The gal’s got chops! Be sure and note the challenge near the end. Allahpundit at Hot Air says this about it:

I don’t think she means this in the molon labe/“pry it from my cold dead hands, sucka” sense but rather the “be man enough to act like the thief that you are” sense. Which, judging from the crowd reaction, is a pretty popular sense these days.

Ace compares her to a political Susan Boyle:

As Simon Cowell said, “Did you ever imagine when she stepped up to the mike you’d hear a voice like that?”

As someone who has fretted about people doing bad YouTube-friendly confrontations, I’ve urged people to properly categorize themselves as either effective or ineffective spokesmen.

Her? Effective. I just popped a rhetoric-boner clean through my pants. Every bit of her rhetoric was good — but then she threw the cherry on top with that genius dramatic flourish at the end?

I see a new paradigm at the upcoming town halls — with folks holding high their Jeffersons and taunting their supposed representatives to “Come and get it — if you’ve got the balls!”

Lots more steers than bulls in this Dem-wit Congress — Gonna be a hot, hot election cycle. Oh, ya betcha!

I’m gettin’ one of those big headaches — you know, the ones where a handful of Advil with a vodka chaser just won’t begin to touch. And, I’m startin’ to feel a bit like Alice after she fell down the rabbit hole. Down is now the new Up. Left is the new Right. Right is always Wrong, and what was always Wrong is now Revered. WTF?

Our newest fearless leader has been on vacation for about two weeks now, with very little face time for the American public. Fine by me — Obama is the most overexposed politician I witnessed in my lifetime. But, he hasn’t not been doing anything at all. Let’s see, the Washington Times lists there activities:

Meanwhile, Mr. Obama has hosted a private White House dinner to celebrate Ramadan, a Muslim religious holiday (during which adherents are supposed to fast), played golf at Arlington’s Army Navy Country Club (no press allowed), hit the beach on Martha’s Vineyard (closed to press) and had dinner with his wife at the Sweet Life Cafe.

A private Muslim “dinner” to celebrate a fasting holiday. If George Bush had done something like that the White House press corp would have skewered him to the max calling him stupid and insensitive among many other things. However, President BHO should know the protocols of Ramadan, don’t ya think? So maybe he knew something we don’t.

While all this vacationing has been going on, VP Joe Biden has been yuckin’ it up out there playing “acting” President and taking credit for the “success” of the stimulus program. From that same WT piece:

With President Obama off on vacation, his second in two weeks, unofficial Acting President Joe Biden has stepped into the vacuum, claiming credit Thursday for the successes of the administration’s $787 billion stimulus package and fielding questions on health care reform something his boss hasn’t done in nearly two weeks.

The vice president, borrowing Mr. Obama’s teleprompter for a speech before a friendly audience at the Brookings Institution, said “I” more than a dozen times as he pointed repeatedly to progress on the economy and to his lofty role in the process.

“Every week — with notable exceptions — I hold a Cabinet meeting. And most of the Cabinet secretaries attend,” he told the audience in Washington.

“I made it clear that our focus had to be, in the first 100 days, accountability, transparency and responsiveness.

If it wasn’t all so damn pathetic one would have to fall on the floor laughing — oh, why not? Bwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaa!!! Biden’s daffy, but not a radical. Can’t say the same about Obama’s Czars. Take the Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, who evidently is a 9/11 “truther”, having signed the petition and all. The White House denied this, of course. But Gateway Pundit dug deep and found the proverbial smoking gun proving that Van Jones was in at the beginning of the Truther movement. Boy, can ol’ Barry pick ‘em, or what! Over at Ace, one of the writers points out that Van Jones was a supporter of cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Just the kind of guy one wants giving high-level advice to the President of the United States.

Well, not so fast there, pardner — ABC News is reporting that Van Jones may soon sport the tire tread pattern of Obama’s bus sooner than later.

Asked if controversial White House official Van Jones continues to enjoy the confidence of President Obama given recent revelations about his involvement with those who suggest the Bush administration knew about the 9/11 attacks and allowed them to happen in order to justify a war for oil, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Friday morning would only say “he continues to work in this administration.”

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Asked how the Obama administration could rail against fringe conspiracy theorists who falsely allege, despite evidence to the contrary, that President Obama was not born in the U.S., Gibbs said that that the “9/11 Truther” sentiments are “not something that the president agrees with.”

I wish I could say that Gibbs last statement made me feel a bit more at ease — but look at the language. Not something that the President feels is absurd, or totally out of line, or bat-shit-barking-mad — just “not something that the president agrees with.” Maybe that’s the nuance that we’ve all heard so much about. Shades of gray and all — give me black & white on issues like this, thank ya’ll very much! Which Bryon York at the Washington Examiner does quite well, in his short comments about the MSM coverage of the Van Jones story:

From a Nexis search a few moments ago:

Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.

If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving President Obama’s Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, your response would be, “Huh?” If you heard that that adviser, Van Jones, had apologized for a number of remarks and positions in the recent past, your response would be, “What?” And if you were in the Obama White House monitoring the Jones situation, you would be hoping that the news organizations listed above continue to hold the line — otherwise, Jones, who is quite well thought of in Obama circles, would be history.

