[DogByte6RER]

Dr. Hanson tells it like it is. Morning in America" is right around the corner. :)

[yldstrk]

You tell 'em!

[The_Republican]

The Reason Americans don't know about their great fortune is because our Commander in Cheif suffers from severe speech-impediment.

The Great Non-Communicator.

[Bigg Red]

The real hopeless mess was 1992-2000 when a well-meaning Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Dennis Ross...

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I agree with everything in this sentence except the description of "well-meaning". A more appropriate phrase would be "self-serving".

[DBrow]

It would be nice if Bush Admin officials would pick up this tone and start using it every day in every venue.

Otherwise the Deans and Kerrys take up the media bandwidth, and the average person has no idea.

The "bubble" is one created by the MSM, and encapsulates much of America.

[King Prout]

PING

[Paulus Invictus]

The best response to the anti-war idiots that I have ever read. Right on Victor!

[Iconoclast2]

Right around the corner, the debts come due, and decades of flooding the world with American paper come back to haunt us. But one can't pin this on just the Rs or Ds, it's . . .

[logic]

I was just about to yell out, "'Bout time someone told it like it was!!", then I noticed it's by V.D.H, so this is just normal.....

[wouldntbprudent]

And this helps -- check out the lines at the polling places

http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/JY8xs3uG

[humint]

In the face of that growing ulcer of discontent, we quietly kept on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy. All that is finally lancing the boil, here and abroad — and what was in there all along is now slowly oozing out, making the cure seem almost as gross as the malady.

What's funny is, this is exactly what the Iraqi-Americans I know are saying these days. Not these words of course but what these words mean. VDH has his finger on the pulse! Excellent post...

[Helotes]

The only thing he left out was the Oil for Palaces corruption.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[Alia]

and what was in there all along is now slowly oozing out, making the cure seem almost as gross as the malady.

Yes. VDH is quite right. Evil wears many disguises. We can sense evil, smell it, see it, feel it, be touched by it. Evil, exposed, sans mask(s) is ugliest.