tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post4525291541010799695..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Hosannas for Obama by The New York TimesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-70265027512653362592008-10-30T11:42:00.000-04:002008-10-30T11:42:00.000-04:00Poor Eliot said: "Possibly Obama feels that the pr...Poor Eliot said: "Possibly Obama feels that the problem of the 21st century is still the color-line (for sure Reverend Wright does), and he wants to keep the issue of race before the eyes of the American people." <BR/><BR/>This is Obama's tactic, to keep the issue alive so that, for example, the reparations racketeers can come in and demand that blacks (and maybe Indians and Mexicanos and perhaps even the descendents of the Chinese laborers who worked as railroad laborers in the mid-19th century) all be "reimbursed" for the sufferings of their remote ancestors. This was also Hitler's tactic, complaining about how the Jews stole Germany's wealth and well-being, and that it was time for a reckoning. He also included gypsies and any German who was physically or mentally incapacitated -- these latter were the first victims of later extermination projects. <BR/><BR/>In short, there is no other reason why he continues to raise the race issue. McCain, for all his short-comings, has refrained from bringing up the subject. <BR/><BR/>Elisheva: I, too, wish I could vote for Joe the Plumber. You cite McCain on his position on the courts, not being a libertarian, and endorsing the idea of government regulation of the economy. Yesterday the New York Post frontpaged Gov. Patterson referencing Ayn Rand and individual rights and responsibility, but in the same breath endorsing the idea of federal subsidies for failed industries. This is confusion at its highest level.<BR/><BR/>Ed ClineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-80220952580924158742008-10-30T09:01:00.000-04:002008-10-30T09:01:00.000-04:00Good post, but one thing: I think that it is reaso...Good post, but one thing: I think that it is reasonable to assume that Obama, when alluding to a "fundamental flaw" in the Constitution, is referencing the fact that slavery was permitted by it. That is at least my impression from the 28 second sound clip. If he is indeed talking about slavery, he is quite evidently not altogether wrong. Still, within the context of Obama's professed beliefs, one might conclude that he is echoing the early 20th century sentiments of DuBois from Souls of Black Folk: "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Incidentally, DuBois made his own prediction come true. Possibly Obama feels that the problem of the 21st century is still the color-line (for sure Reverend Wright does), and he wants to keep the issue of race before the eyes of the American people.Poor Eliothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03607182550385097108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-73118797810565775082008-10-29T19:39:00.000-04:002008-10-29T19:39:00.000-04:00Very nicely done. I am very glad you used the word...Very nicely done. <BR/><BR/>I am very glad you used the word Fascism, as we have already drifted onto those rocks with the nationalization of the mortgage industry and selected banks. That is the real "failed" policy of nearly every president since Woodrow Wilson, who admired it greatly. <BR/><BR/>As for McCain's stand on the Constitution, yesterday I heard him say that he would appoint justices who would interpret the constitution strictly, as it was written. He has also said that he is "not a libertarian" and that he sees a "role for government in the regulation of the economy." And he has said at various times that he is a Federalist. To me, he sounds more like a traditional Democrat than a Republican. Obama sounds terrifyingly like a demagogue and Marxist.<BR/><BR/>I think I am going to vote for Joe the Plumber.Elisheva Hannah Levinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16061377724926154037noreply@blogger.com