The Philadelphia Enquirer sent a columnist to Colorado to interview someone they called Angry White Man. Expecting to find someone with horns and razor teeth, spewing racist xenophobic venom, Michael Smerconish was taken by surprise. Gary Hubbell writes a monthly column for the Aspen Times, and way back in early February wrote an Op-Ed titled, "In election 2008, don't forget Angry White Man". We can all imagine the response this gets in the newsrooms and salons of Progressive America. But it became somewhat of a phenomenon on the internet. So the intrepid Liberal Reporter goes out to fly-over country to find this person.

But instead of finding a Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter extremist, Smerconish came upon, instead, a former Democrat now registered as an Independent. And this is the chill streaking down the Liberal spine. Not all Americans are falling in line with Hope & Change. Hubbell points out that each candidate is pandering to all the various special interest groups of different Races, Sexual Preference and Religious Beliefs. But he maintains they ignore the most important one of all:

"There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, Deep South to mountain West, Left Coast to Eastern Seaboard."

Hubbell went on to describe that constituency: a gun-owning he-man with no problem reconciling twin loves of football and family on Sunday afternoons. A deer hunter and an avid golfer. A do-it-yourselfer who hates handouts and the culture that coddles them.

The Angry White Man can't stand the Rev. Al Sharpton or anyone who embodies the "liberal victim groups" the Angry White Man has come to despise. But most of all, Hubbell wrote, the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose "voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock."

This guy is an expert fishing-and-hunting guide, ranch real estate broker, photo, film and video scout, purveyor of "trail horses, hay for sale," and "professional writer and photographer." The multi skilled individual necessary to make it in the West. And he has an opinion about this election.

Hubbell said he could not see himself voting for Sen. Barack Obama in November - a notion he says has nothing to do with race, but much to do with perceived liberal ideology. "I think people are supporting him out of emotion rather than a rational analysis of his policies," he writes. "If you want more taxes on people who really make this country run - working Americans - to support yet another generation of sit-on-your-[butt]-and-collect-a-check slackers, then Obama's your man!"

In the end, he sees the November election as "a contest between rational thought and hope for change."

Rational thought and hope for change? Sounds eerily like an echo of these TH environs.

Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama... I think I'm going to get sick. The campaign is getting tiresome, the unrest in Eastern Europe is unsettling to say the least, and the Olympics are a dud, unless you're a swim, soccer, or beach volleyball fanatic. But riding in on the white horse is football season, hooray! And this is coming from a guy who's a Lions/Bengals fan. You KNOW that's tough. But a well deserved diversion is in order, and even the Cryons and Bungles are undefeated at this point.

Football, where every game has some meaning is back. And to make things interesting, I'm a Michigan Wolverine fan living in southern Ohio. My two rescue dogs came with the names Woody and Brutus (sheesh, I don't hold it against them). So in the spirit of the gone but not forgotten Doc Steech and his crystal ball Lucille, I'll make a few statements about the upcoming seasons.

Rich Rodriguez' Michigan team will get better as the season goes on, but look for some ugly games early. But I believe in the spread offense, and you've got to take into account the loss of players he suffered (Boren to Ohio State?).  The Lions will continue to perform as they have my entire lifetime, and I once again expect my heart ripped from my chest and thrown on the ground to be stomped by the best Matt Millen can come up with (yes, he still has the job). The Bengals have gotten rid of some of the convicts they had playing for them, but when Marvin Lewis' (he was once a defensive guru) guys tackle like Pop Warner losers, it's not a good sign.

Notable, Ohio State is NOT ranked number one, Notre Dame will STILL stink, the Packers will lose with Rodgers, and I hate the Steelers as always, even without Cowher. So let the season hurry up and begin, tonight I sit back and watch the Lions play the Bengals in a preseason blockbuster. I'll be wearing my clown nose, and happy football is back.

