Pop quiz
One frontrunner Senator has rec’d $9,819,390 from lawyers and lobbyists, while the other has rec’d $2,980,037. Which Senator ranks second only to Hillary Clinton on the list of lobbyist/lawyer contributions?
Whopper of the week (MORE: OBAMA RECEIVES APPLAUSE FOR BLOWING HIS NOSE)
As a central theme to his campaign, Senator Barack Obama has painted himself as an "agent of change," as someone who will move beyond "business as usual" in Washington, DC, who decries the "politics of the past," and who also claims he’s not in the business of telling people what they want to hear.
Is Barack Obama an “original” when it comes to what he advocates?
Robert J. Samuelson provides the answer anyone who has seriously and critically taken a hard look at his campaign and its promises have been talking about for months: No:
Quote of the day
“Nothing America has done in Michelle Obama’s adult life, which at 44 goes back 26 years to 1982, has made her proud of her country? Nothing? Not winning the Cold War? Not our regular and orderly transitions of power based on the rule of law? Not the fact that we feed and defend the world, not that we lead in science and technology research, not that we elected the first black president in 1992…nothing? Not the fact that she and her husband were able to go to Ivy League schools before embarking on extremely lucrative careers? Not the fact that we help out in disasters wherever they strike in the world? Nothing has made Michelle Obama proud of her country in her entire adult life?
The Che flag controversy: How would JFK have reacted? (MORE: OBAMA USING LINES FROM DEVAL PATRICK’S SPEECHES)
We’re all familiar at this point with the controversy surrounding the Che flag that Fox News – Houston found hanging on the wall of Barack Obama’s “unofficial” (ahem) Houston headquarters, put there by an Obama “volunteer” by the name of Maria Isabel. To recap, here was the Obama campaign’s lame response:
Michelle Obama: Barack is the only man who can “heal” this nation and “fix our souls”
I just got done listening to the most disturbing speech of this campaign season, and it wasn’t given by any of the candidates, but by the wife of the Dem frontrunner for the nomination: Barack Obama’s wife Michelle. It was given two weeks ago at UCLA. Captain Ed provides a partial transcript: