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Un-American Airlines

Posted by Conservative Soldier on Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:31:17 PM
By: The Conservative Soldier

We're about to be pushed back, almost on time, from a gate at RDU International in North Carolina the other day when The Captain, in his best I-am-a-Senior-Pilot-with-a-vault-full-of-worthless-stock-options tone, announces we'll be delayed.

Why the delay? Conservatives, of course.

North Carolina's iconic conservative, Sen. Jesse Helms, died on the 4th of July. Not a Yankee Doodle, but a dandy for sure. His funeral was July 8 in Raleigh. An hour or so before the departure of our Chicago flight, Vice President Dick Cheney jetted into RDU aboard Air Force Two (a winglet-enhanced Boeing 757) to pay his respects to Sen. Helms.

As Air Force Two descended into RDU, the airspace in the vicinity was sealed, leaving planes such as our American MD80 in a holding pattern. As soon as VP Cheney was off the tarmac and headed to the Helms service, the airspace was re-opened and a number of flights were vectored for landing.

As the pilot explained, all of these planes came in at once instead of at their normal staggered times. (A few minutes is staggered, apparently). We would be delayed 30 minutes because the luggage from the inbound flight was still in the belly of our MD80 even though the passengers had long ago assembled in baggage claim. While they paced, we sat, for even more than 30 minutes. All of the incoming luggage finally came off, followed by the loading of the outbound luggage.

Over the PA, Disgruntled Senior Pilot suggests there was not sufficient ground crew to handle the onslaught of incoming flights (all three or four of them). "If you want to complain," he added, "I guess you can write a letter to the Vice President."

In any case, this Lib Hugging Un-American pilot had no chance at winning the Sound Bite of the Week award.

That prize already belonged to the pilot of Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's aircraft, an MD80 charter from the Midwest Airlines fleet. It made an unscheduled stop in St. Louis en route to Charlotte, N.C., on Monday because an emergency escape chute deployed in flight from the rear section of the aircraft.

The pilot explained the decision to put down in St. Louis by saying, "We detected a little bit of a controllability issue."

Apparently the Obama talking points people got to the pilot before he gave the honest answer, which would have been, "We didn't know if we could keep this massive, aging airliner, moving at 500 mph, from nose-diving into a Missouri cornfield, so we landed as quickly as possible."

Got to love that they had an emergency over the battleground state of Missouri. If I'm Sen. John McCain my first move is to get this ad on the air ASAP: "He tried to fly right over the Show Me State. Only a mid-air emergency compelled Sen. Obama to set foot on Missouri soil. Will Obama always wait for crisis before he reaches out to you?"

A lot of good material here.

Sen. Hillary Clinton had chartered the same aircraft before bowing out of the Democratic race. I think I 'd have flown commercial before loading my staff and the press corp onto that charter. Another judgment red flag against the Obamas, I say. Bill sits near the back of the plane, doesn't he? Isn't that where the youngest tenured female press sit? Who knows what buttons he was fiddling around with after a few vodka tonics.

And you had to love the fact that the emergency was set off by a rear escape chute deployment? Did someone in the Obama inner circle decide he'd had enough, right then and there (a la the infamous 1971 hijacker/thief D.B. Cooper, who "escaped" by parachuting from the rear stairs of a 727 over Washington state)? Was Obama trying to drop anti-McCain leaflets over the midwest? Were the sacks of multimillion-dollar campaign contributions they tossed in the back simply too heavy for the rear door mechanism to withstand?

We know that Midwest Airlines is famous for serving its commercial passengers freshly baked chocolate chip cookies in flight. So, presumably, the cookies on Obama's Monday flight to Charlotte were only half baked.

Need we say more?



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Demand Separation of Church and Hate

Posted by Conservative Soldier on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:25:00 AM
By The Conservative Soldier:

So it has come to this: Everyone who is critical, even fearful, of Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is not simply opposing the radical-liberal tsunami that he intends for our country. No, those who shudder at the possibility of Obamarama 2008 are fueling the “silent subtext of race that has been part of the contest since Day One.”

That’s how the current state of affairs is characterized by the vitriolic Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell, who is Obama’s unofficial fan club president in his adopted hometown. I can only imagine Mary has waited her entire lifetime for the opportunity to paint every opponent of a Presidential candidate of color as racist scum. As a columnist for a dying, irrelevant newspaper, daily breaking news on Obama is a windfall for Mary. He gives her a platform upon which to play the political race card and, possibly, an excuse to keep her pathetic little newspaper on the radar, too.

Even as Obama declared Tuesday night that he is the Democratic nominee, history was unfolding, unimpeded by his empty, liberal boilerplate rhetoric. He’d better be careful wishing for change, because change is happening all around him, even faster than Obama’s speechwriting team can possibly type. Or hype.

On the day Obama declared a “defining moment” for America (his candidacy, to be precise), Iran’s little open-collared dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Rome, attending a UN summit, where he warned (in softer terms than his previous “stinking corpse” description) that “Israel is doomed to go.” Clearly, there are different interpretations out there about when the defining moments will come and what they will mean.

On the day Obama vowed his campaign never will “use religion as a wedge”, his friend Rev. Michael Pfleger was quoted in an interview observing, “This is a dangerous time in America … where you have to whisper your thoughts.” These were his comments after he was blasted by the Chicago Archdiocese for, essentially, using religion as a wedge in a sermon in which he mocked Obama’s opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the pulpit.

