Oh look, Obama changed his mind... on Spanish

Via Babalu:
First Obama said immigrants should learn English:

Transcript:

"We'll have to finally bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadoes. It is time we did that. Now, let's acknowledge, yes, they broke the law. They should have to pay a fine, they should have to learn English, they should go to the back of the line, they should not get citizenship ahead of those who have been waiting patiently, but we also have to put them on a pathway to citizenship."

Then he changed his mind:

Transcript:

You know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, "We need to have English - only." They want to pass a law, "We want English-only."

Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. But understand this. Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English -- they'll learn English -- you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about, how can your child become bilingual? We should have every child speaking more than one language.

You know, it's embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say [is], "Merci beaucoup." Right?

Via Memeorandum, American Voters Reject Obama's call for Bilingualism:

A national telephone survey conducted last month by Rasmussen Reports found that U.S. voters overwhelmingly disagree with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. (see video)

Eighty-three percent (83%) place a higher priority on encouraging immigrants to speak English as their primary language. Just 13% take the opposite view and say it is more important for Americans to learn other languages.

In his comments, Obama emphasized the economic benefits of learning a second language: "If you have a foreign language, that is a powerful tool to get a job." Data suggests that most voters see the issue in a broader context.

A separate survey found that one factor fueling the anger over immigration is the belief that most government officials encourage immigrants to retain the culture of their home country. This helps explain why voters who are angry about immigration are primarily angry at the government, not immigrants. Among those angry about immigration, 59% believe most government officials encourage immigrants to retain their home country culture.

Last fall, a Rasmussen Reports survey found that 77% of Americans believed that employers should be allowed to require employees to speak English while on the job. With the Supreme Court recently upholding tougher standards for voter identification at the polls, 65% of voters now believe election ballots should only be printed in English. Thirty-two percent (32%) say they should be printed in both English and Spanish.

The importance of assimilation into the culture is highlighted in another recent survey: 54% of voters say it is more important to encourage all immigrants to embrace American culture than it is to reduce the number of immigrants. Just 36% take the opposite view and say reducing immigration is a higher priority. That survey, as with many others, also found a strong preference for ballots and other government documents to be printed in English only.

Even when bilingualism is not assimilation, the fact is that you can not assimilate into a culture without a good working knowledge of its language. All immigrants should learn English, and to learn English, you have to be taught.

In a lighter vein, A different look at the race

Prior post: Bilingualism and Obama.



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Oh look, Obama changed his mind... on FISA

"Today, Barack Obama is going to vote for the FISA bill he swore to filibuster when he needed the support of the far left.

The Senate is finally expected to wrap up the bill updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act today, which includes the controversial provision of retroactive immunity for telecom companies facing lawsuit. While the bill splits Democrats, it's expected to pass with united Republican support.

Obama will be back for today's vote and has said he'll support final passage."

More at LGF.

Change? You betcha!

UPDATE
FISA Reform Passes; Obama Votes "Yes," Breaking His Promise



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Bilingualism and Obama

Obama was saying,

You know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, "We need to have English - only." They want to pass a law, "We want English-only."

Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. But understand this. Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English -- they'll learn English -- you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about, how can your child become bilingual? We should have every child speaking more than one language.

You know, it's embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say [is], "Merci beaucoup." Right?

You know, no, I'm serious about this. We should understand that our young people, if you have a foreign language, that is a powerful tool to get ajob. You are so much more employable. You can be part of international business. So we should be emphasizing foreign languages in our schools from an early age, because children will actually learn a foreign language easier when they're 5, or 6, or 7 than when they're 46, like me.

Obama does pronounce Spanish very clearly when he does his political ads. He also does it for a political purpose. His thought that Americans should make their children bilingual in Spanish panders to "Hispanics" who are not interested in assimilating, but makes no sense vis-a-vis the argument that doing so would keep Americans from embarrassment when traveling in Europe: only a small number of Europeans speak Castillian (including, increasingly, non-Castillians born and raised in Spain). May I remind Obama that what we call Spanish in the USA is Castillian in Spain?

