{"id":445,"date":"2008-11-03T18:34:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/03\/thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T18:34:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T01:34:30","slug":"thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/03\/thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Sowell&#8217;s closing argument against Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell is brilliant economist and observer of culture, one of the handful of African Americans, it would seem, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/ego_and_mouth.html\">won&#8217;t be voting for Obama.<\/a> (read it all)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the big gamble on subprime mortgages that led to the current financial crisis, is there going to be an even bigger gamble, by putting the fate of a nation in the hands of a man whose only qualifications are ego and mouth?<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 5 years, I wonder how many people will admit to voting for Obama.  I remember 1981, when no one would admit to having voted for Carter&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Powerline<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\" target=\"_blank\">RealClearPolitics<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-445\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/03\/thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-445\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/03\/thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-445\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/03\/thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/03\/thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/03\/thomas-sowells-closing-argument-against-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell is brilliant economist and observer of culture, one of the handful of African Americans, it would seem, who won&#8217;t be voting for Obama. 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