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Gov. Christie, I was Joking Before About Giving You a Kiss.... But Now I Might Be Serious

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:58:00 +0000

Last week I joked that I wanted to give Gov. Chris Christie a kiss for his response to a reporter's question about the governor's attitude. This guy is firing double barrel at the political norms of New Jersey, and I, for one, like it a lot. A teacher complained that she wouldn't be receiving fair pay under Christie's new budget (she requested $3 per pupil or $83,000 per year), the governor informed her that if she doesn't like the pay scale of teaching, then she doesn't have to do it. Right on!

Christie/???? 2012? I'll vote for that. (Although I gather that 2016 is more likely.)

Dear Chris Christie, Can I Give You a Kiss?

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:58:00 +0000

And I mean that in the most hetero way possible. Allahpundit is eyeing Christie's chances in 2016. After viewing this clip I say why wait?

Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'

Reporter: Governor, do you think this sort of confrontational tone can increase your odds of getting this through the legislature?

Christie: You know, Tom, you must be the thinnest-skinned guy in America 'cause you think that's a confrontational tone, then you should really see me when I'm pissed. That's not confrontational. You know, I love when people say they don't want to have argument. That's what we were sent here for.

They believe in certain things. They believe in bigger government, higher taxes, and more spending. Here it is! Bigger government, higher taxes, more spending. I believe in less government, lower taxes, and in empowering local officials who are elected by their citizens to be able to fix their problems. That may lead to a disagreement or two.

Now, I could say it really nicely. I could say it in the way that you all might be more comfortable with. You know, maybe I could go back to the last administration and I could say it in the way that you wouldn't even understand it. But the fact of the matter is, this is who I am, and this is who the people elected.

And so you guys want to continue to talk about this process stuff, about my "tone," my "combativeness." You know, we've got them standing in the doorway of the Senate saying they won't even hold a hearing on an enormously qualified supreme court nominee. But that's not "combative" or "confrontational." Of course not! You know? Only I'm combative or confrontational.

Listen, everybody plays to their part. This is who I am. Like it or not, you guys are stuck with me for four years. And I'm going to say things directly. When you ask me questions, I'm going to answer them directly, straightly, bluntly. And nobody in New Jersey is going to have to wonder where I am on an issue. I think they've had enough of politicians who make them wonder. Cause you know why most of the time they make them wonder, Tom? They make them wonder so they've got an escape hatch. So they have an escape hatch, and I'm not interested in escape hatches.

I came here to govern, not to escape. I came here to govern, not to worry about reelection. I came here to do what people sent me here to do. And so "blunt," "direct," maybe you might say "honest and refreshing." Maybe we could see that in your paper tomorrow.

Obama Nike Ad

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:25:00 +0000

Drudge has a link up right now that points to a National Enquirer story claiming that Barack Obama allegedly had an affair with one of his staffers named Vera Baker. Who knows if this is true or not, but ever since the National Enquirer broke the John Edwards cheating story, they cannot be entirely ignored.

No word yet on whether Nike intends to pull it's endorsement of the President.

Tea Partiers are So Stupid...

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:36:00 +0000

... listen to how they quote the constitution verbatim. Also note how Rep. LoBiando (R-NJ) seems to be only vaguely familiar with the document he swore to support and defend.

Lowly Blogger Gets Comment of the Week Mention on Daily Caller Story

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:52:00 +0000

According to The Daily Caller, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has had a rough weekend reporting on the Chile earthquake. Here's just one clip of his struggle.

There are two more equally compelling clips of Sanchez's prowess as a news anchor. Read the rest of the post at The Daily Caller and at the bottom you'll find the DC Comment of the Week:

"DC comment of the week: Sanchez has always had trouble with distances. When he drove drunk and ran over that guy in 1990 he could have sworn he still had a good 9 meters before he hit him. "

That's-a mine! If you want more moderately witty comments, be sure to follow Advocate4Change on Twitter.

For background on the story, one must understand that while Rick Sanchez worked at WSVN in Miami, he ran over a man, Jeffrey Smuzinick, who was crossing the street. Sanchez quickly drove off because, well, drunk people make stupid decisions like that.

