I was tooling around Twitter this morning when I came across a blog by Aaron Brazell called Technosailor. This particular post covered his annual installment of "Words That Must Die in 2009." It was mostly tech-centric and hilarious.

After reviewing my comment, I noticed it was skewed toward politics. So I thought I'd offer this...

Words to Rest in 2009

"Hope," "Hope and Change," "progressive," "non-partisan," "gamechanger," "mandate," "happy holidays," "Obama-" (ie. Obamanomics. This is already really, really old), "centrist," "Office of the President-Elect," "bubble," "tax cuts for 95% of Americans," "middle class," "the rich," "macro," "billion," "crater," "governance," "global warming," "green"

"We 'hope' the 'hope-and-change' 'progressives' move toward 'non-partisanship.' This would be a 'gamechanger' and expose a 'mandate' to cure 'Obamamania' and encourage 'centrist' 'governance.'

"Unfortunatley, 'The Office of the President Elect' will instead immediately propose 'tax cuts for 95% of Americans' and 'green' jobs initiatives to solve 'global warming,' which will obstensively boost the 'middle class' and only lightly burden 'the rich.'

"This trickle-up 'macro' approach intends to cure the housing 'bubble,' stabilize our economy, and generate 'billions' of new revenue for the incoming administration, but it will actually 'crater' our economy further.

"Happy Holidays."

What are some words you have had enough of in 2008?

A Hugh Hewitt Show listener responded to some of the goings-on surrounding the mechanics of the investigation US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is running of the Blagojevich scandal in Chicago. Hewitt published this correspondence on his blog, and I've re-posted it here.

This is a facinating read that shines a bright light into the precarious process of navigating this type of investigation.

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From an Assistant United States Attorney:

Caught some of the show yesterday after the release of the Obama internal report.
I know you're off the air for a couple weeks, but I thought I'd mention a couple of things:

First, the "false statement" statute is 18 USC Sec. 1001 (not 2001).

Second, neither the FBI nor US Attorney's Office puts witnesses under oath when they are interviewed. The oath is only administered before testimony before a GJ [Grand Jury]. Agents are not authorized to administer an oath, nor are prosecutors.

Nevertheless, the existence of the 1001 statute has the same functional effect. Any intentional misstatement or omission of a material fact when being questioned by a federal law enforcement agent about a matter under investigation is a felony, oath or no oath. That's why Libby was charged both with perjury before the GJ and making false statements to the FBI during his earlier interviews.

As for the order of the witness interviews, its really only speculation, and witness availability has a lot to do with it, but in my experience having done a few wiretap cases involving drugs back in California, you start with the recorded conversations as your basic record. I would then pull the telephone tolls of every person who was recorded, and I would want to know who they spoke to on the phone immediately before and immediately after each recorded conversation. So, if Emanuel is recorded at 12:00 noon talking to [Gov. Blago.'s Chief of Staff] Harris about appointing Jarrett, and at 12:15 there is a telephone toll showing a call to Obama, I would want to ask Obama about the contents of that phone call. If there was a call at 12:20 from Emanuel to Jarrett, I would want to ask Jarrett about that phone call -- keeping in mind that I know what it is Emanuel and Harris talked about because they are recorded. So, it's sometimes easy to pick-up on prevarications and inconsistencies when you start getting explanations that don't sound right. Once you have the interviews done of the people who were contacted around the same time as key recorded conversations you go back to the person who was recorded and ask him about the unrecorded conversations that came before and after the recorded conversations.

This is really where the current environment -- the same as the environment Libby found himself in -- borders on the unfair. Fitzgerald knows -- as any good prosecutor would know and take advantage of -- that the people he wants to talk to cannot assert their Fifth Amendment rights for political reasons. If I was Emanuel's lawyer, it would be my advice that he not be interviewed - he has only his best recollection of what he has been recorded as saying, and he doesn't get to listen to his conversations prior to answering questions about them. Second, he has no idea what the other people being interviewed are saying about unrecorded conversations they had with him.

