142 Comments

1. progressoverpeace:

The Precedent is driven by a need to exact revenge on those he considers to have shamed and humiliated “his people”. This is what motivates him. Not marxism. Not socialism. Not any ideology, in particular, but the need for revenge against the US and the West.

You have laid out many of the problems, though not nearly all. There are numerous other signs of The Precedent’s true intentions, from the seemingly minor to serious policy stupidity. But they are all directed at one thing and that is the destruction of America and the West. He best illustrated this in his attitude about capital gains taxes. When presented with the idea that receipts tend to go down as capital gains taxes are raised, The Precedent responded that he would still raise the taxes, even though it would hurt government funding, because he was interested in “fdairness”. This was a clear sign of his intentions that people ignored at their own peril.

This is why it is important for The Precedent, himself, to fail. His policies are sure to fail (as Lenin’s policies were all abject failures) but we cannot afford that. If his policies are even attempted, this country will collapse, and not in any metaphorical way. Our monetary system will not survive, and after that goes, all bets are truly off.

Most people don’t realize how seriously dangerous The Precedent is, and what he clearly intends to do.

May 25, 2009 - 1:37 am 2. MiamaMan:

Mr. Solway:

Thanks for the great summary or Resume of the beloved president.

The energy one always catches my attention. The way he approached this issue during the campaign was typical of his flimflam nature. He only quasi-agree on drilling after gas went up above $4/gallon at the pump and Gingrich wrote “Drill Here, Drill Now” and Michael Steele beat him with the cry: “Drill, baby, drill”.

But those who did not vote for him, had studied him and his so-called autobiography (that Ann Coulter says it belongs in a 10-cent dime store, on a shelf next to Mein Kampft), knew better.

The consequences of his crazy energy policy, his folly on this important issue, will be devastating to the economy and the country at a critical time. He kowtows to Eco-terrorist Al Gore, who has been unmasked throughout the world as the fake he is, and had to change the tune of “global warming” to “climate change”.

Obama is stalling purposely oil and gas exploration off Florida and Louisiana after the ban was lifted recently. He is ready to tax the oil industry, of which he is an enemy. He does not like nuclear power either.

I guess he can afford, living in the Utopian White House, a wind mill and a solar panel, as everything for him is paid for. It is for the common folk down here that things will get rough. Ans yes, gas will go up again, big time. We will be there with the same narrative and confrontation, luckily it will serve to give him the boot in 2012.

May 25, 2009 - 3:24 am 3. Suztours:

Thank you, THANK YOU David Solway for putting into amazing and completely understandable words the problems surrounding the Obama administration in America. This article is going on my Facebook page and to friends and family in the USA and around the world. Obama’s dark and destructive policies MUST be stopped before he has a chance to do any more damage!

May 25, 2009 - 3:38 am 4. Bob:

Excellent laundry list of how bad the first 100+ days of a new administration can be. As the President candidly admitted, “Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, …” Yet the spending initiatives, particularly in the area of health care, continue – in the name of saving money. (When has government involvement in anything led to a cost savings? Don’t think too hard. The answer is: NEVER!)

In a mere 4 months, we have spent ourselves into more debt than was previously immaginable, with the current year’s deficit projected at 4 to 5 times the largest in the Bush years. There are no limits on the audacity of this meglomaniac’s agenda for expanding government spending and control, while silently shrinking free markets and liberty.

May 25, 2009 - 4:10 am 5. D-wah:

Every article with these blazingly clear facts leads me to the same conclusion–there’s no way on God’s earth this creep would be in power, or could stay in power, were it not for big media’s complicity. Even AP is in the tank. You can only conclude that there has been a lot of serious behind the scenes power broking, and it doesn’t bode well for us. This whole thing is bought and paid for and they’re intent on delivering, come what may. They can’t break our spirit or take our souls, but we’re in for a long struggle, and a very rough ride.

May 25, 2009 - 4:58 am 6. Forester:

You want to play a waiting game and hope people will somehow see the truth? He has high approval ratings, the media, nearly full control of the entire government to follow him, popularity from all over the world, and the clueless republicans are still on the defensive. He is an invincible man and will destroy this country. There is nothing we can do about it except wait for one day in the future where we can say ‘I told you so’

May 25, 2009 - 5:23 am 7. misanthropicus:

David, what you did in this article used to be called “lez majeste” elsewhere and in other times, and used to have serious consequences – however, I’ll take the risk of being burned at the stake and I’ll add a small contribution to your point #2, “the sealed university records. Why has Obama refused to make them public? What has he got to hide?”

Obama’s presence at Notre Dame was supposed to be an inspiration for students there and elsewhere, to illustrate the notion of academic integrity, etc. – now, with this in mind, can anyone inform me what was Obama’s thesis title at Columbia? Was it “USA/Soviet Union, Nuclear Disarmament Issues”, or was it “North-South Relationships In The Post-Colonial Age?”
Or was it… both? Or was it… none of the above? Or he never wrote an international relationship thesis at Columbia? Or…

Aren’t the big things at Columbia just a collection of clowns who keep perpetuating a Potemkiniade?
And where is the media, this vulcano of righteousness in any possible affair?

Can you explain this, please – confused in Los Angeles.

May 25, 2009 - 5:27 am 8. misanthropicus:

RE #6: Ooops, sorry: Last paragraph, should “the big things at Notre Dame”, not “at Columbia”.

May 25, 2009 - 5:30 am 9. John:

I think I’m going to have to go ahead and disagree with you and your readers on pretty much everything.

May 25, 2009 - 5:45 am 10. MiamaMan:

5. D-wah:

Although I agree with some of what you say, unfortunately it is not only the Media. We can’t blame people’s stupidity only on the Media.

He sold the blacks he was African-American, which he is not really. Ken Blackwell is, Condi Rice is, Al Sharpton is, Jesse Jackson is, but not Barack Hussein.

The Hispanics, well, the majority is Mexican and want to bring the rest of the family, gov handouts, the racism specter always there, Pelosi denouncing ICE workplace raids as unamerican, Gay San Francisco major opens the city, and then some. Yes, I can understand this one too.

Jews 80%…like John Lennon sang in his masterpiece “Revolution”…well, youuuu knowwww…

The younger, i-pod, twitter, constant-messaging, BRAIN-EMPTY, crowd, well, what about brain washing?

My friend, I ain’t saying this lightly. I have teenage children and nieces, and YES, THEY ARE BEING LIBERALLY BRAIN-WASHED IN SCHOOL. Liberal professors in the tank for Obama 100:1, they comeback home singing his praises and comparing him to Lincoln, and bla, bla, bla. I wanted to become a teacher and quit the effort, I would not last a month in the school system here in Miami-Dade.

But them regular whites who finally pushed over the board?…well, youuuu knowwww…

So, famous French diplomat Monsieur DeMaistre wrote: Each country has the government they deserve.

Yes, sir, I know it is hard to entertain this fact. The miasma from the swamp has emerged, and elected one of his own. It is now in the process of engulfing, debasing, mediocritizing, covering the light, confusing historical facts, revenging the past.

Fasten your seat belts, the ride will not be nice.

May 25, 2009 - 5:55 am 11. LeighB:

Our current President is such a polarizing figure and has been from the start. He has done a splendid job of appealing to some people’s emotions and getting them to believe he is something wonderful.

D-wah has it right, this guy has had so much help getting where he is. Although he seems to hate the white part of himself, it appears his mother’s family did everything for him, everything to make things easy for young Barry. The MSM has gone so far as to ruin their reputations and some of their businesses for this guy and his bad ideas. We all know he cannot put a sentence together without the aid of a teleprompter. What a shame that so much effort is going toward propping Barry up.

On this day, when we celebrate the sacrifices made for all of us, I salute the men and women who have served this country in wartime and peace. We have asked so much of our military these last few years and they deserve our affection, respect, and gratitude. And they deserve a better CiC.

May 25, 2009 - 6:00 am 12. raphael a:

There is only one way to “take the country back.” It is by winning elections. Legislators write laws and appoint judges.
If Republicans spent half the time educating young people by sponsoring schools and recruiting dynamic candidates as they did writing articles, the country would not be in the shape it is currently in.

May 25, 2009 - 6:15 am 13. macko:

The true Americans have to march

May 25, 2009 - 6:16 am 14. Bilgeman:

Mr. Solway;

Among the many blessings that the Almighty has seen fit to bestow upon the United States, one of the best is having a very good neighbour to the North.

Thanks for that.

One quibble…you left out the matter of the Alleged Hawaiian’s refusal to release his vault-copy Certificate of Live Birth.

May 25, 2009 - 6:35 am 15. David:

David Solway you racist neocon !

/Sarc
You are gonna be sorry when the Brown shirts find you.

May 25, 2009 - 6:36 am 16. M. Bruce Davis:

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MiamaMan, you nailed a big, long-term, over-arching problem that may be utterly insurmountable to conservatism in America, and something for which he is a beneficiary and cannot take the blame. Obama is deadly for America’s future because he and his philosophy are jackhammering at what I believe is the very foundation of our greatness – our historical tendency to reward acheivement. Once we have allowed the undermining of that one crucial principle, we may as well join the EU and concede global leadership to the Chinese.

May 25, 2009 - 6:39 am 17. Delia:

David Solway,

Are you walking around in my head?

I wish there was something in your article I could refute just to save my sanity but, sometimes the truth really does hurt. *sigh*

God bless our men and women in uniform protecting our Country and God bless those who have died to keep us safe.

May 25, 2009 - 6:41 am 18. Meryl:

“Most people don’t realize how seriously dangerous The Precedent is, and what he clearly intends to do.”

And many of us who do (and have been screaming “FIRE!” for months) are discredited or minimized because we don’t use the right phrases or properly dulcet tones in our screaming.

“cynical shape shifter”–now THERE’S a new and useful phrase for describing this unAmerican fraud.

May 25, 2009 - 6:43 am 19. Meryl:

Tomorrow our granddaughter, who just finished her 3rd year at the Naval Academy, begins Leatherneck training at Quantico. She believes in personal achievement, personal excellence and personal responsibility.

Sickening that her CiC doesn’t.

May 25, 2009 - 6:46 am 20. Concerned:

Its time to look to the future – Yes Obama is a DISASTER of the first kind, but think about tomorrow. The US Govt has received notice that its AAA rating for US Currency COULD be lowered to AA or lower if we continue as we have. Chia is NO LONGER buying up as much US debt as it has in the past. California voters just REJECTED 5 proposals similar to Obama’s juggernaut spending machine, and yet Obama refuses to change course after hearing Californians speak.

We are seeing the tip of the iceberg -the real fun has yet to begin……..hang on, its going to be a VERY WILD RIDE over the next few years.

