I’m a Victor Davis Hanson fan. He is grounded in history like none other and a thoughtful writer. Today’s column spurred my frenzy in finally creating this blog. Unfortunately, “humpty-dumpty view of the world” was already taken as a domain name. ; )
He writes:
What might explain the inexplicable like the following?
A president comes into office facing a $500 billion deficit and grows it to $2 trillion.
A president comes into office facing a threat of radical Islamic terrorism, and at home changes the very name of the struggle from war on terror to a variety of wishy-washy euphemisms.
A president comes into office facing a variety of Middle East thugs, from al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas to Syria and Iran, and employs the ancient kowtow, the postmodern apology, and the Carteresque reach-out to allay the threat?
A president comes into office after record high energy prices have nearly crippled the American economy, and he ignores new drilling and brushes off nuclear power — only to wax about wind and solar that provide less than 5% of our energy needs, and crushing cap and trade taxation to come.
He explains that our illustrious leader has had a difficult time reconciling candidate-self with President-self. Leading is tough work, especially if you’ve never done it before. Read the rest:
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/a-humpty-dumpty-view-of-the-world/
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