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    A Brit Who Gets It

    From Peter Hitchens in the London Daily Mail:

    Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.




    "They [celebrating Hispanics in Hitchens' Washington DC neighborhood] grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.

    Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.

    These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party — the Republicans — to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.

    They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?"

    It doesn't do us much good to fight the enemies abroad when we let them win the elections and political battles at home.

    Al Franken got all the votes he needs yet, or will we need to open up a few more car trunks?
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    Re: A Brit Who Gets It

    Originally posted by swede
    A Brit Who Gets It

    From Peter Hitchens in the London Daily Mail:

    Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.




    "They [celebrating Hispanics in Hitchens' Washington DC neighborhood] grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.

    Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.

    These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party — the Republicans — to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.

    They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?"

    It doesn't do us much good to fight the enemies abroad when we let them win the elections and political battles at home.

    Al Franken got all the votes he needs yet, or will we need to open up a few more car trunks?
    Just like dems always try to do, they will count frankens votes over and over until he gets the desired result...then the media will declare him the winner and scream bloody murder if another count is requested.
    The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary -- Vince Lombardi

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    • #3
      The guy is Christopher's brother. I would like to be a bug on the wall at their holiday get togethers.
      After lunch the players lounged about the hotel patio watching the surf fling white plumes high against the darkening sky. Clouds were piling up in the west… Vince Lombardi frowned.

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      • #4
        It's sadly amazing that some of the best (and sometimes newsbreaking) coverage of the U.S. scene is coming from overseas.

        More and more if you want some objective reporting (or some common sense) read a foreign newspaper.

        Sad day for American journalism.

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        • #5
          Kiwon I been looking for that map in your signature...the media keeps it well hidden.
          The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary -- Vince Lombardi

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          • #6
            Amazing how the electoral college was so much more important than things like the map and the popular vote when it got Bush into office...
            "Greatness is not an act... but a habit.Greatness is not an act... but a habit." -Greg Jennings

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            • #7
              Originally posted by MJZiggy
              Amazing how the electoral college was so much more important than things like the map and the popular vote when it got Bush into office...
              The map was nearly identical... in 2000 and 2004.
              Electoral college protects states without mass representation. It also masks lots of votes. I know many, many Repubs in CA who don't vote because for the foreseeable future it really doesn't matter. So you can only take popular vote as a measure.

              2004


              2000 Stats and Map


              Counties won:
              Gore – 677
              Bush – 2,434.

              Square miles won:
              Gore – 580,134
              Bush – 2,427,039

              Population of counties won:
              Gore – 127 million
              Bush – 143 million
              The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
              Vince Lombardi

              "Not really interested in being a spoiler or an underdog. We're the Green Bay Packers." McCarthy.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by MJZiggy
                Amazing how the electoral college was so much more important than things like the map and the popular vote when it got Bush into office...
                you missed my point...most of the country is very conservative but because small pockets of federal gov't users cluster together...yes users of the costly elements of federal gov't...and they deliver a popular vote while the rest of the country/state is forced to live by their rules.

                I am VERY much in favor of electoral college, and obama won that this year. He is the potus (elect) and I have no gripes about that. Realize this though, oh blower of the popular vote horn. Obama is the first democratic presidential candidate in 32 YEARS to get more than 50% of the vote.
                The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary -- Vince Lombardi

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                • #9
                  What does that map tell me?

                  City folk interacting with diverse races like the Democrats, and country-folk only interacting with White people like the Republicans. No surprise there.

                  This guy's article also seems to take a shot at racial diversity. Like it or not, this is something he and everyone else will have to deal with soon.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by th87
                    What does that map tell me?

                    City folk interacting with diverse races like the Democrats, and country-folk only interacting with White people like the Republicans. No surprise there.
                    There we go again.....all about race. Ideas don't matter anymore.
                    After lunch the players lounged about the hotel patio watching the surf fling white plumes high against the darkening sky. Clouds were piling up in the west… Vince Lombardi frowned.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by HowardRoark
                      Originally posted by th87
                      What does that map tell me?

                      City folk interacting with diverse races like the Democrats, and country-folk only interacting with White people like the Republicans. No surprise there.
                      There we go again.....all about race. Ideas don't matter anymore.
                      Yeah, that was a pretty dumb and ignorant thing to say. Actually it was really dumb and ignorant.

                      But what'cha gunna do bout dem der city folk? Dey be edumacated and I be just da farmhand.
                      "You're all very smart, and I'm very dumb." - Partial

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by SkinBasket
                        Originally posted by HowardRoark
                        Originally posted by th87
                        What does that map tell me?

                        City folk interacting with diverse races like the Democrats, and country-folk only interacting with White people like the Republicans. No surprise there.
                        There we go again.....all about race. Ideas don't matter anymore.
                        Yeah, that was a pretty dumb and ignorant thing to say. Actually it was really dumb and ignorant.

                        But what'cha gunna do bout dem der city folk? Dey be edumacated and I be just da farmhand.
                        It may not be PC, but it's a whole lot better than the social program theory. Besides, I said nothing about education, nor did I say one type was more valid than the other - just differing interests and viewpoints.

                        This is a fact - hanging out with a diversity of ethnic groups makes one more sympathetic to different nationalities. And which party is viewed as unsympathetic to the world community again?

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by HowardRoark
                          Originally posted by th87
                          What does that map tell me?

                          City folk interacting with diverse races like the Democrats, and country-folk only interacting with White people like the Republicans. No surprise there.
                          There we go again.....all about race. Ideas don't matter anymore.
                          Your Hitchens guy brought up race.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Kiwon
                            It's sadly amazing that some of the best (and sometimes newsbreaking) coverage of the U.S. scene is coming from overseas.

                            More and more if you want some objective reporting (or some common sense) read a foreign newspaper.

                            Sad day for American journalism.
                            Actually, what this map displays is the blatant RACISM that decided this election. Who lives in these few counties, mostly containing big cities, that swung the election to the black candidate? Right! Black voters, voting as a bloc--like mind-numbed fools, dutifully kept on that liberal plantation by their "overseers"--the so-called "black leaders".

                            One of the things that stands out on that map, though, is that Wisconsin is about the only state outside New England with mostly blue counties.

                            Real Americans--outside of New England and Wisconsin, at least--voted for McCain--but just in not quite bloc-like percentages that would counteract the black racist bloc voting.
                            What could be more GOOD and NORMAL and AMERICAN than Packer Football?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by th87
                              It may not be PC, but it's a whole lot better than the social program theory. Besides, I said nothing about education, nor did I say one type was more valid than the other - just differing interests and viewpoints.
                              You'll have to forgive me. I was brought up in rural Wisconsin. I don't know what a viewpoint is. Or a theory. Or a democrat. Or a minority.

                              Originally posted by th87
                              This is a fact - hanging out with a diversity of ethnic groups makes one more sympathetic to different nationalities. And which party is viewed as unsympathetic to the world community again?
                              Your "fact" is an opinion that ignores the negative ramifications of mixing racial, ethnic, and national groups and assumes all members of said groups live exclusively in cities.

                              Paint me unconcerned how each party is "viewed," although I'm not sure who's view you're referring to. Maybe you're suggesting we should be basing our nation's policies on what the world community's view of America happens to be?
                              "You're all very smart, and I'm very dumb." - Partial

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