Joe Biden and Barack Obama's Speeches to the Convention

I listened to the speeches of both Biden and Obama tonight.  Biden was a blowhard, full of enthusiasm but offered nothing but generalities.  Joe Trippi said he thought the second half of Biden's speech was sheer demagoguery.  Obama then gave his speech and offered the same standard stump speech we are used to hearing from him.  I found it uninspired and unconvincing.

Obama set up various "straw men" arguments, by telling us what the evil Republicans want to do, when in fact they have no such goals.  If you can't refute what they said, refute what they didn't say.

Charles Krauthammer said Obama's speech was empty and flat, but other than that, he loved it.  I agree.  The speech was just a lot of promises about what he was going to do in his second four years (probably a lot of golfing back in Chicago, since he will have lots of time on his hands).

If this is the best the Democrats have to offer, I'm not too worried.

Charles Krauthammer on the Roots of the Global Warming Hoax

In a piece titled "The Environmental Shakedown," Charles Krauthammer explains the roots and the purposes of the anthropogenic global warming (APG) hoax.  It is the same old scheme to "redistribute the wealth" from the producing companies to third world, underdeveloped and poor countries.  It has been the dream of socialists worldwide for decades.  Krauthammer writes:

The idea of essentially taxing hard-working citizens of the democracies in order to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early '80s). They put a stake through the enterprise.

But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.

Krauthammer is right.  Since the U.S. economy is carbon-based, the best way to get control is to allow the EPA to regulate every aspect of that economy.  The best rationale for that is that we are all going to die unless it is done.

Personally, I think that APG and the current climate hysteria is the biggest power grab in world history.  Through this gigantic fraud, a socialist world government can at last be realized.  Redistribution of wealth from those who produce it to those who don't can be done under the ruse of "purchasing carbon credits."

Thanks to the APG brain trust, poverty is now within the reach of everyone on earth.

Read it all here.

The Election of Obama "One of the Great Flukes of American Political History"

Charles Krauthammer tells how liberals and Democrats grossly overestimated the election of Barack Obama in 2008.  They believed it represented an historical realignment, a new political era of liberalism and Democrat rule, wherein the Republican Party would be all but destroyed, relegated to the South as an ineffective, regional party of angry white men.

However, the 2008 elections were nothing but a fluke of history.  Krauthammer argues that Obama was simply in the right place at the right time:  he ran when Americans were weary of war, when the outgoing president was widely unpopular and the new Republican candidate incompetent.  The financial crash in late 2008 and the euphoria of electing the first black president created an unusual political mix wherein Obama was elected ...by just seven points.

The elections of November 2009 merely indicate that things are returning to normal.  No kids, the GOP is far from dead.  Meanwhile, the Democrats are busily shooting themselves in the foot with widely unpopular policies. We'll be back, and sooner than you think.

Krauthammer's piece is called "The Myth of '08, Demolished."  Read it all here.