Knight Owl tipped me to this one.

Quoting from the website How Obama Got Elected:

On November 4th, 2008 millions of Americans were shocked that a man of Barack Obama’s limited experience, extreme liberal positions and radical political alliances could be elected President of the United States. For many of these Americans, the explanation was rather simple… the news media, completely enamored with Obama, simply refused to do their job.

On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not.

The questions asked were simple.  When John Ziegler appeared on Hannity and Colmes, Colmes said that he’d bet Ziegler could get the same kind of screwed up answers by quizzing random McCain voters.  Ziegler disputed that, and in fact offered to pay Colme’s production costs if he could produce a legitimately created video demonstrating as much.

I can’t quiz random McCain voters, so I did the next best thing.  I quizzed my 14-year old daughter Missy, without letting her watch the film clip or refer to Google, etc.  I’ve put her answers in blue italics.  The correct answers are in bold red.  There are 15 questions showing, even though there were officially only 12.  I numbered each of the “who is” questions separately.

1. Which party currently controls congress?  Democrats unfortunately/Democrats
2. Which candidate previously had to drop out of a campaign due to plagiarism?  Wasn’t that Joe Biden?/Joe Biden
3. Who won his first election by getting all three of his opponents kicked off the ballot?  I know this one!  Barack Obama!/Obama
4. Who said his policies would bankrupt the coal industry and make energy costs skyrocket? Obama.  At some meeting in California I think./Obama.
5. Who is Barney Frank?  He’s that guy from up in Massachusetts.  He’s a congressman.  He’s gay.  And he’s the one who caused a lot of the housing problems./Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts, who is indeed gay and did, in fact, have a lot to do with the current housing “problems.”
6. Who is Nancy Pelosi?  She’s a democratic congressman from California.  She’s the speaker of the house./Democrat Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the house, and is a congresswoman from California.
7. Who is Harry Reid?  I know he’s a senator, and I think he’s from California or maybe Arizona./The democratic senator is in fact from Nevada, and is the senate majority leader.
8. Who is Bill Ayers?  He’s that weather underground terrorist dude that started Obama in politics that Obama tries to say he barely knew./Couldn’t have put it better myself!
   
9. Which candidate spent $150,000 on clothes?  Sarah Palin/Sarah Palin
   
10. Which candidate has a pregnant teenage daughter?  Sarah Palin/Sarah Palin
11. Which candidate said they could see Russia from their house?  Sarah Palin/Sarah Palin said you could see Russia from Alaska.  Tina Fey said you could see it from “her” house (while acting as Sarah Palin).
    
12. Which candidate said they had campaigned in 57 states?  Obama!/Obama, indeed
13. Who said that Obama would be tested by an international crisis in his first six months in office?  Joe Biden/Joe Biden
14. Which said that government should redistribute the wealth? Who else?  Obama/Who else, indeed?
    
15. Is redistributing the wealth a good thing? Missy’s answer was too long.  I’ll summarize it:  No./Though socialists would disagree with me, the correct answer is hell no.

Here’s the video itself:

Ziegler also commissioned a Zogby telephone poll which asked the same questions (as well as a few others) of more than 500 Obama voters.  The results were quite similar:

This poll will form the basis of an upcoming John  Ziegler film, “Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected.” You can find more on John Ziegler’s site and on the How Obama Got Elected site.

And if it goes too far, I predict splitsville

From FOX News:

Could former President Bill Clinton’s charitable affairs cost Hillary Clinton the secretary of state job in Barack Obama’s administration?

That’s what insiders are wondering after reports that the former president’s financial and foreign entanglements could hurt the New York senator in her bid for a Cabinet post.

Politico.com reported Monday that Democrats “are becoming exasperated” by Bill Clinton’s response to requests for information about his finances.

“The sense among the no-drama Obama world is: This is well on its way to winning best Oscar for drama,” an unnamed Democrat told Politico.com.

Of worry, Politico.com said, is whether Clinton’s charity would create a conflict of interest with foreign governments. The New York Times reported Sunday that lawyers from the Obama camp were looking into the former president’s dealings with foreign governments and pharmaceutical companies.

Guess we’ll see what happens.

... for most of us …

Maggie sent this one along.  Oh my.

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

The Onion strikes again.

Excuse me?

So, they’ve come up with a new word — Barackism.  What’s a Barackism?  It’s kind of like an Obamanym.  Here’s a list that FOX News put together:

OBAMAPHORIA: The postelection rapture that swept over Obama’s supporters worldwide.

OBAMANATION: A twist on “abomination,” expressed by evangelicals and other conservatives who oppose Obama’s stance on abortion, gay marriage and other social issues.

OBAMARAMA: The celebrations around the Jan. 20, 2009, inauguration.

OBAMANOS: A play on “Vamonos,” or “Let’s go,” among Obama fans in Mexico.

OBAMATOPIA: The political paradise that Obama’s staunchest supporters hope he’ll usher in.

OBAMALUJAH: Exultation shouted by his fans.

OBAMATRONS: The policy wonks who will occupy the West Wing of his White House.

OBAMASCOPE: Media scrutiny of the new leader. (Example: “One hundred days after Barack Obama took office, newspaper editors put the president’s economic plan under the Obamascope.”)

