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Why Send 30 Lawyers To Alaska?

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Sunday, September 14, 2008 2:50:37 PM
September 14, 2008
 
Sarah Palin, perhaps the most talked about and admired candidate in recent times and a decent ad experienced political pro is now being investigated by 30 attorneys and press to Alaska to vet her out some more. This is like using a cannon to go target practicing. If they find anything it will be some innocuous he said she said matter that nobody cares about. She has already been over scrutinized, much more than Mr. Obama has. Incidentally, this jouney sets a precedent for sending 30 lawyers to Chicago, especially some real estate lawyers who can investigate the quirky real estate matter that the person of interest gets to dismiss unilaterally. What's fair is fair. And ultimately, some political faction is going to get an astronomical lawyer's fee for this circuitous and quixotic Palin fox hunt. Do the contributors end up
stuck in the long run. Now, it is barristers convene and it is off to Chicago.
 
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Now They Are Blaming Sarah Palin For Retaining Counsel

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:50:01 PM
September 2, 2008
 
As long as it is not a criminal case where she is convicted for let's say bucking the establishment, why cannot Sarah hire a Lawyer. Her daughter will be on her way to marrying soon so that ridiculous argument is silenced. Couple of political nuggets she has, that's everybody in Washington- the Big Cookie Jar, why single out Sarah, we are never going to get anybody who is squeaky clean. Are you? All her naysayers are men who  go to their own political conventions and at night really appreciate woman for what they see as the major role that woman have to play in order to be acceptable. Sarah Palin's critics are shooting fish in a barrel or trying to pick a pig in a polk. They have absolutely nothing of importance to stop her from greatness as they continue their futile and merry go round efforts.
 
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You Could Be Knee Deep In Quicksand

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:08:26 PM
August 31, 2008
 
Sarah Palin, our esteemed Republican Vice Presidential candidate was rudely and frivolously insulted minutes before she even took the podium. Politicians, media and internet journalists take heed. Your political aspirations are not going to be furthered by treating Sarah Palin in any manner other than on the merits and with fairness. I am old enough to remember the Gloria Steinem speeches, NOW, Burn the Bra to wit the Woman's Movement. With the advent of contraception, everybody is on the same playing field and  it is not permissable for men to raise  a bar especially for woman in these matters. In the 21 century, woman can strive for CEO or even Vice President. Gone are the days of compelled innocence and demure silence and having to defer to a man all the time. I watched Democrat and Republican woman personalities on the media getting all riled up when inane and unprovable and hateful rumors were hurled at this outstanding candidate. Sarah Palin ran Alaska as a Governor while Barack Obama left the Senate to campaign for President. Men have to realize that woman in our country of all races and origins are scrutinizing the remarks that Ms, Palin is catching. If you happen to be an official I think you should be civil because if this strategy on the part of her adversaries to defame her as a a Lucy Ricardo candidate escalates we are going to see a nation of a scorned sisterhood who understand very well what is going down. More and more people are going to remember how she was treated by going to the polls on November 4 and expressing their wishes to bring in the McCain ticket big time. What is Mr. Edwards doning now? He really did not get the coal racking because after all he is in the big cigar men's club while women across the country
continue to answer the phones.
 
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John Mccain And Sarah Palin Are Untouchable

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Friday, August 29, 2008 11:00:16 AM
August 29, 2008
 
When I saw Sarah Palin get the nod while watching Fox, my sigh of relief could be heard the world over. She is a Wonder Woman for female voters of every stripe everywhere. She cannot be challenged by the Obama ticket because they will be afraid of bullying her because she is a woman and alienating woman everywhere. Now if women want to break through the glass ceiling they will be encumbered to vote the McCain ticket, a woman may be President. Palin is not a typical cookie maker, she is no Washington DC insider and a tough, physically fit woman who has an outdoorsy, woodcutter-like husband and family. This will nullify Obama, Biden, Nancy Pelosi, the Far Left, and Oprah who now has an untenable dance to make between women's rights and Obama being President.They all are effectively muzzled by an Iron Horse. There are more woman voters in America than men and most feel disenfranchised. Also while Michelle is trotting down Rodeo Drive pricing coach bags, Sarah Palin is fishing for salmon in the wilderness and being real and very appetizing to the voters in Election 2008.
 
