By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

The MSM and the powers that be in the Democratic Party have proven Sir Isaac Newton’s theory wrong: What goes up does not necessarily come straight down.

The stratospheric rise (or holy ascension, as the liberal knee-benders prefer to think) of Barack Obama is unprecedented in modern and perhaps even ancient history. It has changed the laws of political physics so radically that the once reliable landscape of hero monuments in our nation’s capital is being overgrown by scraggly liberal ivy.

In trying to make sense of non-sense -- or explaining the unexplainable – we have concluded that the country has either lost its collective mind or millions of liberal alien pods were left beside our beds as we slept at night.

We have sought reasonable answers to reasonable questions but have been met with mindless, predetermined phraseology from the largely ignorant, or bombastic and grandiloquent rhetoric from the liberal elites – all of which has been translated and boiled down to two words: “change” (apparently for the sake of change) and “hope” (that the end of George Bush will solve all their problems).

This Obaphenomena defies logic, whether cursory or scientific.

From their well-crafted new age brainwashing, the media have embedded their chosen leader in our collective conscience to a level of omnipotence. That measure has taken hold of voters’ minds like the spiny tentacles of a Stone Age octopus.

But Barack Obama is not The Manchurian Candidate as some in the right media have lightheartedly speculated. No, it’s a million times worse: It’s his followers who are The Manchurian Voters.

There are useful idiots and then there are useful voters. Perhaps they are one and the same. Not even criticism based on facts can bring him or his followers back down to earth. Those useful voters then prey on enervated Republicans drawing the politically fatigued into their ultimate political solution.

At the recent Alfred E. Smith Charity dinner in New York City, we heard Obama joke about not being born in a manger, or really being from Krypton, fathered by Jor-El.  The Chosen One laughs, giggles, grins, chortles, chuckles and snickers with the best of them. Yet, despite his attempt to come across as the guy next door, the humor is peppered with disingenuousness because he really does believe he is awesome.

Barack Obama has never been content with the possibility of changing America, but has now announced “We will win this election and, you and I together, we're going to change the country and change the world."

What exactly is he referring to? The last time we heard that type of phrase was from Adolf Hitler – “Today we rule Germany. Tomorrow, the world.”

For months, the best conservative political writers have taken aim at his campaign, but they have been shooting blanks. All manner of fact-based rhetorical weaponry has been deflected by their newly minted super man. The ordnance of conservatives has consisted of well-researched facts, recorded video clips, television/newspaper interviews and campaign speeches of That One. But the left has erected a fortress around Obama, and armed their super hero with a Teflon-coated thick skin to counter-weight a disarming smile.

As the Church Lady used to say on Saturday Night Live, “Isn’t that special?”

Drawing up from scratch a cartoon hero versus a real living hero (like John McCain) is not difficult when aided by a journalistic shield. But a nation of Useful Voters – that is an accomplishment. The Manchurian Voters have been armed with rhetorical slings and arrows, albeit of crude material, to use on family, friends and co-workers. Their sheer numbers are a force the weakest cannot resist.

Entertainment industry moguls, A-List ignoramuses and television behemoths, like Oprah Winfrey, all possess the ability and wherewithal to dazzle, mesmerize and transmogrify political fence sitters with make-believe fantastic characters like Barack Obama. As luck would have it, even his name sounds other-worldly. They offer limitless and unedited exposure for his thoughts and opinions in all forms of communication. In light of this gratis coverage, it remains a miracle that John McCain has come this far and a clear testament to his ability, even without the full support of his base.

The liberal objective: to vanquish all remaining opposition to their subversion of America.

Why have average Americans seemingly chosen to ignore Louis Farrakhan’s proclamation that Obama is The Messiah? Why has Obama’s judgment with regard to his dubious and unsavory associations not been called into question by Democrats? Why are his connections to the mortgage meltdown ignored by the MSM? Why is his utter lack of executive experience to assume the office of president dismissed out of hand by liberals?

Because they can. Because they have The Manchurian Voters. If they can use fantasy and fiction to create their invincible leader, we can use histrionics to describe our utter disbelief.

