Christina’s Common Sense

I and those of my ilk have said for a long time that Barack Obama is unqualified to be President for a number of reasons. Chief among these are a lack of experience and being a screaming socialist. Most of us also think he’s unqualified because he’s (sort of) black. That’s what Al Sharpton says anyway.

But none of that matters, because Obama meets all the qualifications under the Constitution, right?

As it turns out, maybe not. 

I hesitated to blog about this, because it just seems too good to be true. Can you imagine the fit the professional race victims will throw if Obama is constitutionally prohibited from being President of the United States? “Racism, racism!” They will cry. “James Madison wrote this specifically to keep Barack from being President!” There will be calls for Constitutional amendments, law suits, and affirmative action measures to ensure that Barack is elected simply because he’s (almost) black.

And what about the media? Will anyone besides Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Shepard Smith even talk about this except in a sense that it can look good for Obama? Of course they won’t! That would be committing journalism, an art they forgot long ago. 

And, will the Republican (and I use the term loosely) nominee mention this in any manner, except to shut up some campaign official who does? Probably not. McCain may be the Republican nominee, but he’s still a Democrat.

Now, I am quite doubtful that anything will come of this. Even if it’s legit, it will look too much like a reach on the part of Republicans. However, it should be investigated. MSDNC and the Clinton News Network need to get their acts together and remember that they’re reporters first and Obama supporters second.

But should this blow up on Obama…oh! It just doesn’t get better for conservatives than watching liberals practice political cannibalism.

Under fire from, well, anyone with the IQ of their toilet bowl, Barack Obama has announced that he will resign from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The straw that broke the camel’s back, it seems, was Fr. Michael Pfleger (I’d like to know who ordained him, and why the Church keeps him around), who was a guest preacher at Obama’s now ex-church a couple of weeks ago. Pfleger sounded not unlike the white Jeremiah Wright with all his politicking (not to mention cursing) from the pulpit:

Obama has now withdrawn his membership from Trinity. However, the damage has been done. The revelations about this church where Obama blithely sat and learned these last two decades have shown Obama to be not the messianic figure everyone thought he was. He is now tainted as just another corrupt politician. The resignation from Trinity is not going to help. If anything, it’s going to look like a political move driven by ideology more than idealism. Which it is.

For all his years in politics, John McCain seems not to understand that his business is the game of rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies. In fact, he frequently gets it backwards.

Today, McCain has issued a decree to pull an anti-Obama ad in North Carolina featuring Rev. Wright. McCain claimed it to be dishonorable and says he wants to run an honorable campaign. Apparently, that means not calling out the fact that your opponent has listened—or not listened, depending on who you believe—to his preacher calling for God to damn America.

An “honorable campaign” does not mean letting your opponent walk all over you. That is not honor, it’s suicide. Having served a couple of decades in the Navy, McCain should know a thing or two about honor. There is nothing dishonorable about calling out your opponent’s mistakes. That is politics. If McCain can’t deal with that, he should go find another job.

Linda Daves, chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, has said that she will run the ad anyway because it’s her job to point out the weaknesses of the Democrat party. When Norah O’Donnell accused her of playing the race card, Daves replied that it has nothing to do with race and that as chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, it’s her duty to do what’s best for the party.

John McCain should drop to his knees and thank God that his opponents are so maladroit. Otherwise, strategies like this would ensure his defeat in November.

If you’re considering voting for B Hussein Obama, this is one reason (and a pretty compelling one, in my oh-so-humble opinion) to reconsider your vote. I could carry on about it, but I really couldn’t say anything my friend Col. Rutter hasn’t already said. So I’ll simply exhort you to read the article.

Thanks to Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos, primaries in Ohio and Indiana have fallen under scrutiny of late. Ohio primary voters who crossed over to the Democrat side faced possible charges, but since what they did wasn’t illegal the charges were never pressed.

Now, the Indiana primary is the subject of media attention too. The Democrats fear that Republicans may use the state’s open primary law to “create mischief” and are calling out a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to steal the election. According to a Clintonite super-delegate, “If there are Republicans sincere in their intent to support our candidates, then we welcome them into our party. If their motives are only to play mischief, we’re not going to sit back and let this happen.”

Tough luck, Democrats! You’ve used the open primary process to “create mischief” in our primaries, and it worked! You made Juan McAmnesty our nominee. You can’t do stuff like that and then complain when it’s done to you. If you want us to follow the rules, I suggest you set the example yourself first.

Think back to middle school history. Remember the Donner Party? The people who set out for the West, got stranded in California, and found themselves in such dire straits they had to eat each other?

Well, this election year, the Democrats are doing the same thing (metaphorically, of course). Their party is so bankrupt, their ideology so vacuous, and their candidates so utterly laughable that they’re out of resources. All they can do is consume each other.

John McCain may be the luckiest politician ever to live. His own party hates him and many of them will sooner stay home than vote for him. Not only that, but the Republicans should lose big this year. We’ve got an unpopular war, an economy in a minor recession, and the Republicans basically flushed their twelve years in power to the point that they were ousted in the midterm elections. They haven’t done themselves proud since. By all political analysis, the Republicans should fall on their faces this year.

