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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Thomas Sowell on frivolous politics
The brilliant Mr. Sowell pens another must-read:
With a war going on in Iraq and with Iran next door moving steadily toward a nuclear bomb that could change the course of world history in the hands of international terrorists, the question for this year’s elections is not whether you or your candidate is a Democrat or a Republican but whether you are serious or frivolous.
That question also needs to be asked about the media. In these grim and foreboding times, our media have this year spent incredible amounts of time on a hunting accident involving Vice President Cheney, a bogus claim that the administration revealed Valerie Plame’s identity as a C.I.A. “agent” — actually a desk job in Virginia — and is now going ballistic over a Congressman who sent raunchy e-mails to Congressional pages.
This is the frivolous media — and the biased media. Republican Congressman Foley was wrong and is out on his ear. But Democrats in both Congress and the White House have gone far beyond words with a page and an intern. Yet the Democrats did not resign and Bill Clinton’s perjury, obstruction of justice, and suborning of perjury by others were treated as if these were irrelevant private matters.
Even when serious issues are addressed, they can be addressed either seriously or frivolously. If you are content to see life and death issues of war and peace addressed with catch phrases like “chicken hawk” or to see a coalition of nations around the world fighting terrorism referred to as “unilateral” U.S. action because France does not go along, then you are content with frivolity.
You may deserve whatever you get if you vote frivolously in this year’s election. But surely the next generation, which has no vote, deserves better.
Weak-kneed members of both parties have been calling for a timetable to be announced for withdrawal from Iraq. No other war in thousands of years of history has ever had such a timetable announced to their enemies. Even if we intended to get out by a given date, there is not the slightest reason to tell the terrorists that. It is frivolous politics at its worst.
Read it all.
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I think Sowell should have pointed out that the Iraq war lacks bipartisan support because the Democrats aren’t a “loyal opposition” party.
WW2 was different. Everybody, Democrats and Republicans, supported the war, as recently shown by some MIT researchers who dug up some Gallup polls taken during WW2:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/berinsky.html
And the Spanish-American war was also different from Iraq, too. There was immense popular support for that war, as seen in the movie, “Citizen Kane.” That’s because, back then, the media had patriotic owners like Hearst, to tell the public why we should support the war, unlike the unpatriotic media we have now, such as CBS and ABC.
Right on Zelda, and I love Sowell, he hit the mark on this one, just what I discussed in the previous post.
The dems seem so unconcerned about anything threatening the world, they just want to nail Bush and get back in power and THEY’LL DO ANYTHING TO WIN …Watch the dead rise to vote, the illegals voting up a storm, they are freaking that some want photo ID voting, my goodness, why not, thats not a hardship as they claim. They know if we have photo ID’s the cheating would be cut down big time.
of course, if Zelda were right about WW2, that would mean that Sowell should have done more research, no?
or maybe Sowell did some research and found out those people at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., are lying throught their liberal teeth, about WW2 having popular support?
Why are you arguing against yourself, Zelda? Did you honestly think you could fool me into not knowing you were posting from the same IP# you did the last time? Go talk to yourself somewhere else. Buhbye. –ST
I can hear the BDS sufferers now concerning the NorK nuke test (or pretend nuke):
“How convenient! I question the timing! This is an obvious Rovian trick to draw attention away from Foleygate!”
Good call, guys. Don’t let yourselves get distracted, keep hammering away at the Foley story. The last thing we want voters to recall is how Carter and Clinton and Albright took care of the North Korean nuclear program.
I agree with Steve, he’s right on!
No he’s not! What a jerk!
LOL Steve …