Sowell on Where We Stand

Against the backdrop of the recent NRO take down attempt of Newt Gingrich, ably commented upon by our own Terrance D., Thomas Sowell has spoken out to place into perspective the stakes we face as a nation:

This is not just another election and Barack Obama is not just another president whose policies we may not like. With all of President Obama's broken promises, glib demagoguery and cynical political moves, one promise he has kept all too well. That was his boast on the eve of the 2008 election: "We are going to change the United States of America."

Many Americans are already saying that they can hardly recognize the country they grew up in. We have already started down the path that has led Western European nations to the brink of financial disaster.

Internationally, it is worse. A president who has pulled the rug out from under our allies, whether in Eastern Europe or the Middle East, tried to cozy up to our enemies, and has bowed low from the waist to foreign leaders certainly has not represented either the values or the interests of America.

Indeed.

NRO is not the conservative beacon of light it was under the audacious William F. Buckley. Still, it is one of the few prominent conservative news and commentary sources. Their effort to denigrate a prominent Republican candidate through a unsigned editorial on the eve of the first actual primary does our nation no favor.