By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

The party of Ronald Reagan is looking more and more like those persons who stand idly by and watch strangers get mugged. Except the “mugees” are members of their own party.

We would be putting it mildly if we said we’re sick and tired of hearing so-called conservatives (are you listening, John McCain?) tossing about docile rhetoric at his opponents the way nymphs sprinkle flower petals on a placid pond. We hoped McCain would throw down the gauntlet, swing away at Obama and show no mercy. As a military man, he knows well the country we love is at stake, and this is no time to worry about hurt feelings. The anger “out there” is palpable and he needs to address it today.

We’ve heard horrendous statements from liberals, such as when they compared George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler – and they got away with it. We never heard a word from our party renouncing this extremism.

We are appalled by film footage from New York City of Americans for Obama actually booing, shouting down and flipping off Americans for McCain.

It’s clear and beyond doubt that the liberal media have taken over this country, and moderate-to-conservative Republicans have only themselves to blame. They haven’t stepped up confidently to the plate and swung with all their might at every pitch with a home run in mind. Rather, they just bunt and hope to get to first base. That’s not good enough if they want to score enough runs to win the crucial series, especially if the opposing infielders are allowed to step over the foul line and are never called on it.

What is wrong with the Republican Party? There is no grit and anger, no snap and snarl. We are literally in the fight of our lives but the party is holding back, waiting for that “perfect pitch.”

Where were all the wealthy Republicans the last 50 years when Liberals purchased controlling interest in media concerns, such as television networks, major metropolitan dailies, movie studios, etc.? Liberals have steamrolled their insidious propaganda over the American psyche.

All we can do is preach day in and day out to the choir in the church of Republicanism, on a few radio stations and online journals. That forum is not now, nor will it ever be enough to turn back the tide because this tsunami of liberalism has all but washed away the few strong conservative voices. And those voices could be squished like bugs by a Democrat majority when the so-called Fairness Doctrine sails through congress after the election.

We have been hammering, yammering and all but screaming about the squeaky-wheel gets greased mentality of the left for the last two years. But have our elected officials, party leaders, and their consultants, really listened to their constituents? NO.

The Republican candidate has offered us little in the way of unique or substantive recommendations and assurances for us to stand behind him wholeheartedly and with complete confidence. His slogan, “Country First,” is an excellent choice to describe his patriotism, but it also serves as a contradiction of his intentions. He straightforwardly ignored supporters’ polls and pundits with a hand on the conservative pulse, all of whom overwhelmingly favored Mitt Romney as his logical running mate.

With all due respect to Mrs. Palin (who we admire tremendously), no one can convince us that many Republicans in congress were not aware of the impending credit meltdown. On the contrary, it was a bomb waiting to explode, and they knew it. Who, then, was better equipped than Romney, with his financial genius (and as a Washington outsider), to stand up for our side? We, and the majority of our co-conservatives, practically pleaded with the nominee to bring Mitt onto his team, but John McCain allowed his maverick ego to get in the way of “Country First.”

Our anger and fear doesn’t begin or end with McCain. On his radio show very recently, Howard Stern played a tape of random interviews of Obama supporters in New York, who weren’t even aware of what they were agreeing to. All they heard was Obama’s name, and automatically answered, “Yeah,” “Uh‑Huh,” and “Okay by me” to every question the interviewer posed, despite the fact the interviewer had juxtaposed McCain’s policies for Obama’s. It apparently matters not that Louis Farrakhan publicly proclaimed Obama as their Messiah – the Chosen One. That is what angers and frightens us – that few seem to notice.

These New Yorkers are not isolated voters, but are more than likely a good representation of the majority of ACORN-induced registrations. We are equally tired of the race card being shouted out every time we open our mouths to breathe. Republicans, as a whole, are not, nor ever have been, the party of racism. Red Alert: When and if the Bradley Effect should occur, it will not be Republicans in the voting booth.

