Man, ain't that the truth. I like the idea of a President who reads (and quotes) Victor Davis Hansen. Go Fred!
Interestingly, the hypocritical left support ‘immediate’ punishment for people in our society like Imus etc., but want to ‘talk about it’ when it involves people like Saddam Hussein. This seemingly strange dichotomy exists because the ideology of the left is not about specific ‘principles’. It’s actually an ideology of personal righteousness. They believe they are ‘right’, whatever that means at the moment, because they are more sophisticated and ‘smarter’ that the rest of us. How silly of us not to be ‘smart’ enough to accept and understand this.
I absolutely disagree with Bay Buchanan’s assessment of Hillary as ‘insecure’. I don’t doubt that she has insecurities, but ultimately what drives Hillary is her narcissistic view of herself as the ‘woman chosen to save the world’. Peggy Noonan is incredibly bright, in my view, and although some here find her too tame sometimes, or too accommodating of the views of the ‘other side’, she is absolutely correct about Hillary being a narcissist.
By the way, Bay Buchanan is absolutely correct about Hillary being functionally ‘smart’ but not creative. Actually, this trait is in many ways a hallmark of the Ivy league. It’s a very closed minded culture that primarily rewards ‘mastery of the facts’ as they are defined by the Ivy League culture. Ultimately this doesn’t allow for the wide breadth of opinion and open mindedness that helps fuel creativity. This is not universally true, and some of the brightest and most creative people I’ve ever known where from or are at one of the Ivy’s. Nonetheless, I believe strongly that the open-minded quest for truth that was supposed to be the credo of higher education, and the Ivy’s as icons of higher education, is not the norm any more. It’s tragic, and needs to be fixed.
This giant of a man vs. ANY of the pygmies of the Democrats. My God, how I want to see him in open debate against any of those moral midgets.