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July 24, 2012     Your Daily Caller Profile By: Jamie Weinstein Elton John, conservative lover? -- An overly-inflated sense of self importance -- Obama attacks Romney for foreign trip -- Trouble brewing -- Poll of the Day: Romney closing on Obama in Minnesota? --Tweet of Yesterday 1.) Elton John, conservative lover? -- First he played Rush Limbaugh's wedding (albeit for an estimated $1 million), now Elton John is going around praising George W. Bush. TheDC's Nicholas "Hot Mic" Ballasy reports: "Elton John praised former President George W. Bush and 'conservative American politicians' for pledging millions of dollars to 'save the lives of Africans with HIV.' ... 'We’ve seen George W. Bush and conservative American politicians pledge tens of billions to save the lives of Africans with HIV. Think of all the love. Think of where we’d be without it, nowhere, that’s where. We’d be nowhere at all,' John said at the International AIDS conference in Washington on Monday." What next? Play a Romney fundraiser? 2.) An overly-inflated sense of self importance  -- Thy name is Gary Johnson, who claims he is forcing the president's hand on certain issues. TheDC's Steven Nelson reports: "Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson claimed credit for President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller, but also said that Obama’s position should not satisfy voters who support gay marriage. Before his pivot on the issue in May, Obama held the same position as presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Johnson had made same-sex marriage a central part of his campaign, distinguishing himself from the two major party candidates." To President Obama, Gary Johnson is the mechanic who makes sure the White House bowling alley works properly. 3.) Obama attacks Romney for foreign trip -- President Obama's team is confused about how to attack Mitt Romney for taking a trip abroad during the campaign, but they sure don't seem to think it is appropriate, reports TheDC's Neil Munro: "President Barack Obama’s campaign team is throwing everything and the kitchen sink at Mitt Romney’s foreign-policy trip this week. Romney is being too political but also not political enough, too aggressive and but also too timid, and will visit too few countries while holding too many fundraisers, according to three of Obama’s supporters during a July 23 telephone press conference arranged by the president’s re-election campaign ... Obama’s aides used the July 23 press event to slam Romney for politicizing foreign-policy issues. 'This isn’t the time for anyone to be playing politics with our policy in the region,' said Colin Kahl, who formerly served as Obama’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East." After his Evita-esque Rainbow Tour of the world as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008, Obama may not be in the best position to criticize Romney for visiting a few countries abroad during the campaign. 4.) Trouble brewing -- You may be shocked to know that there is financial waste in the government. TheDC's Matthew Boyle reports: "A scandal involving $57 million in government contract dollars is set to rock the Federal Protective Service, a small agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Congressional Democrats and Republicans have criticized the service in recent years, and both law enforcement reform organizations and labor unions have excoriated its managers for their handling of a 2008 project plagued by scheduling delays, cost overruns and conflicts of interest." With that kind of money we could have purchased at least 3-extra toilet seats for the Department of Defense. 5.) Poll of the Day: Romney closing on Obama in Minnesota? -- KSTP/SurveyUSA poll of Minnesota: President Obama 46%, Mitt Romney 40%. Public Policy Polling conducted the last poll of Minnesota at the beginning of June. It showed Obama up over Romney by 15 percentage points. 6.) Tweet of Yesterday -- John Tabin: Aurora does in fact appear to be in Colorado RT @jimgeraghty: So, what did ABC News get right in their coverage of the Aurora shooting? VIDEO: Gary Johnson tells TheDC's Michelle Fields that an armed audience member could have stopped the Batman massacre       'The Black Sheep' -- 'Beleaguered' Homeland Security police agency blows $57 million on failed contract Gary Johnson claims credit for Obama's embrace of gay marriage -- Johnson believes same-sex marriage is 'a constitutionally guaranteed right' Coal companies announce layoffs, blame Obama administration -- 'Escalating costs and uncertainty generated by recently advanced EPA regulations and interpretations have created a challenging business climate for the entire coal industry'   David Cohen: Obama's sense of 'fairness' is unfair to minorities -- America's most vulnerable communities bear the brunt of Obama's misguided policies. Max Borders: Why David Frum is wrong -- Dragging the GOP to the left will actually cost the party votes in the long run. Benjamin Kerstein: 'The Dark Knight Rises' may be worst film ever made  -- The new Batman flick manages to give 'Gigli' a run for its money. Jim Huffman: Judge Milan Smith right to criticize Ninth Circuit's overreach -- Smith dissented from an Endangered Species Act ruling issued by the left-leaning federal court last month. Robert Soave: The anti-Occupy message of Batman -- The film's politics are not left-wing.     Can't see this email? Click here to view in your browser.

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