THE FATE OF AMERICA IS AT HAND AND OBAMA SAYS "HOLLA IF YA NEED ME DOG"

What a profound failure to display leadership at a time when a leader is needed. What better test of how a presidential candidate is going to deal with a crisis than to present them with an actual crisis? And what does Obama do? He states that he'll return if needed. Instead, he intends to spend his days studying up for a foreign policy debate while his counterpart, McCain, is poised to help push through the most important governmental measure of our lifetime. And to cover for his own ineptitude, he has the "audacity" to call McCain's actions a political stunt.

Obama! You're still a Senator. And although you've never really done anything in that capacity, you are being paid a lot of money from taxpayers to be doing something. And you don't even have the common decency to pretend like you're working? You're a joke. An absolute joke. It's obvious you're not needed Obama. No one expects you to help solve this problem. Point of fact, you and the Democrats caused the damn problem. So keep your water baby head tilting, shit-eating grinning, Veggie Burger Hill fighting, self away. Dereliction of duty fits you best

UPDATE: President Bush has issued an invitation to Obama to return to Washington (Has Obama ever even been there?) to discuss the financial crisis. Obama has accepted. Not sure why. His initial decision not to return should tell anyone who is interested that he has nothing of substance to offer.

MORE MADNESS FROM MINNESOTA MUSLIMS

Minnesota has become the Norway of America. Fitting I suppose.

A group of Muslim workers allege they were fired by a New Brighton tortilla factory for refusing to wear uniforms that they say were immodest by Islamic standards.

Six Somali women claim they were ordered by a manager to wear pants and shirts to work instead of their traditional Islamic clothing of loose-fitting skirts and scarves, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a civil liberties group that is representing the women.

The women have filed a religious discrimination complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

"For these women, wearing tight-fitting pants is like being naked," said Valerie Shirley, a spokeswoman for the Minnesota chapter of CAIR. "It's simply not an option."

Sons of Ventura. Brothers of Franken.

ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER REFUSES TO MEET WITH JIMMY CARTER

Surely Jimma can't be surprised after he has announced his intention to meet with Hamas, a terrorist group that has sworn the destruction of Israel. Then again, Jimma never was all too sharp as it relates to foreign relations.

(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has turned down a request from former American president Jimmy Carter for a meeting during his visit to Israel next week. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni both said that their schedules will not allow a meeting, but an anonymous Israeli official told the Washington Times, "You draw your own conclusions." Other officials have expressed anger at Carter's proposed meeting with Syrian-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.

However, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israel Is Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu) leader Knesset Member Avigdor Lieberman have scheduled to meet with the former president, whose recent book compares Israeli policies on the Palestinian Authority (PA) with former apartheid policies in South Africa.

Carter is scheduled to visit Sderot as well as Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah before traveling to Syria.