I agree: it is hard to watch.
...she understood the epochal significance of the election of the first African-American president, and she was deeply moved.
I still believe Obomba is an African-African. Where's the birth certificate?
I, for one, feel blessed to live in such interesting times.
I feel America is feeling the wrath of God!
This country is so bitterly divided now, this fool is in for a huge surprise when the communist foreigner, liar and fraud takes office.
And how's Peggy doing these days? Haven't seen much of her.
the “epochal significance” of electing a melanin enhanced person over a melanin deprived one.
What??? “May you live in interesting times” isn’t an ancient Chinese curse? Who says? Oh, it was the Miami Herald. Now that’s an F6 if I ever saw one.
Karma
Barack Hussein Obama, a man with no record of personal accomplishment, no leadership experience, and a man with strong connections to terrorists, criminals, racists, and anti-American communists has pulled it off and has been elected President of these United States. Now, what does it mean and what does it say about the American people? Could it be that karma will finally bestow the consequences of dishonorable behavior on the American people? Why do I say this? In answer to my question, let me remind you of this statement and where these words took the American people:
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural address, Friday, January 20, 1961
With these words ringing in our ears, my generation went to Vietnam and promised the Vietnamese people we would stand shoulder to shoulder with them until their freedom was secure and the enemies of liberty were defeated. But, it is to America’s eternal shame and disgrace that the American people soon grew tired of this noble undertaking and betrayed the very people who had believed and trusted us.
Then, as now, the American people elected Democrats to our Congress who had rather see American soldiers killed and our country defeated than allow a Republican president to receive credit for defeating our enemies. This Democrat led Congress (the infamous 93rd) cut off funding for the Vietnam War and forced the withdrawal of American combat troops in 1973, but we departed with the hollow promise that we would return if the Republic of South Vietnam were invaded by communist North Vietnam. As everyone must remember, this, again, was a lie.
The tactic we had taught the South Vietnamese was to, when invaded by the North, fall back to a defendable position, stall the communist advance, force the communists to mass their forces before South Vietnam’s defenses, and this would allow time for American forces and air power to return to assist them as we had promised. South Vietnam did just that; for twelve days, outnumbered ten to one, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) held and stalled the communist’s advance outside Saigon near a little town called Xuan Loc.
Outside Xuan Loc during April 1975, in an effort as gallant as that of the Spartans at Thermopile, the ARVN 18th Infantry Division held two North Vietnamese Army Corps at bay for twelve days. Every infantryman in the ARVN 18th Infantry Division died in that stand. None ran away and none survived. They died to a man fighting overwhelming odds and believing to the end we Americans would return as promised.
Just before the last ARVN soldier of the 18th Infantry Division died, he might have rolled over on his back and looked to the sky hoping to see the contrails of American B-52 bombers and he saw nothing. This last ARVN soldier then knew that he, along with all the Vietnamese people, had been betrayed. With his dying breath, this soldier must have then turned his gaze heavenly and beseeched God to Damn America.
Yes, there is such a thing as karma where dreadful consequences are meted out in recompense for dishonorable behavior. The American people’s just rewards for abandoning a valiant ally during their time of need could be that the chickens will now come home to roost on the American people with an Obama Presidency, a Nancy Pelosi Congress and a Harry Reid Senate, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving people.
This election has been about more than just Obama, his arrogance, his empty resume, and his traitorous comrades. Just as karma provides consequences for dishonorable behavior, there are also adverse consequences for irresponsible behavior. As a people deserve the government they vote into office, they also deserve the consequences resulting from that government’s actions or inaction. The consequences of a government not securing a country’s borders is that a people will lose their country as we are now losing ours to an invasion of illegal immigrants. The consequences of not securing a country’s electoral processes to prevent voter fraud is the country will lose its democracy to a thugocracy as we have just lost ours to a Chicago-mob run Coup d’état.
But the final insult to our democracy is the election of Barack Hussein Obama, an avowed Marxist communist, has closed a significant chapter in American History. Our sixty-year long Cold War with communism will finally be over and the communists will have won the war.
These words precede those of President Kennedy, so no one can say we didn’t see this coming:
“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.”
Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
As we Americans continue to live out the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
DJ Taylor
11-4-2008
I have rarely seen so much twaddle condensed in one place in my life. He gets paid to do this?
it looked to me that he named Geithner(sp.? and I don't care) almost as an afterthought when the sense of drift on Wall Street had led to a post-election plunge that conservative commentators high-lighted and finally smoked him out.
“A conservative opinionmaker told me recently that she really, truly, with all her heart wanted John McCain to win — and then, when Obama and his family appeared on election night, ‘’it all just went away.’’ It wasn’t that she forswore her candidate or her conservative philosophy — soon she’ll be writing elegant eviscerations of the new president’s policies. But she understood the epochal significance of the election of the first African-American president, and she was deeply moved.”
S*rew Peggy Noonan.
“Politically, Americans are less divided than we’ve been since at least the Reagan era, perhaps longer. I know that many people would dispute that assertion, but I’ll defend it. Barack Obama’s victory margin, 53 percent to 46 percent, didn’t qualify as a popular vote landslide. But considered with other factors — Obama’s electoral vote haul, which was a landslide; the Democratic Party’s gains in both houses of Congress — the outcome was a clear mandate.”
Wrong the divide is bigger than ever dipstick.
However, given virtually everything he has said and done, it is more likely he will do his best to advance today's liberal demonrats' version of socialism, with its associated high taxes, oppressive government control and loss of individual freedoms. The country is in for some tough times.
If that happens, I hope Eugene is flooded with copies of this editorial to remind him of his part in bringing about the disaster of the Obama-Nation.
She is probably right to an extent. A McCain victory would have been very problematical for Conservatives when he would have reverted to his previous liberal positions.
They are scared. Peggy, Eugene and all of the other “fixers” are hoping beyond hope that we will agree with them that things are fine. I think they have mistaken a revolt of the radicals and the welfare class as a mandate. I think we need to go back and “revisit” the numbers a little bit. I would suggest that if we were to “weight” each person’s vote in this election by the contribution he or she actually makes to our society, we would truly see why this “mandate” just makes things more hopeless. I think this trend continues until our “balance sheet” shows more “assets” than “liabilities”. Anybody up for a “spinoff”? If not, you should at least be aware that we are subsidizing an even more significant “mandate” ext time.
Damn it, Eugene, get a real job.
The Administration has changed, but the World hasn’t changed. Nor will it, easily.
Most Obama voters had no idea what they were voting for.
I refuse to recognize the term “african-American” as its used. It denegrates U.S. citizenship and should be insulting to all Americans.
eugenerobinson@washpost.Eugene 'prolly' also feels 'blessed' when there's a Sale at the Pottery Barn.In myriad ways that we'll discover over the next four years, Obama's election makes this a different country -- ''a more perfect union.'' I, for one, feel blessed to live in such interesting times.
(my girly-man alert meter hit 11)
“. . . supposed to be an ancient Chinese curse, but I can’t find evidence that the saying is Chinese at all, much less that it’s ancient”
Why are reporters so danged ignorant these days?
The term comes from “Dangerous Wind”. It’s the two Chinese symbols for Danger and for Wind. When placed together they can mean ‘Opportunity’ or they can mean ‘Danger’, depending on the context. If your intention is to be oblique in your meaning, then you say, “may you live in interesting times” and let the hearer decide whether you mean blessing or curse.