Posted on 10/17/2008 3:43:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
In May, I had a talk with my nephew, who is in the same career field that I am. He insisted that women get treated equally in business and have a fair shake. I couldn't persuade him that it may not be true for most women.
I'm going to check with him again now that he has seen how Sarah Palin has been treated by the so-called intelligentsia.
I wish Thomas Sowell were running to become the first black president instead of this Boz0.
An intellect reminiscent of America’s Founders—perceptive and wise. Oh, how someone like him is needed in the halls of government!
Maybe the Jewish community will actually vote for Mccain once the curtain is drawn. If I was threatened by the democrats, I would tell them one thing and vote another to literally save my butt! They have to see that obama is a grave threat to them. This is why I so believe that Mccain is going to win. I believe that God will step in and defend Israel once again.
Maybe it's because Alaska has fewer people than most medium-sized cities here in the lower 48? After all, Obama has at least lived in a large city, right? That must count for a whole lot of experience in their book...
I would sure think the Jewish community would see BO as a threat to Israel, hopefully they’ll swing to McCain/Palin.
Senator Biden's "experience" has been a long history of being on the wrong side of issue after issue in foreign policy. He was one of those Senators who voted to pull the plug on financial aid to South Vietnam, which was still defending itself from Communist invaders after the pullout of American troops.
Biden opposed Ronald Reagan's military buildup that helped win the Cold War. He opposed the surge in Iraq last year.
McCain missed a golden opportunity the other night when he was asked if he thought Biden was qualified to step in and be president. Unfortunately his senatorial buddy-buddy instincts got the best of him...again.
Thank you for the ping, Jazusamo. Our Mr. Sowell sounds right fine. :)
Whatever the shortcomings of John McCain and Sarah Palin, they are people whose values are the values of this nation, whose loyalty and dedication to this country's fundamental institutions are beyond question because they have not spent decades working with people who hate America. Nor are they people whose judgments have been proved wrong consistently during decades of Beltway "experience."
It is crucial at this time for conservatives to stick together and rally behind Senator McCain and Governor Palin. Now is not the time to go on at length about their shortcomings. They get enough of that from the leftist MSM. Dr. Sowell gets it, unlike too many conservative pundits, commentators and thinkers.
Me too. : )
being Vice President is a job that can allow a lot of time for studying, and everything about Governor Palin's career says that she is a bright [and moral and decisive and energetic] gal with her head on straight. The country needs that far more than it needs people with glib answers to media "gotcha" questions.
Big Journalism is about criticism rather than about performance. There are, as has been documented amply, amazing parallels between Sarah Palin and Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt could easily have been looking at the press gallery when he delivered these famous lines:There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
More rinsing.
It is clear that conservatives who are a part of Big Journalism are certainly NOT on our side. With comments by so many of them this election season, particularly regarding Governor Palin and Senator McCain's most recent debate for instance, that reality is crystal clear. They'd rather be negative and help Obama (and their own careers by appealing to their fellow journalists) than temper their negativity with postive commentary and help their country.
Big Journalism is about negativity. Nobody who is conservative can ever have the title of "objective journalist," because in Newspeak the meaning of "objectivity" and "liberalism" is identical - they are distinguished only by their proper usage. "Objective" is always applied to journalists, and "liberal" never is, whereas "liberal" is applied to people who agree with journalists but do not have jobs as journalists, and "objective" never is.
So wouldn’t Obama....
Common sense so eloquently written!
Thank you for your comments. I've been aware of the above since Reagan campaigned for the presidency.
But during THIS presidential campaign season, I am appalled by the number of conservative journalists who have joined the left in criticizing the Republican nominees, and giving the Democratic nominees a free pass. For instance, despite the many boldfaced lies Obama told during the last debate, in answer to John McCain's criticism (never mind that Senator McCain finally fought back and attempted to expose the REAL Obama), those lies were completely ignored by the conservative Fox News commentators. Instead, they criticized McCain's criticism of Obama, stating McCain wasn't detailed enough, didn't take it far enough and didn't "close the deal." Conservative or Liberal, few of the members of the MSM were at all fair to, or objective of, McCain and Obama. The picture they painted of McCain's performance was far too negative and of Obama's performance was far too positive. And it seems the nearer we draw to the end of the campaign, the more conservative journalists jump on the bandwagon of their leftist counterparts.
Hence forth, I will refer to most journalists, pundits and commentators on the left as leftists. They ceased being "Liberal" long ago.
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