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Any other miracles as needed:
"Senator Obama's election year image is that of a man who can bring the
country together, overcoming differences of party or race, as well as
solving our international problems by talking with Iran and other
countries with which we are at odds, and performing other miscellaneous
miracles as needed."
There is no evidence from any kind of track record as how he would
accomplish any of this..........
"Senator Obama is all talk -- glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk,
but still just talk."
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/04/15/a_living_lie?page=full&comments=true
A Living Lie
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
An e-mail from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies,
Barack Obama is himself a lie. That is becoming painfully apparent with
each new revelation of how drastically his carefully crafted image this
election year contrasts with what he has actually been saying and doing
for many years.
Senator Obama's election year image is that of a man who can bring the
country together, overcoming differences of party or race, as well as
solving our international problems by talking with Iran and other
countries with which we are at odds, and performing other miscellaneous
miracles as needed.
There is, of course, not a speck of evidence that Obama has ever
transcended party differences in the United States Senate. Voting
records analyzed by the National Journal show him to be the farthest
left of anyone in the Senate. Nor has he sponsored any significant
bipartisan legislation -- nor any other significant legislation, for
that matter.
Senator Obama is all talk -- glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk,
but still just talk.
Some of his recent talk in San Francisco has stirred up controversy
because it revealed yet another blatant contradiction between Barack
Obama's public image and his reality.
Speaking privately to supporters in heavily left-liberal San Francisco,
Obama let down his hair and described working class people in
Pennsylvania as so "bitter" that they "cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who aren't like them."
Like so much that Obama has said and done over the years, this is
standard stuff on the far left, where guns and religion are regarded as
signs of psychological dysfunction -- and where opinions different from
those of the left are ascribed to emotions ("bitter" in this case),
rather than to arguments that need to be answered.
Like so many others on the left, Obama rejects "stereotypes" when they
are stereotypes he doesn't like but blithely throws around his own
stereotypes about "a typical white person" or "bitter" gun-toting,
religious and racist working class people.
In politics, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be
followed by a "clarification," when people react adversely to what was
plainly said.
Obama and his supporters were still busy "clarifying" Jeremiah Wright's
very plain statements when it suddenly became necessary to "clarify"
Senator Obama's own statements in San Francisco.
People who have been cheering whistle-blowers for years have suddenly
denounced the person who blew the whistle on what Obama said in private
that is so contradictory to what he has been saying in public.
However inconsistent Obama's words, his behavior has been remarkably
consistent over the years. He has sought out and joined with the
radical, anti-Western left, whether Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers of
the terrorist Weatherman underground or pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli
Rashid Khalidi.
Obama is also part of a long tradition on the left of being for the
working class in the abstract, or as people potentially useful for the
purposes of the left, but having disdain or contempt for them as human
beings.
Karl Marx said, "The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing."
In other words, they mattered only in so far as they were willing to
carry out the Marxist agenda.
Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw included the working class among
the "detestable" people who "have no right to live." He added: "I should
despair if I did not know that they will all die presently, and that
there is no need on earth why they should be replaced by people like
themselves."
Similar statements on the left go back as far as Rousseau in the 18th
century and come forward into our own times.
It is understandable that young people are so strongly attracted to
Obama. Youth is another name for inexperience -- and experience is what
is most needed when dealing with skillful and charismatic demagogues.
Those of us old enough to have seen the type again and again over the
years can no longer find them exciting. Instead, they are as tedious as
they are dangerous.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy.
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"Senator Obama's election year image is that of a man who can bring the
country together, overcoming differences of party or race, as well as
solving our international problems by talking with Iran and other
countries with which we are at odds, and performing other miscellaneous
miracles as needed."
There is no evidence from any kind of track record as how he would
accomplish any of this..........
"Senator Obama is all talk -- glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk,
but still just talk."
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/04/15/a_living_lie?page=full&comments=true
A Living Lie
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
An e-mail from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies,
Barack Obama is himself a lie. That is becoming painfully apparent with
each new revelation of how drastically his carefully crafted image this
election year contrasts with what he has actually been saying and doing
for many years.
Senator Obama's election year image is that of a man who can bring the
country together, overcoming differences of party or race, as well as
solving our international problems by talking with Iran and other
countries with which we are at odds, and performing other miscellaneous
miracles as needed.
There is, of course, not a speck of evidence that Obama has ever
transcended party differences in the United States Senate. Voting
records analyzed by the National Journal show him to be the farthest
left of anyone in the Senate. Nor has he sponsored any significant
bipartisan legislation -- nor any other significant legislation, for
that matter.
Senator Obama is all talk -- glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk,
but still just talk.
Some of his recent talk in San Francisco has stirred up controversy
because it revealed yet another blatant contradiction between Barack
Obama's public image and his reality.
Speaking privately to supporters in heavily left-liberal San Francisco,
Obama let down his hair and described working class people in
Pennsylvania as so "bitter" that they "cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who aren't like them."
Like so much that Obama has said and done over the years, this is
standard stuff on the far left, where guns and religion are regarded as
signs of psychological dysfunction -- and where opinions different from
those of the left are ascribed to emotions ("bitter" in this case),
rather than to arguments that need to be answered.
Like so many others on the left, Obama rejects "stereotypes" when they
are stereotypes he doesn't like but blithely throws around his own
stereotypes about "a typical white person" or "bitter" gun-toting,
religious and racist working class people.
In politics, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be
followed by a "clarification," when people react adversely to what was
plainly said.
Obama and his supporters were still busy "clarifying" Jeremiah Wright's
very plain statements when it suddenly became necessary to "clarify"
Senator Obama's own statements in San Francisco.
People who have been cheering whistle-blowers for years have suddenly
denounced the person who blew the whistle on what Obama said in private
that is so contradictory to what he has been saying in public.
However inconsistent Obama's words, his behavior has been remarkably
consistent over the years. He has sought out and joined with the
radical, anti-Western left, whether Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers of
the terrorist Weatherman underground or pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli
Rashid Khalidi.
Obama is also part of a long tradition on the left of being for the
working class in the abstract, or as people potentially useful for the
purposes of the left, but having disdain or contempt for them as human
beings.
Karl Marx said, "The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing."
In other words, they mattered only in so far as they were willing to
carry out the Marxist agenda.
Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw included the working class among
the "detestable" people who "have no right to live." He added: "I should
despair if I did not know that they will all die presently, and that
there is no need on earth why they should be replaced by people like
themselves."
Similar statements on the left go back as far as Rousseau in the 18th
century and come forward into our own times.
It is understandable that young people are so strongly attracted to
Obama. Youth is another name for inexperience -- and experience is what
is most needed when dealing with skillful and charismatic demagogues.
Those of us old enough to have seen the type again and again over the
years can no longer find them exciting. Instead, they are as tedious as
they are dangerous.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy.
~~~~
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line as you feel necessary or as your server requires.)
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