Obama's SOTU — 'PIVOT'

I live-blogged Obama’s State of the Union speech at Newsreal and began my coverage with this clip from “Friends” featuring the word, “Pivot!” The predictions for the SOTU speech were that Obama would use it to pivot toward the center. He didn’t, but I like the clip so much I’m keeping it. He did say a few things that conservatives approve of — we need more nuclear power and off-shore drilling were my favorites — but since his words have no connection to his actions, I had the impression that his real motive for saying them was, “Made you clap!”

Oh, Obama called on Congress to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” He did NOT call on Eric Holder, his attorney general, to stop filing scorched-earth amicus briefs opposing every aspect of equality for homosexuals. Also, he did not set a deadline for the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It may just be that the campaign by a few gay and lesbian bloggers to get gays and lesbians to stop donating money to the Democrats until they get DADT and DOMA repealed is inflicting enough pain for Obama to test whether they will start donating again based on his recycling the promises he made in October to the Human Rights Campaign, shortly before Holder filed one of the above-mentioned briefs.

Frank Luntz’s focus group on Fox: “I think he’s mediocre and delusional,” “He’s the best conservationist in America because he keeps re-cycling his campaign promises.” There were a few who thought Obama was inspirational and doing the best with the circumstances he inherited. However, the complaints on the disconnect between Obama’s rhetoric and his actions dominated. Only one of member of the panel thought the recession is over.

“He promised earmark reform. He signed the biggest pork-laden bill, $700, $800 billion in new pork.”

“He hasn’t kept any of his campaign promises, so because of that, the words that he said, some of them were encouraging, but they ring hollow to me.”

Luntz pointed out that Nancy Pelosi, as Speaker of the House, is paid $223,000 per year, but the top U.S. general in America who runs the war gets $179,000 per year. Luntz then reminded the group that Obama said we should support the military and asked whether the general deserved to earn more than the Speaker of the House. Everyone said “yes.”

You know who should be live blogging the SOTU? Republican members of Congress! THAT would be TEH AWESOME!!!

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(H/T a commenter at Perfunction, which has other versions of this photo from the White House’s Flickr feed that are just as hilarious. Via Ace.)

I just read Michelle Malkin’s post that Joe Wilson will be the first member of Congress to answer a State of the Union address with a live video post from his Facebook page. You may recall Joe Wilson, who is an immigration attorney, shouted “You lie!” when Obama addressed Congress and told them falsely that the proposed health care legislation would not provide healthcare to illegal immigrants.

But it occurred to me that the people who OUGHT to be liveblogging Obama’s State of the Union address are the Republican members of Congress. How freakin’ AWESOME would it be if each and every one of them were on his or her Twitter or Facebook account liveblogging their reactions? OMG!

Michael Steele — why do we conservative bloggers have to keep thinking of these things FOR YOU?

P.S.

I’m planning to live blog the SOTU tonight at Newsreal.

Update, 1/27/2010, Wed.:

Thanks, Stacy, for the link, although I have to say your headline announcing Vodkapundit will be drunkblogging the SOTU is, um, so very “dog bites man.”

UPDATED — Just a reminder before Obama's State of the Union speech

It turns out Barack Obama is not a magic Negro. It turns out there’s no such thing as a magic Negro.

Dang.

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Watch this from Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s pose of fiscal prudence by proposing a spending freeze for 17 percent of the federal budget (while refusing to rescind the parts of the $787 billion stimulus bill that have not yet been spent) — “it’s not a scalpel, it’s a Q-tip, it’s lunch money, a rounding error”:

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H/T Megan McArdle via Alex Massie at The Spectator, UK.

Swear to God last week I ordered the following five books:

  • Going Rogue by Gov. Sarah Palin
  • The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek
  • The Fatal Conceit: the Errors of Socialism by Friedrich von Hayek
  • Socialism by Ludwig von Mises
  • Liberalism by Ludwig von Mises

Going Rogue is a delightful book, but I have to admit, the other four are tougher sledding. I want to understand the school of economic thought at the foundation of Gov. Palin’s Commonsense Conservatism since I’m going to be writing about her more. After all, her economic approach to governing does have a distinguished pedigree.

