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2008-10-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2008-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 The collectivist dream, Obama instinctively understands, is less scary, more sympathetic, when served up by mama (or by mama in drag).

excellent article.

Posted by Betty 2008-10-06 05:11|| 2008-10-06 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama reminds me in some ways of JFK - charismatic, widely hailed as brilliant but with no track record of achievement, representing a new demographic in the highest echelons of politics. I suspect he is more likely to match JFK in debacles like Bay of Pigs and Vietnam than in economics like tax relief. I pray he gets as lucky in foreign policy crises like the Cuban Missile Crisis. And of course, luckier in tragedies like LH Oswald (or whoever.)

Posted by Glenmore 2008-10-06 08:01|| 2008-10-06 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 I pray he loses the election and all your points are moot.

Posted by Parabellum 2008-10-06 08:33|| 2008-10-06 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Lacking the moral parables that made our ancestors wary of those delusions in which overweening pride is apt to involve us, we pursue false gods and turn away from traditions that really can help us make sense of our condition.

Yesterday on the radio, Fred Grandy (who was a congressman for a spell before he took up honest work in talk radio) was ranting about Barney Frank.

Remember the Barney Frank scandal - when he had a "friend" who was running a male prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill mansion? Turns out that this "friend" was an EXECUTIVE at Fanny Mae!

Grandy knows this since he was in the ethics committee of the House when Barney was under charges. The charges ended up being dropped since they could not link Frank (who, of course did not know) to the prostitution. Grandy says that he did not know at the time that Herb Moses was a Fanny Mae exec. Of course, Frank is a lib democrat, and as a result the MSM would never think of hinting about this clear conflict of interest. After all, there is nothing wrong having the overseer (literally and figuratively) in bed with the overseen.

The Shaman, Palosi, Franks, and Dodd are the problem not the SOLUTION!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-06 08:46|| 2008-10-06 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama suggests that a new communitarianism can heal Americas pain and change American lives, radically and for the better

Communitarianism? How is that different from Communism - except for a few extra letters?

Posted by Glenmore 2008-10-06 09:08|| 2008-10-06 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 less 5 year plans

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-10-06 09:14|| 2008-10-06 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama...

The One. The great leader.

You will not criticize him or you will be re-educated.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-06 09:35|| 2008-10-06 09:35|| Front Page Top

#8 So he's a Shaman?

Do I bother to click through, or is this gonna be another world of warcraft joke?

Posted by Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-06 09:41|| 2008-10-06 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Communitarian = Communism. Communitarian has the MSM instead of Pravda.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-06 10:39|| 2008-10-06 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm not seeing a lot of difference between the MSM and Pravda anymore.

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-06 11:20|| 2008-10-06 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm not seeing a lot of difference between the MSM and Pravda anymore.

At least Pravda is entertaining.

Posted by xbalanke 2008-10-06 11:48|| 2008-10-06 11:48|| Front Page Top

#12 A Shaman like Zhang Jiao.

An interesting read but incomplete without mentioning Herman Hesse which was required reading at some point among myself and contemporaries; as well as Friedrich Nietzsche. I personally disliked the themes of both of these writers (elitism, my way should be your way because I know how you should live better than you do, thought Sidartha was a damn fool with a weak will who never found Nirvana because he projected other people's accomplishments onto himself) but many my age unquestioningly took both writers to be infallable.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-10-06 11:50|| 2008-10-06 11:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Pravda has naked women, the NYT doesn't. Plus, no one would pay to see Maureen Dowd naked.

Posted by ed 2008-10-06 12:30|| 2008-10-06 12:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Some might pay not to.

Posted by lotp 2008-10-06 13:20|| 2008-10-06 13:20|| Front Page Top

#15 but many my age unquestioningly took both writers to be infallable.

or incomprehensible.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-10-06 14:22|| 2008-10-06 14:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Some ~~might~~ WOULD pay not to.

Fixed that for ya, lotp.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-06 22:50|| 2008-10-06 22:50|| Front Page Top

#17 "Even most liberals would pay not to."

Fixed that for you, JM. ;-p

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