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What I've Been Up To

I've been really busy working on Renee's campaign lately.  So busy, that I did not even take time to post a link to some columns I had posted this week.  One was a piece at Townhall on conservative women that I've been writing for weeks and finally finished up over the weekend.  The next was a review of the film Fire from the Heartland which ran at Big Hollywood. Then yesterday my review (and celebration of) the return of the series Dexter for its fifth season was posted at Big Hollywood.  Please go take a look at them. 

Chuck Season 4 Premiere Tonight

After listening to my ten-year-old daughter talk about how she was going to die having to wait all summer for the premiere of season 4 of Chuck, I almost forgot all about the date until seeing an ad a couple of days ago.  I told my daughter that the premiere was this Monday and she squealed at the top of her lungs and jumped up and down over and over again.  I did too, but just on the inside.  Chuck is great fun, not only because it includes one of the hottest conservative men on earth, Adam Baldwin, but because the show has it all – action, comedy, drama – and a great ensemble cast.   For all the reasons to be sure to catch the new season tonight on NBC, see my Ode to Chuck.  I have not watched any of the previews of the season opener, but you can see them here.  I did notice on a tv promo that Chuck cut his hair over the summer.  That may be a big deal.  I haven’t decided yet.  I’ll definitely be watching my daughter’s reaction to Chuck’s new “do.”  And I’ll enjoy watching her face light up.  The squeals, however, I could do without.

Find Your Inner Norris

Hilarious new NRA ad:

 

On Obama's Iraq Speech

Jim Hoft's headline says it best: Pathetic Cut-&-Runner Takes Credit For Victory. 

There are times I think Obama has to "get it" by now.  He has to realize that the ony way he is going to save his miserable political future is to find some humility and admit that his policies have failed.  He has to realize that it would go a long way to restoring some confidence in him and would help his approval ratings if he would just admit that the economy is in the crapper and it is largely due to the failure of the policies he has enacted.  Maybe he will admit it is at least partially due to those policies?  Or maybe that at the very least, his policies have not improved things as he promised? 

Anyone waiting to see that side of Obama -- the side that would make him appear honest and human and in touch with reality -- might just be waiting forever.  More proof was there last night that, as John McCain put it, such behavior is just not in his DNA.  By failing to credit George Bush with success in Iraq, or to acknowledge his own vote against the surge which achieved such success, he just showed me he is still just about as arrogant, dishonest and insecure as a politician could be.  (And yes, a person can be arrogant and insecure at the same time.)  

It was not a huge surprise that he would not admit he was wrong about Iraq.  Jim Hanson described what the consequences of Obama's preferred course of action in Iraq would have been:

He should man up and admit that he was wrong about every single thing he said about the Iraq War while he was in the Senate and he should thank President Bush for being resolute enough to ignore him, Hillary, Reid, Pelosi and the rest of the cut and run chorus. If we had followed the advice of then Sen. Obama, we would have lost the war and al Qaeda and the Iranians would be carving it up between them.

Will Obama's arrogance and unwillingness to admit the reality everyone else (except evidently MSNBC talk show hosts) can see with their own two eyes, be his undoing? I think maybe it already has been.