From Palin’s Facebook page:

Adversaries who have been trying to silence Dr. Laura for years seized on her recent use of the n-word on her show as she subsequently suggested that rap “artists” and other creative types like those producing HBO shows who regularly use the n-word could be questioned for doing so. Her intention in discussing the issue with a caller seeking advice was not to be hateful or bigoted. Though she did not mean to insult the caller, she did, and she apologized for it. Still, those who oppose her seized upon her mistake in using the word (though she didn’t call anyone the derogatory term) to paint her as something that she’s not. I can understand how she could feel “shackled” by those who would parse a single word out of decades of on-air commentary. I understand what she meant when she declared that she was “taking back my First Amendment rights” by turning to a new venue that will not allow others the ability to silence her by going after her stations, sponsors, and supporters.

I, and obviously many others, have been “shackled” too by people who play games with false accusations, threats, frivolous lawsuits, misreporting, etc., in an effort to silence those with whom they disagree. That’s why I tend to defend people who call it like they see it while others stop at nothing to shut them up…

And they do want us to shut up – which is why they do what they do. Liberals don’t want debate – they don’t want, at the end of the day, to live in a free society where we debate the merits of an issue. Liberals prefer a fascist society where everyone has to toe the party line and anyone who strays from the liberal narrative is hounded out of public life.

The basis for this is, of course, the liberals lack of understanding of truth – to them, there is no truth; everything is a social construct and they believe they’ve developed a superior construct to everyone else. To liberals, Dr. Laura subscribes to the wrong view and thus she must be silenced – her use of the “N-word” could be a lot of things, but it isn’t evidence that she’s secretly in the KKK or harbors racist views about black people. A lifetime spent helping people with their personal and social problems is reduced, by liberals, to the fact that she used the word. That is the act of hate, not the fact that Dr. Laura spoke the word.

But, liberals, your hour has struck. The political and economic system you have crafted over the past 80 years is coming apart at the seams. We’re going to first clear you out of DC, then out of those “commanding heights” of culture from whence you have destroyed lives and liberty. America will be restored – and, guess what?, you’ll like it better…freedom will be scary for you, but only for a while until you get used to it.

This is so good.

Two years after his coattails helped sweep two dozen Democrats into office, President Obama is proving more a boon to Republicans than to Democrats during the midterm elections. His poll numbers are so morose that Democrats are planning ways to avoid his shadow, while Republicans plot strategies aimed at tying Obama to every incumbent member of Congress they can.

The advice from Democratic consultants and strategists is almost unanimous: Run away from the president, and fast. A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in “Frontline” districts — seats held by Democrats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover. That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear.

Obama hasn’t even hit the halfway point of his first term, and he is already poisonous to his fellow Democrats. This is far beyond typical midterm election dynamics when the out-of-power party gains control. Obama has been welcoming comparisons to Bush since the beginning. It’s been, it his mind, his best message to distract the people from his failures is blame Bush. The problem he has now is when people compare him to Bush, they see that things were better when Bush was in office.

Don’t blame me… I knew things would get worse under Obama.

Doubts are being raised:

Academic scientists are challenging the Obama administration’s assertion that most of BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico is either gone or rapidly disappearing — with one group Thursday announcing the discovery of a 22-mile “plume” of oil that shows little sign of vanishing…

This is the sort of stuff which is really beyond a layman’s ability to judge – but some scientists are asserting that the oil is not going away. This is not to say that it will wash ashore – but it also isn’t to say that it won’t wash ashore. Bottom line: we’re not free from this crisis and the Obama Administration had better get cracking on contingency plans in case this stuff does come ashore at some point.

We’ve been blindsided by this spill several times and have all too much evidence of Obama Administration incompetence in this matter. It is hoped there is at least one adult in the Administration and he’s been looking in to this.

Isn’t the Obama T shirts which sold so well last year:

…One barometer of the plunge in excitement has been the sale of Obama-themed T-shirts, which designers had been banking on after the craze of last year. Clothing labeled with the president’s name sold by the thousands, helping to salvage a tough economic year for the island.

But this year’s T-shirt sales are much less brisk, merchants say.

“Last year, Obama gave you goose bumps, but I don’t think you’re going to see that this year,’’ said Alex McCluskey, co-owner of the Locker Room, who sold more than 4,000 “I vacationed with Obama’’ T-shirts last year. But so far this year, he said, his hot item is T-shirts of former President Bush asking, “Miss me yet?’’…(emphasis added)

Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, liberals.

