Obama’s Failure of Moral Courage
“Courage,” according to Merriam-Webster, means “mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.” Courage was considered the prime virtue through most of recorded history among virtually all peoples on the Earth, and has only recently been displaced by liberal Western concepts such as tolerance and comity. Children are no longer instilled with the desire to express courage — moral or otherwise — but instead are taught to value “openness,” “diversity,” “conflict resolution,” and other liberal forms of pacifism designed to create a drab and dreary conflict-free wilderness, a land where no one can be offended, no one holds any strong or difficult positions, a place without danger and fear — in short, a world without the need for courage. To liberals, courage is a horribly antiquated concept, akin to notions of honor — things best left in the seventh century.
But, of course, there are many in this world who still reside in the seventh century and they have declared violent war against us (the brutes!). They understand the meaning of courage and intend to prove their own particular brand of this virtue by lopping off our heads and flying aircraft into our buildings. Americans, the product of a long, protracted struggle to settle and tame the wilds of North America, still retain a residue of their ancestral courage, that mettle forged in the white-hot furnace of suffering, struggle, and death as our forefathers fought, bled, and died to bequeath us a better place. The expression of American courage is tempered with mercy and kindness, thus making it difficult for many foreigners to see. Unfortunately, many of our leaders have not only lost this virtue, but actively despise it. A prime example is our current fearless leader Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama, a strange product of the union between a pampered American leftist and a quite randy son of a Kenyan Mau Mau revolutionary (who seems to have sired children all over the world), lived extensively abroad and was educated not in a setting designed to pass along American cultural attitudes. The fundamental view that Barry Soetero developed was not uniquely American but internationalist; he views himself as part of a brotherhood of man, a citizen of the world. Having roots everywhere, he has them nowhere — the perfect recruit for the new man of the left!
Which explains Obama’s bizarre foreign policy of apologism; as a child he got along well with others of every race, creed, and background — in fact, he had to diligently labor to avoid fitting in — and he expects this to translate into foreign affairs. His is the antithesis of courage; he believes in the inherent goodness of man and thus the troubles in the world are caused by an unjust social order. Since he sympathizes with the third world, the troubles must be caused by exploitation of the big bullies of America and Europe — and thus if he apologizes enough those troubles will go away as the exploited come to trust in our contrition. This is a bit different than pure appeasement in that it does not simply offer a bully what he wants; it is about a fundamental change in our way of viewing the world — particularly in regard to that antiquated concept of courage.
On any playground in the world bullies beat children who hold Obama’s viewpoint into insensibility; this moral high ground gives the courage-deprived black eyes and bloody noses.
But apologism appeals to liberals (perhaps because they were weak and cowardly as children?) precisely because they think that America is the bully and they want to humble the ugly brute. By apologizing for our very existence, we make ourselves subservient to an international order, voluntarily placing ourselves under “wiser” and “more moral” institutions designed to create one big happy playground. The majority of liberals believe that there is a purpose to history (Karl Marx certainly did) and that a world with nation-states is a world in the process of evolution; antiquated notions of courage and independence must be removed if we are to progress to a world without borders — both personal and international.
He can’t even admit he smokes.
How courageous.
The omnipotent five-percenter.
Sooner or later, you will recognize that Obama policies are driven by his personal emotions only, regardless of consequences (like pressing recession into depression).
And these emotions are all HATRED: hatred for whites, hatred for rich, hatred for Jews, hatred for liberties, hatred for infidels, etc. etc. etc.
G-d save America.
The simple fact that he is once again voting “present” shows his lack of real commitment to anything other than his own vanity. The desire on his part to have his Carteresque Camp David photo op with the Dinner Jacket instead of supporting the people in Iran and vindicate his “I have a gift” fantasy about himself is nothing less than disgusting.
“a strange product of the union between a pampered American leftist and a quite randy son of a Kenyan Mau Mau revolutionary.”
Give me a break.
Obama is the product of an American street whore and a small time, ass chasing Kenyan businessman.
He was raised to hate and do everything possible to destroy the United States of America, white people and Jews. He married a woman that harbors the same thoughts and feelings, except hers are much more intense than his.
Obama has no problem delivering and following through with these things, as well as personally living and upholding the Black Liberation philosophies of passing their hatred on by teaching their children to do the same thing. That is what the Whitehouse’s is being used for today.
The author is correct saying, “This failure is ultimately on the part of the American people”, but not because they are growing tired of war.
As predictable products of a failed educational system and collapsed moral structure the American people have their heads stuck up their rear ends.. and with the election of Obama it appears that they have finally sat down and broken their own necks.
The whole article sounds like barking dogs.
Barking= no solutions.
If this is ultimately a failure of the American people,then why did we fail?–our progressive-left leaders in congress,our school system and academia,the sorry state of the national media. So many leaders and media and educators have swallowed the Marxist concept of world political evolution and the concepts of the new virtues which are in a close analysis useless without the old virtues,among with are courage,honor,prudence,etc.,especially on a national scale.
Obama, like he did 129 times in the IL Senate, voted “present.” He was waiting for the dust to settle to see when it safe to come out from under Michelle’s skirt.
I maintain that Soetero has NOT had a “failure of moral courage…for the simple reason that I have no reason to believe that he has ever possessed moral courage.
It’s not possible to “fail” in something you’ve never tried to do. I have NEVER “failed” in my attempts to climb Mt. Everest. None of my scuba-diving trips or shopping frenzies at Macy’s have failed.
The headline might better have referred to this as fresh evidence of the absence of moral courage in this fraud’s makeup.
Notice the amazing information in paragraph 3 that it might have been nice to have shared with the public 12 months ago.
obama’s grandfather was a Mau Mau revolutionary.
It would have been nice to have had some professional journlists in the country last year.
Ah, well. I’m sure we’ll be fine. The bill the House Puppets passed last night includes in it the requirement that all building codes across the country now be Californicated: every California building code will be nationalized if they get it through the Senate.
That means you folks in the woods in northern Wisconsin or on the delta in Mississippi now get to build your houses just like California’s! Is this our lucky day or what?
Who can express the blessing this would be for the ranchers on the wide open prairies of Montana and Wyoming? Surrounded by thousands of acres of Grandma grass (which never gets more than 1 inch or so tall), they (just lucky to be alive now, I guess) will be required to build their houses to resist brush fires. I suppose all the Chicago high rises will be retrofitted for earthquakes. We’re fried.
Remember: the government doesn’t have any money. That’s why they keep taking ours.
Well, I believe our forefathers fought and bled to give us a better world and I think they believed that that world would eventually be easier and more peaceful. Obama is a natural product of this “natural evolution” of man. Trouble is, it’s not natural at all. Unfortunately, not everyone sees the world this way. Not everyone wants to play nice in the playground. I actually wish the Obama’s of this world were right, at least in this regard, but fascism, totalitarian communism, jihad and other factors, yet unknown, have and will continue to prove them wrong. We must continue to build that world but we must still be vigilant, capable and courageous enough to defend it. Kindness is a wonderful virtue. I suppose we can even be kind to vipers but we should never embrace them.
To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under the sun.
A time to be born and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
a time to kill and a time to heal …
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance …
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to lose and a time to seek;
a time to rend and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.
ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Only a commie dupe, the likes of Pete Seeger, could pervert this wisdom to something that negates the half that they don’t like. The internationalist wishful thinkers forget that there is “a time for peace and a time for war” and it won’t be a time of their choosing. In the end, it’s about striking a balance, after all.
vote for term limits in congress. Get a congress that represents the people. Even the lefties can see already that voting present isn’t going to cut it. They just can’t stand the fact or admit that their guy is letting them down too.
THE GOOD EARTH
It’s the milk of a whore,
mixed with the blood of Cain.
On this hard killin’ floor
full of forgotten names.
It’s that stretch of dead field
all poisoned and stained,
where they promise you work
all shackled in’ chains.
But ain’t ya born?
You been born of the good earth.
Ain’t ya born now my child,
Born of the good earth.
It’s that cruel eye of sun
up in its alkaline haze
aimed like a gun
all through the length of yer days.
It’s the freeze an’ the cold
on the catch of yer skin.
Just a coat full of holes
out in the gatherin’ winds
But ain’t ya born?
You been born of the good earth
Ain’t ya born now my son?
you been born of the good earth.
Its yer nerves all fluttery torn
an’ pumped full of caffeine
as ya pull up at the light
next to some dark limousine.
It’s that convenient store
with it’s porn magazines
an that long look in yer eyes
at the short end of yer dreams.
But ain’t ya born?
You been born of the good earth
Ain’t ya born now, my boy?
You been born of the good earth.
It’s the spoils of a war
an yer cut of the shame
with the poor gettin poor
‘neath all the wealth an the fame.
It’s that lock on the door
where yer standin’ in pain,
while some bum’s keepin’ score
on the fix of the game.
But ain’t ya born?
You been born of the good earth
Ain’t ya born now my child?
You been born of the good earth.
Born of the good earth.
From his formative years onward, Obama was befriended by all manner of American haters. There is no indication of anyone he closely associated with,personally or professionally, who was NOT in sync with third world anti-American ethos.He is a product of his mentors.
