Check Out HBO's "Recount"

Going in I was a little skeptical about watching HBO's "Recount", a flick that takes a look back at the mess that was the Al Gore-created Florida recount at the end 2000 Presidential election. I figured there'd be a huge liberal bent to the movie since we all know that there are plenty of left-wing lunatics in and out of Hollywood who still can't get over Bush beating Gore. Yet, to my surprise, for the most part I was wrong. "Recount" is not only a good film for anyone whose into politics, but it actually presents a pretty fair representation of both sides fight to win Florida. I won't give anything away here, but Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary and Tom Wilkinson (who plays James Baker), in particular, give top-notch performances. My only complaints? They made a complete caricature of one significant player in that whole mess (you'll know who that is right away) and they could've done a much better job with the Supreme Court sequences near the end. But I'd still recommend seeing "Recount" when you get a chance, esp. if you've been following the Democratic primaries of late.

Jessica Lange Should Stick To Acting

Surprise, surprise. Another rich, Hollywood actor is out and about bashing President Bush and the war in Iraq, at one of the most liberal, prestigious and costliest schools in America no less, yunno, a place most of us common folk can't afford:

Oscar-winner Jessica Lange bashed the Bush administration and denounced the war in Iraq during a commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.

The star of "Tootsie" and "Blue Sky" was applauded by students Friday at the small liberal arts college after comparing the conflict with the Vietnam War. She said the graduates have "a heavy burden" to chart a new path for the country.

"We are living in an America that, in the last seven and a half years, has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list," Lange said.

Lange asked the graduates, including her 22-year-old daughter Hannah Shepard, to commit themselves to the "pursuit of peace."

Yawn.

"Sex and the City" Inspired Girl To Have Sex At 14

In case you hadn't heard there's a movie coming out based on the old HBO drama about the fictional lives of four skanks living in New York. Needless to say the liberal press is treating this film like it's the second coming of Casablanca. "Sex and the City: The Movie" stars Sarah Jessica Parker (a hasbeen thespian until this show made her a star), Kristin Davis (a recovering alcoholic who once dated the likes of crazy loon Alec Baldwin), Cynthia Nixon (a longtime actress who recently left the father of her two kids for a woman) and Kim Cattrall (who before the show was most famous for starring in the 70's teen-sex hit "Porky's"). With its liberal views on sex, feminism and relationships "Sex in the City" was a hit within the female community, both young and old:

You can only watch Samantha Jones bed so many gorgeous guys before wondering if 4-inch heels and sky-high confidence would allow you to do the same.

At least that's what happened to "Lisa" (not her real name). She got hooked on "Sex and the City" when she was a 14-year-old growing up on Long Island, N.Y. It was the same year she lost her virginity. She soon graduated to ordering cosmopolitans at bars she snuck into and cheating on her boyfriend with up to seven other guys -- in one week.

"When you're that age you try to emulate people on TV. Carrie smoked, so I smoked, Samantha looked at hooking up with random people as not a big deal, so that's what I did too," said Lisa, now 22. "It wasn't 'Sex and the City's' fault. I love the show, but I think it made it a little easier to justify my behavior."

Another example of what the debauchery drenched Madonna, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton-sponsored "Girls Gone Wild" era is doing to our young women.

Hillary Clinton Needs Barack Obama Assassinated So She Can Win

This evil, desperate woman lies again (this time she blames Ted Kennedy's recent illness, but this isn't the first time she's mentioned RFK's assassination) and now you can not only question her credibility, but her sanity as well:

ABC News' Kate Snow Reports: In an interview with the Argus Leader, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., took the unusual step of invoking the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y., when discussing the continuing Democratic nomination battle.

"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it." Clinton said.

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded: "Senator Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign."

Sen. Clinton almost immediately tried to blunt the potential impact of her statement, telling reporters in South Dakota, "Earlier today I was discussing the democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June in 1992 and 1968. And I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June that's a historic fact. The Kennedy's have been much on my mind for the last days because of Senator Kennedy."

If this doesn't stick a fork in Billary I don't know what will. Remember too, there's a long line of folks that have mysteriously met their maker after getting in the way of the power-hungry Clintons.

