Let's just make this an Obama dirt day!

First on the list was the creepy insinuation that once Obama gets the Presidency, we can start fixing souls to get democracy back to where it needs to be. Already covered that! Don't need to talk about it further.

Let's talk about the Cuban flag hanging up in one of his campaign offices! You want sources? You want links? Oh, I've got sources and links for you, liberal and conservative: NBC, CarpetBagger (interesting that I'm talking about two things that this guy also talked about! Kinda neat), WorldNetDaily, AmericanThinker, NewsBusters, and, heck, here's the Google News search, too.

First off, I want to say that, yes, I've read both sides of the spectrum. I've heard both arguments and I understand where everyone is claiming to come from. Obama was contacted to ask why a Cuban flag with Che Guevara (who, by the way, was Fidel Castro's executioner... Uh, meaning that it was his job to kill people who tried to fight against the government), and the reply? "It's inappropriate." Woah! Ya'think? Maybe? Just a little? A little inappropriate to have the flag with the picture of a murderer hanging on the wall of an American Presidential Campaign Office? Inappropriate? How about appalling? This is like hanging a Nazi flag on the wall. What kind of reaction do you think you're going to get if you hang that on any wall in the United States?

Okay, so then Obama points out that this was a volunteer campaign office, and that he's not directly responsible for it. Fair enough, but still... Someone out there supports Obama and hangs that flag up where they work to support Obama? Does that mean that someone doesn't necessarily see a difference between what the flag stands for and what Obama stands for? A little creepy, if you ask me. I don't know... What am I supposed to think? That it was an accident or that someone didn't know what it was? Great! So we have people who are completely clueless about world politics supporting someone for President. They don't know what's going outside our own borders, but they think they know enough to vote on a President? Come on, people... Voting is a serious thing that we, as Americans, have the privilege to do, and just because it's something you swing past on the way home from work doesn't mean that this is a very, very serious job we have to do! You can't just go "hey, I like this guy, let's vote for him!" You need to do research. There's no excuse for that flag being on that wall by accident. I don't know why it was there, because nobody's saying... I'm just speculating, and nobody's giving answers, so that's all we have. There's some pretty poor damage control going on here.

But... See, Obama is one of those people who actively resists wearing American Flag pins on your shirt, because... Well, here's what the guy he agreed with said:

I adore this country and abhor those, especially those lucky enough to live here, who don't. But to the extent that wearing an American flag lapel pin could be misconstrued as support for the most disgraceful administration in my lifetime, perhaps in American history, I can certainly understand why Barack Obama had reservations about it.

So wearing a flag on your shirt is a bad thing now? And Obama agrees. "It means you support the Bush Administration blah-blah-blah." No, the American Flag doesn't mean "I completely agree with the current administration", it means "HEY LOOK! I'm an American, and I'm proud to be able to choose my leaders!" Even if Obama wins (God forbid) the election, I'm not going to go pitching all my flags. I'm still an American and I'm still proud of being here! I'm proud of having the chance to lose an election. I'm proud to even have a chance! Nooo... Put those Cuban flags embossed with killers up on your walls, because that's nothing over wearing an American Flag pin, THE NERVE! Oh, and according to him, apparently, it's okay to not to put your hand over your heart while singing the National Anthem. What a lame, disrespectful little brat. I would expect some sleazy beer-guzzling fat guy at a football game to not bother honoring the flag and the anthem... The symbols of your own country, but for a want-to-be President to just stand there like a moron? Look, even Hillary Clinton is doing it! She has far, far more class than Obama. Far more class.

Sure, it's not a life or death situation if you don't put your hand over your heart or wear a flag pin on your shirt... But Obama seems to be setting a trend here. He's just kind of out there, doing whatever he wants, with little regard for anything he doesn't think is required of him. Well, it might not be required, but it sure goes a long way when you show respect for your country and show that, yeah, you really do like living here and you really do want this to be the best country in the world. That's not being arrogant... That's being patriotic.

