When Senator Hillary Clinton’s “change you can Xerox” line bombed bigtime while debating 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination rival Senator Barack Obama we wrote about this which discussed an article listing five reasons why neg…

I hope whoever does win the nomination is so damaged along the way that they can’t possibly win against McCain.

This guy is a house of cards without the credentials to be a Senator much less the POTUS. The next several months will show this guy’s true colors, which are probably on pace with the “Chicago 7″.

We wanted a political Tiger Woods, and we got a Ray Nagin.

Hugh Hewitt’s quote last night during HillaryFest was that at the coronation of Queen Hillary, Rush was going to have to place the tiara on her head.

I think Rush would only be willing to do this if he could use a stapler.

A very thin glass jaw! Welcome to the big league boy!

conservnut on March 5, 2008 at 10:05 PM

boy?
\sarc

Hillary has had her day in the Sun and she has already gone way to far with it. As usual.

She suggested that Barrack become her VP, claimed that Michigan and Florida should count, and immediately started gesticulating like Evita Perone.

The media have already killed her by letting it be known that she’s where is is today because of Republican votes.

This phenomenon will not be repeated.

Geez, will I ever learn to stop making predictions?

Having listened to Obama’s gut the military cut wasteful spending speech, I listened with interest a few minutes ago about China’s efforts to weaponize space.

Our friends the Chinese are spending a great deal of money (% of GDP) and are increasing their ability to track and shoot down hostile (our) satellites.

Thank goodness under an Obama administration we’re not going to provoke conflict by doing R&D and developing space-related weapon systems. Once the PRC recognizes our good intentions they will surely shelve their plans and likewise unilaterally disarm.

Naivete is like a warm sweater. It makes us feel good and goes well with birkenstocks.

moxie_neanderthal on March 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM

heh

moxie_neanderthal on March 5, 2008 at 2:29 PM

bu shi. shi mei guo ren. Wo ling ge nu er shi zhong guo ren. Am going to read what you suggested. xiexie.

I really don’t think the conservatives who are unhappy with Mccain will just stay home and let Hillary win. Their hatred for Hillary will drive them to the polls. Erockk on March 5, 2008 at 10:02AM

Don’t hold your breath….

Ni shi zhong guo ren?

I’ve lived in east Asia (S. Korea) and traveled through many parts of East Asia as well as having been (among others) an East Asian Studies major in college.

In fact, I was living in Korea when the first real free presidential elections were held. There is no better or greater system for citizens to maximize their utility. It is not a perfect system and clearly there are many variations (particularly as it pertains to taxation and the role/extent of government). Liberal democratic thought provides the most flexibility system for achieving human hapiness and individual aspirations.

Unfortuntely, I believe we have gotten away from the core essence of liberal democratic rule. There is something to be said for freedom from government.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

Jean-François Revel, How Democracies Perish is a seminal read for me personally. Revel helped solidify in my mind the challeges facing liberal democracies.

Revel’s 1983 How Democracies Perish described liberalism’s debilitating effect on confronting the threat of domination by the Soviet Union. His observations apply equally today in our long-term struggle against Islamic jihad.

“Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is necessary to counter them.” I think we saw just a situation nearly a decade later under the Clinton Administration.

Super Tuesday II is over and not much was resolved. According to various news sources, there are only 100 votes between Obama and Hillary. Does this give Hillary momentum or is it a fluke? Personally, I’m thinking more and more…

Salvaging Clinton might not be the uber-savvy move after all. Who’s to say Obama wouldn’t actually unravel somewhere along the way, thus performing worse between nomination and November than Clinton would?

Regarding the word “liberal” in the true sense, McCain, or any true conservative leader should fight hard to recapture it. It was stolen by the left. They are anything but liberal, or progressive.

Much I’d like to chat with you about JxD.

Entelechy on March 5, 2008 at 1:06 PM

Hi E. I know you have this perspective too. I am losing faith in the philosophical ideas of liberal(before it was a dirty word) western-style democracy. I don’t think there is any population that can sustain it. Those who say it is a lousy sytem, but the best one out there, might have added that one of the reasons it’s lousy is that it isn’t long sustainable. Perhaps the stage China is at or nearing, or the kind of one party capitalist system that existed in Taiwan, S.Korea and other places, ensures a kind of social security that we no longer have. I guess what I’m saying is that I’m doubting the one man one vote model. Ben Franklin said he had doubts we’d be able to sustain this great experiment.