All well and good Mr. Goodwin, yet you admitted to having voted for Obama in November 2008 so your Road to Damascus conversion (although a bit late) fails to impress me. I am amazed at how many intelligent people such as Goodwin, William Weld, Daniel Hannan (the British MP famous for his take down of Gordon Brown on youtube), fell for the Obama crap sandwich. He is right though – Obama never advances a practical idea, and he always overreaches. The logical thing would have been for Obama to concentrate on job creation instead of trying to transform America into a continental vesrion of Norway.
Watching Obama fail miserably as I predicted to so many liberals who would not listen, is akin to watching ones mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your brand new Honda Accord – a mish mash of emotions. I weep for my country (and for myself as he devastates my future), but there is that sly feeling of schadenfreude as those that were dumb enough to fall for the charlatan will go down with me..
by Michael Goodwin
We the people of the United States owe Scott Brown’s supporters a huge debt of gratitude. They didn’t merely elect a senator. They ripped the façade off the Obama presidency.
Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the ordinary man behind the curtain in “The Wizard of Oz,” the voters in Massachusetts revealed that, in this White House, there is no there there.
It’s all smoke and mirrors, bells and whistles, held together with glib talk, Chicago politics and an audacious sense of entitlement.
At the center is a young and talented celebrity whose worldview, we now know, is an incoherent jumble of poses and big-government instincts. His self-aggrandizing ambition exceeds his ability by so much that he is making a mess of everything he touches.
He never advances a practical idea. Every proposal overreaches and comes wrapped in ideology and a claim of moral superiority. He doesn’t listen to anybody who doesn’t agree with him.
After his first year on the job, America is sliding backwards, into grave danger at home and around the world. So much so that I now believe either of his rivals, Hillary Clinton or John McCain, would have made a better, more reliable and more trustworthy president.
They warned us he wasn’t ready.
Yes, we’re stuck with him, but we’re no longer stuck with his suffocating conformity. The second Boston Tea Party opened the door to new ideas and new people of both parties.
Obama’s reactions were predictable. More self-pity, blaming George W. Bush, and claiming that the voter revolt is due to ignorance about the health-care plan they hate.
Blah blah blah. Hasn’t he heard? The magic is gone.
Massachusetts changed everything. America’s spirit of independence has been emancipated and the cult of Obama-ism is finished.
The health-care debacle perfectly captured his utter lack of governing substance.
He embraced major provisions he rejected during the campaign, misled the public about costs and impact, and got competing versions through Congress only with a grab bag of outlandish bribes and exemptions.
Tags: Michael Goodwin
and he still doesn’t get it. it’s not incoherent if you know he’s a marxist to his core!
Goodwin should have known better before the election. He could have, had he bothered to lift a few fingers.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
so true. anyone could have if they’d just looked at his associations and believed his previous statements.
That’s what you think. You’re still falling for it. The glib man in front of the cameras is the fire face. The eminence grise behind the curtain is the one you should really be looking at. But wait! There’s an eminence grise behind the eminence grise!
Peel all that apart, and it makes more sense.
What you learned, you tone-deaf moron, was that people are tired of Washington continuing spend money like it was water, while unemployment continues to rise. Maybe, Ms. Jarrett, the people don’t like what you’re delivering – nothing, at an enormous expense to the taxpayer.
McCain is often wrong, but this time he’s dead-on. It’s a shame that they didn’t “engage” Republicans before bringing us to the brink of ruin.
Same old crap from these people; the Democrats singlehandedly created this budget nightmare with total control of the Executive and legislative branches; now they want to form a “bipartisan commission” to solve it. It’s funny that there was no bipartisanship for the past 12 months while the problems were being created.
Of course, then he was “the Messiah”, now he’s just the Democrat hack that many of us knew he was all along.
Republicans should hold his feet to the fire for a while and demand that a lot of these expenditures, primarily the worthless “stimulus” be rolled back. He wants cover; don’t give it to him.
Speranza,
I was just reading Goodwin’s article in the NY Post. I didn’t know he started out as an 0-bot.
