The Glenview Humane Society Surge
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Pics of the police presence at the Glenview Humane Society Event with Mark Kirk:
July 2007
Someone Has To Win the Republican Nomination, but They All Seem To Be Finding Ways To Screw It Up
“No to Obama, Osama and Chelsea’s Moma.”
So he finds some woman who not only is terribly offensive, but cannot even spell. Unless there is some reference to modern art I’m not getting.
TPM got the Romney campaign on record:
This obviously invited the question: Was it appropriate for Mitt Romney to hold up a sign likening Barack Obama to the leader of an international terrorist network, responsible for bloody attacks upon the United States, apparently all based on his name? After all, what would the media reaction be if Barack Obama posed with a supporter who had a sign comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler? The press would go nuts over it, surely, and rightly so.
Election Central contacted Romney spokesman Kevin Madden for comment, asking if it was appropriate for the candidate to hold the sign up with the woman. “The governor stopped briefly for a picture with a supporter who just happened to be holding their own sign with an alliterative play on words,” Madden said, via e-mail. “I don’t think it was equating or comparing anyone.”
IOW, the campaign staffers aren’t much brighter than Flipper.
Congressman “Dogged” by Constituents Who Want Him to Bring Troops Home and End War in Iraq
Americans Against Escalation in Iraq
Glenview – Eight fully-uniformed officers from the Glenview police department were on hand to protect Congressman Mark Kirk today when he visited a Humane Society event in the town’s Gateway Park. The officers joined multiple members of Kirk’s staff at “Pet Protection Day,” where local pet owners learned about local services, pet care issues and animal protection legislation.
Also at the event were seven local supporters of the Iraq Summer campaign, which has been calling on Congressman Kirk to take a stand against President Bush’s reckless Iraq war policies. The supporters – all residents of Kirk’s 10th District – were on hand to present Kirk with a “Report Card” on his Iraq voting record.
Congressman Kirk spoke to the group about current efforts in Congress to protect animals, and was honored for his legislative efforts on behalf of animal rights. After he finished speaking and posing for pictures with pets, the Congressman avoided questions about his votes on the war from constituents as he hurried to his car.
Members of the Glenview Police present at the park – including Chief William Fitzpatrick – refused to answer questions about why so many were needed for an event attended by about 50 people. Village President Kerry Cummings, who was also on hand, said that everyone was welcome at the event and highlighted the park’s key role in the Glenview community.
Today marks the second time in two weeks that Congressman Kirk has been pressed in person by his constituents to answer questions about his position on the Iraq war. Despite signs that he may break step with the President, Kirk again voted with Bush on a July 12th bill that would withdraw nearly all American troops from Iraq by next April.
“Why is Congressman Kirk willing to talk about protecting pet food but not our soldiers?” said Sharon Sanders of Northbrook. “We were a peaceful group that wanted nothing more than a straight answer from our Congressman. I was shocked that he called in that many police to a Humane Society event,” said Sanders.
More after the jump
Why Would a Congressman Need 8 Police Officers for a Humane Society Event
Just asking.
More in a bit.
Obama’s Alan Keyes impersonation needs work
The only person to really get close to Keyes is this guy though:
They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning…
Mitt Romney backed age appropriate sex education in 2002.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney attacked Sen. Barack Obama yesterday for purportedly wanting sex education in kindergarten.
It turns out, Romney himself once indicated support for the same sort of sex-ed approach — “age-appropriate” — that Obama backs.
In a Planned Parenthood questionnaire he filled out during his 2002 gubernatorial run, Romney checked ‘yes’ to a question asking, “Do you support the teaching of responsible, age-appropriate, factually accurate health and sexuality education, including information about both abstinence and contraception, in public schools?”
The answer, pointed out by a rival campaign, was resurrected in 2005 when Romney was criticized by Massachusetts pro-choice groups when he began to push an abstinence-heavy focus on sex education. Still, his spokesman said then that he still backed a “comprehensive” approach on teaching public school kids about sex.
The dude is a walking, talking contradiction.
Sound: The call him Flipper….
Okay, Now We Have a Constitutional Crisis
The only way to solve this is for Congress to enforce it’s own subpoenas.
This is truly a stunning level of arrogance and overreach.That said, expect to see the a very busy Sergeant at Arms frogmarching people before Congress for a trial. The founders had one other tool for when the Executive tried to evade the law: Impeachment.
Comey Suggests Fitzgerald for AG
July 20 (Bloomberg) — Patrick Fitzgerald won the convictions of four Osama bin Laden associates in May 2001. In March, he got Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Last week, he nailed Conrad Black.
