The Church of the Painful Truth

I was reading with disgust the news story about the young lady that was allegedly assaulted, robbed and had a “B” carved into her face, apparently for the simple reason that she supports the McCain-Palin ticket.

Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said the robber took $60 from Todd, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim’s car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter “B” into her face, Richard said.

This is wholly contemptible, unacceptable, and without justification. Words cannot describe my feelings on this issue.

But this incident also made me consider some of the previous incidents of violence perpetrated against conservatives simply because of a difference in political ideology.

• Unprovoked assault on McCain supporter by Obama supporter in Manhattan
• Car with McCain bumper sticker vandalized
• Home Shot Up Over McCain Signs

And the list goes on.

To be fair, Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign did make a sympathetic statement concerning the young lady that was attacked in Pittsburgh and hoped for the apprehension and prosecution of the perpetrator.

I’m not trying to insinuate that the Obama campaign supports or encourages this violence, but I would opine that the campaign could do much more to tone down the “race-baiting” and other nonsensical rhetoric that fans the flames of this kind of hate by weak-minded and rabid thugs.

Unlike the alleged “threat” against Obama that even the Secret Service cannot find any evidence of, the evidence of violence against conservatives is real, documented, and all too frequent.

I encourage the thinking, rational person to examine the evidence of violence against conservatives as well as other historical socialist organizations that used violence to further their political agenda and then to draw their own conclusions.

Update 10/24/08

It turns out that the lady that claimed to have been attacked made up the story.

A McCain-Palin campaign volunteer who claimed she was robbed and cut by a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama has confessed to making up the story, Pittsburgh police Assistant Chief Maurita Bryant said this afternoon.

This is exactly the kind of nonsense that we DO NOT NEED. Tensions are high enough already due to the overbearing rhetoric — no more games are needed from either side. This kind of stuff is disgusting. I can understand wanting to support your preferred candidate, but this is way over-the-top.

This type of nonsense just serves to further marginalize the other documented violence against conservative supporters. Furthermore, it does the McCain campaign that she supports no good at all.

The infamous Hillary Clinton “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” is apparently back.

Stepping back into the campaign spotlight, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) came to Minnesota tonight to urge the election of comedian-commentator-candidate Al Franken to the Senate.

“Al Franken was taking on the vast right-wing conspiracy before other people even admitted it existed,” she told a crowd of 2,000 supporters on the University of Minnesota campus, urging them to give her rival, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, a filibuster-proof margin in the Senate. “Al Franken, with your help, can be our 60th vote.”

Perhaps the re-emergence of Hillary’s imaginary Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is simply designed to distract from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy that’s threatening the very fabric of our Republic? Just a thought…

Barack Hussein Obama has suddenly abandoned his campaign to make a trip to Hawaii, purportedly to visit his ailing grandmother.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will leave the campaign trail to go to Hawaii this week to visit the ailing grandmother who helped raise him, an aide said on Monday.

According to the Marxist views that Obama seems to hold, I’m surprised that he would do something like this, as (to pervert a Trek-ism) the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. And we’ve been told ad-nauseum since Obama won the nomination that we all need him and we puny citizens and this nation would be helpless without him.

Indeed, did the Obama campaign not cricize John McCain for suspending his own campaign to deal with the financial problems caused by liberal Democrats and the Community Reinvestment Act, a threat to the nation as a whole?

“It’s my belief that this is exactly the time that the American people need to hear from the person who in approximately 40 days will be responsible for dealing with this mess,” Obama said. “It’s going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.” He demurred when asked by reporters whether McCain’s move was a political ploy.

So I have to wonder whether Obama is capable of dealing with more than one thing at a time? Perhaps he will be dealing with multiple items in that, while visiting with his ailing grandmother, Barry will also be obtaining a more-convincing “birth certificate” for Mr. Berg and his lawsuit?

As part of the leftist media’s best efforts to convince us, before the election, that Obama has actually won the election, they’re trumpeting a close-to-10-point lead for Obama.

10/22/2008

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: And Then It Was Ten . . .

Obama 51.6%, McCain 42.0%

Of course, the Ministry of Propaganda may want to coordinate their news releases with the other news outlets that are claiming that it’s dead even…

The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

Ok, so which is it? And what about the 10%+ “undecideds”?

I guess my thoughts are that neither party’s candidates should write their concession speech nor prematurely plan their victory party based on these shoddy poll numbers.

Looks like the election shenanigans have started again, this time in Ohio, where a Democratic poll worker is accused of of pre-marking a ballot for Obama and attacking a Republican poll worker that challenged her on the issue.

Poll workers from opposing sides in the presidential race apparently clashed in a physical altercation Friday at a Cuyahoga Falls nursing home when one accused the other of improperly marking a ballot.

George Manos, the 75-year-old Republican, told police that Edith Walker, the 73-year-old Democrat, jumped on his back and struck him in the head three to four times with her fists. Manos said two other elections workers had to pull Walker off his back, according to a report filed with Cuyahoga Falls police.

Manos said it happened after he accused Walker of ballot tampering, and he wants to prosecute.

I’m sure the facts will eventually come out now that this incident is under investigation. Rest assured that if the facts point to the Democratic worker pre-marking the ballot for Obama, the story will be buried by the mainstream media. If, on the other hand, the facts point to the Democratic worker having done nothing wrong, then it will be a page one story for the mainstream media.

Now ask yourself this — if the Obamites believe that they’re entitled to tell you how to vote, can you imagine what else they think that they’re entitled to tell you to do? Are you really sure that this kind of Marxism is what you really want in the Oval Office?

The Obama Camp recently criticized the McCain campaign and accused them of playing the “race card”.

“Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face,” Obama said Wednesday in Springfield, Missouri. “So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He’s risky.”

Regardless of whether or not you believe that the McCain campaign criticisms could be considered racial, you would think that Obama would realize that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Instead of taking the high road, however, the Obama camp has burst forth with both race and religion “cards” via comments made by Alcee Hastings attacking, not John McCain, but Sarah Palin, the new source extreme concern for the Democratic party.

“If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention,” said Hastings. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through.”

If this isn’t racial and religious stereotyping, then I don’t know what is.