Posted on 11/07/2008 8:29:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever. If the election of our first African-American president didnt stir you, if it didnt leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, theres something wrong with you.
But will the election also mark a turning point in the actual substance of policy? Can Barack Obama really usher in a new era of progressive policies? Yes, he can.
Right now, many commentators are urging Mr. Obama to think small. Some make the case on political grounds: America, they say, is still a conservative country, and voters will punish Democrats if they move to the left. Others say that the financial and economic crisis leaves no room for action on, say, health care reform.
Lets hope that Mr. Obama has the good sense to ignore this advice.
About the political argument: Anyone who doubts that weve had a major political realignment should look at whats happened to Congress. After the 2004 election, there were many declarations that wed entered a long-term, perhaps permanent era of Republican dominance. Since then, Democrats have won back-to-back victories, picking up at least 12 Senate seats and more than 50 House seats. They now have bigger majorities in both houses than the G.O.P. ever achieved in its 12-year reign.
Bear in mind, also, that this years presidential election was a clear referendum on political philosophies and the progressive philosophy won.
This year, however, Mr. Obama ran on a platform of guaranteed health care and tax breaks for the middle class, paid for with higher taxes on the affluent. John McCain denounced his opponent as a socialist and a redistributor, but America voted for him anyway. Thats a real mandate.
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You know if he had won 95% or more of the vote.... But he won 63% I think and McCain won 47% I think or close to that. Hardly a mandate. Looks to me like Republicans are AGAINST redistibution and Democrats are for it - they enjoy sucking at the government tit. Republicans are too busy working and creating the wealth that Democrats plan to steal.
ATLAS SHRUGS
Really?
John McCain was a little too focused on loosing without committing so much as a foot fault to criticize Marxist Obama of anything substantive.
Marxist Krugman is projecting Joe-the-plumber's bravery onto Mister Congeniality.
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krugman’s money should be used first.
Guilty. I'm a believer in Christ Jesus, that's what's wrong with me. If loving Him (and thus refusing to fall for the imposter's cotton candy) is wrong I don't wanna be right...
Sorry the government already took everything. Aint nuthin to distribute. lol
The Ayatollah Hussein IS NOT the President elect yet, and may never be. We will see what the Electors decide mid-December about supporting an illegal alien as President of the US. McCain may yet win.
If the election of our first African-American president didnt stir you, if it didnt leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, theres something wrong with you.
Uhh, then I guess there’s something wrong with me..but what?
No, it WASN'T the October Surprise at all. Whoops! There goes your 401K, and it's the Republicans' fault!
Krugman: Once a Liar, Always A Liar.
Well stated!
“I bet the New York Times wants some government pie to keep them from going under.”
You just know that will be on the agenda.
I wonder what he’ll be preaching if Obama does somehow manage to keep his word and screws things up even more. It’ll be quite interesting to see how far the RATs will go to defend their candidate, even as he’s digging us into a deeper hole.
If McCain and Palin had won, do you think would he have written "If the election of our first female Vice President didnt stir you, if it didnt leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, theres something wrong with you" ?
Nope
So if there is something wrong with me then Krugman, I guess I qualify for a lifetime of being taken care of by the new incoming Nanny government since as you said Krugman, something is wrong with me?
I didn’t shed a tear. I never did judge him by his color or use his race against him like I guess you did Krugman. Why should I shed a tear? I didn’t drink the Kool Aide and I don’t go to this church. The only thing I am deeply concerned over are his proposed policies and the Chicago style voter fraud, the foreign contributions. If he is really eligible to run after sitting on his birth certificate will always a wonder to me since the man didn’t answer it.
If that makes something wrong with me Krguman, then sign me up for lifetime disability since I will never be moved by a Chicago thug and won’t get over what he did to Clinton or Palin to name a few instances (There are more) or how he didn’t responds to serious questions
Crying I won’t do, but screaming I will. I learned it from ancestors who didn’t like the way they were treated by the mean old British and came here for freedom. My ancestors earned my tears. Not this arrogant man who has a serious insecurity problem and has to have a seal or a sign everywhere he goes and is appointing nothing but carpetbaggers to his administration. Dissent is the American thing to do. Speaking our minds is patrotic. Dissent is patriotic. Crying is not. The country is founded on the rights of those who were not in the King’s favor.
If you want to shed tears over the fact you held the man’s race against him, that’s your business.
...so how much is Krugman going to fork over for all of this?
I mean, we need to avoid greed when it comes to redistributing right?
That will probably be part of the new Fairness Doctrine. Get rid of talk radio and subsidize liberal newspapers. What a crock.
Sowell points out the fact that earnings quintiles are quite fluid, and that the junior level kid just out of school, without 2 nickels to rub together, is tomorrow's corporate executive or neurosurgeon. We're the most upwardly mobile society on the planet.
These nanny state, zero sum demagogues want to turn us into Norway. We need to resist at every turn.
Thanks for the props.
Remember their scorched-earth "campaign of personal destruction" '95-'96 against Rush, Newt, and Dole?
That far.
If you're young and unfamiliar with it, search up Media Research Center and/or Brent Bozell and look in their archives. In particular, Bozell preserved in his archives a talk he gave at a Virginia campus back then -- Franklin and Marshall, or maybe George Mason U.
That campaign is where the coinage "Clinton hater" comes from, and all the uses of the epithet "hater" ever since.
East Germany.
Just barely, but it won't mean squat after Obama packs the court.
Dad from Kenya (if he really *was* Dad, been some debate about that) was of *mostly* Arab descent, with only one grandparent being of Sub-Saharan African bloodline (hence the Arabic name given to Obama). This is a known fact...
the infowarrior
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