GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - July 14, 2008

DIERSEN QUESTION: Political parties exist to advance their platforms. Some Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders argue that they, and only they, should determine when a particular Republican candidate, elected official, or party leader should be criticized. When is it appropriate for a particular Republican candidate, elected official, or party leader to be criticized? When he/she does something, for example, committing a major crime, that shows that he/she is not really a Republican? When he/she votes against the Republican Party platform or takes other actions against the Republican Party platform? When he/she endorses a Democrat, gives money to a Democrat, or takes other actions to help elect a Democrat? When he/she engages in negative campaigning against a Republican? When he/she fails to endorse the winner of a Republican primary? When he/she takes money from a Democrat individual or Democrat organization? When he/she works against those who work to advance the Republican Party platform? When he/she fails to carry out the duties of their office?

DAILY HERALD
-- FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: McCain delegate John Borling snubs Republican congressman Don Manzullo - David Beery
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=220678&src=109
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Still, such crossing of party lines - a Republican convention delegate endorsing the Democratic congressional candidate in his own district - is unusual. Such a move goes a step beyond that taken by state Sen. Kirk Dillard last year. The Hinsdale Republican and McCain delegate raised eyebrows and some hackles among party colleagues by appearing in a campaign ad for Barack Obama that aired in Iowa several weeks after Obama launched his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Borling, who described himself Friday as a "Republican-leaning independent," praised Abboud as "a fiscal conservative and a social moderate" with "extraordinary judgment and intelligence." He also took a swipe at Manzullo, serving his eighth term by saying: "The nation suffers from career politicians who believe they are owed lifetime appointment." Borling faulted Manzullo for his key role in importing Alan Keyes from Maryland to carry the Illinois Republicans' banner in the 2004 U.S. Senate race, a move that Borling said "was and is an outrage." Borling, who supports abortion rights, said Manzullo exhibits a "lack of toleration and moderation on certain social issues." "I believe very much in the political middle, that what often is required is compromise, which has tended to buoy the nation in good times and bad," Borling said.)
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: NAACP chairman again blames all past, present, and future problems that Blacks have on old white male conservative Republicans
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=220719
-- Illegals: Kane residents have right to know - David White, Vice President of AFLA, Elgin
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=216712&src=
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Roberta Kent of Winfield promotes the Obamas
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=220533&src=

CHICAGO FLAME
-- BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: "Many politicians were represented as well. Republican officials received particularly hardy applause, as did the Log Cabin Republicans delegation. While Barack Obama did not attend the parade, his supporters blanketed the parade route, showering the onlookers with stickers and campaign literature."
http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2008/07/14/News/Despite.Obstacles.Chicago.Pride.Parade.Proceeds.Smoothly-3390241.shtml

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- CLINTON'S NEW YORK v. OBAMA'S CHICAGO: Obama campaign slams New Yorker cover - Katie Fretland
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/barack_obama_new_yorker_cover.html
-- Budget's winners and losers Education, police get boost; child welfare, health care miss out - Ray Long and Jeffrey Meitrodt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-state-budget-14jul14,0,7342478.story
-- OUTRAGEOUS: ILLEGALS, THOSE WHO EXPLOIT THEM, AND OTHER ANTI-AMERICANS OVERJOYED: John McCain says he has earned the trust of Hispanic voters by championing an immigration reform bill that nearly killed his presidential bid. The Republican presidential candidate also says, in remarks prepared for delivery Monday in San Diego, that Democrat Barack Obama failed to take a similar stand on the politically explosive issue of illegal immigration. McCain will speak to the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza. Obama appeared before the group on Sunday, another indication of the fierce jockeying for a critical pool of voters, a quarter of them undecided in a recent poll.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-ap-mccain,0,7936910.story

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
-- BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Schwarzenegger: Flip-flopping 'great' No harm in saying 'I have changed my mind'
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1054339,CST-NWS-arnolds14.article
-- Blacks likely to sway '10 gov race -- but not win it - Laura Washington
http://www.suntimes.com/news/washington/1053790,CST-EDT-Laura14.article
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: The Democrat Party platform is vehemently anti-religious. Obama is running as a Democrat. Elizabeth Shakman outrageously promotes Obama as a religious healer.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/1054336,CST-EDT-open14.article

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
-- AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: More Illinoisans visiting food pantries - AP
http://www.sj-r.com/homepage/x469158824/More-Illinoisans-visiting-food-pantries
-- Lincoln's Principles - Stan Heitbrink, Lincoln
http://www.sj-r.com/opinions/x390630144/Letters-to-the-Editor-July-14
(THE LETTER: I am disappointed in the news media concentrating on Abraham Lincoln mainly for commercial purposes and/or civil rights agendas. We have a new library with the name of a felon on it. We spend a lot of money for tourism, but we forget what really is important in the life of Abraham Lincoln are his principles. His seven points of the economy of a nation is one of many that should be taught to every school-age child: 1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 3. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. 4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 5. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. 6. You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence. 7. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. I encourage all of you home-schooling parents to seek out truths, use the library, and teach your children truths and principles along with the mandated requirements. The truth is out there; it is just not being presented by the news media or politicians. Thank you.)

