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And a quick good backgrounder from a man who understands.
You have to lie through your teeth for this inside/outside strategy. Barack is an exceptionally good liar. Unmatched among presidents, if for nothing else the sheer audacity.
Honestly, there are just no words.
Actually, there are — all of Anglo-Saxon origin.
Sorry, I have to disagree, because his lies are so blatantly, obviously untrue.
He’s exceptionally comfortable telling lies, but he’s not very adept at making them sound plausible.
Now Bill Clinton. There was a guy who could lie with aplomb!
He could’ve been the wealthiest used car salesman in Arkansas. So sad when people fail to realize their true calling.
Bill Clinton is still the best liar, hands down.
Bill Clinton was so good, because even HE appeared to believe he was telling the truth.
Actually, there are — all of Anglo-Saxon origin.
Actually, I “lied” up there. Because I had bunch of swear words going through my mind.
but, you all know how I shy away from that courser language.
There’s one bit in the oft-linked Kurtz piece that I can’t agree with:
That coordination is necessary to achieve Obama’s real goal: kicking off a national grassroots movement of the left that he can quietly manage, while keeping his distance when necessary.
Let’s be honest — Obama couldn’t manage a produce stand, much less a popular movement. We’ve been saying for over four years that he’s an empty suit; a screen onto which people project their desires; a political climber whose quick rise was due to NPR guilt, personal connections, and most importantly of all — because he does what he’s told.
Obama is no manager. Obama is managed. The Great Old One who lives under Chicago will one day awaken, and madness take us all.
You speak warhorse, Carin?
Just make sure that we document his easy-breezy lying lies, both now and for use later during the 2012 campaign. And also document the thuggery of his supporters and the involvement of OFA as well.
Because if you have proof, they can try to laugh you off with the birfers, but people might have a more difficult time if you have facts on your side; and not in the tin-foil-hat-wearing troooooooooof! kind of way.
Obama is no manager. Obama is managed.
Not that I disagree with you, but who the hell is calling the shots? Soros? Putin? The People’s Liberation Army? The Harvard Faculty Club? Ayers & Dorn?
Who the hell are THEY?
I’m like a hot-house flower. I don’t know of what you speak.
Our CinC is giving advice to a state governor on his 3.26M budget shortfall whilst HIS is multiple trillions, that he’s ignoring, as Iranian warships cruise in the Gulf of Hormuz, our base in Bahrain is in jeopardy, our supply of sweet crude is precariously positioned at best, and ‘drill baby drill’ is too late and all but forgotten.
We’ve flocks of chickens circling, but when they alight, roosting will be out of the question. And they don’t really look like chickens at all.
Anybody who has studied anything at all about BO’s background knows that he is definitely not a “good man”. That’s probably one of McCain’s worst fibs.
It’s somewhat of a quibble on who’s a better liar; to me the more effective liar is the person who is not known as one, i.e. Slick Willie. Obama would never let himself get into a “depends what the meaning of is is” situation.
Jimmy Carter gets best unintentional stupidity award. He’s giving advice on Egypt, if you can believe that.
Exactly right, serr8ed. Don’t mean to go all religious on anyone, but that right there reminds me of the whole “remove the beam out of your own eye” caution.
It’s always nice to know who your enemies are.
In this case, President Obama is quite obviously an enemy of the working middle class. And business.
Unless you’re a big enough business that donates millions to President Obama, in which case, you get money from the rest of the tax paying suckers.
What’s really sad, though, is that President Obama would gladly become Dictator Obama, if given the chance. Heck, President Obama is already half way there.
I think the only thing preventing President Obama from becoming Dictator Obama is the lack of a “Reichstag Fire.”
Not from lack of trying, though.
And Obama’s mindless sycophantic drones would continue to drool all over Obama.
Dude.
A. Six. Year. Old.
Jeff, what does Satch think about the Israel resolution at the Security Council? We need to know.
It’s repulsive, ain’t it, Pablo? They won’t teach the kids, but they’ll use them as human shields to protect their piggish turn at the communal trough.
Shouldn’t that child be in fucking SCHOOL ?!
Yes, it’s repulsive, but it’s also laughable. They’re repulsive, and nonsense like this just shows us who they really are. newrouter nicks Vodkapundit in the other thread to that effect:
Optics, bitches. I think we win. And I think we’ll be hearing the Walker 2012 chorus soon enough.
My Aunt and Uncle were both teachers, I remember when teachers were the good guys, not Union thug bureaucrats. Sad, really…
School’s closed. All the teachers are sick. Maybe we should hear little dude out. It sounds like his school needs saving from teachers who all get sick at the same time. Let’s fire them and hire some people who’ll appreciate their jobs! Just for you, little buddy!
My father was a public school teacher and he watched a lot of this take hold. He couldn’t wait for retirement.
I wonder who will be speaking on intentionalism, language, and the left at that American Policy Summit the Tea Party Patriots are putting on in AZ. Not me, that I’m sure of.
One day people will understand the importance of my silly little hobbyhorse.
You should contact them JeffG. Send them links to some of your classic posts on the subject, and tell ’em how you’ve been speaking out on the subject for years!
Maybe even tell them how the “corporate” blogs have done their best not to link to you, because it screwed with their agenda when Obama was first elected; because, like Rush and Levin, you wouldn’t go along with the meme of him being good and well intentioned and all.
It would be great for you to be giving that presentation to the group.
