For anyone who still thinks Obama is a centrist…
…you might want to take a look at this.
And boy, is David Brooks conflicted. His heart’s with Obama but his head says “beware.”
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…you might want to take a look at this.
And boy, is David Brooks conflicted. His heart’s with Obama but his head says “beware.”
Heart says “Take cover!”
No good. I must control my breathing cool my aura.
Wait! This is Wal-Mart, not Big Sur!
I think Obama is a centrist.
He is the center of the universe!
He is the center of my world!
He is my Obamamessiah.
I love him unconditionally.
No matter that every one of his actions rewards poor individual and corporate choices and punishes good individual and corporate choices. I will LOVE him because he will do more to teach America the perils of socialism (the government choosing who gets what resources) than boring conservatives could’ve taught pop-culture America given 10 years and an infinity amount of microphones.
Hurray!!
OMG
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/02/24/reich/
I can understand people feeling uncomfortable with purist pro-life positions, and wanting to see abortion as a lesser evil than some other outcomes. But I cannot fathom Dawn Johnsen’s reasoning. It is an exceptional example of Chesterton’s dictum that a madman is not a person who has lost his reason, but one who has lost everything but his reason. She has taken a single thread of reasoning halfway around the world. She thinks she has followed that thin line – she has in fact carried it where she wanted.
Ms. Johnsen should prove delightfully entertaining and would make the perfect poster girl for mental health awareness month – long term side effects of the liberal thought processes.
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Today’s Question: What’s Black & White and Red all over?
What a CV Dawn Johnsen has! ACLU, then NARAL, then Clinton Justice Department, then academia.
Her papers were, not surprisingly, largely about abortion from the early days of her career. In mid career, she seems more concerned about issues such as whether the President is a coordinate, co-equal interpreter of the Constitution (along with the Supreme Court) and whether the President has an obligation to enforce statutes he finds constitutionally objectionable. I’m not exactly sure where she comes down on either topic, because the papers are long and her style of writing is abstruse.
I would soldier away to the end, but I have to go watch Obama.
Brooks tries hard to be reasonable but where The O is concerned? Well, you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Read Brooks’ pieces on Palin. He’s scratchin for all he’s worth.
And you’re surprised by Dawn Johnson? DAWN JOHNSON?? Ever hear of Eric “Pardon-Me” Holder? Or, while we’re at it, Bill “Ka-Boom” Ayres?
I think the story of this O is that he’s not just screwing up, he’s trying to demoralize and scare everybody enough so some really big measures will be “needed,” and needed now! Sort of like 1932.
Suppose Rules for Radicals is the only book he ever read?
I wish I could agree with Baklava that (if I read correctly) Obie’s policies will be an anti-socialism lesson.
Because we are all but ineducable.
Our civilization has become the short bus to hell.
The citizenry are so ignorant of past and recent history; so nonlogical, even anti-logical (feelings and group mind prevail over the hard work of defining terms, stating hypotheses, marshalling evidence, and drawing conclusions); and so short-sighted that…
there will be no lessons.
Any more than a horny male stops to put on a condom despite 5 prior episodes of clap, a dreamy romantic makes a better mate selection next time, a fat slob changes his lifestyle after a heart attack, or a couple stops arguing as a way to settle arguments.
The trajectory of stupidity continues to its determinate end.
How many can see Obie’s diverse activities as an example of internationalist socialism? How many even know what that is?
The only thing that will bring us into contact with harsh reality, and will force us to grow up, is no alternative but that.
When two cities become nuclear waste, then we may get smart, and realize that what we do (watch TV), what we think about (pleasure), what we believe (there is no Truth. There is no absolutely Good and Bad. Government knows best)…were vain illusions.
But I doubt it.
And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, tekel, and parsin. 26This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of* your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27tekel, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting; 28peres,* your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’
And I’m not even religious.
“It’ll be interesting to see who’s right. But I can’t even root for my own vindication. The costs are too high. I have to go to the keyboard each morning hoping Barack Obama is going to prove me wrong.”
Ummm…yeah. Good luck with that…