Eligibility: Why Does it Matter Where They Were Born?

Let me start this possibly controversial topic by saying that right now, because the law states that to be eligible to run for president, one must be a "natural born" American, that if incontrovertible proof ever comes up that Obama was born in Kenya, as he claimed when it was politically advantageous for him to do so, then I firmly believe he should be removed from office. However, I personally don't care where he was born; if he was born and raised in Texas but was still the man he is, with the policies and job performance he has, he'd be just as awful.

But in this post, I'm gonna admit something that might sound weird, coming from a conservative. I don't think being born in the United States should be a factor in whether or not you can run for president.

Think about it. What sense does it really make? After all, the presidency remains the only political office you cannot hold if you were born elsewhere than on American soil. Why? What does that have to do with anything?

Take the case of Ted Cruz. Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta because his parents were at the time working in the oil industry. As I gather, they moved back to the US when he was still an infant, and he was raised as an American his entire life. Also, because his mother was an American citizen, he was granted American citizenship from birth. But then, his father is from Cuba. Does this mean he's not "natural born", as birthers have accused Obama of not being, even if he was born in Hawaii?

Well, the fact is, this is ridiculous. Assuming Obama was born in Hawaii, and as far as I'm concerned he was, then he should be eligible for the presidency, the same as how John McCain was born in the American Embassy in Panama, which is only American soil because it's been legally declared such.

The difference is, Ted Cruz was raised in America by Americans (well, his mother, anyway) who taught him to love America. John McCain was raised in America by Americans who taught him to love America (and to love compromise, but that's another story). Barack Obama was raised in Kenya and Indonesia by Communists who hated America and taught him to hate it. I don't care where any of them were born; where they were raised, what country they call home and whether or not they show themselves to love their country; that's all that should matter. Obama may be an American by birth, but he sure isn't by loyalty.

Really, all that this law's remaining on the books has done in recent years is to draw up inconsequential and silly arguments about whether or not so-and-so is legally able to run. Be it Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or Bobby Jindal, the subject of where they were born or where their parents were born keeps coming up whenever their potential presidential aspirations comes up. The problem is, who cares?

Ted Cruz has proven that he loves this country and is an American at heart. So has Bobby Jindal. Marco Rubio is slowly proving that he is a Cuban at heart and doesn't give a rip about America's immigration laws. That is all that should matter.

Now, Cruz isn't my first choice for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, and to be frank, no one is right now. There are a lot of people I'd love to see in that office, and quite a few others I'm hoping against hope decide not to run or get crushed in early primaries (Chris Christie, for example). But I  hate to think that we're still at a point where we care where the candidates were born.

Race: Liberals Justify Anything and Everything

If a conservative is speaking on a political topic, liberals will find some way to make what they say into a statement of racial hatred. They will find one word, or phrase, and decide to conflate that into something racial, even when it's clear that race had nothing to do with it.

There was a website, that's since been taken down, that detailed the words, phrases and ideas that have been declared "racist" by the left since Obama became a household name. The list was both hilarious and frightening to read. Apparently, when conservatives say "peanut butter and jelly", "apartment" or "Chicago", what we're really doing is pandering to our racist base by using "code words" or "dog whistles." Also, using someone's first name is racist. When Newt Gingrich called John King and Juan Williams by their first names during the endless GOP debates during the 2012 primaries, white liberals like Chris Mathews called them racist for it. Yes, for nothing more than calling them "John" or "Juan". As far as I know, any time a politician addresses a member of the press, it's by their first name. But when Newt Gingrich does it and the journalist is black, that's racist.

Whoever the next GOP presidential candidate is, he or she should prepare themselves to be called "racist" at every turn, even if they're running against a white Democrat. They can guard what they say as carefully as they want. They can stay away from phrases like "black cloud" or "black sheep", or anything having to do with color at all, but that won't matter.

The candidate could ad-lib before a speech "Whoo boy, it's hot out today", and somebody, Chris Mathews or Chuck Todd or whoever, will suggest they're making a casual racial slur with their use of "boy". Don't laugh; almost that very thing happened to Mitt Romney. When, during a debate with President Obama, Romney responded to an accusation that his tax plan will raise taxes on low-income Americans to pay for tax cuts for the rich, he made the following statement: "I will not reduce the share paid by high-income individuals. I know that you and your running mate keep saying that, I know it's a popular thing to say with a lot of people, but it's not the case. Look, I have five boys, I’m used to people saying something that's not always true and keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I will believe it. That is not the case. I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans. And number three, I will not, under any circumstances, raise taxes on middle-income families. I will lower taxes on middle-income families." (bold is mine)

Kevin Baker and Chris Hayes both decided that Mitt Romney had just called Barack Obama a "boy". No, I'm not kidding. Now, read that full quote in context. There is simply no way to believably pull a racial subtext from that. There just isn't. Romney was clearly making reference to his sons' attempts to lie their way out of a situation, as young boys are wont to do, and keep repeating the lie, hoping each time they do so that it sounds more convincing. Romney was calling Obama a liar, which Obama is, several times over, but to call this a racist statement is ludicrous. It happened, but it's stupid.

In an ideal world, it would be Baker or Hayes that suffered embarrassment at the comparison, but apparently some people actually believed that Romney was calling Obama a "boy".

Near the end of Michelle Bachman's run for the GOP nomination, she gave an outdoor speech on a rainy afternoon. A tent was set up and she and those who were there to listen to her speech crowded into a tent, already drenched. Bachman, her hair hanging damply around her face, wiped rain from her brow and asked the crowd "Who likes wet people?" This is clearly what she said, and it also makes perfect sense in context.

According to MSNBC, she was asking the crowd "who likes white people", and was clearly making a racist statement. Only in liberal-land where up is down, black is white and the party that has always stood for freedom regardless of skin color is the party of racism.

So, again, to whoever is hoping to run in 2016, be prepared to get called a racist. No matter what you say. But what if it's someone like Allen West? Well, as we saw with Herman Cain, he'll get called an Uncle Tom, race traitor or "house n-----r". He or she will get accused of "tokenism". Again, I'm not making that up.

"Tokenism" is a term for when a mostly white organization of any sort really wishes to display a veneer of diversity, so they hire one black person to join them. If a law firm wants to appear racially mixed even though it's made up entirely of white people, they'll hire one black lawyer, make him or her partner and bingo; they're diverse. Back in the 90's, if a TV series has an all-white cast and someone pointed that out, the producers would fall over themselves trying to find a black actor to fill a role that obviously exists only so they can add the black character (kinda how they do today with ensuring they include a gay character). Two of the more obvious examples that I can think of are The West Wing, which added the role of black attache to the president Charlie Young after a few groups complained that the entire cast was white. He didn't have much to do, but he was there now. The show had nothing to do with race relations but still, people cried racism, so a poorly-thought-out character (whose only purpose on the show was to be subservient) was clumsily added to the cast. The other was a short-lived TV series from the man behind Dawson's Creek. It was called Wasteland and was about six super-attractive adults. Of course it was. All six cast members, three guys and three girls, were white. Complaints about that started before the series even aired, so in a last minute decision, they added a black actor to the cast. One black actor. Now there were seven characters including four men, and since the show was about sex and relationships (of course it was), the black character was more or less left out in the cold. That's because he was nothing but a token. Now, the show was utter crap and unlike Dawson's Creek didn't clog up the airwaves for six years before everyone realized that, but still, it was an obvious case of tokenism.

Of course, you can't really call it "tokenism" if the number of blacks in the organization begins to grow. Off the top of my head I can list the following prominent conservative black political figures, either politicians or commentators; Allen West, Herman Cain, Tim Scott, Mia Love, Clarence Thomas, Condeleeza Rice, Sonja Schmidt, Alfonzo Rachel, Larry Elder, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, and there are quite a few more. It would be "tokenism" if there was only one or two of them, and they all just parroted whatever the white conservatives said. But listen to what any one of those people I just named have to say about modern politics and race relations and you will hear some pretty interesting and diverse opinions on the subject.

When liberals accuse us of "tokenism" when we point out that black conservative Republicans exist, they increasingly look like they're accusing the TV show The Wire of tokenism. The Wire is a now-cancelled HBO series about the drug trade in Baltimore from all sides of it; cops, lawyers and politicians (the corrupt kind and the more-or-less honest kind), high-level and low-level dealers, stick-up artists, addicts and work-a-day schmoes living in drug-infested neighborhoods. It ran for five seasons and got a ton of critical acclaim, which, I might add was deserved. I would suggest the cast was about 80% black. Of course, the modern GOP is not 80% black but it's far from The West Wing or Wasteland in terms of black representation, and we're hardly just scrounging up a few puppets to look like we care about diversity. Black conservatives are uber-passionate. If we could stir up a tenth of their passion in the current GOP congress, we'd win every election and we'd have swayed the media to our side by now. Black conservatives aren't conservative because they're sucking up to white people. They're conservative because that's what they want to be. Many of them have tried the other side and know how full of shit it is. Alfonzo Rachel even compares liberalism to "the plantation" and he and others call themselves "runaway slaves" who managed to escape the liberal plantation.

Terroja Kincaid, an internet reviewer who is almost equal to Michael Moore in terms of obnoxiousness, once talked about Glenn Beck's special on black conservatives on his youtube channel "The Amazing Atheist" (he's only half right in that title, by the way). If you didn't know, Beck did a special where all his guests were black conservatives and every audience member was also a black conservative. Kincaid was dismissive, saying that the whole thing reminds him of when racist people try to say they're not racist because "some of my best friends are black."