Senator McCain’s performance in the first two of three critical debates was embarrassing. The old saying “nice guys finish last” endures for a reason. A presidential debate is for engaging in a formal argument of the issues, not a recitation of talking points. His performance was and is critical -- because we have but one opportunity left to confront Barack Obama on the issues and on his questionable alliances before a national audience - live and unfiltered by liberal malarkey.

Say what you will about the liberal leaning moderators, they cannot outsmart a smart candidate.

If John McCain is unable to close the deal for the Republicans tonight, it won’t be long before our party becomes the hangout for the lonely and the desperate, where we’ll all be banging into each other, for God knows how long, like billiard balls on an uneven and hostile surface.

by Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

There is a vaccine for nearly everything: typhus, influenza, polio, the pox – or so we thought.

A new pestilence has reared its ravenous head and has enveloped the U.S. with such wildfire speed and intensity that even the American Medical Association cannot cope with this contagion: the Political Plague, or as it is better known - Obamapox.

Symptomatically similar to louse-borne typhus, Obamapox produces a smoky or lazy state of mind. That effect was obvious in the faces of the crowds following his gratuitous thank you speech in Munich, – the vacant stare, wild-eyes and incoherent babble. That’s where the global outbreak of Obamapox was initiated and has since grown into a pandemic – and the hysteria is now reaching worldwide proportions.

As we all know, the human body requires a proper, balanced diet to remain in good physical shape. But the body politic of this country has been starved nearly to death due to a complete lack of the one vital nutrient to keep it healthy: Ethics.

The monumental federal bailout was believed by Congress and the president to be the antidote to this epidemic. It turned out, in fact, to be hopeless compensation from the start. Their $700 billion anti-serum has proved more poisonous than the meltdown itself: 401(k)s being wiped out; savings and pension benefits, wiped out; real estate values and ownership, wiped out. The worst hit has been our hopes, dreams, and faith.

Everyone except those we elected heard the branches of our tree of liberty creaking and then breaking off under the weight of misguided egalitarianism. Only now are they racing blindly armed only with squirt gun-sized syringes to stop the plague they, themselves, have caused.

The Democrat-controlled Congress (that monkey house where the occupants grunt and groom one another) is the hot zone of this plague: Ground Zero. The host and major carrier of this pox on our economy is none other than Barack Obama.

And where is Obama during this mega-crisis? No doubt safe and warm in an antiseptic, germ-free (Teflon-coated) environment where nothing and no one are allowed in. The secondary hostile liberal organisms (advisors) emanated from the viral vector that was Fannie Mae, but Obama learned quickly to insulate himself from that nexus.

Obama even debates in a sterile bubble of safe words and phraseology designed to distract from the virulent liberalism which evolved from his far left-wing radicalism to camera-ready moderation via the smoke and mirrors provided by the mainstream media.

Like any pestilence, it has infected both liberal and conservative Senators, Congressmen and campaign workers. At the other end of the spectrum, teachers are indoctrinating and contaminating children from K to 12 with a new strain specifically designed to infect future generations. Politics took for granted our immunity, which was financial dominance. But it was politicians like Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank (and insiders like Franklin Raines) who plundered that dominance: our hard-earned money that we placed for safekeeping in their hands. And then the liberal media purposely mangled the emergency sirens that were ringing dangerously louder on a yearly basis to make them sound as though all crises of every nature were emanating exclusively from the Oval Office.

Despite this mounting catastrophe, congresspersons continue to live in selfish luxury and generous pensions while the taxpayers who support them are falling wayside by the thousands. George W. Bush is guilty of over-spending. But directly after the Democrats seized power in 2006 and proclaimed “there’s a new game in town,” Speaker Pelosi’s first order of business was to demand a large private jet be at her disposal, and chauffeured limousines on both coasts for an entourage of family, boot polishers and other toadies.

Recently, in the middle of the initial bailout vote, Pelosi alone coughed up enough partisan sputum to spread Obamapox to Wall Street, causing the Dow to drop like a fiery stone.

