Barack Obama's decision to play golf on Memorial Day was disrespectful and hardly presidential

Nile Gardiner, UK Telegraph. "The least the president can do on Memorial Day is spend the whole day with veterans and servicemen’s families while acknowledging their sacrifice.

" ...President George W. Bush stopped playing golf out of respect for the families of Iraq War dead. This demonstrated not only good judgment but humility and respect for the men and women who keep America safe.

" ...US military personnel and veterans give Barack Obama lower marks for his job performance than members of the general public. The president’s actions smack of poor taste, as well a lack of empathy and support for the US military, hardly the kind of leadership the White House should be projecting at a time of war."

Charles Krauthammer: Our salutary debt-ceiling scare

Washington Post  "Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warns that failure to raise the limit would be disastrous. In that he is correct. But he is disingenuous when he suggests that we must raise the ceiling by Aug. 2 or the sky falls."
"There is no drop-dead date. There is no overnight default. Debt service amounts to about 6 percent of the federal budget and only about 10 percent of federal revenue. This means that for every $1 of interest payments, there is roughly $9 of revenue the government spends elsewhere."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/chuckasay

John Edwards charged in felony indictment

Johnny Reid Edwards

Breitbart  "The case of USA v. Johnny Reid Edwards contains six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements.

"The indictment said the payments were a scheme to protect Edwards' White House ambitions. "A centerpiece of Edwards' candidacy was his public image as a devoted family man," the indictment said.

""Edwards knew that public revelation of the affair and the pregnancy would destroy his candidacy by, among other things, undermining Edwards' presentation of himself as a family man and by forcing his campaign to divert personnel and resources away from other campaign activities to respond to criticism and media scrutiny regarding the affair and pregnancy," the indictment added."

John Edwards indicted (Update: Arrest warrant issued)  "Apparently Edwards was lobbying VP, and told Kerry a story about his son’s death, and gave a teary account of it, and told him that he’d learned so much from it and was ready to be VP, or that kind of thing.

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And he concluded: And I have never. Told. Anyone. That story before.

"Kerry got a chill when he heard this, but not for the reason you’d think. He’d got the chill because he remembered Edwards telling him this same story, with the same dead son and the same “And I have never — told — anyone” conclusion, to convince him on some other virtue of Edwards’, years earlier. And he got a sense of the man he was thinking about putting on the ticket.

"Put him on the ticket anyway, of course."

The Palin Bus Tour

Palin Bus Tour: Corporate Media Stooges Playing Assigned Roles  "The Sarah Palin “I am the Media” Bus Tour rolls merrily along, with a trail of Corporate Media Stooges–acting all confused and hurt–bringing up the rear…"

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Sarah Palin plays the media like a violin: Her turn now  "And there are few things more sweet to Palin and her fervent supporters cheering their TV sets this week than the image of a hungry know-it-all “lamestream media” caravan of 15 or more vehicles traipsing along behind her red-white-and-blue bus enroute to they-know-not-where to do they-know-not-what.
"To make it worse, each one of the frustrated, confused chasers knows that Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren is….
"…riding along with the not-yet-and-possibly-never Republican presidential candidate, filing exclusive conversations for her audience to gobble up that only enhance Palin’s already million-dollar value to FNC. Can you hear the teeth grinding? While Palin smiles and waves away? "  LA Times Blog 

Hat tip to deathby1000papercuts.com

Neal Boortz: Ignore Her and Maybe She'll Go Away   "A better question would by why the media is paying so much attention to her.  Actually, I think I have an answer to that question. Let’s do this with bullet points:

•The ObamaMedia knows with absolute certitude that if Sarah Palin is on the GOP ticket in 2012 their guy, Barack Obama, will be reelected.


•The more attention given to Sarah Palin the greater the likelihood she ends up on the ticket.

"Wow. Only took two bullet points. Pretty simple scenario there."...

The Tunnel Dweller has so much admiration for Sarah Palin as a person and loves to see her really take it to the left. But researching her as a candidate, I keep finding troubling analyses such as that by Boortz and the following:

The Damage Sarah Palin Could Do  "If Palin were to be the GOP nominee, she would lead the ticket to a crushing loss for Republicans at almost every level in a year (2012) when they should win the presidency and make significant down-ballot gains."

"It’s certainly true that some of the criticisms of Palin have been unfair and driven by an almost irrational animus toward her. She is not a woman without talents, including the ability to generate media attention and excitement among some elements of the GOP base. But it’s also true that she has brought much of the criticisms on herself ... Palin radiates a sense of grievance that is antithetical to the Reagan style and spirit. And in interviews and on matters of policy, she often comes across as shallow. The problem isn’t that she’s not a public intellectual; it’s that she doesn’t seem able to sustain an argument beyond simply reciting talking points."
This has to trouble those of us who wish her well, yet know the overriding goal must be to get the Democrats out of the White House and out of Congress.  TD

Primetime Propaganda’: ‘Daily Show’ Tells Steven Crowder ‘We Never Book Conservative Pundits’

Steven Crowder

Big Hollywood  "You’ve heard about it, now you get to see it first-hand. Here we have a senior producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart shutting somebody out specifically for being right-of-center. The person…? Yours truly.

"Listen, I’m not one of those folks who yells “free speech” every time I don’t get my way. Jon Stewart’s program is a private entity and they can do whatever they damn well please. Just know this from here on out; if you have a different point of view than Jon Stewart… you don’t get to work with Jon Stewart."

By Steven Crowder  . However Debbie Schlussel strongly disagrees.