Anyone doubting that contemporary Progressivism is intellectually moribund should consider the credulous reaction of the Left to Barack Obama’s recent victory speech. Does one not have to be totally brain dead to take the following seriously?
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal …
How could ”progressives” fail to ”laugh until their ribs squeaked,” as George Will phrases it, when Obama threw in the bit about the oceans? There is only one plausible explanation—-they no longer possess the capacity for critical thinking.
This goes a long way toward explaining why these people favor so many bad ideas relating to health care reform and strongly suggests that it would be a monumental blunder to trust them (or their candidate) with any important matter of domestic or foreign policy.
So, we should definitely not allow “progressives” to meddle with health care. Come to think of it, it might be a good idea to keep them away from sharp implements as well.
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“this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”
A wee bit of an egocentrist there, eh? In all seriousness, I think your average depressed 17-year-old with a blog could compose more stirring words than that.
In terms of sheer oratory genius, we’re never, ever going to get another Lincoln, are we?
Posted 09 Jun 2008 at 9:31 am ¶The key to “good jobs” is going to college, or, at the very least, a trade school. Depending on the kind of “good job” you have, a strong economy is also a must so people can buy your service, and Democrats try to make the economy “good” by taxing the Hell out of everyone such that they can’t buy the service that the new trade school graduate is offering.
*sigh*
Posted 09 Jun 2008 at 1:33 pm ¶Obama has an annoying way of using overblown, preacher-like oratory. One can’t be sure of how seriously he should be taken. Still, the man makes me very nervous.
Posted 09 Jun 2008 at 2:00 pm ¶In the words of your mentor Dick Cheney ” So What!”
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