The Great DNC ClintonGasm: OS Just Had To Watch

Really, he tried to resist the temptation, to instead read more on that book, listen to a bit of music. But just as people sit transfixed when they see a plane fall from the sky, or see trains on a collision course, OS found himself in front of the TeeVee, waiting to see what President 'It Depends Upon What Your Definition of 'IS' Is' Clinton would have to say to the adoring crowds about the man he previously so thoroughly despised.

It is so useful to possess a mind such as Bill Clinton's, which is able to ignore actual events as it explains history.  There was one moment where he asked the rhetorical question about why the federal budget balanced from 1996-2000. OS was half-hoping to hear His Billness utter Newt Gingrich's name.

Nope! He blurted out the word 'Arithmetic!', to the cheers of the adoring crowd.

For any of us who remember the 1990's, this simply was not the case. OS remembers going to the poll early in the morning in November 1994, thinking he and Mrs. OS would arrive to an empty venue. Instead, they found voters lined up out the door, all waiting for the opportunity to vote Republican, here in one of the deepest yeller-dog Democrat counties of the South. HilaryCare had scared them shitless, and they were hopping mad. That was just one item on their list, by the way.

It was Newt who forced Bill to begin to behave like something resembling someone who had completed seventh-grade math. Even then, Bill let the gubbermint shut down before conceding.
(It was during the 'shutdown' he staged that boredom set in and a 19-year-old female intern walked in. His Billness, at one point, even tried to pin the blame for that debacle on the Republicans, for creating the 'shutdown'. Puhleeeeze...)

Newt and his majority later forced Bill to sign on to welfare reform as well.

Now here we are, in 2012, and His Billness is claiming credit for both.

Nothing about the man has changed. Nothing about the party he spoke to has changed, except for their utter willingness to forgive the man anything, so long as he tells what they wish to hear.

His behavior in the Monica Lewinsky affair was just deplorable. He ended up being impeached, and brought the country to a halt as a consequence. He wasn't removed, but he was disbarred, and ended his term admitting in writing to his perjury. In the meantime,  bin Laden had the opportunity to ramp up his operation, and the wacko Left extracted its pound of flesh for protecting his sorry ass. The foundations of the housing bubble were laid as a consequence, as Fannie and Freddie were transformed from sleepy institutions to instruments of social transformation, shoving money toward both properties and buyers that had not a chance of success.

Given his track record with Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, and so many other credible women--what woman would remain in the room with him, much less cheer for him? Compare what we know about Clinton versus what was only alleged about Herman Cain.

What sort of person does it take to deliberately forget major pieces of history about people such as Clinton, Teddy Kennedy and Barack Obama--simply for the privilege of being told what he wants to hear?

'It's all Bush's Jr.'s fault. It's all Bush Sr.'s fault. It's all Reagan's fault. It's the Tea Party's fault. It's Mitch McConnell's fault. No one could have turned this thing around, not even me. It's all getting better, ya'll just don't feel it yet. It's Paul Ryan's fault. It's the fault of people like Mitt. It's Bush's fault. We had nothing to do with this debacle, even though we oversaw it for the past four years. It's Bush's fault. It's Bush's fault.

They ate it up. They just ate it up.

Forty-seven million people on food stamps.  Twenty-three million unemployed. Sixteen trillion in debt. The House was swept by the GOP in 2010, and almost the Senate with it. Whole swaths of states, such as Kentucky, won't even be contested, because Obama is so completely disdained.

And they just ate it up, Couldn't get enough of His Billness, telling them what they most wanted to hear--that it's all ok, that no matter what that stream of cash will flow endlessly into the pockets of those unionized teachers, government employees, UAW members. No matter what, they'll be ok, even as the culture falls apart around them.

We've got your back, just deliver us them votes.

In All Fairness, Obama HAS Succeeded At Something!

Food Stamp participation is at an all-time high as the Democrats meet in Charlotte to celebrate these four glorious years.

In August 2008, participation was about 29 million people. June 2012 saw the participation of 46.7 million people. 46.7 divided by 29 is....1.61.  

A 61% increase in participation in just under four years, most of that time under the Obama administration.

Like every other achievement, it took determined effort to accomplish. Indeed, the Obama Administration devoted great effort and huge amounts of money borrowed from the Chinese, which of course will have to be paid back by us and our children.

A small price to pay for this landmark moment.

In the 1960's, the United States put men on the Moon. In the 1980's, we launched Space Shuttles and took the Soviet Empire down without firing a shot. In the 1990's, American ingenuity put a computer in every home and connected them all together via the internet. In the 2000's, clever things like iPhones and computer tablets appeared and became ubiquitous, and wireless. Internet commerce blossomed. Need we go on?

These paltry events pale in comparison to the crowning achievement of Barack Hussein Obama.

Undoubtedly, Himself will be much too modest to mention it Thursday night.

For a history of food stamps, refer to OS's earlier post.

Cartoon Of The Week: The Department Of 'Just-Us'

Humor is effective because it is the needle that draws the blood of truth from the vein of life.

This cartoon is quite effective.

The Grim Reality That The Democrats Cannot Explain Away: Labor Force Participation Rate Since January 2009

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Data extracted on: September 3, 2012 (7:39:11 PM)

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

(Click to enlarge...)

 The link is here.

You can plug in dates for yourself, and see the results. It's interactive, it's fascinating, it tells the story of a massive failure, a slow-motion train wreck.

As you do, remember that Himself campaigned on the promise that he would reverse this trend, that He would bring the economy back.

He didn't. A few firms, such as GM and Chrysler (with heavy union presence) were salvaged. The destruction of wealth that occurred during that process is never mentioned. 

Hundreds of billions of dollars borrowed and spent, and this is the result.

This is a picture of failure.

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.