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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Monthly Archives for September 2008

The Observer is watching a YouTube clip of Bill Clinton telling Larry King he is going to “hustle up the ‘cracker vote’ in Florida” ...

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:25 AM | Add Comment

“The era of cowboy capitalism has died, largely of self-inflicted wounds. Who knows what’s coming now? I do: A new era of tight business regulation and government intervention.” – Howard Fineman writing for MSNBC

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:00 AM | Add Comment

Haditha Marine sues Murtha over smear? More Haditha Marines prepare to sue Murtha over smear? Murtha headed for penury?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, September 29, 2008 1:50 AM | Add Comment

U.S. Army Recruiting soaring and Re-enlistments soaring – Army near 2010 recruiting goal TWO years early – American far-left upset and begins it’s own phased withdrawal from "Iraq as a political message"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:18 AM | Add Comment

The far-left wants all Americans to chill out, "The far-left runs 'BarterTown' now, so get use to it" -- The far-left intends for the federal government to take over then 'run' the banking and finance sectors

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Feckless antiwar critics shown first hand AQI mass graves near Baquba – in 2006 the far-left offered a damning indictment of our military incompetence for not protecting civilians YET...

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:55 AM | Add Comment

Last nights debate proves, Barack is more hard headed than Rumsfeld... "Obama's plan for Iraq is the equivalent of ordering the Chicago police to withdraw to Ohio and telling the Chicago carjack gangs, OK"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:05 AM | Add Comment

Average democrats are in for a huge shock and MUCH higher unemployment rates – thanks to Obama economic policies, Blue State unemployment rates are coming to a town near you

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 26, 2008 1:56 AM | Add Comment

Strongly opposed to the Bush/Obama BAILOUT of Wall Street, wise Congressional Republicans demand a careful LOAN to WORKOUT the freeze but NO BAILOUT of the rich, LIBERAL North East fat cats on Wall Street

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 26, 2008 1:07 AM | Add Comment

Average working class Chinese can have abundant and cheap electricity but average Americans CAN’T – Al Gore advocates riots (he calls it civil disobedience) at power plant construction sites -- I kid you not!!!

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:50 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack’s running mate, Joe Biden said, "No coal plants in America."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:29 AM | Add Comment

Iraqi Parliament approves elections law by a wide margin -- AWESOME NEWS IN IRAQ -- U.S. and Iraqi leaders hailed – Barack Obama’s bad judgment proven, far-left falls silent

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:28 AM | Add Comment

Tony Soprano would be so proud...

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:57 PM | Add Comment

Double Standards and the Far-Left -- DON'T POINT OUT -- "It's OK to print 'religious slurs' about 'Pentacostals' in the Washington Post BUT its is NOT OK to print 'religious slurs' about 'Muslims' in the Washington Post

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

How the far-left ‘feels’ – “There has always been a strong feeling in the ‘Progressive Movement’ that using force against al Qaeda would cause the extremists to retaliate against civilians.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, September 22, 2008 1:43 AM | Add Comment

AWESOME NEWS – huge numbers of fellow Arabs publicly denounce Killer Cleric's fatwa to Kill Satellite TV Station Owners – entire spectrum of Muslims from conservative to liberal publicly SLAM al-Lihedan and STRONGLY condemn his ‘death fatwa’

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, September 21, 2008 1:43 AM | Add Comment

When the American far-left demands to know “What is victory in Iraq?” you can tell everyone and anyone on the far-left who will listen, this is victory in Iraq -- According to the Middle East Times: “In Iraq, No News Is Good News”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 19, 2008 1:52 AM | Add Comment

Can we just keep Palin? Legally, does McCain have to be president for more than a day or two? Can he retire early, on day three? McCain sounds like he has no clue…

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 19, 2008 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Over the last three years, the Observer has been repeatedly stunned by revelation after revelation at the intellectual deficit demonstrated by U.S. Commanders (Company to Corps) in 2003, 2004 and 2005

