Disclaimer: I did not create this photo of Chelsea and this T-Shirt.
Experience this: “Both Senator Obama and I would make history. But only one of us is ready on Day One to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 years being a doer, a fighter and a champion for those who need a voice.” —Hillary Clinton
**“She’s ready on day one ‘to defeat the Republicans’? If there is a day one, wouldn’t she already have defeated them? But we suppose what she’s really promising is another ‘permanent campaign.’ Anyone want to vote for that?” —James Taranto
INSIGHT
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” —Albert Einstein
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” —Plato
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” —T.S. Eliot
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘guilty’.” —Theodore Roosevelt
THE DEMO-GOGUES
Texas Toast?: “This whole nomination process has come down to Texas and Ohio. If she wins in Texas and in Ohio—she will win in Pennsylvania—I believe she will win the nomination.” —Bill Clinton, still putting the best face on a desperate situation
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”: “We are not standing on the brink of recession due to forces beyond our control. It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington.” —Barack Obama
Sarcasm 101: “Now I could stand up here and say, ‘Let’s get everybody together. Let’s get unified. The skies will open. The lights will come down. And you know the celestial choirs will be singing. And everyone we know will do the right thing. And the world will be perfect.’ But I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. You are not going to wave a magic wand and make the special interests disappear.” —Hillary Clinton with a poke at Obama
Victimitis: “We spend our whole lives caught up in being told what we can’t do. And what’s not possible, and that children have to be poor and race always is going to matter in this country and there’s always going to be injustice and the economy can never work for anybody. We’re fed that stuff all the time. Mostly by folks who are in power and take advantage of the status quo.” —Barack Obama **Mostly by liberals.
UPRIGHT
“As Senators Obama and Clinton try to outdo each other in blaming government for our lack of individual responsibility and promising solutions by raising taxes to give us more government, they offer little change and less hope.” —Victor Davis Hanson
“Nothing… will assuage Clinton supporters’ sense of injustice if the upstart Obama supplants her. Their, and her, sense of entitlement is encapsulated in her constant invocations of her ‘35 years’ of ‘experience.’ Well. She is 60. She left Yale Law School at age 25. Evidently she considers everything she has done since school, from her years at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm to her good fortune with cattle futures, as presidentially relevant experience.” —George Will
“Hope must be grounded in objective truth otherwise it quickly becomes wishful thinking.” —Cal Thomas
“Eloquence is deep thought expressed in clear words.” —Peggy Noonan
“Why McCain? After all, somewhat similar allegations about recent Democratic nominees were precisely the sort of thing that [The New York Times] scrupulously avoided as trash journalism. And the Times’ attitude toward Bill Clinton’s various sex scandals was hardly one of unbridled enthusiasm. During those years, the Gray Lady published many, many articles lamenting the fever of ‘sexual McCarthyism’ in American politics. It seems that such concerns are unwarranted if the subject is a Republican.” —Jonah Goldberg
“Our elected officials don’t make America great, nor do temporal policies. America is great because of its people, its defining institutions and its freedoms.” —Linda Chavez
“Are the Democrats so intent on denying George Bush retroactive vindication for a war they insist is his that they would deny their own country a now-achievable victory?” —Charles Krauthammer
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
“For months, leading Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chief Rahm Emanuel have tried to talk tough on illegal immigration. Mr. Emanuel [said] last year that immigration is ‘the third rail of American politics,’ adding that ‘anyone who doesn’t realize that isn’t with the American people,’ earning himself angry denunciations from the far-Left fringe. Last month, Mrs. Pelosi joined House Minority Leader John Boehner in announcing that the House-passed economic stimulus bill would ‘not allow any taxpayer funds to be distributed to illegals.’ The Democratic leadership’s efforts to sound tough on illegal immigration have created serious friction with some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which believes the Democratic leadership is too timid about pushing for amnesty legislation. If senior Democrats were really serious about a get-tough approach toward illegal immigration, we would be urging the Republican minority to reach across the aisle and work with the Democratic leadership to come up with a genuine bipartisan solution. But unfortunately, the Democrats are…[trying] to defeat a bipartisan bill that takes a no-amnesty, enforcement-oriented approach to illegal immigration. Specifically, they are very worried about the fact that a growing number of moderate and conservative Republicans and Democrats (and even a few liberals) are cosponsoring the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act, H.R. 4088, introduced by Rep. Heath Shuler, North Carolina Democrat. The SAVE Act is an omnibus bill that would strengthen border security and require that employers verify that their workers are legally present in the United States. Forty-seven Democrats and 89 Republicans are cosponsoring the Shuler bill, which is currently bottled up in the House Judiciary Committee, where liberals like Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat and chairwoman of the Immigration Subcommittee, will work to ensure that it stays there.” —The Washington Times
SHORT CUTS
“If this presidential thing doesn’t work out, Obama might consider joining the NASCAR circuit. It’s the only occupation we can think of where you win by turning faster to the left than anybody else.” —Investor’s Business Daily
“The Clintons have met their Waterloo but it’s not some doughty conservative warrior who gets to play Duke of Wellington, only some freshman pap peddler of liberal boilerplate whom no-one had heard of the day before yesterday.” —Mark Steyn
“The junior senator from New York is as spontaneous and emotion-laden as a space shuttle launch. It’s all planning, calculation and stage-management with the Clintons. She’s like the Tin Man in ‘The Wizard of Oz’: heartless, creaking her campaign joints and unable to prove the humanity voters want in a president.” —Jed Babbin
“McCain may seem unappealing when he’s debating policy with Mike Huckabee or even Mitt Romney. But let him start taking fire from Al Gore, Gloria Steinem, antiwar groups, environmental activists and teachers’ unions—not to mention The New York Times —and suddenly he will look lovelier than the Taj Mahal at sunset.” —Steve Chapman
“Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager said she will make a much better commander-in-chief than her rivals. She’s well schooled in the use of force. How many presidential candidates can honestly say that they have thrown a lamp at an important world leader?” —Argus Hamilton
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