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The Case for Pessimism
Commentary ^ | November 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/02/2011 7:17:15 PM PDT by Hojczyk

In September 2009, Barack Obama and Muammar Qaddafi both addressed the United Nations. It is a pitiful reflection upon the Republic in twilight that, when it comes to the transnational mush drooled by the leader of the free world or the conspiracist ramblings of a pseudo-Bedouin terrorist drag queen presiding over a one-man psycho-cult basket case, it’s more or less a toss-up as to which of them was the more unreal.

Just so. Every time Barack Obama stands at his teleprompter and is forced to pretend that he’s interested in deficit reduction, we have taken a step toward that Milton Friedman reality. You have to create the conditions, as the Tea Party and the town hall meetings did, whereby the wrong people are forced to do the right things.

One cannot wait for the great leader to descend from the heavens to do the work for us. Every glamour boy, from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney to Rick Perry, proves to have feet of clay. It’s more important that tens of millions of ordinary citizens move the meter on public discourse and force the wrong people to do the right things.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; pessimism; steyn

1 posted on 11/02/2011 7:17:17 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

“pseudo-Bedouin terrorist drag queen”

Now, that’s funny!


2 posted on 11/02/2011 7:29:27 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Hojczyk

Another homer in the bottom of the ninth by Steyn.


3 posted on 11/02/2011 7:40:44 PM PDT by p. henry
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...Thanks Mark, for cheering me up!!! /sarc
4 posted on 11/02/2011 9:10:25 PM PDT by gargoyle (...it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them...)
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