Why? Here’s why:

…To be blunt, Obama suffers from a lifetime of others excessively praising his intellect. It insulates him from ideas and facts that conflict with his pre-existing liberal rubric (so “every economist” believed his stimulus would work). It leaves him unprepared to engage in real debate with informed opponents (e.g. the health-care summit). It skews his understanding of how geopolitics works, as he imagines that his own wonderfulness can sway adversaries and override nations’ fundamental interests (the Middle East). Is he as well read as George W. Bush? As intellectually creative as Bill Clinton? As grounded in history as Harry Truman? Let’s get some perspective here…

I have to agree that Obama was much oversold as a smart guy – I mean, he may have a great deal of intellectual ability, but he doesn’t have any real world knowledge, no sense of humility and a complete inability to see the other side. As far as a leader goes, he’s as dumb as a box of rocks because of this.

This is why we see him making incredibly stupid statements like getting in to the Ground Zero mosque issue when he could have just stayed out of it (as a smart politician – Hillary Clinton – is). All of his mistakes are traceable to this lack of political intelligence – he might have an IQ of 140, but his political IQ is about 80.

Let’s hope he smarts up a bit before he entirely wrecks the nation…

From AFP:

The White House said Monday that July 2011 was a “non-negotiable” deadline for starting a US withdrawal from Afghanistan, while insisting that President Barack Obama and his top general in Kabul were on the same page.

The White House was quizzed about a seeming disconnect between the two after General David Petraeus said in an interview aired Sunday that he could seek a delay in the troop drawdown if conditions on the ground required it…

The switch to General Petraeus gave the White House an excellent opportunity to mute the 2011 time table and thus add an element of uncertainty in to al Qaeda and Taliban plans. They are banking on us leaving, and thus their strategy is merely to remain viable until we start to leave – and then they’ll move in. Additionally, it is hard for us to gain local support from people we’ll leave to the Taliban’s tender mercies. This White House statement just blows Petraeus out of the water and provides security for the enemy.

I hope that better thinking people in the White House will prevail – the campaign in Afghanistan is proving very difficult and our troops are extending full effort to win…they need to be given the tools to do so, which includes time. And keep in mind that if we take away the time limit, we may even be able to start drawing down sooner – we are looking for some sort of replay of the “Anbar awakening” in Iraq…some shift in popular opinion which will bring the Afghans down on our side, thus taking away the “sea” the terrorist “fish” swim in. As we saw in Iraq, once that is done it become only a matter of a relatively short time before most of the terrorists are picked off or picked up.

Holding to an absurd, artificial time line at the behest of the Democrat left is just plain and simple stupid – we must go for victory in Afghanistan, and you can’t set a date for that.

From the Wall Street Journal via NewsAlert:

…Another notable episode occurred during his pursuit (as special prosecutor) of former Vice Presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame affair. At a 2005 press conference, Mr. Fitzgerald implied that Mr. Libby had obstructed his investigation into who leaked the former CIA analysts’s name, even though he knew from the start that the real “leaker” was Richard Armitage.

Then there was the railroading of Conrad Black, the conservative newspaper baron who was convicted in 2007 using the infinitely malleable “honest services” fraud law. The Supreme Court junked much of that law earlier this year, leading to Mr. Black’s release from prison. The jury had earlier dismissed nine of the 13 charges Mr. Fitzgerald filed.

This pattern points to a willful prosecutor who throws an exaggerated book at unpopular defendants and hopes at least one of the charges will stick, even as he flouts due process and the presumption of innocence when the political winds are high…

Indeed – and in the Blago case, I think that Fitzgerald deliberately moved far too soon in order to spare high Obama aides from possible prosecution. It is clear that Blago wasn’t just out there selling a Senate seat all on his lonesome – he had prospective customers and all of them had some sort of Obama connection.

This is enough travesty of justice from one man – it is time for Fitzgerald to go.

By pissing everyone off – from the LA Times:

We have one word for you, Mr. President, the next time you want to sweep into Los Angeles late on a weekday afternoon: Helicopter. That way, you can avoid the streets the rest of us mere residents must use to get around…

…A Brentwood resident’s two-mile jaunt took 45 minutes. An Echo Park couple who left home at 5:30 p.m. found their usual 20-minute drive west to Olympic and Rimpau boulevards took a whopping hour and 15 minutes. An attorney left his Miracle Mile-area office at 5:45 p.m. and sat unmoving in traffic for 45 minutes.

No matter their politics, Los Angeles residents found themselves united. “It was a beautiful thing,” said Brentwood resident Myles Berkowitz, commiserating with his neighbors on Montana Avenue. “Young, old, black, white — everyone was pissed off.”…

Who is in charge of Obama’s political team these days? “Tin ear” doesn’t even begin to describe it…

Unbelievable:

“There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how … this opposition to the mosque is being funded,” she said. “How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we’ve been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community, as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue in New York City?”

It doesn’t matter, Nancy – its not for you, as Speaker, to ask in to the background or motivations of those who are asking questions…you job, as servant of the people, is to just answer the dratted question.

But that is how they view us – servants of the Ruling Class; people who are not to dare question the Rulers.

November can’t come fast enough.