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Topic: ‘Forward’ to the Past? |
‘Forward’ to the Past?
Creators Syndicate, by Thomas Sowell
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/20/2012 6:12:59 AM
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| The political slogan “Forward” served Barack Obama well during this year’s election campaign. It said that he was for going forward, while Republicans were for “going back to the failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place.” It was great political rhetoric and great political theater. Moreover, the Republicans did virtually nothing to challenge its shaky assumptions with a few hard facts that could have made those assumptions collapse like a house of cards. More is involved than this year’s political battles.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
kanphil, 12/20/2012 7:20:43 AM (No. 9075737)
The usual common sense from Dr Sowell. The Soviet Union failed and broke up in 1991, before first time voters were born. And of course, government schools do not teach about that event and why it occurred. With no institutional memory to guide us, we founder. Our "cool" leader takes us right back over plowed ground.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
vesicant, 12/20/2012 7:37:11 AM (No. 9075758)
I´ll say it again: The first two decades of the 21st Century are replays of the 1920s and early 1930s, with the US as the Weimar Republic and Washington DC as Stalinist Russia. Not exact replays, of course, but close enough for (ahem) government work.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/20/2012 7:49:36 AM (No. 9075783)
The left knows that they are running a crooked game. They also know that many people will sell their souls for a few dollars stolen from their neighbors by the government.
The left doesn´t care who wins they just want to be the "House" and continue to enrich and empower themselves.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 12/20/2012 11:01:23 AM (No. 9076118)
Why wait until 2016? It should haunt her now! The GOP needs to do a pre-emptive strike and start bombarding the airwaves with the message that this is due to Clinton incompetence.
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