Comments on: The Common Man Narrative: Rousseau, Tito, the Obamas http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:09:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Honest Abe http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-654132 Honest Abe Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:57:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-654132 "neo-communist apologists"--- how lazily Ann Coulter of you. Well, we all know you can flame ad hominem attacks, but do you have any substance beyond vapid stupifying RightWing red meat? You know--- anything that isn't patent lunacy? “neo-communist apologists”— how lazily Ann Coulter of you. Well, we all know you can flame ad hominem attacks, but do you have any substance beyond vapid stupifying RightWing red meat? You know— anything that isn’t patent lunacy?

]]> By: Honest Abe http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-654131 Honest Abe Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:55:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-654131 And your evidence detailing the smears alleging misappropriation of funds? It'd be grand if they didn't go IMMEDIATELY back to World Net Daily, if you wouldn't mind. The auspice of objective non-partisan journalism is all the rage. And your evidence detailing the smears alleging misappropriation of funds? It’d be grand if they didn’t go IMMEDIATELY back to World Net Daily, if you wouldn’t mind. The auspice of objective non-partisan journalism is all the rage.

]]> By: Honest Abe http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-654130 Honest Abe Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:52:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-654130 That, sir, while a popular meme on the Right--- flies in the face of evidence and reason. You can have it one way or the other: he's EITHER a professorial elitist academic, or he's a stupid board incapable of stringing words together without a teleprompter. As evidence to the contrary: the SEVENTEEN MINUTE, 2,500 WORD response he gave to a lady concerning a campaign issue on the trail--- AND--- the health care sit down, in which he made the ENTIRE room of Republicans look like a pedantic group of 4 year olds, as he lambasted them on policy issue after policy issue, and all they could do is look forlornly at their props; "oh, how heavy all that paper is you expect us to read in the health care bill". http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/obamas-17-minute-2500-word-res.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/barack-obama-healthcare-reform-summit But no-- you were busily yet again attempting YET ANOTHER futile vein of argument trying to de-legitimize the man? That, sir, while a popular meme on the Right— flies in the face of evidence and reason. You can have it one way or the other: he’s EITHER a professorial elitist academic, or he’s a stupid board incapable of stringing words together without a teleprompter. As evidence to the contrary: the SEVENTEEN MINUTE, 2,500 WORD response he gave to a lady concerning a campaign issue on the trail— AND— the health care sit down, in which he made the ENTIRE room of Republicans look like a pedantic group of 4 year olds, as he lambasted them on policy issue after policy issue, and all they could do is look forlornly at their props; “oh, how heavy all that paper is you expect us to read in the health care bill”.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/obamas-17-minute-2500-word-res.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/barack-obama-healthcare-reform-summit

But no– you were busily yet again attempting YET ANOTHER futile vein of argument trying to de-legitimize the man?

]]> By: Miklos Hollender http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-100362 Miklos Hollender Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:40:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-100362 I took great joy in reading your article. These days - especially in the New World - the term "conservative" is often misunderstood as someone who is a religious fanatic or a jingoistic nationalist. Your views expressed in this article are what I call the original, undistorted, respectable conservative views, to which I wholeheartedly agree. To everybody who liked your article I recommend reading Our Culture, What's Left Of It, from Theodore Dalrymple (available from Amazon). Sadly, there isn't much online for us to read, except for the Social Affairs Unit, City Journal and The Salisbury Review. Any other recommendations? Miklos Hollender UK/Hungary I took great joy in reading your article. These days – especially in the New World – the term “conservative” is often misunderstood as someone who is a religious fanatic or a jingoistic nationalist. Your views expressed in this article are what I call the original, undistorted, respectable conservative views, to which I wholeheartedly agree. To everybody who liked your article I recommend reading Our Culture, What’s Left Of It, from Theodore Dalrymple (available from Amazon). Sadly, there isn’t much online for us to read, except for the Social Affairs Unit, City Journal and The Salisbury Review. Any other recommendations?

Miklos Hollender

UK/Hungary

]]> By: BMoon http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-99034 BMoon Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:23:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-99034 "Since we all have some evil in us, it is part of our existence, wouldn’t that be a call to humanity’s extinction." (Javelin) Obviously, at the Saddleback interview, McCain was not talking about the doctrine of orginal sin or the Judeo-Christian view of the fallen nature of man, rather geopolitical realities. Obama, in classic pseudo-intellectual smuggery, tried to be sly in twisting that doctrinal truth into a political slam on America, invoking the Leftist mantra that America is just as wrong or even more so, than Russia, Iran, N. Korea, or Islamic terrorists. “Since we all have some evil in us, it is part of our existence, wouldn’t that be a call to humanity’s extinction.” (Javelin)

Obviously, at the Saddleback interview, McCain was not talking about the doctrine of orginal sin or the Judeo-Christian view of the fallen nature of man, rather geopolitical realities. Obama, in classic pseudo-intellectual smuggery, tried to be sly in twisting that doctrinal truth into a political slam on America, invoking the Leftist mantra that America is just as wrong or even more so, than Russia, Iran, N. Korea, or Islamic terrorists.

]]> By: BMoon http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-99026 BMoon Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:08:08 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-99026 "That is simply false. The American Revolution was premised on merit. One may have been born a “common man,” but through hard work earned their place in the sun." (Dave Thompson) Yes, we agree on that. I tried to distinguish between two "common man" narratives in our culture- the leftist egalitarian one that descended from Rousseau to the leftists of our times, and the conservative view, primarily based upion Judeo-Christian thinking, or what Allan Bloom called "the pessimistic view." There was common ground and there were divergences. The Founding Fathers also shared a wide range of views from one perspective to the other. “That is simply false. The American Revolution was premised on merit. One may have been born a “common man,” but through hard work earned their place in the sun.” (Dave Thompson)

Yes, we agree on that. I tried to distinguish between two “common man” narratives in our culture- the leftist egalitarian one that descended from Rousseau to the leftists of our times, and the conservative view, primarily based upion Judeo-Christian thinking, or what Allan Bloom called “the pessimistic view.” There was common ground and there were divergences. The Founding Fathers also shared a wide range of views from one perspective to the other.