OBAMANATOR: Hollywood-inspired nickname for the new president — even if he’s got what California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger contends are “skinny legs” and “scrawny little arms.”

OBAMALICIOUS: Complimentary term used by those who like Obama’s looks.

OBAMALOHA: Goodbye, Obama-style, with a nod to Hawaii, his birthplace.

OH-BAMA: Joyful exclamation, via headlines in the Kennebec, Maine, Journal, The Regisister Guard in Eugene, Ore., and The Namibian, from the southern African country of Namibia.

BAMELOT: Description of his presidency, from a New York Post headline that played on the youth and freshness of John F. Kennedy’s administration that came to be known as “Camelot.”

OBAMERIKA: Headline from the Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija.

BARACKSTAR: Description from those who believe Obama is “the Mick Jagger of politics” (from Slate.com).

Enough to turn the stomach, isn’t it?  They left out my personal favorite:

OBAMASSIAH

“I Have a Dream” by Johnny Franks

posted November 6, 2008

My fellow Americans, let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day conservative, freedom loving Americans will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed that America is based on the rule of law and not ruled by political correctness.

I have a dream that one day on the sandy shores of Florida and in the hills of North Carolina and Virginia that these great states will come back to their senses and will be able to sit down together at the table of Southern brotherhood once again.

I have a dream that one day even the state of California, a state wallowing in mire of leftist ideology, wallowing in the muck of liberalism, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that one day our nation will not be driven by popular rock star like candidates or by those of whom Europe approves. I pray we learn that only Americans elect a leader and it must be one that seeks our interests and security above all others.

I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not vote for a candidate merely because of the color of his/her skin but by the content of their character and qualifications. Neither will they have to pay taxes in order to give money to those who do not.

I have a dream today. I have a dream that America will return to its roots of the rule of law and not the slave of activist judges. We may walk for a few, hopefully only four, years through what seems like the valley of the shadow of death but we will overcome. We will prevail and truth, justice and the American way will be restored to this great land.

May the good Lord forgive us for what we have done. Sometimes you get what you deserve but take hope, the sun will rise again. Yes, we can.

Johnny Franks
seechatt@yahoo.com

Chattanoogan.com

Our turn now

For the last eight years, I have listened to screams of “not MY president!” and “Bushitler” and so on.  While he wasn’t who I would have picked given a real choice, Dubya was who I picked given the choices available to me.   Given the choices available to me this time around, I chose McCain, even though he wasn’t my first (or even second) pick if I’d have had a real choice in the matter.  I didn’t vote for him in the primary, but I did vote for him in the general election.

Well, now we have B. Hussein Obama waiting in the wings and I intend to afford him the same exact courtesy, respect and loyalty as was afforded Dubya these last eight years.  I won’t stoop to the childish level of threatening to leave the country or calling him “Hitler” (Stalin would be more appropriate anyhow), and I won’t screech he’s not MY president — sadly, he is (or will be).  But that’s about as far as it goes.

The proper response is …

• Obama won 67% of the single mother vote,
• 90% of the first time voter vote,
• 92% of the “young” vote,
• 96% of the black vote,
• and 100% of the moron vote

Where do you fit in?

When the time comes, a year or two from now, that you are willing to admit you were wrong and putting Barack Hussein Obama into office was the worst possible move this country could have made, I solemnly pledge to try to refrain from telling you “I told you so.”

In the meantime, please keep your immature gloating to yourself.

Disclaimer:  If you’re *not* gloating about it, and you’re NOT sending out emails about the “demon monster Palin woman” and so on, then please feel free to ignore this.

The gal’s got brains, too

Carrie Underwood was recently being interviewed by TV Guide. 

She was asked about who she was supporting in the (then) upcoming election.

She revealed, “There is someone I do support, but I don’t support publicly. I lose all respect for celebrities when they back a candidate.  It’s saying that the American public isn’t smart enough to make their own decisions. I would never want anybody to vote for anything or anybody just because I told them to. Music is where you go to get away from all the BS. Whether it’s from politics or just the world around you, music should be an escape.”

Pity more people don’t share her view.  So many celebrities endorse candidates these days and sway uninformed voters to their position in the process.  No, the voter shouldn’t be so gullible, but the celebrity shouldn’t be out there trying to talk about things they likely know nothing about. Witness all the celebs voting for Obama, who can’t name a single accomplishment of his.  Or a position — that can come to be, anyhow — he holds.

It’s 9:00 eastern now, in another two hours, the polls will be closed all across the country.  I’m hearing that if the election is close, we may not know for sure who our President is for another month due to all the absentee ballots that still need to be counted.  I just want it over.

No matter who you’re voting for, please, cast your ballot!

You have a right — and a responsibility — to vote.  Please do so.

My hope, of course, is you’ll vote McCain.  But even if you don’t, at least you’ll know you had a part in deciding the election.  Every vote really DOES count.  I have actually seen issues determined by a little handful of votes.  Yeah, it went to recount and had to be triple-verified, but a single digit number made the final decision.  And hey, with all the voter fraud we’re seeing this time around, I’m expecting we’ll go to recount no matter who wins anyhow.

No matter who wins, if you didn’t have a say in it, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself for being unhappy with the outcome.  Please don’t waste your vote!

And if you want some last minute advice:

Vote McCain/Palin!