The crowd that screams and agonizes over all the immoral and unjust acts of the United States, the crowd that rallies to demand the impeachment and arrest of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the crowd that gnashes their teeth with George Clooney over the horrible genocide in Darfur is.......missing. Where have they gone? Jack Kelly in the Toledo Blade says:

It is scandalous to liberals that terrorists at Gitmo don't have easy access to lawyers, but most don't care how many Georgians the Russians kill.

But not shocking. And our enemies have learned about our weakness as a society, and will exploit it.

"The Russians have sized up the moral bankruptcy of the Western Left," wrote the military historian Victor Davis Hanson in National Review. "From what the Russians learned of the Western reaction to Iraq, they expect their best apologists will be American politicians, pundits, professors, and essayists."

I hear the same mantra over and over from Liberals even here at Townhall, that we spend too much money on the evil military and not enough "helping people". Simplistic misinformed tripe. So here's the chance for the Hope and Change World Citizens to stand up and show the integrity of their values and core beliefs.

Crickets chirping. Georgians dying.

Remember the Head of State for the The Ukraine who was poisoned?  Remember who was thought to do it?  Remember even, the famine created by the Soviets under Stalin that  murdered MILLIONS of Ukrainians?  They do.

Georgia would seem to be lost.  Yes Bush poked his pal Putin in the eye with missiles in Poland, but Georgia is now split in two, and Humpty will have a tough time repairing himself.  But now, the neighborhood is getting VERY nervous.  Ukraine has a peninsula that sits on the Black Sea.  This peninsula is home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Reuters reports:

Pro-Western Ukraine vowed on Thursday to make Russia seek official permission for movements of its warships based in the ex-Soviet state despite Moscow's objections, placing the neighbors on a collision course.

Ominous words, those. President Viktor Yushchenko has been wrangling with Putin of late, over NATO membership, and past problems surrounding gas prices and property. Add to that the presence of ethnic Russian nationalists, and the cauldron is eerily similar to Georgia.  The Russian Army may have to come to the aid of these poor oppressed Russians, in a peace keeping mission of course.

The questions we Americans need to consider, is how would Obama react to Putin rolling back Iron Curtain into place, state by state. Does he have the nerve to confront the Russian Juggernaut? Anybody want to venture a guess? How much will do we have to fight Russia.  Or does it take a leader to inspire that will.  Is Obama's Hope & Change World Citizenship, "This is our moment" mean quashing the hopes of eastern Europe and creating Changes that make Putin's Hopes Come True?

Now the Ukraine is on guard, having watched helplessly as Georgia fell. And can feel the Russian eyes shift in their direction.

In Moscow, the deputy head of Russia's general staff dismissed it as irrelevant.

"We have one general commander for the Black Sea fleet. It is the President of Russia," Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said. "And all commands from outside are illegitimate to us."

Guess he told the Ukrainians. But they say they have the authority to ask the Russians to leave their country if their demands are not respected. Ask the Russians to leave? Sounds like what Obama would do.

Under the terms of Wednesday's presidential decree, Ukrainian authorities must inform fleet commanders of their consent for the movement of warships and aircraft 24 hours before their scheduled departure.

Should commanders fail to comply with the rules, Ukraine's foreign ministry would be empowered to ask the vessel or aircraft to leave Ukrainian territory.

And when Putin says, "No, we're staying, and we're keeping your country", what will NATO do?  Tick, tock...........

Even the boneheads in the Greatest of the Great Lakes States can do something right once in a blue moon.  IF they're given no choice, that is.  The mayor of Detroit, Kwame Fitzpatrick (Coleman Young without brains) has finally used up all his race cards, and now the Detroit City Council has gone to the Democratic Governor, who, I'm sure with great regret has been forced to do this:

Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s office soon will outline how she will conduct a hearing to decide whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be removed from office.

The Detroit City Council has asked Granholm to remove Kilpatrick from office for misconduct related to the settlement of a whistleblower’s lawsuit. Granholm will preside over the hearing scheduled for Sept. 3.

An order outlining some procedures for the hearing is expected early this week, possibly as early as Monday.