I just don't get the logic here. I guess I do understand how the claim "some of my best friends are black" might inspire eye rolls. The person making the claim might be obviously lying, or deciding that the clerk at their corner store who sells them their cigarettes counts in this claim, or the black people he or she describes as "best friends" may in fact not feel the same about them. I don't make that claim myself, because I'd prefer to say "I'll call anyone a friend unless you do or say something to me or my family that changes that." Personally, I don't care about skin color in and of itself. At all. I work in a diverse office with every skin tone imaginable. My church looks like the United Nations. And I just plain don't care. I make no claim that the fact that I work and worship around people of a vast variety of skin tone makes me not racist. I claim that the fact that I work and worship with them and never give their skin color a second thought does.

But Kincaid's reaction to Beck's special just confirms to me that to a committed leftist, conservatives will always be racist. The argument is entirely circular. Glenn Beck is a racist. Why? Because he is conservative (well, libertarian, but it's good enough for them). Why does that make him racist? Because conservatives are racist. Why? What makes you paint them all with the same brush? Because they love people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. But why do you call Rush Limbaugh a racist? Because he's conservative.

See, I see Glenn Beck sitting in a room with people who are mostly on the same page politically as he is. He's showing everyone how they all get along. He looks at a black conservative and says "I don't care what your skin color is; I like what you've got to say." That's racism now?

Actually, here's racism for you; demanding that all people of a certain ethnicity think, talk, dress, act, work and vote alike, or they're not "authentic". I really don't understand how this hasn't become widely known for the racist idea that it is. Think about it; no longer are you an individual. No longer can you do anything the way you want to. You have to conform to a role, or you're an outcast. And all because you happen to be born with a high melanin content.

Bill Maher can have white person after white person on his show or in his audience. He has black guests as well, but I'd say a majority of his guests have been white, as are a majority of his audience members. But he agrees with the idea of what "authentic" blacks are, so therefore he's not a racist.

But Glenn Beck says "I don't care how you look, dress, behave, or speak. I want to do a special where I show that there really are black people who vote Republican or self-identify as conservative. So if you're black and do either one or both, come one, come all." Apparently, that's racist.

Glenn Beck will never convince people like Terroja Kincaid that he's not racist, though. That's the thing; in the mind of a leftist, once he's declared you a racist, that's what you are. And all the justification he needs to do so is to hear that you're even just slightly right of center.

What Kincaid obviously meant was that the black people in Beck's audience and his black guests didn't count because they're "Uncle Toms". And we're back to the circular argument! Leftist logic dictates that if you are black, you vote Democrat and self-identify as liberal (even if you're really not). Why? Because Republicans are racist.

"But," says the black conservative. "I've studied the Republican platform, and I agree with a good deal of it, almost all of it. I never saw anything racist in it. Why shouldn't I vote Republican?"

Simple, because to do so makes you an Uncle Tom.

"Why?"

Because Republicans will never accept you.

"Are you kidding? I live in a heavily Republican area. Almost everyone I know is a Republican. I've never been judged or ostracized by any of them. In fact, the last person to call me the n-word was a white Democrat who didn't like that I voted for Romney."

He called you that because you hate yourself. Otherwise you wouldn't have voted for Romney.

"What? Obama's taxing the "rich" has crippled my small business. My business only earns 300,000 but I now pay almost 80% of that back in taxes. I can now only keep one other full time staffer other than myself. And thanks to Obamacare, which I can't afford, I also can't provide benefits to himself or me, and now I'm gonna have to pay a fee because I've opted out of Obamacare, so either way I'm looking at my business failing within the next six months. I voted for Romney because between the two of them, his ideas on how to save businesses made more sense. Now I'm stuck with President You-Didn't-Build-That. If I truly hated myself, I would have voted for him!"

You're just a shill for the man.

"What are you talking about!? Obama IS the man! He's president, and his party controls the Senate! If I was looking to shill for someone, it would be the Democrats!"


You have Stockholm syndrome. Republicans hate you. They only pretend to like you because you tell them what they want to hear.

"So...if I start telling YOU what YOU want to hear, I'm no longer an Uncle Tom, even though you're white."

Right. Because I'm a Democrat. I accept you.

"But wait, I thought you'd only except me as an authentic black if I start saying only things you agree with."

True.

"So...how's that any different from Republicans liking the fact that I agree with them?"

They're racists. I'm not.

"Listen, I go to church with a Republican who's farther to the left than I am. He believes in big government as long as the government is religious. I think government should be small and unobtrusive; there to protect me but not there to run my life or anyone else's. He and I disagree fervently about this and other issues. He's also white. But despite his being a white Republican and he and I disagreeing on several issues, we're still friends. In fact, when he and I talk politics, it always stays civil and respectful. As a matter of fact, he and all white Republicans I've ever met treat me better than ANY Democrat, left or right, once they find out I vote Republican."

...They're racists. They only accept you because you call yourself a Republican.

"But you've already admitted that you will only accept me if I start voting for and supporting Democrats. You also claim that you're not a racist."

Right, because I'm a Democrat.

"But if they're racists because, so you claim anyway, that they only accept me because I agree with them politically, why are you NOT a racist if you reject me because we disagree?"

Because, as a Democrat, I allow you to truly be yourself.

"You're not even hearing yourself. You've said repeatedly that you WON'T allow me to be myself and still accept me. I have to start saying things you agree with first."

Once you start agreeing with me, you can be an authentic black.

"How on earth can that be true? You're white! How does agreeing with another white person make me more authentic? Listen, until I told you my political persuasion you were all ready to accept me. You apparently believed I was an authentic black until then. Now you accuse me of being self-loathing, an Uncle Tom with Stockholm syndrome. And all because my political leanings differ from what you, a white person, believe they should be. So now, until I change my political leanings to be more like yours, a white person, you will reject me and see me as "not authentic." And yet you want to call Republicans racist!"

I'm gonna stop the conversation here because it's just gonna go in circles. The core principles are this: Democrats, especially white ones, are always exempt from charges of racism, even when they openly display it, such as ripping on blacks who "escape the plantation". Republicans, on the other hand, are racist no matter what.

I still can't believe the lengths liberals go to to justify this, and they can't even see it!

I'm a Racist, You're a Racist, We're ALL Racist Now

I am so tired of talking about racism. I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of it being a word that still exists. I'm tired of people making an issue out of race even when there is no race issue happening.

I'm tired of people turning non-racial situations racial just because a person of color was involved. Take the Martin/Zimmerman case. Now, whether or not Trayvon was innocently wandering home (he wasn't; he was darting between houses and staring intently at a couple of them) and whether or not George Zimmerman followed him with intent to shoot (he didn't; he followed Martin to get a better idea of where he was headed so that he could tell the 911 operator where Martin was), the fact remains that this wasn't a case of a racist white guy shooting an unarmed, completely innocent black kid because he saw the black skin and hoodie and decided the kid deserved to die. He didn't even draw his gun until that "little kid" (who was taller, stronger and quicker than Zimmerman) was on top of him pounding his head into the pavement, and even then he screamed for help first.

But none of that matters to the race-baiters of today; the Al Sharptons, the Jesse Jacksons, the Ben Jealouses. All that matters to them is that Trayvon Martin was black, and George Zimmerman is "white" (even though he's not; he's mixed-race with black, white and primarily Hispanic heritage, and looks every inch the Hispanic. If he counts as white because his father was, then Barack Obama is white because his mother was). If Zimmerman had been a black man and Trayvon Martin was EITHER color, this story would never have made it past local news. It certainly wouldn't have been touched by Sharpton, Jackson, the NAACP or the Black Panthers. And it never should have anyway, because race was NOT a factor in the incident.

Whether or not you think Zimmerman's actions were appropriate, the fact is that the story spread is full of misrepresentation and outright lies. The best article that shows all this can be read here, but I'll give a few details here. First, the area Zimmerman lived in had many black families living in it, so it's not possible that Zimmerman saw a black man and decided "he doesn't belong here so he must be up to no good." There had been a series of break-ins in the area and the B&E artists had been seen on several occasions. They were young black males. Zimmerman saw a tall, muscular black man (not a small, cherubic-looking child). The man was behaving suspiciously, as I outlined above. It was Trayvon's BEHAVIOR, not his skin color, that caused Zimmerman to get on the horn to 911. What's strange is that if Zimmerman intended to scare, confront, shoot, wound or kill Martin, why on earth would he call 911 first? No anti-Zimmerman protester can answer that one.

I'll leave the rest of what happened to the article I linked to, and I encourage you to read it because it really puts into perspective just why the jury could have found Zimmerman innocent of murder. Now, I'm not putting Zimmerman on a pedestal. He's no saint. I understand he is twice divorced and was once arrested for battery. Plus, he's a liberal Democrat who voted for Barack Obama.

I was kinda joking with that last one, but it does go toward my next point, which is that, whatever Zimmerman's other sins may be, there is nothing in his past or present to indicate that he has a problem with black people, or a history of getting out his gun willy-nilly. If I had been in Zimmerman's shoes that night, I would have called 911 as well. The only thing I would have done differently is stay in my car, and even Zimmerman has said that's what he should have done.

But ultimately, in the eyes of the media, any among the public who ate it up, and especially people like Sharpton, George Zimmerman wasn't a man being put on trial. He was an ideal being tried and convicted by the court of public opinion. Sharpton wanted Zimmerman sent to death row (either legally, or by mob justice) not because he was convinced Zimmerman was racist, but because he could use Zimmerman to paint all white people as racist, the same game he's been playing for decades.

A Hispanic man named George Zimmerman who lived in a mixed race neighborhood, took a black girl to prom, has black relatives and even took up the cause of a black homeless man unjustly beaten by cops, was never the one on trial. Instead, the idea of George Zimmerman, whose name might as well have been Whitey Whiteman, a white racist hair-trigger who shot a black kid for being black was the one on trial. This man only existed in the minds of Sharpton and those like him, and those they misled. And he was a stand-in for every white person in America.

