The Burgers of Schilda
 

The Burgers of Schilda
By David Solway
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, March 27, 2009


"Those of us who consider ourselves moderates…are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was."

- David Brooks, New York Times, March 2, 2009.

There is an old German folktale about the burgers of Schilda who decide to build themselves a new Town Hall. It is to be an impressive structure, imposingly large, richly marmoreal and beautifully furnished. And so it turns out. But after they complete the project and gather to celebrate their handiwork, they discover that they have forgotten to include windows. In the midst of their festivities, they can scarcely see one another, stumbling about in the dark interior, colliding with their fellow celebrants and barking their shins against chairs and tables.

Snip.......http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...6-94FA6183D8EF
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In part....

"Out of his theoretical musings Obama is imposing a failed ideological strategy upon an anxious and reeling nation. It should by this time be obvious that, for all his undeniable charm and apparent rhetorical facility, he is an unqualified rookie, a “leader” with no experience in governing, immature in his enthusiasms and prey to faddish socio-economic theories with a distinct leftist stamp that have never worked wherever they have been tried.
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Great paragraph -- an accurate summary of Obama's small and shrinking stature.

It’s a good article, but someone needs to tell Mr. Solway that a “burger” is a sandwich consisting of a ground meat patty—the word he’s looking for is actually “burgher”.

Perfect......
 

........I dint read the hole t'ing, but it is utterly and entirely apt.

We are in deep do-do with this President. He continues to make embarrassing mistakes with the heads of other country's. His promise of leaving Afganistan, which i did not agree with is now forgotten. My point is-he continues to do the opposite of what he promised his followers, yet you hear nothing about it on NBC joeg

From the web.....

We tend to forget that ‘bank’ is the first part of ‘bankruptcy’. Mr Barack Obama’s problem, however, seems to be a bankruptcy of ideas. No one I spoke to — and among them were high officials of finance — is yet certain how the most powerful economy in the world turned into a cashless casino. Mr Obama’s solution is to flood the casino with money so that the game does not suddenly stop. How much money? A trillion dollars, and more to come. What happens when the dollar starts to slip to the value of printing ink? China, which has invested heavily in dollars, is getting edgy. Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman is not impressed by Barackonomics. He writes that Mr Obama is squandering his political capital by replicating a solution even Mr Bush abandoned: Cash for trash. The Titanic might leave the dollar on thin ice.

And these....

Who would have thought that the first word might serve as the last word and the first word would be uttered by Mr George W Bush? Mr Bush’s plaintive analysis of the Greatest Crisis in Human History was pithy: “If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down.” All right, not quite how Keynes or Galbraith might have put it, but elegance was not the issue when the Titanic hit the iceberg. One suspects Mr Bush rather enjoyed the thought that the sucker might suck someone else down.

I miss W.