The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-23

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-23

From The Federalist Patriot
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THE FOUNDATION

“His Example is now complete, and it will teach wisdom and virtue to magistrates, citizens, and men, not only in the present age, but in future generations, as long as our history shall be read.”  - John Adams

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Tomorrow marks the fourth anniversary of the death of President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911-2004. His passing was a bittersweet event for all American Patriots, especially those of us who knew him and were honored to be mentored by him. Though he is now in the company of Patriots in the most shining city of all, his spirit and legacy in this life are eternal. As noted in our mission statement, The Patriot was founded in honor of President Reagan. Indeed, as noted by his son Michael Reagan, “The vision and legacy of the Reagan Revolution flourish on the pages of The Patriot.”

To read The Patriot’s tribute to our mentor, link to “The Twilight’s Last Gleaming.” Additionally, The Patriot has developed the most comprehensive resource on, and tribute to, Ronald Reagan. Visit Reagan 20/20. God bless Ronald Reagan! “Well done, thou good and faithful servant...”

INSIGHT

“We should always remember that our strength still lies in our faith in the good sense of the American people.” Break “There’s no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” Break “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Break “To those who are fainthearted and unsure, I have this message: If you’re afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.” Break “We must remove government’s smothering hand from where it does harm.” Break “Trust but verify.” Break “I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.” Break “We’ve long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.”  - Ronald Reagan

UPRIGHT

“Environmentalists are Gaia’s priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect... And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment - carbon chastity - they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.”  - Charles Krauthammer

“The true villain in our having to cough up $60, $70 or $80 to fill our gas tanks is the U.S. Congress caught in the grip of environmental extremists. But if reality is too difficult to swallow, we can continue to blame and support the congressional attack on oil executives, turn food into oil and think of other crackpot ‘solutions’.”  - Walter Williams Break “Where does the Constitution give Congress - even a liberal Democrat Congress - authority to even think about nationalizing, or socializing the oil companies?”  - Henry Lamb

“Apologists say that [Barack Obama’s] three years in the U.S. Senate say far more about him than his twenty years with Pastor Wright, but he’s actually done nothing as a Senator from Illinois other than launch and conduct a hugely successful presidential campaign.”  - Michael Medved

“There is nothing more real than a man’s character and values. The track record of what he has actually done is far more real than anything he says, however elegantly he says it.”  - Thomas Sowell

“Bill Clinton has always been a man threatened to be swallowed by the yawning maw of his own ego. Even as he has tirelessly stumped the country on behalf of his wife, he’s given the impression that it’s all about him. His rage at the process - his temper tantrums at reporters and twisted attempts to make himself always the victim - speaks to an aggrieved sense of entitlement, that for all his good fortune he’s owed even more.”  - Rich Lowry
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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-23

From The Federalist Patriot
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DEZINFORMATSIA

Not quite quitting: “The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City. But for all intents and purposes, the two senior officials said, the campaign is over.”  - Associated Press

From the all new Scott McClellan Fan Club: “For [Scott] McClellan to turn on Bush is clearly a ticket for him to be embraced by the media.”  - CNN’s Howard Kurtz Break “I guess the question is, is the president - this is a blunt question - in your opinion, a serial liar?”  - CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to McClellan Break “Do you feel any sense of guilt that the Iraq war, which you helped sell to the American people, has resulted in the loss of life for thousands of American soldiers?”  - CBS’s Katie Couric to Scott McClellan Break “First we had to ascertain what kind of book he wanted to write. We are journalists, independent-minded publishers. We weren’t interested in a book that was just a defense of the Bush administration. It had to pass our test of independence, integrity and candor.”  - Peter Osnos, the liberal founder of PublicAffairs books who “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on his anti-Bush screed

