I’m old enough to not only recall President George H.W. Bush’s phrase a thousand points of light in reference to volunteerism, but to remember how that phrase and concept was mocked, derided and satirized.
My, how times have changed.
On September 10th of this year the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) posted a press release informing the world that “from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,” and that this “unprecedented block of TV programming is the first wave of a multi-year ‘I Participate’ campaign.”On its face this all sounds rather benign in that silly, liberal do-gooder kind of way. The networks have launched these kinds of campaigns before and other than some clunky exposition awkwardly inserted into your favorite show to meet the mandate — no harm, no foul. [...]
We’ll have to wait until next week to see what effect this initiative will have on the 60 television (and news) programs in question, but thanks to the intrepid Patrick Courrielche and Stage Right, today we can answer the simple question of…
“What’s wrong with this?”
Doing the work the Kamikaze Media (many of whom are participating in this event rather than digging for the story) refuses, and with the help of Big Government’s Dana Loesch, Patrick and Stage Right have discovered that when it comes to this White House – whether it’s the NEA conference calls or EIF’s iParticipate programming — all roads funnel into one place: online volunteer portals, including Serve.gov, where if you plug in “health care” all kinds of Planned Parenthood openings pop up along with a video dispelling those ugly “myths” knocking ObamaCare.
There’s scarier stuff, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise. *cough*Trutherism*cough*
Maybe “service” and “volunteerism” is something exotic and new to coastal, urban elites — save for an occassional march against Global Warming Climate Change; but for the vast majority of middle Americans coaching soccer, preparing packages for soldiers, quilting covers for NICU incubators, delivering Meals on Wheels, fundraising for PTA, adopting a section of highway to keep clean of litter, being part of a church group that feeds the homeless, etc, this is just a way of life.
Makes this kind of creepy. Even the authors of that memo felt it necessary to put “organically” in quotes.
Indeed.
Comment by Pablo on 10/16 @ 8:19 am #
So, has anyone seen the list of accomplishments that this gaggle of nitwits has produced? Talking is not doing.
Comment by JD on 10/16 @ 8:26 am #
They won a Nobel Prize for Speech Reading, Pablo. Don’t forget that.
Comment by Joe on 10/16 @ 8:26 am #
Never have any promised so much and delivered so little.
Comment by Joe on 10/16 @ 8:28 am #
Well that Crowley-Gates sit down was a peace summitt, so a peace prize was warranted for that.
Comment by sdferr on 10/16 @ 8:31 am #
Some spin-moment seems to be all that’s required.
Comment by guinsPen on 10/16 @ 8:51 am #
Headline at Yahoo.com.
W. H. helped create corporate-backed health care campaign
…
Willie Hernandez?
Comment by Carin on 10/16 @ 8:58 am #
I have nothing against volunteerism. But, there is another side to this.
Comment by Carin on 10/16 @ 9:01 am #
Volunteerism as a political movement. Attached, of course, to democrats.
That church volunteering you do? SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Better not bring up politics there.
Comment by Charles Johnson on 10/16 @ 9:23 am #
Why are you on my interlawn! Get off you damn kids, get off.
Comment by McGehee on 10/16 @ 9:26 am #
Denounce me.
Comment by Charles Johnson on 10/16 @ 9:27 am #
If you do not support Barack Obama, you are stupid.
Q. Do you also think there’s a greater degree of anti-intellectualism in America compared to a lot of other countries?
A. [Richard Dawkins] There does seem to be evidence of a divide in the United States between two cultures. It does seem to be a deeper divide, and maybe even a widening one, perhaps we don’t see in European countries. There seems to be a divide between what shall we say — the Sarah Palin voters and the Barack Obama voters — who seem to be more bitterly split than the corresponding divides in other countries.
Comment by A fine scotch on 10/16 @ 9:35 am #
Man, that Dawkins is a narcissistic, small-minded, preening twatwaffle.
More bitterly split than Sunni & Shia, numbnuts?
More bitterly split than Tutsi & Hutu?
Seriously, the lack of awareness from that douchebag makes my head hurt.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/16 @ 9:37 am #
[Richard Dawkins] There does seem to be evidence of a divide in the United States between two cultures. It does seem to be a deeper divide, and maybe even a widening one, perhaps we don’t see in European countries
Snicker. The old “let’s compare the top 20% of the Democrat Party to the bottom 20% of the Republican Party” game. The left’s sea of benighted pets only count on election day.
