Comments on: On disagreeing with a friend about Obama, with a coda on plagiarism

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The White Peril 白禍 » Blog Archive » Over and over — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:30:45 +0000

[...] to do better on that score last fall. Maybe he did and I missed it, but all I recollect is a curt “I acknowledge that she has performed poorly in some recent interviews.” And yes, I [...]

By: darkjethro

darkjethro — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:36:06 +0000

“It’s just silly to say that well-educated, intelligent, well-spoken, and thoughtful person like Barack Obama didn’t and couldn’t have written his own book”

Well it would be easy to prove he did If we had ANY of his previous writings to compare them to, but for some reason we have none. No papers from college or law school, nothing as a president of the Law Review, nothing from his Tenure as professor or Lawyer, just these two books.

Without any evidence the man can write, Ayers as a ghostwriter sounds much more plausible.

By: darkjethro

darkjethro — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:23:19 +0000

“Is it true that the top 1% of Americans earn more than all the bottom 50% and this same top 1% of Americans own more assets than 90% of all Americans.”

And the top 5% pay 50% of the taxes – what is your point?

#10 -Thou shalt not covet – Is why I don’t care what somebody else owns.

Go away commie, the adults are talking here.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:55:21 +0000

Re: Dreams from my Father

It’s just silly to say that well-educated, intelligent, well-spoken, and thoughtful person like Barack Obama didn’t and couldn’t have written his own book. It’s a very personal book and it’s hard to imagine that it was ghost-written. But if it was, how does that point to Ayers? I don’t believe that they even knew each other at that time. I am a college teacher and I can tell you that between teaching, grading, and all the other work, it’s a struggle to find the time to write our own books, much less write someone else’s! There is no internal evidence to back up this nonsensical charge — it’s pure paranoia.

Those Obama-haters who don’t think the book is too good for Obama to have written it instead argue that it’s a piece of crap. Come on, guys. Get your story straight!

By: Edward A.

Edward A. — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:51:18 +0000

Is it true that the top 1% of Americans earn more than all the bottom 50% and this same top 1% of Americans own more assets than 90% of all Americans.

I assume if you are voting Republican, you are in this top 1%, otherwise you are voting against yourself.

By: Anthony Spinelli

Anthony Spinelli — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:30:11 +0000

H. L. Mencken noted that the average voter equates the truth with a headache. Roger Kimball’s superb defense of Sarah Palin certainly illuminates the truth and hopefully gives a headache to the arugula-gnawing, Georgetown-crawling elite.

Bravo, Roger!

By: Bill Adkins

Bill Adkins — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:01:15 +0000

Who wrote Dreams of My Father? Not Mark Salter.

By: RF

RF — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:32:20 +0000

Ok, you done?
How about this, pick the underdog? Why you ask? What if…what if he really has the better ideas. I mean, ok so we ignore ALL the other personality news, yes? So now how does taking money away from the rich and giving it to the middle and lower class workers…get the middle and lower class workers higher wages? What? That’s right they will have to get Bachelors degrees. This is America, you have to work hard to make a buck. So you want to throw out the Ford for the Mercedes, go for it. Just remember, ask yourself; am I throwing out the Ford because the Mercedes is more BO-Popular!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:20:17 +0000

Why would you want Palin to be Vice President? When she ran a State who she and her husband and friends wanted to break away from the USA and become there on country. That right there is enough for me to know she doesn’t think we(the other states) are good enough.
Also on this Ayers issue, so all the students (where Ayers teach) along with their parents “are palling around with a terroist”.

By: Will the Real McCain Please Stand Up? (Or, In Which I Get All Pomo) « phaidimoi logoi

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:28:26 +0000

[...] pm Tags: John McCain, Pomo Apparently, Christopher Buckley’s endorsement of Obama has reopened debate about what it means to be an “Obamacon.”For the sake of brevity, I’m not going to touch [...]