Archive for October 9th, 2010
The Future Presidency of Lt. Colonel Allen West (circa 2020)
Listen, I am the first to tell anyone that there’s nothing gained from living in fantasy worlds or by running, and re-running, hypothetical scenarios over and over again about things that may or may not happen years from now.
After running this site for over two years now, I have to tell you what absolutely drains me are the constant questions of ‘What would you do if both Hillary and Palin ran for president against each other?” or “What would the world be like if Hillary had won in 2008?” etc.
SOMEDAY, in a distant future, I think I actually will take a stab at writing a story based in an alternate universe where we did things differently as Team Hillary starting in 2004 and prevented the rise of Obama and the Left’s takeover of the Democrat Party…it’s an interesting project I have a germ of an idea for, and I’ll give away the big twist by telling that, at the end of the day, I think in some important ways America would have been worse-off, long-run, if we didn’t go through the Hell we’re going through now. As much as I think she would have been a fantastic president — and she would have kept the Left at bay and would have maintained the Democrats as a centrist party — a Hillary Clinton presidency would have just put off for 4-8 years the Left’s takeover of the DNC. That, in turn, would have just put off this confrontation America is having with these radicals.
Better we do what needs to be done now, while those of us on this watch are up to the challenge and are answering the call to do it.
I am newly comfortable, once again, to talk about believing in God…and in a larger picture, the existence of real good vs. evil in the world. I believe God loves America, because Americans unlike any other people in this world love God and do their very best to be agents of good in the world. One of the reasons so many other countries have such an obsessive beef with the US is because this city on a hill has always practiced what we collectively preached and we’ve never been afraid or ashamed to get our hands dirty punching ugly and evil square in the face.
There’s a caricature of ugly Americans and cowboys strolling through Paris, Rome, or London with great swagger and all the Europeans looking down on them, their snouts high in the air…and all I can think of is absent America’s Greatest Generation, there’d be goosestepping stormtroopers to this day in all those capitals, with that very snooty brand of Eurotrash all but extinct, as I can’t imagine fascists allowing these people to thrive and breed in the alternate universes where America didn’t kick Hitler’s can straight to the depths of Hell.
I think it’s actually going to be seen as fortuitous Providence that the Left took control of our country in 2008 and installed a black Marxist into the Oval Office…because Obama is not only destroying the Left, the Democrat Party, ACORN, the unions, and every other corrosive element on that particular coalition…but he’s breaking the black community’s lockstep ties to the DNC.
By being such an unmitigated disaster and abject failure of a president, and by delivering none of his promises to the black community, Obama’s opening the door for a real-deal black President to come forward within our lifetime to be the Alpha to Obama’s Omega, the Zenith to his Nadir.
I personally believe that man’s going to be Lt. Colonel Allen West…and it’s just an aspirational, hopeful, gut feeling I get whenever I read anything about him.
I believe Governor Palin is going to pick West to be her running mate in 2012 — and, no, I don’t believe West serving just one term in Congress is going to hinder him, since his military experience more than equals whatever time he could has spent in the legislature if he had run for office sooner.
Palin/West is just such a dynamic combo.
The Governor has better political instincts than any of us, so I don’t know what she’ll ultimately do and I certainly don’t speak in any capacity for her, but there is something about West that electrifies people in the same way that Governor Palin does.
There’s just no logical reason the Governor would have to choose a Cocktail Party approved candidate as her running mate in 2012 — because someone like that would not help her anywhere in the country I can think of.
But, I believe West could help Palin peel off maybe 20% of the black vote from Democrats and possibly get 5% of Liberals to sit home and not vote, because they’d be so wracked with white guilt over voting against a woman and a black on a ticket…no matter what they think about Palin or West personally.
In fact, this is something I personally hope to do in 2012 through HB and other channels when Palin/West comes out swinging…to run psy-0ps against Obama/Biden in the Left’s home turf in the vein of, ‘What’s the matter? Do you have a problem with a woman being president? Do you have a problem with our historic and unprecedented first black VP? Are you saying you don’t want a black man living in the Naval Observatory? Are you telling me you don’t want a woman in the White House? Please explain yourself”.
I can’t wait to do that to the people who call everyone who opposes Obama a racist.
The Left can dish this garbage out, but they can’t take it.