I'm white. I was on trial. If you're white, you were on trial, too. And we weren't on trial for murder, at least not in the minds of the Sharptons out there. Whitey Whiteman was on trial for being white and daring to be the survivor in an altercation with a black man. Because Whitey Whiteman is a racist. You and me, we're all Whitey Whiteman, and we're all racists.

Now, you may be saying to yourself "but I'm not a racist! I was hoping for a conviction! Plus I have black friends!" But that's the problem. You say that last part, and it just proves you're racist. In fact, the more you try to prove you're not a racist, the more racist the Sharptons of this world are sure you are. For that matter, you're racist if you don't have black friends. You're racist if you happen to have to cross the street and a black man happened to be walking your way when you did. You're racist for moving to a primarily white neighborhood because you wanted to be closer to your job. You're racist if you apply for a job that a black person has also applied for, and you get it instead of him. You're racist if you pass a black stranger on the street and don't look him in the eye. You're VERY racist if you DO look him in the eye.

So, how do people like Bill Maher or Chris Matthews NOT be tainted as racists, despite the fact that both have said blatantly racist things? Simple; they vote Democrat, support Obama, and make it clear that they hate themselves for being white.

Let me share a personal tale about racism. Once upon a time I was hired at a job that employed a pretty healthy mix of races. The guy who owned it was Oriental. Board members were Arabic, East Indian, Oriental and black. None were white. Among the employees at my level, a few were white, a few were Indian and a couple were black. My immediate supervisor was white, but I rarely actually saw her. At no point did I feel uncomfortable about working there.

A few months after I was hired, I noticed that one of the black employees that I worked with semi-frequently stopped speaking to me. I wasn't sure why, but I let it go. A short while after that, I was called into my supervisor's office and told that there was a formal complaint lodged against me. At first they asked me if I had any idea why that would be. I had no clue. I was upset, because I couldn't think of a single incident where I might have caused offense, and if there had been there surely wasn't any intent. The supervisor then explained that it was the black co-worker I mentioned above who had lodged the complaint. I then realized that was why she was no longer speaking to me, but I still had no idea what I had done to cause offense. I had worked several shifts with her before she had clammed up, and we had always gotten along before then. We had laughed, joked and shared stories. I wouldn't say we were friends but we were colleagues who worked well together, before she suddenly refused to acknowledge my presence.

It turned out, the SINGLE incident that caused her to lodge a complaint, and turned me in her mind from a friendly co-worker to a hostile one, happened during a call I was taking with a client where I was asked a question I didn't know the answer to. I put the client on hold briefly and asked the other two people in the room, the black co-worker who was sitting several seats away and a white co-worker who was closer. The black co-worker answered first, but she was sitting far enough away that I didn't hear her answer. I asked her to repeat herself, but before she could, the white co-worker, in a louder voice despite the fact that he was seated closer, answered instead, saying the same thing she said. He likely just wanted to make sure I heard it. Considering I had the client on hold, I said a general thank-you to both of them and went back to my call. The incident was such a nothing situation to me that it never occurred to me, even when I learned it was she who lodged a complaint, that she might have taken my actions as anything other than that I didn't hear her the first time. But no, she was convinced that I had deliberately decided to listen to the white person, and ignore her, because I was racist.

Now, I ask you, does any of the above sound like a racist action to you? Have you ever been guilty of not hearing what a black person said? Apparently, in any situation like that, if the first speaker is black, well then, congratulations, you're a racist!

Now, here's the thing. I didn't want to be the cause of trouble in the office, so I voluntarily went to her, explained what had happened and said I was very sorry for any hurt I had caused. She seemed to accept that, but still didn't look happy. After that, she didn't ignore me anymore, but she treated me like every action I took was suspect and wrong. Once, after that incident, I said something to her that was work-related, but made the cardinal sin of not addressing her by name. Later, when she was the only other person in the room, she cast a harsh glare at me and growled; "My name is [name withheld]" in a tone that suggested that the very fact that I had not said her name while speaking a very short sentence was a racist act. Later she and I were the only two people working on shift, and she was the senior. I had to go to the bathroom. I should explain that the job I was at didn't give formal breaks, and you basically snuck away whenever the work flow died down for a bit. So, I went to the bathroom during a slow period. Apparently, it got busy before I came back, so she decided to write me up for "abandoning" her and making her do all the work. I told her to go ahead, because I knew this time that I had done no wrong and that she had just decided that she had a problem with me. Nothing came of the incident. I'm pretty sure the supervisors understood by then what the real story was.

So let me ask you; who was being racist there? According to Sharpton, I am by default the racist, and at the very least I probably deserved to be fired, if not sued for millions of dollars in emotional damage. And all because ONE TIME I couldn't hear something she had said and someone else beat her to the clarification.

Would I be a rational person if I decided that every time a person of color appeared to be slighting me (whether or not they actually were), that this was absolute proof of "reverse" racism, and I decided to treat the person accordingly from there on out? Do any of you reading this, regardless of your color, think she was in any way justified to lodge complaints and treat me as she did?

Since my teens I've worked in a variety of jobs, and with a wide variety of people. I've worked with Protestants, Catholics,  atheists, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, practicing Jews, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, men, women, senior citizens, very young people, heterosexuals, homosexuals, people who loved to drink and talk about drinking, people who got offended very easily, people who got a kick out of causing offense, and, of course, every racial group or nationality imaginable. At NO OTHER POINT was I accused of any form of discrimination by ANY of them on ANY grounds.

Again, I ask, do you think the incident described was in any way a racial slight by me? Do you think the lady in question was justified? Do you think that whether or not there was any intent on my part to slight her, the mere fact that she felt slighted still makes me the racist bad guy?

Or do you think she was the one being racist? Now, some of you are probably laughing at the very idea, even if you don't think I was being racist. After all, racism is white people hating black people, isn't it?

No. It's not. And it never has been.

Racism is what you call it when you consider a person's skin color before you consider anything else about them. If you walk into a room and note its racial content before you note anything else, you're a racist. If you are in a small group of people and it matters to you whether or not they're a different skin color from you, you're a racist. If you watch a TV show and notice that most or all of the characters in the cast are the same race, and that bothers you, you're a racist. If you hear about a black kid getting shot by a non-black and you think "of course, because this country is so racist", it is YOU who are the racist. If a person of a different skin color than you does something that offends you, and you decide that they did it on purpose just because you're not the same race they are, you're a racist. Even if it turns out that they DID offend you because they don't like your race, it doesn't make you any less racist that you assumed it before you had the facts. It just means you're both racists.

And, for that matter, if you think black comedians are hilarious when they make fun of white people, you're a racist. If you like it when movies make white people into the idiots or villains because white people deserve it, you are a racist. If you are a boss who hires a less qualified black person over a more qualified white person because you want more people of color among your employees, you're a racist, even if you're white yourself. If you assume your black co-worker must be a great dancer/basketball player/lover without watching him dance or play, or sleeping with him, you're a racist. If you know nothing about two candidates for office other than that one is black and the other is white, and you vote for the black guy because you like the idea of more black people in office, you're a racist. If you continue to praise and love a terrible failure of a politician because they're black, you're REALLY racist.

And of course, all of that is still true if you reverse the colors. Because racism doesn't mean hating black people. It may not even involve hate at all.

Ever heard the phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations"? It's not a very commonly heard phrase these days but it is probably the most prevalent form of racism in America today. It's the attitude that we should hold people of color to a different standard based on nothing but their race. And don't tell me it's because of abuse they suffered in the past. Unless they're still suffering that same abuse today, and they're not, you're basing it on nothing but their skin color.

"Oh, but they are still suffering today!" shout the racists reading this. These are the people who look at cities like Baltimore or Detroit, cities that are violent, dangerous urban wastelands, and declare that it must be white hatred of blacks that have forced so many of them to live in places like this. It can't be because the black inhabitants of these cities are for the most part racists themselves, and continue live there because they've been told that to do otherwise is "trying to be white" and being "a traitor to your race." They look at the fact that there are so many black people in prison and shout "victims of white racism!", without ever considering that those black people are in prison because they're actually criminals, and some of them are definitely racist criminals who mug and kill white people for being white.

Many black people freely use terms like "race traitor", "Uncle Tom", "House N----r", etc. and freely describe self-made, well-educated successful black people as "trying to be white", which of course is a horrible thing, even worse than gunning each other down. Just imagine for a moment if white people did that. Would we be racist for that attitude? Of course we would.

Black people with this attitude hold each other down, tell each other that success is wrong or to go work and live among white people is "trying to be white" and that makes them "Uncle Toms". They shoot each other in gang wars, impregnate and then leave their women, force their children to grow up without fathers. And they call any black person who wishes to escape that lifestyle race traitors? It's they who are the race traitors, and racists to boot.

Al Sharpton once said: "White folks was [sic] in caves while we was [sic] building empires.... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." For some reason, when a black man says this, it's not called racist (or homophobic). This statement basically makes Al Sharpton the black Fred Phelps. But for some reason, he gets his own show on MSNBC and personal invitations to the White House, and nobody goes on TV and calls him what he is; a horrible, evil, homophobic, racist monster.

Back to the soft bigotry of low expectations. Ever heard of Affirmative Action? Of course you have. Affirmative Action is the practice of hiring in the work place and accepting into colleges and Universities a certain percentage of black workers and students. They do this, ostensibly, to level the playing field. The underlying message is that black people cannot succeed without the help of benevolent white people. Somehow, this means that a black man who uses the system to get ahead is less of an Uncle Tom than a self-made black man. Huh? Which one accepted the hand-out from white people?

