The American Spectator

Old Texican| 7.24.09 @ 1:19PM

WOW, QUINN!!!!

SOMEONE GOT ON THE BALL............QUICKLY!

Moe| 7.24.09 @ 3:37PM

Don't forget their hatred of the military- as a member of the Armed Forces I remember that Obama and many other Dem's have called us ignorant, gulag guards, Nazi Storm Troopers, cold blooded murderers and indiscriminate killers, thugs as well as terrorists worst than the misunderstood al-Qaeda and Taliban.

Liberal Reader| 7.24.09 @ 4:15PM

On what basis do you claim that Obama does not "respect" policemen, firemen, or doctors?

His remark about ONE police officer was ill considered and rash.

But I don't see any evidence of disrespect --

Oh...wait. Evidence. That's where the problem is coming in here.

I forgot we don't do evidence around here. Just wild accusation and hysterical supposition.

Hillyer's main contribution to modern political philosophy so far has been to claim that Obama is a fascist. I'm surprised the charge isn't that he's too cozy with policemen, who will be needed for the concentration camps and Gulags that Hillyer and Vadum will be warning us about next.

Quin| 7.24.09 @ 4:28PM

To Liberal Reader:
Thanks for acknowledging my contribution. But I didn't just claim he was a fascist; I think I pretty much proved that, on economics, he was following the footsteps of Mussolini. He is. Meanwhile, watch out for his AmeriCorps Army, without an inspector general to rein it in.....

Richard Baker| 7.24.09 @ 11:34PM

Liberal Reader:
Ok, what evidence do you have that he does respect the police? His efforts as a community organizer?

Angel| 7.25.09 @ 12:07AM

Jeremiah/LibReader has his panties in a pinch tonight. Kinda thin skinned about your dear leader, aren't you?

Chill out, little troll--Obama had a rough week; you'll get used to it.

Sue| 7.25.09 @ 1:14PM

Liberal Reader: Who said this: "It was time for the "princes of property," the wealthy, to share their resources. Growth would not provide for the poor; only redistribution could. (FDR)

Now what administration did this: "the Treasury was making clear that it would cease to honor its own gold clauses. This also threw into jeopardy gold clauses in private contracts between individuals. The notion would be tested in the Supreme Court later; meanwhile, bond and contract holders had to accept the de facto devaluation of their assests. The deflation had hurt borrowers, and now this inflationary act was a primitive revenge. To end the gold clause was an act of social redistribution, a $200 billion transfer of wealth from creditor to debtor." Now the debtor would, through devaluation, seE his debt reduced." (FDR)

"Upon the discovery of the new drug sulfanilamide this, "the doctors were distracted even from the miraculous sulfnilamide when a representative of the New York State Mediccal Society, Joseph Kopetzky, spoke. Kopetzky, an ear doctor, sugggested a plan that would alter their very independence as professionals; the nationalization of health care. Under the plan, as reported by the Times, "Every one of the 150,000 U.S. doctors must become an officer in the Federl Public Health Service." The federal government would pay for whatever service citizens could not pay." (FDR)

FDR worshipped at the feet of Stalin, Marx, and Lenin. He wanted to remake America into a collective with the corporations run by a few bureaucrats and the government controlling the food production and energy production. Because of the "production crisis" which the Smoot-Hawley tariffs caused, and Roosevelt's own egotistic ways in believing that he could "control" the price of gold, the Depression became deeper and longer. Roosevelt certainly didn't let a crisis go to waste. He tried to spend the Country's way out of a recession, caused a deep, deep depression with his tax increases and meddling in the gold standard; he didn't honor contracts between private parties, and the only thing that saved his butt was WW II.

Every American should read Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man, and take to heart the lessons we should all learn from the Roosevelt era.

We are now repeating history with the historic spending, the abolition of contract "rule of law" and property rights, and "the remaking of America" (Obama's own words).

Pray tell people, has anyone asked what the "remaking" is or are you just following along like the downtrodden did in the 1930s because the leader was "articulate" and "engaging."

This is our Country's future. Not some ego trip for a politician.

READ THE BOOK AND DO YOUR COUNTRY A GREAT SERVICE.

All quotes are from Ms. Shlaes book and I greatly appreciate her writing it for us all to learn.