Comments on: I take a try at being Instapundit

By: jon baker

jon baker — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:31:40 +0000

that would be irony.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:45:24 +0000

jon baker:

New slogan for the Boomers: “Never trust anyone under thirty.”

By: jon baker

jon baker — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:02:56 +0000

One more thing. Congressional pay raises would have to be approved by a majority of State Governors.

By: jon baker

jon baker — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:59:30 +0000

“This seems to be true especially for the young voters, who supported Obama overwhelmingly.”

I realize when the country was first set up, only the House of Representatives was directly chosen by the voters. Not the Senate and not the President. And 18 year olds did not vote.

If we could hit the reset button I probably would not want to reset it all the way to that, rather I would want the President to be chosen by 18 years olds and up, since he is CINC and therefore potentially the 18 year olds military boss.

The Senators I would want to be given back to the State Legislatures so they could have more influence on the congress, perhaps limiting Federal interference in state matters.

I would want at least one body to be chosen by older voters only. At this point that leaves only the House. I would say 30 years old and up to vote for Representatives. Maybe 40 or even 50. ( I am 39 currently.)

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:52:49 +0000

portia: As I wrote back in June of last year: Maybe it’s come down to this: choosing a President is now mostly about style rather than substance. Obama is cool. That’s the real link with Kennedy, who was exceptionally cool but in a very sophisticated way. Bill Clinton was sort of cool, with the shades and the sax and the Elvis and all that. Sort of like a white black man. But now we have a bona fide black black man, and a very cool one at that.... President Bush is manifestly uncool. He almost thrives on it and celebrates it. And it has all come to pass. In fact, I am convinced that coolness is not only a factor for many in evaluating a president, it's the most important factor or perhaps the only factor (other than liberal rhetoric). This seems to be true especially for the young voters, who supported Obama overwhelmingly.

By: portia

portia — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:57:11 +0000

Indeed a good job of instying — scared me just as much as insty does of a morning these days. Not your fault — eh — just the persistent feeling the world has gone mad.

Recently, while watching TV in public, I heard a stranger behind me say “I like Obama. He’s suave.”

Suave! Now, why didn’t it occur to me that’s what we needed in a president?

By: SteveH

SteveH — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:25:22 +0000

Obama says everything, and therefore nothing. I’m personally amazed at grown people who see substance in any of it.

By: br549

br549 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:25:12 +0000

When I first returned to southeast VA from NE TN, I got a subscription to the Daily Press. I canceled it within a couple months.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:01:33 +0000

Recruiting Animal: Notice that I wrote “This rabbi doesn’t pull his punches.”

That’s all I wrote about his article. What makes you think I agree with everything he says?

I do agree with some of his points, though—particularly that Obama distorted the history of Islam and its relationship to Jews and Christians in his speech. In addition, the “on the other hand” construction in Obama’s speech was a way of allowing his listeners who are so disposed to make an assumption of equivalence, while allowing him plausible deniability. Sneaky and dishonest.

By: Recruiting Animal

Recruiting Animal — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:45:06 +0000

Neo, how could you post a link to Morty Pomerantz and suggest that he is telling the bare knuckle truth.

I would say that he’s a liar except that he’s certainly eating his own dog food.

Anyone with a brain knows that Obama wasn’t saying that the Holocaust and the suffering of the Palestinians are exactly equivalent.

And then Mort tries to blame the shooting at the Holocaust centre – indirectly – on Obama? Please, you shouldn’t be fraternizing with the likes of him.