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We Still Don't Know If Obama Told The Truth on March 14th

By Mark Finkelstein | March 18, 2008

The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. -- Barack Obama, Huffington Post, March 14, 2008

The key question before Barack Obama today was the one going to his integrity: was he was telling the truth when he claimed in his HuffPo piece of March 14th that he never heard Wright make, in public or private, the remarks "that are the cause of this controversy"?

I listened carefully. Obama dodged the question.

http://forums.christianity.com/m_2720371/mpage_13/key_/tm.htm#3217610

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On Wright, What Took Obama So Long?
By Richard Cohen

Some questions: Why did Barack Obama take so long to "reject outright" the harshly critical statements about America made by his minister, Jeremiah Wright, not to mention the praise the same minister lavished on Louis Farrakhan just last November?

How is it possible that Obama did not know about these remarks when he is a member of Wright's congregation and so close to the man that he likens him to "an old uncle"?

How is it possible that a campaign apparatus that sniffed out Geraldine Ferraro's offensive statement to a local California newspaper (The Daily Breeze, 12th paragraph) did not know that Wright's statements condemning America were all over the Internet and had been cited March 6 by the (reputable) anti-Obama columnist Ronald Kessler? The sermon was also available on YouTube.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/on_wright_what_took_obama_so_l.html

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Jesse Jackson: Obama's Grandmother?

By Mark Finkelstein | March 18, 2008 - 16:56 ET

Playing the moral equivalence game in his speech this morning, Barack Obama said this:

I can no more disown [Rev. Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

Which sent me scurrying to Google for the quote I was sure I remembered. And sure enough:....

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/03/18/msm-must-investigate-could-jesse-jackson-be-obamas-grandmother

NY conservatives : Wait-and-see approach on Empire State's new governor

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Affirmative action foes point to Obama
Say candidate is proof effort no longer needed
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Joseph Williams and Matt Negrin
Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent / March 18, 2008

WASHINGTON - Leading opponents of affirmative action are increasingly seizing on Illinois Senator Barack Obama's historic run for the presidency as proof that race-based remedies for past discrimination are no longer necessary.

Influential Republicans and a growing number of policy specialists at conservative organizations, including the Goldwater Institute, Project 21, and the Manhattan Institute, are citing the fact that large numbers of white voters are supporting Obama, who leads in the race for Democratic delegates, as evidence that affirmative action has run its course.

Ward Connerly, a black conservative who is leading a national effort to ban racial preferences, vowed to use Obama's success as evidence for anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives his organization is promoting in five states. Connerly, who helped dismantle affirmative action policies in California universities and public hiring in the 1990s, said he has donated $500 to Obama's campaign.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/18/affirmative_action_foes_point_to_obama/

Israeli warship enters Lebanese waters: army

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The best of all possible presidents
By Amir Oren

When their helicopter takes off tomorrow for a tour of Israel from the sky, Senator John McCain and Defense Minister Ehud Barak will hope it is a rerun of the 1998 precedent: a flight over Israel by then-governor George W. Bush, who later went on to win the presidency. He was with his host, then-foreign minister Ariel Sharon, who became prime minister (with the help of Barak and his permit for Sharon to ascend the Temple Mount).

American voters (such selfish types) are also concerned with issues of economy and society, spirit and atmosphere, which may tip the balance in favor of whoever becomes the Democratic candidate, whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. But as far as Israel is concerned, and in view of the candidates' current positions - no one is better than McCain. The Republican candidate is clearly more qualified than his rivals to be commander in chief - in theory of the American armed forces only, but in practice also of the international alliance against radical states and terrorist organizations. McCain has a deep understanding of the region's strategic problems and publicly supports a nuclear deterrent for Israel.

