| QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN |
| November 20, 2008, 1:16 PM |
| WHAT TO EXPECT FROM OBAMA - FDR Policies Prolonged Depression By 7 Yrs | Sweetness & Light |
| November 20, 2008, 1:06 PM |
| Penn & Teller: Environmentalists Sign Petition to Ban Water - VIDEO: Environmental Hysteria Exemplified |
| November 20, 2008, 11:31 AM |
| Liberals Return to Their Obsession With Banning Flush Toilets - Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day |
| November 19, 2008, 10:03 PM |
| Probably just as well to keep guns out of the hands of a Democratic administration - Gun Owners not Welcome on Obama's White House Team |
| November 19, 2008, 7:04 PM |
| RECOMMENDED CHARITIES FOR END OF THE YEAR GIVING - Maniacal gay activists have helpfully assembled this list of individuals and organization who helped save marriage in California. They deserve our support. |
| November 19, 2008, 6:32 PM |
| HOT NEW MOVIE -- OPENS THIS FRIDAY! - THE DUKES |
| November 19, 2008, 3:59 PM |
| JOHN LOTT SMELLS A RAT IN FRANKEN'S SENATE NUMBERS "CORRECTIONS" - Statistics Don't Lie, Even in Minnesota "Why did the “typo” corrections increase Franken’s total so much more than any other candidate’s? Indeed, so much more than all the other races for the presidency, Congress, and statehouse combined. The Star Tribune’s response was to [falsely] deny the claim was true." |
| November 18, 2008, 2:37 AM |
| JAPANESE DEMONSTRATE THEIR HIGH IQS - WAPO: Japanese Not Wild About Obama They really do have higher IQs. |
| November 17, 2008, 3:57 PM |
| America's Future, Part 2 - The Cuban Way
Liberals' Fantasy: A country where there is no income inequality because everyone is equally destitute! |
| November 17, 2008, 2:43 PM |
| America's Future? - For More of Mexico’s Wealthy, Cost of Living Includes Guards |
| November 17, 2008, 2:41 PM |
| THE OBAMA RECESSION - The Inestimable John Lott on The Democrats' Recession . |
| November 16, 2008, 11:35 AM |
| GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTER CAUGHT AGAIN - The world has never seen such freezing heat |
| November 16, 2008, 2:57 AM |
| FIRST, WE GET RID OF GOD - Then everything is permitted.
Orwell's Children Liberals are off to a good start. |
| November 15, 2008, 4:59 PM |
| AMAZON DOES IT AGAIN! - Packages You Won’t Need a Saw to Open |
| November 15, 2008, 1:53 PM |
| MICHAEL BARONE ON THE BIG 3 BAILOUT - Detroit Automakers a Relic of the Past |
| November 14, 2008, 4:49 PM |
| FRANKEN INVENTS SOB STORY ABOUT AN 84 YR-OLD WOMAN WITH A STROKE TO JUSTIFY BALLOT LAWSUIT - Franken campaign's rejected ballot story false |
| November 14, 2008, 4:06 PM |
| Movie Review: The Dukes - Davi’s Passion for Politics and Movie Making |
| November 14, 2008, 1:40 PM |
| HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, JOE MCCARTHY! - FREEREPUBLIC BIRTHDAY WISHES |
| November 13, 2008, 10:41 PM |
| 2 Out of 3 Teachers Prefer Not to Be Paid Based on How Good a Job They Do - A School Chief Takes On Tenure, Stirring a Fight |
| November 13, 2008, 12:38 AM |
| Why Couldn't We Have Elected This Black Guy? - Anti-Gay State Senator Chooses Opposition to Marriage Equality Over Party |
| November 12, 2008, 4:59 PM |
| GO MITT! - Mitt Steps Up in Minnesota Senate Recount |
| November 10, 2008, 1:55 PM |
| MN IS THE FLORIDA OF 2000 - John Lott: Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud Correcting these typos was claimed to add 435 votes to Franken and take 69 votes from Coleman. Virtually all of Franken's new votes came from just three out of 4130 precincts, and almost half the gain (246 votes) occurred in one precinct -- Two Harbors, a small town north of Duluth along Lake Superior -- a heavily Democratic precinct where Obama received 64 percent of the vote. None of the other races had any changes in their vote totals in that precinct. To put this change in perspective, that single precinct's corrections accounted for a significantly larger net swing in votes between the parties than occurred for all the precincts in the entire state for the presidential, congressional, or state house races. HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS . . . |
| November 10, 2008, 1:37 AM |
| OUR NEW HEALTH CARE! - Emergency-room nightmares spur calls for action Canada's hospitals like Third World . . . |
| November 8, 2008, 3:28 PM |
| FRAUD SUPPORTS FRAUD IN MINNESOTA - Votes Magically Appear for Liberal Ex-Comedian Moveon.org planted, ACORN activist is MN Secretary of State So much for Minnesota's Squeaky Clean Reputation |
| November 8, 2008, 3:24 PM |
| CHICAGO POLITICS COMES TO MINNESOTA - Dems Are Stealing Election For Franken |
| November 8, 2008, 2:42 PM |
| NYT Indignant About Republican Graciousness - Stinging Talk About Obama? Never Mind Now |
| November 8, 2008, 1:53 PM |
| IF REPUBLICANS ALLOW THIS ELECTION TO BE STOLEN - THEY DESERVE TO LOSE
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MINNESOTA? PART 2 INSTEAD OF ATTACKING PALIN, MAYBE REPUBLICAN COULD GET THEMSELVES TO MINNESOTA RIGHT NOW |
| November 8, 2008, 1:42 PM |