Affirmative Action may as well call itself Affirmative Bigotry. Sanctioned Low Expectations. Because that's exactly what it is. It keeps black people in a victim mentality, decided that the only way they CAN succeed is to work the system, or just simply ignore the system and stay poor and living in violent, drug-infested war zones. It sets a different set of standards for black people, telling them that they don't have to work hard or better themselves; the system will choose whether or not you succeed and you definitely don't have to succeed on your own merits. And now, a man who coasted through his life using his race to get ahead and never learning more than he wanted to learn, never bettering himself, is president of the United States. The message that the first black president should have sent is "It doesn't matter what your skin color is, you can work hard and achieve anything." Instead it was "milk your race to the system and you can coast your way along, even to the White House." The black population may not acknowledge that about Obama, but they see it. Don't tell me they don't. That's why since Obama has been elected, racial tension has only been heightened.

It's easy to just simply call white people racist and blame that on everything, and the biggest problem is, it's worked so far. But the good news is, it can't keep working. More and more, people are waking up and realizing that the problem isn't that they're racists. It's that racist black people, who feel completely justified in their racism, wish to keep the race war going.

Liberals and the Double-Standard. Again.

In order to understand the liberal double-standard, all one needs to do is imagine the current crop of liberal democrats reacting to exactly the same situation as is happening, but flip the sides.

Imagine, if you will, that it was discovered that the IRS during the Bush years had begun harassing any group that could be tied to liberal causes, demanding that in order to secure funding, they had to turn over donor records and answer a series of increasingly invasive questions that no one should have to answer. Imagine that any group that was deemed "liberal" by the IRS had their applications held up for months as answers to more and more deeply invasive questions are demanded of them, all while conservative groups get their applications fast-tracked.

Picture a congress who stone-walls the liberal groups who petition them, and tells them it's their own fault for having dared apply. Picture a group of stone-faced Republican congressmen sloughing off these concerns by suggesting that these liberal groups are "highly political" and that they're "just trying to hide how much money they're making", or even making the asinine statement that somehow being tax-exempt is the same as being funded by tax-payers (hello, Jim McDermott, tax-exempt means they get by on charitable donations, not tax dollars, idiot) and therefore heavy scrutiny is just routine. Imagine they're being told this while groups that openly advocate for George W. Bush see no delays whatsoever in receiving their tax-exempt status.

Because that's what happened yesterday, and what has been happening for the last four or five years, only in reverse. It's conservative groups that were held up, delayed, asked questions the IRS had no right to ask, and yesterday it was they who were told that the delays and questions were due to the groups' "highly political" nature, they who were told that their groups, unlike all those liberal tax-exempt groups, don't represent "the public good", and therefore it was their fault for all this scrutiny because they dared to apply.

Meanwhile it was the Democrats talking out of both sides of their mouth, both claiming that the actions of "a few rogue IRS agents" were deplorable, but that the conservative groups deserved them.

And that's one of THREE scandals to hit recently.

Now, the press has repeatedly acted as if there is no scandal here, and the other two aren't scandals, either (even if they're struggling mightily to justify the AP phone tapping). But think for a moment how the press reacted any time George W. Bush so much as sneezed. Think about the immediate reaction of the press during the Bush years whenever ANYTHING bad happened. 9/11? That's Bush's fault! (Maybe he even planned it!) Hurricane Katrina? It's Bush's fault that people weren't evacuated in time even though it's a state-level responsibility and the Louisiana governor actually told Bush that no help was needed and not to send anyone.

If a fly farted on the wall of a school room, the teacher would call it an example of failed Bush policies. The only difference is, she still would, and Bush hasn't been president in four and a half years!

If you truly believe Benghazi, for example, isn't Obama's fault, ask yourself, if it happened during the Bush years, would it be Bush's fault? Of course it would! Don't lie to yourself! Bush was at fault for EVERYTHING bad that happened.

Bush planned 9/11, Bush failed to capture the terrorists responsible, the war on terror was going badly, the economy stunk and so did the unemployment rate of 5.2%, taxes were too high and spending was out of control. All Bush's fault.

Benghazi, however, isn't Obama's fault, and neither was the BP oil spill (somehow that was Bush, too), Obama personally captured Osama bin Laden, and the fact that he waited for two weeks to give the order to proceed means nothing (same with the fact that it was the very enhanced interrogation techniques he derided that got the info on where he was), and Obama has killed at least as many civilians with his drone strikes as Bush's war ever did. Now, Obama has declared the war on terror "over", and he liked to claim Al Queda is "on the run", which is why he had to call Benghazi something other than a terrorist attack and had to pin blame on a clearly not responsible youtube video. After all, the only other option was to admit that Al Queda is far from "on the run". The economy is worse and joblessness is at all-time high. But hey, look, Obama just created 12,000 jobs! Forget that it was millions of jobs that were lost. Taxes are higher and spending is through the roof; Obama has spent more in his first term than Bush did in two.

...But that's not his fault. He's still a great president.

He's apparently so great a president that anything bad that happens in his term just has to be someone else's fault. Has to be. He never ordered the IRS to target conservative groups! It must have been rogue agents. He didn't tell the DOJ to monitor AP's phone records and pursue a criminal investigation of a reporter for the "crime" of doing his job just because he worked for Fox News! Even the Attorney General was unaware of that! And forget that his signature is on the order.

All you have to do is replace the names. Put Bush were it says Obama, et al. Now do you see how ridiculous Obama's defenders look? Do you think for one minute anyone would buy it if Bush had been caught in the same scandals currently plaguing Obama and tried to suggest that the first he heard of it was on the news? Do you think for one minute that he wouldn't be blamed for Benghazi, or even suggested to have planned it? Do you think for one minute that it wouldn't be said that as Commander in Chief, he's responsible for what his IRS and DOJ do?

You don't think it would be blown up into the story of the year if Bush's DOJ was caught targeting an MSNBC reporter for criminal prosecution for the "crime" of trying to get a good lede on a story? You don't think Bush would be raked over the coals if it was his IRS that was targeting groups like Organizing for Action or Media Matters for America (both of whom make more money in a day than the groups that were targeted do in a year, and are overtly political)? And I can tell you right now he'd be blamed for Benghazi 100%.

Are you starting to get a picture of why we keep talking about a double standard? For liberals, it's okay as long as a liberal does it. It's not okay if a conservative does it. Nothing is.

Something Obama, and All His Supporters, Need to Remember

Much has been made of how Obama is the first President since 1956 years to get elected twice with over 50% of the vote. Left alone, that figure seems pretty impressive. After all, even Reagan and Clinton, both of whom were much loved by their respective parties and many in the other parties, couldn't manage this.

However...

Multiple news sources have reported that a much smaller electorate came out to vote than is normal. Yes, the 2000 was smaller (54%), as voters on neither side could muster up enthusiasm for their candidate, but in this really heated election, only 57% of eligible voters got excited enough to come out and vote.

Now, I still wonder if all votes that went to Obama were legit, but nearly everyone who's looked into this (on both sides) suggests that if there were fraudulent votes cast for Obama, there weren't enough of them to really turn the tide. However, I keep hearing reports that there were numerous counties where the number of votes exceeded the number of eligible citizens from those counties, and it's a plain fact that every state that required voter ID went to Romney. That last in particular keeps screaming at me.

But I'm not gonna call shenanigans, mainly because I have been poking fun at conspiracy theorists on the left for years, and I'm sure I don't look any better doing it myself. But the fact remains; only 57% of eligible voters actually voted in 2012.

So, when Obama supporters talk about how "loved" he is, and that he's the first president in over fifty years to get 50+% of the vote twice, they need to remember that he's only "loved" by 51% of 57% of the country. That explains why even though he won, it's still possible to drive from one coast to another, and one border to the other, and not even drive through a county that went to Obama, much less a state. To be honest, I'm not even sure the 29% of the country that actually voted for Obama "loves" him; they just didn't like Romney. Oh, sure, the liberal establishment voted for Obama, but rank-and-file voters? No, I can't believe they voted out of loyalty. They just got afraid their welfare, free healthcare, Obamaphone, etc. would be taken away if Obama lost.

So what happened to the other 43%? What kept them from voting? Well, some blame voter apathy. Not me; I blame voter despair. The fact is that as much as I, and others, talked about Romney morphing into a viable candidate, he never inspired much enthusiasm among the electorate. Many said he was as bad as Obama. Others said that he may not be as bad, but he wouldn't be appreciably different. I don't know, perhaps he wouldn't have been. Many are tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, and don't want to vote at all until they can vote for someone they believe in, and not just as a stop-gap measure. They're tired of establishment types who could never, even at gunpoint, truly relate to them and understand their issues. Obama could fire up people who were afraid their free ride would end, or just were afraid of Republicans in general. Romney simply didn't have the same ability to motivate voters.

The problem, as I've said before, is that Republicans can't look past the next election. Already I hear people talking about who can run in 2016 that will inspire the voters; why aren't they talking about inspiring people RIGHT NOW? You can't tuck your tale between your legs for every two-to-four-year period and then try to get people excited for a brief period, just long enough to convince them they should vote for you. We don't have many fighters on our side, and we're apparently trying to get rid of the few we do have. Allen West, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy; we should be rallying behind these people and anyone of like mind who are fighting for the conservative cause, not just trying to get a career in Washington. And we should start fighting NOW, not when there's an election at stake.

We can start by impeaching the guy who just squeaked back into office thanks to a mere 29% of the country. Since his re-election, Obama has behaved as if he's invincible, what with the attempted gun grab, openly slagging his opposition using more open rhetoric than before (he used to act like Repub's were just curmudgeons; now he openly calls them the enemy), the IRS scandal, etc. He does this, I assume, while believing that enough people will blindly worship him that he can do whatever he wants. This is not true, but it could be if good men and women continue doing nothing.

