Archive for November 25th, 2009
4,500 posts and counting
One of us here just noticed we crossed another milestone for us around here: 4,500 posts.
It’s been a wild ride since we started this site on February 17th, 2008 in the middle of Hillary Clinton’s primary battle. We began as a convenient way to share articles amongst Chicago HRC supporters, so we didn’t have to communicate via email to hundreds of people anymore.
We never intended for this site to even exist, let alone evolve into whatever it is now.
We pledge to keep working hard, putting out as much original content each day, and hopefully teaching others the lessons we learned in the 2008 campaign, so that what was done to Hillary Clinton, our champ, can never be done to another woman running for president again.
And, truth be told, we’re secretly, or not so secretly, doing everything we can to help HRC get another shot at that nomination too. We are most definitely not alone in that.
Thanks for sticking around for the ride…we are most grateful for your continued support and look forward to putting out 4,500 more posts for you too!
Jealous of the baby Jesus, current president demands "Obamamas Special" for holidays
Jealous of all the attention some nobody named “Jesus” (“Isn’t that the gardener’s name, Michelle?”) is getting as December draws near, our illustrious (and modest) current president has demanded a primetime special to entertain and amuse himself, so he can watch himself on TV some more (“Because I just love being on TV, even more than I love carrying around magazines with my picture on the front of them, or using toilet paper that has my big, grinning idiot face on it. I need to be everywhere, at all times, or in my soul I am nowhere.”).
The “Obamamas Special” is intended to give his devote followers a chance to celebrate, in their view, the “real reason for the season: Obama”.
Oprah, the Charybdis of Lake Michigan, will be producing the special, while eating various parts of ungulates throughout. When reached for comment, The Beast Who Must Be Fed said, “Nom, nom, nom…(indecipherable mastication sounds)…nom, nom, nom (swallow)…He’s “The One”…we must all praise Him…screw the baby Jesus.”
“Obamamas” will be celebrated on December 13th every year from now on. On this day, undeserving black people will be given historic and monumental gifts, such as Nobel Prizes, without lifting a finger or doing a damn thing to earn them.
“I wish every day was Obamamas,” Al Sharpton commented.
“Yah, what he said, brother,” Jesse Jackson concurred.
“RAAAACISM! RAAAACISM! RAAAACISM! WAAAAAH!,” screeched Henry Gates, rolling on the floor, fudging his diapers.
“Yo, someone better change Gates’ diapety-diddity-yo,” Snoop Dogg noted.
Oprah’s very special close friend, Gayle Kind, stopped leaving the lavish, no-expenses-spared-in-this-time-of-hardship-and-recession state dinner, had this to say: “Well, Christmas is so last century. This is the age of Hope and Change. Anyone who doesn’t support and celebrate Obamamas is a damn dirty RAAACIST. Even though we’re wealthier than either of us deserves to be, Oprah and I need presents on Obamamas too. Gimme, gimme, gimme.”
Upon declaring Obamamas, the Norwegians immediately created a new Nobel Prize, for Audacity, and instantly awarded it to the current president.
From this year forward, every year on December 13th the current president will receive another Nobel Prize for Audacity, as the Norwegians anticipate he has the potential to be more audacious each year than the year before, in perpetuity.
“We anticipate he will be most audacious in the year 2172, after that, even a demigod such as Obama will segue into retirement of some sort, and possibly will at that point become a constellation. At that point, we will start awarding the prize to various things he touched in his lifetime. His comb. His toothbrush. His slippers. His toilet. The more intimate the item, the more audacious it is by proximity to “The One”, and thus the greater relic to revere each Obamamas”.
School children nationwide, already practicing songs honoring and pledging eternal devotion to the current president, have been ordered to step up their efforts, with just three weeks or so to prep for the inaugural Obamamas festivities.
