Mark Stein, writing for the Orange County Register, talks about President (Barely) Present, and how others seem to be finally waking to the fact that Barry is asleep at the switch . . .
"It can seem that at the heart of Barack Obama's foreign policy is no heart at all," wrote Richard Cohen in The Washington Post last week. "For instance, it's not clear that Obama is appalled by China's appalling human-rights record. He seems hardly stirred about continued repression in Russia.
The president seems to stand foursquare for nothing much.
"This, of course, is the Obama enigma: Who is this guy? What are his core beliefs?"
Gee, if only your newspaper had thought to ask those fascinating questions oh, say, a month before the Iowa caucuses."
Mark Steyn has a way of cutting to the chase. I wonder how long it will be before the Obama Justice Department will find some charge to bring against Steyn.
ReplyDeleteI doubt they ever will. People like Steyn are too useful to get rid of. They allow for the pointing and claims of victimization, which are far more effective than putting someone in prison or silencing them some other way.
ReplyDeleteWe've trained our kids to always root for the "underdog", right or wrong. That if someone says something that makes us look or "feel" bad (true or not), THEY are wrong because people have a right not to be offended. And they don't need to look further into the situation, because it will just "feel" right to them.
So, someone like Steyn has a place because they can be pointed at with the remarks, "See? People don't want us to succeed! We can never succeed when people are always being mean like this! The reason we aren't succeeding is people like this!"
When in reality the reason for lack of success is that the idea was stupid in the first place. Which is, apparently, racist to point out.
See?