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Wednesday on ExileStreet

  REYNOLDS  

Stunning: McCain Actually Won
by John Mark Reynolds [author, academic] 8/20/08

Sunday night at the Saddleback Civil Forum Obama was good, but seemed to be playing it safe while McCain, dear old John McCain, brought his A game.

I am stunned, because I did not know he even had a B game.

John McCain was better than Senator Obama. I actually liked John McCain, liked him, for the first time in this campaign.

I tried to be neutral and thought Obama had nice moments, but when pressed on issues he had nothing much to say. When asked, we discovered that Obama loves his mother and his wife. His biggest choices were, well, not very big. Wrestling with issues of war and peace from the Illinois State Legislature lacks the force of McCain telling of his standing up to Reagan (!) on Lebanon. [more]

Tuesday on ExileStreet

  FINEFROCK  

Sit, OTO, Sit:
That’s a Good JOOTH
by Steve Finefrock - Hollywood Forum [scriptwriter] 8/19/08

The One, he be: Barack is Obama The One, but predictions are already beginning that he may return to being just one of hundred Senators in a branch with 435 others in the south chamber of the U.S. Capitol.  And for that coming absurdist political drama, we must tighten our seatbelts. The absurdist branch of political theatre will be boosted, since that theatre began in 1896 with “UBU Roi” or “UBU Rex” – written by a disenchanted 15 year old seeking revenge against an authoritarian physics professor.


William Goldman declares that he writes his stories [film scripts and novels] primarily “for revenge” – and so with most writers, and most reformers. The political stage is filled with Carrie Nation activists, the nationalists seeking their group’s advantage with a sympathetic story of suffering that deserves reparations. Carrie suffered at the hands of three consecutive drunken husbands, so she blamed alcohol in general, not her own specific judgment in choosing men to share her life. So she took an ax handle to saloon inventory, until one day a saloon owner returned wood, being a woman herself and able to whack the whacker of all that booze. [more]

Monday on ExileStreet

  PRELUTSKY  
A Few More Reasons To Oppose Obama
by Burt Prelutsky [scriptwriter] 8/18/08

Because there is so much about Barack Obama that I find personally offensive -- things ranging from his friends and religious mentors to his obvious arrogance and his wife -- I have rarely brought up his politics.  Partly that’s because his support of leftist policies aren’t all that much different from Hillary Clinton’s or any other liberal in the U.S. Senate, and partly because I tend to think that when electing a president, who must not only serve as head of the executive branch of the federal government but as a living symbol of the country, character and values trumps his position on a handful of current issues.

But that’s not to suggest that issues don’t count.  That is particularly true when it comes to such matters as national security, the economy and how best to conduct the war on Islamic terrorism.

In the case of Sen. Obama, there is nothing to suggest that his platform in any way offsets his character deficiencies.  For one thing, in spite of history showing us that lowering taxes boosts the nation’s economy, which is only logical, Obama, like every other liberal, wants them raised.  Instead of dealing with that salient fact, he promotes class warfare by parroting the Left’s line that lowering taxes only helps the wealthy. [more]

Friday on ExileStreet

  REYNOLDS  

This Coming Election:
What do Evangelicals Want? (Part I)
by John Mark Reynolds [author, academic] 8/15/08

It was comical and sad when a great thinker could ask, “What do women want?” as if women were a mysterious minority as opposed to over half the human race. In some ways it is also amusing and more than a little depressing that Evangelicals are treated as a mystery when there are so many of them.

In all probability around one in three of your co-workers or friends is an Evangelical Christian. Abraham Lincoln was elected partially through an overt appeal to Evangelical votes, so Evangelicals are not new to American electoral politics or to the Republican Party. William Jennings Bryan, an Evangelical using Biblical arguments, thundered across America three times as a progressive Democrat candidate for President, so Evangelicals are not new to Democrat Party politics either. [more]

Thursday on ExileStreet

  REYNOLDS  

The Conflict in Georgia:
Five Questions We Should Be Asking
by John Mark Reynolds [author, academic] 8/14/08

 

Russian desires in Georgia are no riddle.

There is no question that Putin desires to restore Russian hegemony over those parts of the old Russian Empire and the Soviet Union where demographics and geography makes this possible. Georgia is one such place. While Georgia is a friend of the United States and is (on the whole) more free than Russia, it cannot defend itself against a concerted Russian attack. Geographically it is a hard place for America to help.

If Russia wants Georgia, then the bear will get her, but we don’t have to be happy about it.

Our response to Georgia must be more nineteenth century, than twentieth. Russia is trying to revive the “great game” amongst the powers in one the few regions where she can still play it. The clever British and French nineteenth century strategy of condemnation, arming her foes, and coaxing her to better behavior through flattery of elements of the aristocracy that aped British and French manners is a good strategy for us to follow. [more]

Wednesday on ExileStreet

  FINEFROCK  

Camelot, Lancelot,
Barack-alot, Spamalot
by Steve Finefrock - Hollywood Forum [scriptwriter] 8/13/08

What do the simple folk do, asked Guinevere of her King Arthur. In the delightful song, they concluded in the last verse that simple folk spend their time wondering what royal folk do. Just one of many lively songs in a tragic musical that became the calling card of the tragic JFK meme contrived by the left upon his assassination. Now, we have a Neue Camelot? Is Barack Hussein Obama akin to John Fitzgerald Kennedy? One middle name hints at a Muslim-minded father’s ambition for his son, another at an Irish schemer’s hope for at least one son to benefit from in-laws with Bostonian political gifts. [more]

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