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| 'Soft' Nation - Steyn | |
| 2011-10-01 | |
| 'The way I think about it," Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, "is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft." He has a point. This is a great, great country that got so soft that 53 percent of electors voted for a ludicrously unqualified chief executive who would be regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation. One should not begrudge a man who seizes his opportunity. But one should certainly hold in contempt those who allow him to seize it on the basis of such flaccid generalities as "hope" and "change": That's more than "a little" soft. "He's probably the smartest guy ever to become president," declared presidential historian Michael Beschloss the day after the 2008 election. But you don't have to be that smart to put one over on all the smart guys. "I'm a sap, a specific kind of sap. I'm an Obama Sap," admits David Brooks, the softest touch at the New York Times. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, now says of the president: "He wasn't ready, it turns out, really."
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| Posted by:Beavis |
| #6 Sound familiar?? Yup BP. I always knew we had a "special relationship" with the UK but this is taking it waaaaay too far. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-10-01 17:43 |
| #5 ‘The way I think about it,” Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, “is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft.” Half of the country has gotten soft; the other half is supporting them. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-01 16:41 |
| #4 Sound familiar?? Yup BP. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-01 16:39 |
| #3 Here in the UK we were also told that Brown (the former sub-prime minister) was the smartest guy evar... This was against the facts that he was a weirdo narcissist with a credential in essentially fuck all (history of the Labour party), and when he got into power he found it not to his tastes and much harder than he thought, he could never make decisions and spent most of his time attacking others who questioned any perceived slight on him. Sound familiar?? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-10-01 16:00 |
| #2 Let me get this right. The Plantation owner is upset because the field workers aren't doing any more than is necessary in order to avoid punishment because anything they make is simply redistributed to the people in the Plantation house who enjoys the owners favor. Who'd thought that. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-10-01 14:03 |
| #1 WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT THIS A$$H0!# IS SO F***ING SMART!!!!!!!! Yes that does mean you Mr. Beschloss but you are hardly alone. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-10-01 13:55 |