For a prosecutor this is the equivalent of "broken field running" -- you're through the line or scrimmage and behind the linebackers, and everyone else is trying to catch-up to where you are. Fitzgerald has probably 3-4 guys/gals working on this full time -- meaning they spend all day comparing transcripts, subpoenaed documents, and interview notes looking for opportunities to lay traps for people about to be interviewed. That was the undoing of Libby and almost Rove. When the prosecutor calls you back to the GJ for the 3rd and 4th time, its not because he's still genuinely unsure about your testimony. He's asking you to navigate the minefield of the record that has been created to that point under oath. Your missteps are going to become his indictment. No normal person would go back to the GJ time after time, but Fitzgerald knows that he's going to get whatever he asks for because doing otherwise would make it look like Obama's people have something to hide.

The report comes out late in the day on Tuesday, Dec. 23. They know that most folks like yourself are going to be off the air on Wed, or they are going to have holiday themed shows. Thurs, is obviously not a news day, and Fri is likely going to be the same. Next you have the dead week between Christmas and New Years.

Obama is in Hawaii until Jan. 2 with no public events planned where he might be asked questions. Emanuel is in Africa where he is out of contact on a long planned family vacation.

Consider that again -- the incoming WH Chief of Staff, in a "change of parties" transition from one Presidency to the next which is less than 4 weeks away -- and he's in Africa??????

And they want the press to have nothing on this story other than their self-serving exoneration of all key staffers.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

emphasis and links added

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A few quick thoughts:
(1) The much-lauded-and-referenced "Report" is an exhaustive 5 pages long. FIVE. As I read through it, all I could hear was, "Move along, move along ... there's nothing to see here..."
(2) Obama's number-one strategy for Dealing With Unpleasantness seems to be going away, doing and saying nothing, and hiding behind holidays and other national events. (the Obama-enabling media makes this especially easy.) And by the way, does anybody else get a little uneasy that our Prez-elect has a tendency to leave the continent at the drop of a hat? I know we all this modern technology and what-not, but geez - a little engine trouble and we've got ourselves a major problem.
(3) You know Rahm (and others in Obama's ranks) is doing some long, hard thinking along the lines of, "How hard do I fight? Will protecting myself take down Obama? Will Obama reward me for taking a fall? How do I get out of this? What's my exit strategy?" They know they are the only ones looking out for themselves. Obama's campaign is strewn with his fallen "compatriots."

All-in-all, this certainly does not seem to be the kind of change I can believe in.

We've all heard to story and seen the video...

A 29yr-old reporter reporting in Iraq for ab Arab satellite channel interrupted a press conference and threw his shoes at President Bush. Called him a dog, too.

We here in America may not recognize that these two things are indeed grave insults to our President. We see this goofy guy throwing shoes and Bush deftly ducks the assault.

In an extraordinary move (extraordinary for leaders in that part of the world, anyway) Bush calls off his security detail and makes a joke. The Iraquis take the man into custody. This act is against the law in Iraq and carries with it a seven year prison sentence. Whether or not the Iraqis choose to prosecute this forgiener is up to them.

I can only imagine what would have happened if it was Barack Obama in Bush's place that afternoon... So I asked my Twitter-friends, "Even though it's kinda old news, I wonder how would Obama have handled a shoe being thrown at him??"

Here's what some of them had to say...

Mortimas "he would have bobbed when he should have weaved"
BreakTheirBones "he would have stopped the shoe midflight with a Jedi mind trick."
DecidedlyRight "Well, Obama is severely lacking in machismo, so my guess is that he'd be taken to a hospital for observation. :)"
TracyCarol "Obama can walk on water, so a shoe shouldn't be a problem. Think how tragic would be for his followers to see him as mortal."

What do you say?

Join conversation here or at twitter.com. Be sure to check out TopConservativesOnTwitter.org (TCOT)

(H/T David All)

Take 5 minutes and watch this amazing video. It really helps put things into perspective...

What does it mean to you?

Thanks, Jennifer...

Here's a wonderful cartoon from 1948 that talks about the dangers of "ism."

It's as true today as it was then! Enjoy...

"Make Mine Freedom"

Alfonzo Rachael is at it again - this time, with stunning visual effects! That's right - if you thought his videos were compelling before, hold on to your umm... thing you want to hold on to.

Zo's newest video features brilliant dialogue, crip stunts, and dazzling v/fx.

Presenting, "The Vote Reaper" Starring 'Zo... Enjoy!

