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The Real Obama: Part IV
The Real Obama: Part III
The Real Obama: Part II
The Real Obama
Do Facts Matter?
Idols of Crowds
Changes in Politics
Whose “Special Interests”?
The Galbraith Effect
…As Well As Several Other Issues
Are Facts Obsolete?
Conservatives for Obama?
Cocky Ignorance
Obama and McCain
Irrelevant Apologies
Success Built on Work Ethic
An Old Newness
A Living Lie
Obama’s Speech
Race and Politics
Non-Judgmental Nonsense
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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.
(Of course, he's not a real black man, so it doesn't count. [rolls eyes])
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.
Liberals never pay heed to the facts.. or history. Their road to hell is paved with “good intentions”
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.
The very SECOND you raise a question about their "Hero", their eyes glaze over and they turn on you like a snake.
This includes all races and even family members.
What amazes me about this is the similarity to Hitler and scores of other despots who rose to power in history.
They just couldn't see it coming!
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BTTT for good Sowell columns on Obama. Of course, all his columns on Obama are good.
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"The presumed irrationality of the public is a pattern running through many, if not most or all, of the great crusades of the anointed in the twentieth century--regardless of the subject matter of the crusade or the field in which it arises. Whether the issue has been 'overpopulation,' Keynesian economics, criminal justice, or natural resource exhaustion, a key assumption has been that the public is so irrational that the superior wisdom of the anointed must be imposed, in order to avert disaster. The anointed do not simply happen to have a disdain for the public. Such disdain is an integral part of their vision, for the central feature of that vision is preemption of the decisions of others."
The Vision of the Annointed by Thomas Sowell
Voting for “change” in this election is like voting out the fire dept and “changing” things by voting in the band of arsonists that the fire fighters were not always successful at stopping. OK, the fire fighters should have done better, but what exactly does anyone think the replacements will do?
Approx. 23 years ago I lost my best friend after getting into an argument about our partying/drinking habits while driving home late one night from a bar. He took offense to my comments about us having a drinking problem and we parted ways.......
He's dead now after first losing his house then his small tool and die shop. Jimbo was the life of the party but unfortunately booze, coke and partying got the best of him...............RIP man, I really miss you.