Oh did I forget to mention that part? Rick Sanchez was drunk at the time of the hit-and-run accident that left a man mortally wounded on the street. Smuzinick was paralyzed, but he held on for a few years until he died at the age of 36 thanks to Rick Sanchez and his affinity for cocktails. The reason the police knew he was drunk was because Sanchez returned to the scene of the accident several hours later. His blood alcohol level was .15, so unless he had a few drinks at home before coming back to the render aid (a few hours later, mind you), one can only assume Sanchez was well beyond the legal limit of .10 when he originally struck Smuzinick.

Hysterical Radio Gold - Glenn Beck Reads Letters from Children to Obama

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:23:00 +0000

This needs no introduction no explanation.

HT: The Right Scoop

Olbermann to Dallas Tea Party: "I have lots of black friends."

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:04:00 +0000

Who honestly thought Olbermann would respond to the Dallas Tea Party's invitation to attend their event on Saturday? Well he did, and, as expected, he declined.

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This is the significant portion:
"that will probably be a surprise to one of our regular daytime news anchors and one of our nighttime newscasters, and the two part-time newscasters, and the dozen minority anchors and reporters who often join us from the broadcast NBC network, and the seven salaried contributors to MSNBC, to say nothing of the regular guests."

1 regular daytime news anchor
1 nighttime newscaster
2 part-time newscasters
12 anchors and reporters (from NBC, not MSNBC)
7 salaried contributors to MSNBC

These 23(!) people of color work for MSNBC (or NBC), yet not one of them appears on the MSNBC lineup.

Where are you hiding them, MSNBC? At the back of the network's bus? Do you give them their own lunch counter, too? Oooooo Too soon?

Dallas Tea Party Invites Keith Olbermann Out to Experience Diversity

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:00:00 +0000

You remember a while back when the Dallas Tea Party invited Janeane Gerafalo out to a tea party? Well they're at it again, this time inviting Keith Olbermann out of his all-white bubble at MSNBC to the tea party in Dallas on February 27.

Odds that he takes them up on the invite? Virtually nil. Odds that Olbermann continues making a fool of himself as he drives MSNBC's ratings into the basement? Well, that one's a lock.

Oh no! Candidate for Texas Governor Debra Medina Wishy-Washy on 9/11 Truth

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:50:00 +0000

Debra Medina was doing so well. She was up 20 points in the polls since last month and might have overtaken Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, but the doors of political opportunity slammed quickly this morning during an interview with Glenn Beck. Here is the audio of the significant portion of the interview.

Well she didn't come out and say she's a truther, but she got pretty close. At least she didn't sign a petition, right? I suspect the Rick Perry campaign is already crafting their next ad.

Glenn Beck's producer said it best later in the show, "In the Texas Governor's race, if you want a 9/11 truther candidate, you just found one in Debra Medina." Ouch.

What do you think? Does something like this kill her chances?

Now Obama's Pretty Cool with Multimillion Dollar Bonuses for Wall St. Bankers

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:12:00 +0000

He's either losing his mind or he's a liar, but now Obama claims that he doesn't "begrudge" multi-million dollar bonuses given to "savvy" Wall St. bankers even though he used to refer to such bonuses as "obscene." Bloomberg reports:

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay.

So what caused this sudden change of heart? The third paragraph might provide the answer:

“I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen,” Obama said in the interview yesterday in the Oval Office with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free-market system.”

As for most of the American people sharing Obama's new-found love of bank bonuses, he should check the ranks of his own party. Just a cursory listening of NPR on any given day will show you that the lefties out there do begrudge these types of bonuses.

But these guys are cool; Obama knows these guys. The question is this: How well does he know these guys? Does he know them "campaign contribution" well? Hmmm? He knows them could've-served-in-the-cabinet well, which is worth quite a bit these days.

Glenn Beck Smacks Down Joe Klein

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:12:00 +0000

I don't know how I missed this video last week that Mediaite called "The Best Fifteen Minutes of Glenn Beck Ever." Joe Klein claimed that the average American is just too dumb to understand the awesome awesomeness of the stimulus package. Tasty morsels of humor rain out of the Joe Klein piñata as Glenn lands blow after blow. It really is fifteen minutes long, and it really is worth every second of your time.