Comment by Noam Chomsky on 10/16 @ 9:46 am #
Charles: Don’t bother. They are all a bunch of Nazis.
Comment by Snowcone on 10/16 @ 9:46 am #
this is just a way of life
“Created in 1942 by Hollywood heavyweights - Samuel Goldwyn with friends Humprhey Bogart, James Cagney, and the Warner brothers, the Entertainment Industry Foundation (formerly Permanent Charities Committee) was established on the belief that the entertainment industry was in a unique position to truly help others.”
http://www.eifoundation.org/about/history.html
Sounds like it’s a way of life for the Entertainment Industry Foundation, too.
You’d think Christian Charity would be off limits to right-wing venom.
You’d think.
Comment by Charles Johnson on 10/16 @ 9:49 am #
Shit Baloon Dad is on to our mole. The take over will not be complete till we place her in the position seat of power.
Comment by Snowcone's Vagina on 10/16 @ 9:49 am #
I hurt from the all the sand in me.
Comment by Snowcone's Asshole on 10/16 @ 9:50 am #
Corn again? What is with this?
Comment by Snowcone's Acorn-Sized Schlong on 10/16 @ 9:52 am #
I suffer from the right hand hate machine.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/16 @ 9:54 am #
Heh. Speaking of benighted pets, I see the snowtard has weighed in after a busy morning of tying his shoe laces. Pity I can’t see what the crayon-wielding failbot hath scribbled.
Comment by Snowcone on 10/16 @ 9:58 am #
Speaking of Snowtards, I see Allahpundit says Sarah Palin’s poll numbers have dropped into W. territory.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/16 @ 10:00 am #
Snowcone? I don’t see it.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/16 @ 10:01 am #
All I see is a blank line with a tiny (TrollHammered) written in it.
Bliss.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/16 @ 10:02 am #
Damn. Snowtard’s rapid-fire comebacks are usually the smartest and bestest. Someone make this trollhammer stop working!
Comment by Snoros on 10/16 @ 10:10 am #
Hey, guys — while my SorosCorp masters take over/ruin the country, would you be so kind as to pay attention to these distractions I continue to offer up willy-nilly?
kthxbye
Comment by Snowcone's Asshole on 10/16 @ 10:11 am #
Acutally the hole at the other end is right about Sarah Palin’s numbers. She hurt herself with indies and dems when she quit being Governor. All the polls show that. Okay. We got that. Next?
No one really knows what is going to happen in the GOP primaries. But I welcome Sarah being Sarah. Will she last through that process? I have no idea and I am not even sure she is running. Still, it is better to have her in than watching at Mitt, Tim, and Huck glaring at one another.
And Snowey, more roughage coming in. It is getting sticky down here and you are not the best at cleaning up if you know what I mean.
Comment by Snowcone's Asshole on 10/16 @ 10:13 am #
That is the problem with being a rectum…no hands. I have to depend on the kindness of the dickhead upstairs.
Comment by Snowcone on 10/16 @ 10:19 am #
Once again we see all right-wing “humor” is based on poop and represessed homosexuality.
As for Palin, every single Democrat is praying that she runs again.
Run, Sarah, run.
Comment by JD on 10/16 @ 10:23 am #
yellowsnow really is a mental midget.
Comment by Snowcone's Vagina on 10/16 @ 10:25 am #
Somebody, anybody, Dworkin me!!!!!
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/16 @ 10:33 am #
Snowcone’s asshole seems a little off the mark as comedy goes. But I suppose hitting the bowl squarely is a lot to expect given that the guidance system for turd release is located in snowcone’s brain. The talking vajayjay seems to work though.
Comment by JD on 10/16 @ 10:35 am #
Abe - That whole learning to tie his shoelaces could be considered an accomplishment except they are velcro, and he still cannot figure it out.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/16 @ 10:41 am #
No, our “right-wing” humor is based on pooping ON you.
But you’re too much of a retarded marmoset to get it.
