THE FOUNDATION: ADVICE

“Remember, that Time is Money.” —Benjamin Franklin

UPRIGHT

“[Hillary Clinton’s] view of America and its circumstances is remarkably dreary, considering that she and her husband have risen from the middle class to enjoy stratospheric influence and prominence, along with an income that puts them in the ranks of the super-rich—$109 million just over the last eight years.” —Carol Platt Liebau

“The March monthly filing to the Federal Election Commission showed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign with a $2.5 million debt for the month to her campaign manager Mark Penn’s firm… Penn, Schoen & Berland is owned by Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, Penn’s international public relations and lobbying company. Burson-Marsteller, in turn, is owned by the British-based advertising giant WPP Group. Clinton’s continued indebtedness to Penn has raised question of whether it constitutes an illegal corporate contribution or an illegal foreign contribution.” —Robert Novak

“Barack Obama has been gaining on Hillary in Pennsylvania in part because Tuzla reminds Democrats what they had largely succeeded in banishing from consciousness: the Clintons’ rather arm’s-length relationship with truth.” —Charles Krauthammer

“Barack Obama is not an idiot. He is a brilliant orator who exudes charm and arouses near-worship from his host of giddy, hypnotized supporters. He is also a committed socialist and a talented salesman for his brand of Marxist snake oil. Beware of camels bearing gifts, and politicians promising utopia.” —Michael Reagan

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Gun Control: Barack Obama says he won’t take folks’ guns away as long as they’re hunters. But when the hunted are his constituents, well, that’s different: He opposes concealed carry and the right to self-defense. There’s something about an election that brings out the sportsman in a Democratic presidential candidate. Recall John Kerry’s sudden fondness for hunting four years ago. And speaking in Idaho earlier this year, Barack Obama told the crowd, ‘We got a lot of hunters in the state of Illinois, and I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.’ Except he does. In a 1996 questionnaire, Obama wrote that he ‘supported banning the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.’ He says now that the survey was filled out by an aide who misrepresented his views. Yet his record since then is consistent with that view. Never mind that Illinois and the other 49 states have a lot of two-legged predators… On the subject of the total ban on gun ownership in the District of Columbia, a Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Nov. 23 Chicago Tribune said Obama believes in the right of local communities to enact common sense laws to combat violence and save lives. Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional… Obama’s Web site says: ‘He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting’… Not, apparently, for you to protect your wife and children.” —Investor’s Business Daily

INSIGHT

“I say that the Second Amendment is, in order of importance, the first amendment. It is America’s First Freedom, the one right that protects all the others.” —Charlton Heston

“If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don’t celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.” —Charlton Heston

“As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I’ve realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it’s much, much bigger than that. I’ve come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.” —Charlton Heston

“I’d rather play a senator than be one.” —Charlton Heston

DEZINFORMATSIA

On Charlton Heston: “As President of the National Rifle Association, he became one of the most polarizing figures in American politics.” —ABC’s Dan Harris ++ “Once the quintessential big screen hero, in his later years he drew as much attention for his controversial politics.” —CBS’s Russ Mitchell ++ “He became a villain to many in his later life, when he took up the strident support of conservative causes, most notably that of the National Rifle Association.” —Time magazine’s Richard Corliss

Pollaganda: “Is America broken? In a new CBS News poll, 81 percent of Americans believe this country’s on the wrong track. Never has that number been so high.” —CBS’s Maggie Rodriguez

Defending racism: “Beyond what they say is the hurtful glare of the cameras, church leaders also say parishioners are hounded by reporters and they say the church received bomb threats. A church that feels under siege, now getting national support.” —CNN’s Susan Roesgen on Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ

From the sycophants: “When Al Gore ran for President in 2000, he was often ridiculed as inauthentic and wooden. Today, he is passionate and animated, a man transformed… His slide shows are tailored to his audiences. So, as he showed us in his office, when he talks to Evangelical Christians, he includes passages from the Bible… Gore is trying to redefine this as a moral and spiritual issue.” —CBS’s Lesley Stahl on the self-proclaimed “PR agent for the planet,” Algore

Playing Hardball: “Let me ask you about, at any time in this campaign, did you have a chuckle that you just couldn’t get rid of? Something weird that happened, that was so crazy that you just went to bed laughing about?” —MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to Obama

That depends on the meaning of “traditional”: “Thomas is a transgender male who conceived with artificial insemination. His wife Nancy actually performed the procedure herself at home [redacted for too much information]. They acknowledge their situation is controversial, but stress their daughter will be raised in a traditional home.” —ABC’s Andrea Canning

Newspulper Headlines: Breaking News From 1998: “Clinton Focusing on Females” —Chicago Tribune

Why Obama Is Winning: “Study: Angry Women Viewed as Incompetent” —Internet Broadcasting

En Garde!: “Government Issues Waiver for Fencing Along Border” —The New York Times

We Prefer to Call Them ‘Undocumented Primates’: “Illegal Marmosets Seek New Home” —The Denver Post

With Friends Like These…: “Infection Nearly Kills Kennewick Man; Friends, Family Help” —The Seattle Times

News of the Oxymoronic: “Bill Would Require Parents to Volunteer at Schools” —WEWS-TV Web site (Cleveland)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Angry Journalists Vent Their Frustrations to the World” —Agence France-Presse ++ “Carter Hints at Supporting Obama” —CNN.com ++ “Richardson Endorsement Still Irks Bill Clinton” —MSNBC.com ++ “Is Hillary Clinton Dishonest? A Lot of Americans Think So” —Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO) (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

