America Through the Looking Glass
Debt is now the father of us all. In some sense, every cruise missile fired, every Social Security check cashed, ever NPR show aired is done so in part with borrowed money. In response, the president saw the impending doom of insolvency, appointed a bipartisan commission to draft a solution, and then ignored his own appointees’ recommendations. So far the excuse is largely that George Bush ran up debt as well, although last month Obama’s red-ink exceeded the entire 2007 budget deficit under Bush — 30 days of Obama trumping 365 of Bush.
President Obama ran on promises of a new respect for the law. But the law is now malleable and predicated on its social utility. The government, along with the nation of Mexico, sues the state of Arizona for trying to craft legislation that enforces federal immigration statutes. The government takes over Chrysler and then violates the contractual obligations to its debtors. We announce that the careless BP simply put up $20 billion to ensure proper cleanup of the Gulf. The Defense of Marriage Act is the law, but deemed unconstitutional by the administration and thus by fiat not enforced, in the manner of the abandoned prosecution of the Black Panthers whose violations of election laws were considered not violations.
If we think the country is topsy-turvy, the president offered an explanation the other day to a group of donors and supporters:
The first time around it’s like lightning in a bottle. There’s something special about it, because you’re defying the odds. And as time passes, you start taking it for granted that a guy named Barack Hussein Obama is president of the United States. But we should never take it for granted.
In short, all of the above was “special” because it “defied the odds” and was brought to us by “a guy named Barack Hussein Obama.”
And that is all ye need to know.
brilliant !
thanks.
VDH: Turns the “it” that “we should never take it for granted” is our freedom and continuation of this country. Not at all certain how the rest of the world looks at America but it must wonder what our president believes in, other than his own imagined magnificence. On the other hand, we are steadily advancing towards that first Tuesday in November, 2012. Then, I’m hopefully we’ll vote in another person who’ll defy the odds by being the first woman president; Gov. Palin has never voted present and has more steel in her character and spine than our current president ever has had.
Just hope that Tuesday in November, 2012, is not too late to return the country to its people.
“…hopefully we’ll vote in another person who’ll defy the odds by being the first woman president; Gov. Palin…”
Yes. The GOP is, as constituted, not capable of mounting an effective counter-attack against the neo-communists. Too much tunnel vision, too many entrenched interests. It will take a couple more election cycles to purge the party and replace them with assertive pro-constitutionalists like Bachman and Paul.
In the meantime our next Presidential candidate must be a Washington outsider, whose ego is firmly under control, and who is laser focused on reversing decades of leftism and restoring the Republic by shrinking government and encouraging free enterprise. Even if this means taking on his / her own party. I believe that a solid candidate who can make a strong argument in favor of these and other American values, can sweep the nation.
Well stated, I agree with everything you wrote. Hopefully it won’t take an all-out economic crash for indifferent Americans to wake up to what is happening.
I think you meant the ‘neo-comms’
Right on. The GOP might be cruising for a major defeat unless it starts to act like it knows what the Tea Partiers want; a Constitutionalist approach to our government. So far, the GOP is sending mixed signals, almost waffling rather than standing for what we voters wanted it to stand for. Time is not our friend if the reversal of Obama’s Socialism is not begun and soon.
1. The Obama Administration is all about BHO. Personally. That’s it.
2. Watch Herman Cain. He’s the best speaker in the field, he’s actually written his own books and he has actually run several enterprises. He would also be truly historic. The first non-politican or non-general to be elected. He’s also a man of deeds; not just words. A natural leader.
3. Obama must be defeated.
I have maintained for some time that Sarah Palin MAY NOT be the Republican nominee in 2012 (heaven forfend it be any of the eunuchs presently on show!) is because Republicans are scared to death that she will have to face Barry-boy in a debate and that that will be the end of Sarah Palin and Republican hopes. Of course this is just elitism on the part of the old RINO’s…Sarah Palin being herself is perfectly capable of facing snotty, condescending Barry…
But there is another solution, one that harnesses Sarah Palin’s huge popularity while at the same time removing the fear of a face-to-face confrontation with Barry,,,Let Sarah Palin be on the BOTTOM HALF of the ticket for 2012!
But to whom would Sarah be willing to play second fiddle? Againg not to any of the RINO’s or eunuchs! But there is one person to whom, I BELIEVE, Sarah would be willing to play understudy…
HANSON/PALIN 2012.
That’s it Prof…It’s you and Sarah! A juggernaut of knowledge, commonsense, working-class nous and plain speaking.
I wonder, in that inevitable faceoff between Victor and Barry, which party would be more scared?
2. Doug Wright
I liked what you said. So here it is again:
“VDH: Turns the “it” that “we should never take it for granted” is our freedom and continuation of this country. Not at all certain how the rest of the world looks at America but it must wonder what our president believes in, other than his own imagined magnificence. On the other hand, we are steadily advancing towards that first Tuesday in November, 2012. Then, I’m hopefully we’ll vote in another person who’ll defy the odds by being the first woman president; Gov. Palin has never voted present and has more steel in her character and spine than our current president ever has had.
“Just hope that Tuesday in November, 2012, is not too late to return the country to its people.”
Thanks. Well said. B A
Indeed…my stunned silence is deafening.
For the following reasons I conclude that the Administration is going to end badly, very badly. It might still be re-elected, but like Nixon it will shatter in the end.
1) I am re-reading Crane Brinton’s 1938 classic, “The Anatomy of Revolution”. Obviously no one in the White House is acquainted with it. If any had they would realize that the chaos following in the wake of the Arab Revolt will require the American President to display a type of leadership which has been absent so far.
2) Since diplomacy is the art of achieving goals without going to war, the Libyan campaign discloses a colossal failure of US foreign policy. Moreover, in Libya we have little to gain, and a lot to lose. Any “Mad Dog” ( BTW Reagan’s bombing of Ghadaffi is now vindicated) is better surprised and trapped than cornered. I guess the White House guys never went hunting. So the Colonel will go as quietly as Cody Jarrett did in “White Heat”. And what will we do if the French and Brits get wobbly?
3) And finally the looming economic fallout from the Honshu disaster indicates that the President is running out of luck, which to a certain extent has always been a necessary commodity for any successful political leader.
First I thought Obama was an empty suit.
Then I thought he was a calculating subversive trying intensionally to destroy this country.
Now I think he’s a petulant child.
Now I think he suffers from arrested development and he’s mentally 20 years old.
I listened to the song ‘Taxman’ on the Revolver album and thought it should be the anthem of the tea party.
Excellent, Ron. I’ve had the same thoughts on Obama. And “Taxman” would be an awesome Tea Party theme.
Also, I saw in comments at Ann Althouse’s site what OBAMA stands for: One. Big. Ass. Mistake. America.
That commenter was responding to Ann’s Obama vote and his A was for Althouse, but this works best.
Unfortunately, his mental development is arrested further than you think. I believe he acts like a 12 year old spoiled brat. Please notice how nothing is never HIS responsibility, (unless he is taking undeserved credit)CAN EVERYTHING BE BUSH’S FAULT OVER TWO YEARS LATER? DID BUSH TWIST HIS ARM AND MAKE HIM SPEND US INTO BANKRUPTCY? HOW IS WAFFLING ON DECISION MAKING BUSH’S FAULT.
GROW UP BARRY! Typical lib, no rational thought, just FEELINGS!
“I listened to the song ‘Taxman’ on the Revolver album and thought it should be the anthem of the tea party.”
I like “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister myself!
It’s even worse than you report: the new Brazilian offshore drilling is being subsidized by $2 billion from ARRA – a/k/a Obama’s “stimulus” bill.