That would be the first step towards restoring the peaceful pleasant peninsula to greatness.  The next would be getting rid of the Democratic governor.  One step at a time.  This guy really is a maroon.

UPDATE: from the Detroit Free Press 8.14.08

One of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s attorneys has asked Gov. Jennifer Granholm about the possibility of pardoning Kilpatrick in the criminal case against him in exchange for Kilpatrick agreeing to testify at the removal hearing she will conduct.

Sharon McPhail, the Kilpatrick administration’s general counsel, said if Kilpatrick testifies at the hearing without any protection, he would be surrendering his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in the felony perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and misconduct in office case against him.

This guys sees the FBI closing in on him in a murder case involving one of his body guards.  Watch the drama unfold as he tries to play every card he's got to avoid facing justice.  Being removed as mayor is the least of his problems.  Ah, the relative morality of the Liberal Progressive Democrat.

But this gets BETTER!  People in Michigan are pointing out that Barack Obama is involved in this. How?  Kwame is a super delegate, and Obama is pressuring Granhom to get this mess cleaned up before the convention.  Fantastic! They should be writing stuff like this for the fall TV season.

UPDATE 8.14.08  6:00pm  BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEP!

As pointed out by Sue, Obama has thrown Kilpatrick under the bus.  Imagine the Chinese Cluster under there with all those people trying to avoid the wheels!

A spokesman for Obama said Thursday that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick would be a distraction if he goes to the convention as a superdelegate....high-ranking Democrats want Kilpatrick to attend.

But Obama spokesman Brent Colburn said in an e-mail that the focus of the convention should be on Obama and not on what Colburn called "the troubles of one individual."

Well, surprise surprise surprise, and golleeeeee.  A large number of the dumbed down moderate middle has a brain cell that's absorbed a drop of information over the last eight years.  That venerable polling icon, Rasmussen has released a shocker, a shocker I say.  Don't expect to read this on the front page of the New York Times though:

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 55% believe media bias is more of a problem than big campaign contributions.

And the big one:

Among those not affiliated with either major party, 47% say media bias is the problem while 43% hold the opposite view.

Tom Blumer at Newsbusters provides this analysis of the statistics:

This means that at least half, and probably more, of swing voters are on the alert for biased reporting. It's probably more than that, because it's possible to believe that bias is a significant problem while believing that money is a bigger one. Dovetail that with an earlier Rasmussen poll showing that voters believe overwhelmingly that "most reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the election this year" (49%, vs. only 14% who believe they're helping McCain) and it seems very likely that Barack Obama won't be getting the degree of default acceptance from voters that Bill Clinton largely received in 1992.

This information is the result of a racist conspiracy by bitter people clinging to everything that's good in this world, and the next.

The Modern Liberal Socialist Democrat is a product of 1960's counter culture philosophy, it's peak manifestation centered around the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco.  Today, Barack Obama strums the strings of those wistfully romanticized Hippie hearts that lie deep within the collective consciousness of Modern Academia, and today's so called Journalism profession, and plays them for the idealistic fools they are.  Just the same as they were in the 1960's.

See, modern culture would have us believe the 60's were a time of awakening, social consciousness, freedom and the ascent of the human spirit.  Peace and Love, psychedelic music and really cool graphics as atmosphere around people arising and changing the world.  Well, truth be told, the world DID change.  But not the way the prevalent modern notion of the 60's would believe.

Peter Bronson, in the Cincinnati Enquirer, writes about Haight Ashbury of the 60's:

No parents, no homework, no jobs, no responsibility, no laws, no silly taboos against indiscriminate sex and drugs. Just peace and love.

But it quickly got mangy. As many as 70,000 hippies stumbled barefoot through the streets, with pinwheel eyes and unwashed hair. They slept in doorways and panhandled for food and drugs. Many were runaways, not even 15 years old. Snapshots of missing kids covered a wall at one shelter - sent by distraught parents back in boring Kansas or Ohio.

Predators moved in on those naïve kids, like coyotes on a flock of sheep. Some drug-wilted flower children resorted to prostitution. Others were robbed, raped or killed. Some were never seen again. And many who survived still carry the scars of hellish bad trips, addiction and disillusion.

