Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:40:07 PM
Democratic frontrunner (by a nose) Sen. Barack Obama said in a debate that the greatest mistake he's made as a senator was his vote to allow Terri Schiavo's family to continue their efforts to save her life. This is staggering. Of all of the votes he's cast (and to me, the vote to select Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader would seem a five-alarm blunder), THIS is the one he regrets? This is of a piece with his stance on life issues generally (he opposes partial-birth abortion bans, and even born-alive infant protection laws -- after all, he's already safely born), but still appalling in what it says about his soul. I fully intend on supporting the Terri Schindler Sciavo Foundation when next I can give to charity, and I will inform Obama with a note like the following:
Dear Senator,
I read with interest of your statement that the one vote you've cast in the Senate that you regret was the vote to allow Terri Schiavo's family to continue to attempt via the legal system to keep her alive. A donation in your "honor" has been made to the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, the money to be used to preserve the lives of others who find themselves in the position that poor Terri was in.
May our country be spared from the horror and embarrassment of having a moral cretin like yourself occupying the Oval Office. One Bill Clinton was enough!
Every once in a while I find myself wishing that President Bush was at the liberty to speak bluntly to those on whom subtlety is wasted. The United Nations is preparing (at great expense, naturally) for Durban II, which promises to be much the same as Durban I, the infamous "human rights" conference most notable for the fact that the conferees seemed to only be able to detect racism and human-rights violations in Israel and in the United States. Presumably the UN has been attempting to get the US to pony up billions of taxpayer dollars to support another round of Israel bashing, with a heaping helping of anti-Americanism as a bonus. I would love to see President Bush reply by publicly announcing that he is gratified that they thought of him, and that the next time he wishes to sponsor a Nazi festival, he will let them know.
I am getting a little discouraged with our public conservatives again. At a time when the economy is sluggish, job losses are rising, and high oil costs are a large part of the problem, why are so many of our "best and brightest" talking up liberal talking points like "flex-fuel vehicles", "alternative biofuels", and so forth? There is a simpler solution. They knew it a few years ago, but they seem to have forgotten, so let me shout it out:
Drill in ANWR!
They know that the drilling can be done environmentally safely. They know that only a small part of the most desolate area of that howling wilderness would be used, and that only during the worst part of the year, when even the native wildlife high-tails it for less inhospitable climes. This is the time to push the lying environmentalist watermelons (green on the outside, red on the in) out of the way and do what's best for the country. Just because the Democrats roll over for these idiots doesn't mean we have to!
Some very generous people have told me that they think I'm a genius. I am nothing of the kind. I'm just a man who has read a lot, pondered a bit, and retained a fair slice of what I've read. That is not genius. At any rate, I think many if not most people haves flashes of genius. The late William F. Buckley was a full-time genius. We will miss him.
I've read that Senators Russell Feingold and Harry Reid have introduced still more bills to force withdrawal and defeat in Iraq. (A very good article on this may be found
here. ) Sometimes I think of President Bush as Kid Gleason, the manager of the 1919 White Sox, better known to history as the "Black Sox". The President is doing his best to strategize his (and our) way to victory, and several key players on our team our doing their damnedest (sp?) to throw the series (and the war on terror is a series -- a long one).
I'll develop this thought soon, if I remember to...