How sweet that we are buying foreign oil for which we paid to drill, while eschewing drilling any of our own! Sweet, that is, if you are as dedicated to American success as Obama is – which is to say, not in the least.
I thought once we elected a GOP House we would put up a fight against Obama’s out of control spending. Boehner and company don’t seem to have the fight in them.
When I came back from Vietnam I was so thankful to have been raised in this country with it’s freedom and possibilities. Now I pray that I don’t live to see the final chapter.We don’t have time to wait until the 2012 election to fix the fiscal mess we are in.I feel like a spectator watching a suicide.
The Dems lost power but the Reps are in danger of being completly distroyed.
“And that is all ye need to know.” Is that an allusion to Keats’ “Beauty is truth” line? The beauty of Obama is that on the occasion when he tells the truth he puts the lie to something he said previously. He has taken as a philosophy that vapid, ode to plagiarism, “Words, just words” speech; and his media, has done the same. Lying is a way of life for them.
Dr. Hanson you can pile the cold, hard turkey truths on as high and deep and wide as you want, the fact remains that there are more than enough voters that strongly support Obama to reelect him for a second term.
All ye need to know must also combine the realities you described with a dysfunctional; even suicidal GOP that has to be watered more and more everyday and the big picture for 2012 holds little promise for our country.
Obama knows all of this stuff better than anyone else does. He knows that he can smirk in your and my face anytime he wants to and get away with it.
To me, it is this last consideration that makes getting through an average day in America nothing short of downright sickening.
Your articles are brilliant: But all ve all know is that you are preaching to the choir.
Amen.
I too have no confidence in the 2012 election no matter how bad it is. Dems will forever win New York, CA (and a handful of others), which will cause ALL future elections to come down to a few swing states. The fact that we still see no outrage over Obama tells me our future is bleak. Hope I am wrong.
Best we could really hope for without executive power is to slow down Obama and stall his agenda. It buys us a bit of time, that’s it. A miraculous turnaround was always unlikely. The GOP leadership is disconnected. That’s why we need an outsider as president, someone who thinks out of the box, and is both relentless in will and untouchable in character.
But nothing is inevitable. It is ultimately up to YOU: to turn out to vote in November of next year; to bring your entire family with you, and all of your friends, and neighbors, and colleagues… That is why you can safely ignore the gloom and doom. Yes there are obstacles, but remember we live in an age of disinformation – a lot of what you hear is not necessarily accurate. The mainstream media has a vested interest in portraying Obama’s position as stronger than it really is. My own sense is that he is in a surprisingly weak and vulnerable position – almost irretrievably so. All it will take is a well planned and calculated and articulated frontal attack at the right moment and vast numbers will turn against him.
Meanwhile do what you did last year: discuss, organize, join, march, assemble, raise funds… and prepare for November. This was never going to be easy. Freedom is the prize of centuries of toil, but it can be lost overnight. We still have a chance to reclaim it, but it won’t be without a fight.
Above all don’t allow lefty tricks and deceptions keep you from forging towards your goal.
“All they have to do to bring it about is keep anyone else from doing anything about it. And they are well positioned to do just that.”
Very good analysis eon, but I’m afraid that they need to do far less than prevent “anything” from being done about it. Without radical action like secession or revolution, the Overton Window is going to have to move a great deal to the right, and soon, if liberty is going to be preserved in the Land of the Free (or in some part of it). And it is very difficult to see how this amount of movement could possibly occur.
@9 sad sorry truth says “the fact remains that there are more than enough voters that strongly support Obama to reelect him for a second term.”
how do you know that? they sure didn’t come out in droves for the 2010 elections… have you personally polled all 69 million of the 2008 voters? yes there were “only” 69 million, I say only because that is something like 22-23% of the population.
you don’t think ANY of these 69 million perhaps because disenfranchised and perhaps even joined T.E.A. parties nationwide as disgusted moderate Dems or independents… REALLY?
I don’t think you are reading the general population correctly: Nov 2010 elections SPOKE VERY LOUDLY… but YOU aren’t listening
NO WAY will TheUrkel get re-elected… No chance in hell
I hope you’re right, but never under estimate the republican’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
“Debt is now the father of us all. In some sense, every cruise missile fired, every Social Security check cashed, ever NPR show aired is done so in part with borrowed money.”
Extending this thought, and viewing it against the backdrop of the hysterical union thuggery in Wisconsin, you can discover the reason why it may be difficult to elect a Republican president going forward, until real collapse has occured.
Yes, all of those things you mentioned, professor, as well as the guarantees of paychecks and grants and contracts for millions of people working in the public sector and businesses which are government contractors, are now dependent upon borrowing. In the fashion of all people who worship at the altar of bulletproof government guaranteed income stream security, these people and rent-seeking businesses are acting like the proverbial folks in the raft surrounded by alligators, trying to throw everyone else to the predators in the hope that they will be eaten last. We’ve seen this with the TARP money, which in reality was just a means of extending the boom times to the public sector and insulating it from the economic downturn for two more years at the expense of the private sector now and everyone’s children later.
If there are more people with that goal and attitude than there are of folks who aren’t, you could run Jesus Christ against Obama and he wouldn’t get elected. The Republicans must do everything right and nominate a very articulate and charismatic candidate to overcome this obstacle if they want to take back the White House.
We should never forget the sheer specialness of the fact that Barack Hussein Obama is president…you’re the classical scholar, Prof. Hanson. Isn’t the word “hubris” perhaps applicable here?
I also note that anyone on the other side mentioning the president’s middle named during the campaign was a racist, an Islamophobe, and probably abused kittens and puppies. Apparently it’s OK to mention it sometimes.
Apparently it works like the n-word. If you’re not Barack H. Obama, you can’t say it, in fact it’s a hate crime if you do.
But if you are Barack H. Obama, not only can you say it, it proves something wonderful (but apparently ineffable?) about you.
As always, you nailed it, Doc.
Placing the hole into which Obama has dug for this country in the context of his colossal ego (“you start taking it for granted that a guy named Barack Hussein Obama is president of the United States”) and monumental incompetence is something of which we all should reminded from now until next november.
The inference here is that once it becomes accepted by all that the will od BH0 is the only compelling legal authority, and his psuedo monarchical appart is the controlling legal authority, then things are finally in place, and no one is a citizen anymore, we are all subject to this african colonial. the only persons welfare that becomes remotely important is BH0 and those on the shory list of he and his apparats largess.
Where have all the Liberals gone on the subject of Libya? Remember when candidate Obama said that Iraq was a “War of Choice” and that it was a distraction from the “real” war, which was in Afghanistan? Where did that guy go? Where are all the liberals screaming “Obama lied and people died,” oh, and my personal favorite, “How many Libyans have died because of our reckless intervention in a sovereign nation?” Not to be outdone were liberals saying, “What did Gaddafi do to us? Why are we attacking him when he didn’t have anything at all to do with 9/11? He wasn’t even supporting al Qaeda, which is what we are really fighting.” Yes, where have all these liberals gone? I only hear a lot of crickets chirping out there. Bunch of hypocritical scum, all of them. I’m wonder if liberals are seeing George W. Bush in a different light right now? Naaaaa, that would mean they’d have to admit they were wrong, and that would never, ever, happen.
Behold Obama, the semihemidemigod: First he stands on one leg, then he stands on the other, then he turns 169.23 degrees to his prior position, then he does the hokey-pokey and he shakes it all around…
…and that’s what it’s all about!
Gadafi to Nobel Peace Prize Winner – ‘I still love you’.
Obama – ‘Hey, I loves me too’.
‘Please don’t take dear leader for granted…’.
Megalomaniacs both, they deserve each other.
