What you don't understand is that we really are concerned about Chen. We really want him to come to America where he won't be tortured and his wife and 2 children will be allowed to live. He is a brave and good man who has suffered so much. If Obama and Hilary get the credit then that is there due. i don't want Obama reelected but that doesn't mean I don't want good done for this man and his family. Perhaps Democrats were upset when Bush did something good and got the credit - well don't paint everyone with that brush. That being said - i think the student visa thing is a sham (face saving). But I hope I am wrong.

They hope in a month or two everyone forgets. Also Amnesty International points out how the extended family will be punished if Chen leaves. One of the headlines today -- Chen's brother is being beaten. Oh I forgot the mainstream media doesn't tell you about that. I still don't believe that Chen will be allowed to enter the U.S. The student visa was cooked up to save face for both countries. Today the U.S. embassy is cooking up that they thought Chen might have had colon cancer because he had rectal bleeding - they couldn't test him so they had to let the Chinese 'help' him- Of course any fool would tell you that it was a gastro problem caused by stress and it turns out that that is exactly what it was.

Good article, Mona. I think many of us worried about this when he ran for President in Messiah mode. It was so creepy! Last week at a basketball clinic for children at the Easter egg roll he had basketballs with his picture emblazoned on them. What President has ever done that. The American Eagle perhaps or Go USA. would have been appropriate.This might seem like a small thing but it is in line with the picture you paint in your column. He thinks he is above us all and rules do not apply to him. I have always thought if given the chance he would be a little Hugo Chavez - US style. Hopefully he will be out this November.

Sandra Fluke lied in her testimony. The Jesuits at Georgetown who often flout Catholic teaching offer birth control in their health insurance. My source is the Cardinal Newman Society. A friend told me now Sandra Fluke is now saying that a friend of hers at Georgetown needed them for medical necessity (not pregnancy related) and wasn't able to get them. Hogwash even staunch Catholic Schools like Franciscan Univ. at Steubenville allow these pills for non-contraceptive medical reasons. Boy are we being taken for a bunch of saps by this Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke whom during her law school years was a president of "Students for Reproductive Justice" working to get Georgetown to give up it's Catholic teaching on this subject.

Yes but you Democrats don't even want the little kid to make it to pre-school. How kind is that!!! Republicans actually want the child to be born and the parents to stay together and jobs to be created. And by the way - they also don't want the whole system to collapse like in Greece - then no one has anything.

I only know that I was doing fine for all of Bush's term and have been struggling ever since Obama became president - lost my job after the stimulus was put into place...

Hey I saw these exact comments on a couple of other columns - has Obama started paying the trolls to go out make comments so it looks like he has a lot of support.

This is the 'canary in the coal mine' - through this health care law Obama has now breeched the 1st Amendment. Then he turns around and orders a company to give away something for free. It seems that he can use this bill to do anything he wants as long as it is related to health care. Let's see fines on overweight people, ordering restaurants to serve only healthy food because this can impact your health. Oh yes, guns cause injury (and health care is involved)- so maybe there is somewhere in this bill that HHS can ban them. And yes, if you have more than 1 or 2 children you might stress the health care system.

I plan to vote for Romney because I think he is the only one up there with a chance to beat Obama but have the same concerns about him that most conservatives have...we don't know for sure how deeply felt are his conservative values. I once said to a Mormon I know that it wasn't his Mormonism that bothered me - it was that I wasn't sure if he really was a committed Mormon - then I would not worry about the social issues (judges etc.) I think all Obama can go after Mitt Romney on is his business experience - an in the end I think that will be seen as a plus not a minus. Newt has so much baggage and even though I personally think he has changed - I don't think the average person will necessarily buy that.

A frightening thing is that this 2000 plus page health care bill gives incredible authority to the administration and health and human services secretary. There are at least 700 times in this legislation where it states that either the administration or the HHS secretary shall determine. One of those "shall determine's' was the recent decree on birth control - everyone has to offer it in their plan for free. There are no conscience rights - that means my daughter at her Catholic college can get contraceptives for free on the health care plan that I am paying for - that bothers me. Also Obama was able to exempt the unions and his friends from implementing some the the expensive health care reforms because he can determine that too.