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Mark Warner on Barack Obama in Bristol, "seven years ago y'all didn't know me too well, and I asked you to take a chance, and you took that chance and we moved Virginia forward. Now I'm asking you to take the time to listen to Barack Obama and give him a chance."*

*rough quote

Update:

Barack Obama, who is supposed to be smarter than everybody else, showed what an empty suit he is on Monday, Memorial Day, by illustrating he doesn't even know what the holiday is about.

An eye opening story from the front lines in Afghanistan in the Sunday Times Magazine from reporter Elizabeth Rubin who spent much of the fall in the Korengal Valley and elsewhere in Kunar province alongside soldiers who were making life-and-death decisions almost every day — decisions that led to the deaths of soldiers and of civilians.

Imagine you are driving home down a lonely stretch of road on Christmas Eve. You are driving a brand new S-Class Mercedes that you deserve because you work hard for a company that manufactures and sells wants and needs to a debt-ridden consumer base. As you stop at a signal, you are approached by a ragged gentlemen who starts a conversation. He explains that he is down on his luck and asks if there