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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-37
From The Federalist Patriot
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THE FOUNDATION: AMERICA“Let the American youth never forget...” - Joseph Story
9/11, SEVEN YEARS LATERTomorrow we mark the seventh anniversary of September 11, 2001, when 2,996 innocents, mostly American citizens, lost their lives in the murderous attacks of Islamic fascists against our country. In keeping with the presidential proclamation designating September 11, 2008, as Patriot Day, all flags should be flown at half staff in memory of those who lost their lives six years ago. We invite you to join us as we offer our prayers for the families of those lost and for our Armed Forces now serving on the front lines of the war that began that day.
As you remember September 11th, we invite you to visit The Patriot’s resource to commemorate the attacks on our countrymen, “Day of Terror: A September 11 Retrospective”. Now, as we move forward and continue to engage our jihadi foes in battle fronts around the globe, let us never forget why we fight.
UPRIGHT“If [Osama] bin Laden had been killed in Afghanistan in 2001, the United States would be combating a myth and a legend. Instead of caliphate, bin Laden has produced his own catastrophe. The bin Laden icon is seriously fractured, if not quite shattered.” - Austin Bay
“The Republican ticket has it in the right order. We have the much more experienced candidate first. We have the younger, new generation candidate second. They have a candidate with no experience first, and they have the older-generation candidate second.” - Rudy Giuliani
“No governor ever had foreign policy experience before becoming president - not Ronald Reagan, not Franklin D. Roosevelt, nor any other governor. It is hard to know how many people could possibly have had foreign policy experience before reaching the White House besides a Secretary of State or a Secretary of Defense.” - Thomas Sowell
“Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, see America as a nation in which government plays a primary role in individual lives. John McCain and Sarah Palin see the individual as primary and government as a protector of freedom that can help the less fortunate become self-sustaining.” - Cal Thomas
“In short, Sarah Palin is the emblem of what feminism was supposed to be all about: an unafraid, independent, audacious woman, who soared on her own merits without the aid of a patriarchal jumpstart, high-brow matrimonial tutelage and capital, and old-boy liaisons and networking.” - Victor Davis Hanson
“As many as an estimated nine out of 10 children with Down syndrome are aborted in the womb, sought out by increasingly sophisticated prenatal tests and eliminated as too flawed, too burdensome, too different to live. This is the ugly eugenic underbelly of American life, even as we congratulate ourselves on our tolerance and diversity.” - Rich Lowry
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS“Congress returns... for an abbreviated session, with energy being the number one issue on the agenda. Republicans, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner, spent the August recess pushing for Congress to enact an ‘all of the above’ package to increase energy supplies and lower gasoline prices, and they will continue to do so. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, clearly thrown off balance by public opinion polls showing that a decisive majority of the electorate agrees with the Republicans on drilling, have a different, irresponsible agenda: running out the clock and preventing a straight up-or-down vote on drilling. But to do this successfully, they will have to continue their strategy of pretending to support compromise, while loading up energy legislation with poison pills that will make expanded drilling impossible... In the House, the Democratic leadership will offer a ‘compromise’ plan to allow drilling more than 100 miles from shore. (Which presumably means that if the next Prudhoe Bay is discovered 25 miles off the coast of Virginia or 50 miles from North Carolina, consumers should just shut up and be happy with oil from Mexico, Saudi Arabia or Venezuela instead.)” - The Washington Times
DEZINFORMATSIALiberals always want to forget: “If at this late date, any television network had of its own accord showed that much videotape, and that much graphic videotape of 9/11, and I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there, it, we would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize. It is a subject of great pain for many of us still and was probably not appropriate to be shown.” - MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on the 9/11 video tribute at the Republican convention
The race is on: “You’re smiling about it, but some of your supporters were listening and they heard subtle racial code.” - ABC’s George Stephanopoulos to Obama about criticism of his being a “community organizer” at the Republican convention
If the shoe fits: “And finally, Steve, a lot of press bashing at the convention. We are suddenly the enemy. Why is that?” - NBC’s Meredith Vieira to McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt
Nothing more than feelings: “I feel that we are reporting very responsibly and accurately.” - CBS’s Katie Couric
In denial: “I don’t think most of the news media - the major news networks, CNN - are biased in favor of one party or the other. There are certain kinds of stories we like. Say, you know, pregnant people. But we don’t, I don’t think there is a lot of sort of bias in favor of one party or the other.” - CNN’S Jeffrey Toobin
“Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.” - Associated Press **“So he’s saying he wants to wait for any recession to pass, and then he’ll hurt the economy?” - James Taranto
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