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“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.”  - George Washington

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 1 MAY 2008

On 6 May 1982, Ronald Reagan offered these words: “Today, prayer is still a powerful force in America, and our faith in God is a mighty source of strength. Our Pledge of Allegiance states that we are ‘one nation under God,’ and our currency bears the motto, ‘In God We Trust.’ The morality and values such faith implies are deeply embedded in our national character. Our country embraces those principles by design, and we abandon them at our peril. Yet in recent years, well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake of religious tolerance, they’ve forbidden religious practice in the classrooms. The law of this land has effectively removed prayer from our classrooms. How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?”

History of the National Day of Prayer

1775 The First Continental Congress called for a National Day of Prayer.

1863 Abraham Lincoln called for such a day.

1952 Congress established NDP as an annual event by a joint resolution, signed into law by President Truman.

1988 The law was amended and signed by President Reagan, to be the first Thursday in May.

The Patriot Post’s National Advisory Board and staff invite you to join us, and millions of Americans in prayer for our nation this Thursday at 1200. Link to the National Day of Prayer website for more information.

The Patriot also offers A Common Prayer for American Patriots for all who would use it.

VILLAGE IDIOTS

A sampling of Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright: “[Obama’s] a politician, I’m a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. Those are two different worlds. I do what I do. He does what politicians do.” ... “I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did [Vice President Dick] Cheney serve?” ... “[T]hose who call me unpatriotic have used their positions of privilege to avoid military service, while sending over 4,000 American boys and girls to die over a lie!” ... “We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing al-Qa’ida is doing under a different color flag, calling on the name of a different god, to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!” ... “Jesus said do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you. Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic, divisive principles.” ... “Remember, it was soldiers of the 3rd Marine Regiment of Rome who had fun with Jesus, who was mistreated as a prisoner of war, an enemy of the occupying army stationed in Jerusalem, to ensure the mopping up action of Operation Israeli Freedom.” ... “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.” ... “Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn’t make me this color.” ... World’s smallest violin: “The snippets from the sermon and sound bite [have] made me the target of hatred.”  - Jeremiah Wright

UPRIGHT

“On Monday [Rev. Wright] insisted that he is not anti-American: It is, he said, Americans’ government, not the American public, that is a genocidal perpetrator of terrorism. So, he now denies that America has a representative government - that it represents the public. He believes that elections constantly and mysteriously - and against the public’s will - produce a genocidal, terroristic government.”  - George Will Break “As for Bill Moyers, had Mrs. Wright interviewed the Rev. Wright, the questions and reactions could not have been less challenging or even supportive. And as regards the Rev. Wright, the more he talks, the more one worries about Barack Obama’s values.”  - Dennis Prager Break “I am all too familiar with the false theology of these racist black preachers. [They]... attempt to use their pulpit, the Bible and God himself to hide the evil that lies within their hearts. They use the anger of black Americans to keep them demoralized, dependent and Democrat.”  - Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Break “Could the pastor of a man hoping to become president really have said those things? And what would it mean for the nation and the world if America’s highest officeholder had marinated for 20 years in that kind of thinking?”  - Kathleen Parker Break “Whom will Obama believe and trust if he is the president? How will he judge an ally and an enemy? How will he staff a vast Executive Branch? Whom will he appoint to the Supreme Court and how will he judge their characters and their personal histories?... If he even figures out who the radicals are, will he have the courage to refuse them office or influence?”  - Hugh Hewitt
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Anyone raised amid the wisdom of mothers knows well the dictum that ‘some people just talk too much.’ Meet the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. At the moment, Rev. Wright is out in public saying whatever happens to be on his mind. It is not a coincidence that at least some of what is on Rev. Wright’s mind and tongue may be pushing Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy into a ditch. Rev. Wright spoke to the NAACP convention Sunday in Detroit, was interviewed Friday evening on TV by Bill Moyers and showed up [Monday] in Washington at the National Press Club, where his Q&A session with reporters is an instant Internet video hit...[M]ore inflammatory remarks by Rev. Wright from past sermons are coming to light, and he has taken to explaining away everything as ‘soundbites’ taken out of context. Past some point that doesn’t fly, and we are past that point... The one fact that Senator Obama can’t undo is that he was a member of Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years. Jeremiah Wright is insisting on making this long relationship an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign, and many voters understandably want clarity on the subject from candidate Obama. Early in his campaign, Senator Obama earned support from many voters with the notion that he wanted to transcend racial politics. Rev. Wright is exacerbating them in a way not seen in recent years. Barack Obama cannot remain on both sides of this. He has to make a decision. He is not running for national Mediator. He is running for President. In time, that job brings tough decisions. He’s there now.”  - The Wall Street Journal

DEZINFORMATSIA

Lobbing softballs: “What is your notion of why so many Americans seem not to want to hear the full Monty - they don’t want to seem to acknowledge that a nation capable of greatness is also capable of cruelty?... Did you ever imagine that you would come to personify the black anger that so many whites fear?”  - PBS’s Bill Moyers to Jeremiah Wright Break You don’t say: “Now to the presidential race and the controversy that Barack Obama just can’t seem to shake. His former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was speaking out again [Monday], this time at the National Press Club in Washington. Wright didn’t back down from any of his controversial remarks.”  - ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Break World’s smallest violin II: “Obama supporters described the whole thing as a media circus.”  - NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on the National Press Club revelations of Jeremiah Wright Break “And it takes attention away - we have huge, huge problems facing this country... We’re having no discussion of that. Instead, we’re off on this sideshow.”  - CNN’s David Gergen

