Rush Limbaugh echoes me (again).

Rush finally reported, today, a story that I had back in mid-March about Obama's plan to 'defend' to America by disarming us and weakening our military.

I said (in comments book-ending a rather brilliant and extensive point-by-point analysis):

In one of the few speeches given by Obama that actually addresses policy rather than simply spouting meaningless platitudes about 'Hope!' and 'Change!', we get to see a rather chilling vision of Obama's absolute ignorance when it comes to the nation's military capabilities and the threats that we face ...

What it all boils down to is that, despite his message of 'Hope!' and 'Change!' and his supposed differences with run-of-the-mill Washington politics, Obama's views on the military and national defense are nothing more than recycled 1970s "Give Peace a Chance" left-leaning disarmament Liberalism.

And, given the world in which we live, that's dangerous.

Limbaugh said:

"This video Obama made for a far left-wing group is truly bizarre. He's offering the first steps toward disarming the United States -- and of course it presumes that the world will follow our lead in everything we do. It is not just bizarre. It is ignorant, it is risky, and it is arrogant."

Pardon me if I take a minute to gloat about being six weeks ahead of the man who is 'on the cutting edge of societal evolution' ...

Michelle Obama's 'whitey' video.

Just a day after having to disown yet another spiritual mentor for racially divisive comments, a rumor has surfaced that the torpedo that will sink the Obama campaign is now in the Republican arsenal.

Apparently the woman who said that the vast majority of Americans 'feel justified in your own ignorance', said that America is a ' just downright mean' place, and said that it was only after her husband began winning in his Presidential campaign that finally 'for the first time in [her] adult lifetime, [she's] really proud of [her] country' has made yet another speech that the Obama campaign would rather you not know about.

Leftist blogger Larry Johnson of No Quarter writes:

I now have it from two three four sources (three who are close to senior Republicans) that there is video dynamite -- Michelle Obama railing against "whitey" at Jeremiah Wright's church. Republicans may have a lousy record when it comes to the economy and the management of the war in Iraq, but they are hell on wheels when it comes to opposition research. Someone took the chance and started reviewing the recordings from services at Jeremiah Wright's United Church of Christ. Holy smoke!! I am told there is a clip that is being held for the fall to drop at the appropriate time. The last thing Barack and Michelle need is a new clip that raises further questions about her judgment and temperament.

Rick Moran at the American Thinker verifies.

I heard the exact same thing about 10 days ago from a source who should be in the know. I also heard it was political dynamite and was a tape of Michelle Obama. Beyond that, my source would not get into specifics as to what exactly was on the tape or when the GOP might drop this atomic bomb on to the campaign.

Perhaps this is why Barack was so eager to make Michelle 'off limits' to criticism ...

I'm a bit confused, though. I thought Obama was supposed to be the 'post-racial' candidate and he's already thrown his former pastor and his 'typically white' grandmother under the bus in order to keep up that facade. When this video finally hits the airwaves, will he throw his wife under the bus, too?

Intellectually Honest: Democrats not all that Democratic.

Breitbart.com had an interesting article today about how Obama's campaign used party rules to foil Clinton.

What I found most interesting, however, is how the party that in 2000 demanded that every vote count (and, presumably, count equally) does everything it can to obscure the will of the voter within their own party's nomination process.

The fiasco of the 1968 convention in Chicago, where police battled anti-war protesters in the streets, led to calls for a more inclusive process.

One big change was awarding delegates proportionally, meaning you can finish second or third in a primary and still win delegates to the party's national convention. As long candidates get at least 15 percent of the vote, they are eligible for delegates ...

Another big change was the introduction of superdelegates, the party and elected officials who automatically attend the convention and can vote for whomever they choose regardless of what happens in the primaries and caucuses.

Superdelegates were first seated at the 1984 convention. Much has been made of them this year because neither Obama nor Clinton can reach the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination without their support.

A more subtle change was the distribution of delegates within each state. As part of the proportional system, Democrats award delegates based on statewide vote totals as well as results in individual congressional districts. The delegates, however, are not distributed evenly within a state, like they are in the Republican system.

Under Democratic rules, congressional districts with a history of strong support for Democratic candidates are rewarded with more delegates than districts that are more Republican. Some districts packed with Democratic voters can have as many as eight or nine delegates up for grabs, while more Republican districts in the same state have three or four.