Fitzgerald, 46, isn’t saying what he’ll do next in his career. Friends and colleagues say he probably will remain a prosecutor rather than join a law firm. One colleague says Fitzgerald’s destiny may include the top law-enforcement job in the country: U.S. attorney general.
“I think he would make a spectacular attorney general,” said former Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Comey, now general counsel at Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp., the world’s largest defense contractor. “He certainly is one of the very best federal prosecutors in America.”
Surprising Indictments
While most of the George Ryan indictments were not terribly surprising, one of the areas Ryan excelled in was prison reform. Remember that Richard Speck videotape? Remember how the Lege lost interest real quick?
The prisons were a complete mess before Snyder with gangs essentially running much of the inside of the prisons. Snyder, though never considered perfect, cleaned that up.
Snyder was indicted yesterday. There shouldn’t be much that surprises you in Illinois, but this case in particular demonstrates how deep the corruption runs.
Romney’s Playing from the Keyes Playbook
Of all people, CBN’s Brody File
At first the headline was shocking. ABC News ran a story with the headline “Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama.” You can read the story here and watch his comments here. The key excerpt is below:
“Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is ‘age-appropriate,’ is ‘the right thing to do.’ ‘But it’s the right thing to do,’ Obama continued, ‘to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools.'”
Here’s what Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki is telling The Brody File this morning:
“Barack Obama supports sensible, community-driven education for children because, among other things, he believes it could help protect them from pedophiles. A child’s knowledge of the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching is crucial to keeping them safe from predators.”
So, at this point at least, what Obama is referring to is teaching five year olds about inappropriate touching. The Obama campaign also tells The Brody File that parents would be able to opt out. As for further details, the touching aspect seems to be the main idea here. Obama doesn’t want to hand out condoms to five year olds. He doesn’t want cucumber demonstrations as part of show and tell. The legitimate reasonable discussion here is whether the federal government and/or local school boards should get involved in providing these five year olds information about inappropriate touching or should it be left up to families only.
Still, The Romney campaign is already ripping Barack Obama. The campaign is sending out this You Tube video where Mitt Romney spoke about this last night in a Colorado Springs speech. Watch it here.
I must say that Romney’s comments suggesting that Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergarteners is a little misleading. Because he didn’t put in the proper context, many in the audience probably left thinking that Obama is ok with the condoms and cucumber approach.
The Brody File found a Chicago Daily Herald article from October of 2004 that shads some light on this latest episode. Read below:
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Barack Obama, addressing college students Tuesday in Lisle, moved to clarify that he does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten.
The sex-education question, from a student who identified herself as being part of an anti-abortion group at Benedictine University, mirrors a charge Republican candidate Alan Keyes has leveled at Obama.
The legislation in question was a state Senate measure last year that aimed to update Illinois’ sex education standards with “medically accurate” information. At one point, the legislation included a provision to allow students from kindergarten through fifth grade to be added to the middle and high school students receiving sex education.
Obama was chairman of the Senate committee that voted along party lines to move along the measure, which ultimately went nowhere.
“Nobody’s suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it,” Obama said. “If they ask a teacher ‘where do babies come from,’ that providing information that the fact is that it’s not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that’s going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards.”
Also, in October of 2004 during a debate with Alan Keyes, below is the exchange they had with regards to this topic:
KEYES: Well, I had noticed that, in your voting, you had voted, at one point, that sex education should begin in kindergarten, and you justified it by saying that it would be “age-appropriate” sex education.
But then on another vote, when they wanted to put internet filters on computers for the schools and in the libraries, you voted to oppose that, which made me wonder just exactly what you think is “age-appropriate.”
For instance, do you think that, in the first and second grade, we ought to be teaching from books like Heather Has Two Mommies, where we will be presenting, whether or not parents agree with it, a lifestyle that many folks in the state of Illinois believe is not advisable? Is that the kind of sex education you mean?
OBAMA: Actually, that wasn’t what I had in mind.
We have a existing law that mandates sex education in the schools. We want to make sure that it’s medically accurate and age-appropriate.
Now, I’ll give you an example, because I have a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and one of the things my wife and I talked to our daughter about is the possibility of somebody touching them inappropriately, and what that might mean.
And that was included specifically in the law, so that kindergarteners are able to exercise some possible protection against abuse, because I have family members as well as friends who suffered abuse at that age. So, that’s the kind of stuff that I was talking about in that piece of legislation.
I’m curious where Brody File readers come down on this.