Blair cements his place in history.

Few people are lucky enough to know what history will make of them. Unless - like Churchill - he writes it himself, history will not be kind to Tony Blair.

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6 Responses to “Blair cements his place in history.”

  1. Alisa Says:
    November 17, 2006 at 5:49 am

    I never had too many great expectations from Blair, although I still very much appreciate his support in Iraq. What I am really worried about is someone from whom I had very great expectations, and that is Bush. He has two more years left to leave his true mark in history - I hope he steps up to the plate. Dumping Rummy does not look like a good sign.

  2. David Says:
    November 17, 2006 at 10:06 am

    Well, if President Bush has his way, future American history texts taught in our schools will likely have to be in Spanish…

    I don’t know which is worse: Blair’s acceptance of Iran’s bloody hand or Bush playing lapdog for Mexico… Each are likely to cost dearly.

  3. Alisa Says:
    November 17, 2006 at 10:39 am

    You don’t know which is worse? I do. But that may be due to the fact that I live much closer to Iran than you do.

  4. Murray Says:
    November 17, 2006 at 10:40 am

    They both had a good first innings but were worn down by the media.

    Howard is still too strong to give a rats what the Melborne Daily Appeasement has to say about him.

  5. David Says:
    November 17, 2006 at 5:23 pm

    Perhaps you’re right, Alisa, and perhaps my outlook is influenced by the steady erosion of English as the official language of the U.S., the presence of illegals living just down thwe street from me (yeh, and the cops and the feds have no interest in chasing their lil heinies outa dodge), the growing anarcho-tyranny as LEOs pick and choose which laws they want to inforce… often based on so-called “minority” politics, etc., all favoring an outlaw invasion of the U.S. encouraged by an outlaw Mexican government where ricos simply wantto export their economic problems, rake in the bonanza of remittance monies (the second largest component of Mexico’s economy) from a largely illegal population in the U.S., all the while sitting on a country with some of the most remarkable natural resource wealth in this hemisphere.

    Thirty-five years ago, when I taught in a barrio school in a Texas border town, the children’s parents all wanted theri children to become fluent in English. Now? They just don’t care. cos if We don’t speak Spanish, hire Spanish speakers, etc., they can always start shouting about “racism”–regardless of the simple fact that race is not a factor, but their illegal activity and disrespect for the country in which they are guests IS the issue.

    I see decent, law-abiding citizens hammered because they simply expect others to live within the law. Hammered by supposed law enforcement officers and told it is THEY who must disregard the outlaws in their midst.

    That sounds a death knell for the Republic the Founders bequeathed us, as surely as if 1,000 jihadis were to set off atomic bombs. When laws are NOT enforced except to harass citizens, while doing nothing to stem the actions of outlaws, a representative democraatic republic is no more.

    I weep for the Republic that was. What can the jihadis take from us if they were to impose sharia law that the political elite cannot take, now?

    Not very much. It’s a tossup to see who conquers the U.S. and what language the history texts taught in American schools will be written in when they tell of the fall of the United States.

    Ah, well. babbling. That’s what an old guy gets for trying to type past his bedtime. *heh*

  6. krm Says:
    November 18, 2006 at 4:09 pm

    Unfortunately, the US system is not a strong executive form. Other than the veto pen and the bully pulpit, the executive is greatly limited. When the media counter acts the bully pulpit so as to twist anything said by the Pres to be a negative, there really isn’t much left.

    I had much higher hopes for Bush, bit I give him credit for making an effort against a very evenly divided country and a thoroughly opposed press that left him minimal ability to advance his agenda. On the other hand, had Gore/Kery gotten in the results would have been truly disasterous (hell, either of those LLL idiots might have had the US lined up with Eurabia and the ME Arabs to bomb Israel off the maps - with little to slow him down except a minor revolt by the Evangelicals).

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