• "Fact" checking...
  
  You've no doubt seen the Chuck Norris Facts website and it's Chuckarific pronouncements such as
  
  
  • Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He waits.
  
  
  • Chuck Norris has two speeds: Walk and Kill.
  
  
  • Chuck Norris does not love Raymond.
  
  
  • The principle export of Chuck Norris is pain.
  
  
  Well, two similar websites have sprung up just in time for this November's election.
  
  From Sarah Palin Facts:
  
  
  • Sarah Palin is the reason compasses point North.
  
  
  • In 2003, the US considered deploying Sarah Palin to Iraq as a 1-woman commando squad, but wanted to make it a fair fight.
  
  
  • As head of Alaska’s Nat’l Guard, Sarah Palin taught troops in a training exercise to scare a grenade into not exploding.
  
  
  And the following is from Best Obama Facts:
  
  
  • When Obama rids the world of nuclear weapons, the red button in his office will control the thermostats in American homes.
  
  
  • Every now and then, Obama opens his eyes and the world springs into existence.
  
  
  • "Obama" is the very first word in the English language to be a verb, adjective, noun, pronoun, adverb, interjection, superlative and pronad. (Pronad is a new category made specifically for the word "Obama" so its power can be fully realized).
  
  
  
• From the baby seat...
  

  

  HT: Ol' Broad





• The left: "Sarah Palin is a bad, bad, mean, bad person!!!!"
  
  
  So do you think that the leftists (on the net and in the Lamestream Media) know just how silly they look with the pitiful, comical list of complaints they have against Sarah Palin?
  
  Let's see ... so far we've been told that Palin is unfit to be VP because
  
  
  • "This one time, back in Wassila, she tried to fire a librarian!
  
  
  
  • "She's a member of a church with some odd beliefs! And everyone knows that nobody who ever attended a church with odd beliefs is fit to be Vice President. That person can be President, sure ... but not VICE President!"
  
  
  
  • "Her hairstyle isn't trendy enough! Anyone who doesn't sport a $400 haircut is clearly out of touch!! I mean, her whole family knows nothing about hair care!"
  
  
  
  • "She's racist, sexist, vindictive ... she's just a big meanie and people in Alaska are afraid of her!"
  
  
  
  • "She killed Bambi's big brother!!"
  
  
  The left has made up lies, they've demeaned her as a mother, they've attacked her family ... and it's all backfired.
  
  If they weren't repugnant, I'd kinda feel sorry for the leftist scum.



• Barack HUSsein Obama
  
  I don't mind that Us Weekly is an Obama fanzine. I just wish they'd admit it and cop to their bias so there won't be any reason for anyone to expect objectivity:

  

  HT: The American Papist.




• The John McCain Deathwatch...
  
  No link here, but you've seen or heard the hand-wringing, I'm sure. "What if McCain dies? He's OOOOLLLD! What if he dies in office? Then this inexperienced woman will be president! She has NO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE! She's a heartbeat away from the Oval Office!"
  
  This from the people who want us to put an inexperienced man directly into the Oval Office.
  
  Just a couple of observations:
  
  One: in '96 everyone told us that Bob Dole was too old to be President, that he could drop dead at any moment. In a perfect world, right now Bob Dole would be enjoying his fourth year of retirement after finishing his second term as PotUS.
  
  Two: Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska. Of course she has no foreign policy experience. No Governor has foreign policy experience. George W. Bush, who was the governor of Texas, had no foreign policy experience when he became PotUS. Bill Clinton, who was the governor of Arkansas, had no foreign policy experience when he became PotUS. Ronald Reagan, who was the governor of California, had no foreign policy experience when he became PotUS. Jimmy Carter, who was the governor of Georgia, had no foreign policy experience when he became PotUS.
  
  Governors don't have foreign policy experience. And we've put scads of them in the White House.
  
  So, note to the Palin haters: You're stupid. Shut up.



• Woodward: Bush failed to lead.
  
  Bob Woodward's new book accuses Dubya of failing to lead in his second term:

  At 487 pages, "The War Within" is the fourth installment in Woodward’s series of books on the president. Its release is embargoed until Monday...
  
  "President Bush has rarely leveled with the public to explain what he was doing and what should be expected," wrote Woodward, an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, in "War Within." "He did not seek sacrifice from most of the country when he had the chance. He did not even mobilize his own party...

  After the GOP convention in 2004 I was excited about the prospect of a second Dubya term. I thought that he'd explained the rationale for not leaving Iraq very well. I bought into the "ownership society" stuff, I loved the idea of having some privatization of Social Security, I was totally on board.
  
  The surge in Iraq worked, no doubt ... but it just illustrates how badly the Bush administration mismanaged the war initially. The ownership society stuff? Total bluster. I feel like a fool for having bought it. And Bush just dropped the ball on Social Security accounts. He encountered a little resistance and folded up like an accordion.
  
  Woodward is right. Bush failed to lead. I've been disgusted with him for a while, and I've lately said so. I'm grateful to Dubya for Justices Roberts and Alito, and I'm glad we live in a Saddam-free world now... but, overall, Dubya's second term was an abysmal disappointment.
  
  But that doesn't mean I'm ready to turn the reigns over to a total zero.

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