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Treat Her Like A Lady

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:54:29 PM
August 23, 2008
 
Joe Biden is a good guy but that does not mean that Obama and his campaign should have failed to consider a Hillary play and treated her more respectfully. This in the face of what I think would have been a craftily offered refusal by Mrs. Clinton. Why does she need to be a Veep for a potential Obama Presidency which is speculative at best? First off they do not get along. Next, she looks better on her own in 2012 in light of McCain's promise not to run again or Obama flubbing. Back to Joe Biden. He has to work on his appearance, he looked like a Scranton short sleeved plant manager with a bad hair day. His hair was flying and he kept smoothing it over and his shirt was wrinkled and not tucked in down below. When I started my first sales job in 1973, they taught us to always have an immaculate appearance when meeting our customers. Believe me, in any vocation, appearance does matter and when he gave that speech, he was not neat and well groomed. The sight of Obama sitting just to the left of Biden looking just like The Thinker created the appearance of an Odd Couple, and that is what they must avoid. I know that being a strong Republican supporter I have done my share of Obama criticism. That is not to say that an Obama-Biden ticket cannot win in November. There is not a true military connection on the Obama side, Biden's background reflects Obama's own obsession with talking without carrying a big stick, Nevertheless, we cannot discount the anger in the electorate and when they are angry, they change, sometimes based on skewed evaluation. One thing though, Obama has consistently boasted about voting against the war (Biden the opposite) and always has maintained he was right. I think it is going to turn out that he was wrong and like all Americans unable to credit himself while being subject to  proper and necessary omission of classified information. Finally, Obama should have played that old song by Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose- Treat Her Like a Lady before he apparently offended Hilliary Clinton, my own Senator. I'm hearing very unacceptable accounts on Fox that Michelle Obama is thought to be behind the Hilliary dis  although so far there is no probative evidence of this. All I can say if my wife of 27 years was  First Lady, she would be running the world for sure.
 
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Gary Hart vs Barack Obama

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:31:48 AM
August 19, 2008
 
Are any of you old enough to remember Gary Hart, whose Presidential candidacy ended based on the media attributing, I think one solitary issue to him. I remember the classic photo of Donna Rice sitting on his lap on a boat. I am not sure why that's so terrible when we compare Mr. Hart to today's politicians and their attending issues. Will someone with a good sense of detail list Barack Obama's issues starting with Chicago and compare his treatment by all the players to Gary Hart who was actually dismissed for being involved with basically nothing. Incidentally. Mr. Hart, a Colorado prominent attorney has been a great asset to America since the tragic and reprehensible event which was allowing a beautiful woman to sit on his lap, an innocuous activity that happens anywhere where adults party or have a few beers at a barbecue. Frankly I would be worried about him if he had thrown her off. I simply request that someone take an Excel program and list the troubling issues of one candidate and then punch in the one issue of the other as comparison. I think American values have changed a lot to the downside since the Hart-Rice photograph hit the dailies.
 
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"Not Fit For Publication"

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Friday, August 15, 2008 10:28:20 PM
August 15, 2008
 
Mr. Corsi, author of the new bestseller that is vexing the Obama's campaign and possibly Obama himself in the same manner that Kerry was affected in  his candidacy.I have to tell you that I do not have a dog in this fight even when considering that my blogs clearly indicate my unadulterated support for John McCain. Although the author appears to have a Type A Personality and is extremely actionable and driven towards providing a host of interesting facts about  Obama, I have some serious observations about Obama's campaign's response to the media. There was a response that I saw in a Fox clip indicating that the book was "not fit for publication". What does that mean? Is
Obama and/or his people indicating some sort of censorship just because of an emotional objection to a book that is a #1 New York Times bestseller? What about authors that self publish which ordinarily absent of violating any federal laws will always be published and fit because you cannot stop a an author from publishing at his own expense. So the result is the denial of First Amendment Freedom of the Press and Obama saying virtually the same thing when Michelle stumped for him and he demanded that media and reporters stop typing. As long as Mr. Corsi did not violate Federal laws regarding certain varieties of treasonous or discriminatory text in his book, why is the book unfit to publish, after all it made #1 meaning that there are a lot of interested readers. Does this mean if he makes it I will have to eat, read, and drive what he wants me to? Also, he must know as a Harvard lawyer that he is free to file a libel suit however he also knows from his law training that Truth is the best defense against a civil litigation suit brought before a court as an individual being libeled.
 
