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| Are You 'Them!'? VDH |
| 2012-02-06 |
| Our gas and oil reserves grow; China’s and Japan’s shrink. If I move to China, as a Scandinavian-looking white guy I will never be accepted as fully Chinese; if a Chinese moves here, he’s liable to run a company—or become president. Barack Obama and most of us would never make it as a president or prime minister in Japan or South Korea, or for that matter France. Mr. President, sermonize to others abroad, not to us at home, about judging people on the basis of “how they look”. In India or Brazil, Obama, as most of us, would be relegated to a caste. Yes, I am worried at the present desire to run up trillions of dollars in debt and redistribute income while ignoring the sources of traditional American material wealth. Yet I still see no reason to lead from behind. I accept no post-American anything—and am quite tired after three years of being lectured that I am supposed to. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #6 Coming to you in January |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-02-06 17:43 |
| #5 I'd accept a post-Obama anything though. Posted by European Conservative The "post-Obama" era; may I live long enough to see it in full bloom and splendor! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-02-06 16:53 |
| #4 "I accept no post-American anything" I'd accept a post-Obama anything though. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-02-06 07:34 |
| #3 IMO, just a bit disingenuous. VDH is an historian: he knows perfectly well what happened to Greek democracies and the Roman republic. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-02-06 04:56 |
| #2 "our mighty FearLess Leaders don't ask or teach or explain" What do you expect from a bunch of college academes. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2012-02-06 04:13 |
| #1 Uh, uh, THE GIANT ANTS FROM THE MOVIE???? Espec when too many of our mighty FearLess Leaders don't ask or teach or explain, etc. anything; or at best give out only minimal information - you know, LEADERSHIP! JOHN WAYNE = WAS AN ANT-ZILLA? D **** NG , I KNEW IT! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-06 00:29 |