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May 16, 2008Linking around: Bush/Obama/Press & moreQuote of the Weekend:
Yesterday I wrote:
Today Matthew Sheppard expands on that; he makes the very good point that Bush’s historic 2400 word speech was edited by the incurious press to 83 word that the press, the Democrats and Barack Obama seemed all too eager to identify with Obama’s foreign policy ideas:
If I were a journalist, I’d be embarrassed. I’d also worry a little about backing a candidate with such a crystalline jaw that even when a jab is not directly meant for him, he still hits the mat. Obama’s tendency to carry and play the worlds tiniest violin - boohoo everybody is so mean to me and I’m so good - is getting old real fast. Did he not realize how much he sounds like whining Hillary? Ed Morrissey notes that Obama (and the Dems) have very clumsily managed to own the appeasement label. Really not ready for prime-time:
Ace notes just how far the press will go to cover and spin for Obama, even if they have to out-and-out lie to do it. Even Lou Dobbs seems a little embarrassed about it. As I wrote a while back, “The press is lost….Within hours of any story the Bush-bash narrative, complete with emotional manipulation will kick in, and then they become useless. At worst, they are the willing, incurious, glassy-eyed ushers of an incipient tyranny.” That was not a very nice thing to write, was it? It’s not nice to watch, either. But the press’ Obama fetish has even been noticed overseas. Vanderluen has a more vulgar take on it. But at least we don’t have to worry about being arrested for editorial content. Yet. Moving along, over at CQ Politics the veepstakes comes down to Huckabee vs Pawlenty & Palin vs Portman. Huckabee’s charm offensive never worked on Betsy, nor on me. If McCain puts him on the ticket, I’m going to have a very hard time. Maybe a singing revolution is a good idea. Quick thought: My spacenerd husband is watching In the Shadow of the Moon, about the Apollo space program. After watching a lift-off, with all the flame, smoke and debris we turned to each other in near-unison and said, “if America was trying to initiate such a program today, the environmentalists would not allow it.” Quite right. They would subdue the urge to greatness with grim and joyless pronouncements, and Washington would cave. Congress can’t even grow balls for oil - they’d never have supported a dangerous and expensive space program. When we got to the part where the astronauts read from Genesis as they circled the moon, I said, “they’d be severely taken to task for that, today, too - based on the separation of church and state…which isn’t actually in the constitution.” Turns out, an atheist in Houston did make a fuss about it on those grounds. The crabassing has been going on for decades, now, and it’s getting very tiring. Quick, Interesting Hits: http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/05/16/linking-around-bushobamahamas-more/trackback/ 11 Responses to “Linking around: Bush/Obama/Press & more” |
May 17th, 2008 at 4:55 am
With regard to the appeasement / “negotiation” matter, a statesman whose name has slipped my mind once said that if one side considers getting an agreement to be mandatory, above and apart from matters of substance, then there will be an agreement. Of course, if the other side knows this, it will contrive to get everything it wants and give nothing in return except…the agreement.
This has been the shape of American diplomacy with rogue states and gangster-groups since the Nixon Administration. As it’s well supported by the inherent dynamics of a permanent diplomatic institution, it seems unlikely to change, at least in the short term, regardless of who attains the White House.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Regarding scriptwriters rewriting C. S. Lewis: after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I was impressed by the lack of rewriting. Sadly, Prince Caspian suffers from Peter-Jackson-itis: scriptwriters deciding for reasons known only to themselves to embellish and distort the plot, not to mention change characterizations. King Peter becomes a whiney, indecisive, malcontent in the same way that Peter Jackson makes Aragorn (’Strider’) lack confidence and become an ubermensch hack-at-naught. Both are not only unjust to Lewis and Tolkien, but portray a substantially different message to viewers of the films.
Neither Lewis nor Tolkien would have agreed to these injustices. I fear the Narnian franchise will continue moving in this direction of focus-group crowd-pleasing.
May 17th, 2008 at 7:57 am
I couldn’t agree more about Obama. Sadly, he would be the most liberal and anti-life President in our history. I was so happy to see Hillary being challenged, but when the rubber hits the road she would be far better than him in the White House. Let’s pray that John McCain comes around to the traditional base of the party and takes it in November! God bless! Padre, Steve
May 17th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I caught a little bit of Rush yesterday and heard him talk about Obama. Remember Obama getting upset when Maureen Dowd mentioned his ears
Things You Can’t Say About Obama
Lots to read in today’s post! Thanks for keeping us informed!
[edited to correct links - admin]
May 17th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Speaking of hammers
The Anchoress brings us to the quote of the week… hell, maybe the quote of this political season:Can Somebody Explain to Me how Obama sat in Wright’s church for 20 years and managed never to hear anything, but hears 20
May 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Can Somebody Explain to Me how Obama sat in Wright’s church for 20 years and managed never to hear anything
Yes, it is disgusting and outrageous and probably disqualifying of the presidency that a man should sit for 20 years, not only listening to repeated and constant anti-American hate of the most repugnant sort, but working with and making friends with one who should spew such bile.
Oh, wait, that describes John McCain and his Democratic buddies, who have said things much, much, much worse against America and the American people than Wright could ever dream of, and who have been more actually destructive of this country, and have the actual potential to do more harm, than 100 Wrights ever could.
One Wright pales in comparison to the many Shumers, Kerrys, Dodds, Harkins, Boxers, Bidens, Leahys, Feingolds, Kennedys, and Clintons that McCain has made pals with and endeavors to work with at every opportunity.
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