Comments on: Post Traumatic Bush Derangement Syndrome

By: suek

suek — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:00:01 +0000

>>I read somewhere that the Dems will nominate Obama solely on the reason that they cannot alienate, arguably, their largest voting bloc.>>

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/the_democrats_culdesac.html

maybe???

By: rockdalian

rockdalian — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:58:57 +0000

I read somewhere that the Dems will nominate Obama solely on the reason that they cannot alienate, arguably, their largest voting bloc.
To that end, I have the perfect campaign commercial.
Imagine, film of McCain, returning to America from Viet Nam, deplaning in country. The image of Wright appears proclaiming G-D D**M America!
Obama would be toast.

By: Deana

Deana — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:11:53 +0000

Bookworm -

Your post is timely. I don’t know how true the rumors are but the idea of Dr. Rice being named the VP on the McCain ticket has me concerned. I like her and certainly admire her (although do not always agree with her). But conservatives are not crazy about McCain, McCain is going to have immense trouble getting folks in the middle and on the left to “overlook” his supposed connection to the Bush administration . . . having Dr. Rice on the ticket would seem the perfect way to put a nail in the coffin of his run.

Deana

By: suek

suek — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:38:19 +0000

Another one on the marvelous health care in GB:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/04/british-commission-nhs-sucks-elderly.html

By: suek

suek — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:00:28 +0000

Forgot this one…!

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/04/oil-idiocy.html

By: suek

suek — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:57:20 +0000

When you’re in a war, Helen, you either win or lose. A truce is simply a delay until the next engagement… If we withdraw from Iraq, we lose. It’s that simple. If we continue until Iraq’s army can defend their country, we win. Their newbie government is not succeeding as fast as we’d like, but they’re still moving faster than our own government, at this point.

http://americanranger.blogspot.com/2008/04/civil-war-surge-letter-to-lincoln.html

Economic issues. Unemployment has been lower for the last 4(?) years than it was in the Clinton years. What is your measure of a “bad” economy?

Health care. Where in the Constitution is health care covered? Do you _not_ understand that universal health care is a socialist principle? What’s more, it doesn’t work. Check this out:
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/04/socialized-dentistry-means-paying.html

Rising cost of housing and fuel: How do you propose the government deal with this? rent controls? limit of cost on selling houses? limit of profit on resale?
Fuel…maybe lift restrictions on new refineries? Allow drilling for oil where it presently not allowed – like in the Caribbean off the coast of Fla – where China and Mexico are drilling, but US firms are not allowed to for environmental reasons…? Do you think China and Mexico are likely to be more environmentally careful than US companies?

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:25:36 +0000

I do not presume to answer for Oldflyer but allow me to reply to Helen’s query. Obama as President will appoint very liberal judges to the Supreme Court who will not adhere to the strict constructionist theory of Constitutional law but to that theory of the living Constitution. They will act not so much as neutral, judicious and restrained arbiters of the law as written by the legislature but will substitute their own opinions, their own policy recommendations, their own preferences, for the law as written, and will in fact rewrite the law, usurping legislative function. I could cite a recent example of this in my own field, bankruptcy, but frankly it’s technical and bone-dry and would bore as much as illuminate. What people such as Oldflyer and myself are in dread of is this tyranny of the bench — and tyranny of good intentions, as CS Lewis remarked, the most terrible tyranny of all — subverting the balance of powers in the Constitution and, frankly, reversing the American revolution.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:02:06 +0000

To answer your question Helen let me first ask you another. Do you own me? You say Obama will provide universal health care, affordable housing, and so on. How? By handing me the bills. In other words part of the fruits of my labor belong to you through the power of the state. That’s a form of slavery.

I believe in taxation to accomplish things for all Americans, and even in a progressive system due to the variability of benefits. I’ll even gladly kick in so that my fellow Americans can get a helping hand when they hit a rough patch. I draw the line at a system that provides benefits to some while handing the bills only to others. It’s the most pernicious form of taxation there is and is anti-liberty.

Helen, I use the “you” in the general sense not directly, OK?

By: Helen Losse

Helen Losse — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:08:56 +0000

I remembered the Supreme Court Justices as soon as I hit post.

“Obama paired with a Democratic Senate could do irreparable harm. Our beloved Constitution would become an out-dated relic.” Oldflyer, can you give some examples?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:04:12 +0000

But she can’t vote Republican. Why not?

Cause it ain’t her tribe.

Why can’t blacks vote Republican? Because the Democrats are the tribe of blacks. The same was why the South stayed Democrat even when racist attitudes changed. Until Reagan made it socially acceptable to vote Republican in the South for many people.

The mental chains that bind are always stronger than any physical chains, Book. Far stronger in fact.