That’s the spirit!: “When you look at April, last month, 50 American soldiers were killed in Iraq. And a lot of Americans look at that and they’re pessimistic, despite what you say about morale and how things are going in Iraq. Does the American public have a right to be pessimistic, in your mind?”  - CBS’s Russ Mitchell to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Quid Pro Homo: “s there so much love and commitment in the world that we can afford, as a society, to be contemptuous of some portion of it? If two women in white want to join hands in front of their families and friends and vow to love and honor one another until they die, the only reasonable response to that is happy tears, awed admiration and societal approval.”  - Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen

Newspulper Headlines:

Breaking News From 1945: “Defensive Errors Cost Germany Victory”  - CNN.com

Dan Rather to Emerge From Retirement?: “CBSSports.com to Launch Fantasy News Site”  - SportsBusiness Journal

To Be Titled, ‘Nothing Happened. No, Really!’: “Craig to Pen Book Detailing Bathroom Incident at Airport”  - FoxNews.com

It’s Always in the Last Place You Look: “Man’s Body Found in Uptown Cemetery”  - Dallas Morning News

Doesn’t He Have a ‘Woman Urge’ Everywhere?: “Women Urge on Clinton at SD Diner”  - Washington Post Web site

News You Can Use: “Just the Cricket: Eating Insects Is Good for Us and the Environment, Scientists Claim”  - Evening Standard (London) Break “Amish Buggies No Match for Cars in Collisions”  - Scripps News

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Condoleezza Rice Meets Rock Band Kiss”  - Associated Press Break “Clooney Calls for China, G8 Action on Darfur”  - Agence France-Presse (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

The undecided decision maker: “I’m sort of a day-at-a-time person, and we’ll see when Tuesday and the day after Tuesday comes.”  - Hillary Clinton **“’A day-at-a-time person’? That’s just what we need in the White House, seeing as how we live in a world without serious strategic challenges.”  - James Taranto Break “Now the question is, where do we go from here, and given how far we’ve come and where we need to go as a party, it’s a question I don’t take lightly. This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight.”  - Hillary Clinton **Looks like the decision has been made for you.

Sore loser: “It’s all politics. It’s all about the bias of the media for Obama... I’m telling ya, all it’s doing is driving her supporters further and further away - because they know exactly what it is - this has been the most rigged coverage in modern history.”  - Bill Clinton

Happy days are here again: “I want to say also that this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind.”  - Bill Clinton

Disowning another racist advisor: “As I have traveled this country, I’ve been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father [Michael] Pfleger’s divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn’t reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.”  - Barack Obama, disowning another pastor Break “Our relations with Trinity have been strained by the divisive statements of Reverend Wright, which sharply conflict with our own views. These controversies have served as an unfortunate distraction for other Trinity members who seek to worship in peace... I make this decision with sadness... I’m not denouncing the church, and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing.”  - Barack Obama on leaving his political “church”

“Supporting” the troops: “Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians - they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities - the Iranians.”  - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi **So the country that is killing Americans in Iraq deserves our thanks?
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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-23

From The Federalist Patriot
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Everybody knows the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his bigoted anti-American rants. We’ll soon get to know the Rev. Michael Pfleger. With Barack Obama, you’re not only waiting for the other shoe to drop. You’re following a centipede. In April 2004, Sen. Obama told a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times that he had three spiritual mentors or counselors: Jeremiah Wright, James Meeks and Father Michael Pfleger. On Sunday, May 25, Pfleger showed up at Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ doing his best Rev. Wright imitation. A radical priest at Chicago’s St. Sabina Catholic Church, Pfleger told the congregation, ‘We must be honest enough to expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head.’... Pfleger has had a working relationship with Obama since the late 1980s... Between 1995 and 2001, Pfleger contributed a total of $1,500 to Obama’s various political campaigns. This includes a $200 donation in April 2001, three months after Obama, still an Illinois state senator, helped obtain $225,000 in grants for St. Sabina programs. In 2000, Obama secured a $100,000 earmark for the ARK Community Center, attached to St. Sabina. Render unto Caesar... Does Obama have any spiritual mentors who don’t hate America and think all its people are racists? We don’t believe in guilt by association, but these are the only associations he seems to have... Both his judgment and his honesty, even his true beliefs, are in question.”  - Investor’s Business Daily

