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Bidens "Brilliant" Foreign Policy "Gravitas"

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 3:39:33 PM
Is wanting to give Iran $200M taxpayer dollars.  After 9/11.  So they won't get mad at us.  Or something.
 
At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.
 
The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: "I think they'd send it back." Then another aide speaks up delicately: "The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt." Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned. But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He's already moved on to something else.
 
This is almost too easy...
 
(H/T: Hot Air)
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NOAA Uses Fake Imagery In Climate Report

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:42:11 PM
The National Climate Data Center who falls under...drum roll please... NOAA (shocka!) placed photoshopped images of climate disasters in their upcoming "scientific" climate report.  (NOAA is reponsible for this monstrosity.  Go to the draft here.  Scroll down to the second page.  A whole lotta people with NOAA after their names...)
 
Here is the image:
 
 
What exactly is wrong with this photo?  The flood waters have been "graphically rendered" into the original image.  The image was purchased from this site which comes with accompanying photographers desciption of the digital "adjustment":
 
 
Here is the photo containd on the accompanying NCDC page:
 
Pink arrow pointintg tho the "shopped" image
 
But the real question is, with so many different photos of real flooded houses available, why did they choose one that was not real? Surely they know such a report will be highly scrutinized?
 
As I said last week, the use of graphics in the report makes it look more like a news article than a scientific paper, and if principal National Climatic Data Center authors Dr.’s  Thomas Karl and Peterson can’t even bother to check if the photos they use are real or not, or even spot such obvious fakes, it makes one wonder just how much fact checking went into the other parts of the report.
 
Do you think our policy makers, for which this report is intended, would be smart enough to catch such things?
 
Of course Al Gore did the same thing in his (I still can't believe this) Academy Award winning "documentary "An Inconvenient Truth".  Link to the video forgery here.
 
This whole exercise begs the question:  If the science is so settled; if the facts are indeed incontrovertable, why is there ANY NEED WHATSOEVER to use subterfuge, faked, or otherwise un-real imagery to make your point?  Shouldn't the "science" be able to stand on it's own merits?
 
These are the people we are "trusting" to brief our legislators and leaders about "climate change".  And they can't even fact check their own report?  They are purposefully using scare tactics and fabricated imagery?  And these are to be the "end all, be all" arbiters of this issue?
 
Until someone can come into these agencies who can be unbiased and honest about the real science and keep the politics out, I will continue to be skeptical of anything they say when it comes to "climate change/global warming".
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Biden's Dumbest Moments

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 1:43:29 PM
A handy guide compiled by ABC News.
 
Follow the link here.
 
Joe Biden - Probably the biggest gaffe-master since...Barack Obama
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Biden LOVES Lobbyist Money

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 1:29:21 PM
Biden's love of lobbyists seems to directly contradict Obama's ideas on the subject (cue video):
 
Biden's long tenure in the Senate cuts against Obama’s change message, even as it insulates the first-term Illinois senator from charges that he’s too green for the White House.
 
Biden has accepted $5,133,072 in contributions from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003. Obama does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists.
 
And he has one other weakness that hasn't received much attention to date. One of Biden's sons, Hunter, is a registered Washington lobbyist in a year in which Obama has been excoriating lobbyists and the culture of corruption in Washington. The younger Biden is a name partner at the firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair and seems to have specialized in lobbying for just the kind of earmark spending by Congress that Obama has vowed to slash. Republican insiders say the party is likely to make an issue of Biden's family lobbying ties.
 
Also expect to hear more about Biden's close ties with credit card companies. His largest contributor, based on total contributions by employees, over the past five years has been MBNA, the Delaware-based bank aquired in 2005 by Bank of America that, until then, was the world's largest independent credit card issuer and a major supporter of the 2005 bankruptcy bill that Biden crossed the aisle to support.
 
Quite a contrast wouldn't you say? 
 
Now let's play "What is more Likely":
 
Is it more likely Senator Biden will forego his lobbysist donations and the influnece they give him (an influence/funding machine he has amassed over his 35 year career) all for the sake of "Hope-N-Change"?
 
Or is it more likely Senator Obama will suddenly see the need and importance of lobbyists in Washington?  (BTW - It's already pretty much happened).
 
How's that "Change" looking now Lefties?
 
(H/T: Hot Air)
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Bidens' Racism "One of his strengths"

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:53:48 PM
The MSM spin is already in overdrive.  This is unbelieveable:
 
JOHN HARWOOD: He is not somebody who is infused with political correctness, the verbal equivalent of putting his pinky up when he opens his mouth. So this is what, the way ordinary voters are as well. They're not always worried about sort of calibrating every single word by "ooh, is this racially insensitive?"  That's something that Joe Biden brings as an asset to the ticket.  The gaffes actually show one of his strengths.
 
View video here.
 
Just to refresh your memory, remember the indignation and the accusations of racism against McCain in his "Britney" and other ads?
 
The MSM is spinning so hard on this they're turning into human margatrita machines!
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Racism Only Reason For Obama Loss

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:44:20 PM
You older white crackers, clinging to your guns and bibles may be just racist enough to keep "The One" from his Holy Temple, er, The White House.
 
Another Lefty throwing race into the campaign.  They aren't even trying to be subtle about it anymore:  If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.
 
If you follow the link to the article, have your duct tape and paramedics on standby.
 
Exit Question:  If Obama does win, wouldn't the "White" House have to be renamed - just because? 
 
I'm only using the Lefties logic...
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Joseph Bidens Racism - Video

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:28:00 PM
Since the 7-11's or Dunkin Donuts are just chock full of Indian-Americans.  Well, at least according to the Apostle Biden:
 
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Obama Picked Biden Because He's Scared

Posted by Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:51:29 AM
The Mighty, Most Beneficent Obamamessiah picks a 35 year Washington insider as his running mate?  What happened to the politics of "Change"?  The AP tells us:
 
DENVER - The candidate of change went with the status quo.
 
In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.
 
He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate — the ultimate insider — rather than a candidate from outside Washington, such as Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia or Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas; or from outside his party, such as Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; or from outside the mostly white male club of vice presidential candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't even make his short list.
 
The picks say something profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois senator worried that he couldn't beat Republican John McCain without help from a seasoned politician willing to attack. The Biden pick is the next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative — a strategic decision that may be necessary but threatens to run counter to his image.
 
Ed Morrissey from Hot Air adds this:
 
It’s an admission that Obama’s inexperience has finally begun worrying voters, and not just Democratic power brokers.  There really is no other way to see an addition of Biden to the ticket.  Obama can’t be worried about carrying Delaware, after all; it’s as safe a state that Democrats have.  Nor does Biden have a natural national constituency, as his own flop of a presidential campaign proved this cycle.
 
The Biden choice is an act of desperation borne of a summer-long catastrophe.  There isn’t any other reason for Obama to choose a 35-year veteran of the Senate with as long a history of gaffes and flat-out dishonesty as his second on the campaign for Hope and Change. 
 
After all of Obama's bluster, arrogance and supposed confidence he demonstrates he can't make a tough decision.  He has to make a safe, comfortable choice which proves Obama doesn't believe his own rhetoric about him being ready to be President.
 
Heh.
 
Addendum:
 
It seems the McCain Campaign was ready for this pick and is chomping at the bit to show the public stuff like this:
 
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