From my Boston Herald column this morning:

“Well, uh, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or, uh, a scientific perspective, uh, answering that question with specificity, uh, you know, is, is, uh, above my pay grade.” - Sen. Barack Obama, on “When does a baby get human rights?”

In 1948, they had Harry Truman and “The buck stops here!”

In 2008, they’ve got Barack Obama and it’s “above my pay grade.”

This is definitely not your grandfather’s Democratic Party.

Certainly not mine. My grandfather, Ray Futrell, was a lifelong FDR Democrat, the kind who would proudly rather vote for a wife-beating, syphilitic drunkard than for a Republican. In fact, he would find the previous sentence entirely redundant.

UPDATE!  I'm not the only person noticing that Sen. Obama has disqualified himself for the job.  Check out this astonishing poll from pro-Obama media outlet Reuters.  McCain UP BY 5!  To use a phrase from the world of political consulting, "Holy crap!"

Believe it or not, I've had Barack Obama supporters try to convince me that a vote for Sen. Obama is a vote for moderate, middle-of-the-road consensus politics. And that may be true in France or Germany, but not in the US of A.

Peter Kirsanow heard Dick Morris say that Obama was "not a radical" and he had the same reaction I did:

consider that according to recent polling, Obama's positions on the following issues are opposed by a median of 76% of respondents:

• Obama supports giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants
• Obama supports racial preferences in public employment, contracting and school admissions
• Obama opposes a ban on partial birth abortions
• Obama would cut funding for research and development of "unproven" missile defense systems
• Obama opposes making English the official language for doing business with the U.S. government
• Obama opposes the Supreme Court decisions prohibiting racial assignments of grade school children
• Obama opposes parental notification for minors obtaining abortions

Kirsanow goes on to cover other areas where Sen. Obama is far outside the mainstream.  I have racked my brain and I can't find a definition of "moderate" that would include the politics and ideology of Barack Obama.

That doesn't mean that Obama is wrong on the issue (though I think he is). John Adams and Alexander Hamilton were radicals, too, and I think they were absolutely right about the big issues of their day.  But if someone had told the British parliament that they were moderates, he would have been laughed out of the room.

Obama runs as a moderate....why aren't we laughing? 

Common sense on college campuses--particularly from the administration--is so rare, that it's our duty to celebrate it.  And across America, some 100 college presidents are calling for a return to common sense...and a lower legal age for drinking alcohol.

Note that I didn't say a "lower drinking age." A majority of high school kids are already drinking, and there aren't any kids who want to drink who are going without under the current law.  If you want to drink, you can get a drink.

All our current law does is tell young people "Hey, the laws are stupid. Ignore them."  And they do.  The 21-year-old drinking law is the most violated law since the 55-mph speed limit.  And for the same reason. It's a dumb law.

The premise of the 21-year-old drinking age is that 20 year olds are too stupid to handle a beer.  These are the same 20 year olds who are legally "smart" enough to get married, enter contracts, start their own businesses, borrow tens of thousands of dollars and kill people on behalf of their government.  No rational person can defend such an idiotic argument.

Instead, the Nanny Staters argue that we have to make drinking at 21 illegal to try and stop 16 year olds from drinking.  This makes as much sense as raising the driving age to 21 to keep teens from driving illegally, or making the age limit for R rated movies 30 so 17-year-olds won't sneak into "Superbad."

I've got a better idea. Let's have laws that make sense, and then enforce them!  Let's say to 17-year-olds "you can have a beer NEXT year, and if you're too dumb to wait, you're going to get into big trouble."

The only thing more stupid than a teenager is an adult using a stupid law to try and change teen behavior.

When it comes to "Career Day" at my local high school, I'm one of those simpletons who thinks it's an event to help kids choose a career.  Crazy, I know.

If only I were as brilliant as the supergeniuses of the Massachusetts Left. They see these school events are yet another opportunity to display their hatred of the American military.  And that's what the kooks at Citizens for an Informed Community hope to inflict on the kids at Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School this year.

Led by Bridgewater State College geography professor Vernon Domingo, the CIC crew think it's unfair that an organization that hires people to do a job (the US Armed Services) are allowed to participate in a job fair, while a bunch of clueless kooks who aren't hiring anyone (CIC) are not invited.  "The issue is, both side should be allowed in, or neither side should be," says CIC member Raymond Ajemian.

Once again, we're not talking about Debate Club or a political campaign.  This is Career Day.  How did the "Fairness Doctrine" get involved?  Do these nuts really believe in equal time for a job fair?  OK, then let's have PETA set up across from KFC, and the American Nudists Society can display their wares opposite any retail clothing stores.  I for one would love to see every recruiter for state or local governments being stared down by Barbara Anderson from Citizens for Limited Taxation.