May 25, 2009 - 6:51 am 21. Alan Leverenz:

I rarely comment on internet dialogues but I’ll venture to say what has amazed me about the great Obama “where is he taking us and who is he really?” debate is how it reveals more about the commenter than the commented upon. For someone who grew up in the 60’s it is great to see America come alive and express itself, for those on both sides of the debate. The effort will be worth it if we know this is more about us than Obama.

May 25, 2009 - 7:03 am 22. Morry Rotenberg:

The greater the percentage of the electorate that derives it’s living either directly or indirectly from the government or it’s policies, the more likely that they will vote for that government. It matters little to that group of voters that ultimately that government will fail. Short term gain trumps long term stability.
Solway demonstates that facts didn’t matter in the election campaign and they still don’t matter.

May 25, 2009 - 7:11 am 23. RunningDogLackey:

When you subtract the factless zombie assertions (such as the nonexistent DOD budget cuts) from Mr. Solway’s list — plus the criticisms that are equally descriptive of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush — what remains is the picture of a fairly standard-issue American liberal politician who’s been given the thankless task of trying to cut a firebreak between the nation’s present and future, and the flaming wreckage of its irresponsible foreign and domestic policies, which the prior administration crashed and fled like teenagers from a stolen car.

Canadians, on the whole, don’t share the American predisposition to breathless, uninformed hyperventilation, but I will excuse Mr. Solway because he is a poet.

May 25, 2009 - 7:30 am 24. Delia:

21. Alan Leverenz,

-And, don’t forget…this brilliant summation came from a Canadian!

The thing we forget [or choose to by some fake moral b.s.], is that the USA really does lead the world [fact; not an ego trip] and what we do/decide/create/destroy really does effect a lot of people like ripples in a pond.

This Canadian is fearing the ripple and I don’t blame him one bit…he has every right to be terrified of where the US is going [going, going gone?].

I used to live in political oblivion and I became intellectually lazy regarding politics because my life was ‘comfy’. I’m ashamed of myself that it took our country veering into hell for me to wake the frick up and jump-start my heart. Good grief. *slaps self*

How many bombs will it take to wake up our entire populace up and out of the wet dream they had for a man who is a smiling mask covering for inner demons filled with pure, unadulterated hatred and will it be too late by then? Will we be annihilated before we can gather ourselves and regroup?

DohBama is a contradiction in hopefully only one term.

Oops. Hold up! I’m channeling DohBama’s teleprompter…

The below statement is false
The above statement is true

Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnn.

May 25, 2009 - 7:36 am 25. MiamaMan:

Delia:

What’s up? I posted an answer to Mr. Rosenbaum finally on the post you called my attention first.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-praiseworthy-notre-dame-address/

The reason I never posted in Mr. Rosenbaum’s posts, neither the one before nor the other after, is because Mr. Rosenbaum has blocked every single post I have written. He is, really, a fretful man. I even apologized to him to no avail.

Anyhow, check it out.

May 25, 2009 - 7:41 am 26. Eric:

A lot of people discount sincere musings about possible secession of some of the more conservative states from the union but just how far down the ‘Road to Serfdom’ must we travel before we Americans who love the country of our Founders say ‘Enough!’? Must we be subjected to a 50% income tax rate? 60%? 70%? Must we wait until we have to request permission from the government to buy a new car or a new home?
Will we do anything when we’re required to get annual ‘energy inspections’ of our homes and vehicles? Will we have to wait until we have to request permission to have children because children consume energy which is “bad” for the planet?
Will we have to agree, like Europe, to massive immigration from Muslim nations to secure oil supplies? Will we object when Spanish is mandatory for all US students?

Thanks to both political parties expanding benefits for the poor and middle class and removing additional taxpayers from the tax rolls we are on a trajectory where a majority of citizens will vote for the socialists forever.

Just how far do we have to go before the next revolution to preserve our liberties is launched?

I’m ready now.

May 25, 2009 - 7:43 am 27. sheesh:

America IS America. It never STOPPED being America. It was America when we stopped the nazis. It was America when we interred innocent Japanese. It was America when we pushed back the invasion of Kuwait. It was America when we authorized Abu Ghraib. It was America when we led the industrial revolution. It was America when we killed other Americans at Ruby Ridge and Waco and Kent State.

If you’re gonna live here, open your eyes and live in the real America – all of America – the majesty and the mistakes – and not the myth. Never fear the truth.

May 25, 2009 - 7:50 am 28. Professor Guvinof:

The red flags are plain to see, and so is the energy of the tea parties. The dots are quietly being connected. How to counter the momentum of a community organizer pulling the levers of power under the influence of a subversive ideology?

I think David Solvay exposes the danger well. Dick Cheney, in his new capacity of private citizen, volunteers to lead the counter-charge.

Mr. Obama’s misguided impulses have unwittingly created the conditions for the bill of federalism to carry the counter-momentum.

May 25, 2009 - 7:52 am 29. karen usa:

Debasing the currency, lowering our defenses, undercutting the rule of law and the right to property — we are being assaulted from all directions. I don’t think BHO can wait until next year – the damage must be done now. In his eyes, what is the downside to the U.S. having a catastrophic attack? Just more opportunity to do what couldn’t be done otherwise.

May 25, 2009 - 7:53 am 30. jw:

President Obama’s promise to “change America” shows how awful he is. America does not need changing – except for communists like the friends of Obama, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and probably Rashid Khalidi.

May 25, 2009 - 7:57 am 31. Delia:

25. MiamaMan,

There you are! I’ve been trying to chase you around PJM to let you know about Ron’s post. UGH! I really worked myself up into a froth but I felt you were unfairly ‘noosed’ and flogged without so much as a say.

I just read your response to me. Thank you for the link. Ha-ha! You smart@rse. Well, at least you owned it for what it was and in its context you intended. Too bad Ron won’t let you at least reply on his own freakin’ thread he ‘named’ you so openly on. Maybe you scared him? Weird.

The ‘right bad combination’… LOL! I’m good at that too.

Okay, fifty push-ups for you! Down on the ground, soldier!

May 25, 2009 - 7:58 am 32. MiamaMan:

21. Alan Leverenz:

Sure Alan, great philosophical musing, man, you should participate more in “Internet dialogues”, come down from your Olympian clouds and share your wisdom with us. What a Freudian analysis!

Vous êtes un véritable philosophe. Vous êtes un Fantomas des lettres!

In the meantime, since you are from the 60s, please leave the joint alone.

May 25, 2009 - 8:01 am 33. MiamaMan:

Delia:

As I said before, you are the best. Tell you the truth, I enjoy your posts and Meryl’s so much, you both have a truly American sense of humor. I often laugh hard when I read them, Meryl has one of the sharpest tongues in town. Go Meryl, Grandma!

As for the push-ups, thanks! Well taken, really, with all the time at home and no work in sight, I have been doing Tony Horton’s P90X for the last 2 months, have lost 18 lbs so far, and toned up a little. I recommend this P90X highly, seriously. Look at Cheryl Crow, the other day she said she also was on it.

Forget Mr. Rosenbaum, he is a wet blanket.

Au revoir!

May 25, 2009 - 8:19 am 34. misanthropicus:

RE #21. Alan Leverenz:

Oh, Alan!

May 25, 2009 - 8:24 am 35. Tomp:

Could obama be a sleeper muslim? What a coup for the islamo-fascist.
Just a thought.

May 25, 2009 - 8:32 am 36. Delia:

33. MiamaMan,

Whoops I jumped the gun a little [or the shark?] and posted your reply to me on Ron’s thread. Ron will probably ban me now too [?]. I won’t ask you to translate what you wrote to him…I have a feelin’ it weren’t purdy. lmfao!

Have a wonderful day and I agree about Meryl…she’s a peach! So many people here make me smile and give me hope. Thank goodness for the internet or I’d probably be knitting myself into a straight-jacket.

May 25, 2009 - 8:33 am 37. altalena:

Good grief! Has there ever been such a catalog of folly, fraud, and feeblemindedness as David Solway has compiled here? The Obama presidency has been one long series of foolish acts, dishonest pronouncements, and stupid policies, and the series shows no signs of coming to an end. I would add only one item to Mr. Solway’s already excruciatingly painful list of imbecilities: the president’s never-ending hectoring of the American people.

Has any previous American president so incessantly chastised the American people for their alleged trespasses? Apparently, Barack Obama (the much-acclaimed “constitutional scholar”) has found, somewhere in the Constitution, a clause requiring the president to provide the people with daily doses of exhortation, remonstrance,and harangue. A perfect example was on display last week when he engaged in a speechifying duel with Dick Cheney. Obama began his oration with a characteristic pose: thrusting his chin heavenward (ala Mussolini, suffusing his face with contempt for the ignorant rubes he was about to address, and then unburdening himself of the dullest and dreariest sermon since the invention of homiletics. The tone throughout was blustering, browbeating, and bullying. The man plainly defines the “bully” in “bully pulpit” far differently than Teddy Roosevelt defined it.

Hearty thanks to David Solway for a sterling piece of writing.

May 25, 2009 - 8:44 am 38. Delia:

37. altalena,

Yep! -And, with North Korea’s Nuke testin’ fun-n-games and Iran’s Nukerz-gone-wild ambitions, it’s gonna be a REALLY bumpy ride. I can already smell the sulfur and gnashing of teeth from here [the present].

May 25, 2009 - 8:48 am 39. MiamaMan:

Delia:

I read it, ha, ha. Man, sure Herr Rosenbaum is mad at me. Here is a copy of another post I sent him, but he also blocked:

[Shalom Mr. Rosenbaum:
1) By now I know you probably won’t post me. It is OK, but just in case.
2) In studying your picture here on Pajamas, 2 things come up:
a) You are highly intelligent.
b) Your John Malkovic’s look-alike face denotes some troublesome features, a lack of adaptability to reality. This is the Mephistophelian trait I was referring too.
You seem to have a short fuse, a temper, a tendency to hold a grudge. At this point you may even benefit from an increase in Chutzpah.
Don’t know why comes to mind that famous rant Hitler had about Goering hours before his suicide, when the Fuhrer yelled: Parvenu, morfinist!]

As for my last quote in German to him, here is the translation:

Ich bitte Sie, meine entschuldigung von ganzem Herzen!
Please accept my apologies from the bottom of my heart!

Ich wollte mich nicht zu verletzen können.
My intention was not to hurt you.

Bitte verzeihen sie meine dummheit!
Please forgive my stupidity!

May 25, 2009 - 8:50 am 40. Anonymous:

Take the time to read the poem whose title you have so defamed. Langston Hughes expresses similar sentiments to Michelle Obama regarding the promise America has left to fulfill.

The America that we seek to be again is the same America that Obama seeks to restore. Your diatribe only demonstrates that you do not understand what it means for America to be America again.

