Time for Thorns

The Republican National Committee  has out-raised  the Democratic National Committee for the fourth time in the last five quarters.  I find it interesting that the  big money donors   apparently don’t think the re-election of His Oneness is inevitable,  despite media’s desperate drive to convince us all that it is.

Even more fascinating is that the media isn’t revealing the bottom line,  which is that the evil Bush-Cheney team,  which was continually lambasted by the media,  had raised more money  by the same time than His Oneness and His Clueless have,  but held only HALF as many fundraising events.

Jonah Goldberg goes on a  well-deserved rant  about the media and civil tones and such.

I like Sarah Palin  — she’s fresh and brave and principled,  and she drives liberals barking mad.   She wouldn’t be my first choice for President,  but she could not have done worse than has the man who defeated her ticket.

I am enjoying her bus tour and the way she  is manipulating  the press.  She certainly  owes them nothing  after their treatment of her.   I don’t think she’ll run for the Oval Office,  and believe she can be more valuable in keeping the other candidates honest,  while giving the press  a dose of its  own medicine  with a wink and a smile.

Peter Wehner has an  excellent piece  which neatly lays out the two conflicting parts to the political strategy of His Oneness.   The question is,  will the electorate see the ploy of I’m-waging-war versus the  claim of I’m-above-the-war?

So far,  few appear to have realized the entire Democratic Party is employing the same methods.   Obama fooled a lot of people in 2008,  and big media is still firmly glued to his ass,  because they share the same progressive vision.  Don’t believe me?   Read the New York Times   acknowledging the  mood of the country is down, while failing to hold Obama responsible for any of it.   Chris Horner points out an  amusing example  at Politico.com,  and Andrew Wilson  grabs another  on gas prices..

Republicans are largely too wimpy to fight the Chicago way.   The only thing which may save the nation is that His Oneness is very thin-skinned,  and prefers not to do his own dirty work  if it involves more than words and condescending tones.  There are some conservatives and libertarians who are not afraid of labor unions or the hysterical House chihuahuas of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Anthony Weiner,  or the snarling Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin.

Finish with  a column  by Jonah Goldberg which puts the incredible smallness of this petulant president into proper perspective.

The MSM won’t like this  new poll showing that the Tea Party is increasing in strength.   Even worse is  another poll showing that blacks support Tea Party principles.   There will be hate all ’round for this Nile Gardiner  piece on His Oneness vs. the Tea Party.

Be sure to read  this post by John Guardiano before you click on his link to the excellent piece by Jim Michaels detailing how the antiwar MSM consistently misinformed everyone on Iraq.

I think we can be certain that the media is also not reporting correctly on Afghanistan as well,  not to mention their complete lack of interest in any candidate daring to  run against a liberal favorite.

Jonah Goldberg  examines the gulf between media coverage of liberals and conservatives.    It’s being a few weeks old doesn’t matter in the face of the coverage being afforded the Charlie Rangel ethics charges.

If you live outside of the South,  You probably haven’t even heard that Nashville suffered horrible flooding.  See what a thousand year flood  looks like.

YouTube has more videos,  here.

UPDATE:  An  interesting view from the Newsweek blog.

You won’t have seen much about the  military personnel who chained themselves to the White House fence yesterday to protest DNDT and other gay issues.   You will have seen even less about the media being pushed back from the protest and Layfayete Park being closed,  because the same media which worked so hard to elect His Oneness can’t bring itself to admit what an authoritarian bully he is.

Can you imagine the front-page, breathless coverage which would ensue if Bush had done this?  Left Coast Rebel has a deliciously snarky post on the sheer hypocrisy in full flower here.

UPDATE:  Now the Park Service is  blaming rookie personnel for the screw-up.   Pure BS.

Five quite rational  reasons why Chicago lost its bid for the 2016 Olympics,  and ten much less  serious ones.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks Obama’s  performance was a  PR disaster,  though White House flack David Axelrod was quck to  blame Olympic politics,  while others are blaming Mayor Daly for pushing His Oneness to go to Copenhagen.   Jonah offers some readers’  comments over at The  Corner.     Illinois Senator Roland Burris blames it all on Pres. Bush.

I don’t think Obama will pay any attention to Frank  Luntz’s take. , and he certainly won’t be amused by that of Mike Potemra.

And His Oneness will absolutely hate Fred Barnes’  piece in the Weekly Standard,  which points out the coverage is a test of the media’s willingness to cover the president professionally and honestly.   Will the media pass or fail?