Hanson: Gulf War III
If you read just one article on Obama and the oil spill and the current state of his presidency, let it be this one by Victor Davis Hanson.
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If you read just one article on Obama and the oil spill and the current state of his presidency, let it be this one by Victor Davis Hanson.
Agreed. I have come to the conclusion that VDH and (Charles Krauthammer) really ARE the smartest guys in the room.
Regarding Obama’s rush to sue/punish BP as the oil spill continues to gush…I especially liked Hanson’s analogy about the kid who flipped a truck spilling thousands of plums. As the plums “were rolling over the asphalt, instead of organizing a pick-up, his irate dad kept screaming reminders to the son exactly how much he had lost and how he was going to have to come up with thousands of dollars in restitution (the son, of course, did not work too hard with his friends in finding salvageable fruit on the tarmac and repacking what he could).”
And I wonder if these mounting insults toward the British will inspire the country’s legendary tabloid press to start digging into Obama’s past. Now THAT might be interesting…
“Obama, whom they [the media] all so invested in, is the most polarizing figure since Nixon and, has the unique ability to destroy liberalism for a generation: lose the House and maybe even the Senate; turn the public off on government, divide the country over health care, cap-and-trade, race, and amnesty; and completely discredit a shamelessly partisan media.
No, the sudden damning of Obama’s leadership is a symptom that Obama is turning radioactive, and not even Chris Matthews wants to be the last zealot in Washington crafting yet another narrative of how brilliant and tingly a soon-to-be 30% president “really” is.
In a weird way, the green issue is a gift from the gods for the liberal media: it allows them “on principle” (cf. Maureen Dowd) to distance themselves from Obama (as in “we don’t compromise with the environment” when, in fact, they compromise on everything from Predator assassinations, windmills off Martha’s Vineyard, solar panels in tortoise country, Guantanamo, etc. as long as there is power to be had or amplified).
But again, oil in the Gulf, like blood in the water, suddenly makes it “principled” for an opportunistic shark to take a bite out of a bleeding and floundering Obamafish.”
Simply brilliant analysis and commentary.
“I wonder if these mounting insults toward the British will inspire the country’s legendary tabloid press to start digging into Obama’s past. Now THAT might be interesting…”
From your lips to God’s ears, CV.
The moral of the story. If you’re planning to be in charge of the world, you’d better do a summer at a hardware store to know how the world actually works.
And Joe Barton was absolutely right!
Obama has done a number of good things for America. He dismantled the Clinton machine. He ended the Kennedy dynasty. He is destroying the Democrat brand. He has exposed the progressives to those who did not know better. He has brought conservatism back from the grave. He has been great for gun and ammo sales. The next president will have to have some substance and a record of success to get elected.
Now if we can just make it through the next two years.
Right Mr. Frank. What Republican has done as much? And yet, how much of a dent has been made into the 40 percent that would still vote for Obama? That’s the real challenge for the rest of our lives: Dismantling the media, academic and culturati myths and systems.
One of the things I can’t forgive the left for doing is destroying the language. Hard to believe, isn’t it, that a progressive once charged up San Juan Hill, or that in my parents’ day, progressives actually volunteered to go and fight against fascist dictators. And a liberal once said “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Can you imagine a “progressive” or “liberal” today doing or saying any of those?
Can you imagine a “progressive” or “liberal” today doing or saying any of those?
I cant imagine a real liberal back then doing it either. being in the thrall of liberal ideas, or wanting to be a member of the club, many took on the moniker even if it didn’t fit them, or only fit in some ways.
Their moving against fascism was their being taken themselves. the tricksters were tricked, and the person they backed seized opportunity and ran off with the goose.
(that’s the dark back side of the war as to who funded and loaned money, supplied material, etc)
No honor among thieves.
They are pragmatic, and have no love of anything but power. So such moves as a charge, or changing position can be done on a dime as there are no other principals than pragmatic outcome with no limits as to methods other than pragmatic outcome.
in their minds this makes them incredibly nimble, in others who work other angles, its incredibly chaotic and without an anchor, succeeds in the destructive part of the equation, but has no success in the other part of the equation as long as it is what it is.
the progressives were always pretty clear as to what they wanted and were doing. that is until they actually did it and people said wait one second there sonny. then after went back to sleep.
Marx was greatly inspired by the progressives whose ideas came before him. The reason that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others are celebrated men of the year in progressive TIME magazine is that to the progressives they are fulfilling the progressive goals and ideals, and have the will and strength to break eggs to get there with complete pragmatism absent of any morals that the end condition of prophecy.
the truth is that the progressive goal is at the 3/4ths position. that is they claim to want total control to reach an end past that control, but the truth is that all they ever wanted was total control and the end to their genetic competition. once darwins laws were revealed, they decided to play that game to the extreme hilt with no human imagined limitations or febrile personal goals. Darwin to them validated all the paschas, and others who dominated mankind with their genetics.
the women want to be LUCY, and the men want to be like King Tamba of Banaras, whose harem numbered 16,000… but without the responsibility that such had to fulfill to have that. [isnt it nicer that the harem whenches now train themselves, and support themselves, and one can dip in to the whole of the community for what before could only be obtained with great difficulty. Wilt chamberlain beat Tamba of Banaras by over 4,000 women. but he didnt have to support them, be with them, house them, cloth them, or anything as they are self supporting and their work is now taxable which puts their life efforts into supporting their masters through redistribution of that tax)
one only has to read their stuff and realize that they are serious. that the extremity of their position has no bearing on actuality, and that in actuality, the extreme position with amoral ends IS their position (as they clearly state it so it can be maintained and passed down and kept going just like any other religious doctrine whose application creates a elite cadre who together have more than they would any other way).
one only has to read the real history and realize that these nutty extremists are NOT inconsequential fringe and should be ignored, but actual big players because they go through periods of being ignored and forgotten.
It would be one thing to read their ideas and discount them if it were not for the fact that they don’t stay odd ideas but through their desire and games becomes actualized against a common man who mostly just wants to live and be left alone and not even be concerned with such things (and so does not defend against them much if at all).