“Rocky” keeps on taking punches: “I know there are some people who want to shut this down—and I think they are wrong. I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we don’t resolve it, we’ll resolve it at the convention—that’s what credentials committees are for.” —Hillary Clinton ++ “We are committed to making sure that we do everything in our power to seat a delegation from Florida. We believe we will seat a delegation from Florida.” —DNC Chief Howard Dean changing the tune… again

On Iraq: “[L]eave enough troops in Iraq to guard our embassy and diplomats, and a counter-terrorism force to strike al-Qa’ida if it forms a base that the Iraqis cannot destroy.” —foreign-policy whiz Barack Obama “I think it might be appropriate to describe exactly what that means. Does that mean 100,000 troops? Where are they based? What is their mission?” —John McCain

Defending racism: “What’s happened is we took a loop out of, and compressed the most offensive things that a pastor said over the course of 30 years and just ran it over and over and over again. Now there’s that other 30 years. I never heard him say those things that were in those clips and … the point is the, this is a church that’s active in AIDS. It’s active on all kinds of things. … And so the, you know, this is a wonderful church.” —Barack Obama on Trinity United

On confiscated income: “I don’t think we force [taxation]. In fact, quite to the contrary. Our system of government is a voluntary tax system.” —Harry Reid Yeah, try voluntarily not paying your taxes.

“Everyone did what was right in his own eyes”: “Everybody has a right to make their decision about all laws. Our Founding Fathers essentially did that, too.” —Sen. John F. Kerry

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Acute Village Victimitis: “In this ever-shifting, moving bar, Barack Obama will always be the underdog. No matter how much money he raises, no matter how many wins he pulls together, no matter how many delegates he accumulates; he is still the underdog. It’s the way it works.” —Michelle Obama

First-class Jackass: “We are freer but less equal. To that extent, we spend $3 trillion on the war in Iraq and give tax breaks to the wealthy. You have this body of poverty, growing poverty in our cities. And our response to it is what? First-class jails and second-class schools.” —professional race hustler Jesse Jackson on the status of blacks since the assassination of MLK

From the “Comity Comedy” Files: “Geraldine Ferraro turned out to be the David Duke in drag. Who knew?… What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is! She’s such a f***ing whore!” —Leftist radio loudmouth Randi Rhodes, who was suspended from Air America for her foul tirade against Ferraro’s March comments on Obama

It ain’t easy being green: “It takes courage to ask people to change—even if it won’t really cost them much. It is sad but it is true. Political leaders today are afraid of their constituents.” —New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opining at an environmental conference over the demise of his plan for an environmental toll to Manhattan drivers

This week’s “Quid Pro Homo” Award: “I feel it’s not a male or female desire to want to have a child, it’s a human desire. … And I’m a person and I have the right to have my own biological child.” —Thomas Beatie, the pregnant “man,” who’s actually still a woman just taking male hormones

SHORT CUTS

“Clinton’s obsession with 3 a.m. phone calls seems bottomless—perhaps because of all those nights she got hang-up calls from Monica? Clinton just released a new ad in which she says John McCain won’t be ready to handle a 3 a.m. call on housing foreclosures. My guess is he’ll be plenty ready to scream at the idiot who thinks he should wake the president of United States in the middle of the night about something like that.” —Jonah Goldberg ++ “In the latest ad, when she picks up the phone at 3 A.M. to take the emergency foreclosure breaking-news update, she’s got perfect hair and make-up, and she’s immaculately dressed. Is having to get up at 2 A.M. to put her face on for the 3 A.M. campaign ad causing her to retreat into Bosnian war fantasies?” —Mark Steyn

“John McCain has opened 10-point leads over both Obama and Hillary in the latest measurement of national sentiment. Some of the most frightened Democrats even want to bring Al Gore in from the cold, as it were, and crown the king of the melting solar system as the man who can ‘bring us together.’ (Try not to laugh.)” —Wesley Pruden

“The Clintons just released their tax returns to the public… It turns out that over the past eight years, they’ve donated over $10 million to charity. When they asked Bill Clinton why he gave so much money to charity, he said, ‘She’s a really good dancer’.” —Conan O’Brien

Jay Leno: This week is Explore Your Career Options week. Especially if you work for the Hillary Clinton campaign. … Hillary’s senior campaign adviser, Mark Penn, has left the campaign. Apparently he was coming under some heavy sniper fire. … Penn was credited for catapulting her from a veritable shoo-in to second place. … Good news for Hillary Clinton. You know Hillary’s ad where she says she’s ready to answer the phone at 3 AM? This is interesting. Today, she got a call from India and they said if this presidential thing doesn’t work out, they have a job for her in tech support. … It looks like Barack Obama has taken a ten-point lead over Hillary Clinton. You know they say, behind every successful man there’s a woman. Unfortunately for Hillary, it’s her. … Today, Barack Obama said that as president, when it comes to solving the problem of global warming, he wants to have Al Gore at the table… Al Gore at the table. Have you seen Al Gore lately? I think he needs to push a little away from the table. … Former presidential candidate John Edwards announced he will not—will not—accept the nomination for vice president. Which is really important, considering no one has asked him.

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.)