Melanie Phillips: "As I have said before, I do not trust McCain; I think his judgment is erratic and impetuous, and sometimes wrong. But on the big picture, he gets it. He will defend America and the free world whereas Obama will undermine them and aid their enemies.....Here’s why. McCain believes in protecting and defending America as it is. Obama tells the world he is ashamed of America and wants to change it into something else."
Labels: politics
posted by Helen at 11:16 AM
23 Comments:
Those who participated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were an incredibly brave lot. That type of intestinal fortitude no longer exists in this nation with the overwhelming majority. Left or right.
Are we afraid to lose what we have, and therefore take the incremental assaults, perhaps hoping someone, somewhere, will make things right someday?
My daughter puts it into focus (God I love my kids) with the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water. Drop a frog in a pot and turn on the heat slowly. He'll stay there and cook. Drop him into a boiling pot of water, and of course he'll jump right out.
I never thought of myself as a chicken before.
Isn't it lovely to come across views that match our own biases?
I don't know how well you know Ms Philips but I'd suggest she isn't the most credible of commentators. She ranks amongst that most dangerous breed of "stupid intellectual".
The danger of such people is that they are fearless in the certainty of their positions (everybody else doesn't get it), and secondly that they can broadcast their idiocy in terms that are seductive to those easily swayed or predicated to their position (i.e. they can sound authoritative).
The most unpleasant farago she has been involved in in the UK I believe was support of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism in one of our more right wing newspapers. Despite an obviously limited understanding of causal relationships and the nature of credible scientific evidence she banged the drum that spread fear amongst parents concerning vaccination (http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001477.html).
The weight of evidence against the initial Wakefield study and a gross relationship is now so great as to be overwhelming. I believe the latest study was published earlier this year. I have yet to hear Ms Philips recant or apologize for the fear she fostered or for her part in the rise in measles cases seen subsequently. She obviously had more important issues to pronounce on such as Barak Obama.......
Well, Melanie Phillips paints an accurate picture of the stark choice between the two candidates, but she misses the salient point.
Let's assume Obama wins and governs as she fears. How long does she expect the American people to put up with it? I'd say, not very long, maybe six months to two years at the most.
On the other hand, let's assume McCain win and governs as I fear. How long do I expect the American people to put up with it? Six months to two years at the most.
The Founding Fathers were brilliant in their construction of the American system. In the end, the people will always win out. The people will always get the government they elect, but do not always, and in fact seldom do, get the government they deserve.
So it's very simple really. The people elect a government, don't like it, then vote it out.
The American people have more money, more guns and more resources than the entire rest of the world combined. Thus, we can and will handle whatever the ill winds of fate throw at us, even that of our own ill-considered choosing.
To my mind, it doesn't really matter who the President is. No matter what the President says or does, no matter how the President says it or does it, everyone is going to bitch about it.
Only one thing remains constant, free people and their fight against tyranny.
However this election works out, and come what may, in the end the American people will survive.
God bless America.
If I am not mistaken autism is on the rise world wide, marimba. I read that only recently, and can't remember where.
As you are brand new, with the ink still wet on your profile, and I your only profile viewer, I do wonder what axe you may have to grind.
gawainsghost, I would have no second thoughts about sharing a fox hole with you should time and circumstance create.
GawainsGhost --
You and I agree.
Uh, Dr. Helen.....your good friend....your chum Kathleen Parker, that pristine specimen of pro-Male exhortation......... has gone completely off the deep-end !
http://townhall.com/KathleenParker/2008/10/24/mavericks_tragic_flaw
"My husband called it first, Then, a brilliant 75-year-old scholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine: "I'm sexually attracted to her. I don't care that she knows nothing."---Kathleen Parker
"As my husband observed early on, McCain the mortal couldn't mind having an attractive woman all but singing arias to his greatness. Cameras frequently capture McCain beaming like a gold-starred schoolboy while Palin tells crowds that he is "exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief."
----Kathleen Parker
(Isn't that terrible? I guess Kathleen Parker would rather McCain grimace or scowl during a rally ?)
(Clearly Kathleen Parker grew alarmed by her husband's confessions, and now Parker's become unhinged over a woman isn't qualified because she's too pretty.)
(If Kathleen Parker is having trouble in her marriage, why is she going on drinking lunches with 75-year-old men ????)