And with boom-and-bust cycles under discussion in the video above, this is a good place to include a video Moe Lane featured in a post on Jan. 18, which explains how the Community Reinvestment Act passed under Carter and amended under Clinton created so many of the conditions causing our current economic crisis — a boom and bust, if you will:

Photo proof Ellie Light is real — AND, she's written to Little Miss Attila

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Well, the Right blogosphere is all aflutter today — Ellie Light is real! We have found her Facebook photo (above), AND she has written identical missives to Little Miss Attila, Dan Riehl (here and here) and other bloggers all proclaiming her reality and scathingly deriding the Right’s skepticism that she exists. Well, Obama got into office on just his say-so that he was qualified, so it stands to reason that the Right should accept that Ellie Light is real on her say-so alone, too! Dear Little Miss Attila has the round-up and the scoop!

Update, 1/25/2010, Mon.:

Stacy McCain has a more flattering portrait of Ellie Light, but a less flattering opinion of her character.

My definition of 'womanliness' is fairly broad

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Dear Cassandra of Villainous Company has recruited a number of bloggers, including Little Miss Attila and me, to write posts over at her place of ruminations about womanhood, which she is calling “The Womanliness Project.”

My first post begins as follows:

In the lesbian community we have the full spectrum of manifestation for Vagina-Americans, and you would think that I have done my duty by expanding the definition of womanliness to include everyone with a vagina.

Wrong! So wrong!

Pre- and post-op trannies going BOTH directions insist on inclusion, too.

Nevertheless, I cruelly, ruthlessly exclude them from the company of woman-only spaces. For real — in the late 1980’s, when I ran a group for feminine lesbians — who are NOT the same as femmes! — in Silver Spring, Maryland, which is a suburb of Washington, D.C., a pre-op male-to-female trannie attended one of my meetings and infuriated pretty much every woman there so much that I had to tell him/her not to come back or I would not have had a group. After that, I caught hell for stipulating that to be allowed to attend the meetings, you had to be born female as well as wear a skirt or dress (the latter requirement was the cheapest form of dyke repellent I could think of).

Read the rest here.

UPDATED — Kevin DuJan of Hill Buzz is NOT a racist and he needs our help

The Daily Kos and Democratic Underground have outed Kevin DuJan as the owner of the blog, Hill Buzz. They are smearing him with the false charge that that he is a racist. They are urging their readers to destroy his career and attack him physically. (I’m not linking them, but you can verify this by Googling. Instead, I suggest you read Hill Buzz here.)

The Right blogosphere should rally to the aid of DuJan and Hill Buzz, as he has tirelessly rallied to ours with dozens of posts teaching Republicans how to campaign effectively and supporting Republicans, including Gov. Sarah Palin and now Sen.-elect Scott Brown. If you are not familiar with Hill Buzz, here is a wonderful sample post — they are observing the first anniversary of Obama’s inauguration with the thank-you letter they wrote to Pres. George W. Bush last year.

In my transition from lifelong Democrat and liberal during the presidential campaign in 2008, I started reading blogs so I would be able to explain to my Democrat friends that I had legitimate reasons for supporting McCain/Palin. STOP LAUGHING!!! Since I was briefly a Hillary PUMA, I read PUMA blogs and liked Hill Buzz the best. I began to read Hill Buzz every day some time in September or October of 2008. I assure my gentle readers, Kevin DuJan and the rest of the Hill Buzz boyz are not racists. They oppose racial entitlement and racial grievance hate-mongering. That is not racism.

Hill Buzz is written by a group of gay men in Chicago who began the blog in early 2008 as part of their efforts on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Thanks to experiencing the dirty tricks of the Obama campaign up close and personal during the primaries, as soon as the Democratic nomination was stolen from Hillary, they became supporters of John McCain. They blogged, campaigned, phonebanked and donated money for McCain/Palin with unbounded zeal and passion.

Now Kevin DuJan and Hill Buzz need our support. We MUST push back against FALSE charges of racism because Lefties will use it to destroy innocent people as long as it keeps working. Certainly if we do not hang together on this, we will hang separately.

