Where's Tigger When You Need Him?

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCXLIV

Boy, was I wrong.

Last Friday, I blogged a prediction:

I might as well go out on a limb here and say that I have a feeling, Faithful Reader, that whatever bump in the polls Kedwards might get from the DNC will (1) be much less than such bumps after past conventions and (2) effectively evaporate by Labor Day.

Little did I know that, from the looks of things right now, I was way, way, way, way, way, way, way too optimistic:

Last week's Democratic convention boosted voters' impressions of John Kerry but failed to give him the expected bump in the head-to-head race against President Bush, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds....

The change in support was within the poll's margin of error of +/-4 percentage points in the sample of 763 likely voters. But it was nonetheless surprising, the first time since the chaotic Democratic convention in 1972 that a candidate hasn't gained ground during his convention.

USA TODAY extended its survey to Sunday to get a fuller picture of what's happening....

Last week, you know, Don Mischer was broadcast around the world by CNN as he threw a hissy fit from behind the scenes when the balloons & confetti didn't drop after Kerry's speech the way he would have liked them to do. (Mischer has since apologized.) To help to explain why USA Today "extended its survey to Sunday to get a fuller picture of what's happening", here's my synopsis of conversation in newsrooms and editorial boardrooms all across the country since Thursday:

All right, go bump, go bump. We need more bump. Keep going! Come on, guys, let's move it. We need more bump. We want a big bump, goddammit. We want more bump. What's happening to the bump? We need more bump!

Go bump — bump? What's happening bump? There's not enough bump! Big bump, what the hell! There's nothing happening! What the f*** are you guys doing? We want more bump, more bump. More bump. More bump....

Too bad for the Democrats; they needed somebody other than Kedwards & Mischer to help them out:

Oh, the wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun!
But the most wonderful thing
      about Tiggers is
I'm the only one
I'm the only one! Prrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 08/02/04 06:18:11 PM
Categorized as Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode.

Matt C. Abbott at Renew America

Matt Abbot writes to call attention to his latest column, Jul 30:

I'm going to tell you about a woman who practices and preaches good healthcare. And no, I'm not talking about Teresa Heinz Kerry or Hillary Clinton. Please. I'm talking about a Catholic friend of mine, Michelle Sullivan....

Other columns are of interest, including this one, Jul 20:

Mike Day of Tallahassee, FL is, like yours truly, fed up with Catholics who vote for pro-abortion candidates. He writes....

Here is his column archive.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 08/02/04 07:54:36 AM
Categorized as Religious.

"Terror in the Skies, Again?" Part III

Annie Jacobsen writes another follow-up to her WWS article:

.... I've kept quiet about numerous matters that have surfaced over the past few weeks. But there is something I must share because I find it so telling. Yesterday, I had a conversation with Dr. Imad Moustapha, the United States Ambassador of Syria....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 08/02/04 07:37:21 AM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.

John Kerry's Obscenity

Some 12-year-old girl was prevailed upon at the DNC last week to scold Vice President Dick Cheney for having launched the "f-bomb" at Senator Pat Leahy. Little Miss Clean Mouth must not read Rolling Stone or she'd know why we call her man for the Oval Office John "F" Kerry around here.

Anyway, I generally disapprove of misusing the word obscene to mean "grossly outrageous" or the like. We have better ways to refer to such things — such as "grossly outrageous" — and we should keep obscene for its original meaning.

I would like however, to call your attention to this paragraph from John "F" Kerry's acceptance speech, Jul. 29:

.... What does it mean when people are huddled in blankets in the cold, sleeping in Lafayette Park on the doorstep of the White House itself — and the number of families living in poverty has risen by three million in the last four years?...

What does it mean? Well, when it comes to the number of families living in poverty, I'll bet it means that the definition of poverty is being manipulated to artificially inflate the numbers.

But what does it mean when people are huddled in blankets in the cold, sleeping in Lafayette Park on the doorstep of the White House itself?

It think it means, Dear John, that you haven't prevailed upon your immensely wealthy wife to let go the ketchup fortune and provide some help to the homeless in the nation's capital.

I've had it up to here, and further, with filthy rich politicians bewailing how little the federal government does to help the underprivileged. By which they mean that they haven't yet taxed us enough to keep the money running through their fat, grubby hands so they can buy votes from special interest groups.

In a nutshell: to hell with filthy rich politicians who demand that ordinary Americans should be required — by threat of confiscation and/or imprisonment — to allow the politicians to be generous with our (tax) money though they continue to live fabulous lives of luxurious comfort.

It's grossly outrageous obscene.

P.S. Same goes for filthy rich Hollywood Vacuumheads, too.

P.P.S. See Protecting Us from People Like Themselves.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 08/02/04 07:22:18 AM
Categorized as Political.