Oprah has pledged to do her part in getting those children in shape: “I’m telling them that if anyone doesn’t sing very well, they’re going to be sent to that school I set up in Africa where people are beaten and raped and I pretend I have no idea what’s going on. Heh, heh, heh. And the ones who are really pitchy get to live inside my belly. THAT’S what happened to Stedman. Or, should I say, DEADman. Heh, heh, heh”.
Happy Obamamas to The One and all!
It is not too late to reach out to people you know and make sure everyone has somewhere to go tomorrow for Thanksgiving
We don’t know if you think to do this on your own, but thousands of people stop by and read this site every day so we thought we’d invite you to do something all of us do — and were taught to do by our families — for the holidays.
Can you please check in with your friends, relatives, co-workers, and neighbors today and make sure everyone has someplace to be for Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow?
If you live in an apartment building that’s not ginormous, knock on at least your floor’s doors and make sure the people you may or may not have ever met have somewhere to celebrate tomorrow.
Do you live on a street where there are elderly people? Stop in and make sure they have an invite somewhere.
Do you know any people who were recently divorced? Maybe they could use a friendly place to sit a spell tomorrow.
Has anyone you know recently lost a loved one? That person might love an invite to your house.
During the Hillary campaign, we hosted a phone bank every night at Buzzquarters, all day on the weekends. We baked cupcakes, bought pizza, made sandwiches and salads, you name it and invited pretty much all of Chicago to come over and phone bank for Hillary Clinton’s nomination. Easily, 500 strangers came through our house during those six months of nonstop phone banking. About 300 of those people are still friends of ours now. Surprisingly enough, only about 2-3 of those strangers were crazy people (and one of the crazies is our friend Panda, who we met during the campaign when he came by to phone bank one day).
We aren’t telling you to do this, and open your home to the world tomorrow, but we’re telling you that taking that risk and extending invitations can pay off in a big way for you.
Especially on a holiday.
People who have nowhere to go tomorrow aren’t going to advertise that. There is, unfortunately, a stigma attached to being alone on the holidays. It makes people feel like losers to admit they weren’t invited anywhere, or have no family to share the holiday with.
We built a Team Hillary family here in Chicago…many of which we’re going to see tomorrow morning as we go out and volunteer part of the day, and then circle back later in the evening to have a little dinner to ourselves at Buzzquarters.
One of the reasons we keep this site up and running is because we hope we can reach a few of you out there and teach you some of the things we were blessed enough to learn from our grandparents, and from Hillary Clinton herself. It really does take a village, people.
We need to look out for each other.
When it’s raining, share that umbrella with someone stuck in the rain with you.
If someone doesn’t have enough to ride the bus, pitch in a few dimes.
If there’s someone living near you who’s going to be all alone on a holiday, tell them you’re putting out a big spread and would love to have them join you.
It takes a village.
We love being part of your extended village via this site…and hope you will consider opening your hearts and extending some holiday invitations where you can.
You might just make a new friend for life. You could even very well save a life, if this happens to be the day someone out there was feeling so hopeless and lost and alone on a holiday and maybe didn’t want to wake up tomorrow. And there you were, an angel undercover, not even realizing it.
There is great power in such little things.
The holidays aren’t about eating, no matter how much Oprah wants them to be. No, they are about being thankful for all of our blessings, and sharing them as much as we can with those who need a little blessing too.
We’re blessed and thankful to have this chance to put this idea out there. Run with it if you can. We wish we could do more in our own community, and every year we try to step up a little more for our own “village”.
We tell people Hillary and our grandmothers sent us.
You can tell them Sarah sent you.
But we do hope you try to do everything you can to make sure the people near you are all warm and full and loved tomorrow.
Thanksgiving is not about what we eat, but who we are, who we choose to be.
We are Americans.
So grateful to be in this country, so happy to work hard tomorrow to make sure all our fellow Americans are as well-taken care of as we can manage.
Can you help us take this nationwide?
Speaker of the House Bachmann?
Here’s something to get people talking at Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow: could Michelle Bachmann become Speaker of the House in 2011?
