Newt Gingrich: Obama just doesn’t get Americans
posted at 7:18 pm on April 12, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Now that Barack Obama has issued the requisite non-apology apology in the usual form — he “deeply regrets” that he offended people not with his sentiments but with his sentence structure — the media will likely let Obama off the hook. Not Newt Gingrich, who makes a rare foray into the presidential campaign from the bleacher seats with a searing analysis that hits a bullseye, and one obvious to anyone who hasn’t just focused on the word “bitter”:
If you go to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then move on to Columbia University and Harvard Law School, you may not understand normal Americans. Their beliefs are so alien to your leftwing viewpoint that you have to seek some psychological explanation for what seem to be weird ideas.
They can’t really believe in the right to bear arms.
They can’t really believe in traditional marriage.
They can’t really believe in their faith in God.
They can’t really want to enforce the law on immigration.
Therefore, they must be “bitter” and “frustrated.”
This is the closest Senator Obama has come to openly sharing his wife’s view that “America is a mean country”. Not since Governor Dukakis have we seen anyone so out of touch with normal Americans. It makes perfect sense that it was in a fundraiser in San Francisco that he would have shared the views he has so carefully kept hidden for the entire campaign.
This distills the Obama viewpoint about middle America to its essence. He assumes that gun ownership, religious faith, and a desire to enforce border security grows out of a mental defect or simple petulance. He cannot understand any of it as deeply held values or beliefs because they are all so foreign to him. His cure is a huge, whopping dose of government intervention to replace all of it. That’s the hubris, the condescension, and the elitism rolled up into a precise point.
The one sentence wasn’t the only point that offends here. Ben Smith at Politico has a video clip of a portion of this appearance. Ask yourself this: isn’t Obama implying that middle America is, well, racist in this quote? Emphases mine:
Here’s how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn’t buy it. And when it’s delivered by — it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism.
Update: Rick Moran discusses Obama’s Allentown Syndrome, and why it’s a mirage.
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As always, well said Newt.
Weight of Glory on April 12, 2008 at 7:23 PM
I’m all for Marxist-Leninist, gun-controlling, pandering, un-credentialed, two-bit politicians, butthis black thing is the deal breaker. Thanks Obama for crystalizing my issues with you. Here I thought I had it all figured out. Gotta go back to watching my wrastling and shootin’ at the neighbor’s dog.
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 7:24 PM
By the way, this could explain Obama’s affection with his church. If his church was more about politics than a belief in what Jesus taught.
bnelson44 on April 12, 2008 at 7:25 PM
I don’t think he’ll ever ‘get it’, but I don’t think it will matter to the media because they don’t ‘get it’ either. Our RIGHTS are not to be infringed upon by the government. The Bill of Rights restricts the government. Liberals think that the government gives you rights. The constitution clearly states that the government is not allowed to take rights given by God.
ThackerAgency on April 12, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Bottom line: Obama believes that religion is the opiate of the masses.
bnelson44 on April 12, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Can Maverick simply keep his head down and not say anything stupid to win this thing? The more people actually listen to the pompous Mr. Obama, the more they wonder, “Is this really who the Dems are choosing to lead this country?”
Sugar Land on April 12, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Do we really gotta wait till 2012 Newt?
Doogiesd on April 12, 2008 at 7:28 PM
I’m sorry, who is Newt talking about?
cjs1943 on April 12, 2008 at 7:32 PM
If the Obamaidiots don’t realize Obama is a racist, America-hating, terrorist-loving, tax and spend liberal by now they never will. It’s hard to admit you’ve been duped as a voter so he’ll get away with a lot more than other candidates would.
SouthernGent on April 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM
My wife and I have come to the very same conclusion. All the seemingly loose threads among Obama, his wife, and his pastor, are being pulled closer and closer together.
Weight of Glory on April 12, 2008 at 7:38 PM
bnelson44 on April 12, 2008 at 7:25 PM
…he superimposes himself in that opiate category, for the masses need to worship the just-say-nObamination.
maverick muse on April 12, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Of course Obama believes most white Americans are racists.
