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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: bijou on October 25, 2008, 10:58:14 AM
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By Mark Steyn
Across the electric wires, the hum is ceaseless: Give it up, loser. Don’t go down with the ship when it’s swept away by the Obama tsunami. According to newspaper reports, polls show that most people believe newspaper reports claiming that most people believe polls showing that most people have read newspaper reports agreeing that polls show he’s going to win.
In the words of Publishers’ Clearing House, he may already have won! The battleground states have all turned blue, the reddest of red states are rapidly purpling. Don’t you know, little fool? You never can win. Use your mentality, wake up to reality. Why be the last right-wing pundit to sign up with Small-Government Conservatives For The Liberal Supermajority? We still need pages for the coronation, and there’s a pair of velvet knickerbockers with your name on it.
Yes, technically, this is still a two-party state, but one of the parties is like Elton John’s post-Oscar bash and the other is a church social in Wasilla. As David Sedaris put it in The New Yorker:
“I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of s—t with bits of broken glass in it?’
“To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.â€
Well, to be honest, I’ve never much cared for chicken.
McCain vs Obama is not the choice many of us would have liked in an ideal world. But then it’s not an “ideal worldâ€, and the belief that it can be made so is one of the things that separates those who think Obama will “heal the planet†and those of us who support McCain faute de mieux. I agree with Thomas Sowell that an Obama-Pelosi supermajority will mark what he calls “a point of no returnâ€. It would not be, as some naysayers scoff, “Jimmy Carter’s second termâ€, but something far more transformative. The new president would front the fourth great wave of liberal annexation — the first being FDR’s New Deal, the second LBJ’s Great Society, and the third the incremental but remorseless cultural advance when Reagan conservatives began winning victories at the ballot box and liberals turned their attention to the other levers of the society, from grade school up. The terrorist educator William Ayers, Obama’s patron in Chicago, is an exemplar of the last model: forty years ago, he was in favor of blowing up public buildings; then he figured out it was easier to get inside and undermine them from within.
All three liberal waves have transformed American expectations of the state. The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it. Why can’t the government sort out my health care? Why can’t they pick up my mortgage?
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link (http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=Nzk5MWY5YjU0MDI0ODFkYTZjMDQ2MjlhZDM0MjAwNTA=)
Another great read from Mark Steyn.
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It is better to die as the last warrior defending the last temple than to live as the first barbarian triumphant.
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I love Mark Steyn.
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I love Mark Steyn.
No I do. :uhsure:
BEG is going to come along and claim she does as well.
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It is better to die as the last warrior defending the last temple than to live as the first barbarian triumphant.
That probably won't happen, though.
It's always been highly entertaining, the past eight years (minus two months), watching the primitives fantasize about the extinction--or deliberate eradication--of conservatives and Republicans.
It's like if the primitives win, we'll go away.
Yeah, right.
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girl fight! LOL! :-)
We can just make a CC sammich.
Ruh roh....thread implosion in 3...2....1
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girl fight! LOL! :-)
We can just make a CC sammich.
Ruh roh....thread implosion in 3...2....1
See this is proof that I don't start these things. Only inspire them..... :naughty:
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See this is proof that I don't start these things. Only inspire them..... :naughty:
LOL! Where's that angel smilie?
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No I do. :uhsure:
BEG is going to come along and claim she does as well.
She will have to get in line behind me when she arrives. :-)
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She will have to get in line behind me when she arrives. :-)
Snap! :lmao:
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Cat fight ,Cat fight,Cat fight.
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Crazy Horse is muslim for mark Steyn :naughty:
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I think it's time for me to make a road trip to Lyme and buy that man a beer. I don't know how he manages to live in that town, as full of moonbats as it is...
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I think it's time for me to make a road trip to Lyme and buy that man a beer. I don't know how he manages to live in that town, as full of moonbats as it is...
For him, it is a Target Rich Environment.