Contributor Post Created with Sketch. The Classicist Podcast, with Victor Davis Hanson: “2016 and the Race for the White House”

 

In the newest installment of The Classicist podcast, VDH takes us on a tour of the 2016 presidential race: How should we interpret Scott Walker’s departure? How plausible is a presidential candidate without electoral experience? What’s Victor’s cryptic message for Mike Huckabee? And why does Hillary Clinton have the Sage of the Central Valley quoting Nine Inch Nails lyrics? All that, plus perhaps the first in-depth analysis of the Jim Webb campaign that you’ve heard this cycle, can be heard below or when you subscribe to The Classicist via iTunes.

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  1. Songwriter Inactive
    Songwriter Joined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Gee, if only VDH didn’t pull his punches and just told us what he really thinks about Obama…

    Always sobering to hear his thoughts.

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    • September 28, 2015, at 12:52 PM PDT
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  2. Aaron Miller Member
    Aaron Miller Joined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Victor Davis Hanson quoting Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails? Who authorized John Walker to play around with wormholes?

    If you connect his first comment to his last, you can see how exceptional problems that focus on fundamental values rather than legislative strategies are why so many leading presidential candidates are not career politicians.

    As for the Democrats lacking “intellectual heft” in their hypocritical objections to Republican repetition of President Obama’s executive steamrolling, when has blatant hypocrisy ever been a problem for Democrats?

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    • September 28, 2015, at 12:53 PM PDT
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  3. Songwriter Inactive
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    Aaron Miller:

    As for the Democrats lacking “intellectual heft” in their hypocritical objections to Republican repetition of President Obama’s executive steamrolling, when has blatant hypocrisy ever been a problem for Democrats?

    Ummm….I’m gonna go with “never.” In a gadrillion years – “never.”

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    • September 28, 2015, at 12:55 PM PDT
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  4. Leslie Watkins Inactive
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    VDH made his own Freudian slip by referring to Hillary’s “career as Bill’s husband.” More truth than poetry there, VDH.

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    • September 28, 2015, at 1:11 PM PDT
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  5. The (apathetic) King Prawn Inactive

    A “profound period of embarrassment…” he’s already writing the history book.

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    • September 28, 2015, at 2:02 PM PDT
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  6. Dave Sussman Podcaster

    Great edition. Once the Obama media blanket is pulled back there will be a lot of Democrats claiming stockholm syndrome.

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    • September 28, 2015, at 2:18 PM PDT
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  7. Cow Girl Thatcher

    I am looking forward to the time when the president’s skin color won’t be a factor in what the media reports.

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    • September 28, 2015, at 8:29 PM PDT
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  8. Cow Girl Thatcher

    Songwriter: Songwriter Aaron Miller: As for the Democrats lacking “intellectual heft” in their hypocritical objections to Republican repetition of President Obama’s executive steamrolling, when has blatant hypocrisy ever been a problem for Democrats?

    Ummm….I’m gonna go with “never.” In a gadrillion years – “never.”

    Yes, I thought that, too. “As if!!”

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    • September 28, 2015, at 8:30 PM PDT
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  9. Marion Evans Inactive

    I enjoy VDH’s delivery (in addition to his thoughts) very much. He can fire the most blistering criticism in the softest tone you ever heard. That’s a skill, or a gift.

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    • September 29, 2015, at 3:25 AM PDT
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