Hughes deplores tyrants, false patriots, lack of equality, greed, unrestrained competition (dog eat dog), and the hunger of the poor. He cries out for the millions on relief today, the millions shot down when we strike, the millions who have nothing for our pay.

He is not asking for a return to the past literally, but figuratively – a return to the principles upon which our nation was founded, and which we still struggle to put into practice. America needs to be an inspiration to the world, for her own sake and that of humanity.

Peace.

DS

PS – FYI “Waterboardinggate” is not the proper term. The correct appelation is “Torturegate”. Best of luck.

May 25, 2009 - 8:55 am 41. D-wah:

MiamaMan10–Agreed, that’s all part of it–the wicked left has been eroding on every front which we all discuss every day.

But that our press, the supposed watch dog, the freedom of which Jefferson said would make or break us, won’t point out these GLARINGLY OBVIOUS BREACHES of our trust, our Constitution, our laws, our economic values, NOR EVEN MENTION the outright refusal to provide ANY BACKGROUND information on this masked marauder, is so over the top unconscionable I’m dumbfounded! I mean, they go by two books that HE DIDN’T EVEN WRITE! How much of con job can we get????

Anyway, I’m sure you share my frustration. I just think our last chance might just be breaking the press open somehow. I don’t know if we have enough time till 2010 even if the GOP took both houses–he’s moving way too fast.

By the way MiamaMan, glad to see you hooked up with Delia on that Rosenbummer string black-out and got that piece posted. He blocked all 8 of my posts. Typical fascist hit and run then censor the other guy to justify yourself “journalism”. Sleazy.

Meryl–congrats on your granddaughter! You must be proud! (grandpa here too) I of course commiserate on the SicK, I mean CiC issue. The poor servicemen and women of our great country must be sick at heart and so conflicted over this usurper. Lord be with them.

May 25, 2009 - 9:00 am 42. maryann crabtree:

Dear David,
Thank you for itemizing so that I don’t have to pull together
dozens of articles to send to pals on the “fence”.
Last fall I was introduced to Mark Steyn, read America Alone and started my journey into True American Conservatism.
Presently reading Liberty and Tyranny. It has become quite the hobby. 3 hours of reading every morning, starting with
the National Review, Pajamas Media, Rush, Ann Coulter, Iowahawk, Iowntheworld, Imaksim, Big Hollywood. It fuelled an interest in
Trudeau as I saw the similarities between Obama and the the Communist loving former PM. Hence our June 30th tax freedom day.
Down south they complain about March 30th, just wait! Needless to say the effects of that sick experiment called “Multiculturalism”
No I’m no redneck, my parents arrived in 62, kept all the Croat fanfare back there and learned English in night school upon arrival
and led very successful lives.

Recently I thought it would be fantastic and great for the cause if we could impregnate Ann Coulter with octuplets, I had a list of
fine Conservative gentlemen all American , now I may add a Canadian to the mix.
Rush Limbaugh, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew McCarthy, Dick Cheney, Dave Berg (of Iowahawk fame), Mark Levin, Jonah Goldberg,
Dave Solway, Mark Steyn, ok make it ninetuplets

May 25, 2009 - 9:01 am 43. D-wah:

By the way, speaking of Obummer’s “books”, you gotta read this if you haven’t already:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/who_wrote_dreams_and_why_it_ma_1.html

May 25, 2009 - 9:03 am 44. Oscar Wao:

“So much has now been written about Barack Obama, and from so many different points of view, that one must scour the muniments of the improbable, the miraculous, or the impossible to find something startlingly new to say.”

This would have been a great place to end your article. But then there was about another 250 stupid sentences that followed.

May 25, 2009 - 9:06 am 45. Oscar Wao:

“the apology to the Islamic world for America’s past sins — the same America that rescued Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s aggression, intervened militarily on behalf of Bosnia-Herzegovina, did more than any other country to help establish Kosovo as an Islamic state, sends $2 billion annually in foreign aid to Egypt and hundreds of millions to Jordan, and contributes massively to Palestinian coffers and militia training;”

So what you’re saying is that you’ve ever done anything great, you never have to apologize for a mistake. Brilliant reasoning here. Now, its a little clearer to me why most of your readership lives in trailer parks.

May 25, 2009 - 9:08 am 46. Delia:

39. MiamaMan,

Awwwww. Thank you for the translation! Why does German always look ‘angry’? No insult intended btw…the language is just very abrubt/halting in both the written word and spoken word.

Well, some mean ol’ Nazi you turned out to be, eh, MiamiMan? lol!

I’m sorry about your being jobless… My husband is working for peanuts right now but he’s working [uphill battle]. We’ll probably sell our car to rid ourselves of the payments and insurance which means we will be down to his big, fugly work truck. -But, we haven’t lost our home [yet] so I’m keepin’ da faith. I can’t imagine the poor people who are living in ‘tent cities’ with CHILDREN. I’ve been thanking God every day for each day I have good food in my tum-tum and a roof over my head and a warm, cozy bed.

I’m feeling reflective today. I miss my grandpa who served our country in WW2 and died of cancer when I was 7 years old. Even when the cancer was ravaging his body he still had a strong spirit. He was a May baby too. When he was on his death bed he asked to see me for the last time…all I remember was being horrified and scared to see him so skeletal and frail instead of the big, strapping, stubborn, jovial, stern 100% Finnish man he was. The stark contrast terrified me to my core. I ran away from him and cried. He was no longer my grandpa. Death. Just…death.

May 25, 2009 - 9:17 am 47. tanstaafl:

…de Tocqueville in Democracy in America called “administrative despotism,” a power that “compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people.”

I’m certainly feeling compressed and enervated, I haven’t (yet) moved into extinguished.

The unbridled power machinations of the current national government seem more akin to dictatorship. Where are the Constitutional safeguards, the checks and balances, that are supposed to protect against all of this ?

The opposition seems impotent (at best). Castrated, even.

May 25, 2009 - 9:22 am 48. Khiri:

I see what The Anointed One is doing and I see someone who is incredibly incompetent, in way over his head. Then I see something else he does and I think he’s truly evil, only interested in increasing his power at the expense of our lives and our country. I vacillate between incompetent and evil. Incompetent – evil.

These are my choices?!?! Holy shit are we in trouble!

May 25, 2009 - 9:27 am 49. Delia:

48. Khiri:

“These are my choices?!?! Holy shit are we in trouble!”
~

Khiri, his puppet-masters/handlers/string-pullers are the people behind the green curtain who I’m truly afraid of. As much as DohBama repels me, he only has as much power as the string-pullers give him and the mindless audience allows. Obama To Journalists: “You All Voted For Me”. Yes and they still are and you’re still campaigning, Mr. O so that you can hastily rush all of your agendas past our sleeping sheeple.

Yippee fuxin’ yippee kay aye aye yay.

May 25, 2009 - 9:38 am 50. D-wah:

Tanstaafl: good stuff. Where are the safeguards? Still there–in print. Seems the barrage of relativism has worked and we’ve let go of our moorings. Every time we try to hold on to them we get our hands slapped and we’re shouted down as racists. Pavlov’s public come to fruition. Scary how even our politicians are cowed now. Except Cheney, Rush, Levin and a few others, God bless ‘em.

42 Maryann: Enjoyable post. Gr8 leads. Try americanthinker and canadafreepress, michellemalkin too, if you haven’t yet.

Love Iowahawk! Just sent him an idea for a satire–”Dreams of My Author”..ha! He could rip that one!

Pulled this off that great tip iowntheworld.com. Must see!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16VAMrz5oI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fiowntheworld.com%2Fblog%2F&feature=player_embedded

May 25, 2009 - 9:54 am 51. Anna:

I would add to this excellent list, Obama’s presentation of himself as a person for women’s rights who is proving to be quite the opposite. He is, in any and all ways, about himself, and himself only. Poster 48, I agree – it’s hard to know if he’s incompetent or if he truly has evil intentions in mind. Perhaps a frightening combination of both.

May 25, 2009 - 9:58 am 52. D-wah:

Delia 49: You’re a hoot!

As far as his constant campaigning–I like this analogy. They talk about Oblabber spending his political capital he gained with the election.

Well, just like printing more money to pay for his pogroms, I mean programs, he has to keep printing more political capital since it’s constantly running out. I expect to see this throughout. The phony hologram that is Oblather needs the projector running 24/7. (don’t miss that clip I posted, it’s awesome.)

May 25, 2009 - 10:06 am 53. Bilgeman:

#45 Oscar Wao:
“So what you’re saying is that you’ve ever done anything great, you never have to apologize for a mistake.”

Monkey-boy, monkey-boy, you’ve obviously been misedumacated and are woefully deficient in your moral instruction.

You offer apologies for what YOU do, not for what OTHERS do.

The point of an apology is forgiveness, and you cannot seek it for others. It’s not your place, and they may not want it.

The best you can offer for others ‘misdeeds is commiseration, which is basically a nice way of saying:
“Yep…sucks to be YOU!”

“Brilliant reasoning here.”

Thank you. Stick around Chim-chim, you might learn something.

“Now, its a little clearer to me why most of your readership lives in trailer parks.”

Collectivist neo-Marxist policies as espoused by the Left.
And seeing as how such an attitude of hostility to wealth creation and maintenance is currently in vogue, it appears that Mr. Solway will be gaining scads of new trailer-park readers.

This will also be an opportunity for you, Bobo, since there will be that many more trailers under which the cage you live in can be sheltered.

Have a banana, Lancelot Link.

May 25, 2009 - 10:11 am 54. Khiri:

Delia:

Khiri, his puppet-masters/handlers/string-pullers are the people behind the green curtain who I’m truly afraid of.

Too true, Delia. But who are they? And if The One fails, will they fail, as well? At least for now? How do we expose them? (My suspicion is that one of them is George Soros, a truly vile Anti-Semitic Jew).

BTW, I just read your many posts on Heir Ron’s latest columns. You’re a scream!! Hope you enjoyed your rhubarb! 8Þ

May 25, 2009 - 10:14 am 55. Pee Wee Herman, Community Organizer:

Now, its a little clearer to me why most of your readership lives in trailer parks.

It may cost more than your mom’s basement (or are you living in public housing?), but there is something to be said for being independent. Someday you may come to understand, but probably not.

May 25, 2009 - 10:29 am 56. HondaV65:

David, this is a great post and it’s spot on.

However – I fear the worst is done and from here on out – it’s just a slide into oblivion.

He’s bankrupted the nation already – and he has enough steam to maybe put us in further jeopardy with Universal Health Care.

The odds are against us surviving this. The Chinese own half our debt. We’re printing money to pay for the other half. The “Capitalist Engine” that would help us recover from this is being dismantled. We have a train wreck coming with Social Security and Medicare and Prescription Drugs. Baby Boomers are retiring – soon we’ll have only 2 taxpayers to pay for each Social Security recipient. Only punitive taxation will fix that and this will result in a tax revolt (ironically by the very people who voted Obama in).

