The Prospects for a Second American Revolution
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe19.html
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Hope is not the answer
Intellectual Conservative
by Steven D. Laib
06/29/08
For the last several months I’ve been totally befuddled by the constant repetition of the ‘hope and change’ mantra that has become the Obama slogan. The words by themselves really signify nothing. What does ‘hope’ stand for? Expectations of a better future perhaps? Experience has taught me that hope is vastly overrated in such a setting. If we want it, then we should go out and make it, rather than waiting around for a glib demagogue selling political snake oil. After all, how can any ‘leader’ know what is best for each and every one of us? The American Revolution came about not because of hope, but because of how people made it happen. They were willing to fight and die to bring liberty to the land they lived in...
http://tinyurl.com/6lu33t
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=revolution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/hoppe
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+D.+Laib
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Hope is not the answer
Intellectual Conservative
by Steven D. Laib
06/29/08
For the last several months I’ve been totally befuddled by the constant repetition of the ‘hope and change’ mantra that has become the Obama slogan. The words by themselves really signify nothing. What does ‘hope’ stand for? Expectations of a better future perhaps? Experience has taught me that hope is vastly overrated in such a setting. If we want it, then we should go out and make it, rather than waiting around for a glib demagogue selling political snake oil. After all, how can any ‘leader’ know what is best for each and every one of us? The American Revolution came about not because of hope, but because of how people made it happen. They were willing to fight and die to bring liberty to the land they lived in...
http://tinyurl.com/6lu33t
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=revolution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/hoppe
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+D.+Laib
rudkla - 30. Jun, 08:25
