High Ground Underground

The DNC was rich with material – not substance, but blog material.  I watched as much as I could stomach and then some, but not all.  One pundit called it soaring in rhetoric, but the rubber doesn’t hit the road.  And as Romney said, their party's over & they awake w. a hangover -- the jobs report. One place to start would be the bumper sticker Biden so proudly trotted out:  “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive!”  Great for people w. sound bite intellectual capacity.  For others, here are some facts. Bin Laden Dead Regarding OBL, which they continue to tout because they have hardly anything else to tout, here’s something I don’t think I’ve heard elsewhere.  If you recall, when Kalid Sheikh Mohamed was taken alive, the Pakistanis played a key part in that – a cooperative effort.  We had good relations with them under Bush.  And of course the waterboarding followed, which gave the information that save...

Lesson #2 in Obamaspeak, or for those familiar with the novel 1984 , “New speak.” “The U.S. government has no interest in running GM.” What this really means is, that after the government bails GM out and takes a controlling interest , it is vitally interested in who runs the company – to the point of ousting the CEO; and regulating their executives’ pay, the trips they can take, and modes of transportation on trips; and mandating the kinds of cars they can make, and where, and approving/disapproving restructuring plans; and taking over their warranties. Let this be a lesson to anyone considering taking money from the government. There is life after bankruptcy, and things worse than “death” – but those of little faith are willing rather to “live” in slavery. And so Patrick Henry’s idealism (“Give me liberty or give me death!”) falls by the wayside. This is the “change” we were promised. Obama is maintaining overgenerous union contracts intact, at the expense of the company, jobs ...