DEGLAMORIZING SARAH PALIN: the pictures are here; the link from Althouse is here.

This commentor said it all: “I wonder what BHO looks like without makeup.”

BROWN SLAPS BIDEN AROUND: Vice President Joe Biden was “off base” when he suggested Sunday that new Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown get his facts straight on the legal procedures for military tribunals.

Sen. Brown has served in the Massachusetts Army National Guard for more than 30 years and is currently the Guard's top defense attorney in New England.

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OLBERMANN accuses Tea Partiers of racism; reader responds: “[A] tea party gathering looks something like MSNBC line-up on week-days.”

Heh.

YES, OBAMA LOVES AMERICA. But does he like it?

[T]he message that comes through is that he is going to fix your problems whether you like it or not.

The president has talked time and again about the need to bring change even when people resist it. He describes anxious, fearful Americans misled by Republicans and cable news anchors. He expresses sympathy for those who aren’t able to taste the clear, cool wisdom pouring from the presidential font.

Obama has sympathy for Americans, but not much appreciation for their wisdom.

The President has yet to learn that real change comes from Americans, not to them.

THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT - one year later:

The goal of the Tea Party Movement is to free the American people, their livelihood, their property – physical and intellectual, their time, their wallets, and their families from a federal government that has, under both parties, grown to be a political phagocyte that sees individual liberty and freedom as so much debris in the body politic.

Read the entire essay.

Link from Michelle Malkin.

WHITE HOUSE revamps communications strategy.

White House officials are retooling the administration's communications strategy to produce faster responses to political adversaries, a more disciplined focus on President Obama's call for "change" in Washington and an increasingly selective use of the president's time.

Translation: "We're doing the wrong thing; just not aggressively enough."