If you're looking for more examples of stimulus waste, check out this post from last spring highlighting some of the "shovel-ready" goodness. Or learn about how the stimulus paid $1.2 million for 2 pounds of ham.

Obama Establishes New Protocol: Bow to the Mayor of Tampa

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:21:00 +0000

Out of work climate scientists everywhere should devote their free time to discover the underlying reason that would cause a United States President to bow to a city mayor. It's gotta be some kind of disease or something.

A few of my theories are

He's not spineless, but the spine that he does have is so weak it can only hold him upright for so long.
Narcolepsy
He's fallen in love with the reflection in his perfectly shined shoes
"Look! No bald spot!"

Two final questions:
What is your theory for what causes Obama to bow all the time?
And what exactly is going through the Admiral's mind who is standing next to the President?

(via: Weasel Zippers)

Happy Birthday, Change Barack!

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:19:00 +0000

I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to wish Change Barack a happy one-year anniversary. I want to say thank you to everyone who reads Change Barack. You guys keep me motivated to stay on top of things in the world of politics almost as much as seeing the ever-declining poll numbers of President Obama.

By the way, did you hear he would lose in a head to head race with Huckabee? Yeah. I don't presume to believe this blog has had any significant impact on the political scene over this past year, but when you consider that the Tea Party movement was not even a concept a year ago, it helps you realize that the seemingly insignificant grassroots can move the world. Keep up the good work.

I appreciate each of you who reads the items I post here, and although the frequency of my posts have fallen off in recent months due to some family responsibilities (all good stuff, don't worry!) I enjoy reading your comments and learning from you all. Year two has begun and hopefully Change Barack will be made obsolete in 2012. Stay strong everyone!

Let's take a look back at the 5 most popular posts from this past year.

5. Let the Eat Steak

Remember when the Obama's enjoyed their Valentine's Day dinner... in Chicago. The First Couple's date night caused the ailing American tax payer a cool $300,000.

4. 3 Indications that Barack Obama Hates England

The most astounding thing about this post is that it still gets hits from people who Google the phrase "Why does Barack Obama hate England?" While the events that first caused us to ask this question seem quite distant now, the sentiment still seems to resonate with some users on the web.

3. The Tea Parties are Gaining Traction

In March, who knew what a modern Tea Party even was much less the impact they would have on races nation-wide a few months later? Since then thousands of people have gotten involved in politics at ever level of government. Despite being demonized as "racists" and "angry mobs" the Tea Party movement has stayed strong and continued to hold its footing.

2. 4 Shocking Things Obama Wants You to Pay For

The $800 billion stimulus package was one of the first harbingers of what this administration would present to this nation. Coasting on the back of residual anger of the economic collapse of 2008 and some very undeserved goodwill provided by the American people, the stimulus package passed relatively easily through the Democratic congress into the waiting signing hand of Barack Obama. Nowadays the stimulus is almost universally recognized a waste-filled pork bill, as we were telling the American people from day one. I guess you have to actually go out and waste $800 billion dollars before you realize that wasting $800 billion on stupid stuff is a bad idea.

1. Top 20 Tea Party Signs

People wanted ideas for signs to make for their local Tea Party events, so I posted this list of a few of my favorites. Several other blogs linked to it as the July 4 Tea Parties were ramping up and just before the 9-12 march on Washington. It's interesting to see the signs that would still be relevant at a Tea Party today and which ones were specific to the events taking place a few months ago. (This was early in my blogging careers, so the dead links to the images also taught me to host them myself just to keep the links alive better.)

Obama's Response to Reid WAY Nicer than his Response to Ferraro

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:39:00 +0000

Okay, maybe the Trent Lott comparison isn't a perfect analogy (it still works, if you ask me though). Here's an example of how Obama and his people responded when Geraldine Ferraro said, "“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position, and if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." Note that Ferraro said nothing about his lack of "Negro dialect."

