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National Review Online ^ | June 12, 2009 4:00 AM | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/12/2009 2:44:26 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen

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To: DooDahhhh

The coal miners are union.


21 posted on 06/12/2009 3:37:00 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
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To: Tolik
Pingaroo...

Good one from VDH.

22 posted on 06/12/2009 3:49:54 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: DooDahhhh
The fact that he said that he would end coal mining in America and most of the coal miners voted for him is telling. We have one dumbed down population!

Thank all those folks who support public education by sending their children to those public indoctrination centers.

23 posted on 06/12/2009 3:50:06 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: DooDahhhh

Stunning wasn’t it?


24 posted on 06/12/2009 3:58:06 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen; All

Outstanding article by VDH and a very good thread. Thanks. Witness the light-weight socialist, propagandists-created, con-man at work.


25 posted on 06/12/2009 3:58:37 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
But the extent of Obama’s distortions suggests that he has complete confidence that observers in the media do not care — or at least do not care enough to inform the public.

Hannity calls it the death of journalism in 2088.

26 posted on 06/12/2009 4:04:36 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

“The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.”

Adolph Hitler


27 posted on 06/12/2009 4:08:25 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
[T]he gap between rhetoric and reality is already so wide that it simply makes no difference whether one goes completely beyond the limits of belief.

That's what Isflamists do. Obama is a Grand Wallah of flim flam.

28 posted on 06/12/2009 4:15:47 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: libertylover
Hannity calls it the death of journalism in 2088.

Huh? Hannity's okay but he's not a seer.

29 posted on 06/12/2009 4:19:39 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
"Our enemy is the media. They are liars, tellers of half-truths, ignorers of facts contrary to their storyline, and disrespectful of and antagonistic to the half of the country that share our values."

Absolutely correct!

30 posted on 06/12/2009 4:22:28 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
muzzie communist liars lie... it is what they do... hussein lies whenever his lips are moving... or his pen or teleprompter for that matter.

LLS

31 posted on 06/12/2009 4:22:38 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: BelegStrongbow
It’s disgraceful and will leave a permanent scar on our civilization.

No, it won't. There will be no civilization left.

32 posted on 06/12/2009 4:36:28 AM PDT by ottbmare (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama! (If you're old enough, you'll understand the reference))
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To: livius
I don't disagree with your assessment that Obama is a sociopath. I do think that his free pass in the media has allowed him to skate by on positive attention alone. What little criticism has actually surfaced in the media clearly stings him badly.

Once the economy collapses further, and foreign policy runs aground on some real problems, Obama will be hit by a level of criticism that will send him off the deep end. It will be trivial compared to what Bush used to endure, but while he became reclusive and insular, I don't think Obama can. I think he'll be drawn to criticism like a moth to fire, and it will consume him.

I've seen a similar thing happen with a brilliant textbook sociopath I was stuck working with for a while. The guy could twist the truth like he was changing channels on the TV, and his eyes were a portal to nothing. At one point, he became stuck in a controversy that not only could he not lie his way out of, but he didn't even seem to realize that trying to lie his way out of it was impossible. He became irate and hostile towards the criticism, and later furious with the 'idiots' who didn't understand his impossibly absurd excuses.

All of the critics, who only knew him in passing, were stunned. They thought he had just made a mistake; they had no idea he was actually not all there. In passing, he seemed like a very articulate and intelligent expert. It wasn't until exposed to sharp, public pressure directed at his competence that he publicly exposed his severe mental problems. (Which I knew about all too well, because I was stuck working with him for months)

I really think Obama's made of the same material. He'll be able to fool everyone in passing, and so long as the coverage is good, he'll be invincible. He's never been exposed to widespread derision, and he'll lose it if he is.

33 posted on 06/12/2009 4:42:36 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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To: dennisw; WorkerbeeCitizen
0bomo wants to end America as you know it...

He really does. I think people like VDH and Rush, as you point out, realize this but in many ways it's so unimagineable and everybody is so stunned by this that it's hard even to say it. But they are saying it more overtly every day.