Comment by Snowcone's Vagina on 10/16 @ 10:45 am #
I’m feelin’ unloved since the hole around the other side from me keeps squawkin’ the hots for Palin.
Comment by Snowcone's Left Hand on 10/16 @ 10:49 am #
I am the powerfulest hand!
But I get no love, IYKWIMAITYD. It’s weird.
Comment by Squid on 10/16 @ 10:49 am #
Sad that Snowy’s asshole makes so much more sense than Snowy’s piehole.
Comment by geoffb on 10/16 @ 10:54 am #
Creating jobs!
I bet the uniforms will be “to die for”.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 10/16 @ 11:01 am #
“from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,”
Does anyone even watch network television anymore? The sitcoms of the past would have worked will with this guiding principle. A playful romp with Jack and the girls on Three’s Company as they work to create sustainable energy alternatives would have been a Nielsen’s bonanza. The bicycle shop owner on Diff’rent Strokes seemed to enjoy servicing the community as well.
Comment by geoffb on 10/16 @ 11:01 am #
Some Camp Obama video of Buffy and company from 2007. Just so you can all be prepared for the time when you will be sitting through something similar.
Buffy Wicks, Western Regional Field Director Tells Why & How We’ll Win
54.5 Minute MP-3 introduction to Camp Obama by Buffy Wicks, Western Regional Field Director of Obama for America
49 Minute opening presentation by Marshall Ganz at the 8.10-12.07 San Francisco Camp Obama when volunteers from all over Northern California gathered to learn leadership skills for the Barack Obama campaign for the Democratic nomination for POTUS.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/16 @ 11:16 am #
…but for the vast majority of middle Americans coaching soccer, preparing packages for soldiers, quilting covers for NICU incubators, delivering Meals on Wheels, fundraising for PTA, adopting a section of highway to keep clean of litter, being part of a church group that feeds the homeless, etc, this is just a way of life.
Spot on. For us, volunteering isn’t just a feel-good technique of self-validation.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/16 @ 11:49 am #
These people talk about “volunteering” but what they really want is a community service draft. The state is all that matters. If you don’t do what the state wants, you will be termed “obsolete.”
Comment by MarkD on 10/16 @ 12:32 pm #
I suppose the term Obama Jugend would be too edgy, as would brown shirts and armbands.
How about blue shirts, and a nice red necktie with the Obama logo on it?
Comment by Adriane on 10/16 @ 1:52 pm #
I guess I am also showing my age, as one of the first things I thought, after reading the hoopla, was ‘How does this differ from Pres. Bush, père, 1000 points of light?’
Except of course, a democrat is doing it…
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 1:56 pm #
obama yout
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/16 @ 2:19 pm #
“Comment by Adriane on 10/16 @ 1:52 pm #
I guess I am also showing my age, as one of the first things I thought, after reading the hoopla, was ‘How does this differ from Pres. Bush, père, 1000 points of light?’”
Coerced volunteerism isn’t really volunteer.
Comment by TONY BATTISTA on 10/16 @ 2:43 pm #
I believe the phrase ” a 1000 points of light” was borrowed from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy by former presidential speech writer Peggy Noonan.
Comment by Adriane on 10/16 @ 2:51 pm #
Obama still has 43% true believers, polls say. So that is quite a few people that need no coercion to advocate what Obama says.
Whether they actually stop watching tv and make the popcorn*, is a different matter.
* old New Yorker cartoon…
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 2:52 pm #
oh my
“J Street’s conference next week has become a Rorschach test of sorts. More and more members of Congress are dropping out, having discovered just who will be speaking — such as this “poet” who finds Gaza to be another fascistic ghetto, complete with numbers written “on the wrists of babies.” And then there is the 9-11 “truther.” So Sens. Schumer, Gillibrand, Lincoln, and Cochran have bugged out, as have a growing list of congressmen.
But not the administration. The Obami are to be represented by National Security Adviser James Jones, who has no problem appearing on the same stage with those who wax lyrical about Guantanamo being Auschwitz and who find noxious any sanctions against Iran.
This of course is the gang who awarded Mary Robinson America’s highest honor. Hobnobbing with Israel bashers, therefore, is nothing new. But it does remind those who vouched for Obama just how misguided they were about his instincts and internal radar where Israel is concerned.”
link
Comment by Peggy Noonan on 10/16 @ 3:04 pm #
I used to be the darling of Republicans.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/16 @ 3:10 pm #
That was before you started ragging on Palin, Peggy. Once you showed your true elitist colors you ruined it for yourself.
