• I started saying that Hillary's PotUS campaign was coming apart back in July, 2005. As of now that's pretty much the consensus. Everybody has abandoned the Clintons. The Kennedy clan. The unions. The left-wing celebrities. The Democratic Party rank and file. They've all dropped Hillary like yesterday's leftovers and made the Obama switch.
  
  I've generally been happy with this since I despise the Clintons and I've thought for some time now that Obama seemed like a decent guy. But since it's become clear that he really is going to get the nomination, I've decided that I better take some time and learn a little more about him.
  
  Here's some of what I've learned:
  
  
  • When a baby actually survives a late term abortion and ends up alive and crying in the operating room, Obama wants the baby to be murdered. As a legislator he's cast three votes to have physicians kill children who survive abortion.
    
    Even Barbara Boxer thinks that goes too far.
    
    It's no wonder that Planned Parenthood loves the guy.
  
  
  
  • His image as a moderate who's tough on crime is … well, a crock:
    

    He voted against a bill that would add penalties for crimes committed as a part of gang activity and against a bill that would make it a criminal offense for accused gang members, free on bond or probation, to associate with other gang members. In 1999, he was the only state senator to oppose a bill that prohibited early prison release for criminal sexual offenders.

  
  
  • Obama has become the darling of the anti-war crowd by reminding us over and over again that he opposed the war in Iraq from the very start. But his opposition to the war wasn't because he saw things more clearly than the Bush administration. This is a passage from his book The Audacity Of Hope:
    

    "Like most analysts, I assumed that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons and coveted nuclear arms," Obama wrote. "I believed that he had repeatedly flouted UN resolutions and weapons inspectors and that such behavior had to have consequences. That Saddam butchered his own people was undisputed; I had no doubt that the world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him."

    
    Before the war, Obama believed the same things about Saddam as everyone else, and yet he still opposed taking action. What the hell would it take for this guy to be willing to take military action against someone? I think he'd actually be a more limp-wristed leader than Bill Clinton was.
    
    Is this the guy you want in office if Iraq and/or Pakistan fall to al Qaeda?
  
  
  Some of the rumors going around on the net about Obama are simply untrue:
  

  
  Thankfully, his voting record as a legislator is easy to verify. And the more I learn about him, the more I find out what his principles really are, the more I realize I've been naïve to simply see him as a nice guy. This is a man who stands for a great many things I disagree with adamantly.
  
  Even his most loyal supporters sometimes have to admit that they don't really know what kind of man he is.
  
  I guess I better start getting more energized about McCain.

• My friend The Governor hails from Wichita, Kansas. So he keeps me up to date on all the news in that part of the country. The Governor was the first person who ever mentioned BTK to me, and today he filled me in on the latest big story from the Air Capital Of The World:
  

  WICHITA, Kansas, Feb. 20, 2008 -- Wichita police say they’re working a case they don't often see: a man accused of having sex with a dog. And it’s not the first time the man’s been in this type of trouble.
  
  Twenty-year-old Joshua Coman is now in jail accused of having sex with a Rottweiler.
  
  “We don't see any cases like this,” said Lt. Sam Hanley with the Wichita Police Department. “I’d never seen any cases like this and I hope we don't see any more.”
  
  Justen Tracy says Coman lived with his family for a short time.
  
  Tracy says Coman called Wednesday night to say he was coming over to kidnap the dog. Shortly after that, the family caught him in the garage.
  
  "He's doing foul things with the dog and my mom flips on the garage light and he stops,” said Tracy.
  
  Coman was already on probation for similar charges in Reno County. Last September he pleaded no contest in a case involving a Rottweiler in Pretty Prairie.

  
  
  The first thing I thought while reading that story was "He did WHAT to a dog?" Then I read further and found myself thinking "It was a friggin' ROTTWEILER?"
  
  Like somehow that makes it worse. Like, sure, I can see sodomizing a Poodle or a Shar Pei, but not a Rottweiler, man.
  
  Then I read that he'd been in trouble with another Rottie before and I thought "This guy is really specific about what he's doing."
  
  And then I realized how much time I was spending thinking about this and I got a cold chill and felt nauseous.



• Earl Simmons goes by the nom-de-hip-hop DMX, and he's well known for being a pet lover and responsible citizen. Now comes news that he's working on a gospel record:
  
  

  Swizz Beatz recently revealed that DMX has linked up with Neptunes producer Pharrell to work on the gospel portion of his upcoming album.
  
  As reported earlier, DMX's upcoming album will be a double CD titled Walk With Me Now and You'll Fly With Me Later.
  
  Walk With Me Now will be his typical street themed album while Fly With Me Later will be a gospel album with no cursing.
  
  Swizz, who made the revelation to MTV News, will also be a part of X’s double project.

  
  
  Personally, I can't wait to hear DMX soliciting for Jesus. I've thought that he'd make a great gospel vocalist ever since I heard his song X Is Coming, in which he intimates the following:
  
  

  If you got a daughter older then 15, ima rape her
  Take her on the living room floor, right there in front of you
  Then ask you seriously, whatchu wanna do?
  Frustratin, isnt it? when they kill me, but ima kill you
  Now watch me f--k just a lil while longer, please, will you?

  
  
  Earl Simmons …. this generation's Mahalia Jackson.

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