MK’s Views - Down under on the right side

Lou Aguilar, National Review Online -

1. Barack Obama spent 20 years sitting in church while his preacher and others bad-mouthed the United States of America. Navy pilot John McCain spent five years being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton, and refused a chance to walk out ahead of fellow POWs with more seniority.

2. Obama wants to cut and run from Iraq regardless of conditions on the ground or future consequences. McCain took on the president and secretary of defense in demanding more troops for Iraq, a policy that is inarguably winning the war. He also has two sons who fought in Iraq.

3. McCain supports nuclear power. Obama backs wind energy.

4. Obama wants restrictive gun control because only economically depressed middle-Americans “cling to God and guns.” McCain unwaveringly supports the Second Amendment. Continue reading Real Men Vote for McCain…

Hat tip GeeeeeZ.

MNF-Iraq - The United States is not seeking permanent military bases in Iraq as it negotiates legal and military agreements with the Iraqi government, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker said June 5. Speaking at the State Department, Crocker called published reports that the United States is trying to set up permanent bases “flatly untrue.”

“There clearly is going to be a need” for a U.S. and coalition military presence in Iraq beyond the end of the year, Crocker said. But the status of forces agreement, when adopted, “is not going to be forever, particularly as it related to the status and authority of coalition forces in Iraq,” he said. “So I’m very comfortable saying to you – to the Iraqis, to anyone who asks – that no, indeed, we are not seeking permanent bases, either explicitly or implicitly, by just intending to stay there indefinitely,” he said. Continue reading U.S. Isn’t Seeking Permanent Bases in Iraq…

CBS News - President Bush plans to make a renewed push Wednesday to get Congress to end a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, echoing a call by GOP presidential candidate John McCain. Congressional Democrats have opposed lifting the prohibitions on energy development on nearly all federal Outer Continental Shelf waters for more than a quarter-century, including waters along both the East and West coasts. [snip] “The president believes Congress shouldn’t waste any more time,” White House press secretary Dana Perino told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“He will explicitly call on Congress to … pass legislation lifting the congressional ban on safe, environmentally friendly offshore oil drilling,” Perino said. “He wants to work with states to determine where offshore drilling should occur.” Bush also will reiterate his call for development of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Perino said. McCain has opposed drilling in the refuge, maintaining that the pristine areas in northeastern Alaska should be protected from energy development. [snip] Continue reading Bout time someone starting thinking about the little guy…

Washington Times - When the next president takes office in January, he or she will likely receive an intelligence brief warning that Islamic terrorists will attempt to exploit the transition in power by planning an attack on America, intelligence experts say. After all, that is what happened to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at a time when their national security teams and their counterterrorism plans were in flux.

Can B. Hussein Obama handle it? Judging from his mad-left credentials, endorsements from terrorist organizations and wiffle-waffle about appeasing, tough, not tough, make it up as you go along attitude to terrorists and states sponsoring terrorism, I’d say no. Perhaps Americans have more faith in him than I do.

IHT - Senator Barack Obama on Friday criticized Senator John McCain, his potential rival for the presidency, and President George W. Bush for what he called “dishonest and divisive” attacks in hinting that he would appease terrorists. Obama responded strongly Friday to the comments Bush made in Israel on Thursday and to McCain’s subsequent words. At a town hall meeting here, Obama said: “That’s the kind of hypocrisy that we’ve been seeing in our foreign policy, the kind of fear-peddling, fear-mongering that has prevented us from actually making us safer.”

So B. Hussein Obama is saying that the current administration’s policy is not making America any safer and he is very angry that they are saying he will appease terrorists. One could argue that a terrorist, Jew-hating organisation of slimeballs like Hamas wouldn’t have endorsed B. Hussein Obama because he was going to ground them into the dirt and tear them limb from limb, but apparently that’s just not valid. Then B. Hussein Obama proceeds to shoot himself in the foot.

Obama said McCain had a “naïve and irresponsible belief that tough talk from Washington will somehow cause Iran to give up its nuclear program and support for terrorism.”

So the current administration’s policy of ‘tough talk’ is naive and irresponsible and will not work, so will soft talk work then? He doesn’t say, only that he is not soft on terrorists and so I’m assuming, he won’t soft talk to them. Maybe he has a different brand of tough talk and this rather unique brand will work, sure. It’s a good thing for B. Hussein that liberals aren’t very clever and blindly follow their sweet-sounding leaders. Image from Terra.com

When I read the above headline at the Australian news website Sydney Morning Herald, I was surprised at first, but in a few seconds concluded that it could not be a local story. No way the justice system in Australia would have the balls to hand out such a sentence. No way will our politicians have the balls to punish like this, no way the majority of us have the stomach for such a sentence. Too bad I was right.