When he famously stated that he could no more throw Rev Wright under the bus than he could his own grandmother, the people should have paid more attention to such an assertion. He was telling the public that he and the Rev were closer than close.The fact that he eventually had to throw him under the bus proves, that even someone he loved like a grandfather, he was still willing to throw him away(for now) for political expediency.
In a perverse way this proves that his close associations are totally expendable too. Imagine then how he feels about citizens he doesn’t even know! Promise them, Change, Yes We Can, and deliver on nothing.After all, they ain’t even grandpa….
In a very real sense, the adage that people are to be judged by the company they keep is precisely on point when trying to discern who Obama is and who he isn’t.
He is a man steeped in third world ideology, and whose political outlook is diametrically at odds with US interests.This is a fact, glaringly obvious to those who are not enthralled with The One being The One.His bow to the Saudi, his smiles with Chavez, and his INITIAL instinct re the Iranian Hitler tell the true story.
Though he is a very shrewd and wily politician, he is also a creature of his third world upbringing.Now that he is President, he is able to drop his mask from time to time,(when he is not in 2012 re-election mode) certainly when his baser third world instincts kick in.
To add to this revealing picture is the fact that Obama has told audiences on several occasions that he is a ‘blank canvas’, that people are free to paint whatever portrait they want.
Further poisoning this toxic picture is
his constant arrogant preening before the camera. His incessant thirst for adoring crowds are indeed the true substance of the enigma called Obama.
One can NEVER feel moral outrage and its attendant courage if one has NO moral compass to guide you.
Vivo: You have no room to criticize. You thought Obama was the “solution”.
Marx wouldn’t have had any patience with multiculturalism. He was pretty Euro-centric in this regard. It was the pansies who later interpreted Marx as some sort of kumbaya figure (and the elites from 3rd-world backwaters who played on white guilt to justify their “culture”) who lost this aspect of Marxism, which is at least somewhat respectable. Indeed, while Marx may not have agreed with the British being in India, one can imagine him agreeing with Napier on the subject of wife-burning.
5. vivo:
The whole article sounds like barking dogs.
Barking= no solutions.
Actually, the solution is for Obama to do a 180 on all of his policies. Pretty simple, really.
Using charm to make up for a lack of fortitude. Let’s not forget the character of the elected can be a reflection of the dominant mood of the electorate, the ultimate triumph, as it were, of schools imbibed with echoes of Marx.
God help my country. I do admit I appreciate the fact you pulled no punches in calling a spade a spade! I have kids from my CAP Unit, who might as well be my own in Afghanistan and Iraq and my youngest child is living in Hawaii, where Barry has still done little about the NORKS – he is in the process of destroying my country and he has NO, NO, NO concept of honor or decency or courage and I am afraid and ashamed.
venividivinci – Multiculturalism has been called cultural Marxism. Whether Marx would have approved or not, those who followed in his footsteps, realizing his “vision” was never going to fly, cobbled together another vision, thus beginning Gramsci’s “long march throught the institutions” that has finally come to fruitition and brought a true believer to the White House.
http://www.virginiainstitute.org/viewpoint/2005_09_5.html
Who is there to blame – the electorate. They are the ones that put Obama into the White House. Yes the media was in the tank for him, but there was plenty of information on Obama’s background, philosophy of life, the world, and his plans for America that was available to anyone who wanted to know. The fact is that most voters range from semi-illiterate, to totally illiterate on the issues affecting our country. We have a society that can name all the judges on the current crop of reality programs, but cannot name one Supreme Court Justice, let along intelligently discuss what issues are currently before the court and how these decisions will affect their future. When the American electorate decides that the country’s future is more important than the death of Michael Jackson, maybe then we will get politicians elected by an informed electorate………..until then expect more of the same !!!!!!
For many years I believed in uniqueness of the U.S., but by creating/appointing/selecting this coward and clown for the White House, I’ve changed my mind. This man is a total fraud and America is not unique anymore. How could it happen?
Excellent article and comments;
Illustrates what elitists the Democrats think they are and how out of touch with reality and their constituents they are.
The Democrat Party is truly striving to kneecap America and our CHOSEN way of life.
WATF – Amen.
Obama’s victory is proof of the power of the main stream media and it’s choice to eliminate and obfuscate the truth. The American people have to confront the media and their elected officials to get this policy corrected.
“Lets roll”.
Thomas L,
Fair point and I am aware of the lineage of “cultural Marxism” via Gramsci. I was speaking of Marx personally. Evidence suggests he was a complete racist.
The irony of the Gramsci connection is that Gramsci actually advocated a classical education for the masses, i.e. he would have them read the Greek and Latin classics as the foundation of their political education. The reason being that, albeit those classics were written for a specific class in antiquity, they showed people how to act as citizens and free men and women.
Even Gramsci would have found today’s Left decadent and grotesque.
Anyone who goes along with demonizing where Ollie North comes from, especially when it comes to this: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102233
They deserve derision, contempt, and opposition.
Also make sure this is read:
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2009/06/27/9951511-sun.html
You’re being way too charitable. He shows no weakness when dealing with his domestic political adversaries. He simply doesn’t see anything wrong with dictators. Kindred spirits.
Israel, OTOH, is a democracy. That’s something bad.
#25 David W. Lincoln
Really bad news. Thank you for the link.
ON TOPIC
I seriously disagree.
I appreciate the fine analysis but I think that the internationalists are always “shy” when facing the enemies of America.
This “lack of courage” is a calculated attitude that helps America’s enemies and builds a strategic situation in which America will have more problems.
Let’s not forget that Chavez, as a marxist, greatly values the role of Iran against America …why should another marxist think differently and damage the mullahs ?
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
You’re being way too charitable. He shows no weakness when dealing with his domestic political adversaries. He simply doesn’t see anything wrong with dictators. Kindred spirits.
I agree. If there were only some way to fool the Left into thinking the mullahs were Christian Conservatives, the mullahs would be under so much pressure they wouldn’t know what hit them.
Hate to tell you #24 VENEDIVICI-but Antonio Gramsci is WHO the Communists of today base there entire “logic” on, not even Karl Marx. It was GRAMSCI who advocated to destroy western civilization you had to destroy its institutions, primarily ther church and the family. There IS a reason Gramscis name doesnt often come up in the State run media. The reason is simple-he would frighten the average freedom lover to death. Hitler and Stalin, amongst others, were DEVOTEES of the Franklin school where Gramscis theory was first taught in the early 1920s, Hitler as a struggling artist and Stalin as a so-called Orthodox “minister”(another Jeremiah Wright?). Quit making EXCUSES for the commie filth Vene, its beneath dignity. Gramsci is no different than Noam Chomsky(great gramsci lover) or Professor Pete Singer of Princetion, the so-called “ethics”(ethics like Bill Clintons) chair.
I forgot, I wanted to comment this too:
This failure is ultimately on the part of the American people, a result of people growing tired of war. In the final analysis, who are the cowards here?
I disagree.
What we got here is a GIANT lesson about the horrifying power of propaganda: the whole media’s machine has been used for this attempt to subvert the Republic….and there was no doubt about the result of the elections.
I still appreciate the fact that the internationalist Apologizer in Chief barely made it.
Tens of millions of Americans showed they are not easily brainwashable.
And to get to this result the subversives had to invade all the schools and all the universities and all the media for decades.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Anthony Eden on Neville Chamberlain,1938:
“The union of Germany and Austria might have been inevitable in some form at some time, but the impression of weakness created by British foreign policy accelerated both these events. And so now, while firmness in foriegn policy cannot perhaps, prevent events, it can delay them, and delay is most important. The sum of my criticism of Chamberlain’s foriegn policy is that his too patent eagerness to come to terms with the dictators encourages their aggressive tendencies. Queen Elizabeth once wrote to the Danish Ambassador: “I would have the King of Denmark know that England hath no need to crave peace.”"
johngaltrules,
While I agree with some of what you’re saying (e.g. Chomsky and Singer are scum), your facts are off. The FrankFURT School was not affiliated with Gramsci. It was a different group altogether. Stalin and Hitler were not devotees of that school, either.
My point is that today’s Left is EVEN WORSE than the sort of Left Gramsci would approve of, since his standards were still the standards of a “Classical” education, although he advocated that Classical education for the masses, not just the elite.
Sorry, man, but I’ve spend a few decades studying this stuff and have the facts down pretty cold.
Origins of totalitarianism in the 21st century. We are witnessing it live.
#32 Gallifet – Great post!
#33 veni – You go!
My view is that the peaceniks like to put the warriors in a box labelled, “In case of emergency, break glass!” They never understand that, if you wish to avoid the emergencies, you need those warriors all the time.
The problem is that the peaceniks, aka sheeple, almost always outnumber the warrors. This is what’s wrong with democracy: the sheeple rule. When they occasionally embrace a warrior like Reagan, someone who does not duck conflict, the country becomes really strong and prosperous.
The sheeple need to know they’re sheeple, then choose a strong guard dog, not another sheeple.
Do not leave out the lesser know but even more bloodthirsty and influential Hungarian George Lukacs, Gramsci’s contemporary:
From Wikipedia:
“He was born Löwinger György Bernát to a wealthy Jewish family in Budapest. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism.”