The 60's that most Liberals pine for today was a myth.  It never really existed.  Even the Peace movement was a tool of Communist Propaganda.  Jon Voight recently wrote a piece regretfully acknowledging how the counterculture was duped into helping a strategy that defeated the United States in Vietnam, when our armies won every single engagement against the North Vietnamese we entered in to.

The fabled Summer of Love was described by the Beatle's George Harrison, who visited to see for himself, this way:

I went to Haight Ashbury expecting it to be this brilliant place and it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs. It certainly showed me what was really happening in the drug cult.
It wasn't what I thought of all these groovy people having spiritual awakenings and being artistic. It was just like the Bowery, it was like alcoholism. It was like any addiction.

Bronson goes on:

Let's tell the whole truth. Lives were wrecked when kids found out that free love is not free and drugs are not harmless recreation. We tried to change the world without a blueprint, a map or even entry-level experience in world-changing. Looking back, all that naïve arrogance makes me cringe.

And now I hear echoes of it again. The "Peace Train" is on a new railroad called "Change & Hope." But it's carrying the same old barefoot ideas in a new pair of shoes.

And that's the point.  Obama is a populist snake oil salesman, playing the masses for the fool, and pulling every single string, pushing every single button in the Liberal dashboard to activate the illusion of Hope & Change.  Change that never was, and never will be.  Even as much as the Modern Liberal Socialists wish it would be.

Every presidential election, the same thing occurs.  The Democratic party suppresses the military vote, in a cynical bid to win power.  And Democrats still think the Republicans stole the last two. Well, it's August, and it's now, not later that we should begin fixing the problem that 1- is nothing less than voter suppression and fraud  2 - an arrogant insult to the very people who would give their lives to protect the rights of American Liberals to spit on them.  The last election, only 5.5% votes were counted from overseas and absentee military personnel.

Well, to be fair, the GOP did bring this up recently.

Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, on July 8 introduced a resolution demanding that the Defense Department better enable U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections. That act was followed by silence. Democrats normally leap on an opportunity to find fault with the Bush Pentagon. But not a single Democrat joined Blunt as a co-sponsor, and an all-Republican proposal cannot pass in the Democratic-controlled House.

That's the modern Democratic Party for you.  Don't forget our military, NOWs the time to talk to your Congressmen about it.

The deafening silence from the media about the situation in Iraq has been broken, by the millions of crickets now starting to chirp, as peace begins to creep out of the shadows, and victory spreads it's arms across the landscape.  The latest news the Enemedia is failing to report, lest it interfere with it's Liberal template?  Wall Street Journal reports:

Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr plans to announce Friday that he will disarm his Mahdi Army, which was raining mortars on Baghdad's Green Zone as recently as April. Coupled with the near-total defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq, this means the U.S. no longer faces any significant organized military foe in the country. It also marks a major setback for Iran, which had used the Mahdi Army as one of its primary vehicles for extending its influence in Iraq.

Major setback for Iran?  How about major setback for Liberalism across the globe.  We've maintained all along, that the US can win in Iraq, and people would want to if they believed it was possible.  This is the defeat of no less than the same forces that defeated the United States politically in the Vietnam War.

As far as Mookie is concerned, it's still too bad the USA didn't dispose of him in 2004 when they had the chance.  He's still no model citizen, and is capable of future trouble.

Mr. Sadr's sudden turn to moderation remains reversible. Breakaway factions of the Mahdi Army, aided by Iran, will surely launch fresh attacks on U.S. targets -- especially as U.S. and Iraqi elections near. That's all the more reason to regret the U.S. failure to arrest Mr. Sadr in 2004 for the murder the previous year of Imam Abdul Majid al-Khoei, widely believed to have been undertaken on Mr. Sadr's orders.

The Enemedia will be rooting for Al-Sadr to create mayhem and destruction in Iraq.  But, sorry Libs, the horse is out of the barn.