Each are destroying their country, each will be removed in time to great relief of citizens.
Excellent as always, Sir.
The One’s natural instinct in Libya is to do everything he can to ensure that Qaddafi remains in power, and that his opponents cease to be a problem. This action is purely to allay the public’s outrage over His previous lack of interest in stopping Qaddafi’s depredations. It’s the “progressive dogma” thing again; Anti-American/Anti-Israel/Anti-Western Civilization Islamist Socialist Dictator = Good Guy. It’s noteworthy that those screaming for The One’s impeachment right now are all the usual suspects on the far left in Congress; Jerrold Nadler, Sheila Jackson Lee, etc., plus Ohio’s very own Ramsay Clark clone, Dennis “The Menace” Kucinich. (I suspect they are afraid Qaddafi might collapse before The One can order our forces to cease fire.)
I’m expecting this to be a replay of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The military will be allowed to suppress the air defenses, and airstrike the Libyan Army, but removal of Qaddafi is already off the table- the administration just won’t admit it. In The One’s mind, Qaddafi is a counterbalance to- Israel. And He will never give it up if He can help it, because of His conviction that all our problems with the Islamic world (which he views as more “enlightened” than anybody except, well, Himself) are due to the fact that Israel exists to begin with. (He is, of course, also convinced that “history is bunk”, and that it doesn’t apply to Him, anyway.)
This also leads back to The One’s determination to starve the U.S. of energy, in the belief that He can “make the world anew” by destroying our evil technological civilization and “start from zero” to build a new, egalitarian, agrarian socialist Eden on the ruins. Anyone who does not understand that this is His goal has not been paying attention since He was a “community organizer” in Chicago. He sees our society not as a basically good one that is a work in progress, but as an evil and rapacious enemy of all that is Right, Good, and True. And to Him, that deserves the ultimate penalty; obliteration followed by the survivors being forced to build anew under the ironclad control of those who are more “enlightened”.
What most people overlook is that for the past four decades, the deep-ecology crowd have done such a thorough job of enshrining their fanaticism in the law and the bureaucracy that they have become able to stop any energy development at all. We are now at the point where if we do not use our existing resources, and build more that, unlike Holy Wind and Holy Sun, actually work (nuclear/hydroelectric/etc.), we are looking at a societal crash. Which is exactly what the “environmentalists”, like The One, dream of. All they have to do to bring it about is keep anyone else from doing anything about it. And they are well positioned to do just that.
(I do find it interesting, however, that sales of the Chevy Volt are now restricted to stock on hand, because the plant which builds the bulk of its hybrid electric system is shut down. Because it is in Japan, and has no power due to the earthquake and subsequent power losses, just like Toyota and Nissan. There’s a lesson in that- that I fully expect The One and His deep-eco cronies to ignore. Reality can be such a b***h at times.)
As for His conviction that the law is whatever He wants it to be, this is at the heart of the reaction to his initiative to “improve” background checks on gun purchases. He has been fanatically determined to disarm the American people practically from birth, in quest for the ultimate control He and all of his “progressive” cronies crave. And He has repeatedly shown a willingness to lie about what He really wants to lull us into not watching His actual actions until it is too late (stimulus, GM, Chrysler, ObamaCare, etc.).
So when He says He “respects the Second Amendment”, the courts, etc., you can be sure of one thing. He doesn’t mean it, and He’s hoping the rest of us are too stupid to realize that He is lying once again.
He should read “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”- but He’s probably too busy golfing to bother. And of course, like history, it doesn’t apply to Him, either.
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“…that He is lying once again.”
Everything campaign pledge he has every made; every appeal; every assurance uttered … my 18 year old son summed it up rather succinctly: “Obama is the prince of lies.”
Dear Dr. Bones,
For comic relief, there is nothing quite like hearing an oration in praise of Rulalaw from some posthonourable wingnutette or neogallant wingnut. Enjoy, enjoy!
Rear Colonel the Freelord of Hanson-Blimp falls into my second pigeonhole, technically speaking, although his freelordship still drags along such trails of his former _geistliche Militärismus_ as tend to make him not much resemble the typical Rio Limbaugh/Port Ste. Lucie rulalawyer. The late Party Neocomrade — an’ Fedguv Rep. for Cook County; an’ impeachster _extraordinaire_ — H. J. Hyde was the perfect dead armadillo to mark the middle of *that* road.
_Inter arma silebant leges_: Firstlord Mars and Freedame Bellona were not accustomed to trouble themselves with pettifoggin’ attorneys: “Serbs are heros; Croats are attorneys” — &c. &c.
Well, but of course on Planet Blimp, that was then. Now is “Debt, the father of us all.”
Well, ’tis admittedly a nifty trick to play on old Heraclitus, that one. Though unquestionably a Freelord of Foxcuckooland, an’ by intention a Kiddiemaster of AEIdeology to boot, Hanson-Blimp cannot be seriously accused of bein’ a gentleman. Nevertheless, the kiddiemagisterial Greek, like the freelordly Prussian, still comes in a little lacelike on occasion, _¿no es verdad_? I can’t see that these elegant, though faded an’ now inoperative, distinctions make a dime’s worth of substantial difference between Hanson-Blimp and the rest of the pack of Palo Alto Hoovervillains. Being, however, Aristotelians, the Muses and you, sir, and I ought never to take for granted that substance and _materialiter_ must take every trick.
Nevertheless, the physician who bases her diagnoses on flounces and ruffles and elegant literary variations can scarcely expect much success. Stripped laceless, our Victor is no more than a very commonplace gasbag deployed in the service of Big Management LLC, a wholly owned neosubsidiary of Mammon Enterprises Inc. The point — as opposed to the pleasure – of “Debt, Father of all things” is as simple as can be, and not much nicer: the lower orders are to be ruled by our Creditors.
The connection of that tolerably old Song of Selfservice with Rulalaw is not mere lace an’ ornament, Perry Mason, Esq., is a more pertinent ally for the Hoovervillains than is Heraclitus. But not, I think, to the point of bein’ anythin’ like central to the current concerns of our Divine Homeland™’s TopPercenters. The nexus is nutshellized adequately — after you fix the carefree, humanistic bassackwardness — by his freelordship as “violates … contractual obligations to … [credi]tors.”
Nutshellizin’ that particular nexus is a little tricky: she who agitprops in the path of Party an’ Ideology must not state it too strongly or broadly. In fact, if one cruelly takes Hanson-Blimp at his own misword, nobooby could get it ’ronger than his freelordship managed to: enforcing contractual obligation TO DEBTORS, especially to that class of patients or victims usually called ‘customers’, is the very last sort of Rulalaw desired by the Daughters of Virtue & Sons of Wisdom LLC Ten metres down *that* slippery slope, sir, and you will find yourself in the company of Comrade Trotsky and the unbearable Barney of MA. “Only contractual obligations FROM DEBTORS need apply” — that is much the safest rule. Also by far the most respectable.
Now, makin’ Contract Obligation Boulevard a one-way street poses certain problems from the high-and-dry Rulalaw perspective. Myself, I think these problems so serious that the exercise should not not be attempted. However, it is is plain that most Party neocomrades disagree, considerin’ a capture of the Rulalaw flag so good for the morale of Team Mammon that it is well worth strugglin’ for. [*]
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Most interesting of all, but far above Blimp’s altitude, is the question of how reliable a foundation “Debt, the Father of All Things” can ever afford selfservatism. Sending the Creditor Classes empty away — or paying them off with funny money, a more entertaining version of basically the same thing — may not happen regularly in history, but it is far from unknown. It has even, I believe, happened here. [**]
Happy days.
