16 January 2008 Patriot Post Vol. 08 No. 03 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/current.asp THE FOUNDATION: HUMAN NATURE "In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself." ---Benjamin Franklin (http://PatriotPost.US/fqd/) INSIGHT "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do." ---J.P. Morgan "He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strengthens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness." ---Samuel Johnson "A little integrity is better than any career." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet." ---Charles Spurgeon EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Mitt Romney finally won the 'gold' yesterday, as he so effusively puts it, and the result is a Republican Presidential battle that is more muddled than ever. The most important story out of Michigan is that Republicans are still looking for a standard bearer. Mr. Romney has the immediate bragging rights with his victory, salvaging his campaign in the process. He was able to win in his native state, and to do so convincingly among Republican voters of all stripes. He helped himself by stressing the economy in a state that has lagged behind U.S. growth for years, even if he did go over the top with his pandering to the auto industry. Mr. Romney can't stop jobs from leaving the state, no matter how often he claims he can... The result is a blow to John McCain, who was coming off a victory in New Hampshire and had won in Michigan in 2000... Mike Huckabee's distant third means that he hasn't yet been able to capitalize on his surprising Iowa victory. His political religiosity didn't play well outside of evangelical precincts in either New England or the Midwest, and his attacks on President Bush's foreign policy and corporations have pushed away parts of the GOP coalition... Another winner yesterday was Fred Thompson, who is competitive in South Carolina and is running as the conservative who can unite the GOP's fractious wings. The former Tennessee Senator has laid out an impressive policy map, but he's suffered in early contests because his heart and energy didn't seem to be in the race. That has changed in recent weeks, especially with his pungent, quick-witted debate performances. If he can do better than Messrs. Romney and Huckabee among conservatives, he could surprise in the Palmetto State and give himself a genuine chance at the nomination. The abiding lesson from the last two weeks is that GOP voters are still sifting the field, searching for their next leader." ---The Wall Street Journal UPRIGHT "What [the GOP] is lacking right now is that sturdy grass-roots movement which is the mechanism that wins presidential and congressional elections... When the Rockefeller-wing philosophy prevails, the GOP loses. When the Reagan wing is in control, we win." ---Michael Reagan ++ "The [media] will always tell you... who is a conservative and who isn't by virtue of who they try to destroy and by virtue of who they try to prop up. And right now they're trying to prop up McCain... [and] Huckabee." ---Rush Limbaugh "The intent of the Founding Fathers was to have an armed population that would ensure the 'security of a free state.' The armed population would be able to defend itself from abuses of a tyrannical government or foreign invaders, and would have the means of self-defense against the criminal element." ---Charles Bloomer "We are long past the point of believing that any set piece battle will be decisive in this war. Instead, we are in the middle of a long process known as 'clear and hold.' Success is not defined by the number of insurgents killed (though it is always nice to hurt the enemy) but by the number of cities, towns, and villages rendered steadily more secure, more 'normal'." ---David French ++ "The bottom line here is that the surge [in Iraq] is succeeding. Yet for the most part, these stories of success are going unreported in the media. Why this lack of reporting is so important is that war is a test of will between two sides, in which each side is trying to break the other's will to continue the struggle." ---Roger Carstens "Environmentalists often talk as if they are trying to save the last few patches of greeney from being paved over, when in fact 90 percent of the land in the United States is undeveloped and forests alone cover more area than all the cities and towns in the country combined." ---Thomas Sowell Patriot Apparel! Visit the Patriot Shop: http://PatriotShop.US/ DEZINFORMATSIA >From the "Tinfoil Hat" Department: "So you guys tried to fake another Gulf of Tonkin incident using some clown with a CB radio and the lethal threat posed by the S.S. Minnow? Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen, on behalf of the Bush administration, today's 'Worst Person in the World'!" ---MSNBC anchorhead Keith Olbermann accusing our military leaders of faking the incident in which Iranian speedboats challenged U.S. Navy vessels transiting international waters in the Strait of Hormuz >From the "Colossal Obama-Rama": "Almost a couple years ago, you would send a reporter out with Obama, and it was like they needed to go through detox when they came back: 'Oh, he's so impressive, he's so charismatic,' and we're kind of like, 'Down Boy'." ---Politico founder John Harris on his former Washington Post colleagues suffering from Obama infatuation The only racists are in the Lefmedia: "What do you think the bigger obstacle is for you in becoming President, the Clinton campaign machine or America's inherent racism?" ---ABC's Chris Cuomo to Barack Obama ++ "There is a feel good emotion around the Obama campaign that---as though it's bringing out the best in us, the very idea that an African-American could be treated equally, and well, and even be a promising candidate for president." ---PBS's Terence Smith ++ "Is the U.S. ready for an African-American president?"