Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Sultan Knish: No Signs Of Intelligence


This recent post by Sultan Knish is a gem; sample:

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...Even if the American people manage to drive him out of the White House in 2012, he will leave behind an ugly mess to clean up. American prestige is at its lowest point in history. Our allies don't trust us. Our enemies are slapping us around. The United States was fortunate to have a Reagan to replace Carter, a strong leader who restored and burnished the nation's standing. The situation wouldn't have been salvaged nearly as well if Howard Baker or George H.W. Bush had won instead. A Republican who ran for the presidency in 2008 only had to carry on, but in 2012 he will have clean up duty. And there's no telling how much he will have to clean up. We will need a strong leader who can think on his or her feet, and has the courage to make a clean break with the last 4 years...
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10 comments:

  1. Pat H.February 15, 2011 at 5:17 AM

    Knish is wrong, historically near-sighted.

    The last decent president in the 20th Century was Calvin Coolidge.

    Ronald Reagan was the arsehole that held the door open for the Neocons, for that reason alone he's no better than mediocre. Burnished American's reputation, what balderdash.

    Bobo has mostly continued the Bush II catastrophe, kissing Israel's arse almost as often as Bush II, Clinton, and Bush I did.

    Really, folks, the putrid US government didn't begin with Obama, he's just the current "worst" of a long list of them.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM

    Correction:

    We need a leader who will undo at least the past 24 years.

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  3. Mark MatisFebruary 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM

    And of course, just WHAT are the jackasses-in-elephant-suits pushing as "Leadership" for 2012? The stench is overwhelming.

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  4. SeanFebruary 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM

    Remember what Nero did, burning Rome and blaming the Christians? Et tu, Obongo.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    What we will get, in all likelihood, is indeed a VERY STRONG LEADER. If history is any guide, we will end up with a brutal dictator once the traitors in the cesspool on the Potomac have finished their work. This did not start with Odrama, and it goes far deeper than him - for the past 2 generations we have been living off of the future of the NEXT several generations - it cannot be sustained, and it WILL FAIL. God help us all.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    The U.S. debt @ $65 trillion out strips the economic output of the entire planet!

    I don't like the current occupant of the White House (anymore than the last several) but he didn't bring all of this upon us. He is just one more smarmy bastard who thinks he is smart enough to kick the can down the road all the while mouthing that he is doing something to fix the problem.

    Eventually, this shit storm will hit everyone...and when it does, well, good fucking luck.

    KPN3%

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  7. Concerned AmericanFebruary 15, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    The Mighty Kenyan is the current POTUS and as such, he has the helm.

    A pre-1933 FedGov is an admirable goal.

    Today's folks (all but an electorally-insignificant few) stand in direct opposition to such a goal.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 6:26 PM

    I am constantly asked, by people who claim I am too negative or too cynical about the future: What is the solution?

    The best answer I can give is that there is no solution. The U.S. government will be forced at some point to default on the debt. I try to explain that there is no turning back, no "leader" who will make it right, no way to fix the problem. It is like jumping off a cliff. Halfway down you may realize that it was not a good idea but gravity is in control and you are about to go splat.

    KPN3%

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    “A Republican who ran for the presidency in 2008 only had to carry on,”


    If the author thinks we would be any better off “carrying on” with a Republican puppet as president rather than business as usual with the puppet that is playing the role of POTUS now................I need not read another word this PatriotActWarPartyer has to say.

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  10. Pat H.February 16, 2011 at 3:17 AM

    Pre-1929, CA, Hoover was a bad president, Roosevelt was merely Hoover on steroids. Coolidge was in office after the death of Warren Harding (who the Dems have thoroughly trashed), from August 1923 until March of 1929, a period of unprecedented prosperity because Coolidge was the most Constitutional (i.e. lawful) president in the 20th century.

    The problem is the Constitution does not control the worst of them at all, and never has.

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