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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The radio guys are talking about Obama’s apology for the United States last week. You know the one; the one that got Charles Krauthammer all ticked off, that he called “disgraceful.”
A nation always loses face when its leader apologizes for what that nation has done — especially when other nations bear some of the blame as well, and their own portion goes unmentioned. The implication is that the apology has been provided for being. But to me, that wasn’t what was particularly annoying about Obama’s apology. What annoyed me about Obama’s apology the most, was that the apology appeared, to me, to be the point of the exercise. I’m unconvinced, in other words, that we had anything to gain diplomatically from this apology. I don’t think any other nation had anything to gain from seeing us diminished in this way, either. I think the point of it was to drop a virtual business card…to accumulate some more identity for Obama…as if He needed any more. To make Him into “The Apologetic President.”
This is what really gets under my skin about it. That it was off-topic.
The other night my girlfriend and I were discussing whether or not it was time to go shopping for some meat. I couldn’t shake the feeling that if Barack Obama knew about our conversation, He’d find it an irresistable temptation to astrally project Himself into our kitchen so He could say “I’d just like to interject one thing — America bears more than its share of the blame, for your meat being gone.” And then vanish again.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: As far as leaders go, the ones who are elected specifically to inspire us to look forward & not backward, with renewed feelings of hope & not despair — Obama is remarkably obsessed with finger-pointing.
I wonder if that’s going to be His downfall? Maybe someday He’ll have an open meeting with someone, and the next day people will say “Did you see what I saw? That other guy had all the ideas about how to fix the problem, and President Whats-His-Name didn’t say a single thing about anything other than how the problem came to be. Some leader.”
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the link to the youbube video doesnt work anymore. been dying to see it too.
- ricos3plus3 | 04/09/2009 @ 10:40You ever get the feeling, if you could somehow get hold of a list of all the videos you are not dying to see, each & every last one of ’em would work just fine?
- mkfreeberg | 04/09/2009 @ 11:32Obama appears to me to be campaigning for president of the world. He’s clearly not interested in making America more popular, but he seems to be very interested in being popular himself. I’m kind of surprised (not really) that more Americans don’t resent the fact that he’s using the position we gave him not to do his job, but for personal aggrandizement. Maybe they feel like it’s his reward for vanquishing the enemy.
- JohnJ | 04/09/2009 @ 18:16Maybe they feel like it’s his reward for vanquishing the enemy.
Oh, oh. I think you’re onto something there, John. Bush was so eeevil, so hated, so despised, so wrong for America, in the minds of his supporters. It doesn’t matter what Obama was promising to do, who he ran around with, or what his proposals would have done TO (not for, mind you) the country. All that mattered was getting rid of the nasty Bush and his neocon lackeys, and sticking it to those intolerant, bigoted Christian-Right types that supported him.
Your comments are always much appreciated, John. Keep em coming.
- cylarz | 04/11/2009 @ 02:07