There are two ways to respond to this. Either we point out that Obama only gives passes on racism when he needs the source of the racist comment to pass his pet health care bill.

Or maybe Obama was rougher on Geraldine Ferraro because she's a woman. The sexist. Why does he hate women so much?

Ray Stevens Takes on Obamacare

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:28:00 +0000

Ray Stevens is one of those guys who writes songs that are kind of ridiculous sometimes. He's nowhere near the genius of Weird Al, but he still has some timelessly awesome songs. Considering political shifts, this one falls short of timeless, but it hits awesome with a surgical strike.

In case you miss the reference of the pacemaker vs. pain pill at the beginning of the video, Obama can fill you in. Watch the video.

Democrats, Oh How I Loathe Thee, Let Me Count the Lies

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Pelosi responds "There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail" and "there has never been a more open process for any legislation in anyone who serves here's experience."

They just keep proving Joe Wilson right. "You lie!"

Napolitano: "The System Worked," but "The System Failed Miserably"

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:11:00 +0000

"The system, once the incident had occurred, the system worked." So hey relax, everyone. The system worked perfectly after the bomb failed to get all explodey because of some kind of faulty detonator. The nice thing about Janet Napolitano's choice of words is that the statement probably still would have been true had the Detroit landscape been scattered with 289 dead bodies on Christmas Day. "Once the incident had occurred, the system worked." Yeah, well, "Once the incident had occurred" the system doesn't matter so much, does it?

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"Out of context" is the shield behind which many a politico hide after saying something stupid. The scary thing is this time we're not talking about Joe-Biden-level-stupid, we're talking about the safety of any non-radical-Muslim boarding any airplane in the world.

Thankfully we can all rest assured that after any future incidents occur, the Department of Homeland Security will be all over that. Before any future incidents occur, well, America, you're on your own.

Who Did Obama Bow to in Copenhagen?

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:21:00 +0000

Any ideas as to who this is?

Avatar - You Can Fly, You Can Fight, You Can CAW CAW CAWWWW !

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Not since the invention of pornography itself has a director achieved the level of disparity between the visual experience of an audience and the story itself as James Cameron has accomplished in his latest film Avatar. I would be remiss not to warn you of potential spoilers in the next few paragraphs, but if you have been part of the movie-going public for the past three decades, nothing I can write is capable of spoiling Avatar's altogether predictable story.

Fundamentally, Avatar is Cameron's retelling of the 1991 Robert Williams classic "Hook" with heaping portions of FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Dances With Wolves, and Capitalism: A Love Story thrown in. In Hook-like fashion, Jake Sulley (the only name you will remember from the films long list of forgettable characters) is forced to interact with a seemingly inferior people-group that is facing down an evil, but technologically superior, race. After a beautifully-shot montage, Jake becomes aware that although the blue tree-folk appear to be developmentally delayed with nearly every respect to their society, their hippy-ish qualities are appealing and deserve his protection. Unfortunately for the blue people, the audience could not be more apathetic about their plight; Smurfs garnered more emotional investment from viewers than these people. In Dances With Wolves the audience found itself pulling for the frightening-in-the-first-hour-but-lovable-in-the-second-hour native-Americans; in Avatar, however, the audience did not seem to care who lives or dies as long as the victor promised more awesome 3D action.

Again, borrowing from Hook, Jake-the-outsider challenges the alpha-male of the blue people and becomes the leader of the blue people, although we later discover that Jake has access to some kind of high-explosives or something, so that could have had some influence on his political ascendancy. There is no Tinkerbell character per se, but all of the blue people have glow-in-the-dark features that make them less Tinkerbell and more Black Eyed Pea.

Avatar

Not Avatar

Much like Rufio, leader of the Lost Boys, the former alpha-male of the blue people (who has a name, but nobody cares what it is) recognizes Jakes true heart and heroically sacrifices himself for the cause. Cameron fails to include inspiring lines like "Looky, look, I've got Hooky" and "You can fly, you can fight, and you can CAW CAW CAW crow." And, yes, Avatar's dialogue would have been improved with lines such as these.

