Quotes of the Day
There is not a single Obama voter anywhere in the land who believes that another four years of him will make this country better. Not a single one from coast to coast. No, what they believe is that he will make the country a worse place for those people that they hate. That he will have four more years to sink their ideas deeper in the earth, regardless of how many families go hungry and how many fathers kill themselves because they can no longer take care of their families. What they believe is that Obama will grant their group more special privileges and the rest of the country can go to hell.
– Daniel Greenfield on “The Most Divisive Campaign in American History.”
This election is a test, not just of the opposing candidates but of the voting public. If what they want are the hard facts about where the country is, and where it is heading, they cannot vote for more of the same for the next four years.
– Thomas Sowell, on “The Paul Ryan Choice.”
Update: This quote from Jim Geraghty, on “What the Coming Debates Will Sound Like” and currently being spotlighted by Instapundit dovetails perfectly with the above quotes: “This is your choice, America: an approach that Obama’s own debt commission co-chair calls ‘sensible, straightforward, honest and serious’ … or dog-on-the-roof jokes and an accusation of a return to slavery.”
– the trolls. Hate Romney-Ryan, boast a landslide for Obama, but never say what another four years would bring.
Everyone please follow the link for Greenfield and read the whole thing.
If conservatives and Republicans have a lick of sense, we’ll publish links to Greenfield’s post to every friend and acquaintance and on every blog we can, and we will keep talking about it, quoting at length from it, and re-linking it frequently over the next two and half months. If we do that we’ll drive Democrats and liberals nuts with it, and much better, we’ll reach undecideds and people who don’t normally want to follow or talk or think much about politics. It will reach many such people because Greenfield probes deeply into a truth about the Democrat character and campaign which these people already know on some deep level but have been reluctant to acknowledge even to themselves. Greenfield’s stark and brutal words lay bare the soulless corruption of American politics and the American idea that characterizes the Democrat party and its campaign team in the major media organs today.
In 2008, Obama campaigned on “I ain’t Bush”
By 2012, we learned what he was saying beneath his breath “I Ambush”.
And, we got the Government by Ambush. Hidden beyond every boulder was another desperado lying in wait, ready to pick off “the rich”, or “Wall Street”, or the banks, or the insurance companies, or greedy doctors, or gun owners, or …the Constitution.
We elected the Protest Culture and we got the full measure of what they wanted to do to this country. “Transform” it…the way a gunslinger “transforms” the object of his rage into a corpse. (a word that Obama can pronounce, apparently)
America became a punching bag, worthy of an apology tour…but not exceptional in any meaningful way. This has become a self-fulfilling prophesy over the last four years.
I find myself wanting to apologize to Israel, Poland, and to the world’s crumbling economy. And, after four years of watching Obama, Reid and Pelosi do possible permanent damage to this land of ours,…to our children and grandchildren…to whom we will likely pass a shell of what was given to us.
The “exceptional” half of this country is being drowned in a sea of marginal characters whose largest “green” element is envy. They wear envy like a merit badge, earning it with whining, complaining and a “you owe me” attitude.
They can’t pass a budget but they want to tell you that you didn’t succeed because you were smart or worked hard. I might listen, if the guy leading the charge against America like an insult comic could garner a single vote…from his own side…on one of his unserious budget forays.
In the end, America has a choice. It can despise itself into a deep depression.
Or it can get up off the couch and say, “It’s my country…and I want someone who actually likes her to lead it”.
“This is your choice, America: an approach that Obama’s own debt commission co-chair calls ‘sensible, straightforward, honest and serious’ … or dog-on-the-roof jokes and an accusation of a return to slavery.”
It brings to mind another, more fearful prophecy by H.L. Mencken:
“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
Start hoarding gold and ammunition. Also Twinkies.
The choice is easily and briefly stated: Socialism or our open, free-enterprise Constitutional heritage.
The past four years of destructive spendthrift big government rule, and the overt re-distribution rhetoric from a Red-diaper Chief Executive afford clear proof of his agenda. “Socialist” is the label that his party fears the most. But the GOP and the conservative pundits refuse to use the “S” word, which is openly used everywhere else in the world by its adherents.
Its use would provide assurance of Obama’s defeat, would drive the Democrats into a panic of defense. This is really not the time for niceness or hair-splittingover the point at which “leftism” segues into Socialism.
In my view Paul Ryan’s most critical contribution to the otherwise innumerate debate over entitlements (and the budget more generally) is his implicit introduction of the concept of net present value. A smaller future promise we can afford to actually keep is worth far more than a more extravagant promise that stands a high probability of being broken.
Shameless self-promotion alert: I explore this idea in greater detail here:
http://senatorjohnblutarsky.blogspot.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-and-net-present-value-of.html
Good pilots know when to give up and eject. Dead ones don’t/didn’t.