Re: A Defining Moment; by Victor Davis Hanson




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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
A Defining Moment [Victor Davis Hanson]


The stage is set for someone to play Washington, Lincoln, or
Churchill. An entire generation of leadership is failing, as the world
watches aghast.

true


Greedy Wall Street hot shots are worse than discredited.

true


Rep. Nancy Pelosi at the hour of national crisis proved why she may
well be the worst House Speaker in the history of the Congress.

not really



The more Sen. Dodd and Rep. Frank shout and demagogue in front of the
cameras, the more desperate we know they are to talk their way out of
their own past reckless and unprincipled conduct.

not at all


Lame duck President Bush is spent, tired and knows only that he will
blamed for something he tried to prevent.

true


Sec. Paulson thought he could bark out orders at Treasury and expect
underlings to snap to attention as they did once for him as Goldman
Sachs. And when they didn't, in vain he went to one knee - arrogance
to fawning in a matter of hours.

true


The utterly corrupt Left-wing members of the House who green-lighted
the thievery at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that started the panic will
be lucky if they are not targets of a special prosecutor.


hilariously false

Free-market Republican House members gave high-minded speeches and
then panicked in the face of populist outrage just when the country
needed their calm, hand-in-glove with Democratic House ideologues -
the one claiming we are getting socialism, the other robber-baron
capitalism.

uh... I can't parse that sentence at all.


They are as captive to public outrage over the bailout now
as they soon will be to the next phase of outrage over shattered
retirement accounts.

Barack Obama is again voting present, clueless while trying to act
cool, waiting for calls, and issuing hourly contradictory statements
adjusted to perceived CNN punditry and Drudge headlines.


or, not


Somewhere, somehow the American people need a steady voice of
experience to rise above politics, stop the bickering, calm the
country, get the proper guarantees passed, promise the needed reform -
and so lead and inspire.

yes we do



Can John McCain seize the moment and transcend the campaign?

no



(end of commentary)



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