Listen to the GITMO 5

From the NYP:

by Ralph Peters

As White House staffer Jane Austen put it to Sen. Darcy: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single terrorist in possession of a good bomb must be in want of patient understanding.”

Unfortunately for Washington wonks determined to deny that Islamist extremists are motivated by extremist Islam, the pride and prejudice of Allah’s butchers were on public display (again) this week.

Framed in florid quotations from the Koran, the Gitmo Five – hard-core terrorists, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed – proclaimed in a filing released by a brave military judge that “We are terrorists to the bone” who regard the charges resulting from “the blessed 11 September operations” as “badges of honor.”

Desperate to placate its blame-America supporters, the Obama administration has clamped down on news from Guantanamo. Why? After their lurid criticisms of Gitmo, the Dems now have the world’s worst killers on their hands.

And they don’t know what to do. Responsibility sucks.

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‘Redristribution’ Won’t Work

O’s Fair Fallacy

by Rich Lowry | NYP

THE growing cast of characters at McCain rallies includes Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder and now “Barack the Redistributor.”

John McCain is keying off Barack Obama’s comment to Joe about “spreading the wealth around,” and his 2001 rumination in a Chicago Public Radio interview about the Supreme Court “redistributing the wealth.” Cautious even then, Obama didn’t commit himself on whether the court should force “redistributive change,” but his use of the R-word was enough to make it his moniker at McCain events.

Obama is an exotic bird – a self-described tax-cutter for “95 percent of working Americans,” with a predilection toward socialistic language and concepts. The key to the riddle is the nature of his tax program.

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Obama and Rashid Khalidi

From the NYP:

Obama’s Radical Arabist Pal

WITH polls showing a tightening presidential race, a bombshell might tip the balance – and that bombshell’s name could be Rashid Khalidi.

The Los Angeles Times has possession of a video of Barack Obama addressing a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was leaving Chicago for New York City, where he was to assume the Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies at Columbia University. Also at the dinner: Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, former bomb-planting members of the Weathermen.

Despite much interest in the tape, the Times refuses to release it, saying that it obtained the footage on the condition it not be broadcast.

Khalidi is a noted scholar with a long list of academic publications. But he’s also a longtime Palestinian activist, who has built his career disseminating Arab-nationalist propaganda. He calls Israel an “apartheid system in creation.” He’s been a fierce detractor of the “Zionist lobby” here in the United States.

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Expect the Race to Tighten

From the NYP:

THE polls now all indicate an Obama win on Nov. 4; some even suggest a landslide. But there’s a strong chance the race will tighten back up this month.

Anger over the Wall Street mess has been pushing voters to Barack Obama in droves. And John McCain’s effort to get involved in the solution only hurt him.

By suspending his campaign and heading to Washington, McCain made himself a central actor in the unpopular bailout, and thus a target of populist outrage. It also hurt his his effort to show how he far he is from President Bush – there he was, shoulder to shoulder with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Bush and Wall Street.

But October may see the end of Obama’s surge: He’s peaking too soon.

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Rescue Rewards Housing Hustlers

From the NYP:

Waters: ACORN's best friend in Congress. Big Mouth, Small Brain.

IF you thought the trillion- dollar-plus “financial-rescue plan” signed into law Friday had been stripped of the radical group ACORN, think again: The Chicago-based Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s fingerprints are still all over the law.

ACORN’s participation in “fixing” a crisis it helped create is flabbergasting.

For decades, the left-wing activist group pressured lenders to give loans to lower-income borrowers who couldn’t otherwise afford homes. The grateful homeowners then become political recruits, serving as foot soldiers for ACORN’s radical agenda.

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Who’s Lying, Democrats or Republicans?

Excerpts:

“To try to tie McCain to Limbaugh is about as dishonest as it gets.” … “When it comes to lies, the media get far more exercised over unflattering truths about Obama’s record than they do about real distortions of McCain’s.

Which Campaign is Telling Lies?

by Linda Chavez | NYP

The media have [been] accusing John McCain the GOP presidential nominee of being dishonest in his campaign ads.

They’re especially angry about an ad that accuses Barack Obama of supporting an Illionois bill that mandated comprehensive sex education for children in kindergarten. A look at the actual bill proves the ad was no lie — but the media couldn’t be bothered to actually check.

Then the Obama campaign began airing ads in Spanish, accusing McCain of being “two-faced,” using one set of words to Hispanic audiences and another to fellow Republicans. “They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with . . . the intolerance . . . they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much,” a narrator says, as the screen flashes some pretty nasty comments by Rush Limbaugh.

The McCain ad turns out to be factually correct.

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B. Hussein in New York

From the NYP:

Obama V. New York

A good rule of thumb: Whenever a Democrat starts talking patriotism, reach for your wallet.

Case in point: Joe Biden.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee went into a flag-waving fury yesterday when asked how upper-income earners should react to his ticket’s soak-the-rich tax plan.

“It’s time to be patriotic,” he said. “It’s time to jump in; it’s time to be part of the deal; it’s time to get America out of the rut.”

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Russia is Up to Old Tricks

Gorbachev brought perestroika to the Soviet Union in 1985-1990. In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In 1991, after the attempted coup, Boris Yeltsin took over and that officially marks the end of the Soviet Union. Hence, once again we had just plain old Russia.

During the Cold War we used to refer to the Soviet Union, the USSR and Russia interchangeably. That’s when Russia was known as the bear.

Then the USSR ended, and a new Russia began.

Now, it’s official, the Russian bear is back.

From the NYP:

BAD NEWS BEAR

Today’s Kremlin is cocky, nationalistic, rich and bent on asserting Russia as a great power with distinct interests – not only in its neighborhood or “near abroad” – but across the globe.

It entered 2008 in its strongest position since the fall of the Berlin Wall, continually reorienting its foreign policy to one that is independent, strikingly outspoken, and even anti-West.

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Obama’s Empty Promises

From the New York Post:

OBAMA VS. OSAMA

by Ralph Peters

NAME-BRAND journalists have let Barack Obama make any claim he chooses about Iraq, Afghanistan or coping with terrorism without pinning him down for details.

Yet many of his comments and positions seem stunningly naive about national security. Given that this man may become our next president, shouldn’t he explain how he’d do the many impressive things he’s promised?

This week, Obama claimed, again, that he’d promptly capture Osama bin Laden. OK, tell me how: Specifically, which concrete measures would he take that haven’t been taken? How would he force our intelligence agencies to locate bin Laden? And he can’t just respond, “That’s classified.”

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