–JHM
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[*] On second thought, I’d guess that most rulalawyers affiliated to the Party of Grant & Hoover (&c.) are more interested in keepin’ the legal flag out of the hands of their Class enemies rather than doin’ anythin’ in particular with it themselves. The fact that all Bad Poor, like all Blacks-’n’-Tans, are automatically, and by our very nature, disreputable is good, but it is not really sufficient. TopPercenterdom would be considerably more secure if one could establish a strong general presumption that anything the lower orders want is probably illegal as well as certainly contemptible.
You are to remember, Dr. Bones, that Team Mammon are defendin’ the SECRET Sector: much of what they do is as transparent and undetectable as is Mlle. de la Main Invisible in the dogmatic mythology of selfservatism. If nobody sees a superhuman pachyderm event happenin’, the question of its legality hardly arises. Donkey events, on the other hand, tend to be only too noticeable.
Actually, ’tis worse than that, sir! We fiends of lieberalism and demonocracy must deliberately bring attention to donkey events ourselves, because if we did not, to say “Here in the Divine Homeland™, it is the People who rules” would be absurd. Unless we small people actually see each other doing a donkey thing, that thing is not being done at all. Up to a point, I suppose one can pretend that it is being done, but the mileage to be got out of that ploy is limited.
Since we can hardly ever procede by stealth after the fashion of our Betters, almost all our doings are available to be shot at by the legal eagles an’ buzzards an’ vultures of Foxcuckooland an’ the Federalist Society. Why, we can even, on rare occasions, get buzzed by TopPercenter blimps!
[**] To wander far, far off the scope of a Hanson-Blimp, I believe a case can be made that “voodoo economics” was a sort of attempt to instantiate “Debt, the Father of All Things.” The cocktail-napkin crew had to give it up eventually, which suggests that my controllin’ you forever by virtue of all that money that you owe me may be another one of those schemes that work far better in textbooks than anywhere else.
Isn’t it common enough, in fact, to find scribblers who maintain that debtors can wag creditors, at least when the amount owed is humongous enough? Few things could be more unseemly that that arrangement, but, ¡alas!, ‘unseemly’ does not mean quite the same as ‘unworkable’.
And Keynes knows best.
I’ll bet you stated this without inhaling one time! BRILLIANT!!!!
Is their an original thought in all this mush?
Poor Poor JHM, another prophet in the wilderness, who views the English language as if it’s a Paint Shop pallet tool in the ‘rulalaw’ WORD PRO PROGRAM of writing equals fingerpainting.
But then writing, as VDH’s post always exhibit, would essentially be ‘reduced’ to being about communicating, where grammar matters more than alliteration or word-creation. How old school judeo christian booring can you get. Where is the fun in that.
Esspecially when the hipster doing it has an evident hatred and contempt for the views expressed – (all that is missing in these posts are the stylistic symbols of a ZODIAC Impostor – guess JHM never got the memo that Homeland Security has congressional approvial to monitor sites like ours).
Well here is a memo you should get JHM; If you have anything worth saying you should say it well – in langauage everyday folks can understand.
Are you afraid of communicating your thoughts? Or are you so Warlock Tiger Blood Charlie Sheen powerful that you must obscure your manifestos lest you destroy the reader via head explosion (instead of the mere migrane inducing headach these above impart)?
Pray, do tell JMH – If so, when is your two-day gig at Radio Music Hall so we all can reschedule?
JMH – get back on your meds and try again to rejoin the human tribe. And once sober, read Mann’s MAGIC MOUNTAIN. This mission you are on rarely ends well for either the author or society.
What a steaming fresh pile of horsesh*t.
insanity sounds like fun
This rendering of an incoherent ranting and disconnected thoughts reminds me of a “philosophical friend” who ended up in the proverbial “nuthouse”. His mind wandered through a maze of ill conceived thoughts and when he spoke, at least for a while, his listeners thought him to be a genius. In the end, his mental breakdown was correctly diagnosed and he was dispatched to a place where he could do no harm and his audience consisted of a group who possessed the same mental capacity and ability to comprehend alien transmissions received through the antennas attached to their tinfoil hats.
When one tries so hard to come across as an intellectual or a philosopher whose deep thoughts are believed to be highly valued gems of wisdom because they are expressed in randomly selected obscure references, they are immediately identified as poseurs by the true intelligentsia. In this case, anyone who reads and comprehends the writings of Dr. Victor Davis Hanson readily understands who JHM is and knows him or her to be the crashing bore everyone avoids at all costs at any function. If not avoided, one can be placed at risk of death by a thousand cuts of irrelevant drivel.
Charlie Sheen? Is that you?
Don’t tell me; You gat an App. for this, right?
Never before have I seen such a random assemblage of words such as your post. Congradulations; we are now all the more stupid because of it. All semblance of cogent thought has, apparently been outlawed.
Hey, dude! You gat a bad dose of crack. It was laced with LSD!!!!!!!
Here’s a thought: Rather than just stringing an endless bunch of words together…how about making a point? It has the double benefit of being – 1) so much more interesting to your audience and 2) revealing so much less of your blithering, inane, mindless, guano filled, empty headed, monkey-brained, talentless, screamingly boring, vacuous, mind numbing, elephant- urine saturated persona.
Um, could you introduce us to your drug dealer? He’s getting you some seriously good stuff.
Umm, this is not your liberal, U-district, avant-garde coffeehouse. We are not 20-yr-old girls to stand agog at the seeming-chic phrases which dribble from your lips. That might work whence you come. It strokes your ego. Your social approbation-seeking peers might ooo and ah for you, giving you the thrill you need to feel worthy, but we are educated adults here and simply are not impressed with such juvenile rantings.
Is there a google translation for this screed?
I suggest trying it in English next time.
All of this and yet, the Republican party is filled with timid limp wristed cowards who refuse to stand up to this tyrant and mean it. Why no impeachment when Obama has acted unlawfully and repeatedly committed treason? What happened to the so called investigations that Darrell Issa was going to do? After the big wins in November, the Republicans acted like they were fortunate to be able to further Obama’s agenda by voting for the insane START surrender treaty with Russia and not offering resistance to other destructive acts during the lame duck session. Then the GOP weenies are afraid to stand strong on the budget cuts, in fear of a shutdown, but the stupid dems passed no budget AT ALL last year and the gov’t didn’t shut down so why will that be a problem if the GOP doesn’t fund Barry’s treasonous crap? What’s it going to take to get some grown ups in control?
America has elected a “tyrant” for sure! The media, his praetorian guard!
A spoiled, malignant narcissist presently is our chief executive. Why did we elect such a person? Will we send him back for a second term? If so, what would that say about us, those who choose to vote in such an election?
What has made Americans this way? Fat, happy, sad, ignorant, mad, angry, stupid, lazy, indifferent, or what?
At least Thelma and Louise knew they were going over the cliff in that Thunderbird!
Nemesis awaits.
While appalling, given the fact that there is a rogue administration running the country, the contradictions outlined by the good doctor are to our advantage because of the psychological pressure they put on The One. There is such a thing as a functional psychopath. That is someone who can mimic a normal, sane, rationally self-interested, even altruistic human – but who is in fact operating from a completely disconnected and largely delusional and quite destructive framework. I have no doubt that is what we are dealing with here.
However to remain functional, such entities (I do not call them humans, for they lack a key human attribute: empathy) – must ensure that their external actions appear consistent and rational to the outside world; otherwise they get found out – and their tightly controlled little charade quickly unravels in a spasm of rapidly increasing incoherence and chaos. Obama knows that most of us are on to him now. He knows that all that is really protecting him is his numerically insignificant but well organized union – media – activist revolutionary front, and their ability to distract the public at large with one incident after the other. He hopes that by keeping us off balance, he can keep us from directly challenging his legitimacy as President by calling him out on his now glaringly obvious efforts to destroy, or at least indenture the nation. He is gambling that he can drag things out for another two years by which time he will have locked the nation into an inescapable, downward spiral of debt, entitlement and dependance.
