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“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.”  —  Thomas Jefferson

DEZINFORMATSIA

Enthralled by nothing in particular: “If you’ve never been to an Obama rally before, a word of advice, go early. Think Springsteen concerts, but the tickets are free. First come, first serve. In Boise, Idaho, a few weeks back it couldn’t have been more than 15 degrees out. But outside Taco Bell Arena early on a Saturday morning, everyone waited patiently because inside —   inside, they felt the warm glow of hope.”  —  ABC’s David Wright Break “I’m in the demographic where everyone I know among my friends is in love with Obama... It’s kind of like being 13 and seeing Shawn Cassidy and we’re all just on board... So we’re not embarrassed when we get together. We just talk about how much we love Obama. ... We know we’re being fooled, but we kind of like it. I can’t get off his ride, it’s too good.”  —  Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein

Bad news for Hillary: “By a 53% to 14% margin, voters believe that Obama opposes NAFTA while there are mixed perceptions on where Clinton stands. Thirty-five percent (35%) believe she favors NAFTA, 31% believe she opposes it and 34% are not sure.”  —  Rasmussen Reports

Feminist chip on the shoulder: “For many Hillary supporters, especially the many strong women who admire the guts and determination she has shown in this campaign, the troubling question is not whether race is defining this campaign, but whether sex —  or to put it bluntly, sexism —  is. If the problem is that so many people really don’t like Hillary, and reading the blogs is certainly enough to suggest that, the question is why.”  —  Susan Estrich **So many reasons. So little space.

Adversarial press: “President George W. Bush should stop worrying about his legacy. It’s already established. By his deeds you shall know him; preemptive war, torture and wiretapping, for starters.”  —  Helen Thomas

Newspulper Headlines: We Blame George W. Bush: “Hope Dims That Earth Will Survive Sun’s Death”  —  NewScientist.com

We Blame Global Warming: “Unique Solar Probe Freezing to Death”  —  Associated Press

In Peace!: “Castro ‘Relishes Chance to Rest”’  —  BBC Web site

Holidays in Hell: “Fidel Castro: I’m Ready for a Vacation”  —  Associated Press

How Many Voters Will Fit on a Swing?: “Bill Clinton Courts Texas Voters in Galveston Swing”  —  Houston Chronicle

News You Can Use: “Minister to Married Couples: Sex Every Day!”  —  CNN.com

Bottom Stories of the Day: “White House Accuses NYT of Anti-GOP Bias”  —  Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

The Obama swoon: “He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere.”  —  actor George Clooney Break “I’ll do whatever he says to do. I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.”  —  actress Halle Berry Break “This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better. This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed... A black man with a white mother became a savior to us. A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”  —  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan

Race bait: “Racial justice is the key for the salvation of the nation and that is fair game to discuss; it is a fair message. Blacks reaching out is not new; white receptivity is new. Barack is reaching out.”  —  Jesse Jackson
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That other guy is running again: “You take that framework of people feeling locked out, shut out, marginalized and disrespected. You go from Iraq, to Palestine to Israel, from Enron to Wall Street, from Katrina to the bumbling of the Bush administration, to the complicity of the Democrats in not stopping him on the war, stopping him on the tax cuts. In that context, I have decided to run for president.”  —  perennial contender Ralph Nader

Non Compos Mentis: “Is there any possibility that, I’m just throwing this out... that the right wing of the party, the real conservative Limbaugh, Huckabee, that group, planted this [New York Times] article [against McCain]? Like they’re behind it?... Because they’re the ones who are trying to really cut him out, cut his legs off... Is that too conspiratorial?”  —  Joy Behar of “The View”

INSIGHT

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”  —  Albert Einstein

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”  —  Plato

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”  —  T.S. Eliot

“When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘guilty’.”  —  Theodore Roosevelt

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Experience this: “Both Senator Obama and I would make history. But only one of us is ready on Day One to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 years being a doer, a fighter and a champion for those who need a voice.”  —  Hillary Clinton **“She’s ready on day one ‘to defeat the Republicans’? If there is a day one, wouldn’t she already have defeated them? But we suppose what she’s really promising is another ‘permanent campaign.’ Anyone want to vote for that?”  —  James Taranto

Texas Toast?: “This whole nomination process has come down to Texas and Ohio. If she wins in Texas and in Ohio —  she will win in Pennsylvania —  I believe she will win the nomination.”  —  Bill Clinton, still putting the best face on a desperate situation

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”: “We are not standing on the brink of recession due to forces beyond our control. It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington.”  —  Barack Obama

Sarcasm 101: “Now I could stand up here and say, ‘Let’s get everybody together. Let’s get unified. The skies will open. The lights will come down. And you know the celestial choirs will be singing. And everyone we know will do the right thing. And the world will be perfect.’ But I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. You are not going to wave a magic wand and make the special interests disappear.”  —  Hillary Clinton with a poke at Obama

Victimitis: “We spend our whole lives caught up in being told what we can’t do. And what’s not possible, and that children have to be poor and race always is going to matter in this country and there’s always going to be injustice and the economy can never work for anybody. We’re fed that stuff all the time. Mostly by folks who are in power and take advantage of the status quo.”  —  Barack Obama **Mostly by liberals.

