It can be sad when your fantasy world crumbles of its own weight.
The Man Walks Alone Without a Friend
There is little reason to doubt the accuracy of that column. Certainly it is written by a member of his opposition, but it relates impressions gathered from a broadly cast net. I can't feel sympathetic though.
Increasingly it appears that there is no longer a rabbit to be pulled out of his political hat. The real challenge now is to keep the viable Republican challengers from self-destructing along the path to victory.Harvey Golub, former chairman of American Express, called the “jobs” bill an incoherent mess. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he said that among other flaws, the bill includes an unheard of retroactive tax hike on the holders of municipal bonds.“Many of us have suspected that economic illiterates were setting the economic policy of this administration,” Golub wrote, adding that the bill “reveals a depth of cluelessness that boggles the mind.”
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I admit this Ed. When he was elected I thought at least no one can ever claim racism in America anymore. Saying I was wrong is like saying Harry Reid is a little liberal. Now my concern is what happens after he loses in 2012. I hope I'm as wrong then as I was in 2008 but speaking as a former police officer, one who's been elbow deep in a riot, I'm alarmed at the rhetoric coming from the left. The racism accusations may be setting us up for a very large fall come election time.
Six is saying what too many people are saying having been intimated by the charge of racism. Obama has capitalized on the white guilt rampant in America and in spite of his woeful attempt to be a leader, is it possible he could be re-elected because we're afraid of reprecussions?
Not so long ago, criticizing a president was regarded as an admirable expression of political dissent and the highest form of patriotism. Now almost any untoward reference to Obama can be justification in polite society to label you a racist.
You see how this works. If you don't vote for the son of a globetrotting couple — one of whom was white — who was raised in Indonesia, attended an exclusive private school in Hawaii and went to Columbia and Harvard, then you're a racist.
He's right Ed. I can't be intimidated out of doing the right thing, no matter the cost (though it may be dear) but how many can? Is it possible?
Dang it, Ed! I read the same column at lunch and was going to reference it on my own blog, albeit for a slightly different purpose.
The editorial, and Mr. Golub's comments, for me underscore my earlier prediction that BHO will not be his party's nominee - he is as lame duck as lame duck can be. The Dems are scared to death of the prospect of another 1980, as they see a sitting President even more inept than James Earl Carter.
While that should energize Republicans, I think the realpolitik is more sobering, as I predict HRC will emerge with the nomination. Won't hazard a guess at this point how that happens, but the alignment of circumstances suggests that it will.
The next debate supposedly will make or break Gov. Perry's candidacy - I hope he gets back on track. If HRC is the nominee, and the election were next month and not next year, my bet would be on Cain to deliver us from more [D]evil.
Pray the Republic can survive until November 2012.
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