Comments on: Off Script

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:50:32 +0000

Ah, but you see, Mongo, the Obamas are all about compassion, and idealism, and they have the welfare of The People (as opposed to just people) at heart. They are, after all, Progressives.

Which reminds me of Kipling’s MacDonough’s Song:

Whether the State can loose and bind
In Heaven as well as on Earth:
If it be wiser to kill mankind
Before or after the birth–
These are matters of high concern
Where State-kept schoolmen are;
But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
Endeth in Holy War.

Whether The People be led by the Lord,
Or lured by the loudest throat:
If it be quicker to die by the sword
Or cheaper to die by vote–
These are the things we have dealt with once,
(And they will not rise from their grave)
For Holy People, however it runs,
Endeth in wholly Slave.

Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give,
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King–
Or Holy People’s Will–
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
_Saying–after–me:–_

_Once there was The People–Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth.
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain!
Once there was The People–it shall never be again!_

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:55:43 +0000

“All your dollars ARE belong to me.” Comeon, Gmac, quote it correctly; you’re slipping. Gotta keep the Alien element in the quote–after all, Obama IS an Alien–CERTAINLY culturally–and probably legally as well…

By: mojo

mojo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:53:57 +0000

“The value of a thing is what that thing will bring.”

A economic maxim that tends to drive statists nuts, being indeterminate and all. Not centrally-planned and ok’d by government flunkies. Bad mojo. Heartache ensues.

What business owners generate is called “wealth”, but that’s a dirty word.

By: Mongo

Mongo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:13:48 +0000

Somehow, and please correct me if I’m wrong, I thought the Emancipation Proclamation was about setting people free…no more slavery…no one person or entity should own another. No Indenturement. What I’m taking away from P.Bo’s remarks is that we’re all to become the Field Negros, while he and his ilk are to become our Masters and live in the House.

And this from a guy who, along with his wife, made $7.4M in 2007. Was that enough? Too much? Not enough?

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:43:18 +0000

PW is Jeff Goldstein’s blog, not Goldberg.

By: Kris, in New England

Kris, in New England — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:13:54 +0000

What I'd like to know is how people like Al and Tipper Gore feel about Obama deciding when someone has made enough money and whether it's been earned fairly.