UPRIGHT

“As Senators Obama and Clinton try to outdo each other in blaming government for our lack of individual responsibility and promising solutions by raising taxes to give us more government, they offer little change and less hope.”  —  Victor Davis Hanson

“Nothing... will assuage Clinton supporters’ sense of injustice if the upstart Obama supplants her. Their, and her, sense of entitlement is encapsulated in her constant invocations of her ‘35 years’ of ‘experience.’ Well. She is 60. She left Yale Law School at age 25. Evidently she considers everything she has done since school, from her years at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm to her good fortune with cattle futures, as presidentially relevant experience.”  —  George Will

“Hope must be grounded in objective truth otherwise it quickly becomes wishful thinking.”  —  Cal Thomas

“Eloquence is deep thought expressed in clear words.”  —  Peggy Noonan
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“Why McCain? After all, somewhat similar allegations about recent Democratic nominees were precisely the sort of thing that [The New York Times] scrupulously avoided as trash journalism. And the Times’ attitude toward Bill Clinton’s various sex scandals was hardly one of unbridled enthusiasm. During those years, the Gray Lady published many, many articles lamenting the fever of ‘sexual McCarthyism’ in American politics. It seems that such concerns are unwarranted if the subject is a Republican.”  —  Jonah Goldberg

“Our elected officials don’t make America great, nor do temporal policies. America is great because of its people, its defining institutions and its freedoms.”  —  Linda Chavez

“Are the Democrats so intent on denying George Bush retroactive vindication for a war they insist is his that they would deny their own country a now-achievable victory?”  —  Charles Krauthammer

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“For months, leading Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chief Rahm Emanuel have tried to talk tough on illegal immigration. Mr. Emanuel [said] last year that immigration is ‘the third rail of American politics,’ adding that ‘anyone who doesn’t realize that isn’t with the American people,’ earning himself angry denunciations from the far-Left fringe. Last month, Mrs. Pelosi joined House Minority Leader John Boehner in announcing that the House-passed economic stimulus bill would ‘not allow any taxpayer funds to be distributed to illegals.’ The Democratic leadership’s efforts to sound tough on illegal immigration have created serious friction with some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which believes the Democratic leadership is too timid about pushing for amnesty legislation. If senior Democrats were really serious about a get-tough approach toward illegal immigration, we would be urging the Republican minority to reach across the aisle and work with the Democratic leadership to come up with a genuine bipartisan solution. But unfortunately, the Democrats are...[trying] to defeat a bipartisan bill that takes a no-amnesty, enforcement-oriented approach to illegal immigration. Specifically, they are very worried about the fact that a growing number of moderate and conservative Republicans and Democrats (and even a few liberals) are cosponsoring the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act, H.R. 4088, introduced by Rep. Heath Shuler, North Carolina Democrat. The SAVE Act is an omnibus bill that would strengthen border security and require that employers verify that their workers are legally present in the United States. Forty-seven Democrats and 89 Republicans are cosponsoring the Shuler bill, which is currently bottled up in the House Judiciary Committee, where liberals like Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat and chairwoman of the Immigration Subcommittee, will work to ensure that it stays there.”  —  The Washington Times

SHORT CUTS

“If this presidential thing doesn’t work out, Obama might consider joining the NASCAR circuit. It’s the only occupation we can think of where you win by turning faster to the left than anybody else.”  —  Investor’s Business Daily

“The Clintons have met their Waterloo but it’s not some doughty conservative warrior who gets to play Duke of Wellington, only some freshman pap peddler of liberal boilerplate whom no-one had heard of the day before yesterday.”  —  Mark Steyn

“The junior senator from New York is as spontaneous and emotion-laden as a space shuttle launch. It’s all planning, calculation and stage-management with the Clintons. She’s like the Tin Man in ‘The Wizard of Oz’: heartless, creaking her campaign joints and unable to prove the humanity voters want in a president.”  —  Jed Babbin

“McCain may seem unappealing when he’s debating policy with Mike Huckabee or even Mitt Romney. But let him start taking fire from Al Gore, Gloria Steinem, antiwar groups, environmental activists and teachers’ unions —  not to mention The New York Times  —  and suddenly he will look lovelier than the Taj Mahal at sunset.”  —  Steve Chapman

“Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager said she will make a much better commander-in-chief than her rivals. She’s well schooled in the use of force. How many presidential candidates can honestly say that they have thrown a lamp at an important world leader?”  —  Argus Hamilton

David Letterman: From “Top Ten Ralph Nader Campaign Promises”: Fund universal healthcare by making Wesley Snipes pay his taxes; Give the presidency a rumpled, Walter Matthau quality; The freezing over of Hell should solve our global warming crisis; Can fill out a pantsuit better than Hillary; Will hover in polls between one percent and “Statistically Insignificant.

Jay Leno: In political news, Ralph Nader has decided to run for president. Well, you thought Mike Huckabee didn’t know when to quit, huh? There you go. In fact, Ralph Nader’s campaign slogan —  ”It’s me again.“ ... What do you call somebody at a Ralph Nader campaign rally? Ralph Nader. He’s the only one there. ... He’s gonna be 74 next week. In fact, the good news: If Ralph gets sick, his younger brother, Raul Nader, will then take over. ... Well, you know who’s thrilled that Nader is back in the race? John McCain. He’s not the oldest guy anymore. ... Oh, and Barack Obama made another woman faint today. The bad news, it was Hillary when she saw the poll numbers... The New York Times alleged that John McCain had an inappropriate relationship with a young female lobbyist. I haven’t seen McCain this angry since ”Matlock“ was canceled. ... A lot of people are questioning the source of this story. See, it’s never good when an article begins, ”Dude, guess what I heard.“

Veritas vos Liberabit —  Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families —  especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)