National Review has an awesome quote from one of Obama’s advisors on his unpreparedness: 

 In it, Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama, discusses the foreign policy credentials of both Democrats against the tableau of Mrs. Clinton’s 3 a.m. phone call advertisement about who would be best prepared for an international crisis. (While your children are safely asleep.)

“Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready,’’ Ms. Rice said. “They’re both not ready to have that 3 a.m. phone call.”

Check out the full article 

Ahh the media is finally beginning to pay some attention to this Rezko mess that around Barack Obama.

Here’s a new blog from the Chicago Tribune following the day-by-day Rezko trial updates.

Add it to your daily reading list.

The Bush Doctrine appears to (gasp!) be working. Somewhat shocking news to the liberal media, this represent something that conservatives have been familiar with for a while - that peace comes through strength and freedom.

A good breakdown of the article is here.

Update: Another analysis here.

I think this SNL skit sums it up pretty well:

In a shocking (although sadly not so) article in Sunday’s New York Times, two reporters, Deborah Sontag and Lizatte Alvarez, launched into typical talking points about bloodthirsty soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as maniacal killers.

Town by town across the country, headlines have been telling similar stories. Lakewood, Wash.: “Family Blames Iraq After Son Kills Wife.” Pierre, S.D.: “Soldier Charged With Murder Testifies About Postwar Stress.” Colorado Springs: “Iraq War Vets Suspected in Two Slayings, Crime Ring.”

Individually, these are stories of local crimes, gut-wrenching postscripts to the war for the military men, their victims and their communities. Taken together, they paint the patchwork picture of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak.

The NYT patched together 121 of these stories to paint the picture of rabid young men returning to America as crazed murderers - following the leftist portrait of American soldiers who are either psychopaths to begin with or are made so by the military.

The problem here is that 121 veteran-murderers, although sad, is a tremendously small amount as Ralph Peters explains in a counter-article in the NY Post:

Had the Times’ “journalists” and editors bothered to put those figures in context - which they carefully avoided doing - they would’ve found that the murder rate that leaves them so aghast means that our vets are five times less likely to commit a murder than their demographic peers.
The Times’ public editor, Clark Hoyt, should crunch the numbers. I’m even willing to spot the Times a few percentage points (either way). But the hard statistics from the Justice Department tell a far different tale from the Times’ anti-military propaganda.
A very conservative estimate of how many different service members have passed through Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait since 2003 is 350,000 (and no, that’s not double-counting those with repeated tours of duty).
Now consider the Justice Department’s numbers for murders committed by all Americans aged 18 to 34 - the key group for our men and women in uniform. To match the homicide rate of their peers, our troops would’ve had to come home and commit about 150 murders a year, for a total of 700 to 750 murders between 2003 and the end of 2007.
In other words, the Times unwittingly makes the case that military service reduces the likelihood of a young man or woman committing a murder by 80 percent.

I don’t know whether to assume the reporters are simply bad at their jobs because they are lazy and incompetent, or because they ignore basic journalistic standards and impose their leftist propaganda upon their audience, but either way they owe our veterans a very serious apology.

Please tell the NYT editors how you feel by here!

Click here to view an interview I did with TCW regarding the GOP primary field thus far.

We all remember the giant Flip-Flops and Flipper the dolphin trailing John Kerry around to his fundraisers, speeches, and rallies. They were so eager to help the good Senator, that they seemed to never leave his side and were constantly appearing on TV to represent his positions.

Of course, Flipper couldn’t have done it all by himself, he needed CRs to don the costume and trot into enemy territory - but hey, that’s what we’re for! CRs are made to do bracketing events!

The post below captures a perfect example of the Rhode Island CRs pulling off a spectacular bracketing event. They took an issue that Hillary really didn’t need to have in the press, and made it the story of the event by injecting some dry humor into the situation and having a few dozen CRs there to make he point. Congrats!

Bracketing is like putting bookends on either side of an opponent’s event to make sure that the story coming out deals not with how great a fundraiser Hillary had, but instead that she has always been a supporter of the war and will continue to be. The purpose is to expose the truth to the people watching at home, and humor usually is the most effective way of accomplishing this in a short 10 second shot on the nightly news.

College Republicans nationwide should be engaging their local political scene with such bracketing events. Don’t wait until next fall to get started; now is the time to excite your membership, dust off that old Flipper costume, and storm the enemy’s barricades! The public deserves to hear the truth!

PS: Remember to always bring your video camera (or digital camera at the very, very least) and capture the whole thing on film. Do a little editing for quality’s sake and throw it up on YouTube for the world to see. You can then include the link in any post-event press releases.

The Rhode Island College Republicans have gotten some attention from the Washington Times this morning for their event thanking HRC for her 2002 vote to authorize action in Iraq.

Every now and then, an inquiring reporter calls up the office and I’m able to give some answers about the direction of the GOP, the youth movement, or current events. I enjoy this because it gives me a channel as the representative of the organization to speak directly to thousands of people and, of course, I encourage all local and state CR leaders to seek out as much positive media attention as they can find.

Here’s a segment I did with XM Radio on their POTUS channel (dedicated to politicis in 2008 24/7) along with Chris Brooks from GWU and some of our friends across the aisle. You follow the link and then download the podcast for free through iTunes.

Plus, it’s fun to rag on the lefties with everyone listening…