The story surrounding the marketing of this film is that Cameron has had the desire to make Avatar for the past 30 years, but technology is just now capable of allowing him to see his vision attained. I find this hard to believe considering the heavy-handed preaching the audience receives about the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A religious people lives on top of vast amounts of a valuable mineral deposit called "unobtainium" (seriously) and this primarily caucasian military-industrial complex invades their land in order to obtain the "unobtainium." The following phrases are actually used in the film: "shock and awe campaign," "we will fight terror with terror," and the blue people call themselves "martyrs" at one point. With marked efficiency, the military, whose stereotypical leader spends the entirety of the film wanting to blow crap up, achieves a swift victory striking the political heart of the blue people which causes the warring clans of blue people to unite in order to aid the clan who was attacked. Outgunned, the blue people form an insurgency because, as one of them explains "We know these mountains better than they do."

Cameron is not satisfied to simply lecture his audience about the Iraq war; he uses his film as a platform to push his environmentalist and anti-capitalist agendas. The evil capitalists (who, we are told, "destroyed their world" such that in their world "there is no longer any green left" presumably because the evil capitalists so thoroughly raped mother nature back on earth) viciously attack the blue people who appear to function within some sort of utopian communal monarchy. Cameron's lecture culminates in a scene in which a giant pollution-spewing tree-chomping machine tears through the jungle that is a shot-for-shot remake of the Hexxus from FernGully: The Last Rainforest.

Capitalism

The most frustrating aspect of the film is dropping $15 to see a movie that incessantly preaches about how evil capitalism is. In this case it is especially maddening because James Cameron's films have earned in excess of $3 BILLION not including Avatar. Yeah. He despises capitalism. Can't you tell?

In the end, Avatar is full of eye candy, but, like candy, the calories are empty. The visuals are the best I have ever witnessed in a film, but the plot, dialogue, and characters are uninspired and yawn-worthy. I would recommend seeing this movie simply because each shot is so beautiful and the 3D effects are superb, but if you decide to see it, make sure you go to the theater because you will be disappointed watching this one at home.

Obama's Approval Rating Only 6 Points Higher Than Tiger Woods'

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:20:00 +0000

I never knew sports figures had approval ratings, but they do. And Tiger's approval rating is at 38%. One can only assume Woods still solidly holds the frat-boy vote. But President Obama only fares slightly better with his approval rating at an all-time low of 44% today. My how bad it's gotten for President Obama when the American people almost favor a pretty-boy-turned-adulterer over him.

It just shows that the American people have a poor sense of scale. Tiger Woods only screwed 10 people, but Barack Obama continues to screw 300 million of us.

Additionally, Golf Digest has both of them sharing the cover of their January 2010 issue.

Woot! Tea Party For the Loss!

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:57:00 +0000

Rasmussen reports that the Tea Party beats out the GOP in a three-way generic ballot. Read that sentence again. If the Tea Party beats the GOP in a three-way contest, then how does the third element of the three-way contest come out?

You guessed it! The Democrats win again.

"In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided."

Allow me to say this very clearly: If you like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid running the country, then by all means vote for your Tea Party candidate and we will wallow in another 40 year mire of Democratic control in order to make a political point.

If, on the other hand, you are willing to vote for Republican candidates, we might actually have a chance of protecting this country from those who are running it today. I can hear what you're saying, "They're all the same! Vote them all out! It's time for a third party!"

Look, I get it. The Republicans spent money like drunken frat boys with their first credit cards, but at least we didn't have to wonder if they wanted to see dead terrorists or not. At least we didn't worry about whether the Republicans wanted to keep the country safe. At least we didn't have to worry about the Republicans promoting and funding the killing of the unborn. At least we didn't have to worry that the Republicans were so in love with the likes of Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela that they were violently shifting our nation in that direction. At least with the Republicans we were not concerned whether or not capitalism would survive another few years. At least with the Republicans we did not have to worry about whether those in power were openly hostile to business and the concept of profits.

