Past Controversies Hang Over Obama Cabinet Picks

present and future controversies to follow

Senators will have to decide in the confirmation hearings whether to broach Richardson's involvement, though marginal, in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, as well as Napolitano's work in the Anita Hill sexual harassment case and Holder's support of President Clinton's controversial pardon of Marc Rich.

For someone who based his entire campaign on change, he sure is planning to fill his Cabinet with many of the same old players. Unless they start talking about it on American Idol, most of the people who put him in office will not hear about it. And those who do hear about it won't care.

Election Over, Ayers, Wright & Farrakhan Emerge

wright on cue



The Election Party is barely over and, right on cue, Obama's shady associations start crawling out of the woodwork. Is anyone surprised?

Farrakhan: "I feel freer today to say the things that are in my heart," said the controversial religious leader.

Do you mean the stuff you have been spewing for years hasn't come from your heart? Now we can look forward to hearing what he really thinks. Oh goodie.

Wright: "The media didn't care about the whole sermon and what it was about. They just used those 10 seconds and used it as a weapon of mass destruction against [Obama's] campaign."

How exactly do you take "God D*** America!" out of context?

Ayers: “It’s all guilt by association,” Ayers said. “They made me into a cartoon character -- they threw me up onstage just to pummel me."

I wish someone threw you up on stage and pummeled you. Heck, I would pay money to watch it. Somebody call Fox and tell them we have their next reality tv show for them. Actually, you should be getting pummeled right now by some guy named Bubba in Cell Block C.

Also, this:
Obama's former pastor says media exploited him.

Unity Equals Divided Plus One

fuzzy math



Funny because it is true. Cartoon snagged from Furious Diaper.

Crossroads

OK. Maybe I was a little too ambitious with this one? I do know one thing, it took much longer to make than I anticipated. I wish I knew how to draw!

Hopefully, the meaning is clear. The point I am trying to make is that the GOP is currently at a crossroads. Moving left has obviously not worked out for us, and if we continue to move down that path it will lead to certain doom for the Republican Party. Incidentally, those are buzzards on the left path. We may as well call ourselves Democrat-Lite at this point.

We need to move back to the right. Stop trying to reach "across the aisle", a term I am thoroughly fed up with as I am sure most conservatives are. That is the only way I see for us to return to that "shining city on a hill", as Ronald Reagan so eloquently put it.

Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages

a day late and a dollar short



The cartoon was inspired by this article.

Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning.

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"I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned," said Randall Waldon.

Heh. Now why does that sound familiar? Maybe Randall Waldon will be voting Republican the next time around? Somehow I doubt that.

To be fair, the article has since been updated.

Indianapolis - The Obama campaign says most of the payment issues that brought hundreds of upset campaign workers to the Indianapolis office Wednesday have been resolved.

Provided that is true, it still does not take away from Randall's priceless quote. Explain to me again how it is OK to take someone's hard earned money? Don't be selfish.

Hat tip to Rachel Lucas, once again.

RINO Go Home

buh-bye

I had this idea for a political cartoon. I can't draw, so I improvised. It turned out good enough for me:



Most will get the meaning right away. For those of you who don't, a RINO is a Republican In Name Only. We have one here in Pennsylvania. His name is Arlen Spector. These are the types that have an R next to their names but do not live up to conservative expectations.

Something good can come out of the current situation. We can take back the party. RINO's need not apply. The base has spoken. Let's live up to our reputation as the party of reform and start by cleaning up our own ranks