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Saturday, November 08, 2008
DON'T GO OVERBOARD It's positively encouraging to find that Obama may not be as effective as we had feared.There is plenty of anger out there (and in me too) and a great deal of it is justified. It looks to me like there is already emerging an Obama Derangement Syndrome and a "nutroots" on the right. Please, please don't go there!!
We are going to need you desperately for the next four years, and we need you to be outspoken but credible. What you yourself say is always fine, I am just wondering if appearing to endorse some of the letters you have pointed to is going to undermine your own message.
All of us are having the same problem -- PowerLine is clearly struggling with their feelings too, as are your other peers at the top-of-the-line conservative websites.
Deep breathing seems to work for me, and it's less obtrusive than primal screams :-)
Alison Brown
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 11:29 AM |
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BOYCOTT THE LIBERALS? First of all thanks for all your great writing, you are a rare shining light in an internet world of liberal intolerance. I am a business man in California, father of two, husband, and conservative thinker. I have been looking at what happen this past election, the hatred and intolerance by liberals against opposing view points, and disinterest in reality, facts, and history. I feel an overwhelming compulsion to help build a movement, grass roots conservatism, to take back our country. The media is a force that is almost impossible to fight with as it currently stands. NY Times, LA Times, ABC, NBC, and CBS are completely unchecked when it comes to journalistic honesty and although we all complain about it, nothing will change unless we put a hurting on them financially. My concept isn't new and might be a tad bit extreme, but I firmly believe that in a unified group we can not only send a message, but perhaps weaken these liberal rags and organizations to our benefit.\
Here I sit in my home office, sipping coffee, and after reading the Ventura County Star, our local liberal rag bitching once again at their reporting of our new President Elect. They reported his announcement of his "Economic Stimulus Package" as they call it. We know what it really is. So once again instead of complaining I think we need to take our might and start a ground level movement to put a financial hurt on the liberal media in a planned and organized fashion. I'm reaching out to you for help. We cannot simply begin a boycott, we need to reach out to all conservative media outlets, whether it be newspaper, internet blog, tv, or radio, and make and announcement something like the following:
"Conservatives across the United States, in an effort to preserve the principles of our Founding Fathers, protect our children, and to promote justice and intellectual honestly, will begin a comprehensive boycott of all liberal media organizations indefinitely. As we have seen journalistic integrity disappear, we have only one recourse which is to insure that this media bias no longer goes unchecked. Blah, blah, blah."By no means am I a writer, but I firmly believe people don't know the truth, are getting the wrong message, and the only way to combat this is financially. This is the beauty of a free market system, right? You have reach, intelligence, skills, and abilities. I am asking for help in this endeavor but I'm out of my realm. I need help from many like yourself to plan and get this message across. Call it vengeance if you will, but I want them to pay and feel repercussions based on their actions. I look forward to your help.
Matt Watson
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 11:28 AM |
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OBAMUNISM Thank you for the link to Change.gov. The ravings of the megalomanics of Obamunism promise us a strong dose of pernicious socialism in these next few years.
What struck me first, though, was the logo that included the following: "Office of The President-Elect." In my 60 years I have never heard of this "office." While Obama's leftist dissemblers will say that this means his physical office (communists are great at twisting words) the intent is to create a parallelism between the President-Elect, not sworn into office until January 20th, and the President, sworn in until the 20th. We are to assume the Dear Leader, so esteemed in the eyes of a genuflecting world, is, because of his very pure and messianic nature, rising to the equivalence of the current President without the sanction of the swearing in ceremony. In other words, he needs no formal sanction, for the Mob anointed him on November 4th. Until January 20th, he remains the first and only person to ever hold the 'Office of President-Elect.'
Second: In my years of following the collective political nonsense of the 'democratic process,' I've seen charlatans who believe they have been chosen by God. The Dear Leader is the first to be God. His John the Baptist was Louis Farrakhan, who growled to a frenzied crowd earlier this year, that "When the messiah speaks, the youth will hear. And the messiah IS absolutely speaking." The messiah he spoke of was Barack Hussein Obama. Chris Matthews seconded Farrakhan's nonsense, "This is bigger than Kennedy. Obama comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the new testament." American Prospect writer Ezra Klein made this confession of faith: "He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh." "The Word made flesh" is a Christian reference to Christ. To Klein, Obama is at least Christ-like, if not the second coming of Christ.
Finally, on Change.gov we see inklings of Dear Leader's apparent divinity. He graciously includes the mere mortal Biden as a cooperator in his divine acts. One such act is the Lazarus-like raising of the minimum wage. We lessers are informed that "Barack Obama and Joe Biden will raise the minimum wage, index it to inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit to make sure that full-time workers earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs." And the workers of the world united will come out from their tombs to live again freed from the shackles of evil Republican capitalism! "Lazarus come hither!"
Also, "Obama and Biden will invest $250 million per year to increase the number and size of incubators in disadvantaged communities throughout the country." How generous of the two to pony up their own money for these "investments." Will this be done at Cana as Obama turns water into inflated fiat currency?
All national politicians, with the exception of Dr. Ron Paul, seem to be full of themselves and BS. Obama's effusions would be the ravings of just another slimy politician if it were not for the Cult of the Divine Leader that has emerged and will undoubtedly be nurtured through these dismal years of Obamunism.
Dario McDarby
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 1:12 AM |
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Friday, November 07, 2008
I, I, I... HE, HE, HE I read your posting about the writer who thinks Obama writes all his own speeches. I wrote this letter to the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday:Mr. Obama,I haven't heard back yet, doesn't look that it'll be published. But they published this one:
I didn't vote for you - I'm skeptical of anyone who pens two autobiographies...and by age 45 to that, but I'm not disappointed that you've won. So, as I listened to your acceptance speech I got caught up in the historic aspect of the moment. I grew to expected poetry and ubiquitous hyperbole from you so, I was bearing with it and for most part I was enjoying the speech. That is, until you did Moses: "I promise you: We'll get there! I promise you!" (I missed where "There" was supposed to be; a bit worried about that...) You lost me at that moment. What bothers me even more is that constant emphasis on "I". You are a good speaker, no body can question your political skills and your achievement. There's no need and no pressure for you to try to out do Lincoln, John Kennedy, Dr. King and Regan in one shot before you even have taken the office. You have the support and the best wishes of the nation. We believe that you can be a great president for the very challenging times. Just take it easy! We don't expect you to walk on water and deliver us to: "There". Don't buy into the hype, there's enough of real and very complex issues on your plate from the very start.
America has arrived at the epiphany of its democracy. In the backdrop of a world in conflict with a domestic crisis at home, this country stands at the threshold of a new era to decide whether it takes command of its destiny now or allows the forces of dissipation to end what we knew of the greatness it once had."He" this. "He" that. Our Dear Leader! I just can see books for little kids with pictures of Barack with children, Barack with workers, Barack with farmers, Barack with agroworkers etc.
As one president leaves office in virtual disgrace, another will take his place with our fragile hope that this nation under his imperatives will again affirm its unity to restore what has been lost and what can be returned to this and future generations.
Barack Obama is not only the president-elect, chosen to enact a contrasting agenda from the last eight years, but a symbol to rescue America from its destructive divisiveness and lift it from the depths of political, social and economic despair.
With our non-partisan support he can elevate all of us with new pride and patriotism that can fend off any adversary or any foe that threatens the lifeblood of this society.
Obama can be this man. We, all of us, must think of him as our president, our leader and our ally when we envision our mutual goals as he conducts the office of the president of the United States.
Marek M. Piorkowski
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 12:27 PM |
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