Fantastic :D

Florida State University invites unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers to speak. (h/t Michelle Malkin)

Today, we are all SEMINOLES. Let's take a few short moments to stand up for America.

Email your opinion about Ayers' speechmaking to our kids to the student council who approved it: http://sga.fsu.edu/

Be nice. No cussing. Remember, they're just kids (idiot kids, but still...)

I'm sad to report that Cosmo, for whom this blog is named, has passed away.

He was a beloved member of our family for more than 13 years.

We were lucky enough for Cosmo to pick us when he was a wee one at 9 weeks old.

He was always a sport. The neighborhood kids nicknamed him "Wonderdog" for his abilities with frisbees.

He was our buddy, our 'Mo. We will miss him terribly until that day we see him again.

Perhaps now more than ever, we are all in Cosmo's World...

I'm happy to introduce to everyone Onthefringe from Silicon Valley, CA who, according to his bio, is a VC-backed, start-up CEO, sharing day-to-day insights in the day-to-day life of a start-up.

Onthefringe has agreed to share his funny, uncannily insightful, and always interesting tips and career advice for everyone from those who aspire to VC-backed Silican Valley Glory to the Guy-Who-Wants-NOT-To-Get-Layed-Off.

Take it away, Onthefringe...

Interview tip: I'm much more interested in hearing about what you've done & your thought process & way less about your graduate degree.

Mr. VC: Um, there are no 'secret revenue models' that I know of. If there were, I would have already done it. Then it wouldn't be a secret.

CEO & Board tip: It's definitely more fun to be on the Board of Directors than to answer to the Board of Directors.

Watch this space for more keen insight - coming at you daily - courtesy of Onthefringe. You can follow Onthefringe at twitter.com 

I was watching the FOX News show Red Eye the other night. One of the guests was S.E. Cupp, author of the book "Why You're Wrong About The Right".

As luck would have it, it appears as though she will be a guest tonight, Nov 24, 3am -- set your TiVo's!

Here's what she had to say about the (alleged) indescretion of the Obama camp, spilling the beans regrading the private meeting he had with President Bush.

What is the deal with all that fancy-talk with Obama? Talking about, "Quid-Pro-Quo"... You know, that's what I'll miss about George Bush. With him, you know he's strictly a "tit-for-tat" guy.

You know, that is one of the many, many things I'll miss about Goerge Bush too.

The Chicago Tribune's John Kass wrote this facinating article (excerpt below). The piece follows the pre-election experiment conducted by Chicago teen Catherine Vogt. Her story is a lesson to us all...

"Tolerance Fails T-Shirt Test"
by: John Kass, The Chicago Tribune

 As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we're all united now, let's consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment.

Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.

She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching "inclusion," and she decided to see how included she could be.

So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:
"McCain Girl"

"I was just really curious how they'd react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters," Catherine told us. "I just really wanted to see what their reaction would be."

In every introductory debate class, students are issued the following warning, "Whomever brings up Hitler first, loses."

This is one of those instances where what is taught in school is absolutely true, relevant, and a helpful rule to recall whenever anybody is engaged in an exchange of ideas, be it a conversation, debate, or argument.

However, we also learn, "it is the exception that makes the rule."

I came across the essay below. It was published with the invitation to re-post. I decided to take them up on the offer, even though it breaks the first rule of debate by way of exception.

I spotted this at The Bitten Word. I have re-posted it here in its entirety.

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SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

From a comment on a post at Pat Dollard (H/T to Atlas Shrugs):

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Will you please take the time to read this, and if you think it worthwhile, pass it along to your email list, and ask them to read it? Even if they voted, with all good intentions, for Mr. Obama?

I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the 700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about)–the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more imporant.)

Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change.

Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side?He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.

He did it with a compliant media–did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

(Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)

Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.

Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years–a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency–it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.

Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe–and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.

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It doesn't have to be this way for us, for America. We are not doomed to repeat history, because we are aware. Click over to the original post at Pat Dollard, read and listen [to Obama talk about a civil security force].

