Posts Tagged ‘history’

I don’t like this anti-debt ad

Posted: September 3, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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I hate the kid stunt stuff. We have a great arguments on the merits we shouldn’t do stupid kid stunt.

Of course as Doug Powers points out it’s better than this

or this

It’s videos like this that really makes us wonder about the president’s address to the kids.

I prefer this video from Reason (via Glenn).

It puts things in their soviet style historical context. Maybe this should be in the religion category. Instead I’m creating a new obamacult tag.

Update: Dan Calabrese this Steve Green is overreacting. It wasn’t too long ago that I would have agreed, myself I’m not worried if my kid had enough guts to be the only one when asked by his teacher who supported McCain in his particular class then he can handle this.

41 months is a VERY long time

Posted: September 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I think these people are parting way too early:

Obama’s day of reckoning has already come, here in the infancy of his presidency, as the polls each passing day attest. He could go through the pretense of being a centrist leader for a few precious weeks, maybe even months, but the real political center for him is so remote and so foreign that in the end the act of pretending would be as distasteful for him as his “normal” policies are for increasing numbers of Americans.

Oh he’s doomed DOOMED I tell you, Rasmussen has him at 46, Zogby at 42. Obamacare is dying. There is talk about re-taking the house in 2010.

I think if we take this stuff too seriously then we make the same mistake as the left was doing 7 months ago. It only takes one crisis, one mistake or one big issue to turn everything around. If his numbers can drop like that in 7 months they can just as easily rise back up.

Overconfidence is a dangerous thing. I know it’s only been two weeks or so since I said it before but it’s still just as true as ever.

Once in a while you let one go

Posted: September 1, 2009 by datechguy in doctor who, opinion/news
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Over at Gay Patriot via Legal Insurrection a good Kennedy deed is brought out of the memory hole:

I visited Jessica’s father Boris several times when I was in college. As most Soviet emigrés, he had strong anti-Communist views and great respect for then then-President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan. And though the then-senior Senator from Massachusetts harshly criticized (and actively sought to thwart) the Gipper’s aggressive foreign policy, Boris refused to criticize Kennedy, always recalling how he helped secure his release.

He only had kind words for the late Massachusetts Democrat.

The full article is here concerning the sick little girl who was allowed to leave the Soviet Union due to Kennedy’s intervention.

I couldn’t help but remember this scene from Boomtown (my favorite 9th doctor story)

“…that’s how you live with yourself, that’s how you slaughter millions, because once in a while on a whim, when the wind is in the right direction you happen to be kind.”

Like a corrupt Duke eighteenth century Duke who gives a gift to the peasants on Christmas once in a while he helped one leave. That’s how he was able to justify trying to keep the other hundreds of millions in chains.

If you want a longer version of that scene it is here.

Sarah Palin as the Next Ted Kennedy…

Posted: September 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…is the thesis of this American Spectator article:

…it is crystal clear that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has this “head of the table” gene in spades. She is, in a remarkable way, the real heir — make that heiress — to Senator Kennedy. She is charismatic, she has a decided point of view and she is a lightning rod for controversy. Just as Kennedy managed to sink a once sure-thing Supreme Court nomination with his famous Bork speech, Governor Palin has managed to explode Section 1233 of the ObamaCare House bill with her vivid description of “death panels,” severely damaging the President’s entire legislative priority in the process.

He talks about the invisible quality that makes a person THE person no matter where or what they are:

This is what really drives Sarah Palin’s critics nuts. She sits up there in Alaska with Todd and the kids, taps out a few words on her Facebook page — and presto! ObamaCare has a torpedo amidships! Without doubt this causes Palin’s rivals, just as it once did with Churchill’s and Teddy Kennedy’s, to fret and fume if not foam.

I think the left actually understands this in spades. They also know there are no bodies in the Gulf of Alaska to derail her election. That’s why Sullivan’s Syndrome is rampant among them. They know what’s coming, and they know that since she is 45 and in excellent shape that it will be there for the next 20-25 years.

They know that they have to stop her not only in 2012, but in 2016, 2020, 2024 and 2028. In 2028 she will be one year older than Hillary will be in 2012. She will remain a threat in being for decades. They need to sink her now.

Update: David Frum thinks she is a problem. I know 1000 people who think otherwise but what do 120 candidates for office know vs big Dave?

Update 2: BTW Frum is a smart guy and on fiscal matters is pretty conservative, he just happens to be dead wrong about Sarah Palin.

Update 3: The greenroom sees it.

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