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“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice.”  - Alexander Hamilton

THE DEMO-GOGUES

On diplomacy: “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.”  - Hillary “Rambo” Clinton

What do economists know about the economy, anyway?: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists, because I know if we get it right, if we actually did it right, if we had a president who used all the tools of the presidency, we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively.”  - Hillary Clinton on the “gas tax holiday” Break Getting it right: “Only in Washington can you get away with calling someone out of touch when you’re the one who thinks that 30 cents a day is enough to help people who are struggling in this economy.”  - Barack Obama on Hillary’s gas tax proposal

Socialism 101: “We can’t just plan for the future, we have to help people in the here and now. The choice to me is clear, we need to go after the oil companies [because they are evil].”  - Hillary Clinton **Ok, a little editorial license there. Break “My longer-term plan is to put an excess profits tax on the oil companies above a certain level of profit that would go in to help us make the transition.”  - Hillary Clinton

On Wright: “What I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing.”  - Barack Obama on Jeremiah Wright **So he’s not angry over the remarks, but over the suggestion of political posturing. Break “[W]hen you start bringing up things that have nothing to do with the candidate and nothing to do with the issues, that’s race baiting, and that’s exactly what it is, just like Willie Horton was race baiting so many years ago... I tell you, you know, there’s a lot of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on issues, but the biggest issue of all is we don’t use this kind of stuff. We never have used this kind of stuff, and we’re not going to start now.”  - DNC Chief Howard Dean on Obama and Wright

Looking in the mirror: “We don’t deal with the serious issues that are in front of us, we try to figure out what’s going to poll well and what can we do to get through the next election.”  - Barack Obama being unwittingly candid about his campaign

Belly Laugh of the Week: “I would never be here telling you something I didn’t believe.”  - Bill Clinton *Better not take that to the bank.

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Americans have learned to take with a grain of salt much of the rhetoric in a campaign like the current Democratic donnybrook between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Still, there are some red lines that should never be crossed. Clinton did so... when she told ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ that, if she were president, she would ‘totally obliterate’ Iran if Iran attacked Israel. This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world. Responding with understatement to a question in the British House of Lords, the foreign minister responsible for Asia, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, said of Clinton’s implication of a mushroom cloud over Iran: ‘While it is reasonable to warn Iran of the consequences of it continuing to develop nuclear weapons and what those real consequences bring to its security, it is probably not prudent in today’s world to threaten to obliterate any other country and in many cases civilians resident in such a country.’ A less restrained reaction came from an editorial in the Saudi-based paper Arab News... The Saudi paper called Clinton’s nuclear threat ‘the foreign politics of the madhouse,’ saying, ‘it demonstrates the same doltish ignorance that has distinguished Bush’s foreign relations.’ The Saudis are not always sound advisers on American foreign policy. But they understand that Rambo rhetoric like Clinton’s only plays into the hands of Iranian hard-liners who want to plow ahead with efforts to attain a nuclear weapons capability... A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night.”  - Boston Globe
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INSIGHT

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”  - Augustine of Hippo

“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom.”  - Calvin Coolidge

“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”  - Edmund Burke

“We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.”  - James A. Garfield

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”  - H. L. Mencken

UPRIGHT

“We focus on the negative and our politicians stoke our unhappiness all the more. They bribe us with our own money, promising to expand the government to address the grievances that they promote. But we ought to be careful what we wish for.”  - Tom Purcell

“The time is long overdue to stop gullibly accepting the left’s vision of itself as idealistic, rather than self-aggrandizing.”  - Thomas Sowell

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• ver the course of Bill Clinton’s (bungled, distasteful) presidency and Hillary Clinton’s (bungled, distasteful) campaign for the presidency, the couple have separately and together become incarnations of the most unattractive attributes of their generation’s elite - blind ambition cloaked in do-good self-righteousness, a sense of entitlement, high-handed snobbiness, hedonism, narcissism. As a poster couple for people of a certain age and demographic, they have become a bit of an embarrassment.”  - Kurt Andersen

“After years of learning how to fight an unfamiliar war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to protect us at home, we are finally getting most things right. But if our soldiers and intelligence agencies have learned how to win, our politically correct diplomats and the American consumer haven’t - and are doing as much at home to empower radical Islam as those on the front lines are to defeat it.”  - Victor Davis Hanson

DEZINFORMATSIA

Obama rocks, America stinks: “[The] message of black liberation theology is basically Confucius’ message of do unto others as you would have others do unto you... Obama has said that many times. But you look at a lot of the white Christians, and... they go to their white churches. And you wonder how they can call themselves Christians and still look at other people as though they are inferior... I think... we are still a racist country.”  - The Washington Post’s Sally Quinn on the flap over Jeremiah Wright’s comments Break Sympathy for the devil: “Imagine having to publicly denounce the minister who married you, who baptized your kids, who prayed with you the day you announced your candidacy for President... For Obama, whose own father abandoned him as a child, this must have been another painful break.”  - ABC’s David Wright

