Jesus, conservatives. Can’t you find any new Negroes to trot out — you know, brothers with some flash?
Or is it always to be blingless Toms like Mr Sowell?:
ACORN is not just an organization on the left. In addition to the voter frauds that ACORN has been involved in over the years, it is an organization with a history of thuggery, including going to bankers’ homes to harass them and their families, in order to force banks to lend to people with low credit ratings.
Nor was Barack Obama’s relationship with ACORN just a matter of once being their attorney long ago. More recently, he has directed hundreds of thousands of dollars their way. Money talks — and what it says is more important than a politician’s rhetoric in an election year.
Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger are not just people with left-wing opinions. They are reckless demagogues preaching hatred of the lowest sort– and both are recipients of money from Obama.
Bill Ayers is not just “an education professor” who has some left-wing views. He is a confessed and unrepentant terrorist, who more recently has put his message of resentment into the schools– an effort using money from a foundation that Obama headed.
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People who think that talking points on this or that problem constitute “the real issues” that we should be talking about, instead of Obama’s track record, ignore a very fundamental fact about representative government.
Representative government exists, in the first place, because we the voters cannot possibly have all the information necessary to make rational decisions on all the things that the government does. We cannot rule through polls or referendums. We must trust someone to represent us, especially as President of the United States.
Once we recognize this basic fact of representative government, then the question of how trustworthy a candidate is becomes a more urgent question than any of the so-called “real issues.”
A candidate who spends two decades promoting polarization and then runs as a healer and uniter, rather than a divider, forfeits all trust by that fact alone.
If Ronald Reagan had attempted to run for President of the United States as a liberal, the media would have been all over him. His support for Barry Goldwater would have been in the headlines and in editorial denunciations across the country.
No way would he have been able to get away with using soothing words to suggest that he and Barry Goldwater were like ships that passed in the night.
If Barack Obama had run as what he has always been, rather than as what he has never been, then we could simply cast our votes based on whether or not we agree with what he has always stood for.
Some people take solace from the fact that Senator Obama has verbally shifted position on some issues, like drilling for oil or gun control, since this is supposed to show that he is “pragmatic” rather than ideological.
But political zig-zags show no such moderation as some seem to assume. […]
Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.well.
— Which, were one to cast such a strategy into words, one might call, say, the audacity of Hope…
Tom Sowell will be on Uncommon Knowledge all week, an episode a day, so to speak.
I was at a McCain-Palin rally, and almost the only non-WASP attendees were the people in backdrop.
This is not to say that conservatives are even slightly racist, but there is an apparent near-total lack of outreach amongst black, hispanic, and asian communities.
So the next RNC chair should make that an agenda item and _do_ something.
But Obama knows what con men have long known
Every successful cultist is an accomplished con man.
It helps to have the world wide MSM as your Mad Men.
CSmith, where was the rally? that may have had something to do with it.
there is an apparent near-total lack of outreach amongst black, hispanic, and asian communities.
That could be because republicans traditionally don’t play the race game, or identity politics. They are more “a flowing tide raises all boats” kinda people.
What would you have them do? Promise a chicken in every pot?
Baracky’s media have really done more than Baracky even to foist this dirty socialist on us. Baracky’s job was mostly to be a dirty socialist what had a thin record and little accomplishment. His media did all the heavy lifting.
Whoa, are we moving too slow?
Have you seen us, uncle Remus?
We look pretty sharp in these clothes
(yes, we do)
Unless we get sprayed with a hose
It ain’t bad in the day
If they squirt it your way
‘cept in the wintah, when its froze
And its hard if it hits, on your nose
(on your nose)
Just keep your nose
To the grindstone they say
Will that redeem us, uncle Remus?
I cant wait til mah fro is full grown
Ill just throw away my doo-rag at home
Ill take a drive to
Beverly hills
Just before dawn
And knock the little jockeys
Off the rich peoples lawn
And before they get up
Ill be gone
(Ill be gone)
Before they get up
Ill be knockin’ the jockeys off the lawn
(down in the dew)
— Frank Zappa
But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.
On the contrary, it’s worse than Sowell posits. The ultimate weapon in the con man’s arsenal is to make his mark believe he’s in on the screw, and that is Obama’s tack. Happily, 95% of Americans have yet to support him, though for some odd reason, a lot of the 5%-ers do.
Thomas Sowell
Home Run
That is all.
Don’t care much for bling.
Yes indeed. Screaming at the teevee often ensues.
Before the GOP can do outreach targeted to particular segments of the population, they need to re-learn how to do outreach to their friggin’ BASE.
Get that nailed down, and they’ll have 95% of what they need to do for targeted outreach already done.
CSmith, where was the rally? that may have had something to do with it.
In Waukesha, Wisconsin, one of the speakers was a Jennifer Youngblood, a Wisconsin native (and Native American) who works with Native populations in Alaska. She spoke about Palin working with the tribes. When I tried to Google her when I got home, it turns out there’s about a 150 different Jennifer Youngbloods in Alaska, so I can’t point you to a bio with any certainty.
And of course, James T. Harris, who is still getting death threats and racial slurs from black people angry that he asked McCain a question that was not Black Correct Thought.
Granted, there was a lot of blonde (and a lot of the blonde was bad dye jobs–please, ladies). Wisconsin has that whole settled by Germans-and-Scandis thing going on. Someone shoulda insisted on Latin immigrants in the 1850s, or something.
Without German immigrants Wisconsin would not be so cheese-and-sausage intensive (sort of like a larger Frankenmuth without Bronner’s).
So be careful with that.
Oh – and beer.
Lots can be forgiven just for beer.
I denounce the RACIST!!! immigration patterns in the 1800’s that caused Wisconsin to be such a Whitebread Whiteyland.
Good Day!
I said Good Day, Racist Immigration Patterns!!!
“there is an apparent near-total lack of outreach amongst black, hispanic, and asian communities.”
As it should be. Republicans didn’t come knocking on my door like Jehovah’s Witnesses. (And I have a detailed sign on my door warning proselytizers of all stripes to be-the-flock-gone.) I actually thought and observed my way into becoming a Republican and a conservative rather than being “reached-out to”–something that took roughly a decade. That’s how adults pick their political philosophy.
“What would you have them do? Promise a chicken in every pot?”
Cast iron frying pan–the kind that would take you had off if someone hit you with it. I like my chicken cooked–fried–in one of those.
What were we talking about?
“What would you have them do? Promise a chicken in every pot?”
Cast iron frying pan–the kind that would take your head off if someone hit you with it. I like my chicken cooked–fried–in one of those.
What were we talking about?
Consider yourselves denounced.
Have you seen those extra-deep cast-iron skillets, baldilocks? Some people even call them “fried chicken pans”.
Those are awesome. Wish I had one — I do have a regular skillet, a baby skillet, a dutch oven, and a two-burner griddle, though.
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I was the one who spoke at the McCain-Palin rally in Waukesha Wisconsin. Any questions???