Wow he has come a long way. Amazing how they (Zuckerman too) are waking up to this dangerous fool. It is a really good article. Pounds 0 well and hard. I think lots of people are extremely nervous now and would love do overs. i feel the schadenfreude but I think it is best left on the back burner until we can contain the radical puppet-n-chief.
snork wrote:
No blood for eminence grease!
Obama doesn’t do “bi-partisanship.” The bribes to Senators so that they would vote his way show that he’s into buy-partisanship.
When this individual finally has a melt down and reacts like the petulant child that he is. We the people will be in very grave danger.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That’s the real mystery. Why didn’t they lift a few fingers. I don’t think they were lazy, I think they didn’t want to know the truth.
The next thread up will be about another very smart person who was taken in, and now is up in arms at the outrageousness of it all. And I think that in more than one case, people in the media knew good and well how bad this guy was, but were afraid of the “R” word. So they sat on their tongues, and waited for him to make a complete mess of things, knowing that then it will be ok to criticize the clean black guy with no Negro dialect.
snork wrote:
No dialect, maybe, but a hell of a lot of dialectics.
Frankly I don’t want to hear any whining leftist navel gazing and literary exploration of how abused they feel.I don’t give a flip about their feelings of betrayal or astonishment. Tough shit idiots, man up and help us dethrone the grifter and his henchmen or get the fck out of the way while we clean up your
mess.
Everything was there for people to see if they were willing to see it. From his incoherent foreign policy (“all the world will love
meE us now”) to his non-existant domestic agenda (what does he really want to do? Socialism, I guess, but it isn’t so much an agenda as a kid in a candy store trying to grab up everything), he really stands for nothing. He is an empty canvas that everyone projected their dreams on.And now he can’t deliver. Surprise. No one could have done that. He isn’t a god. The seas didn’t stop rising (if they were), no unicorns were displayed as part of his “ascinsion”. And now he’s done.
Well, I’m glad to see Zero’s former fans turning against him!!!
snork wrote:
The Bible says that if you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind.
The media failed to take down Sharpton and Jackson, both race hustlers fronting protection rackets. They “sowed” these big winds, and we have reaped the whirlwind.
@ Eliana:
I’ll never trust any of them.So highly educated, so informed,so blinded.They’ll fall for the next usurper, watch.
Massachusetts calls itself the cradle of democracy.
As I said on the evening of Scott Brown’s win, they have earned this name again, in my view.
It’s fitting, in fact, for this state to be the one to help us put a stop to Zero’s agenda.
@ snork:
i agree. they did know. they simply didn’t want to believe it and certainly didn’t want to put it in print for a wider audience. the wider electorate was basically the same – they could have done some homework and learned about this man-child marxist.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
eminence front, it’s a put on….
The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet is now starting to distance himself from Obama, His ox is being gored now.
Buffet is the guy who decried wage disparity. He used his own secretary as an example of low pay.
doriangrey wrote:
Oh, jeebers. Is Big Eminence Grease in on the tobacco conspiracy, too?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
And the media is getting their asses handed to them by Fox.
@ RIX:
Buffet is a slightly less sinister version of Soros. I think he wanted to see how Zero would shake things up, and then bet against that. So he bought coal assets up while the dumb money was buying carbon credits. Now, he’s pulling the carpet out from under the dummys. He must be laughing his butt off at AlGore.
@ Eliana:
“The vote heard round the world.”
They’ll all get in line to kiss Hillarys ring now. Flip side of the commie coinage.
Absolutely, Obama was telling us who he is & these people ignored it & drank the Hope & Change.
Now they feel betrayed? Bullshit , they now see BHO ripping up the Society that they live in as well & they’re scared,
Yeah but the lesser of two evils is still evil.
@ doriangrey:
I thought Elton John was helping Eminem with his drug problem.
OFF TOPIC: Did you guys see Bosch Fawstin’s take on LGF?
I’ll never forget my libral friend putting hands over her tender ears refusing to hear or see anything amiss with her commie heroes.Then calling me a kool aid drinker. Scr@w them.
@ snork:
Buffet invested $4 billion in an Israeli business a few years ago when a lot of people were being pessimistic about Israel’s future.