What are the best ways to express your support? Here are some suggestions:

  1. Bloggers can write posts in support of Kevin Dujan and Hill Buzz and link to Hill Buzz posts.
  2. I’m encouraging Kevin to write an e-book collecting his posts teaching Republicans how to campaign and fight Democratic dirty tricks, plus his posts on the Hill Buzzers’ experiences of Obama’s dirty tricks during the primaries. I suggested he sell it for $24.95, but offer it for $19.95 to people who buy it in advance of its publication. So, if you want to vote with your wallet, please go to Hill Buzz and click the “Donate” button and donate at least $19.95 with a note that you would like a copy of his e-book, if he does write it (if not, please just let it be a donation — he’s losing clients as a result of these false charges).
  3. I’m also encouraging Kevin to accept that these attacks destroying his current livelihood are calling him to a new career on a national stage as an author and motivational speaker. He is a professional writer. He has great insights, especially for the 2010 campaign. His books could be best-sellers. I bet his speeches would bring you to your feet cheering yourself hoarse. So if you are a literary agent, publisher or need a speaker for your event (and you pay your speakers), contact Kevin at hillbuzz at gmail.com. (The contact e-mail is published at Hill Buzz.)

Thank you.

Update, 1/21/2010, Thurs.:

Thanks for the link, Instapundit! And welcome, Instapundit readers!

Update, 23/2010, Sat.

I thank the following bloggers for posting, linking, tweeting and re-tweeting this post and standing up for Kevin DuJan and Hill Buzz — if I missed anyone, please leave a comment and I will add you:

  • Instapundit, aka Prof. Glenn Reynolds
  • Michelle Malkin, who knows what these attacks are like due to her courage as a pioneer in calling out racial grievance mongering: “You know you are getting to these Kossacks and Moveon.org-anisms when they start coming after you”
  • Prof. William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, for making this a “Post of the Day”
  • Dear Little Miss Attila, my fairy blog mother and a staunch friend of Hill Buzz: “Go Help the Guys at Hill Buzz”
  • Sissy Willis of SISU — she and Prof. Jacobson were the first two bloggers who went to work using social media to support the candidacy of Scott Brown in Massachusetts — read this awesome post on using social media
  • Kathy Shaidle, another fearless opponent of the enslaving and bullying tactics of identity politics — who is paid by the amount of traffic she gets (hint, hint): “Hey, stop me if you’ve heard this one!”
  • Gay Patriot: “Stand with Hill Buzz”
  • Conservatives4Palin: “Stand up for Hill Buzz”
  • Shakey Pete’s Shootin’ Shack — blogroll and bookmark and subscribe to this blog, I REALLY recommend it, and Pete is a great friend and frequent commenter here: “A Friend is Attacked, Unfairly”
  • Dan Riehl of Riehl World View has an excellent post with a link to Stacy McCain: “Hill Buzz versus whomever.” Charges like this are tried periodically on Stacy. When it happened in September 2009, I was one of the first to stand up for Stacy, which is how I learned that we really can make tactics like these feel like spitting into the wind for the Left — soon they were whining about how many bloggers were vouching for him!
  • Life in 3D: “Smear Merchants”
  • Moose and Squirrel: “Driving the snakes out of Washington”
  • Irons in the Fire: “Just a Few Things to Note This Morning”
  • Death by a 1,000 Paper Cuts: “Hill Buzz threatened by Kos and Dummie Underground”
  • iChannel (a news aggregator)
  • And all the re-tweets on Topsy.com.

And thank you to Kevin and the dear boyz at Hill Buzz for their kind thank-you post today — since I am old enough to be their mother, I am touched that they called me “a big sister” to them, instead!

I also am grateful to my dear gentle readers, old and new, who came here to read this post. In addition, I am grateful to the readers who donated to Hill Buzz and to me. I’ve gotten a P.O. box so I can send out real thank-you notes to all my donors, but it may be several weeks before I have things around the house well enough in hand to send them. I appreciate your generosity, kindness and patience.

Updated, 1/23/2010, Sat.:

Here’s an example of how to publish a book based on your blog posts: Dan Collins of POWIP has a new book, Was It Something I Said?

Updated, 1/29/2010, Fri.: Thanks for the link, Joe.My.God. — the reason most of the wingnut sites are pointing to this post is because I was the first blogger to take up my terrible, swift pixels on behalf of Kevin and Hill Buzz. I’m looking forward to Leftie gay and lesbian bloggers doing more to hold Obama and the Democrats to their promises of repealing DADT and DOMA. Set some deadlines, for example, and list what will happen if they are not met cheerfully and promptly.