Today we had an interesting breakfast at Nookie’s Tree (pumpkin pancakes, yo) with a friend of ours deeply involved in local Democrat politics here in Illinois. He’s a firm backer of Governor Quinn, and wants Hoffman to win the Dems’ Senate nomination (and is working hard behind the scenes to take corrupt mob banker Alexi Giannoulias down before he can win the Dem primary next year). Because of our support of McCain/Palin and the other stances we’ve taken since the takeover of the Democrat Party and its occupation by Utopian radicals, we’ve had little contact with this friend because the lot of us here have become “toxic” in Dem circles in Chicago. That’s fine with us, honestly, because we can’t in good faith work for a party that behaves the way it does, and treats women and gays the way it so enjoys doing.
But, our friend is a great conversationalist, and enjoys scrying into the future as much as we do. He believes Democrats will hold the Senate in next year’s midterms, but that Harry Reid will be defeated, by Sue Lowden most likely, and Dick Durbin will be installed as the new Senate Majority Leader (which will be a Christmas present to Republicans, since Durbin is a truly stupid and bumbling man, worse than Reid if that is even humanly possible).
He also thinks Democrats will indeed lose the House, as he’s hearing of more House members deciding not to seek re-election, knowing their votes on Utopicare will doom their careers. They have all been promised highly lucrative post-government jobs by Nancy Pelosi, however, so many of these Dems are willing to take the bullets for Utopiacare so that they can make millions in the coming years by working as “consultants” and then lobbyists, with Pelosi and the DNC’s employment agency placing them into golden parachutes (more like golden showers, if you ask us. Google it.).
What’s unclear to us is who the GOP has lined up to take Pelosi’s place if they get control of Congress.
Someone like Michelle Bachmann would be incredible, but our friend insists she’s not even on the long list, let alone the short list for the job. “Remember, Republicans are all about “whose turn it is” and “who has been waiting longest for the job”. There is no sense of timeliness with them, and never any consideration for who would be best to lead the party. They just get in a line and years later it’s their turn to be the nominee or the Speaker or whatever. That’s how Republicans do things, and that’s why they are so beatable usually”.
Every day, we want to know more and more about Michelle Bachmann because, like Sarah Palin, we are witnessing someone at the start of her national career who will be around for a very long time, with the potential to change American politics as we know it.
The Tea Parties could install Bachmann as Speaker, we believe, if the Tea Party Movement itself grows, buckles down, and becomes a larger force to be reckoned with going into 2010.
Palin herself could help deliver Bachmann unto the Speaker’s chair, if the candidate Palin campaigns for next year mostly win, and the next Congressional majority owes a lot to Palin. It appears Palin and Bachmann are friendly, if not already allies. Palin would be well-served with one of her own as Speaker. That could help Palin’s groundgame in 2012 immensely.
Speaker Boehner seems to be the way Republicans would go, because he looks like he’s next in line, but he’d be such a bad choice in our opinion. He’s not bold enough, not gutsy enough, and not memorable enough.
Whoever replaces Nancy Pelosi needs to be a firecracker. We also think the GOP needs to put a woman in that Speaker’s chair. Because of the misogyny the Democrats have wallowed in for the last two years, many women are open to voting Republican for the first time in their lives. Republicans, thus, have the once-in-our-lifetime chance to be seen as “the party for women”. Some of you might not like identity politics, but a great deal of independents sure do.
Independents decide elections…and many former Democrats are now independents who would like to see a woman succeed Pelosi.
Bachmann would make a dynamic, relevant, and capable Speaker, in our opinion.
A firecracker like that tossed into the top spot in the House would light a fuse that could blow Dr. Utopia from office in 2012, taking the rest of the Liberals in Congress with him.
What are your thoughts on Speaker Bachmann? Could it happen? Should it happen?
What happens if it happens?
Alfre Woodard and Blair Underwood had no idea why they were invited to the state dinner last night
Our favorite bit from the lavish, no-expenses-spared, “night at Versailles” styled state dinner last night was word that reporters actually questioned why some of the “luminaries” were there, at taxpayer expense, wining and dining at an event when the White House claims it can’t afford to put on a traditional Hannakkah celebration.
