Tuesday, December 10, 2024
The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda
The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda. We willlook at the situation in Syria. President elect Trump around world leaders. Cabinet appointments, Sanctuary cities vs Trump and one more look back at Pearl Harbor 1941.......click to listen:
It's over, Obama
It's over, Obama - American Thinker https://t.co/IqZaJZN8hY
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) December 10, 2024
During the last campaign, former President Obama called on African American men to vote for the African American female candidate. It didn’t work, and you know the rest of the story.
The thrill is gone for the 44th president. He will be remembered, and that’s good, for being the first African American president. He won’t be remembered for much more because he was always an empty suit, a media creation, and don’t get me started on ObamaCare.
What happened? Well, Roger Kimball has a point:
I always found the literary critic Harold Bloom (1930-2019) distinctly curate’s-eggish. You ask, “How is your egg this morning, curate?” “Good in parts,” comes the reply. But Bloom made one observation that stuck with me. Lots of literature, Bloom wrote somewhere, deals with the phenomenon of falling in love. But equally poignant is the story of falling out of love.
Bloom was thinking primarily of personal romance. However, the emotional dialectic he limned works itself out on the larger stage of political life as well. There is a certain mystery about both sides of the process. The public’s enthusiasms are as fickle as they are extravagant. What explains the infatuation with figures like Barack Obama? In retrospect, it is possible to offer more or less plausible explanations. Obama’s race, his smooth, non-confrontational manner, and his ability to dress up radical policy proposals in an emollient jelly of seeming common sense all help explain his political success.
Yes, glad to see that it’s starting to fade.
Back in 2008, many of us couldn’t believe how this empty suit could go through an election without having to answer any questions. His speeches were like rock concerts with people fainting and everyone obsessed with the “hope and change” chorus. He was given a free pass as a candidate and even worse as president. Obama was protected from the ObamaCare mess that he created and then everyone in the media went silent when he was deporting millions or keeping kids in cages. It was obscene to watch how he was always given the benefit of the doubt.
So I’m glad it’s over. He will hang around because the party has no choice. The bad news is that he will give a speech about how the GOP is dividing the country and how we must listen to each other. The good news is that will have the same impact as his efforts to get people to vote for VP Harris.
Like the disco craze, and all those who deny today that they bought copies of “Disco Duck,” the former president will get old in his mansions. I’m glad that he can afford those mansions, but it must be devastating to his ego to learn that the thrill is gone.
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2017: Merry Christmas with our friend Frank Burke
Guest: Frank Burke, author, businessman & contributor to American Thinker....we will look back at 2017 and hear Frank's Christmas message...
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2013 podcast: Christmas and "war stories" with Leslie Eastman and Barry Jacobsen
Christmas and "war stories" with Leslie Eastman and Barry Jacobsen....
1971: The Mets traded a young Nolan Ryan to the Angels
To be fair, Ryan had been a bit wild as a young pitcher plus the Mets were very deep with Seaver, Koosman and Gentry. They felt that Fregosi could add some punch to their lineup.
The trade paid off because the Mets won the NL pennant in 1973. On the other hand, the Angels had to wait until 1979 for a championship.
Ryan was a strikeout king for much of the 1970's before signing with the Astros and ending his career with the Rangers.
1969-71: Mike Cuellar was a great pitcher
Cuellar was traded to Baltimore after pitching with Houston and making the NL All Star Team. Nobody expected the crafty Cuban to win 143 games over the next 8 seasons, 1969-75.
In 1970, Cuellar won 24 and came in 4th behind Jim Perry, Dave McNally & Sam McDowell in the Cy Young Award race. Mike pitched a complete game in game 5 to beat Cincinnati and clinch the title for Baltimore.
In 1971, Cuellar was one of the 4 Orioles who won 20 games. Mike pitched twice in the World Series but lost game 7 when the late Roberto Clemente hit a game winning home run.
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December 10, 1967: We remember the day that Otis Redding was killed in Madison, Wisconsin
Otis Redding was killed in a plane crash in Wisconsin on this day in 1967.
I remember this event quite well. We had heard on the radio that Otis Redding would play in Madison. His sudden death was quite a shock for many of us.
Otis Redding recorded "Dock of the Bay" a few days before his death. It became a #1 song the following spring.
What a talented performer! You can get his music HERE.