I also like the visual imagery Palin/West conjures by way of West’s providential last name.
THE WEST.
America’s heart and soul is in the West, our last frontier. Go West, young man, Go West.
It reminds me of all of Reagan’s campaign imagery in the 80s…of all that rough and tumble tough as nails cowboy metaphor the Left and Eurotrash make so much fun of…but that regular Americans, the 75% majority of the country, just love.
There’s a reason George W. Bush won two terms.
There’s a reason his advisors moved him down to Crawford years ago, set him up with a ranch, and got him outside in shirtsleeves as much as possible doing things outdoors that he loves.
Because Americans love and respond well to these things themselves.
All of this is before anyone even hears Allen West speak…or watches him take down an opponent like a Grizzly.
The man is a living, breathing, action figure. In the 80s, when I was growing up, Carl Weathers or Mr. T. would have played him in a movie back when those two were at the top of their games…and Allen West is tougher, in real life, than either of those two actors ever were on screen.
Whenever Allen West walks into a room, it’s just clobbering time.
And so, after being President Palin’s VP for eight years, I really do imagine a President West following her for 4-8 years after that.
When I think of this, there’s a peace and a happiness that comes over me because I know that America will be okay.
The reason I spend all my free time on HillBuzz writing this stuff is because I’m scared for our country. I’m a single gay guy by himself in the world, so I know I’ll survive no matter what because I don’t need much and have no one depending on me for the future. I can get by no matter what happens, and being from Cleveland I sure know what austerity and privation are, and I’ve lived somewhere terrible and broken down, so the future can get as MadMax as it wants and I’ll just roll through Thunderdome accordingly.
But, some of my good friends have kids. Some of them even have grandkids. They don’t deserve to inherit the mess Obama and the Left intend to stick them with, just so these insane elitists can put into real-world practice all the demented ravings they conjured in academia the last 30 years while they’ve been banished to the political wilderness.
So, I’m able-bodied, have a lot of energy, have a very big mouth and command this little platform here at HB and other places I write, and I’m doing the only thing I know how to do in the midst of this madness by telling all of you that we must never lose sight of the fact that America’s exceptionalism is our greatest gift from God — and that here at a time when America is under direct assault from the Left there are champions emerging who will lead us to victory against the forces of chaos and evil.
I believe Governor Palin is going to be remembered by history as an American Joan of Arc, who stood up when called when she was needed most.
In my heart, I see Lt. Colonel West standing beside her, complementing her strengths impressively.
In her Cabinet, I see other hard-hitters and skull crackers ending business as usual in Washington.
In the House, I honestly do see Speaker Michele Bachmann with Senate Majority Leader Jim DeMint.
I see the Cocktail Party vanquished.
The Left in tatters.
The Democrat Party destroyed for another two generations.
And, honestly, through West I actually see a possibility that the Democrats never end up recovering…because West’s VP candidacy in 2012, and his subsequent work in the 2014 midterms, leading up to the 2016 Palin/West re-election will just keep peeling off more and more blacks from the Democrat party until in 2020 when West runs for president himself I really think it will get down to a 50/50 split for blacks in terms of what party they back.
Blacks who work hard, believe in the American dream, are entrepreneurial and demand the highest success from themselves and their children will vote Republican. Those who want to remain pets dependent on Democrat handouts, never making enough or getting strong enough to break out of the ghettos Democrats keep them in, will keep supporting the Left, lagging behind those who abandon the Race Industry and the grievance-mongering and set better courses for themselves.
I have two very good friends who are former Marines who took me to dinner the last time I was in Washington. At that dinner they told me about the book “The Secret” and told me not to make fun of it because, as Marines, they are no-nonsense and analytical and yet they found “The Secret” to be revelatory.
‘The Secret” demands you put the right energy out into the world and start believing what you know in your heart to be best will come true…while you work positively towards making that thing happen in the world.
I seriously know in my heart that President Palin will be great for this country.
I also know that Vice President West will be the ideal running mate for her…and that President West just ten years from now will, at last, put a permanent end to the Race Industry in America and forever close the book on the Left’s manipulation of racial grievances for Democrat gain.
West is going to do all the things Obama promised in his campaign to do, but never once meant.
I know a lot of things can happen in the future none of us can predict.
Maybe the Cocktail Party will succeed in forcing the nomination onto Mittens Romney in 2012 (over my dead body).
