Sunday, October 19, 2008

AI and AA popping Champagne corks!

John Kerry at State! Who's at CIA? Alger Hiss?
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Arelcao Akleos said...

Actually, JJ, having McCain as Vice President and handed control of the wars against IM, with Kerry focussing on his domesticity and his beloved navel, would now have me popping Champagne corks. Flip that around and I'm the one getting corked.

10/19/2008 10:20 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Of course Alger Hiss won't be at CIA, you Ninny! Try Noam Chomsky.
Oh, yeah, Ayer for Education, Wright as White House Chaplain, Farrakhan gets National Poet Laureate [His Magnum Opus, "19", will be taught in all the new public school textbooks that the coming of The One will require].
Le Pew gets a special bonus for leading the Nawlin's branch of SCAR into roundin' up the mostest of the Neocons in the shortest time. That new Angola camp is gonna be reeducatin' jus' fine. It'll take years and years to graduate from that institution of Pepean learnin'

10/19/2008 10:41 AM
Tecumseh said...

No champagne corks popping from this quarter. No matter how you slice it, this is bad. And, it's not just a matter of this blowhard, washed-out Senator-for-Life or the other. As I've been bemoaning now for a while, it's the whole intellectual discourse that's going down the drain. The last (successful) Republican politicians that had any fresh ideas were Ronnie in the early 1980s and Newt in 1994. It's a total void right now. And don't tell me that either McCain or Palin (or any number of senators or congresscritters for that matter) have the slightest scintilla of a new idea. It's bizarre, isn't it?

10/19/2008 10:42 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

It's not bizarre, AI. We have seen it unfold as a natural process, and it is not even so much a lack of "new" ideas as a profound obliviousness of the need to reenergize and make potent again older and true ideas.
The US Constitution is a remarkable compilation of great ideas, and ones which have proved highly effective in providing ample space to human potential. It is as radically new now as it was at the founding. The "Opprobrium", as Lew Pew words it, it gets from Planet Pepe is a measure of how radical it is.
Aristo's of all political hues, as a class, despise it as much on October 19th they did in 1800. And now they are in an internal position to act on their contempt. We are betrayed from within.

10/19/2008 11:51 AM
Tecumseh said...

I stand corrected -- by "new", I don't mean "change" for change's sake, like in, creating the new Soviet man, a la Pepe. What I mean, is coming up with new ways to confront the eternal hydra that stands ever ready (even after one chops off one of its many heads) to come back and bite us. And what I meant, in the more narrow sense of US politics, of having intellectuals and/or politicians who go through the long, drawn-out task of thinking things through, and figuring out ways to adapt to whatever fate throws at us. I just don't see that kind of deeper-level thinking occurring nowadays. Am I missing something?

10/19/2008 1:43 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

I'm not sure, AI. If such deep thinkery is going on, I doubt much would be in Academia. After all, most non-Leftists have been purged from significant departments of history, philosophy, political thought, law, etc...
On the outside there are some groups, but I think K.Lopez got it correct; most are in a small northeast slice of the country, and are culturally more closely connected to Lousbourg Square than they are to the long center of right-thinking in the heartland. The great leaders of the right in the last century have generally come from that heartland, and today they are exiled.
Meanwhile, the Left has seized all the major organs of power, except some branches of Christianity and the military. Expect major inroads, however, some voluntary some forced, during the reign of Imperator Obamacles.

10/19/2008 2:31 PM

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