“In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html
Cultural Marxism
By Linda Kimball
The last link is a superb, in-depth scrutiny into the realm of the collapsing American society: the corrosive teachings at our universities by the Frankfurt School’s Marcuse, Adorno, Hockheimer – all escapees from Hitler’s Antisemitic purges.
As for the Multiculturalism …well Noel Ignatiev – whose roots go back to Russia – said:
“Abolish the White Race – By Any Means Necessary”
“Ignatiev’s web site and publication Race Traitor display the motto “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity”.
No wonder The Messiah feel vindicated and assume divine qualities to himself like Commodus (sun god Heliogabalus)of Rome.
Ignatiev’s web site and publication “Race Traitor” display the motto “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity”
Marc – Well, as long a country has the relationship that the USA has traditionally had with its military. A strong guard dog can turn on and eat the sheeple too. I also think that the internationalist multiculti tools truly believe that they will eventually beat all swords into plowshares and there will be peace in their time. If only they make nice and apologize to everyone. As we’ve seen in Iran, freedom isn’t free. The Iranian opposition could settle for the kind of the peace that the mullahs offer but they resist it with their very lives. Meanwhile, we obsess over a dead pedophile and the president votes “present” when he should be saying, “Rise up”! Pacifism merely encourages tyrants. The peace of he grave will come soon enough.
yeah.
reagan, the heroic warrior, who had enough sense to get out of lebanon after 240 people were killed, including 220 marines.
luckily, reagan was able to redeem himself by attacking grenada a couple days later in a highly successful invasion… successful because the total grenada armed forces consisted of three old men and a burro.
*shrug*
hooray for hollywood
Some people believe that American foreign policy once contained too much testosterone.
Today, it suffers from a complete lack of it.
…there are many in this world who still reside in the seventh century and they have declared violent war against us (the brutes!). They understand the meaning of courage and intend to prove their own particular brand of this virtue by lopping off our heads and flying aircraft into our buildings.
I have a hard time putting such impulses into the “courageous” category. Rather, I consider radical Islamists losers & chickensh!ts, without actual purpose (bin laden & zawahiri both exiled from their respective countries, zarqawi was a wanted criminal in Jordan etc.)
But apologism appeals to liberals (perhaps because they were weak and cowardly as children?) precisely because they think that America is the bully and they want to humble the ugly brute.
I completely agree with that observation. Plus, liberals seem to be rather miserable human beings and will be happier when (they perceive) that government has forced the misery to be more equally shared.
And as a result of this failure of moral courage, the Iranian revolution will likely fizzle and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan will be for naught.
Not everything that happens in the world is a function of Obama’s position on it, or lack of position on it.
Many Iranians, it seems, weren’t and aren’t counting on support (verbal or otherwise) from this fickle American administration, which, in my view of the planet, is wise on their part.
From your Mau Mau link…)
During his press conference last night, Mr. Obama cited Winston Churchill as a man who would not countenance ‘torture,’ even when Britain’s very existence as a nation was at stake:
However Barack chose to use (or misuse) something about Winston Churchill, I’d be happier if he’d cited Winnie’s infamous observation…
An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Or maybe, since Barack seems to love IZZ-lam so much, he could have cited Churchill on the subject, some 110 years ago…
The River War
14. AThinkingPerson:
“Vivo: You have no room to criticize. You thought Obama was the “solution”.”
What was the brilliant option?
I’m not criticizing, barking and barking doesn’t lead anywhere. Have you seen dogs doing this?
15. venividivici:
“Actually, the solution is for Obama to do a 180 on all of his policies. Pretty simple, really.”
Your simplicity is astounding! You’re just still missing the Republican lethargic administration and the World is all changing around you. You veni, you vidi, but are not vici’ing.
19. Worried About The Future:
“Who is there to blame – the electorate.”
Yes, they they blew it in 2000 and ’04.
Barack Obama lacks the cahones of 1908 Olympian Ron Rose. Rose (and teammate Martin Sheridan) understood what Obama does not: that the U.S. should never “bow” to any earthly king.
http://tinyurl.com/m3kfga
Cooperation is one thing. Capitulation is another.
Some of you are crazy (#2): Obama is not a hater. He is a nice guy and a decent enough man: he has come around on Guantonamo and some other issues internationally: but he’s a bit of a lightweight, over his head in matters that require the seasoned fortitude of a Nixon (don’t laugh–that man was tough and seasoned), the vision of a Reagan or the grounded common sense of a JFK.
Obama’s a tax and spend democrat and made no secret of it when he ran. What’s the surprise?
The rest of the Obama detractors here conveniently overlook the obvious: the GOP and its enablers MADE Obama–by its breathtaking blunders while it controlled congress from 2004 until it was thrown out in 2006; to a lesser extent, because George Bush let congress engage in a sickening spending and corruption spree. He virtually defaulted on his obligation to veto insane spending bills now and then.
While GOP leaders were trying to fund the “bridge to no where”, the US was importing thousands of Somali immigrants to the eastern US, providing an indigestable ball of issues for those states; leaving the US-Mexico border as porous as it ever was; and trying to put “courts need lightweights too” Harriet Meirs on the Supreme Court.
After screwing up royally, the GOP offered up tired old John (“I stand for nothing”)McCain as a leader. No wonder the voters fled to Obama.
The GOP handed the voters a budget built on deficits, a collapsing economy built on unrealistically low interest rates and distorted real estate building, a failed energy policy (rising oil prices, not one refinery built while the GOP controlled congress; not one nuclear power plant), and a panicked Tresury Secretary howling for billions to prevent economic collapse just before the election. You know this is true! You also know its shredded the GOP’s credibility in the worst way.
Oh..don’t let me forget: you’ve all allowed the teaching of US History to degenerate into an apology for everything the US ever did; the highlights of US hsitory boooks now are people you’ve never heard of and things that hardly mattered. Edison? Franklin? Alexander Hamilton? Airbrushed from the books in favor of Roslyn Carter and other fluff. How did this happen? Because you spent your time worrying about gays and Roe! And you’re surprised voters trend toward the spenders?
The GOP’s effort to even launch a candidate now looks like the filmed efforts to launch flying machines before the Wright brothers: Jindal can’t explain why the right is better than the left; Sanford travels to see a mistress on the state’s dime and ditches his kids on Father’s day; Palin is just not completely baked. Great.
And what do half the GOP supporters worry about? gay marriage and rolling back Roe. So while we are protected from gays being married, the US is being savaged by Pelosi’s spending and green industrial plans. And the best posters can do here is crab about Obama.
Vivo is pointed the wrong way, but he’s uncomfortably right today: Attacking Obama is not a plan. Its not a vision. Where’s the Plan? Who’s the candidate?
You veni, you vidi, but are not vici’ing.
and you’re not vivo’ing, haha
Sometimes, sigh, I wish “your side” could craft intelligent arguments instead of “it” feeling like you’re simply parroting knee jerk platitudes in service to an agenda.
the object of this “get iran” project is so obvious you guys are gonna have to cut to the chase sooner or later.
it’s just too damn easy to figure out what you’re up to.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4172/holeinthewall203.jpg
nuke primacy will solve every little problem, though, wont it?
if russia and china wont knuckle under to israeli american “benevolent global hegemony”, we will demonstrate our benevolence by nuking them… such a deal.
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from the council on foreign relations foreign affairs March/April 2006…
benevolent global hegemony, here we come!!!
nuclear fimbulwinter solves the global warming problem for four or five years, at least until the big chunks settle out and quit shading us…
…too bad those chunks will glow in the dark, and so will we.
it’s been explained to you time and again: this vilification of iran while ensuring ahmadinejad remains in power is the absolute best thing that can happen for the neocons…
…it’s that much more ammo we can use when the final push to war starts.
israel and the israeli lobby wont rest until that war is started, and, really, all we have to wonder about is what kind of atrocious false flag will be staged to finally get the thing started.
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there’s a long shot chance that there are still enough honest american enforcement and anti-terror people that a false flag will be thwarted… but nevermind about that…
israel still has those subs, cruise missiles, and nukes, and once israel’s fat is in the fire, so is ours.
Report from the Central Committee
Rahm Emmanuel and Samantha Power are proud to present the current members of the Central Committee which has been expanded. Members include Noam Chomsky, Bill Ayers, with the newly seated members (brought in to get a religious point of view) Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Rev. Wright. The last meeting included our esteemed President, Barack Hussein Obama. As Rahm Emmanuel brought the meeting to order the, President arrived wearing a sequenced glove on his left hand and a Tirolian hat as he moon stepped to his seat.
Barrack Obama (lamented): The king is dead!
A tear appeared on his cheek, as he hummed to Billie Gene.
Samantha Powers: I can see how distraught you are today. You know our meeting today was to address the topics of our economy, global warming, the unrest in Iran, the increased violence in Iraq, the mounting death toll in Afganistan, new ways to squeeze concessions out of Israel, national health care and improving communications with Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas. However, we can table those discussions and address your concerns.
Rev. Wright: I thought we was goin to discuss why those Jews wouldn’t let me talk to Obama?
Rev. Jackson: Those Hymies can wait. Can’t you see the President is upset about Michael, Michael Jackson’s death.
Barrack Obama: Yes the king is dead.
He switched his tune to Thriller.
Noam Chomsky: We could make a national holiday of the day he died.
Bill Ayers: Or the day he was born!
