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| 2014-11-02 | |
| [NYPost] We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war. If there is a smidgen of a silver lining, it is that the unraveling, complete with Obama's shameless attempts to duck responsibility, is playing out on the eve of the midterm elections. Fortunately, voters seem ready to respond by giving Republicans control of both houses of congress. I second that emotion, and not just because Obama is a failure. For all his narcissism, he didn't make this mess alone. He was aided and abetted by every Democrat in Congress. They marched in lockstep with his cockamamie policies, from ObamaCare to open borders. They protected corrupt leaders in numerous federal agencies, from the IRS to the Genera Services Administration. They stymied efforts to find the truth about Benghazi and the Fast and Furious gunrunning debacle. They ceded their constitutional obligations and allowed Obama to crash the system of checks and balances. The vast majority stood silent while he gutted the military and abandoned our allies, including Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and courted Iran, the most menacing nation on earth. With painfully few exceptions, Democrats put their loyalty to him above their duty to America. And now they must be punished. All of them.
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| Posted by:Beavis |
| #8 I s'pose the modern version of four daily newspapers is the internet... I grew up in a suburb of Buffalo. We got one of the two local daily papers (we switched to the afternoon paper when Daddy noticed we kept missing the schoolbus because we were reading the comics), the weekly Jerusalem Post, and the various general and specific scientific journals my parents subscribed to. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-02 16:44 |
| #7 gorb, I'm afraid you're right. TW, I'm an old fart born in NYC. Growing up we got 4 NY papers a day, 3 of them are no longer around, The Journal American, Herald Tribune and Mirror. The WSJ is still around. As those 3 died we were living in NJ and got the Post, Newark News and Elizabeth Daily Journal and sometimes the Daily News. A different time and place. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-11-02 16:25 |
| #6 Even with the peace dividend they couldn't make it work. And now we have a crushing debt to crawl out from under. And suffocating regulations to undo. By the time conservatives get it sorted out and start making progress, both politicians and voters will forget who put them there and why. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-11-02 16:14 |
| #5 Would that were true, dear Besoeker. But I wasn't born until 1961 and, as we hadn't a television for most of my childhood, I don't have to remember much of what my age mates experienced. I'm just a "picking up pebbles on the seashore" kind of girl, that's all. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-02 16:02 |
| #4 Not ignorance TW.... we've just got a whole lot more to remember :-) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-02 15:48 |
| #3 TW the Post has been the NY popular media's "conservative" hinge pin for decades. Not surprising at all. The areas of my ignorance are broad and deep, AlanC. Now my ignorance is a bit lessened. Thank you. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-02 15:44 |
| #2 TW the Post has been the NY popular media's "conservative" hinge pin for decades. Not surprising at all. Re: Airandee, yep, you could see Obamaism in all its fetid, slimy glory in 2007 all you had to do was look. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-11-02 13:51 |
| #1 I had this same assessment of Obama 4 years ago and 2 years ago and assumed the rest of America spotted the obvious as well. I will believe america wised up when it actually happens in the ballot box. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-11-02 13:47 |