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Campaign Barky's Out Of Ideas

He's really into recycling, apparently, as this is at least the fourth iteration of his soviet-style intimidation campaign - the only thing he changes about it is the name, which this time around is "Obama Truth Team". As usual, he wants folks to rat out their co-workers, neighbors, or anybody else that isn't parroting back the official line of his wonder and his glory. In view of the fact that neither Barky nor anybody in his administration appears capable of telling the truth, the name of the latest site seems a bit disconcerting; it just doesn't have the resonance that his previous efforts, Attack Watch, Fight the Smears, and Flag.gov. commanded.

Oh, and his 2012 campaign poster's out:

Countdown Underway, Dems Abort

It's coming down to the wire in the $18 million Wisconsin Recall (that's just how much it's costing taxpayers to finance the Democrats' tantrum), and DNC chair Dummie Debbie Wassername-Schlitz was on the Sunday morning talk shows, making excuses up and trying to minimize the effect that a loss would have in regard to the general election.

“I think, honestly, there aren’t going to be any repercussions,” Wasserman Schultz said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program. “It’s an election that’s based in Wisconsin.”

Honestly? That's an oxymoron; Democrats don't do honesty. The only thing at which they excel involves finding ways to waste tax dollars.

So, where's the media on all of this? Oh, right:

One sign that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is likely to win the election on June 5 is the sudden disappearance of national media attention to the race. The networks and newspapers that gave wall-to-wall coverage to protests in the streets of Madison in the spring of 2011 and excitedly reported on the drive to collect signatures to force a recall have gone relatively quiet as a succession of polls show Walker leading by 5 points or more.

As one commenter observed:

BIL and sister, organic farmers who identify mostly with the Green Party, are pissed as heck at the Democrats for throwing a temper tantrum and causing this expensive recall election in Wisconsin. My family is a little nuts but they are good people who work hard and are very frugal with their money. When you lose the Green Party’s sympathy in Wisconsin… well.

Five Years Of Change

Las Vegas provides an excellent nutshell of what happened to housing in America as a result of the machinations of Barney Frank and his pals at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:

In 2000, the city was on a path of robust growth. But in 2003, the age of “the 80-20” dawned, a scheme that allowed buyers to sign on for 80 per cent mortgages and get the other 20 wherever they could — banks didn’t care where. It was effectively a 100 per cent mortgage with zero down.

That changed everything.

Suddenly it became a right, not a privilege, for anyone to buy a house, says Fahrny’s business partner Suzie Marquardt — “whether they could pay back the loan or not.”

By 2004, people in Vegas were standing in line for days to put their name on a list to make an offer on a new house.

“Investors were buying up new houses and builders didn’t care who bought them. They just couldn’t build them fast enough,” Fahrny recalls.

Bidding wars broke out, people were offering tens of thousands of dollars over list prices, and agents were bringing “flowers and candy” trying to get sellers to take their offers.

Locals were getting daily mass mail-outs from banks. Flyers coaxed customers to refinance, take money out of their homes and buy a car, go on vacation, buy another house.

When the bust came, starting in 2008 - a mere five years after Barney and his buddies had ignited the firestorm, panicked banks went into foreclosure overdrive, desperately trying to recoup some of their bad loans. Even the largest stooped to tactics such as faking titles to speed the foreclosure process along, and with understandable - if not necessarily good - reason: 

“They basically had Excel spreadsheets of mortgages, and then started trading among themselves and there was no real record of where each mortgage went. So now we’re in this predicament. Who really owns what? We don’t really know.”

American anger was directed toward the banks, and while not entirely unjustified, it was certainly misplaced; the banks were merely following orders, and writing loans that prior to 2003 they would have declined. The anger, by rights, should have been largely directed at Democrats, who peddled the idea that, rather than being the American Dream, home ownership was a fundamental right.

It's surprising that so many fail to recognize that about Democrats: they're forever peddling non-existent "rights" even as they systematically seek to remove our liberty.

 

I WILL TRANSMIT THIS INFORMATION TO VLADIMIR.

Barky's problem, by his own admission, is that he spent way too much time slacking and smoking dope - which is why he has no record to run in favor of. All he can do is drop back to the position of blaming Bush or other Republicans for problems, in hopes of creating a distraction.