None of what I’ve outlined above takes into account another terrorist attack on U.S. soil – remember – the last one devastated our economy for the short term but we had the resources to rebound – resources we won’t have next time because Obama has squandered them.

None of that takes into account a possible overseas conflict in the Middle East involving Iran – or one in Asia involving North Korea. None of the above takes into account any response by us with respect to Russian expansionism – or if China decides Taiwan’s time is up.

Our enemies know we are on the ropes – and they will not allow the opportunity to pass.

I don’t want to sound like a whacko – but it will take an intervention from GOD to save us – and I doubt he really cares much for us anymore.

My prediction is that the US will go into a civil war sometime in the next twenty years. Without the prosperity, without the liberty, and without the freedom – there will be no reason to maintain loyalty to the American dream.

May 25, 2009 - 10:38 am 57. Delia:

Thanks, Khiri [54.]. I should have been more clear about the letter from my neighbor though…it was from last year, so those were last year’s apples/plums/rhubarb.

Who is behind the green curtain? Will we EVER know for certain? We can all make plenty of intelligent guesses but…the truth remains to be truly brought to light in this ’supposed’ transparent administration. *cough-cough*
~

45. Oscar Wao:

“Now, its a little clearer to me why most of your readership lives in trailer parks.”

Oscar, you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face. Sheesh lives in a ‘trailer’ and he’s a Lib/Dem. Plenty of ‘poor’ people are indeed democrats (and no, I’m not calling sheesh or anyone living in a trailer necessary poor) and if you are a Dem then you should ’supposedly’ have a bit more compassion for people who don’t live in McMansions. Is’t that part of the Dem Premise? Did I miss something?

May 25, 2009 - 10:58 am 58. Meryl:

33.MiamaMan

“Delia:

As I said before, you are the best. Tell you the truth, I enjoy your posts and Meryl’s so much, you both have a truly American sense of humor. I often laugh hard when I read them, Meryl has one of the sharpest tongues in town. Go Meryl, Grandma!”

Hey, M-Man–appreciate the comments. HOWEVER!…

My anger and fear over what is happening to our country has more than once brought me to regret just how sharp my tongue can be. I don’t care to live angry, but have not yet worked out how to respond at all times. I have absolutely no problem with BEING angry when it’s appropriate (and I believe that our nation’s present jeopardy is an appropriate cause for real anger)…but I wish I did better at responding with anger always carefully focused. Oh well.

I would guess that we’re all going to have plenty of opportunity to practice in the next several months.

Two years ago, my fear of “sounding angry” or (as you say) “having a sharp tongue” would have kept me from speaking. I think there’s a risk in NOT speaking now, so I’ll keep learning as I go.

I’m also glad that you and Delia found a workaround for Ron’s problems. Wow. That just got weird. He’s just not a very nice person apparently.

May 25, 2009 - 11:09 am 59. elb:

I think that those who do not agree with Obama, his policies and the direction he ’s ‘leading us’ just have to hang tough.

Having lived through Eisenhower ’til now, I have experienced a variety of political environments. Even the worst have passed, which is not to say they were not real.

But I just think that Obama will do a dive like Carter when the presidents is discovered to have no clothes and people realize his agenda for what it is.

May 25, 2009 - 11:10 am 60. CAUTION:

went to the West Palm Beach gun show on sunday. average size crowd, not much action quite frankly, though the concealed weapon class was completely full. glum faces were the order of the day, economy on everyones mind that i talked to. hard to sell $600 handguns to the unemployed.

liberty, to a starving person means nothing. and so it will be with gun rights. there is a possibility that things will get so bad that giving up your guns will mean nothing.

the future is aligning against the USA. and OB as president is the wrong person at the wrong time. it is not possible to see him giving the order to nuke a country that clearly deserves it, or to launch an attack in a preemptive manner.

a pissing match with the CIA over water boarding when the world is about to go to war. stupid, unforgivable, and this is the part that infuriates us. at a gut level we can see what is going to happen, it is a classic slow speed train wreck.

May 25, 2009 - 11:22 am 61. Schwarzkopf's ghost:

Delia…I don’t recall Oscar saying he’s a democrat. Maybe he’s a real libertarian, unlike the authority worshiping Nancy boys who use that label to distance themselves from the discredited Republican policies of the last nine years that post here.

May 25, 2009 - 11:24 am 62. D-wah:

Hondo56:
Exactly right. We’re one day at a time right now.

“None of what I’ve outlined above takes into account another terrorist attack on U.S. soil -” “None of that takes into account a possible overseas conflict…” ..”Our enemies know we are on the ropes – and they will not allow the opportunity to pass.”

“I don’t want to sound like a whacko – but it will take an intervention from GOD to save us – and I doubt he really cares much for us anymore.”

All true except the end. He does. But the most loving thing might be to let us go through this to get the lesson and bring people to Him. As they say, a people (overall) deserves the government it gets. We’re caught in the cross hairs of an inevitable cycle.

One thing we can do is prepare ourselves and our loved ones for very difficult times–food, emergency supplies, etc. This powder keg could blow anytime. We shouldn’t just wring our hands. Take whatever common sense action we can in the knowledge that this will happen, sooner or later. It can’t NOT happen.

Righting the ship with so many ballasts blown out by this Oscourge is a long shot. Get your life boats ready–”better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.” Crappy news…but so are earthquakes, diseases, evil people, and heartbreak. Such is life. Get close to the Lord–there’s answers, refuge and comfort there. (Read Psalm 73 and 91)

May 25, 2009 - 11:25 am 63. Moogie:

Dear David Solway,

Thank you for compiling this list. As most of us know, it isn’t a complete list – for that, you would need to write a book, not a blog.

Let’s see if I can wrap this up for everyone…

The Demoralization of America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_xdBnFPqOI&feature=related

The History of Political Correctness: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236

In these two videos, you will find ALL of the answers about what/who Obama is; what/who is attempting to unravel America; why/how it is being done; how long it’s been going on; why it will fail.

Watch them… pass them around. Educate the masses behind the MSMs back!

May 25, 2009 - 11:28 am 64. fred:

Delia,

We need some writer at PJM to compose an article lampooning the newest paid trolls, brought to you by David Axelrod: DavidS, sheesh, Oscar Wao, etc. We could call it a compendium of cognitive dissonance impervious to the inner logic of the Left’s talking points. Or, perhaps it is best to just ignore them. After all, they seek to bring us down to the level of DU, HuffPost, MoveOn, and DailyKos, so they can then brag to their masters and their peers “Look what we did to those eeeeeevilllll conservatives at PJM!” It’s all part of an ongoing campaign to discredit and marginalize the Conservative Underground. Let’s not oblige them. It’s very important to ignore them. I seldom respond to what they’ve written and very often do not read what they post. I think that would be good advice for the rest of us. After all, if you wouldn’t go over to “their world” and subject yourself to their drivel, why would you inflict it upon yourself over here?

May 25, 2009 - 11:34 am 65. Delia:

52. D-wah:

“Delia 49: You’re a hoot!”
~

HOLLA! :LOL: Thank you for ‘getting’ me. I’m an odd bird but I’m honest (maybe too much so ha-ha).
~

58. Meryl,

I felt it was only fair to MiamiMan to post his response since he has been ‘Kaputted’ from Ron’s blog when Ron himself called out MiamiMan. Weird? Indeed! Maybe I’m giving Ron too much leash but I honestly think the guy is deeply sad about something. I’m guessing the first letter starts with a first name starting with ‘B’ and the last letter ends with the last letter ending with an ‘A’. What better way to deflect one’s disappointment in one’s choices than by picking on lowly, anon commenters? Projection much? A muchhhhhhhh tooooooooo much.

-But, I digressed.

Back to the point…

Will America be America again? EVER? EVER? Some people clearly want to flush America down the toilet even though she was a pretty successful experiment. How do we reality slap the ‘enlightened’ useful idiots?

May 25, 2009 - 11:35 am 66. Khiri:

elb:

But I just think that Obama will do a dive like Carter when the presidents is discovered to have no clothes and people realize his agenda for what it is.

You may be right, but my fear is how far Obama, like Carter, will allow the progression of jihad. We cannot afford it. It is literally a matter of life and death. If his intent to move Gitmo detainees to US prisons in conjunction with his ignorance of the NY terrorists just arrested is any indication, we’re on the fast track to another 9/11.

May 25, 2009 - 11:38 am 67. Moogie:

Dear Mr. Solway,

I’m sorry, I forgot to include a closing salutation in my previous post.

Thank you,

Moogie Chavis

May 25, 2009 - 11:40 am 68. Delia:

61. Schwarzkopf’s ghost,

If it walks like a duck, squawks like a duck, poops on your head like a rogue seagull and then swoops down and steals your french fries ta boot… Chances are…
~

63. Moogie,

Excellent links, Moogster! Thank you.

Let us remember:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31912

May 25, 2009 - 11:41 am 69. elb:

Khiri:

If his intent to move Gitmo detainees to US prisons in conjunction with his ignorance of the NY terrorists just arrested is any indication, we’re on the fast track to another 9/11.

Yes, you may be correct. I think the most pro-active thing one can do in these times is be aware. Politics at best is a con-act, always has been and always will be. Some politicos are better then others but all have their own self-interests at heart.

Obama will reach a tipping point. I don’t see his administration imploding, but if nothing else, water seeks its own level and there is a natural balance to events. He can only close so many car companies and give away so much $$$. Even the ‘faithful’ will grow weary of this guy when he fails to produce the magical change he’s promised.

Plus like streetcars, when it comes to politicians, there’s always another one passing.

May 25, 2009 - 11:55 am 70. MiamaMan:

Delia:

“I’m sorry about your being jobless…”

Thanks, just to comment on this. I entered the workforce here in Miama at the end of Carter’s administration. Do you think things were bad then? I soon found a job with a nice company that moved down here from Ohio, “Cleveland Pneumatic”. They had pedigree, they were instrumental in inventing the pneumatic hammer more than 100 years ago. Started as Electroplater Trainee, $5.07/hour. They paid for me to become a Certified Electroplater Finisher (Covington, KY), then for a whole BS degree in College, and part of a Masters’ in engineering, which I finished with Baxter Healthcare (from Lake Zurich, Chicago) when they paid for the rest.

Now, you know what? I tell my friends we verily are on uncharted territory. This is nothing I am afraid we have seen in our lifetimes. This is new to me.

I also have the prestigious CIH license (Certified Industrial Hygienist), 2-3 years ago you got a job here or internationally with this license in a heartbeat. For over a year, nothing, nada. I have applied everywhere, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Libya.

The South Florida area is rundown big time. We have over 10% unemployment. Foreclosure, 1/150 houses (national median is 1/349 houses).