Do it man, at least reach out to them…
Seconded.
Hitch a ride with Stacy McCain –he’ll crash it whether he’s invited or not.
No, the program is already set, Bob.
I actually do wonder if they don’t have someone speaking on the subject. It seems to me I’m hearing a lot more about intent and originalism, at least as it applies to legal hermeneutics.
But I think it imperative to show how on the very structural level of our epistemology we are being conditioning to accept the left’s ideology. And that it is a relatively simple fix to root that out.
I agree, these guys don’t know about you, and they should. At least make an effort. If they don’t respond, screw ’em.
Oops, too late.
Too bad Jeff.
I still say make your point to them. Send them an essay on our being conditioned to accept the left’s ideology. And I still say send some links to your classic stuff.
And heck, maybe consider crashing the party like Ernst said!
Ooh! My farmer’s walk handles just got here!
I also think you’ve got enough stuff on this site to have the Politically Incorrect Guide to Cultural Marxism 2/3ds to 3/4s written, and enough friends willing to help you with the editing, proof-reading, corrections, suggestions stuff to knock out a saleable manuscript out by fall, if you wanted to.
But it’s your life. And proposals are a vicious bitch to write.
I think it imperative to show how on the very structural level of our epistemology we are being conditioning to accept the left’s ideology. And that it is a relatively simple fix to root that out.
write the damn book!
I’ll shut up now, lest my enthusiasm cause annoyance.
Now just put 100 lb on each handle and march briskly, like the British used to, bringing your arms up to around 45° to the horizontal, for and aft, as you toddle around the neighborhood.
I’m thinking it would be a heck of a workout all the way around.
And when you’re bored, load ’em up, and time yourself running the 40!
Pablo,
Even more insulting is the fact there are people willing to defend the behavior of the union protesters.
Jeff G.,
I don’t recommend you going to AZ…there’s something about blue sky and sunshine 10 months out of the year that just tends to make you want to stay. Then there’s the danger of AZ. Those Arizonans have the right to open carry and don’t need a permit for CCW. I mean, haven’t you read about the blood bath in AZ due to all the gunfights since the CCW laws were relaxed?
If I had time to write the book I would.
Hell, I’d just cobble together my essays from this site. The problem is, they rely on hyperlinks and such to make sense oftentimes.
Plus, there’s the fact that much of it is aimed at a certain textualist / pragmatist.
Yeah, I second Ernst on the book thing. I’m thinking that right about now the iron is pretty hot…
Yeah, that’s the only downside of having crafted them for internet consumption in the first place. If it were public domain stuff, and not creative content, I’d be tempted to assemble the linked material in an appendix.
Plus, there’s the fact that much of it is aimed at a certain textualist / pragmatist.
That’s what readers are for! To help you clean up the ambiguity.
Look, just think about it.
Where there’s the will, there’s a way!
hyperlinks are just internet footnotes, no? easy peezy to turn adjust.
If you do write it, Jeff, I’m a fair proofreader. Sometimes I pick out typos in first editions and send them back to the editors for fun.
Stephanie, Bob, permissions can be like purgatory. You can languish there forever.
With the new rules in the MLA and its publishing of proper rules for citations for written, spoken and stuff on the net, etc, why would anything published on the web require permission to use sources and such? What am I missing?
If you hit publish it is out there for use and critique, isn’t it?
I haven’t looked at a new MLA guide since probably 1998.
I’m forced to as the HSer is doing papers all the time. I get to proofread and verify. The MLAs are nothing like the rules we had back in the stone age 70s. Most seem like the lazy man’s guide to proper formatting to me and confusing. Gah.
why would anything published on the web require permission to use sources and such? What am I missing?
MLA doesn’t apply, necessarily. Copyright law does.
I’m guessing that anything off of this site, regardless of who authored it, belongs to Jeff and he can do whatever he wants with it. (This is why I hope Dr. Helen is secretly planning a book about bitter men and the ex-wives who made them that way!). Other sites, not so much: e.g. if Jeff had a really long, thoughtful comment over at Carin’s that he absolutely had to use, he couldn’t do so without her permission. Even though Jeff wrote the comment, he doesn’t own it, and can’t profit from it without the permission of the owner. So certain, events, shall we say, are going to have to be described rather than reproduced; or omitted altogether (depending on how important are the differing responses from the right to the corrupting influence of cultural marxism to the overall theme of the book).
I was also thinking that Jeff might be inclined to quote non-electronic published matter (what’s the point of talking about Cultural Marxism if you’re not going to rip Marcuse, et. al. a new one)), and the copyright owners of those works are going to have to be contacted.
Like I said, I’m guessing. Somebody who know’s something about copywrite is going to have to be brought into the process at some point –but that’s over the horizon right now. My generic point was that gathering permissions is a lot of scut-work if you have to do it by yourself instead of having the support of an editor with a staff at a publishing house to lend a hand, and even when you do, permission might not be forthcoming (or too expensive).
As an aside: MLA is for milquetoast pantywaists.
Real Manly Men™ use Chicago.
Fuck style guides. That’s just The Man(R) keeping you on his Print Plantation.
Sometimes we take comfort in the security of our surroundings.
Sorry, we need him here for at least the rest of his term. Maybe another.
The stupid is stacked pretty high around here so there’s a silly amount of work left.
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Aim for Betty, Ernst. Aim for Betty.
Jeff, publish in e-book / Kindle format and leave the links in. Browsing capability is there.