Bookworm Room "Three of my favorite writers had a few last words on the debate.
1. "To begin with, Ace looks at the desperate and foolish excuses Obama’s fans are offering to explain his performance. (Just as an FYI, I heard two from people I actually know. The first assured me that it was the altitude that got to Obama; and the second said it was clear that there was some secret governing crisis that weighed heavily upon him.)
PHOTOS OF OBAMA AT OCCIDENTAL
Obama’s friend, fellow-organizer and wealthy Pakistani, Hasan Chandoo (Photo, right).
In 1981 Barack Obama visited Pakistan stayed with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, who are the Chandoo Brothers?
2. Jonah Goldberg: The Undoing of Storybook Man; Obama’s weaknesses are exposed when he encounters a determined opponent.
"I knew Barack Obama was miserable when he tried to give debate moderator Jim Lehrer the Puss in Boots eyes. “You may want to move on to another topic,” Obama implored Lehrer, a bit like a motorcycle thief begging a cop to take him into custody rather than let him stay with the surly biker gang that caught him."
3. Mark Steyn: Sesame Nation; Big Bird should leave the government nest.
..."Or as J. Scott Gration, the president’s special envoy to Sudan, said in 2009, in the most explicit Sesamization of American foreign policy: “We’ve got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes . . . ” The butchers of Darfur aren’t blood-drenched machete-wielding genocidal killers but just Cookie Monsters whom we haven’t given enough cookies. I’m not saying there’s a direct line between Bert & Ernie and Barack & Hillary . . . well, actually I am.
"If Americans can’t muster the will to make Big Bird leave the government nest, they certainly will never reform Medicare." (Emphasis added)
1. "To begin with, Ace looks at the desperate and foolish excuses Obama’s fans are offering to explain his performance. (Just as an FYI, I heard two from people I actually know. The first assured me that it was the altitude that got to Obama; and the second said it was clear that there was some secret governing crisis that weighed heavily upon him.)
From the New Yorker; OBAMA’S OLD FRIENDS REACT TO THE DEBATEHere are the Top Ten reasons Obama lost the debate, per Obama’s friends, as sympathetically reported by The New Yorker: Read more...
PHOTOS OF OBAMA AT OCCIDENTAL
Obama’s friend, fellow-organizer and wealthy Pakistani, Hasan Chandoo (Photo, right).
In 1981 Barack Obama visited Pakistan stayed with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, who are the Chandoo Brothers?
2. Jonah Goldberg: The Undoing of Storybook Man; Obama’s weaknesses are exposed when he encounters a determined opponent.
3. Mark Steyn: Sesame Nation; Big Bird should leave the government nest.
..."Or as J. Scott Gration, the president’s special envoy to Sudan, said in 2009, in the most explicit Sesamization of American foreign policy: “We’ve got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes . . . ” The butchers of Darfur aren’t blood-drenched machete-wielding genocidal killers but just Cookie Monsters whom we haven’t given enough cookies. I’m not saying there’s a direct line between Bert & Ernie and Barack & Hillary . . . well, actually I am.
"If Americans can’t muster the will to make Big Bird leave the government nest, they certainly will never reform Medicare." (Emphasis added)
1 comment:
J. Scott Gration was stationed in Izmir, Turkey and I knew his wife. She stated that her husband one day wanted to be POTUS!
IF he still wishes to do so, then God help the USA! His life after Izmir has NOT been an exemplary one and certainly NOT worthy of being a POTUS!!!
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