6-10-08

Rocco DiPippo: It is truly audacious of the Democrats to entice us with their slick-tongued messiah, one who appears out of nowhere and graciously offers to scrape clean and sanitize the same plate of defeat he, his party and their assistants in the media served to America for nearly eight years in the middle of a war. Soon we will see if a majority of the American electorate accepts that offer, or if it rejects it, sending the Democratic Party back to confront the same irrelevance it risked the safety and security of our nation to avoid.

Tim Blair (Aussie Blogger Extraordinaire!): THE history of left-wing politics is a history of unintended - and invariably negative - outcomes. Glorious workers’ revolutions lead to tyranny. Welfare causes misery. Government-funded tertiary education ends up subsidising the same proportion of private school and state school students as previously attended universities under full fees. Public broadcasting evolves into elite programming funded by people who never watch or listen to it. Decades of state film funding gives us films nobody pays to see. I could go on. Hey, I will:

Don Surber: June 4: “Senator Obama is pleased to have three talented and dedicated individuals managing this rigorous process.” Today: Who?

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