That so few would recant shows you just how kooky the opposition to the GOP has become. These people give support to the notion that Obama really is a subversive and that we elected something of a Trojan Horse.

Thanks to Fox (and to Salon!) the message is getting out and the rascals will be turned out first in 2010 and then finally in 2012.

petekent01 (on twitter)

What an excellent deconstruction of Obama's (and the Democrats)approach to healthcare.

I have been wondering the same thing, "Where in the hell is the teaching moment?"

The whole thing is a stinking mess and the people's outrage is motivated as much by fear of the unknown as anything.

The shocking lack of populist outrage by the Democratic Party with regard to Obama's Gestapo/Stalinist tactics to collect information on dissenters while Pelsoi et al shout down their opponents as "mobs' is disgusting.

Both major parties, it seems have lost their souls.

Finally, I loved the dissection of L'affaire Gates. Obama again exposed as the elitist fop that he is. "Prissy" beer summit indeed.Too bad Peter Lawford is dead: he could play him in the movie and resurrect blackface as an art form (something begun recently by Robert Downey, Jr.).

Paglia's use of language is the best!

petekent01 (on twitter)

Years ago I used to enjoy the gossipy, detailed coverage of political and business figures in Vanity Fair, getting a secret thrill out of seeing the foibles of the rich and powerful exposed, but that has faded.

VF is just a political organ now for the Left and its POV so skewed as to make its reportage more irritating than enjoyable.

Todd Purdom has stooped again to National Inquirer level of journalism. Just as he did last Summer with his hatchet job on Bill Clinton, he now pounces on Sarah Palin. All must fall in the shadow of Obama.

Paglia to her credit takes apart this little man (Purdom) and gave me just enuf insight into his despicable reportage as to confirm the validity of my reluctance to read his piece on a figure, Palin, I find remarkable and very interesting.

petekent01 (on twitter)

It is the trick of a small child for a huge payor like the federal government to negotiate discounts from big pharma, esp on the blockbuster drugs that seniors use. The volume of sales is so great and the incremental cost of production is so slight that the drug companies can make these concessions from time to time.

The trouble will come when there is only a single payor out there and the US demands cheap pricing like Canada and Europe. Oh, we will get it for existing drugs, but forget about new drug R&D. Without the ability to make "obscene" profits on their proven winners, pharma cannot afford to invest in new medicines.

Right now the US is subsidizing the socialized world. Once we join them, the subsidy will be over and the healing will stop.

petekent01 (on twitter)

I don't have to read the comments section any longer to know that Ms. Paglia will be roundly attacked, mostly ad hominem, for her daring to spake criticism of Obama, esp of his economic plan which more and more is becoming a manifest failure.

Such intolerance of divergent opinion and an unwillingness to debate is precisely the sort of mind control that many on the right fear about the left's embrace of Obama: it is disturbingly anti-democratic (very much with a small "d").

petekent01 (on twitter)

In your elegy to France you forgot to mention their racism, their anti-semitism and how Arab youth riot in the streets on a regular basis.

No dobut you live in an oasis on the Avenue Foch, but the French people like most of old Europe is cynical and tired with little optomism or hope for the future.

Ms Paglia so eloquently points out how intolerant Obama and his adminstration are of divergent opinion. His unwillingess to engage in real debate about his polices along with his constant use of (low brow) straw men techniques, ad hominem attacks and his casting about for enemies du jour have convinced me that Obama is nothing more than a poseur.