McCain visited Israel many times as part of Congressional delegations. His first visit was in 1979, when he was not yet an elected official, but a Navy captain, the Navy's liaison officer to the Senate. At the time, he was accompanying Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. Israelis, whether out of laziness or arrogance, do not often follow a well-known Washington rule: It is always worth investing even in the low-level members of a delegation accompanying a VIP - the executive assistant, the policy adviser or the escort officer - because at some point they will rise in the ranks of the armed forces, civil service or Congress, and they will remember the treatment they received when they were junior in rank.

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New Black Panther Party for Obama
Thomas Lifson
The ever-alert Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches the Obama campaign website advertising the New Black Panther Party.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/new_black_panther_party_for_ob.html

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Barack's Broad Brush
Re-examining Barack Obama's Jeremiah Wright damage control speech today, I am drawn back again and again to this paragraph.

Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety – the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.
Any church embodies the community from which it is drawn, but Obama attempts sleight of hand when he asserts that "other predominantly black churches across the country" adopt and share views "that may seem jarring to the untrained ear" as a way of excusing his pastor.

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/258054.php

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THE BLURBS BU$INE$$ BEAT:

Fed Cuts Rates by 3/4 Percentage Point


WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday slashed a key interest rate by three- fourths of a percentage point, moving aggressively to contain a credit crisis threatening to push the country into a severe recession.
The latest action brought the federal funds rate—the interest that banks charge each other—down to 2.25 percent, the lowest point since late 2004. It marked the second back-to-back cuts of three-fourths of a percentage point.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleages have now cut the funds rate six times since last September, with the reductions becoming more aggressive since January as the central bank has faced growing turmoil in global financial markets.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VG0SAG0&show_article=1

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Obama in 2007: Fire Don Imus
Said radio talker fed into worst stereotypes his 2 daughters were having to deal with
Posted: March 18, 2008
7:54 pm Eastern


Even as Barack Obama tries to focus his campaign away from racially charged remarks by his former pastor, the Democrat senator could become haunted by his call last year to fire radio host Don Imus.........

"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News in a story dated April 11, 2007, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."

"He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women – who I hope will be athletes – that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested in supporting."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59319

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Supreme Court mulls ‘right to bear arms’
By Patti Waldmeir in Washington

Published: March 18 2008 20:20 | Last updated: March 18 2008 20:20

The US Supreme Court appears ready to rule that Americans have a constitutional right to keep a gun in their home for self-defence, a ruling that could help Republicans in the upcoming presidential election.

Hearing the most important gun rights case in nearly 70 years, the justices on Tuesday spent 98 minutes engrossed in a lively debate about British and American legal traditions relating to the right to bear arms, especially in self-defence.

Business waits on Supreme Court rulings - Feb-18Supreme Court blow to investor lawsuits - Jan-15By the end of Tuesday’s session, it appeared clear that a majority of the court would rule that the US constitution protects the right of individual Americans to “keep and bear arms” – but that federal, state and local governments will retain some powers to regulate firearms.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/51ca64b6-f51d-11dc-a21b-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

McCain More Popular Than Ever

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Howard Dean and the 1850s: Convenient Racial Revisionism
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Howard Dean has recently demonstrated conclusively that historical ignorance doesn’t stop with teenage mall-rats and muscle-bound jocks. In fact, it runs all the way up into the very heart of the DNC. The good doctor (who hopefully knows more about his profession than he does about history) has made the claim that the Republican Party “looks like the 1950s and talks like the 1850s.” The 1950s aside, Dean, of course, is attempting to smear the Republicans as a party of racists who are defending systematic public discrimination. In this he displays a shocking lack of knowledge, not only of the Republicans, but also of the shameful history of his own party.

Most liberals today loudly proclaim the Democrats to be the party of minorities and the Republicans to be the party of racist oppressors. I’m reminded of a ridiculous comment from another less-than-aware liberal icon, Bill Maher. Maher commented on one Republican national convention by saying that “the last time the Republicans had that many black people on stage, they were selling them.” Anyone — Dean or Maher — who can make such a statement with a straight face should be sent to a corner with a good, basic textbook (or at least should limit themselves to commentaries on the failures of the American educational system, of which they are manifestly victims).

