How the South Won (This) Civil War, by Michael Hirsh, is well uh..take a look for yourself:
And the Southern frontiersmen never got over their hatred of the East Coast elites and a belief in the morality and nobility of defying them. Their champion was the Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson. The outcome was that a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores. Traditionally, it has been balanced by a more diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibility from the Northeast and upper Midwest. But that latter sensibility has been losing ground in population numbers–and cultural weight.
The coarsened sensibility that this now-dominant Southernism and frontierism has brought to our national dialogue is unmistakable. We must endure “lapel-pin politics” that elevates the shallowest sort of faux jingoism over who’s got a better plan for Iraq and Afghanistan. We have re-imported creationism into our political dialogue (in the form of “intelligent design”). Hillary Clinton panders shamelessly to Roman Catholics, who have allied with Southern Protestant evangelicals on questions of morality, with anti-abortionism serving as the main bridge. Barack Obama seems to be so leery of being identified as an urban Northern liberal that he’s running away from the most obvious explanation of his association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weatherman Bill Ayers: after Obama graduated from college he became an inner-city organizer in Chicago, and they were natural allies for someone in a situation like that. We routinely demonize organizations like the United Nations that we desperately need and which are critical to missions like nation-building in Afghanistan. On foreign policy, the realism and internationalism of the Eastern elitist tradition once kept the Southern-frontier warrior culture and Wilsonian messianism in check. Now the latter two, in toxic combination, have taken over our national dialogue, and the Easterners are running for the hills.
KISS: What would have solved this whole issue between the South and the North. Notice I mentioned South first, because we are first. YEA! Actually I thought the South won until a few weeks ago, still do! History was not my best subject, but I am catching up fast. LOL Back to answer our now toxic problem with of how for God’s sake we even have a Muslim like Obama running for President??? We should have kept the Indians, Wolves, and Buffalo. Trust me, after a few scalping’s the Muslims would back off & stay in their own FU#$@!&^%(*territory, no worries.
I am unanimous in this!;;)
HORRORS! Could this be a GONE WITH THE WIND, sequel???
Rhett Butler played by Barrack Obama
Miss Scarlett played by Michelle Obama
Ashley and Melanie played by J. Wright & Fat Mo Wife
Mammy played by Oprah
Prissy played by Pelosi
Lines re-written by Wright and Oprah!
“Frankly my dear I don’t give a g_______ damn, and tomorrow is another day in this now non-American Saga!” Talking about dreams (nightmares) of Obama’s Muslim father! Heaven help us. Margaret Mitchell would turn over in her grave.
Gee, Mike Hirsch you stupid elitist prick. Explain exactly how damn much food you north eastern elitists grow? How much of the Gross domestic product your sorry asses produce? How many of anything other than one sorry assed excuse for a human being after another comes out of your north east liberal elitism? The answer is pretty damn miniscule in comparison to the people that your comments are degrading. You decry the morals of people who believe in God, don’t believe in abortion, do believe in the Constitution and American SOVEREIGNTY, and executing worthless pieces of scum who, without the gun toting upstanding citizens of this country, would slit your throat with a smile on their faces after forcing you to watch them rape your daughter. What does that say about YOUR morals? Or perhaps the better question is, about your lack thereof.
Sorry about the language but this twit needs to have his silver spoon pulled out of wherever it’s stuck and made to go out and get a REAL job for a few years to wake him up to reality. BTW the language is pretty mild in comparison with what the liberals post on their blogs. I just can’t be that coarse.
So FAO…are you saying you dissaprove of Michael Hirsch?
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Seriously, I don’t even have to look it up to know, just from what he wrote, that Michael Hirsch is a solid Leftist. In addition to the obvious signs of mental illness, taking the elitist argumentive high road is something educated Liberals often do. I have had them do this several times during discussion when they blathered about Republican corruption and I named several high-profile examples of corrupt Democrites. Then they just dismissively say something like “Well, come on, they’re all politicians, that’s just the way things are done” but of course not retracting their position.
Like I am some poor unsophisticated rube not worldy enough to understand the complexities of the political landscape and so should really not be questioning their proclamations anyway, and they’ve won the argument and now it’s time to move on. When I hear that, I know I’m dealing with an elitist prick. Like this Michael Hirsch bunghole.
“We routinely demonize organizations like the United Nations that we desperately need and which are critical to missions like nation-building in Afghanistan.”
LOL. “desperately” need them? An international forum like the U.N., even with all its corruption, I would acknowledge does serve some function, even if mostly decorative. Everybody knows that real dialogue between nations, friend and enemy alike, takes place through back channel communications.
I’d like to ask this cretin just what has the U.N. accomplished lately? What has the U.N. accomplished since the Korean War? And what has the U.N. accomplished without overwhelming American financial and military support?
I can’t think of anything.
“On foreign policy, the realism and internationalism of the Eastern elitist tradition once kept the Southern-frontier warrior culture and Wilsonian messianism in check.”
Now I’m really ROTFLMAO. Realism? Bwaaaahaaahaaahaahaaa!
For your information, Mr. Hirsch, those poor uneducated Southern-frontier warrior culture types help form the backbone of our Armed Forces and as such have given and maintained the freedom that has allowed you and your Eastern elitist bungholes to sit in your bubble and congratulate yourselves on your success.
If push comes to shove I’d have those Southern-frontier warrior culture types on my team any day over you and your mealy-mouthed, pointy-headed intellectual cronies.
On foreign policy, the realism and internationalism of the Eastern elitist tradition once kept the Southern-frontier warrior culture and Wilsonian messianism in check.
Delete last sentence above. I pasted it twice.
Gee Robert, sounds like we agree that Michael Hirsch is an elitist prick who needs to be introduced to the real world outside of his little bubble. I recommend dropping his ass on an island for a few months, with a box of tools, a firearm, some fishing gear, and some seeds. I’d lay odds that he’d starve to death within a month. One of the ones in the Great Lakes in Summer should do. Too far for him to swim but close enough for some deer to swim across to it.
As for me, I’d call that a much needed vacation. Of course, I’ve been known to actually work for a living, hunt and fish for food (didn’t shoot the deer, but the fish were tasty) and while not exactly Roger the landscaper from “This Old House” have been known to get some plants to grow. I also know how to use tools to build things so I wouldn’t have to sit out in the rain.
ROBERT E. LEE was more of man then JIMMY CARTER and BILL CLINTON ever were and they both came from former confederate states=d>**==