Posted on 01/18/2010 6:32:22 PM PST by raccoonradio
I just started reading Prince of Providence, about Cianci,
via a library copy...
How is it?
I was wondering if Hannity was playing off of Coakley’s failure to know that Schilling was a former Red Sox hero and not a Yankees fan when he said that Howie wrote for El Globo. Howie was gracious not to smack him for the misspeak, regardless!
Polls open in 15 mins?
Who knows...
I voted at the Cove Elem. School in Beverly around 8:50 am (after needing assistance in getting my car out of an ice rut; Howie was right about the weather). Snow falling...off to the school where it was tough to find parking.
4 people holding Brown signs and a Brown sign behind them.
0 for Coakley. Steady stream of voters in and other; I cast
my ballot proudly.
Not too bad but only a chapter or two in; distracted by all this stuff. ‘Sokay, I have it for 3 weeks.
Howie column ping
Want payback? Vote for Scott Brown!
By Howie Carr | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Go Scott go.
This election is payback, for everyone in Massachusetts who has to work for a living, who isn’t on the dole, or a trust fund. It’s for everyone who hates getting dozens of robo-calls from clueless pols pushing “Marsha” Coakley and from union thugs living large off your union dues.
Vote for Brown if you’re tired of the 25 percent increase in the sales tax, and the brand new 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol, on top of the 37 percent excise tax.
Send the hacks a message.
Vote for Brown if they ignored you when you voted for the death penalty, and to cut income taxes, and they wouldn’t even let you vote on gay marriage. If you’re still waiting for your property tax cut. If you’re still waiting for the attorney general to send a corrupt pol - any corrupt pol - to the can.
Send them a message.
If you’re old and worried about the Medicare cuts they’re proposing, if you’re young and don’t want to pay the fine for not having health insurance, if you have a good health-care plan and you dread paying Obama’s 40 percent tax. Marsha - er, Martha - had a message on TV yesterday morning for everyone who falls in those three categories:
“They are wrong.”
That’s what these people always say. You’re wrong, they’re right. Nothing to see here, move along. And make damn sure you pay your taxes, and forget what Obama said about not raising taxes on anybody making under $250,000. That was then, this is now.
On Sunday I called Coakley “Mike Dukakis in a skirt.” I would now like to apologize to Mike Dukakis.
Did you see this woman on Ch. 25 yesterday? Does she ever take her foot out of her mouth? She claimed she’s been running a “positive” campaign - you know, like Chuck Schumer calling Scott Brown a “teabagger.” Then she said her big problems have been “bad weather” and “the holidays” - Christmas, in other words. You should check out the whole thing. She’s not standing for the big insurance companies, even though she went down to D.C. last week to pick up some cash from them.
You want irony? Do you realize that if the state Democrats hadn’t changed the Senate succession law twice in the past five years, they wouldn’t be in meltdown mode this morning?
Their lame (soon-to-be) lame-duck governor could have appointed whatever stiff he wanted.
Irony? Here’s another one: Steve Lynch, the congressman from Southie, was basically kicked to the curb by the unions because he wasn’t gung-ho enough for their scheme to destroy health care. Maybe he couldn’t have won the Democrat primary last month, but a couple of things you can say about Lynch.
Unlike Martha, he knows who Curt Schilling [stats] roots for, and he also knows that there are still terrorists in Afghanistan. Come to think of it, I’ll bet he can also spell Massachusetts.
This is Martha yesterday on the voters she says are wrong: “I think they’re gonna send someone to Massachusetts who has a proven record.”
That would be you, Martha. You’ll be the one we “send” to Massachusetts. Scott Brown we’ll send to Washington.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1226579
bump for later
Huh? Unclear why normal MA winter weather and a regularly scheduled holiday should be a problem for her but not for Scott Brown!
January 18, 2010
The Content of Obama’s Character
By Christopher Chantrill
On the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday, we celebrate also the first year of America’s first black president, Barack Obama.
