Will Obama Save Liberalism?

[Jim Sagle]

By WILLIAM KRISTOL
Published: January 25, 2009

<snip>

This is William Kristol’s last column.

And that's really the only worthwhile sentence in his column. The rest of it was just a buncha shit, like everything else he ever wrote. If for some unfathomable reason, you want to read it, just click on the link.

;)

[babylonsister]

1. NYT? How delicious. About time, no puns. Bye, lil' bill. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Kristol is responsible for putting Palin on the GOP ticket. Bless you Bill.

[EFerrari]

12. We'll always have Sarah!

lol

[elleng]

3. GREAT NEWS!

Smartest thing nyt has done in quite a while!

[leftstreet]

4. BWAHAHA "If Reagan’s policies had failed..."

The answer lies in the hands of one man: the 44th president. If Reagan’s policies had failed, or if he hadn’t been politically successful, the conservative ascendancy would have been nipped in the bud. So with President Obama today. Liberalism’s fate rests to an astonishing degree on his shoulders. If he governs successfully, we’re in a new political era. If not, the country will be open to new conservative alternatives.

This nitwit KNOWS Reagan's policies failed.

Trickle down, anyone?

[babylonsister]

5. And rec'd for some sanity. nt

[merh]

6. Hey, not only is it his last column (YEAH)

But he seems to have conceded:

That exhortation was appropriate for World War II. Today, the dangers are less stark, and the conflicts less hard. Still, there will be trying times during Obama’s presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

Heh!

bye, bye billyboy

:woohoo:

Oh, and if you read Kitty Kelly's book on the bush family, the bushies hate FDR.

[Jim Sagle]

7. Separated at birth?

One's a hasbeen comic, the other's a hasbeen pundit; yet they seem so much alike.

[EFerrari]

13. How can you possibly compare Billy Crystal to that horrible @sshole.

[DeSwiss]

14. Billy Crystal....

...was a Hillary supporter. So he's one of ours.

- And I like his comedy. So I guess that makes me a "has been" too.

[madmax]

19. Here, here

:hug:

[madmax]

18. What an insult to Billy Crystal

[Skittles]

8. that guy is a fucking clown

[BlooInBloo]

9. (shrug) According to poutraging DUers, Obama was never liberal in the first place...

So I guess according to those geniuses, nothing extra is lost.

[Jim Sagle]

10. Pssstttt...the primary circuses are over.

[BlooInBloo]

11. Thanks, but I'm a fluent speaker of Obvious...

Ok, fine - I'll bite. Why exactly do you *think* my comment had anything whatsoever to do with the primaries?

[Jim Sagle]

21. It's obvious, Captain.

[mmonk]

17. I guess it depends on how one describes liberal.

I prefer liberal to mean someone like Dennis Kucinich who believes transforming the US into largely a peaceful country not looking anymore to dominate the world through economic hegemony by the use of violence as a tool but more as a member of the community of nations.

[DeSwiss]

15. K&R

- Of course he still has that "other" gig.....

[varkam]

16. ROFL! I just read that and came in here looking to spew forth venom...

you *did* pick the best line out of the whole thing. :rofl: Thanks for making my day

[Stevepol]

20. Liberalism is the only thing that can save the US. If O sees that, he'll save himself & the country.