Jonah Goldberg, anti-communist:
Here’s one useful tip: Whenever the substance of the Occupy Wall Street movement troubles Democratic politicians their response is to hide behind platitudes about free speech. “It’s about their right to express themselves!” Well, no it’s not. Free speech is important, but it’s really not the issue. It certainly wasn’t even much of a concern when it was the Tea Party expressing itself — which it managed to do without inviting mass arrests. Back then, leading Democrats considered dissent racist or un-American. Now they celebrate free speech so they can hide from dealing with the issues at hand honestly. Democratic politicians think that this gives them cover. It doesn’t. It just shows that they’re afraid to disagree with the protesters either because they agree with them or because they know the protests are popular among their own supporters. Either way, it’s proof that that the much ballyhooed wall between mainstream radicalism and mainstream liberalism is more like a speed bump.
It’s one thing to have suspicions. It’s another thing to have them confirmed. And for that, I’m grateful for Occupy Wall Street.
See? Clarity. And clarification.
— Just what I’ve been calling for for years now. Sadly, the GOP frontrunner sees an opportunity to show that he, too, cares about the complaints of what is an orchestrated anarchist/communist movement — and in so doing, once again pulls the “center” ever more incrementally leftward.
“tatterdemalions”
New word!
wØØt!
The only candidate confronting OWS seems to be Herman Cain. Hmmmm.
Yet again the 1st Amendment serves its greater purpose: it lets everyone know who the real idiots are.
Confront OWS? No, no. I want OWS to continue onward, to continue to be drawn out of their little shells, to continue to say whatever “thoughts” passes through their “minds” without the slightest fear of any confrontation.
I want candidates to say “Thank you for sharing that with us, though to quote ‘I think it sounded better in the original German’.” I want the little precious snowflakes to go forth without any fear and continue showing everyone exactly who they are.
I want them to share that with us.
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Winning!
Funny:
#IfObamahadapizzarestaurant
Great tweets, but couldn’t they have shortened the hashtag to #IfObamaSoldPizza?
Ans howzabout that Huntsman guy, huh? Could he pose for a picture of J. Wellington Fauntleroy IV, or what?
dicentra that hash tag led to iowahawk who is absolutely on fire – #YouMightBeAFleabagger , #AndThenIWokeUp , #OccupyChants, even a #FF to jeffg.
Has any president since Lincoln taken actions or used rhetoric that actually divided the country so bitterly?
At least Lincoln had a good reason beyond a self serving desire to get reelected. In fact, he was pretty sure his actions to do the right thing (as he saw it) were going to get him defeated in 1864. And he was ok with that if that is what the people wanted as he sought to push the war to a successful conclusion, if possible, before the election. He failed at that, but the Copperheads lost and Lincoln is widely praisednow as our best, or second best, president depending on who you ask. I’d also note that he was unfailingly gracious towards his political opponents in his speech while unyieldingly brutal against their efforts.
Can you picture The Won being as gracious towards a reconciliation with his opponents if he should win reelection?
just keep ronpaul away from foriegn affairs
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Heh. Posted this on Twitter about 20 minutes ago: “Re: Ron Paul’s economic plan, I’ll wait for Rand Paul’s economic plan. Hopefully his father’s McGovern foreign policy skips a generation.”
charlesaustin — you know that Lincoln threw ministers in jail for not praying for him from the pulpit, shut down opposition newspapers in the north, and likely cheated in the 1864 election, right? Oh, and he is single-handedly responsible for the wars with the Sioux for promising to buy their lands, agreeing to a treaty, and then letting his cabinet secretary and some officials embezzle the money and calling out the army to suppress any Sioux response and to enforce his 100% legit treaty.
That’s the kind of leader I want to emulate. Obama, too!
From the July 29th 2011 “Workers World”
In the emails of OWS was the hint.
I’m kind of pacing myself as far as getting all that interested in the protest muppets. I marched with them in chicago there were several dozen of them muppeting about and I walked right up to the black guy with the bullhorn and marched and we chanted “fight fight fight housing is a human right” for like two blocks but I was on my way back to nordies cause they had given me v-neck undershirts and I needed crew and my muppet friends were heading towards grant park I think.
And so we parted ways. They were scary stupid, but these ones reeked of harmlessness.
The only other story I have is like maybe 10 days ago or so NG asked me hey what’s up with all these protests? I said mostly they’re just unemployed losers who want us to pay off their student loans I think. Then we found that 99% tumblr site and giggled all afternoon. But the next day we’d forgotten about it.
But it keeps coming up mostly cause NPR and other obamawhore media keep saying that the movement continues to grow… the movement is gaining strength attention and money … the movement has become impossible to ignore blah blah blah.
But it needs a second act already i’m bored.
“But it needs a second act already i’m bored.”
time for the hermanator to show up and sing about “imagining pizza you can do it if you try”
Fuck McGovernment !
Up against the wall Ronald McBama !!
*thwwwwwp*
*pwaaaaah*
…
Supersize me !!!
I’d sure like to see links to support these.
l’ésupersize c’est moi
How’s Lincoln responsible for the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux, or Fort Laramie, both signed in 1851? How is Lincoln responsible for Congress failing to appropriate the funds to buy the foodstuffs or pay the annuities owed to the Eastern Dakota according to the terms of the Traverse des Sioux Treaty? How’s Lincoln responsible for the custom of paying those annuities to Indian Agents and traders who had previously sold their goods on credit?* And most especially, how is Lincoln responsible for four angry (and likely drunk) young men goading each other into murder in order to prove to themselves what brave warriors they were?
*n.b. this is not to deny that Agents and Traders dealt dishonestly with the Santee Sioux.
ella, as others have noted I’m not sure you have all your facts straight, but I think you missed my point entirely and went off an a bizzare tangent about other supposed issues that Honest Abe may (or may not) have had.
The issue which divided the country in 1860 was much bigger than Lincoln and if anything he went out of his way to try and lessen the problem rather than to exacerbate it. We now have a sitting president (note – not a candidate) who is going out of his way to divide the country and foment class warfare in a way we’ve never seen before. I find this asotunding and extremely troublesome.