Samantha Powers: Or the day he got his first Grammy.
Rahm Emmanuel: We could make it a school holiday for all the children in this country.
Obama jumps up and spins around and around, does a few pelvic thrusts and grabs his groin: I like it, I like it all.
Rahm Emmanuel: Great! We’ll do it all. He will be the first to have a national holiday on the day he was born, the day he died and the day he got his first Grammy.
Obama: Now that’s acceptable!
He moon walks out of the room.
Flicker:
Get you fact straight about Lebanon, the situation there was completely different than Iran. It was not an uprising, it was a terroist act. The state of Lebanon did not attack the USMC. USA forces where part of a UN force which remained as long as they wre told to remian by the UN.
Reagan did not “withdraw troops”. In any event, it was a terrorist act against the Marines, not a political uprising, and nothing of the scope in Iran. The French with American aid stage an air strike in retaliation and there were covert actions against Fadlallah. On the Aermican side there were air strike in Syria and multiple shellings on Islamic Revolutionary Guards areas.
Moreover, Reagan spoke out loudly against this and took steps to organize the international community against this menace. One must remember that this was one of the very first terrorist attacks by Islamicists of tis scale, and one the very first to show what sort of punch they were willing and able to deliver.
And of course, you conveniently disregard all of Reagans courageous active measure against tyranny all across the world, from the Caribbean to Latin America to E. Europe.
Stop mischaracterizing Reagan. It is morally and intellectually dishonest.
I wonder if you were even alive in those years, but let me tell you
that R. Reagan would have seized this opportunity and would have done us proud.
He would be marveled that a viper like Obama was even in the Senate, let alone agree with him. Few notions could be more absurd.
More fake history for you. More slander too.
Yet again, you show not only complete ignorance of history and how the world really works (or even how adulthood works), but contempt for these matters. Again, you twist reality to project your loopy, loony “ideas” and self-hatred onto people, places amd events that have little to do with either, or, if they do, have a relationship generally exactly the opposite of what you claim.
Try getting your facts straight before you engage you mouth, and stop slandering people so far above you as to make you appear to be a mite.
Blaxkwell, Obama is not a “decent man”, he is a Marxist totalitarian. He has the heart of a traitor and is far outside the traditions, norms and morality of American.
He means to destroy us. He hate the West, hate the USA, Hates Israel and hate you and me.
What nonsense.
And you really expose what your are with that term “hater”. This is just Left wing agitprop jargon, and what they mean to refer to by its use is any decent American that is commonsensical enough to reject their vile beleifs and has the courage to speak out about it.
Think not? just wait until that “hate speech” legislation that is on the boards worms its way through Congress. “Hate Speech”? No, it is pure suppression of Freedom of Speech.
Get those scales out of your eyes before it is too late.
yup.
reagan bailed out of lebanon because a bomb blew 220 marines away… it’s obvious, in retrospect, that we should have nuked lebanon, iraq, iran and saudi arabia right then.
since reagan’s retreat was such a hard pill for the warmongers to swallow, he invaded grenada, which wiped out media attention to the fact that 220 marines had been blown up and reagan had decided that occupying lebanon was a bad idea.
another stirring chapter in neocon history.
hooray for hollywood.
actually, it happened like this: the US armed forces stayed in lebanon for a while after the bombing, didnt withdraw until february of 1984.
but in the aftermath of the bombing, something had to be done to drive the bombing off the front page, and that “something” was the invasion of grenada.
hooray for hollywood.
Flicker: You have been called out on your neocon BS several times, and you consistently refuse to address the matter in an honorable manner.
It goes to show that you know that your bilge is a thoroughgoing lie.
What is it, incompetence or immorality?
I bet it is both.
Wow, this piece is nutso even for PM.
Keep this up, guys. You make it easy for our side to win elections.
Oh, and Reagan? Mediocre president at best. But wasn’t it nice of him to show sympathy for those brave SS men at Bitburg?
Flicker; The invasion of Grnada was not undertaken to “drive the bombings” of the front page.
Complete hogwash.
They were undertaken to stop just the sort of Communist Coup that Obama and the Democrats are attempting here now in the USA.
The people of Grenada are quite thankful for this intervention, at least the ones that are not Marxist traitors and their bagmen and thugs, which is to say the decent, the productive, the sane and the civilized.
Again you lie. You twisted morality and Jew hatred has driven you into o falsehood, slander, immorality and paranoid delusions.
Stop Slandering a great man and a great American. You are not one millionth of the person he was or could ever be.
For the sake of your sanity and soul, stop calling those that stand strongly against tyranny as “warmongers” and stop defending the indefensible.
anyhow, it’s likely the neocon wall will crumble, and i cant see anyone but religious/racist fanatics resorting to “nuke primacy” to enforce their “benevolent global hegemony”…
…so, assuming the shakers and movers will do what they can to prevent israeli american nuke first strikes on china and russia, it’s up to the samson option israelis to get the project back on the rails.
in the meantime, the looting of america proceeds, with the israeli american looter contingent sheltered by israel’s immunity to criticism.
meanwhile, we have a black president, which should go a ways towards pacifying disgruntled black people…
…and we’ve got haim saban owning univision, we’ve got ms sotomayor in the supremes, and we got this mexican guy, carlos slim, bailing out the new york times…
…all of which should go a ways towards pacifying another racial flash point, the hispanics… which is pretty important, because hispanics are caught: as america collapses, they lose jobs… but in the meantime, mexican oil production is collapsing and the country’s a potential somalia… so many of the illegals will have second thoughts about returning to mexico.
not very good, any of this.
…the point of the preceeding post being, with minorities in such prominent positions, the ringleaders should be able to prolong the agony and, incidentally (i’m sure) prolong their opportunities to loot.
They were undertaken to stop just the sort of Communist Coup that Obama and the Democrats are attempting here now in the USA.
Oh man, this stuff is GOLD.
vivo #5-
HERE’S a solution: DELETE “vivo” from PJM.
A small not to those who have referenced “The Frankfurt School” above:
the following may be of interest to you:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236
…about 22 minutes long, but WORTH IT.
It will be interesting to see how the crowd reacts to Obama when he throws out the first pitch at the MLB all-star game in a couple of weeks. His handlers are so protective of ‘our dear (marxist) leader’ you would have to think they will not allow an embarassing moment. I believe the game is in St Louis, so the crowd will be hard to judge. I know what my response would be.
President Obama–at his heart–is a coward; like all elites, he lives in a dream world only to be rudely awakened by reality; he’s a Marxist or Statist who would like to be nothing more or less than absolute ruler of America, a dictator. He is working with the Socialists in Congress to achieve this goal. Will the public wake up from its slumber?
BLARTY: We are most likely never to have an honest election in this country again, at least not for national office.
I would say that the shameful behavior of the Democrats in Minnesota are a foreshadow of what is to come, not to mention being a glaring example of the immorality, cynicism and contempt for rule of law that characterize the modern Liberal Democrats.
Truly, Democrats have elections and Conservatives have principles, as the old saying goes.
There are two things woth noting here:
1) You do not want to engage in honest discussion, but rather see this as an opportunity to obscure the truth with vile political rhetoric. This is your response to a clear articulation of immorality and indecency on the part of your “leaders”. This in effect gives your sanction to these barbarities and therefore you share some of the blame (and shame as well should you be actually capable of it). Why is it that you cannot address the issue but engage in rather childish rhetoric about “winning elections”? How is this an argument?
and
2) You think that you are on some sort of “side”. You think that you are part of a “we” that “will win”. But you are not part of that elite; you are a patsy, and when they are done with you, you will suffer the same fate as the rest of us. Probably far worse for when Communists, Fascist or Socialists finally seize absolute power, folks like you are among the very first to be eliminated. They cannot have that fatuousness that you imagine is your “idealism” manipulated by opponents once the scales have fallen from your eyes.Cast you eyes over to Tehran if you do not believe me.
A lot of American Conservatives actually know how to do something productive and have received rather more education than indoctrination in their formative years. The thugs have to have someone around that knows how to do something real and useful, at least until things descend into complete bestiality.
Even if that does not happen your future will be severely blighted by what they hope to implement. You are just too young and to indoctrinated to understand this, wut one day you will, if you survive. When that day comes remember that you played a part in the undoing of your nation and the live of you and your family.
There is no “we” where you are, just a a crowd of inmates. They just do not know it yet.
Lastly, I truly doubt that the greater number of Americans have the moral myopia that possesses you, but if I am wrong, how can we survive for long if such immorality and cowardice is the norm in our people? How does “winning elections” in and of itself mitigate such moral cowardice and decline?
Blarty: Reagan was one of the greatest Presidents of our history. In fact, he is one of the great statmen of history. Few American Presidents have left such a mark on world history or left such a positive legacy. If it does not endure it is because of decadents such as yourself that lack the mind, heart and soul to complrehend it or cherish that legacy.
You would know that if you were not chuck full of left-wing cant and narcissistic self-delusions.
I think that you are projecting here. No, I take that back, you are not even a mediocrity.
That you imagine that you possess some vantage to judge someone like Reagan says a great deal more about you than it does about him.
