the clearer backward look
two posts by lew rockwell, separated by two years:
It’s All Over
Posted by Lew Rockwell on August 29, 2008 12:30 PM
I haven’t thought Obama had a chance for a long time, given Republican ability at swiftboating, but his abandonment of the pro-peace, pro-civil liberties portion of the Democratic base, indeed his open warmongering against Pakistan and Russia and refusal to criticize the Bush police state, clinched it. Biden?! Then there was the People’s Temple last night, followed by McCain’s brilliant pick for VP.
Sarah Palin is smart, articulate, attractive, pro-life, and pro-gun, and was even a Buchananite in 1996. Her political career has been based on fighting Republican corruption. Her ratings as Alaska governor are very high. She has a compelling life story, as they say. Her husband is one-quarter Yupik Eskimo. They have five children, including one with Down’s syndrome, whom they refused to abort. Palin will bring the whole Republican base home, and some Independent and Democratic women. Palin even blunts Hillary for 2012.
Obama: the weeping, worshipping masses last night were the highpoint of your life. Get a DVD to remind you. Meanwhile, the rest of us are stuck with the crazed Liebermanite who is also a very smart pol.
smart and articulate? she also had a “politically appealing style, background, family, and accent”. accent? c’mon, lew.
Is Sarah Running?
Posted by Lew Rockwell on September 13, 2010 07:48 AM
Of course, she is, as Ewen MacAskill’s excellent article in the Guardian shows. And what a deal for the regime: a candidate who seems to be an independent but is entirely in the establishment’s pocket, and whose patron is Bill Kristol. Bill, chief neocon since his father Irving’s death, is an advocate of the total state and total war. Sarah will be the means by which he enforces his imperial foreign agenda and domestic police state, and tricks the tax victims. And while the president tends to be just a political button on the lapel of the oligarchy, the White House does mean many billions for her followers and family.
there’s often intentional farce when discussing the goonited states emperor factory; taken into account, lew’s emperor contest predictions have still generally sucked. confidence of an insider though. an old DC man.
October 8th, 2011 at 17:26
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