Comment by Joe on 10/16 @ 3:14 pm #
Huck-a-Huck-a-Burning-Love?
Somehow I am not getting the feeling that the answer to Obama is Huckabee.
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 3:19 pm #
i think the stupid party needs more meg mccain
Comment by JHo on 10/16 @ 3:23 pm #
I think we can finally stop with the politicians pandering to the voters by complimenting them on their intelligence. The majority of the American people are quite foolish. There is no other explanation.
Comment by JeffS on 10/16 @ 3:54 pm #
“Spot on. For us, volunteering isn’t just a feel-good technique of self-validation.”
I concur. I volunteer because the community needs the help, not because a bunch of political hacks fighting to be next to wrap their lips around Obama’s pecker want people to join some government organized volunteer korps they endorse.
And I have long volunteered, so it’s a double FUCK YOU to the EIF.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 10/16 @ 4:08 pm #
I’m beginning to think this is a concept foreign to most progs. Volunteerism must be directed and controlled for the greater glory of the organizers! We can’t have people out there doing good deeds all willy nilly. Can’t have “action” without “collective” after all.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/16 @ 4:10 pm #
Yes. What America needs are the skills and savvy of a former Arkansas governor. That’ll turn this tugboat around for the American Way.
Comment by rao6n on 10/16 @ 4:23 pm #
Hi guys;
Having moved here to AR recently, I wanted to dismember Mr. Huckabee politically in 2008 as his faux populism was quite a problem.
He now has 2 radio programs in the Litle Rock area and is speaking a much more conservative viewpoint. Don’t forget–this guy single handedly changed the Republican primary because of his social views–those who continue to belittle that aspect of the Conservative approach are doomed to
keep the elephants in the minority for a long time. Thank you Kathleen Parker, John McCain, David Frum, etc. Although I must admit I DO approve of Meghan’s assets–too bad they are politiclly worthless! ! ! ! !M !
Comment by dicentra on 10/16 @ 4:27 pm #
You know what’s funny?
What’s funny is that there’s a mole in the White House who leaks memos to Beck and Breitbart.
In the Obama White House.
A mole.
And Anderson Cooper still hosts the show.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/16 @ 4:31 pm #
Huckabee as nominee means I get to just pretend to vote on election day and instead go have tasty waffles.
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 4:34 pm #
huckabee/clinton ‘12 : the ultimate death panel
Comment by Snowcone's Asshole on 10/16 @ 4:35 pm #
Where is the pie hole of this operation? Jesus, Snowcone lost me!
Comment by dicentra on 10/16 @ 4:37 pm #
Huckabee is a snake.
He pretends to be a conservative, but he’s really a progressive. Only difference is that he’ll impose “Christian” values instead of Marxist ones.
And put us all on diets.
He loves him the power of the central government just as much as Obamaco does. He’s the LAST person who should be in office.
Comment by geoffb on 10/16 @ 4:57 pm #
In the end that the left foresees there will be two classes of “volunteers”. The activists who will readily sign up and will be paid “volunteers”. paid by us to work on behalf of “the cause”. What in the past would be called employees.
Then there will be those required by law to “volunteer”. If paid we would call it indentured servitude. If unpaid it is simply slavery, State slavery, the kind the left loves now that the private kind is not available. The activist “volunteers” will be their bosses, being the “more equal” of the “volunteers”.
Comment by rao6n on 10/16 @ 5:06 pm #
sorry guys, the Huck pulled a lot of votes in 2008
Ignore the “social” conservatives– we’ve got leftist Dems for eternity. . . . .
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 5:10 pm #
“Ignore the “social” conservative”
i ignore collectivists of every stripe.
Comment by B Moe on 10/16 @ 5:10 pm #
If I have to be ruled by leftists I would just as soon they be secular.
Comment by geoffb on 10/16 @ 5:18 pm #
Huck is the kind of social “conservative” who gives Barrett and Nishi all their ammo. I was brought up in two different and opposed evangelical faiths. Imposing faith by the use of law is antithetical to both of them and to the Orthodox Church I now attend.
