Come down! You are an embarrassment by what you saying here. The difference between you and Ahmadinejad is just few nano DNA.

Most probably you shave and he doesn’t. Under the skin, he is an Islamo-facist and you are a pure clean-cut neo-fascist. Financially you spend money on shaving cream and Ahmadinejad doesn’t. He believes in Imam Mehdi, and you dream of meeting Mussolini and having his autograph.

B.Hussein’s presidency will mean more than just a radical leftist, Islamist sympathizer agenda; it will be a de facto Coup d’etats in the US. And yes, if he extends himself too far and goes over the threshold of treason; He may suffer the same fate as JFK, ultimately.

His regime’s reign will be so bad and drastic that will pave the way for a Palin presidency landslide in 2012.

And you’re exactly correct, Dr. Ledeen, the ‘unintended consequences,’ the ‘unknownable results,’ the ‘unexpected setbacks’ make human existence to be a constant test of our natural optimism, without which we’d all vote socialist.

Perhaps Mr. Obama’s presidency will be a watershed, like Mr. Roosevelt’s: the high point of socialist thought, later to be rolled back–if not totally–by a sustained burst of freedom-thinking.

But the issue of what he will do about theofascism acquiring nuclear power in Iran is likely to be the unintended defining feature of his presidency. ‘Realism’ or ‘idealism’ is not going to be of any help in making a decision, whatever he decides. If he decides not to decide, the issue will be forced upon him by 2012.

I’ll not vote for the man, but I sincerely wish him well. However, it would help his governence in the name of “change” if he knew the I Ching, and Heraclitus, if not Hegel.

Thank you for a very sensitive message. I remember a few things you have taught us that cause more concern…”Don’t think things are so bad they can’t get worse”; “Be careful what you wish for”.
I’m afraid we may be in for four years of finding out just how true those statements are.

Aloha to Barbara, Gabe and Daniel

Dr. L, what worries me is the public standard for selecting a Pres. has been lowered to such an extent that I wonder if we’ll ever get back to what is used to be. Sen. Obama has about 8-12 “stories” from his past which, if further explored — and with any other candidate — would not only cost him the election, but probably coerce him to resign from his seat in the Senate.

I don’t see McCain as the savior. I think he’d be a good caretaker of the country until 2012. But I think far too many of Obama’s supporters see him as something he is not, and this will usher in the Europeanization of the U.S.

Unless I’m wrong. It took four years of Carter to get Reagan, right?

This is 100% incorrect. He came to get rid of Saddam Hussein BEFORE 9/11. He had his agenda to get rid of a guy who wanted to kill his “daddy”. There is no BUTS, or IFs about it. Then you add people like Rumsfeld and few others and then you have a disaster waiting to happen. It is now so clear nano seconds after Afghanistan they could not wait to go to Baghdad. So he knew what he planned and now we are all paying for it.

“Look at the current financial crisis. I don’t think most people, including Nobel Prize winning economists, have more than an educated hunch about the true dimensions of the problems.”

This is 100% wrong too. I consider myself below average IQ, yet in 2005, I knew so well that bad things will hit the fan in matter of few years, AFTER sub prime rates were set to raise the interest rates. I’m no wall street brain and I was lucky to get a C in my Econ 101, yet I knew so clearly this thing is going to be so bad and wild fire will burn so many people.

Now those people (smart, insider and noble potential) that you talked to and PRETENDING not to notice this disaster, they were all in it for themselves, and the higher profile they have the more liars and criminal they are. So please…Give me a break!!! PLEASE! How long can we keep this self-deceiving ignorance? How many more trillions and zillions should be lost that many of the smart people say this loudly: WE F…CKED UP BIG TIME and WE KNOW S..IT. WE PRETEND WE KNOW THINGS, BUT WE KNOW SH..T. If people get to this point, I think there will be hope for us in the future.

As I said weeks ago, Greenspan must be investigated and prosecuted for his INCOMPETENCE and dereliction of duty. IT looks like NY Times now published a story about Greenspan (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09greenspan.html?em) that says something close to it, but still they are part of the problem and don’t want to admit their incompetence either.