So, what do Republicans from the 1850s talk like?...........

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/17/howard-dean-and-the-1850s-convenient-racial-revisionism/

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Obama Speech Makes Presidential Campaign About Race -- and Guilt
March 18, 2008

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: In Florida, they said they're not going to redo the vote. Michigan says today they're probably not going to redo theirs. Then you got this Obama speech today, and this speech was typical Obama, in many ways. The reaction to it was, wow, how well he spoke. So Hillary is sitting in her hotel room or wherever she was watching this thing, and she's saying, "Oh, I'm melting! I'm melting!" The house is just about to fall on her here. I'm sure that's what she thinks. But here's the question. After watching this speech today -- and I've got many comments about it obviously, as many people do and will -- the Democrats have to ask themselves a question today. Do they really want the presidential campaign to be about race, because Barack Obama has made it now about race. He has essentially, in not disavowing and distancing himself from Jeremiah Wright, who, by the way, I think the correct way to understand Jeremiah Wright, and the way people are reacting to him is not in a racial manner. This is a man who hates the country.

Jeremiah Wright is a hatemonger. He hates America. It is patently obvious. Barack Obama sought to excuse that today in ways that I found a little bit troubling, blamed it on his generation. Well, he grew up in the fifties and sixties, and that's what America was then. Well, there were a lot of blacks who grew up in the fifties and sixties who have not become Jeremiah Wright. Just because you grew up in the fifties and sixties does not entitle you to hate the country and not try to move forward and build a ministry around it. It's essentially a political movement disguised as a ministry based on the hatred of America. When I watch tapes of Reverend Wright's speeches, I don't see the congregation upset about it. I see them applauding and doing all kind of things. Obama made it plain today, folks, that the future of America rests on one thing, and that's racial division being healed, and which would be great if it would happen. Those of us my age, my generation have been hoping and praying to get rid of race as a dividing issue and as an identity issue in politics and in our culture for as long as I've been an adult, thinking and caring about these things. But there's an entire race industry on the left that will not allow that to happen. You know the kind of people I'm talking about. It's become very profitable for them.

There's a lot of wealth to be generated in the race business. So the idea that America began as imperfect and now only Obama can make it perfect -- well, not only him, but his candidacy is about that. He said at the beginning of his speech, he said we need to perfect the union because it was left imperfect at the time of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and he said that we all want to move in the same direction. Well, we don't want to move in the same direction. You have to listen to this and read between the lines. Of course we want to move in the same direction of prosperity and health. The debate that liberals and conservatives have had over what kind of country we want to be has never changed, it's just how do we get there. Obama laid it out pretty well today how he wants to get there. He is an ultra-liberal. He sees soup line America in every group of people. At the same time he's talking about ending the racial divide, he still shows us how Democrats see people: The white woman who can't bust the glass ceiling, the black this, the Hispanic immigrant there. He sees everybody as members of groups, while decrying victimology, basically promoted it in his speech today.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031808/content/01125106.guest.html

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Obama Too Unstable for Presidency
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (03/19/08)

The man is simply too frighteningly multi-dimensional to be President.

Who actually is Barack Obama?

I am not sure if he knows who he is. I don’t think Michelle knows who she is.

http://americandaily.com/article/21800

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Even reliably left-of-center Maureen Dowd was forced to concede in an otherwise glowing review in the New York Times:

The candidate may have staunched the bleeding, but he did not heal the wounds. His naive and willful refusal to come to terms earlier with the Rev. Wright's anti-American, anti-white and pro-Farrakhan sentiments — echoing his naive and willful refusal to come to terms earlier with the ramifications of his friendship with sleazy fund-raiser Tony Rezko — will not be forgotten because of one unforgettable speech.

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/

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McCain Backs Israeli Reprisals in Gaza
By IAN DEITCH
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Touring a war-battered town, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday he understands Israel's tough response to Palestinian rocket fire, adding that there is no point in negotiating with the Gaza Strip's Islamic Hamas regime.