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Racism 101: “I really don’t believe it was put on [when Hillary cried in New Hampshire]. I always thought she felt ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh d***, where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show’.”  - former Barack Obama advisor Father Michael Pfleger, who is white Break “Racism is still America’s greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.”  - Michael Pfleger

Don’t let the door hit you...: “If McCain gets in, it’s going to be very, very dangerous... It’s a critical time, but I have faith in the American people. If they prove me wrong, I’ll be checking out a move to Italy. Maybe Canada, I don’t know. We’re at an abyss.”  - actress Susan Sarandon

From the “Anti-God Squad”: “The Legislature is clearly favoring Christianity over other faiths, and that violates the separation of church and state and basic fairness... South Carolinians can already put a fish sticker on our vehicle bumpers if they want to; they don’t need the Legislature issuing a special license plate.”  - Americans United for the Separation of Church and State spokesman Joe Conn on a proposed South Carolina license plate including the words “I Believe” with a cross superimposed over a picture of a stained-glass window, now awaiting Gov. Mark Sanford’s signature

SHORT CUTS

“Just out of curiosity, what does it mean, exactly, when a candidate finds something ‘unacceptable’? In a democracy, finding criticism unacceptable is a surefire way to drive yourself bonkers. It’s like saying you find it unacceptable that bears use the woods for a bathroom. It’s going to happen whether you accept it or not.”  - Jonah Goldberg

“Are we going to leave our children hostages to hate-filled sadists with nuclear weapons? Are we to rely on Barack Obama’s rhetoric to protect them? Senator Obama’s foreign policy seems to be somewhere between Rodney King’s ‘Can’t we just get along?’ and Alfred E. Neuman’s ‘What, me worry?”’  - Thomas Sowell

“After decades of comparing Nixon to Hitler, Reagan to Hitler and Bush to Hitler, liberals have finally decided it is wrong to make comparisons to Hitler. But the only leader to whom they have applied their newfound rule of thumb is: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”  - Ann Coulter

“What’s with the Democrats, anyway? It’s bad enough that they keep coming up with creepy candidates for president, but look at their idea of a first lady. Hillary Clinton, Teresa Heinz-Kerry and Michelle Obama, remind me of the three witches in ‘Macbeth,’ but without their cooking skills.”  - Burt Prelutsky

“Indiana Jones was denounced by Russia’s Communist Party. They don’t like the way the film portrays communists as evil and ruthless. They paid a lot of money to infiltrate Hollywood to make sure every evil and ruthless villain is a capitalist.”  - Argus Hamilton

David Letterman: From the “Top Ten Things Overheard At Hillary Clinton Campaign Headquarters”: “I can’t believe the campaign’s over already”; “Hillary’s changing into her concession pantsuit”; “So they’re nominating the guy with the most delegates, superdelegates, and states won? Outrageous!”; “Help us, Iron Man!”; “The Senator is in intense negotiations with Jim Beam”; “There’s a guy here to repossess the water cooler”; “It’s not the end - you can always get fat and make a global warming documentary”; “Is Obama still hiring?”

Jay Leno: Well, it looks like the Democrats finally solved their delegate problem. It seems the Democratic Party rules panel agreed to allow delegates from Florida and Michigan to take part in the convention, but each delegate will only count as half a vote. You’ve heard of superdelegates? These are the new fun-sized delegates. ... Congratulations to Hillary Clinton, who won the Democratic primary in Puerto Rico. This is important because, as you know, Puerto Rico has absolutely no vote for president. I think she also won big in Guatemala. ... Over the weekend, Barack Obama left his church. And after, he said to Hillary, “Okay, now it’s your turn to quit something.” ... Barack Obama says he’s now looking for a new church - preferably one where the religious order has to take a vow of silence.

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.)