The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-26

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-26
From The Federalist Patriot
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THE FOUNDATION: TRUTH

“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts.”  - Patrick Henry

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Nothing like broken promises: “We’ve made the decision not to participate in the public-financing system for the general election. This means we’ll be forgoing more than $80 million in public funds during the final months of this election. It’s not an easy decision, especially because I support a robust system of public financing of elections. The public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken, and we face opponents who have become masters at gaming this broken system. John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs. We’ve already seen that he’s not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations.”  - Barack Obama, taking the high road

Campaign victimitis: “We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black? He’s got a feisty wife.”  - Barack Hussein Obama, who, speaking of race, happens to be half white

More victimitis: “I’m a victim of sexism myself all the time, but I just think it goes with the territory.”  - the most powerful woman in America, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Speaking of heads in the sand: “The president has a tin ear to the voice of the American people. They spoke. He didn’t care. He has a blind eye to what’s happening on the ground in Iraq. He’s got his head in the sand. ... It’s the main issue. Everything else is eclipsed by the war. All of our accomplishments are eclipsed by the war, because we didn’t end the war. And the war has an impact on other issues.”  - Nancy Pelosi

DEZINFORMATSIA

Nailing Obama for his broken promise: “In late November, Obama responded to, and then signed, a questionnaire stating, ‘I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly-financed general election.’ John McCain... does have a political issue. Barack Obama has flip-flopped on public campaign financing.”  - CNN’s Candy Crowley Break Defending Obama’s broken promise: “[Barack Obama is] opting out of the [public financing] system to have enough money to fight the unlimited spending and what he called the ‘smears’ from unregulated Republican-allied organizations.”  - CBS’s Dean Reynolds

Race bait: “[Barack Obama] bluntly says Republicans will try to make an issue of his race... Have you ever heard him talk out on the campaign trail about race like this?”  - CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to Candy Crowley **No! A Democrat would never make race an issue!

Gender bait: “You’ve got some weak men on the conservative side who, frankly, don’t like strong women. I mean, we saw the exact same thing take place for Hillary Clinton back in 1992... All of a sudden... Michelle Obama is this angry black woman, when in fact, she’s an accomplished woman, a mother, a wife. And so, they are trying to define her in that way, because they don’t want to deal with the reality.”  - CNN’s Roland Martin

From the Leftmedia sycophant files: “The most important reason [Al] Gore should be vice president is that he’s suffered and learned. He has the temperament some of us reach on our death beds. ... If there’s anything we need to rescue us from the last eight years, it’s brains, good judgment and experience. Obama has the first two. Gore has all three.”  - Bloomberg columnist Margaret Carlson

Keen Sense of the Obvious: “The conventional view that women embrace commitment more eagerly than men is playing out in the unconventional new world of same-sex matrimony, judging from the growing stack of marriage licenses in Sacramento County...60 percent of the same-sex newlyweds this week are lesbians and 40 percent are gay men. Among heterosexual couples - to no one’s surprise - the gender breakdown is 50-50.”  - The Sacramento Bee
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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-26
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Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame George W. Bush: “Gerbil’s Escape >From Cage Blamed for Accident”  - Associated Press

Thumbs Down on ‘An Inconvenient Truth’: “Gratuitous Gore Sells, but It’s Bad Filmmaking”  - Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

And They Said the Surge Wouldn’t Work: “Jobless Claims Decline by 5,000 Following Surge”  - Associated Press

And if It Is, He’s in Big Trouble: “Iowa Flooding Could Be Man’s Fault, Experts Say”  - MSNBC.com

Help Wanted: “Police Seek Trash Picker”  - Grand Rapids (MI) Press

News You Can Use: “Locked Door Thwarts Robber”  - Press-Register (Mobile, AL)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Don’t Expect Gore on Campaign Trail”  - Politico (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

UPRIGHT

“When the terrorists attack again - as Homeland Security has repeatedly warned us they will - how many survivors will be consoled because the Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the ‘rights’ of terrorists before the rights of their dead loved ones?”  - Cal Thomas

“Obama would bring us back to September 10th America. And September 10th is sure to be followed by September 11th.”  - Andrew McCarthy

“The Democrat Party right now, in this election cycle, wants you hurting. They want gasoline prices to continue to rise. They want the price of food to continue to rise. They want you mad as hell at the Republicans for it. They want you to accept government sponsored changes to so-called fix all this, as articulated by [Barack] Obama.”  - Rush Limbaugh

“The day after Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama in Detroit, MSNBC kept repeating the allegedly big news with the on-air question ‘Will Gore Help or Hurt Obama?’ Left out of that question: Who cares? Does Gore’s endorsement matter at all?... He doesn’t bring a single vote Obama doesn’t already have.”  - Brent Bozell

“The most fundamental fact about oil worldwide is that there is lots of it. Though frequently overlooked, the ability to refine crude oil plays an essential role in the supply and demand equation.”  - Alan Caruba

“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid huffs that global warming is ‘the most critical issue of our time.’ Really? More critical than energy prices? Than health care? Than wages? Than terrorism? Than nuclear proliferation? Keep huffing, Mr. Reid - that deflating bubble needs all the air it can get.”  - Rich Lowry

“The United States leads the world in too many areas for us to start imitating those who are trailing behind.”  - Thomas Sowell