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Bye Bye Ms. American Pie

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:01:58 PM

August 9, 2009

A long long time ago.............................. Don McLean's seminal anthem rock song mostly formatted about that unforgettable day on a wintry North Dakota plain when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens perished when their silver plane crashed on the way to the next North Country gig instantly popped into my head yesterday when Breaking News came on. By the way, that was the "Day The Music Died". And that is exactly why that song connected with me instantly (I am a music critic as well), because this thing with John Edwards will result, for the next several years in furthering the same thing for the Democrats. We now have seen Bill Clinton, John Edwards and two governors from New York involved in the very things that the Bible Belt and the religious right and voters of significant faith are going to pull out that big brush and start to paint. Imagine the subliminal advertising that will be created when Bill gets up to speak at the convention. If I were not a journeymen freelance writer and hypothetically a major reporter I would ask at the next network interview with  Obama if he knew anything about John Edwards alleged activities when he merrily tramped off to North Carolina as he sought Edwards' endorsement. While we are at it, did Obama know anything about this reported caper at any time. It is conceivable that John Edwards could have made it to Vice President or President. That is why it is imperative that the television media, newspapers and Townhall participants step up the questioning of both Presidential candidates and fill in the blanks especially concerning the many omitted subjects on Obama that were unethically separated thus ar from the information disseminated to voters. Why is Obama goldbricking in Honolulu when we have another, most treacherous war beginning, the housing crisis worsening and our problems as a nation becoming threatening and overbearing to our concerned and worried electorate? Would you not think that as a Presidential hopeful our government might want to brief him away from a sailboat ? Perhaps his Congressional committee might need him, having already vociferously complained about his in and out behavior. We cannot go to Honolulu or Sparta or even the Jersey Shore, because unlike Mr. Obama, we cannot afford to do this and would not leave our jobs if we were somewhat indispensable and requested by our boss to keep working. And now there is Edwards, the proverbial fly in the ointment and like my referenced classic rock song becoming the probable cause of a political party spinning off to a long hiatus when the can of worms opens.
 
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Huckabee Is The Better Choice

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:24:24 PM
August 7, 2008
 
Light years ago at the beginning of one of the most implicating eras in our history, young John Kennedy , a presidential candidate was coupled with a man as his running mate who was the antithesis of what he himself was about. That arm twisting, pork barrel Democrat Conservative was Lyndon Baines Johnson and the odd maneuver was termed the Southern Strategy. Obviously, the thinking at the time was that Johnson could rope in the entire South, a region always known for similar values and loyal to a lance man. In 2008, and especially considering the enormous influence of the religious Conservative vote, Huckabee could conceivably accomplish the same thing. I find Huckabee to be a fabulous and charismatic speaker, poised and educated and very deftly capable of speaking off the teleprompter. He is folksy and lovable and has that "let's go for a beer image". Blue collar voters like him. There is the same notion concerning Romney that envelopes either of the top of the ticket candidates that they can fix the economy. As I have noted many times with respect to the others, Romney is a big businessman who ran a retail chain. He is not an economist or a CPA nor worked on a Federal level in a related agency. I really like Mr. Romney, visually he  is without a doubt the most attractive looking candidate I have ever seen. The Mormon issue is something that I will never in my life agree with, ascribe to or validate. American politics can be quirky, unforgiving and in the case of discrimination against Romney because of these preconceived notions are indeed very nasty and patently unfair to  him. Unfortunately, however distasteful, you have to take it as it comes in political analysis and commentary and I have to say the Republican ticket will lose to an outrageous and unqualified candidate if they go with Romney. The Moody Blues nailed it when they penned the tune "Isn't life strange?"
 
