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The core of CA's problem: a particular class, largely coastal, professional, and liberal, believes utopia is nearly here, if we just impose more regulation, higher taxes on businesses, and more environmental legislation. They have not a clue how others pump oil or gas, grow food, and produce lumber, only that they like driving, like eating, and like nice houses, but are not particularly interested in the grubby Neanderthals who allow that to happen.
...Ya know, I don't think the WaPo ever even turned on Jimmy Carter. And if they did, they sure as hell didn't do it this quickly. Now, it should be noted that this is an op-ed, and not the paper's official position (not yet, anyways) - but if this is even being discussed at the WaPo, one of the nation's most reliably liberal papers, then the Obama team will be headed into the bunker momentarily.....
Mike
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11/13/2010 10:21 ||
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And so it begins.
drip...drip...drip...drip...drip...
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Friends of Bill and Hillary, no doubt. They are behind a LOT of the Obama erosion. Several major newspapers, the tabloids, a lot of the broadcast media and others would be more than happy to undermine and sabotage Obama if it would give Hillary another crack at it.
Yep. There's a lot of fear that whatever gains made on the progressive front are, or will be in, jeopardy. Meaning that the chances of a "reasonable liberal" getting into the White House will be much diminished.
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Just because it's being done by the FOB/H doesn't mean it isn't correct ...
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/13/2010 14:50 Comments ||
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The key move will be when Shrillary resigns to "spend more time with the family".
That will be the signal for open season on the Obamanation.
Any bets on who else will take a shot at this loser?
Posted by: Alan Cramer ||
11/13/2010 15:14 Comments ||
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For starters, Howard Dean, and Hillary. Probables include John Kerry, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi if she loses Minority Leader. Several others have been too compromised by their close working relationship with Zero, like Janet Napolitano. Maybe one of the retiring Dem Senators as well.
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Note that the authors were pollsters for James Earl Carter and BJ Clinton.
Note that the most recent one term Presidents have faced primary challenges, Johnson/McCarthy, Ford/Reagan, Carter/Kennedy and Bush/Buchannan.
This article is an implicit threat; withdraw or we run a primary opponent. Once again, the Black has to go under the bus for the good of the Democrat party.
What will it take for them to get a clue? Only the Jews vote as consistently against their group interest. And if those two groups did not vote so consistently monolithicly, we'd have a much healthier two party system.
Howard Dean is the easy pick, but he's a re-tread and we're all tired of the yarrgh video. Note that the two Democrat challenges were mounted by safely ensconsed senators. Candidates? Tom Harkin, Michael Bennett, one of the Udalls.
This article is an implicit threat; withdraw or we run a primary opponent.
I had not considered that possibility at all...this takes on a whole new angle, then - the possbility of a flat-out civil war within the Democratic Party would destroy its chances for the next decade or so, just the way it did when Carter had to fight off Kennedy in '80. Not of course, that Reagan wasn't the better candidate, but it went a long way towards leaving the Donks disorganized and demoralized. Which leads to the thought that a Republican victory in 2012 could offer the possbility of a Reagan-like opportunity to rebuild things here.
Mike
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11/13/2010 16:33 Comments ||
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Most all of those mentioned are retreads or thoroughly LObamatized. That's one of the problems with the Dem party. They don't have a good farm system. On the 'pub side you get Palins and Jindals and Christies, a new look with a new vibe.
Maybe Chuckles Shumer?
Posted by: Alan Cramer ||
11/13/2010 16:53 Comments ||
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There is a civil war going on in the donkateria.
Look at the San Fran Nan succession plan (the black has to go under the bus).
And this transition is a major generational shift. All the donk leaders are over 70. The New Left-Far Left pre-boomers (Silent Generation - the only generation that did not produce a President of the US) will not give up the controls of donkdom.
The GenX clean-up crew took over trunkdom after the McCain debacle. This is a more difficult transition for the in-power donks that will put the ass behind the 8-ball for a generation. Popcorn, please.
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they could pull somebody in who's wayyyy over their head with no business experience, a narcissistic vanity, lefty socialist academia social ring...
oh.....wait.
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/13/2010 17:01 Comments ||
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Chuckles is a possibility, but it's hard to take him seriously as a challenger. Neither the self-righteousness of Clean Gene nor the lese-majeste of Teddy the submarine driver. He seems like one of the old bulls more interested in getting Harry's job than trying to actually do something. But then, of the challengers, only Reagan ever did anything.
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Nimble says: but it's hard to take him seriously as a challenger
Given my proclivities it is impossible for me to take any of them seriously. Can anyone name a Donkrat under 60 that would be a realistic candidate?
Posted by: Alan Cramer ||
11/13/2010 20:33 Comments ||
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Chuckles was positioning hisself for Harry Reid's spot. SonovabitchReid won.
Dilemmas. Schumer is not attractive on a national stage. He knows that
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/13/2010 20:43 Comments ||
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A lot will depend on the candidate the Republicans will be running.
At this point a credible Republican candidate will destroy Obama's hopes, but also Hillary's to run in 2016.
The Clintons may be despicable but they are smart. Hillary has been "loyal". Next year she'll just need a good reason to fall out with Obama, better a reason that moderate Democrats and some Republicans find acceptable.
Given the stellar competence of Obama's foreign policy, that reason shouldn't be hard to find.
