Bush was talking about Jimmy Carter, not the Messiah, but he refuses to accept this:

Barack Obama struck back hard at President Bush and John McCain Friday, accusing them of hypocrisy and of distorting his position on dialogue with nations hostile to the United States, telling a South Dakota crowd that “I’m running for president to change course, not to continue George Bush’s course.”

“I want to be perfectly clear with George Bush and John McCain, and with the people of South Dakota,” he said at a Watertown campaign stop. “If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I’m happy to have any time, any place and that is debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.”

The Associated Press runs down their arguments and finds them … well, let’s just say factually deficient

Over the past 30 years:

Which party blocked the development of new sources of petroleum?– Democrat
Which party blocked drilling in ANWR?Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off the coast of Florida?–Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off of the east coast?–Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off of the west coast?– Democrat
Which party blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast?– Democrat
Which party blocked building oil refineries?– Democrat
Which party blocked clean nuclear energy production?– Democrat
Which party blocked clean coal production?– Democrat

Gateway Pundit has much more

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Writes the Times:

Mr. McCain predictably criticized liberal judges, vowed strict adherence to the Founders’ views and promised to appoint more judges in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. That is just what the country does not need.blockquote>

Promise? What Promise?

Democrats say a six-month extension of jobless benefits will stimulate the moribund economy and they characterize the new college aid for veterans as a war-related cost.

But they come on the heels of tossing out their fiscal responsibility rules for a $168 billion economic rescue package of tax rebates for most Americans three months ago and a $50 billion measure two months earlier rescuing some 20 million middle-class taxpayers from an average $2,000 in higher taxes.

Deficit hawks in both parties worry that the stimulus bill opened the door to further deficit-swelling legislation. They view the rule — dubbed “PAYGO” in inside-the-Beltway slang for pay-as-you-go — as a key bulwark against Congress’ propensity to spend outside its means.

So welfare stimulates the economy? Really? That is about as intelligent as allowing the Teamsters to police themselves.

Oh my how I do love to read of tantrums on the left! James Wolcott tells you of the Kossacks dividing over Hillary and Barack, while Matt just realized that he has been marginalized by the very people he helped to put in power.

And then there are the number of people who take issue with a basic request for competence at the Obama campaign with regards to communications. People apparently don’t want Obama sending out talking points or talking to bloggers, preferring that bloggers stay independent. Well excuse me, why do you think Obama surrogates suck on TV? They aren’t getting fucking talking points, you idiots. How do you think this works?

While we’re on Obama, consider the ridiculous defenses of Obama going on Fox News and lying about his intent to ‘take them on’, to which I could refer you to Chris’s post once again. The straw men arguments were just disgusting and out in force.

“We hear time and time again voters are tired of this,” Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC’s “Today” show.

The only voices calling for an end to the Wright Discussion are John Kerry, Jon Stewert, NYT’s, WaPo, and the Obama’s. It appears that the voters are not the ones calling for an end to this, although, based on this poll, I can see why the Obama’s want to MoveOn.

Shall we now MoveOn to Bill Ayers, Alice Palmer, Bernadine Dohrn or Tony Rezko?

These figures are from NewsBusters. Seton Motley exposed a problem with a CBS report that cited Rand Corporation study “that asserts that the cost to the taxpayer for health care for “all undocumented men, women and children” — their words, both spoken and in chyron — is $1.1 billion per year.” The problem with that study is that it examines only “nonelderly participants — those between 18 and 64″. What about the children? What about those older than 64? From the Center for Immigration Studies’ “Costs” report page:

Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household.

Now that’s more like it!

See MM’s May Day, May Day: All-purpose, left-wing grievance day

H/T to HotAir for this video of Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, being herself:

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An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting.

But a spokesman for Conyers says she was the real victim in the hubbub.

According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers “threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun” and made “several aggressive movements” toward Milton “in a threatening manner.”

Milton also reported to police that Conyers said she would “have my brothers (mess) you up.”

David Clark, chair of Detroit’s General Retirement System, backed up Milton’s account.

