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“Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.”  — John Adams

THE DEMO-GOGUES

The “Gospel According to Bill”: “There is somehow the suggestion that because we are having a vigorous debate about who would be the best president, we are going to weaken this party in the fall. Chill out. We’re going to win this election if we just chill out and let everybody have their say.”  — Bill Clinton Break On the other hand: “You do not want to demoralize the base of the Democratic Party by having the Democrats attack each other. Let the media and the Republicans and the talking heads on cable television attack and carry on, fulminate at the mouth. The supporters should keep their mouths shut about this stuff on both sides because that is harmful to the potential victory of a Democrat.”  — DNC Chairman Howard Dean

From the candidates: “There are some people who felt like: ‘God, when is this thing going to be over?’ It’s like a good movie that’s lasted too long. But the truth is that this has been a great campaign, a great primary season.”  — Barack Obama Break Yo, Adrian: “Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up.”  — Hillary Clinton **“Now if I remember the movie correctly, doesn’t Rocky get the crap beat out him and then loses to the black guy?”  — Jay Leno

From the last loser: “It is very important for both people to keep the eye on the real target — John McCain and the Republican disaster of the last seven and a half years.”  — John Kerry

Is that really “punishment”?: “Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”  — Barack Obama

That’s the spirit!: “We have to continue to insist upon a deliberate and careful withdrawal of our forces... We’ve got to begin to withdraw our forces... We have to begin to withdraw our forces.”  — Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

DEZINFORMATSIA

Don’t worry, be happy: “Many Democrats [like me] have been worried that the protracted fight, between Senators Clinton and Obama, might start alienating voters and hurt the party’s chances against John McCain in the fall.”  — ABC’s Charlie Gibson Break “The notion that the current tough tone could hurt the party against Republican Senator John McCain is a real concern among top Democrats [like me].”  — ABC’s Jake Tapper **Ok, so we took a little editorial license there...

From the sycophants: “When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit.”  — NBC’s Lee Cowan Break “I’m concerned about the good of the country. Our country is in terrible shape. And I believe Hillary Clinton is best qualified to move ahead and move us forward...n terms of the person that I think is best qualified to lead this country right now, is a woman, somebody different.”  — ABC’s Carole Simpson Break “If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change it must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves.”  — writer Alice Walker in The Guardian

On chances: “Several people have written that even in the best-case scenario, Hillary Clinton’s chances of getting the nomination for the Democratic Party are about five percent. When is it time for her to leave?”  — CBS’s Harry Smith to Obama

Defeat America!: “At least Obama is not in a fantasy world on Iraq, as W. and John McCain are, insisting it’s improving while we see it exploding.”  — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
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Newspulper Headlines:

Sounds Like a Job for Mrs. Clinton: “U.S. Envoys’ Visit to Pakistan Draws Fire”  — Associated Press

What a Scoop!: “Exclusive: Clinton Vows to Push On”  — Time.com

He’ll Take What He Can Get: “Butler Student Rebuffed by Chelsea Clinton Says He Likes Her Mom”  — Associated Press

Breaking News From 1597: “Romeo Is Found Guilty of Murder”  — Ledger (Lakeland, FL)

News You Can Use: “It’s Fun to Imagine a Housing Turnaround”  — St. Petersburg (FL) Times

We Blame Global Warming: “Census: Texas Is the Hot Place to Live”  — Associated Press Break “Thick Ice Hinders Controversial Seal Hunt”  — Reuters

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Chunk of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses; Global Warming Blamed”  — Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Now that’s Clintonesque: “I think the world will breathe a sigh of relief when this president is gone... Is a vote for Hillary a vote for Bill? No. A vote for Hillary is a vote for Hillary. I’m really proud of what my father did in the ‘90s, but I don’t think you should vote for or against my mother based on my father.”  — Chelsea Clinton

Can’t we all just get along?: “I don’t want to see these two highly talented people hurt each other in this race for the nomination. That happened to me in ‘72. Even after I had the nomination virtually locked up, with just a month to go to the convention, the losing candidates all ganged up and really did a job on me that we never recovered from. I don’t want to see that kind of thing happen.”  — former presidential candidate George McGovern

“I heard Obama speak. He hit me with that he-just-got-done-watching-’Malcolm X,’ and I swear to God, I’m like, ‘Yo, Obama!’ I’m Obama to the end now, baby!... Don’t look for my vote, for me to determine nothing on that. Just say, ‘50 Cent, he don’t know, so don’t ask Fiddy.”’  — Rapper “50 Cent” switching from Hillary to Obama

Keeping an open mind: “I think that [global-warming deniers] are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat.”  — Al Gore, self-proclaimed “P.R. agent for the planet”

INSIGHT

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”  — Albert Einstein

“I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word ‘fair’ in connection with income tax policies.” — William F. Buckley Jr.

