Six, Seven, Eight

Hood's Up
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday praised Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) for wearing a hoodie on the House floor in protest of the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.


"I think that Bobby Rush deserves a great deal of credit for the courage he had to go to the floor in a hoodie knowing that he would be told he was out of order," Pelosi said during her weekly briefing. (Huffington Post, 3/29/2012)


Background: EVERY crime story in Vermont begins this way - "The suspect was wearing a hoodie...." And so, Nancy Pelosi celebrates a misguided politician who celebrates apparel associated - like it or not - with thuggery and criminal behavior. Oh, and he broke House rules.


Lazy Days
Vice President Joe Biden offered a frank assessment of his career in remarks at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night.  According to a White House pool report, Biden, surrounded by the city's movers and shakers, praised former Mayor Richard M. Daley and then said: "I never had an interest in being a mayor 'cause that's a real job.  You have to produce.  That's why I was able to be a senator for 36 years."

Biden was elected to the Senate in November 1972, when he was 29 years old.  When he took office in January 1973, he had turned 30, the minimum age set in the Constitution for membership in the Senate.  Biden served in the Senate from that time until January 2009, when he became vice president. (Washingtonexaminer.com, 3/29/2012)


Perhaps Republicans should weave into their campaign narrative that Obama should be defeated because if - God forbid - something were to happen to him, the country would be stuck with a self-admitted lazy career politician. And Democrats were aghast at the choice of Sarah Palin. Say what you want, no one ever accused her of being a slacker.


Trust
But really the message, the important one, concerns us, here in America. It is that the American people can't be trusted if the president is honest with them about what he proposes. More bluntly, that the American people are not trusted by their own president. Otherwise the president would tell us the truth about his intentions. And here he is, admitting his distrust of his own people to a leader of a nasty foreign government that seeks to thwart our purposes in the Middle East and elsewhere. President Obama is in cahoots with the Russian regime against America's very body politic. (Martin Peretz, WSJ, 3/29/2012)


A fitting analysis of Obama on the day he visits Vermont.