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2008-09-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Beavis 2008-09-25 09:13|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ] Top

#1 We can only hope that Mr. Deming is correct.

Who was it that said "Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large numbers"?

Posted by DLR 2008-09-25 10:19|| http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html]">[http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html] 2008-09-25 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Optimist.

his opinions do not necessarily represent those of the university.

Understatement or snark?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-25 10:55|| 2008-09-25 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 He is only the latest in a long line of shallow elites that consider it stylish and intellectual to despise their own culture and heritage...Obama is a vapid demagogue, a hollow man that despises American culture.

Where does David come up with this fluff?! Nothing intelligent, just 1/2 truths and smears.
Is there only one culture and heritage in America? The author seems to think so. He doesn't understand it and he fears it. Change keeps democracy fresh.

Posted by Rupert Sninert6826 2008-09-25 11:43|| 2008-09-25 11:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Is there only one culture and heritage in America?

Yes, obviously, unless you buy into multiculturalism, and believe that a country and a NATION is a set of separate communities, each with its own culture and own heritage. Western Nations were built against that model, painful as it was. Melting pot, not salad bowl.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-25 12:24|| 2008-09-25 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Change keeps democracy fresh.

Because nothing sez change as a professional chicago machine politician waaaayyyyy to the radical left, with mob connections, whose early sponsor was the area slum landlord, and who's been prepped up by 60's radicals rejects (ayers & co) and a messianic billionaire (soros and his own machine) to become their manchurian candidate, and this only because his skin color makes him a viable bet.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-25 12:28|| 2008-09-25 12:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Change is what we will have if Obama passes his tax hikes. That's all we will have.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-25 12:33|| 2008-09-25 12:33|| Front Page Top

#7 A new code word has entered the left's political lexicon. Change = Marxist stealth revolution.

Posted by ed 2008-09-25 12:42|| 2008-09-25 12:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Is Rupert the DNC's latest Troll-of-the-Day offering?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-25 13:05|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-09-25 13:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Rupert Sninert6826 ,
We need change, nobody would argue with that. The national debt has nearly doubled in the last 8 years, Real wages are less than in the 60's, the trade deficit sets record highs ever year. But socialist policies are not the change we need. That's not how this country's political model was set up and that's not how our financial model was crafted. We need to spend less, earn more, and give American businesses and industries a fair shake. If you want to go socialist, try Venezuela, or Bolivia.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-25 13:18|| 2008-09-25 13:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Amen Big Jim. We need to grow our way out of this problem. We need to reduce government regulation that stifles real business growth (not the business of the money changers, but the business of companies that actually make things), we need to reform our legal system to introduce a loser-pays result to several types of cases, we need to eliminate the tyranny-of-the-minority that exists now (via the legal system) that stops/inhibits and makes more expensive any needed project (see energy infrastructure). And most of all we need term limits at all levels of government and non-partisan or computerized districting. These are just a few of the things I would do if I were king for a couple of days. (Might invite Heidi Klum over for a friendly cup of tea too, but I digress)

Posted by remoteman 2008-09-25 14:23|| 2008-09-25 14:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Nothing exemplifies Obama's antipathy for American culture better than his statement that Americans "cling to" religion and guns out of frustration or bitterness

I read that directly as Obama whining like a two year old "They Scare ME"

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-09-25 19:55|| 2008-09-25 19:55|| Front Page Top

#12 A level of antipathy matched only by his wife Michelle's comment...."for the first time in my adult life I am proud of American."

These people are the Snap On tools of donk socialism.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-25 19:58|| 2008-09-25 19:58|| Front Page Top

#13 For those who are so big on Obama's CHANGE mantra--could you please send me some? I've got some bills to pay, and it would really be in keeping with Obama's philosophy to help me out. In fact, if everyone in Obama's campaign and his voters would just send me one thin dime, I could retire a sizable amount of debt and be better able to cash in on my slice of the American pie.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-09-25 20:50|| 2008-09-25 20:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Change from the product of the Chicago Machine. Wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-09-25 22:37|| 2008-09-25 22:37|| Front Page Top

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