But as I said, this can all be turned to our advantage: BHO knows that, except for 20 to 25% or so public sector union hacks and die-hard lefties, the rest of the nation senses that there is something badly wrong; That the driver is veering wildly and about to careen into an abyss. The more these kinds of contradictions come into high resolution, the more precarious position he becomes. Eventually he will be walking on a razors edge, with only a thin veil of support buffering him from an angry sea of aroused citizens. That will be time to directly challenge him and the entire neo-communist* agenda, For the wizard will be fully revealed as the sad, shallow charade that he is.
*Neo-Communism: A hybrid system of crony-capitalism and collectivization through large scale government programs, administered by a supra-national cabal of autocrats and technocrats, who deploy humanitarian and environmental dogma to justify the gradual abolition of national sovereignty; as well as the moral, political and economic freedom of the individual.
Nice closing reference to Keats. Except there is little beauty in this truth.
First, please note that the oil we’ll be buying from Brazil is drilled for using the platforms that were ordered out of the Gulf in the wake of the BP debacle. Obama sacrificed an entire industry to kowtow to…I’m not sure, but this Brazil trip surely is about the oil.
Second, wasn’t it GM (and not Chrysler) that the government took over? I have many friends and family who were left with worthless paper when GM violated their contractual obligations to bondholders. With the government’s blessing and encouragement.
The Republican candidate must have a clearly defined Middle East policy.
This may be the difference in the election. Because its clear the Obama Admin does not have one.
All this and more was predictable. Anyone who did any research into candidate Obama could see that his words, actions, and past associations were not in the mainstream of American thought. As for myself, when I found the clip of him saying he wanted our utility bills to necessarily skyrocket, I knew if he was elected we’d be in for a very long four years as he worked to bring America to its knees.
There may be a silver lining to the dark cloud of this administration. Those who innocently believed that whomever they elected would automatically act in their best interests now understand that Washington doesn’t really work that way. Politicians who said one thing to get elected and, once safely ensconced in office proceeded to do something entirely different, are now under the watchful eyes of the Tea Party. Even Republican pols aren’t safe, as we’re about to purge the so-called moderates (who manage to cave in to each and every demand from the left) from Washington as well. Our tolerance is at an all time low for these squishy careerists who want power for themselves instead instead of freedom for their constituents.
Hopefully, Obama, Reid, and Pelosi have taught us a lesson. At least we know what not to do, namely elect any more “progressives” into office.
Through the looking glass indeed!
Trick here is that Alice got to come back.
We won’t.
I think that more and more people are aware that there is something seriously psychologically wrong with Obama.
It isn’t simply his lack of experience for that leads to questions about why his life so far has been so superficial and lacking serious committed activities. His behavior as editor of the Harvard Law Review (did nothing); as Senator, as community organizer – all show a similar pattern of superficial, uninvolved behavior, focused only on receiving acceptance of him as ‘the leader’ while he contributed nothing.
My own view is that he’s a clinical narcissist which is not a trivial condition of simple egoism but a severe pathology that renders him incapable of dealing with the real world. He lives in a virtual world of his own words, where he – via those words – controls all events and people around him. This means that he not only lacks empathy, is unable to feel equal to others but must dominate them (as he constantly reminds us: ‘I’m the President) and that he cannot deal with facts, hard data, policy development and programs. He leaves all of that to others.
Even ideologically, although it is obvious he is a socialist, that he is anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-white, I suggest that he didn’t arrive at these opinions via his own intellectual analysis but via his reliance on others – particularly, on a dominant woman in his life: his grandmother, mother, wife – who are all embedded in these viewpoints.
This leads to another question. Where are his advisors? Why are they permitting Obama to dither, to denigrate the US, to lead the country into dead end paths? We know that he surrounds himself with like-minded socialists, anti-American, steeped in the1970′s nonsense of ‘colonialism and the evils of the West’…and that he ignores the advice of those outside his clique. He ignores Congress, ignores and rejects the views of State Governors and Commissions, ….
This leaves us with the Democratic Party. In 2012, Obama, (if he runs) will not be running against someone. He achieved the 2008 election because he was running against Bush, in a nation tired of war, and, using vapid emotional rhetoric of ‘hope and change’. But he can’t use the same tactic this time.
Now – HE is the one who the GOP will be running against. Obama can try with his rhetoric (that equally vapid Winning the Future) but, this time, it’s HIS policies that must be open to consideration. And Obama can’t deal with reality, with hard facts. He’s not open to debate and discussion about the real world. When he talks about ‘our high output of oil’ now…in a genuine debate, he’ll be instantly confronted that this is not due to him but to Clinton and Bush and that we need more drilling now.
So – my question is – how is the Democratic Party going to deal with someone as their leader, who operates only within pure words, empty rhetoric about an emotional blissful future – but who refuses to deal with the real world? Will the Party ditch him?
Petrobras is the Brazilian state-operated oil company that is also publicly traded. I believe that I am correct in recalling that George Soros invested quite heavily in Petrobras in 2010. I don’t know exactly what that means but when it looks like a fish and smells like a fish……..
As for the rest – Always remember that “progrssives” have great respect for the laws of the land until right up until the moment that they get in the way.
Precisely so. Obama has thwarted American energy production at every turn, then propped up Soros’ investment in Petrobas.
Nobody wants to have the “McCarthy-ite” epithet thrown at them, but we are currently be ruled by radical leftists.
VDH points out the hypocrisy, but even when done brilliantly as does VDH every time, it doesn’t stick to them. The lapdog media makes sure of it. The PR program to have Orwellian rules changes on the blackboard each morning is spearheaded by the dying smudge media (the Daily Duranty, the dollar store Newsweek, even the LA dog trainer), the alphabet networks and the Charlie Sheen Magic Meltdown brigade in Hollywood.
The Republicans lose the messaging war nearly every time. True, it’s a rigged game with the outcome fixed like a Chicago aldermanic election, but they still truly are miserable at the game. They aren’t even the Washington Generals to the leftist Harlem Globetrotters. They are the slapstick pratfall stumblebums when it comes to representing an articulate summation of all the lies and distortions and horrific results of this administration’s destructive two years in office.
There is no magic pill to fix this. We are in dire straits and 2012 does not look like a new dawn in America. There are dark days ahead. Radical leftism has us by the throat. And, they are not likely to let go.
Given that the MSM is arguably the vital prop that keeps Obama in power and deludes the country about who he is and what he stands for, wouldn’t the best tactic be to have sensible people buy a couple of the most influential media chains/networks and start injecting some truth in place of the current wishful thinking?
There must still be some rich right wing people around so couldn’t one of them – or a group of them – buy, say, the New York Times and NBC and modify the editorial point of view to one that reflects reality? Or if individual billionaires are lacking, why not set up a corporation that is funded through thousands of small investments to buy a few outlets?
Once the truth starts getting told by major MSM outlets, Obama will have a much harder time fooling the average citizen….
You got the name wrong Doc.
It’s Barry Soetoro. Who is this Barack guy?
A teacher, academic and writer, farmer, hiker, bike rider, Father – how many are there like Victor Davis Hanson!?
As solid a citizen as they come, and renaissance man extraordinaire – another breath of fresh air in print.
