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Obama's Summer of Discontent
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574370301468452872.html#articleTabs%3Darticle ^ | FOUAD AJAMI

Posted on 08/25/2009 7:55:42 PM PDT by saga

So we are to have a French health-care system without a French tradition of political protest. It is odd that American liberalism, in a veritable state of insurrection during the Bush presidency, now seeks political quiescence. These "townhallers" who have come forth to challenge ObamaCare have been labeled "evil-mongers" (Harry Reid), "un-American" (Nancy Pelosi), agitators and rowdies and worse.

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1 posted on 08/25/2009 7:55:42 PM PDT by saga
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2 posted on 08/25/2009 10:05:46 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: Tolik; neverdem; saga

Spectacular article from Fouad Ajami:

The failure of the Carter years was, in Reagan’s view, the failure of the man at the helm and the policies he had pursued at home and abroad. At no time had Ronald Reagan believed that the American covenant had failed, that America should apologize for itself in the world beyond its shores. There was no narcissism in Reagan. It was stirring that the man who headed into the sunset of his life would bid his country farewell by reminding it that its best days were yet to come.

In contrast, there is joylessness in Mr. Obama. He is a scold, the “Yes we can!” mantra is shallow, and at any rate, it is about the coming to power of a man, and a political class, invested in its own sense of smarts and wisdom, and its right to alter the social contract of the land. In this view, the country had lost its way and the new leader and the political class arrayed around him will bring it back to the right path.

Thus the moment of crisis would become an opportunity to push through a political economy of redistribution and a foreign policy of American penance. “


3 posted on 08/27/2009 2:08:13 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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I linked it on that thread early yesterday morning. Click the link. It should open on comment# 67, where I linked it. Fouad Ajami kicked @ss & took names.

4 posted on 08/27/2009 2:47:30 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: dervish; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks dervish.


5 posted on 08/27/2009 3:37:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: dervish

yes, it’s very good.

I pinged to it here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323635/posts


6 posted on 08/28/2009 8:52:23 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik

thanks.

You have good taste. Your nail it list is spot on.


7 posted on 08/28/2009 1:05:07 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: dervish
I appreciate the vote of confidence :^)

I'd ping to more, but don't want to make it a high volume ping list. Thank you
8 posted on 08/28/2009 1:17:19 PM PDT by Tolik
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