SMH - An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Willie Campbell must serve at least half that time because jurors ruled the 42-year-old used his infected saliva as a deadly weapon.

Out here if the cop’s lucky enough not to be investigated, at best a good behavior bond [for the scumbag], directions to the nearest public hospital so he can take his rightful place suckling on the taxpayers teat and perhaps some angry looks at the cop for not being a proper punching bag like he’s paid to be.

VDH Private Papers - We are in one of the longest presidential campaigns in modern memory — and haven’t even started focusing on the general election. It’s been enough to drive most of us mad, but if there’s one person in particular suffering the most, it may be President Bush. [snip]

Last week, I asked a fierce Bush critic what he thought were the current unemployment rate, the mortgage default rate, the latest economic growth figures, interest rates and the status of the stock market. He blurted out the common campaign pessimism: “Recession! Worst since the Depression!”

Then he scoffed when I suggested that the answer was really a 5 percent joblessness rate in April that was lower than the March figure; 95 to 96 percent of mortgages not entering foreclosure in this year’s first quarter; .6 percent growth during the quarter (weak, but not recession level); historically low interest rates; and sky-high stock market prices. [snip]

The truth is that America is providing unprecedented amounts of money to address the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Tax cuts brought in greater, not less total revenue. International trade agreements created more, not fewer, jobs. Security measures at home, and losses suffered by terrorists abroad, in part explain the absence of a second 9/11.

And drilling in ANWR and off the coasts and building more nuclear power plants, refineries, and clean coal plants — if the Congress would only approve — could provide a short-term mitigation of energy prices until we reach a new generation of clean-burning and renewable fuels.

SMH - A national drive to halt the death penalty in the US has been defeated in the Supreme Court, with the justices ruling that lethal injections, if properly administered, are a “humane” means of executing a condemned prisoner. By a surprising 7-2 margin, the court rejected a constitutional attack on the main method of carrying out the death penalty across the US. Its ruling cleared the way for executions to resume after a seven-month delay. Since October, officials and judges in several states have put executions on hold while awaiting the outcome of the case decided on Wednesday.

Good on ya America, glad to see that justice will deal with the evildoers. Now if those states could hurry up and get on with it, that would be great, not only would they be saving hard-working taxpayers some money, they’d also be saving innocent lives, around 74 for each scumbag they send to hell. Continue reading Time’s up evildoers…

Human Events - It is an article of faith with the Democrats that they must fool Americans by simulating agreement with normal people. The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American.
But then, after all their hard work making believe they’re into NASCAR and God, some Democrat invariably slips and lets us know it’s all a big fake-out. They’re like a gay guy trying to act straight who accidentally refers to Brad Pitt as “yummy!”
Obama had been so careful until now, “framing” his message as “change” — rather than partial birth abortion, driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, tax hikes, socialized medicine and abandoning mandatory minimum prison sentences for federal crimes.
His message is “change” — not that his wife has not been proud to be an American for most of her life.
He is for “change” — and don’t mind the crazy racist loon who has been Obama’s spiritual mentor for two decades.

CBS News - In Indiana Thursday, President [Bill] Clinton said Sen. Clinton has “misstated” the circumstances of her arrival in Bosnia under sniper fire - a comment that was quickly refuted by a CBS News video of her 1996 trip - but suggested that the brouhaha over her remarks (by the media and her opponents) was exaggerated. But the former president’s defense of his wife - that she had made the comment late at night after long hours of campaigning - was itself refuted by CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod, who showed the New York Senator making her remarks early one morning after a day of rest.

I feel sorry for the Clintons, whatever they do, they’re not getting much support from the leftist media, oh that B. Hussein Obama, bane of the Clintons. Seriously, if it wasn’t for him and the mad left’s infatuation with their new messiah, I’m sure the Clintons’ would have been able to get away with all this, there’s just no love for them anymore. Oh well Hillary, best come out and tell every one that you were just a bit loose with the truth and send Bill on a holiday somewhere, we all know he’s just loose with words and morals, best keep him occupied with something so he doesn’t cause more trouble.