The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting also praised the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, saying he is committed to reaching a peace deal with Israel _ though McCain is not meeting Palestinians this time.

McCain's visit to Israel is part of a weeklong trip through the Middle East and Europe. After a day of meetings with Israeli leaders, he visited Sderot, the southern Israeli border town that has been the target of thousands of crude Palestinian rockets in recent years.

http://www.townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/03/19/mccain_backs_israeli_reprisals_in_gaza

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Bottom drops out! Obama now trails Hillary, McCain
Gallup reveals statistically significant Democrat deficit

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Posted: March 19, 2008
6:31 pm Eastern


The bottom has dropped out for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama with a new Gallup daily tracking poll showing him trailing both Hillary Clinton and GOP hopeful John McCain one day after the Illinois senator's refusal to condemn his longtime pastor who suggested the U.S. launched AIDS to decimate blacks.

The new results from Gallup show Clinton with a 49 percent to 42 percent lead over Obama in a national Democratic voters' presidential nomination preference tally.

"This is the first time Clinton has held a statistically significant lead in over a month," the Gallup report said. "She last led Obama in Feb. 7-9 polling, just after the Super Tuesday primaries. Since then, the two candidates have usually been in a statistical tie, but Obama has held a lead in several of the polls, most recently in March 11-13 polling."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59364

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It's Time to Call the Democrats on Race Demagogy
By James Lewis


.....The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a very popular preacher of racial anger in Chicago. So is Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Cynthia McKinney, Professor Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech and far too many others. They always get favorable media coverage, because they are speaking for the Left.


If you look at conservative blacks, you see exactly the opposite: there are no more positive and constructive people in America than Justice Clarence Thomas, SecState Condi Rice, Thomas Sowell, Lt. Col. Allan West, Larry Elder, and millions more who are never puffed up by the media.


So the Left, and its mouthpiece the Democrats, have chosen the destructive demagogues and not the peace makers. So be it. But it's high time to call them on it. Voters must finally send that clear and unmistakable message: If you peddle hate, you don't get my vote.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/its_time_to_call_the_democrats.html

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It's Not Compassion -- It's Wright-Wing Racism
By Michael Reagan
Thursday, March 20, 2008

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Most of the media and their fellow liberals were positively giddy over Barack Obama's speech Tuesday, all but comparing it to the Sermon on the Mount.

I won't deny it was a masterful piece of oratory -- the man can be spellbinding -- but when you stop to consider what Sen. Obama was really doing up there on the podium, invoking the specter of slavery and Jim Crow and the era of "whites only," it becomes clear that it was a con job designed to make the voters as giddy as he knew his worshippers in the submissive media would be.

The speech was meant to be an explanation and expiation of his guilt for his years of remaining mute in the face of the outrageous anti-Americanism spewed by his pastor and bosom buddy, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2008/03/20/its_not_compassion_--_its_wright-wing_racism

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During rally, Al Sharpton says he's keeping support for Obama quiet
By ADAM SERWER and MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Wednesday, March 19th 2008, 4:00 AM

The Rev. Al Sharpton is backing Barack Obama, but he's made the strategic decision to keep his support quiet.

That's the message Sharpton delivered to his flock last Saturday as he boasted of talking to Obama "two or three times a week" - and insisted the Democratic front-runner knows the rev is in his camp.

"I said, 'I'm gonna do whatever I gotta do to help you. Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us,'" said Sharpton, recounting a conversation with Obama for his followers at his group's weekly rally.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/03/19/2008-03-19_during_rally_al_sharpton_says_hes_keepin.html

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The new Barack Obama logo: Agent of left-wing same old; Update: Let’s change…the subject

By Michelle Malkin • March 19, 2008 03:48 PM

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/19/the-new-barack-obama-logo-agent-of-left-wing-same-old/

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Speak English' Signs OK at Philly Shop
Mar 19 07:38 PM US/Eastern
By PATRICK WALTERS
Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The owner of a famous cheesesteak shop did not discriminate when he posted signs asking customers to speak English, a city panel ruled Wednesday.

