02 January 2008 Patriot Post Vol. 08 No. 01 Chronicle Manage Your Subscription: To change your e-mail address, select editions and formats, view recent archives, send comments or to unsubscribe, Link to -- http://PatriotPost.US/services.asp Visit the Patriot Shop: http://PatriotShop.US/ Archival Format Link to -- http://PatriotPost.US/current2006.asp THE FOUNDATION: POLITICAL LEADERS "[T]here are particular moments in public affairs, when the people stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn." ---James Madison (http://PatriotPost.US/fqd/) INSIGHT "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." ---G. K. Chesterton "Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family." ---Herbert Hoover "All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him." ---Theodore Roosevelt "You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy." ---Ronald Reagan UPRIGHT "There's been a lot of hand-wringing over the spectacle of presidential candidates campaigning during the Christmas season thanks to the front-loaded primary schedule. But I like it. It provides a nice reminder of how unimportant politics really are... In short, the grandeur of the season diminishes all of the candidates because it reminds us of the smallness of their trade." ---Jonah Goldberg "My central problem [with Hillary Clinton's candidacy] is that the next American president will very likely face another big bad thing, a terrible day, or days, and in that time it will be crucial---crucial---that our nation be led by a man or woman who can be, at least for the moment and at least in general, trusted. Mrs. Clinton is the most dramatically polarizing, the most instinctively distrusted, political figure of my lifetime. Yes, I include Nixon. Would she be able to speak the nation through the trauma? I do not think so. And if I am right, that simple fact would do as much damage to America as the terrible thing itself." ---Peggy Noonan ++ "Sen. Clinton---the incredible shrinking candidate---seems at times almost a bystander at her husband's campaign, merely playing a somewhat more active role than she did in '92... The [Bill-Hillary] merger is working against her. Voters are wondering for which Clinton they will be voting when they pull the lever... As Bill campaigns all over all the time, Americans are wondering, 'Whose presidency will it be, anyway?"' ---Dick Morris "A tax increase in a recession is usually not a good idea. And Republicans will say that when Democrats promise to tax the rich, they end up raising taxes on the ordinary person, as Bill Clinton and the Democratic Congress did in 1993." ---Michael Barone "The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is just another message---if any more are needed---that we are involved in a global war with an enemy that has no morals, no scruples and no respect for human life. We can expect that the message will go undelivered to the national leadership of the Democratic party, which has shown a reckless disregard to any hints that hard-headed U.S. policy vis- -vis Islamic terrorism is right and is justified." ---Michael Reagan EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Hillary Clinton expects New Hampshire voters to believe her when she says she was a member of her husband's 'White House team' who played an integral role in shaping policy during his eight years as President. Well, we'd like some proof, Mrs. Clinton. 'I was a member of the White House team that was involved with trying to make a lot of changes... I think that people who are running for President should lay out for Americans their record, their experiences, their qualifications, their vision, their plan, and their understanding of how to make it all happen, and that's what I'm doing,' Clinton [said recently]... A candidate with White House experience who really believes that would let voters examine the records from the period during which she claims she was such a vital part of 'the White House team.' But Mrs. Clinton's actions show that she does not believe what she says. Her husband is keeping secret many of those records---2,600 pages worth, a National Archives official told The New York Sun. The Clintons have claimed that the National Archives won't release the records, but the Archives official in charge says Bill Clinton has not authorized their release. This is not a trivial issue. Among those records is Mrs. Clinton's schedule, which would help show just how involved she really was in her husband's administration. Because she has made her 'experience' her primary qualification for the presidency, the people deserve to see exactly what experience she really has. Which policies did she help shape? Which did she oppose? Did she serve as a de facto staff member or did her role primarily consist of whispering suggestions into her husband's ear? That history is blackened out, and she is keeping it that way... Sen. Barack Obama is right when he says Mrs. Clinton is simultaneously laying claim to her husband's successes as President while keeping the public in the dark about just how much credit she really deserves. That's not going to work, Mrs. Clinton. Either prove you were truly a part of 'the White House team' or stop making the claim." ---New Hampshire Union Leader The Sticker that Says 'NO' Visit the Patriot Shop: http://PatriotShop.US/ DEZINFORMATSIA Belly Laugh Media Quote of 2007: "[W]e are agnostic as to where a story may lead; we do not go into a story with an agenda or a pre-conceived notion. We do not manipulate or hide facts to advance an agenda. We strive to preserve our independence from political and economic interests, including our own advertisers. We do not work in the service of a party, or an industry, or even a country. When there are competing views of a situation, we aim to reflect them as clearly and fairly as we can." ---New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller This week's "Non Compos Mentis" Award: "The leading Republican contenders have gone out of their way to assure voters that they will not deviate an inch from the Bush path. Why? Because the G.O.P. is still controlled by a conservative movement that does not tolerate deviations from tax-cutting, free-market, greed-is-good orthodoxy." ---former Enron advisor and current New York Times columnist Paul Krugman 2007 Media Bias in Review: "There are times when [Bill Clinton] sounds like Jesus in the temple." ---MSNBC's Chris Matthews ++ "I'm just saying, if he did die, other people, more people, would live. That's a fact." ---HBO's Bill Maher on the failed attempt to assassinate Vice President Dick Cheney in Afghanistan ++ "Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to him?... I know what this [Republican] party is capable of." ---ABC's Joy