Comments on: OBAMA IMPLANTS HIS POLITICAL VISION FOR AMERICA — BUT WILL IT TAKE?

By: Justa Numerican

Justa Numerican — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:09:58 +0000

Have you lost your ever-loving mind? Your kind of conflicted thinking literally makes me sick - no wonder America is on its last legs. Communitarians be damned!

Have you never heard the term “Red Ronnie”? The man was a tool… and a dodderin’ fool besides… just like all the others in our lifetime.

Clearly, you must’ve been indoctrinated in America’s communist school system. And for this I am sad; as I was too. But truly, you and your buddies - over-the-edge-a-cated fellow travelers all - need to perform your hootin’ and hollerin’… and technocratic magick tricks… in someone else’s back yard. Your countrymen will be the better for it.

Looking over the lengthy blogroll at this site should find y’all plenty of sh*t-faced party-goers to celebrate with ya. What a witch’s brew of scumbags, liars, traitors, cabalists, and moral reprobates they are!

And hey, why don’t y’all up and invite good ol’ Amitai Etzioni? Now wouldn’t that be a media coup for the brethren!

By: manoman

manoman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:19:52 +0000

Thank you for your PJ Media column, Rick. For Obama to “bring us together” he must govern from the middle. It’s also the path to reelection, and I think he is smart enough to understand this. Reagan did.

By: MochaLite

MochaLite — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:44:32 +0000

Rick, I was with you right up to your last sentence. What is worth celebrating about an American leader arriving at essentially un-American conclusions?

Obama is truthful when he says that he wants to “shape the future”. Unfortunately, he wants a future shaped like something that 200+ years of American thought rejects. Individual freedom and communitarianism are polar opposites. I don’t feel celebratory about anyone who wants to take this country in the opposite direction to that of our founders.

By: hoody

hoody — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:00:47 +0000

regardless of various definitions of communitarianism, it is rightly understood and executed (if it ever is) once the actual definition of “community” is achieved. Is it the family? Township? Region? State? Country? Clearly, all are forms of community. But the suppression of the desires of the individual for the good of the whole works only when the individual has the right of voluntary association with the community. This is why communitarianism worked for the early Christians, the Pilgrims, the Amish and some ’60s-style communes. To try and enact this on the state level is in no real way different from the statist Communism found behind the Iron Curtain.

In this, I am not suggesting for a moment that B.O. is Communist. And he IS to be applauded for being at least some form of thinker.

But if his goal is Statist Communitarianism, the road to ruin is straightly paved.