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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Predictable Scandals - The media can no longer shield Obama from...
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | September 21, 2011 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/21/2011 2:25:07 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: allmendream

chuckle...


21 posted on 09/21/2011 5:41:21 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Travis McGee

“sold deadly automatic weapons”

I like VDH, but he needs to get his facts straight just like the liberal media. I don’t think there were any automatic weapons involved.


22 posted on 09/21/2011 5:45:08 PM PDT by suthener
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To: allmendream
VDH, eloquent and verbose as ever.

I have often wondered if Hanson talks this way at the dinner table, or down at the local Safeway.

I have also, at times, wondered if Henry Kissenger "negotiates" interludes with the Missus.

23 posted on 09/21/2011 5:55:30 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: shield

He’s been reading my posts


24 posted on 09/21/2011 5:58:28 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ....Rats carry plague)
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To: shield

Darryl Issa needs to be on that one like a chicken on a junebug.


25 posted on 09/21/2011 6:01:22 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Down here in Texas we say a duck on a junebug...but yes, I do agree.


26 posted on 09/21/2011 6:25:12 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: allmendream
..principle of liberal exemption from accountability ...

I like this phrase...

27 posted on 09/21/2011 7:19:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: neverdem
AttackWatch.com website, which lists pictures and names, in the glaring red-and-black style of an intelligence dossier, of those who have criticized Obama — juxtaposed with supposed rebuttals and a puerile request for readers to snoop about and send in more names of those who dare to oppose the president.

The STASI of East Germany were more subtle, than this. I guess Obama flunked that class. I wonder how many other classes he flunked. I would suspect Constitutional law was a bit difficult for him.

In a more serious thought, the idea of Attack Watch Com. is right out of the playbook of the old KGB except it is via the Internet and not radio, newspapers, movies and television. The concept that Obama would approve of this demonstrates two things:
1. He is totally divorced of reality in respect of what the American Voting public will tolerate.
2. His political beliefs have crossed the line from socialism to quasi Marxist, borderline Fascist, with Gestapo like actions to achieve his goals.

President Obama is not a good man.

28 posted on 09/21/2011 7:41:11 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Osage Orange
You just lost 1/4 of FReepers...using the words, "discourse, predilection, anachronistic, and facilitator!!

Hey look on the bright side, he lost 95% of the Huffington Post and 99% of attackwatch.com

29 posted on 09/21/2011 7:47:20 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: suthener
I like VDH, but he needs to get his facts straight just like the liberal media. I don’t think there were any automatic weapons involved.

Correct. However a hand held full Auto Weapon is "a bit of spray and pray. That is why the Army uses the M4 Carbine (follow link for details)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_carbine

The M4 is a select fire 1 round or 3 rounds per trigger pull. Thus the soldier does not waste precious ammo on poorly aimed shots that full auto will cause.

Please note that full auto from a BAR, or 50 caliber M2 will ruin your whole day.

30 posted on 09/21/2011 8:01:03 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: kabar
Don't ask. Modern education at work.
31 posted on 09/21/2011 8:11:09 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Osage Orange
You just lost 1/4 of FReepers...using the words, "discourse, predilection, anachronistic, and facilitator!!

Eschew obfuscation!

32 posted on 09/21/2011 8:19:39 PM PDT by shortstop (It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful)
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To: neverdem
AttackWatch.com website, which lists pictures and names, in the glaring red-and-black style of an intelligence dossier, of those who have criticized Obama — juxtaposed with supposed rebuttals and a puerile request for readers to snoop about and send in more names of those who dare to oppose the president.

The STASI of East Germany were more subtle, than this. I guess Obama flunked that class. I wonder how many other classes he flunked. I would suspect Constitutional law was a bit difficult for him.

In a more serious thought, the idea of Attack Watch Com. is right out of the playbook of the old KGB except it is via the Internet and not radio, newspapers, movies and television. The concept that Obama would approve of this demonstrates two things:
1. He is totally divorced of reality in respect of what the American Voting public will tolerate.
2. His political beliefs have crossed the line from socialism to quasi Marxist, borderline Fascist, with Gestapo like actions to achieve his goals.

President Obama is not a good man.

33 posted on 09/21/2011 8:24:19 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: neverdem

One of the things I like about reading VDH and Mark Steyn is that along with a nice vivisection of the subject matter they will also use words above the fourth grade vocabulary level. They are writing for literate adults and it shows.


34 posted on 09/21/2011 8:36:16 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Can we ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Easily. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.)
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To: neverdem

The Media isn’t bamboozeled. They’re complicit. They’re on the same team.

If you meet reporters they are consistently:

1. College grads, reporting is so challenging that you need an advanced degree to do it.

2. Arrogant and elitist.

3. Losers whose means of control and status is information.

4. In combination with the above, they are conspirators with liberalism, desperate to be aloof insiders.

Every reporter I know is like that.


35 posted on 09/22/2011 2:15:33 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: rightwingcrazy

He’s saving Sisyphean for another article.


36 posted on 09/22/2011 2:17:00 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: cpdiii
Hey look on the bright side, he lost 95% of the Huffington Post and 99% of attackwatch.com

Test yourself!

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

37 posted on 09/22/2011 5:52:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

Dang, i missed one.


38 posted on 09/22/2011 6:14:02 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: RobinOfKingston

I doubt if VDH talks like this - but I think he rather effortlessly and as a matter of habit - WRITES that way.

Old habits die hard - and many a University professor rewards the adroit use of an expansive vocabulary. ;)

But they might mark you down if THEY have to look the word up - so it can certainly be overdone.


39 posted on 09/22/2011 8:07:46 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

VDH is just simply the best.


40 posted on 09/22/2011 8:28:35 AM PDT by bfree (The revolution is coming - OBAMI IS THE ENEMY OF FREEDOM)
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