THE DEMO-GOGUES

Don’t know much about economics: “I believe this is a final verdict on the failed economic policies of the last eight years, strongly promoted by President Bush and supported by Sen. McCain, that essentially said that we should strip away regulations, consumer protections, let the market run wild, and prosperity would rain down on all of us.” —Socialist Barack Obama in Tuesday’s debate, trashing what we like to call “capitalism” ++ “You have to wonder about what John McCain and his running mate, what their priorities are for America. Privatizing Social Security, gutting Medicare, deregulating healthcare is not putting your country first, it’s putting a radical, misguided, reckless ideology ahead of the interests of your country.” —Barack Obama

The Big Lie: “We will not Christmas-tree this bill. The times are too urgent. Everyone has their own desires and needs. It’s going to have to wait.” —Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) before the bailout bill was larded up to 451 pages

Off the deep end: “[Republicans] get to take things out on poor people. Let’s be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn’t hurt them either, from their standpoint. This is an effort, I believe, to appeal to a kind of anger in people.” —Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)

Revising history: “We kicked—along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.” —Joe Biden in Thursday’s vice-presidential debate **“Biden said the strangest and most ill-informed thing I have ever heard about Lebanon in my life. Nobody has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody. Joe Biden has literally no idea what he is talking about.” —Michael Totten

Take your own advice: “The truth matters.” —Joe Biden

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the Hollywood Glitterati: “A woman voting for McCain-Palin is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.” —actress Ashley Judd ++ “If you’re not going to vote I don’t even know what to say to you anymore. You know you have to vote.” —actor Leonardo DiCaprio

Non Compos Mentis: “You know, the one thing that really gets to me, which I don’t think many people are discussing, but to me sounds like a little bit of a contradiction is being pro-life yet being pro-hunting—unless you are assuming that animals are not alive. That’s such a huge contradiction to me on the McCain-Palin thing. It just doesn’t fit in my book.” —supermodel Mayra Veronica

Experience doesn’t help: “I’ve spent 35 years writing about America and its people and the meaning of the American promise—a promise handed down right here in this city. Our everyday citizens... have justifiably lost faith in its meaning.” —singer Bruce Springsteen, who has no idea what America means, at an Obama rally in Philadelphia

From WAY out in left field: “I’m also worried since it’s October that George Bush will do one of three things: Either find bin Laden, who’ve they’ve had somewhere for eight months waiting to bring out... at the ranch... Or, you know, let’s start a war with Iran. That’s always a possibility. And here’s the third thing and I don’t know much about the Bible and I’m not a big rapture guy but I believe George Bush is, and what better way, if your polls are so bad, than to go out by pushing the button and destroying all life on Earth?” —Hollywood producer and director Barry Sonnenfeld

SHORT CUTS

“Tom Brokaw had no control over the program. I don’t know why the candidates decided to have a one-minute rule, but no United States Senator in the history of the United States Senate has been able to say ‘hello’ within one minute, much less discuss tax policy.” —Rich Galen

“Anybody that wants the Presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.” —David Broder

“If Obama wins, it means hiring an arsonist to fight a fire.” —Mona Charen

“What do Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.” —Rush Limbaugh

“[Joe] Biden was glib and fluent and in command of the facts—if by ‘in command of the facts’ you mean ‘talks complete blithering balderdash and hogwash.”’ —Mark Steyn

“In what proved to be one of the biggest Democrat cover-ups since Ted Kennedy avoided charges in Mary Jo Kopechne’s death, the media covered for the Democrats by blaming the ‘financial crisis’ on everything from de-regulation to testosterone, while we did ourselves in by adhering to the tenets of political correctness.” —A.W.R. Hawkins

Jay Leno: The [second presidential] debate took place in Nashville, Tennessee, which is perfect—the economy right now is kind of like a bad country song: “I lost my girl; I lost my house...” ... The debate was held in “town-hall” style, which means instead of ignoring the moderator’s questions, the candidates could ignore the voters directly. ... [Congress] passed their $800 billion bailout bill [Friday]. Although some senators who voted for it are now very upset. They thought they were giving themselves a pay raise. ... Congress keeps saying that not only are taxpayers going to get back the $800 billion, oh, they’re going to make money on the deal too. Yeah, yeah. See, now you know where the ‘con’ in congressman comes from. ... The Labor Department has announced that 159,000 people lost their jobs last month. Worst job loss in five years. Here’s the ironic part—all 435 members of Congress still have their jobs. ... The stock market’s so bad now that at closing time, instead of a bell, they play taps.

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.)

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