Um...So, Who's The Mayor Of Chicago? Where's The President From?

Didn't they promise that if the voters gave them the reigns of power that the earth itself would begin to heal?

So, why did Chicago have another twenty shootings this weekend, some of them near Himself's house? Whis is Rahm calling in the Feds for his own homegrown 'surge'?

Wasn't Himself put on the fast track to the Presidency because He did such a brilliant job as a 'community organizer' in Chicago. Aren't most of those murders occurring in the communities He 'organized'?

Perhaps we should send Him back. His homies in his old hood really need Himself as never before. Being the great humanitarian Himself is, He should naturally return with a happy heart.

Just In Time For The DNC: Debbie Wasserman Schulz's Parents Are Headed To Jail For Tax Evasion And Corruption

File under: You just can't make this up.

Imagine: Had Rence Preibus's folks been sent to the clink the week before the RNC, that would be alllllllllll......we would have heard about.

The media's silence on this debacle is deafening.

Artur Davis At The GOP Convention

OS watched what he could stand of the proceedings yesterday...what was not boring seemed lame, and he couldn't bring himself to make Mrs. OS endure a moment of it. We had a lovely dinner at a quiet Japanese restaurant that opened up two years ago and has managed to hang on in a deeply redneck county.

He does regret not hearing the speech given by Artur Davis, the 2008 Obama campaign co-chair.

So, in case anyone else missed it, here it is.

He had carefully washed all the anger out of his text, while leaving the sense of loss and disillusionment well in place.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well.

Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

But in all seriousness, do you know why so many of us believed? We led with our hearts and our dreams that we could be more inclusive than America had ever been, and no candidate had ever spoken so beautifully.

But dreams meet daybreak: the jobless know what I mean, so do the families who wonder how this Administration could wreck a recovery for three years and counting.


No doubt there is a lot of fur flying around his life now. A lot of friendships lost, bitter words launched in his direction. A great deal of questioning of his basic sense of ethics. And he's got to wonder how many of those people in that room really would invite him to dinner, make him that good job offer, or introduce him to their daughters. How many will be his friends this time next year?


So, this took some courage.


And, as viciously as his old colleagues rail at him, they can't erase the historical fact of his crucial role in the 2008 Obama victory. His presence and words last night are a true repudiation of the entire Obama mystique. He knows where the bodies are buried, and they must worry a bit about how much of what he learned over the years has been disclosed.

Chris Matthews In Complete Hysterical Meltdown, Calling Rence Preibus 'Garbage' Live On Air

MSNBC Morning Joe was, well, colorful this morning, for the 37 viewers who tuned in.

Tom Brokaw attempted to pull Chris 'Thrill-Up-My-Leg' Matthews back from the brink, as did Morning Joe himself, as did everyone else on camera. All to no avail.

Priebus was pretty cheesed at the treatment received, but did manage to control his temper. At the end, he dismissed Chris 'Thrill-Up-My-Leg' Matthews accusations as 'garbage'--at which point Matthews blurted 'You're garbage!'.

Then they went to commercial break.

Brokaw  could have done such wonders for the MSNBC brand had he interrupted proceedings and demanded an apology, then and there, from Matthews. He had tried valiantly to turn Matthews' hysterical rant into something resembling a dignified conversation. Mr. 'Thrill-Up-My-Leg' would have none of it.

20/20 hindsight. The whole group had that 'deer-in-the-headlights' look, shocked at what they had just witnessed. Or, perhaps, they agreed with him? Seems less likely, given the looks on their faces.

There will, of course, be exactly no repercussions or sanction against Matthews, since he is after all a TrueBeliever for the Left.

Imagine had Bill O'Reilly engaged in this behavior. The knives would be drawn, and the bloodletting would be underway already.


You can watch the fun here...

Chicago Shootings: Your Own Personal Map

The Chicago Tribune has kindly provided a map of this weekend's shootings.

Remember, this city has been under the care of the Democrat Party for decades. It's mayor is Obama's main home-boy-former chief of staff.

This is Obama's world, his stomping ground, his 'hood, his power base. These are his people, his homies.

OS asks--Do we wish to see maps like this published for places like Bowling Green, KY? Des Moines? Spartanburg, SC? Hartford, CT?

Do we want this as our future?

Detroit After Fifty Years Of Uniterrupted Democrat Rule: 12, 00 Abandoned Houses

Here's a photo gallery of just 100 of them.

OS hopes you take a moment to view these. Some of them were architectural gems, the sort of house one would dream of owning in more innocent days.

If we're going to spend our energies foaming at the mouth about a Missouri GOP Senate candidate with foot-in-mouth disease, we should reserve just a bit of that outrage for the kind of governance that creates this sort of tragedy.

 Just a bit...

By the way, the heads-up to the world about this collection emanates from London's Daily Mail.

These shots of Detroit, and many others, look like London in the late 1940's. It's pitiful, it's tragic, and that tragedy is not lost on our English friends.

Nineteen Shootings In Chicago Last Night: Obama's Home Turf, Run By His Former Chief Of Staff

This week, we've been treated to how many millions of words spewed out in the wake of a Missouri congressman sticking his foot in his mouth?

How many hundreds of thousands of indignant words over Mitt Romney suffering his own attack of 'foot-in-mouth' syndrome.

OS not attempting to excuse them, or explain them away. They were simply dumb, thoughtless moments that should not have happened. But neither do they merit the manufactured outrage received.

Where, on the other hand, are the outrage, fear-and-loathing, outcry, rending of garments, beating of breasts, mass marches, etc. over this bit of news from Chicago? 

This is from the BBC, not exactly a right-wing-nut-job outfit, if memory serves:

Nineteen people were shot in seven attacks overnight in Chicago, as the US city's gun violence epidemic continued.

Thirteen of the victims were shot within a half-hour period, including eight in a drive-by shooting on a single street.

Chicago officials have been battling a sharp increase in shootings and homicides, with some elected officials arguing gangs do not fear the police.

The city's murder rate has spiked 29% year-over-year as of this month.

By that time in 2011, 270 people had been killed in the city, according to data complied by the local newspaper RedEye Chicago. In 2012, that number is 348.

It is not the first time this year Chicago has seen a single night of double-digit victims. Over the Memorial Day weekend in May, 12 people were killed, and another 48 were wounded.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has been criticised for eliminating police teams sent to crime hot spots.

Chicago's homicide increase is counter to lowered rates in other major US cities, including New York and Washington.

OS notes, wryly, that the Police Superintendent is called out as being somehow responsible for this.

But, isn't Rahm Emanuel the Mayor? Wasn't he Obama's right-hand man? Isn't Chicago Obama's home-town, from whence he was catapaulted to the White House as the Great Hope for America? didn't he run on the strength of his transformative work on the streets of Chicago?

If the Obama/Emanuel approach to governance is truly effective, should we be seeing at 29% increase, year-over-year, in the murder rate?

How does this bit of news stack up against the verbal gaffes from Missouri and Michigan?  Have we all somehow lost the plot, lost our sense of perspective?

Locally, a state senator truly stepped in it by circulating an offensively hostile email.

Should'na dunnit. Stupid. Thoughtless. No excuse for it.

But he was inquiring into reports of grade-fixing at a state-funded university, and he was, well, pretty upset about it. Again, his actions in response were simply stupid.

But, OS has yet to hear a peep of outrage about the possibility that university officials may well be cooking the academic books, and send the taxpayers the bill.

Not. a. peep.

Have we lost the plot somehow?

Occupy Washington: Trying To Learn From The Russian Revolution

Really, that Russian Revolution thing worked so well, let's try it again! How many tens of millions killed, how many exiled, how many kulaks starved to death, how many families crushed, cultures destroyed? 

Former Amalgamated Transit Union local 689 president Mike Golash, now an “Occupy” movement organizer, was caught on tape Sunday revealing his political goals: overthrowing capitalism in the United States and instituting a communist government.

“Progressive labor is a revolutionary communist organization,” Golash said during an Occupy DC “People’s Assembly” on August 19.

“Its objective,” he added, “is to make revolution in the United States, overthrow the capitalist system and build communism.”

Don't take OS's word for it--here's the video:




HT InfoWars 

Now THIS Is Embarassing: Obama's 2008 Campaign Co-Chair Introduces Paul Ryan To A Campaign Crowd In Virginia; Governor Wilder Denounces Joe Biden

 Ruh-roh.

From CNN, earlier today:

Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama who co-chaired President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, introduced the running mate of Obama's Republican challenger in Virginia Friday.
 