It’s telling that 47 years ago, when Reverend King made his great speech on the Washington Mall, he did not say that he had a dream that one day, an African-American would become president. King’s vision on August 28, 1963 was less ambitious:
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Even so, Barack Obama was elected president based on the color of his skin. On the night of November 4, 2008, African Americans wept with joy because one of their own had become president against all that they had been told and all their fears about a racist America. Liberals rejoiced because of the “first,” that America had answered the question: Is America ready for a black president?
Some Americans voted for Barack Obama for non-racial reasons. Independents and disgruntled Republicans voted against the mistakes and the corruption of the Bush era.
Now that Obama is president, he is no longer being judged by the color of his skin. Now, the vast majority of Americans will judge him on the content of his character. It is his character, of course, that is the great unknown, as Charles Krauthammer has written:
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
But word is starting to dribble out. Reports Hugh Hewitt on the latest campaign page-turner, Game Change by Mark Halperin and John Heilmann:
The portrait of the president is really an effort in poison-pen pointillism, where hundreds and hundreds of razor sharp paragraphs combine to create a deeply disquieting picture of the new president. President Obama is presented as insecure and needy of reassurance (p. 25), self-important, cynical and megalomaniacal (pp 30-31), petulant and spoiled (p. 111), touchy and vain (p. 112), hypocritical (p. 119), overweening (p. 184) and deceptive (p. 120.)
Another disquieting note is the overarching theme of Obama’s first year of governance: the determination to govern against the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, which states that government gains its just powers from the consent of the governed. The American people do not consent to the $787-billion stimulus. They do not consent to the cap-and-trade bill. They do not consent to the federalization of health care.
The comparison to the character and governance of President George W. Bush is telling. We knew, before we elected him president, a lot about his character: his fight against business failure and alcoholism. President Bush’s character was confirmed in the challenges of his presidency, when he submitted to a political immolation in his second term as the price of getting the war on terror right.
The awful chasm opening before us today after the first year of Obama is the realization that we have no knowledge of the man’s character. If President Bush was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, President Obama has been spoon-fed royal jelly by the worker bees in the liberal hive all his adult life. Even now, we know of no occasion in his charmed life when Barack Obama rose above the shibboleths and routine thuggeries of political faction.
Yet President Obama is called to lead the nation out of a nasty recession provoked by his party’s compulsive manipulation of the credit system, a history that reaches from the $400-billion losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all the way back to Andrew Jackson’s war with the Second United States Bank.
In the year ahead, as unemployment stays high and as isolated desertions in the Democratic ranks metastasize into headlong routs of whole battalions, President Obama will face challenges that test every fiber of his being. Sensing his insecurity and need for reassurance, cunning men and women will suggest ways of using his political power to get back in the game. Will he sacrifice his party and his presidency and do the right thing, or will he sacrifice the American people on the altar of political expediency?
I fear the answer to that question.
Christopher Chantrill is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. See his roadtothemiddleclass.com and usgovernmentspending.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_content_of_obamas_characte.html at January 19, 2010 - 12:33:16 AM CST
Thanks, raccoonradio!
You’re welcome and thanks for spreading the ping!
Listen to Howie today from 3-8 pm, one more hour than usual, on WRKO AM 680 or his affiliates (note: some affiliates may only carry till 6 or 7 pm)
Online
http://www.wrko.com requires registration I think
http://www.wcrnradio.com (till 7?)
http://www.wntk.com (till 7?)
Howie affiliates to the best of my knowledge
WRKO 680 Boston MA
WCRN 830 Worcester
WXTK-FM 95.1 Cape Cod
WHYN 560 Springfield area
WNTK-FM 99.7 Lake Sunapee NH area
WUVR 1490 Newport NH
WKBK 1290 Keene NH (also 104.1?)
WVMT 620 Burlington VT
WGAN 560 Portland ME
WVOM 101.3 & 103.9 Lewiston ME
WEGP 1390 Presque Isle ME
We must find a direct link to Scott’s campaign to report all voter fraud being called in or posted on FR.
“Sokay” Rhodes scholars they ain’t!