Is Barack Disaster Obama a cause of the withering away of a once hardworking sensible realistic culture or a product of it? I say both. Someone like this could never have become president in another time. Even Jimmy Carter, for all his faults, had a fairly lengthy resume compared to Obama (then again, a grasshopper has a lengthy resume compared to Obama.) In any other age, Obama would have been laughed off the stage in the first debate. But not in today’s reality-TV I-want-it-now no-money-down no-interest-loan I’m-forever-blowing-speculative-bubbles age. The light and sound show that is Obama and the “problems will solve themselves” culture of today will like come to an end simultaneously. What comes after is open to speculation. Be very afraid.
Brilliant #2, VDH! Go Sarah!
The Democrats had ObamaCare ready to sign before the child ever assumed office. What they had drafted, was another agency to mirror the Post Office and Social Security, that would enable them to steal more money from the U.S. Treasury in the name of ‘social services’.
Anyone following the budgets of either SSA or the Post Office knows that Congress has stolen funds from them at will, each time there has ever been a surplus. This same technique is fully intended with ObamaCare, and has already begun.
Father Hussein Obama, and his clergy, is restricting the finer things in life for all American citizens at present, but, intends to reward our ‘fasting’ with alms, during the summer of 2012, in the form of one oil drilling permit, a train load of coal, a “promise” for a 0.2% Social Security COLA, direct mail coupons for 10¢ off gasoline if used with your Democrat Voter Registration card, and free CD’s of all his speeches, for a “Get Out The Vote” initiative. This will inflame his base to sweep him into his second term, where he will resort to even more restrictive ‘fasting’ for the Citizens.
This is, of course, if his U.N. sanctioned actions of this week, do not get him completely condemned by the International Community.
He truly is living up to his legacy as “Incompetent in Chief”.
In response, the president saw the impending doom of insolvency, appointed a bipartisan commission to draft a solution, and then ignored his own appointees’ recommendations.
Obama’s style, in the spirit of delay, appoint a commission to “study and recommend” then blow off the conclusions and recommendations if they don’t fit the agenda and ideology.
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles who headed up this bipartisan debt commission and took their job seriously were, reportedly, not amused.
Ideology is King, everything else in the American political realm (such as the rule of law) is to be worked around, subverted or blown off.
But the law is now malleable and predicated on its social utility.
The baldfaced administration of “justice” and law enforcement as a function of social policy is shocking.
The bent partisans working under Eric Holder at Justice, especially asst. AG Loretta King, are a disgrace.
I love the column, with the exception of Hanson’s analysis of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. If President Obama has a good faith belief that it’s unconstitutional, and many legal scholars agree, (I’m a lawyer and I also believe it’s unconstitutional), then though it’s on the books, it’s not the law in virtue of its unconstitutionality, and Obama is duty-bound to not enforce it. Ultimately the courts should decide this issue, but President’s have a duty to use their lawful discretion not to enforce laws that they sincerely believe are unconstitutional. I suppose that people differ in how manifestly unconstitutional a law must appear before the President chooses not to enforce it. Would Hanson want the President to enforce a law enacted by Congress that required Jews to wear yellow stars? Of course not, because Hanson would argue that that’s obviously unconstitutional. Well, there are plenty of people, and I’m one of them, who argue that DOMA is manifestly unconstitutional on many grounds.
Cannot agree even in the least, Peter W. You are mistaken several ways. If a President can pick and choose which laws to obey and which to flout, there is no limit on his power. We had a President who argued “if the President does it, it’s not illegal”, and he bears the unique disgrace of resigning to avoid impeachment. No, it is a very bad idea for a President to ignore a federal law simply because he disapproves of it.
Government in a republic is a servant, not a master. A President is an employee, not a king, and his clear duty is to see that the laws are faithfully executed. If Obama wants to decide which laws are Constitutional and which not, he should resign as President and hope Biden nominates him to the Supreme Court. (Biden is stupid enough to do so.)
Your analogy to forcing Jews to wear stars on their clothing is too far-fetched to be convincing. It’s an example of Godwin’s Law, that any political argument eventually ends up with a Nazi analogy and the party with the weaker argument is the one who makes that analogy.
The Congress passed DOMA, so it is plausible that they would also be willing to propose a Constitutional amendment which makes the same provision. Most states refuse to recognize same sex marriage, so it is equally plausible that they would ratify such an amendment. Your real problem is not that Congress passed DOMA, of which you disapprove, but that most Americans approve of it. When you say that the issue of same sex marriage is ultimately to be settled by the courts instead of the voters, what you’re really saying is that what you consider tyranny of the majority should be replaced by what you prefer, tyranny of the minority. You’re a lawyer, all right, with a lawyer’s typical contempt for democracy.
Wanna bet another Nobel prize for “peace” is in the works?
The famous line “there is nothing new under the sun” remains accurate. What Obama and his supporters are doing has been done before. These guys are not your father’s revolutionaries; they want the revolution to be over by 5pm so they can beat the rush to the sushi bar. Their actions prompted me to write a satire call Despotism Made Easy: a self-help guide for the aspiring tyrant. It can be found at http://dmefat.blogspot.com/ for those who are curious. These people may be adolescence but make no mistake of their intent.
I find it amusing that the mainstream liberal media is totally ignoring the price of gas.
When Bush was in office, $4 gas was the lead story every night.
N/A. A Democrat is in the White House.
On the same note: I had the misfortune of listening to NPR the day earlier this month the unemployment rate was announced as “falling” to 8.9%. It was the lead story on the hourly news (“the first time under 9% since last year!”). The newsreader could barely contain her glee.
And the narrative rolls on …
As always, the Professor has the President viewed correctly.
And while I think this President an incompetent boobyhatch of an incompetent PC fool, I do empathize with him in one regard: when he arrived in the Oval Office, Obama was challenged with an America that was utterly reeling from the mortgage meltdown and a new reality of overborrowed and under earning Americans. To the extent that his liberal ideas helped build this mess with the help of an out of control government that socially engineered a crash for the ages. (An to be clear- Republicans and Democrats bear equal responsibility for the mess- from allowing our national banking anti-trust laws to vitiate creating too big to fail mega-banks, the gross idiocy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lobbying congress with taxpayer money with grossly paid senior executives to the contemptible financial subprime loans and CDO swaps that broke the back of the financial system right on through to no-money down loans to unqualified borrowers and false loan applications from mortgage companies. And yes, we the people, are responsible for uncritically letting this happen from our government.)
Obama is a failure as President, sadly, there is no Reagan out there to rally the nation to replace him. But anyone will be better than this clown prince of leftist incompetence.
“…the law is now malleable and predicated on its social utility…”
This has always been the Progressive position for their entire history, and has always been the core basis for the case to impeach their current champion, the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama.
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http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
until i picked up thomas sowell’s “conflict of visions” i was always perplexed at the typical american “liberal” attitude and approach to anything
i now realize, for simplicity’s sake, the left and the right exist in completely different realities where even the simplest language means totally different things to each side
the basic difference is that the “left” believe in the perfectibility of man and see it as the duty of the select few (the elites) to define, mold, and enforce this perfection
the “right” believe in the fundamental and irremovable flaws of humanity and that the best way to deal with things involves a free economy where competition and human experience combine to produce the most freedom even when it is unintentional; they believe that it is impossible to “know” everything or even try and that human beings from day one to the present have certain inherent limitations and each individual’s efforts should concentrated around him and his own affairs—
basically, alternate universes are alive and well in modern america but both cannot coexist (despite the dopey bumper sticker) simultaneously. the choice is between a concentration of nearly omnipotent power with a few elites (that self appoint themselves mind you) or the dilution of power amongst individuals in a free competitive market that will eventually produce the goods and services people want (consciously or unconsciously)– essentially the fact that the “right” accept that nothing is perfect and our limited government, free-market society is the best we can do
An excellent and accurate outline of the two mindsets.