It’s called “projection.”
AZCoyote on April 12, 2008 at 7:39 PM
Why isn’t anyone talking about Newt for VP? He would be AWESOME.
As always, he nails the point. Newt’s intellect could run rings around every other politician out there.
bigred on April 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Well,hallelujah, Newt got it right. Obama, despite his potestations of being “abandoned” by his father, did not come from a typical “working class” background. He knows nothing of American middle-class or small-town existence, nor of those who don’t rely on government handouts for their existence.
He is, in short, a fraud, or as Allah so aptly describes him, “a condescending, crypto-Marxist, elitist liberal poseur.”
Nichevo on April 12, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Amen to that.
I don’t think I have ever seen someone as overtly racist (aside from David Duke) and socialist (aside from Chairman Mao) as this running for public office. Good lood. Are there really that many stupid people that are going to follow this false prophet? Wait a minute. We have government schools run by liberals. Nevermind.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM
He`s making this too easy. The more cocky he gets, the more of this material is going to spew out. And when he finally faces an actual candidate, he`ll stumble even more.
At least,t hat`s what I`m hoping.
ThePrez on April 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Since when do American voters elect intellects? If they did, Wm F Buckly (RIP) would have served at least two terms.
Captain Scarlet on April 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Indeed. Newt has a great originalist, constitutional mind. Problem….political baggage.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 12, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Wm F
BucklyBuckley, of course. (Typed too fast.)Captain Scarlet on April 12, 2008 at 7:46 PM
If Barry squeaks by to win the nomination, he’ll be destroyed in the debates. He won’t be able to rely on his prepared statements that have been whipping up the crowds and causing the cash to pour in. We he is pressured to take a position and forced to answer a difficult question, his true self shines.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 12, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Why did he have to implode so early and just before the PA Primary? It was supposed to be Hillary’s week of disappointments and her inevitable melt down.
Nelsa on April 12, 2008 at 7:50 PM
The truly sick part of this entire episode is that this man and his supporters in money, time and organization truly, honestly believe this crap. They have no clue, but they do have the money and George Soro’s and Peter Lewis of Progressive Auto Insurance’s billions. And, their hatred of anything not within the realm of their realities. I say sick because it is a disease of the brain when it has been so brainwashed by academia, the MSM, parents and pastors that reality is not only an alien concept, but is not evan an achievable one at that. They cannot change, ever. We all need to send McCain $10-100. every month, maybe each week…whatever we can afford because the inmates have taken over the asylum and all hell is about to break out if these loonies win the office with the most power in the world!!!
sharinlite on April 12, 2008 at 7:53 PM
dhunter on April 12, 2008 at 7:53 PM
True, and it’s usually a white malady. How truly strange. I’m surprised he was welcome in the black community, let alone get the black vote. Now I understand why Wright was indispensable to Obama.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Implying? No, I think he is cleary stating that middle America is racist. And anyway, he is not BLACK. He is half black, half white. So is only half of him racist, purely by virtue of his one half whiteness? What a load of crap he spews. And not because he’s black, but just because it’s a load of crap.
bloggless on April 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM
McCain likes the MSM, and wants them to like him. He may accept Anderson Cooper type debates, where tough questions of dems don’t exist.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 7:57 PM
(Rev. Wright watching this on msnbc) “Good Grasshopper, very good.”
oakpack on April 12, 2008 at 7:57 PM
It’s fascinating to me that a man whose pastor for the past 20 years, who married Obama and his wife, who baptized Obama’s kids, who built a fortune on the idea that God demands black Americans to be ignorant and militant…..