He showed confidence in Israel at a time when it was a bit scarce.
I’m still grateful to him for this.
@ snork:
I have not figured out why Soros hates America so much, and the very structure that made him so wealthy: capitalism.
RIX wrote:
He’s unwilling to even solve a problem that is under his nose and that he can solve with the stroke of a pen? Sounds like more of an asshole than an oracle.
@ yah:
You’ll have to take that up with his master.Then again…
It has taken one year, but finally SOME people are waking up to the fact Obama has done nothing to warrant all the praise and media attention he has been given. I hope more Zuckerman’s and Goodwin’s wake up and when they do, they raise a very public anti Obama fuss.
@ Macker:
lol, that is one fugly loozard.
snork wrote:
Meanwhile, T. Boone Pickens is suggesting that we all switch to natural gas for our energy requirements, according to his TV ads. I wonder where he’s invested his money, hmmmm? Pipelines? Gas fields?
snowcrash
A guy named Hannibal wants to meet your avatar.
@ Gypsy:
What happened to his windmill dreams?
@ snowcrash:
It’s hard to sleep on an empty stomach.
@ mjazz:
LOL!
He’s the same selfloathing Jew who along with his stepfather exposed Jews to the Nazis. He is just evil.
yah wrote:
You need look no further than New York City’s billionaire mayor, Mad Mike Bloomberg, who is also a mind-bogglingly wealthy self-made man.
Mad Mike is obsessing about regulating transfats and salt in restaurant meals, sticking bike lanes everywhere he can to destroy what little flow New York traffic has (though motorists pay taxes and penalties to maintain the roads, and traffic-law-flouting cyclists do not), penalizing people for smoking (while relying on smoking taxes), trying to add taxes which will “prevent” obesity, etc., etc.
Mad Mike, like Soros, longs for power over people’s lives. The mere possession of wealth that would have staggered a Roman emperor is not enough for these men; they must have control, and more control.
@ RIX:
Yup,see my 34.
@ RIX:
I didn’t know that.
So much rain, so much mud, ruts now cause the 4-wheel drive to drag center. Stuck three time feeding today, had to wench out all three times, took 1/2 hr. to wash the f’n mud off the truck.
Took 1/2 hr. to get the mud off me, and the shower another 15 min..
So, what is up with that.
http://www.wattsupwiththat.com
vagabond trader wrote:
Like the KGB, or whatever it got renamed in Russia? Jeez Louise, Soros is to the left of Stalin.
@ Gypsy:
I was thinking of someplace a little further south and very very hot.
vagabond trader wrote:
I guess he had trouble fixing a windmill to the front of his limo.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That is really creepy. They are really creepy, miserable men. Some of the happiest most fun times of my life were when my room mates and I dug around for change to buy a can of beanie weenies – these men must know no joy.
@ mjazz:
Here, some interesting stuff about the little demon. Didn’t know about his claws in the Pentagon. No surprise, its going to take a mega crane and exorcism to rid us of these commies.
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/04/nazi-collaborator-george-soros-invades.html
vagabond trader wrote:
Ah so! Stan.
that change in table 5.2 would make a good throbing memo to put up as a thread here, in itself a good thread, but also a nice little poke in CJ eye. IMHO@ taxfreekiller:
@ mjazz:
I’ve been chased by zombies too! Must eat brains.
vagabond trader wrote:
We will make the most of this. 0 will be backed down and contained. He will be a spectacle for all the country to see and serve as the poster boy for how dangerous communism is and how foolish the 52%’ers were to vote for this scoundrel. It is good that his biggest fans are turning on him. 0 is going to be a teachable moment for America. Sometimes, I think it is almost a blessing that it has happened this way. 0 is causing a much needed shake up in this country. An awakening of patriotic citizens that is going to steam roll these commies. Crush and destroy them. It is happening as we speak.
