Please dear freepers. Don't get offended by his use of "We". Everybody knows that "we" as freepers are ahead of the curve. It's a rhetorical tool. He is generalizing on the scale of the whole country. "We" as a country did elect Obama, believe it or not :^)
1 posted on
01/14/2010 7:15:10 AM PST by
Tolik
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2 posted on
01/14/2010 7:16:03 AM PST by
Tolik
Victor Davis Hanson:Just a partial list: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:
When Conservative Felonies Become Liberal Misdemeanors |
2010: Our Year of Decision |
Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse. September 11 taught us many lessons. To our peril, we have forgotten them |
Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! And Bush Really Did It! |
A Humpty-Dumpty View of the World |
2009 Chickens and Their 2010 Roost |
Our Year of Obama |
Where Did These Guys Come From? The Origins of Obamism |
The War Against the Wannabe Rich. Why attack the productive classes who want to be rich? |
The Long March From California to Copenhagen [Hanson on debate between capitalism and socialism] |
Obama and the Malleability of History. In pursuit of noble goals, Obama ignobly twists the truth. |
Our Flip-Flopping Wars - Iraq was never lost and Afghanistan was never quite the easy good war |
The Palin Wonder |
Obamas Wheel of Fortune. The presidents luck has changed and he doesnt seem to have noticed |
Why Are We Tiring of Obama? |
Has War Really Changed? War always involves a military solution. |
Change, Weakness, Disaster, Obama: Answers from Victor Davis Hanson |
If Iran Refuses To Cooperate, Block Its Ports |
Resetting the Reset Button [Victor Davis Hanson dissects 0's pathetic diplomacy] |
Riding the Back of the Tiger [Victor Davis Hanson on Obama not understanding What Causes Wars...] |
We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet |
Palin-Odes? What Drives the Fear and Loathing of Sarah Palin? |
Obamas Prissy America - Why does Obamas tolerant, apologetic America seem so very self-centered? |
What Bush Inherited, and What He Left Left Behind |
Who Are They? To Obama, they are responsible for all our troubles. Problem is, they are most of us |
Afghan Mythologies. We have everything we need to defeat the Taliban. |
The Discreet Charm of the Left-wing Plutocracy |
Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy. Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path |
Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama - The backlash is sharp as voters learn that Obama is not the man they thought he was |
Obama and "Redistributive Change". His real agenda |
The War Against the Producers |
President Palins First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obamas record |
Thoughts About Depressed Americans |
Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant] |
Just a partial list. Much more at the link: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index
3 posted on
01/14/2010 7:20:35 AM PST by
Tolik
To: Tolik
Re: Ivy League - I will take a Service Academy graduate or a Land Grant School graduate ANY DAY over an Ivy Leaguer.
4 posted on
01/14/2010 7:22:15 AM PST by
CholeraJoe
(Just a pony short of a show!)
To: Tolik
Wow! One of VDH’s most incisive and all-encompassing essays ever.
6 posted on
01/14/2010 7:24:42 AM PST by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: Tolik
An obvious candidate for beneficial cognitive diversity./s
VDH bump.
7 posted on
01/14/2010 7:25:53 AM PST by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Tolik
More Taboo:
6) Global Warming is unproven
7) Social Security is a dinosaur that needs to be retired
8) Obama has not yet proven his eligibility
9 posted on
01/14/2010 7:35:28 AM PST by
kidd
(Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
To: Tolik; rabscuttle385
List like these are good.
The political problem with Iraq is it became toxic from 2005-2007 when things were going bad and Bush kept on saying they were going good. Sure, Bush finally under a democrat controlled congress employed the surge and fixed what looked to be a coming disaster. But by that point the popular conventional political wisdom was “Bush lied to get us into war. He lied to us and lied to democrats”. (Not saying this was the case.)
The fact is it was Bush, Cheney and Condi out on national TV every day promoting the need for the invasion(Mushroom clouds, WMDs, Iraq pay for it's reconstruction, greeted as liberators, ...) . And they alone made the decision.
There was no amount of explaining or playing of CSPAN tapes on talk radio that could remove those images of Bush responsible.
11 posted on
01/14/2010 7:37:19 AM PST by
sickoflibs
( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
To: Tolik
(a) The state propositions have hamstrung the legislature, and resulted in almost no free choices anymore in budgetary decision.He means "hamstringed."
13 posted on
01/14/2010 7:40:13 AM PST by
Arthur McGowan
(In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
To: Tolik
Excellent piece....and I agree those are five things that need to be discussed, but is too PC (even for the going-liberal Fox News).
One more to add.....