Had he ever taken the time to crack a book or two, he might have noticed that "For every complex problem," H.L. Mencken wrote, "there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong."

This, as it turns out, is precisely his area of expertise: he consistently chooses the clear, simple, and wrong. He wages an all out war on middle and low-income Americans, escalating energy costs while claiming to fight for them. He believes that they are stupid, and can't associate rising food and fuel prices with his policies. His "change" involves lowering the standard of living for most Americans, while expanding government. Vladimir nods in approval.

If you don't think the next American revolution is going to be the government employee class vs. everyone else, you're not paying attention. -bojack

Even avowed liberals are beginning to catch on.

 

Implosion

Kimberlin funders who are willing to talk are shocked to discover that they've been contributing to a violent felon:

A spokesperson for Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift, which is listed by JTMP over several years, explained to Breitbart News that the fund is donor-advised, meaning that it does not have discretion over donations made by individuals or organizations with accounts at the fund. Donors merely park their funds at Fidelity to receive an immediate charitable tax deduction, and direct those funds over time, as they wish, to any 501(c)3.

Same with Schwab - nobody knew, nor do they vet the 501(c)3 organizations they're directed to distribute funds to. That's obviously not the case for the Barbara Streisand Foundation and the Soros-funded Tides foundation, who refused comment. Clearly, they knew exactly what sort of mayhem they were supporting, but didn't care as long as he was on "their side".

Meanwhile, of all places, ABC News released a story today about Barky and his "pot smoking 'choom gang'" - when the MSM starts ragging on their allies in the Democrat party, you know the bloom is off the rose. Time for Barky to fire up another stogie; all the previous ones have blown up in his face, but maybe this time it'll be different.

At least the rise of the oceans has slowed, and the planet has begun to heal. It's amazing what a convicted terrorist can accomplish, whith a community organizer leading from behind.

Loony Left Losing It

Even Barky's had about enough of Dummie Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who generally makes Joe Biden look like a top-tier Mensa member. She's made so many missteps lately that during his recent trip to Florida, Barky didn't allow her to introduce His Majesty before he spoke - which is a sizeable slap-down.

She was scheduled to speak at Miami's Temple Israel; that was cancelled after she was disinvited.

Schultz is the one who -- against months of intense objections from Obama’s top campaign officials in Chicago and her own DNC staff, Schultz -- hired Dani Gilbert as a new Jewish liaison last month.

The source of objector concerns was that Gilbert is the daughter of Boca Raton wealth manager, Mark Gilbert, a top-tier Obama bundler, and a major donor to Wasserman Schultz's own campaigns since 2003. 

By all appearances, this hire would be seen as a payoff, one that would give fuel to administration critics who were all too eager to set another Obama re-election fire.

Then came the unexpected explosion.

The same day Gilbert’s April hiring was announced, photographs from 2006 – of young Jewish girls clutching dollar bills and referring to themselves as “Jewbags” and the “Jew cash money team” -- were discovered on her Facebook page by Washington Free Beacon.

It doesn't look as though she'll be in Congress - or the DNC - much longer; she has ten business days to either qualify by petition or by cash to get on the Florida ballot for the November election, and it's beginning to look as though she won't be running for re-election. Certainly, it won't happen by petition, although she may cough up the cash at the last second.

Don't look for the unions to help her out - the union bosses are plenty perturbed that her DNC hasn't kicked in any change to help their efforts to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

And another stellar Democrat, Fauxahontas, has managed to turn even stalwarts such as NPR and The Boston Globe off; both have recently taken a decidedly negative turn in their reportage of her antics. Desperate to turn things around, she banned media from her campaign events for twelve days - only to find that when they were allowed back in, they continued asking uncomfortable questions about her "Cherokee heritage". Once they decide to follow a story, especially one of deceit, even the MSM can be tough to shake.

Meet Mia

Running for Utah. And for you.

 

 

Words Of Love, So Soft And Tender

Won't win a girls heart anymore - as Barkmeister's discovering following an humiliating set of primary "victories" in which a convicted felon still residing in a Texas jail got over 40% of the vote, "Uncommitted" in Kentucky got over 42% of the vote, and lawyer John Wolfe Jr. nabbed 42% in Arkansas.

But no matter how well he does, don’t expect Team Obama to allow him or any other candidate to collect delegates who could become a magnet for media attention at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.