I love Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin just as much as any other conservative out there, but their apparent push for a third party will spell a long painful death for the GOP. And before you say, "Good! That's what the party deserves!" Think about what you're saying. The Tea Party movement is not going to be able to compete with an entrenched Democratic party, so in killing the GOP, you breathe even more life into the Democratic party.

Think about this very carefully before you pull the lever next time you're in the voting booth.

Inept: Gibbs Compares Reporter to His Own 6-year-old Son

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:22:00 +0000

Gibbs should be happy the public has identified a member of the Obama White House staff who is more inept than he is. Instead, he seems to take the criticism of Desiree Rogers as a personal challenge seeking to secure his superior ineptitude by comparing reporter April Rogers to his child.

Question: Would Gibbs have treated Ryan this way had she been a man? Or white?

Crazy times

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:42:00 +0000

The Thanksgiving holiday forced me to take a few days off of blogging and while I was away we had some major developments in current events.

A couple (might have) crashed a White House state dinner.
Obama made a decision on Afghanistan.
Tiger Woods turned out to be kind of a slimeball.

Each of these deserves its own post, but my time is limited again this week. I will try to get something posted in the next few days, but thank you for your patience as real life keeps me busy.

John Kerry's Daughter Arrested for a DUI - AKA Sen. Kerry is Such a Hypocrite

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:50:00 +0000

The title alone is bound to get me some hate tweets from the left. You should have seen some of the tweets they sent me when I wondered aloud whether Obama or Roe v. Wade was to blame for George Tiller's murder and when I made the argument that Obama was to blame for the shooting that occurred at the DC Holocaust Memorial. But I'll go ahead and say it anyway.

Alexandra Forbes Kerry, Sen. John Kerry's daughter, was arrested for a DUI last night and this makes John Kerry a hypocrite.

Wait. What? How is John Kerry shown to be a hypocrite when it was his daughter driving under the influence of alcohol? You're just not thinking like a liberal. What could be more hypocritical than a lawmaker's daughter breaking the law?

Before you claim that it's unfair to pin this on John Kerry, remember two words: Bristol Palin. The left claimed that Bristol's pregnancy illustrated hypocrisy on the part of Sarah Palin because Sarah is a proponent of abstinence education and, her unwed daughter got pregnant. If this was enough to earn Sarah Palin the label of "hypocrite," how is a law-maker's daughter becoming a law-breaker any different?

The definition of hypocrisy on the left is skewed anyway. The left has called Carrie Prejean a hypocrite since news leaked that she made a ~~sex~~ erotic tape in the past.

Dan Calabrese (via Hot Air) explains how hypocrisy works on the left using Prejean as an example:

"You and I think hypocrisy is when you say one thing and do another. Prejean upset the likes of Perez Hilton by saying that marriage is between a man and a woman. So what would make her a hypocrite? If she married another woman, of course. (Or if she, say, performed a wedding ceremony between the aforementioned Mr. Hilton and, er, maybe, Jon Gosselin.)

Then she would be a hypocrite as you and I define it. But that’s not the definition that applies here.

The definition that applies here works like this: She is a conservative and a Christian. Conservatives and Christians are judgmental prudes who a) claim to be perfect; and b) judge everyone else for not being perfect. So it doesn’t matter that she never denounced topless photos. It doesn’t matter that she never denounced “sex tapes.” Every prudish, judgmental belief that has ever been imagined by a critic of Christians and conservatives is hereby ascribed to Carrie Prejean. Anything she has ever done in contradiction of these imagined beliefs thereby proves her hypocrisy.

Conclusion: Gay marriage is awesome. And all because TMZ has a video of Carrie Prejean masturbating. It’s good to be alive."

So it doesn't matter what a person does or even if that person did something, you can still accuse them of hypocrisy as long as it is tangentially related to them either by family or through percieve ideological identification.

On both grounds, allow me to go on-record and accuse Senator John Kerry of being a hypocrite in light of his daughter's recent DUI.

Obama Bows AGAIN - Shanghai Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Advocate For Change) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:51:00 +0000

What's wrong with this guy? It's like he gets around other world leaders and can't wait to get a better look at their shoes.

This one comes at about the 1:00 mark.

Alternate theory: he's part drinking bird.