Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.

Chinese Communist Propaganda Posters from Mao Zedong Era

The attendees, who dined buffet style because there were only a few tables scattered around, had each paid $50,000 to be there, according to the pool reporter's notes. Let's do the math on that: That's $5,000 per minute of candidate speech per person.

A Secret White House History, 2006-2008,” looks at the Bush administration’s review of the Iraq war in October 2006, which “did not include military participants and proceeded secretly because of White House fears that news coverage of a review might damage Republican chances in the midterm congressional elections.”

Palin: “Our nation is at a crossroads also. We'd either better be making decisions to allow this American supply of energy to be tapped or we're going to become more and more beholden to these foreign regimes."