DATELINE, Denver CO — August 28, 2008.  This is the unedited transcript of the acceptance speech given this evening by Democratic Party Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).

My fellow proper-thinking Americans and oppressed people of this nation — thank you.  You have spoken for change and we have delivered together.  For without change, we cannot have hope.  Without hope, there is no change.  When we get change we can lift up those bitter folks among us and rise to the promise of America.  The America that I observed from afar.

As we embrace this change together we must remember that we cannot challenge change for it is good.  Unity is most important for without unity, there is no hope; without hope, there is no change.  Without change there is no future.

So now I call on all Americans to ignore the past, ignore my past, ignore this nation’s history, ignore what has made this nation full of bitter and shallow people.   And rise up with me to the new Promised Land — the Federal Government.  Washington will be reclaimed by those of us who know better, who think better, who know you better than you know yourselves because we know that you know that you want change and change is hope.

Thank you for your nomination and I look forward to a spirited debate with Senator McCain so long as he doesn’t question my voting record, ethics, integrity, philosophy of governing, or the folks who have supported me and I grew up with.  Because if he does, it will be clear that the Republicans are devolving back to the policies of Jim Crow and all that it stands for.

Good night, and God Bless my campaign.

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Reactions to Senator Obama’s speech:

“That is the best political speech I have ever heard.  This man is a born leader.  He was specific, yet sweeping in his rhetoric.  America should be proud tonight.”  — Chris Matthews, MSNBC

“It was hard to watch this speech without being moved to tears.  I now fully understand why all those women fainted throughout the primary campaign.  I can’t go on.”  — Anderson Cooper, CNN

“How he could stand up there and accept the Democratic nomination and not call for Bush’s impeachment is beyond me.  This guy is a joke.  This country is a joke.  I’m a joke.” — Keith Olbermann, MSNBC

“Does anyone know what the hell Obama was talking about?” — Brit Hume, FOX News Channel

I’m glad I didn’t have to do all of the hard civics work and research needed to present the “Terrorists Guide to the USA Election”…. Michelle Malkin has done it for me.

Bravo!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Sometimes the naiveté of Jimmy Carter is breathtaking, indeed, beyond breathtaking.

First, I was delighted (and somewhat surprised to read) that when the failed former president met with leaders of the Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, he “proposed Hamas unilaterally stop rocket fire on Israel and release [kidnapped Israeli solider Gilad] Shalit in exchange for no more targeted assassinations of its leaders and the release of 400 prisoners.“

Yet, did it ever dawn on this Democrat that the activities he was asking Hamas to stop doing defined the organization? That they would cross sovereign territory and kidnap one soldier, that its forces fire rockets indiscriminately on sovereign Israeli territory? And that they demand the release 400 prisoners, many who have attempted to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians in exchange for just one Israeli soldier.

Can’t he see the distinction between a nation that would release 400 individuals, many of whom when freed, would take up arms against it for just one, just one of its soldiers?

No, such distinctions seem beyond this bitter old man.

Read carefully what he said about Hamas that they “would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, if approved by Palestinians.” Hamas also told Carter they were “willing to accept the Jewish state as a ‘neighbor next door’.”

Yet, despite these promises, before that Democrat had even left the Middle East, Hamas continued its past practics, carrying out “twin suicide bombings on the Gaza border” and firing “seven rockets were fired on Israel.”

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My awesome Member of Congress, US Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), is standing up to ex-President Jimmy Carter’s treason and urging the Bush Adminstration to do the same.

Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-9) called on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to revoke former President Jimmy Carter’s passport.  This is in response to the former President traveling to Syria to meet with Hamas, an organization officially designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“Former President Carter has acted in contradiction of international agreements to isolate Hamas.  He has acted in defiance of both United States policy and international policy.  His actions reward terrorists, lend support, and provide legitimacy to their belief that violence will eventually get them what they want,” said Rep. Myrick. 

After Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections the Quartet (US, UN, EU and Russia) called on Hamas to renounce terror, recognize Israel and recognize the previous agreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel as they seek an agreement to make peace.  Hamas has categorically rejected these three conditions for more than two years.