It’s fascinating to me that such a man would describe faith as the result of being “bitter.”
highhopes on April 12, 2008 at 7:58 PM
I HAVENT SEEN ALL OF BO VIDEOS IN THE LAST WHENEVER, BUT I HAVE NOTICED ONE THING WHEN HE GETS IN FRONT OF AN AUDIANCE HE MOVES SIDE TO SIDE AN THEN HE TURNS HIS BACK ON THE PEOPLE HES TALKIN TOO,,,,,,,,,,,,,,CHECK IT OUT
rico101 on April 12, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Down in my neck of the woods, I see a lot of white folks driving their hybrids with “Obama ‘08″ bumper stickers on their car. It’s reminds me of white people who want to say : Look at me!!! I am not a racist”. Especially the ones who’s other car is a Suburban.
bloggless on April 12, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Great pic of Obama:
http://michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/snob.jpg
bnelson44 on April 12, 2008 at 8:00 PM
I don’t believe Obama thinks of himself as “half white.” In his book, Dreams from My Father, he writes of his rage and disgust with whites. He also writes that one of his heroes, Malcolm X, wrote that he wished he could expunge the part of himself that was white. Obama said that line really resonated with him. It’s easy to see why.
AZCoyote on April 12, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Hill and Barak are their own worst enemy. Neither has been able to impose as much damage to the other side as they have themselves.
… and the spouses aren’t helping much, either.
Pathetic, yet hilarious.
yo on April 12, 2008 at 8:06 PM
I think he thinks of himself as all white, but with a darker skin. That gave him problems fitting in with both groups. Black guys don’t turn into “a condescending, crypto-Marxist, elitist liberal poseur.”
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Looking at Ben Smith’s blog comments, the left is in a real frenzy on this. Of course they think Obama is right on, and that Ben Smith in a flak for Hillary.
The frame of a class analysis is so strong that they can’t conceive of another POV. Everything is class. Class members vote on the basis of what the government can provide in terms of jobs, welfare, education, homes, etc.
Anyone that doesn’t do that is just reactionary lumpenproletariat.
Obama thinks he is a sincere promiser of governmental goods and services, and he is being rejected, so he gets a little snide.
This is not going to be a pretty election.
r keller on April 12, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Heh. I can’t wait for the Obama highlight reel this October.
Best democratic primary evah!
BacaDog on April 12, 2008 at 8:11 PM
ThePrez on April 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM
You’re forgetting that he’s running against a Republican, the worst politicians in history. I’m confident that they will find some way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
flytier on April 12, 2008 at 8:14 PM
It escapes most analysts that Obama can’t have it both ways. The above excerpt of his speech harps on “bitterness”, while claiming at once “premised on not being cynical about government”.
Either people are bitter, or they’re not. Can’t have the cake and eat it too.
This man is fuller of himself than Bill Clinton ever cold be. He’s surpassed the master of triangulation.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Correction – “Bill Clinton ever could be”
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 8:16 PM
An amazingly strident and simple strategy: vote for Obama to prove you are not a racist.
And what, pray tell, does he propose that these bitter small town peasants actually do for a living? (crickets)
shaken on April 12, 2008 at 8:16 PM
It’s hard to imagine how large a percentage of the population are socialists, but don’t even know that. Liberal control of academia and media for the past two generations has nearly destroyed us from within. I wonder if it is too late to recover. Will all those who believe in an independent life, as free of government interference as possible, simply die in a decade or two?
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Don’t forget that his white grandmother was one of the first female vice presidents of a bank, and not a “poor” and “racist” woman at all.
This kid did not grow up in poverty and among hate.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 8:18 PM
They might, but so far they’re not dead yet. The independents will win the next election for their guy.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 8:21 PM
They are Lock-Stepping behind Obama, history does repeat itself, they were also asleep in the ‘30. To much drug intake. And Obamas cure is to bring in more illegals with more drugs. The more the merrier.
Legions on April 12, 2008 at 8:22 PM
I hope you are right, but don’t think it will be that easy. The contrasts in age, speaking ability, and charisma will play a large part. This is the age of sound bites. Style over substance. The pundit post game analysis will also have influence.
