Dean Barnett takes a butterknife to an intellectual knifefight with Spencer Ackerman over "The Obama Doctrine." Of course, it's precisely the fact that Obama's approach to al-Qaeda is antithetical to The Weekly Standard's bluster and ignorance approach that makes him an appealing figure.
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Barnett Versus Obama
28 Mar 2008 01:37 pm
Comments (17)
It is indeed too bad, and it has been a tough decade, but with George Steinbrenner calling fewer and fewer shots, the future is looking bright for the Bombers.
Oh, and way to arbitrarily pick a decade. Their "cheif" rival could win every year for the next 18 years, and still be behind in terms of success.
Ah, yes. It's so so wonderful to think back to those Yankee championships from decades past. Sure beats winning in the present. Mmm-hmm. Might as well just trade away all the stars and fill the roster with Triple-A talent, since you can just bask in those past glories and not worry about today.
Right?
It is indeed too bad, and it has been a tough decade, but with George Steinbrenner calling fewer and fewer shots, the future is looking bright for the Bombers.
Truly, everything has changed now that George Steinbrenner's loudmouth douchebag son is running the team. It's like night and day in Tampa and the Bronx.
Sorry Brain Cashman, did not realize that typos were not allowed on this blog.
For the record, a millenium is not a decade.
There was an article recently- I think it was SI- on how the Yankees subsidize the other teams. So you tools can stop whining. What are you, Democrats? (Kidding...)
Anyway, Hank Steinbrenner doesn't really have much baseball power. He's just there to sell papers.
tinsiolo, nothing beats winning now, and there's no denying the cheif rival has been better lately. But the Yankee farm system is consistently rated as better, and (I don't know how into stats you are) every single independent projection I've seen (including Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA) thinks the Yankees are better this year. So I don't see why I can't bask in the glory of the past and be optimistic for this year and the future.
I hate to hijack Matt's blog over a comment in some other dude's blog, so this is my last comment on this matter.
Hey Matt -- how 'bout Obama and Wright again. How 'bout Wright's assertion that Israel created an "ethnic bomb" to kill Arabs...http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/2361640904_f78427e96d.jpg
Matt,
Could you explain how it is that both you and Marty Peretz think Obama supports your respective foreign policy priorities? That's got me confused.
Fred, Marty Peretz is occasionally delusional.
Butterknife? Man, it's a spoon.
"Fred, Marty Peretz is occasionally delusional."
If so, this must be a persistent delusion. He's even defending Obama on the Rev. Wright stuff in TNR ("Standing By His Man: Why Obama was right in not repudiating his pastor"), which elicited a great letter in response:
Standing by his man, with one of the weakest and least coherent lead editorials I've ever seen in TNR. This line's choice: "one can assume that there is something in the style of Trinity's Christianity that attracts Obama".... Trinity allowed Obama to rechristen himself as authentically black to his Southside Chicago constituency. This political transaction is so obvious, and simple, that Obama didn't deny it, in fact openly admitted as much in his book. If Obama and his admirers would have the humility and honesty to admit that, yes, he is a politician whose association with Wright was forged in order to pay political dividends-- because that's what politicians do-- my respect for him would increase markedly. These tortured apologia for a simple and natural political act have, with Marty's latest contribution, truly reached the baroque phase.
"If so, this must be a persistent delusion."
He's Marty Peretz. This stuff is axiomatic.
I'm a pro-Obama Red Sox fan. Caught in the crosswinds...
How are the Yankees going to be better after losing their best player while the Red Sox still pretty much have their championship team together?
"will fuck you up like Obama will AQSL in the Northwest Frontier Province."
Spencer is an idiot.
Obama will do no such thing - the new Pakistani government has already put the US on notice about that. And even if they hadn't, Obama has NO - repeat, NO - plan he has specified on HOW to do that. Just waving around your Predators with Hellfire missiles is nothing to the purpose.
Morons.
I'd also like to hear about Obama's plan "to fuck up" AQSL in the Northwest Frontier Province.
What people fail to understand is that Afghanistan was equally a doomed project from the start, even if we had resources diverted to Iraq. Anti-Iraq war types like to say stupid shit like "Iraq diverts our attention from Afghanistan" and that's only true in the sense that we don't have 150k troops to put into Afghanistan. But 150k troops in Afghanistan would've just shown the hopelessness of building a free, democratic country (or whatever the fuck we planned to do in Afghanistan in the first place).
Liberals say that Iraq "diverted resources from Afghanistan" because they don't want to look like a bunch of "pussies."
RSH: The Yankees didn't lose their best player...
That was directed to Reality Man.
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too bad spack includes that yankees prediction. I have heard that they were once a pretty good team, maybe even like Notre Dame in college football, but they have not won it since the last millenium, while their cheif rival is winning at better than 25% this millenium.
Posted by theCoach | March 28, 2008 1:51 PM