Blog Heap of Links for the day 30 August 2011

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Obamanation

ObamaOrganizers of the [annual] San Antonio VFW event criticized the White House for not sending President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden or a "first-tier speaker." ... Richard Eubank, the VFW national commander, called the absence of Obama and Biden "an insult of the highest magnitude," and the first time the organization has been so snubbed in its history. The criticism drew a rebuke from the White House. [I'm sure "rebuke" was a typo and they meant "abject apology."]

1:50pm CDT Tue 2011 Aug 30 :MW

According to a recent poll commissioned by Generation Opportunity, 57 percent of Millennials participating said they will learn more about the policy positions of presidential candidates in the 2012 election than they did in 2008. This is bad news for Mr. Obama, who is encumbered with a record that hurts young adults.

1:48pm CDT Tue 2011 Aug 30 :MW

A new poll by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent of Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for president in 2012.

1:46pm CDT Tue 2011 Aug 30 :MW

The end of the Progressive Era, eclipsing Obama, has come from two places -- one fiscal and pragmatic, the other ideological and visceral. First, the debt crisis and persistent economic woes have made it clear that the progressive agenda is unaffordable and unsustainable. ... Second... Americans without an ideology are finding that central planning madness from Washington is making their lives worse, not better. ... The liberal press are frightened out of their wits.

1:28pm CDT Tue 2011 Aug 30 :MW

Uncle Omar.... brother of Auntie Zeituni and half-brother of President Obama's father... arrested for drunk driving last week... being detained on an immigration detainer. He did have a job... at a liquor store.... "had a valid Social Security number for at least 19 years, despite being an illegal immigrant ordered to be deported back to Kenya."

1:20pm CDT Tue 2011 Aug 30 :MW

President Obama's Uncle Onyango Obama, currently in custody in Massachusetts on DUI and immigration charges, has much to teach Americans about how illegal immigrants have been able to get documentation and function in society.

1:10pm CDT Tue 2011 Aug 30 :MW
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Sarah Palin 2012

"This guy thinks we were drug dealers. Rick is looking down a rifle but he keeps talking." By the time the conversation had finished, the rancher had written a cheque for the Perry campaign.

5:21pm CDT Tue 2011 Aug 30 :MW