Showing posts with label measure of the man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label measure of the man. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Measure of the Man


Fidel Castro is dead ... joining the tens of thousands of political opponents he had put in front of his firing squads and the hundreds of thousands of his subjects who died aspiring for freedom. Did he do any good? I suppose so ... there are always accidental beneficiaries of evil. But the oppressive pall he drew over his country to justify his political obsessions is his true legacy. The fact that Cuban exiles have ignored polite respect for the dead and are celebrating in Miami demonstrates the actual measure of this man ... and his countrymen would be dancing in the streets of  Havana if there were even a smidgen of liberty there. So they revel in silence ... behind decaying walls ... still "yearning to breath free."

Even the worms will likely eschew this tyrant ...
  

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Measure of the Man


With Romney's primary sweep yesterday and his optimistic and inspirational acceptance speech last night, it seems clear to this non-pundit that Romney will not only win in November, but that he will prevail in a mind-boggling landslide ... and, in the process, sweep away many Democrat incumbents in Congress and in other state elections.  I think that this conclusion should also be ... or will shortly become obvious to Obama and most of the lickspittles surrounding him. Therefore, we now will see the true measure of our hope-and-change President.

Will he, with grace and patriotism, accept this imprimatur?  Or will he, in a snit, do everything he can in his last months in office to destroy his opposition and possibly his country in the process?  Will he go on a spending spree to reward his cronies to keep them solvent long enough to recapture future political purchase?  Will he try to pass legislative booby traps that will keep the new Congress tied up in knots for years to come?  Will he try to pack our government agencies and courts with loyal operatives who will work to frustrate the people's initiatives?  Will he and his family enjoy a series of over-the-top vacations and lavish White-House fetes at taxpayer expense?  Will he continue, with even greater fervor, to divide this country along gender, racial, ethnic, economic, and age-ist lines?  Will he try to finish the job of destroying many of our time-honored international alliances?  Will he even inspire the Occupiers to attempt insurrections?

Need I go on?  Unfortunately, I think we know the answers to these and many other equally-disturbing questions.  And, therefore, Obama's metric is unfortunately de minimis.