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links for 2008-04-16

• Obama’s America - Peter Wehner, Commentary Magazine

  One of the things worth noting about Senator Obama’s comments about the “bitter” working class voters who “cling” to guns, religion, and nativist sentiments because of their “frustrations” is this: Obama’s view of America and Americans is

  (tags: obama 2008)

• Obama’s claim of independence questioned - Ken Dilanian, USA Today

  The screen fills with grainy footage of sprawling 1970s gas lines.

  (tags: obama 2008)

• Senate Democrats Can’t Count, And They Think You Smell Funny - Duane R. Patterson, Townhall

  Two of the chief Democratic windbags in the U.S. Senate took to the floor this morning, with their charts and graphs, and decried how essentially the republic as we know it is in jeopardy because of an unprecedented amount of Republican filibusters.

  (tags: democrats congress harry_reid)

• Pelosi asks ‘how high’ when Big Labor says ‘jump’ - Editorial, Washington Examiner

  Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent efforts to kill the Columbia Free Trade Agreement shows why electing a Democrat to the presidency and maintaining the party’s congressional majority this November would give Big Labor the most clout it’s had since Jimmy

  (tags: trade pelosi congress labor)