9 Responses to “The Concession”

1. CK MacLeod says:

   February 24, 2009 at 6:20 pm

   (er… “converse” is almost right, but probably should have spelled out the double inversion or something… that should teach you all to double-check your logic & diction before posting… you never know when you might be on Candid Commentary!)
2. myna says:

   February 24, 2009 at 6:31 pm

   Obama’s number is slioping and going even farther down. While Congress is proposing another 400Billion spending. Reid and Pelosi are desperate. They are in spending spree to buy more votes.

   Obama’s cultist groupie like to cite polls, polls they can desperately cling into.
3. Joe NS says:

   February 24, 2009 at 6:34 pm

   CK: possibly the obverse.
4. J.E. Dyer says:

   February 24, 2009 at 6:54 pm

   CKM — We could even start in on “convex” and “concave,” just for fun. But “opposite” always works in a pinch, when you can’t remember the stupid rule on the -verses.

   When Obama has the Lose Weight and Whiten Those Teeth While Saving the Planet On Pennies a Day Summit — Oprah may finally step out from behind the curtain.
5. Margo says:

   February 24, 2009 at 7:33 pm

   CKM–Well deserved appearance on Candid Commentary! I love your point that a president can be both radical in intent and able to implement only sporadically and in a disorganized way. There’s a lot in this world owing to simple human incompetence, and we’re going to see a lot of it in the next few years.
6. Geoffrey Britain says:

   February 24, 2009 at 7:41 pm

   I am not so sanguine about the certainty of a decline in Obama’s popularity.

   For much of the west, Obama represents the triumph of ‘subjective relativism’ over objective truth. That is because he is the ‘standard bearer’ for those who claim that ALL ‘truth’ is relative.

   The practical consequences that result from the philosophical abandonment of the ‘objective’ for the ‘subjective’ are profound. If nothing is true beyond the popular whim of the moment and if even then, an individual’s ‘truth’ is their ‘highest’ truth… then concepts like hypocrisy vs consistency and honor and trustworthiness, etc.,etc. only have meaning when they further one’s agenda.

   Thus is born the agenda journalism of the MSM… and political strategies designed to covertly further an agenda, while giving lip service to whatever moves one closer toward one’s ultimate goal…such as Obama’s appointment of ‘czars’ who hold the real power while appointing ‘moderate’ democrats to cabinet positions.

   It is no coincidence that the Communist tactics of a Saul Alinsky and the radical Islamic tactics of Iran’s mullah’s bear similarities. Other than the State, the Agenda, Communist’s have no God, no divinely ordained truth or even a Greek rationalist ideal that demands allegiance to logic. Thus anything which advances Communism’s influence is a ‘good’ thing.

   Radical Islam preaches a God who ordains that ANY tactic is ‘moral’ if it increases the number of those who submit to Allah’s will. For in radical Islam, the submission of ALL is God’s greatest desire.

   In either case, anything is permitted and, the means are ALWAYS justified by the goal.

   No one doubts that Obama will continue to blame Bush. No honest observer can doubt that democrats will continue to disown their own actions and refuse to take responsibility, for ANYTHING that they do. No one can doubt that the MSM will continue to do all that it can to conceal, distort and mischaracterize any and all factual information that might raise doubts about the liberal agenda, much less Obama’s competence.

   Were that all, we could take comfort in Lincoln’s dictum that; “you can’t fool all of the people, all of the time”. But Obama’s election proved that enough of the people can be fooled and, in a democracy… that can be fatal.

   When enough people believe in relativism’s premise that, “all that counts is the agenda” because “the agenda is all that there IS”…then we see the literally fanatic religious belief in environmentalism, animal ‘rights’ and, political correctness run amuck, etc., etc.

   Thus the all too common public reaction and attitude toward contrary information, of, “why are you confusing the issue with facts?”

   That existential, philosophical and psychological reality does not bode well for ‘enough’ of the American public ‘waking up’ in time, to prevent what Churchill characterized as, “A Gathering Storm” and a most unpleasant outer reality from intruding upon liberal delusions, just as it did at Dunkirk. But in a world of mass destruction, the margin for error is greatly reduced.

   “Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. [Yet] There may even be a [still] worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish, than to live as slaves.” – Winston Churchill, “The Gathering Storm.”
7. white teeth says:

   August 11, 2009 at 8:18 pm

   I recently happened on your page, and I really enjoy it.