Andrew Leonard thinks that

There's nothing particularly exceptional about Obama's position, unless you are an English-only partisan cowering in fear of your cultural identity being swamped by funny-looking people from strange lands. Or one of the similarly insecure patriots who believe any criticism of the U.S. is a sign of "blame-America-first" treachery. And I suppose the whole comment about "going to Europe" opens Obama up to more charges of elitism, and disconnection from the lives of those who, right now, can't afford to even think about going to Europe.

Leonard clearly ignored people like myself, who are fully bilingual in Spanish, and who also can read French and a little Portuguese. Some of us are "Hispanic" (which, as I've said before is a term I use for expediency), many of us are not. I have met thousands of Americans born and raised in the USA who are multilingual.

People like myself are not "cowering in fear of your cultural identity being swamped by funny-looking people from strange lands." For starters, even when we come from "strange lands", we are not "funny-looking people". Indeed, people like me are fully integrated Americans and look like everyone else, i.e., unfunny.

What we fear is not that our "cultural identity" may or may not be "swamped", because we are secure in our cultural identity; What we worry about is that new immigrants (documented or not) who hadn't had a quality education in their countries of origin would deny themselves the opportunities our great country offers by not wanting to learn English and limit themselves to regions of the country where only their native tongue is spoken. The best paid professions in the world rely on English as their common language. India has become a dynamic economy because English-speaking jobs get outsourced to India. People how aren't willing to learn English (and I mean standard, proper, grammatically correct English) are sentencing themselves to a lifetime of poorly-paid jobs and missed opportunities.

Additionally, every country with an official second language is permanently divided. While the teaching of foreign languages (in plural - considering China's ascendancy in the global scene, Mandarin comes in handy) should be compulsory in every school in our country, English is and should remain America's language. All the original documents that created this nation should be read in the original English to be fully understood.

Which brings me to Victor Davis Hanson: his experience mirrors mine when it comes to multi-lingual America,

I was watching Obama complain that we don't speak European languages while Europeans speak English fluently. Fair enough—though the vast size of the US, the presence of two oceans on our borders, the ubiquity of Spanish here, the knowledge of other languages by millions of Americans, both explain a lot, and belie the notion that we are all English-only speakers, while the multitude of nations in close proximity has historically made Europeans by necessity multi-lingual.

Hanson, a university professor, adds the educational angle:

But that said, Obama's previous idealization of minority-theme charter schools and the need for more "oppression studies" are precisely the sorts of therapeutic curricula that ensure Americans are not getting classical instruction in languages and literatures. We still await his visit to an inner-city school where he might lecture the student body and faculty that more Latin, French, math, and Shakespeare would do more to make students competitive in an increasingly tough, global job market than thousands of hours of oppression studies and victimization classes.

Obama is wrong in believing that "Immigrants will learn English" on their own well enough to meet the challenges of any well-paid profession. Immigrants need to learn the structure, grammar, syntax and pronunciation of proper English. I know this from my own personal experience. Additionally, when it comes to the instruction of foreign languages in schools, the more classroom hours you dedicate to "self-esteem" oriented or victimization studies, the fewer hours you'll have for rigorous academic curricula of any kind, foreign languages included.

And that's not the way to favorably impress the Europeans, or anyone. TigerHawk has more on that.



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Colombia Free Trade Agreement: "Not a Matter of Whether, but of When"

Rich Lowry (emphasis added):

Just got off the phone with Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez who has worked his heart out to pass the FTA and—as a great lover of freedom—is ecstatic over the gains President Uribe has made against FARC. He says, as far as he is concerned, passing FTA is "not a matter of whether but of when." He would hope it would be in this session of Congress, but knows "the odds are not in favor" of it. "Next in line," he says, "is a lame-duck session of Congress." He sees the justifications for opposing the deal collapsing everywhere he looks. Opponents say that they want to protect workers in Colombia. "Uribe has a 90 percent approval rating," Gutierrez says "It's not as though we know more about what's right for workers in Colombia than he does." According to Gutierrez, every time President Bush talks to Uribe and asks what the U.S. can do for Colombia, Uribe says one thing—pass FTA. "I don't know how anyone can deny the FTA," he says of Uribe, "after everyone has seen how much progress he's made, how popular he is, and the recognition he's received around the world. I can't believe Congress is the only one who doesn't see it." If Congress keeps delaying it, Gutierrez worries "how selfish and out of touch we'd look with the world, with our neighbors, and with our allies." What's so aggravating, of course, is on top of everything else, our exporters are paying tariffs to get their goods into Colombia as long as the FTA languishes, while most Colombian goods already have tariff-free access to the U.S. Is it too much to ask that Congress act in the country's national-security and economic interests, even if it upsets unions? We'll see...