| THE CENSORSHIP BEGINS! - Court: Quit saying 'illegal aliens' |
| November 8, 2008, 1:38 PM |
| BARNEY SPEAKS FOR ALL OF US - Barney Bush Bites Reuters Reporter |
| November 7, 2008, 5:19 PM |
| HERE'S THE VIDEO MENTIONED ON DRUDGE - VIDEO: Teacher Belittles Student For Supporting McCain
Teacher Diatha D. Harris at Mary McArthur Elementary School Demonstrates Why America's Children Perform Disastrously in International Comparisons and Home Schoolers Always Win the Spelling Bees |
| November 6, 2008, 5:23 PM |
| A REASON NOT TO HATE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - VIDEO: COUNTDOWN WITH HYSTERICAL WOMAN KEITH OLBMERMANN |
| November 5, 2008, 11:56 PM |
| POLLS OVERESTIMATED OBAMA'S VOTES - The List: Which presidential polls were most accurate? Rasmussen and Pew tied for #1. |
| November 5, 2008, 11:12 PM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: CAVUTO VIDEO - Ann Coulter the day after.... |
| November 5, 2008, 9:15 PM |
| HILARIOUS ONION VIDEO - Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are |
| November 5, 2008, 1:37 PM |
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS BANNING GAY MARRIAGE - PASS IN FLORIDA, ARIZONA, AND CALIFORNIA!
Finally, change we can believe in! |
| November 4, 2008, 4:34 AM |
| Gunman Clings to Gun and Obama Sign - Flag-waving gunman closes Calif. highway for hours |
| November 3, 2008, 1:37 PM |
| TENNIS PRO DAVID WHEATON ON THE ELECTION: - Final and Fervent Appeal to Christians |
| November 3, 2008, 1:02 PM |
| ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS, WE PRINT! - Palin Goes After Obama on Coal Comments On the stump this weekend, our beauteous Sarah Palin repeatedly mentioned Obama's promise to bankrupt the coal industry, and yet the following web sites have refused to cover the issue. A complete Soviet whitewashing. - The New York Times - The Washington Post - MSNBC and so on . . . |
| November 3, 2008, 1:13 AM |
| Obama: Fox News Cost Me 2-3 Points in Polls - The man behind 'fair and balanced' "I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” the Democrat said. |
| November 3, 2008, 1:05 AM |
| Obama: My Plan Will Bankrupt Coal-Fired Plants - Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry |
| November 3, 2008, 12:51 AM |
| The last thing you can do, besides voting on Tuesday . . . - Fasting for the Presidency |
| November 2, 2008, 6:42 PM |
| VIDEO: WHY PEOPLE VOTE DEMOCRAT - I'm Voting Democrat! |
| November 2, 2008, 2:15 PM |
| EVENING NEWS 2009 - VIDEO: Election 911 |
| November 1, 2008, 11:39 PM |
| EXCELLENT YOUTUBE VIDEO - Obama's Rotten ACORN and Welfare Tax Plan |
| November 1, 2008, 7:03 PM |
| Does Obama have any friends who love America? - Top Obama Adviser Blames America for 9/11, Says America Is Racist |
| November 1, 2008, 1:56 AM |
| GREG PACKER IS BACK! - N.Y. Times: Hey, Guess Who We Found to Be a “Man on the Street”? Some Guy Named Greg Packer! FLASHBACK: It was easy for the Times to spell Packer's name right because he is apparently the entire media's designated "man on the street" for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than 100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Veterans Day Parade. He was quoted at not one -- but two -- New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new "Star Wars" movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games -- even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin's house in the Hamptons and the pope's visit to Giants stadium. Ann Coulter: True grit, 6/12/03 |
| October 31, 2008, 5:39 PM |
| Video of McCain Sign Stealer being "Electrocuted" - McCain Sign Stealing Boy Gets Zapped |
| October 31, 2008, 5:33 PM |
| WALL ST: ENEMY OF REPUBLICANS - Workers at Top Wall Street Firms Give Millions More to Dems |
| October 31, 2008, 4:56 PM |
| WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS STORY?????? - Obama’s Harvard Years: Questions Swirl Did a Muslim Black Panther pay Obama's Harvard tuition? |
| October 31, 2008, 3:40 PM |
| LET'S BEAT BIDEN TWICE! - O'DONNELL FOR SENATE |
| October 31, 2008, 11:38 AM |
| Have you ever seen a vegetarian who didn't look like he needed a steak? - Soy foods associated with lower sperm counts |
| October 31, 2008, 11:24 AM |
| ACCUSED MURDERER ENDORSES OBAMA - Amanda Knox 'regrets' lies over Meredith Kercher murder |
| October 31, 2008, 12:57 AM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT! - VIDEO: Ann Coulter & Sean Hannity reveal Ayres endorsement of Robert Kennedy's assassin Islamist Sirhan Sirhan |
| October 31, 2008, 12:48 AM |
| IMPORTANT NEW BOOK ON SARAH PALIN! - |
| October 30, 2008, 7:27 AM |
| IT'S MORE THAN THE BAILOUT . . . - The Markets Are Weak Because the Candidates Are Lousy |
| October 30, 2008, 2:33 AM |
| Musicians are so much cooler than actors - Aerosmith’s Joe Perry walks this way with John McCain |
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GENIUS, THY NAME IS OBAMA
November 19, 2008
With Time magazine comparing Obama to Jesus, I guess we should be relieved that, this week, liberals are only comparing him to Abraham Lincoln.
