Applied Indifference

Read this, then come back to me.

Mr. Williams expends a great number of pixels on theorizing about the impact of race on the coming presidential election.  He seems to believe that there’s some grand undercurrent of racial animus in the white electorate.

Then he slips this little sentence in, completely whiffing his intended point:

In 2004, John Kerry had a 46% favorable rating among white voters, barely better than Barack Obama’s. But Mr. Kerry lost. Mr. Obama needs to do better with whites. But the white voters’ view of him is still clearly unsettled.

This means one of two things to me.  Either John Kerry was black, or the majority of whites aren’t keen on Obama for the same reason they weren’t keen on Kerry - his liberalism.

Occam’s razor being what it is, I’m siding with the latter.

Because just like me, most white Americans have no problem with a black man in the oval office.  Just not this black man.

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Ok, so a comment here during a conversation about a stupid leftist art exhibit that everyone ignored got me to wondering the origin of the phrase “… that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”  So I went to my friendly neightborhood google, and typed “fascism is about to fall on america” and hit search.  One link to a comment on a blog where the quote is not attributed, and all the rest of the links on the first page to either truthers, Bush-bashers, or America-haters.  So I go to Ask, and type the same thing.  The fucking first link (which is a link to google, so it’s a sponsored link, that ISN’T MARKED AS SUCH) IS TO A FUCKING MOONBAT TRUTHER SITE.  But I DID (after adding “lands on europe”) a link to Volokh where he excerpts a Tom Wolfe book.

Turns out it was a French socialist writer named Jean-François Revel who said it.

But you’d have a hard time finding that out if you asked Google.

As an aside - I don’t know that the search results themselves reflect a bias on Google’s part, or a bias on the internet towards the interlinking of the moonbat, truther, and broader anti-American communities.  But the sponsored result?  Come on.

(hat time: Instapundit.  Who started this whole thing by linking Althouse.)

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Pay attention, moonbats.

Mugabe wins sixth term “overwhelmingly”

Read and learn.  That is what dictatorship looks like.  Not a flubbed count in a backwater state run by imbeciles.

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There’s no love lost between me and McCain.  I don’t like the man.  I don’t trust him.  But I don’t hate him.

But there’s something to be said about a man that generates so much rabid hatred.  The idiots on the moral-minority right hate him because he won’t genuflect before them and kiss the ring.  The leftists hate him because they are still running against Bush, and McCain is (in their view) just like him.

You already know how I feel about the moral-minority types.  Keep your laws off my pecker.  And keep your paws off my XBox.

But watching the seething moonbats react is just delicious.  Just a few short years ago, the leftoids LOVED McCain because of his penchant for poking conservatives in the eye.  In fact, that’s precisely the tendency that bothers me the most about him - he’s entirely too willing to go along with the left for the purpose of transcending partisanship.  But now, these same moonbats are threatening to leave the country if Obama isn’t coronated.

I hope this isn’t an empty promise like we’ve heard so many times before.

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With the temperature dropping so much in 2007, I’m figuring that it means we beat global warming, right?

So does Bush get the credit for that, or does he only get blamed for not enacting the socialist agenda of the Warmists?

Thought so.

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Scott Adams (Dilbert author and self-described lousy politician) asks if a strong economy is not a sufficient deterrent against aggressive states.

As with many things he posts, it is impossible to tell if he’s merely playing Devil’s Advocate here or being serious.  But I took the time to say something about it:

I think we (The U.S. and China) have nukes pointed at each other simply to say “we’ve got nukes pointed at you, so don’t start anything funny”.  Other than that, there’s no conceivable situation that ends up with the US and China shooting each other.  Like Y2K, there’s too much money to lose if the worst case comes to pass.

As far as an ROI on Iraq, it’s a very long term play, which is something that Americans are not very good at conceptualizing.  Most Americans don’t plan past dinner tonight, so looking out 20, 50, 100 years is pretty much not a consideration.

In all seriousness, the ROI argument when applied to WWII doesn’t look good until 20-30 years after the war ended.  But I think you’ll agree that things are much better in Europe and Asia as a result of our investment of blood and money to take down two vicious empires.

The long-term goal of the Iraq war is a good one.  Whether it is attainable is something that only time will tell.  But to write it off as an impossibility is to write off the future of a third of humanity.  I’m not entirely sure that’s what we want to do.

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Just heard on Rush that Newt is filming an Algore propaganda ad in which he will appear with Nancy Pelosi to warn all of us about the perils of Man Made Global Warming.

I had thought Newt went off the rails when he decided to work with Hillary! on reforming the “broken” health-care system in the United States.

But this just seals the deal.  Not only is he willing to entertain the idea that Government should be grown to provide medical care to all people, but he’s bought the hoax of anthropogenic global warming.

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George Bush uses evidence Iraqi WMD programs as justification for invasion.  No WMD found.  Therefore, George Bush Lied.

Hillary Clinton says she landed in Bosnia amid sniper fire.  No evidence of sniper fire found.  Hillary Clinton “mis-spoke”.

Nuance

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Looks like the Democrats are going to have to rethink their position on ’separation of church and state’.

First, we had the messianic treatment of Obama.  Now this:

“An act of betrayal,” said James Carville, an adviser to the Clintons.

“[Bill] Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” Carville said.

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If I vote for Hillary, I’m a racist. If I vote for Obama, I’m a sexist.

or

I can vote for John McCain and be both.

If I vote for the Republican, I’m a bad Democrat. If I vote for the Democrat, I’m a bad Republican.

or

I can vote for John McCain and be both.

John McCain. Because you shouldn’t have to choose.

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