FOX News - Authorities in Stafford County, Va., say two pregnant women were attacked during a home invasion in Stafford before midnight Friday. Police say three people knocked on the door and forced their way inside when someone opened the door. Authorities say two of the intruders brandished guns while the third carried a machete. The intruders used pepper spray on a pregnant woman and punched her, then locked the woman, a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old in a bathroom. In the back of the house, police say the intruders found two more residents and one, another pregnant woman, was assaulted.

In Australia, get a stronger door, get the number of a good counsellor, call someone who might care, don’t answer the door, pretend you’re not at home, learn to beg, move home, arrange your valuables in such a way that the crims won’t be delayed too long taking them etc, those are your options. In America, they can also do all that but they can also go and buy guns so the next time it happens they can shoot the bastards full of lead and call the cops to come pick up the carcasses. The other day I was reading about this old timer in America, living in Pennsylvania. He is too old to fight, too sick to run and cancer took his vocal cords. So he has three handguns to do the defending for him. In Australia, they have no such options and apparently we are much better off for it, go figure.

MNF-Iraq - Whoever said violence begets more violence never met the family of Sgt. Nathan Barnes. American Fork, Utah, native Sgt. Nathan Barnes, a Soldier with 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, was killed in Rushdi Mullah, Iraq, when his unit came under attack by small-arms fire July 17. Rather than hold bitterness toward the people of a foreign land where their son died, Barnes’ family is embracing them. Barnes often sent home photos of children in the areas he served. His father, Kevin, said Nathan truly loved the Iraqi children. Continue reading Noble Americans…

Thanks to Reuters - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton would be “fully engaged and involved” in the Middle East as U.S. president and would maintain a full-time presence there to spur the peace process, the New York senator told Reuters. “I believe that it’s important for the United States to maintain an active and involved role,” she said in an interview on Sunday. “I think one of the reasons why we are seeing a very dangerous situation there now is because the Bush administration backed off from staying involved and, where they were involved, much of their advice and proposals were counterproductive.” Continue reading Details please Hillary…

SMH - Hillary Clinton’s election campaign said she “misspoke” last week when she said she had landed under sniper fire during a trip she took as first lady to Bosnia in March 1996. During a speech last Monday about Iraq, she said of the trip: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

In other words - Here’s the thing folks, I was under the impression that… well you see what happened was… so unfair… it was a cloudy day…hard to recall… so long ago… don’t you think it’s time to ‘move on’… why aren’t you grilling B. Hussein… I mean who can remember… these things happen… what I meant to say was… it’s hard to explain… oh my God behind you… no really… you see I sort of, kinda, maybe fudged and lied!

China Daily - Americans have a right to own guns, Supreme Court justices declared Tuesday in a historic and lively debate that could lead to the most significant interpretation of the Second Amendment since its ratification two centuries ago. Governments have a right to regulate those firearms, a majority of justices seemed to agree. But there was less apparent agreement on the case they were arguing: whether Washington’s ban on handguns goes too far.

IHT - Faced with a major test to his candidacy, Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his objection to controversial statements from the longtime pastor of his Chicago church but declared that it was time for Americans to “move beyond some of our old racial wounds.” For nearly a week, Obama has struggled to distance himself from statements by his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr., who characterized the United States as fundamentally racist and the government as corrupt and murderous.

Perhaps you need to tell your pastor to move beyond racial divides B. Hussein Obama, not ‘Americans’. Given the level of support you enjoy, it would appear Americans have moved beyond the racial divides and wounds. Unless B. Hussein Obama believes that he is entitled to it or something.

Statesman.com - In Nashville today, during a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, President Bush said there’s nothing fair about the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” that once required broadcasters to offer air time for competing ideologies. The FCC got rid of it about 20 years ago. Now, some Democrats in Congress - long the target of popular conservative radio talk-show hosts - think it’s time to bring it back. But I’ll tell you this: If Congress should ever pass any legislation that stifles your right to express your views, I’m going to veto it.”

SMH - The first female US vice-presidential candidate and a fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton says Democrat Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential campaign because he is black. “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Geraldine Ferraro told The Daily Breeze of Torrance, California, in an interview published last Friday. “And if he was a woman (of any colour) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

Lucky, tell that to B. Hussein Obama’s wife. Naturally, the B. Hussein Obama camp are calling for her sacking. It’s probably true that Democrats wouldn’t vote for him if he was a white man, they seem to have the need to prove that they are not racist by voting for him. I wonder what the uproar would have been if it was a Republican who’d said that. Wonder what the reaction would have been if someone said that Hillary was where she is because she’s Bills wife and a woman. Incidentally, I prefer Hillary over Obama, because he strikes me as even more left than her.