LEARN
BE AWARE
SPEAK OUT
SHARE THE WEALTH OF INFORMATION

All the information is out there! Just because the nightly news is not informing you does not mean that you cannot be informed. If you don't know where to look, leave me a message in the comments or email me and I will gladly share my reader list with you. If we do not stop this tide now, it will quickly drown us. Obama did not just "burst onto the scene" or any such nonsense. This was and is a planned attack, and we are complacently allowing it under a veil of "change". Six years is all it took for Germany to be taken over from within. How long do you think it will take America with a leader like Barack Obama?

In six years, my oldest child will be 17. What do you think Mr. Obama will have planned for him?

Six years ...

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Who loves puppies? EVERYONE!

Awwwwwwwwww....

I am repeating here many of the ideas posted over at Hillbuzz. They are important and well-said and I want to give them credit for it.

It's no secret that the "Vast LEFT Wing Conspiracy" comprised of the MSM, the DNC, and the Obama Campaign led by David Axelrod have been working together to fashion and ascend Barack Obama as our next president.

In four words: "I don't get it." I find his speeches treachly, his manner over-rehearsed, and his policies atrocious. But enough complaining about the sundry of grave shortcomings of Obama. Let's talk about how this Troika of Thuggery is going to try it's level best to supress your vote.

Here we go...

(1) There will be calls for McCain to just give up and quit, because the race is over.

This one is a favorite of the Democrat operatives who lurk on pro-McCain sites. Some of these people are volunteers, but many are paid staffers whose job it is to snipe, snark, slash, and shout through blogs and social networking sites. Whenever and wherever ther's an opportunity to comment, these Democrat operatives are there to plant their poison.

Here's what Hillbuzz, a pro-Hillary, blog found:

"We get them here, despite all the spraying and fumigating we do... We’ve identified two paid Obama staffers who have been assigned to HillBuzz. We picked them up around the same time people from Ace and LGF started picking up some of our stuff — so our guess is they were assigned to us by whoever was monitoring those sites. They’re different trolls than the ones assigned to us during the primaries (we only had one back then, so evidently we’ve gotten more on the radar now). One of them starts posting “her” concern troll remarks here at 8am. The other one starts “his” remarks around 5pm or so. It appears there are two shifts for the trolls — and from what we can see, they share the same computer and IP address. And it’s an address right here in Chicago. Imagine that. We wonder if we’ve ever run into these people at Houlihan’s on Michigan Avenue after one of their shifts, as that’s where a lot of Obama staffers like to go for a drink, and where we often hang out to see what we can overhear while pretending to read a book over a little dinner. Since we’re going to be in Ohio the rest of the time before the election, we’re okay with letting you in on that little bit, as we won’t be able to eavesdrop on you anymore. But the information these Obama staffers inadvertantly provided was really helpful on a lot of things. A great way to see how the race was going was to listen for how “audacious” these people felt that day. That’s their internal lingo: “Are you feelin’ it? Are you feelin’ audacious today?”. “Nope, not feelin’ the audacity today, ’cause we know those PA polls are bogus and BO’s not gonna take the state”. Word to the wise: these staffers were never as “audacious” as the media and skewed polls have insisted they should be."

Hillbuzz notes that the Democrat Primaries best illustrated the Obama Machine and his allies in action. The coerographed calls for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race before New Hampshire, before Super Tuesday, before Ohio and Texas, before Pennsylvania, before West Virgina, before Kentucky, before Indiana, and before South Dakota were completely ridiculous. Yet, uninformed voters always listened, and lost enthusiasm and drive because ‘the TV said Hillary needs to just quit." We know this kept some people from going out to vote. They thought, “Why bother? The TV told me she’s gonna lose!” Well, the TV lies.

Hillbuzz correctly asserts that Hillary Clinton should have won Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, by larger margins that she did. Ohio should have been a 13-point win, Pennsylvania should have been a 12-point win, and Indiana should have been a 9-point win.

But those primary voters stayed home home, saying, “Oh, why bother, the TV says it's over and that's that!” Thus, Hillary lost those extra points.

The ONLY way McCain loses this race is if the media, operating as a full-fledged wing of the Obama campaign, breeds enough doubt amongst you to keep enough people home for Obama to eek out wins.

Don't fall in that same trap on Tuesday! Get up off your couches, turn off that toxic TV, and GO VOTE. Get everyone you know to vote — tell them if they don’t, then Obama will turn America into a Socialist nation, and we’re going to start with their house and bank account when we begin redistributing wealth.

