The Daily Broadside - Open News Thread

Good morning, C2ers! This morning, we're very happy to announce an addition to our team of contributors, the very sharp, very well-informed JCM. He'll be helping us keep you up to speed on the day's news, and offering his own take on it as he's so inspired. Please give him a round of applause.

Running Bare may be along to give you his perspective on this morning's headlines if he's not up to his lips in code - we'll see. In any case, please feel free to hash it all out on this thread. How about that suddenly sue-happy ACORN? How about those eleven nations whose representatives walked out on Ahmadinejad's speech at the U.N.? Talk it all out and offer your scoops over a piping hot cup of joe.

Blogger/C2er JCM offers some very good 'food for thought'.

This isn't really blog pimping - we asked if we could share this. It's good 'food' for a Saturday...a question that just sort of hangs in the air, without a good answer: Mr. President; Why the Change?

A taste from this meaty piece:

Obama sees our founding document as flawed, that we are a young country needing to set aside childish things, that fundamental change and transformation of our government, economy and cultural is required to remake the world as it should be.

In retort to the President I would ask: Mr. President Why the Change?

The success of that form of government is inarguable. Pick virtually any metric and in those 233 years we've become the world's leaders. We dominated the world economy, provide uncounted scientific and commercial advances. Our culture is admired (and reviled) worldwide, but you can go to even remote corners of the world and find American culture.

Our military has a historically unmatched dominance, which hasn't been used to enrich us, it's been used to liberate others. Look up at the list, see that cluster of independences occurring around 1991? That was us, without firing a shot, 10's of millions liberated. 1945? A continent liberated, and all we ask for “was ground to bury our dead.”

Domestically we have unmatched liberty, standards of living, or just about anything else you can think of. Bill Whittle asked “which way are the rafts headed?” How many leave America for greener pastures compared to the number who risk everything to come here?