Sure miss Ronald Reagan

[Skarp]

obama went to harvard law and taught constitutional law and finished at the top of his class...mccain finished 894 outta 899...apples to oranges

I'll take last from the Naval Academy over first from HLS any day of the week. Ever spend any time at a top law school? No, you haven't, so let me explain what you don't know...a legal education provides you with precisely ZERO qualifications to lead or govern. You'll have to find those qualifications somewhere else on Barack's resume, if you can.

More generally, top students go on to become educators, bureaucrats, think-tank wonks and the like. Preferring ideas and a "life of the mind," they are rarely high-achievers. Conversely, leaders are the B and C students...the kids who could have gotten A's, but they were too busy partying with the cheerleaders, networking, investing their school loans in rental properties, etc. These are people who go out and take risks, fail, and take risks again...people who learn through actual experience how the real world works. They don't include constitutional law professors.

(And by the way, Barack has opined that Roe v. Wade was correctly decided. Have you ever read that decision? It's a joke. Probably the most poorly reasoned decision in the history of the Court. Many may like the outcome, but few actually claim with a straight face that the case was correctly decided. Constitutional scholar...pffff. )

A legal education teaches you how to parse, to fudge, to argue in the alternative, to equivocate, to speak out of both sides of your mouth. An elite legal education teaches you to do that with the best of them. Meanwhile, a military academy education is about imparting character, honesty, integrity, and real-world leadership skills. Apples to oranges is right.

[pixsguy]

894 out of 899...poor judgement per academy...

crashing three government planes...poor judgement per the navy...

keating five scandel...poor judgement per congress...

invading a country that had nothing to do with 9-11...poor judgement period...

time for someone who wasnt an average student with poor judgement...

[Skarp]

894 out of 899...poor judgement per academy...

crashing three government planes...poor judgement per the navy...

keating five scandel...poor judgement per congress...

invading a country that had nothing to do with 9-11...poor judgement period...

time for someone who wasnt an average student with poor judgement...

Well here's hoping you get what you deserve, and it's your money that your beloved Marxist "spreads around." Somehow I doubt it.

In any event, get ready for unprecedented capital flight. When you punish success, the successful go elsewhere. (The successful aren't stupid.) Whose money will you steal then?

[konan]

Here's a couple of video links some of you may enjoy. Comments and links copied from Hot Air blog "What we Can learn from Joe the Plummer Episode".
http://www.hotair.com

First Link:
UPDATE: Obama mocks Joe!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqis9mRcWl4

Second link:
Real men get angry. Love this video by Bob in defense of Joe called “First Socialism. Now Communism.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHrD36NE ... umber.html

[Skarp]

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/20/b ... o-test-us/

Keep talking Joe...God love you, keep talking.

[as the world turns]

Got a funny e-mail today, must share:

History 101

For those that don't know about history ... Here is a condensed version:

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today's lesson in world history:

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off.

And there you have it. Let your next action reveal your true self.

[Blind Squirrel]

Here is my next action:

Both sides are so full of sh*t and yet so conviced they are sooo right. The only difference between O'Reilly and Olberman and lame A$$ network sitcoms is the absence of a laugh track. Tell me something genius AsThe W.., if one side was always so right on the best way for this country to act in every conceivable situation, why has it not been obvious to all for oh the past few decades at least? Answer (since your past posts and those others on both sides who are possessed of infinitely greater certainty than powers of objective analysis): Because neither one side nor the other other has a monopoly on the proper way to address every damn problem this country faces. Get a freakin clue. How does a Republican President and Congress not result in prosperity ? Let the excuses spew forth. And after 4/8 years of a Democrat President and Congress, their excuses will spew forth as well.

You miss Reagan? Please answer this question: Do you think Reagan was right or wrong when, as Governor of CA, he increased taxes significantly (I believe it was the biggest increase in CA history up to that time).

What will your next action be?

John

[as the world turns]

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

[Blind Squirrel]

For your information, I would have voted for MCain in the previous two elections but Republicans chose Mr. Bush, twice, and now they are paying. I was even leaning toward McCain this year until he named Palin. I immediately eliminated him from consideration at that point because of his health and age and the judgement he showed in choosing her. Furthermore, my #1 choice for President for the past few years has been Colin Powell, who until today, I thought was a Republican. I don't know who my second choice would be. Democrat? Some of my views on national defense would make most Republicans cringe. I strongly believe we should be not just torturing the sh*t out of terrorists but we should be making Mossad-like attacks on their families. They behead an American? They get a stream of packages with the body parts of their loved ones until they get the picture. Democrat my A$$. Save your highly cerebral attacks for those in the same situation you're in, be they a fellow Republican or a Democrat.

Of course the Reagan question remains unanswered. Interesting that with all that you have posted, that words don't appear to come so easily when calling people names and posting links is insufficient and patently weak. Perhaps someone will help.

John

[Skarp]

Here is my next action:

Both sides are so full of sh*t and yet so conviced they are sooo right. The only difference between O'Reilly and Olberman and lame A$$ network sitcoms is the absence of a laugh track. Tell me something genius AsThe W.., if one side was always so right on the best way for this country to act in every conceivable situation, why has it not been obvious to all for oh the past few decades at least? Answer (since your past posts and those others on both sides who are possessed of infinitely greater certainty than powers of objective analysis): Because neither one side nor the other other has a monopoly on the proper way to address every damn problem this country faces. Get a freakin clue. How does a Republican President and Congress not result in prosperity ? Let the excuses spew forth. And after 4/8 years of a Democrat President and Congress, their excuses will spew forth as well.

You miss Reagan? Please answer this question: Do you think Reagan was right or wrong when, as Governor of CA, he increased taxes significantly (I believe it was the biggest increase in CA history up to that time).

What will your next action be?

John

No party can be right all of the time. Nor should they try to be...because most of the problems we face are not solvable by the government at all. Conservatives understand this. Reagan understood this.

The failing of liberals is precisely that they believe that every hardship, inconvenience, misfortune and mistake that we suffer can be solved through government intervention. That and their myopic inability to see or admit that their "solutions" invariably exacerbate the very problems they are supposedly trying to solve.

So in the liberal "war on poverty" declared by LBJ, our government for four decades subsidized the very behavior that causes poverty...and created a permanent underclass in the process.

Liberal economics: punish productive behavior and subsidize unproductive behavior. Force those who make good decisions to pay for the mistakes of those who don't.

Liberal foreign policy: be "nicer," and unilaterally reduce our military to prove our good intentions. In short, subsidize belligerence and expansionism on the part of every bad guy and competing power on the planet.

Liberal social policy: "tolerance" to the point of moral relativism. Except with respect to those who oppose liberal orthodoxy...burn them at the stake.

None of which is to say that the modern Republican party is conservative. It is far from it. But the Democratic party is irretrievably lost to the extreme left.

So why hasn't this, as you ask, "been obvious to all for oh the past few decades at least"? Because a great many people in our society want the government to solve their problems. They want to be able to blame someone else for their failures. And, in exchange for ever-expanding power, the politicians in both parties are more than happy to oblige them.