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are holding up what would be a most valuable show of support for America's most important ally in South America. Nancy sees absolutely nothing wrong with telling the world that she deems partisan politics more important than America's own security. Her actions amount to treason.

This afternoon I called into Media Lizzy's podcast and we let it rip.

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Worst.Congress.Ever.

More posts on Nancy Pelosi and her perfidy here.

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Obama's slumlord friend, summarized

FACT CHECK: Obama, His Contributor Rezko, the Slum Landlord Business

Summary:Obama completed more than just five hours of legal work for Antoin "Tony" Rezko, his main contributor who also ran slum landord operations both inside and outside of Obama's Illinois state Senate district. And according to answers Obama's Presidential campaign submitted in response to a question posed by the Chicago Sun-Times, this legal work involved multiple entities tied to Rezko's tenement empire, not the one "church" Obama disingenuously cited during the debate.

That legal work occurred after Obama received $1,000 from Rezko during the winter of 1997, when residents of one of Rezko's slums located within Obama's state Senate district shivered without heat for five weeks during a cold Chicago winter. Obama also wrote letters on Rezko's behalf on his state Senate stationary after he received that donation. Although this is just a scratch on the surface of Obama's long and checkered history with Antoin "Tony" Rezko, it provides some insight into the 2005 real estate transaction involving Obama, Rezko and a mansion in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago.

Doug Ross puts it in pictures for our progressive friends

More, much more at Rezkorama.

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Oh look, Obama changed his mind... on Iraq, AGAIN

Change, and change again:

No sooner was the virtual ink dry on the latest flip-flop that we find another one:
Obama: Don't stay in Iraq over genocide. That was on July 20, 2007.
Fast-forward to Saturday, July 6, 2008: he said he has always reserved "the right to protect people from genocide." (via Allahpundit)

At this rate I'll have to add a coblogger to keep up with the Lazy Susan platform.

The new category: "Oh look, Obama changed his mind"
Oh look, Obama changed his mind... this time, Iraq
Oh look, Obama changed his mind... on abortion
Oh look, Obama changed his mind... on abortion, AGAIN

Change? You can believe in!

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Oh look, Obama changed his mind... on abortion, AGAIN

Bouncing from one side to the other faster than a tennis ball at Wimbledon... Leaping tall tales in a single bound... It's a bird! It's a plane! No - It's Barack Obama!

First he supported abortion:

Remember this is a guy who voted in the Illinois State Senate against the Induced Infant Liability Act which protected babies born alive after a "botched" abortion. A very similar law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate. Even NARAL didn't oppose that bill. He defends that position by saying that he didn't think such a law was necessary despite the testimony in his own committee from delivery room nurses of aborted babies being left to die. He also in the Illinois legislature opposed a bill that would have instituted penalties against someone who transported a minor across state lines for an abortion.

Then on Thursday he changed his mind and said that mental distress” should not qualify as a justification for late-term abortions.

Now it's Sunday, so he's changed his mind again

Reporter: You said that mental distress shouldn't be a reason for late-term abortion?

Obama: "My only point is this -- historically I have been a strong believer in a women's right to choose with her doctor, her pastor and her family. And it is ..I have consistently been saying that you have to have a health exception on many significant restrictions or bans on abortions including late-term abortions.

In the past there has been some fear on the part of people who, not only people who are anti-abortion, but people who may be in the middle, that that means that if a woman just doesn't feel good then that is an exception. That's never been the case.

I don't think that is how it has been interpreted. My only point is that in an area like partial-birth abortion having a mental, having a health exception can be defined rigorously. It can be defined through physical health, It can be defined by serious clinical mental-health diseases. It is not just a matter of feeling blue. I don't think that's how pro-choice folks have interpreted it. I don't think that's how the courts have interpreted it and I think that's important to emphasize and understand."

