Mahmoud “Shecky” Ahmadinejad Performs Standup Routine

Following his raucous standup routine on Al-Jazeera's hit TV reality show "Middle East has Talent" Iranian President Mahmoud "Shecky" Ahmadinejad sat down with WJM reporter Mary Richards for a brief interview. Still giddy from his standup debut he joked "Shalom evil Zionist propaganda pusher".

In his well-rehearsed deadpan routine, reminiscent of American comedian Steven Wright, he claims Iranian women are the most free in the world, there are no Homosexuals in Iran and the Easter Bunny was invented by evil Jewish candy confectioners.

When asked what he does like about America he mentioned "…those happy self-esteem parades you have look like a lot of fun". When reporter Mary Richards pointed out that those are called "Gay Pride" parades he replied "whatever you Americans call it. It looks like fun. Rainbows make me happy and I look good in pink".

Following his trips to Syria, Algeria and New York to attend a high profile U.N. meeting aimed at reviving global disarmament talks he'll be back on the road with a one-man show at the Tehran Comedy Underground and an appearance on Al-Jazeera's popular game show "Are You Smarter than a Zionist Capitalist Pig?"

Why I Want Obamacare to Pass

1. It’s a bad, bad plan.
2. It’ll cost trillions of dollars and fail miserably
3. The republicans would never pass any kind of universal healthcare on their own
4. Due to its failures and cost overruns the democrats will lose control of the congress and white house by 2012
5. Since it’ll already be in place when the republicans take over control again they’ll have no choice but to fix it as going back to the current fiasco of a system won’t be an option
6. By 2016 President Palin will announce that the healthcare system has been fixed just before her successful re-election campaign
7. The American Healthcare plan will be the model for the new healthcare plan announced by the newly elected President of Kenya - Barack Obama

Approval Ratings

"The president continues to be highly regarded. By solid majorities of 65 percent or more, those surveyed said he has a vision for the country's future, has brought dignity back to the White House and is a strong leader willing to make hard decisions," reported a CNN/Gallup Poll.

Hey, not bad. Except that was written near the end of 2003 about George W. Bush. My how the tide can change quickly. Watch out for the undertow.

The current CNN/Gallup Presidential approval rating poll has Barack Obama slipping from 67% on inauguration day to 62% on April 5th. The Rasmussen poll had Barack Obama at 65% on inauguration day and sliding to 56% by April 5th.

While the numbers themselves aren’t that important they do both show the same trend. His approval ratings are sliding. The public as a whole are not as enamored with him as they were 70+ days ago.

Rasmussen uses another telling number along with their daily presidential tracking numbers. They see one key differential being between those “Strongly Approving” and those “Strongly Disapproving”. The day after his inauguration Obama had a +28 differential. 44% strongly approved while only 16% strongly disapproved. That key differential, while slipping, still remained in double-digits until March. On April 5th he had only a +6 differential with 36% strongly approving and 30% strongly disapproving. As of April 13th that differential is down to +2% with 34% strongly approving and 32% strongly disapproving.

As we learned in the time between 2003 and 2008 anything can happen. Will Obama’s ratings get better or worse…yes. They will do both. Where they will end up…nobody knows. Currently the trend is down. Hopefully for all our sakes that will change. Only time will tell.

To Watch or not to Watch

No, we’re not ALL giddy with tingling legs about watching the upcoming Presidential Inauguration. According to the mainstream media that anointed the “great one” you’d think that all 305 million Americans will be glued to their TV’s on that fateful day. Nope, sorry.

They forget that 48% of us DID NOT vote for him. 48% of us don’t want him anywhere near the White House to be sitting behind the most powerful desk in the free world. 48% of us would rather have that grumpy old McCain puttering around the White House in a baseball cap and T-Shirt that reads “Wouldn’t you like to be a Maverick too?”

While some mainstream media outlets are making it sound like most of us can’t wait until noon on January 20th 2009 to watch our new leader take the reigns a more un-biased Rasmussen Reports poll says differently. According to Rasmussen 28% will watch the whole thing. Not quite a majority. Another 18% will watch “most” of it. That’s a total of 46% and still not a majority. Remember, he got 52% of the popular vote so not even ALL of them will be watching most or all of the glitzy Hollywood style event.

Another 29% say they’ll watch “some” of the event. If “some” equates to accidentally flipping through one of the 927 channels overplaying the event then I might accidentally fall into that category while searching for Gilligan’s Island re-runs.

So, that leaves the 21% who aren’t planning to watch any of the event at all and the 4% who aren’t sure. Aren’t sure? I’m guessing the 4% who aren’t sure just won’t answer for fear of being called a racist. Wow, we’ve come a long way baby.