Has Obama Finally Over-reached Himself?

Battered spouses. We've all met a few. They stick by their man as he ignores her, smears her and cheats on her. He may even beat her a few times. But eventually they snap. There's the odd story you hear of a woman just up and shooting her husband (or cutting off his...Bobbit). Far more common are the spouses who wake up and realize that they're slowly losing themselves. "I wasn't me anymore; I'd lost everything that made me who I am." And then they leave him.

Sometimes it's just a bunch of instances piling up, and sometimes it's one thing; one straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back. "After that, I realized I couldn't do it anymore." It happens usually when the husband becomes so complacent, so sure that his wife will always support him no matter what he does, that he ends up finally crossing that last line; the one that wakes the wife up. Maybe he was always verbally abusive and disloyal, but never hit her, until the day his abuse ceased to be just words and became a physical blow. Maybe he beat her regularly, but this time he put her in the hospital. Maybe she accepted his beating her (on some level may even have felt that it was her fault) but turned on him when he started beating the kids, too. Maybe she was able to live with anything he did as long as no one else knew, but then he either beat her in public or another woman announced she was pregnant with his kid.

Whatever the case may be, the battered spouse that is the media has been putting up with its husband Obama's abuse and disloyalty for years now. Obama would never have gotten where he is without the media, and on some level, they know it. They buried his past and told America that it didn't matter when he was running for president the first time. All the while, they played up the foibles and odd past of John McCain and Sarah Palin, all while suggesting we pay no attention to that Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright or Frank Marshall Davis or Tony Rezko behind the curtain. They failed to ask him any hard questions, openly fawning over him, even helping him destroy Hillary Clinton.

Once their initial mission (get Obama elected) was accomplished, they moved on to phase two; protect him at all costs. They covered for Cash for Clunkers, a failed program that they insisted "worked". They talked up the Stimulus, another failed program that they, along with the Administration, claimed "worked". They praised Obamacare to the high heavens, acting as if it was the answer to everything, including unemployment. As for unemployment, they acted like that was no big deal, and faithfully reported that it was still at 8%, not counting those who had quit looking for work and had gone on welfare.

When one of the biggest scandals to ever happen to a sitting president first hit the blogs, the main press first tried ignoring it entirely, and then later acted as if it wasn't, couldn't be, the scandal that "the Right" was insisting it was. Of course, I'm talking about Fast & Furious. The fact that at least Eric Holder, if not Obama himself, isn't sitting in a jail cell right now awaiting his trial for treason to begin is a testament to just how thoroughly the Obama-obsessed media managed to make this story go away; a story that should have been front-page news. Of course, had it been, Holder, and likely Obama, would be completely done for, and if Obama managed to escape trial, he would have at least been made to look like a fool, and people would have started asking the wrong questions. It would have unquestionably cost him the election. So, like the faithful spouse they were, the same media that played up 9/11 as though they really believed the Truthers (all while denying they did) and talked endlessly about Hurricane Katrina as if Bush had personally created it, refused to touch a story about the Justice Dept, with full knowledge of the Attorney General, who reports directly to the president, who just about had to have full knowledge, delivering unmarked guns to Mexican drug cartels. When they finally had to talk about it, they decided it was just the fall-out from Bush's Operation Wide Receiver, despite the fact that Wide Receiver had been done in collusion with the Mexican government (the Mexican government had ZERO knowledge of F&F), the guns were marked and tracked (there was no way to track F&F guns, and the DOJ lost them until they were found having been used as murder weapons at crime scenes), and best of all, no one died as a result of WR, while hundreds died as a direct result of F&F.

Then there was Benghazi. For several months after the embassy attack, Obama refused to call it terrorism, refused to acknowledge there were terrorists present, blamed a youtube video, even arresting the filmmaker. And the press either didn't talk about it at all, or tried to act as though it didn't matter. Some are still talking this way.

In all that, the press stuck by him, and in fact, kept sticking by them while he fooled around behind their back. He denied them answers to legitimate questions. He frequently barred them from accompanying him in circumstances that the Press Corps always had. He would often hold "press conferences" where he would refuse to take questions. He even trash-talked "the media" in general when one or two "mainstream" journalists actually dared to ask questions that he was uncomfortable answering.

But now he may have gone too far, and the press is finally starting to notice.

I'm not talking about how a number of credible Benghazi whistle-blowers that the press simply are unable to discredit are now coming forward.

I'm not talking about how the IRS has been caught specifically targeting conservative groups for audits (including religious groups).

I'm talking about the revelation that the DOJ has been keeping tabs on the phone records of the Associated Press. Yes, it took Obama spying on them before they'd wake up and realize what sort of monster they married.

Now Obama isn't just attacking "them". Now it's not a scandal that they can shrug off because it doesn't directly affect them. Obama has stopped merely cheating on his wife and is now beating her, and the public has witnessed it.

To use another metaphor, the media has, up until now, been Obama's partner in crime (and I don't exaggerate when I say "crime"). But all they're really guilty of is being an accessory by covering for him. When the police catch a criminal who could "rat" on some much bigger criminals, one tactic they use is to assure the perp they've caught that their partners are going down, and when they do he'll go down with them, or he can talk, and let them take the fall while he gets a lighter sentence.

The media may just be at a point where it's considering "ratting" on Obama. At this point, they have to know that their credibility has been almost irrevocably damaged by the constant ass-covering they've been forced to do to support their partner. Now, they can either go down with him, or they can start singing. Recently I think they've been deciding on the latter course.

All that's needed is for Congress to call for Obama's impeachment, which is long overdue (he could have been impeached over his Cordray appointment alone; add on F&F, Benghazi and the IRS issue and he would be impeached in short order). We'll see, if that happens, how, or if, the press chooses to cover for him.

Yet again...

...Liberals respond to a tragedy by suggesting, nay, demanding, a new law that not only would not have prevented the tragedy, but may well lead to more.

Let me tell you something, people. I hate politicizing a tragedy. I HATE it. It strikes me as sub-human. When I look at the pictures of those students and teachers who were gunned down by a maniac in Connecticut, my reaction was tears. Liberals, apparently, loved it, and immediately thought about how to use this to further their ends.

It happens all the time. It happened after the Jared Loughner shooting. It happened after the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman shooting. It happened after the Utah shooting. It happened after the shooting of people waiting in line on the day The Dark Knight Rises opened. It happened after the Jovan Belcher murder suicide. And this time, after I wiped the tears from my face, I wondered how long it would be before some idiot liberals started demanding stricter gun laws.

Now, here's the odd thing; argued emotionally, it makes sense to want to take guns off the street because of a tragedy. Hell, it makes sense to want to see all guns in the world destroyed. I confess; I don't like guns. I've never owned one, and I've certainly never shot one other than once as a teen shooting my grandpa's hunting rifle under tightly controlled circumstances, including the fact that I never pointed said gun at anything that moved. Even in those circumstances, I was a little afraid. I had pure respect and terror for the raw power of the object in my hands to end a life.

I can understand how someone who feels that way might want to take all guns off the street. But their thinking never goes beyond that. Those who mean well literally stop with "remove guns", believing that this will prevent gun violence. Being against gun violence is something anyone with a conscience simply must be, and it's easy to fall into the fallacy of believing that being against gun violence must also mean that you're against gun ownership.

The problem is that meaning well isn't the same as producing good results. The simple, practical, bare fact is that removing guns from the street will not reduce gun violence, and in fact will make things worse.

It's become an oft-repeated phrase that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Because the phrase is repeated so often, it's easy for liberals to dismiss it as an out-dated "old wives' tale" or something like that. But it's true. Gun violence is ALWAYS caused by people who have no regard for the law (any many had mental issues as well). And until the day comes when there's an outbreak of gun violence at a police convention, NRA meeting or gun show, you simply cannot say that gun violence is caused by people who love guns. In fact, some of the most gun-responsible people, some of those who know gun safety inside and out, are the very people I just named.

In the imagination of liberals, the more people who are allowed to own guns, the more there will be accidental shootings, or people who have always been gun-happy will simply get more so, and turn into full-fledged maniacs. They imagine a world where EVERYBODY has a gun, and therefore EVERYBODY IS SHOOTING EVERYBODY ELSE!! And these are just the ones that mean well!

The problem? Reality shows different. The areas of the United States where gun control is loosest, where nearly any citizen can be armed anywhere they choose to be, are without fail the areas where gun violence is lowest. Imagine that; a large number of gun owners does not equal a large number of trigger-happy freaks shooting each other.

For that matter, I'm not an old man but within my lifetime, gun ownership has fallen per capita, gun laws have gotten more and more strict, and yet gun violence has risen. How could that be possible, if the liberal take on this had even a grain of truth?

The fact is, gun violence has risen because criminals who would use guns for crime or violence feel more free to do so knowing that there is a very tiny chance the person they're attacking will be able to defend themselves. Hanging up a sign that says "This is a Gun Free Zone" is tantamount to telling criminals "Come here and shoot us all you like!" A person who would use a gun to hurt someone else is NOT a person who's going to care that there's a sign up.

Of course, this doesn't stop liberals from having their fantasies. I recall an episode of Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman (has there ever been a more liberal show) wherein Dr. Quinn's adopted son is elected sheriff of their town, and in the same episode an outlaw ends up shooting the town's bartender. Because of this ONE SHOOTING (I should remind everyone that this show takes place in the old west), the town votes to outlaw guns. Yup. In this case, they don't even let the sheriff himself have one. Realistic writing, there.