Congress granted the Secretary of State the power to grant and verify passports.  In 1981, the United States Supreme Court held in the case of Haig v. Agee that the Secretary of State has the implied power to revoke passports as well (453 U.S. 280).  

Myrick will be on FOX News Channel today between 2pm and 2:30pm to discuss the Carter passport plan in further detail with E. D. Hill.

US Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) is going even further by proposing HR 5816 — the CARTER Act — which would cease all taxpayer funding of the ex-President’s “Carter Center”.    The Carter Center already receives lots of money from sources throughout the Middle East.

In addition to my call for the US Senate to Censure Jimmy Carter, perhaps his return flight to the USA could include a military winged escort and diversion to a certain holding facility in Cuba?

GP Ed. Note:  As of today, I’m now categorizing any posts about Jimmy Carter in the “American Terrorist” category.  We have also added the category “American Embarrassments” so we can capture Carter-related items there too.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

I called both of my US Senators this morning (Dole & Burr) to request that they introduce a Resolution of Censure against former President Jimmy Carter.   Including his term in office, but mostly after, Carter has a history of actions intended to undermine and destroy the United States of America.  His meeting this week with Hamas should be the last straw for those who believe in this nation.

It is time that our responsible leaders in Congress (if there are any left), put a line in the sand during this time of war declared against our nation by Islamic terrorists. 

President Jimmy Carter should be censured by the United States Senate and this censure should hang around his head for the rest of his life.

If you agree, please call your Senators today to urge they introduce and pass a Resolution of Censure against James Earl Carter.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

First they take the gay books….(h/t - VtheK) … then they hang the gays… then they behead the gays….

Two primary schools have withdrawn storybooks about same-sex relationships after objections from Muslim parents. Up to 90 gathered at the schools to complain about the books which are aimed at pupils as young as five. One story, titled King & King, is a fairytale about a prince who turns down three princesses before marrying one of their brothers.

The decision was made to enable the schools to “operate safely” after parents voiced their concerns at meetings.

Around 40 are said to have gathered at Easton to speak to staff and another 50 at Bannerman Road.

Members of the Bristol Muslim Cultural Society said parents were upset at the lack of consultation over the use of the materials.

“Operate safely?” How very Germany, 1935!

As VtheK wrote to me: This is what happens in societies where there are no basic rights, only competing grievance groups. The biggest, most intimidating, most “aggrieved” group will always win.

Round 547:

• Islamists -547
• Gays - Countless Dead throughout the Islamic World

Biggest Losers: American Gay Leftists Who Praise Insurgents, Palestianians and Iranian Dictators… While Denegrating the Freest Nation On Earth.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

*Cue sinister music*

*Global Warming, with dark cape flowing behind, enters from the left*

“DAMN THAT TED TURNER!”, exclaims Global Warming as the birds shriek and thunder rolls over the dark skies behind him.

We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. — Ted Turner, April 1, 2008 on PBS’ “Charlie Rose Show.”

Global Warming continues to rant violently: “How the hell am I supposed to destroy Earth and all of mankind in 10 years when these frikkin morons like Al Gore and Ted Turner keep giving away my playbook? For crying out loud, the cannibalism thing was my Secret Weapon.”

“Damn Ted Turner…. Damn him to the Future Earth which will be worse than Hell!”

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Whew, you don’t want to get on the bad side of Global Warming, do you?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Many of us loyal Corner readers know that John Derbyshire first made the “Gore to the Rescue” prediction back in May of 2007.

Keep in mind, his prediction was before the current Clinton-Obama near-deadlock; before Rev. “God Damn America” Wright; before the Iraq Surge was successful; before Michigan & Florida thrust millions of Democratic voters into no-mans land.

I’m increasingly of the mind that Derb is onto something.  Let’s look at it logically:  The policy positions of Clinton and Obama are nearly identical — both advocate increased government spending and control and decreased individual freedom and free enterprise market-based solutions.

Aside from semantics, their proposals from healthcare to education to Iraq are only separated by a hair.   The real decision is who is most electable and likable for Democrats.  (Cuz God forbid they vote by the issues and for what is best for America.)