The last two things, granted, sound a bit like grasping at straws, but the Cuban flag is just horrible. However, alone, the flag pins and the anthem probably wouldn't get much attention? But all this just paints a slightly better picture when added to the Cuban flag and the whole "I FIX SOULS" stuff.

Journeyman is officially awesome. Think of it as like... Quantum Leap, only without creepy innuendo Al, and with an over-arching storyline. It's about some random guy who starts snapping back and forth between times. He's married and has a family, so it's not like he can do it without consequences like Beckett can in Quantum Leap, and when he changes something and snaps back to the present, he can check to see what's changed. It's really neat, and there's some odd backstory going on, too... But I'm only on episode 5, so there's not much to go on, yet... Let's just say that there are some creepy people hanging around.

And to play off the Doctor Who themes I posted, here's the Journeyman theme, which is equally as awesome as Doctor Who... Except for the fact that it's only 30 seconds long, and ends abruptly, but that's not my fault... The title sequence is only 30 freakin' seconds, ugh. I remember, a couple years ago? SciFi Channel tried to cut back the Stargate title sequences from 60 seconds to 30 seconds and everyone got angry, so they restored them. Unfortunately, I think a precedent has been set. TV shows are starting to get painfully short title sequences to make room for more story...Er, sorry. That's SciFi Channel propaganda getting through. They're cutting the title sequences short so they can make room for MORE COMMERCIALS. I miss the days of Star Trek: Voyager where seasons were 26 episodes, a true full season with 13 episodes in each half without a mid-season break that hurts ratings and gets shows canceled. But that whole series canceling thing seems to be an American thing, because Doctor Who seems to be doing very well on 13 episodes, and get this... Primeval? Another British series? 6 episodes... And was renewed. The second season just finished with a fabled "to be continued" ending. I will be officially impressed if they get renewed for another season. Nothing like that could survive over here, or, rather... Nothing like that would get the chance to survive over here.

Anyway! Journeyman Theme...
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Three times the charm? Obama makes my news again!

Heard if from my family, who heard it from Peter Heck, who probably got it from NewsBusters, which is now on my sidebar as a link I could recommend! Of course, it's a funky, conservative site that has a fine time with the liberal media, and is therefore most likely being written off as another out-of-touch blog by most of my readers, but oh well! But, hey! Don't worry! You don't have to take it from a conservative source... It's all over the internet! Here's a link to the Google News search. That'll satisfy all your "whar be da sourcez?!" arguments that I've become accustomed to so long ago.

What'd he do this time, you ask? Nothing, actually. But it's what his wife said. You know the routine! Mike Huckabee makes a comment about Christian doctrine in relation to politics and the liberal media goes absolutely INSANE. "Separation of church and state! Keep God out of the government! Look out for a theocracy! Don't force your morals on us!" The typical blathering that goes on when a conservative shows conservative values. But get a load of what Obama's own wife said (and was subsequently applauded for):

We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Woah, woah, wooooah... What's this talk about souls? And why are people still supporting Obama after his candidacy says this? The people who railed against Huckabee talking about religion are giving Obama the thumbs-up for talking about... religion? Hmm!

I probably wouldn't go so far as some other conservative blogs are saying and extrapolate this to say that Obama thinks he can fix our souls, but... It can certainly be heard like that. "Vote for Obama, because together, we can fix souls!" So what? Obama is going to try to fix our souls if he's elected? He thinks he's God? Or he at least thinks he's the Pope or some other Catholic official who can fix your souls. (Catholic officials are equally diluted, I might add.) Nothing and nobody can fix your soul but God, the father... The Christian God that gets Huckabee in trouble when he mentions Him. Not Obama, and certainly not the collective American people.

Take a look here at this guy's blog! He's pointing and laughing at Republican hypocrasy like I do at theirs. Basically, he's making a fuss about Republicans making a "leap" to consider this speech as a warning of an Obama theocracy. Wait, what? Let's see the quote:

 ... conservative bloggers, takes a tremendous leap in using this statement to claim that Obama would create a theocracy. He claims that Obama is threatening to use government intervention to save his soul when no such claims of government action are ever suggested.

