It never ceases to amaze me how the extreme right or left can rail about “bias” in one breath, and then exhibit clear bias in the next.

According to “Conservapedia“, these are the reasons Barack Obama is likely to be a Muslim. (Someone should let them all in on the fact that this is not actually an insult. Being a Muslim is not a bad thing. Being a short-sighted, racist asshole is, however.) Comments in red are mine.

Obama’s background and education are Muslim (Then they cite that he is Muslim because he attended classes on the Koran while attending a Muslim school. They also cite the fact that it was 2 years at this school, and another 2 years at a Catholic school. So, why do they automatically assign the “negative” affiliation? He spent the same amount of time at both. Or right, calling him a Catholic wouldn’t further their smear agenda.)

Obama’s middle name remains Muslim, which most Christians would not retain (Really? “[M]ost Christians” is definitely a solid fact. I bet they asked “most Christians”. I bet it’s not at all a crazy half assed assumption.  It also could not be that it’s the middle name chosen for him and he’s never had a reason to change it. Some people feel that way about the names they’re given by their parents. Christians, for example.)

Obama recently referred to his “Muslim faith” (This references a YouTube video that has been removed.)

Obama uses the Muslim Pakistani pronunciation for “Pakistan” rather than the common American one (Did you know that pronouncing Italy correctly means you REALLY LOVE PASTA? Or maybe it means you’re pronouncing a country the way that country’s residents would like you to pronounce it.)

Obama, in his autobiography “Dreams from My Father” (1995), descibes Muslim Malcolm X as his favorite black leader (This one I believe because he’s been the only man or woman in modern history to claim Malcolm X as a role model or icon, so I guess they got him there.)

Obama’s claims of conversion to Christianity arose after he became politically ambitious, lacking a date of conversion or baptism (Might it be because he was only asked to defend his faith after he entered the political spotlight, and because having to defend it all is utterly ridiculous so he doesn’t feel the need to feed you hungry wolves with a bunch of details that you’d just accuse him of making up anyway.)

The odds of Obama being truthful in his claim that he converted to Christianity are less than 100 to 1 against it, as fewer than 1% of Muslims convert to Christianity. (So they admit that they wouldn’t believe him anyway by citing a statistic that they can’t even prove applies to him. That’s pretty backwards and upsidedown.)

Though, my favorite excerpt comes when they are describing his education. Emphasis mine.

After working as a community organizer in New York City and Chicago, Illinois, Obama enrolled at Harvard Law School. He became a member of the Harvard Law Review, which uses racial quotas, in 1989. 

You like that sneaky, passive aggressive, cowardly way they suggest that he became a member of the Review because he’s black, and not because he earned it? Just because you don’t come right out and say it doesn’t mean you’re not a racist piece of shit. Yeah, you’ve really instilled a sense of credibility with that jab. I think I’ll go ahead and believe everything I read on this site now!

In contrast, the article on Palin, which I’m not linking to (you can search for it if you’re interested, but I read it for you and I know you’re not), is all flowery and special, like a summery douche.  It brushes right past that whole Bridge to Nowhere business, and never points out a single embarrassing flub or lie she’s told, but it’s important for you to know every tongue-tied moment Barack Obama has experienced.

She participated in a debate with the Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden on October 2, 2008, ending up being declared the winner by most credible news sources that are not influenced by liberal bias.

Except that Biden was declared the winner by the audience, which were independents and undecided voters. But, you know, it’s the liberal bias that we should all be aware of. The liberal bias that appeared all across the wide variety of news sources that Google threw at me in the days following the debate. I guess that means Google is in bed with liberals, too.

So, I am curious. Someone show me these credible news sources and talking heads other than Pat Robertson (yeah, that’s credible) and Old Man McCain that declared her the winner. And then tell me why.  I’d like someone to tell me why they believe she won without having to resort solely to trashing Biden, and without a lot of hyperbole. What specific plans did she lay out for health care or fixing the economic crisis? (Stating a bunch of vague crap is not a specific plan.) Will those plans work, and why? What will be their effects? I’d like to know why she thinks “more regulation” and “get out of my way, government” aren’t different, and why the latter would work so well if the bailout is necessary to fix the problem. I’d like to know if she can point me to the 94 times Barack Obama voted to raise my taxes.  I’d like someone to explain to me why she thinks expanding the powers of the VP is a good idea when she only learned very recently what her duties as VP would be, and don’t dare tell me she was joking when she said that because we both know that’s baloney.

Are we sick of the masters of the nonanswers yet? Have we had enough of this kind of politician?

“She’s a master, not of facts, figures or insightful policy recommendations, but at the fine art of the nonanswer, the glittering generality,” Andrew Halcro, a Republican who ran as an independent, wrote recently. “Against such charms there is little Biden, or anyone, can do.”

She’s also a snotty bitch who apparently never grew out of that high school nonsense that it’s cool to make fun of the smart kids for being, you know, smart. Mostly, it’s the only defense she has. She can’t out debate them, so her only option is to put them down. That is not the kind of person we need in any leadership role.

For all her homespun charm, she could flay her opponents like freshly caught salmon, as she did in one debate when the moderator asked the combatants what job they might offer their rivals if they became governor.

Halcro, she said, “would make the most awesome statistician the state could ever look for,” a jab at the numbers he so often threw at her.

As the debate audience giggled at the putdown, Palin then turned on Knowles, a one-time deli owner, saying, “Do they need a chef down in Juneau? I know Mr. Knowles is really good at that.”

Larry Persily, the former Anchorage Daily News opinion page editor who asked the question, said, “People talked a lot more about that the next day than, say, the nuances of early childhood education.”

Ohmigod that’s sooooo funny! He’s know a lot of facts about a lot of stuff! What a DORK!

Let’s NOT be talking about her childish putdowns tomorrow, folks. Let’s be looking at how well she understands and answers the questions, and how to-the-point her answers are.  We can’t really be so stupid to fall for it, can we?

My last for the day, promise! They just keep providing material.

Sarah Palin is looking forward to Thursday’s debate against Joe Biden. In this video she makes a hilarious joke about Biden’s age. Psst… Sarah, um, making fun of him because you’ve been hearing his Senate speeches since you “were in, like, the 2nd grade” is 1.) acknowledging his vastly superior experience and that he’s been in the game long before you ever received that first Intelligent Design pamphlet, AND 2.) indirectly making fun of McCain for being even (6 years) older. Nice work.  Also, that’s the second time you’ve recycled that joke. It’s time to find another “flaw” to focus on. But then you might have to talk about something of substance.

Why is she so confident that she’s smarter than Biden? Because he sorta-predicted that University of Delaware would beat the Ohio Buckeyes, and he was wrong. 

While holding a football, speaking to the U of DE football team, Biden announced, “I told the folks in Ohio that we’d kick Ohio State’s ass!”

Yeah, clearly he’s not qualified to be VP.

via Christian Science Monitor. Indeed, she’s showing some spunk! Now let’s try to get her to show some intelligence.

Due to much more important plans on Thursday, Friday & Saturday, I’ll have to TiVo the debate and watch it Sunday afternoon. No spoilers!

Please to buy for me, thanks.