VDH is right on target with this one. Barry’s whole presidency is about appealing to the worst in people and transforming a democracy into a mobocracy - which is nothing but a dictatorship run by an individual through a mob that is too frenzied to realize how it is being used.
Victor Davis Hanson: Thoughts About Depressed Americans
Victor Davis Hanson: Bush Did It. What a difference an election makes [Brilliant Parody]
Now You Tell Us, Mr. President!
Victor Davis Hanson: Dr. Obama: First, Do No Harm. Let nature do its work
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Nope - there were no balanced budgets during the Clinton years.
According to the Bureau of the Public Debt, the last year the National Debt did not increase was 1957.
The deficit dropped to "only" $20 billion one year late in the Clinton administration, but it was still a deficit.
Hanson's generally better than that.
comments on Drudge story about death threats being made against AIF families “WE WILL GET YOUR CHILDREN”
From “nd”, a zeroBama voter and Dodd constituent
QUOTE:
Stop the threats, just take their homes away, an eye for an eye! As an Obama supporter I am disappointed. Where’s the change? Looks like politics as usual. Let AIG and those other dirtbag companies go under, they’ve been stealing our money for years anyway and living high on the hog with their lavish lifestyles. Bail out us hardworking people who need help directly (middle and lower class) then you will see change!Stop the threats, just take their homes away, an eye for an eye! As an Obama supporter I am disappointed. Where’s the change? Looks like politics as usual. Let AIG and those other dirtbag companies go under, they’ve been stealing our money for years anyway and living high on the hog with their lavish lifestyles. Bail out us hardworking people who need help directly (middle and lower class) then you will see change!
END QUOTE
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/AIG-Threats-We-will-get-your-children.html
Actually, just an Aristotelian or two would help.
Someone needs to get the Obammunists' θυμος under control and directing things back toward ἀρετή and εὐδαιμονία in accord with natural law in the sense the Founders intended. There is a λόγος deficiency in Washington right now probably from the dumbed-down secular humanist Deweyite NEA education that has taken over the schools. Good time to recenter conservative philosophy.
"...die Eule der Minerva beginnt erst mit der einbrechenden Dämmerung ihren Flug."
And instead, we have Alfred E. Newmann
BTTT