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George Will: Dawning of the Age of Obama (Barf Alert)
Townhall ^ | November 09, 2008 | George Will

Posted on 11/09/2008 12:56:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 11/09/2008 1:55:19 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON -- The Capitol Steps, an ensemble that entertains Washington with political satire that often is indistinguishable from the news, begins its current show with a public address announcement advising the audience to note where the auditorium's exits are.


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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; bho2008; conservatives; election; elections; georgewill; obama; palin; presidentelectobama
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Why does Townhall still carry this old has-been and the never-was Kathleen Parker? Wouldn't they be more comfortable over at the New Republic or Slate?
1 posted on 11/09/2008 12:56:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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George Will is a punk. Sarah 2012.


2 posted on 11/09/2008 1:02:28 AM PST by TheFourthMagi
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Democrats in Congress, feeling their oats and hearing clamors from local corporations, will be Obama's first affliction.

Nonsense. Obama will lead the charge to hand out spoils to his cronies.

3 posted on 11/09/2008 1:03:58 AM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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smitten by a vice presidential choice based on chromosomes...

Effete George hasn't a clue as to why Gov. Palin energized the conservatives in this country.
She stands for exactly those same ideals that our Founders and Reagan cherished. A fact effete George can't manage to notice whilst he's kneeling down and licking the bottoms of Obama's boots.

4 posted on 11/09/2008 1:10:28 AM PST by jla
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Ad hominem: I hate George Will and his bowtie.


5 posted on 11/09/2008 1:20:24 AM PST by exist
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Thanks bow-tie George Will. You were my last-minute reading material as I board the plane for AK after years of Goldberg, Stein, Sowell tutelage.


6 posted on 11/09/2008 1:21:27 AM PST by AmericanGirlRising (RINO Hunting)
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Ad hominem: I hate George Will and his bowtie.

Yep. He should have stuck to writing about baseball.

7 posted on 11/09/2008 1:27:42 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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They are monomaniacal about media bias, which is real but rarely decisive, and unhinged by their anger about the loathing of Sarah Palin by similarly deranged liberals. These conservatives, confusing pugnacity with a political philosophy, are hot to anoint Palin, an emblem of rural and small-town sensibilities, as the party's presumptive 2012 nominee.

Oh, George, yes, we are all in a wittle tiny box, worried about this "non-decisive" liberal bias in the media and ready to elect Palin because of her chromosomes. We are just confused little pugilists. Dumb and confused and all of a feather.

If only we had extreme self-consciousness, just a soupcon of snobbish prig, a bow tie, and a large chopstick up our rears keeping us stiff and affected at all times, like you. Maybe then we little idiots could relax, enjoy the media roundtables, and make fun of Sarah Palin. Oh, how intellectual and important we little conservatives could be.

8 posted on 11/09/2008 1:30:05 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: TheFourthMagi

George Will is the anointed wimpy moderate. He is
tolerated by the MSM. Besides, anyone who is a Cubs fan is a proven loser.

Please, Cub fans do not be upset. Will has no right to be
a Cub fan since he has not lived our agony.


9 posted on 11/09/2008 1:32:29 AM PST by ChiMark
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George Will with Chris Buckley
10 posted on 11/09/2008 1:40:13 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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George time to exit the stage - just go.
11 posted on 11/09/2008 1:53:10 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit.)
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To: Yaelle

“These conservatives, confusing pugnacity with a political philosophy..”

Sorry George, we are not confused; it is intentional.


12 posted on 11/09/2008 1:55:23 AM PST by Rennes Templar (The Messiah and the Religion of Fleece)
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Dawning of the age of Obama???

And the SUNSET of metro effete fake conservatives.
13 posted on 11/09/2008 1:57:41 AM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and Obummer is a WHINING marxist)
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Yet again the aristocratic bow-tie crowd dismisses us readers and students of true conservatism.


14 posted on 11/09/2008 2:03:24 AM PST by AmericanGirlRising (RINO Hunting)
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Great story. If you remember, Bill Buckley introduced the mini-series on PBS.


15 posted on 11/09/2008 2:10:38 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.)
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He doesn’t like Sarah Palin. Deal with it. She has upsides and she has downsides.

George Will is correct to point this out and he is the leading intellectual figure of the conservative movement now that the big 3 guys have died (Friedman, Reagan, Buckley).

I do not know how close to Reagan sarah actually is. Reagan wrote and thought deeply about issues and he always came on the conservative side of things. Sarah raised taxes on oil companies because they were having a good year, not something I think Reagan would have done.

My point is, don’t pigeonhole us into Sarah. After all Mac picked her and we all know how dopey his judgement is. I would rather wait for a true reagan heir than deal with another disappointment like Bush who looked like reagan but never ended up talking or walking like him.


16 posted on 11/09/2008 2:39:25 AM PST by DiogenesLaertius
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the Age of Obama

The Age of the O-Cult.

17 posted on 11/09/2008 3:11:35 AM PST by syriacus (There would not be so many undecided voters, if Obama's plans were less confusing.)
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18 posted on 11/09/2008 3:43:05 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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Shut up, George.

I stopped reading your crap years ago.

The leftist rags, like those puked out daily by the Gannett organization, run your pieces as a scrap thrown to conservative readers. True conservatives know you for what you are.

They never run pieces by Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter. I read those on the internet and have cancelled my subscription to the Gannett rag long ago.

19 posted on 11/09/2008 4:06:51 AM PST by IbJensen (Obombazombies have given America to the Communists!)
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All I can think of when I think of George Will, is the word ‘prissy’.

One of the ways you can tell if a writer is worth reading is if ten, twenty years later, people are re-reading his old stuff. No one reads old Will work, unless they are going to have surgery and need to be unconscious for a week.

20 posted on 11/09/2008 4:41:33 AM PST by Leisler (Obama is going to give us all Unicorns!)
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