Fish Tale: Grand Dad (David Hayes) Catches Record Catfish with Daughter’s Barbie Fishing Poll

Here is a Fish Story … Barbie fishing pole lands 21 pound catfish. A story that David Hayes and his granddaughter Alyssa with share for years to come. No need to exaggerate this fish tale … truth is stranger than fiction.

Move over pocket fisherman, there is a new sheriff in town, its pink and 2–1/2 ft long … its the Barbie fishing pole

Try telling your buddies at the local watering hole about this fish story. Now every angler is going to want to go out and buy a pink Barbie fishing pole. A North Carolina man, David Hayes, held his 3 year old granddaughter Alyssa’s pink Barbie fishing pole while she went in the house to go to bathroom. When she returned her grand dad had hooked a state record channel catfish, at 21 pounds, 1 ounce.

“I was pretty sure I was going to lose it,” he said told The Winston-Salem Journal. “I was hoping I would hang on to it long enough for Alyssa to see it. When she did, she squealed so much it took off on its last run.”

The catfish gave up after about a half hour, allowing Hayes to scoop the fish into a net, the newspaper reported.

Wesley Clark, the Latest Victim to be Thrown Under the Obama Bus … Your Services are not Needed

The question has always been whether Obama has the experience or license to drive a bus? However, he certainly is good at throwing people under it.

It is getting awfully crowded under the Obama bus these days. General Wesley Clark is the latest to be thrown under the bus as Barack Obama has told Clark that his services will not be needed. Wesley Clark was given no role at the Democratic National Convention and was told by team Obama that that there was no reason to come. One thing is for certain, it is getting very crowded under the Obama bus these days. Anyone who wagered $’s on a possibility of a Clark VP nomination can kiss that goodbye as well.

Under the Bus: No Quarter

General Wesley Clark is not attending the Democratic National Convention. I was told by General Clark’s personal office in Little Rock that he would not be attending.

Clark was informed by Barack Obama’s people that there was no reason to come.

General Clark has been given no role of any kind at the convention.

Rubbing salt in the wound even more, the “theme” of Wednesday’s Democratic convention agenda is “Securing America.”

Sistertoldja reminds us of the many borrowed words of Barack Obama … America, don’t be bamboozled. From Jammie Wearing Fool, Obama to Wesley Clark: Yo, Find Somewhere Else to Be Come Convention Time, You Hear?

The Obama ‘Under the Bus’ Executive Summary

You Know You are Not For Obama When … 25 Hints that You are not Voting for the Chosen One

With the Presidential election nearly upon us there are plenty of people who still consider themselves undecided. The Corner has put together a helpful list of hints to help those who have still not decided on whether they will vote for the Republican candidate John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama.

Here are just a sample of the questions one must answer as hints that you should not be voting for Obama. Go to The Corner and read all, take the test and score yourself.

It’s unlikely you’ll vote for Obama if you….

• think about 9/11 more than once a year
• remember the Carter Administration
• get sorta creeped out by 200,000 Germans chanting “Obama! Obama!”
• know in your gut that defiantly withstanding 4 1/2 years of torture trumps all of Obama’s qualifications and accomplishments combined — regardless of what the elite pundits say.
• repeatedly find yourself asking “Change to what?”weren’t born yesterday

Paris Hilton Does Political Ad … That’s Hot … McCain says she’s deeper than Obama … Scary, She Actually Is

Hey Paris … A comprehensive energy plan … That’s Hot!

Paris Hilton puts forth a political ad of her own in response to the one that John McCain did using Ms Hilton’s celebrity. That’s right, Paris on video and this time it is not a sex tape.

Hilton thanked the “wrinkly white-haired guy” for his endorsement and offered her own energy policy. Believe it or not, one that made sense. It has to be one of the signs of the Apocalypse. Paris Hilton offered “We the People” of hybrid energy plan that Democrats Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi refuse to. Now is that hot or scary?

Kudos to Paris, this is funny and actually makes a point. The funny part about the Paris Hilton’s political ad in response to McCain’s ad is it actually does more damage to Barack Obama than McCain. Hilton discussed a common sense energy plan. It’s pretty sad when Paris Hilton sounds like she has a more organized and thought out approach to the energy crisis in America than the “chosen One”, Barack Obama. Then again, as Hot Air reminds us, “She’s got a sense of humor, a thoughtful energy policy, and nearly as much federal legislative experience as Barry O”.

What, you thought I could not come up with an energy plan?

In the unkindest cut of all, McCain’s spokesperson Tucker Bounds tells TMZ that on the subject of energy, Paris is deeper than Barack. He says, “Sounds like Paris is taking the ‘All of the Above’ energy approach that John McCain has advocated — both alternatives and drilling. Perhaps the reality is that Paris has a more substantive energy plan than Barack Obama.”

As Wizbang states, Paris Hilton has a much more thoughtful energy policy than Barack Obama does. They pose the scary question of the day:

If Paris and Barack were your two choices, which would you vote for? I honest-to-God don’t know who would be worse.

Hot Air poses question 2 of the day:

If grotesque overexposure and grandiose ego are now prerequisites for the presidency, then the choice is … actually, the choice still isn’t clear, is it?

• Red State: Vive le Paris
• Payback: Paris Hilton Slams John McCain (Video), [but does she really?]

The Ace of Spades: McCain: I Was Wrong to Compare Barack Obama to Paris Hilton; Paris Hilton is Actually More Sensible and Less Goofball Enviroleftist

Winner: McCain. Runner-up: Paris Hilton … Loser: Obama.

Every wonder why Congress now has an approval rating below 20%? Celebrities actually provide more thought out common sense policies.

Barack Obama … The Chosen One … the Obamamessiah … Effective & Funny John McCain ad

If you cannot laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

Barack Obama and the Left need to take a chill pill because McCain’s new ad, The One, if actually funny. In order for something to actually be funny, there needs to be some truth in it and not just a mean attack. The left can complain all they want, this ad was funny and effective. Maybe that’s why they are complaining. But I guess the Left would think differently if it was an ad portraying McCain in a wheel chair and paralyzed? Or something really funny like dealing the race card from the bottom of the deck.

So much for John McCain being old, tired and stuffy. The latest John McCain political ad is edgy and sarcastic. It portrays Obama in exactly the light that he has been presenting himself and the ridiculous manner in which Democrats and the media have been fawning over him as if he was really the Obamamessiah. 

This ad one is not only effective, it is funny. No wonder the Obama, his campaign and the Left are up in arms crying foul. Barack Obama as the chosen “One”. Any time one can use a Charlton Heston reference to Moses parting the Red Sea in a parody of Barack Obama’s actual words, you have a winner … “this was the moment when the rise of the ocean began to slow and our planet began to heal”.  Why is it that it is OK for Obama to give speeches as if he was preaching from a pulpit and referencing divine intervention, but when he is called on it for the ridiculousness of its folly … he gets upset?

Below are actual Barack Obama comments. He needs to get over himself.

“We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for”

“I have become a symbol of America returning to our best traditions”

“A light will shine down from somewhere, it will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany and you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack”

Of course the reaction from the naive, not ready for prime time, complain about everything Obama camp is to whine some more and call it, ‘sad…juvenile antics.’ What hasn’t Obama and his complained about and stated are topics that are off limits. Is this yet another one? But I guess playing the race card is considered OK from Obama and his political team.