Charlie Rose (Barf Alert - New York Times, Newsweek, and Time all declare Obama the Victor)

Charlie Rose ^ | 10-24-08 | Charlie Rose

[Ulysse]

“Post-racial world”....In their dreams only!

And also post nation,post culture,post religious....

Great promises of the liberal-fascist world with ONE “RACE”,ONE THOUGHT,ONE (fake) “RELIGION” and ONE GREAT LEADER holding the GREAT Media....

Beware of that junky fools

[lentulusgracchus]

Further to this point,

They say Republicans have gone downscale as a party and left the upper crust WASP model and settled into the lower-end of society...

See the excellent essay by Tony Blankley on the pseudoconservative ship-jumpers, particularly Peggy Noonan and David Brooks, here:

New "Me-Too'ers".

See also the interesting reply by a self-described elitist who wrote in to lay down the law to Tony and all the lowbrow conservative unwashed, in the blog appended to the article. Sample from her rant:

Grassroots cannot provide the foundation for an ideological movement. Only the intellectuals can do that. It takes the intellectuals to establish doctrine from which politicians derive their agenda. Fact. The masses cannot govern effectively on their own (but they can kill Socrates). That is because they are not very intelligent and informed ....

You exist in a Palin bubble of delusion. Every conservative outside of the Palin bubble of delusion, and there are a lot of us, can clearly see that Palin is not actually conservative. She is intellectually disintegrated. ....

It's an interesting assertion, although it is patently vanguardist in a way that only a Leninist could properly appreciate.

Never mind, by the way, that Socrates killed himself by selecting his own punishment from those offered him by his Athenian jurors -- the People. He chose hemlock over exile to one-up them, and teachers down through history have told the story strictly ex parte Socrates. Among the better-educated familiar with his case, presumably like this screedist, there has been a continuously fertile discussion about whether Socrates, having chosen it, actually earned his sentence.

[lentulusgracchus]

Yeah, where have we heard that one .....?

Oh, yeah:

Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuehrer!!

Sieg!...[Heil!!]......Sieg!...[Heil!!]

Et cetera, et cetera.

There must be a certain comfort factor for people, in losing oneself in a vast, mindless mass of ideologized and excited humanity.

Which of course is the antithesis of conservatism, the leading of whose members, as someone pointed out, is like herding cats.

If you can make them salute and scream slogans in unison, it isn't conservatism in action that you are seeing.

[Nathan Zachary]

"With the liberal media losing readers, viewers, and revenues, I;m starting to believe that they want to go out with a flourish(i.e their attacks against McCain/Palin) and promoting Obama."

I think they all want to go to jail. Obama and the democrats alone, even with all their moonbat followers, wouldn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of even coming near winning. This is all a huge conspiracy by MSM to dictate the outcome of this election. A conspiracy to strip the American people of their duty and sole right to elect a government of their choice to serve their needs. This is a treasonous act and an attack on the sovereignty of the American people and their nation. A judicial inquiry into the criminal behavior of MSM is in order.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Sanballat ( the MSM )

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Nehemiah 4

Opposition to the Rebuilding

1. When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews,

2 . and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, "What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble—burned as they are?"

3. Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, "What they are building—if even a fox climbed up on it, he would break down their wall of stones!"

4. Hear us, O our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

5. Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of [a] the builders.

6. So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.

7. But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the men of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem's walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.

8. They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it.
9. But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.

10. Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall."

11. Also our enemies said, "Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work."

12. Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."

13. Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.

14 . After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes."

15. When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his own work.

16. From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officers posted themselves behind all the people of Judah 17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other,
18. and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.

19. Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, "The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall.
20. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!"

21. So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out.

22. At that time I also said to the people, "Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and workmen by day."

23. Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I say ALL McCain/Palin supporters !! let's show our Solidarity !! turn on your head lites of your cars and leave them on while driving until election day !!

[fortheDeclaration]

Some of the crusterati have certainly given up on paleoconservative principled opposition to statism -- Christopher Buckley among them, like Alcibiades, the roue' son of Pericles, who went over to the Spartans and betrayed 10,000 of his fellow-citizens, with whose command he had been entrusted before his entirely self-induced disgrace and fall, to a degrading and pitiful death in battle and in slavery beneath the citadel of Syracuse.

A bit of a stretch don't you think?

LOL!

[LibLieSlayer]

Early voting has shown that all of this new registrations crap is bunk. 13% of polled voters are new... same percentage as in 2004.

LLS

[fortheDeclaration]

Amen, they weren't laughing after that wall got built!

In fact, they recognized that God had to have been in it, just as He is in this election and McCain will win.

[Skid Marx]

It's an interesting assertion, although it is patently vanguardist in a way that only a Leninist could properly appreciate.

As I read that excerpt I thought that Trotsky could have written it, and I'm no leninist. I think that we're looking at an attempt at vanguardism, thwarted by the despised rube class. This is her lamentation. If this election were to be distilled to its essence, a ballot would read:

Return to feudalism?

yes

[Skid Marx]

Thank You

[TXnMA]

LOL! Glad I scanned the thread: you saved me an <IMG> post...

[lentulusgracchus]

Only in this, that Alcibiades shows the type expressed to its full, ghastly potential.

Alcibiades, the son of the "perfect citizen", early on catamitized himself (to Aristophanes, I think) as disclosed in the Symposium, and went on to become the completely smart-assed "preacher's son" of universal experience.

Here Christopher Buckley, as soon as his towering, intellectually invincible father dies, throws over the traces and offers himself up, rather like Alcibiades, to the polished poltroons of the Left.

Who knows how far his career in multifariousness will go? But we are on notice that it has begun.

[timestax]

[timestax]

BTTT