The ABC piece was on their website, so maybe, just maybe, it might show up on the Nightly News tonight, Friday night — when no one worth anything is watching? Well, Glenn Beck was paying attention:

Charles Krauthammer says that Van Jones Truther allegations are “devastating” and asks an important question:

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air comments:

What did the White House know about Van Jones’ Trutherism and when did they know it? Charles Krauthammer asks this question and calls the revelation about the Green Jobs Czar “devastating,” much more so than an epithet directed at Republicans that most of us have used at a wide range of people. Does Barack Obama believe that it’s acceptable to have paranoid conspiracists in high-level appointments, or was the White House simply too incompetent to properly research Jones in the vetting process? Because it comes down to those two options, and regardless of what we think of Jones, the blame for him being in the White House falls squarely on Obama[.]

More and more of this happening almost daily — How much more crazy BS can this administration produce? Guess we’ve got about 3-1/2 more years to find out!

And, Barack Obama isn’t an “A** hole.

Well, the way things are going, coulda fooled me . . .

Glenn Beck is saying: No One Took The Radical Barack Obama at His Word

Beck’s gettin’ out there — but he does seem to be speaking truth to power. To paraphrase Beck, “you can’t blame Barack Obama as he made it perfectly clear what his agenda and focus would be — to fundamentally change the United States of America.”

Part of that fundamental change is an unprecedented call to ALL public schools in the US to have their students watch a special address to the nation’s children by President Barack Obama on Sept. 8th, at 12pm EST. The following document was sent out by the US Dept. of Education to guide teachers on how to interpret the President’s comments to their students, and on how to lead their thinking processes to get the White House’s message across to our nation’s youth.

Gotta love some of those bullet points:

• Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor?
• Why is what they say important?
• As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
• What is the President trying to tell me?
• What is the President asking me to do?

At the document site one public school leader responds:

As a K-6 public school leader, I’m choosing to not participate in President Obama’s address to students. Our 420 students will not watch the President’s speech while at school. I would never allow anyone, not the Mayor, Governor, State Representative, or President to address my students without first reviewing and approving the content of what he/she is presenting. Why would I change the standard just because the President is addressing the students? He, more than anyone has an agenda! It is not my job as a school leader to indoctrinate our students. My job is to ensure our students receive a high quality education in a safe environment that promotes character development and enthusiastic, lifelong learning through a cooperative relationship with parents, students, and the community.

More reaction from a former teacher:

I do not believe any President, Republican or Democrat, should be talking to students nationwide. If this were a Republican President speaking, Democrats would be outraged. Is President Obama’s ego so huge that he feels he needs to speak to the children to encourage studying???? What an insult to parents! President Obama should worry about his own children and leave ours alone. As a former teacher, I believe that this type of indoctrination, although subtle, does not belong in the classroom, and teachers should not be sharing their political views with students and that includes college campuses. Students in college are afraid to write papers that disagree with the professor’s views because there has been so much political intrusion on college campuses by many professors. I, not the government, taught my children to write their papers based on their views, even if it meant the Professor’s wouldn’t like it. Boycott September 8th!! We have enough government intrusion in our lives. The President of the US does not need to tell us how to encourage our children to study!!

In yesterday’s Hugh Hewitt interview with Victor Davis Hanson there was this reaction from VDH:

Well, I mean, this is what, all he has to do is put a red cover, and he’s in China, and a green cover, and he’s in Libya. This is what totalitarian societies do. They reach out to children in the schools who don’t have any choice. The teacher apparently can’t say you know what? I don’t want to do this, or a child can’t say I don’t want to read this, because it’s part of a mandated curriculum. It’s…and this is happening, remember, at a time when his polls are crashing, so you get the impression that last week, it was to invoke God and say that people who were against health care were not properly religious, and now it’s to go over the heads of everybody to the children. You know, this administration, we saw this in the campaign with the Latinate, Vero Possumus, yes we can, this is our moment that the seas will stop rising, the planet still start cooling. There was this whole narcissistic, messianic sense of himself. And it’s kind of, it is creepy. That’s a perfect word for it.

Creepy? You damn sure got that!!!!!!

As I heard a pundit, I think it was Hugh, say yesterday, “Ask not what President Obama can do for you, ask what you can do for President Obama!”

Michelle Malkin reminds us about the Prez’s Pal Bill Ayers who “declares education ‘the motor-force of revolution’”:

I thought this would be a useful refresher as President Obama’s September 8 junior lobbyist recruitment speech approaches. It’s his Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ 2006 speech at the World Economic Forum in Caracas, Venezuela.

Get with the program plebes — It really is ALL ABOUT THE “O”!

Which does beg the question — Who are the “A”-holes now?

About this Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey writes:

If you think you’ve seen the dumbest strawman arguments in favor of socialized medicine and haven’t seen this video from How The World Works, then partake of a truly educational experience — as HTWW presents a YouTube fisking of “Engio.” It’s an intellectual drubbing, mainly because “Engio” hasn’t got an economic clue, or for that matter, a political clue, either. He starts out by equating local police and fire departments with nationalized health care, and ends up arguing from complete ignorance about fire insurance. It’s a tour de force of stupidity, which HTWW skewers with glee:

The LA Times also keeps pushing this single-payer-universal-healthcare-argument hogwash, relegating any anti-Obamacare opinions to the uneducated and ill informed. Actually, those that push Obamacare have to be totally uneducated, ill informed or maybe just plain delusional to believe arguments like those in “Engio’s” video.

Medic!