Alfre Woodard, who was not, as some believe, either one of the reporters talking to Deep Throat about Nixon or that puppet that ate cats on NBC twenty years ago, was asked why she, randomly, was invited to the state dinner: “I don’t know why I’m here” was the best she could offer. When pressed if she knew what connection she had to India that required her attendance, she said, “I know where India is. I’ve heard of it. I’ve had Indian food before, too, and it was good, mostly”.
Blair Underwood, who was not, as some believe, either an American Idol winner or the character played by Lisa Welchel on Facts of Life, was also asked why he was invited to the state dinner. “Uh, because Alfre Woodard was, I guess. I don’t know why I’m here either.”
Chicago native Jennifer Hudson was one of the entertainers last night, which we heartily approve of, because Hudson is a wonderful, wonderful young woman. Randomly, a year or so ago, before she won the Oscar, we ran into her at a restaurant near the Southside where a friend we were with knew her personally and got the chance to talk to her for a bit — she is every bit as nice and friendly as you would imagine, so we’re glad she got a chance to go to the White House and sing there. She is a good ambassador for the City of Chicago, so it makes sense for the Chicago president to invite her to entertain him. Kudos to her.
But, Alfre Woodard and Blair Underwood? If the guest list needed random black actors, why not Forrest Whitacker and Angela Bassett? Has Underwood done anything relevant since L.A. Law? And Woodard stunk up Wisteria Lane on Desperate Housewives a few seasons back. Too bad Lynne Thigpen is dead, because she would have been a great, random state dinner guest — maybe she would have come dressed as “The Chief” from her Carmen Sandiego days, and could have told the other guests about India, since that was a show about geography and many of the Hollywood luminaries barely have high school educations so they might have benefitted from that.
What other random people should the White House have invited with no connection whatsoever to India besides having heard of it, maybe, and having eaten Indian food a few times in the past?
Who would you have invited?
How do you solve a problem like the Democrat Party? Question borrowed from our friends at PUMApac.org
Our friend Murphy over at PUMApac.org raised an interesting question on her site that we’d like your input on too.
How do you solve a problem like the Democrat Party?
We add another question of our own, “Is the Democrat Party worth saving?”.
If you read us on even a sporadic basis you know that all of us here were lifelong Democrats until 2008. We blind-voted Democrat in every election in our adult lives until we cast our first votes for a Republican last november (for Sarah Palin). We will vote Republican in the future, for sure, whenever there’s a good Republican up against a liberal Democrat.
We have come to see liberals, and Liberalism itself, as the bane of our society that Republicans always said it was, but we never listened. Liberals really and truly do believe they are smarter and better than everyone else, hate this country, and want to see our nation transformed into a socialist, Third World, failed state. Why these dangerous idiots want this is just beyond us. Too much time in an academia soaked in this nonsense? Too many hours idolizing the failed states of Europe? Undiagnosed learning disabilities or mental illness?
Beats us.
But, clearly, the Democrat Party is now 100% radical Liberal controlled. It is no longer the party we grew up with, no longer a party we can support. Our last thread of connection to the party is the Clintons, whom we will always remain loyal to. But, if not for Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea, we’d be Independents right now. We will go to Hell and back for all Democrats who stood with Hillary Clinton through 2008, but the rest of them are pretty much dead to us. We relish the thought of America cleaning house next year and booting as many liberal lunatics from office as possible, including, in our dreams, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid themselves.
What a banner day that would be.
To answer Murphy’s question, we think an electoral earthquake is what’s needed to fix the Democrat Party, to save it as she put it. Nothing short of an election disaster in 2010 will achieve that, because what really needs to happen is for the DNC to lose its big donors, and the donors won’t stop writing checks unless there’s a major defeat to scare them off.
