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THE FOUNDATION: HUMAN NATURE

“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.”  — James Madison

INSIGHT

“We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”  — C.S. Lewis

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”  — Thomas Carlyle

“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”  — Benjamin Disraeli

“Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe’er contented, never know.”  — William Cowper

“I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.”  — William F. Buckley

UPRIGHT

“[Barack] Obama says Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright is no longer among his campaign’s ‘spiritual advisers.’ Obama should not be asked which of Rev. Wright’s outrageous statements he disagrees with, but rather which ones he does agree with. That Obama remains a member in good standing of Trinity United Church of Christ indicates that he prefers the company of many people who have demonstrated that they believe what their pastor has said.”  — Cal Thomas Break “We don’t need a President of the United States who got to the White House by talking one way, voting a very different way in the Senate, and who for 20 years followed a man whose words and deeds contradict [Barack] Obama’s carefully crafted election year image.”  — Thomas Sowell

“All you really need to know about Barack Hussein Obama is this: Louis Farrakhan really, really, really wants him to be president.”  — Don Feder

“Barack Obama is, of course, a very talented politician with a first-rate political organization at his back. But it does not detract from his merit to say that his race is also a large part of his prominence. And it is undeniable that something extremely powerful in the body politic, a force quite apart from the man himself, has pulled Obama forward. This force is about race and nothing else.”  — Shelby Steele
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“It’s equally obvious... that if Hillary was male — and not married to Bill Clinton — she wouldn’t be in her position. Hillary came to national prominence not through her own efforts but through the success of her husband. Virtually all her ‘experience’ prior to being elected Senator is in fact Bill Clinton’s experience. She wouldn’t even have been elected to the Senate without Bill.”  — Dinesh D’Souza

“There’s a general right to bear arms quite without reference to the militia either way.”  — Justice Anthony Kennedy during Tuesday’s hearings on the Second Amendment

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Barack Obama’s story that he never once heard his preacher trash whites and America in hundreds of sermons sounds like Bill Clinton claiming he never inhaled while smoking dope. The mushrooming church scandal has taken the shine off the golden boy of politics, a two-decade regular at ‘unashamedly black’ Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. With his phony defense, the Democrat front-runner has exposed himself as both a typical Beltway spinmeister and a hypocrite. From the start of his presidential campaign, Obama has positioned himself as a straight shooter and a uniter — the very antidote to the sinister Clintonian politics of the past... ‘You know what I’m saying is true,’ he reassured voters. Yet his denial over Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s vitriol does not ring true. He’s suddenly shocked — shocked! — that his black nationalist church would spew anti-American venom. ‘I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally,’ he insisted, ‘either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew.’ Back in February 2007, however, Obama knew Wright might be a political liability. His chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, was so worried about his provocative statements that he urged Obama to withdraw a request that Wright deliver an invocation at his presidential campaign kickoff. Reluctantly, Obama ‘uninvited’ his long-time friend and mentor, according to Wright’s own account at the time, telling him ‘it’s best for you not to be out there in public.’... Here’s another whopper Obama tells concerning Wright: ‘He hasn’t been my political adviser, he’s been my pastor.’ Yet it turns out Wright quietly had a formal role in Obama’s campaign, and was only pushed out last week as a member of his spiritual advisory committee when the tapes hit the airwaves. Spinning harder, Obama claimed Wright’s remarks are not ‘reflective of the church.’ Yet the videos clearly show fellow members whooping and thumping in their applause of Wright’s hateful rants. These weren’t just a smattering of amens and hallelujahs. They were standing ovations. Point is, these are the folks with whom the Obamas worship and socialize. Yet we’re expected to believe Obama never heard the same incendiary remarks from them, either? His plea of ignorance doesn’t wash.”  — Investor’s Business Daily

DEZINFORMATSIA

Please don’t make us cover news: “It’s also frustrating just from a news standpoint because on the one hand people talking about it, it’s clearly an issue that’s bubbling up on the campaign trail so we end up covering it... At the same time it does feel just completely off track and — and there have been other issues in this campaign which have just felt completely off track from — from the real differences between these candidates, the real issues.”  — CNN’s Anderson Cooper, not wanting to cover comments made by Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Break “[C]hurch leaders over the weekend here put out a statement saying that Jeremiah Wright was a victim of character assassination. And the clear concern at the Obama campaign is that the candidate has been victimized as well.”  — CBS correspondent Dean Reynolds Break “I don’t even know how these candidates can talk about policy because it seems like every day someone’s asking them to apologize for the comments of their supporters. I mean, Rush Limbaugh went nuts today on his program about this story. John McCain is talking about this particular story. How do we get away from this?”  — MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell
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From the Ultimate Media Obama Groupie: “[It was] best speech ever given on race in this country... I think this is the kind of speech I think first graders should see, people in the last year of college should see before they go out in the world. This should be, to me, an American tract.”  — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Obama’s writing abilities

You mean national defense?: “To this moment, Bush has not given a logical explanation for his disastrous militarism. How can he tell American families that their sons and daughters died for a terrible, tragic mistake committed by his administration?”  — Helen Thomas

Newspulper Headlines: We Blame Global Warming: “Heat Shut Down Wade for Rest of Season”  — Associated Press

News of the Tautological: “Private Eye Accused of Spying on Targets”  — Associated Press

