THE FOUNDATION: PUBLIC SPEAKING

“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” —Benjamin Franklin

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Endorsements you don’t want: “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy… Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate… And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you—not financially to help him—we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.” —Joe Biden *It won’t be apparent because you won’t be right.

What about the law?: “I will look for those judges who have an outstanding judicial record, who have the intellect, and who hopefully have a sense of what real-world folks are going through.” —Barack Obama

Getting it exactly backwards: “John McCain has been a party to the most significant redistribution of wealth in American history and it has been all the wrong way… [McCain believes in] trickle down, government is bad, markets are right [economics].” —Joe Biden

Speaking of redistribution: “Yes, I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money.” —Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)

From the Head Cheerleader: “One hundred percent Barack Obama is going to win! He’s going to be our next president and a great president at that. We’re all excited to work with him.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Thanks for clearing that up: “What I said, that indicted everybody, that’s not what I meant at all. What I mean is there’s still folks that have a problem voting for someone because they are black. This whole area, years ago, was really redneck.” —Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) “apologizing” for calling Western Pennsylvania racist *“I never said most of the things I said.” —Yogi Berra

INSIGHT

“[W]e must choose from among our guardians those men who, upon examination, seem most of all to believe throughout their lives that they must eagerly pursue what is advantageous to the city and be wholly unwilling to do the opposite.” —Socrates

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower

UPRIGHT

“[Joe] Biden’s erratic and gaffetastic behavior is the least of America’s worries. He’s worse than a blunderbuss. He’s an incurable narcissist with chronic diarrhea of the mouth. He’s a phony and a pretender who fashions himself a foreign policy expert, constitutional scholar and worldly wise man. He’s a man who can’t control his impulses. And he could be a heartbeat away.” —Michelle Malkin

“Socialism and communism have failed everywhere they’ve been tried in the world, yet die-hard socialists, such as William Ayers, still smarter than God, insist on cramming them down our throats in the name of ‘fairness.’ Unreconstructed radicals always say that true socialism hasn’t been given a real chance. Well, if Obama is elected, we may get that chance.” —David Limbaugh

“People who put faith in government to solve national or even individual problems are headed for deep disappointment, if it hasn’t already arrived. Still, that doesn’t stop politicians from attempting to sell political snake oil to the gullible. No one ever lost money betting on the ignorance of the uninformed masses.” —Cal Thomas

“[B]y ‘redistributing wealth,’ as Obama wants the government to do, he’s actually reducing overall wealth in the economy by taking away capital from those who can invest it efficiently in direct job creation. And the real irony is that if Obama is elected and succeeds in raising taxes on the top 5 percent, he’s likely to collect less tax, not more, if history is a guide.” —Linda Chavez

“It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan Revolution…[T]he Republican Party abandoned the trail leading to that shining city on the hill to become itself a quasi-Left-wing organization which looks at the Democrats’ welfare programs and says ‘me too’.” —Michael Reagan

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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“What happened to the Democratic Party? Just a few generations ago, the party of Franklin Roosevelt went to bat for the little guy, the common man, the everyday Joe the plumber. Not anymore. Now, the wealthy elites who run the Democratic Party have declared war on working-class Americans while pretending to defend them against greedy and heartless Republicans. Those would be the same Republicans whose vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, doesn’t just talk about working-class people but actually embodies one and yet has been savaged by liberals. And those would be the same Republicans who have devised a tax plan that might just appeal to ‘Joe the Plumber’ Wurzelbacher, the Ohio resident who dared to confront Barack Obama over the unfairness of his tax plan. In a candid moment that could well lose him some votes, Obama acknowledged to Wurzelbacher that he intended, if elected president, to take the wealth of those making more than 250,000 per year and ‘spread it around’ to others making less. That wasn’t very smart, and the Obama campaign knows it. So they’re trying to change the subject by making Joe the Plumber the issue. They’re doing so, with a little help from their friends in the news media and labor unions, by digging into Joe’s background in search of something embarrassing… That will teach Joe to keep quiet. Let’s hope the country learns a lesson as well—about what the Democratic Party used to be and what it has become.” —San Diego Union Tribune

DEZINFORMATSIA

Asking the tough questions: “People have called you ‘The Savior,’ ‘The Messiah,’ ‘The Messenger of Change.’ The expectations have been raised to such a level… If you are, as you just say, lucky enough to be elected the next president are you going to have to consciously manage expectations during the first several months of your administration?” —NBC’s Matt Lauer to Barack Obama

Talk about Looney Toons: “Sometimes I think I’m watching Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd here. You know Bugs Bunny is driving him crazy. He’s laughing, running away and Elmer just can’t keep, can’t keep, can’t get his eyes off the guy.” —Daffy Duck, er, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews likening Obama to Bugs Bunny and McCain to Elmer Fudd

