I would prefer it if Obama stopped using the best lines from movies and TV series in his speeches (e.g. Armageddon and Babylon 5 via Abraham Lincoln).
Please feel free to note the other films from which he has lifted lines for his speeches.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Everybody wants to rule the world
The more that I see of Obama and his coterie, the more I have a feeling of increasing unease. Leaving aside all policy issues, it is alarming that his whole career, political and otherwise, has been crafted to the dynamics of achieving the presidency of the USA. I am not floating a lunatic conspiracy theory, it is merely unsettling that he has wanted the presidency so much. Every vote, every position has been structured for years in preparation for this launch to power. Some reports even have him saying he wanted to be president when writing an assignment in grade school in Indonesia.
In my experience, when someone has desperately wanted a job or task, and they are prepared to do almost anything to get it, those are precisely the people who should be barred from the position. Some sacrifices must be made in order to obtain high office, I am just troubled that Obama seems to have stuck to a plan for decades whilst planning his ascent to the loftiest post. Clearly, he has demonstrated a ruthlessness indicating that anyone, and anything, may be up for sacrifice in his quests for whatever it is that he wants. And if most of Europe wanted him to be elected, then that is the clinching concern for me.
In my experience, when someone has desperately wanted a job or task, and they are prepared to do almost anything to get it, those are precisely the people who should be barred from the position. Some sacrifices must be made in order to obtain high office, I am just troubled that Obama seems to have stuck to a plan for decades whilst planning his ascent to the loftiest post. Clearly, he has demonstrated a ruthlessness indicating that anyone, and anything, may be up for sacrifice in his quests for whatever it is that he wants. And if most of Europe wanted him to be elected, then that is the clinching concern for me.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Political correctness is not mentally balanced
I am heartily sick of seeing the politically correct stance of providing both sides of selected arguments. There is right and there is wrong, there is good and there is evil. Just because someone holds honestly derived abhorrent views does not mean that these ought to be aired. Hitler held his views honestly but I do not want to read Mein Kampf.
Ones does not give an audience to flat earth advocates when you read about spaceflight. You do not provide a wrong mathematical answer as an alternative to a proven theorem. You should not provide airtime for the lunatic conspiracy theorists of 9/11 who refuse to accept what they saw with their own eyes or the terrorists who have claimed “credit” for the monstrosity (oh, except that sometimes media outlets do, because it has somehow been adopted as an alternative history by people full of hate).
Today, we see which self-styled soldiers target civilians for murder and behead those that fall into their clutches. It is not hard to see that which is wrong and evil.
Ones does not give an audience to flat earth advocates when you read about spaceflight. You do not provide a wrong mathematical answer as an alternative to a proven theorem. You should not provide airtime for the lunatic conspiracy theorists of 9/11 who refuse to accept what they saw with their own eyes or the terrorists who have claimed “credit” for the monstrosity (oh, except that sometimes media outlets do, because it has somehow been adopted as an alternative history by people full of hate).
Today, we see which self-styled soldiers target civilians for murder and behead those that fall into their clutches. It is not hard to see that which is wrong and evil.
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