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” — Henry David Thoreau

“I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.” — Will Rogers

“The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.” — Joseph Wood Krutch
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UPRIGHT

“For nearly 20 years, [Hillary Clinton] has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be delighted to see someone she doesn’t know, the hundreds of thousands times she has recited empty clichès and exhortatory banalities, the millions of photos she has posed for in which she is supposed to appear empathetic or tough, the billions of politically opportune half-truths that have bounced around her head. No wonder the Clinton campaign feels impersonal. It’s like a machine for the production of politics.” — David Brooks

“I am not criticizing Democrats for being partisan; I’m suggesting they are cynically insincere or grossly self-deceived when they pretend to aspire to bipartisanship. They don’t seek compromise; they want the unopposed implementation of their unadulterated liberal agenda.” — David Limbaugh

“The ideology of the Left is based upon identity, not ideas, and was therefore bound to degenerate into political cannibalism, as feminists and racialists scurry for power.” — George Neumayr

“Wise men in our civilization have argued for centuries that four conditions must be met to justify war: It must counter a great and certain threat, it must be a last resort, it must have a reasonable chance of success, and it cannot be anticipated to cause more harm than it prevents. Leaving Iraq now would cause more harm than it prevents.” — Terry Jeffrey

“Being a disinterested government official does not mean that you know what you are doing. That fact gets left out of the equation in a lot of proposals for new government programs.” — Thomas Sowell

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“The latest in the series of pointless gestures that constitute Congressional energy policy came yesterday, when executives from five major oil companies were paraded before Ed Markey’s House hearing on global warming. They served as political props for Members to denounce rising gas prices, ventilate Dick Cheney conspiracy theories and otherwise advertise their ignorance of the markets they purportedly oversee. Democrats, for instance, might rejoice over higher energy costs, which is precisely the eco-policy they’ve been advocating for years. Until Congress finds a way to abolish the price mechanism, paying more for gasoline is the only signal that will tell Americans to cut their consumption. How exactly do Democrats think a carbon tax or cap-and-trade regime is going to work? The oil executives performed a public service by pointing out other economic realities. About 70% of the price of gasoline is determined by the global price of crude, which is rising because of world-wide demand and volatility in the commodities markets, not to mention the Federal Reserve’s easy-money policy. Congress might also look to its gas mandates and the corset it has laced around domestic production. It’s true that industry profits are at a record high, but oil is a classic boom-and-bust business, which is why billions in capital investments are folded back into exploration and production. Besides, the industry’s effective tax rates are in the neighborhood of 40% to 44%. Over the past five years, Exxon Mobil’s total U.S. tax bill exceeded its U.S. revenues by some $19 billion. Mr. Markey also used the occasion to threaten special tax increases, grilling the executives about $18 billion in ‘subsidies,’ which are actually a tax deduction that Congress itself extended to all manufacturers, including Big Oil. And he demanded that the companies commit 10% of profits to renewable energy. But as an Exxon vice president put it, fossil fuels are still going to account for at least two-thirds of the world’s energy consumption in three decades and whatever scientific progress is made, the practical prospects for alternatives remain ‘very, very small’.” — The Wall Street Journal
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SHORT CUTS

“When the going gets tough the not-so-tough surrender to hysteria.” — Wesley Pruden

“About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can’t blame them for wondering how they missed the memo advising that henceforth the old rules no longer apply.” — Mark Steyn

“Democrats run their own elections the way they run the government: in ways you can’t possibly understand that make no sense, that are not fair, and that are total bureaucratic nightmares.” — Rush Limbaugh

“American women are the freest, wealthiest, most educated in the world. They are liberated enough to choose someone for president other than a female candidate out of uterus-based loyalty.” — Michelle Malkin

“This weekend, Bill Clinton said Hillary should not drop out of the presidential race. Yeah, when asked why, Bill said, ‘Because then she’d come home’.” — Conan O’Brien

David Letterman: From the “Top Ten Contest” on “Top Ten Dumb Guy Ways to Boost the Economy”: Rummage through rich folks’ trash to see if they’ve tossed any cash — Fresno, CA; Release that “Titanic” movie again — East Greenbush, NY; Each person collects $200 when they pass “Go” — Arcola, IL; Reduce America’s oil dependency by inventing nacho cheese-powered car — Orlando, FL; Two words: bake sale — Chatsworth, CA; Just turn the graphs upside down — Pound Ridge, NY; Give tax refunds in Cheetos (I’m not sure how that would help the economy, but boy am I hungry for some Cheetos) — Hoover, AL; Put Chuck Norris in charge of collecting money from deadbeat taxpayers — Meridien, CT

Jay Leno: Here’s kind of a philosophical question: If a sniper fires a gun in the woods and nobody’s around, does Hillary Clinton still hear it? ... Hey, have you heard Hillary Clinton’s new campaign slogan? “Incoming!” ... As you know, Hillary Clinton now blaming her embellishment of her Bosnia trip on lack of sleep. See, that’s the difference between Hillary and Bill right there. After a night of no sleep, Bill never had a problem coming up with a believable story. ... Actually, new revelations about Hillary’s trip to Bosnia. You know that whole thing? It turns out it was a misunderstanding. Now she says she went there looking to hire a sniper.... It looks like there’s a little more fudging of Hillary’s records. Remember when she said she was deeply involved in the Irish Peace Process? Turns out, she just saw “Lord of the Dance.” ... It’s getting nasty. Hillary and Barack really going at it. They’re insulting each other, trading barbs, attacking each other’s credibility. In fact, the only break they take from attacking each other is when they promise the American people, if elected, they can unite the country.

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.)