Maybe Congressman West, in 2012, will decline to be the VP choice…or maybe Governor Palin will decide to pick someone else.
We sure don’t know what the world will look like in 2012, let alone 2014, 2016, or 2020.
But, I want to believe in a future where conservatives don’t rest on the laurels of 2010′s smackdown of the Left in November and continue to be energized and inspired in the months, years, and decade ahead so that this conservative surge joins forces with a spiritual and patriotic revival that makes sure another Barack Obama never comes to power on the shoulders of Marxists and anti-American radicals ever again, not in our lifetimes, or in the lives of the children and grandchildren I see out there that I’m pledging myself to protect, honor, and defend in all the ways I know how.
If we believe in Palin/West, it will happen.
If we believe in President Palin, that’s what we will get.
If we believe in Vice President and Future President West, we’ll get that too.
If we keep working hard all day for all of this, together, I think we really will get there.
Palin 2012 emerging campaign message: Revive, Renew, Restore
I’ve said before that Governor Palin might just be the sharpest politician of our time…and her sense of branding is astonishingly pitch-perfect.
She’s now advancing an emerging 2012 campaign message: “Revive, Renew, Restore”.
What I think is most genius about this is the “R-branding” she’s doing very subtly…”R”, like “Republican”.
R-estore
R-enew
R-evive
(R), baby.
I also love that she’s picked up the “Cocktail Party” meme that we started here on HillBuzz and also calls them the go-along-to-get-along establishment gang, like she did in her speech the other night at the Bakersfield Business Conference:
She also took a few digs at the “cocktail party” — what she called the “go-along-to-get-along” “establishment” wing of the Republican party, saying “those defeated liberal Republicans, what did they do? Now they’re the ones running as a third-party candidate — and they’re redefining, I guess, the term ‘bitter clinger.’ “
The “Cocktail Party” meme is one that will destroy any chances Mittens Romney has remaining of being the “it’s his turn” establishment candidate in 2012. ”It’s his turn”, as dictated by the Cocktail Party, is just not going to cut the soggy cucumber-and-mayonnaise sandwiches anymore.
One of the reasons I believe in, and support, Governor Palin so much is that in her — AT LAST — I see a chance not only to smack the Left down hard but to take down the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that’s been the root of so many problems for all these years.
It is not going to be easy though. These guys are more entrenched than you would ever believe.
They love money. They adore wearing fancy suits. They savor every last cocktail party.
They’ve monopolized power for generations and are the sons of entitled fathers and grandfathers who have been passing these choice seats at the table down via Y-chromosomes to their heirs since anyone can remember.
Governor Palin, and Mamma Grizzlies everywhere, are a major threat to this primogeniture Cocktail Party racquet.
None of these people want to work hard and get real jobs after they lose their perks and privileges.
That’s why they hate the Tea Party so much…the Tea Party is the end of the Cocktail Party…which is the end of life as they know it for all these guys.
To that, I say: Run, Sarah, Run!
Revive! Renew! Restore!
Another inside bit of intel to quash any Hillary as VP talk for 2012
Here’s an article by Jed Babbin at RealClearPolitics that’s 99.5% junk, but redeems itself for one tiny bit of something wonderful tucked deep inside…like finding a stray gummi bear in Oprah’s navel. Just ask Stedman, it’s remarkable (but, then again, how would he ever know?).
Here’s the gummi bear in Babbin’s otherwise bloated, nonsensical Oprah (and it’s one of the rare super-delicious crystal clear pineapple gummis):
And in Woodward’s book, we see the moment at which that the gap between Clinton and Obama may have become unbridgeable. It should scotch all the talk of an “Obama-Clinton” ticket in 2012.
In an October 9 meeting on the Afghan strategy, Clinton said to Obama, “Mr. President, the dilemma you face…” Her use of “you” instead of “we” – according to Woodward – “floored” Richard Holbrooke who told Woodward it was a “Freudian giveaway.” Woodward writes that to Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary, it was Clinton distancing herself from Obama.
What I like most about this is that it’s the Hillary Clinton I have adored for my entire adult life — the super sharp smartass who f***s with people’s heads.
