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The Final Repudiation (George Will)
Newsweek ^
| Nov 17, 2009
| George F. Will
Posted on 11/11/2008 6:53:57 AM PST by bamahead
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posted on
11/11/2008 6:53:57 AM PST
by
bamahead
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
Obamas achievement represents the final repudiation of the Founders intentions regarding the selection, and hence the role, of presidents ... The Founders, Ceaser says, were deeply fearful of leaders deploying popular oratory as the means of winning distinction. That deployment would invite demagoguery, which subverts moderation. Brilliant appearances, wrote John Jay in The Federalist Papers 64,
sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.
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posted on
11/11/2008 6:57:18 AM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: bamahead
Is Georgie rolling over??
To: bamahead
We could call this election:
The Triumph of the George Wills.......
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posted on
11/11/2008 6:58:04 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Hey! Look on the bright side! At least Joe Biden is out of the Senate!..........)
To: Red Badger
EXCELLENT [and on the mark] pun!!
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posted on
11/11/2008 6:59:04 AM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Chi-townChief
It wouldn’t surprise me if they dug his body up and flung it into the Atlantic and desecrated his monument. America is his monument, and they’re already wrecking that full speed ahead.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:01:59 AM PST
by
Niuhuru
(Fine, I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
To: bamahead
Shut up George...
To ignore the DBMs role in selecting and electing this Marxist street punk is to be willfully blind to reality.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:02:44 AM PST
by
IoCaster
("That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery." - Richard Hooker)
To: bamahead
Dear Ms. Will:
You have a lot of gall mentioning the intent of the Founders when you actively trashed the only person on either ticket who had ANY grasp of originalism. Go back to playing with baseball cards and leave the Consititution to those who actually READ it.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:05:40 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: IoCaster
But is he not right about demagoguery and mob rule and the erasure of republicanism as the Founders conceived it in favor of pure democracy that inevitably moves toward dictatorship?
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:07:59 AM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
To: dirtboy
He is an annoying prissy little thing.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:08:34 AM PST
by
jwalsh07
(It's the Marxism Stupid!)
To: jwalsh07
He probably wears cartoon jammies to bed.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:09:31 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: bamahead
Couldn’t this have been published before the election?
Wake me in two years for the midterms...
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:09:53 AM PST
by
SueRae
To: bamahead
James W. Ceaser, professor of politics at the University of Virginia WAHOO-WA from Mr. Jefferson's University!
The brief nonpartisan system of candidate selection alarmed some thoughtful people because it left ambitious individuals unconstrained by any dependency. Hence the desire to involve the parties in presidential selection, thereby requiring aspirants to submit to principles and agendas not entirely their own.
And in the end, the American electorate is caught between two warring factions, each with fairly similar agendas and principles when it comes to procuring and maintaining a hold on power, and each with a complete disgust towards and abhorrence of the Constitution...and of the wishes of the electorate, more generally.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:11:18 AM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" --Patrick Henry)
To: bamahead
BO won the election for one reason only: he’s black.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:12:43 AM PST
by
TheDon
To: dirtboy
He probably wears cartoon jammies to bed. And Obama boxers..............
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:12:47 AM PST
by
cowboyway
("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
To: bamahead
Obama is in WAY over his head. Our world became more dangerous when he was elected.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:15:43 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
(Obamarx wants Redistributive Reparations)
To: bamahead
I am not a fan of George Will; in fact, I don’t like him very much. But occasionally he mentions something that he has read that is worth our attention. This is such a piece. We should thank Prof. Ceaser for writing it and Will for publicizing it.
It is ironic that it should appear in Newsweek which has been the MSNBC of the weeklies.
Obama and his campaign is indeed the final repudiation of the Founding Fathers. What really distinguishes Obama from Carter is that Carter was an accident. Obama is the result of a carefully orchestrated effort by the radical left in tandem with the entrenched and corrupt political machine which controls Chicago and the state of Illinois.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:16:06 AM PST
by
Malesherbes
(Sauve Qui Peut)
To: jwalsh07
![](http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_01/brideshead020607_468x431.jpg)
Chris Buckley and George Will
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:19:26 AM PST
by
ari-freedom
(So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
To: bamahead
The election of Obombast. A triumph of style over substance.
To: dirtboy
He probably wears cartoon jammies to bed.Miss Manners is his wife.
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posted on
11/11/2008 7:42:49 AM PST
by
HIDEK6
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