So, with Al Gore having already successfully saved Planet Earth from Global Warming (TM), perhaps he can come to the rescue of Democrats fighting amongst themselves.  And, since Gore has no problem bashing his nation overseas and adhering to the most radical and dangerously naive Leftist outlooks of the World, he would make the perfect post-Osama bin Laden candidate for the Donkey Party.
It is being talked about more and more by the Chattering Class…. so I figured it was post-worthy today.

Gore 2008 — That’s No April Fools Joke!

-Bruce (GayPatriot) 

Christopher Barron thinks the answer is personality over substance.

Sen. Obama has a fairly pedestrian record on what the gay left considers the critical issues for our community. Obama’s thin legislative record reveals little to no leadership on gay-related issues, and his positions on gay issues on the campaign trail have been largely indistinguishable from those of his Democratic opponents (all of whom, with the exception of Sen. Hillary Clinton, he has vanquished).

The love affair between the gay left and Obama seems to be much more about personality than policy, which should make the recent controversy surrounding the bigoted, hate-filled comments of Rev. Jeremiah Wright all the more troubling to the gay community.

I DON’T BELIEVE that Obama shares Wright’s outrageous views, but I also still don’t know why Obama would have chosen to associate himself so closely with a man so filled with rage, hate and contempt for this country.

If Obama is going to base his campaign for president on his judgment, then he owes all Americans — including LGBT Americans — an honest explanation for that judgment. 

I wonder what the reaction from the gay left would have been if it were revealed that Jerry Falwell had been John McCain’s pastor for decades or that David Duke had been the best man in his wedding. I am fairly certain that such an intimate association with men with such divisive and repulsive views would certainly be grounds enough not to support his candidacy.

But maybe Barron is onto something more than the gay community’s adherence to Obama’s looks and style.   Perhaps the American gay (left, mostly) can also relate to Rev. Wright and his views.

So, what say you, gay community?

Do you also feel so oppressed that you hate the nation of your birth?   Do you hate the United States so much because you cannot be married here that you cheered after 9/11/2001 like the Palestinians and the Trinity Church members?

And since Obama and Wright were on the one hand “oppressed”, but on the other hand it turns out they are both are multi-millionaires… I’m assuming wealthy liberal gays are most adoring of Obama.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Do the new House Ethics rules cover expenses being covered by a dictatorial regime that Congress passed a law vowing to change?

Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush Administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called for a diplomatic solution.

Prosecutors say that trip was arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a Michigan charity official, who was charged Wednesday with setting up the junket at the behest of Saddam’s regime. Iraqi intelligence officials allegedly paid for the trip through an intermediary and rewarded Al-Hanooti with 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.

The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. None was charged and Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said investigators “have no information whatsoever” any of them knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam.

Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.   And Eliot Spitzer thought “john” meant the bathroom.

Aren’t rules about treason and sedition enforced anymore?

(And two of the three are Democratic superdelegates.   How precious.)

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother”. ~Italian Proverb

Unless of course, you’ve just delivered a nationwide speech that implied Granny’s a racist – in that case, you may want to call your spiritual adviser — oops, perhaps not.  Maybe in this case, call your wife - she’s sure to clear things right up.

You know your campaign is in trouble when you toss Granny under the bus because you’ve been caught hanging out with the wrong crowd.  Say what you will about the ‘Bi-States Luv Guv’s’ (Spitzer & McGreevey) - they may have used their wives as political window dressing - but they wouldn’t dare to speak ill of their Grandma’s – no one is that craven.  Or so we thought.

I’m a ‘Granny Groupie’ from way back: I fell in love with Grannies back in 1938 when the actress May Robson showed up as Esther Blodgett’s crusty old grandma in the original ‘A Star is Born’.  She bankrolls Esther’s trip to Tinsel-town and fame.

Granny admires Esther’s ‘pioneer spirit’ and gives the timid girl the confidence to eventually catch a movie star husband (Fredrick March doing a horrible Errol Flynn impersonation) and win an Oscar.  When people say ‘They don’t make ‘em like that anymore’, they’re usually referring to people like Granny Blodgett. Just ask Carol Burnett how tough Grannies are.

