If you read one article on the Election...
| By PreparationG - Feb 1st, 2008 at 1:44 pm EST |
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Tags: baby boomers, black guys from kansas, clinton, gay conservatives, generation gap, generations, obama
...Read this one: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama. I'm sure many of you have already enjoyed this piece by Andrew Sullivan in the Atlantic, but of everything I've read about this much-talked-of contest, it's the best. It's about how one candidate has the ability to fundamentally disrupt the now petty arguments we've been having as a nation since...well, since around 1961--the year Obama was born, but just a few years before Hillary cut her teeth entrenching herself, very vocally, on one side of these arguments.
Perhaps it should not be expected that we have a President of the next generation already--we've only had 2 Baby Boomers, and before that we had no less than 5 elected members of the "Greatest Generation." But last night, Hillary said something that really stuck with me. One of her biggest applause lines was "It did take a Clinton to clean (up) after the first Bush, and I think it might take a second one to clean up after the second Bush." If you think about it, this endorses a terribly anti-progressive view of the future, a cyclical one actually. By Hillary's logic, after her presidency (which could extend until 2017), we'll be no further as a nation than we were in 1989, and still mired in the exhaustive debates of the Boomer generation that Sullivan details in his article.
You can also imagine the familiar cultural parameters of a dialogue between party nominees John McCain, who was tortured for 6 and a half years in Vietnam, and Hillary Clinton, the conflicted former protester and wife of a draft dodger.
Perhaps it should not be expected that we have a President of the next generation already--we've only had 2 Baby Boomers, and before that we had no less than 5 elected members of the "Greatest Generation." But last night, Hillary said something that really stuck with me. One of her biggest applause lines was "It did take a Clinton to clean (up) after the first Bush, and I think it might take a second one to clean up after the second Bush." If you think about it, this endorses a terribly anti-progressive view of the future, a cyclical one actually. By Hillary's logic, after her presidency (which could extend until 2017), we'll be no further as a nation than we were in 1989, and still mired in the exhaustive debates of the Boomer generation that Sullivan details in his article.
You can also imagine the familiar cultural parameters of a dialogue between party nominees John McCain, who was tortured for 6 and a half years in Vietnam, and Hillary Clinton, the conflicted former protester and wife of a draft dodger.
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You need to crawl back up out of the basement, crusty underpants and all, and face the real world. Obama is a creation of the Democrat party - he doesn't exist as a real candidate. There is nothing behind the mask. No experience. No history. No qualifications whatsoever to even think about being President.
Except... that he's black. And... he wants "change." Meaning: bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom, more regulation, national humiliation, more political correctness, even more heavy-handed indoctrination of our schoolchildren, income redistribution, expanded welfare/nanny state...
Liberalism is societal suicide. Proof: the US was attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11, and a leading sponsor of that terrorism was Saddam Hussein. We were forced to go to war against the monstrous Muslim dictator Hussein, whom we captured and killed.
Now, what do the liberals want to do more than anything else?
Elect a born-and-raised Muslim named Barack Hussein Obama. A main with nothing else to recommend him except that he plays to liberal's suicidal guilt and self-loathing, and desire to commit suicide for themselves and the Nation.
If you ever woke up and suddenly realized how desperately lame and deluded you were, you'd cut your own throat.
2ndly, Andrew Sullivan was a conservative commentator for the longest time until neoconservative politics, which are to the core undemocratic and unamerican, became the vogue for the GOP.