…Looks like Mike Huckabee might have been inspired by Tom Petty’s halftime performance. If his speech in Arkansas is sincere, he “won’t back down.”
So much for my theory that Huckabee would turn his Super Tuesday successes over Romney into a face-saving, vice-presidential-nomination-pursuing, exit-in-strength strategy. That is, unless he’s waiting for Romney to exit first, thereby remaining in the race to block for McCain until California likely determines Romney’s fate.
When Bernanke and Obama speak the Markets drop.
On the day that the market ignores both of these talk long, say nothing Ivy League Elites, I will know that recovery is on the way.
Indeed. Ignatius is like other progressive/totalitarians. He thinks he knows better for everyone. His complaints of Bush on Iraq are ridiculous. Democracy projects have long been the mainstay of left wing politics. Do I think Bush was overly ambitious, yes, but in the end I think he got it basically right. Iraq is a success right now. That may change. How it ends up in 10 years from now will be a better barometer of really whether he was right or not.
Oh, yeah, George Orwell. No matter your position on the political spectrum, you can find an Orwell idea that jibes with your own thinking. That’s what accounts for his enduring popularity. But Ignatius is wrong when he says, “. . . was at once a passionate social democrat and a political reactionary.” Orwell started out as a committed socialist (Down and Out in Paris and London) and through the process of intellectual maturity became a kind of conservative (Nineteen Eighty-Four). And a “progressive’s passion for the downtrodden”? Doesn’t that confuse recognition with response? It’s a standard of the left that their “passion for the downtrodden” gives them the highest position on the podium of moral worth and a license to redistribute the wealth of others. Free market advocates just don’t care about their fellow man.
But Orwell isn’t the only or even the best example of intellectual development from the sophomoric theories of the left to capitalist freedom. Lezek Kolakowski, once the most devout of Communists, grew up and came to appreciate the benefits of freedom. Ignatius may never have heard of him.
Jenny, “Iraq is turning out well”? LOL. At what cost?
Obama’s pessimistic rhetoric will last as long as he thinks he can blame things on Bush. Once it becomes the Obama economy (about six months), his rhetoric will change markedly.
#4: At the cost of yr stupid giggling, jerk.
#3: Oh, Mr. Ignatius has heard of Kolakowski, all right, and read him, and even written abt him. But understand him and his circumstances? Yeah, right.
I am getting sick of people like Ignatius who imply that Bush awoke one morning, took a pin, and stuck in randomly into a turning globe to decide where he’d like to march today. Clinton wanted regime change in Iraq. Well, if you are going to get rid of the old, you have to replace it with something. Does Ignatius have any suggestions?
Ignatius’ typing is basically unreadable. This is a person raised in journalism, educated at Harvard and Cambridge, and big wheel at a major daily publication. The best comparison that can be made is with this: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/A_Neglected_Anniversary/ . And just remember, this is fiction and Mencken never went to college.
So, “November 3rd Obama” was widely praised in the media for his uplifting rhetoric and providing millions of disaffected Americans and citizens of the world with the ultimate hope for this country’s future. What is hope if not optimism?
Now, soon-to-be President Obama is being praised in the media for a pragmatic pessimism; essentially, tamping down undue optimism, i.e. hope, in the American people. And Bush was providing too much hope?
Why am I not shocked?