Here's the vid clip of Hillary going off the deep end:

Rebecca Walker Quote of the Day!

"It’s been almost four years since I have had any contact with my mother, but it’s for the best - not only for my self-protection but for my son’s well-being. I’ve done all I can to be a loyal, loving daughter, but I can no longer have this poisonous relationship destroy my life.

I know many women are shocked by my views. They expect the daughter of Alice Walker to deliver a very different message. Yes, feminism has undoubtedly given women opportunities. It’s helped open the doors for us at schools, universities and in the workplace. But what about the problems it’s caused for my contemporaries?…

…Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women into childlessness. It is devastating. But far from taking responsibility for any of this, the leaders of the women’s movement close ranks against anyone who dares to question them - as I have learned to my cost. I don’t want to hurt my mother, but I cannot stay silent.

I believe feminism is an experiment, and all experiments need to be assessed on their results. Then, when you see huge mistakes have been paid, you need to make alterations. I hope that my mother and I will be reconciled one day. Tenzin deserves to have a grandmother. But I am just so relieved that my viewpoint is no longer so utterly coloured by my mother’s.

I am my own woman and I have discovered what really matters - a happy family."

- Rebecca Walker, daughter of feminist icon Alice Walker, on feminism and what her mom's radical views has done to their own relationship

(h/t Malkin)

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Rejects Global Warming Hysteria

Finally, a politician willing to show some guts and use facts that dispute the Al-Gore sponsored liberal fallacy that the sky is falling due to global warming:

The state of Alaska will sue to challenge the recent listing of polar bears as a threatened species, Gov. Sarah Palin announced Wednesday.

She and other Alaska elected officials fear a listing will cripple oil and gas development in prime polar bear habitat off the state's northern and northwestern coasts.

Palin argued that there is not enough evidence to support a listing. Polar bears are well-managed and their population has dramatically increased over 30 years as a result of conservation, she said.

Climate models that predict continued loss of sea ice, the main habitat of polar bears, during summers are unreliable, said Palin, a Republican.

The more I read up on Sarah Palin, the more I like her (can't deny it, but she's pretty hot too!). I highly doubt she'd go for a VP spot (she just gave birth to her 5th kid who happened to be born with Down Syndrome), but the GOP should be doing more to promote her.

NY Gov. David Paterson Calls Hillary "Desperate"

Damn, to think these two are pols from the same state so he has have some idea what he's talking about:

Gov. David Paterson, who is right now being interviewed by WAMC's Alan Chartock and taking calls from listeners on "Vox Pop," just disagreed sharply with his presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, on her last-ditch efforts to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations.

While he stressed that he continues to support Clinton and will do so until "she makes a different determination," Paterson, a superdelegate, said he doesn't believe the DNC should change the rules after the fact on Florida and Michigan and added that he's not buying her claims about leading the popular vote if the ballots cast in those states were counted.

"I would say at this point we're starting to see a little desperation on the part of the woman who I support and I'll support until whatever time she makes a different determination," Paterson said, adding: "I thought she was the best candidate and I thought she had the best chance of winning."

Paterson, who is a DNC committee member and was present at the meeting when a vote was taken to penalize Florida and Michigan for moving their respective primaries ahead of the traditional starting contests in New Hampshire and Iowa, said he thought that decision was "a little unfair" and he "didn't agree with it at the time."

But he also noted "nobody was screaming" after that decision was made, although some people were unhappy with it, adding:

"There was a process. I thought at the time everybody agreed to it. I didn't hear any objections from the candidates...So I would think the Democratic National Committee would leave it where it is."

It's the truth, Hillary Clinton only cares about Michigan and Florida because she needs their votes to have any chance of winning. If she'd won the nomination already, as she was long favored to do, she wouldn't give a rat's ass about the two states.

9th Circuit Court Strikes Down "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy

Good couple of weeks for the alternative lifestyle homosexual lot as not long after the CA Supreme Court allowed gay marriage, another group of activist judges throw a big middle finger up at the law:

The military cannot automatically discharge people because they're gay, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in the case of a decorated flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal.

