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Posted by Erik Rupard on April 14th, 2008
Long day here on the ranch, and I didn’t get back to my plastic PlaySkool house until after 9, so all you get from me tonight is some inane political ranting. Here goes:
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Barack & Hillary
- Play fair. Unless you are behind in the race, or are, by virtue of your last name, entitled to the Presidency, no questions asked. Then, play mean. [Hillary---by the way, notice how she never uses the name "Rodham" any more?]
- If you and I hear paranoid, angry, anti-American racism in the words of certain church-goers on the south side of Chicago, it is NOT because the speakers are racist anti-American paranoiacs, but rather because we, the listeners, have “untrained ears.” [Barack]
- All crises occur at 3AM. [Hillary]
- The voters in Pennsylvania are (according to one talk) a singularly unhappy, insular, world-weary, dangerously-isolated, and crutch-toting idiots, and yet (from another talk) Obama completely agrees them on virtually every issue and will give them everything they want. [Barack]
- It takes a village to raise a child. The government is the village. You are the child. [Hillary]
- Free trade was pure goodness in 1993, but it is evil now. [Hillary] It is rather likely, however, to be good again after November. [Barack]
- John McCain is a conservative. [Both]
On a side note: “Dhimmy” Carter also had a lesson for us today: We DO negoiate with terrorists. In fact, we hug them and lay inscribed wreaths upon their graves .
“Let me further make it plain to the assassins in Beirut and their accomplices, wherever they may be, that America will never make concessions to terrorists — to do so would only invite more terrorism. Once we head down that path there would be no end to it, no end to the suffering of innocent people, no end to the bloody ransom all civilized nations must pay.”
–Ronald Reagan, June 18, 1985
April 15th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Wonderful editorial, today, Erik. If this doesn’t get our conservative blood running hot, nothing will. What I could say about Mr. Carter (I refuse to call him President) would be unmentionable, unremitting, unrelenting, uncontaminated and unambiguous. He is an unendorsed, unendurable, unenlightened and unethical seeker of redemption for his legacy of double-digit inflation and “misery index.” He was the worst president this country has had the misfortune of enduring. The electorate spoke quickly on his lack of leadership. The editorial in the WSJ, today cited some things he could do to make a positive difference. Will he do them? Does “snowball’s chance…” spring to mind? Maybe the next administration could give him an ambassadorship to say, Outer Elbonia. Perhaps that would make him homesick for Plaines.