Democrats in Minnesota are = Democrats in Minnesota IS
by then everyone had seen the handwriting on the wall, and had signed onto the “enterprise”, which made the hearings and media coverage a farce.
remember the heroic ollie north? …heroic more by virtue of the TV camera angles than anything else.
good thing reagan and poppy bunnypants pardoned lots of the iran/contra criminals… so now they’re back in the saddle, agitating for more war.
heroes, one and all.
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and let’s not forget that the hostages in iran were released twenty minutes after reagan was sworn in… which might go a ways in explaining why reagan was indebted to iran.
remember the “october surprise”?
bechtel, in the meantime, was pushing for a sea level canal through nicaragua, which might have something to do with the fact that reagan was willing to deal with iran and use the profits to secure the canal route, using contra proxies.
Your simplicity is astounding! You’re just still missing the Republican lethargic administration and the World is all changing around you. You veni, you vidi, but are not vici’ing.
The world has bee “changing” since the moment it began. Do you have some broader point besides that platitude?
Read Caesar’s works and see how effective “simplicity” can be. Caesar was about the simplest man alive. Made Bush look like Hamlet, but he got the job done.
Very nice “charactere” sketch and I agree with most of the description’s elements.
However, I haven’t come yet to a decision as to whether Obama, at his deepest self, is a just a very ambitious, rank opportunist simply implementing policies aimed at maintaining the support amongst his base, or a cunning lefty who smartly dashed through on thousand-years chance to power and is now, softly, yet relentlessly, pushing said policies.
RE #69/Mongoose: [...] the shameful behavior of the Democrats in Minnesota are a foreshadow of what is to come, not to mention being a glaring example of the immorality, cynicism and contempt for rule of law that characterize the modern Liberal Democrats. [...]
In REs liberals: you reminded me someone’s (a great speaker, actually) oft quoted pronouncement: “[Democrats/ liberals], I free you of that chymera the bourgeoisie call conscience.”
Since the nazis’ and commies’ times, I ain’t heard of an ideological group like the liberals so un-interested in the moral consequences of their politics, nor in the manner of inflicting them, politics, upon the so! ungrateful (and actually un-deserving) nations.
their political ambitions,
“maintaining support amongst his base” Are you referring to the gay community, urban snobs, union thugs, and environmental extremist?
the problem, with you authoritarians, seems to be that you cant imagine a situation in which the titular head of a project is only a figurehead.
you need hitler, or stalin, or mao or somebody in complete control of everything before you can make sense of the world.
so obama, because he’s not doing every little thing you think he needs to do, is an evil dictator, when in reality, he’s just following the committee’s directions.
and the committee itself is composed of factions: some are racists, some are religious fanatics, some are looters, some are just trying to get their names in the paper, some are just trying to keep their names out of the paper.
nobody’s in charge, but the people who see the general drift —the “general drift” at this particular time being dominated by peak oil— are gonna have a better idea of what they want to do.
then they have to convince the other shakers and movers… then they all have to agree on a plan, and then they have to transmit that plan to the puppets who’ve been installed by various means into fronting the band.
but this doesnt satisfy the authoritarian personality… authoritarians needs to give orders to underlings, orders instantly obeyed, and they need to receive orders from someone they believe is in control.
authoritarians lack the mental suppleness to deal with reality, which is why they must attempt to create their own reality.
RE #32/ Gallifet: [...] but the impression of weakness created by British foreign policy accelerated both these events. [...] The sum of my criticism of Chamberlain’s foriegn policy is that his too patent eagerness to come to terms with the dictators encourages their aggressive tendencies. [...]
Sobering reminder – I’d add here also Daladier’s famous phrase when he was acclaimed upon return from Munchen in ’38 (?) and cheered by crowds as a savior: “Ah, les cons! [...]” (These idiots! They can’t see that war is what will come.”) (approx).
there’s an “authoritarianism” inherent in facts and logic —”facts and logic”, aka reality— but since there’s such an effort to create “realities” that conform to one dogma or another, it’s no wonder we’re in such shit shape.
Flicker: Please, do not quote politically biased “characterizations” out of the notoriously lefty biased web site Wikipedia as fact. It is not. What are you going to do next, start quoting the NYT or the Guardian? This is just your problem, you read all these propadanda organs of the left and little else. Comically, you think that there people are “sophstcated experts” and that you are an “intellectual”. Neither is true. They are Marxist pseudo-intellectual hacks and propagandists and you are a nincompoop. No wonder you hold such ridiculous opinions.
Again you have matter upside down and are just unreflectively spitting out decades old propagada. This was another one of those contrived scandals thw treasonous Left concocted during his administration.
Look at Libby Scouter or all the huffing and puffing about Haliburton. Same sort of nonsense.
If we had had decent men in the Congress and the media this would have never seen the light of day.
The cold war necessitated things like this constantly. Can you tell me how come you are not ranting about JFK and the Bay of Pigs?
And it backfired on those treasonous Democrats in the next election too, the electorate did not buy it and knew that Reagan was doing the right thing. The Reagan Democrats, the only “Good Democrats” had not gone off to their graves yet. They knew what a vicuos thing international communism was.
North and Company were patriots and they were doing the right thing. North is still one and is still doing the right thing. How this man was treated by that Democrat vermin in the Congress is the real scandal.
North and Co. are only criminals in the mind of leftist subversives, like the leadership of the Democrat Party and their hachetmen in the media and academia, and this is because they stood against Communist tyranny in Central and Latin America. JFK, Truman or LBJ would have done the same thing, only they would have not had to be so sneaky about if for in their day their party had not yet been been overrun with Communists.
And look who the opposition was and who you are supporting: Communists in Latin America.
Here you show your true colors: You sympathize with communist, perhaps are one.
This “neocon cabal” ranting of your is just a cover for this.
Nothing else makes sense, given your position. Either that or you are just a narcissist using Marxist propaganda to indugle your delusions. In either case it is immoral act.
nothing makes sense except the fact that western civilization is terminally dependent on oil, and oil production has peaked.
too bad israel’s survival is dependent on america, and america is most dependent on oil.
i will remind you that american oil production peaked in 1970, seventeen years before the iran contra hearings.
i spose that seventeen years is long enough for everyone to catch on.
Flicekr: You are the authoritarian. You are a Communist for Pete’s sake.
That is the problem with you: you are morally and intellectually dishonest.
Fighting Communism is not “authoritarianism”, it is what we used to ca;l “Liberal” before you Collectivists hijacked the term. Standing up to folks like the Sandinista is Standing up to authoritarians! As a rule of thumb, whenever one hears this formula of “authoritarianism”, it is generally the case that what is really going on is that a Democracy or Liberal Republic is trying to protect itself from Collectivist totalitarian thugs.
Your are projecting again. Once again, you have stood reality completely on its head.
And, yet again you are attempting to take the standard and accepted posture of most Americans during the entire WW2 and Cold War period–what was clearly state policy for decades–and make it look like some sort of “evil conspiracy”.
But it was not and is not. It is merely what we mostly held to be the case during the Cold War.
And as to “hegemony”. Of course Americans want America to be the dominant nation. A Patriot of any nation desires this.
(oh and here again you tip your hand as a Communist–only they use such an effete term as “hegemony”.)
You can bet that there always will be a dominant nation, and it is better to be that nation rather than under that nation. You would know this if you had a drop of manhood in you.
All decent Americans do.
What would you have us be, a second class nation? Sounds like it. That is certainly what Obama and his section want. It is certainly what international socialists world-wide desire. Here you show your true nature: You not only love communism, you love mediocrity. Or worse.
Just because you are a nonentity does not mean the rest of us want to have the nation emulate you.
You try to cast real Americans who love their nation and who want it to be the most powerful nation on the planet as somehow evil. It is your position that is the evil one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPEM2qc-j8
You are too much. You are the one that is inflexible. You cannot even reasonably argue you positions on a blog, for crying out loud. Fkicker you need to stop thinking that you have some sort of superior attributes or insights–you do not. You are just a typical liberal dolt and dupe. You think that you are gushing with insight, but you are just repeating the same BS we have heard over and over again for generations. It is you that do not get it, not us.
They problem that you are having here is that we expect you to be a competent adult.
That you are not is not our fault. It is yours. Projecting your limitations on to us will not help you overcome those limitations.
This is just a minimal standard for comportment, That you think we are being inflexible just shows how pig headed you are.
Again with all this projection, agai with the self-delusions and the self-hatred.
flickervertigo is wadosy
Why did he change his name? Are you still working for Hamas, wadosy?
Are still being paid to infiltrate web sites and spread your poison?
80. flickervertigo:
there’s an “authoritarianism” inherent in facts and logic —”facts and logic”, aka reality— but since there’s such an effort to create “realities” that conform to one dogma or another, it’s no wonder we’re in such shit shape.
Dude, Adorno’s going to sue you for plagiarism from beyond the grave.
It’s the duty of the President to lead, which is exactly what he is not doing. He evidences caution, restraint, fear of making a mistake until he realizes that he gives the aura of ineptitude. Then, as in the Iran problem, he goes to the other extreme and condemns. Thus he ha
sorry for the typo. The President has earned the disrespect of both sides.
flickervertigo: Who is your enemy? You throw out the term neocon then you state, “this vilification of iran while ensuring ahmadinejad remains in power is the absolute best thing that can happen for the neocons…”
Since Obama is the one who is leaving ahmadinejad in power by his silence and inaction is he what you call a neocon?