The three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not strike down the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. But they reinstated Maj. Margaret Witt's lawsuit, saying the Air Force must prove that her dismissal furthered the military's goals of troop readiness and unit cohesion.

The "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue, don't harass" policy prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but requires discharge of those who acknowledge being gay or engaging in homosexual activity.

Wednesday's ruling led opponents of the policy to declare its days numbered. It is also the first appeals court ruling in the country that evaluated the policy through the lens of a 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas ban on sodomy as an unconstitutional intrusion on privacy.

Remember, for all you on the Right still sitting on the fence when it comes to voting for John McCain, these kind of liberal, activist judges will be dominating the justice system if Hillary or Barack become President.

Dumb John McCain To Meet With NAACP

Meeting with and attempting to appease a group of Black liberals long past their past their prime is not the way to get black people to join your party, talking to and promoting issues in which your party has the other party beat such as family, education, abortion, the sanctity of marriage and finances is:

What a difference a nomination makes.

Now that he's wrapped up the Republican nomination for president, Sen. John McCain has decided to attend the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Cincinnati in July. A year ago when he was just one of a pack of GOP contenders, he turned down the civil rights group's invitation.

McCain disclosed his plans in an interview with the African-American publication Essence, which was released Tuesday. Asked how he might reach out to the black community, McCain replied that he would "go to places and venues that would allow me to continue a dialogue with the African-American community. I will go to the NAACP convention."

McCain noted that he "talked about the need to include 'forgotten Americans'" during a visit he recently made to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where Alabama state troopers and local sheriffs deputies stormed and beat 800 blacks and whites marching for voting rights on March 7, 1965.

Kentucky Voters Say Hillary Attacked Barack Unfairly

CNN:

Even in a state Hillary Clinton appears to have won by 35 points, a majority of Kentucky voters say the New York senator attacked Barack Obama unfairly.

According to the exit polls, 54 percent of voters said Clinton launched unfair attacks on Obama, though that didn't seem to deter voters there from supporting Clinton — 55 percent of those who said Clinton attacked unfairly still voted for the New York senator.

Clinton faced a similar statistic in West Virginia last week. There she won by 41 points, but nearly 60 percent of voters said she made unfair attacks against the Illinois senator.

Going into this race, when Hillary was ahead by 20 points in the polls, she still had the highest negative ratings of any candidate by far. And as her campaign of "inevitability" became less and less a reality, she became more negative and desperate by the day. Clearly, the American voter has been paying attention.

Sorry Barack, But Michelle Obama Is Fair Game

Barack Obama is whining about the GOP attacking his wife Michelle:

Barack Obama has a simple message for Republicans looking for a target: "lay off my wife."

The Democrat who each day strides closer to his party's White House nomination showed a flash of steel Monday, in trying to shield Michelle Obama from the campaign trail crossfire.

"These folks should lay off my wife," Obama told ABC News, hitting out at a Tennessee Republican Party ad questioning the patriotism of his wife, a driven Ivy League-educated lawyer and mother of their two daughters.

"If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because that I find unacceptable, the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family," Obama said.

The 46-year-old Illinois senator said his wife was the most honest person he knew and "loves this country," and branded the ad as "low class."

Put aside the fact that both Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton have taught us that the power of First Ladies to effect policy decisions should never be underestimated, Barack Obama has no leg to stand on here. Since Michelle Obama came into the public spotlight, she's made it clear that she's no timid little girl, afraid to speak her mind. And that's her right, not to mention the fact that whether you like her not, there's no denying that Mrs. Obama is a bright, articulate person capable of standing on her own two feet. But the fact of the matter is that when you're running for president, your spouse is fair game, esp. a spouse whose spoken on the campaign trail on your behalf and has made controversial statements about the country you wish to run one day. In other words, the person you chose to make a life commitment to is a reflection on you and the American voter has a right to react to what she says. Then too, if you're going to whine about the GOP going after your wife, then tell your minions to lay off Cindy McCain, a woman who doesn't seem to have nearly the love for the spotlight as your wife does, yet arguably is getting it worse than Michelle when it comes to being criticized by the other side.