We see the only salvation for Democrats as something like this:
* massive losses in 2010 that are greater than the 1994 Contract With America defeat
* dramatic decrease in funding from large Democrat donors
* Clinton people pushing Dr. Utopia’s radicals out of authority positions in the DNC
* the permanent banning of Donna Brazile, Howard Dean, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, and other Utopians from DNC affairs
* relocating the DNC back to Washington, from Chicago, where the DNC belongs
* reforming the Democrats’ nomination process to remove caucuses and the frequency and availability of voter fraud
* cutting all ties to ACORN, the SEIU, and other corrupt union entities
* ending identity politics and the current Democrat reliance on race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation voting blocs
The last three above are damn near impossible, we know, but we put them there because in an ideal world, these things would happen. We have no delusion whatsoever that they WILL happen, or that the DNC will ever consider them. But, the Democrat Party should stand for something and, borrowing from its own name, it would be nice if that something was DEMOCRACY.
The Democrat Party proved in 2008 that it is the party of voter fraud. What Dr. Utopia’s campaign did in the primaries and caucuses, with ACORN and SEIU operatives committing fraud and voter intimidation left and right, is unconscienable. To this day, the perpetrators have suffered no consequences for this, only rewards.
It is stomach-turning.
The constant misogyny and sexism aimed at women of both parties by the DNC is repugnant.
The lies Democrats tell the LGBTQ community are sickening.
The way Democrats are beholden to corrupt unions and the lengths they go to in helping unions enslave their own members is un-American.
At its heart, we’re starting to accept the reality of how truly evil the Democrat Party has become. Like we said, everything bad Republicans ever said about Democrats is finally ringing true for us.
Is the party worth saving?
As long as the Clintons are in it, we’d have to say yes.
But we just have no idea at all how to go about saving it, aside from working our hearts out to defeat as many Utopians as possible in the coming Democrat Civil War.
What are you doing to prep for 2010 and 2012 campaigning?
The other night at Sidetracks, we were startled by two guys walking around the bar, literally from corner to corner along the wall in each room, introducing themselves to everyone. We thought, at first, that it was someone running for office or passing out flyers for some benefit show or another.
Nope, just two guys new to town and wanted to introduce themselves and meet people.
Never in a million years would any of us here have done that.
But, those two guys collected a bunch of business cards and treated their night out like a networking event cocktail party.
Would we ever do that?
Probably not.
Should we?
Most definitely.
When we started doing campaign events for Hillary Clinton back in the summer of 2007, few of us had any recent experience dealing with the general public. When we leave the house for work and take the trains, we rarely speak to anyone, and really only converse with people we know at work or our friends when we get home. When we go out, we tend to not talk to anyone but people we already know.
So, when it comes time to do campaign work, whenever that rolls around every few years, we do feel a little rusty.
So, we’ve been thinking about those two guys at Sidetracks. Just imagine if we could do a little bit of that.
Maybe we could even collect those business cards to use to build email lists for campaign season. Instead of trying to cram all this in in 2010, or wait until 2012 to do it, what if we were building these lists, meeting people, and networking NOW.
What if you were all out there doing this too?
What if in your hometowns, you always kept business cards on you with an email you’d use only for political purposes (so your regular one wouldn’t get flooded). What if on that card you had the URLs for various websites you like to read that you want other people to know about (um, like this one, or places like www.Conservatives4Palin.com, www.MichelleMalkin.com, www.PUMApac.org, www.RedState.com, and www.Ace.Mu.Nu, which are the sites we hit every day ourselves).
If we really want to take down Dr. Utopia in 2012, and if we want to take back the Democrat Party from the Leftists and Lunatics starting in 2010, we need to do much more than we are all doing now. We need to expand our networks, and reach more people than just our current friends and family.
We have to leave our comfort zones a little, and step up into leadership roles in our community…and that starts by somewhat awkwardly walking around in a room full of strangers slowly transforming those strangers into acquaintances, then possibly friends and campaign teammates.
We’re willing to do our part here in Boystown.
Will you do yours wherever you are, too?