Fast forward 70 years and you’ve got the presumptive nominee of the Democratic party saying things about his Granny that would make Granny Blodgett box his ears and wash his mouth out with soap.  Apparently, many years ago, Barack ‘cringed’ at his Granny’s use of racial stereotypes and her unfounded fear of an aggressive black man on a public bus. Thank goodness she didn’t spout off about anti-war protesters, men with long hair, or young girls who favor low cut dresses or we’d have to conclude she’s probably a right-wing-pro-war-fanatical- anti-feminist- prude, with a narrow worldview and used Kleenex tissues stuck up the sleeves of her housecoat.

Actually, she’s a lot hipper than Barack can even imagine: Obama’s Granny helped raise a young black man who graduated from Harvard and later became a US Senator from Illinois, and is now – in some people’s opinion – the probable next President of the United States.

Now there’s something to bring up when the ‘old ladies bridge club’ gets together to brag about the grandkids.  Oh, and by the way, Granny Obama was into bi-racial families back when the Reverend Wright was into the black separatists movement.

While Granny Obama was raising Barack as her own, to guide and love, Reverend Wright was adopting the Black Value System, to misguide and hate. While Granny Obama was embracing Barack and protecting her family, Reverend Wright was embracing the Black Ethics ideology and misleading his followers. While Granny Obama was telling Barack he could be anything he put his mind to, the Reverend Wright was telling his followers AIDS and crack were engineered by the Federal Government to kill black people.

Granny and the Reverend: they’re both preaching and their both praying, but it’s obvious they’re not preaching and praying for the same thing.

“Typical white woman”, indeed. Granny Obama should take a page from Granny Blodgett’s book and wash Barack’s mouth out with soap.

To all the Grannies: Cheers!

-Vera Charles

Well…well….well.

Fifty-five percent of Iraqis now say their own life is going well, up from 39 percent 12 months ago. And 62 percent say security in their local area is good, up 16 percentage points from last year.  These results, from an ABC poll carried out across Iraq and released today, paint a picture of a damaged country that is gradually starting to pull itself together again.

Attitudes toward Americans are ambivalent. On the one hand, Iraqis are deeply uncomfortable with the occupation — 73 percent say they oppose the presence of U.S. troops on Iraqi soil.  [GP Ed. Note - Um, who wouldn’t be opposed to foreign troops in your country?]

When asked whether the U.S. troop surge has contributed to the drop in violence, a little more than half say no. But in a telling reality check, when asked whether U.S. troops should leave Iraq now, only 38 percent agreed — the majority wants U.S. troops to stay until security is guaranteed.

Oh, but wait….    *GP checks statements from Senate Majority Leader*

I am very confused.   Harry Reid tells me “the war is lost.”  I’m sure that’s because he has been to Iraq several times since the surge and has seen this first hand?  So he must be right, and the Iraqi people must be wrong.

*GP reads some news items*

Oops, no that’s not it.  Reid hasn’t been to Iraq at all.   But surely Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have sat down with General Petraeus when he has offered to brief them? 

*GP reads more news items….*

Nope, Reid and Pelosi both refused to attend briefings given last year by Gen. Petraeus.  Oh, and what was that?…..  Senator Hillary Clinton said late last year that in order to believe Petraeus’ statements that the situation was improving, it would require a “willing suspension of disbelief.”  

I guess we will just have to trust the Iraqi people and the US military on the ground to tell us the truth, since our Congressional leadership isn’t at all serious about winning the Global War on Terror.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

In my mind, Senator Obama needs to address five key questions, and not dance around them, in order to PROVE he doesn’t at all agree with the radical anti-American positions of Rev. Wright:

1 - How do you feel America is different than al-Qaeda?

2 - Do you believe the US Government created the HIV virus to kill people of color?

3 - Do you believe the 9/11 attacks were at all related to past American foreign policy?

4 - Why did you consider Rev. Wright a spiritual leader and mentor in the past, but not now?

5 - What topics did Rev. Wright preach about on those days you were in the pews?

My bonus sixth question is this:  Senator Obama, can you name the times in your life that you were proud of America? 

Hopefully he will either answer these in his speech today… or someone in the Obama-lovestruck media will have the balls to ask them.

