Posted on 12/05/2010 10:24:43 AM PST by proxy_user
I wish Frank Rich would read it, but we are not likely to get him here.
Excellent!
Take care, my friend.
I am ashamed to say this, but the first 20 years of my adult life was spend working in the media, both newspapers and radio. You have a fine working voice and present a compelling argument without rancor and hyperbole. If I was your editor, I’d advise you to keep writing.
Be well and God bless.
Interesting. Thanks for posting. I hope you’re right.
Only one minor disagreement:
“If we look at real communists like Lenin and Trotsky, we will see men who are engaged in the real world and who do realize what they are up against...This hardening eventually paid off, and when the time came, they were ready...Obama is, in many ways, the direct opposite of such men”
Lenin’s and Trotsky’s engagement in the real world consisted of attempts to bend and force reality into their theory. Obama’s trying to do the same thing - ineptly, and with a lot less force (so far). But he’s trying to shape the truth rather than adapting to it.
“G.O.P. propagandists notwithstanding, (NJ Governor) Christie’s appeal does not prove that New Jersey (and therefore the country) has “turned to the right.” It does prove that people want a leader with a strong voice, even if only to argue with it.
No one expects Obama to imitate Christie’s in-your-face, bull-in-the-china-shop shtick. But they have waited in vain for him to...”
...begin to halt the rise of the oceans, heal the planet, provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless? ‘Cause he’s actually kinda gone the other way on that jobs/jobless part.
Pelosi and Reid will do his thinking for him and inform TOTUS.
I have to disagree with you about the top... Repubs had exclusive control of D.C. for several years... and doubled the debt. If they stay any time in D.C. they are all bought off by someone.
What happened to term limits? What happened to eliminating earmarks? When are the lobbyists and special interests going to be turned down?
Never, if the old guard stays in there.
Primary ALL of these guys...
Thanks for your piece. It has a lot of plausibility
Did Bush not do much this same thing? When he got in with solid republican majorities, and announced he was taking on education reform, all the people I knew had worked for him (homeschoolers). Here at last America was looking for real educational choice, and I've no doubt there would have been a new intellectual renaissance.
Instead, he works with Kennedy and bypasses true reform.
It's not a repub or Dem thing, it's a politician thing.
Your essay is much more cogent and readable than much of what the ‘pros’ publish.
Thanks!
Don’t try to analyze Obama. Axelrod is Obama’s brain. Analyze Axelrod.
I agree 100% with your essay. The only other thing I would have mentioned is the added influence of being raised in another country. I see so much of that in his behavior, for instance, bowing to other countries leaders.
In America, we learned Americans don’t do that in second grade.
If only 1/10th of vanities were this cogently presented and argued. Nice work.
Now, I'm not naive enough to believe that candidates don't lie to get elected, but Obama's campaign went beyond the lie by exaggeration. Obama blatantly presented himself to voters as the exact opposite of who he really was. Once the American people found out just how extensively they were duped, they rejected Obama completely. And, they are taking the rest of the enabling Democrats with them.
Before the 2008 election, I wrote that Obama would set back the cause of African-American presidents for a generation, and now I'm convinced that I was right. Also, the mask is off the Democrat party, after how they abused their power to push through health care, set aside centuries of established law, and squandered the national treasury for payoffs to their base in the name of stimulus.
-PJ
"If all of life consists of voicing noble sentiments and enjoying great luxury in return, that is exactly what he should be doing."
"As for those who try to explain Obama as a communist, or a third-world anti-colonialist, they are seeing difficulties that do not really exist. If we look at real communists like Lenin and Trotsky, we will see men who are engaged in the real world and who do realize what they are up against. They spent hard time in Czarist prisons and exile, and scrambled to stay alive and keep their cause going. This hardening eventually paid off, and when the time came, they were ready. They may have been tough, they may have been brutal, but they knew what it took to seize power and hold it. Obama is, in many ways, the direct opposite of such men. His life has been more like that of the spoiled heirs of great industrial fortunes, who go to prep school, an Ivy league college, and a cushy job on Wall Street without any great effort on their part."
Obama has also comes across to me as someone who succeeded simply by showing up. The claims of a vast intelligence in the man have never rung true with me. I've never heard him speak on a subject in a manner that sounded like he knew what he was talking about.
He's the world's perfect bureaucrat. A know-nothing who looks great knowing nothing.
I find I can earn more money in IT than in writing at the moment. In fact, I wrote this during after getting up at 7 AM on Sunday to have a guy in India restart my apps, only to face a two-hour delay while other apps were started.
It is not perfect; the sentence structure is too complex, and parts should be rewritten for clarity. It would pass in The Rambler, but not in today’s world.
Maybe I will write more when I retire. Right now I am fully booked with work and hobbies.
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