How stupid is this idea?  So stupid that at least two Massachusetts public school systems--Milton and Cohasset--have already adopted it.

The anti-military morons say that their presence is needed because military recruiters don't tell the whole story.  "The brochures say nothing about dying and nothing about post-traumatic stress syndrome," Ajemian whined to the Boston Globe-Democrat.

Wait--what?  People who choose to join the military might die?  Who knew?  They should put that on a warning label and hand it out during basic training.  You know, along with the guns, knives and explosives.

And by the way, do the CIC's fliers tell the full story about their own organization?  Do their fliers say "Our efforts fully supported by Al Qaeda?"  Or how about: "If the government had listened to us, Saddam would still be in power, the Taliban would be training terrorists in Afghanistan, and thousands of people would have died after tsunamis and earthquakes around the world when there was no US military to rescue them."

The school boards of Milton and Cohasset should immediately end this idiotic policy and tell the protesters that Career Day is for choosing careers, not carping about George W. Bush.  And the CIC and its supporters should also admit what their actions already prove: They're not just "anti-war," they hate the US military itself.

Good morning, Boston!  I'm back from the beach, sobered up (mostly), and ready to rock.

And I'm not the only one, apparently.  Blender Magazine asked Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama to list their Top Ten favorite songs of all time.  The good news? The lists include Bruce, U2, Louis Armstrong (the greatest American entertainer of the 20th Century) and ol' Blue Eyes.

The bad news?  ABBA.  Twice.

Ouch.

In other news, it appears that no matter how badly we let local government employees rip us off legally, they just can't resist doing it the old-fashioned way.  The Boston Herald has an excellent round-up of the latest, greatest sticky-fingered government stooges.  Notice what they all have in common: They are all close to their ridiculously generous retirements...and they STILL have to grab a bit of graft on the way out the door.

And there's plenty of Obama news this morning (see below), but I'm fascinated by how little attention has been paid to the (very) junior senator's complete flip-flop on taxes.  Just months ago, I was mocking Obama for saying that we must raise capital gains taxes, even if that causes a drop in revenues to the federal government, because it's just not fair that the "wealthy" aren't being taxed at a higher rate. (In other words, raising taxes on the "rich" is a good thing, even if that means they actually pay LESS into the treasury).  He's now abandoned that position utterly. This is a flip flop on both his fundamental principles and economic policy...and the media just yawn.

Meanwhile, if there were a single honest journalist left in the network news business, the number one story of the weekend would be Sen. Obama's claim that Clarence Thomas wasn't experienced enough to be appointed to the Supreme Court.  The Wall Street Journal knocks this one out of the park:

By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General's office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation's second most prominent court. Since his "elevation" to the High Court in 1991, he has also shown himself to be a principled and scholarly jurist.

Meanwhile, as he bids to be America's Commander in Chief, Mr. Obama isn't yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate, has never held a hearing of note of his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and had an unremarkable record as both a "community organizer" and law school lecturer.

Not only is Sen. Obama, by his own criteria, too inexperienced to be elected president, but he's less qualified for the job than...Clarence Thomas.

So said Sen. Barack Obama, accusing the National Right To Life Committee of lying about his vote against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois. He was the ONLY person in the Illinois state senate not to support it (in classic Obama fashion, he courageously voted "present.").  Sen. Obama says that the state bill he opposed was different from the federal bill because it didn't include a "neutrality clause" re: Roe v. Wade.  That's what Sen. Obama says, and anyone who says differently, well,  "these folks are lying."

Sen. Obama is right about one thing. Somebody IS lying:

Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, specifically claiming that the bill he voted against in his committee lacked “neutrality” language on Roe v. Wade. The bill did contain this language. He even participated in the unanimous vote to put it in...

[I]n 2003, in the health committee which he chaired, Obama voted against a version of the bill that contained the specific “neutrality” language — redundant language affirming that the bill only applied to infants already born and granted no rights to the unborn.

So again: after the above amendment was added to change the original bill making it identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, Obama and five other Democrats voted to kill it.

 

I realize that 90% of all MSM reporters are pro-abortion, but does that mean they shouldn't do their job?  Despite Obama's cowardly cop-out that the abortion issue is "above my pay grade," America--and every other modern Western society--have laws governing this controversial medical procedure.  Sen. Obama has the most radical position on abortion of any candidate in American history, and he has a voting record to prove it.  Now he's shamelessly lying about his voting record and the MSM is letting him get away with it.  This morning, CNN played the video of Sen. Obama's denial in its entirety, and didn't challenge a single word. 

 

That's not reporting--that's just pathetic.

