the sky is only falling over you.
He's the same courageous, visionary leader he was when accepted the responsibility of war, for example, or when he hammered the UN with foolproof logic about its spinelessness on its Iraqi resolutions.
It's just that courage and vision can confound anyone, especially when tempted to confuse politics with leadership; even (and especially) conservatives, when it challenges our most cherished habits.
The world is still not flat.
Hello. I was right on the UAE. Were you?
As for the illegal alien issue:
As Alan Keyes has noted,
"All of the national polls are very clear: Americans want to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws, and REJECT any AMNESTY bills, no matter WHAT form they take to try to fool us."
Here are just a few examples:
According to the Washington Times, a new Gallup Poll (March 27) finds 80% of the public wants the federal government to get tougher on illegal immigration.
A Quinnipiac University Poll (March 3) finds 62% oppose making it easier for illegals to become citizens (72% in that poll don't even want illegals to be permitted to have driver's licenses).
Time Magazine's recent poll (Jan. 24-26) found 75% favor "major penalties" on employers of illegals, 70% believe illegals increase the likelihood of terrorism and 57% would use military force at the Mexican-American border.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (March 10-13) found 59% opposing a guest-worker proposal, and 71% would more likely vote for a congressional candidate who would tighten immigration controls.
An IQ Research poll (March 10) found 92% saying that securing the U.S. border should be a top priority of the White House and Congress.
Yet, according to a National Journal survey of Congress, 73% of Republican and 77% of Democratic congressmen and senators say they would support guest-worker legislation
Tell it to the administration, which has its entire staff worshiping at the feet of globalism-guru Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, "The World is Flat"
Newsweek reported back on March 6th that the entire staff of the White House was seen toting copies of his book around.
To get some perspective on Friedman, I suggest as a starting point reading a critique, from the New York Press, "Flathead"
Here is an appropriate snippet thereto:
On an ideological level, Friedman's new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. If its literary peculiarities could somehow be removed from the equation, The World Is Flat would appear as no more than an unusually long pamphlet replete with the kind of plug-filled, free-trader leg-humping that passes for thought in this country. It is a tale of a man who walks 10 feet in front of his house armed with a late-model Blackberry and comes back home five minutes later to gush to his wife that hospitals now use the internet to outsource the reading of CAT scans. Man flies on planes, observes the wonders of capitalism, says we're not in Kansas anymore. (He actually says we're not in Kansas anymore.) That's the whole plot right there. If the underlying message is all that interests you, read no further, because that's all there is.