I have now seen countless posts coming across my feed reader from various conservatives on the web who are expressing wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Obama victory. This is part of what is wrong with modern conservatism: it has invested itself almost exclusively in politics and forgotten about the culture.
We will know that conservatism has righted itself when its adherents don't go into a funk when they lose one election.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
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I've actually thought that most conservatives have been rather subdued about the victory of a dangerously naive, leftist community organizer. Probably because the smart ones saw it coming from miles away.
ReplyDeleteBlack Man Given Nation's Worst Job
ReplyDeleteNovember 5, 2008 | Issue 44•45
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations
jah
Look how he cleaned up Chicago. Great schools, no crime, clean government. Things are going to be just swell, by golly.
ReplyDeleteAnon - Then what are you doing to change the situation?
ReplyDeletejah