The system is designed to benefit candidates who do well among loyal Democratic constituencies, and none is more loyal than black voters. Obama, who would be the first black candidate nominated by a major political party, has been winning 80 percent to 90 percent of the black vote in most primaries, according to exit polls.

So, not only do they have 'superdelegates' -- individuals within the Democrat party who are given the power of thousands of individual voters and who, this year, will actually be the ones chosing the Democrat nominee despite record turnout at the polls -- but they also weigh certain districts more heavily so that the 1,000 votes a candidate picks up in a 'faithful' left-leaning district is worth up to twice as much as the 1,000 votes a candidate picks up in a district that'd normally be harder for the party to win.

That doesn't really seem all that 'democratic' to me.

Meanwhile, back at Trinity United ...

The beat goes on.

Another one of Barack's longtime spiritual mentors and advisors, Father Michael Pfleger, gave another explosive sermon at Chicago's hotbed of racial divisiveness, Trinity United.

Pfleger began by saying that whites today, particularly white business owners (apparently) are as responsible for slavery as any of their ancestors who may have actually owned slaves.

"--honest enough to address the one who says, 'Well, don't hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.'

"But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did and unless you are ready to give up the benefits, throw away your 401 fund, throw away your trust fund, throw away all the money you put into the company you walked into because yo' daddy and yo' granddaddy and yo' greatgranddaddy -- unless you're willing to give up the benefits, then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation 'cuz you are the beneficiary of this insurance policy!"

He then went on to lampoon Hillary, saying that she thought she'd win the presidency simply because she was 'white and entitled'.

"When Hillary was crying [gesturing tears, to uproarious laughter from audience], and people said that was put-on -- I really don't believe it was put-on.

"I really believe that she just always thought 'This is mine. I'm Bill's wife. I'm white. And this is mine. And I jus' gotta get up, and step into the plate.'

"And then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama.'

"And she said, 'Oh, damn! Where did you come from!? I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show.' [Sobs.] She wasn't the only one crying! There was a whole lotta white people cryin'!"

So, Jeremiah Wright is gone, but the racially divisive philosophies he promoted continue.

Pfleger has been a longtime supporter, friend, and mentor of Obama's. Of their relationship, ABCNews writes:

Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery liberal social activist and a white reverend at an African-American church -- St. Sabina’s Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago -- is a longtime friend and associate of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, having known him since the presidential hopeful was a community activist. In September, the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign.

Their relationship spans decades. Pfleger has given money to Obama's campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina's, according to the Chicago Tribune.

National Review says:

... little has been said about Sen. Obama’s relationship with Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic pastor at St. Sabina, also on the South Side of Chicago. In 2004, Obama told the Chicago Sun Times that Pfleger was one of his three spiritual mentors.

The referenced Chicago Sun-Times article says:

Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.

"I always have felt in him this consciousness that, at the end of the day, with all of us, you've got to face God," Pfleger says of Obama. "Faith is key to his life, no question about it. It is central to who he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man, as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don't think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is."

Obama's campaign must've known this video was about to surface, as they've recently scrubbed Pfleger's endorsement from their website.

I just wonder if anyone is still going to try to posit that Barack's church for the past 20 years isn't built on a 'hate whitey' cornerstone or that Obama's legitimately surprised by the inflammatory racial rhetoric that came out of there.

Energy Policy: MSN Money echoes me.

MSN Money's 'High IQ' journal posted an article Saturday that echoed, almost exactly, what I'd said earlier last week about who is really to blame for high oil prices.

Here's a hint: It ain't the oil companies.

As you fill your gas tank for your next summer trip, ask yourself how gas prices have reached current nosebleed levels. For many, the easy answer is to curse the "greedy" oil companies. Consider for a moment an alternative reason.

Oil is a commodity and therefore is subject to the laws of supply and demand. In the simplest of terms, when demand begins to put pressure on supply, prices go up; simple Econ 101. In a supply-and-demand situation, there are really only two options; lower demand or increase supply. I don't anticipate that the demand for oil will decrease, as Americans love their cars and love to drive. This leaves us with increasing the supply.

