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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Thank you Santa
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I must have been a good boy this year.
All my work is done and presents wrapped; Caddyshack is on TV, and at 9 p.m. they’re re-showing that eternal holiday classic, Penn State v. Georgia in the 1983 Sugar Bowl.
And we all remember how that one turned out, right Dawg fans?
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The Christmas truce, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On Christmas Eve in 1914, British and German troops faced each other on the Western front, dug into trenches within earshot of each other. The Germans started singing Christmas carols; the British responded with carols of their own. Soon they started emerging from their trenches, meeting in the “no man’s land” that separated them, exchanging small gifts and starting soccer games.
In that spirit, what’s your favorite Christmas carol, and whose version do you like the best? And just to make things interesting, what Christmas carol makes you cringe every time you hear it, bringing your inner Scrooge to life?
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Conservatives should spare us their pity
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist for the Boston Globe, asks a question that a lot of other folks on the right have asked as well:
“Can you hear the grumbling over in what Howard Dean used to call “the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party” over Barack Obama’s personnel decisions?
No Jeff, to tell you the truth, I can’t.
In its insistence that the left is angry at Obama, the Republican elephant has become a veritable Horton of Dr. Seuss fame, hearing tiny little sounds from tiny little people that no one else can hear. Yes, there have isolated squawks from isolated people about isolated decisions, but for the most part Obama’s supporters seem to be quite pleased with their man.
Obama ran on competence and moderation. He is now stressing competence and moderation as he puts his administration together. The only people who should be surprised are those who ran around like so many Chicken Littles, warning that Obama was a Muslim/Marxist/Black Panther in disguise.
You know, people like Jeff Jacoby.
During the campaign, he warned that Obama’s association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright “raises doubts about Obama’s character and judgment, and about his fitness for the role of race-transcending healer.” He questioned whether Obama’s occasional brushes with Bill Ayers demonstrates “Obama’s idea of “respectable” and “mainstream” political thinking?” And if so, “doesn’t that tell us something about his judgment and standards?” He also wrote that Michelle Obama’s patriotism was fair game in the campaign.
Jacoby, in other words, has grounds to be surprised and probably a bit disappointed. But he and his fellow conservatives should stop trying to project their own emotions onto other people. It ain’t working.
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