A Spring Day in Late May

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Another drizzly day in late May! I'm not complaining. We are far enough away from those earlier deluges that only blissful appreciation is felt, that we should be enjoying an actual spring May instead of the usual summer May. I hope Pop appreciates it. This weather has saved him at least a hundred bucks on the air-conditioner as it continues to sit idle.

The only mar to this graceful spring is all the bird ordure on the porch. It has gotten bad enough that Monk has to spray it off every day now. I wonder if the birds actually had their hatchlings already and they are just hidden in that deeper nest.

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A Spring Day in Late May

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Another drizzly day in late May! I'm not complaining. We are far enough away from those earlier deluges that only blissful appreciation is felt, that we should be enjoying an actual spring May instead of the usual summer May. I hope Pop appreciates it. This weather has saved him at least a hundred bucks on the air-conditioner as it continues to sit idle.

The only mar to this graceful spring is all the bird ordure on the porch. It has gotten bad enough that Monk has to spray it off every day now. I wonder if the birds actually had their hatchlings already and they are just hidden in that deeper nest.

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The American Challenge

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Victor Davis Hanson has some encouraging words about America's chances in these tumultuous times, unless of course you are one who likes the idea of a falling America. If only Monk's chances were so good!

( VDH )

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The American Challenge

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Victor Davis Hanson has some encouraging words about America's chances in these tumultuous times, unless of course you are one who likes the idea of a falling America. If only Monk's chances were so good!

( VDH )

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Obama Fever

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It's been a while since I've heard the Obama tide rising again. Sully is apparently feeling some Obama fever:

I went to see Obama last night. He had a fundraiser at H20, a yuppie disco/restaurant in Southwest DC. I was curious about how he is in person. I'm still absorbing the many impressions I got. But one thing stays in my head. This guy is a liberal. Make no mistake about that. He may, in fact, be the most effective liberal advocate I've heard in my lifetime. As a conservative, I think he could be absolutely lethal to what's left of the tradition of individualism, self-reliance, and small government that I find myself quixotically attached to. And as a simple observer, I really don't see what's stopping him from becoming the next president. The overwhelming first impression that you get - from the exhausted but vibrant stump speech, the diverse nature of the crowd, the swell of the various applause lines - is that this is the candidate for real change. He has what Reagan had in 1980 and Clinton had in 1992: the wind at his back. Sometimes, elections really do come down to a simple choice: change or more of the same?

... I fear he could do to conservatism what Reagan did to liberalism.

The main concern, as picked up by Sully, is whehter Obama is still too uncertain a trumpet in the War on Terror. Some of his fans would say that it is good that he is not so geared up on it because there is no such war, or at least there shouldn't be. How the electorate, as a whole, will come to think about Obama and how he will handle national security issues is another question.

For the moment, I'm just impressed over how Obama can affect people when he is met in person, as Sullivan certainly fell under that magic. That's charisma!


(Source: Andrew Sullivan)

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Obama Fever

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It's been a while since I've heard the Obama tide rising again. Sully is apparently feeling some Obama fever:

I went to see Obama last night. He had a fundraiser at H20, a yuppie disco/restaurant in Southwest DC. I was curious about how he is in person. I'm still absorbing the many impressions I got. But one thing stays in my head. This guy is a liberal. Make no mistake about that. He may, in fact, be the most effective liberal advocate I've heard in my lifetime. As a conservative, I think he could be absolutely lethal to what's left of the tradition of individualism, self-reliance, and small government that I find myself quixotically attached to. And as a simple observer, I really don't see what's stopping him from becoming the next president. The overwhelming first impression that you get - from the exhausted but vibrant stump speech, the diverse nature of the crowd, the swell of the various applause lines - is that this is the candidate for real change. He has what Reagan had in 1980 and Clinton had in 1992: the wind at his back. Sometimes, elections really do come down to a simple choice: change or more of the same?

... I fear he could do to conservatism what Reagan did to liberalism.

The main concern, as picked up by Sully, is whehter Obama is still too uncertain a trumpet in the War on Terror. Some of his fans would say that it is good that he is not so geared up on it because there is no such war, or at least there shouldn't be. How the electorate, as a whole, will come to think about Obama and how he will handle national security issues is another question.

For the moment, I'm just impressed over how Obama can affect people when he is met in person, as Sullivan certainly fell under that magic. That's charisma!


(Source: Andrew Sullivan)

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