Macker wrote:
Has anyone been over at the swamp today? Chawuz and many of his minions have taken a major beating on the AGW subject by a new poster going by “RandomUK”. He even taunted Chawuz by asking in his first post:
Chawuz was forced to then stomach watching RandomUK steamroll over all his cherished beliefs. Now that he’s been quoted in a paper of record as claiming that he doesn’t ban people because they disagree with him, he’s boxed himself in and doesn’t dare — for the time being, anyway — exhibit any of the old behavior. When Chawuz tried to rally the troops with some old-fashioned “look at the deniers” insults, RandomUK fired back by saying “Do you actually have anything relevant to say, Charles, or is it ad hominem fallacy all the way?” At that point Chawuz took a powder and likely turned his attentions to the un-Mata Hari-like, future Mrs. Johnson.
Sharmuta was unavailable for comment.
@ snowcrash:
You have a few kin with similar features around here too.
Macker wrote:
I’m all for photochopping to make an analogy or for symbolism, but simply taking someone’s likeness and penciling in something uglier is kinda childish, IMO.
Eliana wrote:
Yes, he is the Scott heard round the world.
@ KGB:
rotflol!Brilliant.
OT- Vikings/Saints game is a real barn burner!!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I think people like Soros, Buffett and Bloomberg are why we have the quote “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”
I view them with a certain amount of suspicion, particularly when they go “activist” or run for public office; it exhibits a highly unnatural lust for control, megalomania, if you will.
Is defence the UK equivalent of defense? So many Britishisms in lgf comments lately.
@ vagabond trader:
Thanks, I didn’t know much about him.
@ chickadee:
We must get rid of those who wish us ill at DoJ, State and the Pentagon. A very big job and to be honest our present leaders are not up to the task.
@ mjazz:
He is an eeeevil little toad,eh?
@ KGB:
I read earlier that Sharm-wow was on a spiritual retreat and CapeCodswallop’s crazy mom was here.
@ vagabond trader:
Yikes! vt, he’s Ernst Stavro Blofeld come to life. The only good thing in this picture is that I believe he’s about 78 years old and will possibly not be around much longer.
Who gives a damn about Charles Johnson? Among other things.
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-gives-damn.html
KGB wrote:
I’m not so sure. He can always claim that they are a sockpuppet or something.
@ vagabond trader:
Yeah, I notice they didn’t dwell too much on his collaboration with the Nazis.
yah wrote:
I think it is an “I got mine now I don’t want anybody else to compete with me” attitude. That, along with the fact that his wealth was essentially obtained by gaming the system (Singapore would have his head if he ever dared show his face in that country) vs. actually producing anything. At his heart and core, Soros is the very caracature of the “greedy capitalist” portrayed by the marxists. He has never really produced anything, his wealth has been built by currency speculation and later manipulation. That’s really not the essence of free-market capitalism so much as exploiting weaknesses within the system for his own benefit.
@ Gypsy:
That creature he planted in the Pentagon. How many more are there throughout other agencies. It would explain our inability to connect the national security dots. What a frikkin mess these fellow travelers have made with 3 years to go.
@ timbok:
From the link:
Vote for an unknown Senator for President because you don’t like his opponents running mate.
@ mjazz:
Heres a little more if you’re interested. Very sinister. Blecch, makes me crawl reading about the guy.
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=1826
@ ChenZhen:
His account will be blocked.
yah wrote:
There is no way to understand soros. Except perhaps that he is truly mentally ill. Imagine being a 15 year old kid in Hungary in WW2, being forced to hide the fact that you are a Jew as you make the round with your ‘adopted’ father rounding up your fellow Jews who are designated for transport to concentration camps. That’s what he did to stay alive as a boy. And what he lives with today. He has become some kind of ghastly twisted monster. Wrecking havoc on everything in his path, wherever he is. He is a wizened, bitter, mean, creepy old sob. The minute he was seen on the stage with 0, people should have known.
vagabond trader wrote:
The creeps being inserted into the government always have impeccable credentials. But the credentialling process has been skewed for some years now. That’s the problem with “peer review”—if the peers have been pre-selected, you still get garbage.
One of the problems with reveling over the populism of someone like Limbaugh is that he is outside the credentialling process. The credentialling process is in the hands of the universities and the media, and they are firmly in the leftist orbit. The isolated standouts like Krauthammer or Sowell are few, and aging; who is there who will replace them, and how will such people survive the faculty-committee ambushes?