In a 2-1 vote, a Commission on Human Relations panel found that two signs at Geno's Steaks telling customers, "This is America: WHEN ORDERING 'PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH,'" do not violate the city's Fair Practices Ordinance.

Shop owner Joe Vento has said he posted the signs in October 2005 because of concerns over immigration reform and an increasing number of people in the area who could not order in English.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VGQ98O0&show_article=1

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Did Obama Misrepresent Grandmother's Fear of Black Men on the Street?

By Noel Sheppard | March 20, 2008 - 01:21 ET

One of the more controversial statements from Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday was his reference to his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street."

Curiously, his most recent account of her anxieties don't mesh with what he wrote about this subject in his 1996 book "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."

As neatly identified by Steve Sailer (h/t NB reader Rob Reardon via Power Line):.........

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/20/did-obama-misrepresent-grandmothers-fear-black-men-street

Nothing like exploiting Granny for your own political gain---AND IF HE LOVES THE OTHER ONE TOO WHY DOES SHE LIVE IN A HUT???? While Michelle got a land deal from Mrs. Rezko. This is'nt a righteous man, by any stretch!

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Scarborough Notices Same Oddity in Obama's Speech as NB's Finkelstein

By Noel Sheppard | March 19, 2008 - 23:15 ET

In today's great minds think alike moment, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein observed the same oddity in Barack Obama's much-publicized speech Tuesday.

For those with short memories, Finkelstein noted that Obama's reference to his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street" was eerily similar to a statement Jesse Jackson made in 1996.<<<JUST WORDS..plagerized again????

On Wednesday's "Morning Joe," Scarborough was concerned about the very same thing (video available here):

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/19/scarborough-notices-same-oddity-obamas-speech-nbs-finkelstein

McCain meets with British prime minister

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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Thursday, March 20, 2008


The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows John McCain’s lead growing against both potential Democratic opponents. McCain currently leads Barack Obama 49% to 42% and Hillary Clinton 51% to 41% margin (see recent daily results). African-American support for Clinton has collapsed, falling to 55% in the general election match-up. Obama, on the other hand, earns solid support from African-American voters but attracts only 36% of white voters in a match-up with McCain.

Over the past month, McCain has gained ground in Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Both Democrats continue to lead in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and California (see summary of recent state general election polling).

On the fifth anniversary of the War in Iraq, the candidates all had something to say on the topic but the politics of the issue have become much more complicated (see Video.) Joe Conason offers a commentary on The Folks Who Brought You Iraq.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien



We had our famous St. Patrick’s Day parade today. It started out on 44th Street and ended up in rehab.



Today Hillary Clinton said the war would end up costing $1 trillion. She wasn’t talking about Iraq, she was talking about her war with Barack Obama.

http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone’s wearing green today. You know where you’re not seeing any green? Wall Street.

Why does everybody dye food green? Green doughnuts, green cookies, green bagels . . . we won’t eat any real food that’s green — spinach, broccoli, lettuce — but dye a Cinnabon green . . .

What’s going on with Geraldine Ferraro? She said a leprechaun wouldn’t be in the position he’s in if he wasn’t green.

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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Did you hear? A bar in New York City has banned the song “Danny Boy.” On St. Patrick’s Day! Isn’t that outrageous? It’s like West Hollywood banning the song “It’s Raining Men.”



The new governor of New York is blind, which is a big improvement. If he’s ever caught with a prostitute, he can say “I thought it was my wife.”

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Late Show with David Letterman

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Tomorrow, of course, is Let’s Join AA Day.

They were celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Washington. President Bush was so confused. He came out onto the White House lawn and pardoned the corn beef.



Tragedy today. Mayor Bloomberg was in the St. Patrick’s Day parade, and he was hit by a jumping stock broker.

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