The party claims that Wolfe failed to fill out some paperwork for submitting delegate slates in Arkansas so his strong showing will not net him any representation at the convention.

Remember all the hoopla in Florida over "hanging chads"? Barky's going even further as head of the Democrats; ensuring that no matter how many delegates his opponents should garner, none will be recognized. Listen: you hear all that media outcry?

It's clear that substantial numbers of folks in states he won last time aren't going to fall for his honeyed words this time around.

Games

Barky's team has been deploying a more or less subliminal approach to messaging; pushing out a short ad here, another there. Despite the massive funding behind him, the approach to date has been concentrating on planting little mind bugs - kind of like in the old Star Trek series, wherein a scorpion-like critter crawls into somebody's ear (always one of those unfortunate guys in the red tunics) and takes him over.

Though they'll doubtless roll out the big guns later in the cycle, at the moment they're relying on a more or less scientific approach that's really taken off in the Lefty world of late: running small, targeted, and brief campaign ads and then attempting to assess the motivational impact (or lack thereof) among the target audiences. It's too bad they haven't developed actual mind control technology as yet, but there you have it; one must make do with what Won has.

Over on the Republican side, they're doing things more traditionally - they're testing messages in national focus groups. And as the New York Times notes, one of the great challenges is that, for some inexplicable reason, Barky remains well-liked by a substantial number of folks, even though they may be considering not voting for him this time around.

But traditional methods aren't as effective as they used to be:

Using actors is not a common tactic for political attack ads, which often rely on stern-sounding announcers to recite a series of damning facts or on testimonials from aggrieved citizens, like a recent series from the Obama campaign that questions Mr. Romney’s history as a private equity executive.

In this environment, such approaches tend to backfire with increasing frequency. So one thing facing Republicans here is that nobody likes to be told they were stupid: attacking Barky on his lack of ethics, for example, may be entirely accurate, but may stiffen the resolve of voters who fell for him last time. They took a different tack: Basketball.

The Billion Dollar Man

Reports contend that Barky's got a billion dollars for his campaign - which isn't surprising, in view of the fact that he's been campaigning for a year already. He's going to need it, because so far all he's managed to do is light one exploding cigar after another. His pals in #occupie have moved from criminal activity to amateur terrorism, much like his buddy Bill Ayers did with his Weathermen band back in the 1960's. That should be embarassing enough, but there's more.

He figured he'd gain some points among women by sending Hillary Rosen out to attack Ann Romney, and blam! It exploded in his face. And having informed the Catholics that they have to provide free birth control and abortions, regardless of their religious beliefs, he trotted out professional "law student" Sandra Fluke to bolster his stance. Blam! Another cigar explodes.

Fortunately, he can always count on the media to help him clean up: some 43 Catholic organizations, including Notre Dame, file the biggest lawsuit in the history of the country over his mandates, and not a peep about it emanates from the so-called "major networks".

The evening news broadcasts all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our Constitutionally-protected religious freedom. The May 21 editions of ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News refused to report the fact that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Obama administration. CBS Evening News gave this historic news a mere 19 seconds of air time.

Then attention is drawn toward serial liar Elizabeth Warren's senatorial run, and folks start drawing parallels between her fabrications and his (I was a Kenyan before I wasn't), which just lights another match - and blam!

Fortunately, he can alwas count on the media to help him clean up - or can he?

Barky smiles broadly, pulls out another big stogie, and proceeds to portray Mittens as a job-killer; blaming him for the demise of a steel company that went bankrupt two years after Mittens left Bain Capital LLC, and ignoring entirely the fact that Mittens worked with the founder of an office supply company, helping to get it off the ground. That company, Staples, employs thousands nationwide and indirectly supports thousands more.

This is too much even for some of his Democrat pals:

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker yesterday called the private-equity debate “nauseating to the American public”.

Booker’s comments came on the heels of those from Steven Rattner, who headed the president’s auto task force and last week called “unfair” an Obama campaign ad about a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill that was taken over by Bain in 1993.

“I don’t think Bain Capital did anything they need to be embarrassed about,” Rattner said May 14 on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “It did it superbly well, acting within the rules, acting very responsibly, and was a leading firm.”

Wonder of wonders, the media hasn't tried to bury it.

Blam!