Comments on: Global cooling/warming…. economic decline… Islamic terror…. who could possibly want to be President?

By: BMoon

BMoon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:32:15 +0000

Obama surely feels no pain. The attention, the adulation, the self-created mythology will be too intoxicting for balance and perspective. For the next few months Obama will be in the altered state of consciousnesss that true religious ecstasy produces – the religion of statism – that the state is the solution to all human problems, of which he is now the high priest. When reality comes crashing in, I think it will be terrible for all of us.

By: RiverRat

RiverRat — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:33:35 +0000

But Barack Hussein Obama is (sorta) black and black breeds a need for bling. No? At least that’s what the cultural warriors have been telling me for more years than I want to…count?

By: JMH

JMH — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:58:40 +0000

Al Gore said that the oceans would rise within 10 years if ‘global warming’ continued…and that was about 6 years ago. Please show where the size of that rise has occurred, and I don’t mean in some far-off island in the Pacific.

About those far-off islands in the Pacific…

We hear that all these coral atolls, which are only a few feet above sea level, will be swallowed up by the ocean if Global Warming keeps up. True as far as it goes, but it begs the question: How did coral islands get to be a few feet above sea level in the first place? Coral only grows underwater, so a coral reef cannot grow up into the air.

The answer is, those coral islands used to be a few feet below sea level, way back when the Earth was even warmer than it is now. Before SUVs, air conditioning and suburban sprawl. These islands that AGW enthusiasts frequently cite as a reason for worry are actually proof that the climate changes quite drastically all by itself without any help from us hairless apes. Has been doing it for a long time. Will keep doing it for a long time to come.

These people remind me of fools cowering in fear during an eclipse because the moon ate the sun. “Please, Mr Wizard, make the moon cough it back up! Please! We’ll give you anything you want, anything at all!”

By: J. Rockford

J. Rockford — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:30:29 +0000

Obama will soon have what he wants — political power — and, as a bonus thanks to the crashing economy, an unlimited spending account. The Presidency is only a thankless job if one cares. Obama doesn’t care about anything except power and the celebrity and keys to Air Force One that comes with it. He’ll kick back and enjoy the next eight years. If the U.S. is a bankrupt banana republic by that time so be it.

By: Crusader

Crusader — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:39:04 +0000

The most worrying this is that I already know that pit viper Putin will eat Obama for lunch. Obama may come from the Chicago machine, but they have NOTHING on the Russians.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:17:32 +0000

Who would want this job?

Someone who wants to give a trillion dollars or so to his pet projects and put the US taxpayer on the hook for it…

By: Terrye

Terrye — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:51:30 +0000

Wellspring:

I was thinking about an article read in an Elpaso on line paper. Link at Glenn Reynolds. It seems that there is a report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that both the Pakistani and Mexican governments could collapse. So we are talking about not only the usual dysfunction we have seen for years, but complete chaos. The present situation would look tame in comparison.

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:41:20 +0000

If we really want to see change we can believe in, perhaps the next pundit sit down for Obama could be with Roger L. Simon, Glenn Reynolds, Bill Whittle, Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Steyn, the Anchoress, and you can think of a few more.

By: Wellspring

Wellspring — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:31:36 +0000

If something happened to Mexico, expect Russia to try to get involved. Perhaps via satellites in Cuba or Venezuela. They would stir the pot to create yet another failed state, this time one that can export chaos to the US and tie us up in our own hemisphere.

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:24:05 +0000

How would we tell the difference if Mexico imploded? Easy. The Mexicans pouring over the border seeking refuge wouldn’t look like Mexicans. They would the lighter-skinned elites who were previously quite satisfied to dispatch their poorer and darker ciudanos to El Norte to work like peons.