]]> By: Ed Wallis http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-99019 Ed Wallis Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:45:00 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-99019 Extinction?! argumentum ad absurdum, "Javelin" (5:55pm). But I suppose you're more comfortable with the folks from the privileged House of LottaTalk. Extinction?! argumentum ad absurdum, “Javelin” (5:55pm).

But I suppose you’re more comfortable with the folks from the privileged House of LottaTalk.

]]> By: Javelin http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-98846 Javelin Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:55:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-98846 Aristrocats are born that way and in a certain societies their privileges are codified into law. It has been some fault of some Americans to look favorably on aristocrats, like the House of Windsor, out of some story book romantic nostalgia at best. 888, McCain wasn't too much better at Saddleback, "We will confront evil everywhere and defeat it!" what fairy tale nonsense. Since we all have some evil in us, it is part of our existence, wouldn't that be a call to humanity's extinction. Aristrocats are born that way and in a certain societies their privileges are codified into law. It has been some fault of some Americans to look favorably on aristocrats, like the House of Windsor, out of some story book romantic nostalgia at best.
888, McCain wasn’t too much better at Saddleback, “We will confront evil everywhere and defeat it!” what fairy tale nonsense. Since we all have some evil in us, it is part of our existence, wouldn’t that be a call to humanity’s extinction.

]]> By: 888 http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-98825 888 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:42:01 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-98825 Obama is worse than common. He can't even answer a simple question, especially when he knows his response can come back to haunt him later. It's like uh, uh, uh, uh...he didn't come out of Yale or Columbia. His performance at the Saddleback Forum was a humiliating disaster. That's why he's scared to death of town hall meetings and refuses to meet McCain in any. He knows he can't control the questions, and the American, common and not-so-common, people will have too many questions to ask him, which he does not want to answer. In a town hall meeting, we will ask him about what accomplishments he's actually achieved as a State Senator, as a US Senator and as that infamous Community Organizer; why did it take him 20 years to finally denounce his spiritual advisor, the racist and white and Jew-hating Reverend Wright who praised another racist and anti-Jew, Louis Farrakhan; how he intends to pay for all of his billion-dollar promises, like universal health care; why, and how, he could allow his poor relations, especially his half-brother to live in abject poverty and misery (this hypocracy just blows me away because he's supposedly for the poor and disadvantaged). He's just a big phony who used people to get where he's at, but totally forgot where he came from. I think that's the 'common man' that the author was referring to -- those who moved up in the world too quickly and forgot their roots. Until he answers these and other questions, and gets up and helps his relations in Kenya, especially his poverty-stricken brother, I have no respect for him at all. His wife, Michelle, is worried to death that his African relatives will come out of the woodworks and tell the world Obama's dysfunctional past and present. But remember: the truth hurts, but it shall set you free. Look at John Edwards and former NY Governor Spitzer...the truth came out, and the Democratic Party has totally set them free. Obama is worse than common. He can’t even answer a simple question, especially when he knows his response can come back to haunt him later. It’s like uh, uh, uh, uh…he didn’t come out of Yale or Columbia. His performance at the Saddleback Forum was a humiliating disaster. That’s why he’s scared to death of town hall meetings and refuses to meet McCain in any. He knows he can’t control the questions, and the American, common and not-so-common, people will have too many questions to ask him, which he does not want to answer. In a town hall meeting, we will ask him about what accomplishments he’s actually achieved as a State Senator, as a US Senator and as that infamous Community Organizer; why did it take him 20 years to finally denounce his spiritual advisor, the racist and white and Jew-hating Reverend Wright who praised another racist and anti-Jew, Louis Farrakhan; how he intends to pay for all of his billion-dollar promises, like universal health care; why, and how, he could allow his poor relations, especially his half-brother to live in abject poverty and misery (this hypocracy just blows me away because he’s supposedly for the poor and disadvantaged). He’s just a big phony who used people to get where he’s at, but totally forgot where he came from. I think that’s the ‘common man’ that the author was referring to — those who moved up in the world too quickly and forgot their roots. Until he answers these and other questions, and gets up and helps his relations in Kenya, especially his poverty-stricken brother, I have no respect for him at all. His wife, Michelle, is worried to death that his African relatives will come out of the woodworks and tell the world Obama’s dysfunctional past and present. But remember: the truth hurts, but it shall set you free. Look at John Edwards and former NY Governor Spitzer…the truth came out, and the Democratic Party has totally set them free.

]]> By: Judy, NYC http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-98824 Judy, NYC Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:41:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-common-man-narrative-rousseau-tito-the-obamas/#comment-98824 javelin: yes, the european aristocracy are salesmen and promoters. very good at it, too. they've been selling that ridiculous line of crap for a long time, but americans have never bought it. let's all line up for brain scans and see how this self-annointed perception they are different supports itself. in any case, if i were slapped by a self-styled aristocrat i would immediately run over that person with my jeep wheels, just to show they squish, like anyone else. javelin: yes, the european aristocracy are salesmen and promoters. very good at it, too. they’ve been selling that ridiculous line of crap for a long time, but americans have never bought it. let’s all line up for brain scans and see how this self-annointed perception they are different supports itself. in any case, if i were slapped by a self-styled aristocrat i would immediately run over that person with my jeep wheels, just to show they squish, like anyone else.

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