I don’t know what the big to do is with Barack Obama, but I learned a few things about him tonight that I wasn’t aware of before… The article is from the end of July, but it seems like the content of it has been greatly ignored…

Read the whole thing… Know anyone in Illinois? Show them.

You hear often accusations from the left that Republicans and George W. Bush “wrap themselves in the flag” or something along those lines, most recently we hear it from John Kerry:

[John Kerry] accused Bush and his team of “wrapping themselves in the flag and shutting their eyes and ears to the truth,” declaring: “We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.”

This kind of stupidity by Kerry and the Democrats is really annoying. You know why? During the entire Democrat primary season we got bombarded with various messages implying that removing Bush was a form of patriotism. To this day, liberals continue pushing that theme. I’ve seen bumpers like “Vote Patriotic, Dump Bush” or some variation of that.

So it’s okay for liberal/Democrat to wrap himself in the flag but not for a Republican?

Today, I was reminded of this hypocrisy by a Letter to the Editor in a local paper, titled “True Patriots Will Vote For Kerry”, which was concluded with this paragraph:

I love our country, honor those who serve it, and accept it as true that the most patriotic thing Americans can do is deny Bush four more years in office.

Liberals do not own the flag any more than Republicans. It is nevertheless curious to me how liberals are so desperate to wrap themselves (and their causes) with the flag - the same flag they are hell bent on having the right to burn.

Drudge is a little behind the curve on this one, but it is true… Protesters of the Democrat’s Convention next week are being pushed out of view from the convention in a caged off area. These caged off areas have been given such euphemisms as “demonstration zone” and “free speech zone.”

With protesters out of sight, one can only wonder how much media attention will be given to them compared to the protesters who will be at the Republican Convention.

From the Associated Press:

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said Wednesday that if elected, he and ticket-mate John Kerry would bring real American values back to the White House.

“Our campaign is going to be a celebration of real American values,” Edwards told a crowd of around 150 who paid $1,000 each to hear him speak at a fund-raiser in a Manhattan hotel.

I guess associating with liars and thieves is the embodiment of “real values.”

How sad.

How pathetically sad it is that the best Democrats can do to avoid the potential fallout of the Berger Pants-Stuffing Incident that they have to question the timing of the leak!

Instapundit has been all over this story with relevant links and insight…

And this whole thing makes Clinton laugh…

UPDATE: John Kerry manages to point the finger at…. Everyone but former advisor Sandy Berger!!!
UPDATE: There is definitely more to this story… The Democrats are on overdrive damage-control here, throwing anything they can back towards Republicans and the White House. Did partisan act by Berger backfire and now they’re trying to shift blame towards Republicans over “the timing?” Are the Democrats worried because of Berger’s connections to the Kerry campaign?
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin points us to Byron York’s article on “Trousergate”, explaining Berger’s interest in the millenium-plot report.

I first caught the news from Kevin’s post at Blogs For Bush :

John Kerry’s chief foreign policy adviser, Democratic Committee Platform member and someone seen as short-listed for a Kerry administration secretary of state, Sandy Berger, is being investigated for removing classified documents and keeping them from the 9/11 Commission

Michelle Malkin also has a bunch of links…
UPDATE:

Fringe liberals are hoping to disrupt the GOP Convention in New York this summer by trying to fool bomb sniffing dogs on trains and throwing marbles under the hooves of police horses - even pelting the horses with the marbles…

I was enraged when I read this. Strangely, I didn’t hear it on FOX, or saw it on Drudge… I found out about this story when Paul at Blogs For Bush wrote about it. Imagine if the situation were reversed, and right wing extremists were going to attempt to sabotage the DNC in Boston — outrage. Pure outrage. The worst thing is, these fringe types are what the Democrat party’s mainstream is becoming. Slowly but surely, the Democrat party continues to shift further and further to the left and they become increasingly vocal and violent.

These fringe liberals are domestic terrorists. Make no mistake about it. These people should be treated as such.

INCITE knows what I’m talking about. Sissy and Michele share my disgust.

If this is true, it is a sad, sad attempt by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to compensate for Edwards’ lack of foreign policy experience:

Tentative plans are being discussed inside the Kerry-Edwards campaign to send vice-presidential candidate John Edwards to Iraq as soon as possible.

Edwards has not gone to Iraq since the U.S. invasion last year. His visit there would be designed to try to fill the senator’s lack of experience in national security policy. It also would provide the campaign with photo opportunities showing Edwards in close contact with U.S. troops in Iraq.

Before he announced his presidential candidacy last year, Edwards declared aggressive action against Iraq was needed because weapons of mass destruction were there. Like John Kerry, Edwards voted for the war resolution but against the $87 billion bill funding the conflict.