To sum up; 54% will watch “some” or none of the event while 46% will watch “most” or “all” of the event. Again, hardly a landslide.

Is Racism Over?

A caller on the radio station stated “an Obama victory proves racism in America is over and affirmative action is obsolete”. Hmmm, interesting statement. I had to look up the numbers to see if the numbers support his argument.

According to the exit polls Obama got 43% of the White vote. That’s not a majority but keep in mind that more White folks typically vote Republican than Democrat regardless of the race of the candidates so how does this number compare to previous elections?

It seems that White voters voting Democrat is pretty consistent regardless of race. If the caller’s statement is correct then racism has been over for quite a long time. One interesting thing about these numbers though is that, except for Bill’s 73% of the Hispanic vote in 1996, Obama won every non-white category by at least 5 percentage points over his predecessors. Bill may have beaten Obama among Hispanics by 6 but Obama beat Bill among Asians by 18.

So, what does all this mean? It looks like White voters vote more along party lines and ideology than color barriers. Thus, contrary to popular belief in the media racism has been over for a long time. It looks like White voters wouldn’t have made the difference in either an Obama victory or defeat. It was the non-white voters that turned the tide on this election. Fascinating.

Sources for the data:
CNN Exit Poll
Roper Center on Elections

Obama Presidency (History Repeats)

The Great Depression started in 1929 when my Father was 4-years old. When I asked my Father if he remembered anything about the Depression, he told me that he remembers it like it just happened yesterday. He went on to say that during the Depression, because money was in very short supply, most people dug up their lawns and turned them into gardens. They grew as much of their own food as they could.

Also, every penny that any member of the house earned was turned over to his parents, so they could buy what they could not grow. My Father remembers the Depression as clearly as I remember when Jimmy Carter was President.

During the Carter Years there was double digit inflation, double digit mortgage rates, an oil embargo, which caused long lines at the gas pump, a hostage crises at the embassy in Tehran, Iran, and a huge tax burden on the American people, such as myself, which cost me my job, where I quickly joined the long lines at the unemployment office.

We as Americans are suppose to learn from History so as to not make the same mistakes again. However, here in America we have re-written most of the History Books so that the generations following my generation have no idea what it was really like in either the Depression era or the Carter Years; therefore, now in 2008, you, the American people are about to Repeat the two worst times in American History, by electing Senator Obama to be President.

It is not only proper and fitting, but my obligation to give you, the younger generation Americans, a preview of what to expect from the time Senator Obama is officially declared the winner of the Nov. 4, 2008 general election as the next President of the United States

There will be chaos in the streets from every major city from New York to Los Angeles, from Seattle to Miami in jubilation. Stores will be broken into, cars burned and possibly citizens injured or killed. On Nov. 5th, 2008 the Stock Market will tumble nearly a 1000 points and will continue to slide until the end of the year. Chaos in the inner cities will continue as the number of hate crimes increases.

After Obama is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2008 Wall Street will be spiraling down putting the U.S. into a deep recession or the beginnings of another Depression. Corporations will begin laying off personnel in anticipation of the Tax Hike that both the Congress and the Senate are poised to enact as soon as both houses are in session. Since there are not enough Republicans in either house to stop or even delay the Tax Hike, it will easily pass and be signed by President Obama.

By the end of President Obama’s first 30-days in office half of the current Generals and other high ranking members of the military will either retire or be forced out by President Obama as he moves to start withdrawing troops from Iraq and moving them into Afghanistan. Because of this move there will be an increase in violence in Iraq as Al Sardra attempts to take power by using his now dormant army to attach members of the Iraqi Government.

By the end of President Obama‘s first 60-days in office Puttin will send his army back into Georgia and begin a possible march toward the Ukraine and eventually threatten to invade Poland to prevent these countries from entering NATO. Iran will have launched a pre-emptive strike into Israel and Israel will retailiate while President Obama sends a Representative to the U.N. to get the Security Council to approve a resolution for the U.S. to back up its long standing ally, Israel.

By the end or President Obama’s first 6-months in office there will be another attack either on American soil and several thousand citizens will be killed or at some other American installation somewhere in the world. Again President Obama will make some attempt to find out who is responsible and then fail to act. Showing once again that America has become weak in the eyes of the world.

By the end of President Obama’s first year in office, unemployment will be at its highest since the Depression, inflation will once again be in double digits and the Democratic Congress along with the Democratic Senate will impose an even higher tax on all working Americans. This will cause a sharpe rise in violence and other crimes.

