“But what you have to ask yourself is, who has the chance to actually, really change things in a fundamental way?” Obama asked as he wrapped up a town-hall style event at Reading High School in central Pennsylvania.

It’s precisely what should scare Americans, Obama’s Marxist version of “fundamental change”. We’re looking for change, but not this kind.

Oh please. People are either complaining that McCain is too nasty or they are complaining because he has not punched Obama in the nose.

I meant he looked so old. I don’t think he needs to be nasty. He can and should drive home legitimate points such as Obama’s lack of any qualifications, opposition to genuinely good things such as trade etc. That has nothing to do with being nasty.

Had this country been promised on September 12, 2001 that it would ride out the rest of the Bush presidency without a follow-up attack, we would have agreed to make Bush the fifth face on Mt. Rushmore.

Great point and I would also like to know from the truthers, why if the Bush Administration staged 9/11, that they did not stage follow up attacks? Or plant WMDs in Iraq (which would have been far easier and far less hideous than staging the 9/11 attacks).

As far as Obama’s backhanded compliment, it’s fairly meaningless, because as far as the brain dead, luntatic left BDS sufferers are concerned, no one could be worse than President Bush.

That’s why they’re hoping that the “McCain Is Old” or “McCain Is A Hothead” charges gain traction, because the Democrats have joined the media over the years in lauding McCain, and face the prospect of having their own sound bites thrown back at them if they push the “McCain is Bush” theme.

jon1979 on April 21, 2008 at 8:25 AM

You left one out-the Democrat meme that McCain will be nothing more than Bush Term 3. Which of course is horse-hockey, as he has for a long time staked out views contrary to those of the evil Bush.

And Ed, I still think the screenplay for “The Graduate” deserved to win 1967’s Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, just for that “plastics” word alone. Sad to say it lost to “In the Heat of the Night”.

Oh please. People are either complaining that McCain is too nasty or they are complaining because he has not punched Obama in the nose.

Terrye on April 21, 2008 at 8:47 AM

Excellent point, Terrye. In that the Dem contenders are focusing on “change” as their mantra, why have they not effected (must less introduced) the kind of legislation that they think is so vital for America these past several years? Doesn’t this failure demonstrate a lack of initiative and leadership?

Why would anyone think a Democrat in the White House would change things when the Demcrat Congress has been such a disaster. It would seem to me that the Republicans could use that somehow.

That’s why they’re hoping that the “McCain Is Old” or “McCain Is A Hothead” charges gain traction, because the Democrats have joined the media over the years in lauding McCain, and face the prospect of having their own sound bites thrown back at them if they push the “McCain is Bush” theme.

Seven types of defection from the left:

David Edgar has a piece in yesterday’s Guardian about defectors from the left, whom he also refers to as apostates – a piece which his subeditors have chosen, not unreasonably, to present as being about a ‘new generation of renegades’. There’s a full and most sufficient response to Edgar from Andrew Anthony, which I urge you to read. These are merely observations of my own of a supplementary nature.

1. Who would want to defect from the kind of left that after September 11, 2001, could not bring itself to condemn this in plain speech as a crime of mass murder, but was full of the language of ‘yes but’ and ‘blowback’ and ‘comeuppance’? Why, if I belonged to such a left, I would want to defect from it.

2. Who would want to defect from a left that could see no reason at all in favour of getting rid of a genocidal tyrant like Saddam Hussein, and that in opposing the Iraq war therefore treated support for the war from within the left as precisely renegacy? Me – that’s a left I’d have no desire to be part of.

3. And who could dream of defecting from a left that treated the wanton targeting of Iraqi civilians in opposing the US-led occupation as the understandable tactics of a resistance one could not be too choosy about and should offer one’s support? Yup, sign me right up. That’s a left I’d want to defect from if I belonged to it.

4. Who ever would defect from a left that responded to the July 7 bombings in London with more apologias for the killers of the type that had followed 9/11? Include me in. I defect. I defect.

5. Could there be, anywhere, defectors from a left that, in a world by no means short of tyrannies, torturers, rank abusers of human rights, widespread poverty, extensive hunger, episodes of genocide, was obsessed above all with two countries, both of them democracies, as the source of all political evil – the United States and Israel? Just watch my dust: it’s a left to be left.

6. Who could even think of defecting from the kind of left that still speaks in terms of ‘defection’ and ‘apostasy’, as if it possessed a truth given to it from some higher source and had the power to excommunicate? Now, that’s a left I would find my way out of if I had to.

7. But then who would want to defect from a left which saw itself as uniting certain universal values, values like freedom and equality and justice, with the interests and struggles of the unfree, the wronged and the oppressed everywhere? Well, I don’t know who would want to defect from this kind of left. But when I ran into them I’d try to persuade them not to defect. I’d tell them that there’s a left worth belonging to, and that those who belong to it should limit their defections to parting company with the lefts that discredit its values and its better traditions.

“But what you have to ask yourself is, who has the chance to actually, really change things in a fundamental leninist, marxist, way?” Obama asked as he wrapped up a town-hall style event at Reading High School in central Pennsylvania.

there..

If Hillary loses the nomination, could McCain pick her as VP?

Hope that didn’t make you spitttake your cheerios.