Wow. I never realized how long his fingers are. He has crypt-creeper hands.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
And from the depths of hell comes 0bama creeping
The hands of the crypt keeper, creeping and creeping
He cares only for him and not for any other lives
As he smiles and guffaws between parties and lies.
31. Sherab Zangpo: Unfortunately this invasion of the schools and universities has already happened it started in the 60′s which is why we have all the Multi Culti , PC, left wing , anti Semitic, Anti American, Islamophile, Moonbats in power now on both sides of the Atlantic. Universities have been brainwashing students with this left wing nonsense since then if we want to clean up Politics and the whole infrastructure Government, Police, MSM, Local Government, Judiciary, Social Services etc we have to start with the Universities and get rid of all the fifth columnist left wing commies who are brainwashing our kids there. Only then will the future be safe but until then sane citizens will have to stand tall and take responsibility for getting rid of abominations like the LIAR Messiah who is destroying the USA in whichever way is possible.
It is not unpatriotic to fight by fair means or foul an entity which is destroying your country. What is unpatriotic is to stand by or bend the knee to the BOGUS POTUS usurper and allow him and his idiotic , gullible, hysterical, emotional supporters to destroy in a few months what has taken 200 + years to build.
74. venividivici:
“The world has bee “changing” since the moment it began. Do you have some broader point besides that platitude?”
A broader point? I thought you liked simplicity . . .
47. Blackwell:
“Vivo is pointed the wrong way, but he’s uncomfortably right today:”
I’m surprised you said that because I like what you wrote today.
48. tanstaafl:
“Sometimes, sigh, I wish “your side” could craft intelligent arguments instead of “it” feeling like you’re simply parroting knee jerk platitudes in service to an agenda.”
I guess you’re not into humor, sarcasm or insights. An argument can be expressed in one sentence. You just don’t have the patience to think about it. TV has ruined your attention span. Think about it.
65. Ed Wallis:
Barking dogs? Umhhh . . .
And now the staff of the British Embassy in Iran has been arrested and is being held.
Wow. Who’da thunk that could happen.
Oh well, I’m sure it’ll turn out fine.
obama will call them and it’ll all be good. Everything else he has done in the last couple of months has turned out reeeeally, reeeeally good, so there’s no reason he can’t turn this around.
Forget the 3 AM phone call. I would guess he’s not answering the phone at any hour of the day any more. Michelle has to be SOOO proud of America now. We are cutting such a stunning path through the world these days, while her fraud husband commits Kevorki on the United States of America.
There is the issue of courage but for the life of me, what I don’t understand is how a presidential candidate can get elected and inaugurated without a birth certificate or the kind of background check that anyone getting a high level security clearance needs to go through. And the supreme court looks the other way.
No, there is courage when you know you can’t be stopped. This whole clusterf*ck of an administration just sidesteps laws and
procedures like they are invisible or something. Something was rotten long before he invaded the white house. How he got there beyond stupid voters is scary.
Flicker: If there is any truth to the notion that domestic energy production in the USA “peaked” this would be because the Democrats have done everything in their power to shut it down. In fact it did not “peak” in any sense of resources diminishing. They attacked this industry just as they are now attacking the financial and the Health industries. When these industries become destroyed, what are you going to do, say that our “health resources” peaked?
If we had followed more commonsensical energy policies “foreign oil” would not be the issue it is today. There is yet time to reverse this. It is not about resources, it is about incentives, rational rule of law and bellieving what is true. The insane restrictions placed on nuclear power are just a case and point. You are probably too young to remember this, but the media propaganda from the 1960′s onward against completely safe nuclear power was intense, persistent and absurd. The same could be said of the ongoing demonetization of Oil companies.
By means of proposterous levels of taxation, regulation, litigation, propaganda, slander and downright intimidation, the Left has crippled the dometics production and refining capacity, ;imited exporation and exploitation of energy resouce for current energy technologies and resticted the exploration, discovery and development of new technologies. The the “eneergy policies will set us back even more. It is a willful turning back of the clock; it is national suicide.
And the pure slander! We had people running around blaming refiers for the cost of gas as if they did not have to buy it on the market just like anyone else. The Left wing propaganda machine at work. Bizarre moveis Like The China Syndrome</I. were we are to believe that public utilties employ sqauds of hitmen to gun down plant managers to keep them from “speaking truth to power” about a notion that cannot even really happen (i.e.: reactors melting their way to China). (and would that they would bring these hit men around when they have to negotiate a Union contract.)
Further, a case could be made that there was a conspiracy last summer between the Democrats and foreign powers. to push up prices to effect the national election.
Cheap energy leads towards freedom and a strong middle class–one that is not dependent on government but rather assumes that government serves the free enterprise system–and that is the last thing the Democrats want. They want a 21st century version of the USSR, and they may yet get it. In that world, the Party members will have plenty of cars and plenty of oil, of that I can assure you. The rest of us will be thrown back more than century in energy usage and production. It is not the “neocons” that are screwing around with things to reap the rewards of “energy poliicy”; the culprits the Leftists on the Democrat Party.
In any event, in the time of Reagan, we still had a very strong domestic energy sector.
Your whole thesis is bogus: It is based on lies and agitprop and not reality or an accurate telling of history.
So again, you just lie through your teeth. (I am no longer going to give you credit for just being gullible, naive or misinformed for on this site you have had ample and reasonable critique and rebuke of the received “ideas” and revisionist history you constantly regurgitate. An honorable adult would pause, reflect and correct himself–you have shown that you cannot do this. You are a liar, pure and simple.)
This “peak oil” nonsense is just more propganda out of the Left, and whenever its is heard it is a sure bet that a Marcist propagandist or one of their dupes are close at hand.
FLicker, you need to get clear about this: These people mean to destroy Civilixzation. They mean to destroy you and your family. They mean to enslave youand yours. You act as though those who oppose this are the enemy of all that is good, but the opposite is the case. You need to look at just whose side you are on.
Yuu are no doubt very young, have little experience and even less responsibility. Ask yourself how you come by such self righteous proclamations? By reading “articles”? Is this really wisdom or knowledge? Are you not in the position to easily be used by cynical and evil people toward their own ends? It is the Marxist conspiracy that manipulates you, not some imaginary “Neocon conspiracy” that manipulates the rest of us. It is you that cannot seem to understand, not the rest of us.
We have been hear this nonsense for decades. We know that we are being lied to. You do not.
I don’t understand the Reagan lovefest from some of the posters above. This guy was a puppet. He was one of the most ignorant presidents we ever had on energy and environmental issues. He also gave us a huge deficit and set the pattern that followed with W. And then there’s Iran/Contra. And how he referred to the nun killing Contras as “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” He was silent on the AIDS epidemic.
I will give him credit for his nuclear disarmament treaties and how he set the table for the collapse of the USSR. But that’s about it. A lot of his policies set the table for the financial collapse which began during the end of the Bush asministration.
Flickr
Peak oil could well be a myth http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2005_12/otoole-oil.html, at least at present and perhaps forever (as oil may not be a “fossil fuel” at all http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47675).
If oil production peaked, why didn`t alternative fuels catch on? Because they cannot compete on the market, which means there is no peak. We`ve been trying to launch this lead balloon since the supposed “peak” in the `70`s. Oil production in the U.S. peaked because of politics, not lack of resources.
Also, your bizarre assertion that America’s nuclear arsenal can be used for world hegemony is laughable; most of our weapons are horribly antiquated, having been built in the 1980′s or earlier. Some of our equipment still uses vacuum tubes, for example. The Russian arsenal is only slightly smaller than our own, but was built in the last decade thanks to the assistance of Bill Clinton’s nuclear cities initiative and his aid in dismantling the old Soviet arsenal.
We NEED missile defense; half our bombs will probably not go off when we need them. (Why did the Russians feel compelled to build a new arsenal? Who do you think they are pointing those weapons at?)
Pat J: Reagan was not “a puppet”. What drivel. What complete nonsense. That is just Democrat propaganda. How old where you in the 1980′s, like 12? This remark shows complete ignorance of the era.
Well you are a big boy now, learn to think for yourself.
He was one of the greatest leader this nation has ever produced. He was worth 10 billion ankle-biters like you. The nerve of you.
And what have the democrats produced: LBJ?, Carter? Clinton” Obama?
Each one a disaster for this country.
(and spare me the BDS, he was a fine President too, as curent events clearly show).
Blarty,
Oh man, this stuff is GOLD.
You will not think it is GOLD in few years, I can tell you that.
I lived in Soviet Russia and E. Europe and I have had long stays in Communist China, both before and after the Deng reforms. What the Democrats are up to is in fact very much a communist coup, you just lack the personal experience or actually knowledge abou the emergence of Communism in the last century to know this. You think it is some Cold War alarmism, it most certainly is not.
The image the the media want to give you about the USSR is fairly of the mark of reality.
Do not think they came to power as a bunch of old me in beaver hats.
They held power the same way: Through the Courts, the media, NGO’s, Communist Front Organization (read ACROM), State franchised “Community Organizers” (read “commissars”), and all the apparatus of the police state, including “hate crimes”. ACORN is very much like any communist front of the early half of the 18th century or any 3rd world Soviet back Communist Front organization during the latter half of the last century. You just cannot see this because you lack the awareness of it.