On immigration, nearby the Home Depot with Bush you had about 10-20 illegal Mexicans hustling work, always worried about an ICE raid. Last count a couple of days ago, like 60, they are now quietly seated, drinking coffee or beer, ICE disappeared.

I can’t move out cuz my wife have a great job with a city where she has invested 25 years and is near retirement. Otherwise…

60. CAUTION:

Liked your description of the gun shop in Palm. I recently sold my peacemaker (Rugger, 45, double-action), still kept a few others, just in case. I am glad Gov Bush extended the Castle Doctrine to comprise the whole state of Florida before he left office, at least any Floridian now can stand his ground anywhere within the confines of the state.

May 25, 2009 - 12:16 pm 71. Moogie:

Thanks Delia.

My suspicions about this presidential candidate were tipped off with the very first thing I had read about him – in March 2007. I read a quote of his, and somewhere in my gut a little “ping” went off. I think it was my tyrant radar being activated.

I’d love to blame the MSM for his success, but until August of last year, it was my only source of information. I didn’t even know about PJ or any of the many other conservative websites. I hadn’t read any conservative blogs up to that point.

Once I started researching Obama, and finding out about his associations, I knew without a doubt that this was no Carter clone. Obama is the culmination and representation of decades of educational indoctrination and propaganda, instituted in our country a very long time ago.

What we are witnessing today is the manifestation of decades of programming to demoralize America, with the ultimate goal of destruction of western democracy. Obama is the poster child for neo-Marxism and political correctness – he’s the epitome of an effort that was begun in Russia, spread to Germany, hopped across the Atlantic, and took root at Columbia, spreading from there into nearly every university campus in the U.S. It was filtered down through the educational system until kindergartners and pre-schoolers were being instructed in illogical political correctness and the hatred of America that is so prevalent today.

The Constitutional system of checks and balances and separation of powers is gone now. One party controls our three-headed administration, and it isn’t the Democrats. It’s the Democratic Socialists of America. In the center is Obama, who has absolute control over the appointments in the judicial branch, appointments within his own administration, and influence over members of the majority controlled Congress. He will appoint only those whose mission is the same as his: deconstruct the Constitution and establish a new order of socialism, known as statism.

Behind this movement are some of the wealthiest people in this country. Their stake in this is to gain power and more power.

Keep an eye on the three heads – their true intentions are showing more each day.

May 25, 2009 - 12:19 pm 72. Oscar Wao:

Fred:

“I seldom respond to what they’ve written and very often do not read what they post…except when I respond”

No wonder you idiots are in so much trouble.

May 25, 2009 - 12:32 pm 73. MiamaMan:

71. Moogie:

Thanks, very enlightening.

I often tell conservatives to stop comparing Obama to President Carter, I think it is a disservice and an insult to the latter.

Carter, a full-blooded American, we knew his ancestors, participated in World War II, volunteered to become an officer in a nuclear power submarine.

This new fella is quite different, this is verily a community organizer from Alinsky’s school. As you rightly pointed out, the result of years of filtering and programming.

May 25, 2009 - 12:41 pm 74. LeighB:

64 fred – I am shocked that people are being paid to post here. It makes me sad and I would rather hear what sheesh et. al. actually think instead of what they are paid to write. Some jobs are different than others and I hope I never have to give up my own voice and push someone else’s talking points.

May 25, 2009 - 12:45 pm 75. Ed Wallis:

In addition to the article mentioned in #43, I’d like to suggest this one:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/532tzlcn.asp

May 25, 2009 - 12:50 pm 76. Delia:

64. fred,

You are far more noble than me. I’m trying to curtail my temper tantrums though. I guess it isn’t showing yet, huh? LOL! In all seriousness though, you’re right but part of me likes to quibble and that’s something I try to ‘fight’…er ‘resist’. -But, sometimes, ‘the girl can’t help it”.
~

70. MiamaMan,

‘Uncharted territory’ or ‘DEEP SH*T’? Our Country is unraveling in rapid speed and yes, this is something our beloved USA has NEVER experienced before…this is not just about ‘money’ but about our very freedom and everything we hold dear. When the nukes are aimed at us, bread will be the last thing on our terrified minds methinks.
~

71. Moogie,

AMEN! Your posts are so well organized and thought out and TRUE…thank you for that. Many of you that put so much work and integrity to your posts humble me.

When the sheeple wake up and realize they won’t be getting a free ride but, rather the spreading of ‘poverty’ has taken its course, will there be a brave, inquisitive mind left to ask out loud, “WTF”?

It’s so easy to be angry at rich people until you realize you rely on them for jobs and the free market.

Will this fool EVER be vetted properly?

May 25, 2009 - 12:58 pm 77. Bohemond:

“….put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”
–Barack Obama, 2001

If the Order of Lenin fits, wear it, Comrade.

May 25, 2009 - 12:58 pm 78. Sapwolf:

The common people will throw this bum out, and they will be led by Sarah.

The rallying cry will be “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”.

It’s time for the middle class to take the country back and stop giving it away to the lazy and losers.

Only a free market economy with limited government interference can generate the GDP in total and per capita that leads to greater charity and resources for defense.

May 25, 2009 - 1:26 pm 79. D-wah:

Moogs–incredible links! Ex KGB Yuri Bezmevov exposes it perfectly, in 1985!!
Although he says fascism and communism have auto self-destruct mechanisms since they do not rely on the loyalty of the people, the “greatest historical paradox” of all time is that the west has been propping up and supporting its avowed enemy all this time. Now, he says, the west is perpetrating the whole scheme on itself.

You gotta see the other link below, everyone. It gives the 4 stages of communist infiltration and takeover. If it’s not today I don’t know what is.

In the first phase, Demoralization, he says the objective of the propaganda is to render people “unable to assess true information, until they can’t come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their family or their country.”

First phase of Demoralization takes 15-20 years. He felt it was completed back then already–in 1985! (thru the schools and media, etc.)

Obummer’s mission is clearly stage two–Destabilization–he specifies destabilizing the economy, foreign relations and national defense! He says it takes 2 to five years.

The frightening third stage–Crisis–only takes 6 weeks! Full governmental takeover thru an engineered situation.

Fourth–”Normalization”–code for liquidate the opposition, mop up, total stranglehold. Lasts indefinitely.

Watch it…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcZiNt6ypI&feature=related

May 25, 2009 - 1:28 pm 80. JasonS:

25. MiamaMan:

The reason I never posted in Mr. Rosenbaum’s posts, neither the one before nor the other after, is because Mr. Rosenbaum has blocked every single post I have written. He is, really, a fretful man. I even apologized to him to no avail.

He blocked my post to that thread too. All I did was refer to the article as “shrill liberal hysteria,” which it most certainly was. For the life of me I have no idea why in the world Pajamas Media would accept the contributions of such a lily-livered bag of neurosis.

Contrast the articles of Rosenbaum with the excellent article above, which is what Pajamas Media is all about and the reason this is one of my favorite websites. The comments to Pajamas media are also some of the most well written, thoughtful and articulate comments I’ve seen online. Which makes Rosenbaum’s bizarre rant even more bizarre.

May 25, 2009 - 1:29 pm 81. Sgt. Hulka:

Bohemond. I found the rest of the quote. You’re probably like me, like if its more than one sentence I usually lose interest and try to see if I can narrow the whole thing down to a line or two. Most of the time that works. That’s the strategy I used to support the Iraq war and why I voted for Bush twice. But in this case, someone sent me the full quote that you’re referencing here and so I’m just cutting and pasting it here. It sounds a little different when you read the whole thing, and doesn’t seem to mean what a lot of people imply by it. But I hate Obama anyway; it doesn’t matter what he says.

“And one of the — I think the tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movements became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”

Later during the same 2001 interview, Obama stated: “You know, maybe I’m showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but, you know, I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn’t structured that way.” He later added, “You know, the court’s just not very good at it, and politically, it’s just — it’s very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard. So, I mean, I think that, although, you can craft theoretical justifications for it legally — you know, I think you can, any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts — I think that, as a practical matter, our institutions just are poorly equipped to do it.”

May 25, 2009 - 1:37 pm 82. stuggo:

#49 Delia….Obama to news correspondents, “you all voted for me”. The MSM has to be exposed, and embarrassed, if we are to save our Republic.

May 25, 2009 - 1:38 pm 83. D-wah:

Moogs–71–great post again. I’d add the people behind this are some of the wealthiest people in America and other INTERNATIONAL interests. There’s a LOT of people and interests outside the country who are pushing this thru as well. All you need is for China, or big Chinese interest holders, some Arab group, and a couple of other big consortiums to yank some big holdings around and we jump. That’s how they kicked this whole thing off, just in time to insure the election of their puppet, and in turn caused the knee jerk bail out insanity, starting with Paulson/Bush. This is a gang-up move, within and without. (BTW, see the story on the Billionaire’s conference on “population control”? They’re not even hiding it anymore.)
Keep it up–and I love your sharpness–cuts thru the crapola!!

May 25, 2009 - 1:41 pm 84. D-wah:

BTW Moogs, my involvement in all this exactly mirrors yours, time line and all. I think there might be more of us than we realize. Oh to God that’s true. I guess the adage is true, we don’t come out fighting till our backs are against the wall. Unfortunately, like Yuri says in that clip, for many these obvious facts don’t register, even if they were shown a modern day gulag, until they literally feel the jackboot in their own butts.

May 25, 2009 - 1:52 pm 85. tanarg:

Are none of the things he has done impeachable offenses? Where is legal authority given to Congress to take over banks, or any other private entities?

May 25, 2009 - 1:54 pm 86. D-wah:

64 fred—good advice ignoring the taunters. Trouble is newcomers jump in to defend or debunk, as I did. I think we need to post and repost that point.

May 25, 2009 - 2:00 pm 87. Sgt. Hulka:

D-wah.

That sounded an awful lot like whining. I think one of the reasons the taunters are so succesful is that nancy-boys like you can’t stop crying about how much it hurts your feelings. Come on then, toughen up.

May 25, 2009 - 2:15 pm 88. sheesh:

71 Moogie . . .”In the center is (blank), who has absolute control over the appointments in the judicial branch, appointments within his own administration, and influence over members of the majority controlled Congress. He will appoint only those whose mission is the same as his”

You say that like it’s something new, but I have a very distinct and recent memory of exactly that situation . . . and I didn’t like it either.

“What we are witnessing today is the manifestation of decades of programming to demoralize America, with the ultimate goal of destruction of western democracy.”

And those moments of demoralization were?

“Behind this movement are some of the wealthiest people in this country. Their stake in this is to gain power and more power.”

Who are they?

You sound like a Republican version of Ward Churchill.

May 25, 2009 - 2:27 pm 89. Khiri:

79. D-wah:

Thanks so much for including the link to The 4 Stages of Subversion. I forwarded it to many people. It’s a not-to-be-missed video.

