Friday's Meditation
Rob Long ·
June 15, 2012 at 8:41pm
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Comments:
Jun '10
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QED
Sep '10
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Beautiful. (Not quite as lovely as a summer's day, or Audrey Hepburn, but still beautiful.)
Jul '10
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Gonna' be hard to top that!
May '10
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Amen!
May '10
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...They just help fix it!
Losers, on the other hand, complain about inheriting a bad economy and then lose the AAA bond rating they inherited.
Mar '12
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I suggest those of us with Twitter or Facebook accounts display this image.
My simple little message was: "Courtesy of Ricochet"
Nov '11
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Classic. Very effective.
Apr '11
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I'm wondering if this isn't a generational thing. I cannot imagine anyone from Reagan's generation whining boo-hoo Obama style.
Can anyone who has worked in the private sector for five minutes imagine telling your boss that you’d failed at your major task because the prior employee left a mess? Yeah, your boss already knows that. He’d want to know what you've been doing. Get a plan, explain it, do it.
Jul '11
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That's definitely going up on my facebook page when I get home.
-E
Aug '10
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Blaming your bad policies on the previous administration has been a staple of Dem presidents for many years. I still remember Bubba (Clinton) in 1993 justifying his 180 degree reversal on his promised middle class tax cut by claiming, "We had no idea how bad GHW Bush left the economy until we got in here. There's no way we can afford a tax cut"
Apr '12
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Who needs Tony Robbins?
Jul '10
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That is brilliant! I'm posting it without comment on Facebook and then listening for the sound of some of my friends' heads exploding.
Jun '10
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I sent this to my adult children. Two have made if the wallpaper on their computers. Conservatism is spreading, one person at a time.
May '10
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Where's the "Like" button on Rob's post?
Jun '10
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Great picture, great message.
I wonder -- has anyone done a comparison of this type? How many times did Reagan complain about Carter's bad policies and bad results vs. Obama -- month by month comparison? (I'm too lazy - where's James of England when we need him?)
Especially since Carter is the one who came up with the Misery Index which he proceeded to make worse just like Obama did.
Mar '11
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AWWWWwwmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .
Sep '11
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I think he did though. If memory serves, the first place I saw this was in Reagan's autobiography. He was justifying his first tax raise with, "we didn't know what we inherited from the Carter admin".
I haven't seen the book in 15 years, though. Could be wrong.
Oct '10
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Aaahhhh!
Apr '11
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Gojira's Hejira: I think he did though. If memory serves, the first place I saw this was in Reagan's autobiography. He was justifying his first tax raise with, "we didn't know what we inherited from the Carter admin".
I haven't seen the book in 15 years, though. Could be wrong. · 21 hours ago
Of course he did. This is about St. Reagan, though, not about Reagan the man. Do you complain when people talk about the George W. and the apple tree, too? Rob's not making a sophisticated psephological argument about the messaging, he's calling Obama a loser. These messages, like most chants sung at sporting stadia, are more fun if you roll with them than if you stop to ask if you really want to, eg., scalp the opposing team (as claimed in the fight song of a high school I lived near in Beaumont, Texas; kids were taught those words!).
Jun '10
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James, it's not about "St. Reagan," it's about a comparison. Surely, you don't expect perfection, do you? Reagan is better not perfect.