Today's Big News

The DNC Dear Leader, Howard Dean, has shown his generosity and graciousness by declaring Florida and Michigan votes will count as half of all other votes. Hillary has 1877.5 delegates to Obama's 2052. Cartoon found at Townhall.com.

And, Senator Obama has declared the start of the general election with his resignation from Trinity United Church of Christ. The practice of Black Liberation Theology and US Flag Burning is deferred until Wednesday, November 5.

Friday Afternoon Cigar

Karl and Zoya hit the links on this beautiful Friday afternoon. Karl shared his Rocky Patel Edge second-hand smoke with the course jack rabbits.

Karl's Weekend Reading

Ann Coulter, owner of our sexy Commie Obama Rally Cap, piles on the Obama - negotiate with everybody conversation. This is another case of a issue so serious, Ann's sarcasm is pushed aside, but not completely, by crystal-clear points. And we love her conclusion. Here are some of her questions that we'll never hear a Democrat address:

What possible reason is there to meet with Ahmadinejad? To win a $20 bar bet as to whether or not the man actually owns a necktie?
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Does Obama imagine he will make demands of Ahmadinejad? Using what stick as leverage, pray tell? A U.S. boycott of the next Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran?
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What kind of deal do you make with a madman until he is ready to surrender?
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Will President Obama listen respectfully as Ahmadinejad says he plans to build nuclear weapons? Will he say he'll get back to Ahmadinejad on removing all U.S. troops from the region? Will he nod his head as Ahmadinejad demands the removal of the Jewish population from the Middle East?

Thomas Sowell has another powerful article on race at Townhall.com, Mascot Politics. It differs slightly from Obama's 'great' speech on race.

For people on the left, however, blacks are trophies or mascots, and must therefore be put on display. Nowhere is that more true than in politics.

The problem with being a mascot is that you are a symbol of someone else's significance or virtue. The actual well-being of a mascot is not the point.
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Politicians who use blacks as mascots do not hesitate to throw blacks to the wolves for the benefit of the teachers' unions, the green zealots whose restrictions make housing unaffordable, or people who keep low-price stores like Wal-Mart out of their cities.

Bret Stephens reacts to the new language guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security in his WSJ article, Homeland Security Newspeak. "Progress" vs. "Liberty"? THIS is what our tax dollars are funding?

In its most eye-catching recommendation (which goes strangely unmentioned in an Associated Press story about the memo), the DHS authors explain their preference for the word "progress" over "liberty."

"The struggle is for 'progress,' over which no nation has a monopoly," reads the memo. "The experts we consulted debated the word 'liberty,' but rejected it because many around the world would discount the term as a buzzword for American hegemony. But all people want to support 'progress,' which emphasizes that there is a path for building strong families and prosperity among the current dislocations of globalization and change. And progress is precisely what the terrorists oppose through their violent tactics and through their efforts to impose a totalitarian world view."

It seems to have escaped the authors' notice that the most formidable totalitarian movement of the 20th century – communism – was, by its own lights, "progressive." It seems to have escaped their notice that the essence of a totalitarian system is the denial of liberty (often in the name of progress). It seems to have escaped their notice that "progress" is a word that signifies nothing. Exactly what is one progressing to?

Obama Gaffe #3665

And counting...

Can this guy fit any more incorrect statements into a day? Could he if he tried?

So Obama has an Uncle that liberated Auschwitz. Not the brother of his Mom, herself an only child. Maybe it was a great uncle, and maybe it was Buchenwald that he might have helped liberate. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe we'll get this right some day.

The gaffes of Obama, and every other liberal who finds it easier to make up history than to learn it, are not the reason behind Ushanka.us. Our mission is to track communist activities around the globe and communist inspirations nationally. It is unfortunate that the Democrats continue to nominate candidates that cannot keep one foot grounded in reality, and that we are forced to lower our standards to report endless 'mis-statements'.

Amanda Carpenter has more on this latest Obama quote.

Michelle Malkin lists recent Obama Gaffes.

Charles Krauthamer writes:

...a presidential candidate makes a gaffe, then, realizing it is too egregious to take back without suffering humiliation, decides to make it a centerpiece of his foreign policy.

