PRETTY FACE AND SILVER TONGUE
Re: William Tucker’s Put
Men Back to Work:
Mr. Tucker was far too kind to Barack Obama when he wrote, “The
President is being revealed for what he is — an academically
trained intellectual with a lot of abstract ideas who doesn’t
have much real feel for the country …,”. At best Obama is a
pseudo-intellectual with marginal or inflated academic
credentials. Why do so many conservatives feel they must placate
the left and fawn over this obviously inept buffoon? This is PC
civility run amok. Obama is a failure who seems bent on
destroying our economy and Constitution and it is time to call a
spade a spade.
While pleased Sarah Palin is doing well on her book tour, in the
wake of her startling resignation as governor of Alaska,
shouldn’t conservatives/Republicans move cautiously before
anointing her “savior” of the right? We need to learn from the
radical Democrats’ mistake — a pretty face and silver tongue do
not make a leader or President. Unlike independents and
populists, who are easily wowed by transitory star power
(illustrated by the Obama fad), conservatives should be judicious
and careful in selecting “leaders.” This is particularly true in
the wake of the disaster that is called Obama “Presidency.”
— Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina
“Our failure to adopt nuclear has reverberated through the
economy.”
No need to worry, Mr. Tucker. As this is written, lawyers and
community organizers in President Obama’s administration are hard
at work on a perpetual motion machine.
— Dan Martin
Pittsburgh
A TRULY BORING STORY
Re: Reid Collins’ Tiger
Truth:
Enough, already! I am sick of the 24/7 coverage of this “story;”
there are more important things going on in the world than the
marital infidelity of one athlete. Tiger was a cad — period, end
discussion.
— Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia
WORTH THE COSTS
Re: Lisa Fabrizio’s Nuptual
Disagreements:
A radical suggestion: pay unto Caesar what is due Caesar and pay
unto God what is due God.
The states have a Constitutional right to regulate contracts and
religious institutions have the right to perform marriage rites,
so take the state out of marriages completely. Have people make
their contracts as they wish and then let them shop their
contracts out to different churches, mosques, temples and other
religious authorities and seek the sanctification of marriage.
Some religious institutions will accept the contracts and others
won’t. If this is unacceptable to the Left, then they are out to
destroy marriage for all in the guise of gay marriage as many on
the Right believe. If this is unacceptable to the Right, then
they are asking the government to impose their morality on
minorities, and that would be inconsistent to their philosophy.
Simple, no?
Chaos may reign for a while, but isn’t freedom and honest worth
the cost?
— I.M.Kessel
SAVE MONEY, LIVE BETTER
Re: Andrew Cline’s
A Good Obama Flip-Flop:
Americans are subsidizing those countries that have drug price
controls. Pharma makes extra profit in the USA to make up for
less elsewhere. Americans should insist on paying the lowest
prices they can get, and the market will then put pressure
to allow prices to balance out, and Pharmas will then
adjust. In practice, American prices will fall and Canadian
prices will rise, profits will balance out between the two
and Pharma will still develop new drugs as always. Nothing
distributes resources more efficiently than the free market.
Nothing.
As Walmart says , “save money , live better.” Cline’s all wrong
on this one.
—Edward
PUSHING ABORTION
Re: Brian Clowes’s
Good for China, Good for the World?:
Kudos for Dr. Clowes’s excellent article! We need more pieces
like his. The dangerous lies and word games the pop controllers
are using need to be exposed and debunked, as Dr. Clowes has
masterfully done. We cannot let the pre-born baby killers
establish a new World (dis)Order with their “reproductive
health.” The new socialism of the United Nations de-Population
Fund and its ilk are stealing millions of dollars from
hard-working and decent, yet naïve Americans, into their coffers
in order to “fix” a so-called “climate change problem” by pushing
abortion and abortifacient contraceptives. I propose that instead
of talking about a “climate change problem,” we start talking
about a “lunatic change problem”. And we all know who the
lunatics are!
— Adolfo J. Castañeda,
Miami, Florida
THE LAST LAUGH
Re: Quin Hillyer’s Laughing
at the Left:
Just a few minor corrections for Mr. Hillyer, and an observation:
The earth is only 4.5 billion years old, so it can’t have been
doing much of anything for six billion years. And from what I’ve
read, temperatures have been flat or cooling now since 1998,
which in fact is 11 years, going on twelve, not just eight or
ten.