Hope I’m wrong.
a capella on April 12, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Earlier today I posted at LGF that if someone had asked me a year ago if the democrats could nominate someone that I would despise more than the Clintons I would have laughed in their face. However, they have done just that. It amazes me how every four years that party can nominate someone who is so unpresidential to run for the presidency.
dawgyear on April 12, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Obama really isn’t an American, and I’m sure he doesn’t see himself as such. He thought he would chameleon himself into the political landscape and got busted. He thought he would play the descendant of slaves, and even tried the accent. In fact, he has done more to bring the discussion of Black racism to the forefront than any other wacky individual to date.
Hening on April 12, 2008 at 8:25 PM
So when Democrats/the Left disagree with government policies, they are dissenting — which is the highest form of patriotism. When Republicans/the Right disagree with a Democrat government policy, they’ll be divisive.
Democrats are allowed to be cynical about Republican governments, “a healthy skepticism”. But if Republicans do the same with a Democrat government, then that just won’t do. Will we all be forced into government reeducation schools in order to no longer be cynical about The Obamassiah’s socialism?
rbj on April 12, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Our country, the way we know it will be destroyed, from least to most, in this order:
1. McCain
2. Hillary Clinton
3. Obama
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Yes, I believe McCain will have a big win, if things continue along the same trajectory. However, I don’t think he will win because independents (or more conservative democrats) reject activist government, but because they reject these particular Dem. candidates for reasons of personality.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Entelechy, always remember the Dems believe that it is never too late to have a bitter, racist childhood.
bloggless on April 12, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Betcha even Bubba was offended by Obama.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Hahahhahaahahha
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Hah, hah..those dumb kunckle dragging racists s who are not as smart and rich as US!
RobCon on April 12, 2008 at 8:33 PM
I know, had he pulled these kinds of shenanigans a week before Iowa, this would be an entirely different race.
V15J on April 12, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Religion is regarded by the common as true, by the wise as false, and by the leaders as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 8:38 PM
You leave out several important facts-namely that she was a Democrat, which no doubt hastened her job promotion in a state even bluer than Massachusetts. As a Hawaii resident myself from 1963 till 1966, I also wouldn’t be surprised if there was some reverse “affirmative action” involved-after all, she was a woman, but also white, in a state where whites are still the minority.
Likewise, Barry may not have grown up among “poverty” in Hawaii in the 1960s but the hate was there. Ask any white kid who lived in the islands in the 1960s if they remember an annual rite of passage in school called “Beat Up Haole Day”. We were beat to a pulp for the sole “crime” of the color of our skin (white).
Likewise, Barry’s exclusive Hawaii prep school, Punahou, had its problems when he was there. My uncle taught there for several years in the 1950s and even then they weren’t exactly paragons of virtue.
Del Dolemonte on April 12, 2008 at 8:40 PM
actually no, take a look at WH, Senate and Congress last 25 years
windansea on April 12, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Who says?
baldilocks on April 12, 2008 at 8:45 PM
You sit on my left shoulder when I make a generalization. So I will qualify it. Of the thousands (yep) of black guys I have met, none were twits in the Kerry/Obama mode, although they were many other things.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 8:48 PM
Although I am not certain that I understood what you just said, if you said what think you probably said, spot on.
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Heh.
baldilocks on April 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM
As you say, “Dude”
How ’bout that Special Forces Video on the Newt site?
Awesome!
Nelsa on April 12, 2008 at 8:50 PM
If this was Mission Impossible, Obama would pull off his mask and John Kerry would be underneath.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 8:55 PM
I love Hot Air!
You guys are the cat’s meow. I feel like a gunfighter in a B movie, I never run out of ammunition because I have a secret source that gives me all I need for rapid fire/timely retorts to the mind numbed morons on the left who romanticize a Utopia for all of us while disregarding the facts of everyday life.
Where can I send a donation?
Just kidding, I’m to bitter to donate.
winemkr on April 12, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Just thinking of the 3 stooges is depressing me. As far as I am concerned, the fact that Obambi hung with his Jeremiad mentor told me plenty about his deep-grounded racism. If the idiots can’t see thru him now, they won’t even if God came down and told them so.
