Posted on 10/20/2008 2:28:46 PM PDT by jazusamo
Telling a friend that the love of his life is a phony and dangerous is not likely to get him to change his mind. But it may cost you a friend.
It is much the same story with true believers in Barack Obama. They have made up their minds and not only don't want to be confused by the facts, they resent being told the facts.
An e-mail from a reader mentioned trying to tell his sister why he was voting against Obama but, when he tried to argue some facts, she cut him short: "You don't like him and I do!" she said. End of discussion.
When one thinks of all the men who have put their lives on the line in battle to defend and preserve this country, it is especially painful to think that there are people living in the safety and comfort of civilian life who cannot be bothered to find out the facts about candidates before voting to put the fate of this nation, and of generations yet to come, in the hands of someone chosen because they like his words or style.
Of the four people running for President and Vice President on the Republican and Democratic tickets, the one we know the least about is the one leading in the polls — Barack Obama.
Some of Senator Obama's most fervent supporters could not tell you what he has actually done on such issues as crime, education, or financial institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, much less what he plans to do to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear nation supplying nuclear weapons to the international terrorist networks that it has supplied with other weapons.
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Sowell nails it again.
If only the press had the intellectual integrity of Sowell.
It’s American Idol time in the MSM.
Imagine that you’re Thomas Sowell, one of the smartest, most accomplished men on the planet, watching a train wreck like 0bama moving toward the Presidency with nothing in his background but a couple of ghost-written books.
If only Colin Powell had the intellectual integrity of Thomas Sowell.....
(Of course, he's not a real black man, so it doesn't count. [rolls eyes])
Yep, the leftists don’t consider him a black man, he’s just a threat to them.
Thanks for the ping jaz. Not a single useage in the article of the word “Socialist”, and the only reference to “Communist” was not directed at Obama, yet this well written article states quite emphatically that what most of his followers don’t understand, or seemingly don’t want to know is that Obama is a S.........../C...........
Need to “change” the “O” to unemployed.
Thomas Sowell is an asset to America.
A rare asset.
Unless Obama and dems are very thorough about subverting all our freedoms if and when he wins...(and indeed, we know what a disaster Obama would be), the fall out would be: a backlash against ever electing another black for President. It would be like Reconstruction era all over again, and that’s sad because there are plenty of qualified blacks. But their names aren’t Obama, Jackson, or Maxine Waters.
Absolutely! If he's employed in the White House he will unemploy millions in this country.
Well said and on the mark.
Liberals never pay heed to the facts.. or history. Their road to hell is paved with “good intentions”
That was my thought!
Dr. Sowell might possibly feel the same sort of emotion that Einstein felt when Szilard told him that Hitler could make a nuclear bomb.
Absolutely. I’ve got a couple of family members who respond exactly that way. They say there’s absolutely no evidence that he’s in the least Marxist and then more or less put their fingers in their ears. They are smitten with who they believe Obama to be and who they believe themselves to be for supporting him.
Brilliant.
It's also like trying to deprogram someone involved with a mind control cult.
Or breaking the news that they have become involved with a marketing scam.
At this point in the ballgame, I do wonder if an attempt at secession would be prudent—even though we are in a nuclear age and I’m pretty sure I would be branded as a kook or an extremist.
Have too many of us been suckling from the government sow that we’re going to give into this?
That "change" brought on a totalitarian regime that made the czars' despotism look like child's play. The Communists killed more people in one year than the czars killed in more than 90 years, not counting the millions who died in a government-created famine in the 1930s.
Other despotic regimes in China, Cuba, and Iran were similarly replaced by people who promised "change" that turned out to be even worse than what went before.
Yet many today seem to assume that if things are bad, "change" will make them better. Specifics don't interest them nearly as much as inspiring rhetoric and a confident style. But many 20th century leaders with inspiring rhetoric and great self-confidence led their followers or their countries into utter disasters."
All excellent points by Dr. Sowell. We shouldn't forget that "change" was also the slogan of Clinton's first campaign in addition to the mantra, "It's the economy stupid." Of course, it's a theme that must be defined, because as we all know, and the Doctor points out, change is frequently negative, though for most people it has a positive connotation.
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