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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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Ever wonder how he really sees the Senate? Why he reaches “across” the aisle? What truths has he learned that such people as Dodd, Frank, Kennedy, Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Obama et al. will never ever confront? You say he has a temper…wonder why?
PTSD slides into one’s life by way of experiences. It is not supposed to leave, only to be managed as well as the carrier can do with the skills he or she has available.
Perhaps we’ve painted the wrong picture of McCain, we’ve added too much of what we expected, wanted, and dreamed he should possess.
He is a team player. He knows how far the individual can go in some circumstances.
He will never, never leave his boys from the Hilton to walk
alone…he will fight so all can walk away from that hell!
— Robert Philips, Veteran of Vietnam
Corrales, New Mexico
GREEDY RACISTS
Re: Paul M’s letter (under “As Sure as Day Follows Night”) in
Reader Mail’s Left Coast
Lefties:
Look. If the Republican Party collapsed as a Conservative Party reached critical mass to burst into reality, I’d be right there. But let’s have no illusions. Once in full birth it will take the mass media three seconds to call us “The New Republican Party” and “formerly known as the GOP.” It would take no time for some self-styled “conservative” we never heard of to become the media darling (“Mr. Conservative”) who will write and speak in grave tones about how the Conservative Party would need to reach out to the middle and become “big-tent Conservatives.”
Of course, the Conservative Party will be discovered to be laden with scandal. A homosexual Conservative official, whom everyone within fifty miles knows makes no secret or his/her orientation, will be outed as a closeted gay by an “undisclosed Party official” to the Washington Post. (Imagine editorials across the nation analyzing the hypocrisy deep within the Conservative Party) How about a “prominent” nationally known Conservative revealed to have married his Russian bride in the 1980’s without paying for her? Think of the secret rightwing “dirty tricks” squads fooling Afro-Americans and Hispanics to vote for Conservative.
Last but not least, no how precisely and forcefully a Conservative Party puts forth its principles, “everyone knows the real motivations for conservative policies are greed and racism.”
There are more than a few Republican turkeys I’d like to ditch
too. Just don’t fool yourself we’d start off fresh.
— Mike Dooley
PUT THE PUN DOWN
Re: Eric Peters’s The Sweet Stench of Failure:
Can we put them all together and call it American Leyland?
— William L. Roughton, Jr.
Washington,
District of Columbia
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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.