NBC and the White House - UPDATE & REPOST

It appears NBC has taken liberties with a recent Bush interview, skewing the presented segments in a pro-appeasement view.

White House counselor Ed Gillespie takes some liberties of his own in his complaint to NBC:

“I noticed that around September of 2007, your network quietly stopped referring to conditions in Iraq as a ‘civil war,’ ” Gillespie wrote. “Is it still NBC News’s carefully deliberated opinion that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war? If not, will the network publicly declare that the civil war has ended, or that it was wrong to declare it in the first place?”

Gillespie also hit NBC News on its reporting on the state of the economy.

“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Gillespie concluded. “I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network’s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.”

Bias in the media?

UPDATE 5.26: The White House targets the New York Times. It appears the NYT mis-represented Bush's support for GI Bill Reform.

In today's editorial, "Mr. Bush and the GI Bill", the New York Times irresponsibly distorts President Bush's strong commitment to strengthening and expanding support for America's service members and their families.

Again... Bias in the media?

Our prediction, albeit with some hesitation - the MSM will show their hand as the Obama meltdown becomes inevitable after the conventions.

Happy Memorial Day

Our thanks to the troops, our President, and to those that wave the flag!

Update 5.27: Adding two inspiring stories:

From Saturday's Wall Street Journal, Protesting the Antiwar Protestors. About Pennsylvanian Rich Davis who has led the anti-antiwar protests. An excerpt-

Mr. Davis had been building to such a decision for a long time. He was just a kid during the Vietnam War, but he is still bothered by the disrespect heaped on returning Vietnam vets in the 1960s and '70s. In part that is because, in 1967, Mr. Davis attended the funeral of a man he idolized – his sister's boyfriend, Marine Lance Cpl. Alan R. Schultz from Levittown, Pa. Schultz was killed by mortar fire in Vietnam.

"Al was a great guy," Mr. Davis remembers. "When we got the word that he had been killed, I felt the bottom fall out. I cried the rest of that summer."

Even today, Mr. Davis can't look at an antiwar protest without thinking that Schultz, his comrades and their modern-day counterparts are being disrespected. So after seeing the war protesters each week, Mr. Davis said to himself, "Not this war. Not this time."

"We're not silent anymore," Mr. Davis told me. "We refuse to let antiwar protesters have the stage to themselves."

And a great story of Gene Brinsom, wife of Sgt. James Brinsom, who has put yellow ribbons along the route that her husband will drive when he returns from Iraq. Local blogger and Commie Obama hat owner Sondrak has the write-up.

Last, our thanks to Yahoo! for recognizing the holiday. We wouldn't normally say thanks to a US corporation for this, but their competitor offers a stark contrast. Little Green Footballs has more.

Obama's Commencement Speech

We watched 3 minutes of his speech as Wesleyan today. After hearing the word "collective" one too many times, we turned CNN off and went on to enjoy our Memorial Day weekend.

The headline from the Hartford Courant: Obama treated as rock star at Wesleyan commencement

Here is a video we found that closely summarizes Obama's speech.

Karl's Weekend Reading

We spent this week watching Obama try to evade his July 2007 promise to conduct negotiations with Iran, and without preconditions.

Commie Obama hat owner and former UN Ambassador John R. Bolton comments on Obama's reaction to Bush's speech to Israel's Knesset, "where he equated 'negotiating with the terrorists and radicals' to 'the false comfort of appeasement." Monday's WSJ Editorial page.

Negotiation is not a policy. It is a technique. Saying that one favors negotiation with, say, Iran, has no more intellectual content than saying one favors using a spoon. For what? Under what circumstances? With what objectives? On these specifics, Mr. Obama has been consistently sketchy.
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Moreover, negotiations – especially those "without precondition" as Mr. Obama has specifically advocated – consume time, another precious asset that terrorists and rogue leaders prize. Here, President Bush's reference to Hitler was particularly apt: While the diplomats of European democracies played with their umbrellas, the Nazis were rearming and expanding their industrial power.