On the campaign trail in 2008, I got to see this Hillary in action a lot, at various events, where she played word games and dipped everything she’d say in pure sarcasm. The woman is very funny, which 90% of the public doesn’t realize. Her humor is very biting, to the point, and aggressive…and for whatever reason she’s never shown that on TV because people might find it mean-spirited. In another dimension, instead of becoming a politician she was a comedienne, in the sort of Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, David Foster Wallace realm.
I love that she went to whatever meeting that was that Woodward talks about and kept saying “the dilemma YOU face” to Obama, emphasizing this is HIS problem, not hers, because she’s not president. He wanted this. He and the DNC prevented this from being HER problem, so now Mr. Hopeychange needs to deal with this mess…because she continues to do everything she can to make sure she has no fingerprints on any of it.
I really love that about Hillary Clinton.
I can never adequately tell you how blessed I feel every day that there was a stretch in 2008 where I got to see this woman up close about 2-3 times a week, to the point where she actually remembered my name and carried on conversations with me. To me, this would be like Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Mercy Otis Warren, or Bette Davis knowing who I was and talking to me…people I like for one reason or another and always enjoy hearing about from history…only HRC is alive and well and playing mind games all day that apparently drive Obama and his supporters crazy, still.
I really hate reading speculative fiction where Hillary Clinton replaces Biden in 2012 so she can try to save Obama and give him a second term.
That disgusts me on so many levels.
There’s the problem I have with it in someone I love, truly, having to save the man who was so horrible to her. I just couldn’t help her do that, and it would break my heart to not be out there campaigning for her, because she should have been our 44th president.
I’m glad she didn’t take Biden’s place in 2008 because I like that she’s removed from this administration down in Foggy Bottom, and I love that being Secretary of State not only burnished her foreign policy credentials but also allowed her to escape the Senate…so that she didn’t have to vote for any of the craziness that Democrats have engaged in for the last two years.
There is just no benefit to her climbing aboard the sinking S.S. Lightbringer. The only one who would benefit from that is Obama, but I still don’t see even Hillary Clinton being able to save him in 2012.
And I don’t think any Democrat will win because I think Democrats have damaged their brand so much, and permanently alienated a generation of Independents, moderates, and conservatives, that no salvation is likely for them for many, many years to come.
This means, unfortunately, that Hillary Clinton will never be president, since I don’t think the damage of Obamaism can be wiped away even by 2016…when Hillary’s next chance to run would have been…and I also believe President Palin will do such a good job starting in 2013 that she’ll have a Reaganesque re-election in 2016…which I hope sets up a President Allen West in 2020.
I don’t know what Hillary Clinton’s next act will be, but I hope I get to be a part of it. I’d like to spend the rest of my life doing something for a Hillary Clinton Foundation and helping Americans see what a supers-smart, amazing, one-in-a-million, grand master mind game player she really is.
Because you really can’t fully appreciate anything she does without knowing this…without getting to know her brothers here in Chicagoland…or her personal friends…or the people who have been close to her all these years.
ALL of these people are mind-game masters…in a very good way.
If you enjoy reading us here at HB, and you like our sense of humor, then let me assure you that if you ever got the chance to spend some time with Hillary Clinton or the Team Hillary people around her, that you would like them all very much too.
She really and truly drives Obama crazy…and more than one report has him obsessed with HRC plotting against him, maneuvering him to make fatal mistakes in his presidency, and guaranteeing he’s a one-term failure so for the rest of time Democrats will curse themselves for picking HIM instead of her.
All the while she’s smiling, in a golden pantsuit somewhere, smiling and laughing and f***ing with these people’s heads.
I really do love her for that.
A Contrarian Take on the Remarkable Nancy Pelosi
The Remarkable Nancy Pelosi and Her Leftist Friends
Here’s another article where Nancy Pelosi claims she’s winning, and that Democrats will retain the House, and her Speakership, because the country loves them, and her, so much.
I don’t know of a single person who believes this nonsense, apart from Pelosi herself.
But, you really need to give the Devil her due in certain areas, because Pelosi’s remarkable Speakership will go down in history for reasons apart from her being our first female Speaker (and the closest, yet, that anyone without a Y-chrome has gotten to the Oval Office).
Nancy Pelosi, for all her weird ticks, faults, and personal insanity, somehow managed to convince career politicians to throw away their careers and future employment possibilities on utter folly.
