Yours truly got a shout out by Jasper native and daily blogger at NRO Planet Gore yesterday. Quite the interesting article from The Seattle Times.
O…M…G…
When John Edwards returned to North Carolina in the course of his long quest for the presidency, Andrew Young always met him at the airport in Edwards’s big black Chevy Tahoe. Young drove, and Edwards rode shotgun, silently raising his left hand whenever he wanted a Diet Coke, which Young would wordlessly supply.
When Edwards and his family arrived home, Young had made sure there was fresh milk in the fridge, a neatly trimmed lawn and neatly folded dry cleaning. When he arranged their vacation to Disney World in 2004, he naturally booked himself a ticket. And when Edwards’s mistress became pregnant, Young — at the cost of his reputation, his wife’s and his minister father’s — stepped forward to say the child was his.
Gotta love that one of the most conservative members of Senate was best friends with one of the most liberal:
“Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend.
“Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States Senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy’s name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
“When I first came to the United States Senate I was filled with conservative fire in my belly and an itch to take on any and everyone who stood in my way, including Ted Kennedy. As I began working within the confines of my office I soon found out that while we almost always disagreed on most issues, once in a while we could actually get together and find the common ground, which is essential in passing legislation.
“For almost two decades we alternated as Chairman and Ranking Members of the Senate Labor Committee, now called the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. During this time we were able to come together in a bipartisan fashion to craft some of this nation’s most important health legislation.
“In the current climate of today’s United States Senate it is rare to find opportunities where both sides can come together and work in the middle to craft a solution for our country’s problems. Ted Kennedy, with all of his ideological verbosity and idealism was a rare person who at times could put aside differences and look for common solutions. Not many ever got to see that side of him, but as peers and colleagues we were able to share some of those moments.
“Elaine and I express our deepest condolences to Ted’s beloved wife Vickie, and their extended family,” Hatch added.
“I am hopeful that they will find peace and comfort in the memories and life they were able to share with this giant of a man.”
In lieu of Barack’s shattered teleprompter, Vice-President Joe Biden will serve as President of the United States while Obama’s new teleprompter is shipped via FedEx from China.
Meanwhile… Obama still has a crick in the right side of his neck.
Thanks Barack. A 55-minute speech did not contain one of the following words:
Iraq
Afghanistan
Korea
Pakistan
soldiers
surge
war
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Some fun Gallup polls to play with.
Iran Election: 50% trusted their elections before dispute; 40% did not
Threats to U.S.: 51% see direct threat from N. Korea; 46% from Iran
Rx for Healthcare Reform: 73% trust doctors; 58% trust Obama
Politics News: Obama Job Approval Slips to 58% for First Time
We haven’t had good political banter in a while… so relax and swallow these Obama factoids:
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had a Republican Congress allocate 5.6 Billion dollars for a civilian volunteer security force, as strong and well equipped as the regular Army and under his personal authority, would you have been concerned?
If George W. Bush had proposed doubling the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed doubling the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had promised detailed tracking of the spending from a $785 Billion Stimulus Bill and then postponed that oversight until 2010, would you approve or would you think something “smelled fishy”? If Bush had promised 48 hour advance posting of the same bill on the internet and only released it two hours before congressional approval, would you wonder what was being hidden from the public?
If Bush’s White House Staff had spent over $300,000 flying Airforce One low over New York (for a publicity photo flyby with the Statue of Liberty) frightening the city, wouldn’t you have expected Bush to make the pictures public? Would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been “addicted” to using a teleprompter, and was afraid to give a speech without having one, would you have approved? Would you think he was intellegent?
If George W. Bush had pre-approved/pre-picked the list of reporters allowed to ask questions at his press conferences and refused to call on the correspondent from MSNBC, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush and a Republican Congress had given hundreds of millions of dollars to a group (ACORN) after its members had been convicted of voter registration fraud, would you approve of them to doing the 2010 Census, which will determine congressional districts for 10 years? Will you trust ACORN in 2010?
Would you have approved of George W. Bush moving the Census from the Dept. of Commerce into the White House and putting his Chief of Staff in control of the counting?
Wall Street Journal hits the nail on the head:
In making Sonia Sotomayor his first nominee for the Supreme Court yesterday, President Obama appears to have found the ideal match for his view that personal experience and cultural identity are the better part of judicial wisdom.
“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.”
- President Abraham Lincoln
For all the “love” and “hope” and fluffy goodness that Obama brings to the table, it scares me that “balls” are something our country will lack for the next 4 years.
ARTICLE: Cheney: Obama endangers the nation
“That’s my belief,” Mr. Cheney said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I think to the extent that those [Bush-era] policies were responsible for saving lives, that the administration is now trying to cancel those policies … means in the future we’re not going to have the same safeguards we’ve had for the last eight years.”
The former vice president defended controversial interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, saying that it had been an effective tool in extracting useful information from suspected terrorists such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is accused of helping carry out the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Washington and New York.
Yeah… it’s old news by now… but just like a Missisippi State loss, I have to bring it up on the blog.
That’s one savior you got there.
Thanks for the fundraiser, Karl… and for getting W in the White House.
Fox News contributor Karl Rove attracted state leaders to Mississippi College and help boost MC scholarships by more than $200,000.
The former White House Deputy Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush, Rove delivered the keynote speech Monday night at MC’s annual spring scholarship banquet.
Karl Rove spoke light night at Mississippi College’s annual fundraiser.
Anybody here in attendance?