The question is how to take back a university system which is now Uncle Ayers’ farm; how to take back a media whose “thoughtful, intellectual voice” is PBS and NPR. There are not enough Sowells to do the former; the Limbaughs and the Pragers can’t do the latter.
What is to be done?
Eliana wrote:
Well, you shouldn’t be. He walked away with plenty of money. He didn’t do it as a gift, it made good business sense. And part of the cost/benefit/risk calculation is making a realistic assessment of the risk. I think he had good intelligence that things weren’t as bad as the media were making it sound.
Anyone who has ever visited Israel knows that they intend to stay.
vagabond trader wrote:
Yep — I think the only way to go is to clean house — “downsize” a la the private sector, kick everyone out, and rehire.
As for Soros, AZ Federalist gave me an idea — maybe we could get Dog the Bounty Hunter or the like to nab him, throw him on a plane for Singapore. He’s been convicted there in absentia for trying to destroy their country by almost destroying their currency.
Gypsy wrote:
The last thing I heard him pushing was the useless windmills. He sold a bunch of stock to Pelosi.
He was shilling his ‘green’ energy a lot on the radio last year. I never got a good vibe from him with his folksy talkie talkie concern rhetoric.
Buzz…
“What’s to be done?”
I think you know deep down the answer.
“When in the course of human events…”
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I’m hoping for a natural backlash. Young kids sick of being force fed the leftist manifesto.There are plenty of brilliant young conservative minds up and coming.I have to believe they will prevail or I’d submit to despair.Or else we go the route BenZ suggests.
@ BenZacharia:
That sounds good, for a moment, maybe—but it doesn’t answer the question. We don’t have a Madison, a Jefferson, or a Washington today; we daren’t, therefore, scrap and start afresh.
Any “revolution” must be a soft revolution which re-acquaints the people with their birthright and its meaning, and show them the difference between that golden standard and the gold-painted bricks they’re being sold.
Gypsy wrote:
The Pickens Plan is shameless. You can’t just substitute wind for gas. Gas is what we use for peaking. Wind approximates base load on a good day and zero on a bad one. Boonedoggle.
Holy cats, more astro turfing letters to the editor. This smells of George Soros and his dysfunctional minions.
http://patterico.com/2010/01/24/still-more-astroturfing-gloria-elle-and-jan-chen-write-the-same-anti-republican-pro-obama-letter/
@ snork:
The media’s message was looming large at the time, though.
Buffett’s $4 billion investment in Israel disagreed with them.
I still like it that he did this. Of course he made money. Israeli companies are a wonderful investment. He put up the money and showed that he knew it when dour media types did not.
Mark Steyn is kicking Zero’s butt in his newest piece:
Too Much of a Bad Thing
BenZacharia wrote:
Incidentally, I stumbled across something interesting a week or so ago. In 1957 the Warren Supreme Court handed down at ruling known as the Yates Decision, which held that it is perfectly OK to advocate overthrow of the US Government by violence or otherwise, so long as the advocacy is theoretical. The decision benefitted a group of Commies who had been arrested for doing same.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That’s what I’ve been trying to say. It’s not enough to have 1000 times as stuff as any human can possibly consume, they can’t feel good about themselves unless they’re peeing on others supposedly for their own good.
Love these lines from Mark Steyn:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
‘They’ had a soft revolution in the begining ’63-’75. The teaparty didn’t work.
snork wrote:
Mad King Yertle of the Turtle Stack is not the only exemplar out there of Dr. Suess’s excellent work about the desire for more and more control.
Dick Morris says he has inside info and hellcare is not quite dead. This is ominous.
http://newsmax.com/Headline/pelosi-reid-healthcare-obama/2010/01/24/id/347820
vagabond trader wrote:
You surely didn’t think that ideologues who claim to speak for the people would actually deign to listen to the people’s voice?
Eliana wrote:
Or else he’s stupid enough to think the Media will believe it – IIRC, Keith Olberman was reported to be making exactly this case.
Thanks for quoting this piece, Eliana. Steyn is in top form here.