(2) Wild claims of Obama winning states that shock and surprise you.

The Obama-supporting media will report huge wins for Obama. This has already begun with the reports of the overwhelming Obama victory in that tiny town in New Hampshire.

Hillbuzz illustrates this again during Super Tuesday. Voters "...we knew ran through the streets crying and pants-wetting, gnashing their teeth and yanking their hair as the sky fell around them — BECAUSE OBAMA IS WINNING CALIFORNIA! MASSACHUSETTS! ARKANSAS! TENNESSEE! NEW JERSEY! NEW YORK! WAAAAAAAAH! DOOOOOOOMED!..."

As we know, these are all liberal bastions. There is no surprise these states went the way they did. But the MSM would have you believe the results were both surprising and expected. Pretty smooth, huh?

Hillbuzz makes an excellent suggestion: "If you do just ONE THING today, we ask you a personal favor: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to as many Republican blogs as you can and WARN THEM that the Obamedia will tell you all weekend that Obama is winning Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida, Iowa, Virginia, West Virginia, and other states we do not believe Obama will win (except for Iowa, which we still think goes to Obama, but our best sources claim McCain now leads in internals by 1 point).

"They are already starting to say truly crazy things like “Obama will win Louisiana and Arkansas!”, and that’s just nuts. That is your equivalent of the Obamaedia swearing up and down that the Kennedys and Oprah would win Massachusetts and California for Obama. WE knew that was pure cockamamie nonsense, but Eeyores wet their pants on cue over this. So, the Obamedia’s marching orders are to freak all of you out with SHOCKING DEVELOPMENTS! in Lousiana, Arkansas, Georgia, etc. just to shake your faith and confidence.

This is like in Little League when the opposing team would chant, “Hey batta hey batta hey batta hey batta hey batta sa-weeeeeeeeeng batta” when you were at the plate, to make you swing too soon or too late. Just to psych you out. And that nonsense actually worked on Team Hillary, because we lost a lot of volunteers who Eeyored off the face of the Earth just before Super Tuesday, so convinced of unprecedented blow-out doom.

So, don't be surprised when you see the Obamedia doing all of this to McCain. Know they are crying wolf again. Don’t let them demoralize you!

(3) Repeated insistence that blacks and young people will decide this election, and they are all going to vote in record numbers for Obama.

First of all, black voters have always voted Democrat in massive numbers. Paradoxially, blacks have never voted for Republicans in any substantial way. Blacks vote as a race-block, and they always vote for the Democrat. Maybe Obama will get blacks who have never voted before to vote for him, or blacks who don’t bother to vote on Election Day to show up and vote, but it's doubtful that it will be very many people.

Hillbuzz opines that black voters were highly motivated to vote in 2004 because they felt George W. Bush stole the 2000 election. They saw that as a civil rights issue which increased black turnout to one of the highest levels we have ever seen. Remember, Jesse Jackson almost won Election 2000 for Gore, but was stopped by the Gore campaign (in the form of Donna Brazile). Watch the HBO movie "Recount."

Jackson felt the Florida Recount was a civil rights/voter disenfranchisement issue at its heart, and wanted to press that to the public. He revved the black community up and flew down to Tallahassee, but Gore and Brazile made him get back on a plane to Chicago. That was a critically stupid move…and you know how the recount ended.

Hillbuzz goes on to say "...in 2004, THAT’S what the black community thought about, and THAT’S what made people vote to kick Bush out of the White House, for stealing it from Gore in 2000. We just don’t know what people are left to vote in the black community who didn’t vote in 2004, when they were revved up to vote against Bush — a president the black community hates. What we think the Obamedia ignores is the fact the black community is totally ambivalent to McCain and is focused totally on Obama, and the race-pride they feel voting for a black candidate. If this race-pride could be quantified, we feel it would be a positive force pushing Obama forward almost exactly equal in impact to the force pushing Kerry forward the black community generated by hating Bush. There’s no McCain hate working against the Republicans this year, and there was no Kerry love in 2004. "So, mathematically this works out as: Obama-love + McCain-hate = Bush-hate + Kerry-love = impact of black voters "We, thus, believe Obama will not have much more support from blacks than Kerry did, since Democrats win almost all black voters anyway. This year will be no different."

