[Vision2020] Thomas Sowell — my soul brother

[No Weatherman]

To quote a famous radio talk show host who is notoriously hated by
some in this forum because he allegedly tried to steal an election,
"Thomas Sowell is a national treasure." — G. Gordon Liddy.

Btw, where is the overwhelming condemnation of ACORN for their illegal
activities? Surely a nationwide organization guilty of sweeping
violations of election laws poses a greater threat to our democracy
than one lone Nixon advisor.


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:43 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> If I were president, Thomas Sowell could have what ever cabinet post he wanrted.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> 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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