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...
Jonah Goldberg is being way too nice.
The assertion that Barack Obama is a socialist became a hallmark of the 2008 presidential campaign. His opponent, John McCain, used Obama’s own extemporaneous words to an Ohio plumber as Exhibit A: “When you spread the wealth around,” Obama had said, “it’s good for everybody.”
Dude, that’s like exhibit A through Z. There’s nothing left to prove. “Spread the wealth around,” no matter how many different ways you want to interpret it, must mean as a first step take it away from the people who have it.
When you take it away from people who have it, that means you punish the productive people for being productive. Any definition of socialism that demands something beyond that, is an illegitimate definition. Period, end of story.
That, McCain insisted, sounded “a lot like socialism,” as did Obama’s proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy and high earners for the explicit purpose of taking better care of the lower and middle classes with that redistributed money.
Republicans believed they had hit a rhetorical mother lode with this line of argument in 2008, but their efforts to make hay of Obama’s putative socialism proved unedifying, if not outright comic. The National Committee of the Republican Party even formally considered a resolution on whether the Democratic party should change its name to “the Democratic Socialist Party” of the United States. The stunt was shelved infavor of compromise language lamenting the Democrats’ “march toward socialism.”
March toward? March toward??
In my lifetime — I have a head full of gray hair — the democrat party has not been on the side of those who have prospered according to the findings of the free market, on any issue, not one single time. Not unless you define “free market” as something having to do with deal-making inside the beltway. They are the party of rolodex-profiteering, and always have been. They’re “marching toward” socialism the same way little kids with shopper-in-training grocery carts are marching toward being annoying…the same way Barack Obama is marching toward being imperious, condescending and arrogant.
Who presided over this “shelving”? That’s what I’d like to know.
Given his conduct and rhetoric as president, we have every reason to reopen the question from 2008 and ask, quite simply, What kind of socialist is Barack Obama?
I have an answer: A successful one.
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Your cross-post at RWN drew the usual oh-so-stinging rejoinders from that no-life fuckwit, D-Vega.
You called him a “gadfly” awhile back. I don’t know what that word means, but if it means “annoying, arrogant, trash-talking, moral-equivalency prattling douche” then yes, he is most definitely a “gadfly.”
- cylarz | 04/26/2010 @ 00:00Good stuff, Morgan, nail hit…hard.
- tim | 04/26/2010 @ 13:24