Europeanness envy: “While we’re on the symbolism, let me remind you how many Europeans see U.S. voters—as a trigger-happy bunch with a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other… Does either of you senators have any serious plans to reduce the number of guns available in the U.S. or even dare to suggest it? That really would impress the Europeans, that you stand for change.” —CNN European political editor Robin Oakley to Obama and McCain

Good thing the rest of the world can’t vote here: “[P]olls show the image of the U.S. has improved slightly this year simply because President Bush is leaving. And, that if the world had a vote, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. Regardless of who wins, the world is clamoring for a new America in 2009.” —NBC’s Dawna Friesen

And it’s called “redistribution”: “Obama’s tax cuts only go to people who work, so by definition, it’s not welfare. Some working people eligible for Obama’s tax cut make so little, they do not pay income taxes. But they do pay payroll taxes and other taxes.” ABC’s Jake Tapper

Newspulper Headlines: We Blame Global Warming, or Not: “Alaska Glaciers Grew This Year, Thanks to Colder Weather” —Anchorage Daily News ++ “Federal Report: Arctic Getting Warmer and Warmer” —FoxNews.com

Finally, Some Good Economic News!: “Baby Boomer Deaths Could Fuel Funeral Industry” —Associated Press

They’re Always in the Last Place You Look: “Obama, McCain Camps Look for Florida Votes in Israel” —Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)

They’re Trying to Disenfranchise Aliens!: “GOP to Continue Efforts to Shut Down Satellite Voting Centers” —Times (Munster, IN)

Help Wanted: “Hunt Under Way in Chicago for Creepy Clown Who Stalks Children” —FoxNews.com

News You Can Use: “Shortage of Money Could Cost Us Millions” —Indianapolis Star

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Albright Says Obama Is Presidential” —Las Vegas Sun (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

More endorsements: “I have some concerns about the direction that the [Republican] party has taken in recent years. It has moved more to the right than I would like to see it… I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that’s what we’d be looking at in a McCain administration.” —former Republican Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama **Too far to the right? What party is he talking about?

From the Glitterati: “Until the Republican Convention, very few had ever heard of Sarah Palin… and now this mean-spirited campaigner is asking who is Barack Obama? I’m asking who is Sarah Palin?” —who is Barbra Streisand?

More tripe from Hollywood: “I don’t think Sarah [Palin] would understand the picture… It has a lot of complicated dialogue. George Bush is an intellectual compared to her… It’s very fair. It’s based on a lot of research. It was not done with malice.” —director Oliver Stone on his movie “W”, insisting that the movie is NOT an attack on President Bush ++ “It isn’t Bush bashing, but it should be. He will have a long and healthy life and hopefully spend most of it in depositions. Hopefully, history will be unforgiving.” —actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrays Dick Cheney in the movie “W”

SHORT CUTS

“Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats, I can’t shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me. I’m delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary!” —John McCain at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner Thursday night

“This must be the first time in Western civilization that being a plumber was considered too ‘high brow’ to represent the vox populi… Then again, with all the political sewage in Washington, maybe more plumbers are just what our nation’s capital needs.” —Elisabeth Meinecke

“Colin Powell is in the news, of course, because he endorsed Barack Obama. Wonder how John McCain feels about Colin Powell endorsing Obama? He is probably all right with it. Men his age are used to having colon problems.” —Conan O’Brien

“Washington, DC, was named in a health survey as having the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases of any city in the United States. Blame it on the Wall Street bailout plan. You can’t screw that many taxpayers and not catch something.” —Argus Hamilton

Jay Leno: If you watched the debate [Wednesday] night, you know John McCain kept talking about this guy Senator Obama met on the campaign trail named Joe the Plumber. Do you know the saddest part about the Joe the plumber story? Last month, he was an investment banker. … Are you buying this whole Joe the plumber thing? McCain said he’s worried about Joe the plumber’s income. His income? Anybody here ever gotten a bill from a plumber and go, “Well, this is way too low. Put a few more zeros. Put something down there for yourself.” … A married congressman from Florida, Tim Mahoney, is under investigation for paying $125,000 to his mistress to keep her quiet. Well, that worked out well. Well, listen, yesterday it was reported he was having a second affair at the same time. What kind of sleazeball cheats on his mistress? … And in a statement with his wife standing next to him—only in politics do the wives stand next to you when you do this kind of stuff—Mahoney said this is a private matter. The most important thing to him now is his wife. Well, that’s got to make her feel special. Of all the women he’s sleeping with, she’s number one. … This week, President Bush announced a $250 billion—everything’s billions now, millions don’t even count, have you noticed that? Millions is like chump change—plan for the government, to directly buy shares of the nation’s leading banks, to make sure they’re run properly. Because one thing we know is the people who gave us a $9-trillion debt, they know how to handle money.

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.)