My observation is this, and it was inspired by Mr. Hillyer’s last
paragraph describing “blue-in-the-face uncontrollable laughing
(fits).” I believe The Left has a master plan with all of its
goofy hijinx, and that is, namely and precisely, to induce such
spasms of laughter in all who don’t share its views, as to prove
fatal, thus clearing the field of all opposition. This would,
indeed, give The Left the last laugh, were it not for the fact
that its members have no sense of humor.
— D. Reich
Peter Ferrara’s excellent article, one of the few to do so,
accurately points out that global warming has much more to do
with power and money than science. Little wonder that the Obama
administration, some members of congress and much of the press
side with the chorus of denials expressed by far too many
scientists. Denial is party line.
California Senator Barbara Boxer contended that this is primarily
a “stolen e-mail” problem. Some in the press characterized the
concern disclosed by the (hacked or leaked) e-mails as a problem
only in the eyes of Republicans.
Carol Browner, the Obama administration’s climate “czar,” said
she considers the science to be settled. She was quoted “I’m
sticking with the 2500 scientists. These people have been
studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem
is real.”
Has the advice to journalists “follow the money” become obsolete?
Are the lessons of Watergate old hat? Ms. Browner is on the board
of one of the leading carbon offset trading companies, APX. Isn’t
it conceivable that there could be a conflict of interest?
Has the press ever taken a look at another dealer in carbon
offsets, the Chicago Climate Exchange? Chicago — isn’t that the
home of many in the Obama administration?
Carbon offsets are remarkably similar to the indulgences sold by
the Catholic Church in the middle Ages. After the sinner
confessed and paid up, his or her sins were absolved. Carbon
offsets work in the same fashion, enabling the “sinners” to
continue to indulge in cars, large homes, and private airplanes
and even belching smokestacks.
My advice those still in denial about Climategate: Buy five
carbon offsets — go and sin no more!
— Stan Welli
Aurora, Illinois
PRESIDENT DILETTANTE
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s President
Spock:
I think the reason Barack Obama lacks judgment and common sense
is because the man is a screaming narcissist — he loves himself
and he doesn’t give a fig for anybody else. He goes to Oslo,
makes a speech on accepting the most undeserved prize in history
and refers to himself more than 30 times. The man is an
embarrassment, he is well short of maturity, he doesn’t know what
he is talking about and his philosophical ideas mostly come down
to trying to please everybody by splitting the baby in two. The
man is a teenager who wants to have his own way and never have to
clean up his room.
The essence of good judgment is to be able to understand how
other people might view the same event and then having the
courage to make a decision and defend it. Lincoln was very good
at working out what the public would think and so was Ronald
Reagan — it was probably his greatest strength. Both men had a
high degree of moral courage, they were not frightened of making
hard decisions and they stuck to their guns when the fur was
flying. Both Lincoln and Reagan were very modest men and it did
not require any emotional sacrifice on their parts to see the
problems of the day from a wider perspective. But Obama can’t do
that, he is way to arrogant to consider that he might be wrong
and to concede that others might know more about an issue than he
does it. Lincoln and Reagan were leaders who understood the
problems of the day and could explain them well enough for the
American people to support them and persevere through trying
times. Obama is a dilettante.
— Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia
DUMPING THE LOAD
Re: Ben Stein’s We’ve
Figured Him Out:
Ben Stein hit the nail on the head. Imagine having a driveway to
your garage that never got finished. One day you are out watering
your lawn and here comes the government cement truck and the
driver tells you that you have to take the load of cement whether
you are ready for it or not. The truck dumps the load right in
front of your garage and drives off leaving you the bill thinking
that he has done you a favor.
You have two choices, both of which are not good. You can spread
the wet concrete out so it is not hard to deal with later when
you want to get rid of it, or you can let it harden and then jack
hammer it out later. Either way, you are left with an expensive
mess that you were forced into paying for in the first place and
now have to pay in order to get rid of it. When are the American
people going to wake up to what is going on here in our country?
All the politicians are doing is telling you the wonderful things
they are doing for you in order to get re-elected — without the
least bit of attention being paid to accountability or to
transparency or to the American people who elected them.
Hopefully we can stop this “truck” before it dumps its
load.
— S. Chisholm
