District of Calamity

Sideshow Bob Terwilliger (from the Simpsons) on Politics

Obama Rally Cry

As Mr. Obama presses FORWARD in his 2012 re-election campaign, his rallying cry is more “nuanced”. It certainly is not as satisfying as the originaly hopey changey rebel yell. Maybe this explains why the Obama 2012 campaign rallies have had so many empty seats, as they imitate Spinal Tap and have a more selective audience.

Perhaps they will do better with the DNC in Charlotte in Bank of America Stadium which the Obamatons are redubbing “Panther’s Field” to avoid associations with the 1% crowd.

h/t: Kevin Kallaugher, the Economist

Ronald Reagan on Politics

The Truth Squad on Joe Biden

It used to be an honored American tradition that Presidential candidates ceded the lime-lights during the week of his opponent’s political convention, spending only a truth squad of tier b surrogates to counter charges in the news. Like so many other things, the Obama 2012 campaign has broken this civil tradition by tapping our national treasure Vice President Joe Biden to campaign in Tampa and vicinity at the start of the Republican National Convention.

Granted, Hurricane Isaac caused Mr. Biden to put off his appearance in Tampa to counter the RNC. The Vice President’s office should be commended for not taxing law enforcement which was already taxed by the protecting the Republican National Convention from the gathered anarchists, but also needed to assist the public in a potential natural disaster. Still, the Vice President expects to be in nearby Orlando tomorrow. So it seems only fitting as Biden is leading the Truth Squad for the Obama 2012 campaign that the truth be told about Joe Biden.

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Budgeting Difference in Campaigns

h/t: Michael Ramirez

There Are No Illegal Persons (Except the Unborn)

This disparity calls into question the morality of the inchoate new state religion of Secular Humanism.

h/t: Glenn Foden

Capitol Hill Summer Summary

Thanks to Dirty Harry and the idolent Democrat Senate, public graders should budget (sic) them a goose-egg and expel them in November.

h/t: Michael Ramirez

The Grift Generation?

Perhaps it’s just a Fluke (sic). h/t: The Peoples Cube

Political Uneven Bars

Shouldn’t it be the High Jump rather than uneven bars?

The Roots of Rights

The question is who has a stronger Constitution on the campaign trail.

Notable Quotables—the Obama Era edition

h/t: GaryVarvel

Campfire of the Vanities

Stories told by the One so vain.

Campfire stories rely upon dark unfamiliar environs, emotional appeals from trusted leaders and gullible youths. Let’s hope that American voters have grown up by November 6th 2012.

h/t: Robert Arial

Obama 2012 Deficit Campaign Spending

Conventional wisdom is that a politician must govern different than he campaigns. Despite his record number of fundraisers, the Obama 2012 campaign managed to spend more than they took in during June. Much to their chagrin,the alluvia of early ads in battleground states did not stimulate support for the incumbent. This Obama re-election campaign might change the paradigm. Unfortunately for Obama 2012 campaign contractors, the Federal government can print money (or engage in another round of quantitative easing) to cover their spending indulgences but political campaigns do not have that magic ability. They had better believe in Obama’s new slogan “We are all in this together”, because in the end that may be all the payoff that they get. h/t: Bob Gorrell

Shackled Capitalism

Someone had no business for sharing such intellectual capital on the campaign trail.

These comments from the campaign trail in Roanoke, Virginia might explain why his opponent, Mitt Romney, is using this apparel as a marketing and fundraising promotion.

h/t: A.F. Branco

Campaign Show and Tell

Or would it be preferable to play “Truth or Dare”?

h/t: Bob Gorell