October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 29
Page of the Day: Sippican Cottage
Let me tell you about the blade.... You think that you're smart. You think that you can put your hand near the blade, as long as you don't push your hand right in it. It doesn't work that way.... You have to avoid putting yourself in the position where your hand will be drawn into the blade and there's nothing you can do to stop it. There was no danger, really; you were maimed without danger announcing itself first. It was there all along in a way you'll never "get" until it's too late." - From Politics
- No Regrets: "Europe and America will meet such fates as they choose. However long they've lived in liberty; however ancient their constitutional guarantees, they can choose unfreedom in a moment. One day they may decide they have a right to choose dependency; to choose slavery. No regrets now. -Belmont Club They stand there like a stone
- World Is `Drowning in Oil' (Again)
- On that videotape the LA Times is holding because "it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” ninme observed, "It’s a strange source who, when he wants to keep a video from being released, gives it not to a bank vault or large magnet but to a national newspaper."
- Okay, here's the plan.... "Obama’s plan is to redeploy soldiers from one war to another without changing general troop levels in the region and without bringing anyone home. Or as he calls it “change."
- HillBuzz sez: John McCain will win Pennsylvania.
- Victor HansonThe pattern repeats: In 1996 Obama goes to court, challenges the petition signatures of mostly African-American voters, and gets all his rivals eliminated from the ballot and so de facto runs unopposed.
- Tsunami alert: "There is a silent, angry wave building that is fed up with the DC/NY Political Industrial Complex (which includes the dying liberal media, the elitist talking heads, the lobbyists and power brokers, the hyper-partisans and the politicians)." - The Strata-Sphere -McCain's Internal Polls Looking VERY Good
- Oddities of our age: It's odd that someone would vote against John McCain because the present value of their house declined. It's even more odd that voters pre-occupied with wealth accumulation would favor a candidate who promises to redistribute their money. -Power Line - Fools and their money
- Democrat Speechwriter Wendy Button So Long, Democrats "I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that."
- Undecided voters may already have decided, study suggests U.S. undecided voters, on average, reported feeling slightly warmer toward Obama than McCain, but they implicitly showed a slight preference for McCain over Obama.
- Who has ever advocated government "spreading the wealth" besides intellectual elites?
- The only problem with the Obama martini is that once you make it, the government takes most of it and gives it to others.
Posted by Vanderleun at October 28, 2008 5:35 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.