Obama handed Hillary her ass on a golden platter last night, Pundits the world over have all but called the DNC race a done deal, Super Delegates are suddenly “too busy” to meet with Sen. Clinton and people close to her in the party have even said “It’s over babe!”… yet Clinton REFUSES to end the deal, even going so far as to lend herself an additional $6.4 Million to “keep up the momentum”.

Clue phone, Hillary… if you’re so in debt that you have to lend yourself millions to keep on going, and no one wants to meet with you about the election, you’ve lost. Huckabee saw the red flags… maybe you need to borrow his glasses.

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Government loves money, there’s no joking about that one… and when someone else besides them is raking it in, they get REALLY jealous and start up the “windfall” noise machine to validate the draining of corporate profits “for the people”.

With gas edging $4 a gallon in the US, the topic of the month of May for Presidential Primary season is how to stick it to the man, to make it “fair” for Joe Schmoe on the street. Here is where they play word games. “Fair” is political speech for “it’s time to play Robin Hood!”

Hillary Clinton and John McCain share a plan (while Clinton rides right over it with her added bonus plan of a profit tax) that would repeal the federal 18.4 cent/gallon tax on gasoline which is somehow supposed to save the average American citizen a TON of money. Here’s the thing… they don’t ever GIVE money back or stop taking it, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They may stop collecting one specific tax, but behind the curtain they’ll raise other taxes on similar commodities by a few cents here and there until they’re back where they started… leaving us in EXACTLY the same situation. The only difference being, the dumb masses will be smiling all the way to the voting booth feeling that something was accomplished. Not to mention artificially dropping prices on fuel will only INCREASE demand on the same supply, thus making the issue worse than it already is.

Here’s where Clinton leave McCain’s house and crosses over to hold hands with Sen. Obama… the Windfall Profits Tax. Somewhere in the history of the United States is suddenly became the job of the federal government to tell people and businesses when they hit the wall and were making “too much money”.

Congress is waving the caution flag at the oil industry warning them that heavy taxation on “excessive profits” is on its way (which is funny due to the fact that they’re already raking in 35% from corporate income taxes). Congress seems to think that heavily taxing something will bring in MORE and cheaper fuel for the Americans when nothing could be further from that reality. Carter enacted a windfall profits tax on “Big Oil” in 1980 and the net result from his brilliance was a two fold decrease in domestic oil production from 3% to 6% and a doubled increase in imported oil from OPEC from 8% to 16%. Genius, pure genius!

We have plenty of oil to tap here in the US to begin our process of weening ourself from OPEC and other foreign sources as well as to begin to find ACTUALLY sustainable (not just renewable) fuel sources, problem being that MOST Americans scream bloody murder when you tell them you’re planting an oil rig 200 miles off shore near their beach condo in Florida, or that you’re planning on using a region of Alaska and might upset the migratory patterns of a moose (or alter the habitat of some blind ferret with 8 legs).

Stealing profits from a corporation and then expecting them to invest more of what they now lack, is completely backwards.

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Speaking out against Obama’s albatross Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his continued racist tirades against white people and the federal government, Sen. Hillary Clinton issued the following half ass comment:

“You know, I spoke out against Don Imus, saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that. I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”

I’m sorry Hillary, Imus and Wright are in no way even CLOSE to being comparable on this. Don Imus’ comment, while tactless was FAR less damaging than the venom being spewed by people like Jeremiah Wright. Imus was raked over the coals for making a comment about a handful of basketball players, fired for his remarks and wagged in front of the world as an example of what happens when you speak ill of ANYONE who isn’t white.

Jeremiah Write is an ego maniacal racist who is getting a free pass for his comments based solely on the color of his skin. He stood in front of the NAACP and proceeded to mock “white folk” for the way he thinks they talk, clap, walk, sing, look and even how our marching bands sound. His comments were followed by ruckus laughter from the crowd watching his racist ramblings only egging him on for more. The BASIS for his speech was accurate in that we are ALL equals and we need to stop seeing people who are different, as those who are deficient… he seems to lack the ability to practice what he preaches. Had Wright been of Anglo decent, ten seconds into his speech, he would have had his mic pulled, and had been escorted off the stage, followed by a forced public apology, billions of accusations of racism and “hate speech” and would have immediately become unemployable.

Wright lampooned the Boston accents of the late President John Kennedy, and Sen. Ted Kennedy and added that ‘no one would tell a Kennedy that they speak bad English… just Black children.’ Well Rev. Wright… I hold everyone accountable for bad grammar and speech patterns. If a child approaches me and says “I don’t have no paper!” they WILL be corrected, and it has ZERO to do with their skin color or nationality.

People are ALL different, but Wright draws a HARD line in the sand between whites and blacks specifically. If you feel we all need to get along, why draw a line in the sand…

If you want us all as equals, eliminate the divisive policies like Affirmative Action, stop self segregating yourselves by hosting award shows for “black” artists, and hosting TV channels for “black entertainment”. The race pimps will march on God himself to “end” segregation, but will turn right back around and build the wall back up… NOT because they truly give a crap about their fellow man… but because FIXING the problem puts them out of a job and their ego’s cannot handle it.

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One would think that with the passion folks like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have towards “furthering the advancement of the Black community” the mere THOUGHT of having a black President would make them wet their pants… well you would THINK so.

There’s one problem with the situation that seems to be coming to a painful head between Obama and his former pastor. His inauguration would NOT be a good thing for a race pimp like Wright.

Think about it for a moment. Jeremiah Wright is getting a lot of press, and attention for his “black people are still the slaves of the whites” bull squeeze… he seems hell bent on riding this wave to the peak of whatever race baiting mountain peak he’s climbing for. Why would he want that to end with a fellow black man in the highest office in this country?

If he can destroy Barack Obama’s hopes at the Presidency from behind the scenes, while pretending to care about the advancements of folks who share his skin tone, he can bolster his “credibility” with the race pimping crowd by putting up a “white men held him down” front… ESPECIALLY if McCain is President Elect.

People in the 15 minutes of fame hype tend to do stupid things, and I firmly believe Jeremiah Write would toss Obama under the bus for his own twisted agenda.

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The state of Indiana has been fighting an anti voter ID lawsuit in the Supreme Court brought on them by Civil Rights leaders and area Democrats who claim asking for photographic ID proof while voting is unconstitutional.

Chalk one up for the state of Indiana. The Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-3 verdict that Indiana’s strict Voter ID law is in fact constitutional.

Opponents of the law said that voter fraud has not been a documented problem in the state and that the law was a thinly veiled attempt to bar elderly, minority and the poor from voting.

Justice Scalia and I agree on the validity of the law…

“The universally applicable requirements of Indiana’s voter-identification law are eminently reasonable. The burden of acquiring, possessing and showing a free photo identification is simply not severe, because it does not ‘even represent a significant increase over the usual burdens of voting.’”

There are MANY states out there with assistance programs for the elderly, the poor etc. to provide lower cost or FREE Identification cards… but while we’re on the “poor” argument let me just make one point. The same “poor” people that these Democrats seem so genuinely concerned for over their lack of a photo ID, what percentage of them make a weekly (or more frequent) trip to a store for an alcoholic beverage. If they lack a state issued Photo ID they couldn’t buy their nightly Coors Light. If you cannot afford a simple photo ID, you have more serious issues than needing to vote.

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