Newspulper Headlines: A Clear Difference: “Bush Embraces Pope Benedict XVI” — ABCNews.com Break “Carter Embraces Hamas Official” — Associated Press
News of the Tautological: “Preserve History for the Future” — Paris (TX) News
Stay Away From Urine Shows: “Heart Disease Linked to Bad Diet, Urine Shows” — Daily Telegraph
News You Can Use: “Make That Obama, Not Osama, Please” — Associated Press Break “The Solution to Pollution Is Not Eating Spiders” — Associated Press
Bottom Stories of the Day: “Report: Tom Cruise Concerned About Posh Spice’s Influence on Katie Holmes” — FoxNews.com Break “Daschle Not Interested in Vice President Position” — KELO-TV Web site (Sioux Falls, SD) Break “Michael Moore Endorses Obama, Chides Clinton” — Associated Press Break “Israel Says Streisand Won’t Attend 60th Anniversary Bash” — Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)
VILLAGE IDIOTSIt ain’t easy being green: “I have to say the situation has not improved since I made the movie [’An Inconvenient Truth’] in 2006. Sure, awareness has grown and more people are concerned since scientists said we had just ten years to take action to halt rising sea levels. But the situation has got worse. The entire North Polar ice cap is melting and could be gone in some areas in as little as five years.” — the Populist Potentate of Eco-theology Al Gore Break “If you give... [people] a list of 25 or 30 issues and ask them to rank them in order of seriousness, climate change comes at the bottom or near the bottom... I remember one poll where it came under dog litter.” — Al Gore
Demo trouble: “We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time. We’ve got to know who our nominee is.” — Howard Dean
Endorsements: “I can’t stand one more friggin’ minute of this administration and the permanent, irreversible damage it has done to our people and to this world. I’m almost at the point where I don’t care if the Democrats don’t have a backbone or a kneebone or a thought in their dizzy little heads. Just as long as their name ain’t ‘Bush’ and the word ‘Republican’ is not beside theirs on the ballot, then that’s good enough for me.” — documentarian Michael Moore endorsing Obama
From the Carter Malaise File: “The problem is not that I met with Hamas in Syria, the problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet these people... So I told [Hamas] don’t wait for reciprocation, just do it unilaterally. This will bring a lot of credit to you around the world for doing a humane thing. They turned me down.” — Jimmy Carter **We’re SHOCKED.
Non Compos Mentis: “[J]ust when we were close to a national news media providing a general consensus on what the truth is, along comes the Internets [sic] that allows its users a choice on the kind of news it watches and the YouTube. My God, we’ve got to stop them.” — actor Tim Robbins
THE DEMO-GOGUESEco-theology: “Almost four decades ago, a group of visionary Americans energized the environmental movement, and indeed our nation, by dedicating a day to this ideal: we must preserve God’s creation, our planet, for the generations to come... The Bible tells us in the Old Testament ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship.’ To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us. On this Earth Day, and every day, let us honor the earth and our future generations with a commitment to fight climate change.” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Bragging right: “I don’t see how a Democrat wins the White House without winning Pennsylvania.” — Hillary Clinton, victorious in PA Tuesday
And humble too: “I’m a pretty darn good politician. And I can give a pretty good speech and I can connect and inspire the American people in ways that I think will become apparent. I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t pretty good at mixing it up.” — Barack Obama
What about the Constitution?: “We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old — and that’s the criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges.” — Barack Obama Break Obama’s kind of Justice: “’I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty’ is unconstitutional.” — Justice John Paul Stevens
From “Our First Black President”: “I think that [the Obama campaign] played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along... I don’t think I should take any s**t from anybody on that, do you?” — Bill Clinton
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