Comments on: Obama Flunks History, Again

By: Pajamas Media » David Irving and the Banality of Revisionism

Pajamas Media » David Irving and the Banality of Revisionism — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:41:39 +0000

[...] and political expediency, however, it was stylized into such by the Obama administration. See my “Obama Flunks History, Again.”) Page 1 of 2 Next [...]

By: haloagain

haloagain — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:17:06 +0000

No doubt the typo in the first sentence of my last post will invalidate any opinion I have to someone as nit-picky as this fool.

By: haloagain

haloagain — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:15:43 +0000

good lord –

Post’s this idiotic make me sad to be human. I’m honestly interested in hearing reasonable, intellectually honest conservative opinions. I thought this site might be a good resource. Turns out, there aren’t any intellectual conservatives left. You’re all so pathetic.

By: ericna

ericna — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:38:48 +0000

Quite right. What Obama should have said was “Tomorrow, I will visit a normal concentration camp where lots of people, including a substantial number of Jews, but not one of the really bad death camps in Poland where millions of Jews died. Those I will perhaps visit later, but right now I am going to Germany and as none of the real death camps are located in Germany, Buchenwald will have to do. Of course, I could refer to Buchenwald as a KZ-camp that was part of to Holocaust, which would be a powerful message to the worlds Muslims. But then some idiot writer for New Majority will complain that the ratio of killed Jews at Buchenwald was too small to be used as an example of a Holocaust concentration camp and use this to make a rather a cheap shot while coat-tailing on the suffering of millions.

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Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:49:07 +0000

Patrick and Gibberish:

Your comments could not be more accurate. Even though I'm a left of center Dem, I had come to this site hoping to hear both fresh policy ideas from the Right and thoughtful and honest criticisms of Obama's policies. Unfortunately, except in very rare instances, I've gotten neither.

These failures probably mean the Right is much further away from developing fresh ideas than any of us thought. While that's politically good for me and the Dems in the short term, I think it tends to hurt the country over the long term.

Neither the articles on this site, nor most of the commenters seem capable of offering thoughtful, intellectually honest criticisms of Obama's policies. Instead, they pick out the most trivial inconsequential minutae.

It's really disappointing.

By: balconesfault

balconesfault — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:37:48 +0000

“Is there a single example, anywhere on this blog, where an article author has come down here with us rabble in the comments and responded to criticism in any way?”

Yes – I can’t remember the poster, but he was talking about how the detainees issue is now Obama’s issue, and not Bush’s, responded to commentors.

By: gibberish

gibberish — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:54:14 +0000

It is a failing – the absence of any interest in replying to comments. Or at least explaining what these postings have as their goal

Seems to me after all the excitement of the anti-Limbaugh campaign a little while back they haven’t noticed that this site risks just being a more erudite version of the ranters.

Maybe they should look into how William F Buckley did it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kwfbz

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:57:23 +0000

It's not just the content that is failing to live up to the stated goals of this site, but the fact that there is no engagement by those who generate the content.

It is typical of how the old-school GOP operates - "we tell you what to think and that's all there is to it".

They don't listen to us, they refuse to engage us and are bewildered at why the GOP is in the ditch.

Is there a single example, anywhere on this blog, where an article author has come down here with us rabble in the comments and responded to criticism in any way?

The credibility issue is huge for me. You cannot regain my trust by telling me what to think. You can BEGIN regain my trust by talking WITH me as an adult and equal, and responding to my concerns.

I don't see that happening here - or anywhere in the right-wing for that matter.

By: nealjking

nealjking — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:12:36 +0000

I’m sorry, but Rosenthal’s piece is total idiocy.

By: balconesfault

balconesfault — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:49:18 +0000

gibberish – good point. You’d have to fault the gatekeepers here – snarks about Obama really aren’t a pathway to reforming the Republican Party and conservatism, are they?