Posted on 02/04/2009 5:20:52 AM PST by libstripper
Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary. And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny.
We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
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02/04/2009 4:39:48 AM PST · by Benjamin Harrison · 19 replies · 871+ views New York Times ^ | Maureen DowdOn 9/11, President Bush learned of disaster while reading “The Pet Goat” to grade-school kids. On Tuesday, President Obama escaped from disaster by reading “The Moon Over Star” to grade-school kids. “We were just tired of being in the White House,” the two-week-old president, with Michelle at his side, explained to students at a public charter school near the White House. Even as he told the children his favorite superheroes were Batman and Spider-Man, his own dream of being the superhero who swoops in to swiftly save America was going SPLAT! It just ain’t that easy. |
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“Obama sure was adamant about keeping his Blackberry, wasn’t he?”
The lightbulb just went off in my head....yep.
How could we have otherwise? The EPA has just prohibited construction of a clean coal power plant in the Dakotas because of CO2 emissions, which can't be prevented with coal plants. Two other clean coal plants, one in Kansas and one in Georgia, were previously shut down by DemonRats, and they bitterly hate nuclear power. O himself has previously bragged about how his cap and trade schemes will make electric rates "skyrocket" for all fossil fuel plants, including natural gas, because they all emit CO2. That leaves with hopelessly expensive, intermittent wind and solar power. Your prediction is dead on right. Even the old New Dealers would be horrified; they wanted to restart industry, not destroy it.
Where is MODO mentioned in the article and why would you be surprised that Victor Davis Hanson would write an article that is logical and factually accurate?
Not that I didn’t appreciate the article, I always do from VDH, I just don’t understand your response.
I REALLY like Mark Sanford. I like Palin too, but Sanford is the real deal.
“Barry’s showing himself to be a”...... fuzzy kitty cat? :o)
Never has a greater truth been stated.
VDH knocks one out of the park.
The train is off the rails and it ain’t gunna be pretty.
The missing ID is locked in a safe in Hawaii. The Freudian id might also also be missing. Then it's Manchurian Candidate time...
We were screwed when the MSM picked our candidate for us.
Before we jump....there is a silver lining. Barky has been weakened and it'll get much worse, which at first glance looks worse since the govt. would then be run by Pelosi/Reid.
BUT...Barky's impotency, naivete, stunning inexperience, etc. will re-turn to sanity the voting populace and about 55 conservative DEMOCRATS in the House and a few more in the Senate. Who will want to associate themselves with an idiots policies? Pelosi is already trying to usurp power from Obama. It could be that our only chance not to be "so screwed" is collosal Dem disarray and we're well on our way to that.
I saw a glimmer of hope for the first time yesterday. Perhaps Coleman's victory in MN court fortells a trend.
We need to hang dear leader posters everywhere. Public restrooms, urinal targets, bulletin boards.
Hype the hope and change.
This one trumps it... :)
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
Fox is gross. I’m sick of the lovefest they show that loser. Fox is so afraid of being labelled ‘biased’ that they swing way hard left and kiss the a$$ of 0.
“We’ll be stuck with the Dumbest Senator until 2013! And the competition for “Dumbest Senator” is pretty stiff:”
Sometimes I wonder if “dumb” is a prerequisite?
Taking it back an election, Kerry/Edwards got a lot of mileage out of bashing Bush's opposition to fetal stem cell research. They made the claim that if they were elected, Christopher Reeve would get out of his wheel chair and walk. There was even a commercial (not a campaign ad, but obviously put out by an outfit that supported Kerry/Edwards as a subliminal ad) that had a realistic CGI of Reeve getting up out of his wheelchair and walking.
At first, I was offended that they would so callously use the pain of a quadriplegic to pander for votes like that. Then, I started to wonder, what if they REALLY believe that if they're elected, these things will happen. What if Obama REALLY believes that by the power of a crappy speech the seas will calm and the oceans will heal?
That thought is more frightening to me than the premise of a Chicago political street hustler conning us out of money.
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