Wednesday, December 30, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Shelby Steele: Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem - The president always knew that his greatest appeal was not as a leader but as a cultural symbol. - '...America's primary race problem today is our new "sophistication" around racial matters. Political correctness is a compendium of sophistications in which we join ourselves to obvious falsehoods ("diversity") and refuse to see obvious realities (the irrelevance of diversity to minority development). I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there—all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism...'
Sol,
An opinion piece in today's Jpost by DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD, whoever he is
Washington Watch: Winners and losers for 2009
seems to display a singular stupidity besides trying to sidestep whatever else it is that detracts from the current administration.
About Joe Lieberman:
but that didn't inhibit the sanctimonious senator from sticking it to Obama and the Dems at every opportunity,
About Jstreet:
thanks in very large part to the hysterical attacks by its right-wing Jewish enemies who ..
So you're an hysterical right wing Jewish Enemy? Lucky he did not call you a Nazi.
If it was Paul Halsall he might have called you a Cossack :-)
(see News Media, Arab Honor-Shame, and Operation Cast Lead: The Failures of Cognitive Egocentrism )
Sol,
An opinion piece in today's Jpost by DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD, whoever he is
Washington Watch: Winners and losers for 2009
seems to display a singular stupidity besides trying to sidestep whatever else it is that detracts from the current administration.
About Joe Lieberman:
but that didn't inhibit the sanctimonious senator from sticking it to Obama and the Dems at every opportunity,
About Jstreet:
thanks in very large part to the hysterical attacks by its right-wing Jewish enemies who ..
So you're an hysterical right wing Jewish Enemy? Lucky he did not call you a Nazi.
If it was Paul Halsall he might have called you a Cossack :-)
(see News Media, Arab Honor-Shame, and Operation Cast Lead: The Failures of Cognitive Egocentrism )