"Are you ready to meet the next vice president of the United States?" Davis asked at a rally in Springfield, Virginia. It was Ryan's second event of the day. He held a rally outside Richmond on Friday morning.

In his introduction, Davis pointed to Ryan's age – he's 42 – as having energized the GOP. Davis is 44.
"Remember a week ago, some of our Democratic friends had the illusion that we were kind of an older party. That were the party of the last generation. One week later I'm the oldest man on this stage right now," Davis said. "What a difference a week makes."

Davis, who said in May he was switching parties from Democrat to Republican, said he had only disagreed with Ryan on one subject: the status of Led Zeppelin as the "#1 band of the modern era."
"I questioned you as you said it. As a Genesis man, I questioned it," Davis said.

He also praised Ryan's willingness to advance a House GOP budget that included sometimes-unpopular cuts to programs in the name of cutting the federal debt.

"President Romney is going to have a vice president who believes, in a town where no one takes responsibility for anything, Washington D.C., this man wrote a budget with tough, hard, necessary choices. He put his name on it," Davis said.

And there's former Virginia Governor Wilder letting loose about Joe Biden...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation's first elected black governor, Virginia's L. Douglas Wilder, lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television Wednesday for his remark to a largely black crowd about banks keeping people "in chains."

Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant denunciations from Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, that Biden's comment at a Tuesday rally in Danville, Va., injected race into the presidential contest.

"Without question, they were appeals to race," Wilder told CNN. "And if you don't argue with that, then you understand that, then the next question is: Why? Why do you feel you need to do that? But the more important thing that I got out of this was Biden separated himself from what he accused the people of doing. As a matter of fact, what he said is, they are going to do something to y'all, not to me, not us. So he was still involved with that separate America. And I'm sick and tired of being considered something other than an American."

Ouch!!

Both gents, in case it needs to be said, are black. You know, that core group of Obama supporters that would never ever ever ever think about voting for aaaaaannnnyyyone else--ever.

It takes real courage for reach gentleman to speak up--they will have a lot of anger spewed in their direction over the next few weeks.

OS wishes them well, and as the descendant of a Confederate soldier from Mississippi, really truly wishes we could somehow get past the race-baiting, the constant pouring of salt into old wounds, the relentless appeal to our resentments at the expense of our hopes and our sense of logic.

Even George Wallace publicly repented of the practice, for crying out loud. The rest of us would do well to look to his example.

Corzine Walks, Zakaria Gets His CNN and Time Jobs Back

Dog bites man. Corzine walks away from a massive, in many cases crushing, destruction of the wealth of his depositors (not his investors, his depositors), and the Justice Department clears him.

The sun rises in the East. Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria gets his gigs back with Time and CNN after publishing other people's work under his own name.

The stealing of depositors funds from the bank down the street would have resulted in the local bank president going to the sheriff, begging to be arrested for his own protection. He would not have a house to return to, in any case, it having already been burned to the ground by his customers.

But Corzine is OneOfUs, sez Mr. Holder. Nothing to see here, move on. Let all those ruined farmers recover their lost wealth via civil litigation. They'll get a dime on the dollar eventually. After all, those guys aren't going to vote for us, anyway.

Let's just move on, nothing to see here.

Since Mr. Zakaria is a champion of All Things Progressive, well--boys will be boys. Even if they are 48 years of age. Old enough to know better, still too leftist to care. After all, he was presenting a passionate case for one of our pet projects, gun control. Completely understandable mistake by one of our GoodOldBoys. He's OneOfUs, after all. Let's not look too hard, lest we allll come under scrutiny.

Let's just move on, nothing to see here.

This blatant plagiarism, which is what it is--not a 'mistake'--, would have resulted in Mr. Zakaria's failure in classes and perhaps dismissal from any number of universities that insist their 20-year-olds actually do their own work, and write their own words. As the father of one of those kids who lives with this risk, OS objects.

Close your eyes and imagine if the offender were of a much more conservative shade of opinion, and had plagiarized someone else's words.  One can smell the tar being heated even now, as the deliveries of feathers are being signed for in every mainstream media outlet in the nation.

The Double Standard lives, be it a thief of ideas, such as Zakaria, or a negligent destroyer of the wealth of depositors, such as Jon Corzine.

Boys, after all, will be boys...Good Old Boys...One Of Us...

Welcome to the Nixon Administration Redux. Heaven help us all.