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Schooled in Politics
Big choices for Sasha and Malia. Voting is for losers. Socially inept. Plus more.
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Mr. Orlet makes excellent points -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I would suggest that the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens that will be both citizens and registered voters by the 2012 election will render all his arguments moot.
This country is in for several decades of darkness before there
is any light.
-- Keith Kunzler
This is a good article but I would like to point out the author’s use of the term “conservative” instead of the term “Republican.” Republicans are not conservative; nor are they agents of “change." They are the Eastern, inside the beltway establishment and are personified in the likes of Bush, Dole and McLame.
I recently read an article about a gentleman who wants to start a true conservative national radio station to inform listeners about the alternatives to the two major parties which are mirror images of each other. I personally will never again vote for a Republican in a national election. That the Republicans offered up a political hack like
John McLame as its presidential candidate is a disgrace.
The one point I disagree with the author on is his premise that
no Republican could have won in this year's election climate. If
Republicans had nominated a decent candidate they would have had
a shot. Instead they nominated Amnesty John in an effort to
please their corporate masters with predictable results. I and
most of my family voted for third party candidates in this
election and will continue to do so at the national level from
this point forward.
-- Paul Martell
RINOS HAVE A PURPOSE
Re: Quin Hillyer's
More
Sessions Needed:
After reviewing the home team, I am greatly encouraged. We have some great people on our side. I would love to dump some of the RINOs; but one must remember that aggravating as they might be they are usually from 50/50 districts and that is the best we can do. A more conservative representative cannot be elected there and if the RINO is toppled a Democrat may take the seat.
It is a hard lesson to learn, but there it is. We should
support and love those truly Conservative representatives and the
districts that elect them.
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky
GREEN LIGHT
Re: Hal G.P.
Colebatch's
A Little Light in the South Pacific:
Your correspondent Hal Golebatch is under the misapprehension
that, "Not only Labour but the smaller left-wing parties
including Labour's ally, the eco-nut/Marxist Greens, were savaged
at the polling booths." Besides the inaccuracy of the
description, the assertion is false. The Greens substantially
increased their proportion of the vote and increased their number
of MPs. The Greens gained nearly double the party vote of the Act
party and are the third largest party in Parliament. Savaged?
Bring it on.
-- Neil Miller
Orewa Auckland
HELL AND BACK
Re: George Neumayr's Over Before It
Began:
Ponder for a moment living in a hell so horrible you may not be able to contemplate such realities: The Hanoi Hilton and its sadistic guards. Place yourself in John McCain’s slippers. Torture is that wind which rides on the backs of the horses of death, so near, so close, and so evident. There is no normal afterward, just a life without those smiling faces bringing you your daily dose of real, live, terrible pain! Death becomes something you would embrace as if a long lost friend had arrived!
Fast forward to this campaign. McCain likes being thought of as a “maverick” for what reasons?
Go back, look at him on the floor, see him surviving. As he is able to leave his cell and walk among his fellow prisoners see how they try to comfort each other. He knows what strength can come from such behaviors, the will to live and fight on.
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erp| 11.14.08 @ 10:08AM
Need a **Barf Aert** for columns like this. By sending the girls to public school, the Obamas would be adding distractions and complications that hinder that system's mission. Isn't that the idea.
Barb| 11.14.08 @ 10:32AM
The words "politics" and "fresh" should never be part of the same sentence. lol No such animal exists!
Marc Jeric| 11.14.08 @ 1:20PM
No wonder 65 million voted for that empty suit. After 40 years of "education" by the teacher union we have a nation of illiterate morons full of self-esteem shouting "Yes, we can!" and "Change!" We can what? And what change?
Bob| 11.15.08 @ 9:06AM
Aren't you going to comment on the extremely illiterate morons that supported Palin? Terrorist/Arab/Marxist etc? Yes you can....
As to the school, the major issue will be security for the kids. Remember there is a wing of Republicans that are racist and would like to do harm to Obama. Increasingly, the Republican party is losing the educated and appealing more to the unschooled. Even here at American Spectator, the more intelligent Republicans are railed against. This is a party in decline because it has lost its respect for higher education and strategic thought. Its leaders graduate at the bottom of their classes and they are proud of that fact. Their spokespeople like Limbaugh and Hannity either didn't go to college or never finished it.
Respect for education IS important and the Democrats are increasing their percentage of smart people as the idiots takeover the Republican party. That is the big problem.
mountainaires| 11.15.08 @ 9:30AM
I cannot believe that some people advocate sending Sasha and Malia to public school in DC. To have their children subjected to such ludicrous notions of "politically correct" thinking is insulting. Yes, I hope they choose the school which provides their daughters the best education in the environment which is most healthy and productive for their daughters--and I agree that the Obama's should make it quite clear that is what they will do, and should make no excuses for doing what is best for their children.
Sam| 11.16.08 @ 1:42AM
Dear Bob,
I get a warm and fuzzy thinking about Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama at the helm; just think of all that experience and clear thinking!
It is a good thing that, in your world at least, there exists no leftist "racists"....no Reverend Wrights or Father Pflegers; no black nationalists;no ACORN thugs and goons; no spoiled rich-kid bombers ala Mr. Ayers. No, nothing at all but color-blind community organizers and "educated" people sent to lead the knuckle-dragging legions to the path of enlightenment.
Do not look now, but the Iraq War is won by the US military, "untrained" Iraqi Army regulars and coalition forces. Islamic jihad has been destroyed in the heart of the caliphate and their cause discredited. Not bad for a bunch of uneducated hicks.
We win, you lose.
You would do well to remember, sir, that educated and smart do not mean the same thing.
So, to you Sarah Palin comes off as undeducated? To me, Mssrs. Obama and Biden come off as fools.
Best regards,
Sam Haldi
Atlanta, GA
ruth| 11.16.08 @ 2:44AM
Don't mind Bob. He's another nasty liberal troll trying to depress us, but his viciousness just makes us more determined to do the 'right' thing and support Governor Palin.
davelnaf| 11.16.08 @ 8:13AM
The coming excessfest by the Obamanoids is to be expected from a party run by ideologues for ideologues. But despite all the pessimistic forecasts about how Obama will handle his end of things the country will survive his and his followers worst depredations on just about everything people of commonsense hold dear. It will be tough going at times though.
Thomas| 11.16.08 @ 10:50AM
Ignore Bob when he speaks about education. This is the man who failed simple arithmetic.