I’m gonna have to take acloser look at Barr from the LP.
AH_C on April 12, 2008 at 8:56 PM
If Barack had truly transcended his race, he wouldn’t talk about being black or white. His culture is as much African culture as mine is Scottish culture. We need to realize that we all share American culture. Multicultural and multireligious nationalism, that’s the ticket to harmony.
Dr. Manhattan on April 12, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Obama truly believes in some gospel of government. And he just plain doesn’t understand America or Americans. Let him keep talking. This might be one of his small time screw ups. He might demonstrate levels of condension and anti-white prejudice that will be amazing.
snaggletoothie on April 12, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Well said, Newt! Please continue the Barry-whacking and leave the global warming stuff alone… My opinion of you has done so many 180s I’m getting seasick.
I usually don’t like being cubbyholed into a narrow category, but “petulant mental defects in support of God, Guns and Country” really sums me up quite well.
innominatus on April 12, 2008 at 9:04 PM
OK, now I am even more sure that you said what I thought that you probably said.
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM
possibly
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 9:11 PM
McCain is a commoner? PUH-LEEZE!
The man tried to suggest that nobody except an illegal would pick veggies for $50/hr. McCain is a multimillionaire, just like many of our U.S. Senators.
As a junior Senator, Obama is well on his way to detaching himself from the common man. But to act as if John McCain is not just as elitist is ridiculous.
The Race Card on April 12, 2008 at 9:16 PM
We keep focusing on Obama. But we’re still stuck with McCain.
The Race Card on April 12, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Am I warm?
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 9:20 PM
it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old clueless
blackMultiracial man that has never had to struggle one day in his life because of affirmative action programs named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism.Chakra Hammer on April 12, 2008 at 9:23 PM
blazing.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 9:25 PM
Dear TRC, you got off topic. We’ll deal with him on the “McCain does/says dumb things” threads :)
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 9:27 PM
I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes
- Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ
spmat on April 12, 2008 at 9:28 PM
How long did McCain serve in the military?
Chakra Hammer on April 12, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Problems, problems with all the candidates all day long
Will America’s problems work out right or wrong
The candidates, I don’t like much of anything they do-o-o
Most real conservatives feel the same way too
Worries, worries pile up on my head
Woe is me I should have stayed in bed
Can’t get the border sealed, none of their records are any damn go-o-ood
My urge to even vote just ain’t swingin’ like it shou-ou-ould
Problems, problems with all the candidates all day long
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Not only does the content of his speeches turn me off, but his speaking abilities aren’t much better than George W’s. He stops and stammers just as much as W.
cjs1943 on April 12, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Boys and girls of HA, the topic is Obama’s elitist speech, held at the billionaires row in San Francisco.
There will be plenty threads, and opportunities to bash McCain.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Understatement.
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 9:32 PM
There is still time to find better candidates on both sides.
Why from more than 300 million Americans, America ends up with garbage?
I can’t believe that this is what we are reaping -in the 21st century- from the greatness of the Founding Fathers, from a 200 years history of struggle for Freedom.
Where are the Great Men?
Where are the Leaders?
Where are the United States of America?
This country is not progressing toward greatness, rather, it is regressing toward its demise.
Indy Conservative on April 12, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Most of these Senators are gaseous, pompous elitist windbags. It’s the ones that say they’re just like you and I that piss people off. That’s why Rush tells you how rich he is, and how the staff do crap for him, and that he eats $20 hotdogs.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Indy Conservative, run. You’ll have a few of us from HA voting for you.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Bush and Cheney rose successfully to a spectacular challenge, as did our military.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 9:39 PM
I know you will. I know we share the same ideas, with some others here.
And I feel sad because I really want to change things to the better in this country but I feel helpless, incapable on my own.
I’m really depressed.
Indy Conservative on April 12, 2008 at 9:45 PM
To refer to McCain as “garbage” is insulting…
Nelsa on April 12, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Exactly.
