Not exactly news that Jesse Jackson is a fraud but we'll take our diversions where we find them:
Read that again: Jackson’s Caddy SUV was stripped while he was in town promoting green jobs.
Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large.
Jonah Goldberg on Obama's epic failure as a salesman:
In fairness, he’s tried to sell. He claimed the Gulf oil spill proves we need cap-and-trade. He told us from the Oval Office this week that we owe it to the troops to unite around his economic agenda. But these weren’t arguments so much as condescending harangues. No one who doesn’t already agree buys such nonsense. Rather, they ask, “How stupid does this guy think we are?”
Just as often, Obama confuses explanation for persuasion, as if simply telling us that because he thinks X, then X must be the way to go. More infuriating, nearly all of his explanations assume that disagreement with him must stem from ignorance or villainy. That pose worked a little when he could claim that opposition was synonymous with Republican partisanship. But now that disagreement has moved to the mainstream, he seems to have an adversarial relationship with the people he’s supposed to represent.
Eugene Robinson has a temper tantrum. The biggest laugh line: "This is not, I repeat not, a partisan argument." Mr. Robinson is living in a dream world in which the people are actually on board with the Obama agenda but upset because his remaking of America hasn't happened quickly enough.
If you missed Mark Steyn filling in for Rush this past Wednesday and Thursday, and if you have world enough and time (which I don't), you can listen on YouTube in eight to ten minutes segments. Part 1 of the 9/01 show is here. Hat tip: Kathy Shaidle's Talk Radio Watch.
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