online.wsj.com - 10/30/2008
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The most basic explanation for why Barack Obama may win next Tuesday is that voters want economic deliverance. The standard fix for this in politics everywhere is to crowbar the old party out and patch in the other one. It is true as well that the historic nature of the nation's first ...
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It is with the utmost sincerity and genuine
goodwill that I wish to congratulate Barack Obama and...
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Daily Kos —
... would kill the Constitution. Fouad Ajami has apparently decided that there's no time for subtlety: America is a different land, for me exceptional in all the ways that matter. In recent days, those vast Obama crowds, though, have recalled for me the politics of charisma that wrecked Arab and Muslim societies. A leader does not have to say much, or be much. The crowd is left to its most powerful possession -- its imagination. Daniel Henninger trots out Joe the plumber and the tired warning of the coming tsunami of ...
The True Meaning of ‘Historic Vote’
Israpundit —
“I don’t agree with the argument that an Obama-Pelosi-Reid government is a one-off, that good old nonideological American pragmatism will temper their ambitions. Not true. With this election, the U.S. is at a philosophical tipping point.”
By Daniel Henninger, Wonderland, The Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2008
An Obama presidency would lead America towards a European “social market economy.” ...
Turning America Into Europe
PoliGazette —
... 1. The first one was published at the Wall Street Journal, and is written by Daniel Henniger. Obama, Henniger writes: ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... You can't run against history. But you can run against McCain. Andrew Kohut: I'm fairly confident Obama has this won. And I can tell you why, starting with Sarah Palin. But I won't conclude that. We must preserve the illusion of 'anything can happen' because in this day and age, CYA is the prudent thing to do. Eric Zorn: Eight reasons Obama will win, including Sarah Palin is turning out to be the disasta’ from Alaska. Daniel Henninger: They really are socialists. No, really. No kidding around. ...
Lesson From (Recent) History
TheOtherSideofKim Front Page —
... the Democrats) would just tax the returns out of existence.
Urkel plans to increase capital gains tax rates to 35%—what he calls the “Clinton-era rates”, as though history, even failed history, somehow justifies its repetition—and to raise the estate tax rate, because, as with Argentina, Urkel and his camp followers believe that capital is owned by the State, and not by the individuals who earned it.
And the change is long-term, too. As Dan Henninger puts it: The real “change” being ...
America as we know it is finished
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"Shifting America's animating idea from
creation to protection":
His election is about a long-term change in America's idea of itself.
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The goal of Sen. Obama and the modern, "progressive" Democratic Party is to move the U.S. in the direction of Western Europe,
the so-called German model and its "social market economy." Under this notion, business is highly regulated, as it would be
in the next Congress under Democratic House committee chairmen Markey, Frank and Waxman. Business is allowed to create ...
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