Posted on 11/15/2011 3:19:17 AM PST by Space Patrol Hoppa
How fares the good ship America during this, the 233rd year of our voyage? Many would say that with its new captain setting a new course it sails on into fairer days and calmer waters now that our demons at home and abroad are being mollified and made more sociable. Many others, perhaps now more than half, would say that we tack between Scylla and Charybdis with a more than fair chance of being driven onto a lee shore by the gusting headwinds. All would agree our present position was unforeseeable even two years ago and that our present passage is fraught with danger.
Dangerous passages are nothing new to the good ship America. She’s weathered many but never one quite so close run as that of 1860 to 1865 when fire in the minds of Americans burned so hot they required the blood of 620,000 to quench them. We did not sail into that maelstrom in a year or so. We were headed there, some would say, from the founding.
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Melville was, unlike many other transcendentalists, the very opposite of an intellectual dilettante. He was an Abraham in a land of Lutherans. Melville was a man with a harsh experience with ships and how they fare upon stormy seas. Melville was a man with rough hands. Melville was a man that, having voyaged further out, did – for a few years at least – see deeper in. And in seeing deeper in and leaving behind a record of that vision in his masterwork, Melville still has something to say to us today about the state of America, the experimental nation...
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Yarr.
Yeah.
But.
Thishere ‘captain’ steers us straight for the rocks.
Here is deep Pullus Femus at the start of the article:
“All would agree our present position was unforeseeable even two years ago,...”.
Only to the Liberals, socialists, commies, media presstitutes - the usual suspects.
The present “captain” believes he can stop a hurricane by sailing into the middle of it and talking it to death.
Not only was our present position completely foreseeable three years ago, but many on FR specifically predicted that the Bailout, TARP, and Stimulus would lead to the increased unemployment that we have seen, plus the huge jump in our debt. Many on FR predicted that ObamaCare would provide an additional disincentive toward hiring. Many on FR predicted that Obama's policy of apologizing for America's success and freedom would lead to less of both, plus less respect and regard for America both here and abroad. I will agree that our present passage is fraught with danger - and that will remain true for as long as the drug-addled communist is in our White House. Ahab endangered the Pequod, but his goal was the destruction of the white whale. With our alleged "captain", the goal is to destroy the ship.
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