The Life of Zachary
The Manhattan Institute's Nicole Gelinas is better known for her fiscal analysis, but here she writes a devastating -- and entertaining and funny and pointed -- take-down of the whole "Julia" fantasy.
In "The Life of Zachary," City Journal contributing editor Gelinas writes about how the policies put in place by Obama during Julia's lifetime drive the course of her son Zachary's sad life. Eventually, Julia, elderly and unable to afford medical care, moves in with Zachary and his family.
Here are the closing lines:
At 98, Julia helps homeschool her great-granddaughter, little Julia. In helping little Julia with her history lesson, the elder Julia chuckles at a chapter about the grand improvements promised by the Obama administration. In the end, the country turned out fine. But it owed its success to the ingenuity of Americans as they worked around government “protections,” not within them.
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Mar '11
Re: The Life of Zachary
I also posted this link over on the Member Feed (Aaron Miller's post) but I guess it can't hurt to post it on the Main Feed as well. Iowahawk does the definitive takedown of Julia. It's funny.
Jul '10
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But, but, Julia passed when Zachary was 3 owing to a tragic hangnail that escalated into gangrene during a 72 hour emergency room wait that ended when a death panel decision to postpone a treatment decision. The other patients in the sardine can waiting room then rifled her pockets for food stamps.
Dec '10
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Someone should start a blog: Iowahawk's Missing Comments Feed. The man is just brilliant and hilarious and we should have a place to tell him so!
Sep '10
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Won't Julia be laboring under a Romney administration with at least one child who was a tragic mistake because she didn't have convenient 24 hour a day access to 9 different types of contraception via a Federally funded underground non oil carrying pipe that makes it come out every water faucet in the house?
#TreasuryBondGirlsNeedFreedomToo
May '10
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With Obama's support for Planned Parenthood and federally funded abortion for any reason whatsoever, I think it's rather presumptuous of his campaign to claim that Julia gets a life at all.
Here's another good take down, by Catholic blogger Emily Stimpson.
Edited on May 5, 2012 at 4:33pmDec '10
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With a campaign so infantile is it really possible for this man to be re-elected?
Definition of an irrational number: the percentage of voters who will actually vote for BHO.
Sep '10
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What I find so telling about the Julia slide show (in addition to its inherent absurdity) is how it belies the Obama administration's view of things: static, one-dimensional, bare. A truly stick-figured view of life. I agree wholeheartedly with Nicole: everything will turn out fine in spite of these sophomoric plans writ large.
Mar '11
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The first thing that popped into my head when I saw The Life of Julia was something some tone deaf liberal published on what would have been Mary Jo Kopekne's 65th birthday if she hadn't drowned; about how, had she lived, she would have been grateful for what Teddy Kennedy had done for retired Americans.