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The Nebulous Alan Colmes

Posted on | January 2, 2010 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

I think that Alan Colmes implicitly raises one of the greatest questions a society can ask of itself: what information is passed from one generation to another?

In a mature nation, President Obama could go on TV and say, “Listen, we’re doing the best we can, but some terrorists are bound to get through.” But this is apparently a country that must be spoken to in childish ways.


And can you give one example of this nebulous “mature nation” of yours? How is this “maturity” measured, and maintained? The implication seems to be that maturity==indifference.

This is bunk, Alan. This President has gone on a literal world tour. Assuming for the moment that the tour is representative of the “maturity” for which you yearn, what have we bought for this “maturity” investment?

Here is an alternative theory, Alan: there is no aggregate “maturity” for the nation. The country remains 330 million individuals. Some information is indeed carried forward from generation to generation, but the “maturity” metric to which you allude may as well have emerged from the Climate Research Unit for all it’s grounded in any verifiable way.

If anything, political correctness has made the individuals in the country, on average less mature, in my opinion. The crushing of dissent in the name of Progress has had precisely the opposite of the desired effect.

As with the Israelites in the Old Testament, the individual citizens of these United States had a lot to lose. Like the Israelites getting hauled off into captivity, our national debt is our overlord. In the same fashion as those Israelites, we are beset with a set of useless prophets, for example, you.

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Comments

  • kas

    Good Lord, Alan was on O’Reilly this week and was absolutely hysterical (not the funny way) over peoples reaction to Obamas lack of reaction and whatnot. I honestly thought the guest-host was going to tell him to calm the hell down.

  • kas

    Good Lord, Alan was on O’Reilly this week and was absolutely hysterical (not the funny way) over peoples reaction to Obamas lack of reaction and whatnot. I honestly thought the guest-host was going to tell him to calm the hell down.

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  • William

    A mature nation would profile Muslims, with a sample, “We regret to do this, but you keep trying to blow up our planes and buildings.”

    An immature nation frisks granny so “No one’s feelings get hurt.”

  • William

    A mature nation would profile Muslims, with a sample, “We regret to do this, but you keep trying to blow up our planes and buildings.”

    An immature nation frisks granny so “No one’s feelings get hurt.”

  • dr kill

    Thanks a lot, dude. reading those comments burns more brain cells than NY Eve.

  • dr kill

    Thanks a lot, dude. reading those comments burns more brain cells than NY Eve.

  • dr kill

    I’m not young, but I’ll always be immature. Suck it, Progs.

  • dr kill

    I’m not young, but I’ll always be immature. Suck it, Progs.

  • dr kill

    And tell those butt holes at RedState to suck it, too. I’m not logging in anywhere.

  • dr kill

    And tell those butt holes at RedState to suck it, too. I’m not logging in anywhere.

  • Joe

    If I thought Barack Obama was doing all he could reasonably do to stop terrorist attacks and said something like that-I would accept it. The problem is he is not doing enough to stop it.

  • Joe

    If I thought Barack Obama was doing all he could reasonably do to stop terrorist attacks and said something like that-I would accept it. The problem is he is not doing enough to stop it.

  • http://americandigest.org vanderleun

    Colmes is the living embodiment of the chinless and chestless American of sorta male persuasion.

  • http://americandigest.org vanderleun

    Colmes is the living embodiment of the chinless and chestless American of sorta male persuasion.

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  • TR Sterling

    RSM,
    Delightfully devious! Making the Brooks-Colmes connection. Alan now has sister-in-law Monica (a good woman for sure) and Mr. NYT, ivy pants-crease lover David himself in his coterie. Let Alan do the fisking!
    -TR

  • http://none TR Sterling

    RSM,
    Delightfully devious! Making the Brooks-Colmes connection. Alan now has sister-in-law Monica (a good woman for sure) and Mr. NYT, ivy pants-crease lover David himself in his coterie. Let Alan do the fisking!
    -TR

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