The one thing every liberal on TV seems to know about Lincoln is that he put rivals in his cabinet, as subtly indicated in the title to historian and plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin's book: "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Like Lincoln, Goodwin is always open to contributions from her rivals, although Lincoln was better at crediting their words.
And hasn't Obama talked to former rival Hillary about becoming his secretary of state? Hasn't he had a sit-down with Sen. John McCain? Did I imagine this, or is he even now brokering peace talks between Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck?
Ergo: Obama is a genius.
Indeed, historians have just named Obama the best president-elect ever.
I don't recall the media swooning when President George W. Bush reached out to rivals, such as Sen. Teddy Kennedy, who was asked to co-write Bush's education bill. In fact, the way I remember it, Bush is liberals' most hated president ever (only because they can't remember George Washington or they'd hate him, too).
And yet no modern president has ever done more to bridge partisan divides and show respect to his opponents than George W. Bush. I do not say this with admiration; it is simply a fact.
Throughout the year and again in his convention speech during the 2000 presidential campaign, Gov. Bush bragged that he had "no stake in the bitter arguments of the last few years. I want to change the tone of Washington to one of civility and respect."
(As a side note: Bush would never have been elected president if not for the "bitter arguments of the last few years," in which Republicans exposed and impeached Bill Clinton, which then killed Al Gore's presidential ambitions. So you're welcome.)
But the point is: Bush was massively chummy with his enemies -- Democrats, communists and the Congressional Black Caucus. So chummy that even they began to wonder if he was a little daft.
In his first few weeks in office, Bush met with more than 150 members of Congress, half of them Democrats -- including five events with America's leading liberal menace, Sen. Teddy Kennedy.
Bush's very first social event at the White House was movie night with the Kennedy family to watch "Thirteen Days," a falsely heroic portrayal of JFK's disastrous handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This suggests to me that Obama's first social move as president will have to be to invite Lindsey Graham over to a screening of "Larry the Cable Guy Saves Christmas."
Naturally, Bush also had primary rival John McCain and his wife, Cindy, over to dinner at the White House.
Bush was the first president in memory to attend the congressional retreats of the opposing party. After two weeks in office, a Wall Street Journal column noted that Bush's charm offensive was "disorienting the local Hatfields and McCoys." (Again: You're welcome.)
Bush even made a special point to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus upon taking office, which -- given their feelings toward Bush -- would be the equivalent of Obama holding a special meet-and-greet session with the upper management of the Ku Klux Klan.
Bush invited the Democratic black mayor of the District of Columbia to the White House, attended a majority black District church service and appointed the first black secretary of state.
And that was all before Feb. 1, 2001. (By the end of his presidency, he would have appointed the first two black secretaries of state.)
Though it was small potatoes after all that palling around with Teddy Kennedy, this is the same George W. Bush who had Muslim "spiritual leaders" to the White House a week after 9/11.
Bush also famously said of then-Russian president, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin, that he looked him in the eye and "was able to get a sense of his soul."
(This made Bush's critics almost as apoplectic as if he had said, "I looked into Putin's eyes and, frankly, I just don't trust the guy." No matter what Bush did, liberals were incensed.)
As president, Bush scuttled the playing of "Hail to the Chief" in his honor and repeatedly reminded his staff to act humbly.
This is as opposed to Obama, who I believe is the first president-elect in history to have his own "Office of the President-elect" seal commissioned.
Like I always say, even if you don't like the current president-elect, you should still have some respect for the office of the presidency-elect.
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