Have you ever stopped to think about how remarkable that is?
“Remarkable” is a word much like “interesting” that can mean different things depending on where you’re coming from. One of the inside-jokes of the fortune-cookie-writing industry is the little slips that say “May you live always in interesting times”. As you’re digesting your kung pao whatever and General Tsao’s this or that, you might be tempted to think that’s a lovely bit of magic in your hard as a rock, plastic wrapped dessert. But in Chinese idioms “interesting times” actually mean periods of flood, famine, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, you name it. Can’t get much more interesting than nation-destroying natural disasters.
Pelosi’s Speakership has been “remarkable” in much the same way.
in the three-plus years she’s held that gavel Pelosi has accomplished the near-impossible: she has destroyed Democrats as a brand for a generation.
This she did not do alone, of course. Howard Dean and Donna Brazile helped back in 2008, when they pushed Obama for the Democrats’ presidential nomination knowing he would delegate almost all responsibilities to Pelosi and her merry band of thieves in the House, preferring instead to enjoy the perks and vacation time of the presidency to actually working late at night concerning himself with legislation (does anyone here believe, for even an instant, that Hillary Clinton would have abdicated the healthcare bill to Congress and allowed Democrats to vote on it without her even reading it?).
Harry Reid was the perfect gender-bending Bonnie to Pelosi’s large-and-in-charge criminal Clyde, doing whatever he could to back Pelosi’s crime spree in the Senate, doing to the Constitution what those two rampaging hoods did to banks across America with their machine guns.
The American lamestream media covered for Pelosi wherever it could, enabling her destruction, and giving her the opportunity for her to be so remarkable by making sure little criticism of anything Democrats did was ever allowed in the dinosaur Old Media.
Pelosi has achieved the remarkable feat of getting every single Democrat in the House of Representatives to essentially come out AGAINST the will of the voting public and to stand in complete opposition to what the people who sent them to Washington want.
That’s STUNNING.
I lose sight of this sometimes, focusing on how stupid these Democrats are, and how myopic the DNC has been in ignoring the fact that tens of millions of Americans who were once loyal Democrats, like myself, now refuse to even think about voting Democrat again in their lifetimes.
But, SOMEONE had to convince these people to commit political suicide and destroy the Democrat brand.
That someone — and you need to give her credit — was Nancy Pelosi.
A woman the press has never called “polarizing” (because that’s a pejorative reserved for either conservative women, or Democrats like Hillary Clinton that the Left hates) was the most polarizing and remarkable Speaker of the House in history, that I’m aware of, because she has done so much to destroy her own party.
This won’t become evident to many people for years to come, but I think I’m ahead of the curve in calling it.
The Media might never admit this, but when Democrats keep failing to win back Independents, Jacksonian/Reagan/Clinton Democrats, and the working class in the 2012, 2014, 2016, and even 2022 elections, it’s going to be clear to a great many people that everyone alive and voting-age today will remember Pelosi’s time as Speaker and will be so horrified at the thought of a repeat of her remarkable performance that they just won’t vote Democrat ever again.
Pelosi was the Speaker who gave the Left the push it needed to truly reveal itself, for all the Communists and Marxists to let their masks slip and show their true, red colors. Because she was so crazy, and so unashamed of her mental illness, other Democrats around her decided it was okay for them to be openly insane as well. It reminds me of a steam room in a gym, the kind where Rahm Emanuel goes to scream at people, where normally guys hang around in their wet, uncomfortable towels until one ballsy guy comes and shucks the pretense and just sits there totally naked, legs apart, unashamed…and in a bit most everyone else follows, just because it feels good to be who they are, openly, without having to hide anything.
Nancy Pelosi’s remarkable Speakership allowed all Democrats in office to stand totally, stark naked before the American people and fart proudly at them with gale force gusto.
In her office, next to all her cats, Pelosi kept cans of gasoline and boxes of matches so anyone who wanted to harm the Constitution could come and get whatever they needed for the bonfire. Where, in years past, people wanting to do actual, permanent harm to the country would have been clandestine moles installed in their Manchurian positions by foreign powers forever terrified of being exposed, Pelosi established as a new norm the jubilance of gleefully ruining the economy and impoverishing tens of millions of Americans — just because Democrats could.
