Thursday Morning Links
Has it been a slow week for anyone else?
* New Hampshire government ranked last overall in performance. There’s a shocker. The government was doing well in 2005 overall - above average in most categories. Democrat John Lynch gets into office, we suddenly see a $150m deficit and further infringements on basic freedoms. Go figure. John Lynch’s New Hampshire certainly isn’t the one that attracted me up here.
* More on the Obama/NAFTA flap. Canada is upset because they feel, even as they confirm all the details, that it’s “unfair to Obama.” Uh, no one forced his campaign to tell you he was lying to the American public, folks. Meanwhile, CBS decides to be semi-responsible for once and asks whether there’s “buyer’s remorse” surrounding Obama at this stage. I think that’s a good word for it. Both links from William Katz’s Urgent Agenda, quickly becoming my favorite political blog.
* Apparently, some people were angry that I had anything to say about Michelle Obama. Well, there’s a problem with that: I’m not sure she’s actually aware of what’s going on in the United States. Michelle Obama’s America is a Reel Big Fish song - “Everything Sucks.” It’s not realistic - magnet schools aren’t the problem, and we’re not all mean, we’re just mean to people like you who don’t get it. I don’t expect her to poop rainbows, but at least be realistic.
* Victor Davis Hansen on “The Party of Anecdote”. Another National Review Corner publishing from John Derbyshire really resonated with me, and fits in well with this link: “Clinton, Obama, McCain, zzzzz. Where is our candidate — the candidate for those of us who don’t want our kids to live in a U.S.A. with a billion people? Those of us who don’t believe that a rabble of religious fanatics represent an existential threat to Western Civilization? Those of us who think that sitting round a campfire clapping hands and chanting ‘Yes we can!’ is not an adult activity? Where is our candidate, huh?”
* I’ll say it again - Democrats who are complaining about our international image have no business voting for a Democrat this year.
* Finally, The Washington Post considers Obama mainstream regarding foreign policy. Does this sound mainstream to you?