Victor Davis Hanson: Gloom and Doom? [Obama on American history]

NRO ^ | May 26, 2008 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Earthdweller]

I still want to know where the hell states # 51 - 57 ARE because there might be some exciting business and economic opportunities...

Stop looking..all the new "states" and important customers are in China.

[Tolik]

Oh, thanks! I had that page bookmarked, but they changed format, apparently. So, I was wondering where is the new stuff. Thank you!

[UltraKonservativen]

Obama IS another Jimmy Carter.
1- They use the same words (Carter's 1976 acceptance speech)
2- They have the same supporters/endorsers like Hamas, Castro, Jane Fonda, MSM,...
3- The same elitist view of”Amerikkka”
4- The same phony Christianity they use as an excuse to get power over other “less fortunate”.
5- The same love for appeasement and lack of cojones (hiding behind the BS of diplomacy).
6- AND THEY ARE BOTH SCARED OF RABBITS!!!That's a fact, Jack!

[Veto!]

Comrade Barak called for “oppression studies?” OMG, we’re drowning in the already.

Our once proud Smithsonian has them wall to wall, however that august institution rejected tens of millions of dollars from self-made multimillionaires who wanted to build an American Dream exhibit, extolling the opportunities we have.

[Veto!]

According to Willie Brown, well-regarded black ex-mayor of San Francisco and ex-speaker of the CA legislature, “the press is covering for Obama.”

Willie, an old Dem, had excellent press, but nothing like the fawning lying coverage B. Hussein gets.

[TigersEye]

Obama doesn’t know American history so it’s not going to happen.

[xkaydet65]

While not defending the haloed one's outlook, or challenging VDH, it must be admitted that much of our history is of protest and reform, even revolution. Those brave souls on the Massachussetts coast in 1620 and 1630 were Dissidents, as were those who signed the Flushing Remonstrance in 1655. Need mention be made of the Adams cousins, or Otis, or Revere to further illustrate our revolutionary and dissident history?

Obama limits his historical arena to those whose interests are most represented in the Democrat Party today. That is his fault, not the focus on protest and reform and liberty, but limiting that focus to very narrow set of participants and issues, as if those are the only issues that matter. The Democrat Party would like us to remember the civil rights workers, and those who rioted at Stonewall, and those who protested Vietnam. They'd rather not have us remember those who rebelled against too much government power, and those who fought for individual liberty and dignity. Those omissions are far more egregious than the haloed one's failure to recall Round Top and Pointe du Hoc. He can easily remedy those omissions at his next presser, but will he mention "the city on a hill", no taxation without representation, and James Travis's letter to free dom loving people? Not if he wants to remain consistent with his Marxist view of American history. Someone should tell him that even scholars like Christopher Lasch and Eugene Genovese have seen the light and recognized the failure of their marxist god.

[razorback-bert]

but nothing like the fawning lying coverage B. Hussein gets.

The MSM know he is an empty suit and expect to manage him as sock puppet.

[Travis McGee]

"Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation."

~~Barack Obama

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

~~Karl Marx

[afnamvet]

There is no correcting him - because he won’t allow it. He KNOWS everything; and what’s more, he’s correct on everything.

Oprah trained and financed.

[metesky]

He’s all sophistry, FRiend.

[the invisib1e hand]

How comes black folks never mention George Washington Carver as a Great Black American? The guy was amazing.

[happygrl]

She sounds just like Mao's wife Jiang Qing.

Whew!

I think you're on to something.

Jiang became part of the Gang of Four.

Let's see, there's Michelle, Rev Wright, Bill Ayres, and...Rezko ?

[Blind Eye Jones]

“...have seen the light and recognized the failure of their marxist god.”

Vulgar Marxism or cultural Marxism? Cultural Marxism is still very much alive.

[Loud Mime]

sophistry - the proper term for his platform.

[Travis McGee]

I hope we never find out just how p-whipped Barack is!