Obama and Revolutionary Romance

Victor Davis Hanson
 "His foreign-policy errors result not from incompetence but from a conscious agenda. "

 

"Lots of questions arise about the muddled foreign policy of the Obama administration. Critics suggest that America’s friends have now become enemies, and enemies friends. Others cite incompetence and naïveté rather than deliberate agendas as the cause of American decline, and of growing global chaos from Libya to Ukraine. 

 

"But, in fact, there is a predictable pattern to Obama’s foreign policy. The president has an adolescent, romantic view of professed revolutionary societies and anti-Western poseurs — and of his own ability uniquely to reach out and win them over. In the most superficial sense, Obama demonstrates his empathy for supposedly revolutionary figures of the non-Western world through gratuitous, often silly remarks about Christianity and Western colonial excesses, past and present. " . . .  Full article

Cultural silliness: Things You Can’t Wear to a Music Festival, According to Social Justice Internet

 

NRO  "Music-festival season is underway, and it’s important to make sure to dress appropriately — not just for the weather, but for cultural sensitivity as well. If you’re not sure what I mean, that’s okay! I spent some time on Social Justice Internet today finding some helpful tips so that you can understand what I mean and why it’s so important: 

 Aside from obvious no-nos like Native-American headdresses or Indian bindis, you also need to make sure that the patterns on your clothes aren’t offensive. That’s right — it’s not enough to simply make sure your shirt is clean and doesn’t have any insensitive or crude images on it, you actually also also need to research the pattern and make sure it couldn’t be interpreted as having been inspired by “tribal” or Aztec culture: 

“Even something . . . mainstream as ‘tribal” or Aztec prints are forms of cultural appropriation,” warns a post on the Source."  Katherine Timpf

DOONESBURY'S CREATOR TURNS TO VICTIM-BLAMING

Astute Bloggers
"Garry Trudeau, veteran cartoonist of Doonesbury, blames the late contributors of Charlie Hebdo for the horror they went through:

Less than four months after Islamic fanatics stormed the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and butchered 12, while accepting the George Polk career award Friday, left-wing cartoonist Garry Trudeau blasted the dead with the claim that they had “wandered into the realm of hate speech.” He also added that “free speech… becomes its own kind of fanaticism.”
Without irony, after punching 12 of his dead colleagues, the creator of “Doonesbury” said that a cartoonist’s job is to “punch up” not down.
What Trudeau fails or chooses not to understand is that rebellion is not hate speech. Charlie Hebdo was not gratuitously mocking Mohammed or Jesus Christ or the Pope. For the cause of free speech, Charlie Hebdo was pushing back against what it rightly saw as creeping fascism, especially Islamic fascism, in the most blatant and in-your-face way possible.

"Trudeau has really scraped the barrel's bottom this time. I used to read Doonesbury years ago, but largely lost interest around 1995, and after learning what a screwball Trudeau's become, it's harder and harder to get interested in his long-running strip again. He must wear an ear-covering helmet more impenetrable than B.D's football helmet. Making matters worse, one of the New York Times' leading staffers is defending Trudeau's journey off the deep end. His own comic strip's long lost any relevance thanks to his plummet. I think it's about time he retire it for good. It probably didn't even have much cultural value in the first place."

The Daily Caller is a bit more blunt: Garry Trudeau Craps On The Corpses Of Charlie Hebdo. . . " Normally, Trudeau’s tedious, hamfisted harangues run the gamut: conservatives, people who hold conservative views, Republicans, right-wingers, and anybody who isn’t a liberal. And now he’s branching out to attack a whole new set of targets: left-wing atheists who were butchered at their desks by religious zealots." . . .

150 years later: Remembering the Lincoln assassination

CNN

"On April 14, 1865, an actor and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington. The following morning, less than a week after the end of the Civil War, Lincoln would become the first American president killed in office.                                             "It was the crime of the 19th century. Booth fled the building and, along with co-conspirator David Herold, evaded the authorities for nearly two weeks. Booth was shot and killed during capture in Virginia on April 26."

 150 Years Later

 

Read Original Associated Press Report of Lincoln's Assassination  "On the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and even from the blood-stained box at Ford's Theatre, where, in his memoir he reports he was handed the assassin's gun and turned it over to authorities. Here is an edited version of his original AP dispatch:" . . .

Lincoln's Assassination story and links

Visit Ford's Theater, Then visit  the house where Lincoln died

Booth's escape route tour  Interactive map

Mad Magazine Pre-Apologizes UPDATED

 Althouse

. . . "By the way, Hillary's new logo really is terrible. If this were a design class, and the assignment were to make a logo for Hillary, I would think the teacher would get mad at a student who handed in that one. What, did you spend one minute on the assignment? You just did the most obvious thing, the letter H, the colors blue and read, and an arrow, the most cliché logo element possible?! An arrow to signify moving forward! That's what you came up with?" 

UPDATE: The internet reacts to Hillary’s campaign logo

"Could Hillvetica be the font that finally replaces Comic Sans as the worst font in all of fontdom?"

 

..."Hilarious and also the handy work of John Ekdahl of Ace of Spades fame:"

 

This from Josh Greenman:"New York Daily News opinion editor, editorial writer, human. What I write here is in my unofficial capacity as a human."

 

What does Hillary's Logo remind you of?

Gay Man In Hillary Clinton Video Worked At SEIU, OFA & White House

Polititainment
 "Hillary Clinton’s video was very slight on specifics and she appears in less than a quarter of the video.
"But what does appear is a bunch of people talking about proud they are of themselves and proud to vote for Hillary.
"Up first is Jared Milrad.  Seems legit enough at first.  Gay couple that doesn’t wanna be hassled by the man.
"Then you actually Google his name and find out that his career history is exactly what you’d expect."

 

5 Hillary Quotes That Foreshadow Disaster

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 Liberty Conservatives
"As a nation, if we only learned one thing while having Barack Obama as president for two terms, I hope that it’s to make sure, in the future, we properly vet our presidential candidates. We took a man that we knew very little about, with very little political experience and a questionable past, and we made him the most powerful man in the world based on the promise of “hope and change”. Now, as we approach the end of Obama’s presidency, we see a very real possibility of Hillary Clinton being the next Democrat candidate. While many might say that we know much more about Hillary, I would argue that we know what the MSM has pushed our way and not really the true “Hillary”. There are many quotes that the former first lady has said publicly over her last several decades in the public eye, but the following five I feel shed light on who this woman really is. She will lead us into an age of collectivism unlike any we have seen in the USA. She is the most “big government” politician the USA has seen and she will attempt to enact policies that make Obama look just “slightly left of center”." Excerpts:

1. “We must stop thinking about the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.” . . .

2. “There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don’t contribute to the growth of their countries.” . . .

3. “Europe is a miracle.” . . .

4. “It’s true that America can’t solve every problem, but I don’t know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.” . . .

5. “Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, ‘trickle-down economics.’ That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.” . . .  Full article   

Hat tip to Jeff Petermann