He's discounting our claims of a theocracy? Wait... When Huckabee talks about religion in relation to his political campaign, it is a theocracy, but when Obama talks about religion in relation to his political campaign, it's not? Hmm. No such claims of government action are ever suggested... That's a very good point. Nowhere in the speech, or at least the reported speech, did Obama say he planned to use the government to fix souls, but tell me... He's running for President, right? The President is about as high as you can get in the government, right? Why would he ever say something like this without the intention of it being a promise of what he'll do as President? We can't have a proper democracy until we fix our souls is what is essentially being said. How is that not a threat of government intervention? How is a campaigning President-to-be telling us that we need to fix our souls not in direct relation to the government? (Yes, I know it was his wife speaking and not him, but tell me... Do you honestly think he would let her say that kind of stuff without intending it to be heard?)

Honestly, this Obama guy just gets creepier and creepier and I will never understand how anyone in their right minds could vote for him, honest opinion. He's the single most liberal candidate there is, overshadowing even Clinton, and now he's using the idea of repairing broken souls? How can you not think this guy is a lunatic? You praise him for bringing religion into the mix and yet, with the same voice, you curse Huckabee for the very same thing. Is it because Obama doesn't really stand on any convictions and only lightly alludes to the fact that he's religious? Is it because he only hints at the vague ideas of his religion instead of going full force and telling you exactly what he believes? It's because he tells you what you want to hear, just like every single other liberal politician there is. He's no different than anyone else when it comes to his approach to getting elected. He'll say what he thinks people want to hear just to get elected, and, for some reason, the liberals who crawl all over him, worshipping the ground he walks on, are suddenly praising the addition of religion to politics after such a very long time of trying to separate religion from politics.

I would much rather have another Clinton in office than this crackpot, and anyone who votes for Obama is no better than those of us crazy, stupid, Christian conservatives who vote for Huckabee. Just fess up to the fact that you just don't like Christianity. It has nothing to do with separating religion from the government! It has everything to do with separating CHRISTIANITY from the government. When you vote for Obama, you only prove the point I'm trying to make that all your arguments against the conservative Republican candidates are utter hogwash and totally unfounded, in any sense of the word, because you vote for Obama for the very same reasons you decry Huckabee.

And it's only funny when you point out that our accusations of a theocracy are unfounded when we're pointing out the same things you do. If that's not washing out your own ground by trying to disprove us, I don't know what is. But, really... As Peter Heck says, the best defense against a liberal is to just let him keep talking, because, eventually, he'll completely nullify his own arguments in an effort to attack you and you won't have to lift a finger.

You know what? I should start my own dedicated political blog.

I've started to watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Journeyman. (Why, yes, those are Wikipedia links. I figure it's okay to use for something like a TV show, or something that isn't swayed by popular opinion.) Terminator was far better than I expected, so, naturally, that's now on my list of shows to watch. Journeyman I just started today, and, to tell you the truth, the pilot was a little boring to start with, but the ending rocked so much that I have to keep watching. (That, and NBC canceled the series, too, so that automatically makes the entire series an original masterpiece.)
This brings my total list of current-era TV shows to... Uhm... 10? Let's see:

1. Doctor Who 2005
2. Eureka
3. Heroes
4. Jericho
5. LOST
6. Monk
7. Primeval
8. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
9. Stargate Atlantis
10. The Simpsons
11. Journeyman

Guess it's 11! Although, technically, Jericho doesn't count, since they're only given them 7 more episodes before permanently canceling them, so I guess 10 was right. I am also technically in the process of watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5. But I haven't brought them out for a very long time, and I'm on the last season of B5, which is so vastly different than the previous one, so it was kind of a buzz kill, and I don't want to see any of it wrap up, yet, so...

MystBlogs is like a train wreck...

You know it's horrible, but you can't stop watching...

Looks like they're beginning to reap what they've sowed for so long...