UPDATE:  The Agency France_Presse is in a quandry why Obama hasn't pulled ahead, after all:

the Iraq war is unpopular

Well, it's unpopular with Al Queda, Al Sadr, Iran, The Democrats and the Enemedia, but it's going just fine for me.

A situation completely different than that of Iraq.  A place of near stone age civilization.  A place both presidential candidates seem to recognize as the next theater of combat against Islamic Terrorism.  But, according to the best freelance journalist in the world, a place that stands on the precipice and is being misunderstood by the West.

Michael Yon's report from Afghanistan is a warning that the West needs to get it's mind around the situation on the ground there, rethink it's strategy in the same method it did in Iraq.  Success is possible, but not with the current strategy.  Yon cites the analysis of four star general Barry McCaffrey, recently returned from Afghanistan:

we can't shoot our way out of Afghanistan, and the two or three or more American combat brigades proposed by the two putative nominees for president are irrelevant....

2009 will be the year of decision as the Taliban and a greatly enhanced presence of "foreign fighters" try to sever roads and halt road construction to strangle and isolate the capital, Kabul and attack NATO units that are hamstrung by restrictions and rules of engagement dictated by their home governments....

we can expect a Taliban drive to erase Afghanistan's border with Pakistan in the wild frontier provinces of Pakistan that have provided sanctuary for Taliban and al Qaida leaders and fighters since Osama bin Laden escaped there in 2001.

Dire straits.  Wake up call.  But we adapted in Iraq, and we can do it in Afghanistan.  The downside is we need to rely on NATO.  The upside is we can formulate a winning strategy.

The battle will only be won, McCaffrey says, when there's a real Afghan police presence in all of the country's 34 provinces and 398 districts; when the Afghan National Army is expanded from 80,000 troops today to 200,000 troops; when we deploy five U.S. combat engineer battalions with a brigade of Army Stryker forces for security to begin a five-year road building program that also trains Afghan Army engineer units and employs Afghan contractors and workers.

The idea of a cross border war in Pakistan would be disastrous.  Wait, wasn't that Obama's idea?

The GOP needs to take this to the front steps of the Capital, where the cameras WILL see them.  In a move that is frustrating and infuriating Liberal Democrats, the House Revolt of August 1st, will continue on starting Monday.  Politico reports:

Continuing with their guerilla tactics from last week, House Republicans will be back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices, even though Congress is in recess, and they may stay there all week.  ...Republicans felt they got a lot of good press out of Friday's "revolt," so they will be back at it again, and younger GOP lawmakers were clearly energized by the tactic, something not evident among Republicans for most of the 110th Congress.

They are feeling the breeze picking up, and in spite of the attempt to bury this on the back pages of the Enemedia's rags, word is getting out, and a buzz is beginning.  Something's happening, indeed.

Like a ship in the doldrums of the tropics, men slumped everywhere exhausted from rowing in the unbearable heat, the GOP has felt a breeze pick up.  There is the scent of something on that breeze, the wisp of a people's will, determined to fight for their principles.  The Democratic Speaker of the House has determined the people will not get the chance for their representatives to vote on whether or not this nation will open up it's continental shelf to offshore drilling. 

Nancy Pelosi, recent bust of an author, is trying to save the planet, and all across the nation in the blogosphere and on the street, the Kool-Aid drinking Liberals repeat the falsehoods like, "it'll take ten years of drilling to affect the price of oil or gasoline".  And WE all know that's not true.  More Liberal lies born of misinformation and ideology.

Oil prices are based on what speculators think demand will be.  The moment Bush lifted the ban, oil prices dropped dramatically.  The moment congress allows drilling, the price will plummet and as the oil industry gears up to harvest the resources, jobs and the economic engine will fire up productivity.  But not if the Democrats have anything to say about it.

But a funny thing happened today in the House.  After the Democrats forced the session to adjourn without even allowing the GOP to discuss the energy issue, a moment or rare theater occurred.  Politico reported:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices. Democratic aides were furious at the GOP stunt, and reporters were kicked out of the Speaker's Lobby, the space next to the House floor where they normally interview lawmakers.