I know there are other fuel and energy alternatives, but none are mature enough or as readily accessible as oil and its byproducts at the present time. They may be in the future, but that doesn't help us out at the gas pump today. While research and development of fuel and energy alternatives will and must go forward, the supply of oil in the interim can be increased and America has vast resources that can be tapped into today.

Blocked in D.C.
Investors Business Daily estimates there are 1 trillion barrels of oil trapped in shale in the U.S. and Canada. Retrieving just a 10th of it would quadruple our current oil reserves. There is a pool of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that is estimated to be as large as any in the Middle East. There is an equally large pool believed to be in Alaska.

The Chinese are attempting to tap into the Gulf oil supply by drilling diagonally from Cuba. I wonder what environmental safeguards they are using?

The fact is that there are environmentally safe methods of extracting oil from shale and drilling in both the Gulf and Alaska. Congress, however, continues to block these efforts. Just last week, the Senate voted to block any extraction from shale in Colorado. In essence, they voted to make your trips to the gas station more expensive, to make air travel more expensive, and to make heating your home more expensive.

That's something to think about in an election year.

Not ironically, while Congress seems to continually fail to 'get it' and Democrats threaten to nationalize our oil companies, a majority of average Americans (57%, according to a new Gallup poll) now support drilling in the U.S. coastal and wilderness areas that Congress has placed off limits.

Revising his revision: Obama clarifies.

Last night, after his embarrassing Memorial Day gaffe in stating that his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz, the Obama campaign clarified that what he actually meant to say was that his uncle helped liberate the Ohrduf camp, which was a subcamp of the Buchenwald camp.

I'd still be a bit surprised, if the story turns out to be true, that his uncle's WWII experiences have actually had any influence at all on his policies. I'm not sure how you get from your uncle not wanting to discuss the attrocities he's seen in the concentration camps of a dictator bent on the destruction of the Jewish people to wanting to wanting to sit down and have talks 'without preconditions' with the extremist government of Iran while it's saying it wants the exact same thing.

Revising history: Obama's uncle liberated Auschwitz.

Obama, speaking with 'deep humility' on Memorial Day, told us about an interesting bit of his family's history.

CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic fawningly writes:

Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six months in an attic. "Now obviously, something had really affected him deeply, but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain," Obama said.

And, The Washington Post reports:

Obama said he suspects that one of the reasons his grandfather seldom spoke of his wartime experience was the trauma he had witnessed.

"In World War Two we didn't have the concept of post traumatic stress syndrome. People had to basically handle it on their own," he said. Referring to an uncle who had been one of the first U.S. troops into Auschwitz, the concentration camp, Obama said: "The story in the family is he came home and just went up in the attic."

Afterward, Paul Weinbaum, 66, beamed his approval of a candidate who had captured both his frustrations and his desire.

"There is hope for America," he said. "The sincerity comes through."

The 'sincerity' comes through. The truth? Not so much.

For those of you (like Obama) who might not be aware of history or geography, Auschwitz isn't in Germany. It's in Poland. On most maps, Poland is generally placed to the east of Germany, placing it on the opposite side of Germany from the direction the Allies were approaching.

Auschwitz was liberated by Russia's Red Army on January 27th, 1945. The Allies were, at that time, still wrapping up the Battle of the Bulge and attempting to cross the Rhine. During the war, American troops never entered Auschwitz.

Beyond that, the liberation of Auschwitz wasn't the humanitarian effort that the American and British liberations of camps in Germany was. Binjamin Wilkomirski, a child survivor of Auschwitz wrote that there was no liberation, "We just ran away without permission. No joyous celebration. I never heard the word 'liberation' back then, I didn't even know there was such a word."

Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, was also held at the camp. He said that the prisoners were given a choice between staying in the camps until more Soviet troops arrived, or being 'death marched' through two feet of snow to the old German Reich where they'd be put on trains and taken back to camps in Germany. Stragglers were shot and left alongside the road. More died on the trains taking them to Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and Mauthausen. Otto chose to stay at Auschwitz and survived.

The full history -- and, accordng to Barack's weekend revelations, the apparently false history -- can be read HERE.

Finally, the truth has come out: Obama's uncle was part of a secret mission, sent deep into Soviet territory more than 300 miles ahead of his own army's lines, to liberate Auschwitz. And, for more than 60 years, the Red Army has been claiming credit.