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Every dogma has its day, and so it is with the posturing that blames the run-up in oil prices on ‘speculators.’ The new political consensus is that further ‘common-sense regulation’ of the energy futures market is necessary. Let’s grant that the sentiment is common, but the sense - like the evidence - is nonexistent. On Sunday, Barack Obama rolled out a proposal that will supposedly thwart market manipulation by ‘a few energy lobbyists and speculators.’ John McCain chimed in that Mr. Obama was merely following his lead; last week, the Republican denounced ‘some people on Wall Street’ for ‘gaming the system.’ If there’s a Congressman who isn’t calling for his own crackdown, he’s gone into witness protection... The futures market may be a convenient scapegoat, but it’s simply a price discovery mechanism. Major energy consumers - refiners, airlines - buy and sell these contracts to lock in goods at a future price, as a hedge against volatility. Essentially, they’re guesses about coming oil supply and demand, as well as the rate of inflation. The political theory is that such futures trading is creating a bubble in the spot market (i.e., oil purchased for immediate delivery) beyond oil fundamentals. Thus, $4 gas. But there’s no inherent reason to ‘bet’ that commodities will go up rather than down. Bet wrong... and you lose. If a company purchases the future right to buy oil at $140 a barrel and it instead sells for $130, the option is worthless. Besides, somebody has to take the other side of any futures contract: Some are trying to predict where the price will go in the future, while the other side is attempting to sell its future price risk. But no one knows how things will end up. Mr. McCain calls such exchanges ‘reckless wagering.’ But speculators - normally known as ‘traders’  - are really managing the exposure risks of American businesses to higher oil prices. Traders not affiliated with major producers or consumers provide liquidity to the market. Without the second group, futures markets would be determined exclusively by commercial participants. Another word for this is a cartel.”  - The Wall Street Journal
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VILLAGE IDIOTS

More global warming hysteria: “[T]he connection will be made more and more between extreme weather that’s occurring all over the world, the increase in water vapor, the effect of that. It’s amazing how some people who doubt global warming, I guess like Rush Limbaugh, want to wait until the oceans overcome our literal landscapes, and I don’t know what more evidence they’re going to require.”  - presidential candidate Ralph Nader

From the Hollywood sycophant files: “I just came back from Moscow, Berlin, London and Paris, and I’ve been there quite a few times in the past five to 10 years. It just hasn’t been a good thing to be American. And this is the first time since Barack has gotten the nomination that it was a good thing... There’s certain ideas I believe Obama stands for that are fundamental, that the forefathers of this country wrote down on paper that we’re all supposed to pay attention to, and we’re not supposed to ignore it and do what we want to do because we have different ideas.”  - actor Will Smith Break “Obama is the greatest. Nothing this great has happened to us in a long time. The only thing we have to worry about is what we’ll have to wear to the inauguration.”  - Hollywood producer and Useful Idiot Jeffrey Katzenberg Break “It’s going to be before Obama, ‘B.B.,’ and after Obama - ’A.B.’  - and some folks need to get used to this... We need a real Chocolate City... It’s going to be a new day. Not just a new day, a better day.”  - director Spike Lee

Pulling at the heart strings: “John McCain, when you say you would stay in Iraq for a hundred years, were you counting on Alex? Because if you were, you can’t have him.”  - Moveon.org ad against the war, the military, and the deliberate “misinterpretation” of McCain’s “100 years in Iraq” comment

SHORT CUTS

“Barack Obama, the Different Kind of Presidential Candidate, has begun his metamorphosis into the same old kind of presidential candidate by backing away from his earlier promise to accept public financing. Naturally, he claims it wasn’t a promise at all but just a possibility, depending on whether John McCain would agree to accept public financing, too, which Sen. McCain did, and on various other escape clauses. We all know the drill by now: When caught in an obvious contradiction, obfuscate.”  - Paul Greenberg

“Barack Obama’s campaign reported it may raise a hundred million dollars in the month of June alone. It’s the best month in political fundraising history. He’s lucky the Senate killed that windfall profits tax before he had to pay it himself.”  - Argus Hamilton

“I, for one, am getting sick and tired of being played by the Obama crowd. Michelle didn’t mean she’d never been proud of America, Barack didn’t mean Iran was a small country we had no reason to fear, and Father Pfleger didn’t mean a word of his racist screed. Right... and a bear doesn’t make do-do in the woods.”  - Burt Prelutsky

“Only a true Orwellain could actually play the race card in order to complain that someone else might play it.”  - Arnold Ahlert

“Apparently, men and women are still not equal partners. In fact, they’re so unequal that they’re more or less stuck in the same trends of 90 years ago, despite our best efforts to get men to be better women and women to be better men. Alas, still foiled.”  - Kathleen Parker

David Letterman: From “Top Ten Things Overheard on Hillary Clinton’s First Day Back at Work”: “Nice of you to show up”; “Did you win?”; “We chipped in for a welcome back pantsuit”; “Should I take the Madame President nameplate off your door?”; “Hillary’s choking another superdelegate”; “Senator Clinton, please stop throwing wads of paper at Senator Obama’s head”; “I can’t believe your shrill message of fear didn’t resonate”; “Please stop taunting her, Senator Kerry.”

Jay Leno: President Bush blasted Congress for not allowing oil exploration in the Alaskan Wildlife Reserve. 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. ... Hillary Clinton is taking a month off from her job as senator to rest up from her campaign. How does that work? Think about this. You’ve been neglecting your job, trying to get a better job. You don’t get that job. So, you take a month off from the job you were trying to get out of, and go on vacation. Huh? Imagine if you tried that with your boss. “Hey, boss, listen. Boss, I’ll tell you, I’ve been looking for another job. I am exhausted! I want to take a month off. Here’s where you can send my check.” Let me know how that works out for you. ... Former Vice President Al Gore has endorsed Barack Obama. Have you seen Al Gore lately? I think his last endorsement was Stove Top stuffing, if I’m not mistaken. ... Barack Obama announced this week he’ll visit Iraq and Afghanistan before the election in November. He said he wants to see an area that’s been overrun by violent extremists. So, sounds like he already misses his old church.

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.)