Behar on "The View" discussing Demo Sen. Tim Johnson's illness ++ "You could argue that even the world's worst fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought [they] were doing good for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc... Bush set a new precedent. He came into office with the attitude of 'I'm so tired of the public good. What about my good? What about my rich friends' good?"' ---ex-Washington Post sports reporter and Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman Newspulper Headlines: Breaking News From a Long Time Ago: "Distant Galaxy Threatened by 'Death Star"' ---CBC.ca We Blame Global Warming: "Norwegian Cruise Ship Hits Iceberg in Antarctic" ---Associated Press Help Wanted: "Montgomery Co. Police Seek Police Impersonators" ---WJZ-TV Web site (Baltimore) News You Can Use: "How to Survive a Fall From a 47-Story High-Rise" ---FoxNews.com Bottom Story of the Day: "Woman Doesn't Want Dog in Bathroom During Couple's Shower" ---Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto) THE DEMO-GOGUES The Iowa caucuses are tomorrow: "[Hillary's] got the right vision, big plans and a proven ability to change lives for the better. Experience and change are only opposed in values if you're so experienced you don't have any energy left and you can't cut it, or if your experience is in fighting change. But if you know how to do things, and you prove it over a long time that you can make change in other people's lives, I think that is a pretty strong recommendation." ---aspiring First Lady and impeached former President Bill Clinton, who has all but taken over his wife's campaign ++ World-class lie: "The reason [Hillary] ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in life, whether it was in elected office or not, that she is a world-class genius in making positive changes in other people's lives." ---Bill Clinton "But the idea that, for the last ten or 15 years, because you've been next to events as they've unfolded somehow qualifies you to do this job is an exaggeration. That's not experience. That's witnessing experience." ---Democrat presidential also-ran Chris Dodd Unmitigated Chutzpah: "I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will drop the price of oil. They will once again assume, once the cost pressure is off, Americans and our political process will recede." ---Hillary Clinton, claiming that the price of oil will drop if she's elected president Talking out of both sides of his mouth: "Everybody now is talking about change. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then we're doing pretty good, because at the beginning of this campaign we said we're going to bring about change and do things differently, and now everybody's talking about change." ---Barack Obama ++ "The easiest thing in the world is to talk about change during an election time. Everybody talks about change during election time." ---Obama **We assume that this "original candidate" for change includes himself in this statement. Class warfare: "We have to stop the corporate greed that's killing the middle class in America." ---John "Two Americas" Edwards VILLAGE IDIOTS >From the glitterati: "Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp. It is a disgrace that these men have been kept there all these years." ---actress Vanessa Redgrave ++ "It is a profound honor and I am glad to be alive to be able to do this." ---Vanessa Redgrave who produced 50 percent of the bail money for one of two al-Qa'ida operatives released from Guantanamo Bay who have walked free I wanna play with your toy!: "Through the world of toys, girls and boys are given separate dreams to follow. Girls are prepared for a future of looking pretty, keeping house and taking care of babies. Boys are given a pass on that domain, and instead pointed toward the outside world of challenge, physical development and achievement." ---National Organization of Women (NOW) president Kim Gandy complaining about Christmas toys Postcards from a cave somewhere along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border: "We intend to liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the sea... blood for blood, destruction for destruction. We will not recognize even one inch for Jews in the land of Palestine as other Muslim leaders have." ---Osama bin Laden in a new tape To SUPPORT The Patriot Post Fund: Support the 2007 Patriot Fund: http://PatriotPost.US/support/ SHORT CUTS "[Mike] Huckabee is a 'compassionate conservative' only in the sense that calling him a conservative is being compassionate. Huckabee opposes school choice, earning him the coveted endorsement of the National Education Association of New Hampshire, which is like the sheriff being endorsed by the local whorehouse. Huckabee has said illegal immigration gives Americans a chance to make up for slavery. I thought letting O.J. walk for murdering two people was payback for slavery." ---Ann Coulter ++ "The thought of having to choose between Huckabee and Hillary (or whomever the Left tosses up) come November 2008 is about as appealing to me as the option of watching Rosie O'Donnell river dance naked at 11:00 PM verses watching Rosie O'Donnell river dance naked at 11:15 PM." ---Doug Giles "An already perplexing Iowa race became even more impenetrable today as former Sen. John Edwards blasted Sen. Barack Obama for criticizing Sen. Hillary Clinton's claim that Sen. Obama had criticized Sen. Edwards... The former North Carolina senator said that the Illinois senator's criticism of the New York senator for claiming that the Illinois senator had criticized the North Carolina senator was 'an attempt to confuse the voters.' Mr. Edwards' comments set off a new round of charges, countercharges, and counter-countercharges between the three Democratic rivals, with Sen. Obama lashing out at Sen. Clinton for supporting Mr. Edwards' criticism of Sen. Obama's criticism of Sen. Clinton." ---Andy Borowitz "It seems to me that if the Democrats were really smart, they'd... run the man who best represents everything the left-wingers stand for... The fellow I have in mind is none other than Santa Claus. Old Saint Nick goes around bestowing gifts on those who haven't worked for them, just like the Democrats, who do the same for the chronically unemployed and illegal aliens. And just as the little people do all the heavy lifting for Santa, the Democrats have their own set of elves; namely the middle-class taxpayers. Furthermore, Santa is obviously a liberal. Even though he, himself, only works one day a year, he thinks he's entitled to decide who's naughty and who's nice." ---Burt Prelutsky Veritas vos Liberabit---Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff. 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