Posted on 09/30/2011 6:18:58 PM PDT by passionfruit
Our ludicrously unqualified chief executive would have been regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation.
"The way I think about it," Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, "is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft."
He has a point. This is a great, great country that got so soft that 53 percent of electors voted for a ludicrously unqualified chief executive who would be regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation. One should not begrudge a man who seizes his opportunity. But one should certainly hold in contempt those who allow him to seize it on the basis of such flaccid generalities as "hope" and "change": That's more than "a little" soft. "He's probably the smartest guy ever to become president," declared presidential historian Michael Beschloss the day after the 2008 election. But you don't have to be that smart to put one over on all the smart guys. "I'm a sap, a specific kind of sap. I'm an Obama Sap," admits David Brooks, the softest touch at The New York Times. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, now says of the president: "He wasn't ready, it turns out, really." Article Tab: From left, incoming Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama, and outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, take part a ceremony at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va., Friday, Sept. 30.
If you're a tenured columnist at The New York Times, you can just about afford the consequences of your sappiness. But out there among the hundreds of thousands of your readers who didn't know you were a sap until you told them three years later, soft choices have hard consequences.
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We know every little detail about Sarah Palin and Rick Perry. I just saw an article about the name of Rick Perry’s hunting camp which was changed and covered with paint over 25 years ago. Obama still remains a man of mystery.
Mark Steyn is excellent as usual, but he’s sounding increasingly angry and less than positive about our prospects of recovering from Obama.
I read a great article by Paul Ryan in yesterday’s (or maybe it was Friday’s) Wall Street Journal where he reviewed a book by a mega-statist who was criticizing the Constitution. Apparently the author is popular with the Bambi regime and Ryan said that the essence of our problem is that their whole vision of the function of government is completely opposite that of the FOunders.
I believe it is a problem of Democrats who just cannot admit when they are wrong.
Can you add me to your Mark Steyn Ping list?
Thanks.
My apologies to you, my FR friend. I made a feeble attempt at humor, and I missed the mark with you. My bad. Sorry.
There is NO “Fairness Doctrine.” It was invented by ex-Speaker of the House Dickie-Doo-Doo Gephardt from Missouri, when Newt took over as Speaker of the House. Poor Dickie-Doo-Doo, couldn’t handle the winner-take-all rules for House Chairmanships, so he tried to weasel some chairmanships, or Co-Chairmanships from Newt by inventing this silly “Fairness Doctrine.”
So I made my very poor attempt at humor invoking THEIR Doctrine (which doesn’t exist) against them.
My lesson to me: don’t try to make jokes when I might have to explain them later.
The FCC ‘Fairness Doctrine’ dates to 1949 under Truman and Reagan ended it.
Thanks for the Correction! My apologies to ALL for not being aware of that fact.
Looks like Dickie-Doo-Doo did the ALGORE shuffle and “re-invented THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE’ and then added his own definition to it.
I’ll try to do better next time.
There’s no doubt, on my part, that Rush is worried about something. He’s become very strident, of late.
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