Hope is great.
When one 'hits the field', it's passion to get the job done, meeting the
challenges
as they surely will come incessantly. At the end of day and the beginning of
the
next - push the hope button. People should enjoy the moment, but be vigilant
for
the shadowy and invisible rocks and barriers on the path.
Arhata
What's wrong with hope?
After eight years, nay, three decades of shuck and jive presidents,
along comes one who truly offers a different approach, and yet
naysayers are panicking and tarring our new guy with a broad brush
before he's even done with his first day in office.
What's wrong with hoping for a few days, a few weeks, a few months
that this guy can bootstrap us all into a higher intent?
All these years, and now we have these folks with buckets of cold
water to toss on our flames of passion. WTF?
If this were a foxhole, and someone started spewing this kind of
negativity, he'd be slapped upside the head, right?
Indulge in panic all you want out there, but I'm taking a few days off
from this and partying down.
Even if I'm wrong, I'll get a nice buzz out of the deal while those
cringing at the other side of the foxhole will be miserable during
that time. I ask you, who more profits?
Me sez me does.
Give the guy a break. All signs still point to him holding the reins
firmly, and he's going to kick the ass of anyone under him who doesn't
get his vision. I predict someone is going to get into it with Obama
and be tossed out in short order.
Edg
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embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the
disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening
days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief
by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic
effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all
right on the night. It will not be all right.
> We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when
a charismatic, young prime minister entered Downing Street, cheered by
children bussed in for the occasion waving plastic Union Jacks. A very
few of us at that time incurred searing reproaches for denouncing the
Great Charlatan (as I have always denominated Tony Blair) and
dissenting from the public hysteria. Three times a deluded Britain
elected that transparent fraud. Yesterday, when national bankruptcy
became a formal reality, we reaped the bitter harvest of the
Blair/Brown imposture.
> The burnt child, contrary to conventional wisdom, does not fear the
fire. After the Blair experience there is no excuse for anybody in
Britain falling for Obama. Yet today, in this country, even some of
those who remained sane during the emotional spasm of the Diana
aberration are pumping the air for Princess Barack. At a time of gross
economic and geopolitical instability throughout the Western world,
this is beyond irresponsibility.
> To anyone who kept his head, the string of Christmas cracker mottoes
booming through the public address system on Washington's National
Mall can only excite scepticism. It is crucial to recall the reality
that lies behind the rhetoric. Denouncing "those who seek to advance
their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents" comes ill
from a man whose flagship legislation, the Freedom of Choice Act, will
impose abortion, including partial-birth abortion, on every state in
the Union. It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a
slaughter of the innocents.
> Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan is like one of those
toxic packages traded by bankers: it camouflages many unaffordable
gifts to his client state. With a federal deficit already at $1.2
trillion, Obama wants to squander $825 billion (which will undoubtedly
mushroom to more than $1 trillion) on creating 600,000 more government
jobs and a further 459,000 in "green energy" (useless wind turbines
and other Heath-Robinson contraptions favoured by Beltway
environmentalists) .
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entire world economy could go into complete meltdown and famine kill
millions. Yet Western - and British - commentators are cocooned in a
warm comfort zone of infatuation with America's answer to Neil
Kinnock. We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue:
they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary
opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.
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the coming crisis. Whatever the solution, teenage swooning
sentimentality over a celebrity cult has no part in it. The most
powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis
under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has
virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an
opportunity but a catastrophe.
> These are frank, even ungracious, words: they have the one merit
that, unlike almost everything else written today about Obama, they
will not require to be eaten in the future.
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