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With YWN’s kind permission, a very pertinent and timely article by Thomas Sowell.
Particularly note his accurate assesment in his comments regarding nuclear proliferation, Iran, and the Jews.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:07 PM
By: Thomas Sowell
Once the election is over, the glittering generalities of rhetoric and style will mean nothing. Everything will depend on performance in facing huge challenges, domestic and foreign.
Performance is where Obama has nothing to show for his political career, either in Illinois or in Washington.
Politicians telling businesses how to operate? That’s been tried in countries around the world, especially during the second half of the 20th century. It has failed so often and so badly that even socialist and communist governments were freeing up their markets by the end of the century.
The economies of China and India began to take off into high rates of growth when they got rid of precisely the kinds of policies that Obama is advocating for the United States under the magic mantra of change.
Putting restrictions on international trade in order to save jobs at home? That was tried here with the Hawley-Smoot tariff during the Great Depression.
Unemployment was 9 percent when that tariff was passed to save jobs, but unemployment went up instead of down and reached 25 percent before the decade was over.
Higher taxes to “spread the wealth around,” as Obama puts it? The idea of redistributing wealth has turned into the reality of redistributing poverty, in countries where wealth has fled and a lack of incentives has stifled the production of new wealth.
Is this the legacy we wish to leave our children and grandchildren, by voting on the basis of style and symbolism, rather than substance?
If Barack Obama thinks that such a catastrophe can be avoided by sitting down and talking with the leaders of Iran, then he is repeating a fallacy that helped bring on World War II.
America has never been a conquered country, so it may be very hard for most Americans even to conceive what that can mean. After France was conquered in 1940, it was reduced to turning over some of its own innocent citizens to the Nazis to kill, just because those citizens were Jewish.
Do you think our leaders wouldn’t do that? Not even if the alternative was to see New York and Los Angeles go up in mushroom clouds? If I were Jewish, I wouldn’t bet my life on that.
What the Middle East fanatics want is not just our resources or even our lives, but our humiliation first, in whatever sadistic ways they can think of. Their lust for humiliation has been demonstrated repeatedly in their videotaped beheadings that find such an eager market in the Middle East.
None of this can be prevented by glib talk, but only by character, courage, and decisive actions, none of which Obama has ever demonstrated.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Eveyone should read it! It is long but very important to read before you vote!
Well said.
The self-hating Jewish liberals will find all kinds of fault with this one too.
if obama wins the presedential election we r all in bad shape
Note that the author didn’t say that Obama would be any MORE likely to do so than McCain.
Also, eliezer, are you suggesting that anyone who doesn’t vote like you is self-hating? It’s you that is hating, but you instead choose to hate anyone who disagrees with you. How frum of you.
illini07: saying that he didnt say that mccain would be anymore willing then mccain is ridiculous.
1. he starts out clearly stating “Performance is where Obama has nothing to show for his political career, either in Illinois or in Washington.” i don’t think he thinks mccain has “nothing to show” for his many years in the senate!
3. “If Barack Obama thinks that such a catastrophe can be avoided by sitting down and talking with the leaders of Iran, then he is repeating a fallacy that helped bring on World War II.” this is talking about barack obama and not john mccain. it is the policies of this “immature” (as putin put it) statesman from illinois that are that of pre-ww2 europe!
and there are many other things in this article clearly about obama’s policies which are in complete conflict with the beliefs AND RECORD of john mccain! so where exactly should we note things about what he did and did not say?
just for the record thomas sowell is black so no one can call him a racist. personally i don’t know why mccain doesn’t use him for an endorsment.
Barack Hussein Osama!
Thomas Sowell is a African American Conservative Economist, and his other writings (were using his book, “basic economics,” in my grade 12 economics class) are all just as well written
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