But it gets worse. This outlaw comes back, and is met by the sheriff in the town square. The sheriff says guns aren't allowed in their town, and that he has to turn his over, or leave. The criminal threatens to shoot him dead, and the sheriff tells him he can try, if he likes, but then he'll have to go through the entire town to do so. Seeing the angry looks of the townsfolk, who are each and every one of them inside houses, looking out of windows, the criminal mutters something like "You win this round" and then turns around and leaves!

WTF?! In real life, this criminal would mow down the sheriff and then pick off anyone who left those houses, one by one. It would be fish in a barrel. But to the liberals who run that show, that's how they envision a world where no one is allowed to have a gun; that their "moral high ground" will win. No, unfortunately it won't.

The fact is that if a criminal has a gun, and knows you don't, he won't hesitate to use it on you should he feel he needs to. Conversely, the more he believes you might have a gun, the less likely he is to risk attacking you, knowing you could shoot him just as easily.

Now, I know people are going to bring up the Trayvon Martin case, specifically that Trayvon Martin was unarmed. They see this as another case of a trigger-happy gun-owner murdering a defenseless boy. The problem is that according to EVERYONE who witnessed the event, Martin WAS the attacker, and likely attacked because he was a cocky young thug who was sure that Zimmerman either didn't have a gun or didn't have the guts to use it if he did. And he likely thought that due to the anti-gun messages he likely heard everywhere. Martin, again, according to witnesses, rushed Zimmerman, threw him to the ground, straddled him, and started banging his head against the pavement, and punching him in the face, all while yelling "You're going to die today". Zimmerman managed to reach his gun and fired in self-defense. If he had not been armed, Zimmerman would be dead, and Trayvon Martin would be a murderer (likely never caught or convicted).

But what do liberals advocate in the wake of such a thing? Make it harder for responsible, law-abiding citizens to get guns. NOT make it easier to defend themselves against people who would break the law; make it harder to do so. Why? Why do they never understand that this is where it simply must lead?

They can't even answer the question on the most basic level; how do you expect to enforce gun laws on people who don't follow the law? What makes you expect that laws against guns would actually take guns off the street? Do they also feel that laws prohibiting cocaine and heroin have successfully made those drugs impossible to get hold of?

But they don't ask those questions. All they want to talk about is how best to get rid of guns. All they can do is spit questions back at us: "Why do you NEED a gun?" "What types of firearms do you think SHOULD be banned? Automatic? Semi-automatic?" They don't want to dialogue about it; they just can't get off the train of thought that guns simply MUST be banned, and that will reduce gun violence.

Now, I've said a lot about people like this who mean well. Many of them probably do just want to end gun violence. They've latched onto a completely wrong-headed method of doing so, but at least their hearts are in the right place. But there's another level to this. When politicians start talking about banning guns, everyone should be very, very worried.

There are politicians out there who are seriously proposing anti-gun legislation. They don't want stricter gun laws; they want to outlaw guns. Oh, not for the police or military, obviously. Just private citizens. Which means, not only will criminals still have guns, but the government will now be the only ones who have fire-power to back up their stance.

Do you know what you call it when the only people who can carry guns are those directly authorized by the government to do so?

A dictatorship.

Destroy and Replace the Media. Now.

The so-called "mainstream" media is a huge problem in America. In fact, it's THE problem. Barack Obama is not the problem. He's just a symptom. If we could somehow prove that Obama is guilty of an impeachable offense (he's guilty of several) or that the election was won by voter fraud (I'm near certain it was), it wouldn't matter. Obama would face no consequences because A) his party is behind him 110% and B) the media will cover for him and blame Republicans like nobody's business.

The narrative in the United States is driven not by politicians, not by activists, not by protestors. It is driven by the media; print media, online media, televised media, big-screen media, music media, you name it. And I mean both "serious" news/journalism and entertainment. Every day, in some way or another, we are bombarded my liberal messages. Even if we're just watching TV, every TV show has a political angle, even those that would seem innocuous.

They're a huge part of the problem and we need to replace them. But in this post I'm gonna focus on tactics used primarily by today's "news" media. They claim to be objective (Except MSNBC, but most people don't really take them seriously). They claim they're just reporting the stories that "matter", that are "news-worthy". Of course, it is they, not the public, that decides what's "news-worthy." If Bush had been president when Benghazi happened, it would be the word on everyone's lips. However, hardly anyone knows about it, or even what we know happened, because the media won't talk about it. The same stories that the media wouldn't shut up about during Bush's term can't be touched by the same media during Obama's term. "Bush's war" killed some innocents in the crossfire? Horrific war crimes! Obama's drone strikes are killing innocents? Oh, well, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs; there's no story there. Bush "ignored" a briefing that could have prevented 9/11 (even though it could not have)? Bush is the real terrorist! Obama ignored repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi, numerous reports of terrorist activity there, and then acted as if the terrorist strike was a "spontaneous uprising" spurred by a little-seen, silly little youtube video? No story there, either, apparently.

But by now, when it comes to how Republicans are covered by the media, we all know their major tricks. They call us racists. They disparage our motives. They question our party history, apparently confusing historic Democrats for historic Republicans. Then they talk about how older Republicans of yesteryear were the true moderates, and that they wouldn't have been allowed in the party today.

But they have also begun (or could have been doing for years) lobbing a bunch of accusations or tactics against Republicans, especially those campaigning for some office or other, that just plain shouldn't work, but apparently do. These include accusations that aren't scandalous at all (or wouldn't be if it was a Democrat), or accusations of wrong-doing committed by a person not even connected to this politician. Here are just a few:

"You're rich." Code term meaning "You can't relate to the common man." The irony that most of Hollywood and the national music scene is pro-Democrat is apparently lost on any who would dare utter this ridiculous phrase. And just to show how out of touch the Democrats really are, I have heard actors, directors, singers, etc. utter those words about Republicans. Because Will Smith, Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand sure can relate to the common man. Yes, sir. Of course, even just on its face that phrase is asinine. Name a governor, senator or congressman whose income is "middle class" or average. Not only aren't there any, but seven of the top ten richest members of congress are...Democrats.

"You're white." Politics has been a Whites Only club for most of America's history--on BOTH sides. It's been within my lifetime that the face of politics is changing to include more than just one or two minorities here and there, and that's a great, wonderful thing. Or, it would be, if minority politicians didn't feel the need to play racial politics with literally every issue. Issues that have nothing at all to do with race now bring accusations of racial hatred...as long as it's a REPUBLICAN politician who's talking about them. Suddenly, talking about "Chicago", "apartments", "food stamps", "work ethic", "the constitution", et al, are racial "dog whistles". And now we've reached the point where simply being white is enough to get somebody demonizing you. Again, only if it's a Republican. Allen West lost to whiter-than-white-bread Patrick Murphy. Think even once Murphy was asked about his racial motivations for running against a black man, or that his skin color was even brought up? Nope. Now, how often were Romney and Ryan accused of racism for being white men who dared run against Obama? If you answered "every time their name was brought up in the MSM", well, duh.

"You're old." Again, like there aren't any old Democrats? For some reason, 70-year-old white man Joe Biden can, with a straight face, call the Republicans the party of old, white men. This man plans to run for president in 2016. He's said so. He'll be nearly 74 years old. That's older than John McCain was during his 2008 presidential campaign. You know, the one where the press couldn't stop bringing up his advanced age? I guarantee that even if Biden runs against a man young enough to be his son, no one in the press will bring up his age. Hell, Robert Byrd was in his 90's, and no one suggested he should give up his senate seat. Some even suggested he should run for president himself. Age only seems to matter if you're a Republican.

"You're a man." Yet again, an issue that only seems to come up when the politician or public figure in question is a Republican or conservative. It's all just a way to keep saying, even though no one really believes this, that the Republican Party is the party of "old white men." There are just as many women in the Republican Party as there are in the Democratic Party, but you'd never know it from media coverage. Any time a female Republican makes the news, the media act as if they've never seen one of these before. Despite the fact that they have to act like that several times a year.

"You're a devout christian." Ask most Democrats what religion they are, and the answer you'll get is some form of Christianity. No, I'm not suggesting that there are no atheists on their side, and in fact I think most of those who answer that they are Christians are lying in order to get votes, or answering with the name of the religion they were raised in that they haven't practiced in years. BUT! I would wager the same is true for a number of Republicans. Despite that, for some reason the religion of Republicans is a Big Deal. This is because it is true that more Republicans live their professed faith than Democrats, but by no means do they all, not to mention that Democrats are never called on how they aren't living their faith. Democrats who claim Christianity, whether they live it or not, are just fine. Republicans who do EXACTLY THE SAME are dangerous because they're "devout christians" who apparently wish to institute a theocracy and take us back to the "dark ages" (that only exist in liberal nightmares) where you can go to jail for not being a christian, or where women were kept in cages and raped by husbands who bought them, or something.

