Obama: "I will change the world." Good grief. If I said that, they'd send the guys in white coats to take me away.
Who knew that the US Supreme Court defined "vegetable" in 1893? Is a pumpkin a vegetable, then?
More press lies perpetuated. We expect this from politicians but not from the press. Well, I guess we expect it from the press now.
How would Obama do with this questionnaire for national security positions?
Quoted at Marginal Rev:
The Bush administration, having entered office as social conservatives, leaves office as conservative socialists, proprietors of the most sudden large expansion of the state's role in the US economy since mobilisation for the second world war.
Credit indicators show progress. Good. That's the fuel for the economy.
Obama mocks plumbers. Is that smart? Everybody appreciates plumbers.
NYT digging deep for dirt on Cindy McCain. That is infra dig. Why do it? Is there no infra to their dig?
Mark Steyn on David Brooks' "elite cocoons" and "conservative cocoons." One quote:
...any PBS-watching inbred stump-toothed knuckle-dragging plaid-clad mountain man not yet face down in the moonshine or enjoying a bunk-up with his sister might think that Mr Brooks' bizarre metaphor gives the game away: the "conservative cocoon" is somewhere you drive through en route to the hiking trip.
Why is the Left and the press going after Joe the Plumber so hard? Because the moment with Obama captured something important. As Cardinalpark at Tiger puts it:
Obama probably hurt himself with Joe the Plumber. If you think about it, Obama has done a brilliant job articulating exceedingly liberal political and economic philosophy in a fashion which sounds acceptable and fair and not altogether different from McCain. However, when he responded to Joe the Plumber about the inherent value of "spreading the wealth", it rang an alarm bell. Most Americans, especially aspirational Americans, like reading Robin Hood, but don't want his philosophy put into practice. This may be the moment that the distinction between Obama's political philosophy and McCain's is finally made clear in a fashion the press can't edit out. The media - even the in-the-tank leftist media - can't resist Joe the Plumber.
We must remember that Robin Hood was a thief. That's what Joe is reminding the voters.
Exactly. Joe doesn't want somebody else's wealth: he wants to make his own. Betsy says "Think of the film of Obama's photo op on Joe's street as Obama's macaca moment." Yes, somebody picked the wrong street.
Interesting comments on Dr. Bliss' Influential Books post. I'd like to read more comments to that post from our readers.
The world is being set up; set up to one day receive the biblical "man of lawlessness." In August I posted ...
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