We have to do what we can to go around the useful idiots and deliberate participants within the MSM to show people what’s really going on. It truly frightens me how many people rely solely on them for their information.

Don’t miss it, folks.

May 25, 2009 - 2:33 pm 90. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

80. JasonS

Also rejected by the very selective Rosenbaum comment moderator:

This article only left me with an image of the “Comic Book Guy” from The Simpsons saying, “Worst PJM article ever.”

Note to sheesh:

Whatever happened to your “shadow”?

Oh yeah, I remember, you exposed your duplicity here:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/angry-conservative-base-itching-to-take-off-the-gloves/#comments

I know how the “moderation” of the comments can make it appear that your comment will follow a certain comment, but depending on the lag time of your “approval”, the comment may not appear where you think it will.

This uncertainty is not a problem for your typical poster, but, if you have more than one personality, this can pose a problem.

Patience is a virtue.

You tried to backtrack, unsuccessfully.

If you keep up the hard work…

you will eventually get the coveted jacket with the patches on the elbows.

Ahh, tenure.

Communist nirvana.

I hear the coffee is good. Other than that…?

Ring, ring…

May 25, 2009 - 2:47 pm 91. D-wah:

Time the light the barbecue–the flies are back…cheers, patriots!

May 25, 2009 - 2:50 pm 92. misanthropicus:

RE #37. altalena: [...] Apparently, Barack Obama (the much-acclaimed “constitutional scholar”) [...]

A reminder, altalena:
1) there isn’t a single legal piece written by mister Soetoro during his glorious, 2 years tenure at Harvard Law Review.
2) The lexis/nexis research regarding his legal authorship has generated only two mentions of dba Obama, both not as an author, but just as footnotes.
3) No student of his at Chicago Law (7 years tenure) could, during some interviews last year, describe his views on thing… the best description I found was: “kind of an eel, like”.
4) There is no (available) record of dba Obama’s lawyerly activity in Chicago, cases, names of clients, etc. Los Angeles Times described this situation in poetical terms, as dba Obama appearing in court together with the firm’s lawyers, introducing the case to the judge, then stepping aside, “ALLOWING his colleagues perform, he critically observing the proceedings.”

Nice -

May 25, 2009 - 3:24 pm 93. misanthropicus:

TO EVERYONE:
Solway’s piece is excellent, I just came back and read it again – and in order to visualize the empty bag that dba Obama is, just go on Politico, they still have as opening photo a hilarious pic with a little Soetore between two huge, dominating teleprompters. Save it! It’s sheer happiness!
That picture is an xint illustration of this, “When The Truman Show Meets The Manchurian Candidate” that the Obama presidency is.
Oh, by the way! It’s Memorial Day and mister Soetoro is out golfing – hey, but since the Memorial Day is about some baby killers, why not …

May 25, 2009 - 3:36 pm 94. myth buster:

Extortion is an impeachable offense, but that doesn’t matter when Congress is in on it. After all, if Congress is in on it, who shall bring charges against the President?

May 25, 2009 - 3:58 pm 95. D-wah:

93 Mis–can’t find that politico pic–they move it?

May 25, 2009 - 4:24 pm 96. shaui-jan:

sheesh making sense…not flailing away.. no defense of BHO?im stunned.must be some kind of a distraction ruse to deflect from the painful truths present.oh well…if your going to be rational…i hope you have a suitable replacement lined up.

those are going to be some big shoes to fill.

on to your later question;”And those moments of demoralization were?”

perhaps this gent can acquaint you with them…. a bit dated but timely.reposted for your enlightenment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo

alot of the same techniques are still being employed today….recognize any?

May 25, 2009 - 4:28 pm 97. fred:

There is a rumor that Saudi money got funneled to Obonga because Obonga’s mom, who worked for the Ford Foundation, found a way to get her son into Columbia U. On top of that, Zbigniew Brezhinski is rumored to have groomed Obonga and advised him. Took him under his wing and introduced him to Billy Ayers. At every step in his career Obonga has had influential and moneyed interests grooming him for the next campaign or the next role.

The international socialists positioned their Manchurian candidate perfectly. It was Soros who finally got him over the hump. Soros did this by building a vice-like grip on the MSM, that dribbled out the memes and symbols that influenced the sheeple. Plus, the Generations X and Y were well-indoctrinated by their Leftist teachers and professors. Everything came together perfectly. Republicans ran a lame candidate against Obonga. Most of McCain’s competitors during the primaries were smarter and better, but in states with open primaries you had a lot of Democrats voting in the primaries and the media prepped them to respond to McCain, since he is most like the Democrats.

May 25, 2009 - 4:33 pm 98. Mable Stofalees:

Sgt. Hulka. Oh, I agree. I’m a resistered Republican, but really do lean Libertarian. When I come on to this site I expect good arguments for getting government off our backs. Instead, all I read is one whining diatribe after another by the likes of Bilgeman and D-wah, about how others have hurt their feelings. Please, toughen up little men. All is not lost, but you’re certainly setting a bad example for the rest of us.

May 25, 2009 - 4:43 pm 99. fred:

I’ve seen all of the clips of Yuri Bezmenov. As a former Marxist I can tell you that he has encapsulated exactly what has been done to this country by the Communists. There are some toppled Communists back in their dachas who are probably kicking themselves, wishing they could have hung on for twenty or more years in order to reap the fruits of their labor.

The takeover is here, folks. Marxism, cloaked as corporatism/statism has arrived. It may take a civil war/rebellion to get our country back from these buzzards.

May 25, 2009 - 4:48 pm 100. David S:

Take the time to read the poem whose title you have so defamed. Langston Hughes expresses similar sentiments to Michelle Obama regarding the promise America has left to fulfill.

The America that we seek to be again is the same America that Obama seeks to restore. Your diatribe only demonstrates that you do not understand what it means for America to be America again.

Hughes deplores tyrants, false patriots, lack of equality, greed, unrestrained competition (dog eat dog), and the hunger of the poor. He cries out for the millions on relief today, the millions shot down when we strike, the millions who have nothing for our pay.

He is not asking for a return to the past literally, but figuratively – a return to the principles upon which our nation was founded, and which we still struggle to put into practice. America needs to be an inspiration to the world, for her own sake and that of humanity.

Peace.

DS

PS – FYI “Waterboardinggate” is not the proper term. The correct appelation is “Torturegate”. Best of luck.

May 25, 2009 - 5:29 pm 101. sheesh:

96. shaui-jan:

Against my better judgment I watched that video. And that’s supposed to prove what? It couldn’t be any more vague and empty. No specifics, no proof by event, no cause and effect, in fact, it has no demonstrable point whatsoever. You may as well have pointed to Bilgeman as your source. At least he knows he’s an idiot. All this guy did was say, “Marxists are coming for you, trust me.” That is the stuff you turn to for an educated world view? He’s a conspiricist without a conspiracy. How do you know he’s not part of the plot to make Americans THINK they’re being manipulated when they’re really not? The video offers nothing. Why would you post that link other than to prove you have no idea what you stand for and no idea who stands with you or why.

Seriously, all of you should go ahead and watch that thing and tell me the proof it offers OF ANYTHING! ANYTHING other than Jane Fonda is rich. And this guy thinks she got rich by being a dissident? No, she got rich by being a f*cktoy named Barbarella. If anybody here thinks that video is more important than last year’s American Idol finale, then I don’t want you voting, owning a gun, or operating a motor vehicle.

May 25, 2009 - 5:38 pm 102. Oscar Wao:

Back when I heard this rumor, it read like this:

“There is a rumor that Saudi money got funneled to Bush because Bush’s father, who worked for the CIA, found a way to get his son into Yale U.”

Good to see that its still making the rounds

May 25, 2009 - 5:46 pm 103. D-wah:

Fred–just got home and wrote your name on my “good folks” list, even before I got to your last post. Wow–you’ve been thru a big wake up–I had a similar one through misguided hippie ideals (yes, I was at Woodstock–true), mine were more on the socio-religious side, but same trip.

Happy thought for the day–there have been Christian prophecies that America will stand up against the anti-Christ in the Last Days. I’m not a dyed in the wool doctrinaire, nor do I subscribe to any denomination and am quite anti-church still (although things have changed over the years and churches are realizing the definition is “the called out ones”).. but…

There IS hope we’ll be the LAST MEN STANDING…THAT excites me!….

May 25, 2009 - 6:08 pm 104. tanarg:

Fred,

So what can we do?

May 25, 2009 - 6:19 pm 105. ajacksonian:

It isn’t called Transnational Progressivism for nothing, you know:

“The ascribed group over the individual citizen. The key political unit is not the individual citizen, who forms voluntary associations and works with fellow citizens regardless of race, sex, or national origin, but the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic, or gender) into which one is born.

A dichotomy of groups: Oppressor vs. victim groups, with immigrant groups designated as victims. Transnational ideologists have incorporated the essentially Hegelian Marxist “privileged vs. marginalized” dichotomy.

Group proportionalism as the goal of “fairness.” Transnational progressivism assumes that “victim” groups should be represented in all professions roughly proportionate to their percentage of the population. If not, there is a problem of “underrepresentation.”

The values of all dominant institutions to be changed to reflect the perspectives of the victim groups. Transnational progressives insist that it is not enough to have proportional representation of minorities in major institutions if these institutions continue to reflect the worldview of the “dominant” culture. Instead, the distinct worldviews of ethnic, gender, and linguistic minorities must be represented within these institutions.

The “demographic imperative.” The demographic imperative tells us that major demographic changes are occurring in the U. S. as millions of new immigrants from non-Western cultures enter American life. The traditional paradigm based on the assimilation of immigrants into an existing American civic culture is obsolete and must be changed to a framework that promotes “diversity,” defined as group proportionalism.

The redefinition of democracy and “democratic ideals.” Transnational progressives have been altering the definition of “democracy” from that of a system of majority rule among equal citizens to one of power sharing among ethnic groups composed of both citizens and non-citizens. James Banks, one of American education’s leading textbook writers, noted in 1994 that “to create an authentic democratic Unum with moral authority and perceived legitimacy, the pluribus (diverse peoples) must negotiate and share power.” Hence, American democracy is not authentic; real democracy will come when the different “peoples” that live within America “share power” as groups.

Deconstruction of national narratives and national symbols of democratic nation-states in the West. In October 2000, a UK government report denounced the concept of “Britishness” and declared that British history needed to be “revised, rethought, or jettisoned.” In the U.S., the proposed “National History Standards,” recommended altering the traditional historical narrative. Instead of emphasizing the story of European settlers, American civilization would be redefined as a multicultural “convergence” of three civilizations—Amerindian, West African, and European. In Israel, a “post-Zionist” intelligentsia has proposed that Israel consider itself multicultural and deconstruct its identity as a Jewish state. Even Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres sounded the post-Zionist trumpet in his 1993 book , in which he deemphasized “sovereignty” and called for regional “elected central bodies,” a type of Middle Eastern EU.