She reminds me of a modern-day Countess Bathory or Typhoid Mary, spreading chaos and destruction with a smile…almost as if she was some sort of GOP super-agent who spent the last hundred years slowly working her way up in the Democrat Party with the sustained and permanent goal of destroying it from within and then salting the Earth with the memory of her “remarkableness” so Americans for 30 years would never again allow a Democrat Speaker to follow her lead.
You have to give the woman this credit…on her way out…and then wait a decade or so for historians to catch up and really attribute the Democrat Party’s brand implosion largely to the actions of this one remarkable woman.
The rise of anti-Leftist folk songs on YouTube
There is a lot of this stuff…people taking to song to express their frustrations with this administration.
Just regular moms, in their homes, with their guitars, singing about the Resistance to what the Left is doing in this country.
A few weeks ago, I watched the movie “Taking Woodstock”, about what went into putting on the Woodstock music festival, where that generation protested against the Republicans and took up guitars to sing against the injustices they felt in Washington.
Does anyone else see this is now happening to Democrats and the Left?
There’s a clear spirit in the air unlike anything I have seen before…and people are starting to really tap into their creativity to give voice to the thoughts and feelings they are having…their fears…their frustration…their anguish.
This is powerful stuff.
I think it’s just the beginning, too.
If Democrats have lost folk music, they are possibly in more trouble than even I could have ever dreamed possible.
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UPDATE: The video we have above is by Megan Fox, whose radio show I guest on sometimes. She’s a very nice lady, and her show’s on tonight so you should listen.
Here are some more great videos featuring women folk singers sticking it to the Democrats.
My experience dealing with Kim Gandy and NOW back in the 2008 campaign – and why NOW's endorsement of Jerry Brown doesn't surprise me, well, now.
Back in the 2008 Democrat primaries, I flew down to Washington, DC with a lot of Team Hillary members for a Mother’s Day event Hillary Clinton held with her mom Dorothy Rodham, her daughter Chelsea, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Madeline Albright, and other women I like very much. This was in the leadup to the Democrats’ May 31st Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting, so while we were in town for the Mother’s Day Event, we also staged a little mini-protest in front of DNC Headquarters near the Capitol.
I remember riding in from Dulles in a cab with three very high-powered and influential Chicago women (all of whom were Democrats their whole lives, and all of whom — like me — have left the party after what it did to Hillary Clinton in 2008), as one of them, seated next to me, worked three different cell phones setting up all the permits and everything else we needed for the protest.
She had her assistant on one phone, sitting at his desk back in Chicago, creating a group to file the protest permits under. As we drove, she told me to create a name for it and I came up with something like “Citizens United For Voting Rights” or something of the like, and this was registered with the City of Washington, DC as an organization intent on making sure every vote was counted — since at the time the DNC had announced it would essentially only count votes in states where it benefitted Obama, but would disregard the vote counts in Florida and Michigan (because that would put Hillary Clinton in the lead for delegates).
On another phone, she was on hold with the DC permitting office.
On yet another line, she had a call into Kim Gandy’s office, where she was arranging NOW members to join us in front of the DNC’s headquarters to protest its treatment of the female candidate who had won more votes than anyone in the history of presidential nominating contests, yet was being denied the nomination because the DNC wanted to give it to a black man that year.
When we got to the DNC HQ, we were joined by other Chicago women who had come in for the Mother’s Day event. I was the only male there, but I was treated like one of the gals by my Team Hillary Chicagoans.
On the flight down from O’Hare, I had made a bunch of protest signs in the vein of “Count Every Vote! Every Vote Counts!” with magic markers; because it’s strange to see a an early-30s guy coloring on a domestic flight, my fellow passengers had asked what I was doing — and when I told them, they used the hour and a half or so in the air to help me make signs too, because even the Republicans on board agreed the DNC had been taken over by Leftists and what they were doing in the primaries wasn’t just wrong, but un-American.
So, I had plenty of signs for people to hold up, where we could scream and shout and walk the pavement in front of the DNC…breaking out into song at several points. “We shall overcome”, “God Bless America”, “Don’t Stop Believing”, etc. Generally speaking, wherever I am, Journey will break out at some point because their songs are the only range I can sing in and I love 80s hair bands. Whether they are especially pertinent to the situation or not (but this one fit because Hillary had used it in her first campaign ad).