I think we’ll always have both – the purist perfectionists (The Left: socialism, communism, fascism, Islamism, all focused on the group, on the imagined world and rejecting individual freedom)..and the realists (The Right: focused on the individual, freedom, the use of reason and analysis, acknowledgment of fallibility and risk).
The trick is to realize this – and remember not to get trapped in the emotional utopianism of words, words, words (Obama)…and live in reality.
Good recap, but Dr. Sowell is a kind man.
What he doesn’t say is that the scale of wealth in the western world is so vast that an entire class has arisen to exploit it, our political class. These people are not locked into philosophical pigeon-holes. They don’t even have a political philosophy, other than “I will rule…you will be a serf or die”.
The philosophical pigeonholes that Dr Sowell discusses are exploited by these international criminals to further their cause of acquiring total power. They aren’t theorists about forms of government or even Marxist theorists, they are just Mafioso who have realized that shaking down countries is easier and safer than shaking down dry cleaners.
i agree with dr sowell being too nice
but we can say what the doc doesn’t–that the premise of the left, man’s perfectibility, is wrong and misguided (i would probably argue, after a few cocktails, that the political left practices a variant of satanism by way of the paradise on earth goal and man’s ability to perfect himself mumbo jumbo)
Welcome to our Gordian Knot.
You wouldn’t happen to have a scissors would ya?
You know, the kind made from some kind of wax paper so we don’t hurt ourselves or draw fire from Treasury Agents?
Aside from those with a direct financial or political stake in Obama staying president beyond 2012 it’s hard to understand why any sane person would give him money for his reelection campaign. It was indeed “lightning in a bottle” that he was elected the first time and it’s unlikely a majority will repeat that mistake.
But Obama seems to have a big disconnect going right now–he doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo that voters delivered last November on his administration. Donors should get the memo and save their money; unless it’s recycled Stimulus money–that would make some sense: trying to get rid of it before the investigations begin.
I tend to agree with 9. Sad, Sorry Truth
While we are living the nightmare of Jimmy Carters Second Term – after all the vital motif that threads through Pelosi/Reid’s world view is essentially as much about repudiating all that Reagan stood for and accomplished – we have – with the very violent and messy attempts by the people of these middle eastern countries to break free of tyranny and foment democracy (where have we heard that before?) – just the kinds of pivotal moments that require action.
But it is scary that the timing for BHO paralysis is almost a year and a half before the election.
Will we have a continuous unraveling until Nov ’12 like we did with the Hostages? I doubt it.
Besides this, outside of Fox News, we have a media that is every bit as forgiving towards this president as they were when he was running in ’08. It’s gonna take a world event just as catastrophic and searing as the Hostage Crisis in ’79 in my view – or a Chris Cristie running – since the prospective candidates thus far have failed to rouse sufficent excitement – to ensure O gets the necessary pink slip.
That is plenty scary. Because this fool still has something to lose, namely a second term, and without that second term he will forever be defending his presidency, no matter the outcome of Health Care. But with a second term he has nothing to lose – and all his assaults on American Capitalism, his flirtations with buring energy policy in a cccoon of red tape and regulation as a means of banishing any hope of ressurecting it for decades – all of it will seem like a walk in the park to date.
Scary indeed.
VDH’s best column, all-time.
It is a hall of mirrors, with lies piled on lies piled on lies piled on lies.
Are we already over the precipice? Many think so. I’m not sure, but certainly not confident that we are not. The debt may be past the point of correction. The sychophants with their hands out, from GE to Henrietta Hughes, may now be the majority, or if not the electoral majority, the power majority. Their hands grip the Treasury like Rasputin on steroids. Middle Americans may well already be reconciled to going with the flow.
The most frightening thing of all is the lack of urgency. The Republican Congress pretends to care, while cutting the budget by 5/10th of 1%. No candidate, not even Palin, has yet to get on a soap box to reveal the hall of mirrors. They all seem timid and afraid. A breathtakingly corrupt and contemptable president starts a new war, and the response from the country is near silence. I guess the country agrees that an egotistical moron with less life experience than a junior high school student body president can do whatever the hell he wants to do. Is Rand Paul the only official in the country with any courage at all?
Maybe we are so far into the great decline that the only thing to do is ride the barrel over the falls and hope for the best.
“Our near-term energy future apparently lies in borrowing money to buy oil from those we praise for drilling where we would never ourselves”.
This is the language that will cut the post-modern fog of Obamacademy.
One day we will think of Obama the way we think about Carlos Casteneda now.
Third ring of power my ass.
The Obsma controlled media plays to the minions who will indeed vote him in in 2012
Obama’s marxist connections and his own words have been there for all to see and hear since the beginning.
He ‘won’ because they pulled out all the stops to get him into the WH.Who can forget May 31, 2008, the caucuses, the race card, the $750 million?
And now the brain dead Republicans are making it easy for him to take the WH again in 2012.
http://potterwilliamsreport.com/2011/03/21/sleeping-with-the-enemy.aspx
Brazil took American taxpayer money for their brand new offshore drilling (courtesy of Soros’ investment in said country). This is entirely Obama’s payback to his buddy using our money, bankrupting our future as a side benefit.
I am sure somebody had mentioned it.
Your essay makes me realize that BO is a believer in the ideology that Americans didn’t create their country and their wealth honestly. That it wasn’t liberty, capitalism and private property that produced what we have.
His responses and policies are reflexively un-American. He thinks nothing about giving away things that others have produced. Since he has lived off grants and the government, he really has no idea about market forces and creating something. Like a spoiled teenager, he thinks that everything he has just happens, and that it will always be there for him with minimal work on his part.
President Obama is the worst President of the United States I have experienced in my (89 years plus) lifetime.
I would like the source for “President Obama yesterday praised Brazil for its new offshore oil industry and said he wants to buy as much oil as possible in this new win-win partnership” If I’m going share this story I’d like to be able to back that bit up. Thanks!
Just google the phrase: Obama praises Brazil offshore oil..and see what you come up with:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/03/obama-praises-brazilian-oil-industry-while-he-blocks-drilling-here-at-home/
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/03/obama-praises-brazilian-oil-industry-while-he-stifles-oil-industry-at-home/
http://www.commentsonnationalamnesia.com/2011/03/21/obama-praises-brazillian-offshore-oil-developement-while-america-suffers/?
And note that Petrobas – which Obama approves of is one of George Soros’ gigs..and Soros is behind the Brazilian drilling..and Soros is a key promoter and backer of Obama…and..I’m sure you get the picture of Obama’s corruption, anti-Americanism and narcissistic focus on power..power achieved via false words and money, money…
Obama was revealed in his book, “Dreams from my Father”. If one were to read the book with a dispassionate eye, it would only take a few chapters to identify the man in the White House today as being what he is. Denny Greene in his infamous comment about the Bears,they “are who we thought they were”, could be modified to fit Obama. “He is who I thought he was” after reading his book.
It was an insight into the man and the obvious truth is his disconnect to mainland America. While Hawaii may be a state, there is no emotional or personal connection to mainland America for anyone born and raised there. In Obama’s case, he was raised not only in Hawaii but Indonesia during his childhood. He sought out his roots in Kenya and pursued his father’s legacy with a passion unlike any he has shown for his country.
