Sunday, May 31, 2009

Speak Softly and Carry a Big Teleprompter by Mark Steyn on National Review Online---North Korea


Speak Softly and Carry a Big Teleprompter by Mark Steyn on National Review Online

North Korea
Posted by Frank Smith at 31.5.09

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Mr. Steyn referring to electing a European socialist to lead the U.S. as the man-made disaster?

Obama's word is taken as such a ridiculous joke by foreign leaders, that he issued a stern warning against North Korea, and the very next day Kim Jong Il fired three more rockets and did a test of an underground nuclear explosion. Apparently Il was terrified of the repercussions of defying Obama's warning! This was clearly the test Joe Biden warned of, to see what Obama would do to punish him, and of course, nothing happened. It proved to the world it was just more empty rhetoric from the teleprompter.

It reminded me of the recent day when Obama was speaking against a nuclear North Korea while Il fired a missile right as the President was speaking. Apparently he has Kim Jong Il shaking in his boots with his let's "talk to our enemies no matter what" rhetoric!

There was a time when the President spoke and the world listened. I don't remember the words of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush being taken so lightly by foreign leaders, do you?

May 31, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...

During his campaign, Barack Obama often spoke of his desire to "remake" America, to be a "transformational" President.

Not "restore," mind you. Not "rebuild." "Remake" -- as in, turning America into something it wasn't before.

Transforming it.

And over the next few months, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress plan to deliver on that promise.

Under color of "solving" an economic crisis that their buddies helped create and their policies will only make worse, they are engineering the most radical change in the relationship between our government and its citizens in America's 233-year history.

This is not "change" as you and I want it.

And if they succeed, the country you and I know and love will no longer exist. Everything we conservatives have fought to defend and preserve will have been lost.

In its place will be a country we scarcely recognize. What will it look like? Let me give you a glimpse...

IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where a majority of citizens receive lavish government handouts and benefits but pay no federal income taxes, meanwhile voting themselves still more benefits from the shrinking minority who do pay taxes -- at ever more "progressive" rates

IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where "universal health care" means waiting months, even years, for urgently needed treatment -- unless you happen to be politically powerful or connected -- and where all your private medical information is on a government database (don't worry: they promise never to use it against you!)

IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where "green" ideologues and other nanny-staters dictate what we drive, what we eat, home energy usage, the size of our houses, and even how many children we can have

IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where our major industries, crippled by government mandates, taxes, and regulations, end up becoming taxpayer-supported dinosaurs that can no longer compete in the global marketplace

IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where all employers will be forced to hire and promote not according to ability but according to race, gender, and ethnicity -- all in the name of "diversity"

IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where our once-great centers of finance, industry, culture, and innovation -- from New York to Silicon Valley -- will have gone to seed, while only Washington, D.C., and its environs prosper

IT WILL BE AN AMERICA, in short, where only politicians, government bureaucrats, and their favored constituencies are able to thrive -- and where the only "liberty" that remains is the government's unlimited freedom to control every aspect of your life

I ask you now, my friend: Would you want to live in such an America? Would you want to bequeath such an America to your children and grandchildren?

May 31, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Anonymous said...

We are witnessing first first hand that our country is being transformed into a European Socialist country, much like France, with all the same failures that are inherent in such a communist society.

May 31, 2009 at 6:58 PM

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