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Old Dreams, Present Opportunities

By Ken Brociner

I have been doing a lot of soul searching as this momentous election has drawn closer. Of all the hopes and fears that have passed through my mind, one of the most powerful has been the sense that that the clock is winding down for my generation — the “‘60s generation.” By the time you reach late middle age, facing… return to article

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    Ken -

    It is 1330 CST as I write this.  The only election result I have seen was from Dixville Notch, NH, where Zero took sixteen votes and McCain took five votes, out of nineteen registered voters.

    Regardless, I want to make some comments on some of your absurd takes on the American condition.

    ... we can make the world a far better place than it is today.

    While the world needs to be a better place, your Marxist foolishness won’t help.  In the last century the number of democracies has increased from about twenty to well over one-hundred twenty.  Some were coerced principally by the USA (Germany, Japan, South Korea, Iraq), but most were inspired by the American example.  Marxism, despite its power in the Soviet Union, China, and East and Southeast Asia, has made each of these places “far worse”, not “far better”.

    ...the imminent election of Barack Obama ...

    In the next seven hours, it will become obvious that Zero has lost his ass in the 2008 election.

    Obama will finally begin the process of ending U.S. involvement in Iraq, while placing a much greater emphasis on multilateral diplomacy than the Bush administration ever did. 

    Every single USA Administration since Eisenhower has tried every conceivable option in “multilateral diplomacy” to solve the situation in Palestine, to negative results.  For a shorter period, the USA and the five partners have tried every conceivable option in North Korea, to negative results.  It would be far better to let Palestine and NorK collapse of their own corruption and inefficiency, like the Soviet Union did, rather than to prolong the misery of the Palestinian and North Korean people. 

    On the economic front, Obama seems quite serious about placing meaningful regulations on Wall Street in order to help get us out of the current mess as and prevent similar meltdowns in the future.

    Probably not, since the Democrats in general and Zero in particular created the current economic crisis, starting with President Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act 1997, which made it mandatory, by law, to issue mortgages to people who were unable to repay them.  Zero’s role in this was to teach ACORN activists how to pressure otherwise responsible bankers into issuing faulty mortgages, or be held in violation of the law.

    We could go on and on, but you get the gist.  The main point is Zero’s election, where you have counted your chickens before you killed the goose that laid the golden egg (rule-of-law, free market capitalism).  If Zero wins, I will apologize on this page for having gotten it wrong.  I think it would be a nice gesture on your part if you apologize when you are wrong, but I don’t expect you to do so. 

    In either event, I expect to meet you across the barricades.

    United States Posted by scorp on Nov 4, 2008 at 1:46 PM

    Ken -

    I got it wrong.  I regret having misread the election so badly, and apologize for doing so.

    I certainly agree that Obama’s election is a remarkable and positive cultural and social event.  I need not repeat my misgivings about his qualifications and ideology at this time, though these would seem to be more important considerations for this office.

    Congratulations to President Obama.

    United States Posted by scorp on Nov 5, 2008 at 10:49 PM
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