FOX News - An Iowa Republican congressman on Monday defended his prediction that terrorists would celebrate if Democrat Barack Obama were elected president, despite a rebuke from aides to John McCain, the GOP’s apparent presidential nominee. King cited Obama’s pledge to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, his father’s Muslim roots in Kenya and his middle name, Hussein, which King said has a meaning to terrorists.

I mean hellooo, if B. Hussein Obama packs up and leaves Iraq, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) will declare it as a victory for them, are leftists so stupid they can’t see this? As it stands AQI are getting their collective asses kicked from kerb to kerb in Iraq, so why the hell would they be upset if the ass-kickers leave. They can then take it easy and start carving the country up and dragging it back into the stone age. Just because they won’t send a ‘thank you’ card and chocolates to President B. Hussein Obama doesn’t mean they wouldn’t prefer him running the United States. Continue reading Under fire for stating the obvious?…

World Net Daily - Arizona lawmakers hope to stem the wave of unarmed students killed in campus slayings through a plan that would let adults carry firearms onto the grounds of the state’s universities. “The police got to both the Virginia Tech murder scene and the New Life Church [in Colorado] in about six minutes,” noted Larry Pratt, the chief of Gun Owners of America. “At Virginia Tech, 30 people died. At New Life, two died in the parking lot and once the bad guy got inside the building he was engaged by (armed) security team volunteers and nobody else died. In fact, he was finished in about 30 seconds.” That, he said, ought to illustrate the issue as clear as anything. Pratt noted that Utah and several local jurisdictions scattered around the U.S. already allow people with a license to carry their weapons onto campuses. Ignatius Piazza, founder and director of the Frontsight Firearms Training Institute, said he was committing to provide every Arizona school teacher with a $2,000 handgun course, free of charge, at the time the plan is approved. Hat tip Word For It… Continue reading Americans get it…

FOXNews - Hillary Clinton scored commanding victories in Ohio and Rhode Island Tuesday and squeaked out a narrow victory in Texas, breaking rival Barack Obama’s 12-contest winning streak and breathing new life into her Democratic presidential campaign.

FOXNews - In a raucous conference call to reporters that included an interruption and heated exchange with one of Barack Obama’s attorneys — Hillary Clinton’s campaign accused Obama supporters Tuesday of trying to hijack the Democratic presidential caucuses in Texas. The Clinton team accused Obama supporters of seizing the caucus packets and signing up delegates early in the day, against the rules. They said Obama supporters took control of the caucuses and turned away Clinton caucus-goers in line at the door. They called the reports disturbing and undemocratic and said all options were on the table in regards to possibly taking the matter to court.

Washington Times - China is speeding up its military buildup and developing high-technology forces for waging wars beyond Taiwan, according to the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power. “The pace and scope of China’s military transformation have increased in recent years, fueled by acquisition of advanced foreign weapons, continued high rates of investment in its domestic defense and science and technology industries, and far-reaching organizational and doctrinal reforms of the armed forces,” the report states. The report also warned that China’s expanding military forces “are changing East Asian military balances; improvements in China’s strategic capabilities have implications beyond the Asia-Pacific region.” The new weapons include road-mobile long-range nuclear missiles.

And what does B. Hussein Obama plan to do? Continue reading The price of a foreign policy dunce…

Washington Post - Mr. Bush, in his first White House press conference of 2008, described in detail why he thinks the idea of meeting personally with leaders of rogue nations such as Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba is a bad idea. “It’s a theory that all you got to do is embrace and these tyrants act. That’s not how they act. That’s not what causes them to respond,” Mr. Bush said. “Sitting down at the table, having your picture taken with a tyrant such as Raul Castro, for example, lends the status of the office and the status of our country to him,” Mr. Bush said. “He gains a lot from it by saying, ‘Look at me, I’m now recognized by the president of the United States.” Continue reading Foreign Policy Lesson for Moonbats…

Yahoo! News - Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Barack Obama of political plagiarism Thursday night, but drew boos from a Democratic debate audience when she ridiculed him as the candidate of “change you can Xerox.” Obama dismissed the charge out of hand, then turned the jeers to applause when he countered, “What we shouldn’t be spending time doing is tearing each other down. We should be spending time lifting the country up.” Continue reading Give it up Hillary, it’s over…