I don’t know. I’m leaning toward coming down firmly on the side of incompetence rather than grand strategist.

Ann, I think you are wrong. I much hope that you are right.

Ann, 4:16 pm — “So, I say something not completely in tune with the chorus and now I’m demonic? Sheesh.”

Ann, I agree completely with your sentiment. (Some) others, let’s not eat our own — please! It’s not like Ann is some sort of islamist or leftie/progressive type. Can’t she put forward her individual perpsective here, that’s “not completely in tune with the chorus,” without having an ugly response thrown at her?

Can’t we be better than those other guys?

The times are what they are, Ann, and nothing you or I can say will change that.

“His Islamic background is equally relevant.”

I can’t say you’re wrong. His father and stepfather were both Muslim and undoubtedly this helped to shape his view of the world.

But I think that even without that he would still show an affinity for Islam common to leftists in their contempt for the West. The contradiction of supporting gay marriage and Islam at the same time never seems to have bothered leftists much.

That “contradiction” is only an apparent contradiction. Viewed from the Gramscian perspective of the New Left (circa 1950s-1970s) there is no contradiction. Traditional marriage established a most important bedrock subsidiary institution of Liberal Capitalist Democratic societies. Antonio Gramsci advocated the such institutions needed to be destroyed for Socialism/Marxism to succeed. Prog/Left gay marriage and Islamic polygamy both undermine traditional marriage and the American nuclear family thus erode and destroy a necessary subsidiary institution of American Society.

Obama is pushing forward with some undefined kind of recognition for Native Hawaiians. One more wrong to be righted?

%%%

That’s a Leftist inspired rage based social minefield.

The recognition that they want is that the democratic revolution that kicked the Queen (autocrat) off her throne was an international crime perpetrated by evil White men.

Whereas, the revolution was democratic — and dominated by the Alii — the local chiefs — because the Queen was REVERSING the liberal policies of the prior King, basically taking liberty away from the Alii. ( a’ lee’ ee )

The reason the Hawaiian revolution was bloodless: her palace guard was solely composed of the sons of the very Alii that wanted her gone. They simply refused to fire on their fathers and uncles. (!)

She was escorted across the street into the other main building of that time — which is now the Hawaii State Supreme Court building. That was a pretty plush ‘jail.’

The radicals want immense economic compensation and massive land grants such as to let them live the life of English lairds over Ireland.

THAT’S what the Hawaiian deal is all about. This hope has been fermenting since before Barry met me — in 1983.

The boy is a psychopath.

Get a load of his neighbor relations.

Get a load of his college relations.

Well, at least he speaks Mandarin.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2014/oct/23/mark-zuckerberg-beijing-speaks-mandarin-video

So, he gets along swell with despots — world wide.

Bitch!