why? because tahts what progressives/communists/socialists think is a great way to change the people.

Woodrow Wilson – WWI
FDR – WWII
OBAMA (or after) – ???

A quote:

But listening is not high on the White House agenda. Two people who have frequent contact with the administration told me recently that between Obama’s “arrogance,” as one put it, and his near-total reliance on his Chicago inner circle, as the other said, there is no welcome mat for dissent or fresh ideas.

One was talking about the White House view of Israel, the other about its handling of terrorism. Both policies are a mess and have added to the danger of war in the Mideast and attacks at home.

Meanwhile, over-promising and under-delivering is an administration habit. Russia and China, we’ve repeatedly been assured, have agreed to new sanctions on Iran, only they have not. And so the mad mullahs march unmolested toward The Bomb, the president’s internationalist engagement bid a certifiable bust.

How about the pledge to be transparent and end politics as usual? The modified limited hangout on the unseemly job offers to Democratic primary candidates in Pennsylvania and Colorado marks the official death of those promises.

The Gulf oil disaster is the clearest sign of an unsteady hand. While Obama can’t be blamed for the gushing well, he showed late and halfhearted recognition of the human and environmental cost, and still takes a distant approach. His three visits were little more than photo ops designed to quell criticism he’s too detached.

I’m still for the “foolish knave” option. In any case, the results are bad and getting scarier.

Yes. Baffling. But there are a couple things that are pretty secure.

Well I see what you mean about Dresden’s site. However, even at that, the language isn’t the most remarkable thing about it. The most remarkable thing about it is something I find remarkable about virtually everyone of Dresden’s persuasion: They simply do not see the same world when they look out of their eyes that I see when I look out of mine. It baffles me. Many times, too many to number, I will notice some event that I think constitutes confounding evidence to their point of view, and think, well, that should wrap it up! There are lots of examples, but Israeli history and the chronicle of its conflicts with its Arab neighbors and their Palestinian proxies come first to mind. I know the Left uses Palestinian propaganda freely, but it’s hard to comprehend that they actually believe it. Some of them–at least some of them–do, though.

Baffling. Really.

Dresden: “Why not scale back the ineffective wars to fund a major national mass-transit project? ”

I’m with Dresden. We need to scale back the ineffective wars, and put the money instead into effective wars.

Common sense, really.