@ Gypsy:
A commie(D) law signed by a commie (D) prez and a faulty court ruling overturning it, kinda. Constitution explicitly advocates violent revolution.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
No need to scrap what the founding fathers created, just all the bullshit the Marxists Progressives have tacked onto their work over the last 100 years. We dont need a new Madison, Jefferson or Washington, the originals are just fine.
The revolution need not be soft either, provided we are revolting against the Marxist Progressive Coup that has stolen our government from us. We could use a bit of violence as Jefferson forewarned us, The tree of Liberty needs from time to time be refreshed with the blood of Patriots. Let us start hanging those bastard Marxists Progressives from the streetlights lining Pennsylvania Ave.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Good,let them go full out kamikaze.We’ve quite a mess to clean up already, whats a little more?
@ Gypsy:
When Howard Dean made this case to Chris Matthews, the Leg Tingler himself laughed right in his face.
Things are so bad that even some of the worst Zero-supporters can’t swallow this delusional argument.
ChenZhen wrote:
Because the tool is impossible to fool.
/J. Jackson impersonation
@ Gypsy:
Interesting. Wait til they get a load of the real thing. Keep it up Ds keep it up.
Eliana wrote:
Meanwhile in Gaza, Gates makes a less wise investment in greenhouses…
@ vagabond trader: From the link:
I don’t think Congress was doing this in 1910.
I learned a new word today, astroturf. Isn’t that the same as spamming?
BenZacharia wrote:
It is silly—really silly—to argue that “the Democrats were commies” fifty-plus years ago. Some, doubtless, were—just as some Republicans were paleocons, a few of whom had more than a little sympathy towards some then-recent, rather ugly, manifestations of European antisemitism.
But to tar all the Democrats of half-a-century-plus ago with communist leanings, or all the Republicans of the same time with isolationist Hitler sympathies, is ridiculous.
@ Eliana:
Everything Obama says seems evasive.
Besides, the smith act doesn’t say a damn thing about restoring the constitutional us gov.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Sorry, they were in fact ‘house broken’, that would make them socialists.
“Socialist, a commie that doesn’t shit on your carpet.”
@ BenZacharia:
Sorry, that is delusional.
BenZacharia wrote:
Just thought it was interesting — I was delving in that mine because someone I was arguing with claimed that it was illegal to advocate overthrow of the government, and that if I even hinted at it, the Secret Service of Homeland Security would haul me away. (Obviously a person who admires the soviet/fascist model). I mentioned the Constitution has a provision that we can reconsitute our government any time we so damn please. This got me to thinking — what about all those people in the sixties and seventies who were standing up on platforms screaming into mikes (or mics as they spell it now) advocating that very thing? They were feted and celebrated in the Media, and only those who were squirreling away rocket launchers and bombs were getting arrested. So I checked it out, and found the Yates thing.
@ mjazz:
Yes,its like Democracy for hire,think SEIU or ACORN at the townhall meetings, and in this case an organized group spamming newspapers with partisan commentary.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Who are the Progressives again???
@ Eliana:
I like this part, Fineman of Newsweek said:
“The truck wasn’t just any old prop but a very particular kind: “In some places, there are codes, there are images,” he told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. “You know, there are pickup trucks, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.”
Ah, yes. Scott Brown has over 200,000 miles on his odometer. Man, he’s racked up a lot of coded racism on that rig. But that’s easy to do in notorious cross-burning KKK swamps like suburban Massachusetts.
Snork, did you see this article about wind turbine efficiency?
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/wind-turbines-leave-clouds-and-energy-inefficiency-their-wake
@ mjazz:
Fineman needs to get his head checked.
@ mjazz:
Yeah! Great one by Steyn!
It’s fun to see people like Charles Krauthammer and Mark Steyn tearing Zero apart!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Hyperbole at most. The (D)s were riddled with commies during the ’20′s, ’3os’ and ’40′s.
Verona
doriangrey wrote:
To believe that all Democrats are/were progressives, and all progressives are/were communists, on back to [insert late-nineteenth/early twentieth century year here] is stupid, ahistorical, and just plain wrong. Anyone who claims that is as grossly ignorant of history, and as simplistic a thinker, as a teenager in Che shirt.