Pfleger, an iconoclast for years, was asked to undergo a leave of absence after taking his act into Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, where he was afflicted by the same self-absorption that beleaguered Obama’s former pastor at Trinity, the fashion challenged Jeremiah Wright. He, like Wright, forgot that leading the flock does not include campaigning for causes, or, in Pfleger’s case, the Obama presidential chase.

Pfleger expects us to believe that he never would have gone off on Hillary in a sermon had he known that Trinity’s streaming video technology had been restored just prior to his so-called Memorial Day weekend sermon. It would have been all right, Pfleger implies, to spew his pro-racism venom to a strictly private audience (similar to Obama’s audience in San Francisco, where he assailed the religion and gun clingers). Pfleger was obviously “victimized” by whatever techie fixed the equipment, not by his own arrogance.

And, on the morning of the day Obama declared himself the Democrat nominee (notwithstanding the angered delegates in Florida and Michigan), old mother Mary in her Sun-Times column was blaming “ugly politics” for trampling the sanctity of Trinity Church, and lamenting that “Obama has repeatedly been forced to cut ties with black leaders by people who are exploiting white fears.”

She can lament from now until November. The truth — an I am not whispering here, Father Pfleger — is that Revs. Wright and Pfleger have awakened the nation to the Obama agenda by virtue of their total disregard for the sanctity of worship. God and religion are mere props by which radical liberalism and creeping government encroachment on American life are advanced.

For a majority of Americans, the defining moment sought from Obama will be his willingness to demand the separation of church and hate. Resigning his 20-year membership from Trinity’s “Open Mic Night” stage is a hollow gesture, at best.
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Politicians Behaving Badly

Posted by Conservative Soldier on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:00:00 AM
By The Conservative Soldier:

I almost feel sorry for William Jefferson Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. They are angry guys who are sick and tired of the American media's persistent questions about their words and deeds, and fed up with Democrat voters for their refusal to jump squarely on one bandwagon heading into this year's general election. (You can't really jump onto a moving target when weighed down by bitterness, firearms and Bibles).

Why, if Clinton and Obama were only fortunate enough to be political rock stars in Russia, like polished counterpart Vladimir Putin, they'd have an easier time dealing with pesky individuals walking around with intrusive audio and video equipment, creating trouble and bursting their invincibility bubbles.

The soon-to-be-former-President (and Prime Minister-in-waiting) of Russia does not have to put up with the whims of the media, apparently. When the newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent recently reported that Putin was dumping his wife for a diminutive trophy babe, a 24-year-old Olympic champion gymnast no less, Putin shut down the newspaper within days of the scandalous revelation. Take that, you unyielding journalistic insects.

Poor old Bill and Barack have no such recourse, but they're no doubt taking mental notes on Putin's swift, retaliatory response. If the media continues to turn up the heat here in First Amendment Land, maybe one of Barack's old Chicago operatives has a friend who has a friend who knows the publisher at Tribune Co., or maybe the Clintons could call in a favor to a Saudi sheik Bill has formerly partied with and ask His Sultanship to make a hostile takeover bid for News Corporation's Fox News Channel.

Otherwise, they're out there 24/7 without a net. We know Obama was caught on tape in San Francisco, complaining about annoying working class Americans who are so tormented by their lives that they have no choice but to cling to worship and gun ownership. But that apparently did not leave him suitably leery of the media's audo equipment.

This week in Scranton, Pa., Obama made a morning appearance at a diner, seated at a counter, suffocated, no doubt, by the bitterness all around him. In an apparent lapse by Obama's campaign staff, reporters and camera crews were permitted to cozy up as Obama was about to hunker down with a syrup-covered waffle.

What, someone asked, is Obama's view of President Jimmy Carter's recent meeting with leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas?

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" Obama sneered, suggesting a hint of bitterness about the prospect of a cold meal.

The reporter, fearless that her media outlet would be shut down because she insisted on doing her job, phrased the Hamas question again and pressed for an answer. "Just let me eat my waffle," Obama bristled.

Clinton's media trouble came when chatting with a radio station by telephone Monday night, trying to bolster his wife Hillary's Presidential campaign. The inquisitor dared to ask the former President if he regretted comparing Obama's earlier primary win in South Carolina to a 1988 South Carolina primary victory by longshot black presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. Clinton rambled on about how the uproar was actually Obama's camp using the "race card" on him.

Then he hung up. Or so he thought. The interview was over, but Clinton kept talking with audio rolling at the radio station in Delaware.

"I don't think I should take any sh-- from anybody on that, do you?" Clinton whined, the line still live.

At least President Clinton has evolved beyond, "Just let Monica and I eat our double cheeseburgers!"

So let us crystalize the words of these campaign weary men. Sen. Obama declined to criticize, or even comment on, the indefensible and reckless behavior of a former President (Carter) and fellow liberal even as Carter seeks to connect with the agenda of Hamas and to better understand its blood thirsty, terror bent organizers.

Obama has given new meaning to waffling. And it is not a trivial re-definition as his silence on Carter is making me nervous that Obama thinks Jimmah is doing the patriotic thing.

Clinton has reminded us that he actually believes he formerly reigned as "the first black president". All these years later he doesn't understand that no one was buying it. He has an office in Harlem, but his brain resides on Mars, or beyond.

Meanwhile, the Clinton and Obama media strategists are probably adopting a new approach when faced with a media firestorm: "What would Vladimir Putin do?"

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