Racist Geraldine Ferraro Won't be Voting For Barack Obama

The longtime Democrat icon demonstrates again the reason why she's a racist:

Ferraro, a Hillary Clinton supporter, praised her candidate and chastised Obama in an interview published in today's New York Times.

"I think Obama was terribly sexist," Ferraro told the Times, adding that she might not vote for the likely Democratic nominee in the fall. But Ferraro offered praise for Clinton, telling the Times that Clinton had "raised this whole woman candidate thing to a whole different level than when I ran."

By exploiting the sexism card, Ferraro is playing to the only form of oppression that matters to liberal, white female elitists as we’ve seen this type of racial ignorance before on the campaign trail from the likes of feminist champion Gloria Steinem. To idiots like Geraldine Ferraro what’s good for the party, coming together in unison for the nominee, takes a backseat when that nominee is a black man—mind you, Ferraro has TWICE made the claim that Black presidential candidates only appeal to voters because of their race. That, and the fact that Ferraro herself had no problem being selected on a Presidential ticket as VP solely because she was a woman, speaks to Ferraro’s double-standard as well as her racial ignorance. Yet by going public with her utter stupidity Ferraro does speak for a percentage of white feminists who will also not vote for Barack Obama because he’s black. It's the darkest side of the liberal wing within the Democrat party that the "progressives" don't like to talk about, too bad for Barack Obama it could cost him the Presidency.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 5/19/08

Mike Huckabee Says He Wants To Be McCain's VP

Florida, Michigan Can't Save Hillary

John McCain Rebuffs Dr. James Dobson: Will Evangelicals Bolt?

Texas Megachurch Minister Caught In Internet Sex Sting

Barack Obama Looking Past Hillary To Battle McCain

Gay Marriage Opponents Vow To Fight Calif. Ruling; Gay Rights vs. Democracy

Ted Kennedy Awaits Results On Seizure

GOP Struggles To Reinvent Without Losing Itself

31,000 Scientists Who Reject Global Warming To Be Named Monday

"Indiana Jones" Debut Survives Cannes Critics

Hillary Clinton: "I Deserve This" SNL skit

The Billary shills are certainly going to get bent out of shape as SNL continues to mock Hillary's staying the race (despite the fact that SNL has been doing political humor since Day 1), but I think that any comedian could argue that Hillary is much easier fodder for jokes than Barack is. I mean for all his "change" talk, his controversial wife and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama himself is just kinda bland while nobody puts their foot in their mouth better than Hillary:

Mike Huckabee, Steve Beshear and Liberal Hypocrisy

In case you read your liberal press of late, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was speaking Friday to the NRA, when there was a loud bang. Instead of continuing his speech, Huckabee aimed a very stupid joke at Barack Obama:

While Huckabee was speaking there was a noise offstage which he quickly quipped was Barack Obama falling off a chair. The audience chuckled and Huckabee, he of the allegedly quick wit, decided to go for what he thought might be a bigger laugh. Wrong. Huckabee added this, "Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor."

Huckabee later apologized for his "offhand remark," saying it was not "intended to offend or disparage Senator Obama." Obama, for his part, refused to comment. Yet, his liberal minions are still up in arms over Huckabee's gall. But what's funnier than joking about killing a U.S. Senator? How about when a Democrat governor from Kentucky makes a "joke" about President Bush getting assassinated just days before?

Gov. Steve Beshear, who has remained neutral during the presidential primary and who will serve as a Kentucky superdelegate at the national convention in August, avoided talking about the Democratic candidates by criticizing President Bush.

"When I mention that Democrats are problem solvers, I can think of only one Republican who can be a problem solver -- that is Vice President Dick Cheney if he would just take George on a hunting trip," Beshear said. Cheney accidentally shot fellow quail hunter Harry Whittington in Texas in 2006.

Of course, if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, it didn't fall, right? And that, my friends, pretty much sums up your liberal press.

Bill O'Reilly Quote of the Day!

"The reason Hillary Clinton is running behind Barack Obama is that he is perceived to be more liberal than she is, and the committed left dominates the Democratic primaries. Among other things, Sen. Clinton's Iraq war resume has rankled the far left who, early on, enthusiastically threw in with Obama.

