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Ron Reagan The son of the Nancy and Ronald Reagan. He is a political pundit for MSNBC. He was a talk radio host for KIRO radio in Seattle until his show was canceled August 8, 2007.

Quote "[Rush] Limbaugh hasn't had a natural erection since the Nixon Administration; think he's compensating for something? Now, I wouldn't pick on him for any of this stuff, not his blubbiness, not his man-boobs, not his inability to have a natural erection -- none of that stuff -- to me, off limits until! Until! Mr. Limbaugh, you turn that sort of gun on somebody else. Once you start doing that, you're fair game, fat boy. Absolutely, you jiggly pile of mess. [. . .] [You look like] the unholy spawn of Tony Soprano and the Michelin Man."

Said on his talk show May 15, 2009, after Rush made fun of Nancy Pelosi's Botox shots. Source: "Personal Smears against Rush," by L. Brent Bozell III, Watchdog, September 2009, page 6. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website. Posted here: December 21, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: Five days after his sweet talk quoted here, he said, "Some horrifyingly intense America-hater like Rush limbaugh, who appears to be morphing into, seriously, he is morphing into Jabba the Hutt. I've seen some recent video, this guy is enormous. He just keeps bloating up. It's just -- I hope he keeps going, because eventually he will croak. Like I said, eventually, he will choke to death on his own throat fat." (There goes that liberal compassion again, hoping for the death of a conservative.)

Robert Reich Barack Obama economic advisor. Secretary of Labor during the Clinton Administration.

Quote "We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive, so we're going to let you die. [Applause from audience.]"

Said in a September 26, 2007 speech to an audience at the University of California, Berkeley. Source: The Glenn Beck TV Show, October 26, 2009. (Hear his comments.) Posted here: November 9, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: This kind of thinking is in total alignment with the thinking of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ezekiel Emanuel (Obama OMB health policy adviser): "When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated… The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value." [This curve illustrates the Complete Lives concept.]

Harry Reid Senior U.S. Senator (Democrat) from Nevada and Senate Majority Leader for the 110th Congress.

Quote "We talk about cost competitiveness, but the one thing we fail to talk about is those costs that you don't see on the bottom line. That is, coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world. We've got to stop using fossil fuel. We have for generations taken it out of the earth -- carbon out of the earth -- put it in the atmosphere and it's making us all sick . . ."

Speaking on the Fox Business Channel Source: The Glen Beck TV program, CNN Headline News, July 1, 2008. Posted here: July 28, 2008. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: All too often, Mr. Reid, you make us sick. We've got to stop using Harry Reid!

John Ridley Writer of novels, film and television, and PBS Commentator. His sixth novel was Those Who Walk in Darkness.

Quote "Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism . . . But for all their grand rhetoric, and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has. Obama is the more perfect union. He is a house united. Obama is the new generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever phraseology of ‘Morning in America.’ "Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America, and the first true American to lead our nation."

In commentary on the Internet. See video. Source: A NewsMax e-mail dated 2-1-09. Thanks, NewsMax. Posted here: February 23, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: Mr. Ridley brushes over George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and all the other U.S. Presidents to proclaim Barack Obama the "first true American to lead our nation." This fanaticism is amazing and dangerous. Such blind faith and dedication to someone so inexperienced is a recipe for utter disaster. The writer will never be able to objectively examine Obama's policies and actions. He will only be able to swoon.

Bobby Rush Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives who took office in 1993. He has the distinction of being the only person to defeat Barack Obama in an election for public office. In 1968 he went AWOL from the U.S. Army, but was later honorably discharged. He co-founded the Illinois Black Panther Party. In 1969, he served six months in prison for illegal possession of firearms.

Quote "Raul Castro was a very engaging, down-to-earth and kind man, someone who I would favor as a neighbor. It was almost like visiting an old friend."

Following a visit with Raul Castro in Cuba in April, 2009. Source: "Making Nice with Castro," by Larry Pratt, The Gun Owners, May 25, 2009, page 8, Gun Owners of America, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8585. Posted here: July 27, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: Fidel Castro admirers include former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former South African prime minister Nelson Mandela, and, of course former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. Also: Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings, Harry Belafonte, Dan Rather, Jesse Jackson, Oliver Stone, George McGovern, Ted Turner, Bill Clinton, Steven Spielberg (who said his meeting with Castro was "the most important eight hours of my life"), Katie Couric, Jack Nicholson, Errol Flynn, Robert Redford, Danny Glover, Chevy Chase, Cindy Sheehan, and of course many more.