HALF-FULL REPORT 08/15/08

Could there possibly be a glass half-full of anything worth drinking during this horrific week when the Cold War has been bloodily re-ignited?

Yes, actually.  So let's take our bottle of Polish Vyborova vodka out of the freezer for a chilled martini (just a spray of vermouth, please), and raise a toast to the latest Czar of Russia for being such an idiot to invade Georgia.

For all the grudging praise of what a "genius" Czar Vlad is, let's ask:  if you were him, if you were bent on reestablishing Russia as an imperial superpower so intimidating that all your neighbors and every leader of Euroweenia would lick your boots – who would you want as President of the United States, Obama or McCain?

It's a rhetorical question, isn't it?  Obviously you'd choose a naïve neophyte effeminate man-child who knows next to nothing about the world and is adored by the Euroweenies because they recognize he's one of them.  You'd eat this guy for a breakfast snack, wolf him down like a Pop-Tart.

What you'd really, really not want is someone you cannot intimidate and who would waste no time kicking your ass if you tried.  Someone who knows your weaknesses and vulnerabilities all too well, knows how large they are, and would start maxing them out if you were foolish enough to try and push him around.

So – if you were Putin, wouldn't you do everything you can to help Barack Hussein Obambi get elected?  The last thing you'd do is something that virtually guaranteed McCain winning instead, right?

But that's just what the Genius in the Kremlin did by brutally invading Georgia.  Putin just won the presidency for John McCain.

Yes, there could be some fluke catastrophe to Mac's campaign, the election still is 80 days away, yada-yada.  The bottom line is that Putin has given McCain an enormous boost.  Russian generals are threatening to nuke Poland and Russian soldiers are slaughtering Georgians – while Obambi is golfing and bodysurfing in Hawaii.

Remember, I arm-wrestled Putin.  He was stupid to take me on, someone he had no time to size up, and risk being humiliated in front of his staff.  He was stupid to invade Georgia right now.  Both times, his hubris made him foolish.  This time he was infinitely more so than he was in an Irish pub on Capitol Hill.

So trust me on this.  Voters are not going to elect a child to protect them, they are going to elect a grown-up. 

By the way, for a quick refresher on Georgia, the HFR suggests The Golden Fleece of Freedom (TTP, May 2005).

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Can't you just hardly wait for all the fun to begin at the Dem Disaster in Denver on August 25?  The Clintons have just taken the thing over.  With Obambi capitulating to them, allowing her name to be placed in nomination and a roll-call vote, it's going to be utter chaos on the convention floor.

The trap is that no matter how much the PUMA ladies freak out for Hillary, how many millions of terminally alienated women will vote for McCain or not at all, the Dems have to nominate Obambi because he's black. 

Blacks voting Democrat is the foundation of the entire Dem power structure. Lose that and the party falls apart.  The Dems would rather lose the presidential election in order to keep the black vote.  So they will, on both counts.

Nonetheless, the fireworks at the Denver Convention Center will be more spectacular than those at the Bird's Nest for the Chicom Olympics.  And more enjoyable to watch.

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Except for Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson, Misty May and Kerri Walsh – the list goes on and will keep growing of the extraordinary American athletes giving extraordinary performances.  Hey, Team America, this Bud's for you!

As for the Chicoms, no matter how many golds their athletes win, it's been a PR disaster becoming known as The Jackboot Olympics.

It's "a party held in a prison," with 100,000 robotic soldiers surrounding everyone, journalists getting beat up, the Olympic Green turned into a military compound, empty seats filled with police and undercover agents.

Then there's the cheating, the phony fireworks, the lip-synching little girl, the illegally underage girl gymnasts, the judges and referees bribed to rule in favor of Chinese contestants.  The Cheating Chicoms' No Fun Olympics.  That's what these Games will be known to history as.  So much for China's coming-out debutante ball.

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We'll end this ugly week for freedom by pouring a stein of Maccabee beer brewed in Netanya, Israel.  For while no one was looking, a few days ago an Israeli sniper lying prone on a speedboat off the coast of Tartus, Syria, got Syrian General Muhammad Suleiman in the crosshairs of his silenced 50-cal while the general was lounging in the garden of his home.  One shot blew Suleiman's brains out.

Suleiman was Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad's liaison to Kim il-Sung in North Korea, Ahamdinejad in Iran, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.  He's the one who organized Syria-Nork nuclear weapons collaboration and Iranian missile shipments to Hezbollah.  He was Assad's closest confidante and advisor.  That the Israelis popped him is a good sign that there's some fight in them left.

That, and the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) announcement that it knows how to electronically jam the vaunted S-300 surface-to-air missiles Russia is installing in Iran. 

As you learned in Silence in Syria, Panic in Iran, the Israeli attack last September on the Syrian-Nork secret facility blinded the entire massive anti-aircraft system provided by the Russians.  So everyone from Moscow to Tehran knows Israel isn't bluffing regarding the S-300s.  Time for the mullahs to go into panic mode again.

Panic is also an appropriate description for what Democrats are beginning to feel right now regarding their messiah.  Cartoons like this sum up why: