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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (30036)5/27/2009 3:40:38 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The lesson of the gnomes

Betsy's Page

Bret Stephens has found the perfect metaphor for Obama's approach to all the tough questions he's facing.

<<< Sometimes it takes "South Park" to explain life's deeper mysteries. Like the logic of the Obama administration's policy proposals.

Consider the 1998 "Gnomes" episode -- possibly surpassing Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" as the classic defense of capitalism -- in which the children of South Park, Colo., get a lesson in how not to run an enterprise from mysterious little men who go about stealing undergarments from the unsuspecting and collecting them in a huge underground storehouse.

What's the big idea? The gnomes explain:

"Phase One: Collect underpants.

"Phase Two: ?

"Phase Three: Profit."

Lest you think there's a step missing here, that's the whole point. ("What about Phase Two?" asks one of the kids. "Well," answers a gnome, "Phase Three is profits!") This more or less sums up Mr. Obama's speech last week on Guantanamo, in which the president explained how he intended to dispose of the remaining detainees after both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly against bringing them to the U.S.

The president's plan can briefly be described as follows. Phase One: Order Guantanamo closed. Phase Two: ? Phase Three: Close Gitmo! >>>


Granted, President Bush did the same thing in his approach to North Korea and Iran. And look where that got us. Read more of Stephens' column to see how that is Obama's approach to the auto industries, health care, and more.

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