Do not think that it cannot happen here, and do not thing that htere are not severe consequences.
What do you call it we an energy bill that so effects our future, particularly the every existence of a free and politically independent iddle class is rammed through congress with out anyone actually reading it, and some sections in effect have the function of “fill in later”?
What do you call nationalization of the financial industry, the health industry, the energy industry and the auto industry? What do you call it when the Presindent of the USA tell the creditos of CM and Chrysler to go shove it and gives the company to the labor unions?
What do you call it when the ruler party tells people how to despose of “provate property”, waht salaries they can give employees?
I call it a Communist Coup. What do you call it? You appear not to have the faintest idea what this means, what Communism is. You sit there childish;y guffawing and yet the very foundation of a free republic is being torn apart right be for your eye. “good as gold” ideed. Remmber you said that a few years from now when the scales fall from your eyes.
What a little fool you are. Wait until you have to kowtow to your local “commissar” down at the local “community center” to get a job, or to move, or to get heat in your building. Forget having a car, you will not have one. Party Functionaries will though, you will see them drive by you as you walk of to your dreary,dead-end job. Forget owning a house, you cannot own one. Your Party Masters will though. And should you have children you will come home to them every night and look them in the eyes and know that they have no future but slavery, and their master will be the children of your masters. If we do not stop them it is coming. You will not be mocking us then. You will despise yourself for caring the water for this traitors when you were young, and if your childern find out about it, they will despise you too.
You better hope that the American people wise up before it get much worse, or you will be on the wrong side of a civil war, and a wuss like you will not last a month in something like that.
The White House has always had a special meaning to me since I first toured it in the 1950′s. But, since the Parasite in Chief has resumed occupancy, it has become just another government housing facility.
Clinton desecrated it, also, but the Democrats are going to make sure, with the Parasite in Chief, that everything the American People hold in reverence shall be desecrated during this administration. And they will beam with joy at their accomplishments.
Pat J:
Where did you get that deplorable opinion of Reagan?
Reagan was a very sharp guy. But he wasn’t pretentious, had a terrific grasp of historical fundamentals and rejected fashionable ideas for sound ones. So, like any visionary , he was naturally dismissed by people that held fashionable opinions–who “just knew” the USSR was here to stay, that a communist government in Nicuragura was no big deal and who laughed hysterically then (perhaps not now, with North Korea) at the “silly” idea that we should have a missle defense system. Reagan saw beyond them and a good thing too.
The opinions of those psuedo intellectuals make for strange reading today. His views on the environment were sound than and now: he recognized what most people knew–and are discovering again today–that tradeoffs have to be made and banning drilling in Alaska means greater energy dependence tomorrow, along with huge deficits. Most Americans are not hysterical environmentalists and insist on their welfare being considered along with that of the snail darter. That does not please the “humans are “intruding on the earth” crowd, but Reagan re-set the baseline for such decisions and was 100% right in doing so.
Deficits? The original bad guy remains Lyndon Johnson who started them in 1966, the Democrats who lambasted Nixon for trying to control them, and George Bush who showed little rstraint in 2000-2008. Obama is now making that even worse. But Reagan had the remnants of the Cold War and Jimmy Carter’s dismal rundown military to fix; his deficits were mild compared to Bush’s and Obama’s (and were happily voted into law by the Democratically controlled Congress). And he ahd tried to lower spending in 80-82 and was predictably lambasted by the Democrats for his “unfeeling” policies.
102. Mongoose:
You sound like you have the experience and material for a book or short story. Or perhaps you have recommendations for interested readers?
#79 Alceste, how comes you know our “gros mots” ?
Folks, before wasting your time responding to antisemitic nitwits like flicker, ask yourselves this question: Does this sound like someone who has ever held a real job in his life? Of course, you could ask the same about BO …
95. vivo:
74. venividivici:
“The world has been “changing” since the moment it began. Do you have some broader point besides that platitude?”
A broader point? I thought you liked simplicity . . .
There’s no proof whatsoever that simplicity and the ability to make a broad point are incompatible.
Descartes dictum “I think, therefore I am” is very simple, yet makes an extremely broad point about the nature of existence.
102. Mongoose:
One of the main reasons to study history is to learn from the very painful mistakes of others, in order to avoid making those same mistakes. I feel so lucky to have been able to read about Communism from the outside, rather than having to experience it from the inside.
I have always had a great rapport with people who left behind Communist countries. They always told me that I had a great understanding of real, as opposed to theoretical, Communism, despite my lack of live experience under those regimes. I consider it a gift that I was able to gain that understanding through mere words, rather than the very real deprivation and humiliation that millions of people had to experience.
Great post.
In short, his entire foreign policy is based on “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”
As Dear Leader is fond of telling us, when he was a young child in Indonesia, he mother would awaken him before dawn to supplement his regular schooling by “teaching him about America.” He never goes on to share what exactly red diaper baby, atheist, avowed Marxist Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetero had to say about America, but I can just imagine. Too bad it was before Zinn wrote his People’s History. It would have been the perfect text.
flickervertigo: When you write “the problem, with you authoritarians, seems to be that you cant imagine a situation in which the titular head of a project is only a figurehead”, I have to say, that on the face of it, that’s a one of the more nonsensical statements you’ve managed to write – and that takes some doing.
Oh, and btw, Flicker, Grenadians commemorate the US “invasion” annually. They call it “Thanksgiving.”
101. Mongoose:
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For your information old man, I was 20 when Reagan was elected. So I was right in the thick of things. Carter was a fool, but Reagan was senile. He appealed mostly to old white people who pretty much didn’t have a clue about what was going on outside their gated communities.
RE 106/Marie Claude: “#79 Alceste, how comes you know our “gros mots”?”
Who, “moi”?
Bonjour, Marie-Claude, nice to hear you again.
As far as “gros mots” I’d rather list Daladier’s “Ah! Les cons!” under “tres bon mots”.
Parce que, chere Marie Claude, as you probably are sadly aware of, history is made, most of time, by “useful idiots” or… “ah! les cons!”
Faithfully yours – Alceste
Obama’s core belief is that but for whites, especially Anglo Saxons and Jews, the Africans be they here in America or still in Africa would have made the great discoveries, written the great books, invented the great inventions and been the captains of industry. His small and highly overrated intellect was formed when … remember this? … the Black apologists were saying everyone from Pharaoh and Cleopatra to Columbus and all important historical figures were either outright of the Negroid race or had Negroid blood. Just last year the Africana freaks said we were ALL descended from one African Negroid lady. This mindset is why Obama had no trouble attributing many of mankind’s accomplishments to “Muslims” in his Cairo speech. Reality and truth have no place in his performances. He has an agenda, folks and this will not end soon.
Au contraire, it is not moral courage that he lacks , but the MORALS themselves! He is not trying to fix anything….his aim is to break it! IMHO, he fought so hard to be at the helm of LADY LIBERTY,not to make history saving her but , to make history sinking her . He is not here to save …He is here to destroy!
Peace,
Plato
108. venividivici:
“There’s no proof whatsoever that simplicity and the ability to make a broad point are incompatible.”
Therefore, a broad point is simplicity. Yeah, I get it.
Man, Oh, Man, the troll-fu is strong tonight. It becomes a much better blog when you do not read their drivel. Really, do NOT feed the trolls by responding to them.
The 0bamanation, like most liberals, has only situational ethics. He makes it up as he goes along to fit his narcissistic narrative du jour.
The fantasy Flicker tried to raise about the USA’s domestic Oil production ‘peaking’ is patently absurd when left wing PC Green NAZI Moonbats have done everything in their power to stop onshore and close inshore drilling for years and are fighting tooth and nail to stop the exploitation of the oil bearing shale which has more oil in it than the whole of mankind has used up to now. Oil has peaked don’t make me laugh what has peaked is Moonbat stupidity with the voting in to power of the foreign born Mohammedan BOGUS POTUS behind a smokescreen of uncritical and blind worship provided the oh so willing PC, Multi Culti, anti semitic, anti American, Islamophile Moonbat MSM.
Pat J.
You were undoubtedly in a leftist university (a gated community of old white liberals and young ignorants) at the time of Reagan; he was immensely popular, or am I mistaken when he won by two huge landslides? Those claiming Reagan was a buffoon and puppet have been shown to be wrong time and time again-read Reagan in His Own Hand, for example, to see who was calling the shots (liberals all falsely claim Reagan had script writers).
Ronald Reagan was a politicalb titan-but then you were busy learning revolution and feminist studies with the bitter old men of Berkeley or wherever.
Are you still glad that you voted for Obama?
117. vivo:
108. venividivici:
“There’s no proof whatsoever that simplicity and the ability to make a broad point are incompatible.”
Therefore, a broad point is simplicity. Yeah, I get it.
Apparently, you don’t. A broad point can be simple or complex and a simple point can be narrow or broad.
If you were half as intelligent as you apparently think you are, I wouldn’t have to be telling you this.
Obama fails to support the Iran protesters, but supports the wannabe dictator from Honduras who was kicked off the chair BY THE LAW!
When will Obama wake up? When a major US city is vaporized by a North Korean Nuclear Weapon?
Will this guy be remembered as the modern Chamberlain?