34 posted on 06/12/2009 4:43:26 AM PDT by livius
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To: All
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:
A Boor and a Coward [Victor Davis Hanson tears apart the creep, a.k.a David Letterman]
Our Historically Challenged President. A list of distortions
I No Longer Quite Believe ... [Victor Davis Hanson on Orwellian media & science, race relations]
It's Better When You Wake Up Body-Snatched . . .
The Reckoning. Obama Versus the Way of the Universe
The Age of Middle East Atonement. Therapeutic efforts to disguise the truth never really work
Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?
Multiculturalism Trumps Freedom?
America’s First Postmodern President, Supreme Court Justice, Treasury Secretary…
Sotomayor’s Mistake. The diversity mess
The Affirmative-Action Aristocracy?
Lost in the Labyrinth of Race
Israel’s Cuban Missile Crisis - All the Time ... if Iran gets the bomb
Ministers of Truth
Euroamericans?
Is America Premodern or Postmodern?
And Then There Was Only Guantánamo
President Palin’s First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obama’s record
Cracks in the Facade. Fissures in the Obama Totem
Once Upon a Time in 2002
Why Did Republicans Lose Their Appeal? And how can they get it back?
Americans Want It Both Ways Our Have-It-Both-Ways Generation
What to Do About Pakistan = There are no good answers.
Our Jekyll and Hyde President. More radical than Jimmy Carter v smoother centrist than Bill Clinton?
Nothing New Under the Sun [Equality of Result, American vs. French, etc]
Crazy Times — Crazier Times to Follow - when nonsense is passed off as wisdom
Confessions of a Contrarian [deconstructing Obama, the Left and more]
 President Obama’s First 70 Days. It really does all make sense
Thoughts About Depressed Americans
Bush Did It. What a difference an election makes [Brilliant Parody]
 Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant]
Just a partial list. More at the link:  http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index
35 posted on 06/12/2009 4:43:41 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen; neverdem; Lando Lincoln; SJackson; dennisw; kellynla; monkeyshine; Alouette; ...


    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

Links:    FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
                His website: http://victorhanson.com/
                NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
                Pajamasmedia:
   http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/

36 posted on 06/12/2009 4:44:46 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: metesky

Thank you for the ping!


37 posted on 06/12/2009 4:47:48 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Steel Wolf
Once the economy collapses further, and foreign policy runs aground on some real problems, Obama will be hit by a level of criticism that will send him off the deep end. It will be trivial compared to what Bush used to endure, but while he became reclusive and insular, I don't think Obama can. I think he'll be drawn to criticism like a moth to fire, and it will consume him. ...He's never been exposed to widespread derision, and he'll lose it if he is.

That's a very interesting idea. Obama is very thin-skinned and ridicule is the one thing that really seems to get to him. And you're right, I think many people are attributing to inexperience, ideology or even stupidity what is really a function of his psychopathology. So perhaps there will be a moment when suddenly, no matter what the press does, there will be no way of concealing the fact that he's simply nuts and we're dealing with something that has nothing to do with politics.

The frightening thing is, of course, that he will have so much power by the time this happens that he can make life very unpleasant for us all while his psychodrama plays out. My big hope is that he will implode sooner rather than later, that he will overreach in some way that makes it clear that we're not dealing with a normal political situation and people will suddenly wake up, and that he will do it before too much more damage is done.

38 posted on 06/12/2009 4:51:09 AM PDT by livius
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
Rather, these pronouncements simply were ignored to the point of making it seem they were never really uttered at all.

Down the "Memory hole" from 1984...

39 posted on 06/12/2009 4:51:48 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: livius

Plus the converse of what I said is-—>>>
“0bama wants to start America as he knows it”

And 0bamma has lots of support for this. His base is in Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and immigrants in general. These people are the up and comers and have expanding populations while “America as you know it” is shrinking. The Democrats recently said the Republican party is the party of bald old white guys

0bamma message is pitched to the 3rd world people within America and the 3rd world populations outside America. Such as Egypt where he goes to speak to the Muslim world

0bamma is America’s 3rd world president. First one we ever had. 0boma obviously has lots of white people voting for him too


40 posted on 06/12/2009 4:58:13 AM PDT by dennisw (Weakness is a Crime! Don't be a Criminal - Bernarr MacFadden)
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