Then we talk.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
11/13/2010 21:05 Comments ||
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Bad as we might think the current Pak regime is, I suspect most alternatives would be worse.
Riedel: Pakistan today is already in the midst of a small scale civil war. Last year 25,000 Pakistanis were killed or wounded in terrorism-related violence, and that's just civilians. That's three times the number of civilians killed or wounded in Afghanistan in the same year. It is a very fragile, very volatile and very combustible country right now. In many ways it is the strategic prize in this whole equation. What happens in Afghanistan will have huge ramifications for what happens in Pakistan. A jihadist victory in Afghanistan would have enormous reverberations and could even signal a take over by jihadist forces in Pakistan.
And not being trapped in a school where peer pressure to fail is a factor.
Maybe those with poor attitudes should just be dumped rather than letting them influence the other kids.
And if parents don't have an education and can't support their kids, they need access to some kind of assistance to help them with their homework outside of normal school hours. Maybe even via the web or something.
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if parents don't have an education and can't support their kids
I've seen parents with virtually no education whose kids excelled - the lack of education did not prevent the parents from supporting their kids, it motivated them to. The kids learn the material from the teacher, they learn the attitude from the parents.
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And it's not far lower than I expected. But the gap is closing. The rest of the non-Asian kids are catching up - er down - to the black ones in attitude and accomplishment.
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You get more of what you subsidize. In this case, the racism of low expectations for generations. To a degree, a self inflicted wound sustained by faux charges of 'racism' to standards and discipline from the very same community.
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Maybe those with poor attitudes should just be dumped rather than letting them influence the other kids.
One of the lessons learned and then too often forgotten from the nadir of our military in the post-Vietnam period to its rebuilding in the 80s, was that it is better to have only 7 men in a 10 man squad than 10 men with 3 who create trouble and discipline problems that take away from the training and development of everyone.
Back in ancient times we had something called the 'boys industrial school' for those for whom normal school was developmentally impractical.
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The report urges convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors.
And the solution, as always, is another high level conference and throwing even more money twoards a "new" program.
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The report urges convening a White House conference, encouraging Congress to appropriate more money for schools and establishing networks of black mentors.
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How is this a surprise when the bar is set low for minorities, they are told they are the victims, when they are allowed to advance in grades even though they are far from qualified and they are steeped in a culture where failure and leeching off society is encouraged and supported?
Liberals made the swamp, but the minorities are wallowing in it. Take away the gravy train hand out, hold them accountable and encourage self promotion and exemplify the ones that have those traits. Those that can't or won't will not be part of our society.
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I've seen parents with virtually no education whose kids excelled - the lack of education did not prevent the parents from supporting their kids, it motivated them to. The kids learn the material from the teacher, they learn the attitude from the parents.
Mr. Wife's parents are quite bright, but his French-Canadian mother dropped out of school at fifteen, married at seventeen, and had two children by the time she was nineteen. (His father graduated from high school, then went to work in the steel plant). Despite active discouragement by her husband's family, she drove both of her children to do well in school and go to college -- Mr. Wife earnt a BS in chemical engineering, his sister got an associate degree in secretarial science.
It is indeed all about the parents' attitude, not their level of education.
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Its cultural. Those who wish to achieve are torn down for not being "black", called "poindexter", taunted for "trying to be white", etc.
Its the "cab bucket" syndrome: When a single crab is put into a lidless bucket, they can escape. However, when a bunch are in the bucket, none can get out. If one crab tries to escape the others will grab this crab and drag'em back down to share the mutual fate of the rest of the group.
Blacks must stand up and break the dependency culture they have imposed on themselves with the help of Liberals. Or else they remain enslaved no matter what any of the rest of us do. Many of our forebears fought to liberate them, either in war, or in the civil rights movement.
Time for blacks to stand up instead of stooping like a slave - we cannot do that for them, they have to break those mental chains themselves.
It seems that in black culture, failure and utter abject dependence upon others is the only accepted pattern in the press and popular culture. Blacks are slaves, and continue to put the chains on themselves. The word they themselves use in their culture for one another is "Nigger". Its such a hateful word, yet they use it in self reference.
Don't like that word? Do not be one. Stand up - we have cleared the path, and opened opportunities. But you have to do it yourself, because we as a society cannot do that for you.
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Another failing of the educational system is dealing with the half of the population that is below average. Not everyone can benefit from a college education, or needs to go there, except for making a diploma an arbitrary and needlessly expensive ticket to punch. Yet there is still a lot of work that can be done without performing high on the SAT's.
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half of the population that is below average
Not in Lake Wobegone, MN - where every child is above average. Pretty sure that same liberal 'logic' has now been applied nationally.
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dealing with the half of the population that is below average
If I understand correctly, about two thirds of the population is within one standard deviation of the 100 IQ mean, ie 100+15 points. To me this statement, coupled with arguments that the error bar around an individual IQ score is +10 points, suggests strongly that it's not even one third of the population that is "below average". But then, statistics is not one of my strengths, so perhaps someone who properly understands such things would be willing to explain it better.
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TW, IQ is normally distributed. For normal distribution the mean (average) is also the median (divides into two halves). Which led John Campbell, Jr. to saying
"A liberal = somebody who do not accepts that half of American children have below average intelligence."
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