President Barack Obama and Thomas Sowell

President Barack Obama and Thomas Sowell

In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Without doubt one of the most responsible and insightful critics of President Obama is the black American economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell. Sowell’s approach is worthy of imitation, particularly “Random Thoughts” and I will try with The Morning Wrap-Up in future letters.

Our next American black President will be in the mold of the heritage of a Thomas Sowell and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. {Republicans be on the look-out for this man or woman.}

Now let’s check out Sowell’s awesome random thoughts, Beyond the Inspiring Nonsense, in the Orange County Register, CA. Thurs. May 28, 2009.

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a “stimulus,” then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

Just days after Colin Powell informed us that the American people were willing to pay higher taxes to get government services – and that Republicans therefore needed to stop their opposition to taxes – California voters resoundingly defeated a bill to raise taxes to pay for the many government services in that liberal state.

Who was it who said: “I cannot tell what powers may have to be exercised in order to win this war”? George W. Bush? Dick Cheney? Donald Rumsfeld? Actually it was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He understood that survival was the No. 1 right, without which all other rights are meaningless.

They say that adversity concentrates the mind. Now that Republicans have been badly beaten in two consecutive Congressional elections, what Republican leaders in Congress are saying today makes more sense than what they said when they were in power.

One of the most important talents for success in politics is the ability to make utter nonsense sound not only plausible but inspiring. Barack has that talent. We will be lucky if we escape the catastrophes into which other countries have been led by leaders with that same charismatic talent.

How surprising is it that Barack Obama, who spent decades hanging out with people who spewed out their hatred of America, did not say anything in the presence of foreign rulers like Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega, when they spewed out their hatred of America? …

Much discussion of the interrogation of captured terrorists ignores the inescapable reality of trade-offs. The real question is: How many American lives are you prepared to sacrifice, to spare a terrorist from experiencing distress?

Governments should govern, not micromanage the economy…. Inspiring as it is to study the history of the struggles and sacrifices that created and preserved America, it is also painful to see how all those investments of efforts and lives are being frittered away today for short-sighted & self-centered reasons.
George H. Kubeck