Watcher’s Winners
Bookworm on Feb 15 2008 at 10:39 am | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
From statements I’ve periodically made, you may have gathered that this has been a rather challenging week. The almost frantic blogging I did was a respite from an overwhelming work load, made more difficult by having a sick child in the background. What I complete managed to miss in the chaos, was telling you about last week’s Watcher’s Council winners, so I’m going to do a double today, by posting both last week’s and this week’s winners. Since I’m in the last push for my deadline, I’m going to leave out any comment, but you can take it from me that the winners deserved their victories.
From last week, the Council first through third place winners were:
| Votes | Council link |
|---|---|
| 3 | A Short Hitch Done With Mirrors |
| 2 | The Most Ridiculous Story of 2008? Part 2 Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| 1 2/3 | I’d Have To Ask?? The Colossus of Rhodey |
and the non-Council first through third place winners were:
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 3 | Changing the Organizational Culture (Updated) Small Wars Journal |
| 1 2/3 | “Mass Producers of Distortion” EU Referendum |
| 1 | The Coming Meltdown for the Democrats Captain’s Quarters |
| 1 | The Terribly Mixed Record of Alan Greenspan The Provocateur |
| 1 | Our Policy In Iraq Oliver Kamm |
| 1 | Pandora’s Box Global Guerrillas |
As for this week, the Council first through third place winners are:
| Votes | Council link |
|---|---|
| 3 1/3 | Mandate Me, Baby Right Wing Nut House |
| 2 1/3 | Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and McCain Derangement Syndrome Wolf Howling |
| 2 | Of Israel, the Palestinians and the United States Soccer Dad |
and the non-Council first through third place winners are:
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 3 1/3 | Are We At War? And What Is the Political Consequence of That For Conservatives In This Election? BeldarBlog |
| 2 2/3 | The Final Mission, Part II Michael J. Totten |
| 2 1/3 | Obama’s Politics of Collective Redemption American Thinker |
| 1 | Seven Reasons To Support The GOP’s Nominee Hugh Hewitt |
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Unrelated to your subject matter, but YOU GOT MENTIONED BY JAMES TARANTO IN HIS “BEST OF THE WEB”. WAY TO GO!!! :-DD
BHG
Blogger “Bookworm” quotes from “Destination Unknown,” an Agatha Christie novel in which the heroine, coincidentally named Hilary, witnesses a speech by the “The Director,” whom Bookworm describes as “an actor, hired by the book’s actual malfeasors, to give speeches that say actually say nothing, but into which each listener can read his own beliefs”:
Trying to remember his words later, Hilary found herself unable to do so with any accuracy. Or perhaps it was that the words, as remembered, seemed trite and ordinary. But listening to them was a very different thing. . . .
In spite of herself, Hilary was stirred and uplifted. The Director spoke very simply. He spoke primarily of Youth. With Youth lay the future of mankind.
“Accumulated Wealth, Prestige, Influential Families–those have been the forces of the past. But today, power lies in the hands of the young. . . .”
There was more of it–all the same heady intoxicating stuff–but it was not the words themselves–it was the power of the orator that carried away an assembly that could have been cold and critical had it not been swayed by that nameless emotion about which so little is known.
Our worry here is not that Obama resembles The Director or any parallel real-life figure. It is, rather, that the effect he has on his followers is all too similar to that of a demagogue. As far as we can tell, Obama is a perfectly decent chap–but the display of “that nameless emotion about which so little is known” makes us queasy.