Zorro on April 12, 2008 at 9:46 PM
The truth is it is you Mr Obama, and all the other libs like you, that it is you that are the backward thinking ones. Your thoughts and your ideas are the ones that beat people down. It is your thoughts and your ideas,, and other foolish libs like you that continue to cling to their old foolish notions about government and freedom.
It is the American idea of freedom, liberty, independence and individuality that is the revolutionary idea! It is the American,, simple, independent, rugged and free that has fed the world, freed the world, revolutionized the world, brought hope and freedom and liberation to untold millions. It is the American,, the simple American, armed with little more than a musket, Bible and a yearning for independence that was the most forward thinking man of his time,, and still is!
An American, man or woman, black or white, Christian or not,, an American with little to no education, title or money, but appreciates and understand the value of liberty, hard work and freedom and has a yearning to better himself and provide for his or her family,, has a love for his country and a general desire to help his fellow man,, is wiser and greater than a thousand Harvard graduates may ever be.
It is not simple hard working Americans that encourage rapists, kidnappers and murderers to ravage our nation. It is smart, liberal judges from Yale and Harvard!
It is not hard working Americans from rural communities that typically frolic with prostitutes or steal private property from those that get in their way! No,, again,, that would be smart liberals with degrees from expensive universities! The so called best and brightest among us!
Yes,, the so called best and brightest among us,, like yourself,, that think nations like Cuba and Venezuela are to be emulated. The so called best and brightest among us, people with expensive and high sounding degrees, that have inflicted more pain and suffering on more people that one can even begin to imagine.
JellyToast on April 12, 2008 at 9:48 PM
My problem is never the Military.
The only thing that is keeping this country great so far is its Military.
As for the two people you mentioned, I’m not sure if all their decisions were right.
I’m not sure if they rose to the challenge of freeing us from dependence on Islamic Oil, especially after September 11, 2001 for example by fighting the domestic pressure not to drill, etc., etc.
Indy Conservative on April 12, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Mort Sahl noted that when we had a population of only several million, we produced leaders like Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson and Madison. Now with 300 million population, we have corrupt liars like Bush, Kerry, Hillary, Kyl, Lott, Graham, Reid, Pelosi, Gore, Obama, McCain …. the list is almost endless.
Darwin says it’s unintelligent design. God says it’s devolution.
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 9:51 PM
No, of course not, especially domestic ones. But they made the most important decisions correctly. Not to lose or quit, and not to succumb to their liberal domestic enemies. In my own private history book, they are heroes for that.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 9:53 PM
And Juan’s saying that Americans were too lazy, too inept and/or too stupid or too whatever to pick lettuce even for $50 and hour was what, a compliment?
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 9:54 PM
IC, I was very depressed during the so-called conservative selection. Now I’m no longer depressed. The Left has delivered way beyond my expectations. I believe that McCain will pick a very strong VP, one to take over in 2012. I believe, if he wins, he will have fulfilled the promise to his grandfather/father, and that he will let somoene younger take the reigns in 2012.
You stick around here, and continue to contribute to the debate. This will turn out better than I’d feared. It is not too late and we must all fight. Sometimes we must ride with the horses we chose (or the ones that were chosen, but we’re stuck with). But win we must. This is a country worth saving, for us, and for the world.
I just had an out of control laugh at the EU-nuchs wishing to have more say on global economics, just because the euro is higher than ever (over at Drudge). When they start to pay for their defenses, I’ll quit laughing. Until then, “hush, little kiddies, hush”.
Here goes a big e-hug to you, yes, you the somewhat curmudgeonly one, the great Indy Conservative,
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 9:54 PM
MB4, clever one, the topic is “Obama said”.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 9:55 PM
The words are worth framing. But which Newt was speaking? Contract with America Newt? Do as I say, not as I do Newt? Green Newt?
Not looking forward to gay Newt.
whitetop on April 12, 2008 at 9:56 PM
I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
- Thomas Jefferson
MB4 on April 12, 2008 at 9:58 PM
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