No wonder he came home and went up to the attic.

Energy Policy: Liberal Fascism on Display.

Last week, Maxine Waters made a total fool of herself while 'grilling' Big Oil executives.

( That's not the story though. Maxine Waters quite regularly makes a total fool of herself. )

The big story is that she made plain that Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism, was spot on correct about the motivations of Liberals. It's not just medicine that they want to 'socialize' (read: nationalize), it's oil as well.

It began with this exchange between Maxine Waters and the president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister.

Waters: Can you guarantee the American people that the price of oil will go down if oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want to off US shores?

Hofmeister: I can guarantee to the American people, because of the inaction of the United States Congress, ever increasing prices, unless the demand comes down, and the five dollars will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies.

Waters apparently didn't like that the head of a major industry had the 'gall' to get 'uppity' with a moron who'd been elected to Congress, so she retorted:

Waters: And guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about ...

At this point, there's laughter in the chamber as she's realized that she's stepped in it, said everything that everyone has ever accused liberals of believing despite their denials and now she's trying to backpedal.

( Video HERE. )

So, what brilliance does she come up with to 'retreat' from this 'socialize' position? Fascism!

Waters: ... basically taking over and the government running all of your companies.

Her answer to his fact-based allegation that it's Congress that's causing the problems with our gas prices by not allowing for more exploration is "Get in line or we'll nationalize your business right out from under you!"

Let's go to the dictionary:

Fascism noun
a nationalistic and anti-Communist system of government like that of Italy 1922-43, where all aspects of society are controlled by the state and all criticism or opposition is suppressed.

So, let's see ...

• Aspects of society controlled by the state (ie: government)? Check.


• Criticism or opposition suppressed? Check.

It would seem that the mask has slipped.

"Where did we find such men?"

"Once each May, amid the quiet hills and rolling lanes and breeze-brushed trees of Arlington National Cemetery, far above the majestic Potomac and the monuments and memorials of our Nation’s Capital just beyond, the graves of America’s military dead are decorated with the beautiful flag that in life these brave souls followed and loved. This scene is repeated across our land and around the world, wherever our defenders rest. Let us hold it our sacred duty and our inestimable privilege on this day to decorate these graves ourselves—with a fervent prayer and a pledge of true allegiance to the cause of liberty, peace, and country for which America’s own have ever served and sacrificed ...

"Our pledge and our prayer this day are those of free men and free women who know that all we hold dear must constantly be built up, fostered, revered and guarded vigilantly from those in every age who seek its destruction. We know, as have our Nation’s defenders down through the years, that there can never be peace without its essential elements of liberty, justice and independence. Those true and only building blocks of peace were the lone and lasting cause and hope and prayer that lighted the way of those whom we honor and remember this Memorial Day. To keep faith with our hallowed dead, let us be sure, and very sure, today and every day of our lives, that we keep their cause, their hope, their prayer, forever our country’s own."

- Ronald W. Reagan

Arlington
As performed by Trace Adkins

I never thought that this is where I'd settle down.
I thought I'd die an old man back in my hometown.
They gave me this plot of land,
  Me and some other men,
    For a job well done.

There's a big white house, sits on a hill, just up the road.
The man inside, he cried the day they brought me home.
They folded up a flag,
  And told my mom and dad,
    "We're proud of your son."

And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property.
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company.
I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done.
I can rest in peace. I'm one of the chosen ones.
I made it to Arlington.

I remember daddy brought me here when I was eight.
We searched all day to find out where my granddad lay.
When we finally found that cross,
  He said, "Son, this is what it costs
    To keep us free."

Now, here I am, a thousand stones away from him.
He recognized me on the first day I came in.
And it gave me a chill,
  When he clicked his heels,
    And saluted me.

And, I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property.
I'm on sacred ground, and I'm in the best of company.
And I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done.
I can rest in peace. I'm one of the chosen ones.
I made it to Arlington.

And every time I hear twenty-one guns
  I know they brought another hero home to us.

We're thankful for those thankful for the things we've done
We can rest in peace, 'cause we are the chosen ones.
We made it to Arlington.

Yeah, dust to dust.
Don't cry for us.
We made it to Arlington.