COURIER NEWS
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: More are registering to vote, but how many of them have been bamboozled by the news media into worshiping Obama?
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/news/1054115,3_1_EL14_A1VOTE_S1.article

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
-- Special session achieves little Questions are answered about the latest in the Statehouse gridlock - Ryan Keith
http://www.pjstar.com/news_state/x1816441380/Special-session-achieves-little

WINFIELD REGISTER
-- Birkett: Say It Ain't So, Joe! - Editorial
http://www.winfieldregister.info/article.cfm?articleID=31167

CONSERVATIVE VOICE
-- Obama and the Race Card - David Jared
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33236.html

MCCLATCHY NEWS
-- McCain making play at NAACP for votes Obama should win - William Douglas
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/44115.html

FOX NEWS CHANNEL
-- NAACP Awaits Obama Speech After Jesse Jackson Complains About His Appeal
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/13/naacp-awaits-obama-speech-after-jesse-jackson-complains-about-his-appeal/

AP
-- Obama, McCain and their awkward Hispanic outreach
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ixENtpn1szQm25PplA3Ns4riD9pgD91T11NO0

AP & CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: OUTRAGEOUS: It seems that liberal Democrats despise or hate everyone who is over 30 year old, but wait, Obama is 48 year old. AP uses McCain's age to promote age discrimination. In 1980, when I was 31 years old, when I transferred from IRS to GAO, my liberal Democrat GAO superiors said I was too old to have a successful career at GAO. In 1997, when I was 49 years old, my liberal Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take early retirement.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g2npK7j1d9EfupgZpXJpm914vxgwD91TFU680
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-ap-mccain-age,0,2576776.story

ABC NEWS
-- The McCain-Obama Immigration Wars - Jake Tapper
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/the-mccain-obam.html

UPI
-- BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Schwarzenegger open to Obama position
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/13/Schwarzenegger_open_to_Obama_position/UPI-55541215984962/

NEW YORK TIMES
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-American beer drinkers do not care that foreigners are taking over America's automotive industry. Do anti-American beer drinkers care that foreigners are taking over America's beer industry?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/business/worldbusiness/15inbev.html?_r=1&ref=worldbusiness&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON TIMES
-- Obama promises Hispanics a push (OTHERWISE KNOW AS AMNESTY, MORE GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS, MORE MASS IMMIGRATION) for 'American dream' - Stephen Dinan
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/14/obama-promises-hispanics-a-push-for-american-dream/

WASHINGTON POST
-- Obama to Donors: 'I'm Skinny but I'm Tough' - Perry Beacon
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/13/obama_to_donors_im_skinny_but.html
-- VERY SAD: In Obama's Circle, Chicago Remains The Tie That Binds - Shailagh Murry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301904.html

SACRAMENTO BEE
-- BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Schwarzenegger envisions future role as Obama 'energy and environment czar' - Kevin Yamamura
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1080192.html

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
-- Obama reaches out to Latinos in San Diego speech - but shielded appearance leaves many disappointed - Carla Marinucci
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/13/MNVR11OJEI.DTL

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
-- VERY SAD: Obama tells La Raza that immigration reform (OTHERWISE KNOW AS AMNESTY, MORE GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS, MORE MASS IMMIGRATION) is a priority - John Marelius and Leslie Berestein
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20080713-9999-1b13obama1.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Limousine liberal Democrats in Republican Orange County give money to Obama
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obama14-2008jul14,0,5551006.story
-- Is the New Yorker's Muslim Obama cover incendiary or satire?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-muslim.html

REALITY CHECK
-- Jesse Jackson Has No Clothes - Doug Patton
http://www.therealitycheck.org/2008/07/13/jesse-jackson-has-no-clothes/

ANDY MARTIN
-- Barack Obama panics: Andy Martin's book forces Obama to admit he is illegitimate
http://www.pr-inside.com/barack-obama-panics-andy-martin-s-book-r700482.htm
(DIERSEN NOTE: Some of my liberal Democrat subordinates, coworkers, and superiors at GAO argued that I was "born with a silver spoon in my mouth" because I was born legitimately, because my parents raised me, and because my parents never divorced.)

NEW YORKER
-- VERY SAD: How Chicago shaped Obama - Ryan Lissa
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza/

USA TODAY
-- "The NAACP will greet Barack Obama at its convention Monday night as someone whose presidential candidacy culminates its hopes and dreams for a century, the leader of the civil rights organization says. So why is John McCain campaigning at the NAACP convention Wednesday? - Susan Paige
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-07-13-naacp_N.htm

CAPITAL FAX
-- VISION Act Proposed by Roskam to change Energy Policy - Illinois GOP Network
http://capitalfax.blogspot.com/2008/07/vision-act-proposed-by-roskam-to-change.html (Includes video clip)

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
-- Republicans participate in outstanding Railroad Days Parade in West Chicago - Dave Diersen
www.gopillinois.com
(THE ARTICLE: Republican participants in the outstanding Railroad Days Parade in West Chicago on Sunday, July 13, included State Representative Mike Fortner, State Senator Randy Hultgren, DuPage Circuit Court Clerk Chris Kachiroubas, West Chicago Mayor Mike Kwasman, Bob Larsen for DuPage County Board, Jim Oberweis for Congress, State Representative Randy Ramey, Congressman Peter Roskam, Wayne Township Republican Committee, and Winfield Township Republican Committee. I had the honor of walking with Fortner.)