Man, I almost start to believe in all those tin-foil-hats who say the world will end in 2012.
Pat J: How typical, the old man insult. Just the sort of infantile behavior one expects out of a Leftist. Do you imagine that this is a “rebuttal”? It is not; it merely further proves my point.
To whit:
You have nothing to say but insults–aimed at both Reagan and myself. You completely fails to address the issue at hand and merely reassert you biases and venom as “facts”.
This is because you cannot defend your idiotic “ideas” with rational, educated, sober experienced adults. You have made an assertion about Reagan, one that is just a repeat of the slanders of the time. It is wholly unsupportable by the facts: I challenge you to prove your assertion, and to defend it with facts and reasonable logic and argumentation. I profoundly doubt that you can do this. So this is your first error.
If you are actually the age that you say you are, you should be ashamed of yourself about this. But then, in your vanity, you imagine that the your (wholly received) “opinions” are what matter and not the facts, right? You are quite wrong about this. I can assure that adults of any decent and honorable accomplishment have little regard you for you and people such as you. You are a cipher. Reagan is one of the great men of the Age. You will not even be forgotten for you will not be remembered long enough in the first place to even be forgotten. You may think that slandering a great man and refusing to acknowledge his accomplishment will some how wipe you inconsequence away, but you are comically mistaken–it merely highlights you superficiality and venality. Again, if youare are as old as you claim, this is indeed a disgraceful display. This is your second error.
But I do not even believe you, i think that you are lying about your age.
That would put you at somewhere around 50 now. Middle aged men do not go around calling other men “old men”, at least not any of them that are not knaves or buffoons. It is just absurd of you to do that if your are really middle aged. It is something someone under 40 would say. Nor do mddle aged men go around with that imbecilic little chip on their shoulder when challenged. Nor do they go around spouting foolish, unsupportable things. They tend to speak the truth. Middle aged men get over themselves by that age, at least those that have actually done something worthwhile. Their opinions are rather more informed by experience and humility than arrogance and vanity. Does not sound like you, now does it?
Even your prose, with its very poor quality, dates you as younger, as does the the paucity of reasonable argumentation, rhetorical and analytic skills. You knowledge of knowledge of the Cold War and the political life of the nation in that ear is just glaring.
And then there is that business of your Lefty programming, the particular sort of received Marxist bromides and agitprop that you put out. Older people do not have that. You sound like somone that went to high school in the 1980′s and college in the 1990′s. They tend to have this opionion of Reagan and express it exactly like you do. Older people do not talk this way about that period at all, at least not the ones who are not thoroughgoing moonbats.
People over 50 tend to actually have had decent educations. That is the big deviding like in American society today. You sound like someone one on the short end of this stick, but maybe you were “precocious” in the regard.
If you are that old, then you sure did not manage to learn much. You act as if you are proud of this when in actuality it s cause for shame. But again, i just think that you are lying.
Now either way, this is another error, or at least a grave misfortune.
In any event, Reagan’s writings have now been all published and all of the actors of the period on both side of the cold war, and both sides of the political divide, have had their say by now. The whole history of his administration, his life, actions, ideals and thoughts have been thoroughly examined, such that national security allows. We know now uncontroversially that he was not incompetent, senile or a “puppet”. As years go by his stature has only grown, and his ideas and actions can now be seen as those of a true visionary, courageous statesman and as one of the highest exemplars in what is endearingly good, true, and noble in the American people and their tradtions. We owe him a great debt, one that can never be repaid. To think otherwise is to be a Marxist, an enemy of the USA an Western Civilization or or the dupe and tool of either of these villains, or to be a clown.
You have no proof at all for you assertions, and if you are as old as you claim to be, then there is absolutely no excuse for your high-self regard, your “beliefs”, your incompetence at argumentation and thought, or your vile and irresponsible comportment.
Typical “Liberal” (and please spare me the attempt to pass yourself off as anything but that.)
I will tell you what you are: a useless, narcissistic non-entity and a lying coward, just like all of Reagan;s detractors and the vast majority of Liberal Democrats.
You completely fails=You completely fail
I love the fantasy world the wingnuts live in. When you read this post and responses like this:
“a strange product of the union between a pampered American leftist and a quite randy son of a Kenyan Mau Mau revolutionary.”
Give me a break.
Obama is the product of an American street whore and a small time, ass chasing Kenyan businessman.
He was raised to hate and do everything possible to destroy the United States of America, white people and Jews. He married a woman that harbors the same thoughts and feelings, except hers are much more intense than his.
Obama has no problem delivering and following through with these things, as well as personally living and upholding the Black Liberation philosophies of passing their hatred on by teaching their children to do the same thing. That is what the Whitehouse’s is being used for today.”
you can see why they will remain a small minority. Under a dictionary definition of racism, this quote would be a great example
please look at…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA
we elected a failure, we keep doing it with rep/sen that we keep sending to Washington…American has become American’t.
When your job gets outsourced and you’re in a breadline…tell us how great BO is then. He hates America and what it stands for and he’s doing a good job of destroying it, with Gore and the boys. Listen closely and you’ll hear the sound of “jackboots” in your near future…
GO TO A TEA PARTY AND THEN VOTE THE B.S. OUT OF OFFICE IN 2010
124. Mongoose:
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Which assertion? that Reagan was senile? Gave us a huge deficit? Sold weapons to Iran? Backed the contras?
And you’r right. I’m not 50. I’m 49. Two degrees and have been gainfully employed since 1976. Sorry if I called you an old man. I should have stuck to right wing knuckledragging wingnut moonbat.
” I’m 49. Two degrees and have been gainfully employed since 1976.”
…and yet you still can’t argue your ideas without namealling. Why am I not surprised.
…can’t argue your ideas without namecalling…
Are you wingnuts still here, kissing Reagan’s dead butt? Geez, rent Bedtime for Bonzo and get a room.
Did you not read his previous post? talk about name calling and projection. He probably yells at the neighbor kids all day to stay off his lawn.
He was raised to hate and do everything possible to destroy the United States of America, white people and Jews. He married a woman that harbors the same thoughts and feelings, except hers are much more intense than his.
Like I said, GOLD. The really funny thing is, you don’t even realize how completely batpoop insane you sound when you say stuff like this.
Moving forward however, I’ve decided to never again resort to name calling with the Pajamas posters. Fair enough?
PAT J: Again nothing but insults. Nonsense.
Seems not only that your writing is poor, but your reading comprehension is practically nonexistent. Go back and reread what I wrote. At this point there is nothing new to add to it, as you are merely proving my points with your drivel.
I will, however, assert that I still do not buy your age, but if you are that old you are a sad case. If you are 49 you are headed into an age bracket that really does not tolerate your sort of nonsense at all. You know, people with their own business, or senior level people in their professions: accomplished people own property and have grand-kids–you know, the sort of things that you do not and will never have; the sort of people that you envy,
I imagine that your “management” is younger than you are.
The over 50 crowd is much not interested in how losers rationalize their failures and mediocrity. They hear this from their younger employees all the time, particularly in the exit interviews. If you are really 49, you are about to become a cautionary tale. You will not like this much.
Perhaps this is really your problem. It sure isn’t mine.
When you have something adult to say, I will respond.
135. Mongoose
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I’m not going to play your game as I’ve sworn not to resort to calling the Pajamas posters names. I will say one thing we may have in common is a low tolerance for fools.
It’s obvious there is a huge generation gap between us. Not to mention a huge difference in what one considers an accomplished person. And at 49, I’m not that “old.” I’m that “young.” That is the biggest difference between you and I. That and I sense a lot of bitterness in your postings. I get the feeling maybe you may have all the money and possessions you would ever want. But are you loved? Somehow I doubt it.
PAT J: Again nothing but insults. Nonsense.
Followed by five paragraphs of personal insults. Classic Pajamas!
And now I give you Mongoose’s greatest adult hits:
“Obama is not a “decent man”, he is a Marxist totalitarian.”
“You twisted morality and Jew hatred has driven you into o falsehood, slander, immorality and paranoid delusions.”
“You would know that if you were not chuck full of left-wing cant and narcissistic self-delusions.”
“They are Marxist pseudo-intellectual hacks and propagandists and you are a nincompoop.”
“Either that or you are just a narcissist using Marxist propaganda to indugle your delusions. In either case it is immoral act.”
“You would know this if you had a drop of manhood in you.”
“You are just a typical liberal dolt and dupe.”
“I will tell you what you are: a useless, narcissistic non-entity and a lying coward, just like all of Reagan;s detractors and the vast majority of Liberal Democrats.”
“You better hope that the American people wise up before it get much worse, or you will be on the wrong side of a civil war, and a wuss like you will not last a month in something like that.”
“Seems not only that your writing is poor, but your reading comprehension is practically nonexistent. Go back and reread what I wrote. At this point there is nothing new to add to it, as you are merely proving my points with your drivel.”
“Hey you kids. Get off my property.”
Pat J . . . I’m with ya till the wheels fall off. Like your style. Don’t expect any admissions from these folks, no matter how compelling your proof. They don’t have the accountability gene (among others).
Pat J;
You’re not the first to get a degree in bootlicking.
Ditto: sh—
Don’t worry Sheesh.
Obama’a 95 percent cured.
I’m sure Sanjay Gupta can confirm that.