[JRandomFreeper]

D+. Good idea. Resubmit in a readable format in 400 words or less.

Technically, that's long enough to be a screed.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

My bad. Charles gets paid by the word.

I don't blame him for milking it.

/johnny

[Frantzie]

Sarah gets it about energy independence. We have more than the Saudis in shale oil and coal diesel plus nat gas on land. Add offshore and it is even more. Too much is tied up on Federal land.

Get access to it and you reboot and recapitalize America. Energy creates wealth better than anything else. The next best thing is manufacturing. Both add value.

We either all become like Michigan or Calif or we become America again. Americans can live like groveling unemployed serfs or free people.

Turn off the TV and get involved. We have to takeover the GOP at the local level to get rid of stinking RINOs like McCain, Grahmnesty, Crist, Snowe, etc.

[Pelham]

“That call to retreat was rejected by most of American conservatism “

It sure was, one time being when we told Walter Mondale to go take a hike when Krauthammer was writing speeches for him.

[Art in Idaho]

Wow! The Kraut man nails it again. What a mind. .

[JLS]

That is an excellent and thoughtful speech with a great punch line.

[denydenydeny]

Bottom line: AMERICA, YOU ELECTED SOMEONE WHO HATES YOU.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

WASS alert. :(

[sergeantdave]

“Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly, and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course towards the latter.”

Gee, Charles, you need to get out of DC for a few days. You sound like a yapping French poodle. Take a tour of America once in a while. It’ll clear your head. A reaffirmation of the American revolution is going on all around you. And it’s just getting started. Come on out. We’ll even set you on a parade float. Chin up, old boy.

[ez]

American Exceptionalism is embodied in one single document...The Bill Of Rights., These ten Amendments to the US Constitution define the boundaries which should exist on democratic government...that is government by the people. If one believes in the natural rights found in the Bill Of Rights, he defacto must agree that the concepts should be brought to ALL nations, regardless of their culture...they are NATURAL rights which belong to all people. However, if one, like Obama, believes that the BoR is a hurdle to be vaulted in the pursuit of dictatorial governmental powers...if one believes the people must be guided by the State, then American exceptionalism is financial at best. And not for much longer...

[ez]

Somebody email this to Ms. Garofolo??? She loves to throw around words like hegemony.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Does he dare speak it?
Obama is too alienated from American culture to be president,
to be able to lead this country. He is too alienated from normal American culture
and always begins with negatives on the American narrative. It has something to
do with his childhood and upbringing. It seems to have been further enabled at
Columbia and Harvard.

[kellynla]

"In fact, fully two-thirds of our trade imbalance comes from imported oil. This is not a fixed fact of life. We have a choice. We have it in our power, for example, to reverse the absurd de facto 30-year ban on new nuclear power plants. We have it in our power to release huge domestic petroleum reserves by dropping the ban on offshore and Arctic drilling."

Not to forget that we have enough coal reserves to last the next 300 years.

[SuziQ]

Nothing is written. Nothing is predetermined. We can reverse the slide, we can undo dependence if we will it.

We have to start by working to elect conservatives to Congress in 2010, and then support a strong, unapologetic conservative for President in 2012