Promotion of the concept of postnational citizenship. In an important academic paper, Rutgers Law Professor Linda Bosniak asks hopefully “Can advocates of postnational citizenship ultimately succeed in decoupling the concept of citizenship from the nation-state in prevailing political thought?”

The idea of transnationalism as a major conceptual tool. Transnationalism is the next stage of multicultural ideology. Like multiculturalism, transnationalism is a concept that provides elites with both an empirical tool (a plausible analysis of what is) and an ideological framework (a vision of what should be). Transnational advocates argue that globalization requires some form of “global governance” because they believe that the nation-state and the idea of national citizenship are ill suited to deal with the global problems of the future.”

That pretty well sums up President Obama’s echo chamber of ideas, and it doesn’t get any better as time goes on.

May 25, 2009 - 6:26 pm 106. Mabel Stofales:

This comment really speaks for itself:

Happy thought for the day–there have been Christian prophecies that America will stand up against the anti-Christ in the Last Days. I’m not a dyed in the wool doctrinaire, nor do I subscribe to any denomination and am quite anti-church still (although things have changed over the years and churches are realizing the definition is “the called out ones”).. but…

There IS hope we’ll be the LAST MEN STANDING…THAT excites me!….

May 25, 2009 - 6:27 pm 107. D-wah:

Hey Mablestuffingfleas–or should I say your real name, prostitute for Mephistopheles, your Master–you’re a Republican like I’m an Osuckup Mindless Eatitall….like Usted…(sorry gang, had to answer the beeootch….)

May 25, 2009 - 6:27 pm 108. Delia:

101. sheesh:

“Seriously, all of you should go ahead and watch that thing and tell me the proof it offers OF ANYTHING! ANYTHING other than Jane Fonda is rich. And this guy thinks she got rich by being a dissident? No, she got rich by being a f*cktoy named Barbarella. If anybody here thinks that video is more important than last year’s American Idol finale, then I don’t want you voting, owning a gun, or operating a motor vehicle.”

Wow, sheesh and I thought Fonda was on *your* side. Way harsh, dude. Listen, I’m no fan of Fonda’s politics and this is entirely off-topic but your disparaging remarks about a woman who has actually done some pretty darned good movies besides ‘Butt-n-Boobarella’ is disturbing and she’s from YOUR side! Your misogynist streak is rearing its ugly head again. Sheesh indeed!

May 25, 2009 - 6:30 pm 109. Meryl:

98: “Please, toughen up little men. All is not lost, but you’re certainly setting a bad example for the rest of us.”

While we may appreciate the stance others take one way or the other, I think–for cryin’ out loud–we can let folks say what they have say without whining that they are “setting a bad example for the rest of us.”

I’m not dependent on what others say (any more) for deciding what I am going to think or say. I appreciate those who may agree or can have a conversation, but I will no longer wait on someone else’s “example”. If someone who ordinarily “agrees with me” has a bad day and “sounds like they’re whining” (in others’ opinion), I’m going to assume they’re just having a bad day and maybe tomorrow they’ll be back to their usual self. Their bad day has nothing to do with me.

I suggest that you toughen up and not (apparently) be so dependent on what others are saying or doing.

May 25, 2009 - 6:35 pm 110. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

101. The dog is salivating.

May 25, 2009 - 7:18 pm 111. fred:

D-wah,

Yes, I underwent some very big changes, but it occurred in stages over a long period of time. I got out of the Army in 1976 and started college in ‘77. I was an economics major, philosophy minor, and took up with Marxist thought while an undergrad. Before graduating in ‘82 I decided I had a vocation to become a priest, and so selected the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)to enter. I entered the Jesuit novitiate of the New England Province in the Fall of 1983. I left the Society while I was still in formation, after getting my MA in Philosophy from Loyola of Chicago (and I actually did volunteer work down in Obonga’s neighborhood). I decided not to take vows, since I had some issues with the Jesuit vow of obedience. After that, I went to Boston College for an MBA in Finance. Before graduating in 1991, I met a wonderful gal and we married in 1988. It was about 1987, when I was still in my grad studies at BC that I finally came to a resolution about Marxist thinking. My focus, for a very long time, was on the utopian thought and on the moral claims of Marxism. The failures of socialism certainly weighed on my mind in those days, and I was investigating the possibility that human nature was plastic enough to adapt to more altruistic motives and values. I discovered that outside of a truly humane religious tradition this was not possible to any great or enduring extent. I also delved into articles in psychology, neuroscience, and genetics to investigate what those disciplines could teach us about the nature of evil. And what I found stunned me: evil actually has, cosmically speaking, an organic basis. For sure, it remains an indelible aspect of human freedom and choice. But the persistence of things like sociopathy and the possible clues to this found in neuroscience and genetics really rocked my mind. It changed the way I saw everything, but it did not shake my faith in God at all. It rendered utopian ideologies stillborn. And it makes a mockery, if history had not already done it sufficiently, of Marx’s claim that socialism would produce a “new moral man.”

After that there was no going back. I got there by doing something that very, very few collectivists, academic and activist, embark upon: I took the critiques of socialism from conservatives and classical liberals seriously. Most of my “comrades” never took them seriously, which to this day is a serious lacuna in their traditions. By now you’ve probably guessed that I was an adherent of Liberation Theology. Still, I took theologian Michael Novak’s critiques of it (and the pope’s and Cardinal Ratzinger’s) very seriously.

What I was learning about socialist societies and their moribund economies played a role in how I began to change my thinking. I read bits and pieces of F. Hayek’s work too. In grad school I began to realize and see that the modern, healthy economy is not a zero-sum game. Wealth is created by the creativity and risk-taking of individuals. Government cannot do this. Up to a point, government can provide some basic structures and help within which the individual and his enterprise can thrive.

By the Nineties I was a moderate Democrat, but I began to see even then that moderates and conservatives in the Democratic Party were becoming dinosaurs. On issues of national defense and security, the Democrats could only be called Dhimmicrats. I changed parties in 2002, but during the late Nineties I was headed in that direction anyway.

For the record, I have no problem with a basic social safety net. But once government consumes more than 25% of GDP it begins to kill the private economy by slow strangulation. Next year, we will be well over 40% of GDP government controlled. And headed higher.

So, that is a precis of my journey, with a lot of detail left out in the interests of brevity.

May 25, 2009 - 7:22 pm 112. altalena:

misanthropicus — thanks for the response. In my post, I placed “constitutional scholar” in quotation marks because we — the American people — have yet to see any evidence that Obama is indeed a constitutional scholar, or, for that matter, any other kind of scholar. From where I sit, the guy’s an impostor, a fraud, and a humbug. If he’s the genuine article, all he has to do to prove it is release some testimonials from former students in his constitutional law classes — people who could attest to his expertise in the field. Or, at the very least, he could release his own law school records. I doubt that we’ll ever see either of these. So I’m going to persist in my opinion — which I trust is also yours — that Barack Obama is no more a “constitutional scholar” than I’m the King of Siam.

May 25, 2009 - 7:39 pm 113. telly:

I wish some of these personal conversations that have nothing to do with the article posted would go elsewhere. This is an article being discussed, not a community forum for chit chat about neighbors and off topic subjects. If you’re lonely, go find a chat room or something.

May 25, 2009 - 7:41 pm 114. D-wah:

Tx Fred–good man. Truth and character go together–you have them both.

May 25, 2009 - 8:03 pm 115. D-wah:

PS–Hey Mabel, I mean sheesh, or shadow etc. etc., wussup? Constipated again with all the truth sticking in your alimentary canal? Try Meta-truth-il—clear you right up 1-2-3. It won’t taste good to your type, but works like a charm…..

May 25, 2009 - 8:13 pm 116. Mabel Stofales:

Dwah…

“or should I say your real name, prostitute for Mephistopheles”

Yeah, I knew I wouldn’t be able to sound stupid enough to fool you people.

May 25, 2009 - 8:22 pm 117. tanarg:

I heard Geithner say in an interview not long ago, proudly, words to the effect, “I’ve never worked anywhere but in government my entire life.” He seemed to think that was a good thing. I shivered.

May 25, 2009 - 8:24 pm 118. D-wah:

altalena–welcome. The obvious has comrades in truth. Sick, isn’t it?! Look at these opposing posts–very weird where they could be coming from..very weird. Tells the story. Clearly.

May 25, 2009 - 8:58 pm 119. fred:

telly,

My apologies for the lengthy response to d-wah’s comments made to me. However, please note that here at PJM most of the misdirection and truly distracting comments come from the trolls come over from the other side.

My information which I shared with d-wah is actually germane to the topic, since I am an American who is accounting for why Obonga and socialism are out of touch with Americans of all backgrounds. My journey through academic Marxism and religious thought are my claim to why I think Obonga and his minions are wrong. And I think it a mature point in my evolution. In fact, I think I’m better read on revisionist Marxism (a.k.a. Gramscian, Frankfurt School Marxism)than Obonga and his allies are. Matter of fact, my background in economics, finance, and philosophy is deeper and richer than the president’s. And I am only a humble citizen who does not want to see his country go down a road littered with failure after failure. There are people here in this country that came here to get away from collectivism; they are now alarmed at what they are seeing.

Besides, who appointed you referee of this forum?

May 25, 2009 - 9:06 pm 120. Delia:

113. telly:

“I wish some of these personal conversations that have nothing to do with the article posted would go elsewhere. This is an article being discussed, not a community forum for chit chat about neighbors and off topic subjects. If you’re lonely, go find a chat room or something.”

I’d take your advice a little more seriously under your ‘current’ moniker if you actually had something to add to the topic YOURSELF rather than being a preachy chit. Kinda makes your point POINTLESS.

May 25, 2009 - 9:08 pm 121. Jason:

Good news everybody!! Our boys have done such an outstanding job overseas that Iraq is on pace in May for the lowest death toll of Iraqi forces and civilians for any month so far. Only the best fighting force in the world could have accomplished this. We are upholding our promise to the Iraqi people despite all the naysayers and irresponsible people who would have left them for slaughter. God bless our troops and lets continue to give them whatever they need so that they can come home as quickly as possible. I just wanted to pass along some good news on this somber day that you might not see on the news.

http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
(scroll down, you’ll see it)

May 25, 2009 - 9:11 pm 122. tanarg:

ajacksonian,

Finally, a full description of the Democratic Party. I am chagrined to find that I had never heard of this before. Is this not a philosophy that can be battled in the open and discussed — you know, challenged directly? Thanks.

