Disgusting me more every day

I can no longer contain my contempt for Barack Obama. Not that I did such a great job before. The latest:

"Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church," Obama said Thursday during a taping of the ABC talk show, "The View."

Here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale.

Surber says the AP's headline is inaccurate.

Maguire missed Wright's apology.

Haiku Wednesday

Hillary a liar
Finally she tells the truth
"Oh no, my worldview!"

Beck has Sullivan's number more than anyone.

Hitchens on Obama and Wright

If I had his way with words, I wouldn't be an unpaid, unread blogger. From Slate:

Sen. Obama has long known perfectly well, in other words, that he'd one day have to put some daylight between himself and a bigmouth Farrakhan fan. But he felt he needed his South Side Chicago "base" in the meantime. So he coldly decided to double-cross that bridge when he came to it. And now we are all supposed to marvel at the silky success of the maneuver.

You often hear it said, of some political or other opportunist, that he would sell his own grandmother if it would suit his interests. But you seldom, if ever, see this notorious transaction actually being performed, which is why I am slightly surprised that Obama got away with it so easily.

Some conservatives favor legalization or decriminilization?

Of marijuana only, but it's still amazing. Note that he still wants to chase cocaine and heroin. Legal heroin wouldn't fly in this country at this point in time, so I still have to consider this to be progress.

The decades of prohibition on marijuana have done little to stem its popularity and abuse. In terms of intoxication, it has no worse effects than alcohol, and some argue considerably less impairment.

snip

We know that what we’ve been doing hasn’t worked. Is it time to acknowledge a new paradigm on marijuana? Perhaps[.]

He's probably correct about the constitutional interpretation of Frank's bill. Still, the feds have ignored the Constitution on drugs for decades, so why start now?

Also notice the number of commenters that agree. That's a pretty conservative readership over there, so that's a big deal.

Willing guillibility

I can think of no other phrase for people like this. It is truly voluntary.

In a chat with a friend I referred to Obama as a "lying fucking dipshit". Perhaps the fucking dipshit bit was harsh, but Bruce McQuain found the lie. That, of course, was not the only one in the speech. Bruce does nail the speech.

Essentially this will satisfy those who are pro-Obama and not satisfy those who are not for Obama.

Billy Beck states what everyone else should be noticing.

Obama could, and should, have gotten started down this road quite without Wright anywhere near him at any time in his life in any way.

He didn't.

The "crazy uncle" defense just doesn't work here. It's one thing to have a crazy uncle. It's another thing to go over to his house, sit on his porch, drink his moonshine, and listen to him wax nostalgic about lynchings and cross burnings for 20 years.

UPDATE: He's not lying, he's just nuanced. He was talking about different statements then than he is now. Nice parsing. How very...Clintonesque. Assume this argument is correct. Would a Republican candidate be forgiven by the left for having a connection to a racist? The answer is no. Not a chance.

UPDATE: Allahpundit's anger is righteous. And he's right; this story is over, and if it does return, it will be "old news". UPDATE WITHIN AN UPDATE: Righteous. "He’s a gutless, opportunistic coward who was afraid to say an unkind word to one of the power brokers in the black community on whom he counted for votes as an Illinois politician, and now that he’s a national figure he’s throwing the same guy under the bus to preserve the illusion that he’s a 'post-racial' politician."

UPDATE: Caroline Glick: "I was 13 years old when I stood up alone to all my classmates and told them that I thought they should be ashamed of themselves for supporting an anti-Semite for president. I was a child. But Obama came to Wright as an adult. And as an adult, he sat through 20 years of Wright’s anti-white, anti-Jewish, and anti-American vitriol and said nothing."

UPDATE: McArdle and Wilkinson notice a different discriminatory angle.

Because it worked so well before

A conservative "thinker" seemingly suggests a Chinese embargo in order to bring freedom to China. At least that's how I read this:

If the world wants to change China’s behavior, they [sic] can start by locking them [sic] out of economic markets.

Counter-arguments:

1) The Cuban one hasn't worked, and some people who publically support the embargo know that it hasn't.

2) China was largely closed off before, albeit not completely locked out. How free did it become? This free, and this free.

3) Last, but certainly not least, what he is suggesting is that in order to bring freedom to China, everyone else must sacrifice some freedom.

Tell you what, you lock China out of your economic market and leave the rest of us free to do as we wish.

UPDATE: Self link! Funny how he hasn't mentioned that again lately.

Which potential Lenin is most Leninish?

Ohio wants a bribe. Obviously offers are being considered.

Rick Moran doesn't mention the mercantilism. Dave Schuler does.