{"id":9536,"date":"2012-07-21T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/21\/barack-the-magic-suit-a-political-fairy-tale\/"},"modified":"2012-07-21T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T13:45:28","slug":"barack-the-magic-suit-a-political-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/21\/barack-the-magic-suit-a-political-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack the Magic Suit: A Political Fairy Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

A short video<\/a> by Andrew Klavan.  Here is an essay by him<\/a> which ends like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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He has no clue how things actually work. Even if socialism did work, it would be wrong because it would strip people of the fruits of their labor and the property rights on which liberty depends. Thankfully, it doesn\u2019t work, which makes the moral issue moot. But Obama has no clue of what\u2019s been tried and found wanting. He surrounds himself with ideologues and tunes out anyone who\u2019s ever made an honest dime in the real world. Thus every single idea the \u201cprogressive\u201d president puts forward is a regressive throwback to notions that have been failing miserably for more than seventy years. The stuff he believes is just plain dopey. He thinks technology<\/a> is the cause of unemployment. He does not understand that only private jobs create the wealth that makes public jobs possible<\/a>. He thinks that wind and solar energy<\/a> should be subsidized and fossil fuel production<\/a> suppressed. He insists on bringing the European social model<\/a> to the U.S. even as the model implodes in front of our eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

So go ahead, tell me that Mitt Romney is rich and I should hate him for it. Tell me that he\u2019s white and I should hate him for that. Tell me that his wife rides horses or that he said something nasty when he was fifteen or that \u2014 omigod! \u2014 he\u2019s a Mormon. Whatever his foibles and flaws, it seems pretty clear that Romney has the character to be president. Barack Obama has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he does not.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A short video by Andrew Klavan.  Here is an essay by him which ends like this: He has no clue how things actually work. Even if socialism did work, it would be wrong because it would strip people of the fruits of their labor and the property rights on which liberty depends. Thankfully, it doesn\u2019t … Continue reading “Barack the Magic Suit: A Political Fairy Tale”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}