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eing a consummate politician is hardly rare, but being one with an electrifying personality is, so with credit to his presence, Barack Hussein Obama will assume the most powerful mantle in the known universe from George W. Bush today – and I suppose I wish him well. At least a little.

I certainly wishes he survives his presidency.  Around the world, people who know even less about Obama than we do are thrilled to see what America has accomplished in electing someone black, young, exciting … and not Bush.  There is an opportunity for Obama to do well with that, to increase America’s credibility.  Lord knows, we have more than enough power; it’s credibility we’ve been running short of lately, in large part because the left and the media have made it so hard for Bush.

Obama will be excused from that scrutiny, so when he wants to follow something like Bush policy overseas, he will be able to get away with it, and in that I wish him well.

That’s about it.  On everything else, Obama’s doing well is a nightmare.

If he does well with his economic  policy, he will expand the federal government, raise taxes and impose new entitlements that will forestall recovery, cripple our motivation and immerse us nostrils-deep in debt.

If he does well politically, the GOP will flounder and will lose again in the 2010 mid-terms and in the 2012 presidentials will get no closer to the White House and see more slippage in Congress.

If he does well with his domestic policy, generations of Americans to follow will hold him and his vision of big government high, and a 58 year-old like me may not see a return to sane fiscal policy and small (even smallish) government in my lifetime.

If he does well on military policy, the forces of jihad will have time to heal their wounds and rebuild their networks, we will wound and not continue to build our military and intelligence resources, and the war against suicidal fanatical Islam will last longer than it needs to.

If he does well internationally, the U.N. will continue to build up repressive regimes, will remain powerless in the face of genocides it can’t quite bring itself to call genocides, and will squander far too much money and deliver far too little aid.

If he does well personally, he will be influential for decades to come and ultimately, we will be carving another face into Mt. Rushmore, which means, as I said above, our country will take a long, long time to come back from the social democratic brink, if it can, if it does.

So, God bless America for being an open democracy where Barack Hussein Obama can become president without a blood coup, and God bless Barack Hussein Obama and grant him a long life, a natural death, and most importantly, wisdom.

Because if he doesn’t get some wisdom sometime soon, I just can’t wish him well.

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n an otherwise useless, GOP-slapping, Dem-loving bit of blathering reporting on the Blagojevich insanity, Salon’s Joan Walsh passed along this gem in her coverage of yesterday’s too-short press conference:

Obama looked like the happiest man in history ever to be called a “m—–f—–.”

But a more significant line might be this one from Capt. Ed, about the clip below, made even more significant now that Rahm Emanuel isn’t showing up for work because of “death threats.”

Emanuel has been acting like someone advised him to keep quiet to keep from making incriminating public statements, and this may be the reason why.

Here’s the clip – all about Emanuel’s many conversations with Blagojevich about filling Obama’s’ Senate seat.  Sure, Emanuel would be the point man on such a deal … but just as sure, he wasn’t forthcoming about it, and he’s just another Chicago pol who’s been swimming in the Chicago political cesspool throughout his career, and he’s next to the prez-elect.

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‘m Paris Hilton” says the well-recognized celebrity, chihuahua in tow, “and I approve this message because I think it’s totally hot.”

So ends the celeb’s response to the ad from the campaign of the “old, wrinkled white guy,” which I’m having trouble embedding but you can see here. It’s not particularly clever, but it says an awful lot about how much campaigning has changed with 2.3 million hits on the ad since it was posted 16 hours ago. (The McCain ad has “just” 1.6 million hits on the spot I found it although it’s posted all over the Web.)

The ad has stopped Obama’s momentum like a brick wall, putting to waste the Herculean effort of BO’s globetrotting photo op, all at minimal cost to the McCain campaign. The Hilton spoof is tougher on McCain than Obama, calling him “the oldest celebrity in the world … like super-old,” so we have to ask if it will have a negative impact on his campaign.

Probably not. Besides, there’s a much more essential question that’s unanswered in all this: Where’s Britney?

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y now you’ve heard about, read about and no doubt seen this McCain ad:

What you may have missed in the whole “Obama as a tacky celebrity” to-and-fro is this critique of the ad from that fount of political commentary, E! Online:

Oh, John McCain.

First, you side with Heidi Montag in The Hills catfight, and now this? In your new campaign ad, you suggest Barack Obama is a celebrity more popular than Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

That’s hardly fair. Those two are too busy these days with other concerns to worry about being at the top of the boldfaced heap.

If you want to get tough on Obama, why not compare him with some really hot celebs. Take Christian Bale—have you seen the box-office figures for The Dark Knight? Huge! Or Miley Cyrus? She’s massive. And for that matter: Why not compare Obama to enduring stars like Will Smith, Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks?

You could even pit him against some of your supporters: Jon Voight, Erik Estrada or Spencer Pratt? That’d be interesting.