Eco-journalism: “I want to rename ‘green.’ I want to rename it geostrategic, geoeconomic, capitalistic and patriotic. I want to do that because I think that living, working, designing, manufacturing and projecting America in a green way can be the basis of a new unifying political movement for the 21st century. A redefined, broader and more muscular green ideology is not meant to trump the traditional Republican and Democratic agendas but rather to bridge them when it comes to addressing the three major issues facing every American today: jobs, temperature and terrorism.”  - New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman

Finally fessing up: “Most of us in news are not smart enough to figure out what’s going on. We may pretend that we’re good enough to do that. But in fact, when we look you in the eye, in the camera, we’re really just making it up.”  - MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann

Newspulper Headlines:

What Would We Do Without Analyses?: “Analysis: Wright Does Obama Little Good”  - Associated Press

Breaking News From 1981: “Palestinians: Carter Achieved Nothing”  - FoxNews.com

Getting Metaphysical: “Clinton Claims Obscure Reality”  - National Post (Canada)

How Do You Spell Relief?: “Clinton Issues Proposal to Relieve Gas Pain”  - TheStreet.com

‘Let’s Just Disagree to Agree’: “Water Groups Argue Over How to Cooperate”  - Daily Courier (Prescott, AZ)

News You Can Use: “Sorry to Ruin the Fun, but an Ice Age Cometh”  - Australian Break “Mind-Reading Hat Could Prevent Brain Farts”  - LiveScience.com

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Dead Otter Found Near Bridge”  - Redding (CA) Record Searchlight (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)
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THE DEMO-GOGUES

Trouble: “Obviously whatever relationship that I had with Reverend Wright has changed as a consequence of this. I don’t think that he showed much concern for me; I don’t think he showed much concern for what we’re trying to do.”  - Barack Obama on Jeremiah Wright

On race and liberalism: “Look, what we have done has been successful throughout. It’s not like I have been winning in states that only have either black voters or Chablis-drinking limousine liberals.”  - Barack Obama

Memo from Rocky: “You know, some people counted me out and said to drop out. Well, the American people don’t quit. And they deserve a president who doesn’t quit, either.”  - Hillary Clinton

On the Clintons: “Mr. Clinton’s conduct in this campaign had caused what might be an irreparable breach between Mr. Clinton and an African-American constituency that once revered him.”  - Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) Break “[The Clintons] feel that they’re a dynasty, they are clinging to the throne, [angry at] anybody that disrupts that dynasty or challenges it.”  - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson

It’s always and only about Bill: “Hillary’s opponent, in his entire campaign, every two or three weeks has said for months and months and months, beginning in Nevada, that really there wasn’t much difference in how America did when I was President and how America’s done under President Bush. Now, if you believe that, you should probably vote for him, but you get a very bad grade in history.”  - Bill Clinton on Bill Clinton **“There is nothing in life so pathetic as a former president.”  - John Quincy Adams

SHORT CUTS

“Because of her unfortunate marriage, Hillary comes with a cast of undesirables like James Carville, Paul Begala, Terry McAuliffe, Joe Conason - and of course Bill Clinton, along with his trusted impeachment manager Larry Flynt. Buy one, get the entire dirt-bag collection free!”  - Ann Coulter

“The difference between a philanthropist and a liberal is that a philanthropist is generous with his own money.”  - Jack Kelly

“The biofuels debacle is global warm-mongering in a nutshell: The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.”  - Mark Steyn

“Sometimes people come up to me and inquire, ‘Justice Scalia, when did you first become an originalist?’ You know, as though it’s some weird affliction, you know, ‘When did you start eating human flesh?”’  - Justice Antonin Scalia

“Barack Obama denied his comments marked him as an elitist, while Hillary denied being an elitist in Indiana. Who isn’t an elitist anymore? We live in a country where you have to pay a hundred dollars a month to watch a TV series about John Adams.”  - Argus Hamilton

David Letterman: From the “Top Ten Signs President Bush Has Too Much Time On His Hands”: Spends most of the day looking for friends on Facebook; Stops by Cheney’s office every five minutes to see if he’s still alive; Calls leaders of foreign countries yelling, “Baba Booey Baba Booey”; Sits on the White House lawn and waves at cars; Gives the 3 p.m. White House tour; Earlier today, he washed and waxed Air Force One; “President is on the Trampoline” isn’t Secret Service code, he’s actually on the trampoline.

Jay Leno: John McCain has spent this week campaigning in what he calls the “forgotten areas” of the country. He is visiting places that are being ignored by our leaders, places like Pennsylvania now, now that the primary is over. See, unfortunately, at McCain’s age, as soon as he leaves these forgotten areas, he forgets he was there. ... And Barack Obama also on a tour, of places he’d like to forget, like his church. It’s never your enemies that kill you. It’s always your friends, isn’t it? ... Barack Obama is suffering from a bad headache today. His former pastor, Reverend Wright, is back out there. Reverend Wright gave an interview on PBS with Bill Moyers, and he said he’s gotten over a million emails and phone calls telling him to keep on speaking out, and every one of them came from Hillary Clinton. It was amazing. ... Hillary Clinton said she is a stronger candidate than Barack Obama. And to prove it, she counts the votes she got in Michigan, even though Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot. It’s a pretty strong argument. I mean, whenever Barack Obama’s name is not on the ballot, she beats him every single time.

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.)