His disconnect from his immediate and extended family is another tell about the man. Articulate commentary and a halting, thoughtful response to a question is not a sign of intelligence but one of seeking an answer that will placate and modify his followers. Obama never gives a response unless he has thought it through and it is intended for a specific audience. His “so-called” immediate responses bely his personal convictions and agenda better than anything else. Consider his immediate response to the Gates incident. Instead of waiting until all of the facts were in and giving a reasoned response, his immediate comment was the police “acted stupidly”. Genuine, hearfelt personal conviction response to civilian authority in the form of a police officer arresting a black man and a friend of his. It was a reflex nurtured by his relationship with Ayers, Wright, and every other radical influence in his personal life. It is also a strong indication of the home life he was exposed to, especially his grandfather and mother.
Obama searched most of his life for an influential male but in the end, he settled for males who shared his father’s belief system and values. The women in his life were the strong ones and they made the important decisions. His grandmother, the one he threw under the bus, was the breadwinner during his pre-teen and teenage years. She provided the food he ate and his grandfather provided the leftist, socialist indoctrination he received so well.
Obama may change his rhetoric but he will never change who he is inside. Michelle is a much stronger influence over him than it may appear from the outside. I am convinced most of his initiatives have been run through her first to receive her blessing.
This nation elected the first true African American to the highest office in the free world. Obama is the dictionary definition of an African American. African father, American mother. The guilt of a nation over slavery has prevented us from being too harsh or critical lest we invoke the anger and vitriol from the black community, liberals, and the media in the form of charges of racism and bigotry. The Tea Party has been labeled racist because they have dared to stand up against his favorite legislation, health care.
Unfortunately, the ultimate victim is the truth and our right to free speech guaranteed by the Constitution is under assault by those wishing to silence critics of Obama and his agenda. In some ways, I believe it is already too late. I hope not.
Bart: You may be onto something; given that African/African-American society is predominantly matriarchal. The three advisors that urged Obama to intervene in Lybia; the pro-active ones, were all women. The advisors urging non-involvement were all men who saw no National need.
So far, I do not see one member of the Republican Congress or Republican Senate that will take up the lead on the National Debt and Entitlements Program . It is not John Boehner, Speaker of the House, or Eric Cantor, Maybe Paul Ryan of Wisconsin or Rand Paul from Kentucky.
Not the old Guard Republicans. McCain, Lugar, ETC.
Unless there is a bigger demand to get into this spending and borrowing by the Federal Spenders, SOON, we won’t need to be concerned who the POTUS is.
America is going to need to have a national strike and march to get their attention.
øbama is what he is, a disaster. But to me, his role as figurehead is most ominous. About 40% of Americans don’t know ANYTHING about government, history, how the country works. They don’t follow politics, and make voting decisions based on considerations so lightweight and trivial as to compare to voting on some stupid TV show or popularity contest. These people brought us ø, and many will vote for him again.
These are the people that the GOP is worrying about, as they delay in addressing the crisis that inevitably approaches us, like doom. These are the people who may riot if Social Security is changed, whose ignorance is a ball & chain on the US.
ø himself is bad enough, as a symbol of American ignorance, he is appalling.
WhiteMonk,
Moreover, the Lapdog Media has ignored the fact that gas has risen 95% since Bar’aq the Magic Clown took over.
For what’s worth, Obama is hell bent on achieving his goals as he’s outlined them several times, but perhaps not all in one fall swoop. He wants higher energy prices and those are coming. Obama’s against our drilling and seems on target to achieve that goal too. Obama said, in 2008 while in Colorado, that he wanted a civilian national security force with the same sized budget as the Pentagon and while that’s not yet apparent, don’t bet against his achieving that goal either. Obama has said that he felt a single payer healthcare system was the way to achieve his goals for that industry and his Obamacare seems poised to accomplish that goal too. What’s important regarding Obama is what he does much more than his campaign words.
Just look at what Obama’s doing versus Libya, he’s gone to the UN, his choice for a deliberative body rather than Congress. Obama’s is going to follow what the UN has dictated, not what Congress demands, apparently.
I fear however, that the question of who Obama really is wouldn’t be determined until the time for the 2012 elections arrives; actually when the election results are made known. Obama wants the power of the presidency to achieve his goals for this country and will not give up that control peacefully. I want to be proven wrong in this regard yet believe that these fears will be realized.
For those who say I’m wrong, just look at what’s happening in Wisconsin, where the Socialist Left is demanding and exerting it’s force of arms to overturn democratic acts. Madison is merely a mild taste of how Obama will subvert this nation over the next two years.
Wow, Mr.Hanson, Did someone put pepper in your coffee? As if your article isn’t depressing enough, let me add that as bad as things are with Obama at the helm, there isn’t a current Republican challenger that can beat him soundly.
I have maintained for some time that Sarah Palin MAY NOT be the Republican nominee in 2012 (heaven forfend it be any of the eunuchs presently on show!) because Republicans are scared to death that she will have to face Barry-boy in a debate and that that will be the end of Sarah Palin and Republican hopes.
Of course this is just elitism on the part of the old RINO’s…Sarah Palin being herself is perfectly capable of facing snotty, condescending Barry…
But there is another solution, one that harnesses Sarah Palin’s huge popularity while at the same time removing the fear of a face-to-face confrontation with Barry…Let Sarah Palin be on the BOTTOM HALF of the ticket for 2012!
But to whom would Sarah be willing to play second fiddle? Again, not to any of the RINOs or eunuchs! But there is one person to whom, I BELIEVE, Sarah would be willing to play understudy…
HANSON/PALIN 2012.
That’s it Prof…It’s you and Sarah! A juggernaut of knowledge, commonsense, working-class nous and plain speaking. Philosophy, History and dirt under the fingernails!
I wonder, in that inevitable faceoff between Victor and Barry, which party would be more scared?
After reading your outline of the progression of events — one could almost think that … if one discounted pure and deep incompetence as cause … that the powers that be don’t really want Gaddafi to lose. I mean, if you step back from … feelings and assumptions … one could come to that conclusion. Odd, isn’t it?
Re Petrobras and Brazil. Can someone explain to me how it is that any president of our country is empowered to “award” another country $3 Billion — especially for oil exploration? Doesn’t Congress get to decide how our money is spent (I mean wasted)?
While Obama is a particularly bad joke as president, I don’t see much actual difference in the last three administrations. The trajectory of government expansion and debt has pretty much continued from Clinton, through Bush to Obama. There is no serious political will in either party to change this state of affairs.
Your bias is obvious. The country is at a standstill. The Republicans will do whatever they can to make sure the Democrats fail and vice versa. Your article reflects the same attitude. This is a time when we all need to pull together and come up with solutions and stop this unconstructive criticism and blame game
To: “no mo uro”
“The Republicans must do everything right and nominate a very articulate and charismatic candidate to overcome this obstacle if they want to take back the White House.”
And there hasn’t been–and isn’t presently–anyone like that since Reagan.
If we could literally “combine” Palin and Christie somehow: her courage, her certainty and HER looks with his ability to take a microphone, look into the camera and tell it like it is directly to the American people, then we’d have something. As it is, I’m afraid, the sad lot assembling for the Republicans is just that: a group of sorry, uncharismatic cyphers. The petulant child in the empty suit who gets away with EVERYthing will still win…unless there is a complete collapse between now and 11/12, and thanks in no small part to the ridiculous Republican “leadership” in the House who are ruining the best chance that party has had SINCE Reagan!
leadership is what we need right now…perhaps some of the governors will take action and help solve the energy and oil crisis…i suggest we do what we did in WWII…blackout at night…ever seen the nighttime pictures of the USA ? it’s nearly daylight…of course the Liberals will cry that crime will go increase…speak of ironys…will the Conservatives do the crime…no…it will be the libtards, liberals, progressives, union thugs all supporters of BHO…i’d submit a picture but can’t seem to here of the USA at night…it’s on the net…