Starting to Miss Hillary...

I pride ThreeSources on objectivity. I'm a self-admitted partisan hack, and we all have strong feelings. But I think we do a pretty good job of avoiding personal attacks and promoting polity based on "feelings."

One cannot avoid gathering a little antipathy, however, against philosophical and political opponents, especially when one feels they are not honest interlocutors. When the primaries started, I didn’t know if I could stand four years of Senator Clinton. She combines dirigisme with disingenuousness -- without even having the decency to be good at it as was her husband. That fake point and smile from the podium causes physical pain every time.

I will admit -- contra ThreeSources style -- that I am developing deep and visceral feelings for Senator Obama. His speech last night annoyed me to no end.

His lips would move and I would hear "Government, government, government!" followed by "Me, me, me!" Everybody said it was a great speech. I'd admit it was well delivered and well scripted (and would somebody please get Senator McCain a make up person?) but I am not sure it was a great speech.

He thinks CAFE standards are the solution for "the guy who lost his job and can't afford the gas to drive around and find a new one." He thinks government will do a better job developing new energy sources than private industry. I have news for the Senator. The biggest "Special interest in Washington" is government -- try fighting that one for a while.

The cheering crowds make good TV, but I am in the middle of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism right now and am easily wigged by the scripted crowd control and the Messianic approach of Senator Obama.

Will this nation fall for it? I fear so. Like the Progressive Era and the New Deal, we will likely survive it. But a huge hunk of liberty will be taken away and never restored.

We now return to objective, rational discussion. ThreeSources apologizes for the ad hominem attack.

Dem2008 Primary Posted by jk at June 4, 2008 10:15 AM