(By the way, the title of the article was changed. Get aload of this: In the National Review the byline is "Tragic Flaw: Man". In Townhall it's changed to "Maverick's Tragic Flaw". Hmmmm, I guess Kathleen Parker, who claims to be such a proponent for Men's Rights...didn't want to come off as insulting all men....even though that's exactly what her nonsense diatribes agains Palin's excessive attractiveness...do. It's an indictment of all Men. THIS is an advocate for Men's rights ????? )
Those who participated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were an incredibly brave lot.
Truer than many realize. George Washington, Charles Carroll (considered the wealthiest person in the colonies), Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and almost all those other guys were wealthy with everything to lose and little to gain materially. Should they have failed at their task, they certainly would have been put to death.
Today we have politicians who's main goal is to pass earmarks and bailouts to enrich their friends and cronies while maintaining power and status as long as possible. To his credit, McCain has never proposed an earmark. Obama passed a $1 million earmark to his wife's employer. Expect no courage from him.
A Freudian slip? I meant frog. At least I think I did.
I never thought of myself as a "frog" before.
I need to proof read what I write before I send it. I never do that.
Let's assume Obama wins and governs as she fears. How long does she expect the American people to put up with it? I'd say, not very long, maybe six months to two years at the most.
This ignores government stasis. We didn't really get rid of either the New Deal or the Great Society, though the politicians involved are long dead. If Obama governs as I fear, the effect will be permanent in that sense. An Obama presidency gives license to organizations like ACORN; with them on the case, we may not be able to vote out his accomplices in Congress.
ACORN has already been put out there. We all saw the huge announcement in the "first" bailout. What has been done besides a little bitching? Notta.
And as far as I know, the no doc sub prime loans are still available - provided one is a big enough credit risk to qualify, with a few other particulars involved. Can anyone verify that either way? Just wondering....
"Let's assume Obama wins and governs as she fears. How long does she expect the American people to put up with it? I'd say, not very long, maybe six months to two years at the most."
Let's also not underestimate the power of the media to make people book good or bad. It took Clinton two years to make such a mess he costs his entire party power after decades of dominance of the legislative branch. Yet, two years later, he got credit for everything good that happened (only after his opponents took over) and was positioned for reelection with the help of the media.
Also, McCain has been a republican media darling for a long time, but he's learning the painful truth that he's only a darling when he sticks his thumb in a republicans eye. He's been a huge critic of the president for years, yet now the media acts like the "McBush" image is fact.
The media will campaign for Obama. Groups like the ACLU and NAACP will paint any criticism as racist, whether it is or isn't.
Not to mention, as another poster said, while we all know the Great Society was a mess, it still exists.
Our country is above to change for the worse, again.
One more thing about Clinton is how effectively he positions himself all over the place. When he signs something, he says he's against it but going to change it. When he vetoes something, he says he's for it, but he had to vetoe it to protect us from republicans. And, like a dog returning to its own vomit, the media just licks it up. And their infatuation with Clinton is drawed by their Obamarama.
I believe the bailout includes a provision that 4.2 percent of all mortgages be reserved for organizations like Acorn. The Demonrat scam continues.
@davod
True. This mess can be traced back to the Clinton administration's pressing for subprime mortgages. Yet, it has somehow been painted as the sole fault of Bush, people are nostalgic for the Clinton years, and the democrats who caused it are benefiting from it.
Sickening.
"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people...." New York Times September 30, 1999
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
In doing a little research, it appears the following are all populated by democrats:
The Senate Banking Committee.
Subcommittees of the U.S. Senate on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and Subcommittee Chair.
The House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittees, and Sub Committe Chair.
Many of the names have recently come up - a lot, as we all know.
But it's Bush's fault.
Phillips and Krauthammer are correct. Obama is at best an empty vessel. At worse, if you read his books and assess any value to his associations, he is a closet Marxist.
I do not use the word Marxist lightly. His whole background points in this direction and it is telling that even his more experienced supporters are relying upon him not enacting the more extreme portion of his agenda.
I have problems with McCain, but he is not an admitted socialist. Senator Obama is. The link will take you to a 2001 interview in which he criticizes the Constitution for not being pro-government and the Warren court for not being liberal enough.