---CNN's Wolf Blitzer **Sure, but not the one you have in mind. ++ "Already, critics say Obama's opponents are trying to create this subtle narrative of racial division. They deny it, but it illustrates how hard it is in this country to take race out of the equation." ---CNN's Carol Costello **Especially when it's all reporters can talk about. Newspulper Headlines: Breaking News From 1989-93, 2001-Present: "Bush Faces Obstacles in Mideast"---Associated Press Breaking News From Genesis 6:19-20: "Remember Pets When Flooding Occurs"---Times (Munster, IN) There Are 435 to Choose From: "House Appropriator Wants Flake on Spending Panel"---The Hill News of the Tautological: "Olmert: No Peace Unless Attacks Stop"---Associated Press News You Can Use: "Board Member: Drinking, Nudity Don't Mix"---Naperville (IL) Sun Bottom Story of the Day: "Asteroid Unlikely to Collide With Mars"---Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto) THE DEMO-GOGUES Unmitigated chutzpah: "The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say."---Hillary Clinton No sense of irony: "This is the most exciting election we've had in such a long time because you have an African-American, an extraordinary man, a person of tremendous talents and abilities, running to become our president. You have a woman running to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. I don't think either of us want to inject race or gender in this campaign. We are running as individuals..."---Hillary Clinton Strange analogies: "I'm running because I don't want to do business as usual. People say 'Well, he may have good ideas, he may be inspiring, but he hasn't been in Washington long enough.' They want to season and stew me until they boil all the hope out of me, like everybody else."---Barack Obama Endorsements: "I believe more than anyone else, Barack Obama can help our country turn the page and get America moving by uniting and ending the division we have faced... We are electing judgment and character, not years on this earth."---John Kerry The Big Lie: "Number one, I brag on Barack Obama in every speech I give---every single one. I have given hundreds of speeches all over America and anybody who has heard me speak, or my wife, will tell you, I always start by bragging on Senator Obama and the other candidates as well... Number two, I never said that he, his life, or his campaign was a fairy tale."---Bill Clinton, the inventor of political fairy tales The Big Lie II: "You know, I don't really care about any of the hits that people make on me. It's, that's fine. I can't control it. They can say whatever they want."---Hillary Clinton "[Obama] was a part-time state senator for a few years, and then he came to the Senate and immediately started running for president. And that's his prerogative. That's his right. But I think it is important to compare and contrast our records."---Hillary, mad because Barack copied her strategy VILLAGE IDIOTS >From the race bait files: "And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood---and I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in the book---when they have been involved."---Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson subtly reminding folks of Obama's drug use as a youth >From the "Village Pews": "Try this [Mike] Huckabee family favorite. Deep-Fried Body of Christ---boring holy wafers no more. Take one Eucharist. Preferably post transubstantiation. Deep-fry in fat, not vegetable oil, ladies, until crispy. Serve piping hot."---Radio-skit excerpt from PBS affiliate station KCPW in St. Lake City, Utah; the offensive and absurd piece was titled "Huck and the Eucharist" skit, which aired 7 Jan. on the "Fair Game with Faith Salie" show >From the "Buy Partisan" Files: "At a time when Washington desperately needs to find common ground to deal with the terrorist threat, soaring deficits, failing schools, immigration challenge, and unaffordable healthcare,... [a]t a time when our politics seems mostly to be dominated by bickering, attack ads and sound bites, [New York Mayor] Mike Bloomberg would be a uniquely refreshing, positive, candid, proven leader."---political consultant Doug Bailey, a founder of the "Draft Bloomberg Committee" **Let's see---Bloomberg is a billionaire Leftist who can "find common ground"... with whom? Class warfare: "[T]here is a growing gap between the rich and the poor. If we were all rich, that would be very nice. If we were all poor, it would be too bad, but we would be the same."---former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright letting the Communist cat out of the bag SHORT CUTS "An old political adage states that yard signs don't vote. This is only partially true. In Chicago, they sometimes do vote and this year I bet they all vote for Hillary Clinton, as will the dead."---Mac Johnson "Innovation drives change, the market drives change. Government 'change' just drives things away: You could ask many of the New Hampshire primary voters who formerly resided in Massachusetts."---Mark Steyn "The candidates should never keep shouting the word change to three hundred million people with a TV remote in their hands."---Argus Hamilton "The Democratic primary campaign has been breathtakingly empty. What passes for substance is an absurd contest of hopeful change (Obama) vs. experienced change (Clinton) vs. angry change (John Edwards playing Hugo Chavez in English)."---Charles Krauthammer "There is no electorate as amnesiac as the American one." ---Paul Greenberg David Letterman: "Top Ten Signs Your Presidential Campaign is in Trouble": When asked what you'd do about Iraq, you say, "Do I Rock?"; You're often described as "John Kerry without Charisma"; Many of your supporters have been hospitalized because you ordered your campaign buttons from China; You've been running negative ads about yourself; Only Endorsement you've received was from "Burrito Afficionado" magazine; When reporting caucus results, media refers to you as "Other"; "Meet the Press" appearance turns ugly when you put Tim Russert in a headlock; Budget director blew most of your campaign funds betting on the Knicks; You've primarily been campaigning in Canada; You often ask, "What would George W. Bush do?" 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