Words, Just Words

Past performance is no guarantee of future results:

The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.

— Barack Obama, then still a candidate for the US Senate in Illinois, in his keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July of 2004.

“Congressman: IRS asked pro-life group about ‘the content of their prayers.'”

— Headline, the Washington Examiner, this past Friday.

Robert Ley could not be reached for comment.