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:19 AM | Add Comment

European and Asian SOCIALISTS crow and crow and crow -- FREEMARKET CAPITALISM IS DEAD -- socialists proclaim Americans are frauds having turned away from decades of rhetoric about the virtues of the free market -- Subcomandante BUSH promoted

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:13 AM | Add Comment

The Observer is rolling on the floor laughing… Are the activist groups on the far-left trying not only to cause Obama to lose but also destroy the Democrat Senate? -– “Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online - Democratic Underground”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:04 AM | Add Comment

"Absolutely Al-Qaida is imploding. It's imploding because it's not a message that resonates with a lot of Muslims," said Dell Dailey, the State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:32 AM | Add Comment

The far-left has become endlessly side splittingly funny – when you are a far-left liberal running for office you actually have follow all these whacky environmental dictates BUT when you are OUT OF POLITICS, “It doesn't matter a whit.” Al Gore is BACK

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:13 AM | Add Comment

In 2004, 2005, and 2006, the far-left press endlessly talked about the airport road in Baghdad – well, the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates commuted into downtown Baghdad using the airport road this morning after his plane landed, where's the press

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:44 PM | Add Comment

According to Lisa Lerer writing in Politico.com – “Fannie/Freddie spent $200,000,000.00 to buy political influence” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who possessed a border-line idiotic level of understanding of capitalism, CREATED THIS MESS

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:13 AM | Add Comment

In 2003, hiding in plain sight and not easy to find – “Simply, a slightly balding man of medium height and build with an average house… a Sunni..."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:23 AM | Add Comment

Sarah instantly shattered the facade of competence... Liberal Left Leadership in Palin Panic... If Sarah rattled Barack, how in the heck are ObamaBiden going to handle AQ or Putin or Mugabe or etc...? Zero chance Obama is ready to lead?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, September 15, 2008 1:24 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack is making it hard for the Observer to stop laughing - Barack is being condescending to Palin...143 working days... sworn in as a United State Senator and 143 days later Obama was moving on, Barack had a Presidential exploratory committee

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, September 15, 2008 1:08 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack - the puppet? -- According to Eric Alterman in the Nation – the far-left runs BarterTown so shut up America

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, September 14, 2008 1:00 AM | Add Comment

Gulf Arabs propose “more than $74 billion in investment projects in Iraq” – Iraq war WON – Russians, Chinese, Iranians and now the Arabs are betting big on a democratic Iraq – only the American far-left and Bad Idea Barack totally clueless

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:07 AM | Add Comment

According to MNFI: Talabani Praises Bush as Iraq's Liberator -- “So, we are thankful to you and to your people, your Army,” the President of Iraq, Mr. Talabani said.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, September 13, 2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

I am laughing so hard, I am crying - According to Adam McKay writing in the Huffington Post: “So what is this house advantage the Republicans have? It's the press.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 12, 2008 4:10 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack has border-line idiotic level of understanding of Iraq - Sectarian violence in Iraq has decreased from about 60 incidents weekly a year ago, to “negligible levels” today, Army Brig. Gen. David G. Perkins said

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 12, 2008 1:36 AM | Add Comment

Oh, great! Now we are going to slowly freeze to death, not burn up quickly in a huge ball of fire -- According to Michael Asher at DailyTech – “Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:10 AM | Add Comment

MASSIVE CHEERING CROWDS – McCain/Palin at massive rally in formerly liberal Northern Virginia – According to the WSJ: “Sarah Palin and John McCain front and center before a rally of at least 15,000 Wednesday in Fairfax, Virginia”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:09 AM | Add Comment

Finally… the far-left concedes to the Iraqi democrats – Barack Obama conceded on FOX News’ - The O’Reilly Factor -- “I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:47 AM | Add Comment

Obama SELECTED, not ELECTED – totally cracks the Observer up – too funny – According to CNN: McCain ahead in popular vote; but Obama leads in more important electoral votes

