The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-24

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-24

From The Federalist Patriot
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THE FOUNDATION: COMMERCE

“Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens.”  - James Madison

UPRIGHT

“Federal policies already make food and energy far more expensive than need be... Any new federal scheme to further regulate our energy production would simply make matters worse.”  - Ed Feulner Break “Controlling the price of anything is very difficult and it can only be accomplished through the force of government, mostly by restricting supply. The U.S. Congress is a major player in oil supply restriction, and OPEC nations must be laughing all the way to the bank. Congress has banned energy exploration in 85 percent of our coastal waters. Ironically, China, in conjunction with Cuba, is drilling for oil nearer to our coastline than U.S. oil companies are permitted.”  - Walter Williams

“Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about ‘entitlements’? That’s the government’s ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn’t. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else’s money?”  - John Stossel

“Obama isn’t going to change anything. Obama’s just going to do what liberals have done for eons: eliminate as much freedom and liberty as possible.”  - Rush Limbaugh Break “[Obama is] desperately trying to cover up what seems to be the kind of old school Marxist radical liberal failed ideology.”  - Mike Gallagher

“Speaking personally, I don’t want to remake America. I’m an immigrant, and one reason I came here is because most of the rest of the Western world remade itself along the lines Sen. Obama has in mind. This is pretty much the end of the line for me. If he remakes America, there’s nowhere for me to go - although presumably once he’s lowered sea levels around the planet there should be a few new atolls popping up here and there.”  - Mark Steyn

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Regulatory Commissars: “The five largest oil companies in this country have made $600 billion in profits since George W. Bush became president. Do we need a windfall profits tax? You bet we do.”  - Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-VT) Break “The oil companies need to know that there is a limit on how much profit they can take in this economy.”  - Sen. Dick Durbin (S-IL) **After all, this is America!

Ah, humility: “I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations.”  - Barack Obama **If that were true, you wouldn’t be running.

Fawning praise: “I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years. What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.”  - Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Marxism 101: “We all want an economy that... that lifts all of our people and ensures that our prosperity is broadly distributed and shared.”  - still only junior senator from New York Hillary Clinton

Making George Bush look quick on his feet: “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about... It - it - it would cost about the same as what we would spend... It... Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us... (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to... It... It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about - hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”  - Barack Obama, eloquently explaining... uh, never mind
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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-24

From The Federalist Patriot
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INSIGHT

“You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.”  - Robert E. Lee

“Character is the single most important ingredient of leadership.”  - Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf

“Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?”  - Ronald Reagan Break “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”  - Voltaire

“I don’t like government, it’s just that simple.”  - Lyn Nofziger

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“After 15 years of mutual enmity, conservatives have from time to time been saying nice things about Senator Hillary Clinton. Partly this was because many of us were enjoying the spectacle (and favoring the consequences) of a protracted and bitter fight between two liberal Democrats. Partly it was because we thought she would be a steadier hand as president than Senator Barack Obama would be, with more hawkish instincts and greater political realism. Partly it was because the liberal intelligentsia had turned on the Clintons with such hysteria once they no longer advanced its interests. It was poetic justice for the Clintons. They had spent years subordinating truth, decency, and the nation itself to their own interests - most spectacularly during the impeachment scandal of 1998, a yearlong drama that was entirely in the Clintons’ power to spare us. In 2008, liberals professed shock that the Clintons might be willing to subordinate the interests of the Democratic party to their own as well. It was poetic justice for them, as well.”  - National Review

DEZINFORMATSIA

From the Obama sycophant files: “When everybody clears out, the staff is gone, you’re in the hotel room at night, and you’re alone, do you say to yourself, ‘Son of a gun, I’ve done this?”’  - ABC’s Charles Gibson to Obama after he clinched the nomination Break “[A]s an African-American man, this is significant. I mean, look, for my entire life I’ve been able to, as a man, dream of doing great things. But a dream I could never have was being president of the United States. Now, for instance, my sons, my nephew, they can have that dream. And I think those kinds of images are important.”  - CBS’s Byron Pitts on his excitement over Barack Obama’s victory in the Democrat primary

Mourning Clinton: “This woman, as we said, forged into determination and purpose her whole life. As someone said, no thorns, no throne. No gall, no glory. No cross, no crown.”  - ABC’s Diane Sawyer

Distorting the truth... again: “In a long-awaited report, the Senate Intelligence Committee today concluded that President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials exaggerated and misrepresented the intelligence about Saddam Hussein and his possible connections to al-Qa’ida in making the case for war in Iraq.”  - NBC’s Brian Williams, who seemed to miss that the report actually said the president’s statements “were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates.”
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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-24

From The Federalist Patriot
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Let them eat Spam: “In what may be a huge economic indicator, this may say more about our times than we realize: Spam, the canned luncheon meat product, not the junk e-mail, but Spam sales have surged... At $2.62 a can on average, Spam starts looking a little better to a lot of families who are strapped right now by the rising cost of food.”  - NBC’s Brian Williams