"Someone in your party said or did something bad. Repudiate it, or you're just as guilty as if you said or did it yourself." This guilt by association trick can apparently only be applied to Republicans. When Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock gave ill-advised, poorly phrased and, in Akin's case, just plain wrong statements regarding their views on rape, the media reacted with their typical selective outrage. The same media that glossed over Robert Byrd's "white n----rs" comment jumped on these two men for comments that were, ultimately, just badly put versions of the following idea: "Obviously rape is a horrible thing and we can understand why a woman who is put through that might not want to keep a child that could result from such an attack, but I feel that it is commendable for a woman to allow the child to be born, so that something good like a new life can grow from something horrible and criminal." Would that have been acceptable to the pro-choice crowd? Not on your life. Would it have made it easier to take their side? Unquestionably. However, because of how stupidly phrased the responses were, many began calling for them to drop out of the race. Quite a few people, even people I know personally, and who are usually smart, actually thought Romney didn't "condemn strongly enough" those statements. Apparently calling Akin directly and telling him to drop out (which Romney did) isn't enough of a condemnation. Of course, the media didn't care if Romney repudiated those comments or not. All they cared about was linking him to them, which they successfully did. Of course, when liberals rallied in support of Anthony "Shows Underage Girls His" Weiner, no one worried that not distancing themselves from him would hurt their own careers. When the media goes after a politician demanding he say or do something to condemn a member of his own party caught doing or saying something stupid, you can bet that politician is a Republican in the midst of a campaign, and you can guarantee that if he doesn't repudiate the other politician, or doesn't do so "strongly enough", which means whatever liberals want it to mean, they will claim that he's as guilty as if he had done it himself (ergo, Romney/Ryan were "pro-rape"). However, if they DO repudiate the person to the media's satisfaction, then:

"You repudiated what someone in your party said. Your party is hopelessly divided and cannot sustain itself." Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

"Someone in your party is corrupt, ergo your party is corrupt. Ergo you are corrupt. Prove us wrong." Sometimes the media takes it this far. If they can prove that a Republican, or even just a rich guy who donated to at least one Republican campaign at one time in his life (even if he also donated to Democrats), is corrupt, or dishonest, or whatever, then that one action taints the whole party--but only the Republican Party. Obama's complete campaign donor list remains a mystery. Who might we find on it if we were to ever see it? It's widely believed, even by many Democrats, that he received foreign campaign mony. But for some reason, if it is even suspected that a Republican candidate might have received foreign campaign contributions, instantly that person is called corrupt. Therefore, anyone in that party, including the man running for president, must also be corrupt. Then we are put in a position where we have to prove a negative. It's like the phrase "So, Congressman, when did you stop beating your wife?" Proving a negative is almost impossible, which is why the media never puts leftist candidates in that position. Using the Anthony Weiner example again; no one in the media, at any time, asked Weiner to prove it wasn't him that sent those pictures. That would have been the first question he was asked, had he been Republican.

"Your campaign has gone negative, and is being unfair and hateful." I can see this one, actually. After all, Romney accused Obama of giving a woman cancer, of out-sourcing jobs, and of not paying his taxes. Paul Ryan accused Joe Biden of wanting to kill grannies, and later, while speaking with a feigned southern accent, told a group of African Americans that the Obama campaign "gonna put y'all back in chains!" The Romney campaign accused Obama of waging a "war on women" due to their stance on the religious freedom of groups who were anti-contraception...oh, wait. I accidentally switched the names. All those actions were committed by the Obama campaign against the Romney campaign. But which campaign was accused by the media of "going negative?" That's right; Romney's. Romney was up against one of the most angry, divisive, negative campaigns the USA has ever seen, but when he called the Obama campaign out about this behavior, the media called him, yes, angry, divisive and negative. Oh, the irony.

"You're a minority, but still a member of this party. This means you're out of touch with racial issues, and the country itself." Woe betide any woman or visible minority who dares be a Republican. This statement is an obvious attempt to shame such people away from the party, or at least the public eye. Again, irony of ironies, despite the fact that the Republican party has done nothing--not one thing--that could be considered racist, other than exist, which is bad enough, apparently, they are repeatedly accused of racism (and sexism). So how to explain why we have women and minorities in our party? These people have some sort of Stockholm syndrome, apparently, or just refuse to see the racial and gender issues plaguing this country, caused by evil Republicans. I've said lots about this before, and I won't go over it all again, but it just seems odd that no one has picked up on this; first they try and scare women and minorities away from us, then they accuse us of not doing enough to reach out to these groups. Even scarier; a lot of Republicans are falling for it.

"You've spent a ton of money on this campaign. You must be trying to buy the election." Politicians spend money to win elections. That's a fact, sure as water is wet. Obama out-spent McCain in 2008, and he won. But not one word was said about him "buying" the election. This time, despite how much attention was focused on Romney's campaign spending, not one outlet reported that, although it was a narrower margin, ultimately Obama spent more than Romney. So who really bought this election?

"You are playing politics with serious issues." This whole statement, from beginning to end, is surely facetious. Surely there's no one out there who truly believes the party most guilty of "playing politics" (which is another ambiguous term that means whatever the left wants it to mean) is the Republicans. Surely not. We're talking about a party who killed the Keystone pipeline, which would have improved international relations AND created jobs, because their green-energy backers might get mad.

"You are far too focused on social issues." This is hilarious, because Romney was accused of this just as much as Bush or any other right-wing politician ever was. What was the focus of the Romney campaign? Jobs and the economy. What was the focus of the Obama campaign? Well, winning, and at any cost, which included bombarding Romney and Ryan with repeated questions about their stances on rape, abortion, contraception or gay marriage. Neither man had much to say about them because they understood that America's economy was in the toilet and that was what was important. So who was focused on social issues?

"You have aligned yourself with protestors, which makes you dangerous and unstable." This is true if you're a Republican and have in any way been associated with the Tea Party. This is NOT true if you're a Democrat and have openly supported the Occupy movement.

Goodbye, America

FUCK.

One Day More...

Could it be that by this time Wednesday morning I will be celebrating the victory of President-Elect Romney? Or will I be bemoaning another four years of the Marxist-in-Chief?

Call me optimistic, but I think it'll be the former. My real fear at this point is that Obama will do something to halt Romney's victory, not that Romney won't actually win. Obama apparently has teams of lawyers poised across the country ready to challenge any result other than an Obama win.

So, essentially, Mitt's gotta get not just a win, but a decisive one, or we could be here all week just waiting for O's lawyers to somehow conjure enough fake votes to total a win.

If it sounds like I think that most Americans have turned away from Obama, that's because I do. Romney may not have been their number one choice to replace Obama. He certainly wasn't mine. But my fear of his campaign; that he would be soft, capitulating and unwilling to fight, like McCain, have proven to be ungrounded. Romney/Ryan have run a very good campaign. If they'd run a fantastic one, like Allen West or others who didn't run probably would have, there would be no one questioning Obama's loss. The race would already have been called for the Republicans. As it stands, Mitt could still end up with a comfortable victory. America is sick and tired of Obama, and it's only uncertainty that Romney can be trusted more that keeps him from slaughtering Obama in the polls.

How can I say that when the polls either show a tied race or show Obama slightly ahead? Simple; most, if not all, of the polls that say that are following the electoral model from 2008, and in many cases juicing it up even moreso.

The Dems enjoyed a D+7 electorate in 2008. They've never had a turn-out like that, and it's not too hard to see what brought them out; they weren't just voting for a president but for the first black president, who was made out by the media (and his own campaign) to be the second coming.

Nobody thinks this electorate is really gonna be D+7. For one thing, the 2010 gubernatorial and congressional electorate was D+0 (even), and we shellacked the Dems' hold on Congress and our state governments, which should say something. Anger toward the left has only risen since then. Disgust with the current administration has climbed and climbed. Bottom line, though, is that Republican turnout is predicted by many pollsters to be MUCH higher tomorrow than in 2008, and that's very easy to believe since even these juiced polls are recording that Romney is leading Obama by double-digits among independents, and enthusiasm among those voting for Romney is a good 15% higher than among those voting for Obama. So how do these polls still manage to call Obama the winner, or at worst, say they're tied or it's too close to call?

Simple; because all these polls are over-sampling Democrats. Some of these polls have gone as wingnut-crazy left as to deliver a D+11 or even D+13 sample! That's insane. No one, not even these pollsters, honestly believe that's the electorate we're gonna get. But they keep touting it. Nate Silver, former Kos blogger (bias? surely not), is deliberately using the 2008 model to predict, uh, predictably, a comfortable Obama win. Huff 'n Puff Post and MostlySaysNothingButCrap can't stop chatting up Silver's predictions and the handful of juiced polls, mostly from Reuters, AP, CNN, CBS and other news outlets that couldn't be more obviously hoping for an Obama victory, just certain that because these polls, along with Public Policy Polling and Marist, both run by left wing think tanks like Media Matters for America, show victory for their side, that they simply can't lose.

They also tout the assurance of Joe Biden, David Axelrod, Stephanie Cutter, Jen Psaki, et al, that they feel confident of victory, as if that means something. What else are campaign officials going to say? Oh, we're so scared, we think we might lose?

Meanwhile, Gallup polls and Rasmussen polls, neither of whom over-sampled Democrats, show a pretty clear Romney victory. Michael Barone, a pundit who predicts polls as part of his job and is rarely wrong, predicts a landslide Romney victory. Ditto George Will, Karl Rove (say what you will, he predicted Obama's 2008 win), Joe Scarborough (he's never liked Romney) and numerous others, many of whom have no horse in this race, and some who were even saying they want Obama to win but have to be realistic. Those saying just as surely that they think Obama's going to win? The anchors from MostlySaysNothingButCrap. Bias? Surely not.

Right now, the "battleground" states are New Hampshire (4 electoral votes), Virginia (13), North Carolina (15), Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Iowa (6), Colorado (9) and Nevada (6).

Now, of these "battleground" states, Romney is leading or tied (according to those Dem-heavy polls) in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio and Colorado. 80% of Coloradans have already voted, and the state is looking decisively Romney-red, so I'm giving it to him. Again, those Dem-heavy polls have Obama just squeaking by with a narrow victory in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Nevada. Some polls put him behind in Iowa and ALL polls show Romney leading independents there. Personally I think Obama will lose Iowa.

I also think that the evangelical vote, which a lot of pollsters have ignored, will swing widely in Mitt's favor, thanks to Obamacare's contraception mandate, which could easily deliver Ohio and Iowa to Romney. Obama's hold on New Hampshire is tenuous enough that it could easily slip through his grasp, as many are predicting.

