, anti-Big Brother liberals that were so mad at Bush for doing something not quite so heinous? At least Bush was targeting enemies of the country and not enemies of himself and his party. Obama has completely lost control. The wheels are falling off the tricycle. I just want to know why all those libs are not upset by this. Isn't that a violation of our rights, similar to FISA? (chirp, chirp)

I Love Obama

He just gives so much fodder for criticism. Today, I read this article on the msnbc.com that talks about Obama's propaganda/stop the bleeding/damage control/lie fest today in Indiana. Obama promised to "unleash prosperity for everyone". Ooooooooooooh. Aaaaaaaaaaaa. Prosperity for everyone. I like that. Oooooooooooh. Nice. I love me some Obama.

As Dwight from The Office would say: "Question." How is Obama going to do that? Stimulus? Nope, didn't work. Keeping unemployment below 8%, as promised? Nope, didn't do that. By keeping the deficit down so he won't have to raise taxes? Nope, he is spending like an heiress. By keeping promises made on the campaign trail and post-election? Nope, he has only kept about 5% of those. By drawing on his vast personal and professional experience on creating jobs, prosperity, and wealth? Nope, he has none. He has never created one job that wasn't a government job. But, he has harassed and defamed those who create jobs. That counts for something, right? Well, maybe not.

Let me highlight my favorite part of the article for you, in case you couldn't stomach it all the way down.

"Ed Neufeldt of Wakarusa, who introduced Obama on his visit to Elkhart for a town hall meeting in February, said he was hopeful that the president’s news would jump-start the region’s economy.

“When he was here before, he looked at me and he said, ‘Ed, I’m going to get you back to work,’” Neufeldt told NBC station WNDU of South Bend.

“I don’t know if he’ll get me back to work, but I feel like I represent everyone around here who is unemployed and not working, and if he can just some of those back to work, he is getting me back to work,” Neufeldt said."

Let me see if I understand this. Back in February, Obama promised he would get one person back to work. Let's call him Ed Neufeldt. ONE PERSON!!! 5 months later, that man is still unemployed. ONE PERSON. Obama can't create jobs. He doesn't want to create jobs. He doesn't care about Ed, me, you, the poor, anyone. He cares about himself and his party, like 99% of all politicians, on both sides of the aisle.

The sooner our country realizes that Obama is a complete failure and a liar (forget about his political ideologies - he is a failure and a liar), the better off we will be.

PS - Sorry about the frequency of posts, but this is a good outlet for me. I can either read biochemistry or politics. I try and mix it up.

POSTED BY The Conservative Conquistador

Oops

The proof that government run health care doesn't work is mounting faster than the material I have to study for my test on Monday (which is fast by the way). Here is Maine talking about how well their system works.

Maine Health Care

Take note of the following:

1) The uninsured are not covered
2) People were driven off their private plans
3) The system did not pay for itself with savings
4) Taxes are needed to pay for it
5) Less people are insured after plan is implemented than before

These are all things Obama is promising. How does he expect to compensate for this? Oh yeah, that's right, he has no plan, no details, no specifics. Well, lecture is starting back up. Gotta run.

I'm back.

But, if you are "stupid" and "extreme" enough to have the audacity to think that maybe, just maybe, the federal government can't keep all the promises it's making about health care, then the DNC (read: the biggest group of morons ever - followed closely by the RNC) has this to say about you.

DNC Hates You

So, instead of using logic and substantive arguments, the DNC will just call ordinary Americans who oppose a radical change in our health care system, a radical change in the power of the federal government, and a radical change in the Constitution...right-wing extremists. Classic. Classic.

POSTED BY The Conservative Conquistador

A Window Into Obama's Soul

You can tell a lot about people by looking at who they associate with. Here is another gem from the absolute bonehead crazy man, John P. Holdren, who is Obama's "science czar". It is clear by his selection and Obama's economic policies, that Obama agrees 100% with what can only be considered to be a crazy idea.

Zero Economic Growth as well as Zero Population Growth

The more we learn about Obama and the people he agrees with, the more we discover he's not a liberal, socialist, Marxist, anti-American, megalomaniac. But, rather, he is a mental patient. He is absolutely insane. No rational thinking human could possibly think this way. This goes way beyond politics into the realm of NUTS!!!! Now, I need to go get ready for my dinner date.

A Quack For A Quack

We all know Obama is absolutely nuts. The man is just crazy. So, it only seems natural that he would select someone like John P. Holdren to be an advisor. Check out this winner of a human and his awesome opinions.

Trees should have legal rights to sue

Born Baby will eventually become a human

NUTTY!!!!!! But, having a guy like this on board the Obama admin is par for the course. What else would we expect from a crazy man?!? I think Obama will next name his buddy Ayers as "Police czar". That would make as much sense as Holdren as science czar.

POSTED BY The Conservative Conquistador

another conservative politician making up their own statistics...

so i read recently that sen. robert bennett has his panties in a bunch over ARRA roadside signs. well, in my recent travels across 8 states and 100's upon 100's of miles of construction, i only saw one such sign.  i did, however, see two signs (billboards in fact) adverstising the refusal to accept stimulus money.  didn't the tax payers also pay for those?