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Chris Mathews Expresses His Love/Obama

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:32:32 PM
July 22, 2008
 
I was one of what appears to be a significant number of Jay Leno viewers who witnessed Chris Mathews demonstrating an unusual amount of affection directed at his beloved superman candidate, Barack Obama. I had never watched Mr. Mathews on television, prior to that appearance of his on Leno- I prefer Sean Hannity. Not being familiar with Mr. Mathews, of course it is apparent to me that he is connected to a network in  a news oriented capacity. Performing in a panel scenario or as a commentator produces different responsibility in presentation as compared to an anchorman or woman. I have a feeling that Mr. Mathews works in an area of network news where he can be extremely biased toward a politician as he was toward Obama on the Tonight Show. He probably can carry on an ultimate endorsement for Obama without creating an equal time issue whereas I, myself having apeared on the Networks, could counter his ideas on a media format as a McCain supporter. On a different note and again, not being familiar with Mr. Mathews, I noticed upon seeing him with Leno, an initial impression of him which included his obvious speech affectations and mannerisms and kind of a peripatetic way of shifting around. Adding it up, I believe he spoke way too fondly of Obama and he endorsed him in much too  forcefully and overly demonstrative manner for anyone employed in Network TV. I couldn't care less where he works in network news, he should not be strong arming voters in July, virtually ordering them to vote for Obama. Mr. McCain has already been insulted by the New York Times who returned his article and told him to rewrite it like a sixth grader being berated by his teacher. Obama is overseas conducting a dog and pony show as we speak, some of it on taxpayers money that is nothing more than another round of rhetoric laced with a plan to time the war. That is what a lot of unknowing voters want to hear and if Mathews man makes it, believe me Obama isn't going to give a hoot what promises he made about ending the war because he will be in. I do not think Chris Mathews impressed anyone other than projecting himself acting out the role of just another latte sipper smitten with the South Side of Chicago politician.
 
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Jesse May Have Had A Motive

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:26:18 PM

July 17, 2008

I must admit that it seems preposterous for Jesse Jackson to use language that exemplifies the antithesis of what he has always stood for as the revered civil rights pioneer that he is. I see the remarks as damaging to the Obama campaign more than having repercussions to Mr.Jackson's standing in the Black community. Black leaders and candidates bickering with each other and emulating the 1970's sitcoms like What's Happening, Good Times and Sanford and Son which preceded the droll and uninteresting Cosby the wealthy and educated Black shows is exactly what will fuel the "I told you sos" that are certainly reverberating within the 77% of the electorate who every day are moving away from Barack Obama for  a myriad of reasons. I am old enough to remember the young Jesse Jackson during the Selma and Birmingham days where he began his career working with with such notable and dignified civil rights legendaries such as James Farmer and of course the revered late leader of the entire movement, Dr. Martin Luther King. Here is what puzzles me. Jesse Jackson even in those days seemed to be the equivalent of an intelligence officer, exhibiting analytical skills in moving around the Deep South and accomplishing his goals amidst unimaginable violence and danger. Jesse is far from stupid. In my view, there is always some possibility tied to some matters he may have objected to in the Obama strategy or quest to be elected President that may have caused him to exercise his manipulative skills as a great organizer and brilliant operative in the civil rights movement and say what he knew would be disruptive to Obama and the perception of the voters of the campaign as being combative, cynical and denigrating from within. Like I have said, Jesse Jackson is not stupid, he is purposeful. I think there is something going on here that from what all of us have already witnessed during the primaries and some of it in years past, I for one am not at all surprised at what may be some sort of coup in the offing.