Democrats believe young voters are the Holy Grail of elections. All Democrats, during every election, claims “young people love me and will come out in record numbers to vote for me!”

Hillbuzz reports, "...let us just tell you that early voting ended today in Chicago. In our building, there is a suite full of about 6 frat boys who sometimes stop us in the laundry room to talk politics. They are all hot DePaul hockey players, so we are glad to chat them up any time they want. All of them said they were going to vote for Obama, and all of them forgot to early vote. All of them have class and work on Tuesday. We honestly believe all 6 of these guys are going to forget to vote on Election Day — and the polling station for our neighborhood is literally one street away. We think this will happen not just with the hot hockey players in our building, but in many other buildings in Chicago, and in cities across the US.

"As you move out of urban areas, it becomes more of a challenge to get to polling places, as they get further and further apart. That means college students, and Obama’s youth army, need to move further and further out of their daily norm to actually vote. With class, work, and Nintendo Wii, that becomes a big burden, especially since they’re going to whoop it up all Halloween weekend having an absolute drunken blast, and will have a lot to catch up on come Tuesday, since Monday they will be still hungover and not functional.

"We’re astonished no one has ever thought of this before to explain why young people don’t turn up to vote in the numbers the media predicts: it’s because of Halloween. Not JUST because of Halloween, but Halloween has a lot to do with it, especially this year, when Halloween falls in perfect synch to form three days of wild, costumed debauchery. Monday is hangover day, which means nothing got done Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and now Monday, so Tuesday pressure builds to catchup on class or work or whatever.

"Ironically, the Obamedia’s constant drumbeat that Obama’s so far ahead will, ironically, keep a lot of these people from actually voting — since they think he will win in a landslide without them, and one vote doesn’t matter. “Oh, we meant to vote, but we got, like, busy. And stuff.”

"We hear this every 4 years. Why should this year be any different?"

These are all very good points - Hillbuzz got it right.

The bottom line here is that ALL of the media: newspapers, magazines, tv, radio, et al. are in the tank for Obama. They have said as much an dare you and me to do anything about it.

You may ask, "Well, what can I do about it, anyway?"

Here's what:
1) GO VOTE for John McCain and Sarah Palin to be our next President and Vice President.
2) IGNORE ALL MEDIA TODAY! Instead, pick up the phone and call your family and friends to ask if they have voted. Offer to give people a lift to their polling place. Be nice, be upbeat, be persuasive.
3) After voting, ignoring, phoning and driving; maybe take a few moments to happily tell people online and in the blogosphere what you've done.

I have done and am doing all these things. It's fun, it's uplifting, and it's the right thing to do.

Again, special thanks go to Hillbuzz for their insight and first-hand reports.

Hypothetically, let's say I was involved in shaping public opinion in some kind of professional capacity. This is how I would do it.

This was originally posted at Hillbuzz

October 27, 2008 5:04 am

Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow clinton supporters out.

I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over.

I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over time grew to love HRC.

The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you.

We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our support for obama”

We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence.

We did this the whole primary and it worked.

Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc.

This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues.

Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support.

People makes posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad.”

Thats the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending.

We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scarey to a mccain supporter. Its worked, alough the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.

see, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”

The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. Thats due to our inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.

Our donors, are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests are tied, Barack then tends to come across as teflon. Nothing sticks. And trust, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill Oreilly he has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So he is playing it still soft.

This is why nothing sticks.

The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that of a winner, regardless of the results.

There is no true inauguration draft or true grant park construction going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.

Our goal is to continue to make you lose your morale. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all.

There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm.

The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her. To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I didn’t know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all working like puppets with dean. I always thought a president wanted the better good for the country. The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this means more and more people voting for the DNC. This means the future is forever altered. I don’t see this as america, so I am now supporting John Mccain.

Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool.

this is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.

We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards 2012. This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about 2008. Trust me, its a lie. David is very smart, but its a sticky ugly not very truthful kind of intelligence.

Its not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill to climb.

I will be quitting my post on nov 5th and my vote will be for John Mccain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I don’t feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment upsets me.

I wish you all well, and goodluck.

PS my name is not really sarah. but I am a female and I understand your plight.