[Vision2020] Thomas Sowell — my soul brother

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If I were president, Thomas Sowell could have what ever cabinet post he wanrted.
Roger
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From: "No Weatherman" no.weatherman at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:25:02 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Thomas Sowell — my soul brother

> October 18, 2008
> Record vs. Rhetoric
> By Thomas Sowell
> 
> Apparently there is something about Sarah Palin that causes some
> people to think of her as either the best of candidates or the worst
> of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral
> hostility in the media.
> 
> The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience
> and the fact that she would be "a heartbeat away from the presidency"
> if Senator John McCain were elected. But Barack Obama has even less
> experience — none in an executive capacity — and his would itself be
> the heartbeat of the presidency if he were elected.
> 
> Sarah Palin's record is on the record, while whole years of Barack
> Obama's life are engulfed in fog, and he has had to explain away one
> after another of the astounding and vile people he has not merely
> "associated" with but has had political alliances with, and to whom he
> has directed the taxpayers' money and other money.
> 
> Sarah Palin has had executive experience — and the White House is the
> executive branch of government. We don't have to judge her by her
> rhetoric because she has a record.
> 
> We don't know what Barack Obama will actually do because he has
> actually done very little for which he was personally accountable.
> Even as a state legislator, he voted "present" innumerable times
> instead of taking a stand one way or the other on tough issues.
> 
> "Clean up the mess in Washington"? He was part of the mess in Chicago
> and lined up with the Daley machine against reformers.
> 
> He is also part of the mess in Washington, not only with numerous
> earmarks, but also as the Senate's second largest recipient of money
> from Fannie Mae, and someone whose campaign has this year sought the
> advice of disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, who was at
> the heart of the subprime crisis.
> 
> Why then the enthusiasm for Obama and the hostility to Sarah Palin in the media?
> 
> One reason of course is that Senator Obama is ideologically much
> closer to the views of the media than is Governor Palin. But there is
> more than that. There are other conservative politicians who do not
> evoke such anger, spite and hate.
> 
> Sarah Palin is the one real outsider among the four candidates for the
> presidency and vice-presidency on the Republican and Democratic
> tickets. Her whole career has been spent outside the Washington
> Beltway.
> 
> More than that, her whole life has been outside the realm familiar to
> the intelligentsia of the media. She didn't go to the big-name
> colleges and imbibe the heady atmosphere that leaves so many feeling
> that they are special folks. She doesn't talk the way they talk or
> think the way they think.
> 
> Worse yet, from the media's perspective, Sarah Palin does not seek
> their Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
> 
> Much is made of Senator Joe Biden's "experience." But Frederick the
> Great said that experience matters only when valid conclusions are
> drawn from it.
> 
> Senator Biden's "experience" has been a long history of being on the
> wrong side of issue after issue in foreign policy. He was one of those
> Senators who voted to pull the plug on financial aid to South Vietnam,
> which was still defending itself from Communist invaders after the
> pullout of American troops.
> 
> Biden opposed Ronald Reagan's military buildup that helped win the
> Cold War. He opposed the surge in Iraq last year.
> 
> Sarah Palin will not be ready to become President of the United States
> on the first day that she and John McCain take office. Nobody is.
> 
> But being Vice President is a job that can allow a lot of time for
> studying, and everything about Governor Palin's career says that she
> is a bright gal with her head on straight. The country needs that far
> more than it needs people with glib answers to media "gotcha"
> questions.
> 
> Whatever the shortcomings of John McCain and Sarah Palin, they are
> people whose values are the values of this nation, whose loyalty and
> dedication to this country's fundamental institutions are beyond
> question because they have not spent decades working with people who
> hate America. Nor are they people whose judgments have been proved
> wrong consistently during decades of Beltway "experience."
> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/record_vs_rhetoric.html
> 
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