But they may not. Hillary and Barack are so busy tearing into each other that they don’t have the resources to tear into McCain. The Democrats could easily make hay on pointing out McCain’s traitorous actions against his own party. But they can’t! They’re too busy shredding each other.

John McCain and the Republicans have no business winning a consolation prize, never mind an election, this year. But their opposition is so bad that they just might anyway. If the Republicans win a darn thing in November, they will truly have been blessed by their enemies.

Last week, Hillary Clinton recounted a tale of landing under sniper fire during her 1996 trip to Bosnia . Turns out, the tale was a crock. Big shocker, I know. She says she “misspoke” about the incident, and there actually was sniper fire on the hillside near the landing strip. Good heavens. If this woman confuses sniper fire near her with bullets actually being fired at her, what else will she “misspeak” over? I mean, if the North Koreans batted an eye she’d rapidly turn it into a full-scale nuclear assault or something.

Since then, various military commanders have denounced Hillary’s remarks, saying that it demeans the sacrifices they make. They’re right. Making light of something like getting shot at by snipers diminishes everyone who’s actually been under fire. It’s like schools branding everyone and his brother with a learning disability—it hurts the credibility of those who are actually learning disabled. Not only that, but Hillary’s story makes the military look like they fell down on the job and let the First Lady and her teenage daughter land with a bunch of disgruntled Bosnians on the runway.

So we have two options here. Hillary’s either too dense to properly recall a fairly memorable incident like being shot at, or she cares so little about our servicemen that she’s perfectly willing to make up a story which demeans them. Neither one’s a particularly attractive trait in a potential Commander-in-Chief, is it?

With Barack’s pastoral mishaps and Hillary’s faulty memory, the Democrats look ready to shred themselves this year. For them, that’s bad. Which translates to wonderful for America! And for this blog, as  it means I will rarely be short post topics.

The title of this post is the refrain from Paul Shanklin’s latest song regarding Obama’s Jeremiah Wright debacle. It’s also the basic response Obama’s had to this whole brouhaha.

This morning, Obama gave a speech regarding his relationship with Rev. Wright. He stated that he could no sooner disown Rev. Wright than his white grandmother who uttered racist slurs and said things he disagreed with. But his association with his grandmother is involuntary. He didn’t choose his grandmother. But his association with his pastor is completely voluntary. He could have left his church if he disagreed with the teaching. He could have confronted his pastor if he felt the teaching was faulty. Barack Obama did neither of those.

Obama’s strategy of talking without saying anything is about to backfire on him big time. He can’t sweet-talk his way out of this. He’s either willingly listened to Jeremiah Wright denounce America for 20 years or he really had no idea what his pastor was preaching. Neither of those options inspires a lot of confidence in a potential president.

This is a video of some of Obama’s (somewhat belated) denunciation of his pastor’s comments.

There is a Spanish adage: “Show me the company you keep and I’ll show you who you are.” (I should be able to say that in Spanish, but I zoned out most of my last semester of it.) You’re not exempt from this because you’re running for President, as Barack Obama is about to find out.

Lately lately some of Obama’s pastor’s remarks have made their way into headline news, as such things are wont to do during election season. Turns out that Rev. Jeremiah Wright has a history of preaching anti-American sermons, notably calling for black people to not sing “God Bless America” but “God Damn America.”

Obama is not responsible for his pastor’s words. But he is responsible for where he attends church. He’s attended this church faithfully for two decades. He and his wife were married there, their children were baptized there, and I’d say it’s a fair bet he’s heard many of this pastor’s sermons. Yet he still continues to go there every Sunday.

How is it that Pres. Bush is a religious nut for attending a mainstream Protestant church, but when Barack Obama sits under a pastor that preaches an anti-American message it’s no big deal? Obama wants to hold the highest office in the nation. Shouldn’t we wonder why he takes spiritual advice from someone who calls America the most evil nation in the world?

I think we should. But if Obama’s legion of followers are any indication, I seem to be in the minority.

Last week Bill Cunningham, a talk show personality, referred to Obama as “Barack Hussein Obama” several times as he emceed a John McCain rally. Not only did this get Democrats in an uproar, but it also got McCain in an uproar. Read the story and view the video here.

I want to know why it’s such a mortal sin in this election to call attention the fact that Barack Obama shares a name with a third-world despot responsible for the deaths of countless people and was an enemy of America to boot. It’s not a deal-breaker—in my book at least, Obama’s got several deal-breakers that come before his middle name. But shouldn’t it make us think? Is it not relevant that we’re fighting radical Islam and the man who may be Commander-in-Chief of the armed services that fight this war may have ties to that religion?

I think it is. If we could make a big deal over Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, we can make a big deal over Obama’s Islamic ties. After all, Mormons haven’t made a habit of blowing up symbols of American freedom. My party’s nominee doesn’t recognize this. He needs to. If he can’t, then he’s not fit to be dog catcher. Never mind President of the United States.