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The powers that be in the Democratic party are far from amused by the backfiring sledgehammer tactics of Team Obamessiah.

As more Americans begin to see Him exposed as a false god, though, there is the real fear that He will punish our insolence by sending that naquada-enhanced atomic bomb back through the Stargate, while He takes His campaign of hope elsewhere in the galaxy.

Just one week into the campaign and the Nutty Professor has resorted to the exhausted meme of the “Hidden Agenda”:

“That means not only that we want to pull Canadians toward conservatism, but Conservatives also have to move toward Canadians if they want to continue governing the country,” Harper said.

Saying he understood Harper’s comments to mean Canada still isn’t conservative enough, Dion said: “So, I want to ask him: how far is he more right-wing than Canadians? What is his hidden agenda that he doesn’t want to communicate to Canadians?”

Nice call, Count Floyd, because fear-mongering whisper campaigns have played out so well with your erstwhile counterparts in the United States. Clearly only a gold medal-winning PhD can discern that the hidden agenda is as intellectually sound a proposition as the Springfield Bear Patrol.

Out-of-touch academics.

In our newspapers.

With lame rumour-mongering.

We wish we were making this up.

So Stéphane Dion’s reaction to rising gas prices is essentially no different than the old borscht belt joke,

Patient: It hurts when I do this.

Doctor: Then stop doing that.

[...] because humanity is asking for more and more oil

Oh, the humanity, indeed!

The Democrats have released an ad mocking John McCain as unfit to be President because he does not use a computer. Now if only the Obamessiah or his cultists had bothered to use Google, they would have learned why:

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

So, Democrats, is this truly the cruel, effete, spineless poser that you have been waiting for?!

UPDATE — The One’s Googlers somehow miss evidence to the contrary:

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

This is beginning to resemble more a costume re-enactment of the 1993 Kim Campbell campaigns than a bid for the White House.

Hey, Canadian Cynic readers, welcome to the strange new realm of fact-checking! And good news, it’s not only fun, it’s ethical too!

While fans of “The Matrix” will see parallels between the coming of Barack Hussein Obama and Morpheus’ search for The One, “Dune” aficionados will recognize something even more mystical – the elusive Kwisatz Haderach – a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time. Also known as “the one who can be many places at once” or a male capable of absolute powers of prescience, able to predict all possible futures and to cause select threads of time to be realized through manipulation.

Wikipedia suggests the origin of Kwisatz Haderach is most likely the Hebrew expression Kefizat Haderech, which literally means “jumping of the path/road/way”, and translates to “the great breakthrough” or “the big advancement”.

With the Democratic campaign in panic mode as nuclear fallout from Palinmania rains down on their candidate, the question must be asked – has BHO ‘jumped the shark’ ?

Because we could all use a good laugh.

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Joe Klein has totally lost it in this column entitled “Sarah Palin’s Myth of America.”   Especially when he compares the American South after the Civil War to America today after Vietnam and Iraq.   I think his column probably captures the frustration of most Democrats, though, when he blames Americans for not sufficiently appreciating The One and his eclectic background.

Here’s my favorite part of his lament:

So Obama faces an uphill struggle between now and Nov. 4. He has no personal anecdotes to match Palin’s mooseburgers. His story of a boy whose father came from Kenya and mother from Kansas takes place in an America not yet mythologized, a country that is struggling to be born — a multiracial country whose greatest cultural and economic strength is its diversity.

The fact that Obama has no personal anecdotes to match Palin’s mooseburgers is not our problem.  Obama has to sell himself to us.  The anecdotes he does care to tell us about–Rev. Wright’s inspirational sermons, Father Pfleger’s missionary work, Bill Ayers’s community teaching and regrets that he had “not done enough”–are not things likely to grab America by the lapels with joy.  Rather, Americans upon hearing such stories feel as if they had been mugged on a cold night on Chicago’s south side.   NOT a Norman Rockwell feeling.

I have a solution for Joe Klein:  stop nominating radicals whose personal lives are out of the American mainstream and who reverse JFK’s admonition to do things for your country and not the other way around.  And tell The One that he is not the only One.