Breaking News From 711: “Spain’s Many Muslims Face Dearth of Mosques”  — The New York Times

Breaking News From 2000: “Lawsuit Eyed by Sharpton Over Florida”  — The New York Sun

News You Can Use: “Finally, a Reason to Start Drinking Alcohol”  — Reuters

Bottom Stories of the Day: “State Democrats Determined to Raise Taxes”  — Los Angeles Times (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

The buck stops over there: “Most recently, you heard some statements from my former pastor that were incendiary and that I completely reject, although I knew him and know him as somebody in my church who talked to me about Jesus and family and friendships.”  — Barack Obama Break “All of the statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn. They in no way reflect my attitudes and directly contradict my profound love for this country.”  — Barack Obama being specifically vague Break “Here is what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor. There are times when people say things that are just wrong. But I think it’s important to judge me on what I’ve said in the past and what I believe.”  — Barack Obama Break “I can no more disown [Rev. Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”  — Barack Obama

Forget what I said or voted for before: “I have concrete, detailed plans to end this war, and I have not wavered in my commitment to follow through on them... In uncertain times, we cannot afford uncertain leadership.”  — Hillary Clinton Break “The mistakes in Iraq are not the responsibility of our men and women in uniform but of their Commander in Chief. From the decision to rush to war without allowing the weapons inspectors to finish their work or waiting for diplomacy to run its course.”  — Hillary Clinton , who voted to send troops to Iraq
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VILLAGE IDIOTS

Scary stuff: “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”  — James Cone, whose words are cited on Rev. Wright’s church website **“Could Obama really have been unaware for all these years that his spiritual mentor follows a racially adversarial theology, one that demands of God that he be ‘for us and against white people’ and that he participate ‘in the destruction of the white enemy’? It doesn’t exactly sound like the sort of change we can believe in.”  — James Taranto

What does “care” mean?: “I’m sorry, I said nothing negative. I care about the black vote in this country. I really don’t think this is right that they should attack me as racist.”  — Geraldine Ferraro **They don’t care about black people, just about the black vote.

Wacky: “Let’s just go with the anger thing for a second. Let’s say, theoretically, I don’t know if he has them or not, that’s what they say. That he kind of has a short fuse, McCain. I don’t think that, that’s a great thing to have when you’re dealing with foreign nations in this kind of a world. It’s a little shaky. To me that’s more scary than, you know, getting some action in the oral off- Oval Office. ...Call me wacky!”  — Joy Behar of “The View”

SHORT CUTS

“This is a disaster for Hillary Clinton. According to the wiretaps, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was delighted to be getting the prostitute ‘Kristen’ again. At least he knew her name. It took Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend six sexual encounters to remember her name (raising his lifetime average to 8.2). You know that queasy feeling you get thinking about Bill Clinton back in the White House again? Now you remember why. Hillary Clinton couldn’t feel worse about the Spitzer case if she were an actual New Yorker.”  — Ann Coulter

“The Obama campaign, if not necessarily the man himself, seems determined to make tough questioning of the man and his qualifications off-limits. Mild, general criticism is OK, barely, but pressing too hard with the wrong questions is taken for racism, bigotry, fanaticism, zealotry and other forms of treachery. Once upon a time, presidential candidates labored mightily to find a log-cabin birthplace in their past, but some Democrats think they’ve come up with a candidate born in a manger.”  — Wesley Pruden

“Barack, I’m going to help you out here. If you’re going to try the lying routine, you’re going to have to get better at it, because the standard for great liars has already been sustained: Bill Clinton owns it, and you’re not in his league.”  — Rush Limbaugh

“Hillary Clinton entertained congressional superdelegates at her Washington, DC, home, where she served them cocktails and lobbied for their convention votes. However, the people who came uncommitted left uncommitted. It’s a lot like her marriage.”  — Argus Hamilton

David Letterman: From the “Top Ten Least Popular Dr. Seuss Books”: Green Eggs And E. Coli; Osama’s In Pajamas; How The Grinch Stole His Sports Memorabilia Back At Gunpoint; One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State; The Cat In The Hat That Fell In The Applebee’s Deep Fryer; Oh The Places You Won’t Go Because Of Tougher Immigration Laws.

Jay Leno: Why does everybody dye food green [on St. Patrick’s Day]? Green doughnuts, green cookies, green bagels... We won’t eat any real food that’s green — spinach, broccoli, lettuce — but dye a Cinnabon green. ... With all the bad news about the economy, John McCain started distancing himself from President Bush. In fact, McCain was running so fast from President Bush, he ran into Barack Obama, who was running from his minister, and Hillary, who was running from Geraldine Ferraro. And they all just collided. ... As you may know, Geraldine Ferraro quit the Clinton campaign after all the controversy over her remark suggesting that Barack Obama wouldn’t be where he is today if he weren’t black. Now, here’s the question — do you think people are more popular because they’re black? Think about this. I mean, look at Michael Jackson. Remember how popular he was when he was black? He was the biggest star in the world. The day he turned white, nothing! ... The governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer... was caught on a federal wiretap making arrangements to meet with this prostitute [and resigned]. On CNN, they brought out the publisher of Hustler magazine, Larry Flynt to talk about Eliot Spitzer’s future. Let me tell you something. If they bring Larry Flynt to talk about your future, you have no future!

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.)