From the Associated Press (via Yahoo!):

Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before.

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It’s a little ironic that the change candidate has sparked such a fear of change.

In all seriousness, regardless of how you feel about the guy, he doesn’t deserve any sort of violence, much less assassination.  If he’s that bad, work within the system.  Get a Republican Congress in in 2 years, and vote for someone else in 2012.  Believe it or not, the system works, and I’ll be praying for Mr. Obama’s safety.

From CNN:

Alaska’s Personnel Board concluded Monday that Gov. Sarah Palin did not violate ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, contradicting an earlier investigation’s findings.

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This is good news. My money, barring a miracle tomorrow, is on Palin as the next Republican President. An ethics violation on her record could make for a rough 2012 campaign.

In his first inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan delivered a line succinctly capturing the sentiment that elected him: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

A generation later, that attitude still resonates with a solid majority of Americans. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of voters agree with Reagan, and just 28% disagree.

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Sadly, it seems neither party will heed Reagan’s warning.  While one is more extreme, both Democrats and Republicans are pushing us toward socialism.  Our nation of lazy, non-responsibility-taking people does nothing but encourage the move.

However, there is hope for another one of these (the first clip is just a summary, the full speech is below the break:

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America’s Days Aren’t Numbered
By Thomas F. Madden

The last time I strolled through the local Barnes & Noble, there were so many books announcing the end of American power, wealth, influence, or just America itself, that I began to wonder whether my dollars would be worth anything by the time I hit the checkout counter.

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Definitely worth the read.

HT: American Thinker

Obama the naive
His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies.
By John R. Bolton

Barack Obama’s willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea “without preconditions” is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.

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You can’t rationalize with the irrational. Ahmadinejad doesn’t want peace, he wants the Mahdi. Bolton gets it, why doesn’t Obama?

Well, more or less…

“America’s Chickens are Coming Home to Roost”
By Daniel Pipes

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, and Barack Obama’s pastor since 1988, told his congregation in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001 that U.S. terrorism had precipitated Al-Qaeda’s attack. “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards.” Wright concluded that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

That last phrase has a history.

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Of all the thing Rev. Wright has said, I don’t know that this phrase is the best to draw attention to. However, when you combine his quoting of Malcolm X with his claim that America is the #1 killer in the world, that the U.S. invinted HIV to kill black people, that 9/11 & Pearl Harbor were the government’s fault, and mix that all together with the fact that Barack Obama has attended that man’s church for 20 years, I think it’s obvious the good Senator has no business in government, much less being President.

Somewhere a teenager is covering their face and saying, “Dad, stop embarassing me!”

HT: Hot Air

By Phyllis Chesler

Someone should ask Senator Obama where he stands on the persecution of “infidels” in Muslim lands and the proliferation of Muslim-arranged marriages, polygamy, face-veiling, wife- and daughter-beating, and honor murders in America.

Talk Radio (The Mancow show) called and asked me to join them Tuesday morning to comment on the Obama-Farrakhan matter. And so I made a dutiful list of “talking points” and tried to overcome my professorial politeness in order to get a few words in edgewise on a wonderfully high-energy program. The interview is posted at Mancow.com and here’s some of what I said.

I believe that Obama is our first Muslim Presidential contender.

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By Margaret Ramirez

Speaking to thousands of members of the Nation of Islam in Chicago at their annual convention, Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday praised presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as the only hope for healing America’s racial divisions.

Farrakhan spoke about the war in Iraq, the nation’s ailing economy and the increase in natural disasters, saying the world was in a perilous state and Obama could help it recover.

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As far as I’m concerned, this is the point where Obama became a worse option than Hillary.

I’m sure you’ve all seen will.i.am’s Obama propaganda video “Yes We Can.” Well, here’s the Reagan remix:

HT: Hot Air

Picture courtesy LGF

By Rick Moran

This really is too rich for irony.

Barack Obama’s Houston campaign office prominently displays a Cuban flag with a superimposed picture of Che Guevara, the Argentine-born terrorist and revolutionary.

Of course, Obama made an issue of not wearing an American flag pin or placing his hand over his heart during the national anthem, quite rightly pointing out that neither gesture is necessary to be patriotic. But it sure makes him look like a fool when his ultra-left supporters go to work every day under the flag of the dictator Fidel Castro.

Article Continues… (American Thinker)

As much as I hate to defend him, Obama really can’t be held responsible for how someone decorates their office. However, being that he’s the one running for President, you think he establish some sort of guidelines for this…

Now, if he’d just name Bolton as his running mate, I’d gladly support McCain.

HT: Hot Air

By John Perazzo

Barack Obama, in a way that recalls John F. Kennedy, a politician to whom he’s frequently compared, has carefully controlled and burnished his image to create the impression of an independent figure, free from dogma and ideological entanglements. But there is one man who threatens to undermine Obama’s appealing narrative as a man above the ugly quarrels and divisive partisanship of the past: his longtime pastor and spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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I’m really starting to suspect that the Democratic nominee, whoever it is, will be the next President. Since Obama seems a slight favorite, and is a very bad choice for Israel, I’m focusing on him.

I think I just declared Hillary the lesser of two political evils. Yikes!