There were similarities between the progressives and today’s leftists that go far back; there were convergences; they have in many ways merged to become the nightmare we know today. But despite their similarities they are not all the same, all the time, all from the same sources and responding to the same issues. If you believe this, you need to do more reading, because you are viewing the past through a far too reductionist lens and are therefore incapable of understanding the present.
mjazz wrote:
Holy shiite. Now I’ve heard of everything. Dogwhistle trucks.
Until tomorrow.
snork wrote:
I wondered what that squeak was.
@ snowcrash:
That’s not surprising, what’s surprising is that this finally comes out after they build the thing. Just like all the Obama voters, they didn’t want to know. In the private sector, that kind of malfeasance would send people to prison. What was it, again, that the proggies were getting all wound up over about Enron?
snork wrote:
Wow, now trucks are racist. No wonder 0 was hostile to Scott Browns truck.
(D)s Didn’t Stalin call them useful idiots?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Come to think of it, have you ever wondered why most contractor trucks are white??? Coincidence? I. Don’t. Think. So…
Don’t get me wound up about trucks…
vagabond trader wrote:
There are many who believe that these ventures in astroturfing are under the aegis of none other than David Axelrod, who pioneered this sort of fraud and raised it to an art form.
Yep, it’s a form of trolling, except that it usually involves the dead tree media, i.e., newspapers and magazines.
There was an article in American Thinker earlier today about how Eric Holder (the worst attorney general ever) has also set up an astroturfing operation in the DOJ, to counter anti-administration sentiment, but when I went back there to access it, I couldn’t find it. It disappeared, ka-poof! Wonder what happened?
snork wrote:
And what about the parts of a truck that actually do the real work down in the dirt?
Ummmmmm.
@ chickadee:
This whitey just didn’t see the connection.
Zero ridiculing people who own pickup trucks has got to be one of the most revealing moments of his meteoric rise to failure in his short time on the national scene.
Someone owns a pickup truck. His Dem audience chuckled!
Oh ha ha. Imagine riding around in anything but a limo.
Zero can’t imagine this anymore.
Zero is approaching the point of saying, “Let them eat cake.”
@ Possum:
Damn. Busted.
Interesting story; the old, old natural rubber tires were white, because natural rubber was white. They don’t make them any more, and haven’t since before WWII. I never thought about it, but you may have a point there: synthetic rubber is a racist plot to make black rubber go in the mud.
/They actually put carbon black in rubber to stabilize it.
@ Eliana:
Only if he loses his head and spouts off.
@ Eliana:
Ashamed of his kinfolk.
Eliana wrote:
Arugula.
WHO DAT!!! SAINTS WIN!!
Colts vs. Saints! Let’s go Colts!
@ Gypsy:
Yep, and I think the astounding level of recent astroturfing is nothing more than a vigorous campaign to soften up public opinion toward Obama before his State of the Union speech. These letter writers aren’t going to change “no budge” R’s, but they can rally the troops and get the talking points out there.
Speaking of cake, this takes it (the cake):
Pitiful: Obama Needs TelePrompter to Talk to Schoolkids
For heaven’s sake!!!!!!!
What is wrong with this guy?!?
Brown winning is Bush’s fault.
Pick up trucks are code for white power.
Olbermann said____________*. (*take your pick)
How the fuck do these guys get to where they are?
Eliana wrote:
Don’t blame it on his race. This guy can ad-lib:
IslandLibertarian wrote:
I’ve wondered the same thing myself.
@ snork:
Thanks for the link!
I’m a fan of his!
I read that Falls Church recently got a ton of snow. Do they usually get snow?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Or, maybe just maybe you should check your pompesity level and contemplate whether your level of education has exceed any genuine usefulness. Just sayin, cause you just came off sounding like an arrogant prick.
@ Eliana:
That’s what you call a barnburner. And watch his eyes. No teleprompters.
