Victor Davis Hanson: The "Depression" for Us Idiots

pajamasmedia.com ^ | March 17, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Leisler]

"Washington DC is a decadent imperial city same as Rome turned into...

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[Grampa Dave]

“He is one of Us, and I have met many, many middle class Hispanic Americans who have HAD it with Illegal Invaders.”

Exactly on both points. He served as a marine and a couple of his nephews are in the Marine Reserves and have done a couple of tours in Iraq.

[tubebender]

My sister lives about 5 miles west of Selma and had never heard of VDH until 2 weeks ago when I sent her a link to some of his work. She and her husband are registered Rs but all they do is b!tch and vote. To be fair all she has is dial-up.

Did you notice the similarity between VDH and Alton Brown...

[Dust in the Wind]

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[dervish]

“Obama is intimate with the lower classes and equally so with the hyper-wealthy of Hollywood, Wall Street, and America’s richly endowed families, with whom he navigates so well, but does not have a clue about the middle-classes, the clingers and bible-readers and gun-owners that are a world away from both the Daschles and the Kerry-Kennedy clique, and the bread-and-circuses world of Rev. Wright.”

VDH really catches Obama here.

As to Madoff, VDH gives the best explication I have seen. The losses can NOT include the unreal gains investors never made. And there has got to be recoupable money somewhere depending on the number of payouts with inflated gains made in the last decade.

[oprahstheantichrist]

"...where America is talked about in the Bible."

I'm beginning to think we may in fact be the "great whore of Babylon." When such is destroyed, John's revelation reveals that all the merchants of the earth mourn, "for who shall buy their wares," etc. (paraphrased from memory).

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[Captain Beyond]

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