This was pretty well done, I’d say. Love the part when Obama smiles; it’s so spot-on to the old series. H/T Instapundit, who also links to this thoughtful piece by Ed Morrissey.
And also to this. Enjoy.
Saturday, September 5, 2009, 6:57 PM
The_Anchoress
September 5th, 2009 | 10:03 pm | #1
Thanks for keeping things light!
September 6th, 2009 | 2:20 am | #2
[...] Instapundit via a must see at The Anchoress Written by Sue [...]
September 6th, 2009 | 8:22 am | #3
Those clips were delightfu!! I haven’t laughed like that in a long time. Thank you for the much needed humor.
September 6th, 2009 | 12:24 pm | #4
This was back when it wasn’t bad to be proud of our country. Too bad it’s changed so much, but also too bad for the anarchists that we still have people of our generation and our children and grandchildren who still love the country and have the same standards passed down through the generations.
My twelve year old granddaughter watches the news with me (I should say news channel) and told her Social Studies teacher something he didn’t know about current events. He looked it up and discovered she was right.
Why? She learned it from watching not the hard news shows but shows like Fox and Friends, Hannity or Greta. And the left mocks those shows but apparently they are telling the truth if the teacher googled it and found out it was right.
May God continue to bless the USA because He’s the Only One standing between a blessed country with freedom and the oligarchy Obama and his minions want to impose on us.
September 6th, 2009 | 3:11 pm | #5
Islam, misogyny and the limits of freedom (nice comment from me there).
Lots going on in the Anglosphere- don’t think much will be reaching your ears though.
September 6th, 2009 | 4:34 pm | #6
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September 6th, 2009 | 6:39 pm | #7
Most Democrats are plenty proud of this country, Jeanette, we just have the honesty to admit that we’re a country full of sinners like any other and have done our share of wrong. We aren’t servile dependents, either, thank you very much.
Real cute clip here with its patronizing tone and the sly little Obama- Hitler link at the end. Whatever is good, whatever is true, and also whatever makes your enemies look like fools, think on these things.
September 6th, 2009 | 7:55 pm | #8
11 Million people. 6 Million of them were Jews. A bunch of people were killed in the war to stop the national socialists, but the total killed in the camps was closer to 11 Million. Enemy combatants, Gypsies, Hungarians, homosexuals, Poles, “the feeble-minded”, and other subhumans. Some at Nordhausen (the camp liberated by my father and Laura Bush’s Father) was slave labor to build weapons systems. That is forbidden under the Geneva Convention, but shooting enemies who do not fight in their country’s uniform on sight is not. Go figure.
September 6th, 2009 | 9:10 pm | #9
Mr. Bobfan,
Me thinks your condescending tone hides a stony heart.
You may not have long to wait till you’ll be eating those words about not being a servile dependent. Meantime enjoy your lofty peak of misguided satisfaction.
September 6th, 2009 | 11:43 pm | #10
bebe, I respect and value and strive to understand more deeply both liberal and conservative political philosophies. As a Christian I can root them both in Scripture. But as a Christian I cannot understand sneering at people of an opposing philosophy for that philosopy as Christlike. I can understand the impulse to paint them in the worst possible light (Hitlerian, for example) only as a failure of love.
What you read as a condescending tone in this case is anger at being condescended to as a “minion.” Can you understand that? I’d love to hear your theory about why you think I have a stony heart. Too many people here take potshots and then disappear into the wordwork, afraid (apparently unable) to defend their opinions.
September 7th, 2009 | 3:26 pm | #11
Bobfan, I think you are off 180 degrees. I think it’s the conservatives that truly realize that people are irredeemable sinners. That’s why we trust in bedrock principles such as those found in the constitution, rather than placing our faith in the benevolence of those who govern. You know…nation of laws not men, and all that stuff. Liberals, apparently, believe in the perfectability of mankind, thus the never-ending efforts to re-engineer, re-educate, redefine, society. Never mind how it never works…how every murderous ideologue commits atrocities in the pursuit of perfection. This time….THIS TIME we’ll get it right and we’ll have our Shangri-la! Our heaven on earth! And lots starry-eyed little lefties will blindly follow. The ignorance and naivete of it is breathtaking.
How’s this for a plan for good government? Give me a level playing field, and then go away. The only people who are unhappy with that model are those that feel the need to impose their will on others.
There….that’s not so hard, is it?
September 7th, 2009 | 4:31 pm | #12
Darius64, those are very rough stereotypes you’re dealing in there. Not all conservatism (or liberalism) is principled, of course. Some is just expedient. And liberal Christians do not believe in the perfectablity of man, they believe in using the government to obey God’s command to care for the needy. As individuals, you’ll note, we aren’t getting the job done. And it’s the height of “ignorance and naivete,” or else just lazy rhetoric, to conflate Marxist atrocities with, say, the current attempt to reform health care system that is failing more and more people.
We also reject that argument that liberal principles somehow run afoul of the Constitution, or that conservatives (like Dick Cheney) care more about hewing to it than do liberals.
Your level playing field is a pipe dream. Some people will always have more advantages and some will have more disadvantages. I’ll ask you the same question Bender ducked: would you abolish the governmental safety net we already have? Are you going to be sure not to take more that your fair share, given what you’ve paid in taxes, of Medicare and Social Security? Do you reject socialist elements of American life just in word, or in deed?
September 8th, 2009 | 3:48 am | #13
Bobfan has really struck home there.
Firstly, conservatives love to talk about how they support equality of opportunity, not outcome. But equality of opportunity doesn’t exist, meritocracy doesn’t exist. There will always be great advantage to those with the right connections & nothing short of a totalitarian state could prevent that.
So I for one do not support pure equality of opportunity. But when a conservative says “Give me a level playing field, and then go away”- well, then, what’s YOUR well thought out plan for getting a level playing field given that there isn’t one now? I support more opportunity & somewhat less equality, not perfect equality, which no one actually supports in reality (conservatives even less than liberals, as much as they find it a useful rhetorical device against the Marxism that the voices in their head tell them moderately left of centre politicians want).
Again, there’s the fact that for all the howls against socialised medicine, the US government spends a fortune on health care. Do you really have the courage of your convictions to say something like this?
Now, that is internally consistent & logical, which the RNC line isn’t. I think it wouldn’t work because libertarianism would be a disaster in the reality-based community & is best left as a fantasy for idealistic students & very angry, frustrated people on blogs. (A bit like communism, eh?)
But it makes more sense, on its own terms, than railing against government involvement in health care when it already exists & costs a fortune to no great effect.
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