Posted on 10/24/2010 6:04:49 PM PDT by neverdem
How would the lessons of ENDER’S GAME apply to this presidency? When things were tough Ender chose the most direct, efficient, winning strategy, disregarding all other concerns and shocking the heck out of the PC folks watching him. Right or wrong it may be in our world, but to Ender the birthers’s solution would be the strategy against Obama. Declare he never was eligible, thus never was really president and that all done in his name is null and void. Let the consequences fall where they may. And of course with Ender running things the strategy would be sure to work; in our real world the results are far from certain.
He used to be...don't know about now. Sure doesn't sound like he's voting rat this year.
obama’s “firm hand” made me laugh.....the i roflmao-—the only “firm hand” Obama has is on Reggie’s azzzzzzzz
Just wondering — Are any current Congressional candidates members of the Oath Keepers?
My favorite line from ENDER’S GAME, and the one that prompted my screen name (which I use most everywhere) is as follows, where Ender is recovering from a quick whuppin’ only to hear:
“I am your enemy, the first one you’ve ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher.”
Mr. Orson Scott Card has it spot on. (As usual.) I wish more FReepers were paying attention to this.
rhino times on Freerepublic! Excellent.
I’ve read his Uncle Orson stuff for years. He has not been a liberal during all that period.
Maybe something of a libertarian but never a rat.
...added to the list of impeachable offenses...
We are the Constitution, and if they subvert it, we subvert them. FUBO!
Don't know about now.
I can say that if all Democrats were like Card America would survive.
I think Card is a wonderful writer and ready his columns weekly. 95% of the time he is spot on. I have shook my head for years wondering how he was ever/still is a democrat.
Like I said, I don't know his current political affiliation.
This whole WH situation is headed for a very bad ending...
Thanks for the ping!
When did he see the light?
The Only Issue This Election Day
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations.November 06, 2006 By Orson Scott Card
Love that book....
Could not put it down.
I’m wondering...if/since the president is invited to speak at the SOTU (technically) by the House of Representatives...too bad they can’t just rescind the invitation...
“I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.”
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Lemme guess, Orson:
You didn’t get it about the national security necessity of America kicking the ass of terrorist scum in their own backyard, even though the theme of your fictional construct in Ender’s Game, was defense against an alien attack.
You Lefties LOVE to throw out the hypocrite label. You are one.
You didn’t get it about the national security necessity of America kicking the ass of terrorist scum in their own backyard, even though the theme of your fictional construct in Ender’s Game, was defense against an alien attack.
You should have checked the link. He, unlike most rats, appreciates the Islamofascists for the threat they pose.
I think Card is a Democrat about like Victor Davis Hanson is a Democrat. They both hearken back to a time before the Dem party was taken over by the Communist Left.
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