It has been widely reported that Barack ___ Obama was the second largest recipient of Fannie and Freddie’s largesse. Take a look at the numbers when the Fannie/Freddie contributions are plotted against time in congress. They really, really liked Barack ____ Obama.

One has to wonder what he did or chose not to do in exchange for all that loot.

h/t GuyK

According to the Obama Team, my lack of support for Barack ___ Obama means that I’m am either a racist, or I’m confused and stupid. I know that I’m not the former, so I must be the latter. Which is why I need a democrat.

P.S. Joe Biden need not apply. I believe I have a higher I.Q. than he does. I know I did way, way better in law school than he did.

(Language NSFW or for kiddies)

via C&S

Whoa!

The contest between Barack Obama and John McCain in New Jersey is too close to call, with a new Quinnipiac University poll showing the battle for the state’s fifteen electoral votes at 48%-45% among likely voters. Obama led McCain by ten percentage points, 51%-41% in an August Quinnipiac poll.

This is the fourth independent poll within the last week to show New Jersey as an emerging battleground state in the presidential campaign. (Link)

One would never know that New Jersey voters are so evenly split from my admittedly unscientific bumper sticker and lawn sign count. I see lots of Obama stickers and lawn signs and virtually no McCain campaign stuff. The thing is that, in this state (at least in my part of the state), a McCain bumper sticker might well result in one’s car being keyed in a parking lot, and a lawn sign might well be torn up by the state’s progressives.

I would love to think that McCain has a shot in Jersey, but I’ve lived here all my life, so I fully expect that the massive Democrat Machine will do whatever is necessary to “take care of business” on election day.

Still, hope springs eternal. Maybe this year will be different. After all, Garden Staters are over-taxed, businesses large and small are over-taxed and-over-regulated, the majority of citizens have finally come to realize that Jon Corzine is a walking (lucky for him) disaster, and people are fleeing to other states to escape the madness.

We’ll keep our fingers crossed here in the state where the only people who carry guns are the cops and robbers.

Update: This state may be terminal.

A fatwa?

I don’t know about you, but I feel better knowing that the New York Times has managed to track down Governor Palin’s hairdresser and wring the truth out of her.

Would someone please point these coconuts in the direction of Chicago.

You’ve Got Questions? I’ve got Answers.
Because I’m Very Smart, and You’re … Very Not.

Dear Senator Clinton,

I’ve been crying my eyes out every single day since you lost the Democratic Primary. I know that if Democrats knew earlier on about what a dirtbag that that bastard Obama is, you would be running against that old fart instead of that arrogant blowhard Obama.

Senator Clinton, eighteen million of us cry our eyes out every day, and we just don’t know what to do on election day. What advice can you give us?

With warmest regards,
Sylvia Armbruster

Dear Sylvia:

As for what to do on election day, remember, I’ll be here in 2012, if you get my drift 😉

Dear Senator Clinton:

I know that in an interview you gave back in July you mentioned that you personally dealt with your loss in the primary by smoking lots of weed and spitting on a large picture of Barack Obama. I tried that, but after a while, even that did not make the agony of defeat go away. Do you have any other suggestions?

Regards,
Canyon Stoner

Dear Canyon: (Groovy name, BTW)

I suggest you take a trip to the animal shelter and pick up a puppy. You’ll feel like a million bucks.

Dear Senator Clinton:

I will be frank. As much as I have always admired you, I supported Barack Obama in the primary. I saw your appearance with Senator Obama after the primary was over, at which time you pledged to enthusiastically support Barack.

In light of those low-life, lying, swift boating, election-stealing Republicans having nominated Sarah Palin to be Vice President and how she has disgraced feminism and charged up all the uneducated goobers in the country, especially those loudmouthed Wal-Mart brood sows, Barack could really use your active support right about now. I was wondering when you planned on hitting the campaign trail?

Sincerely,
Ronette Swithens

Dear Ronette:

One more thing: Who is this Sarah person you spoke of?

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Went out tonight for dinner with several of the Usual Suspects to a local restaurant specializing in Northern Italian cuisine. Great food, BYO wine and booze (never a problem). Nice evening.

The Verdict: Everyone thinks Sarah Palin is Da Bomb, and Obama is a sorry ass. And we all vote. But, alas, this is New Jersey, the state that brought the world Bob Torricelli, Jim McGreevey, Bob Menendez, Frank “the Cadaver” Lautenberg and a collection of sewer rats in Trenton.

But vote we will.

That is all.

So Roger Ebert, the who-gives-a-shit movie reviewer and putrid sack of pus, got whacked in the cruller by another film critic at the Toronto Film Festival. Yeah, I know that Roger is sick, but, fortuitous though the cruller whack may have been, the asshole had it coming.

I trust the American people will see through Palin, and save the Republic in November.

Yo, Roger. “Save the Republic?” Are you farookin’ nuts?

Take a read through the Constitution (or maybe take Civics 101). A “Republic” is about the last thing Obama and his ilk have an interest in preserving. In Obama’s world, yet more power would be ceded to the federal government and a judicial oligarchy ruled by the likes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to decide cases based on considerations of foreign law and God knows what else.

I’m with the Other Rodger.

I think of that day every day, except on this day I think of that day a good deal more.

I shall never forget, and I shall never forgive. Never.