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April 28, 2008
Some Things to Think About
David Frum a fellow at AEI, has put together a piece he entitles "The Axis of Evil: An Idiot's Guide", and it's well worth the read.
For so long the left has tried to spread FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - about our suspicions that enemies of the United States, regardless of their background, would come together and unite against their common foe.
We've learned now that Syria was nearing completion on a nuclear power plant when Israel bombed it to oblivion and they were building it with the aid of North Korea.
It's only the latest in a litany of deadly collaborations amongst our foes and despite it, the left still is willing to proffer up the tale that Shiite and Sunni can't get along so how could they get their act together and unite against America? With each incident it becomes harder to deny, but it's difficult to not worry that the damage is done. Hatred of President Bush and constant pummeling of our efforts in Iraq does a lot to confuse the mix and distract from the core of the problem which is in effect, the old adage: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and Shia and Sunni, Communist dictator and Muslim extremist can and DO join forces against America.
Michelle Obama's education has helped her have a very lucrative career, most notably as the Vice President for Community Affairs at University of Chicago Hospitals. Even she admits that her grades didn't warrant admission to the universities she attended, but she managed to get in anyway. How? Affirmative action.
The Wall Street Journal has a very enlightening piece about how the ABA pushes affirmative action standards on universities, and they are forced to comply lest they lose accreditation. This means that people like Michelle Obama, who otherwise wouldn't have received an Ivy League education, get to reap the benefits while students with better academic credentials but apparently not the right racial mix are denied.
What irks me about this is how ungrateful Michelle Obama is; she got a shot at an education at a university that has such cachet as to almost guarantee a lucrative career and yet she isn't proud of America and wrote her thesis whining about how she felt like an interloper, despite the amazing Gumby-worthy bending that went on to allow her to attend. She pulls in about $300,000 a year in salary and yet she goes around talking about how bad America is today, how its hard to juggle piano lessons and activities and how expensive (and inconvenient) it is to buy fresh fruit.
Not only is she out of touch with your average American, but she looks down on them (could you think of a more condescending discussion... fruit, for goodness sake?) and has disdain for the country that gave her a benefit and denied a worthier academic candidate in order to do it. It's amazing that her husband - equally out of touch, equally elitist - is still in the running. I never thought I'd see a candidate that made Hillary Clinton look good. God help us.
A closing tidbit; not surprisingly, China exercises the death penalty more than any other country in the world. Don't look for Amnesty International or similar organisations to focus their efforts there, however. I periodically get unsolicited mail from self styled 'human rights' organisations and their literature usually discusses American transgressions - they try to use Guantanamo as an example - and manages to side step the Congo and China. For goodness sake guys, whatever you do don't go toe to toe with the real bad guys in the world! Instead go after the soft targets, like guilt ridden Americans who only fear they are somehow grossly unfair instead of actually massacring on a large scale.
Posted by hanyap at April 28, 2008 4:53 PM