Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
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.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
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.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
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...
So our current President is some idiot woman named Palin, right?
I ask, because it seems all over the blogs and the message boards there are liberals making an issue out of her fitness-or-lack-thereof for the presidency. To hear them tell it, we’re simply not worried about anybody else. Nobody else is currently occupying that office. We’re not worried about anyone else being an incurious dolt or looking out of His depth.
And then there is the matter of character.
Roger Kimball proceeds with the well-deserved skewering.
I believe that the editorialist for Investor’s Business Daily got it exactly right about the second part of Obama’s response to the rallies: “Thanks for What?” he asked.
Why should they [the tea partiers] be thankful? As the president himself said on his weekly radio address a week ago, “one thing we have not done is raise income taxes on families making less than $250,000; that’s another promise we kept.”
In fact, that wasn’t his promise at all.
Here’s what candidate Obama really said in September of 2008: “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
Got that? “Not any of your taxes.” The claim of no tax hikes on those below $250,000 as a result of the current administration’s policies is completely and utterly false.
A report from the House Ways & Means Committee’s GOP members notes that, since January 2009, Congress and the president have enacted $670 billion in tax increases. That’s $2,100 for each person in America. At least 14 of those tax hikes, the report says, break Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000. Roughly $316 billion of the tax hikes — 14 increases in all — hit middle-class families, the report says.
This comes in addition to recent data from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showing U.S. spending and indebtedness growing at an alarming rate. Government spending now totals 25% of GDP, a quarter above its long-term average. By 2035, it will hit 34% of GDP at current trends — a 70% increase in the real size of government in just 25 years.
Ha, ha, ha. Very amusing, what?
What should we make of Obama’s merriment? What does it tell us about his sense of humor? What does it tell us about what an earlier age would have called his “humor,” his character?
The first thing to notice about this moment of hilarity is how consonant it is with other Obama rhetorical eructations. For example, how similar in spirit it is to his challenge to Republicans after Nancy Pelosi managed to ram the presidential health care legislation through Congress. Instantly, there were calls to repeal the law. “My attitude is,” Obama told a crowd in Iowa, “go for it” — as if it would get them anywhere!
Obama’s amusement at the spectacle of dissent was also consonant with the remarks of candidate Obama disparaging all those “bitter” folks who “cling to guns or religion” instead of getting with the big government, progressive leftism espoused by Barack Obama.
Most of us would not buy a car, used or new, from a salesman who bursts into derisive laughter at the prospect of we, the customers, making a decision displeasing to the salesman. A salesman who thinks It’s All About Him. That’s the very picture of what it takes to move the customers across the street, to the other car lot.
There are some folks who’d still wanna stick around, if the salesman is an extra good speech-maker. But you have to be in the mood for that kind of thing. You have to be, to coin a phrase, fat dumb and happy. Or young dumb and happy, as the case may be. Well…once people have been ripped off, they’re not that way anymore.
But Obama really needs to stop His followers from all of this Palin noise. Today. It’s hurting Him badly. It’d be one thing if she was already running against Him…even then, all this deliberation about whether she’s qualified or not, when He’s the one who’s already in there, would look pathetic and whiny.
But she isn’t even doing anything. Just giving speeches, raising funds, uploading Facebook entries like millions of other citizens. So to start the argument now just looks rather un-champion-ish. It looks like, if you could point to an Obama policy that’s turned out to be a good one, you’d be doing that; but instead here you are selecting a random ordinary unelected citizen — supposedly one of the dopier ones, according to your own argument — and comparing Him, to her.
That’s the only way He can look good at this point?
It doesn’t address what is broken. What’s broken, as Kimball points out, has to do with character. Barack Obama’s job is so much bigger than He is, that He doesn’t even know what to do. He’s like a three-year-old who’s just mastered the fine art of running, joining daddy and his friends for a casual Saturday morning game of touch football, running the wrong way while everyone good-naturedly chuckles, and maybe films it for later. Just doesn’t know what He’s doing.
He comes from the Alinsky mind-mold in which, when people act like they’re not buying in to what you’re offering, you ridicule them, make fun of them, “freeze it and personalize it” as they say. Well, Saul Alinsky didn’t say what to do when everyone becomes a detractor, and they get that way just by means of common sense. Obama isn’t thoughtful enough to see that this might call for a different tactic, so He just keeps on keepin’-on. We’re so unsophisticated, we’re so racist, we’re not good enough for Him.
Putting it in plainer terms, he comes from a faraway land in which, the best way to motivate the masses to say “yes” to a question, is to stop that question from being asked in the first place. His inability to flex in this tactic is becoming a serious problem, now that the question m-u-s-t be asked. Obama’s idea of leadership is to call us a bunch of rubes; our response to this, should be to ponder the worthiness of this bespectacled chickee over here who isn’t running for anything?
Here’s a news flash: Sarah Palin may very well never run at all. If she does, the likely moment for her to throw her hat into the ring would be sometime around Thanksgiving 2011, a year and a half away. Probably later than that.
Our Obama zealots have been busily deliberating whether she’s good enough for the job, for a year and a half already, right now. They won’t ask this of the “Sort Of God” who’s already in there.
It would be poetic justice if, when the time came, that was turned into yet another Obama disadvantage. Come to think of it, isn’t that a good qualification for the job? That there’s some serious thought going on, some deliberation, about whether you’re good enough for the job, rather than the job being good enough for you?
Advantage Palin.
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I am reminded of a complement tossed to a very successful insurance executive at his retirement party that I attended years ago. His boss stated that his success was predicated entirely on the premise that he came off as a rube of sorts. His exact quote was “Your competitors make the assumption that you just fell off the turnip truck. By the time they figure out that you’ve had your hand in their back pocket the whole time, it is usually to late for them”.
The Palin hater’s stroll through dangerous neighborhoods with their purses open, confidant that they are just to sharp to get their wallets picked. We’ll see how that works out for them.
- westsoundmodern | 04/20/2010 @ 07:34I can see November from my house.
- philmon | 04/20/2010 @ 19:49I guess the whole concept of magnanimity in victory kind of went over Barry’s head.
The worst, and I mean the absolute worst think you can do to your competition is to fire them up. Teasing means that you are confident that they will swing at anything, overcook into a corner, give away their position.
It means that you are counting on them to screw up. Because if they keep control, and focused on their task, you’ve just given them more power, more spirit.
And nothing is more important than Spirit. Desire. Will.
I don’t know who he thinks we are. But Americans know how to keep their powder dry. And in November, we’ll be where we need to be, doing what needs to be done.
- HoundOfDoom | 04/20/2010 @ 20:21