Ann Althouse looks at all this switching about and asks

Incredible. That would be incredible even without the prior inconsistent statement.

Really. Does he think we are idiots?

Frank James of The Swamp thinks that it's because

[Obama] clearly needed to add one more thought to that statement. He did it today.

I for one can't wait for Obama to add yet one more thought, so I'm starting a whole category titled "Oh look, Obama changed his mind". Can we look forward for more?

Yes we can!

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Oh look, Obama changed his mind... on abortion

No sooner did Obama changed his mind about Iraq, that now he's changed his mind about abortion:

The AP reports: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says “mental distress” should not qualify as a justification for late-term abortions, a key distinction not embraced by many supporters of abortion rights. How dare he try to control a woman's womb!

Oops! Gosh, a rabid feminista took control of the keyboard for a few seconds. Seriously, tho, why does Barack Obama view as "wrong" a woman having a late-term abortion for so-called "mental distress" when he doesn't even believe that a baby that survives a late-term abortion should be legally defined as a "person" who would be "accorded immediate protection under the law," and also believes that such laws would be "one more burden on women"?

It's getting so that even the NYT's starting to notice the flip-flops. As Ed says, The New York Times editorial board went to bed with a virgin and woke up with a... well, a pro.

Charles Krauthammer refers to Obama as A Man of Seasonal Principles:

Obama's seasonally adjusted principles are beginning to pile up: NAFTA, campaign finance reform, warrantless wiretaps, flag pins, gun control. What's left?

Now that Obama's started on Iraq and abortion, and he's thrown everyone and his grandma under the bus, that's a good question.

The Obama strategy is clear: say anything that will get him elected, obliterate any difference between him and McCain, and expect to cash in on Bush Derangement Syndrome. For the Obama believers, and possibly for the electorate at large,, the flip-flops just don't matter.

Ace is right on the money:

Yes, but so what? The Obama phenomenon is a cult of personality. His fanatical supporters are not voting for any particular set of policies; they're voting for the man, plain and simple, whatever his policies may have been or might one day evolve into.

It's all towards the greater good of Obamatopia after all.

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Oh look, Obama changed his mind... this time, Iraq

Obama Makes Huge Flip-Flop on Iraq.

Yes indeed, but it doesn't stop there. He then flip-flopped again on the same issue. Ladies' Logic has the details: Whiplash!

Whiplash indeed. In 5 short hours Sen. Obama started to backtrack.
...
You have to love two distinct policy positions in one presser.

Even the London Times is saying that Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash

I guess that's what he means by "change", as in, quick-change artist.



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"Some on left" target McCain's war record

Some on left target McCain's war record

"A lot of people don't know ... that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity," wrote Americablog.com's John Aravosis. "Putting that bit of disloyalty aside, what exactly is McCain's military experience that prepares him for being commander in chief?"

"Getting shot down, tortured and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience," Aravosis wrote in the blog post, titled "Honestly, besides being tortured, what did McCain do to excel in the military?"

HONESTLY, IS JOHN ARAVOSIS A PIECE OF EXCREMENT OR WHAT?

Yes he is.

But take a look at what Wesley Clark has to say:



How stupid is Wesley Clark?, asks Ed Morrissey:

In "the matter of national security policy making." Barack Obama hasn't ever done anything.
In the matter of gauging your "opponents", Obama wants to meet with them without preconditions despite having no national-security, military, or diplomatic experience.
Barack Obama hasn't been on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Barack Obama hasn't had any executive experience.
Barack Obama hasn't commanded anything, in wartime or not.
Barack Obama hasn't dealt with diplomats in any capacity at all.
Barack Obama hasn't ordered the bombs to fall, although to be fair, he has associated himself with someone who has — William Ayers.

Well, at least Aravosis and Clark aren't complaining about Obama's teeth.

Is this the "change" that everyone wants in Washington?

Good question.



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Obama's upcoming Indian idol, scheduled to arrive on July 4: an idol for the idol

In addition to the cult of Obama, Obama himself has been carrying a charm of the Hindu god Hanuman, so Hanuman devotees will be sending him a statue of the revered Indian monkey God, Hanuman:

The group decided to order the idol after they read a magazine report saying that Mr Obama carried a good luck 'monkey king' charm.