The Democrats were so all-fired angry about spending, which is the major reason they were voted back into power. Yet Nancy Pelosi couldn’t wait to get her manicured mitts onto taxpayer money to satisfy her diseased greed – every penny of which is funded by taxpayers. She fell ill with Obamapox almost immediately. The only inoculation she had availed herself of was against the Hillary strain.

The first sign of infection is deafness to reason, which comes early and has nasty side effects. At its most malignant stage, those directly exposed to Obamapox (many photo-op Democrats in Congress) degenerate into Obamania, the final stage before being institutionalized.

The Surgeon General says the long-term prognosis for survival is not known, but, in most cases, it appears to be terminal or until honest Republicans and Democrats burn the House down and start over.

By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

Hey, all you cats & kittens out there in funny money land, the clock is tick, tick, ticking. It’s almost time we hit the mattresses and harvest that stashed cash we’ve been storing for a rainy day, ‘cause our savings and 401(k)s’ might be Blowin’ in the Wind, and then it’s going to be See You Later, Alligator from our Pension Funds.

The Dow Jones had its 19^th Nervous Breakdown when the The 3‑Gs (Good Guys & Gals in Government), better known as Strangers in the Night, did a Shake, Rattle & Roll and voted “no $$$$-ING way” to bail out the credit market a/k/a the Space Oddity– that was famous for its jingles We Can Work it Out and My World is Empty Without IOUs, Babe.

Treasury Secretary Henry It’s Now or Never Paulson went from Mellow Yellow to a Whiter Shade of Pale when the American people rang up their reps and sang our anthem, I Fought the Law and rejected his $700 billion Eight Miles High bailout compromise. Then Representative Mike Pence of Indiana cut through the Purple Haze and announced: “The American people rejected this bailout, and now Congress did likewise.”

Would the underlying message to Congress be: You Can’t Always Get What You Want?

Just when we thought the Smoke on the Water was clearing in the violin section of the Democrat party, Dazed and Confused Barney Frank must have had a Psychotic Reaction when he issued the statement: “The Republicans killed this.”

Back in 2004, during A Day in the Life of the illegal bookkeeping hearings, Barney Frank said “you seem to be saying well there are areas which could raise safety and soundness problems. I don’t see anything in this report that raises safety and soundness problems.” And just like that Frank figured: There Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now.

And who can ever forget Maxine California Dreamin’ Waters at those very same hearings declaring: “Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines.”

Is it Just My Imagination or was Maxine telling Raines Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough?

If that weren’t enough, and With the Tears of a Clown, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry Bernanke, warned of “grave threats” to the global financial system if Congress rejected the plan. Apparently, his Paint It Black warning was met with the Sounds of Silence by the Comfortably Numb (up for reelection) Congress who were unwilling to hop on the Last Train to Clarksville and vote the wrong way just before the General Election -- wishing we all could, once again, be The Way We Were.

The If I Had a Hammer (and Sickle) Democrats and God Only Knows Republicans hammered out a compromise measure entitled “The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 with a Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On from both sides of the aisle. They’d still be shakin’, but they took a couple of days off before Takin’ Care of Business.

Certainly, Representative Jeb Hensarling (R) of Texas thought The Times They Are A’Changin’ when he declared the bailout might put the nation on the “slippery slope to socialism.” In practically the same breath, please Say It Ain’t So, Rep. James Langevin, Democrat from Rhode Island, said “we must ensure hardworking people will have access to financing for mortgages, as well as auto, student and small business loans.”

The American people believe little in Sympathy For The Devil that is Wall Street and are Crazy for another Congressional Hard Day’s Night of negotiating.

It was widely reported that President George W. Bush was disappointed with defeat of the bailout bill. He was Wishin’ and Hopin otherwise and last overheard saying I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction).

Democratic Presidential candidate Barack With No Particular Place To Go Obama, made a token phone call to the real working senators saying Please Please Me .

Gaffe-prone Senator Joe Biden asked his running mate Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?

On Needles and Pins and with rolled up sleeves, Senator John I Feel Fine McCain insists A Change Is Gonna Come.

