The Forgotten American

http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/victordavishanson/2008/02/27/everybody_but_you.php ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

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The forgotten American listens to Hillary and Barack and thinks all these promises are nice and well and good, but figures that they expect someone like herself to pay for all those programs for all those who chose to live life differently than she did—for whom in most cases there was as much or more chances than she had. She wants to pay taxes and help, but shrugs that those who receive think it’s never enough—resentment, not gratitude is their more appropriate response for government help. And she assumes that Hillary and Barak, given what they make, don’t much care whether they pay a few thousand dollars more in their own taxes, and that they, like a John Edwards or John Kerry or Al Gore or Ted Kennedy, are rich enough to feel everyone else’s pain but her own.

I don’t know how many forgotten Americans there are out there, but I have a feeling the answer may well determine the next election.

[ARE SOLE]

Why Sen. Obama do you belong to a church whose very platform and principles would mean that your own mother could never have really been welcomed?

Great article. Thanks for posting it ventanax5.

Regards

[egginanest]

Thanks....what an awesome read! We tend to forget just how many of us there are out there, the majority of which, don’t share our passion of being political junkies. They’ll observe the 3-ring circus from a distance and then head to the polls to make their simple, common sense vote for POTUS....

[rogue yam]

VDH does it again!

[EyeGuy]

Hanson-Steyn-Coulter:

The great triumvirate of conservative thinking.

[ntnychik]

Great Hanson article.

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Why Sen. Obama do you belong to a church whose very platform and principles would mean that your own mother could never have really been welcomed? But that’s no doubt a minor and irrelevant point.

Why Sen. Obama would the racist Louis Farrakhan speak for two hours in praise of your candidacy? But that’s no doubt a minor and irrelevant point.

Why would your wife not once, but twice say that she’s never had pride in the United States until your ran for President? But that’s no doubt a minor and irrelevant point.

Why would MoveOn.org that called General Petraeus a betrayer endorse you? But that’s no doubt a minor and irrelevant point.

Why would you have accepted donations from Bill Ayers who said that he had not done enough terrorist bombing against the United States in his youth? But that’s no doubt a minor and irrelevant point.

Why Sen. Obama are so many of your advisors—Ms. Power, or Mr. Malley, or Mr. Brzezinski–so critical of Israel, and so sympathetic to the Palestinians? But that’s no doubt a minor and irrelevant point.

But why, Sen. Obama, are there so many of these minor and irrelevant points that continue to be raised?

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[RU88]

VDH does it again! He really does seem to have the pulse of the American people. How many of you read that article and said to yourself: “That’s me he’s talking about.” I know I did. Great post.

[Iron Munro]

They’ll observe the 3-ring circus from a distance and then head to the polls to make their simple, common sense vote for POTUS....

That's how it usually works.

Its too bad that there will be no common sense choice to vote for POTUS this year.

[Appleby]

My sentiments exactly.

While I have no doubts about Gitmo, DO think we need to be in Iraq and never doubted it at all, and have no respect for people who break into my country through the basement window and then claim squatters rights to my house (and want me evicted), I always keep in mind that when the goodies are showered down, all I will get is the invoice...just the same way as I get the work when Mommy cannot/will not do the work for which she was hired, due to her NEED to take Susie to ballet and Junior to hockey, and court deadlines and the wishes of Mr. Justice Jones be bleeped...and if I complain I am ANTI FAMILY! ANTI CHILD!

Also I would not pay my 23 year old sons insurance if he chose to spend his own money on beer and popcorn. I brought him up to understand actions have consequences. Let him pay or go bare.

[PhilDragoo]

Pretty mild stuff, but nice tapestry.

In my view Obama is a marxist-muslim-blackracist-alinskist demagogue warm-up act for the antichrist.

There is a vast sea of nontaxpaying nonthinking zombies who will willingly allow i-can't-believe-he's-not-muslim to crowd surf to the chancelry.

Party like it's 1933.

Bush is pouring into the same mindless cesspool with his New Tone and his Road Map to Peace, his Religion of Peace, his cheek-to-cheek acceptance of Billy Clinton and Teddy Kennedy.

The prescription drug plan--not social security privatisation is the current legacy-seeking president.

Our president might at least remind the nation he's removed the tyrant who sent a 25K award to jew-killing bombers' families.

Is it not that aspect alone that so pisses off the likes of the demagogue Obama.

Hey, Barry, you are a lobbyist for the Assads and the Ahmadinejads with your can't-we-all-just-get-along.

And your guy Wright is way too overt with Farrakhan and Qadafi--he's blowing your act, son.

Grandma got eaten by the wolf.

Ecce Obaloney, darth-the-demagogue in granny drag.

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[Ecce Obaloney, darth-the-demagogue in granny drag.]

Looks like I'll have to put Obama's face in my old Darth Vader gif!

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[potlatch]

Very cute!
I’d like to make those ‘snort puffs’ come out of Hillary’s nose.

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That’s a good idea for a Hillar! .gif

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[That’s a good idea for a Hillar! .gif]

Yes. I’ll take that in when I have time and ‘copy’ the ‘puffs’.

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Dragon “snorts” for Hillar! might work too.....

I bumped up the size of the Bull.gif to BullL.gif - seems to enlarge OK

[potlatch]

Lol, my dragon snorts send smoke and fire waaaay out! I made the most wonderful webpage with things moving all over but it is Dynamic html. Everyone can’t ‘see it’.

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You love the DHTML stuff!