Washington Post spins for Obama campaign; not shocking at all.

William Ayers, the former domestic terrorist who is friends with Barack Obama, is getting some of the best free PR money can’t buy: the mainstream media is on his side.

Today’s Washington Post has a story on Bill Ayers and his wife, another radical terrorist named Bernadine Dohrn, and how he is now a “tenured university professors whose work on school reform and juvenile justice have won them bipartisan respect.”

What’s interesting is that the article cites no Republican saying anything good about Ayers, yet he’s earned “bipartisan respect.”

Obama is so threatened by his friendship with Ayers that his campaign has begun to attempt to distance him from Ayers by posting this “fact check” release on the subject.  The strange thing is that it totally misses the point.

REALITY: OBAMA WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN THE WEATHERMEN WERE ACTIVE
Obama Turned Eight In September 1969, The Days Of Rage Occurred In October 1969. Barack Obama was born on September 4, 1961. He turned eight on September 4, 1969. The Days of Rage, in which William Ayers participated, occurred in October 1969. [Obama Birth Certificate, UPI, 10/21/81]

No one is saying the Barack was rolling with the Weather Underground terrorist group while they were active, just that he seems to roll with one of their leaders, and unrepentant one, now. 

Would anyone think it cool if in, say, 40 years from now a US politician were to hang out with an Al Qaeda leader who never faced justice and expressed regret about not killing more people and causing more damage?  While it seems as though liberals would like to take us in that direction, we hope we never get there.

Will the MSM swallow the hook on the latest Obama bait?  Probably, why start taking their job seriously now?

A (subsidized) Global Warming dinner.

Says it all…

Hat tip to KH.

Douchebag of the Week – Jimmy Carter

No rational person would dispute that former President Jimmy Carter is a douchebag of epic proportions.  Think what you will of his charitable work, his Presidency was a failure by nearly every unit of measure and in the last few years he has spent more time trying to become the darling of the uber-Left than trying to live the traditional life of dignity of a former President.

When he’s not writing books that attack Israel, he’s breaking protocol by attacking the sitting President.  He prefers the company of terrorists and Michael Moore to that of sane human beings, thinking somehow this will wipe the memory of the 4 years he tried to run this country into the ground.

That having been said, past douchebaggy activities does not a douchebag of the week make, this award is based upon the last 7 days.  And while there were many competitors this week, Jimmy Carter stood head and shoulders above the rest. 

What did Jimmy do that so far surpassed every other douchebag this week?  He met with known terrorist leaders of Hamas, the group that has murdered countless Israeli citizens over the last few decades, and even hugged them.

There is no point in rehashing the details here, no doubt you’ve heard them by now, but it is for embracing and giving credibility to known terrorists that Jimmy Carter is, hands down, the winner of the title Douchebag of the Week.

The Pelosi Premium – Gas prices since the Democrats took over with their promise of a “solution”

Anyone who thought the Democrats would actually be able to do anything about gas prices, well, simply has no idea how the market works.  We need to open up ANWR and stop subsidizing ethanol while looking for new fuel sources, or you’ll just have to get used to $4.00 a gallon of gas and expensive everything else.

Howard Dean is changing the rules in the middle of the game, wants Superdelegates to make up their minds sooner rather than later.

While the concept of Superdelegates seems crazy to most people, as does the Democrat’s primary structure that gives damn near everyone on the ballot delegates so there is no clear winner in most contests, the rules governing Superdelegates are pretty clear: Make up your mind whenever you want, you can announce you’re for someone and change your mind, essentially it’s carte blanc.  Not any more.

Howard Dean, the ineffective and mostly absent Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has decided his party can’t handle much more debate over who the candidate should be, so he’s applying pressure on them to make up their minds “starting now.”

First of all, that’s not how it works, they’re allowed to make up their minds, change them, keep their intentions secret, whatever they want until it comes time to vote at the convention.  Dean is afraid that the drawn-out primary contest is going to hurt the Democrats come the fall, and it may well, but that’s not the point.  The rules are the rules, but it’s not surprising Dean and Democrat elite would do this.

This is the party, after all, that only called and fought for certain ballots to be recounted in Florida, won’t allow Florida and Michigan to have a voice in this nomination process, and has been sited and connected with groups sited (ACORN) for voter fraud in the recent past, so why should we expect an internal fight to be any different than the “dirty tricks” they pull every election year?

The establishment wants Hillary out of the race, even though she is nearly in a tie with Barack Obama and neither can win without the Superdelegates.  They’ve thrown her overboard. 

What the Democrats don’t seem to realize is that no matter the outcome, they’re in some serious trouble.  If Obama wins because Hillary was seen as being forced out, her supports (of which there are many and they are committed) will not be happy.  Some will vote for McCain, some for Obama, and many will not vote.  If Hillary gets it, same deal.  And there is no believable way they can run on the same ticket, so someone is going to lose based upon the whims of the Superdelegates.

It’s like watching those late-night shows on FX with video of people crashing and breaking every bone in their body; you can’t stand to watch, but you can’t bring yourself to look away.