When 13 brave military men and women under your command get murdered by an islamic terrorist, try showing a little more respect than throwing a few shout-outs to your bureaucrat buddies first.

And when meeting foreign leaders, try not to grovel like a subservient weakling ready to spit-shine their shoes….

And when you’re going to give a gift to a key ally, try not to make it look like you’re some deadbeat showing up to the holiday party having forgotten a gift… and if you’re going to be that much of a thoughtless idiot, at least make sure the crap you scrounge up is usable.

Gosh, I can’t wait to see what he does with Iran…

“From our perspective, we won last night. We had one race that we were engaged in, it was in northern New York, it was a race where a Republican has held the seat since the Civil War. And we won that seat. So, from our standpoint, no, a candidate was victorious who supports health care reform, and his remarks last night said this was a victory for health care reform and other initiatives for the American people. From our standpoint, we picked up votes last night, one in California and one in New York.”

Oops, maybe not.

Now a recanvassing in the 11-county district shows that Owens’ lead has narrowed to 3,026 votes over Hoffman, 66,698 to 63,672, according to the latest unofficial results from the state Board of Elections.

In Oswego County, where Hoffman was reported to lead by only 500 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted election night, inspectors found Hoffman actually won by 1,748 votes — 12,748 to 11,000.

The new vote totals mean the race will be decided by absentee ballots, of which about 10,200 were distributed, said John Conklin, communications director for the state Board of Elections.
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Oswego County elections officials blame the mistakes on “chaos” in their call-in center that included a phone system foul-up and inspectors who read numbers incorrectly when phoning in results. Of 245 races in the county — not including the congressional and court races — 84 had incorrect totals reported election night.

In the congressional race, more votes were cast in Oswego County than any other in the 11-county district.

The district’s second biggest voter turnout was in Jefferson County, where Hoffman also has benefited from a turnaround since election night, gaining about 700 votes. Owens led Hoffman by 300 votes on the final election night tally. But after recanvassing, Hoffman now leads by 424 votes, 10,884 to 10,460.

The race is down to 3,000 votes and there are over 10,000 absentee ballots to be counted, many of which are likely military. Given the historical trend of military votes favoring the coservative candidate, the results could be interesting.

Democrats were very enthusiastic about recounts and recanvassing in the presidential race in 2000, the 2006 Washington state governor’s race and the 2008 Minnesota senate race. I won’t hold my breath waiting for the same enthusiam this time around.

…Thank You.

No, thanks.

UPDATE: Just a reminder… Nancy Pelosi thinks throwing you in jail for failing to buy her insurance plan is “fair”…

It’s often said that members of Congress don’t read legislation before casting votes. I now understand why. Most of them are probably too stupid to understand what they’re reading anyway. Not only does Democrat Corrine Brown show that she has no comprehension of the matter upon which she’s speaking (or cheering), but she’s so unintelligible that subtitles are required.

And to top it off, she gives this public display of stupidity in the halls of Congress, wasting the time representatives could be spending on topics that are actually important… while wearing a bathrobe.

More taxpayer money down the toilet.

In addition to the networks, other liberal organizations came to ACORN’s defense, relying solely on what ACORN told them…

In recent days, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, the conservative filmmakers who made the widely circulated ACORN videos, as well as Andrew Breitbart and Mike Flynn, who have been promoting the videos for BigGovernment.com, have claimed that the filmmakers were never rebuffed by any of the ACORN offices they visited in their attempts to get ACORN to assist them in improper activities. However, in a newly released video, ACORN Housing Corp.’s Katherine Conway Russell directly rebuts those claims, citing a police report ACORN filed as evidence that she asked the filmmakers to leave the ACORN office in Philadelphia and called the police after the filmmakers asked suspicious questions.

Oops.

According to MediaMatters’ website:

Using the website mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.

So now the real question is, will MediaMatters respond to their own dissemination of misinformation? I’m not holding my breath.

Rumor has it he may be taking the family to a movie this week… so stay tuned for news of his Academy Award.

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

It apparently doesn’t take anything of substance to win… In fact, the nomination came just 12 days after he became President. Granted, he hasn’t done anything of substance since, but a nomination after 12 days in office? Who was canvassing the Nobel Committee… ACORN?

Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.

So I guess they were basing the decision on all the hopenchange messages he delivered on the campaign trail. Unless they’re applauding him for continuing Bush’s military policies in Iraq and Afghanistan… both of which he has continued.

The Nobel Committee lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama’s calls for peace and cooperation but recognized initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

I guess they have a policy prohibiting the award going to a teleprompter. Maybe they can erect a monument to Obama to celebrate this occasion… I hear there’s room in the Olympic circle in Chicago now. Of course, looking at what a joke the Nobel “Peace” Prize really is, keep in mind that Yassar Arafat won it… and Ghandi didn’t.

It’s truly an amazing feat… a lousy economy, a global laughing stock, and now the Nobel Peace Prize… Barack Obama has actually become Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter.

By the way, here’s a list of Obama “accomplishments”…

Chicago were eliminated after the first round of voting for the 2016 Olympics host city.

Had this been Bush, the media would be pointing to this abject failure as proof the world hates him and hates America for having him. But get ready, the media won’t pounce on Obama like that. They’ll say he gave it his best, but it just wasn’t in the cards. They’ll pat him on the back and praise his tenacity… probably call it a life lesson or something.

But the real message is that the world doesn’t worship Obama like he and his liberal cohorts thought. This is further evidence of what the world really thinks. Of course, they heaped praise on Obama during the campaign and cheered his victory. It’s like rooting for your rival football team to draft the lousiest, dope-smoking, over-aged, has-been quarterback knowing he’ll be a complete failure… and his failure means your success.

By the way, I’m curious how much carbon was emitted when the Obamas took separate planes across the globe to make the sales pitch that resulted in a first round loss…

But hey, the upside is that this eco-unfriendly, gas-guzzling voyage allowed Obama to spend some quality time with the General leading the forces in Afghanistan.

President Obama summoned his top commander in Afghanistan for a 25-minute meeting aboard Air Force One on Friday as part of his review of a war strategy that has divided the president’s national security team.

Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Obama met just before the president returned to Washington from Copenhagen, where he was pitching the International Olympic Committee on Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 games.

Those are some priorities, aren’t they? Obama can muster up a trip across the globe, spending millions of taxpayer dollars to make a sales pitch for Chicago to get the Olympics so his neighborhood friends can make millions, but will only dedicate 25 minutes to speak with a Commander leading troops in the midst of a hard-fought war?

Oh, and by the way, the economy that Obama said would never see 8% unemployment if his stimulus fiasco was passed just delivered the highest unemployment rate since 1983… 9.8%. The least he could’ve done was get Chicago to the second round of voting.