 

UPDATE: This video from the Saddleback event tells voters everything they need to know about Obama vs. McCain on abortion and, more importantly, leadership.

I'm in LA--tanned, rested and ready for my conversation with Al Sharpton and Co. on the Dr. Phil show.  We're taping today, and they haven't given me a date when the show will air yet.  When they do, you'll read it here first!

A few observations from the road:

JOHN EDWARDS: When I tell you someone's a dirtbag--he's a dirtbag.  And I told you he was a dirtbag when he dragged his poor, cancer-stricken wife out for a press conference AFTER the news that her cancer was untreatable.  He should have announced "I'm withdrawing from the race." Instead he announced "I'm trying to use her cancer to revive my pathetic political career."  A guy who can do that, can do anything. That's how I knew the story was true months ago and why I--like Edwards himself--pointed to Sen. Haircut's narcissism as the root of all his evil.

RUSSIA: The country that has invaded a neighbor, bombed civilians and is telling the world "up yours!" is the country Sen. Obama and the Democrats want to rely on to help us stop Iran from going nuclear.  You know--because the Russians are so trustworthy.

OBAMANIA: I hope John McCain continues to mock the Obama followers with ads like the "Celebrity" spot and the new one quoting Obamaniacs.  But if I were running the McCain campaign, I'd put some more prominent people in the commercials--people who ought to know better.  For example, former AMBASSADOR(yikes!) Richardson was on one of the Sunday shows and was asked how a President Obama would handle situations like Russia invading Georgia:

"...a President Obama will have a good, strong dialogue-oriented relationship with Russia, where these kinds of situations would not occur," Gov. Richardson told a stunned audience.  In other words, if the people of America will elect St. Obama, the Russians will just...start being good.  No invasions, no more poisonings of political opponents, no more threats to Ukraine or opposing sanctions against terror sponsoring states.

It will be like magic!  Obama is sworn in, and Putin suddenly discovers he wants a hug.  In Iran, AdmedWhackIjob converts to Christianity and invites Rev. Wright to become his pastor.  Hamas and Fatah stop killing each other over who gets first dibs on killing the Jews, and they stroll hand-in-hand to the nearest kosher deli.

And all will be right with the world.

Folks, these aren't liberals Democrats. They're dementia patients.

It's been an interesting few days for your humble bringer of the Natural Truth.

On Thursday,  I gave a speech to the Young America's Foundation that was carried by C-SPAN, and I'm now buried under an avalanche of hate mail regarding my joke about what Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have in common (they both have good friends who tried to blow up the Pentagon).

Then our radio connection from Washington DC completely fried, keeping me off the air Thursday afternoon.

Friday morning around 3am I was hit by a tidal wave of nausea, and spent the next 18 hours at the Throne of The Great Porcelin God.  That's  why I was off the air Friday.

And now I'm getting ready to head to LA as a special guest on the (I kid you not) Dr. Phil show.  Also appearing, the Rev. Al Sharpton.

That's right: Me, Rev. Al, and a professional therapist, all on national TV.  And you thought the Olympics would be exciting.

Light blogging for the next few days, but please stay tuned for all the latest Natural Truth!

"The first thing you see are a couple of images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, right? And we see an image of Barack Obama right after that," Herbert explained. And then he continued: "Do you remember any other startling images right there at the beginning? All right. There is an image right there in that very beginning of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and there is an image of the Washington Monument. Look at the beginning of that ad again, and you tell me why those two phallic symbols are placed there — POW — right at the very beginning of that ad."

The Tower of Pisa?  Uh, Bob--Obama was in Germany. Not Italy.  But I guess all those white, European countries look the same to you...

Meanwhile, it turns out Americans have been unknowingly using racial slurs for years!  Insulting, hurtful words like (I kid you now) "elitist" and "skinny." 

Now, before you go dropping the "S" bomb on Calista Flockhart or Mary Kate Olsen, you need to know that "skinny" is only racist when applied to a person of color.  At least, that's the, ahem, "thinking" of Timothy Noah at Slate.com:

"Any discussion of Obama's 'skinniness' and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race....Barack Obama is the first African-American to win a major-party nomination for president of the United States. African-Americans are distinguishable from other Americans by their skin color. This physical attribute looms large in our nation's history as a source of prejudice. . . .

When white people are invited to think about Obama's physical appearance, the principal attribute they're likely to dwell on is his dark skin.  Consequently, any reference to Obama's other physical attributes can't help coming off as a coy walk around the barn.

Got it?  If you say "Doesn't Barack Obama look good in that suit?," you're a racist.  If you admire the effects of his frequent workouts, or think he got a great haircut, or comment that he appears a little tired from campaigning--any comments at all!--and you're a junior member of the KKK.

I'd call you an "elite" member, but...