@ IslandLibertarian:
I think they know their words don’t mean anything, they are just preaching to the choir.
snowcrash wrote:
I can’t see how this is going to work for 0. It is coming out that these are phony letters. It really seems so desperate. It makes him look pathetic. I almost wonder if Rove is behind it. To show how feeble 0 is that his side has to scramble for fake praise for him.
@ mjazz:
I think it’s mental illness. To contort the idea that pick-ups are racist, in Boston? Sick stuff. Really sick. Worthy of an employee evaluation check.
Eliana wrote:
I think that you have that bass ackwards.. The Teleprompter needs Obama to convey its’ message
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Not siding one way or another, but a recent issue of NR had some good pieces on some of the early influential progressives, like Dewey. Still making my way through it along with some Christmas presents, but they’re interesting articles. Dewey, for example, was into using the state to help every person develop socially, mentally, etc., etc. Stifling if we were ruled by all wise, ever benign overlords like the Dems seem to view themselves, flat out tyranny as our state, run by actual people, approaches the progessive icon’s ideal.
@ SciFiGuy:
Yeah, you’re right. The Telepromptanites keep stopping by saying they’ll set some up around the house for free and it’ll make life a lot easier but I keep telling them I’m not interested.
Eliana wrote:
0 uses a prompter to address 6th graders for 5 minutes. AND THIS IDIOT WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ok, ok, I’m fine. *deep breath*
12 year old kids are smarter than this buffoon. I bet he needs a fcking prompter to address his own kids. he is so unimpressive, so lacking, so not qualified to lead this country.
it is interesting that the msm is showing the prompters. they used to take great pains to hide his use of prompters. now it’s out in the open. Maybe they are turning on him. we can only hope.
I’m really glad to see this piece from Goodwin and I think that it is just one of the first of such articles to come from those of Goodwin’s ilk. When MSM sees that the ship is sinking, they’ll be the first rats over the side and then gnaw at the thrashing survivors. It will be a sight to behold. Can’t wait.
snork wrote:
Col. Allen West would have 0 wetting his pants if they ever debated.
Damn he is impressive. He can give real meaning to leg tingle.
@ IslandLibertarian:
If the GOP takes Congress in 2010, they will blame Bush. It will be priceless!
@ chickadee:
What’s that stuff that causes short term memory loss?
@ chickadee:
West would demolish him!
mjazz wrote:
I knew it just a minute ago but now I can’t remember.
“Now get in there Mr. President and wow them! I know you got it in you!”
@ IslandLibertarian:
A Pick up is a truck. I nvere knew trucks are racist!
@ chickadee:
Who, the MSM or the prompters?
@ snork:
That guy is awesome! He is exactly the kind of candidate that we need in all of our congressional districts. Articulate, is speaking from his core — he doesn’t need a teleprompter because he is being himself and is comfortable with that. That’s genuine, that’s the kind of person the founders envisioned as the people who would represent the people of this country.
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timbok wrote:
I am convinced that that is a contradiction. A social liberal can never be a fiscal conservative since a social liberal believes in a nanny state.
doriangrey wrote:
Dead thread, I know, but a silly piece of thrashing like the above still requires a brief response. Which is: you are wrong. Factually wrong. You are extrapolating from the existence of an undeniable historical “progressive” influence in the Democratic Party going back 100 years to the absurd position of saying that the Democrats are/were all “commies” fifty years ago.
This is stupid on so many levels. For instance, one of the most famous and influential Progressives of the Wilson era was Robert La Follette of Wisconsin, an opponent of Wilson—and he was a Republican Senator. Furthermore, though he was a Progressive, the Progressives of 100 years ago were not identical to the socialists or communists.
Also, to suggest, as your post does, that Democrats like Al Smith, or Harry Truman, or Henry Jackson were communists is to take great leaps into the realm of fantasy.
Again: the “progressive” strain in American politics goes way back, and has roots in both parties. Those calling themselves “progressives” today have taken a number of ideas from the progressives of the past and merged them with a hard-left position. But to regard all these strains of political thought as equal, or identical, or all of a piece is reductionist and ignorant.
If you find that simple truth unpleasant, too bad; if you find it “arrogant” to be confronted with it, tough.