But Paris? Come on, there’s gotta be a better comparison. You’d almost think you were trying to belittle him or something.

Exactly.

You won’t find political commentary that probing at Politico, Bub. And BTW, to wrap up celeb reaction to this ad – which is absolutely great for feeding its viral reach – there’s this:

Hilton has blasted the MCCain camp for using her image without asking for permission.
A spokesperson for the star says, “Miss Hilton was not asked, nor did she give permission for the use of her likeness in the ad and has no further comment.”

Her proud parents donated $4,600 to McCain. No word on how much they gave to BO.

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I was in a meeting today from 8:30 to 6; hence the dearth of posts. Story of my life lately — blessed with work; deprived of posting time. A fine dilemma, all in all.

The team at the meeting is quite senior; most of us are in our 50s, one in his early 40s, a couple in their 60s. It takes that kind of expertise to deal with the shenanigans of the California Coastal Commission.

So, imagine my humored reaction when the team lurched to a stop in mid-document review when someone said, “I wonder if Paris is in jail yet.”

I’m the computer savvy guy there, and my laptop is wired to a projector, so I whipped onto Breitbart and popped up the latest story — the hand-cuffs (not fur-lined!) the heiress screaming “MOM!” and “It’s not right!”

All eyes locked on the screen … and then the laughing began.

Not chuckles, mind you; it was loud guffaws and spontaneous, choked reading out loud as the guys and one gal — all of whom have worked hard to reach success in their professions — felt … what? Relief? Vindication? Justification? Satisfaction? Revenge?

The sheer joy of watching the spoiled little girl who has it all suddenly realize that she’s merely a citizen like us coursed through the cerebra of the group and we all were simply flushed with good humor.

Not that it lasted. After all, we work for our money, and the California Coastal Commission wasn’t going to go away no matter how loudly we pout-cried “MOM!” and “It’s not right!”

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Not being a celeb-watcher, I wouldn’t recognize Brittney Spears if she upchucked in front of me — and I certainly wouldn’t recognize her with her new hairdon’t, shown here.

According to the breathless and brainless reports, Ms. Spears buzzed her own hair because she didn’t want people to touch her any more. Her family is said to be “in full intervention mode” and rehab is a distinct possibility.

Meanwhile, the pop movie starlet Lindsey Lohan reportedly has checked out of rehab and is taking things one day at a time. And Paris Hilton is … who knows what? Drinking, drugging, sexing, aping for any camera, anywhere.

My three girls don’t think much of this crew of awful role models; they have other interests and other influences, most quite good, some bad, but none as bad as the drinking, drugging, slutting lot that captures the media’s eye.

I just asked Incredible Daughter #2 , who’s 18, what she thought of them and she said, “Nothing. The media over-hypes them, but they’re disgusting.”

“So they’re not role models to you?”

“Oh yeah, I want to be like Paris, a ho with a lazy eye.”

I could ask for better phrasing, but basically, Phew!

But all over America, in millions of households it’s different, as young girls take on the personna of these partying, puking, pandering pieces of human garbage.

Incredible Wife saw a number of young girls who are influenced by these shameless hussies interviewed on Dr. Phil this week. She reported that they were vacuous, lost and utterly without morals.

They were, in a nutshell, Secular Relativism’s ultimate glory, it’s crowning achievement. They see nothing wrong in their behavior because they have no moral guideposts to give them the combatting senses of guilt and honor.

The media might as well dress up in a crimson body suit with horns and tail attached on this one, because the sensationalization of the news fuels the celebrity sluts, which in turn fuels the cameras, which in turn fuels the imaginations of the young and misguideable.

The other night as I was packing my briefcase and readying for bed, the late night news had stories on a man who threw a barking Chihuahua over a fence, a woman who discovered her Shi-tzu’s ear had been cut off by a groomer, then superglued back on, and a piece on Anna Nichole’s body, baby and hangers-on. Lacking a car chase that evening, that’s what constituted the news for most people today.

Not a story of significance in the bunch.

The only fortress against this onslaught is a tight family with a solid center. The slut brigade (and those boys who are very, very happy because of this turn of events) doesn’t stand a chance against a foundation of love, interest and discipline.

Where are those families? Lost, unfortunately, to Secular Relativism. Divorce, affairs, parental drinking and drugging, money above love, anger because control doesn’t feel good, saying yes because saying no takes effort, as in the case of Lindsey Lohan’s mom:

“As a parent, you tell them what you can tell them, but she’s 20 and I’m not gonna say, ‘Stay home and don’t go out,’ that’s a ridiculous thing to do.”

Really? You’re daughter is 20 and self-distructing and it’s ridiculous to intervene? Why? Because the money might dry up if she’s just run-of-the-mill?

The media is not interested in positive role models, so if America is going to stop this slide before the next generation gets even worse, we have to change the media. Are we mad as hell, and not going to take it any more?

Dunno. Seems like a lot of work … and besides, who’s to say who’s right?

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