[jazusamo]

Thomas Sowell columns re Obama

Polls and Pols
Believers in Obama
Negative Advertising
The Real Obama: Part IV
The Real Obama: Part III
The Real Obama: Part II
The Real Obama
Do Facts Matter?
Idols of Crowds
Changes in Politics
Whose “Special Interests”?
The Galbraith Effect
…As Well As Several Other Issues
Are Facts Obsolete?
Conservatives for Obama?
Cocky Ignorance
Obama and McCain
Irrelevant Apologies
Success Built on Work Ethic
An Old Newness
A Living Lie
Obama’s Speech
Race and Politics
Non-Judgmental Nonsense

[jazusamo]

*PING*
Thomas Sowell

Recent columns
Polls and Pols
Believers in Obama
Record Versus Rhetoric

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[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

ping for reading tonight

[George Smiley]

Sowell, once again, gets to the heart of the matter [in a razor-sharp manner, I might add] in 750 words or less.

Some of the most condensed brilliance I’ve ever read.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well...Bingo......

[igoramus08]

It is obvious that Sowell is not a campaign advisor. If a campaign does not attack the many weaknesses of their opponent, then their opponent has no weakness. In such circumstances even a 20 year disciple of David Duke could become President.

Compare what Wright says and what Obama says

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDcQUcAjoeI
Wright: "Barrack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fi8STNlxM
Obama: "Many of the problems that Africa faces whether it is poverty, or political suppression, or ethnic conflict is just as prominent there and can't all be blamed on the effects of colonialism, what it can be blamed on is some of the common factors that effect Bosnia or Los Angeles or all kinds of places on this earth and that is the tendancy for one group to try to suppress another group in the interest of power or greed or resources."

[MHGinTN]

One of Doctor Sowell’s finest summations. What a way with words!

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe

Spot on.

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping jaz, and THANK YOU Thomas Sowell.

[Know et al]

Has a biography been published about Dr Sowell?

Title?

[pissant]

Another gem from Dr. Sowell.

[higgmeister]

tnks for the ping!

[Christian4Bush]

mark

[TAdams8591]

Nor has the help all been one way. During the last debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, Senator McCain mentioned that Senator Obama's political campaign began in Bill Ayers' home. Obama immediately denied it and McCain had no real follow-up.

It was not this year's political campaign that Obama began in Bill Ayers' home but an earlier campaign for the Illinois state legislature. Barack Obama can match Bill Clinton in slickness at parsing words to evade accusations.

I thought McCain had meant the START of Obama's career was in Bill Ayers living room. He meant the start of Obama's presidential camgaign? Most unfortunate.

I have thought many times, that Obama is as good as Clinton at parsing words to evade accusations. Amazing. It seems that most Democrat politicians have this ability. It's part of their training.

[TAdams8591]

"Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well."

A GREAT line! I always thought Clinton was obvious. Obama's better. He's smoother and more subtle, and unlike Bill, truly eloquent.

[PhilDragoo]

[FreedomPoster]

If we end up with this guy, and he ends up as bad as I fully expect, “conned” is the right word. And the media will have been his willing accomplice in all of this.

[Skooz]

The man is a national treasure.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

BUMP for later...

[ripley]

“there are, after all, some honest and decent people on the left.”

stopped reading right there.

haven’t met too many people on the left who are “honest and decent.” they’re invariabley hard-core haters, filled with contempt for those of us who are knuckle-dragging, bible-loving, gun-embracing morons. (donthca know the left is superior in intelligence, reasoning, and compassion, who love to call other people morons and nazis?
the lot of them can go to blazes.)

the time for communist/democrat bi-partisanship is done and the time to votes the da&nable punks out of office is past due.)

IMHO

[loveliberty2]

From an earlier post on another thread,

"People still speak as though the "associations" issue and the economic issue are two different things. They’re not. ACORN wants to spread Joe’s wealth around. So does Bill Ayers. That’s why Obama worked with both ACORN and Ayers. Someone needs to explain all this to Joe."

One more thing, Dr. Sowell nailed another important point. The word "associations" implies a far less significant connection to radicalism than has existed. The operative word should be "alliances." An "alliance" cannot be so easily dismissed as being, "just a guy in my neighborhood." Follow the money and the political power that has accrued and will accrue to Obama through these "alliances," and people can more readily reach infomed conclusions about the link between his radical alliances and his answer to Joe.