The Failure of Free Trade, and how so-called conservatives agree with George Soros, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and other far-lefties....agree on Free Trade....and the refusal to discuss its outright failure
16 posted on
01/14/2010 7:47:21 AM PST by
UCFRoadWarrior
(No Illegal Alien Amnesty.....Never)
To: Tolik
I am convinced those leaving a Hillsdale College or St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Johns would do better than the average Yale BA. I think Hanson is wrong here. It is quite conceivable that any given student going to St. John's instead of Yale would come out with a better education than if he had chosen the Ivy, but the talent pool that Yale gets to pick from "did better" on average in high school and they are likely to continue doing so after they get their four year degree.
ML/NJ
17 posted on
01/14/2010 7:48:46 AM PST by
ml/nj
To: Tolik
20 posted on
01/14/2010 8:02:41 AM PST by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Tolik
Great stuff.
Until we start to talk about and address REAL problems, many which are listed here, we will continue to flounder as a nation.
The time has come where the politics of obfuscation, lies and false promises has ended. The winners over the next few years, and the leaders that will harness the energy of the masses to fix our problems, are those that will shoot straight and be honest.
BTW, these leaders do not necessarily need to be at a national level and the farther away from the static political organizations the better chance they have of success.
It will take some time, but these crazy ideas are in the process of been discredited. It will probably take bankruptcy to make it so. Painful but necessary.
schu
22 posted on
01/14/2010 8:04:34 AM PST by
schu
To: Tolik
It requires the logic of the Old Confederacy to determine racial purity among the intermarried citizenry Nice try Yankee, you guys had black codes and laws against interracial marriage same as we did Senor Hypocrite
What we could use from my ancestors is some of that courage and valor and respect from where one comes from.
24 posted on
01/14/2010 8:09:41 AM PST by
wardaddy
(light skinned articulate white man with only one part of the anatomy one call negro in appearance)
To: Tolik
I am fortunate for a wonderful graduate education in the PhD program at Stanford, but I learned more about the way the world works in two months of farming (which saved a wretch like me) than in four years of concentrated study. Well put, Dr. Hanson.
To: Tolik
Interestingly, the Far Left radicals now in positions of power in Washington who rely on the good reputations of "Ivy League" schools for their own "qualifications," conveniently ignore how these schools first obtained such a reputation for excellence. More importantly, however, they and their so-called "progressive" fellows would disavow the legitimacy of the ideas which motivated the founders of those universities to create such places of learning.
Those ideas would not fit into the Far Left's "politically correct" world view, because the ideas were derived from religious thought and, as such, are "flawed," as are the ideas of America's genius Founders.
To: Tolik
It requires the logic of the Old Confederacy to determine racial purity among the intermarried citizenry. Jet-black Punjabis get no preferences. Light-skinned Mexican-Americans of the fourth-generation claim privilege. Poor whites from Tulare dont rank. The children of black dentists do. I see very little logic here. I know - I know (waving hand in air - call one ME!)
Here's the logic: The groups with the benefits are DEMS. The groups without have FEW voters - or they're Republican...
31 posted on
01/14/2010 9:07:35 AM PST by
GOPJ
(Obama's US is "harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend" - Bernard Lewis warning...)
To: Tolik
Illegal Immigration and California. I guarantee you that California would not have a budget problem but for illegal immigration. It is a problem caused by the US Supreme Court (when it decreed that illegals had to be served in schools and hospitals), by the Feds, allowing unfettered illegal immigration, and by the illegal alien lobby within California, which has taken over the legislature and which looks at illegals as the best path to Aztlan. They don't just fund the illegals, they actively seek more of them and lionize them.
The amount the budget is under water could be erased overnight if illegals were not here. Our streets would be safer and there would be more jobs with decent pay contributing to the tax base.
36 posted on
01/14/2010 9:24:29 AM PST by
Defiant
(The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
To: Tolik
A motivated undergraduate student, who picks the right professors and classes, can get as good an undergraduate education at San Jose State as at Stanford. Certainly, the four years are not worth $200,000 in room, board, and tuition if education is the goal. But wait! If, in contrast, networks, influence-accumulation, and contacts are the objectives to ensure a child remains, or enters into, the elite class, then the investment in such undergraduate schools is very much worth itbut should be considered analogous to a debutante ball, the social register, or the Grand Tour.
Brilliant.
To: Tolik
We simply can’t afford these taboos anymore. All this bipartisan and nonpartisan nonsense defies common sense.
43 posted on
01/14/2010 12:55:52 PM PST by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: Tolik
49 posted on
01/14/2010 6:31:44 PM PST by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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