In addition, because much of the media has moved dramatically to the left and, above all, is ardently politically correct, Sen. Obama's candidacy was greeted with great joy by many press people. They love him simply for being him. Is it a sexism deal? No. It's an Obama-mania deal with the press."

- conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly on charges that Hillary Clinton is losing the Democrat nomination for President due to sexism

James Woodward: Another Reason Why The Death Penalty Is Wrong

27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit:

Woodard was convicted of raping and murdering his girlfriend in 1981 and sentenced to life in prison. He was released on April 29, the 17th Dallas County inmate to be exonerated by DNA testing.

In one aspect at least, Woodard and the 16 others are lucky; the evidence that freed them was preserved even after their appeals were exhausted and the courts finalized their convictions. If they had been tried in a county or city that has no preservation laws, the DNA to clear them would have been destroyed long ago.

But more and more counties and states are passing laws for evidence preservation, according to the Innocence Project, practicing what Dallas County has long been doing.

If it were up to the revenge obsessed death enthusiasts another innocent man would've killed thanks to state-sanctioned murder. But James Woodward is yet another reason why the death penalty needs to be abolished for good.

Check out the Innocence Project, they're doing great things.

California Supreme Court Uses Race To Overturn Gay Marriage Ban

Piggybacking a decision made back in the 40's to end discrimination against interracial marriage, yesterday the CA Supreme Court reversed the will of the people and overturned a ban against gay marriage in the state. Because yunno, being gay is the same as being black.

Slate:

It is helpful for the California opinion that it closely resembles a United States Supreme Court decision that has stood the test of time: Loving v. Virginia. In that 1967 ruling, the Court struck down all remaining state bans on interracial marriage under the federal constitution. Like Thursday's decision in California, Loving made the same dual move of invalidating legislation, based on strict scrutiny, on grounds of both liberty and equality. This move is unusual—indeed, I know of no case other than Loving and Thursday's case that have made it.

So now that marriage has been declared a "right" by another liberal court, what say the Mormons and other polygamists, folks involved in "loving" incestuous or man/boy relationships, heck any pet owner who in love with their dog? The sanctity of marriage has taken yet another step backwards, so step up to the plate and make your voices heard already!

John Edwards Endorsement Puts Barack Closer To The Nomination

I could care less about what John Edwards thinks, just thought I'd mention this to give credit to Barack's campaign for not only putting Hillary's insignificant win in West Virginia Tuesday out of the spotlight, but actually making Edwards endorsement mean something:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama collected the support of four of John Edwards' Democratic National Convention delegates on Thursday, then gained the backing of a West Coast congressman and a large labor union as he marched steadily toward the party's presidential nomination.

The fresh support brought Obama's overall delegate total to 1,892, compared to 1,718 for his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. It takes 2,026 to clinch the nomination at the party convention in Denver this summer.

Edwards, who bestowed his long-sought endorsement on Obama on Wednesday, won 19 delegates before departing the presidential race in January.

Within hours, Obama picked up the backing of three of them from South Carolina and one in New Hampshire.

In addition, Rep. James McDermott, a superdelegate, endorsed Obama. "I believe now is the time to unite behind Barack Obama so we can be in the strongest place possible to win in November," he said.

Conservative Democrat Travis Childers Takes Key Mississippi Race

Travis Childers is my kind of guy: pro-life, against reckless spending, serious about tackling illegal immigration and anti-gay marriage. Yes folks, conservative Democrats are alive, well and can make a difference in this country:

JACKSON, MISS. -- Mississippi Democrat Travis W. Childers won a special election to Congress on Tuesday, helping his party to a third victory this year for seats that had long been in Republican hands.

The victory puts Childers into the House seat vacated by Roger Wicker, a Republican appointed to the U.S. Senate when Trent Lott resigned. The win also gives the Democrats a 236-199 majority in the House -- if only for a few months, until November's general elections.

With 99% of the precincts reporting, Childers had 54% to Republican Greg Davis' 46%. Earlier this year, Democrats captured the Illinois district long represented by former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, who resigned.

And earlier this month, Democrats claimed a Louisiana seat that Republican Rep. Richard H. Baker had relinquished.