While meaning no insult whatsoever to you, because you’ve always maintained an even tone and careful courtesy:
I heard Obama’s speech, I read the transcript of Obama’s speech, and I don’t really care whether the “that” referred to roads/bridges/infrastructure (he’s already shown himself to be sufficiently incompetent when it comes to subject-verb agreement that I can fully believe he said something that wasn’t even close to what he actually intended), because the overall message was the same: Individual success, individual achievement, individual effort, are all meaningless, because the all-providing State is actually responsible for everything good that happens. In other words, regardless of which “that” he meant, the result is deliberate denigration of personal achievement, especially of anyone who’s actually achieved anything significant. And, yes, all in the further pursuit of class warfare, which been an ongoing characteristic of the perpetual campaign he started half a dozen years ago.
And Paul Krugman, Nobel prize or not, is a liberal flack who hates everyone to the right of Debbie Wasserman Shultz. Yes, he was writing an opinion column … but he presents his opinions as if they were facts, and nobody has that much authority.
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Date: 2012-09-05 11:13 pm (UTC)I heard Obama’s speech, I read the transcript of Obama’s speech, and I don’t really care whether the “that” referred to roads/bridges/infrastructure (he’s already shown himself to be sufficiently incompetent when it comes to subject-verb agreement that I can fully believe he said something that wasn’t even close to what he actually intended), because the overall message was the same: Individual success, individual achievement, individual effort, are all meaningless, because the all-providing State is actually responsible for everything good that happens. In other words, regardless of which “that” he meant, the result is deliberate denigration of personal achievement, especially of anyone who’s actually achieved anything significant. And, yes, all in the further pursuit of class warfare, which been an ongoing characteristic of the perpetual campaign he started half a dozen years ago.
And Paul Krugman, Nobel prize or not, is a liberal flack who hates everyone to the right of Debbie Wasserman Shultz. Yes, he was writing an opinion column … but he presents his opinions as if they were facts, and nobody has that much authority.