Wednesday, September 07, 2011
"Answering Jonathan Alter’s Challenge"
The current state of America IS a reality.
That being said, I have to wonder why one would risk making a challenge like this...
That being said, I have to wonder why one would risk making a challenge like this...
At CommentaryMagazine.com, Peter Wehner absolutely blasts this softball out of the park:
"'Tell me again why Barack Obama has been such a bad president?' Jonathan Alter writes in his column.
Alter tells us he’s not talking here about Obama as a tactician and communicator, and he’s not interested in hearing ad hominem attacks or about people’s generalized 'disappointment.' (Neither am I.) He wants to know on a substantive basis why Obama should be judged to have failed so far.
In Alter’s words, ;Your mission, Jim [or anyone else for that matter], should you decide to accept it, is to be specific and rational, not vague and visceral.'
Consider the mission accepted."