About midway through our protest, Kim Gandy, then the president of NOW, showed up with about five very surly staffers. She had the United Colors of Benetton going on, the way Democrats always do for anything with a photo-op: there was exactly one black woman, one Latina, one Asian, a woman with a visible disability, an overweight woman, and Gandy herself.
Our group of Team Hillary Chicagoans was about 70% black, actually, since black women in Chicago knew who Obama was through Trinity United and Jeremiah Wright and were Hillary’s most stalwart supporters. Then there were the big time executives I rode in from the airport with, and me, the gay dude from Cleveland on his Forrest Gumpian adventures through the 2008 campaign.
Kim Gandy remains, to this day, one of the rudest and nastiest people I have ever met.
But, rude in a way that doesn’t really accomplish anything or make the situation better.
When the NOW women arrived, they didn’t like the fact I, a male, was there and Gandy said something to the effect of “Why’s HE here?”. I told her I was there because I supported Hillary Clinton and that I would do anything for her campaign, so I came down from Chicago to protest what’s been done to her.
Gandy would not speak to me directly, but instead talked to one of the other women, as if she needed a translator for whatever I was saying.
She didn’t speak “Y-Chromosome”, apparently.
It was one of the strangest things I’ve ever encountered in all my life. Someone tried to tell Gandy I was gay, “so it was alright”, but she just directed this beam of hostility towards me the whole afternoon.
After about an hour of walking the pavement, the DNC agreed to setup a conference room and meet with us. Even though Kim Gandy didn’t organize this protest, she demanded the seat right at the head of the table. She then tried to take the meeting over, but thankfully the Chicago black ladies, in particular, didn’t let her. One of these women is a heart surgeon who became a very good friend of mine through the campaign and really let the DNC reps have it because Howard Dean himself did not come down for the meeting — and we knew for a fact he was in the building, inside his office, because one of the NOW people had a contact up on that floor and that person said she spotted him just a few minutes before.
“Chairman Dean is on a conference call and regrets he can’t be here, but I endeavor to report back to him everything that transpires here today,” a generic-looking DNC aide told us. I remember what he said because it was all so robotic, like it was printed out for him in legalese on an index card and presented to the straw-haired, apple-cheeked intern the first day of work in the building.
The minutia of what we talked about involved Florida and Michigan’s votes not being counted in the Democrat primaries, and the rumor we heard circulating (which proved to be true) that Donna Brazile and the Rules & Bylaw Committee were going to take delegates away from Hillary Clinton in Michigan and give them to Obama, even though he had taken his name off the ballot in Michigan (after he knew he wouldn’t win).
I don’t remember what point I raised, but it was something I had been writing about on HillBuzz, regarding the specific points in the DNC charter such an action would violate. I must have talked for just 40 seconds or so, asking the representative what Chairman Dean’s position was on this, when Kim Gandy, who was seated next to me, interrupted me and said, “Why don’t you let someone else talk now?”.
I looked at her and quietly asked, “Why don’t you brush your teeth in the morning? You have bad breathe”.
Which, she does…that funky, dirty, old coffee breathe normally reserved for middle-aged male executives with rotting gums.
Kim Gandy is the first woman I’ve ever met to suffer, and be insufferable, with this.
Well, that shut her up and I was able to keep asking about whatever it was I was talking about, as a few of the black Chicago women in earshot of my back and forth with Gandy giggled the rest of the 30 minute meeting.
Nothing was accomplished or resolved, of course, and after this event the NOW women hightailed it away, to wherever it is they go, to be awesome some more elsewhere I suppose.
The rest of us headed over to whatever hotel the Mother’s Day event was being held, where a big crowd of Obama ACORN, SEIU, Code Pink and other loons were assembled outside (their buses clearly visible in the background on all the side streets) shouting “SURRENDER, HILLARY!” in the astroturd sustained effort to force HRC out of the race.
I lost whatever respect I had for NOW that day meeting Kim Gandy. While she’s not the president of NOW anymore, and instead moved on to become the VP of Something or Another at Something Else That Pays More, ‘Ole Coffee Breathe is a good poster child for the kind of people that seem to comprise NOW.
Women should not be fooled: these people are Leftists first, and are very much a part of the Cult of Liberalism.
Secondarily, they are Democrats, and truly believe Republicans and conservatives are evil. They do not think rationally.
