Posted on 10/30/2008 9:19:25 PM PDT by Saint Athanasius
The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes:
He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. Obama and the Runaway Train The race, the case, a hope for grace.
He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice.
Read the rest of this dribble if you want...
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
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I never thought I would live to see that day in America.
But I’m starting to feel like I live in some sort of third world country where the masses are waiting for their Chavez or Castro to save them.
It is enough to make one shake with fear.
She’s upset Romney lost.
She was on with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson last week and they were all three downright cruel in their anti-Palin statements; I have no use for this woman.
Well,
I think what is happening in America is what T.S. Eliot said in the 1930s
“If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin.”
Obama is now the New Messiah.
What about the unborn?
Abortion has been legal nationwide since Roe. Obama did not institute that, but he obviously wants to perpetuate it. His support for pretty much unrestricted abortion is not what makes him unique, it is his extreme covert leftisn and cult of personality.
Should “The One” actually pull off this ruse, I swear I will drive up to the Ronald Reagan Library the next weekend and personally apologize to President Reagan at his Graveside.
I am sickened by what my fellow “Citizens” have done with their God given gift. Helplessness is now a badge of honor.
Me neither - Bush’s decency has been his downfall. Loyal to those who did not return it and steadfast in what he thought was right. When he said “Brownie is doing a heckuva a job” - he was supporting someone who was getting creamed. Probably should have just fired him and many others but that is not his way to scapegoat and he is now alone at the whipping post.
Noonan sounds like she either slept with Obama , or is involved in some kind of sadistic Orwellian sexual fantasy. I mean this is political sexual autoeroticism.
Change the tone of foreign policy....by surrender?
Any A$$ hat with a white flag can,,,,,,unh,,,unh..do that!
Obama hasn't had towork for a thing is his life hardly. Affirmative Action gave him everything, including a set of lowered expectations and an automatic Pass on everthing. Now Affirmative Action thinking wants to give Obama the presidency?
Well Obama has a nooner anytime he wants it with Noonan.
I don't suppose that counts though does it?
Looks like Peggy thinks he will win and she wants to get invited to the Christmas Party. If he does steal the election, wait until she finds out he won’t let the Christmas Tree be on the White House Lawn so he doesn’t have to explain to his children why there are lights on the tree.
“He is steady, calm...”
I guess Peggy didn’t see 0bama:
-Scrambling for answers during the Democratic primary debates, when Stephanopolous finally asked some tough questions of The One.
-Backpedaling and continuously uttering “uh, well now wait a minute” whenever O’Reilly decided to press him on an issue during that interview.
-Have two very public weeks of being totally at a loss of how to answer the surprise pick of Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP.
-Have an ongoing, if lesser, obsession with Sean Hannity. 0bama’s taken what, a dozen whiny public shots at Hannity? (Man up, you creampuff!)
Peggy, you ignorant sl*t........
She does come across lately as a bit smitten but then she held Reagan in the sort of regard a daughter gives to an only father; her first and truest desire to please him before she be too late; now in the twilight of her own place upon this lofty stage she steps down haughtily in the center seat among the hungry audience to await the final act.
She speaks with a feigned admiration of this strange attractive man who came of age at the same time as Affirmative Action, a new script in hand and his eye set firmly on the role of leading man.
Like many an early morning greying old mare hauled herself toward the rusting milk wagon now parked forlorn in the bright dawn’s shadows in a new and changing age, she offers herself up for one more round of delivering the goods, this time she’s content to ride in back.
Just from this piece, she seems to tumble in a stream of consciousness, unable to latch on to any stable idea or philosophy. A degenerate mind.
I can relate 100% to what you are saying. I have to talk myself out of being angry all the time.
I think when the article is taken as a whole she doesn’t sound so off the reservation. Her first points are to show why so many are swept up in the moment. Then she says they may end up disappointed. Finally, this paragraph is really pretty damning of Obama.
And there is this. The past few months as the campaign unfolded, I listened for Mr. Obama to speak thoughtfully about the life issues, including abortion. Our last Democratic president knew what that issue was, and knew by nature how to speak of it. Bill Clinton famously said, over and over, that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.” The “rare” mattered. It set a tone, as presidents do, and made an important concession: You only want a medical practice to be rare when it isn’t good. For Mr. Obama, whose mind tends, as intellectuals’ minds do, toward the abstract, it all seems so . . . abstract. And cold. And rather suggestive of radical departures. “That’s above my pay grade.” Friend, that is your pay grade, that’s where the presidency lives, in issues like that.
I think in some ways it is a smart piece. If she had written it flat out and just said Obama is cold and will raise taxes, she would not get the listen she does from those who are hypnotized by him. She smartly softens the reader up and then, still softly puts in this pretty damning paragraph at the end.
This was not written for our eyes I think. I believe she is trying to wake up some of those conservatives she mentioned and maybe even trying to win over some undecideds. You can’t do that in the “normal” way. Anyone who did not read the whole article, I urge you to read it with this in mind. She is doing what Obama does to get converts. It has worked, she may catch some fish with this bait.
Actually, I just think she’s a twit. She is not a serious person, she’s more interested in sitting around with media figures and feeling comfortable with them. How could she do that if she were a real conservative?
She's clearly infatuated with his blackness. Sounds like the Johnny Cochran making his final arguments.>>>>>>
Noonan is showing all the marks of an unhealthy infatuation which is illogical, juvenile, something one would expect of say, a 14 year old at puberty, wrapped up in a fixated fantasy about the handsome postman who merely smiled and said goodmorning.
Maybe Michelle Obama needs to ship Noonan off to St. Lucia with the other Obama squeeze.
Heck, I would donate to that cause , just so I wouldn't have to read Noonan's Harlquin Novel Politics.
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