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MM printed the garbage that SF Gate calls journalism, so if you want to read it, give her the link

The following article was written by John M. Murtagh, a victim of Obama’s pal, William Ayers:

Our good friend Terry Trippany, at Webloggin, has Race Baiting Lefties at Crooks and Liars Team Up with Firedoglake To Petition Republicans “To Stop Racist Attack Ads” Targeting Jeremiah Wright, which I would encourage you to read. Jane Hamsher is the proud owner of Firedoglake and her work speaks for itself:

That last picture is of Michael Steele. Here is what he actually looks like:

Jane Hamsher on January 10, 2008:

If either campaign thinks that winning the nomination is worth tearing the party apart by igniting America’s sexist and racist strains to their own benefit, it’s stupid and shortsighted. Just because the Republicans will go there in the general is not a reason to start now.

See the following posts for a good chuckle on Jane’s previous work:

And The Ignorant Statement Of The Day Goes To: Jane Hamsher

LEAVE IT TO A LIBERAL TO BE RACIST AND THEN BLAME A REPUBLICAN

Watch this

That is the question asked by the NY Daily News. I think Jeff summed it up best:

Barack Obama’s Manhattan campaign office, located in the newsroom of The New York Times, is spinning Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s incendiary comments at the National Press Club away from the Illinois senator. The headline says it all: Not Speaking for Obama, Pastor Speaks for Himself, at Length.

He also wrote a book, “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, so if you have the time, it’s a good read! But back to this ‘trick’…

Brent Baker points out: Only ABC Focuses on Wright’s Inanity, All Showcase Shot at Cheney

“We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians,” Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. “This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell.”

I’m kind of sick of David Blaine and his goofey tricks. I want to see if Al really can shut down NYC. That would be a cool trick.

Gateway Pundit has more

In March, the national average was $3.24/gallon. As of April 21, the average was $3.508 with the change from a week ago being 0.119 and the change from a year ago being 0.639 .

Via MM comes this video of Larry King pressing Nancy on her promise to lower prices, which hasn’t happened:

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“$2.56 on average”? A couple of things wrong here:

1. If the price was a dollar something and it is now $2.56, how does that equate to the prices have trippled?
2. Larry King of all people corrected her. He tells her it is actually $3.50 and she says “Oh, it’s down six cents.”

Hey Nancy, the average price in SF is $3.98/gallon. In California as of April 21, 2008: the average was $3.846 with the change from a week ago being 0.072 and the change from a year ago being 0.530.

Lawsuits and investigations take time Nancy, the people need relief now. Suspend the federal tax on gasoline!

Liberalism really is a mental disease!

A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents has told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.

They had been in the audience to hear the Bushes talk about their children’s book, “Read All About It.”

“He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, ‘What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,’ ” said John Lovetro. “He was unperturbed. I said, ‘Get out of here! You’re being a moron!’ ”

I guess they see what we saw:

“President Carter came to the region thinking he could achieve something. Unfortunately president Carter left without anything concrete,” he told a conference in the Spanish capital.

“The only thing he achieved was permission on the part of Khaled Meshaal of Hamas to deliver a letter from a detained Israeli soldier to his family. Nothing else,” he said.

“Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions. There was no change on the part of Hamas,” Malki added.

Carter’s meetings with top Hamas leader Meshaal and his deputy in Syria angered Israel and the United States, which consider the movement a terror group despite its victory in 2006 elections.

He was unable to secure a ceasefire or a prisoner exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militants in 2006, but on Monday Carter said Hamas told him it would recognise Israel’s right to exist such a deal was approved by a Palestinian vote.

From Roll Call

After days of castigating Republicans for allegedly stalling a veterans benefits package, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) himself decided to postpone the start of the debate — and, indeed the start of Wednesday’s session — until 5 p.m. in order to accommodate the schedules of his party’s presidential hopefuls, Democratic sources said.

“The Low Road to Victory” gives the reader a pretty good idea of what the story is without even needing to read it. As Ed points out, “it demands an end to her campaign even while she handily wins major states. Actually, it’s not that they want her to quit, but that they want her to stop competing against Obama so hard — apparently conceding that Obama can’t win in a tough race”

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.