By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

“Love him or hate him” means there have been no shades of gray sentiment for George W. Bush, except for what we see now on the top of his head. When you look at a photo from the year 2000 of the newly elected 43^rd President of the United States (or “appointed” if you’re a lefty), you see a man in his prime -- nary a sign of misspent youth on this face. The full head of wavy medium ash brown hair was well-groomed, but not the pampered $400 coiffures of the opposition party prima donnas.

It is well documented scientifically that stress is a silent killer. Many of us are familiar with its effects and can expound at length on the various levels of pressure we personally tolerate on a daily basis. There are few among us that don’t reach for the Advil or a cocktail just to level out. Workers from the highest to the lowest end of the totem pole experience some form of stress whether physical or emotional, or both. An unexpected financial or health crisis can debilitate the strongest among us.

We would do well to ponder for a moment just how (or if) we could manage the pressure of having the weight of our country, and often the world, on our shoulders. For most of us, it’s unimaginable.

George W. Bush has endured the intense highs and lows of eight turbulent years in office. His calm in the face of vicious unwarranted and false accusations has impressed us. But the effects have carved valleys of anguish on his face and a premature winter on his head. The indelible marks will remain with him, but they should be worn as a badge of honor. He has borne with graciousness personal attacks that would certainly have brought lesser men to their knees.

Like his father, George H.W. Bush, that inherited handsome countenance which might have graced many a historical monument some day may instead only remain chiseled in the American psyche.

Conservatives have had their issues with some of this President’s positions, but we always remained grateful for his strength of leadership, his steadfast and unwavering focus in the face of evil, and his calm in the stormy eye of Islamist terrorism.

However history remembers this man, it must also note that, like no other president in recent memory, George Bush bears on his face the pain of sorrow for the loss of each and every soldier, sailor, airman and marine, and for the gut-wrenching deaths of innocent Americans of all races and cultures from September 11^th to the present day. He has worn his heart on his sleeve, weeping openly for the pain and suffering of others, with genuine dignity and without shirking his duty. He walked into that office with a twinkle in his eye but will depart with the reflection of our many lost souls.

No other American president has had to endure the unanticipated and tragic levels of natural disasters, heinous acts of terrorism on U.S. soil and on American ships at sea and U.S. outposts all over the world. The growing financial catastrophes presently overwhelming us were not the result of one person’s action or inaction, but a series of bi-partisan machinations that snowballed into this avalanche of financial despair. George Bush will accept the blame because that is part of the job. The media will continue to have a field day with him fueled by their blind hatred which has changed the face of journalism forever.

This is not a panegyric to George Bush, but rather a fair and sincere acknowledgment of gratitude to the President that has kept the country safe. Unlike the cockeyed thinking on the left, we do not believe it is mere coincidence that we have not been attacked again given the provocative jihadist proclamations issued regularly since 9/11. President Bush promised to keep us safe, and he has kept that promise. His protection is not the paternalistic form of government craved by the left, but from the honest conviction of one man borne of his faith. Whether you are guided by religious or secular beliefs, there is an underlying moral code at work that cannot be denied or denigrated.

George Bush has been (and we do not use this description lightly) our Commander-in-Grief as well as the leader of the free world. He earned his stripes the hard way – by leading our nation through a minefield of media booby traps, by staying the course of his unpopular decisions (like comprehensive immigration reform and Medicare prescription benefits), and never bending to the arrogance or outrageous demands of European elitists.

He has protected all things American. The most salient example are the thousands of ugly Americans that have disrespected and smeared the office of the presidency and spewed forth eight years’ worth of venomous rhetoric, the sole purpose of which was to destroy the man who has protected the very democracy that gave them that right of expression.

This is the man who, time and time again, reached far across the partisan table knowing he was crossing the Rubicon of his party’s principles. There is an underlying non-ideological goodness to this man who has been willing to do what he believes is best for the nation without equivocating about his intentions.

No one, if he or she is honest, can devalue or take that strength of character away from him. This trait of unfaltering conviction has been mocked mercilessly for two full terms. But in the end, notwithstanding his whitened hair, President George W. Bush will be able to depart from the White House with his head held high.