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:32 AM | Add Comment

According to Ed Rollins on CNN: “If Obama had done the smart thing, he would have picked Sen. Hillary Clinton for vice president. If he had, he would have united his party for sure and energized his base.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Here comes another ‘Soft-Power’ European fiasco -- Georgia to get Darfur treatment – ‘European Soft Power’ a total failure with Iran -- ‘European Soft Power’ a total failure in Darfur -- Euros take charge yet again and the 'little people' suffer

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:54 AM | Add Comment

Latest far-left narrative – "Yes, the surge worked, the Iraq war is over and the Iraqi democrats won BUT the Iraqi democrats have secretly abandoned the USA in favor of Iran"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:34 AM | Add Comment

Feminism has nothing to do with being FEMALE, want proof -- “The Palin pick is disheartening on so many levels. For starters, even what little we know about the Alaska governor's policy views is enough to make a traditional feminist weep."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:00 AM | Add Comment

FAKE FOTOS - Palin's Playboy Pics - Voters obsessed with FAKE Sarah Palin photos, scouring the internet for more Palin photos - number one and two photo downloads on the internet

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, September 08, 2008 1:48 AM | Add Comment

According to Bloomberg: “Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest producer and de facto leader of the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait may reject calls from Venezuela and Iran to trim supplies"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, September 08, 2008 1:16 AM | Add Comment

Biden Threatens – Good job Joe, keep talking and talking and talking - Biden threatens that an Obama-Biden administration would go through Bush administration data with "a fine-toothed comb" and pursue "the criminals"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, September 07, 2008 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack cares not one bit - Awesome news from Iraq – Iraqi democrats gaining greater control, Extremists Losing Weapons Stores as stockpiles found and removed - civilians will be even safer in the future

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:02 PM | Add Comment

On Palin

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 05, 2008 3:16 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack's "Outstanding" mayor - Detroit’s DEMOCRAT ‘Hip Hop’ Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ADMITS GUILT, will GO TO JAIL and oh, by the way, he will resign – UNLIKE all the other criminal Democrat pols still in power, Kwame will resign

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 05, 2008 2:12 AM | Add Comment

Anti-Americanism on the rise in Latin America and just like the sun rising in the East, Increased Poverty in Latin America will follow – give it 48 months and expect a huge, new flood of illegal immigrants to the USA

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, September 05, 2008 1:35 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack's supporters just don't get it - Sarah is more qualified and a better person than Barack or Joe AND EVERYONE ON THE PLANET KNOWS IT

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:23 AM | Add Comment

On Palin - "Let slip the dogs of journalism"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:04 AM | Add Comment

Campbell Brown of CNN – “That's my job. Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin." -- the media does the dirty work - "for 'us' to raise it about Palin"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:02 AM | Add Comment

DEMOCRAT BLANCO obvious weak link three years ago -- Powerful team of four REPUBLICAN governors from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, plus Bush move quickly, GUSTAV preparation and response fantastic – even MEDIA acknowledges

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:37 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack - Democrat VP candidate Joe Biden snubs Iraqi democrats, advocates the immediate partition of the strong, emerging democratic Iraqi state and vows to make Israel stronger because Bush made Israel less secure. SHOCKING BIDEN STATEMENTS

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:49 AM | Add Comment

HUGE news – story BURIED in USA by Palin and Gustav but huge in the Arab world – bigger strategic story than abu Ghraib – 100% of Anbar turned over to Iraqi democrats -- “It is al Qaeda that lost Anbar,” Bush said. MASSIVE STRATEGIC VICTORY

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, September 03, 2008 1:10 AM | Add Comment

NO WAR FOR OIL -- so much for that far-left RANT – "China and Iraq sign a $3,000,000,000 OIL DEAL for CNPC to develop the Ahdab oil field" - HALIBURTON loses out… yet AGAIN

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:18 AM | Add Comment

"Airdrop capability is indicative of the asymmetric advantages of air power throughout the U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility," Lt. Gen. Gary North, Air Force central commander and CENTCOM air component commander, said

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, September 01, 2008 1:40 AM | Add Comment
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