So of those "battleground" states, the smart money is on Mitt taking all of those states with the possible exceptions of Pennsylvania and Nevada. HOWEVER! New polling, plus the fact that the Obama campaign sees the need to still campaign and run ads in Pennsylvania, as well as (I'm not kidding), Michigan, Wisconson and MINNESOTA (again, not kidding!) shows that those states are in play as well! Romney/Ryan are campaigning and running ads in those states, which they would not do if they didn't see those states as being in play. Even realclearpolitics.com lists them as toss-ups, even if some pollsters won't go that far. Mitt leads independents in all these states comfortably, plus Wisconsin's recall vote last year went to Scott Walker, when most polls showed him behind, says that Wisconsin may be going more red than we've previously thought. Could Mitt take those states as well? I'm not counting on it, but he could take one or two of them.

But let's be generous. Let's just say that all the states currently leaning O's way (even though his lead in all of them is less than 5 points, or he's losing or tied, even in the juiced polls) will go to him. Let's just give him Pennsylvania, Nevada, and the Northern Firewall of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. That still leaves 146 electoral votes up for grabs and Mitt seems to be heading toward winning 72 of them, while Obama has 30 of them within his grasp. 18 of them are still genuinely up for grabs, and whoever wins them, wins the election. For those keeping count, I've just awarded Obama 257 electoral votes and Mitt 263. If O takes Ohio, he'll win with 275 electoral votes. If Mitt does, he wins with 281. Hell, let's be super-generous and give Iowa to Obama. Still it all comes down to who wins Ohio.

And Mitt is easily in a place where he could.

I'll be honest; I think I'm being too generous to Obama. I don't think he'll take Iowa OR Ohio. I also think he stands to lose Wisconsin and New Hampshire. His lead in NH, even with juiced polls, is too slim, and anecdotal evidence like crowd size at speeches, number of Romney/Ryan signs vs. Obama/Biden signs, lead among independents, and other stuff it's hard to totally calculate, we could potentially be looking at a Romney landslide. For that matter, knowing how juiced the polls are in Obama's favor, if we give Romney every state where Obama's lead is less than 5 points, Mitt wins with 337 electoral votes! Some pundits are even predicting it WILL happen.

I won't go that far. I'll stick to a Romney win with 281 electoral votes, 275 at minimum, with minimum 53% of the popular vote. But I know if the vote is any closer than that, Obama will contest it. He will not go quietly.

Four years ago, I started blogging because I was angry that America could have fallen so far that we would willingly vote in a man so obviously hateful of America and all she stands for, just because he was black. Wednesday morning, when I type either a large "YES!" I will probably stop blogging, or slow down significantly. Life just keeps getting in the way of blogging. I'm getting married, I have children, and I have a career. But if O keeps his stranglehold on America, I will not give up the fight. If anything, my blogging will increase.

I will leave you with one thought; Right up to the day of voting, the 1980 race was dubbed "too close to call". Reagan won 485 electoral votes. In 1984 the media speculated that he might have more of a challenge, and lose some states. He won again, this time with 524. George W. Bush, who was neck and neck with Gore, won with 285 electoral votes. The media suggested he would be trounced by Kerry, but he won again with 292. Every time a Republican wins, it's to the surprise of the media, who insisted the polls proved a Democrat win, or at least a toss-up.

We'll see you back here Wednesday morning with the results.

What Will Happen When Our Problems Don't Vanish Upon Romney's Election?

John Hawkins's latest article. Read it. Then read this.

Hawkins isn't wrong, and it's not entirely unthinkable that Romney won't solve these problems. It's reasonable to assume that once he's in power, he may even ignore some of these problems.

But I am confident that no matter what he does in regards to the issues Hawkins points out, Romney will do a better job handling any of them and all of them, than will Barack Obama.

Why? Because the last four years have shown that Obama won't do ANYTHING to solve them, but the liberal media will ignore them for his sake. So, if he gets another term, we can count on all those problems to get worse, we can count on the president ignoring them, and we can count on the media ignoring the president ignoring them.

But the article also serves as a nice preemptive strike when it comes to what's going to happen should it be Romney who's victorious on Tuesday.

That is, the media will finally start acknowledging that these problems exist, and begin hand-wringing that Romney isn't the man to take care of them. And if these problems haven't disappeared on day one of Romney's presidency (and they won't), then the media will immediately call him a failed president who did not live up to the job.

Remember how often leftists demanded we leave Obama alone during his first 100 days in office during the early part of next year. At this point, I believe Romney has a very strong chance of winning (though nothing is set in stone), and if he does, I firmly believe that he will be excoriated strongly by the very same people who called us racist, angry, violent, dangerous people because Obama had only just taken office, so we couldn't judge him.

Think they'll show the same courtesy and respect they demanded we show then? Not hardly. Romney will become the punching bag for all the problems still facing the USA. These issues won't go away overnight. No, I don't think it takes more than a single term to turn them around and I think if Romney can't get us on the path to significant change by the middle of his first term, then there's a problem. But because these issues are many, and hard to solve, I know, I don't just think, that the same media, and the same rank-and-file Obama supporters, who are currently pretending things are good, or at least better, will suddenly realize all these problems exist and begin wailing that they're unsolvable, or at least, that Romney hasn't waved a wand and solved them overnight.

You watch and see.

Personally I really think conservatives aught to take advantage of the fact that so many common Americans are starting to self-identify as conservatives and Republicans again, and do something about this corrupt media. Protests might work, but massive campaigns promoting conservatives to become journalists, writers, etc. and find other ways to enter the media, and promote the media they make, will have a more lasting effect. Something's gotta be done about these bastards. They more than anything are what's harming America today.

VP Debate 2012: Mr. Smith vs. Leslie Neilsen

A while back, I said that we need a candidate willing to get onstage and laugh at the Obama administration. Apparently Joe Biden read that and decided to get the jump on it by laughing at his opponent. But he got it wrong.

Joe, I wasn't suggesting that you laugh when your opponent talks about YOUR ADMINISTRATION's response to a terrorist attack. See, if you laugh at the other guy's absurd claims about his own record, or bizarre claims of racism from your side, that's one thing. Laughing about dead people? Not cool. Not cool at all.

Joe Biden, even to his own party, came off as dismissive, arrogant, jerkish, and un-serious. While Paul Ryan looked like an honest, open, earnest, serious young Mr. Smith (of Mr. Smith goes to Washington), Biden looked like Leslie Neilsen at his most obnoxious. This wasn't Leslie Neilsen in Airplane!. This was Neilsen in Spy Hard.

Now, I won't say that Paul Ryan did a 100% job. He gave a couple of weak answers here and there. Nothing approaching Obama's non-performance at last week's debate, but a couple of blunders. Light stuff. I could point out that it was his first debate ever and that Biden was an old hand at this, but I won't make any excuses, and besides, he doesn't need them. Weak moments aside, I saw a man that, at 42, is already more ready to be president than Obama was at 47. I can tell you right now, after watching this debate, that 2020 has a VERY promising incumbent VP Presidential candidate.

Just Show Up and You'll Win: Obama Believes His Own Bullshit

Obama has declared before "You know, I actually believe my own bullshit".

Anyone who hears this story will find out that the president wasn't just kidding. He actually does believe his own bullshit.

Ever see a pre-schooler at a T-ball hit three strikes but walk from the plate smiling because he just hit the ball three times? You know, the ball that's sitting there right in front of him, on a poll, not moving? Well, that's Obama after last Wednesday's debate.

Apparently he believed all he had to do was show up, and he'd win. Worse yet, he still believed that after he strode from the podium, not seeing the fresh, steaming helping of his own ass that Romney had just handed him.

I can just hear it now "Oh, yeah, I'm the man. All I have to do is be here, and I've wrapped up this whole election. I rule. I RULE! Another four years! Heck, maybe during my fifth year I can get someone to lobby to overturn the 22nd amendment. And because I want it, I know it will happen. I'm the king, baby. Hail to the king."

This pic is funny, but apparently not accurate. It would be, if Obama lived in the same reality that everyone else does.

Even Obama's staunchest supporters immediately declared that the debate was a drubbing. Mitt Romney ate Obama's lunch, and watching guys like Chris Matthews or Andrew Sullivan melt down over it has been hilarious. Remember how Obama was "sort of God", or that he gave Chris Matthews a "thrill up his leg", so much so that he "forgot [Obama] was black"?

That's the effect you get when Obama is placed in a setting where he can hold court; where no one can challenge what he says, and when everything he wants to say is on a teleprompter. I also think it's funny that some of his supporters are now arguing that teleprompters should be allowed during debates. I wish I was making that up, but I'm not. This is how mindless liberals are.

For the last four years, Obama has enjoyed as president the same environment he has enjoyed his whole life; the environment where he will always be reassured that he's the smartest person in the room. Everything is handed to him; he got every "job" he's held because of how he was able to cultivate this image of a smart young black man. In interviews, no one asks him tough questions, and in the one interview he granted FOX news, he was visibly irritated that he wasn't allowed to just quote platitudes and get off lightly. That's what he was used to, and that's what he expected.

Notice that the more openly controversial his decisions became, the more he held "press conferences" where he refused to take questions, even from the liberal media? Obama can't handle being challenged.

He also carries with him the innate belief that he'll always win because he is who he is. This was clear to those non-racists who saw past his skin-color from the get-go, but now it's becoming clear to all Americans.

I'm gonna close with some advice for the brilliant Paul Ryan (who probably doesn't need it): don't believe the anecdotes that tomorrow night will be a walk in the park for you. Don't believe that all you have to do is show up to win. Yes, Joe Biden is an idiot, but he's a folksy idiot who can lie on his feet while smiling. Call him out, and call out the media for allowing him to get away with it for four years. Bring your A-game, because we know the best game Biden's got is a B minus. But don't feel like you can bring your C-game and win, like Obama clearly thought was the case.