Minority whip, Roy Blunt raised the ante.  He sent out a memo:

"Although this Democrat majority just adjourned for the Democrat 5-week vacation, House Republicans are continuing to fight on the House floor. Although the lights, mics and C-SPAN cameras have been turned off, House Republicans are on the floor speaking to the taxpayers in the gallery who, not surprisingly, agree with Republican energy proposals.

"All Republicans who are in town are encouraged to come to the House floor."

The Republicans are feeling the wind at their back on this.  They should have moved their assembly out to the Capital steps where the tv cameras could have watched.  But, still guys, not bad.  And as a wind up:

Right at the stroke of five Georgia Rep. Tom Price announced that House Republicans were ending their impromptu protest on the floor of the chamber, ending a five-plus hour rebellion with a round of "God Bless America."

The assembled tourists, aides and members in the chamber gave Price and his compatriots a standing ovation. They left the chamber to shouts of "USA! USA! USA!"

Once in a while, something of quality happens in our nation's capital.  Not very often, you've got to seize it when it does.

ITS..........527 Man!  Faster than a speeding campaign email, able to leap tall buildings of misconception in a single bound.....

So here come the attacks that McCain will disavow, attacks perhaps that McCain would be well served and justified in making himself.  Jerome Corsi, author of that infamous title, "Unfit For Command" (which I own), has come out with a new title.  "The Obama Nation" is now released, and happily is climbing the charts, while Nancy Pelosi's book is bombing, big time.

This is getting the Liberals' pants in a big time wad.  Far Lefters, Media Matters is already sounding the alarm:

question for the media: Will they have absorbed the lessons of their highly flawed Swift Boat coverage and give more immediate and more thorough scrutiny to Corsi's new book?

That's what I love about the Libs.  They take a group that comes forward to tell the Truth, and turn it into a euphemism for lying.  There probably isn't the kind of damaging info in Corsi's Obama book that sank Kerry, but it's really fun to see the Liberals get all red in the face and throw themselves on the floor kicking and screaming.  See, they still think they really won the last two presidential elections.  BTW, as far as I know, Corsi is not part of a 527 group.  Yet.

Beyond the delirious joy of having Barack Hussien Obama as our new president next January, we should take a moment and reflect on who exactly would the Obamaphenoma bring along for the ride to run this country.  The government will be flooded with Progressive Liberals and their bureaucratic minions bent on "fixing this nation".  Get a grip now.  Paul Bedard at US News and World Report floats the following tidbits:

Sen. Hillary Clinton as head of Health and Human Services. (Hillary Care Re-Animated),

Sen. John Kerry as secretary of state (The French WILL like us!)

Sen. Tom Daschle as White House chief of staff (Perry Como re-animated, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ)

Former Clinton Commerce Secretary William Daley to head Treasury (fox guards hen house II)

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel at Defense (ah, token RINO to show Obama's tough.....sigh...)

What a crew.  And the Enemedia will be trumpeting every night what a wonderful job they're doing.  Just so you know.

So the full court press from the Enemedia, conservative backlash against McCain, coupled with Liberal White Guilt and an unusually unattentive Moderate Middle gets Barack Obama elected President next November.  Now what happens.  What will it mean to our daily lives?  We can only go by what Obama says, for now.  And what he has said is this:

Obama has called on the U.S. to "lead by example" on global warming and probably would submit to a Kyoto-like agreement that would sock Americans with literally trillions of dollars in costs over the next half century for little or no benefit.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama has said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."

To be sure, the effects of the Obamas' administration will be felt by the Middle Class.  The Elites like Al Gore and Obama WILL keep their homes at 72, and WILL drive SUVs and eat as much as they want.  That's how Socialism works.  Investors Business Daily puts it this way:

In an Obama White House, American sovereignty will become an endangered species. The Global Poverty Act is the first toe in the water of global socialism.

How bad should we want to see Obama lose?