Newspulper Headlines:

Good News Is Always a Surprise: “Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Fall”  - Reuters Break “Productivity Rose at a Pace That Exceeded Expectations”  - The New York Times Break “Retailers Post Surprising Sales”  - The New York Times

Better Late Than Never: “Abstinence Backers Targeting Parents”  - Contra Costa (CA) Times

Stay Away From Obama Creeps: “Obama Creeps Past McCain in Opinion Poll”  - Agence France-Presse

News You Can Use: “Life After Hillary: Moving On After Your Candidate Loses”  - FoxNews.com

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Reports: Edwards Rules Out Vice President Slot”  - Associated Press Break “Rep. Kucinich Calls for Bush Impeachment”  - Reuters Break “Dutch Man Injures Posterior in Mooning Accident”  - Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

World’s smallest violin: “It troubles me a lot what we saw. It was like they made a witch out of [Hillary Clinton], some people. You know we thought the Salem witch trials were over. But some people, no matter what she said, it was ‘don’t believe it. She’s really evil.’... I’ve never seen anyone do that to a candidate.”  - former Democrat Rep. Pat Schroeder Break “[N]o candidate in history has been asked to step down by the media. [Hillary] was. The average time that it takes for a loser to endorse a winner in this situation is four months - four months. She did it in four days, and look how she was criticized, you know, for not doing it the very same night. It’s outrageous.”  - head feminazi Gloria Steinem

Don’t underestimate the Dark Side: “We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama...[F]or all of us that have dreams and hope, [he] is a hero.”  - filmmaker George Lucas

History lesson: “I never said [Eastwood] should show one of the other guys holding up the flag as black. I said that African-Americans played a significant part in Iwo Jima. For him to insinuate that I’m rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black and no one said that. It’s just that there’s not one black in either film. And because I know my history, that’s why I made that observation.”  - filmmaker and revisionist historian Spike Lee, in a squabble with Clint Eastwood over affirmative action in movies, but apparently unaware that there were six flag raisers on Mount Suribachi - Strank, Hayes, Gagnon, Sousley, Block and Bradley

SHORT CUTS

“Commentators... use words in peculiar ways, as when they speak of Obama and Hillary Clinton needing to bring together ‘the two wings of the party.’ There is the left wing, and the other left wing. As one precise commentator has said, Clinton and Obama differ about as much as the Everly Brothers.”  - George Will

“If Hillary has baggage, Bill is a Samsonite factory.”  - Roger Simon

“Jimmy Carter told the London Guardian it’ll be a nightmare ticket if Barack Obama chooses Hillary Clinton to be his running mate. That’s saying something. The man who believes that Hamas and Israel can find common ground thinks there is no chance of reconciliation whatsoever between Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.”  - Argus Hamilton

“There’s a rumor that if Barack Obama is elected president, he might appoint Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court. Yeah, which is good, because the one woman Hillary doesn’t mind Bill hanging out with is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”  - Conan O’Brien
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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-24

From The Federalist Patriot
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“For Dad, the perfect Father’s Day would be one in which he didn’t even realize that it WAS Father’s Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn’t want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father’s Day poetry (’When I was just a little tyke, you showed me how to ride a bike; And you were sweet to me the day, I drove your car into the bay; Dad, I think you’re really grand, I’m praying for your prostate gland’). There would be none of this, on the perfect Father’s Day.”  - Dave Barry

David Letterman: From the “Top Ten Messages Left on Barack Obama’s Answering Machine”: “It’s Eliot Spitzer - let’s get some girls and celebrate!”; “John McCain here, I... crap, I forgot why I called”; “This is Al Gore, don’t make the same mistake I did and win the popular vote”; “It’s John McCain again. What is this some kind of machine that answers the phone?”; “You’ve just made a powerful enemy of The Pantsuit Manufacturers of America”; “Hillary calling; I’m still prepared to offer you the Vice President position.”

Jay Leno: Hey, did you all see Hillary’s concession speech over the weekend? Very good. She gave a lovely, lovely speech. She was gracious, very complimentary. And she said she wanted Barack Obama to win, and then she hugged her husband, Bill. Then the Secret Service grabbed her, threw her to the ground and said, “What have you done with the real Senator Clinton? Who are you?” ... Hillary may be secretly glad this whole thing is over. Because now she can go back to doing what she loves the most: hunting, drinking whiskey, shooting - back to her roots. ... The talk is that Hillary Clinton is going to try and help unite the party. But Bill Clinton says, according to his experience, the party is usually over whenever Hillary shows up. ... As you know, last week, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had a secret, late-night meeting in Washington, DC. One kind of embarrassing moment, as Hillary was sneaking out of the house to go to the meeting, she bumped into Bill, who was sneaking back in from a secret meeting of his own.... Barack Obama took time off this weekend from campaigning to spend time with his family. In fact, he said on Saturday night he was going on a date with his wife, Michelle. When Bill Clinton heard that, he said to Hillary, “We need to stay away from these people. They’re freaks!”

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.)