Tom’s Big Picture

How can we have hope for a civilization that tolerates this? Our boys fight and die overseas to counter the “Islamo-fascists”, but our own governments refuse to delouse the home front. The threat of terrorism is overplayed to support the expansion of government, as the most obvious solution is to ask our Muslim guests to leave our countries.

There is no historical precedent for any Muslim to live in the US or Britain.  If it’s worth fighting a war over, then why not kick them out and send them home?

Why are American and British boys dying in Iraq while our governments allow mosques to be built in our major cities? It’s a scam and a farce using the good-natured nationalism of our people (and their blood and treasure) to accomplish neoconservative foreign policy objectives while doing nothing to solve the rot at home.

Meanwhile, old ladies and blonde girls are getting frisked at the airport by the lowest denominator GED-qualified affirmative action beneficiaries, all because we can’t admit that the 300-year Enlightenment experiment called “the brotherhood of man” is an obvious failure.

New Orleans mayor Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin and crony checking out and enjoying their new arms shipment, like Third World dictators:

And a Bill Clinton-class political tactician.  This man is mesmerizing to watch.  He’s an ess-oh-bee as well, but at least he’s our ess-oh-bee, right?  The South continues to produce the world’s best bs’ers, from lawyers to politicians to novelists:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdsnpucXq6I

Whereas McCain and Giuliani are truly scary, Huck would be another Dubya-class mediocrity.  Go Huckabee!

It frustrates me that God seems to give out these gifts of charisma and political skill to completely mediocre leaders (the naturalist-Calvinist in me points out that those who possess these gifts are so successful at manipulating their fellow human beings at early ages that no real character development ever takes place, leaving a well-spoken sociopath with no core principles).

Ron Paul is the best of the bunch as a man, but doesn’t exactly have the communication skill of a master like Huckabee.  I sympathize with Paul, having at many times experienced the frustration of too many ideas pouring out of the brain too fast, which end up as abbreviated and punctuated statements rather than persuasive speech.  Hopefully these homeschool kids and their classical curriculums with capstones in rhetoric can fill the statesman gap.  Emotion, not data, moves the voter.

So Republicans are set to nominate the second-worst candidate of the entire initial field.

Given the degeneracy of our country, it’s hard to tell if such an outcome reflects God’s grace or God’s judgment.

Apparently Rick Warren likes the Von Mises Institute, the intellectual fountainhead of Ron Paul-style constitutionalism:

www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/019116.html

Ok, if Pastor Rick endorses Paul I’ll delete all my negative posts about Warren and Saddleback.  My blog for my country!