If you’d please excuse my continued self-indulgence. While the VP was calling us terrorists, the Senate and president were further committing us to paying their bills we’ll never possibly be able to afford, the markets were tanking, and apparently it’s hotter’n'hell everywhere else in the country, I extended my celebration of the Centennial State’s birthday into today.
Here was the view from 14,433′ plus 5’9″ earlier today:
That’s Mount Elbert, Colorado’s tallest (and our Nation’s #14). I was the first one to summit today, so for a brief moment was the tallest person in the state, and quite possibly in North America. Not bad.
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from TML)
In a post that Glenn linked yesterday, the fetching Stephen Green asks a question every American should ponder:
If the GOP nominates one of its Unwinnables, Obama could very well take the election next year — but to what purpose?
To what purpose, indeed.
Contrast the ideas underlying Ronald Reagan’s unsuccessful bid for the White House in 1976 and his successful one in 1980 with those underlying Obama’s one bid for the White House. That good and great man had a vision of the change he wanted, a vision remarkably consistent from the moment he first articulated it to a national audience in 1964 until his political swan song twenty-eight years later.
Obama just offered the hope of change.
What purpose would his reelection serve? What kind of changes would his reelection effect?
We haven’t even started cleaning up the messes of his first two years, but the recent debt deal, for all its flaws, at least prevents Democrats from making their mess much worse.