Lots of wealth redistribution here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
So given the choice, hell, if you understand Senator Obama's positions, there is no choice.
Trey
Please cite where Obama tells the world he is ashamed of America and wants to change it into something else.
Regardless of ones politics or who they support, is anyone else, especially Democrats, troubled by the fact that the mainstream media taught us more about Joe the Plumber's background (for simply asking a presidential candidate if he would raise his taxes, fair question) than they have a democratic presidential candidate.
I know Hannity scrutinizes Obama, Colmes does to McCain, etc., but those are commentators and opinionists. I'm talking reporters.
85cc免費影片sex520免費影片視訊聊天室 交友網sex520免費影片aa的滿18歲影片85cc免費影城BT成人85cc免費影城免費ava片線上看免費av18禁影片85cc免費影城 aa免費看成人影城BT成人aaaaa片俱樂部影片免費av18禁影片日本免費a片sex520免費影片線上免費a片免費線上a片微風成人影片色咪咪影片網sex520免費影片微風成人SEX520免費影片嘟嘟情人色網aaaaa片俱樂部影片av1688影音娛樂網aa免費看85cc免費影片※免費線上 a 電影直播※aaa片免費看短片微風成人區免費色咪咪影片免費av18禁影片嘟嘟成年人網免費ava片線上看免費影片微風成人 線上a片色色網癡漢俱樂部aa片免費看SEX520免費影片免費色咪咪影片網,a片線上免費看AA片免費看SEX520免費影片sex520免費影片85cc免費影片日本美女寫真集免費視訊聊天SEX520免費影片BT成人論壇情色論壇a片線上看aa片免費看色情遊戲百分百貼影片區080苗栗人聊天室SEX520免費影片百分百貼影片區sex520免費影片sex520免費影片※免費a長片※金瓶影片交流區☆♀ 免費網友自拍影片 ☆♀ 日本av女優色色網免費a片免費a片觀賞SEX520免費影片383成人影城85cc免費影城&甜心寶貝直播貼片&av女優王國免費視訊聊天室視訊交友90739sex888影片分享SEX520免費影片85cc免費影城BT成人論壇免費av18禁影片 台灣a片王免費色咪咪影片 台灣a片王小魔女自拍天堂日本成人短片線上免費a片 a片區卡通a片線上免費A片女人色色網sex520免費影片aa的18歲影片kk777視訊俱樂部成人卡通電影免費視訊-聊天室線上a片情色貼圖網080豆豆聊天室嘟嘟成人網站Hotsee免費視訊交友免費A影片直播免費貼圖區航海王h短片分享免費下載電影尋夢園聊天室※免費觀看視訊辣妹脫衣秀※HI5 TV免費影片aaaaa片俱樂部影片85cc免費影片a片線上免費看色色網 台灣a片王日本線上免費a片☆♀ 成人電影下載 ☆♀aa影片下載城線上a片av無碼女優成人動畫免費看影片免費下載後宮電影院情人視訊高雄網85cc免費影城aaaaa片俱樂部影片SEX520免費影片夜未眠成人影城線上85cc免費影城 小瓢蟲情色論壇美女短片免費看383成人影城免費色咪咪影片日本美女寫真集正妹視訊 聊天室線上a片卡通a片女優色情自拍交友視訊夜未眠成人影城sex520免費影片微風成人區線上免費a片網 星光情色討論版aa的18歲影片台灣kiss 情色網色情網站免費色咪咪影片a片線上看aa片免費看※免費檳榔西施摸奶影片※色咪咪影片網 嘟嘟kiss情色網情色網站watchshow TV情色視訊交友38ga片 台灣情色論壇免費色情a片天堂
視訊做愛視訊美女無碼A片情色影劇kyo成人動漫tt1069同志交友網ut同志交友網微風成人論壇6k聊天室日本 avdvd 介紹免費觀賞UT視訊美女交友..........................
情色影片情色貼片美女視訊18禁地少女遊戲巨乳童顏巨乳玩美女人影音秀視訊美女情色視訊bt論壇色情自拍s101成人大喇叭免費視訊視訊聊天kk777視訊俱樂部18禁成人網ut影音視訊聊天室13077ut男同志聊天室免費視訊聊天aio交友愛情館免費視訊辣妹脫衣秀視訊交友90739視訊交友網
Post a Comment
<< Home