RE #35/talkischeap: [...] Obama certainly does have a “gift,” as he told Harry Reid. He speaks nonsensically and can obfuscate more eloquently than the next fellow. I, however, will choose the unpopular and inelegantly spoken fellow who actually did keep us safe so that even those who abhorred and condemned him remained free to do so. [...]
Perfectly right – unfortunately you are just one of the few who have resisted the liberal position that takes appearance as essence. There is no objective truth, reality is fluid, everybody has a narrative and no narrative is better than another one, etc. All cultures are equal – except four legs are better than two legs.
And since I just put an egg betwen Jared Diamond’s eyes “all cultures are equal” I’ll further quote late Pat Moynahan’s talk to some UN delegates from some professionally oppressed countries (think of Chavez and Ortega): “Food growing is the first thing you do when you come down out of the trees. The question is how come the United States can grow food and you can’t?”
“Two legs bad, four legs good!” – now a documentary about how Rhodesia became Zimbabwe would fit nicely here.
