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To: LindyBill who wrote (328472)10/10/2009 1:12:31 PM
From: gamesmistress  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793670
 
Does TB post under a pseudonym on PfP's mirror image thread? He sounds just like someone I know. :-/



To: LindyBill who wrote (328472)10/10/2009 2:00:06 PM
From: skinowski1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793670
 
With all respect to Mr. B., CK's essay is not just words... it's very powerful political thinking. It could serve as a ready made platform for a political movement - would not be surprised if it will. Excellent insights and ideas.

I looked up the article by Joffe, which was mentioned by Krauthammer. Interesting. Will need to get back to it and get the complete text.

foreignaffairs.com



To: LindyBill who wrote (328472)10/10/2009 2:53:06 PM
From: KLP7 Recommendations  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 793670
 
Wantabe Elitist TB wouldn't like this either: Liberal Fawning For World Acceptance Is Pathetic

Published by AJStrata under All General Discussions
October 10, 2009

strata-sphere.com

The Nobel Peace Prize committee may have just screwed up in reverse – big time.

America has a unique history in the world. It is made up of people who fled tyranny and oppression from cruel, bored and (let’s face it) not so bright elites. The past time of the ‘not so bright’ elite is to pretend to be omnipotent and experiment with humanity into becoming better. Or at least their warped cruel, bored and no so bright version of ‘better’. It is this addiction to tell others what and how to do things that forced the best, brightest and bravest to carve out a new nation in America. We are the anti-elitist nation that broke the hold of elitist on humanity.

We Americans created democracy of the people, by the people. We threw off the bored and oppressive elites and made our own decisions. We stuck up for each other, fighting off threats and attacks, never to be used as pawns and cannon fodder for cruel social experiments on who had the better vision of ‘better’. The rest of the world has a history of human cruelty that should embarrass them to their core, but being elites they just lift their noses up higher into the air.

It is our independence of the individual that irks the world – especially the Europeans. I have worked with them on many occasions and over many years, and they cannot stand our informal, classless work environment. They still cling to the skirts of the elite leadership concept, running in awe of famous, names, ivy league schools, years spent floating to the top of the pile. They fear decisions, the fear competition, the fear having to act beyond the words. They fear someone standing up and challenging their safe dogma. They cannot abide ingenuity and spirit and drive.

I love Europe and Europeans, but I would not trade places with them. I also love my independence, the fact I don’t have to bow down to some bored, insecure know-it-all with a famous name, who went to a famous school and who landed a high level job in Daddy’s family business. I, the son of a teacher and engineer, the grandson of a both a farmer and a US Congressmen, can challenge anyone to a debate any ideas, I can challenge them on what are guiding morals and I can challenge them in the free market of competition.

This is what irks the world about America, and what irked them about George W Bush and his drive to protect America from evil, an evil that was fostered out of international inaction. They wanted him to spend time bowing and scraping to their elite credentials. They had no interest in having to back up their lofty words of ‘concern’.

After a time Bush tired of the game and gathered those who did understand and did have the will to do something. He went around the bored and insecure elites. An note how those that joined our effort are also countries that emerged from oppression, like Poland and Australia. The UK is our ally since the days we stopped Nazi oppression from destroying their island nation. They knew 9-11 was not just another bad news day, it was a fight for survival.

Those who will fight for their people and their gifts from above understand America. The rest, who prefer the people bow down in deference to their bored and cruel elitist cannot stand America. We give their sheeple too many bad ideas about self determination.

al Qaeda fears us, the Taliban fear us. They hide in crappy little dust holes and try and sneak out an attack here and there. All through the Iraq war they were frightened to face us straight on. Those who react negatively to us do so for horrible reasons. And yet some would do anything for their acceptance.

Everyone knows we have taken our approach to life and become indomitable. That is not the same as being arrogant, we are just incredibly safe because of what we have created when we broke from oppression of the elites. But when your an insecure elite who wants to play God the distinction is unimportant. We are arrogant because we threaten the elites and their perfect little world where they live on top of all others. Too ‘effing bad.

The day has come, thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and some liberal snobs at the State Department, when America has learned that President George W Bush, the man with the megaphone who brought justice to our enemies and protected us from attack, is not an arrogant or misguided fool.
He is the victim of a smear campaign, aimed at him because of his unique American traits we all hold dear:

In a clear dig at former President George W. Bush, a State Department spokesman compared President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize to the flying footwear his predecessor faced in Iraq.
“From our standpoint, you know, we think that this gives us a sense of momentum … when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters on Friday.

World acceptance is a two way street. We admire much about the peoples of this world. We are intrigued by their cultures, willing to try and learn the strengths and powers they may have discovered.

But this respect for the world is not the same as a feeling of awe, or subservience or of being lesser. Respect is mutual. So when bored, cruel and not so bright elites (here and abroad) start attacking one of ours for nothing more than being American and protecting Americans, we tend to rally behind our own.

If this idiot in the State Department can only see shoes and accolades after all we went through since 9-11 he deserves the boot. Bored, cruel and not so bright. Might work in Europe, not here.

And the Nobel Prize Committee has made it clear it has been meddling in US politics. It has given its ‘peace’ prize to wannabes and dictators who enlist children to blow up human beings (ironically, with Nobel’s own invention). Gore and Obama and Arafat have done nothing for the peace of the world.

Yet those who freed millions from oppression (Ronald Regan and the Iron Curtain, George HW Bush and Kuwait, George W Bush with Afghanistan and Iraq) and the fear of 3rd world nuclear war (anyone remember that Bush exposed the AQ Khan weapons ring and scared Libya into closing up its weapons program) are actually opposed by these bored elitists with their childish liberal views of reality.

I suspect that President Obama is going to see another big drop in support, as America realizes Obama is an empty suit. They will also accept the fact he is supported by anti-American forces who cannot stand who THEY are.

This could be the time when it becomes obvious Obama is not here for the voters who elected him, he is here to change America because he is a liberal who is fawning for world acceptance. He is here for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and the EU elites. That is why they gave him the prize for nothing, that is why our naive young president accepted the price for nothing. That is why the prize is all about nothing (and should be boycotted by the US from here on out).

President Obama’s priority is clearly to whip the country into something the out dated world – with their bored, cruel and not so bright elites – feel more comfortable with. And everything he has pretended to do has been to gain these fools accolades.

I’ll take the shoes of al Qaeda’s naive allies any day.



To: LindyBill who wrote (328472)10/11/2009 2:02:00 AM
From: KLP1 Recommendation  Respond to of 793670
 
Ahhhhhhh, the arrogance, the condescension….these folks can never even see, let alone admit, when they are wrong, can they? He's picked up the gauntlet, now he has to protect it, even if it's a centuries old, smelly rag of a policy….