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The New Yorker Cartoon

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Monday, July 14, 2008 9:59:46 PM
July 14, 2008
 
There is nothing wrong with Barack Obama, his staff and the average Joe indicating anger and being offended by the New Yorker cartoon which depicted the Obamas in a drawing based on the imagination of the cartoonist. As a journalist myself, I just want to remind everyone who properly voiced their indignation for any reason or motive focused toward their perceived meaning about what was essentially a politically or satirically designed cartoon in an old, cherished and venerable publication, The New Yorker something vital that separates America from our enemies. The cartoonist is constitutionally fortified by Freedom of the Press and I am urging opposing views to remember that. James Thurber once wrote for the New Yorker and among other activities and known as a "tongue in cheek" satirist, he was a foremost political cartoonist. It is important for authors in 2008, just as it was for Thurber and Capote back then in their New Yorker office to have the freedom of the pen that has always created excellence in American literary genres.
 
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A Chicken Without a Head

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:21:05 PM
July 5, 2008
 
I remember this expression from the 1950's indicating an erratic person acting illogically- "He is running around like a chicken without a head". This expression refers to the fact that when the butcher in the old days chopped off a chicken's head, the bird would run amuck for a minute or two. What's with Barack Obama now ? On a daily basis he is flip flopping, changing issues and even exhibiting some semblance of duplicity (public financing). I knew that we were in trouble when his Internet groupie showed up serving him as the rock star candidate. Forget about the economy and the Presidency, he is not by any stretch of the imagination an economist or a CPA. We have ad visors for that. Now we are seeing a change in Obama's war strategy. Believe me, he won't decide our destiny there either, we have the military and intelligence establishment for that-they know what they are doing. I am having a lot of trouble figuring that Obama can win when adding the myriad statements and events during the primaries that were either hurtful or implicating  to the present theatre of the absurd revisited stuff. It is almost as if his base isn't paying attention to the repercusions of an Obama Presidency during what is certainly perilous global and economic factors to befall on the United States in future months. I do not think he can begin  to handle any of this.
 
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57 States?

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Friday, May 16, 2008 9:57:04 PM
May 16, 2006
 
When Barack Obama added 7 states to our union  which refers to the  idea of his having commited a bizarre and unbecoming error created by a Presidential candidate I wondered about something interesting. Where did the Harvard educated Mr. Obama come up with the number 57 in the first place? I know about Heinz 57 variety which refers to my two mutts having hybrid vigor and in a completely separate reference, to Kerry's wife's company. The most celebrated and fashionable business addresses in New York are on 57th Street. Otherwise I cannot think of any other reason why the number 57 stuck in his mind. There is a game show on TV where adults compete against children to see who has the better answers and is mediated by that "okay to be a redneck" comedian. I think that now that we have seen yet another  unknown and unexplored  feature of Barack Obama, he would be a natural  as a contestant on that television show. Maybe they might ask the adults and their children adversaries how many seats there are in the Senate.
 
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Kooky, Kooky Lend Me Your Comb

Posted by commonsenseunlimited on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:43:23 PM
April 29, 2008
 
That was a song long ago related to an old television show entitled 77 Sunset Strip. Subliminally it somehow brings Election 2008 on the Democratic side with the accent on Barack Obama's failing campaign into a distorted and illogical focus. This primary, it's only the end of April, reminds me of the theatre of the absurd which as a literary format brought up a certain questioning of a typecast failed mission. Do you realize that the American voters are witnessing two individuals, in a pugilistic manner, insulting each other in an endless and trivial banter that has accomplished the abject failure of what appeared to be a promising and intellectually gifted candidate. Mr. Obama has spent much of his valuable time before the public apoligizing for what he has said to offend Americans or fighting and fussing with a book or movie deal hustler and in the mean time we, the voters would be happier being informed concerning matters such as the Recession, gas prices, a dwindling job market, the housing crisis, the credit crunch, nuclear proliferation and the health care system. These two should go off and join a debate team while Howard Dean, Gore, Kerry, Pelosi et al should find a way to bring in Hillary, who is no angel but has reality. All this time I thought Abbot and Costello were passe.
 
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