By the middle of year #2 North Korea and Iran have developed the Nuclear bomb. North Korea will move its 1.2 million troops to the DMZ and is poised to invade South Korea, no longer fearing that the U.S. will step in to stop them. In the Middle East Iran will use its Nuclear threat to invade Iraq now that all of the U.S. troops have been removed and are now in Afghanistan, which now appears to be the new VietNam, only because the Taliban have been embolden by what they perceived as a very weak U.S. President.

Could all of this actually happen, we at America’s Voice sincerely hope not, but, then again they said that the Stock Market would never crash, yet it did and the Great Depression almost destroyed the U.S. economy. We were also told that America had learned its lesson from so long ago, yet Wall Street is showing signs of crashing once again.

Is it possible that Senator Obama is another Herbert Hoover? From my perspective History is beginning to Repeat…….

The Last Debate

If you're looking at substance John McCain eeked out a narrow victory. But, it wasn't what he needed.

Barack Obama was on the defensive most of the night but that was probably the game plan. He was just trying to not make a mistake. In Football that's called a "prevent defense". When you have the lead you just hang on and try not to give up the big play the puts your opponent back in the game.

John McCain's problem is he doesn't know how to elaborate clearly. He had several opportunities but he missed them all. He misses the "key" words that stick in peoples minds. When discussing William Ayers he was right in saying the association didn't matter but what he should've added was "it's not the association that matters but the coverup of this association and others". The word "coverup" would've stood out. Everyone knows that both Richard Nixon's and Bill Clinton's scandal's were more about the "coverup" than the actual offense.

When talking about Partial Birth Abortion he should've looked at Obama and asked "do you even know what Partial Birth Abortion is? Do you understand that when the babies head begins to come out that they drill a hole in its head, stick a tube in and suck out its brain? Are you saying that that is OK?" THAT, would've had an impact.

When talking about taxes he should've explained that corporations don't really pay taxes. They pass that expense on to consumers as the cost of doing business. He also should've included in his talk about lowering corporate taxes that it'd help keep American jobs in America and reduce outsourcing because corporations will be able to afford to hire Americans. "Outsourcing" is a big concern with Americans these days.

To rebut Obama's middle-class tax cut he should've asked "what good is a lower tax rate on NO income?". Taxing the rich and giving to the poor will only increase prices because the business owners will hire less people, lay off more people, add the tax increase into their costs and increase the prices of their goods and services. Thus, those who still have a job will end up spending their "tax breaks" to pay for the business owners tax increases. You can either trickle down income or trickle up taxes. He also should've mentioned that 40% of Obama's 95% don't pay any taxes at all anyway. How are you going to give a tax cut to people who don't pay taxes?

McCain is losing because he fails to say the right thing. Obama is winning because he fails to say the wrong thing.

Unfortunately neither party nominated their best candidate just the easiest to nominate.

EXPERIENCE (Is it Important?)

There has been a lot of TV and Internet advertisements from both presidential candidates about their competency to be President based on their experience. Senator McCain has been in the Senate for over 25 years while Senator Obama has been in the Senate for about 3 years and two of those he has spent running for President.

Is Experience really that important? Well to put this question into perspective lets up look at this in a much lower level. When a working class person, such as myself, begins looking for a job, the first thing on the potential Employer’s list of requirements is how much and what kind of Experience do you bring to the table. Most of the job openings that I have looked at require at least 5 to 7 years of Experience. That Experience must also be geared toward the type of work that will be performed. A college professor with 20 years of Experience teaching Family Law does not qualify him to be a Criminal Defense Lawyer.

A college student who just graduated with an MBA does not qualify that person to be a CEO of a major corporation. Anyone who is at the top or who is on their way to the top of any company had to start at the bottom first.

So…why are many Americans so willing to put a Junior Senator from Illinois with zero experience into the White House. Senator Obama has never run a business, never governed a city, big or small, never had to work with unions and never had to work with both parties to come to a compromise on a piece of legislation. Only Mayors and Governors have to do it all. Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has done all of this and much more. She is more qualified to be President than the Presidential candidates themselves.

Again, is Experience Important? Every job that I have applied for requires it. Every hiring manager that I have every talked to questioned me about my experience. Every board of directors for every corporation in America demands it before hiring a CEO and every American who holds stock for any corporation in America would be appalled if they found out that the board members had zero Experience in running a corporation.

Okay, America, here is the choice everyone who votes must make. Vote for the candidate with the Experience to run America or vote for the candidate of Change, Senator Obama with no Experience.

The way I see it, if Senator Obama becomes the next President and your job is lost, when you are talking to a hiring manager and that person asks you about your Experience in that particular field and you say that you don’t have any, tell that manager that you should be hired anyway because after all, you did vote for Senator Obama and he had no Experience either.