Joe Lieberman, the maverick senator of the left, added his $0.02 in Wednesday's WSJ, Democrats and Our Enemies. Despite his rosy view of the recent Democrat courage in foreign affairs, he does hit on some points in the Obama-McCain comparison:

There are of course times when it makes sense to engage in tough diplomacy with hostile governments. Yet what Mr. Obama has proposed is not selective engagement, but a blanket policy of meeting personally as president, without preconditions, in his first year in office, with the leaders of the most vicious, anti-American regimes on the planet.

Mr. Obama has said that in proposing this, he is following in the footsteps of Reagan and JFK. But Kennedy never met with Castro, and Reagan never met with Khomeini. And can anyone imagine Presidents Kennedy or Reagan sitting down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad or Chavez? I certainly cannot.

Karl Rove, retired genius and hopefully future Commie Obama hat owner, writes in Thursday's WSJ, Obama's Troubling Instincts. He hits on a point the MSM is desperate to counter. In fact, we believe the MSM has 'pre-empted' this criticism of Obama's feel-as-you-go approach to current foreign affairs challenges. Mr. Rove comments on the background of a presidential-level negotiation and what he suspects will occur with the Obama-Ahmadinejad meeting:

I recommend that he read Henry Kissinger's book, "The White House Years." Mr. Obama would learn it took 134 private meetings between U.S. and Chinese diplomats before a breakthrough at a Jan. 20, 1970 meeting in Warsaw. It took 18 months of behind-the-scenes discussions before Mr. Kissinger secretly visited Beijing. And it took seven more months of hard work before Nixon went to China. The result was a new relationship, announced in a communiqué worked out over months of careful diplomacy.
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But what might work on the primary campaign trail doesn't work nearly as well in Tehran. What, for example, does Mr. Obama think he can offer the Iranians to get them to become a less pernicious and destabilizing force? One of Iran's top foreign policy goals is a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. This happens to be Mr. Obama's top foreign policy goal, too. Why should Iran or other rogue states alter their behavior if Mr. Obama gives them what they want, without preconditions?

And on Friday, Kimberely Strassel lands the final blow in her opinion piece, The Obama Learning Curve:

Today's Obama, all-but-nominee, is pitching to a broad American audience less keen to legitimize Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who provides weapons that kill American soldiers. The senator clumsily invited this debate when he took great umbrage to President Bush's recent criticism of appeasers (which, in a wonderfully revealing moment, Democrats instantly assumed meant them). Mr. Obama has since been scrambling to neutralize his former statement.

A week ago, in Oregon, he adopted the "no-big-deal" approach, telling listeners Iran was just a "tiny" country that, unlike the Soviet Union, did not "pose a serious threat to us." But this suggested he'd missed that whole asymmetrical warfare debate – not to mention 9/11 – so by the next day, he'd switched to the "blame-Republicans" line. Iran was in fact "the greatest threat to the United States and Israel and the Middle East for a generation" – but all because of President Bush's Iraq war.
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It wasn't supposed to be this way. Democrats entered this race confident national security wouldn't be the drag on the party it has in the past. With an unpopular war and a rival who supports that war, they planned to wrap Mr. McCain around the unpopular Mr. Bush and be done with it. Mr. Obama is still manfully marching down this road, today spending as much time warning about a "third Bush term" as he does reassuring voters about a first Obama one.

Wednesday Afternoon Cigar

We toured the Davidoff cigar factory last week in Santiago, Dominican Republic. If you want the ultimate cigar, there is no comparison. We smoked a Davidoff #2 this afternoon as we celebrated the launch of CommieObama.com - our new storefront for the remainder of the 2008 election, and our first ads up on Townhall and Red Planet Cartoons.

Liberals = Socialism = Communism

YouTuber and musician Rafael Brom has put a few videos together with his own music that seems to tie US Democrats to Communism.

Look at this 6-minute video and let us know if you too see the hidden connections. WARNING: graphic images.

Atheism is the bond between liberals, socialists and communists. Once you consider yourself the highest being, 100,000,000 dead in 74 years is a necessary cost for the benefits of Utopia. That is why we too see more similarities than differences.