Seems that the Indians are hoping for change, and a miracle or two,

"Obama stands for change. We are hoping that he will bring about change so that oil and food prices come down," he said.

The Times of India reports that

Obama's representative Carolyn Sauvage-Mar on Tuesday received a gold-plated two-feet-high idol which she will pass it on to the Obama after it is sanctified.

The idol is being presented to Obama as he is reported to be a Lord Hanuman devotee and carries with him a locket of the monkey god along with other good luck charms.

The idol will be kept at the temple for 11 more days (starting from June 24, the date of the news item) and then sent to US, which means the idol is due to arrive on July 4.

I wonder what the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in the USA will have to say about this Obaman fondness for "good luck charms"...

(h/t Steve)



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Obama: Offshore drilling is "a gimmick"

While China, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil do their outmost to drink our offshore milkshake, Obama's saying that offshore drilling is "a gimmick":

Obama, who wants to keep a moratorium on offshore drilling, will argue that McCain is offering a "gimmick" similar to the gas tax holiday proposal.
...
In Las Vegas this afternoon, Obama slammed McCain's energy proposals, arguing that they are "gimmicks" that may poll well but do not provide immediate relief. Obama said that he supports McCain's $300 million battery prize but that alone would not be enough.

In the same speech, Obama proposed a "stimulus package", "another round of rebate checks to the American people", and, the biggie:GREEN JOBS
Not gimmicks, no siree....

After all, green jobs may help bring down the price of arugula.

But hey, there's good news on energy policy coming from the Dems: Maxine Waters's spokeperson claims that she didn't really mean it when Waters talked about nationalizing the oil industry. As Betsy says,

At least we're still at the point that even someone like Waters has to pretend that she doesn't really want to socialize American industry.

One has to wonder what Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) has to say next. Here's what he was saying last week:

Link: sevenload.com

Meanwhile, the Brazilians oil exploration may mean that their recent discoveries may all be connected and form one big oil field. How's that for a gimmick, Obama?

While we wait for the senator to answer that question, let's ponder the No Zone again:

Chris Dodd: Tammany Hall's senior senator

Tammany Hall's senior senator

Dodd, whose Countrywide Mortgage deal was in the news, has been trying to laugh the story off (after all, he's a Democrat, so that sort of thing doesn't count, doesn't it?). But some from his party aren't as keen,

Perhaps the most biting commentary was written by Democrat David Kahane, a National Review Online columnist whose lasting impression of Sen. Dodd is "his shock of white hair, his vaguely New England-ish accent, his hazy demeanor and his utter lack of shame."

"I know you're as shocked as I am," Mr. Kahane told his readers, "to discover that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Countrywide) has been identified as a 'Friend of Angelo,' amid charges that the Enron of subprime mortgages gave him a sweetheart deal. ... You're probably also stunned that Dodd — the chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and the alleged other half of the Edward Moore Kennedy Memorial Waitress Sandwich — had to admit the other day, 'I don't know what interest rates are today.'"

Moreover, he wrote, "it will no doubt astonish you to learn that Dodd, who some say ran for the Democrat nomination for president this year before his campaign collapsed from terminal anti-charisma, along the way shook down — excuse me, 'collected millions of dollars in campaign contributions from' — various subprime lenders and other real-estate types whose activities he oversaw.

Go read the rest.



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Someone Else's Alex

William Kristol in today's NYT:

I was having trouble putting my finder on just why until I came across a post by a mother of a soldier recently deployed in Iraq, at the Web site BlueStarChronicles.com.

Here's what the mother of an actual soldier has to say about the remarks of the mother of the prospective non-soldier in the ad:

"Does that mean that she wants other people's sons to keep the wolves at bay so that her son can live a life of complete narcissism? What is it she thinks happens in the world? ... Someone has to stand between our society and danger. If not my son, then who? If not little Alex then someone else will have to stand and deliver. Someone's son, somewhere."

Check out Blue Star Chronicles and make it a daily visit.

Prior post: "You can't have Alex!"