Perfecting mankind, making Heaven in this life by use of force, Government force, is the goal of the Left.
Conservatism wants less government involvement in the personal side, not more.
Comment by sdferr on 10/16 @ 5:20 pm #
Utley, Utley, Utley, damn man. Just damn.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 10/16 @ 5:28 pm #
Yeah Chase almost blew the game last night, too. The bats were dormant tonight. Frickin’ Padilla.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/16 @ 5:43 pm #
Huck is nasty. I think that pretty much covers it.
Comment by sdferr on 10/16 @ 5:44 pm #
Uts wasn’t helped by Howard’s frozen statue of bewilderment act on the play either, I guess we ought to add. It appeared that had Howard moved to catch the ball he’d have at least prevented the run. But ach, ’twas not to be.
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 5:49 pm #
huck fills me with hope and change. huck is an a%%hole like O!
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 5:51 pm #
actually huck and O! are d**ks looking for an a****le.
Comment by gregorbo on 10/16 @ 6:01 pm #
Back in the ’90’s I was interviewed by Barbra Walters for an ABC news special called “Twenty-Something: What Happened to the American Dream?” Anyway, at one point during the taping, she asked all of us about politics, etc. Every single person said (H.W. was president at the time) that their brand of volunteerism did NOT include joining a group or whatever. Instead, each volunteered locally and did what they thought their own neighborhoods or community needed. At one point, one interviewee from Seattle said, “I’m not going to be a ‘point of light.’
At which point I pointed out, “But that is exactly what every one of you has just described yourselves as . . .”
Silence.
That part of the show was not aired.
Sigh. Stupid Gen-X’rs. Stupid Barbra Walters.
Comment by gregorbo on 10/16 @ 6:05 pm #
Oh, and if you happened to be among the 47 people outside of my immediate family that saw the show, I was the really, really, really, good looking one. . . .
Comment by ghost707 on 10/16 @ 6:16 pm #
Huckster is exactly that - a huckster. He is unserious and makes house plants seem intelligent.
The Republicans need to get their act together.
We need someone with some cajones - and Huckster does not fill that bill.
Fox news named a congressman their power player of the week a while back - still trying to find out who it was - definitely not Aaron Schock.
He was serious about fighting Congressional pork. - someone help me here - can’t seem to find him.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/16 @ 6:21 pm #
Some people have been mentioning that Petraeus run for President.
At least we know he is for the U.S. and not against it.
Comment by sdferr on 10/16 @ 6:22 pm #
Sounds like it could be Jeff Flake Az6 ghost707, though I don’t know and only guess as I didn’t see the telecast.
Comment by B Moe on 10/16 @ 6:34 pm #
Jeff Flake seems to be a straight up guy, I just think that name might be a bit much to overcome.
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 6:35 pm #
jindal/rubio ‘12
Comment by McGehee on 10/16 @ 6:38 pm #
Sorry rao6n, but Huckabee is not the Great Right Hope. He fails on all three counts.
He can talk a conservative game all he wants to now, but last year he drank the Nanny State Kool-Aid, and only an idiot would think he believes his new tune any more than he did the old one.
Supporting Huckles is yet another triumph of hope over experience and he’s not doing a damn thing to elevate my opinion of people from Arkansas.
Comment by B Moe on 10/16 @ 6:45 pm #
I am keeping an eye on these guys. If they can come up with anybody decent, they will get my next vote. I am over voting for major party douche bags, as the trolls like to point out, there isn’t a dimes worth of difference between any of them on domestic issues.
Comment by B Moe on 10/16 @ 6:45 pm #
Runaway comma alert!
Comment by JD on 10/16 @ 6:54 pm #
Mike Pence ain’t all bad.
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 7:02 pm #
baracky: soros house negro
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 7:03 pm #
go back to the porch barack
Comment by Snowcone on 10/16 @ 7:07 pm #
I don’t think it really matters who the Republicans prop up against Obama in 2012.
Is Bob Dole still around?
Comment by B Moe on 10/16 @ 7:08 pm #
I think you may be right, but not for the reason you think.
Comment by dicentra on 10/16 @ 7:11 pm #
We need someone with some cajones
With dresser drawers?