I don’t know if others suffer from the same thing, but I have been feeling that there are just too many sources of information, and not all the information is of sufficient quality to warrant the time and effort it takes for me to actually feel that I am making any kind of progress in understanding what’s going on and what I must do.

May 25, 2009 - 9:12 pm 123. D-wah:

Mabes–you don’t seem to realize who you’re enslaved to. You think it’s a joke–just wait, sweetie pie…No Joke City beacons….

May 25, 2009 - 9:12 pm 124. David S:

@117. tanarg:

Yes, public service can be a scary thing. Doing work for the benefit of someone other than one’s self is a very foreign concept in these forums. Why, how can we trust someone who doesn’t spend every waking moment slaving for the almighty dollar?

Peace.

DS

May 25, 2009 - 9:22 pm 125. "progressive"watch:

I enjoyed reading David Solway’s article and these 111 comments. I would say some of your are damned smart people if it wasn’t cussing. Now Delia,D-wah,Stuggo,listen up. I am going to tell you something that you,we all,can start doing now,and do not poo-poo it for being too simple. It is a powerful action and all of us can do it.

Put all of Obama’s overling and underlings in one bundle,an Obama bundle,and they won’t be hitting us from all sides,as this for example: the Obama-Napolitano right-wing extremist list. The former mainstream media is included in the bundle. There is no mainstream media. The former mainstream media is now part of the Obama propaganda machine; they are not a separate entity from Obama. When MSNBC is commenting on an Obama policy,for instance,they should not be given a free media pass. Properly named,the policy would be called the MSNBC-Obama policy. MSNBC is commenting on its own policy.

The old-line Washingtonian elite still think it is corrupt politics as usual. As long as they think that way,they will never know what hit them.

May 25, 2009 - 10:33 pm 126. Moogie:

Okay everyone, calm down. Moogie is back home from work.

Let me just start by saying, I am like Mary Poppins: practically perfect in every way.

For those people of questionable intelligence who ask for proof and explanations of the things I post, my response is this – like Mary Poppins, I never explain anything.

I have vowed to never again allow myself to be drawn into a debate with the posters here who have been programmed and brainwashed by our worthless educational system. This would reduce me to the level of a rutabaga. It’s quite beneath my pay scale.

Now that we’ve made that clear, I just want to, once again, thank David Solway for this terrific summary of the POTUS. I want to thank all of those who watched the videos I provided and who were able to learn something meaningful. I also want to thank a few of the posters here, who have added more enlightenment to this debate: Dehlia, D-wah, fred, misanthropicus, progressoverpeace, Meryl, MiamaMan, ajacksonian, altalena… I’m sure I’ve missed a few.

As Agent Mulder would say: “The truth is out there.”

May 25, 2009 - 11:11 pm 127. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

116. Mabel Stofales/sheesh/the shadow/anonymous communist troll/human waste

Ring, ring…

May 25, 2009 - 11:13 pm 128. vladdy:

I agree about the personal conversations.

May 25, 2009 - 11:21 pm 129. Mable Stofales:

Crisis in America: Day 125

Went out today and cried. America is not America now anymore. First, where have all the fat people gone? This nation used to be 64% obese. The biggest change has been in the Republican party; now only 69% obese. Then people stopped buying crap everyday of their lives. The crap index was way down in May, and landfills were straining to make their government mandated quotas. That was all bad enough, then of course the stupid people started disappearing. People who believed in WMD in Iraq, who crapped their pants about the smoking gun in the form of the mushroom cloud, people who believe that waterboarding is something new and that its actually fun. People who believe that at Guantanamo they have barbecued lobster and ice cream sundaes on weekends. All those dumb people farmed out to little reservations like this. They used to roam free, those little dumb dumbsh**&s [tear falls on Indian man's face, followed by a little girl pulling petals off a flower]. An America that isn’t obese, full of crap and stupid is not an America I can stand *choke*.

May 26, 2009 - 12:11 am 130. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

113. salivating communist troll & 128. salivating communist troll.

Yes, please stop your personal conversation.

May 26, 2009 - 12:57 am 131. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

129. troll.

The troll is salivating.

May 26, 2009 - 1:17 am 132. shaui-jan:

sheesh.”He’s a conspiricist without a conspiracy”
yeah..he’s a real ‘troofer’alright:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov

….that was a small sample of hours of intervews…just on youtube.
yor attention span is short and i did not want to overwhelm you.
like i said….same techniques still being used…..openly

didn’t you send me an utterly useless link to’crook and liars?if i remember correctly….it was a minute longer…. i do not remember using up so much bandwith whining about that one though.
take some of your own advice and ‘butch up’..

May 26, 2009 - 2:20 am 133. shaui-jan:

moogie:hadn’t noticed you already posted that clip…very cool.a year on youtube with only 20,000 hits,it should have gone viral considering with what’s going on now..

May 26, 2009 - 3:20 am 134. Bilgeman:

#119 fred:
“My information which I shared with d-wah is actually germane to the topic, since I am an American who is accounting for why Obonga and socialism are out of touch with Americans of all backgrounds. My journey through academic Marxism and religious thought are my claim to why I think Obonga and his minions are wrong.”

This brings up an interesting point, fred, and I’d like your take on it.

I’m as blue-collar as they come, and with family heritage over on the Red side of Labor history.

Did you ever notice that the only Marxists one seems to be able to find anymore are only in academia?

I’d offer that a Communist Party with a larger cohort of tenured academics than pipefitters and farmworkers seems to be a uniquely American innovation, eh?

Did it ever dawn on any of your fellow Reds that the actual proletariat were kinda under-represented at cell meetings?

May 26, 2009 - 5:38 am 135. sheesh:

I see misanthropicus and shaui-jan have gotten together and produced a love child named “sunglasses on a cloudy day”. Congratulations.

May 26, 2009 - 6:33 am 136. fred:

134 Bilgeman,

You won’t even find most of those academic Marxists calling themselves Marxists. I WAS WARNED by a few of them, plus a few activist types, not to call myself a Marxist or socialist. I was told, in plain terms, to refer to myself as either a “progressive” or a liberal so as not to scare people off. In fact, today almost none of these people will openly admit who and what they are.

Just like taqiyya-spewing Muslims, the Marxists believe in deception to advance their cause. For the record, I refused to take their advice.

So, even among the working class types, Bilgeman, there are going to be a lot of people who believe in Marxist ideas but would never think of themselves as Marxists, much less refer to themselves as such. But the influence from academia is unmistakable. You just have to open up the hood and look around inside. You’ll find it.

It is only by stealth that they make their largest political gains.

May 26, 2009 - 6:52 am 137. sheesh:

134 Bilgeman . . . Yes, an interesting point indeed, and I’d like to expound on it, but first . . . WEENIE!

May 26, 2009 - 7:05 am 138. Mary:

I don’t think I’ve read such a concise synopsis of the political situation in the U.S. ever. Republicans, Libertarians and Conservatives were asleep at the wheel and still are. Until conservative tightwads come off some serious cash to finance the next election, we’re lost. And then we need to find funding and teachers to contradict the liberal agenda that’s been spoonfed to our youth for the last 40 years. And I didn’t even address liberal media – which I think is hopeless. I can’t stand to watch the news any more and can’t afford not to. What’s with Iran and the ships anyway…..

May 26, 2009 - 7:48 am 139. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

135. the dog is still salivating.

May 26, 2009 - 8:23 am 140. Moogie:

Bilgeman and fred: I think you’ve both touched upon something very important. The academia who teach and preach these neo-Marxist principles don’t tell their listeners that what they are hearing is Marxism. The listeners believe they are being taught about fairness, liberty, and freedom.

It’s the same in the Democratic party today – your typical working stiff, who votes D because they are liberal (with a lower case “l”) still think of the Democratic party as the party of and for the people. They aren’t aware that many Democratic politicians also belong to the Democratic Socialists of America Party.

They are also unaware of the incredible influence unions have over this party. They are also unaware of the influence of people like George Soros.

The average American citizen, Democrat and Republican, get their information from the MSM. And we all know the MSM uses a very fine filter when it comes to releasing accurate and pertinent information. But we can’t go around and call our fellow citizens ignorant, as this is insulting.

No one likes to be “had” and perhaps this is the best approach to educating the masses. “You’ve been had – you’re being used as a voting tool and nothing more.”

We see proof of this brainwashing right here in PJ, with some of the caustic and repugnant responses rendered by a few readers. They have no choice but to throw insults and sputter incoherently because they are unable to process truth, facts, and proof. As the one video described, they have had their perception of reality so radically altered by the influence of the P.C. crowd (the Marxist academia, Hollywood, and the MSM), that they are no longer able to discern truth from reality.

It’s sad. If I found out I was being duped and used the way the Modern Liberals are using people who just want to be fair-minded, I’d be mad as hell. And perhaps this explains why some of the respondents in these threads are so verbally abusive: the constant struggle to maintain the lie of Modern Liberalism is at odds with their own natural instincts. Cognitive dissonance.

May 26, 2009 - 9:33 am 141. Meryl:

140.Moogie

“They have no choice but to throw insults and sputter incoherently because they are unable to process truth, facts, and proof.”

Yes.

Processing truth, facts, and proof takes effort and time. Just holding and projecting an opinion is simple.

I appreciate the posts of those (including yourself) who have the ability to discuss, explain, cite, etc. in addition to the columns themselves.

Thank God the internet allows for citizens to join the daily conversation (at least until WonderMan’s internet czar comes up with a rationale for stopping us).

For some of us, this is our first foray into political debate and therefore the greater skill and experience shown by many of you is acknowledged and appreciated.

May 26, 2009 - 10:13 am 142. AST:

America has moved toward catastrophe and back away many times in its history, but the last century has been more of a ratcheting. It moves closer and then away, but it never mover further back to where it started. We’re getting nearer the precipice all the time. Perhaps a new Great Depression is called for, or another horrific war to remind us that real life is not that land of the lotus eaters we’ve been living in.

I don’t see a way to break out of this unless conservatives discover a new way to communicate, but I don’t know if there is one. Liberalism is simplistic and promising of plenty. Conservatism requires thought, knowledge of history, self-reliance and self-discipline. I think that God or nature, take your pick, has a way of reminding us in painful ways of the lessons we’ve failed to learn in the past.

My motto is “Freedom is not the same as Independence; the latter is the only way to keep the former.” I am not independent of God, or even of other people as much as I would wish to be. I don’t think that we should all live like the Unabomer, but we should all recognize that the benefits we derive from society are only assured so long as we can terminate the contract. I think we’re coming closer to a point where America is bankrupt, and the rest of the world sees itself as our creditors, despite what we may have done for them in the past.

Instead of apologizing and mollifying their irritations, we should have stated principle and stuck to it. By electing Obama, we have confessed to the world that we didn’t really mean what George W. Bush said we stood for.

May 26, 2009 - 6:54 pm