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Obama and the Liberal Conceits
American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill

Original Article

Posted By:DW626, 10/30/2012 3:50:57 AM

When Peggy Noonan writes in her weekly sense-of-the-sensible-people column that President Obama is "a president who is at once over his head, out of his depth and wholly unaware of the fact," you know that the world has changed. But really, President Obama -- in his life, his person, and his career -- epitomizes the liberal bubble of the last 50 years. It is not that just President Obama is over his head, out of his depth and wholly unaware of the fact. It is liberals in general. In my view, the liberal bubble was wafted aloft on four conceits. The first conceit is the idea that centralized administrative

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: srhcb, 10/30/2012 6:13:42 AM     (No. 8973930)

Until Peggy Noonan's articles begin with a disclaimer that she supported Obama, I won't bother to read them.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 10/30/2012 6:46:47 AM     (No. 8973967)

Great article.

Voicing any one of these four truths will get you shouted down and forcibly ejected from most college classes.

This must change.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: plumnellie, 10/30/2012 10:21:45 AM     (No. 8974383)

Best article today. I wish I could plagerize(just kidding) this man's wording. There is no other way to say the same thing as well as he did. My letters to the editor do not like us to quote other writers so have to stumble thru trying to say the same thing but not as well. I am going to watch for this author. He is good.



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