When it comes to actually helping women advance, NOW doesn’t really care about that…or NOW would be standing behind Meg Whitman after she’d been called a whore by Jerry Brown…instead of endorsing Brown.
NOW thinks it can benefit more, as an organization, with a Democrat governor in the state than with a female Republican…despite the fact that having a female Governor in California, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, would be a boon for women in the Golden State.
The way NOW is treating Whitman reminds me of how ‘Ole Coffee Breathe Gandy treated me that day at the DNC. It was inconvenient to her narrative that I, a male, was there outside the DNC that day because this was supposed to be a women-only event in Gandy’s mind. So, she was terrible to me and at one point told me to shut up and not be seen or heard.
That’s pretty much what NOW is doing to Meg Whitman. It’s inconvenient for NOW that Whitman’s a woman running for Governor because NOW wants a Democrat in that office. So, NOW abandons the “promotion of women” banner it supposedly runs itself under so that it can instead reveal itself as a Democrat partisan hack.
Never be fooled: all of these organizations, such as NOW or the Human Rights Campaign or the NAACP or whatever, which claim to be supportive of the rights and advancement of various groups like women, gays, or blacks, at the end of the day are just arms of the DNC and actually seem to benefit the most when these various identity-blocs in the party are oppressed and maligned because then these groups have something to send out new mailers about.
NOW, the Human Rights Campaign (which I call “the bad HRC”, as opposed to the initials we all use for Hillary Rodham Clinton as shorthand), and the NAACP disgust me, they really do. When push comes to shove, none of them ever do the right thing and work to resolve the issues they came are so important to them. That would be bad for their business, their racquet, which exists to keep their members eternal victims.
When NOW has a chance to put a woman into the California Governors’ mansion, it sides with the 80-year-old man instead, even though he will be worse for the state, and for women, just considering the fact that he almost destroyed the state the first time he was Governor in the 70s. But, there’s a (D) after Brown’s name, so the Kim Gandys of NOW throw their weight behind him.
It’s ridiculous, but totally in keeping with the way NOW and its leadership conduct themselves.
Have you seen these? Jarring images of Obama having a gay old time while everyone else suffers in the First Great Depression?
UPDATE: Above some takes on this concept using Michelle Antoinette..keep them coming. Having her hula-hoop through these scenes, having the time of her life, is the perfect accompaniment to what Moonbattery has done below.
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Moonbattery has some excellent images that need to get in front of all the eyeballs in America: Obama out there, on a girl’s bike, wearing his Safety Helmet and mom jeans, dinging his little bell as he rides through classic scenes of the First Great Depression…or having golf while everything around him falls apart.
Here are a few of what forms an impressive visual summation of The Golden Age of Hope and Change:
H/t Moonbattery
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Go to Moonbattery for more.
I think the ones where you have to “find” Obama in them are the best.
I’d like to see some of these starring First Spouse Michelle Antoinette, in one of her ridiculously expensive couture dresses, living it up through various scenes of Depression suffering as well.
Can anyone think of a definitive, extravagant, classic photo of Michelle Antoinette that is her equivalent of her husband’s “girl bike mom jeans” and golf photos?
I want something that really captures how much money she wastes, what a “fashion icon” this woman believes she is, and how her behavior is at complete odds with what Americans are going through today.
And then I want to insert her into Depression-era photos like the one above so her behavior is really put into perspective.
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UPDATE: I really want to use one of the photos of Michelle Antoinette hula-hooping because it’s when she looked the most ridiculous, with that giant Klingon War Belt of her. But, I can’t find a picture of her in that belt where her whole body is visible and she’s making the right face to be able to pull off a jarring Depression photo.
I want her to look like she’s having the absolute time of her life with that hula hoop, while everyone around her suffers. That’s just like how she spent all that tax money jetting to Spain with her entourage of 40 while there are millions of Americans who can’t afford to have anything for dinner tonight, or even tomorrow, because they have not worked in two years.
Does anyone have better images of hula-hooping Michelle than these?
Insert hula-hooping Michelle into Depression era photos
Insert hula-hooping Michelle Antoinette into Depression photos
Here’s how I think her hula-hooping could work as an image inserted against people really suffering, like in these food and job lines:
Can someone do a much, much better job than I ever could and Photoshop these?
