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Vote Barack & Your Grandchildren Get Burka & Long Beard: Conservative Punditry At NRO

Submitted by Cape Republican... on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 00:44
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Thomas Sowell of National Review provides this nonsensical warning:

Perhaps people who are busy gushing over the Obama cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under sharia law.

Such statements might fire up the base, but don't conservatives realize that it makes virtually everyone else question both their fitness to govern and their sanity?

No, it's not the 'Obama is a secret Muslim' threat  to America Sowell is talking about, his idea is that Obama will lead to us to being conquered by Muslims.

The major problem with Sowell’s post is to claim the risk would be greater under Obama. The risk of terrorists getting nuclear weapons has only limited relationship to whoever is president and I wouldn’t use this as an issue to attack either party. If we were to drag partisan politics into this, the Democrats have a far better track record in understanding the issue than the Republicans, making his post especially absurd. It’s not a question of being hawkish. It is a matter of understanding the problem and responding in a rational manner. Actually in some ways the Democrats were more hawkish. It was the Democrats before 9/11 who were more hawkish in terms of taking action against terrorism while the Republicans opposed this. Republicans win the overall battle for being more hawkish under Bush. The problem is that they were hawkish in ways which were counterproductive.

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Submitted by NiñoN on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 04:24.

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Whoa! Take it easy dude! I agree that we are in the turmoil especially that we are experiencing economic recession. Of course, who will not be stressed? Thus our heads heats up fast. But we should know that being president (especially of the United States) is not an easy task! We are all bothered, I know. But take it easy men! Take a deep breath! We are pressured by this crisis but remember that we should not let it get to our nerves. The author, philosopher, historian, and mathematician Bertrand Russell once wrote an essay called In Praise of Idleness, and we often forget the simple pleasure of writing a poem or doing crosswords in the paper, or reading someone's memoirs, if it's interesting enough. (The recollections of a business software engineer wouldn't count – boring!). In modern life, we too often are caught up in work or whether or not to get an online payday loan, and forget to take time to do nothing.

 

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Submitted by tiffany and co on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 03:06.

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