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    Day By Day by Chris Muir April 19, 2009 – The Black Knight of O!

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    But, you see Chris, President Obama views himself as the new Gorbachev and to that end as his advisor David Axelrod says, “You plant, you cultivate, you harvest. Over time, the seeds that were planted here are going to be very, very valuable” – even if you are selling out American values.

    It is DOUBLESPEAK.

    What has Obama done:

    • Admitted to Europeans that America deserves at least part of the blame for the world’s financial crisis because it did not regulate high-flying and greedy Wall Street gamblers.
    • Told the Russians he wants to reset relations that fell to Cold War-style levels under his predecessor, George W. Bush.
    • Asked NATO for more help in the fight in Afghanistan, and, not getting much, did not castigate alliance partners.
    • Lifted some restrictions on Cuban Americans’ travel to their communist homeland and eased rules on sending wages back to families there.
    • Shook hands with, more than once, and accepted a book from Hugo Chavez, the virulently anti-American leader of oil-rich Venezuela.
    • Said America’s appetite for illegal drugs and its lax control of the flow of guns and cash to Mexico were partly to blame for the drug-lord-inspired violence that is rattling the southern U.S. neighbor.

    Obama should remember what happened to Gorbachev though.

    The President is gambling with over fifty years of American foreign policy and when there is a misstep he will receive ALL of the blame.

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    • Several Republican members of Congress spoke at Tea Party protests around the country on Wednesday. Some were applauded. Others heckled. But only one, it appears, was booed relentlessly for the entire duration of his speech: Rep. Gresham Barrett of South Carolina.

      Barrett, who voted in favor of the $700 billion bailout to stabilize the financial sector, despised by many of the demonstrators, knew what he was getting into. South Carolina grassroots conservatives have been blasting the congressman for months because of his vote on the Bush administration's bill last October.

    • At President Obama's meeting with the heads of South American countries this morning, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stood, walked over to him, and presented him with a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano.

      Obama politely posed for a photograph with Chavez, shook his hand, and accepted the gift.

      The book, first published in Spanish in 1971, offers a critique of the consequences of 500 years of European and U.S. colonization of Latin America.

    • John McCain's top adviser from the presidential campaign urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the "religious party" with its opposition to same-sex marriage.
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      Ever hear of federalism, Steve?

      Steve Schmidt, in his first political appearance since the election, spoke at the Washington, D.C., convention for the Log Cabin Republicans — a grassroots group for gay and lesbian Republicans.

      He urged Republicans, in the near-term, to endorse civil unions and stop using the Bible as rationale for gay-marriage opposition.

      "If you put public policy issues to a religious test, you risk becoming a religious party," he said. "And in a free country a political party cannot be viable in the long-term if it is seen as a sectarian party."

      Schmidt, whose sister is a lesbian and who supports same-sex marriage, said he understands the Republican Party probably won't reverse its resistance to same-sex marriage anytime soon.

    • Factcheck makes a glaring error here (in an effort to dispute Fox's 17% claim):

      The 5,114 figure is simply wrong. What Newell said quite clearly is that the number of guns submitted to ATF in those two years was 11,055: "3,312 in FY 2007 [and] 7,743 in FY 2008." Newell also testified, as other ATF officials have done, that 90 percent of the guns traced were determined to have come from the U.S. So based on Newell's testimony, the Fox reporters should have used a figure of 9,950 guns from U.S. sources. [emphasis added]

      They're clearly assuming 100% of guns submitted are successfully traced . . . which obviously isn't so.

    • There's no dispute that thousands of handguns, military style rifles and other firearms are purchased in the U.S. and end up in the hands of Mexican criminals each year. It's relatively easy to buy such guns legally in Texas and other border states and to smuggle them across.

      But is it true as President Obama said, that "More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?" No, it's not.

    • he star hosts of CNN and MSNBC news shows have notoriously derided the tea party demonstrations around the country with reference to the practice of teabagging (which I had never heard of before they brought it up). As John noted, both networks' "journalists" used the rallies as an occasion for childish sexual innuendoes — in the case of MSNBC, the same obscene teabag "joke" was repeated 51 times in a 13-minute segment.

      The Media Research Center detailed the teabagging references in an informative press release. The Huffington Post noted the references as well as more "jokes" in the same vein (including a video of Cooper's jape, over which David Gergen cluelessly chortles).