{"id":27946,"date":"2014-11-19T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=27946"},"modified":"2014-11-19T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:55:01","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-tuesday-november-18th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=27946","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Tuesday, November 18th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Tuesday, November 18th, 2014…but before we begin, a brief yet memorable snippet from economist Bryan Caplan’s blog which caught our eye whilst perusing the Notable & Quotable<\/em> section of the WSJ<\/em>. \u00a0The entry was from Warren Nutter, an early and constant critic of the Soviet Union who visited the USSR back in 1956 and related this impression regarding the reality of the Communists’ economic “miracle” to\u00a0U.S. New & World Report<\/em>, which was prior to Mortimer Zuckerman taking the once-great publication hard left:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIndustrial expositions are dominated by displays of machinery, mostly of the \u2018heavy\u2019 variety.<\/p>\n

All this in an economy that apparently has not yet discovered the wheelbarrow\u2014sledges and two-man litters are used instead\u2014where the scythe is far more in evidence than the mower, where brooms are mostly bundles of twigs without handles, where the mop is a [handleless] rag, etc. In the drive for modernism, the Soviet system has apparently ignored the multitude of simple yet dramatic inventions so important in the economic development of other countries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

…I must confess that I am more mystified than ever about how the Soviet economy can have achieved all that its leaders claim for it. It puts a heavy strain on my imagination to picture one large isolated sector of the economy\u2014namely, heavy industry\u2014where all these signs of backwardness vanish, and industrial progress rivaling or exceeding that of the West reigns.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

What’s the point? \u00a0Simple: lies were all Marxists had then…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and lies are still<\/em><\/span> all they have today!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

We lead off the week with a little walk down Memory Lane, courtesy of Dick Mayer and one L.E. Ikenga writing at\u00a0American Thinker<\/em>\u00a0way back in\u00a02009<\/span><\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama, the<\/span><\/span> African Colonial<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“…My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself — those of us who know our history — have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies:<\/p>\n

First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country.<\/span><\/span>..”<\/p>\n

Think about it; D’Souza’s The Roots of Obama’s Rage<\/em> wasn’t published until 2010, and\u00a02016<\/em> didn’t come out until 2012, Nostradamus should have been so prescient!<\/b><\/p>\n

This is the prism through which everything<\/em><\/span> The Obamao does must be filtered. \u00a0As we noted last Friday:<\/b><\/p>\n

We’ve said it before, but it bears constant repeating: Barack Hussein Obama isn’t<\/span> a well-meaning but hopelessly overmatched, inept individual trying to do his best for ordinary Americans. \u00a0On the contrary; Billy Mumy might well have been directly addressing the President when he said…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n