Another Clinton lie caught on tape: “Senator Clinton decries how the company Magnequench moved from Indiana to China in 2003, but there’s one key part of the story Senator Clinton tends to leave out: Her husband’s role. Over and over again, Clinton blames President Bush for dropping the ball on a national security issue - including in a new TV ad... What Clinton does not say is that her husband could have stopped it because the Chinese bought Magnequench in 1995 when he was President. And his administration approved the deal despite national security concerns.”  - ABC’s Jake Tapper
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Elitist to the core: “The smart, educated pool of voters who go to the primaries, they’re not buying necessarily this guilt by association. But, that being said, what about your more conservative, white, rural voters?”  - Kim Genardo of NBC’s Raleigh, North Carolina affiliate

Newspulper Headlines:

Breaking News From 1914: “Gas Engines: Here to Stay”  - CNNMoney.com

‘OK, We’ll Rescue You, but We’re Not Happy About It!’: “Moody Airmen Rescue Cuban Migrants Found at Sea”  - Air Force Print News

Welfare Reform Testimonials: “Jobs: ‘Not as Bad as We Thought”’  - CNNMoney.com

Help Wanted: “Naked Man Sought”  - Northern Echo (Darlington, England)

News You Can Use: “Drinking Dulls the Brain’s Response to Threats”  - Reuters Break “Extra Cash Is Always Good Thing”  - Altoona (PA) Mirror Break “Don’t Let a Hospital Kill You”  - CNN.com Break “Things Your Body Can Do After You Die”  - CNN.com

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Bill Clinton Might Appear in Ashland. Or He Might Not.”  - Mail Tribune (Medford, OR) Break “MoveOn to Air Series of Anti-McCain Ads”  - The Wall Street Journal Break “Numerous Candidates Are Running for Several Offices Across the State”  - Winston-Salem (NC) Journal (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

“Stuck in Iraq”: “I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that. It’s, it’s not as bright.”  - horror author Stephen King

On Wright: “If you were black in this country, especially if you are of [Jeremiah Wright’s] age, of his era or even times before that or even kids today, when you look at the situation in our inner city schools, I mean, you have to ask yourself... what’s it like to be black in America? And what kind of rage would you feel? And if you did feel that rage, what kind of things would you say that, at times, would be outrageous, crazy even, because you’ve had to live through this for so long?”  - Michael Moore excusing Wright’s hate speech Break “We got to move forward. You know, this conversation doesn’t help my kids, you know.”  - Michelle Obama **“But entrusting their religious upbringing to Jeremiah Wright does?”  - Mark Steyn Break “I listen to [Jeremiah Wright], and frankly, it made sense to me. I totally understood what he was saying.”  - Rosie O’Donnell **Frankly, that’s not saying much.

From the Global Village: “If we want to save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.”  - Bolivia’s President Evo Morales

SHORT CUTS

“Oh, let’s also point out that, as a matter of political reality, Clinton might as well be calling for a ban on the use of unicorn meat in dog food, because there is no way her [gas tax holiday] proposal can actually, you know, happen.”  - Jonah Goldberg

“Every several weeks, I write a column suggesting what this presidential election might look like if we had serious candidates and a press corps that treated the presidency as an important office in which vital decisions would be made by its incumbent. I invariably get flooded with e-mails telling me, basically, ‘Blankley, don’t hold your breath’.”  - Tony Blankley

“I wouldn’t want to give you the idea that my hometown newspaper is entirely heartless when it comes to right-wingers. In fact, just recently, I had occasion to write the following letter to the editor: ‘First it was William F. Buckley who got a terrific, extremely respectful, front page send-off.  Today, it was Charlton Heston’s turn. Clearly, all a conservative has to do in order to get his just desserts from the L.A. Times is to die on a slow news day.”  - Burt Prelutsky

“If it takes Obama 20 years to notice that his pastor is a traitorous, racist nut-job, it will probably take him his full term of office to realize that the U.S. has been invaded and subdued by al-Qaida. Let’s just hope President Obama pays closer attention during national security briefings than he did during 20 years of the Rev. Wright’s church services.”  - Ann Coulter

Jay Leno: Happy Cinco de Mayo. People love Cinco de Mayo. I saw this one woman throwing back shots of tequila one after the other. Then I realized it was Hillary Clinton working the Latino vote. ... Hillary Clinton told People magazine this week she’s never had cosmetic surgery. She said it it’s not for her. You know how politicians hate anything that’s fake. ... Actually, there was a rumor she had cosmetic surgery back in the ‘90s. They said she had her eyes done when she was First Lady. It turns out it was right after the scandal. They just took the blinders off. That was all. No actual surgery was involved. ... Because of where John McCain was born - he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, you know, not in the United States - there was a question as to whether he could legally become president. Well, this week, the Senate declared McCain is eligible to become president, and listen to this, because of his age, also eligible to be a greeter at Wal-Mart. So that worked out great for him. ... President Bush blasted Congress for not allowing oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Democrats said it wouldn’t do any good, because it wouldn’t produce oil for 10 years. You know, the same thing they said 10 years ago.

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.)