Ooooh. You meant cojones.
Here’s a mnenomic: the Os on either side of the J look kinda like… uh… themselves.
Comment by dicentra on 10/16 @ 7:12 pm #
Is Bob Dole still around?
Heard him on the radio just the other day. Still spry and witty as ever.
I think you may be right, but not for the reason you think.
America won’t be recognizable by 2012, so it’s stupid to assume anything.
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 7:21 pm #
“Comment by Snowcone on 10/16 @ 7:07 pm #
I don’t think it really matters who the Republicans prop up against Obama in 2012.”
the soros house negro goes in 2012
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/16 @ 7:21 pm #
MONOPOLES!!!!!!
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-10/newly-dicovered-monopole-particles-flow-electric-currents
I’m going to get a Belter haircut.
Comment by Snowcone on 10/16 @ 7:22 pm #
merica won’t be recognizable by 2012
Why’s that?
The conservatives are going to start behaving like civilized humans?
Comment by snowcone's anal beads on 10/16 @ 7:23 pm #
I don’t think it really matters what end you insert me into.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/16 @ 7:25 pm #
Comment by Snowcone on 10/16 @ 7:07 pm #
Has anyone ever told you that you’re a moron?
Comment by newrouter on 10/16 @ 7:26 pm #
“#
Comment by snowcone’s anal beads on 10/16 @ 7:23 pm #
I don’t think it really matters what end you insert me into.
”
true: stuck on stupid
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/16 @ 7:27 pm #
“The conservatives are going to start behaving like civilized humans?”
No, moron, we’re gonna tame the reactionary leftists.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/16 @ 10:10 pm #
sdferr,
Yeah I think that was him. I think they referred to him as Dr. No of the House.
Maybe I was also thinking of Senator Tom Coburn - since they seem to refer to him as Dr. No in the Senate - being an actual doctor and voting against pork bills that come for a vote.
Comment by LTC John on 10/16 @ 10:10 pm #
GEN Petreaus is really scary smart - I got to see that up close. I really hope that means he would stay out of politics. But who knows? I think he would wax Obama fairly easily, as he does not need a TelePrompTer to speak well, and has just a wee bit more between the ears than the current Pres.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/16 @ 10:15 pm #
It’ll be interesting to watch the dirty socialist media trash Petraeus. I wonder what tack they’ll take. He makes the little president man look impossibly small.
Honestly though he’ll need to win me over on his politics. After Colin Powell turned into a pouty little schoolgirl these ones don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/16 @ 10:26 pm #
Petraeus can say more with 5 words than Obama can say in 10 full length snoozer speeches.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/16 @ 10:30 pm #
LOL. You got me dicentra. Jack Daniels causes ID10T keyboard errors. Heh.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/16 @ 10:57 pm #
hf,
yeah, don’t get me started on how Powell and the State Department hung Scooter Libby out to dry.It was criminal.
Powell knew the truth and said nothing. Disgraceful.
Comment by SBP on 10/17 @ 4:41 am #
Or maybe you could take your mendacious crapweaseling to a venue where there might be someone stupid enough to fall for it, SFAG.
Just an idea.
Comment by JHo on 10/17 @ 5:52 am #
Despite the thrashing he takes from the ostensibly rightist right, somebody tell me why Paul isn’t the most classically liberal of the bunch. Given that the two party system is epic fail.
Kindly spare me the vitriol and myth — referring not to bright pw commentariat but to any Charles’ Johnson-like trolls possibly in attendance.
I think Ron has it about right: Slash government, protect individual rights, restore monetary solvency and scrub DC of Wall Street, reinstall sovereignty, revive production, and disengage overseas as much as possible.
Comment by B Moe on 10/17 @ 5:56 am #
Its his foreign policy that I can’t abid, JHo. Disengaging overseas isn’t realistic in today’s world.
Comment by JHo on 10/17 @ 6:10 am #
That’s where I have my doubts too, B Moe, although missile defense should be reinstated.
Comment by SDN on 10/17 @ 7:17 am #
Well, when Ron Paul became a Truther, he lost me for good.
Comment by Rusty on 10/18 @ 9:08 am #
#104 Go be a bitch where someone thinks you’re funny.