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Barack Obama Watch: So Much for the “Post Racial” Candidate
Michael Ramirez on Barack Obama
Mark Steyn is spot on with this piece from the Orange County Register today.
Read it all…….
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The Hypocrisy of Elliot Spitzer
Michael Ramirez parodies Elliot Spitzer in backing away from his support for driver’s licenses for illegal aliens
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer is in big trouble and it wasn’t the SEX but money transfers that tipped off the feds.
Spitzer was leading a double life and he should resign immediately. His reckless, self-involved behavior is inexcusable and his public career is over. In fact, Spitzer may face legal jeopardy.
As recently as this past Valentine’s Day, Feb. 13, Spitzer, who officials say is identified in a federal complaint as “Client 9,” arranged for a prostitute “Kristen” to meet him in Washington, D.C.
The woman met Client 9 at the Mayflower Hotel, room 871, “for her tryst,” according to the complaint. Client 9 also is alleged to have paid for the woman’s train tickets, cab fare, mini bar and room service, travel time and hotel.
Spitzer, who made his name by bringing high-profile cases against many of New York’s financial giants, is likely to be prosecuted under a relatively obscure statute called “structuring,” according to a Justice Department official.
Structuring involves creating a series of financial movements designed to obscure the true purpose of the payments.
Prosecutors reportedly have a series of e-mails and wiretapped phone conversations of Spitzer.
In a interview two years ago, Spitzer, then-attorney general, told ABC News he had some advice for people who break the law. “Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it’s death. You’re giving prosecutors all the evidence we need,” he said.
Spitzer’s career began with fighting organized crime and then prosecuting white collar criminals. This entire mess REEKS of HYPOCRISY. And, having his wife stand up there with him at the news conference – Good God!
Flap doubts Spitzer will remain in office past noon tomorrow.
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New York Governor Elliot Spitzer to Resign Tonight Due to Prostitution Scandal?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Slip Sliding Away NOW in Ohio
Hillary Clinton has already lost Texas but NOW is fading in the polls in Ohio. Husband Bill has already said whoever wins Texas and Ohio WILL BE the Democrat nominee.
Hillary is a sinking ship.
What other Clinton rats will jump ship?
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Neil Young – “Music Cannot Change the World”
Not Neil Young’s left-wing anti-war crap anyway.
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Where is the Beef With Obama?
Cartoon by Michael RamirezÂ
When the rhetoric meets the road, Barack Obama comes up short. And, one is to ask: Where is the Beef?
Barack is an appealing, yet vigorous speaker with a fresh face but is inexperienced. Will Democrat voters be swayed by the hype and turn away from the more tried and true lib, Hillary Clinton?
John McCain, the presumed GOP nominee will have any easier time against the Clinton Cabal than Obama because of her negatives and her husband Bill’s baggage.
But, Flap does not foresee ANY Democrat candidate LOSING the presidency this Fall.
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Agents of Change?
Cartoon by Michael Ramirez
Obama, Clinton and Edwards are tax and spend liberals. What kind of change is that from the age old and tired Democrat Party line?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: The Obama Campaign of Personal Destruction
But, I apologized!
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Michael Ramirez on Evangelical Christian Vs. Mormon in the GOP
The Mike Huckabee (Southern Baptist Minister) vs. Mitt Romney (Mormon) fight is threatening to tear the GOP apart.
And by Huckabee’s own logic, since he is not running for head of a theological college, what is he doing proclaiming himself a “Christian leader” in an ad promoting himself for president? Answer: Having the issue every which way. Seeming to take the high road of tolerance by refusing to declare Mormonism a cult, indeed declaring himself above the issue — yet clearly playing to that prejudice by leaving the question ambiguous, while making sure everyone knows that he, for one, is a “Christian leader.
Should Mike Huckabee prevail by using his Evangelical Christian beliefs to win enough GOP delegates to either WIN or BROKER the September 2008 National Convention, the GOP may implode.
Certainly the Mormons will abandon the GOP as well as Catholic, Jewish and secular GOP voters.
The GOP invited the Evangelicals to the dance and they have one of their own in Mike Huckabee as a Presidential contender.
But, this invitation and “PLAYING THE RELIGION CARD” may be the path to an overwhelming Democrat victory and the demise of the GOP as a national party.
Stay tuned……
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Michael Ramirez on the Las Vegas Democrat Presidential Debate
Last night’s CNN Democrat Presidential debate was good for the first ten minutes or so when John Edwards and Barack Obama questioned Hillary Clinton’s record. Although the media reports there was no clearcut winner, Hillary Clinton certainly benefited.
But, did she reverse her slide in the polls?
Probably. But she was up, by what 20 plus points anyway.
Barack Obama the past two weeks since the Philadelphia – Tim Russert dust-up debate was delivered an opening. He could not or did not walk through last night.
Hillary will now move forward toward the nomination unchallenged and untested in a “REAL” debate.
The winner last night: The GOP candidate for President
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary Now Says NO to Illegal Alien Driver’s Licenses
Hillary Clinton Watch: Slip – Sliding Away
New York Congressional Democrats Fear Governor’s Illegal Alien Driver’s Licenses Proposal
Rudy Giuliani – NO Illegal Alien Driver’s Licenses
Hillary Clinton Watch: ‘I Broadly Support What Governors Like Elliot Spitzer Are Trying To Do’
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Michael Ramirez on Hillary Clinton and Political Triangulation
The term was first used by President of the United States Bill Clinton’s chief political advisor Dick Morris as a way to describe his strategy for getting Clinton reelected in the 1996 presidential election. Morris advocated a set of policies that were different from the traditional policies of the Democratic Party. The idea Clinton used behind some of these policies was to be “more Republican than the Republicans.” These policies included welfare reform, tax cuts for the middle class and balanced budgets. One of the most widely cited capstones of Clinton’s triangulation strategy was when, in his 1996 State of the Union Address, Clinton declared that the “Era of Big Government is over.”
Didn’t work with driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, now did it?
In a memo from the Obama campaign, spokesman Bill Burton said Clinton “offered more of the same Washington political calculation and evasion that won’t bring the change America needs.â€
“The ‘politics of hope’ doesn’t mean hoping you don’t have to answer tough questions,†Burton wrote.
Burton wrote that Clinton dodged questions on Social Security, Iran and the National Archives issue. And on one of the more talked-about moments from the end of the debate, Clinton’s position on a move by New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) to grant driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, Burton said, “Twelve hours after the debate ended, the American people are still waiting for an answer on Sen. Clinton’s position … She didn’t answer the question in the debate and her campaign couldn’t answer it afterwards.â€
Is this an opening for Obama and Edwards? Perhaps.
But, most definitely an opening for Rudy Giuliani and the GOP.
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Fred Thompson : “I never thought I’d see Hillary Clinton get pinned down and have to answer a controversial question,” Thompson said to laughter and applause. “She finally came around and said that in fact it was a good idea to give illegals driver’s licenses. If you can imagine that…We might as well, uh, give driver’s licenses, which along with a motor voter law that we have now that says when you register to vote you get an opportunity to uh, I mean when you get your driver’s license you get an opportunity to register to vote. So, you know what that’s going to lead to.
“But I must say, she scrambled around during the debate and then she came out with a statement the next day, and it took her 12 hours to get the wrong answer for America this time. She usually doesn’t take that long to come up with the wrong answer for America, so maybe things are improving a little bit.”
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Hits Hillary on Drivers Licenses for Illegal Aliens
Hillary Clinton Now Supports Drivers Licenses for Illegal Aliens
Hillary Clinton Flip Flops on Drivers Licenses for Illegal Aliens
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