Magic 8-Ball Says: “Highly doubtful prospects for either scenario.”

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

If you haven’t heard the Rev. Wright’s own words, you should.

We have always heard that Republican Presidential candidates have to be held to account for their associations with religious figures like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson. Should not Barack Obama have to be held to the same standard in his direct relationship with an anti-American, anti-white and not-very-Christian-like minister whom he considered a mentor?

Victor Davis Hanson has these thoughts at The Corner:

One of the strangest defenses of Rev. Wright by Sen. Obama was his repeated assurance that Wright is a biblical “scholar.”

But Wright’s own sermons surely belie that characterization: he uses the “n-word,” resorts to profanity, and when screaming that Clinton was “ridin’ dirty” with Monica, he seems from the tape at least, to be shaking and trying to simulate sexual intercourse from the pulpit.

Justice Thomas seems to be referred to as “Clarence Colon” and Sec. Rice is “Condamnesia.” All this is crude and uncouth, and not even the eloquent Obama could finesse it into anything scholarly. This entire defense is simply Orwellian—especially since Obama’s past references to and praise of Wright in interviews and memoirs, as well as 20-years of church attendance and intimacy, suggest admiration and clear knowledge of the character of Wright.

If anything, Wright seems to have trumped even the hatred of Farrakhan.

The raw venom expressed by Wright, and Obama’s ambiguity about him, may well be the most bizarre development in recent American political history. It is as if he and his entire campaign staff have collectively lost their minds with these serial contortions and half-truths, and are trying to lose Pennsylvania by 30 points—when all Obama would have to do is apologize, quit the church, and begin talking about the issues (albeit holding off for a while from the old sermons about transcending race, and practicing a new candor and political honesty.)

Any middle-of-the-road Democratic voter who sampled five or six of Wright’s sermons, juxtaposed them with Obama’s references to him as not particularly controversial, an uncle, a scholar, etc., wouldn’t vote for Obama in a million years.

Obama’s reluctance to divorce himself from this hateful view of America makes we wonder if his lofty visions of “hope” and “change” are just words. Or is he simply a better-packaged version of the strain of anti-American leftist hate that is the heart and soul of the Democratic Party?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Man, this video is completely and utterly priceless.

This is one of the best parts of the blogosphere:  our elected officials on high have to answer to the people and their answers are there for all the world to see.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

While reading Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, I thought yet again about the question which serves as the title to this post.

The question first occurred to me last June when I read Maggie Gallagher’s column on Al Gore’s religious obsession with global warming. There, she wrote that, among other things Al Gore’s obsession “transforms the United States, as the world’s most successful economy, into the chief evildoer in the world.”

Transforming the US into the world’s “chief evildoer” at a time when Islamofascism threatens our very civilization. Many on the left seems to dismiss that threat in order to make global warming as the most pressing issue facing the world.

Then, as now, I wondered if Gore (and others on the left) found it easier to blame our own nation rather than see evils in the world as something not engendered by the West or capitalism, but instead by ideologies at odds with our civilization and values.

The very nature of the global warming hysteria does seem a piece with the longstanding liberal criticism of Western society while the Islamofascist threat proves false the notion that the West in general and America in particular is responsible for all the world’s ill.

Perhaps, I’ll flesh this out in a future post, but for now, will put the idea out there and invite y’all to weigh in with your own thoughts.

Dateline…. Afghanistan, 2008:

Helicopters carrying three senior U.S. senators made emergency landings Thursday in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.

Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard the aircraft. No one was injured, according a statement from Kerry’s office. The senators and their delegation returned to Bagram Air Base in a motor convoy, and have left for Turkey.

“After several hours, the senators were evacuated by American troops and returned overland to Bagram Air Base, and left for their next scheduled stop in Ankara, Turkey,” the Kerry statement said. “Sen. Kerry thanks the American troops, who were terrific as always and who continue to do an incredible job in Afghanistan.”

There’s no immediate word from Kerry if he plans to ask Defense Secretary Gates for another Purple Heart for himself.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

I just added this book to my “in the mail” list.�

I’ve been eyeing it for a few weeks anyway, but now it has hit the #1 spot on Amazon.com.

Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s Fascism.

Contrary