Some polls are best read in conjunction.  Here is an example.  In the first poll we learn that “Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, there is no consensus outside the United States that Islamist militants from al Qaeda were responsible, according to an international poll published Wednesday.   The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001….  On average, 46 percent of those surveyed said al Qaeda was responsible, 15 percent said the U.S. government, 7 percent said Israel and 7 percent said some other perpetrator. One in four people said they did not know who was behind the attacks.”

In second poll, once again conducted internationally, we learn that “All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain….  an average of 49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.”

It is no wonder that Americans prefer to ignore international opinion when it comes to their elections.  After all what would one make of an opinion that “In Mexico, 30 percent cited the U.S. government and 33 percent named al Qaeda” as being behind the 9/11 attacks?

CBC reporter Terry Milewski, in his implausibly named “Reality Check” segment on The National, has railed at the Conservative campaign for not following the lead of the Liberals and NDP in purchasing carbon offsets. Yet even his crack team of Googling wage-slaves have yet to come across the same facts presented elegantly by Steve Janke, namely that carbon offsets are a dubious proposition as practised by the Liberals. An actual check with reality shows that in this campaign they are nothing better than the Gaian equivalent of medieval papal indulgences: a boon to hucksters but worthless as a genuine means of salvation.

So here we stand, Mr. Milewski; we can do no other.

Obama mentor and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers explains his bombing campaign strategy through a four-panel cartoon.

Blessed are the cheesemakers, indeed

October 14, 2008 is Liberal Judgment Day!

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With its tedious vulgarity and sledgehammer wit, the Heather Mallick blogpost became unreadable – sickeningly so – after two paragraphs.  I do not in the least mind her venomous jettings being made public. Her right to free speech is, or should be guaranteed. I do resent paying for it, and I resent it bitterly.  Let her spit filth at her social and moral superiors on someone else’s tab. I am reading Trollope’s “Phineas Redux” right now and disestablishment provokes the great political crisis. Trollope catches very neatly the steps by which an idea becomes more and more possible, until it is to someone’s political advantage to put a vaguely seen future on tomorrow’s Order Paper. I hope we reach that stage with the CBC very very soon.

Back to Mallick. What is the downward track for this sort of person? No longer fit for the Globe, and so to the CBC. That corporation will shed her, given the controversy she has raised, but perhaps not right away.  Then what journalistic gutter will have her next?  Prediction – the communications department of a labour union or government department.

Easy.

Oceanic Flight 815

And when the Dion campaign starts seeing polar bears on the island, they’ll just blame it on global warming.

A headline so pricelessly torqued it could not be made up:

“McCain-Palin Ticket Chills Arabs, Muslims”

What follows is a thorough but utterly unoriginal collection of exhausted memes and shibboleths that would befit an al-Jazeera outtakes show, to wit:

Some Iraqi and Arab politicians and pundits have privately ridiculed as ironic the fact that Palin is regarded in the United States as socially conservative while her unwed teenage daughter is pregnant.

Funny, I think the Daily Kos and MSNBC were way ahead of them on that.

Commentators warn that the vast social and religious gaps dividing the Muslim and U.S. Christian beliefs, particularly Evangelical ones, would be further widened if a McCain-Palin administration took office, because it could further politicize and militarize U.S. policy in the region.

And naturally the Christian beliefs instilled in the Obamessiah by the Trinity United Church of Christ will not present such a gap.

Oh, right.

H/T FFOF

The Obamessiah tries to grasp a coattail of John McCain’s military record but trips over his own lies:

During his 7 September 2008 interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Obama said the following:

“I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there.

“And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honorable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”

Obama did graduate from high school in Hawaii in 1979, but he could not have registered for Selective Service then. Nobody could. In 1975, President Gerald Ford terminated the Military Selective Service Act. It was not reinstated until July 1980. That is one year after Obama graduated from high school. In July 1980, Obama was no longer living in Hawaii. He was living in Los Angeles.

So much for him relying on Joe Biden to write up his talking points.