A re-ping. Howie Carr show starts at 3 pm. See above for stations running it plus web links if you’re listening online.
http://www.howiecarr.info has a link at top to the Howie Carr facebook fan group
Truck-driving Scott Brown hits brakes on Dem
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo
Photo by Ted Fitzgerald
The snow is brown - Scott Brown. Guys in pickup trucks don’t let a few flurries bother them.
The lesson is clear. The people are mad as hell, and they aren’t going to take it anymore.
This isn’t an election, it’s a movement. We reversed the curse - the Kennedy curse.
Over the past week or so, we’ve seen listening as people from out of state were saying something most of us have never heard before: “Oh Good, I wish I lived in Massachusetts.”
At least for a day or so they wished they did, so they could vote for Scott Brown, to let these smug moonbats and the Beautiful People and Obama’s tax cheats and the freeloading illegal aliens know that they don’t own this country - not yet anyway.
Health-care “reform” dead for a generation? Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Two generations would be even better. As several callers to my radio show said yesterday, paraphrasing Michelle Obama:
“For the first time in my adult life, I feel proud to be a Massachusetts resident.”
That’s “Massachusetts,” not “Massachusettes” - the way Marsha - er, Martha spells it. Sorry about that, all you post-middle-aged sob sisters. How sexist it was of Scott Brown to continue campaigning over Christmas. Why, why, it’s practically a hate crime.
Martha Coakley. She is woman, hear her squeak.
Here’s the thing about Martha Coakley: She was trying to sell a product nobody wanted. A quote from Gore Vidal sums her up perfectly: “No talent is not enough.”
You want to know what the fastest selling T-shirt in Massachusetts is going to be? “Don’t blame me, I voted for Mike Capuano.”
It turns out Martha Coakley wasn’t Shannon O’Brien. She was worse, much worse. She was the female Tom Dewey, an empty pantsuit. Hey, Martha, good move running those TV spots quoting Brown as saying he’d be the 41st vote against the Obama rationing scheme when more people in Massachusetts are against the more taxes-fewer services plan than are for it.
Keep on truckin’, Martha.
And how about that Boston Globe - running its phony-baloney poll a week ago Sunday in a pathetically lame attempt to stop the Brown surge.
They had Coakley ahead by 15 percentage points - these trust-funded Kool-Aid drinkers should be lugged for common nightwalking. Another proud moment for the bow-tied bumkissers of Morrissey Boulevard, which will certainly be mentioned when the obituary for the moonbats’ Bible is written a few months from now.
Speaking of obituaries, coming up next, tomorrow night, Gov. Deval Patrick’s annual State of the State address. Hey Deval, first they came for Marsha, and you did nothing. Then they came for . . .
Cancel the State of the State, Deval. Schedule visiting hours, 4-8.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1226749
When I tuned into Howie’s show yesterday and he was in a good mood, my spirits lifted. This is a great column - it sums up the situation masterfully. Thanks for the ping.
you’re welcome
Let’s do this special election thread for one more day
1st Hour
Upstart Republican Scott Brown rocketed to victory in the race to the U.S. Senate yesterday, steamrolling Attorney General Martha Coakley’s layabout campaign in an against-all-odds triumph that sent shock waves from the Heartland to the White House...What message would you like Scott to bring to Washington?
2nd Hour
Democrats agree on the obvious: Somebody had taken the seat for granted, had underestimated the public’s anger over the economy, over the Democrats’ health care overhaul, over plain old arrogance in Washington. The rest is an epic intraparty blame-a-thon not seen among Democrats since President George W. Bush won re-election over Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in 2004. The White House joined in Tuesday while people were still voting in Massachusetts, blaming Coakley and dismissing the notion that the toxic political environment had been a factor. Coakley’s campaign fired back in a point-by-point memo that blamed that very environment...Why do you think Coakley lost?
3rd Hour
Call in for THE CHUMPLINE!!!! 617-779-3469 and leave a message for Howie or Sandy about today’s stories or whatever else is bothering you!
4th Hour
Future Guests...
January 21
Gubanatorial candidate Christy Mihos will join us in studio!
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