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Speaking Democrat

Via David A. and Ed Morrissey, Thaddeus McCotter Speaking Democrat

Ignorant, not naive

Betsy links to Jennifer Rubin's post,

An advisor, Daniel Kurtzer, to Barack Obama says that Obama didn't realize what he was saying to AIPAC when he used the term "undivided" in reference to Jerusalem. According to Kurtzer, Obama had "a picture in his mind of Jerusalem before 1967 with barbed wires and minefields and demilitarized zones." Kurtzer says that only after the speech did Obama realize it was a "code word" to use the phrase, "but it does not indicate any kind of naivete about foreign affairs."

As Rubin says,

Once again, this suggests that there is too little adult supervision of a candidate unaccustomed to speaking on the world stage about issues in which there are lots of code words, indeed in which every word (e.g. "preconditons," "immediate withdrawal") has meaning to Americans' foes and friends."

Bashar Assad Understands What Obama The 'Never Mind' Candidate Doesn't

Syria's Assad says wants results from Israel talks:"This is not like drinking tea," Assad, in India on a four-day visit, said when asked if he would meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Paris.

"The meeting between me and the Israeli prime minister will be meaningless without the technocrats laying the foundation, without reaching the final stage."

And as the campaign develops, Poohbama rolls right along. Drew has a photo of Obama's foreign policy team.




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House Dems want to nationalize oil industry

I was wondering if the Dems would come up with a Pooh approach to energy, and Francis Porretto pointed out in the comments

Don't imagine for a minute that the Democrats don't grasp the importance of increasing our domestic oil supply. They do; that's why they're against it.

William E. Simon noted in his magnificent memoir A Time For Truth that those who love power also love scarcity, for scarcity confers power on whoever can get control of the supply of the scarce item. Democrats are eager for a genuine energy shortage to befall us, because it would allow them to institute rationing and government allocation of petrochemicals -- a complete stranglehold over the American economy.

The House Democrats are tripping over themselves to prove Porretto's point:

Link: sevenload.com

Allahpundit points out that

this makes two congressional Democrats on record within the past month as supporting an overtly socialist "solution" to gas prices. How many others agree with a plurality of their base but simply haven't spoken up yet?

Rest assured that the environmental concerns would vanish as soon as that happens. Mary Anastasia O'Grady said it best,

It comes down to this: Where government has the property right, restrictions on development tend to be low. But when the private sector is the owner, environmental concerns blossom.

Jay quotes Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY),

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the most-ardent opponents of off-shore drilling, "We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market."

Listen to Porretto, folks.

UPDATE
Sister Toldjah outlines Pres. Bush's plan:

1. Increase access to the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
2. Tap into the extraordinary potential of oil shale.
3. Permit exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
4. Expand and enhance our refinery capacity.

Yes, I know, we should have been doing this six years ago.

Don't miss the Daily Blog Buzz.

Speaking of ANWR (via Sam)




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"You can't have Alex!"

MoveOn.org's emotional appeal: Don't draft my baby, John McCain!


Don Surber (via Larwyn) wanted to know,

But what about the lad?

What's his side of the story?

Well, here it is: Baby Alex speaks out.

Josh Schroeder (via Ed Morrissey) shares his thoughts,


Buy Josh a beer!

UPDATE, Thursday 19 June
Via Larwyn, Alex sings a tune.



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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Sold on Obama

Karl at Protein Wisdom has the item-by item deconstruction of the Obama resume. Click on the photo and read every word.


Just One Minute calls it a vapor trail, and also brings up an item ignored in Obama's resume: Obama's public education reform connection with unrepentant Weatherman Bill Ayers who believes that

American public school system is nothing but a reflection of capitalist hegemony. Thus, the mission of all progressive teachers is to take back the classrooms and turn them into laboratories of revolutionary change.

Change Obama can believe in.

BONUS
Belmont Club explores the Rezko and Odinga ties in You Don't Know Me.

UPDATE
Hillary Clinton Forum has more.

(h/t Larwyn)



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In today's podcast: Class

Today at 11AM Eastern Siggy and I are talking about class and the Obama campaign.

Siggy has been posting about Obama and the middle class he pretends to care about, part 2, and part 3. We'll define class, how it's perceived in the USA, Latin America and the UK, and how it affects the presidential election.

Chat's open at 10:45AM, and the call-in number is 646 652-2639. Join us!